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Book SynopsisThis book represents the first scholarly gathering together of the long-neglected poetry of the School Inspector, educationalist and philosopher Edmond Holmes (1850 – 1936). Alongside a generous selection from Holmes’s six volumes of poetry there is also a full reproduction of Holmes’s essay What is Poetry which served to delineate his thinking on the discipline. Supporting these original works is both a lengthy scholarly introduction and extensive endnotes which serve to locate Holmes’s poetry not merely within the context of its time and amongst his own contemporaries but also to make a case for the importance of this body of work in its own right particularly in its promulgation of original and innovative ideas. Holmes’s poetry represents a particularly unique combination of traditional verse form coupled with innovative and esoteric subject matter (often drawing upon Eastern Buddhist philosophy as well as Western Romanticism and Pantheism) and so deserves to be more widely recognized as being wholly distinctive within the canon of Victorian and Modern poetry.Table of ContentsIntroduction Poems (1876) Poems Second Series (1879) The Silence of Love (1899) The Triumph of Love (1903) The Creed of my Heart and other poems (1912) Sonnets to the Universe (1918) APPENDIX A: What is Poetry? (1900) APPENDIX B: Holmes’ Obituary in The Times, October 16th 1936 APPENDIX C: Holmes’ Obituary in The New York Times Notes

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Book SynopsisInteriors and Narrative shows how crucial interiors are for our understanding of the nature of narrative. A growing cultural fascination with interior dwelling so prevalent in the late nineteenth century parallels an intensification of the rhetorical function interior architecture plays in the development of fiction. The existential dimension of dwelling becomes so intimately tied to the novelistic project that fiction surfaces as a way of inhabiting the world. This study illustrates this through a comparative reading of three realist masterpieces of the Luso-Hispanic nineteenth century: Machado de Assis’s Quincas Borba (1891), Eça de Queirós’s The Maias (1888), and Leopoldo Alas’s La Regenta (1884–1885). The first full-length study to juxtapose the renowned writers, Interiors and Narrative analyzes the authors’ spatial poetics while offering new readings of their work. The book explores the important links between interiors and narrative by explaining how rooms, furnishings, and homes function as metaphors for the writing of the narrative, reflecting on the complex relation between private dwellings and human interiority, and arguing that the interior design of rooms becomes a language that gives furnishings and decorative objects a narrative life of their own. The story of homes and furnishings in these narratives creates a semiotic language that both readers and characters rely on in order to make sense of fiction and reality.Trade ReviewThis study by Estela Vieira is therefore particularly welcome in its attempt to bring together three of the major exponents of the novel in Portugal, Spain and Brazil. . . .[I]t is hard to dispute the convincing attention to detail dedicated by the author to the understanding of internal space and its significance within the three texts studied here. . . .[T]he author’s demonstration of the exploration of inner space (both domestic and personal) by these three major writers who (in different respects) look forward to literary Modernism as much as they look back to the Realist tradition is a well-researched and original contribution to the understanding of their work. * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Interiors and Narrative, as a whole, shows that 'the subjective search for an inner life associated with modernist writing originates in the private interior as a space of retreat for both female and male characters. In this interior world, attention and weight is given to the seemingly insignificant details that communicate an existential need and historical density.' For its overall conceptual rigor and for the acuteness of its reading of the three important novels in question, Estela Vieira’s book deserves serious attention, not just from students of the authors and their works, but also from all those interested in the question of space in literature. * Journal of Lusophone Studies *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Interiors and Narrative The Novel’s Sense of the Interior The Novelist’s Sense of the Interior Part One: Furnishing the Novel The Threshold: The Ins and Outs of Quincas Borba Movables and Immovables: The Legend of The Maias The Corners of the World: Inside La Regenta Part Two: Interiors and Interiority Inside the Minds and Hearts of Machado’s Characters Eça’s Interior Decorators Memory and Movement: Ana’s and Fermín’s Interiors Part Three: The Discourse of Interiors Machado’s Minimalism and the Meaning of Things The Narrative Life of Eça’s Furnishings The Dramatic Effect of Clarín’s Interior Architecture Epilogue: From Voltaire’s Garden to Galdós’s Rooms Works Cited About the Author

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Book SynopsisCharles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) was a key writer of the revolutionary era and early U.S. republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents all of Brown’s non-novelistic writings—letters, political pamphlets, fictions, periodical writings, historical writings, and poety—in a seven-volume scholarly set. This series’ volumes are edited to the highest scholarly standards and will bear the seal of the Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions (MLA-CSE). The Literary Magazine and Other Writings, volume 3 of the series, presents a selection of Brown’s published writings between 1801 and 1807. The majority of the volume is devoted to texts that appeared in The Literary Magazine, and American Register, which Brown edited from October 1803 to December 1807, through fifty-one issues. The volume also includes a number of additional non-fiction pieces that Brown wrote during this period: a significant review essay in the 1801 American Review, and Literary Journal; a series of articles in the 1802 Port Folio; and a biographical sketch of Brown’s late brother-in-law, John Blair Linn, which was published with Linn’s book-length poem Valerian in 1805. The majority of these texts have not been in print since the early nineteenth century, and never have they been accorded this level of textual and editorial scrutiny.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Essays 1.“Review of The Origin and Principles of the American Revolution,” American Review, and Literary Journal 1, no. 1 (January 1, 1801): 55-64. 2.“American Lounger, No. 23,” Port Folio 2, no. 24 (June 19, 1802): 185-86. 3.“American Lounger, No. 32,” Port Folio 2, no. 36 (September 11, 1802): 281. 4.“On Music as a Female Accomplishment. A Dialogue,” Part 1, Port Folio 2, no. 37 (September 18, 1802): 291-92. 5.“On Music as a Female Accomplishment. A Dialogue,” Part 2, Port Folio 2, no. 39 (October 2, 1802): 307-8. 6.“On Music as a Female Accomplishment. A Dialogue,” Part 3, Port Folio 2, no. 40 (October 9, 1802): 315-16. 7.“Dialogue II. On Painting as a Female Accomplishment,” Part 1, Port Folio 2, no. 41 (October 16, 1802): 321-32. 8.“Dialogue II. On Painting as a Female Accomplishment,” Part 2, Port Folio 2, no. 42 (October 23, 1802): 331-32. 9.“Advertisement,” Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser 32, no. 8543 (September 7, 1803): 3. 10.“The Editors’ Address to the Public,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 1 (October 1803): 3-6. 11.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Swift’s Polite Conversation,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 1 (October 1803): 6. 12.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Fire,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 1 (October 1803): 7. 13.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Yellow Fever,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 1 (October 1803): 7-8. 14.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Authorship,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 1 (October 1803): 8-9. 15.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Pensions,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 1 (October 1803): 9-10. 16.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: A Jaunt to Rockaway, in Long Island,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 1 (October 1803): 10-[16]. 17.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Letter Writing,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 2 (November 1803): 81-82. 18.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: On Owhyhee Man,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 2 (November 1803): 82-83. 19.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Legibility in Writing,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 2 (November 1803): 83-84. 20.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Disputation,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 2 (November 1803): 84-85. 21.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Marriage,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 2 (November 1803): 85-87. 22.“Note from the Editor,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 2 (November 1803): 158. 23.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Anacreon’s Merits Discussed,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 3 (December 1803): 163-65. 24.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Poetry,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 3 (December 1803): 165-66. 25.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Latinisms,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 3 (December 1803): 166-67. 26.“Memorandums Made on a Journey through Part of Pennsylvania,” Part 1, Literary Magazine 1, no. 3 (December 1803): 167-73. 27.“Notes from the Editor,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 3 (December 1803): 240. 28.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: What is a Gentleman?” Literary Magazine 1, no. 4 (January 1804): 243-44. 29.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Lindley Murray,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 4 (January 1804): 244-45. 30.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Female Learning,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 4 (January 1804): 245-46. 31.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Antiques,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 4 (January 1804): 246-47. 32.“Quakerism.… A Dialogue,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 4 (January 1804): 248-50. 33.“Memorandums Made on a Journey through Part of Pennsylvania,” Part 2, Literary Magazine 1, no. 4 (January 1804): 250-55. 34.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Robinson Crusoe,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 5 (February 1804): 323-24. 35.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Friendship,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 5 (February 1804): 324-26. 36.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Fame,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 5 (February 1804): 326-27. 37.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Cui bono?” Literary Magazine 1, no. 5 (February 1804): 327-28. 38.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Novel-Reading,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 6 (March 1804): 403-5. 39.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Wooden Buildings,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 6 (March 1804): 405-7. 40.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Duelling,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 6 (March 1804): 407-8. 41.“Review of A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century,” Literary Magazine 1, no. 6 (March 1804): 419-24. 42.“Notes from the Editor,” Literary Magazine 2, no. 7 (April 1804): 80. 43.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: St. Blaize the Hermit,” Literary Magazine 2, no. 8 (May 1804): 83-84. 44.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: The Automatic Chess-Player,” Literary Magazine 2, no. 8 (May 1804): 84-85. 45.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Spirituous Liquors,” Literary Magazine 2, no. 8 (May 1804): 85. 46.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Empiricism and King’s Evil,” Literary Magazine 2, no. 8 (May 1804): 85-87. 47.“Extracts from a Student’s Diary: Canine Madness,” Literary Magazine 2, no. 8 (May 1804): 87. 48.“On the Life of Washington, Now Publishing,” Literary Magazine 2, no. 10 (July 1804): 241-46. 49.“John Churchman,” Literary Magazine 2, no. 10 (July 1804): 257. 50.“On the Character of Thomas Day,” Literary Magazine 2, no. 10 (July 1804): 258-60. 51.“Personal Similitudes,” Literary Magazine 2, no. 10 (July 1804): 260-63. 52.“To Correspondents,” Literary Magazine 2, no. 10 (July 1804): 320. 53.“Death of Hamilton,” Literary Magazine 2, no. 11 (August 1804): 337-38. 54.“To Correspondents,” Literary Magazine 2, no. 11 (August 1804): 410. 55.“Thomas Jefferson,” Literary Magazine 2, no. 12 (September 1804): 413-14. 56.“To Correspondents,” Literary Magazine 2, no. 12 (September 1804): 490. 57.“Benjamin Franklin,” Literary Magazine 2, no. 14 (November 1804): 571. 58.“Advertisement,” Literary Magazine 2 (December 25, 1804). 59.“St. Domingo,” Literary Magazine 2, no. 15 (December 1804): 655-57. 60.“Fielding and Richardson,” Literary Magazine 2, no. 15 (December 1804): 657-59. 61.“A Sketch of the Life and Character of John Blair Linn,” Preface to John Blair Linn’s Valerian, A Narrative Poem (Philadelphia, 1805), iii-xxiv. 62.“Thoughts on Population,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 16 (January 1805): 3-6. 63.“Romances,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 16 (January 1805): 6-7. 64.“New Year’s Day. A Fragment,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 16 (January 1805): 22-23. 65.“American Prospects,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 17 (February 1805): 97. 66.“Unequal Marriages,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 17 (February 1805): 102-3. 67.“Richard the Third and Perkin Warbeck,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 17 (February 1805): 108-10. 68.“Notes from the Editor,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 17 (February 1805): 160. 69.“On the Flavian Amphitheatre at Rome,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 18 (March 1805): 167-69. 70.“Is a Free or Despotic Government Most Friendly to Human Happiness,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 18 (March 1805): 178-81. 71.“Origin of Quakerism,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 18 (March 1805): 194-95. 72.“Arabia Felix,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 18 (March 1805): 198-99. 73.“Notes from the Editor,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 18 (March 1805): 240. 74.“Madelina: A Female Portrait,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 19 (April 1805): 269-72. 75.“Terrific Novels,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 19 (April 1805): 288-89. 76.“Volcanoes,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 19 (April 1805): 290-91. 77.“Kotan Husbandry,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 19 (April 1805): 303-7. 78.“To Correspondents,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 19 (April 1805): 320. 79.“A Case of Murder,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 20 (May 1805): 330-31. 80.“Somnambulism. A Fragment,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 20 (May 1805): 335-47. 81.“The Law of Nations,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 20 (May 1805): 347-48. 82.“On the Merits of Cicero,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 20 (May 1805): 368-69. 83.“To Correspondents,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 20 (May 1805): 400. 84.“Ciceronians,” Literary Magazine 3, no. 21 (June 1805): 404-5. 85.“Comparative State of Philadelphia,” Literary Magazine 4, no. 23 (August 1805): 96-97. 86.“To Readers and Correspondents,” Literary Magazine 5, no. 30 (March 1806): 240. 87.“To Correspondents,” Literary Magazine 5, no. 31 (April 1806): 320. 88.“Why the Arts Are Discouraged in America,” Literary Magazine 6, no. 34 (July 1806): 76-77. 89.“To Correspondents,” Literary Magazine 6, no. 34 (July 1806): 80. 90.“Remarks on Mysteries,” Literary Magazine 6, no. 37 (October 1806): 262-63. 91.“Book Collectors,” Literary Magazine 6, no. 38 (November 1806): 393-94. 92.“To Correspondents,” Literary Magazine 6, no. 38 (November 1806): 400. 93.“To Readers and Correspondents,” Literary Magazine 6, no. 39 (December 1806): 480. 94.“To Correspondents,” Literary Magazine 7, no. 43 (April 1807): 320. 95.“[Untitled: Notes from the Editor],” Literary Magazine 7, no. 45 (June 1807): 472. Illustrations Historical Essay Textual Essay Provisional List of Hybrid Texts in the Literary Magazine Selected Bibliography End-Line Hyphenation List Index

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Book SynopsisCharles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) was a key writer of the revolutionary era and early U.S. republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents all of Brown’s non-novelistic writings—letters, political pamphlets, fictions, periodical writings, historical writings, and poety—in a seven-volume scholarly set. This series’ volumes are edited to the highest scholarly standards and will bear the seal of the Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions (MLA-CSE).Political Pamphlets, volume 4 of the series, brings together, for the first time, the three political pamphlets and related writings of Charles Brockden Brown. While Brown is well known as a novelist and editor, his pamphlets addressing the Louisiana Question and Jefferson's Embargo are here presented and contextualized in terms of the period's geopolitical developments and the newspaper polemics that were their immediate context. Each edited text provides detailed information concerning publication history, provenance, and attribution, along with extensive scholarly annotation. A Historical Essay locates the pamphlets in the wider contexts of Brown’s literary career, the print culture of the Revolutionary Atlantic world, and the literary history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while a Textual Essay provides full bibliographical information on the sources for all copy-texts, as well as extensive description of the editorial protocols. The volume substantially reshapes our understanding of Brown's corpus and development, and provides insights into the relations of literary, journalistic, and political writing during the Jefferson and Madison administrations. The Committee on Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association has awarded the volume a seal of certification as an MLA Approved Scholarly Edition.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Part I. Political PamphletsAn Address to the Government of the United States, on the Cession of Louisiana to the French: and on the Late Breach of Treaty by the Spaniards: Including the Translation of a Memorial, on the War of St. Domingo, and Cession of the Missisippi to France Drawn up by a French Counsellor of State Monroe’s Embassy, or, The Conduct of the Government in Relation to Our Claims to the Navigation of the Missisippi, Considered, By the Author of An Address to the Government of the United States on the Cession of Louisiana, &c. &c.An Address to the Congress of the United States, on the Utility and Justice of Restrictions Upon Foreign Commerce, with Reflections on Foreign Trade in General, and the Future Prospects of America Part II. Poplicola Texts in Relf’s Philadelphia Gazette, and Daily Advertiser“QUERIES Relative to War with Spain,” October 1, 1804 “ON A WAR WITH SPAIN,” October 8, 1804 Illustrations Historical Essay Textual EssayHistorical Collation (1803) Selected Bibliography End-Line Hyphenation List Index

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Book SynopsisCharles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) was a key writer of the revolutionary era and early U.S. republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents all of Brown’s non-novelistic writings—letters, political pamphlets, fictions, periodical writings, historical writings, and poety—in a seven-volume scholarly set. This series’ volumes are edited to the highest scholarly standards and will bear the seal of the Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions (MLA-CSE).The American Register and Other Writings, 1807–1810, volume 6 of the series, assembles and presents for the first time Charles Brockden Brown’s writing from the final years of his life, including from his magisterial periodical project, the American Register. In this semi-annual periodical, Brown narrates the tumultuous political events of the United States and Europe amidst the Napoleonic Wars. In addition to providing the complete text of the “Prefaces” and “Annals” from the five volumes of the American Register, this volume also includes other late periodical writing by Brown and his prospectus for the unpublished “A System of General Geography.” Each edited text provides detailed information concerning publication history, provenance, and attribution, along with extensive scholarly annotation. A Historical Essay provides detailed contextualization of the geopolitical affairs in which Brown’s writing is steeped. A Textual Essay offers full bibliographical information and context for each edited text and explains editorial protocols for the volume. Table of ContentsPart I. Prefaces to the American Register (1807–1809)“Preface,” American Register 1 (1807): iii–iv.“Preface,” American Register 2 (1808): iii–iv.“Preface,” American Register 3 (1808): iii–iv.“Preface,” American Register 4 (1809): iii–iv. “Preface,” American Register 5 (1809): iii–iv.Part II. Annals of the American Register (1807–1809)“Annals of Europe and America,” American Register 1 (1807): 3–79.“Annals of Europe and America,” American Register 2 (1808); 3–104.“Annals of Europe and America,” American Register 3 (1808): 3–93.“Annals of Europe,” American Register 4 (1809): 3–30.“Annals of America,” American Register 5 (1809): 1–84.Part III. Writing for the Port Folio (1809–1810)“The Scribbler, No. I,” Port Folio 7, no. 1 (January 1809): 55–59; repr. n.s. 1, no. 1 (1809): 57–60.“The Scribbler, No. II,” Port Folio 1, no. 2 (February 1809): 162–68.“The Scribbler, No. III,” Port Folio 1, no. 4 (April 1809): 338–42. “The Scribbler, No. IV,” Port Folio 1, no. 5 (May 1809): 421–24.“The Scribbler, No. V,” Port Folio 2, no. 1 (July 1809): 29–34.“The Scribbler, No. VI,” Port Folio 2, no. 2 (August 1809): 124–26.“Sketch of the Life of General Horatio Gates,” Port Folio 2, no. 5 (November 1809): 383–90.“Sketch of the Life of General Horatio Gates,” Port Folio 2, no. 6 (December 1809): 481–84.“Sketch of the Life of General Horatio Gates,” Port Folio 3, no. 2 (February 1810): 102–8.Part IV. Miscellaneous Writing (1800–1809)“The Scribbler.—No. I,” Commercial Advertiser 3, no. 887 (August 12, 1800): 2. “The Scribbler.—No. II,” Commercial Advertiser 3, no. 888 (August 13, 1800): 2.“The Scribbler.—No. III,” Commercial Advertiser 3, no. 889 (August 14, 1800): 2.“The Scribbler.— No. IV,” Commercial Advertiser 3, no. 890 (August 15, 1800): 2.“The Scribbler.—No. V,” Commercial Advertiser 3, no. 891 (August 16, 1800): 2.“Communication,” Relf’s Philadelphia Gazette (October 15, 1808): 3.“Mr Ogilvie's Lectures,” Poulson’s (October 18, 1808): 3. “Communication,” Poulson’s (October 20, 1808): 3.“For the Aurora,” Aurora General Advertiser (October 22, 1808): 3. “For the American Daily Advertiser,” Poulson’s (October 22, 1808): 2.“Communication,” Poulson’s (October 22, 1808): 3.“A System of General Geography,” [Prospectus] (1809).Illustrations Historical EssayTextual Essay

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Book SynopsisCharles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) was a key writer of the revolutionary era and early U.S. republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents all of Brown’s non-novelistic writings—letters, political pamphlets, fictions, periodical writings, historical writings, and poety—in a seven-volume scholarly set. This series’ volumes are edited to the highest scholarly standards and will bear the seal of the Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions (MLA-CSE). Poems, volume 7 of the series, is the first comprehensive collection of the poetry of Charles Brockden Brown (1771– 1810), one of the earliest professional writers in U.S. history. While Brown is well known as a novelist, his poetry has never before been collected, and many of the works included in this book appear in print for the first time in 200 years. The Committee on Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association has awarded the volume a seal of certification as an MLA Approved Scholarly Edition. Each edited text has a detailed textual note providing publication history, provenance, and information on attribution, along with extensive scholarly annotations. A historical introduction locates the poems in Brown’s biography, the print culture of the Revolutionary Atlantic world, and the literary history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while a textual essay provides full bibliographical information on the sources for all copy-texts, as well as an extensive description of the editorial protocols. The volume therefore promises to reshape our understanding of professional literary writing in the period after the American Revolution.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments The Poems of Charles Brockden Brown 1.“On Some of His School Fellows” 2.“Aretas” 3.“For the Grocer’s Window” 4.“To Miss D. P.” 5.“The Rising Glory of America” 6.“The Times” 7.“Epistle the First” 8.“In Praise of Schuylkill” 9.“To Estrina” 10.“To D. F.” 11.“An Inscription for General Washington’s Tomb Stone” 12.“Henry” 13.“Sonnet. Written after hearing a Song sung by several Sisters” 14.“To Ella” 15.“The Smile. Sonnet to Caroline” 16.“Song” 17.“Sonnet” 18.[“In ‘Delphy town”] 19.“A Peter-Pindarical Performance” 20.[“When Bringhurst and Wilkins are here”] 21.“Introduction to a Heroi-Comic Poem on Loo” 22.[“Profuse and prolix is the treat”] 23.[“Of sweet little things, a sweet musical string”] 24.“To Stella – No. I” 25.“To Stella – No. III” 26.“To Stella – No. V” 27.“A Billet-Doux” 28.[“Tis party that destroys the state”] 29.[“From Virtue’s blissful paths away”] 30.[“Sleep, extend thy downy pinion”] 31.[“The breeze awakes, the bark prepares”] 32.[“Ah! far beyond this world of woes”] 33.“To Stella” 34.“Monody on the Death of George Washington” 35.[“’Tis not the river’s pebbly bound”] 36.“Jessy’s Song” 37.[“Long strove a rueful fate to bend”] 38.[“Inchanting Tongue!”] 39.“To Laura. On Her Attachment to Homer’s Iliad” 40.“The Rans de Vache of Tuscany” 41.“L’Amoroso” 42.“The Water-Drinker, an Anti-Anacreontic” 43.“The Poet’s Prayer. (Not for fame, but for virtue.) An Epistle to Stella” 44.[“They came at noon & chose to stay”] 45.“Solitary Worship” 46.“Alliteration” 47.“To Laura, Offended” 48.“To Clara” 49.[“Marry wisdom, and beauty & wealth if you can”] 50.“Devotion. An Epistle” 51.“To Clara (On the Death of a Friend)” Illustrations Historical Essay Textual Essay Description of Provenance Appendix 1: Disputed Attributions 52.“Utrum horum Mavis, elige” 53.“A Negro’s Lamentation” 54.“Pleasures of the Table” Appendix 2: Poems previously attributed to Brown now excluded Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisYves Bonnefoy’s book of poems, Beginning and End of the Snow followed by Where the Arrow Falls, combines two meditations in which the poet’s thoughts and a landscape reflect each other. In the first, the wintry New England landscape he encountered while teaching at Williams College evokes the dance of atoms in the philosophical poem of Lucretius as well as the Christian doctrine of death and resurrection. In the second, Bonnefoy uses the luminous woods of Haute Provence as the setting for a parable of losing one’s way. Trade ReviewThis outwardly slight, paperbound volume opens to reveal an uncommon abundance: a series of exquisite poems by one of the most important poets in France today deftly rendered into English by a poet known for her delicate touch; an eloquent essay by Yves Bonnefoy himself, demonstrating his skill as a literary critic as well as a poet; and a charmingly direct meditation by the translator, Emily Grosholz, about her effort to create English equivalents of two Bonnefoy poems. As if that weren’t enough, there is the further pleasure of beautiful visual art in the evocative drawings of Iranian artist Farhad Ostovani that accompany the text. * World Literature Today *It's not easy to capture simplicity. It's a matter of meanings, tone, but also of rhythm and sounds, that are necessarily different sounds in the other language. ... This is a superb book; one reads it without the least twinge of regret for what might be lost in translation. With half a dozen watercolour landscapes by the Iranian artist Farhad Ostovani, Snow is also a pleasure to look at. * Criticism & Reference *Emily Grosholz, both poet and philosopher, has accompanied Début et Fin dela neige with an exquisite English translation, and her great fellow-poet Yves Bonnefoy has prefaced poems and translation with a delectable essay on “Snow" in French and English. -- Richard WilburYves Bonnefoy is without doubt the most important French poet alive today. This series of poems is extraordinarily beautiful, and the translation by Emily Grosholz is excellent. It captures the delicacy and loveliness of the snowflakes, as well as the directness of the arrow. -- Mary Ann CawsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface “Snow in French and English” Yves Bonnefoy Translated by Emily Grosholz Début et fin de la neige/ Beginning and End of the Snow La grande neige / The Great Snowfall Première neige tôt ce matin / First snowfall, early this morning Le miroir / The Mirror La charrue / The Plough Le peu d’eau / Spot of Water Neige / Snow La Vierge de miséricorde /Our Lady of Mercy Le jardin / The Garden Les pommes / The Apples L’été encore / Still Summer On dirait beaucoup d’e muets /One might say, a flurry of silent e’s Flocons / Snowflakes De natura rerum / De Natura Rerum La parure / The Gown Noli me tangere / Noli Me Tangere Juste avant l’aube / Just Before Dawn Les Flambeaux / The Torches Hopkins Forest / Hopkins Forest Le Tout, Le Rien / Everything, Nothing La Seule Rose / The Only Rose Là où retombe la flèche / Where the Arrow Falls Afterword “Song, Rain, Snow: Translating the Poetry of Yves Bonnefoy,” Emily Grosholz

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Book SynopsisSensibility, or the capacity to feel, played a vital role in philosophical reflection about the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts in eighteenth-century France. Yet scholars have privileged the Marquis de Sade’s vindication of physiological sensibility as the logical conclusion of Enlightenment over Germaine de Staël’s exploration of moral sensibility’s potential for reform and renewal that paved the way for Romanticism. This volume of essays showcases Staël’s contribution to the “affective revolution” in Europe, investigating the personal and political circumstances that informed her theory of the passions and the social and aesthetic innovations to which it gave rise. Contributors move seamlessly between her political, philosophical, and fictional works, attentive to the relationship between emotion and cognition and aware of the coherence of her thought on an individual, national, and international scale. They first examine the significance Staël attributed to pity, happiness, melancholy, and enthusiasm in The Influence of the Passions as she witnessed revolutionary strife and envisioned the new republic. They then explore her development of a cosmopolitan aesthetic, in such works as On Literature, Corinne, or Italy, On Germany, and The Spirit of Translation, that transcended traditional generic, national, and linguistic boundaries. Finally, they turn to her contributions to the visual and musical arts as she deftly negotiated the transition from a Neoclassical to a Romantic aesthetic. Staël’s Philosophy of the Passions concludes that, rather than founding a republic based on the rights of man, Staël’s reflection fostered international communities of women (artists, models, and collectors; authors, performers, and spectators), enabling them to participate in the re-articulation of sociocultural values in the wake of the French Revolution. Contributors: Tili Boon Cuillé, Catherine Dubeau, Nanette Le Coat, Christine Dunn Henderson, Karen de Bruin, M. Ione Crummy, Jennifer Law-Sullivan, Lauren Fortner Ravalico, C. C. Wharram, Kari Lokke, Susan Tenenbaum, Mary D. Sheriff, Heather Belnap Jensen, Fabienne Moore, Julia EffertzTrade ReviewThis volume, edited by Cuillé and Szmurlo, positions Madame Germaine de Staël at the crossroads of emotion and cognition, bridging the Enlightenment's intellectual heritage and Romanticism's passions. Staël lays the groundwork for much of 19th-century literature and opens many fruitful avenues of inquiry, ranging from anthropology and psychology, the philosophical and the political, to nationhood and gender. North American scholars from fields within and beyond the academy contribute chapters that seem particularly coherent, given the remarkable breadth of Staël's thought and works. The sections entitled "The Politics of the Passions," "International Aesthetics," and "Philosophy and the Arts" represent ensembles that fit well together. While each contributor's work is strong, of particular note are chapters by Karen de Bruin on the use of melancholy as seen through the character of Corrinne and the superiority that she represents, and Heather Belnap Jensen's study of Staël's depiction of women art collectors in Napoleonic Europe. For its ability to offer entry into Staël's work from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, this is an extremely valuable resource for understanding the evolution of intellectual thought at the beginning of the 19th century. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Undergraduates through faculty, general readers. * CHOICE *This impressive and useful study examines Germaine de Staël’s views on the passions, “the language of the heart,” and their revolutionary impact. . . On the whole, the chapters offer engaging and intelligent studies, as well as strong argumentation and documentation. The collection includes a valuable bibliography. . . . this collection highlights Staël’s role in the “affective revolution” aimed at the betterment of individuals and society. Through its interdisciplinary nature, the work exemplifies the themes of exchange so dear to Staël in her quest for reform. * Nineteenth-Century French Studies *Tili Boon Cuille´’s Introduction situates Stae¨l in relation to Enlightenment thinkers and their treatments of sensibility as it pertains to politics, art, and relations between the two. ... The two editors have made crucially important contributions to the advancement of Stae¨l studies, and their generous encouragement of young scholars, who are well represented here, is exemplary. * French Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Setting the Stage Tili Boon Cuillé Part I. The Politics of the Passions 1. The Mother, the Daughter, and the Passions Catherine Dubeau, translated by Sylvie Romanowski 2. The Virtuous "Passion": The Politics of Pity in Staël's The Influence of the Passions Nanette Le Coat 3. Passions, Politics, and Literature: The Quest for Happiness Christine Dunn Henderson 4. Melancholy in the Pursuit of Happiness: Corinne and the Femme Supérieure Karen de Bruin Part II. International Aesthetics 5. The Peripheral Heroine Takes Center Stage: From Owenson’s National Tale to Staël’s European Genre M. Ione Crummy 6. Ethnography and Autoethnography in Corinne ou l’Italie Jennifer Law-Sullivan 7. Liquid Union: Listening through Tears and the Creation of Community in Corinne Lauren Fortner Ravalico 8. Aeolian Translation: The Aesthetics of Mediation and the Jouissance of Genre C.C. Wharram 9. British Legacies of Corinne and the Commercialization of Enthusiasm Kari Lokke Part III. Philosophy and the Arts 10. The Power to Corrupt: A Staëlian Perspective on the Fine Arts Susan Tenenbaum 11. The Many Faces of Germaine de Staël Mary D. Sheriff 12. Staël, Corinne, and the Women Collectors of Napoleonic Europe Heather Belnap Jensen 13. Germaine de Staël Defines Romanticism, or the Analogy of the Glass Harmonica Fabienne Moore 14. Between Ideal and Performance: Corinne in Female-Authored Singer Narratives of the 1830s Julia Effertz Bibliography Index About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe concept of secular millennialism summarizes a crucial point made by Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism: that twentieth-century totalitarian movements, in Nazi Germany and in the Soviet Union under Stalin, are not nationalistic but essentially millennialist, focused on the achievement of a universal world order. The question of whether totalitarian thinking can be located in a secular millennialist tradition is brought to the forefront in Aesthetics as Secular Millennialism: Its Trail from Baumgarten and Kant to Walt Disney and Hitler by Benjamin Bennett. Bennett contends that the new philosophical science of aesthetics—beginning in the eighteenth century with Baumgarten, Kant, and Schiller—is the source of such a tradition. Bennett uses the term “aesthetics” to designate a tradition which begins under that name but, in the course of the nineteenth century, concerns itself less directly with questions of beauty or art while not losing its secular millennialist tendency. He argues that modern philosophical hermeneutics, in Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer, belongs to the aesthetic tradition. Bennett explores the realistic novel as the main vehicle by which aesthetic tradition maintains itself in the nineteenth century and attracts a large popular following. The argument culminates in a discussion of relations among aesthetics, totalitarian propaganda, and the “totalitarian imagination” with its dream of “human omnipotence” (Arendt). Aesthetics as Secular Millennialism also maintains an attentiveness to instances of resistance against the aesthetic impetus in history—hence ultimately against totalitarianism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART ONE Chapter 1: Millennial Politics: The Beginning of Aesthetics Chapter 2: The History and Problems of the Idea of Aesthetics: The Issue of Communication Chapter 3: The Irrelevance of Aesthetics as Discovered in “Classical” Weimar Chapter 4: Kant and His Shadow: The Persistence of PhilosophicalAesthetics Chapter 5: Aesthetics andHermeneutics Chapter 6: The End of Aesthetics: Heidegger and Adorno PART TWO Chapter 7: Novels and the Novel Chapter 8: The Millennial Novel and Its Unmasking Chapter 9: Aesthetic Response and Propaganda: The Invention ofSimultaneity Chapter 10: The Totalitarian Imagination and Its Opposite Interchapter Chapter 11: What’s Up, Doc? Resistance in Spite of Itself Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDevelopments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal,1600-1800 explores the oppositions created by the official exclusion of banned sexual practices and the resistance to that exclusion through widespread acceptance of those outlawed practices at an interpersonal level. At different times and in different places, state legislation sets up—or tries to set up—a “normal” by rejecting a particular practice or group of practices. Yet this “normal” is derogated by popular practice, since the banned acts themselves are thought at the grassroots level to be “normal.” Among the events discussed in these essays are the Woods-Pirie trial, the “Ladies of Llangollen,” the popular acceptance of fops and mollies, and the press reaction to the discovery that James Allen was a woman who had lived successfully as a man and Lavinia Edwards was a man who had made her living as a female prostitute. Developments in the History of Sexualities analyzes both the state language of bans and fiats about sexuality, and the grassroots language which marks the acceptance of multiplicity in sexual practice. Contributors benefit from the accumulation of new evidence of attitudes towards sexual practice, and they engage with a wide range of texts, including Ned Ward’s History of the Clubs, Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Random, Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew and The Tempest, Dryden’s All for Love, Anne Batten Cristall’s Poetical Sketches, Isaac de Benserade’s Iphis et Iante, and Alessandro Verri’s Le Avventure di Saffo.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Sexuality Post(con)structuralism and After Chris Mounsey One: The History of Homosexuality Reconsidered George Haggerty Two: Queer Renaissance Dramaturgy, Shakespeare’s Shrew, and the Deconstruction of Marriage David Orvis Three: ‘Unusual Fires’: Ann Batten Cristall’s Queer Temporality Chris Nagle Four: De-sexing the Lesbian: Isaac de Benserade’s Narrative Quest Marianne Legault Five: Unqueering Sappho and Effeminizing the Author in Early Modern Italy Clorinda Donato Six: ‘A Thing Perhaps Impossible’: The 1811 Woods/Pirie Trial and Its Legacies Chris Roulston Seven: The Molly and the Fop: Untangling Effeminacy in the Eighteenth Century Sally O’Driscoll Eight: Considering Female Masculinities in Eighteenth Century Britain Katharine Kittredge Nine: The Sound of Men in Love Thomas Alan King Ten: “An Extraordinary Subject for Dissection”: James Allen and Lavinia Edwards Caroline Gonda Bibliography Index About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a detailed analysis of the core concepts of national identity articulated by Iberian writers during the period between 1900 and 1925. It is centered on four "pedagogical" essays written in these decades previous to the onset of authoritarian dictatorships in Spain and Portugal, works that are absolutely central to understanding the discursive architecture of collective identity in these same places today. They are as follows: Enric Prat de la Riba's La Nacionalitat Catalana (1906), Teixeira de Pascoaes' Arte de Ser Português (1915),Vicente Risco's Teoría do Nacionalismo Galego (1920), and José Ortega y Gasset's España invertebrada (1921). The study consists of a discussion of some of the more important theoretical issues connected to social articulation of cultural identities, four chapter-long analyses of the textual manifestations of national identity within the major Romance-language communities of the Iberian peninsula, and a conclusion which underscores the key function played by these public intellectuals in establishing the parameters of the “Imagined Communities” with which they felt primarily identified. On the most basic level, the study of these “catechistic” visions of national individuality provides a heightened sense of both the differences and commonalities inherent in the cultural traditions of these core nationality groups of the Iberian Peninsula. On another level, the study reminds us of the important pedagogical function of literature (understood here in the broadest possible sense) in the formation and maintenance of nationality identities then, as well as now.Trade ReviewThomas Harrington's Public Intellectuals and Nation-Building in the Iberian Peninsula 1900-1925: The Alchemy of Identity, is a timely and important addition to current debates on nationhood and national identity in today's Spain and Portugal. Through a detailed historical treatment of the work of four preeminent nationalist "catechisms" of the early twentieth century, Harrington sheds much-needed light upon the architecture of competing discourses of national identity in today's Peninsula. Perhaps the book's greatest strength, however, is the way it allows us to observe the parallel and often surprisingly interconnected genesis of that region's supposedly radically distinct codes of collective belief. -- Josep Maria Solé I SabatéGrounded on solid research and convincing theoretical approach, Harrington’s book is an unavoidable contribution to the growing field of Iberian Studies. It truly makes a difference that the author is versant in all the languages and cultures under discussion and attains a truly comparative perspective. Harrington analyzes the historical and ideological background of current debates, thus the tropes of cultural identity first generated between 1874 and 1923, a period when the Iberian Problem of the Nation was far more intricate and complex than presented by most canonical treatments of the matter with a fixation on literary generations based in Madrid. Compelling readings of major texts by Enric Prat de la Riba, Pascoaes, Risco and Ortega y Gasset Nationalism demonstrate that three of the four concepts of nationhood studied are strongly linked to the nineteenth-century Romantic reaction to the modern notion of progress, a fourth one connected to the need of an elite leadership class, inspiring myths, and the desire for transcendence through group identification and for an imperial project. The book provides, among other things, a roadmap and an encyclopedic guide for those willing to understand the puzzle of contemporary Spanish politics, particularly the battle between conflicting visions of national identity within the Iberian Peninsula. -- Enric Bou, Ca' Foscari University of VeniceTable of ContentsContents Notes on Translations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Prologue One: Peoples, Pedagogies and the Reemergence of Iberian Pluralism Two: Enric Prat de la Riba’s La nacionalitat catalana: Merging Tradition and Modernity to Create a New Basis for the Institutional Reconstruction of Catalonia Three: A Manual of “Supra-Modern” Nationhood: Pascoaes’s Arte de Ser Português Four: Building the Nation through Appropriation: Vicente Risco’s Teoría do Nacionalismo Galego Five: The Castilian Counter-offensive: Ortega’s España invertebrada Six: The Essential Role of Nationalist Catechists in the Elaboration of the Contemporary Iberian Discourses of Identity Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisInteriors and Narrative shows how crucial interiors are for our understanding of the nature of narrative. A growing cultural fascination with interior dwelling so prevalent in the late nineteenth century parallels an intensification of the rhetorical function interior architecture plays in the development of fiction. The existential dimension of dwelling becomes so intimately tied to the novelistic project that fiction surfaces as a way of inhabiting the world. This study illustrates this through a comparative reading of three realist masterpieces of the Luso-Hispanic nineteenth century: Machado de Assis’s Quincas Borba (1891), Eça de Queirós’s The Maias (1888), and Leopoldo Alas’s La Regenta (1884–1885). The first full-length study to juxtapose the renowned writers, Interiors and Narrative analyzes the authors’ spatial poetics while offering new readings of their work. The book explores the important links between interiors and narrative by explaining how rooms, furnishings, and homes function as metaphors for the writing of the narrative, reflecting on the complex relation between private dwellings and human interiority, and arguing that the interior design of rooms becomes a language that gives furnishings and decorative objects a narrative life of their own. The story of homes and furnishings in these narratives creates a semiotic language that both readers and characters rely on in order to make sense of fiction and reality.Trade ReviewThis study by Estela Vieira is therefore particularly welcome in its attempt to bring together three of the major exponents of the novel in Portugal, Spain and Brazil. . . .[I]t is hard to dispute the convincing attention to detail dedicated by the author to the understanding of internal space and its significance within the three texts studied here. . . .[T]he author’s demonstration of the exploration of inner space (both domestic and personal) by these three major writers who (in different respects) look forward to literary Modernism as much as they look back to the Realist tradition is a well-researched and original contribution to the understanding of their work. * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Interiors and Narrative, as a whole, shows that 'the subjective search for an inner life associated with modernist writing originates in the private interior as a space of retreat for both female and male characters. In this interior world, attention and weight is given to the seemingly insignificant details that communicate an existential need and historical density.' For its overall conceptual rigor and for the acuteness of its reading of the three important novels in question, Estela Vieira’s book deserves serious attention, not just from students of the authors and their works, but also from all those interested in the question of space in literature. * Journal of Lusophone Studies *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Interiors and Narrative The Novel’s Sense of the Interior The Novelist’s Sense of the Interior Part One: Furnishing the Novel The Threshold: The Ins and Outs of Quincas Borba Movables and Immovables: The Legend of The Maias The Corners of the World: Inside La Regenta Part Two: Interiors and Interiority Inside the Minds and Hearts of Machado’s Characters Eça’s Interior Decorators Memory and Movement: Ana’s and Fermín’s Interiors Part Three: The Discourse of Interiors Machado’s Minimalism and the Meaning of Things The Narrative Life of Eça’s Furnishings The Dramatic Effect of Clarín’s Interior Architecture Epilogue: From Voltaire’s Garden to Galdós’s Rooms Works Cited About the Author

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Book SynopsisSensibility, or the capacity to feel, played a vital role in philosophical reflection about the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts in eighteenth-century France. Yet scholars have privileged the Marquis de Sade’s vindication of physiological sensibility as the logical conclusion of Enlightenment over Germaine de Staël’s exploration of moral sensibility’s potential for reform and renewal that paved the way for Romanticism. This volume of essays showcases Staël’s contribution to the “affective revolution” in Europe, investigating the personal and political circumstances that informed her theory of the passions and the social and aesthetic innovations to which it gave rise. Contributors move seamlessly between her political, philosophical, and fictional works, attentive to the relationship between emotion and cognition and aware of the coherence of her thought on an individual, national, and international scale. They first examine the significance Staël attributed to pity, happiness, melancholy, and enthusiasm in The Influence of the Passions as she witnessed revolutionary strife and envisioned the new republic. They then explore her development of a cosmopolitan aesthetic, in such works as On Literature, Corinne, or Italy, On Germany, and The Spirit of Translation, that transcended traditional generic, national, and linguistic boundaries. Finally, they turn to her contributions to the visual and musical arts as she deftly negotiated the transition from a Neoclassical to a Romantic aesthetic. Staël’s Philosophy of the Passions concludes that, rather than founding a republic based on the rights of man, Staël’s reflection fostered international communities of women (artists, models, and collectors; authors, performers, and spectators), enabling them to participate in the re-articulation of sociocultural values in the wake of the French Revolution. Contributors: Tili Boon Cuillé, Catherine Dubeau, Nanette Le Coat, Christine Dunn Henderson, Karen de Bruin, M. Ione Crummy, Jennifer Law-Sullivan, Lauren Fortner Ravalico, C. C. Wharram, Kari Lokke, Susan Tenenbaum, Mary D. Sheriff, Heather Belnap Jensen, Fabienne Moore, Julia EffertzTrade ReviewThis volume, edited by Cuillé and Szmurlo, positions Madame Germaine de Staël at the crossroads of emotion and cognition, bridging the Enlightenment's intellectual heritage and Romanticism's passions. Staël lays the groundwork for much of 19th-century literature and opens many fruitful avenues of inquiry, ranging from anthropology and psychology, the philosophical and the political, to nationhood and gender. North American scholars from fields within and beyond the academy contribute chapters that seem particularly coherent, given the remarkable breadth of Staël's thought and works. The sections entitled "The Politics of the Passions," "International Aesthetics," and "Philosophy and the Arts" represent ensembles that fit well together. While each contributor's work is strong, of particular note are chapters by Karen de Bruin on the use of melancholy as seen through the character of Corrinne and the superiority that she represents, and Heather Belnap Jensen's study of Staël's depiction of women art collectors in Napoleonic Europe. For its ability to offer entry into Staël's work from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, this is an extremely valuable resource for understanding the evolution of intellectual thought at the beginning of the 19th century. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Undergraduates through faculty, general readers. * CHOICE *This impressive and useful study examines Germaine de Staël’s views on the passions, “the language of the heart,” and their revolutionary impact. . . On the whole, the chapters offer engaging and intelligent studies, as well as strong argumentation and documentation. The collection includes a valuable bibliography. . . . this collection highlights Staël’s role in the “affective revolution” aimed at the betterment of individuals and society. Through its interdisciplinary nature, the work exemplifies the themes of exchange so dear to Staël in her quest for reform. * Nineteenth-Century French Studies *Tili Boon Cuille´’s Introduction situates Stae¨l in relation to Enlightenment thinkers and their treatments of sensibility as it pertains to politics, art, and relations between the two. ... The two editors have made crucially important contributions to the advancement of Stae¨l studies, and their generous encouragement of young scholars, who are well represented here, is exemplary. * French Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Setting the Stage Tili Boon Cuillé Part I. The Politics of the Passions 1. The Mother, the Daughter, and the Passions Catherine Dubeau, translated by Sylvie Romanowski 2. The Virtuous "Passion": The Politics of Pity in Staël's The Influence of the Passions Nanette Le Coat 3. Passions, Politics, and Literature: The Quest for Happiness Christine Dunn Henderson 4. Melancholy in the Pursuit of Happiness: Corinne and the Femme Supérieure Karen de Bruin Part II. International Aesthetics 5. The Peripheral Heroine Takes Center Stage: From Owenson’s National Tale to Staël’s European Genre M. Ione Crummy 6. Ethnography and Autoethnography in Corinne ou l’Italie Jennifer Law-Sullivan 7. Liquid Union: Listening through Tears and the Creation of Community in Corinne Lauren Fortner Ravalico 8. Aeolian Translation: The Aesthetics of Mediation and the Jouissance of Genre C.C. Wharram 9. British Legacies of Corinne and the Commercialization of Enthusiasm Kari Lokke Part III. Philosophy and the Arts 10. The Power to Corrupt: A Staëlian Perspective on the Fine Arts Susan Tenenbaum 11. The Many Faces of Germaine de Staël Mary D. Sheriff 12. Staël, Corinne, and the Women Collectors of Napoleonic Europe Heather Belnap Jensen 13. Germaine de Staël Defines Romanticism, or the Analogy of the Glass Harmonica Fabienne Moore 14. Between Ideal and Performance: Corinne in Female-Authored Singer Narratives of the 1830s Julia Effertz Bibliography Index About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe concept of secular millennialism summarizes a crucial point made by Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism: that twentieth-century totalitarian movements, in Nazi Germany and in the Soviet Union under Stalin, are not nationalistic but essentially millennialist, focused on the achievement of a universal world order. The question of whether totalitarian thinking can be located in a secular millennialist tradition is brought to the forefront in Aesthetics as Secular Millennialism: Its Trail from Baumgarten and Kant to Walt Disney and Hitler by Benjamin Bennett. Bennett contends that the new philosophical science of aesthetics—beginning in the eighteenth century with Baumgarten, Kant, and Schiller—is the source of such a tradition. Bennett uses the term “aesthetics” to designate a tradition which begins under that name but, in the course of the nineteenth century, concerns itself less directly with questions of beauty or art while not losing its secular millennialist tendency. He argues that modern philosophical hermeneutics, in Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer, belongs to the aesthetic tradition. Bennett explores the realistic novel as the main vehicle by which aesthetic tradition maintains itself in the nineteenth century and attracts a large popular following. The argument culminates in a discussion of relations among aesthetics, totalitarian propaganda, and the “totalitarian imagination” with its dream of “human omnipotence” (Arendt). Aesthetics as Secular Millennialism also maintains an attentiveness to instances of resistance against the aesthetic impetus in history—hence ultimately against totalitarianism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART ONE Chapter 1: Millennial Politics: The Beginning of Aesthetics Chapter 2: The History and Problems of the Idea of Aesthetics: The Issue of Communication Chapter 3: The Irrelevance of Aesthetics as Discovered in “Classical” Weimar Chapter 4: Kant and His Shadow: The Persistence of PhilosophicalAesthetics Chapter 5: Aesthetics andHermeneutics Chapter 6: The End of Aesthetics: Heidegger and Adorno PART TWO Chapter 7: Novels and the Novel Chapter 8: The Millennial Novel and Its Unmasking Chapter 9: Aesthetic Response and Propaganda: The Invention ofSimultaneity Chapter 10: The Totalitarian Imagination and Its Opposite Interchapter Chapter 11: What’s Up, Doc? Resistance in Spite of Itself Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDevelopments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal,1600-1800 explores the oppositions created by the official exclusion of banned sexual practices and the resistance to that exclusion through widespread acceptance of those outlawed practices at an interpersonal level. At different times and in different places, state legislation sets up—or tries to set up—a “normal” by rejecting a particular practice or group of practices. Yet this “normal” is derogated by popular practice, since the banned acts themselves are thought at the grassroots level to be “normal.” Among the events discussed in these essays are the Woods-Pirie trial, the “Ladies of Llangollen,” the popular acceptance of fops and mollies, and the press reaction to the discovery that James Allen was a woman who had lived successfully as a man and Lavinia Edwards was a man who had made her living as a female prostitute. Developments in the History of Sexualities analyzes both the state language of bans and fiats about sexuality, and the grassroots language which marks the acceptance of multiplicity in sexual practice. Contributors benefit from the accumulation of new evidence of attitudes towards sexual practice, and they engage with a wide range of texts, including Ned Ward’s History of the Clubs, Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Random, Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew and The Tempest, Dryden’s All for Love, Anne Batten Cristall’s Poetical Sketches, Isaac de Benserade’s Iphis et Iante, and Alessandro Verri’s Le Avventure di Saffo.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Sexuality Post(con)structuralism and After Chris Mounsey One: The History of Homosexuality Reconsidered George Haggerty Two: Queer Renaissance Dramaturgy, Shakespeare’s Shrew, and the Deconstruction of Marriage David Orvis Three: ‘Unusual Fires’: Ann Batten Cristall’s Queer Temporality Chris Nagle Four: De-sexing the Lesbian: Isaac de Benserade’s Narrative Quest Marianne Legault Five: Unqueering Sappho and Effeminizing the Author in Early Modern Italy Clorinda Donato Six: ‘A Thing Perhaps Impossible’: The 1811 Woods/Pirie Trial and Its Legacies Chris Roulston Seven: The Molly and the Fop: Untangling Effeminacy in the Eighteenth Century Sally O’Driscoll Eight: Considering Female Masculinities in Eighteenth Century Britain Katharine Kittredge Nine: The Sound of Men in Love Thomas Alan King Ten: “An Extraordinary Subject for Dissection”: James Allen and Lavinia Edwards Caroline Gonda Bibliography Index About the Contributors

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