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Book SynopsisUncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, 'a man of humanity,' as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking, controversial, and powerful work -- exposing the attitudes of white nineteenth-century society toward 'the peculiar institution' and documenting, in heartrending detail, the tragic breakup of black Kentucky families 'sold down the river.' An immediate international sensation, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold 300,000 copies in the first year, was translated into thirty-seven languages, and has never gone out of print: its political impact was immense, its emotional influence immeasurable.

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Book SynopsisMetaphor supposes that an ordinary word could have been used, but instead something unexpected appears. The point of a metaphor is to enrich experience by bringing different associations to mind, by giving something a different life. The prophetic character of metaphor, Denis Donoghue says, changes the world by changing our sense of it.Trade ReviewFor almost half a century Denis Donoghue has written stylish, weighty books, distinguished by the way they interweave an intricate sense of literary pleasure with an interest, no less intricate, in philosophical ideas… Now we have Metaphor, a characteristically intelligent and suggestive account, which reconsiders these grand philosophical tensions on the small stage of a figure of speech… Metaphor becomes an index of spiritual freedom: not a bit of tame likeness-making, like a simile. A metaphor is more like a heroic gesture towards autonomy, a rejection of the world of ‘common usage and the values it enforces.’ Donoghue pursues this theme with all his urbane powers of implication and range, finding in the metaphor a miniaturized instance of the idealist imagination… Donoghue is vivid and clever about a whole range of metaphorical uses in these pages. -- Seamus Perry * Times Literary Supplement *[A] civilized and informative book… When he discusses Yeats, Joyce or Heaney, Donoghue doesn’t just understand their language but feels it too, and the whole book explains through close analysis of poems by Pound, Stevens and Eliot why image and metaphor have come to occupy such a central position in modernist poetry and 20th-century criticism. -- Colin Burrow * London Review of Books *[There is a] difference between metaphor that illuminates and metaphor that obscures. It is one of the merits of Denis Donoghue’s book, with its rich store of examples and its intimacy with the secondary literature, that he is constantly inciting us to wrestle with that distinction. -- Paul Dean * New Criterion *You think you know what a metaphor is, but you don’t, not really. Denis Donoghue’s new book, Metaphor, is here to help, tracing the genealogy of the metaphor—along with its siblings, like the simile—throughout history, offering a more complete understanding of this ubiquitous literary device… Chock-full of entertaining examples and informative lessons on all types of metaphor. * Sewanee Review *Let us be clear: this is one of the more important books written by an Irish author so far this century… [Donoghue’s] magnum opus. -- Mark Patrick Hederman * The Furrow *[A] subtle and engrossing new book… Full of wild and beautiful examples. -- Michael Wood * Irish Times *Compelling… [It] meanders gently from the charmingly personal to the keenly microscopic in its treatment of its (largely literary and philosophical) material… A true readerly pleasure in Metaphor is the intense, tactile connection Donoghue strikes between himself and the text at hand… This is the purpose of Metaphor: to make us see how and why metaphor can revitalize our understanding not just of what we read but of how we read… What [Donoghue] succeeds at doing is to force us to scrutinize with greater care, to convince us to bring a portion of ourselves to what we read, and to get us to think outside the (metaphorical) box to which our everyday associations has confined us. Making metaphor personal is the key to eliciting deeper reading. -- Lianne Habinek * Open Letters Monthly *Wonderfully combines the scholarly and the personal. Recalling his metaphor-rich Catholic childhood and hearing ‘Panis Angelicus,’ [Donoghue] unlocks Aquinas’ word-play to elucidate the view that divinity conceals itself in physical symbols. He forces us to reconsider ordinary language, what makes (or doesn’t) make one thing like another and ultimately what truth and reality actually are. -- Jane O’Grady * The Tablet *In this prodigiously learned meditation, Donoghue takes readers through the history of the rhetorical device and its incarnations in poetry, fiction, philosophy, and everyday life… Rummaging through an exhaustive collection of linguistic authorities from Aristotle and Aquinas to Vico, Paul de Man, and J. L. Austin, Donoghue analyzes conflicting accounts of how metaphor shapes language and our experience of reality… Donoghue strives to show how metaphors ‘offer to change the world by changing one’s sense of it.’ Along the way, he studies verse by Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, and Stevens, among many others, weaving a thick tapestry of examples to show how metaphors are used and abused… The book successfully plunges readers into the complexities of figurative language and its power to revivify experience. * Publishers Weekly *Donoghue’s gentle, appreciative reflection on literary language here comes with the wisdom of accumulated decades of wide reading and robust insight. This is a book all about imaginative life, and it is a celebration of such life par excellence. It is a treat to watch a far-ranging, first-rate mind range over poetry and prose of centuries with so much zest for more life. -- Leslie Brisman, author of Romantic OriginsA wide-ranging, deeply learned account of the ‘daring vivacities’ language can achieve from the man who wrote the book on eloquence. -- Denise Gigante, author of Life: Organic Form and Romanticism

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Book SynopsisThe Epic of Ram by Tulsidas has become the most beloved retelling of the ancient Ramayana story across northern India and an influential literary masterpiece. This volume recounts Ram’s birth on earth, his youthful adventures, and the celebration of his marriage to Sita.Trade Review[A] cause for celebration—one of India’s most influential texts has been translated into contemporary English by a pivotal scholar who has devoted much of his career to the text, and its afterlives…Gives us a firm starting point for charting horizons and pathways into still-living traditions. -- Nikhil Govind * Scroll.in *Lutgendorf manages a simplicity, elegance and dignity, whereas attempts to rhyme or alliterate by other translators have often resulted in bathos…If this graceful and eminently readable translation can win more readers for this great scripture, which is also the greatest poem ever written in Hindi, it would have served to reaffirm Tulsi’s belief in the countless multiplicity of Ramayans. -- Harish Trivedi * IIC Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisA new edition of a French modernist classic - a Parisian scene told ninety-nine different ways - with new material written in homage by the likes of Jonathan Lethem, Rivka Galchen, and many more.Trade Review"Queneau’s Exercises in Style is a thrilling masterpiece and, in fact, one of the greatest stories in French literature." -- Vladimir Nabokov"Exercises in Style was a revolution, a book that proclaimed its powerful ideas simply by pursuing their iron logic." -- The Washington Post"What makes the book compelling is seeing this same, banal tale told through a huge variety of literary styles, from science fiction to rhyme, haiku to official letter. The variety in its repetition becomes at first odd, then hilarious as more and more absurd forms are chosen." -- The Huffington Post"This witty, bizarre read is perfect for dipping into, or reading from cover to cover, for anybody who loves storytelling." -- The Huffington Post"It will remind you of just how weird and infinite human language is." -- Raphael Rubinstein - BOMBlog"Exercises in Style is an irresistibly simple and frequently hilarious demonstration of the potential of language." -- The Believer Logger"It’s fair to say that Exercises in Style turns the current thinking about writing entirely, and brilliantly, on its head." -- Yuka Igarashi - The New Inquiry"It’s a testament to Queneau’s ability as a writer, and just as interestingly, it sort of blows apart the idea of how many ways a story can be told—and how style can be more important than content." -- Chad W. Post - Three Percent

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Book SynopsisIn aktualisierter Fassung und mit einem Kapitel über die Literatur seit 2000 wird das Standardwerk zur Skandinavischen Literaturgeschichte neu vorgelegt. Das Kompendium beschreibt die Geschichte der Literaturen Dänemarks, Norwegens, Schwedens und Islands; die Literaturen in finnischer, färöischer, samischer und grönländischer Sprache kommen hinzu. In facettenreichen Porträts des literarischen Geschehens werden herausragende Autoren wie Holberg, Ibsen, Strindberg, Lagerlöf, Blixen, Laxness, Lindgren, Tranströmer u.v.a. gewürdigt. Zugleich entsteht ein faszinierendes Panorama der skandinavischen Kulturgeschichte vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart.

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Book SynopsisDie Leopoldina-Ausgabe ist die erste vollständige historisch-kritische und kommentierte Ausgabe von Goethes naturwissenschaftlichen Schriften. Sie ist systematisch gegliedert und ediert die Texte mit den zugeordneten Materialien und ergänzt um zeitgenössische Zeugnisse. Die Ausgabe zeigt zudem Verbindungen auf, die zwischen Goethes naturwissenschaftlichem und literarischem Werk sowie zu den geistigen und wissenschaftlichen Strömungen seiner Zeit bestehen. Sie ersetzt die zweite Abteilung der Weimarer Sophienausgabe von Goethes Schriften nach neuen, editionsphilologischen Standards und ist ein grundlegendes Arbeitsinstrument auf dem neuesten Stand der Forschung für alle, die sich mit Goethes Schriften und der Naturforschung seiner Zeit befassen. Die abgeschlossene Ausgabe umfasst insgesamt 11 Text- und 18 Kommentarbände sowie zwei Registerbände.

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Book SynopsisThe first novel to be written for serial publication by a major female author, Sophia follows the story of two siblings, the virtuous and well-read eponymous heroine and her flighty and coquettish sister. While the latter leads a vapid life in the fashionable world of London, the former flees from a potential seducer to the country, where she pursues true friendship, learning, and an independent living. Previously out of print, the novel explores such issues as the place of female education, the opposition of city and country, the emergence of the literary marketplace, and the development of the individual.This Broadview edition reproduces images from the novel’s original serial publication and also includes other articles from Lennox’s periodical The Lady’s Museum, contemporary reviews of Sophia, and writings on sentimentalism.Trade Review“Norbert Schürer’s introduction provides the literary and cultural contexts for this wrongfully neglected novel of a major English novelist. He explains why Lennox was ‘the most important female writer in Britain around the middle of the eighteenth century’ and describes the innovations Sophia introduced both in its content and its format; it was one of the first novels to be published in serial installments in a magazine. This scrupulously edited volume is a treasure trove of information about Lennox’s life, the contemporary publishing world, and pervasive aspects of English culture such as titles, money, and transportation. It is a lively and authoritative contribution to our knowledge of the eighteenth-century British novel.” — Ruth Perry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology“While placing Lennox in a patriarchal literary marketplace dominated by Richardson, Fielding, and Dr. Johnson, Schürer provocatively reads this ‘two sisters novel’ both with and against the grain, to argue that Lennox both affirms and subverts Sophia's moral example and the novel’s conservative didacticism. Strengths of this edition include the reproduction and discussion of eighteenth-century illustrations of scenes from the novel, and the reprinting of otherwise hard to find contemporary biographies of ‘the celebrated’ Charlotte Lennox.” — Eve Tavor Bannet, University of Oklahoma “While placing Lennox in a patriarchal literary marketplace dominated by Richardson, Fielding, and Dr. Johnson, Schürer provocatively reads this ‘two sisters novel’ both with and against the grain, to argue that Lennox both affirms and subverts Sophia's moral example and the novel’s conservative didacticism. Strengths of this edition include the reproduction and discussion of eighteenth-century illustrations of scenes from the novel, and the reprinting of otherwise hard to find contemporary biographies of ‘the celebrated’ Charlotte Lennox.” — Eve Tavor Bannet, University of OklahomaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionCharlotte Lennox: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextA Note on Female Property and EducationA Note on Rank and TitlesA Note on the ClergyA Note on British CurrencyA Note on TransportationSophiaAppendix A: Textual VariantsAppendix B: Lennox’s Life “Mrs. Lennox,” The British Magazine and Review (July 1783) Obituary, The Gentleman’s Magazine (January 1804) Obituary, The European Magazine (February 1804) “Memoir of Mrs. Lennox,” The Lady’s Monthly Museum (June 1813) Appendix C: Reviews of Sophia The Critical Review (May 1762) The Library (May 1762) The British Magazine (June 1762) The Gentleman’s Magazine (June 1762) The Monthly Review (July 1762) Books printed by and for James Hoey, junior (advertisement from 1763) Appendix D: Selections from The Lady’s Museum The Lady’s Museum (March 1760) “Philosophy for the Ladies,” The Lady’s Museum (April 1760) “To the Author of the Lady’s Museum,” The Lady’s Museum (May 1760) “Of the Importance of the Education of Daughters,” The Lady’s Museum (June 1760) Appendix E: Sentimentalism and Moral Philosophy From Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711) From David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40) From Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) From Henry Mackenzie, The Lounger (1785) From Mary Alcock, Poems (1799) Select Bibliography and Works Cited

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Book SynopsisThe Second Mrs. Tanqueray was the theatrical sensation of the London stage in 1893. It established Pinero as the leading English dramatist of serious social issues, and created a star out of Mrs. Patrick Campbell in the title role. The play recounts the marriage of a "woman with a past" and how it fails because of the double standard of morality applied unequally and hypocritically by Victorian society to men and women.This Broadview edition includes a thoroughly revised text based on the author's manuscript, the prompt copy for the first production, and the published first edition; it also incorporates pertinent stage directions from the first production. The critical introduction examines all facets of the play and its production, and the appendices make accessible a wide variety of hard-to-find contemporary contextual materials related to the play.Trade ReviewAlthough I have known this play for many years, J.P. Wearing's introduction sheds new light on many interesting aspects of the piece, which I look forward to teaching afresh with the benefit of this text. The footnotes and the supplementary material all help in understanding the play, placing it in the social and legal context of its day. Not that it is a mere period piece; Pinero's skill as a playwright is impressive, and one hopes that this edition will encourage new productions." - Richard Foulkes, University of Leicester"A century and more after the fact, A.W. Pinero’s most penetrating play, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, has now been given a full-dress evaluative and contextual editorial treatment that does complete justice to its subject. J.P. Wearing, editor of Pinero’s letters, has brought his finely honed scholarly skills and broad knowledge of English theatre and culture to the task of presenting the single most authoritative text of Pinero’s play in existence and surrounding it with several sets of informative critical, social, and cultural writing, along with a comprehensive introduction, chronology, and bibliography. An immense amount of research lies behind this enterprise, and a great range of potential readers, from undergraduate and graduate students to historians and critics, will be the beneficiaries." - Joseph Donohue, Professor Emeritus, University of MassachusettsTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionArthur Wing Pinero: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Second Mrs.Tanqueray:A Play in Four ActsAppendix A: Pinero on Drama From T.H.L., “How I Construct My Plays: A Chat with Mr. Pinero,” Sketch (1893) Pinero, “The Modern British Drama,” Theatre (June 1895) From Pinero, Robert Louis Stevenson: The Dramatist (1903) From William Archer, Real Conversations (1904) From Pinero, “Robert Browning as a Dramatist,” Browning’s Centenary (1912) From Pinero, “Foreword,” Two Plays (1930) Appendix B: The Second Mrs.Tanqueray, The Golden Butterfly, and the AlbanyAppendix C: Social Background From Caroline Norton, A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth’s Marriage and Divorce Bill(1855) From the Divorce and Matrimonial Act (1857) From John Ruskin, “Of Queens’ Gardens” (1865) Eliza Lynn Linton, “The Girl of the Period,” Saturday Review (14 March 1868) From A. St. John Adcock, “Leaving the London Theatres,” Living London (1901) From Emily Constance Cook, “The London Season,” London and Environs (1897-98) “Police,” The Times (5 November 1895) “The Charge Against Mr. George Alexander,” The Times (6 November 1895) “School Teacher’s Suicide: Letters from a Married Man,” The Times (29 June 1920) Appendix D: Contemporary Reactions to The Second Mrs. Tanqueray L.F.A., Illustrated London News (3 June 1893) William Archer,World (31 May 1893) Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (3 June 1893) Punch (10 June 1893) Saturday Review (3 June 1893) T.H.L., “A Chat with Mrs. Patrick Campbell,” Sketch (7 June 1893) From Yorkshire Post (22 September 1893) From T.W.M. Lund, The Second Mrs.Tanqueray: What? And Why? (1894) From Bernard Shaw, Saturday Review (23 February 1895) From H. Barton Baker, History of the London Stage and Its Famous Players (1576-1903) (1904) Appendix E: Dramatic Techniques The Original Closing Scene to Pinero’s The Profligate (1889) The Performed Closing Scene of the First Production of The Profligate (1889) From Henry Arthur Jones, Act 4, The Liars (1897) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains the three works which together make up Jonathan Swift''s early satiric and intellectual masterpiece, A Tale of a Tub: the Tale itself, The Battel of the Books, and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. Incorporating much new knowledge, this 2010 edition provides the first full scholarly treatment of this important work for fifty years. The introduction discusses publication, composition, and authorship; sources, analogues and generic models; reception; and religious, scientific and literary contexts (including the ancients and moderns controversy). Detailed explanatory notes address many previously unexplained issues in this famously rich and difficult work. Texts have been fully collated and edited according to modern principles and are accompanied with a textual introduction and full textual apparatus. Illustrations include title pages, the eight engravings from the fifth edition, and original designs for these engravings. Extensive associated contemporary mateTrade Review'Some of the most important publishing events take place quietly … one of the landmark publications for me was the appearance of … A Tale of a Tub and Other Works … It's heartening to know, not just that one of our greatest writers is finally being given the editorial treatment he deserves, but that such a quixotically ambitious publishing series can still be contemplated in the digital age.' Jonathan Coe, The GuardianTable of ContentsGeneral editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; A Tale of a Tub; The Battel of the Books; A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit; Swift's editorial matter for Temple's posthumous publications: Letters written by Sir W. Temple (1700); Miscellanea. The Third Part (1701); Letters to the King (1703); Memoirs. Part III. (1709); Appendices: A. Letters between Swift and Benjamin Tooke, 29 June and 10 July 1710; B. William Wotton, 'Observations upon the Tale of a Tub'; C. Edmund Curll's Complete Key to the Tale of a Tub; D. Materials from Miscellaneous Works (1720); E. Swift's Moor Park reading list; Textual introduction and apparatus; Explanatory notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisSince his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime! Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmes’s famous “seven percent solution” and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery. Also included are Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling “ The Adventure

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Book SynopsisThis detailed map shows all the locations described on the nearly deserted island where Robinson Crusoe resided for 28 years after a shipwreck. The map also depicts the other places described in the novel after the journey''s beginning in Kingston upon Hull, England, in 1651.?Contains an illustrated map, not the full text. A3-format, folded to A6-format. Printed on recycled paper.

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Book SynopsisKatrin. The Tale of a Young Writer is a novel by the artist Unica Zürn (Berlin 1916Paris 1970). It was written in 1953, although it would never be published in her lifetime. This is the first translation of the tale from German into English. Zürn tells the story of fifteen-year-old motherless Katrin, an aspiring writer, who lives with her father, also a writer. The novel is set in an imaginary world, a metropolis called Linit, split into three levels: Oberstadt (Hightown), Mittelstadt (Middletown) and Unterstadt (Lowtown), overlooked by a Volcano where the artists live and crossed by the river Emil. Presented as a book for children, apparently written for her own daughter (named Katrin), Katrin also draws on the personal biography of Zürn herself, in terms of her relationship with her father and the city of Berlin after WWII, and her experience with people on the margins of a society characterised by great tensions.

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Book Synopsis''Gripping, emotional, utterly engrossing'' Lisa Ballantyne''Stunning writing and wonderful nuanced characterisation. I was hooked'' Rosamund LuptonA sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of post-war Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost... Perfect for fans of Maggie O''Farrell, Celeste Ng and Anne Tyler.1957: Within a year of arriving at an American airbase in Suffolk, the loving, law-abiding Delaney family is destroyed. Did they know something they weren''t allowed to know? Did they find something they weren''t supposed to find? Only one girl has the courage to question what really went on behind closed doors . . . Hedy''s journey to the truth leads her to read a manuscript that her talented twin brother had started months before he died, a story inspired by an experience in the foTrade ReviewA gripping and emotional story which, although set in a past era, has chilling implications for the present day. How It Ends is an engrossing read with endearing characters thrust into traumatic circumstances. It stayed with me long after the last page as its subject matter is unfortunately still very relevant -- Lisa Ballantyne

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Book SynopsisRecognized as one of the first great African American speakers in the United States, Frederick Douglass was a self-emancipated slave, renowned abolitionist, orator, and influential writer championing civil rights in the nineteenth century. This exceptional hardcover edition from the Dover Bookshelf not only serves as a testament to Douglass?s profound impact on history but is also a work of art. Beautifully crafted, it incorporates stunning design elements that resonate with the poignant themes of Douglass?s autobiography. The handsome typography, selected for its readability, allows for a comfortable and engaging reading experience. Affordably priced, this volume enables every history lover to appreciate the strength and resilience embodied in Douglass?s words. Whether as a treasured keepsake or a thoughtful gift for a history enthusiast, this captivating edition ofNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglassis an ideal choice. Printed in the USA.

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Book SynopsisThe Island of Apples is a brilliant study of a pre-adolescent boy's romantic imagination and dangerous enthralment, set vividly in the south Wales of Methyr Tydfil and Carmarthen in the early twentieth centuryTrade Review" I found my self unexpectedly hooked by the Island of Apples - I became increasingly beguiled by its haunting quality." New York Herald Tribune " An iridescent story." New York Times " The novel, like all true works of art, grows more important with time - it is a remarkable piece of work, sustained and controlled." Leslie Norris, Dictionary of Literary Biography

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Book SynopsisAn early gem from the creator of the Kurt Wallander series, charting the life of a principled man through tragedy, heartbreak, true love and the battle for a nation''s soul.A very engaging portrait . . . There is a powerful lack of sentimentality to the telling of the story [and] a lovely and genuinely moving love story at the heart of the book. Liam Heylin, Irish ExaminerAt 3 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon in 1911, Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast in an industrial accident. The local newspaper reports him dead, but they are mistaken.Because Oskar Johansson is a born survivor.Though crippled, Oskar finds the strength to go on living and working. The Rock Blaster charts his long professional life - his hopes and dreams, sorrows and joys. His relationship with the woman whose love saved him, with the labour movement that gave him a cause to believe in, and with his children, who do not share his ideals.Trade ReviewOne of Scandinavia's finest writers. -- Ian Rankin.He is in the great tradition of those whose works transcend their chosen genre to become thrilling and moral literature. -- Michael OndaatjeA literary writer of considerable accomplishment. -- Barry Forshaw * Independent. *In life and in art Henning Mankell was a man of passionate commitment. -- Kenneth BrannaghMankell is the master. -- Viv GroskopMankell's fierce instinct for social criticism is admirable. -- Mike Peed * New York Times. *Mankell writes with both a social conscience and great humour. -- Sarah Compton * Daily Telegraph. *An excellent craftsman. -- Joanna KavennaProvides a fascinating preview of the psychology of Kurt Wallander who was to become Mankell's most famous creation * Shots Magazine *A very engaging portrait . . . There is a powerful lack of sentimentality to the telling of the story [and] a lovely and genuinely moving love story at the heart of the book. -- Liam Heylin * Irish Examiner *

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Book SynopsisCONTENTS: Introduction; Soubrot of fornkonungum: Mythologised History for Late Thirteenth-Century Iceland; Hrolfs saga kraka & the Legend of Lejre; Enter the Dragon: Legendary Saga Courage & the Birth of the Hero; Pora & Aslaug in Ragnars saga loòrokar: Women, Dragons & Destiny; Hvggin ok forsjal: Wisdom & Women''s Counsel in Hrolfs saga Gautrekssonar; Vid pik sattumsk ek aldri: Qrvar-Odds saga & the Meanings of Qgmundr Eypjofsbani; The Tale of Hogni & Hedinn; The Saga of Asmundr, Killer of Champions.

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary study presents compelling evidence for a revolutionary idea: that to understand the historical entrenchment of gentility in America, we must understand its creation among non-elite people: colonial middling sorts who laid the groundwork for the later American middle class. Focusing on the daily life of Widow Elizabeth Pratt, a shopkeeper from early eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, Christina J. Hodge uses material remains as a means of reconstructing not only how Mrs Pratt lived, but also how these objects reflect shifting class and gender relationships in this period. Challenging the ''emulation thesis'', a common assumption that wealthy elites led fashion and culture change while middling sorts only followed, Hodge shows how middling consumers were in fact discerning cultural leaders, adopting genteel material practices early and aggressively. By focusing on the rise and emergence of the middle class, this book brings new insights into the evolution of Table of ContentsPreface: vivent les revolutions; 1. Introduction; 2. Consuming contexts; 3. Living spaces; 4. At table; 5. Keeping the shop; 6. Legacies of the genteel revolution.

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Book SynopsisRanging across literature, theater, history and the visual arts, this collection of essays explores the range of places where British Romantic-period sociability transpired. Specialist and non-specialists readers can revisit the rooms, buildings, landscapes and seascapes where people gathered to converse, to eat and drink, to work and to find entertainment.Table of ContentsIntroduction Kevin Gilmartin; Part I. Print Relations: 1. Recovering the country book club Ina Ferris; 2. 'Bread and cheese and porter only being allowed': radical spaces in London, 1792–5 Jon Mee; 3. Piccadilly booksellers and conservative sociability David Fallon; Part II. Sociable Spectacle: 4. Proxy Israelites: staging ethnic violence in the ring and the pit Daniel O'Quinn; 5. Fashionable subjects: exhibition culture and the limits of sociability Paul Keen; Part III. Interior Places: 6. 'The place is not free to you': the Georgian assembly room and the ends of sociability Gillian Russell; 7. Unconventional calling: Godwin, women and visiting in the 1790s Mark Philp; Part IV. Traveling Sociability: 8. Sociability among the ruins: the Colosseum by moonlight, circa 1820 Christopher Rovee; 9. Sociability by the sea side: Margate before 1815 Harriet Guest; 10. Lower deck narratives and sociability in the British Navy, 1750–1815 Nicholas Rogers.

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Book SynopsisThomas Hardy and Animals examines the human and nonhuman animals who walk and crawl and fly across and around the pages of Hardy''s novels. Animals abound in his writings, yet little scholarly attention has been paid to them so far. This book fills this gap in Hardy studies, bringing an important author within range of a new and developing area of critical inquiry. It considers the way Hardy''s representations of animals challenged ideas of human-animal boundaries debated by the Victorian scientific and philosophical communities. In moments of encounter between humans and animals, Hardy questions boundaries based on ideas of moral sense or moral agency, language and reason, the possession of a face, and the capacity to suffer and perceive pain. Through an emphasis on embodied encounters, his writings call for an extension of empathy to others, human or nonhuman. In this accessible book Anna West offers a new approach to Hardy criticism.Trade Review'… an important and welcome contribution to Hardy scholarship. … West's volume serves as a good beginning point … on this compelling and complex subject. … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.' R. D. Morrison, CHOICE'Thomas Hardy and Animals is an outstanding piece of work that makes an important contribution to Hardy studies and to scholarship on animals in the Victorian period.' Jennifer McDonell, Victorian Studies'… West's excellent study provides a very welcome introduction to the 'creatures' that play so notable a part in Hardy's oeuvre.' Adrian Tait, The British Society for Literature and ScienceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Hardy's 'shifted [...] centre of altruism': an ethics of encounter and empathy; 1. What does it mean to be a creature?; 2. 'The only things we believe in are the sheep and the dogs'; 3. 'Artful' creatures, part one: animal language; 4. 'Artful' creatures, part two: can a snake have a face?; 5. 'Artful' creatures, part three: 'pre-posthumanist' Hardy; 6. Useful creatures: rethinking Hardy's humanitarianism.

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Book SynopsisJames Joyce was educated almost exclusively by the Jesuits; this education and these priests make their appearance across Joyce''s oeuvre. This dynamic has never been properly explicated or rigorously explored. Using Joyce''s religious education and psychoanalytic theories of depression and paranoia, this book opens radical new possibilities for reading Joyce''s fiction. It takes readers through some of the canon''s most well-read texts and produces bold, fresh new readings. By placing these readings in light of Jesuit religious practice - in particular, the Spiritual Exercises all Jesuit priests and many students undergo - the book shows how Joyce''s deepest concerns about truth, literature, and love were shaped by these religious practices and texts. Joyce worked out his answers to these questions in his own texts, largely by forcing his readers to encounter, and perhaps answer, those questions themselves. Reading Joyce is a challenge not only in terms of interpretation but of experience - the confusion, boredom, and even paranoia readers feel when making their way through these texts.Trade Review'Michael Mayo's lucidly written, patiently reasoned James Joyce and the Jesuits argues that 'Joyce's work addresses itself to particular crises of belief and representation generated by Ignatius of Loyola' in his Spiritual Exercises (1522–1524)… Mayo leaves us with a highly compelling conceptual framework: one that others might well profit from and apply further in their own engagements with the frustrations and enigmas of Joyce's art, and also its playfulness.' James Joyce Broadsheet, No. 123Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The disturbed mind; 3. Beyond the Uncle Charles Principle; 4. The labour of reading: Joyce with Klein; 5. Kleinian Aesthetics; 6. Discernment and indifference; 7. It was pitch dark almost; 8. Substantiation; 9. Conclusion: The transference; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisMargaret Cavendish was one of the most subversive and entertaining writers of the seventeenth century. She invented new genres, challenged gender roles, and critiqued the new science as well as the mores of society. "Paper Bodies" was the wonderful phrase she used to described her manuscripts, which she hoped would continue to make "a great Blazing Light" after her death. There are connections here to Cavendish's most famous work, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666), a unique tale of a woman travelling through the north pole to a strange new world.In addition to The Blazing World, this volume includes Cavendish's brief autobiography, A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life (1667), her play The Convent of Pleasure, and selections from her Sociable Letters, her poetry, and her critical writings. A variety of background documents by other seventeenth-century writers helps to set her work in context for the modern reader.Trade Review“Paper Bodies gathers together important and representative selections from the poetry, fiction, prefaces, and letters of Margaret Cavendish. The book also sets the work in context by printing extracts from Francis Bacon, Mary Evelyn, and Aphra Behn. Cavendish scholars will be very pleased by the appearance of this highly useful collection.” — James Fitzmaurice, Northern Arizona University“Cavendish always hoped that a future audience might read her texts—the ‘paper bodies’ that remained after her death—more attentively than had her contemporaries. This anthology facilitates that readership. Its lucid introduction and careful selection of texts and contexts adumbrate key topics in Cavendish studies, and its potential to enrich courses on early modern literature, the history of science, and gender studies is great.” — Anna Battigelli, SUNY, PlattsburghTable of ContentsIntroduction Birth, Breeding, and Self-fashioning Gender and Serious Play Women and the New Science Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: A Brief ChronologyPart I: Birth, Breeding, and Self-fashioning A True Relation of my Birth, Breeding, and Life (1656) Selections from CCXI Sociable Letters (1664) Preface to Orations of Divers Sorts (1662) Letter of Mary Evelyn to Ralph Bohun (c.1667) Part II: Gender and Serious Play The Convent of Pleasure (1668) Preface to the Reader, The Worlds Olio (1655) Female Orations, from Orations of Divers Sorts (1662) Part III: Women and the New Science The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666) Selections from Poems and Fancies (1635) Francis Bacon, New Atlantis (1627) Selections from Letters and Poems in Honour of … Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1676) Aphra Behn, Preface to her translation of Fontenelle’s Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes (1688) Works Cited and Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBaillie’s eminently readable dramas stand at the crossroads of the Scottish Enlightenment and early Romanticism, and compellingly engage with questions of women’s rights. Her exploration of the passions, first published in 1798, is here reissued with a wealth of contextual materials including "The Introductory Discourse," Baillie’s own brand of feminist literary criticism. The three plays included here are "Count Basil: A Tragedy," and "The Tryal: A Comedy," which show love from opposing perspectives; and "De Monfort: A Tragedy," which explores the drama of hate. Among other appendices, the Broadview edition includes materials on the contemporary philosophical understanding of the passions, and contemporary reviews.Baillie’s work is enjoying a revival of interest. She lived a long life, (1762-1851), and had a wide circle of literary friends including Maria Edgeworth and Sir Walter Scott (who termed her a "female Shakespeare"). Scottish born, she moved to England in her twenties where she then resided. Her Plays on the Passions, alternatively known as A Series of Plays in which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind—Each Passion being the Subject of a Tragedy and Comedy was produced in three volumes between 1798 and 1812. The first volume created quite a stir amongst the literary circles of London and Edinburgh when introduced anonymously. The speculation into the authorship concluded two years later when Baillie came forward as the writer of the collection, thereby causing a subsequent sensation since no one had considered the shy spinster a candidate in the mystery.Trade Review“At a time when serious scholars are reevaluating the merit and impact of Joanna Baillie’s work, we finally have an annotated edition of her first volume of A Series of Plays. Sound research is impossible without authoritative primary texts, and Peter Duthie provides judicious editing, pertinent annotations and important philosophical explanations to make this Baillie edition useful for researchers and general readers alike.” — Judith Bailey Slagle, editor of The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie“Peter Duthie has given teachers of romanticism and theater a gift; this elegant, accessible, and carefully contextualized edition of Joanna Baillie’s earliest plays is an invaluable resource for demonstrating the centrality of Baillie’s dramas to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century debates about women and performance, morality and the mind.” — Catherine Burroughs, Wells CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionJoanna Baillie: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the Text Introductory DiscourseCount Basil: A TragedyThe Tryal: A ComedyDe Monfort: A Tragedy Appendix A: The Moral Writers John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) Dugald Stewart, Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind (1792) Appendix B: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) [On soldiers, professions, and masculine corruption] [On the tyranny of the sexes] Appendix C: Prologue and Epilogue to the Tragedy of De Montfort from the Larpent VersionAppendix D: William Wordsworth “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads (1800) From Lyrical Ballads Vol. 2 (1800) Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews Literary Leisure I (Jan. 1800) Edinburgh Review 4 (July 1803) Imperial Review I (March 1804) Dramatic Censor (April-May 1800) Works Cited/Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisFleetwood is a pivotal novel of early English Romanticism and a powerful critique of the Romantic emotionalism being spread across Europe in Rousseau’s name. Godwin’s “new man of feeling” chronicles the impact of his “natural” education in the wilds of Wales, and his behavior allows Godwin to draw attention to an array of contemporary social issues. Godwin attacks the inhumanity of the early factory system, and indicts British society for its patriarchal inequities. His portrayal of Fleetwood’s obsessive and devastating jealousy contributed significantly to the development of psychological realism in English fiction. As essential historical background, the editors provide reviews, and excerpts from Rousseau’s writing and from Godwin’s other works.Trade Review“Fleetwood has long deserved a wider audience. Its pioneering explorations—of factory labour, of the role of manipulation in pedagogy, and of obsession and spousal abuse—show Godwin ranging beyond the questions of rationality and justice that marked his earlier works. Handwerk and Markley have provided a clear and thorough account of Godwin’s career and intellectual milieu. Their introduction and their well-chosen supplementary materials demonstrate Godwin’s contributions to debates about politics, marriage, the rights of women, education, and travel. The appearance of Fleetwood in this scholarly edition will help readers understand Godwin’s formidable reputation for good and for evil among his contemporaries, and will invite a re-evaluation in our time of his power as a thinker and a novelist.” — Jeanne Moskal, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionWilliam Godwin: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextPreface to the First Edition (1805)Appendix A: Foundations of the Novel William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1797) “Of Political Imposture” “Of Cooperation, Cohabitation and Marriage” William Godwin, The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature in a Series of Essays (1797) “Of Public and Private Education” “Of Deception and Frankness” “Of the Obtaining of Confidence” “Of Choice in Reading” “Of Difference of Opinion” Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) “The Prevailing Opinion Of A Sexual Character Discussed” “Observations On The State Of Degradation To Which Woman Is Reduced By Various Causes” “Animadversions On Some Of The Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects Of Pity, Bordering On Contempt” “The Effect Which An Early Association Of Ideas Has Upon The Character” “On National Education” “Some Instances Of The Folly Which The Ignorance of Women Generates; With Concluding Reflections On The Moral Improvement That A Revolution In Female Manners Might Naturally Be Expected To Produce” Appendix B: The Influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Julie, ou La Nouvelle Héloïse (1761), translated by Gary Handwerk. Émile, or on Education (1762), translated by Grace Roosevelt. Appendix C: The Novel of Sensibility Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, By Mr. Yorick (1768) Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling (1771) Henry Mackenzie, Julia de Roubigné (1777) Appendix D: The English Jacobin Novel and the Lot of Woman Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story (1791) Mary Wollstonecraft, The Wrongs of Woman: Or, Maria (1798) Mary Hays, The Victim of Prejudice (1799) Appendix E: The Resonance of Renaissance Drama John Fletcher, A Wife for a Moneth (1624) Thomas Otway, Don Carlos (1676) Appendix F: The Lure of Switzerland William Coxe, Travels in Switzerland (1778, 1789) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (1817) Appendix G: Contemporary Reviews Critical Review (April 1805) Walter Scott, Edinburgh Review (April 1805) The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine (August 1805) British Critic (August 1805) Monthly Review (January 1806) European Magazine and London Review (April 1806) Review of the 1832 edition of Fleetwood, from the Examiner (December 1832) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFactory Lives contains four works of great importance in the field of nineteenth-century working-class autobiography: John Brown’s A Memoir of Robert Blincoe; William Dodd’s A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd; Ellen Johnston’s “Autobiography”; and James Myles’s Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy.This Broadview edition also includes a remarkably rich selection of historical documents that provide context for these works. Appendices include contemporary responses to the autobiographies, debates on factory legislation, transcripts of testimony given before parliamentary committees on child labour, and excerpts from literary works on factory life by Harriet Martineau, Frances Trollope, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others. Trade ReviewFactory Lives is a wonderful and wonderfully affordable resource for anyone who teaches British nineteenth-century literature, culture, or history. The text does a real service by providing a representative sampling of working-class autobiographies from this period. The engagingly learned introduction by Janice Carlisle provides a rich and wide-ranging contextualization that will help teachers and students approach these texts from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary angles. I cannot imagine teaching a course on the Condition of England novel without including this collection on my reading list." - Elaine Hadley, University of Chicago"This eye-opening edition of working-class autobiographies written by men and women who labored in the harsh industrial system of Victorian Britain is a useful addition to our understanding of the era's full human costs in terms of physical and psychological suffering. It is an engaging emotional experience to read these carefully selected accounts of individuals working long hours in the mills and factories. The collection of official reports and legislative documents that attempted to bring social reforms places these autobiographies in their full and proper historical and political contexts. An added bonus of the edition is the inclusion of a range of contemporary poetry and fiction on industrial life." - William B. Thesing, University of South CarolinaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Janice CarlisleSignificant Nineteenth-Century Factory Legislationand Factory Literature: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the Text, Elizabeth ReedJohn Brown, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, An Orphan Boy (1832)William Dodd, A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd, A Factory Cripple.Written by Himself (1841)James Myles, Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy (1850)Ellen Johnston, “Autobiography of Ellen Johnston, ‘The Factory Girl’” (1867) and “Autobiography” (1869)Appendix A: Contemporary Perspectives on A Memoir of Robert Blincoe A Correspondent to The Lion, “Confirmation of the Memoir of Robert Blincoe” (14 March 1828) A Friend at Manchester, “Confirmation of Blincoe’s Printed Memoir By Himself” (28 March 1828) Robert Blincoe,Testimony before the 1833 Royal Commission on the Employment of Children in Factories Substantive Changes in Doherty’s 1832 Edition of the Memoir Appendix B: Contemporary Perspectives on William Dodd’s Narrative Lord Ashley and John Bright, from the debate of 15 March 1844, House of Commons William Dodd, from The Laboring Classes of England (1847) Appendix C: Contemporary Perspectives on Myles’s Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy James Myles, from Rambles in Forfarshire (1850) William Norrie, from Dundee Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century (1873): James Myles, Robert Nicoll, and William Jackson Appendix D: Contemporary Perspectives on Johnston’s “Autobiography”: Selected Poems from Autobiography, Poems and Songs of Ellen Johnston,The “Factory Girl” (1867 and 1869) “The Working Man” “Kennedy’s Dear Mill” “An Address to Napiers’ Dockyard” “Lord Raglan’s Address to the Allied Armies” “The Last Sark” “To my Aunt Phemie” “An Address to Nature on its Cruelty” “Lines to Mr James Dorward” “Lines by Edith to the Factory Girl” “The Factory Girl’s Reply to ‘Lines by Edith’” “The Factory Girl’s Reply to Edith” “Lines to Mr G.D. Russell” “The Last Lay of ‘The Factory Girl’” Appendix E: Contemporary Documents: Parliamentary Testimony as Autobiography Charles Aberdeen,Testimony before the 1832 Committee on the Labour of Children in Factories Elizabeth Bentley,Testimony before the 1832 Committee on the Labour of Children in Factories Appendix F: Factory Life: Contemporary Views Harriet Martineau, from A Manchester Strike (1832) Andrew Ure, from The Philosophy of Manufactures(1835) From The Young Folks of the Factory (1840) Frances Trollope, from Michael Armstrong (1840) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Cry of the Children”(1843) R. Arthur Arnold, from The History of the Cotton Famine(1864) Appendix G: Factory Legislation: Contemporary Views Richard Oastler, “The White Slaves of Yorkshire” (1830) Caroline Norton, A Voice from the Factories (1836) John Fielden, from The Curse of the Factory System(1836) Robert Hyde Greg, from The Factory Question and the “Ten Hours Bill” (1837) Frances Trollope, from Michael Armstrong (1840) Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, from Helen Fleetwood (1841) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisL.M. Findlay's elegant new translation is a work of textual and historical scholarship. Few books have had as much of an impact on modern history as The Communist Manifesto. Since it was first published in 1848, it has become the rallying cry for revolutionary movements around the world. This new Broadview edition draws on the 1888 Samuel Moore translation supervised by Engels—the standard English version in Marxist discourse—and on the original Helen Macfarlane translation into English of 1850. Throughout, Findlay draws on a variety of disciplines and maintains a broad-ranging perspective. Among the appendices are Engels' "Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith," correspondence and journalism of Marx and Engels, ten illustrations, and eight additional influential political manifestos from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Trade ReviewL.M. Findlay's excellent translation of The Communist Manifesto, embedded in a splendid introduction and a most carefully chosen appendix of Marx and Engels pieces, superbly places this nineteenth-century classic in an extraordinary historical context. There is no other edition at the moment that can match its quality in terms of translation, and its substance in terms of historical context." - Renate Holub, Director, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of California, Berkeley"Findlay engages the reader by depicting how personal and historical events shaped the thinking of Marx and Engels. At the same time, he clarifies why Marx and Engels pursue the manifesto format, explains its historical significance as a political genre, and highlights the importance of Marxist concerns in the post-industrial, post-Cold War era. Combined with the excellent array of appendices, Findlay's translation should enrich readers' understanding of the Manifesto's historical context and help solidify their understanding of the fundamentals of Marxism." - Bryon Moraski, University of Florida"Findlay's new edition of The Communist Manifesto is very scholarly, and the additional documents are a real bonus, providing an interesting context for the work. All in all, this is an excellent edition." - Walter Adamson, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroductionA Note on the TextMarx and Engels: A Brief ChronologyThe Communist ManifestoAppendix A: From Flora Tristan’s Tour de France, September 1844Appendix B: Letter from Engels to Marx, November–December 1846Appendix C: Engels, Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith, 9 June 1847Appendix D: Marx, “The Communism of the Rheinischer Beobachter,” September 1847Appendix E: Communist Journal, No. 1, September 1847Appendix F: Engels, “Principles of Communism,” late October 1847Appendix G: Letter from Engels to Marx, 23–24 November 1847Appendix H: Engels, “On the History of the Communist League,” 1885Appendix I: Engels, “The Labour Movement in America.” Preface to the American Edition of The Condition of the Working Class in England, 26 January 1887Appendix J: Engels, “Notes On My Journey Through America and Canada,” late September 1888Appendix K: Engels, “Impressions of a Journey Round America,” late September 1888Appendix L: Manifestoes The Brunswick Manifesto (1972) a. Report on the Manifestoes of the Allied Kings Against the Republic (1793)b. Reply of the National Convention to the Manifestoes of the Kings leagued against the Republic (1793) Manifesto of the Equals (1796) Manifesto of the Delegates to their Countrymen (1797) Proclamation by Robert Emmet (1803) Manifesto of the Productive Classes of Great Britain and Ireland (1833) Manifesto Addressed to the People of Canada by the Constitutional Committee on Reform and Progress (1847) “Manifesto to Europe” (1848) Further ReadingCredits

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Book SynopsisBased on Leonora Sansay's eyewitness accounts of the final days of French rule in Saint Domingue (Haiti), Secret History is a vivid account of race warfare and domestic violence. Sansay's writing provocatively draws comparisons between Saint Domingue during the Haitian Revolution and the postrevolutionary United States, while fluidly combining qualities of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel, colonial travel writing, and political analysis. Laura, Sansay's second novel, features as its protagonist a beautiful impoverished orphan who throws herself headlong into a secret marriage with a young medical student. When her husband dies in a duel in an effort to protect his wife's reputation, Laura finds herself once more alone in the world. The republication of these works will contribute to a significant revision of thinking about early American literary history.This Broadview edition offers a rich selection of contextual materials, including selections from periodical literature about Haiti, engravings, letters written by Sansay to her friend Aaron Burr, historical material related to the Burr trial for treason, and excerpts from literature referenced in the novels.Trade ReviewMichael J. Drexler's splendidly documented, richly contextualized edition of Leonora Sansay's Secret History and Laura is indispensable to anyone studying the complexities of the Haitian Revolution, the conventions of gothic literature, and the history of the Americas. The appendices gather together for the first time letters between Sansay and Aaron Burr, as well as news reports of the Haitian Revolution in the U.S. press, observations by Charles Brockden Brown, memoirs by Condy Raguet, and paintings by Agostino Brunias. These appendices alone constitute a repository of materials that will offer scholars and students everything needed for an interdisciplinary course on romance and race—with Haiti as rightful progenitor and ancestor spirit." - Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt University, author of Haiti, History, and the Gods (1995)"Michael J. Drexler's superb new edition of Secret History and Laura places two enormously significant literary works within easy reach of students and scholars. As Drexler's insightful introduction indicates, the cultural and political connections between the early U.S. republic and the Haitian Revolution have been overlooked by generations of scholars. This edition places issues of Atlantic race slavery, republican revolution, colonialism, and gender relations squarely at the center of early American literature and culture and makes readily available texts that will become required reading in the fields of Atlantic and early American studies. The historical documents collected in this edition bring into focus the complex and compelling historical and literary interconnections between the U.S. and Haiti at the moment when Haiti saw the first and only successful slave rebellion in the western hemisphere." - Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChronology: Haiti/USA/France/Leonora SansayMaps of Haiti (1853) and the Caribbean (2005)A Note on the TextSecret History; or, the Horrors of St. DomingoLauraAppendix A: Biographical Documents Letter from Leonora Sansay to Aaron Burr (6 May 1803) Letter from Leonora Sansay to Aaron Burr (6 November 1808) Letter from Leonora Sansay to Aaron Burr (29 July 1812) William Wirt’s Speech at Aaron Burr’s Trial (August 1807) Review of Laura from The Port-Folio (1809) Appendix B: Literary Selections Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard” (1717) From John Armstrong, The Oeconomy of Love (1736) From Germaine de Staël, Influence of the Passions (1796) From [Leonora Sansay?], Zelica, the Creole (1821) Appendix C: Contextual Documents From Baron de Wimpffen, A Voyage to Saint Domingo (1797) From Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia (1794) [Anonymous], “Renewed War in St. Domingo” (1802) Charles Brockden Brown, “On the Consequences of Abolishing the Slave Trade to the West Indian Colonies”(1805) Engravings from Marcus Rainsford’s Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (1805) From Condy Raguet, “Account of the Massacre in St. Domingo” (1807) From [Condy Raguet], “Memoirs of Hayti” (1809–12) Agostino Brunias, Scenes of the West Indies (ca. 1780) Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisPublished together for the first time, Eliza Haywood’s Anti-Pamela and Henry Fielding’s An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews are the two most important responses to Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela. Anti-Pamela comments on Richardson’s representations of work, virtue, and gender, while also questioning the generic expectations of the novel that Pamela establishes, and it provides a vivid portrayal of the material realities of life for a woman in eighteenth-century London. Fielding’s Shamela punctures both the figure Richardson established for himself as an author and Pamela’s preoccupation with virtue.This Broadview edition also includes a rich selection of historical materials, including writings from the period on sexuality, women’s work, Pamela and the print trade, and education and conduct.Trade Review“As the first modern edition of Eliza Haywood’s Anti-Pamela, this book makes available, at long last, a daring work of fiction and its protagonist Syrena Tricksy, a servant girl whose feigned innocence (taught by a wily mother) brings her almost as much treasure as trouble. Coupling Anti-Pamela with Fielding’s well-known Pamela parody, Shamela, makes the book especially appealing. This is a first-rate edition—Ingrassia’s introduction, notes, and supplemental readings are superb and bring Haywood’s and Fielding’s fiction, as well as the Pamela controversy itself, into crisp historical and literary focus.” — Devoney Looser, University of Missouri-Columbia“An inspired pairing of the two most important early critiques of Richardson’s Pamela, this edition at last makes it possible for students to read Haywood’s darkly satiric Anti-Pamela alongside Fielding’s well-known and hilarious parody Shamela. Ingrassia has put together a splendidly informative volume. The thorough introduction, generous selection of contextual materials, and extensive notes (which contain a wealth of information about economic, legal, and social contexts), make this an exemplary edition.” — Kathryn King, University of Montevallo“Ingrassia’s carefully prepared edition provides virtually everything any reader, whether novice or seasoned scholar, might need to understand both works fully in their contexts and to arrive at an independent judgment concerning their relative merits. It is impressive in every way—a model thing of its kind.” — Jerry Beasley, East-Central IntelligencerTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionEliza Haywood and Henry Fielding: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextA Note on British MoneyAnti-Pamela; or, Feign’d Innocence DetectedAn Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela AndrewsAppendix A: Women’s Work Richard Campbell, from The London Tradesman (1747) Richard Steele, The Spectator no. 155 (1711) Samuel Johnson, Idler nos. 26 and 29 (1758) Eliza Haywood, from Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze (1724) Samuel Richardson, from Pamela; or,Virtue Rewarded (1740) Eliza Haywood, from A Present for a Servant-Maid (1743) Mary Collier, from “The Woman’s Labour” (1739) Appendix B: Sexuality Attempted rape scene from Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740) James Boswell, from The London Journal (1762-63) Daniel Defoe, from Conjugal Lewdness; or, Matrimonial Whoredom (1727) Richard Steele, from The Spectator no. 266 (1712) Appendix C: Pamela and the Print Trade Title-pages (Pamela, Anti-Pamela, and Mrs. Shamela Andrews) Samuel Richardson, from Pamela (1740) Conyers Middleton,“Dedication” to History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero (1741) Colley Cibber, from An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber (1740) Appendix D: Education and Conduct Books Richard Allestree, from The Whole Duty of Man (1658) Lady Sarah Pennington, from An Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to her Absent Daughters (1761) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Lady Bute (1753) Appendix E: Map of London in Anti-Pamela and ShamelaSelect Bibliography

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Book SynopsisPublished in 1911, Suffragette Sally is one of the best-known popular novels promoting the cause of women's suffrage in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The novel details the militant campaign of the suffragist Women’s Social and Political Union against the political establishment of the time. Through its three female protagonists, each from a different class, the novel recounts the challenges faced by women who dared to flout social convention by agitating for the vote. The Sally of the title is Sally Simmonds, a maid-of-all-work in a household where she has to deal with her employer’s advances along with her daily tasks. The novel follows Sally’s conversion to the suffrage movement and details the consequences she must face as a working-class woman who risks her job, her relationships, and eventually her life for the cause.The novel weaves together the fictional stories of the three main characters with documentary material drawn from contemporary suffrage and mainstream newspapers, and raises the hope that female alliances might someday transcend class boundaries. This Broadview edition also includes fascinating historical materials on the suffrage movement, including contemporary accounts of imprisonment, hunger strikes, and battles with police.Trade Review“Gertrude Colmore is one of the most compelling voices of the suffrage era and her Suffragette Sally stands out as one of the most significant novels of the suffrage genre. This edition will be hugely welcomed by students and scholars of literature and history alike, offering as it does a comprehensive collection of the historical documents relating to the text, as well as a thoroughly satisfying analysis of some of the literary, social, and historical issues that the novel throws up.” — Sowon Park, Oxford UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGertrude Colmore: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextSuffragette SallyAppendix A: Additional Writing by Gertrude Colmore “Broken” (1913) “The Nun” (1913) From “Standards and Ideals of Purity” (1914) From The Life of Emily Davison (1913) Appendix B: Suffrage: Militant, Constitutional, Anti “Constitution” (of the WSPU) (1908) “Some Questions the Electors are Asking” (1910) Helena Swanwick, “The Hope and the Meaning”(1909) Mary Augusta Ward, “Editorial” (1908) From Sir Almroth E. Wright, “Suffrage Fallacies”(1912) Appendix C: Imprisonment, Forcible Feeding, Release From “A Speech by Lady Constance Lytton, Delivered at the Queen’s Hall, January 31, 1910” (1910) From Constance Lytton and Jane Warton, Spinster, Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences (1914) Mary Leigh, “Forcible Feeding: Statement of Mrs. Mary Leigh to Her Solicitor” (1909) Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, “Welcome Christabel Pankhurst!” (1908) Appendix D: The Conciliation Bill and Black Friday From H.N. Brailsford, “The ‘Conciliation’ Bill: An Explanation and Defence” (1910) Henry Noel Brailsford and Dr. Jessie Murray, “The Treatment of the Women’s Deputations by the Police” (1911) “Mr. Churchill and the Suffragists,” The Times (1910) Christabel Pankhurst, “We Revert to a State of War”(1910) Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews The Bookman (June 1911) Votes for Women (12 May 1911) The Times Literary Supplement (4 May 1911) Votes for Women (28 June 1911) The Vote (1 July 1911) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOscar Wilde wrote of this novel, “Its directness, its uncompromising truths, its depth of feeling, and above all, its absence of any single superfluous word, make Reuben Sachs, in some sort, a classic.” Reuben Sachs, the story of an extended Anglo-Jewish family in London, focuses on the relationship between two cousins, Reuben Sachs and Judith Quixano, and the tensions between their Jewish identities and English society. The novel’s complex and sometimes satirical portrait of Anglo-Jewish life, which was in part a reaction to George Eliot’s romanticized view of Victorian Jews in Daniel Deronda, caused controversy on its first publication. This Broadview edition prints for the first time since its initial publication in The Jewish Chronicle Levy's essay "The Jew in Fiction." Other appendices include George Eliot's essay on anti-Jewish sentiment in Victorian England and a chapter from Israel Zangwill's novel The Children of the Ghetto. Also included is a map of Levy's London with landmarks from her biography and from the "Jewish geography" of Reuben Sachs.Trade ReviewSusan David Bernstein has done Victorian studies a great service with this edition of Amy Levy's Reuben Sachs. Bernstein's original research, insightful commentary, and wide ranging selection of appendices provide a detailed view of the many cultural discourses that surrounded Levy's work. Thus, with this one volume, readers can discover this important Anglo-Jewish writer and also have enough source materials to contextualize Levy in the critical histories of Anglo-Jewish literature, women's writing, and late Victorian England. I feel as if I have been waiting for this volume for ten years." - Cynthia Scheinberg, Mills College"This is an extremely welcome reissue of a complex and fascinating novel. Susan David Bernstein's illuminating introduction persuasively demonstrates how to read Amy Levy's fiction as an expression of the 'double-consciousness' of the semi-assimilated Victorian Jew. This edition provides superb sources that illustrate the extent and terms of contemporary controversy about the novel, and document the debates around racial science, ethnic politics, and the woman question that find expression in her writing. Bernstein also includes other examples of Levy's fiction, poetry, and criticism that engage in troubled and unresolved ways with similar themes of Jewish identity and feminism." - Nadia Valman, University of SouthamptonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Amy Levy: A Brief Chronology Anglo-Jewish History: A Brief Chronology A Note on the TextReuben Sachs: A SketchAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews of Reuben Sachs “Critical Jews,” The Jewish Chronicle (25 January 1889) “Reuben Sachs,” The Spectator (16 February 1889) John Barrow Allen, “New Novels,” The Academy (16 February 1889) “The Deterioration of the Jewess,” Jewish World (22 February 1889) “Literary: Amy Levy’s Reuben Sachs,” The American Hebrew (5 April 1889) Oscar Wilde, “Amy Levy,” The Woman’s World (1890) Appendix B: Other Writing by Levy “Jewish Women and ‘Women’s Rights,’” The Jewish Chronicle (7 February 1879, 28 February 1879) “The Jew in Fiction,” The Jewish Chronicle (4 June 1886) “Middle-Class Jewish Women of To-Day,” The Jewish Chronicle (17 September 1886) “Cohen of Trinity,” The Gentleman’s Magazine (May 1889) Poetry Appendix C: Literary Contexts From George Eliot, “The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!,” The Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1878) From Mathilde Blind, “Daniel Deronda,” George Eliot (1883) From Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto (1892) From Vernon Lee, “A Dialogue on Novels,” The Contemporary Review (September 1885) From Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue,” The Nineteenth Century (January 1889) Appendix D: The Jewish Question in Victorian Culture The Jewish Type: The New Race Sciences From Robert Knox, “Of the Coptic, Jewish, and Phoenician Races,” The Races of Men (1862) Joseph Jacobs, “The Jewish Type, and Galton’s Composite Photographs,” The Photographic News (24 April 1885) Political and Social Contexts From Goldwin Smith, “Can Jews Be Patriots?” The Nineteenth Century (May 1878) From Hermann Adler, “Recent Phases of Judaeophobia,” The Nineteenth Century (December 1881) From Laurence Oliphant, “The Jew and the Eastern Question,” The Nineteenth Century (August 1882) Appendix E: The New Woman Question From Clementina Black, “On Marriage: A Criticism,” Fortnightly Review (April 1890) From Grant Allen, “The Girl of the Future,” The Universal Review (1890) Appendix F: Map of Levy’s London from Bacon’s New Map of London (1885)Select Bibliography

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Book Synopsis“The study of children’s literature is not just about children and the books said to be for them; it is also about the societies and cultures from which the literature comes, and it is about the assumptions and ideas we hold about children and childhood. For adults, reading children’s literature is ultimately both an act of nostalgia and of self-examination. When we consider children’s literature, we must include ourselves in the equation: What kinds of readers are we? How do we relate to books and stories? To what degree should we impose our experience upon others? Reading children’s literature actively can lead to all kinds of remarkable (and sometimes unsettling) revelations about ourselves and our society.” — from the IntroductionConsidering Children’s Literature is a collection of previously published essays on a variety of topics that inform the study of children’s literature. Exploring issues such as censorship, the canon, the meanings of fairy tales, and the adaptation of children’s literature into film, the essays in this anthology are as diverse as they are illuminating.Along with authors like Natalie Babbitt and Margaret Mahy, teachers, scholars, and publishers of children’s books are also contributors. Accessible and comprehensive, this book will appeal to anyone interested in children’s literature. Trade Review“Considering Children’s Literature is a compilation of accessible—and often highly personal—explorations of children’s literature as literature. Placed together, they represent diverse opinions on several of the genres commonly explored within contemporary studies of children’s literature: the picture book, historical fiction, poetry, and folklore. Discussions of young adult literature, theatre, and film are also included. All in all, Considering Children’s Literature is a valuable anthology of critical opinions about children’s and young adult media that should engage its readers in provocative discussions about the place of children’s literature in today’s publishing houses, libraries, schools, and colleges.” — Jill May, Purdue UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter I: Introducing the Study of Children’s LiteratureIntroductionNatalie Babbitt, “Happy Endings? Of Course, and Also Joy” (1970)Aidan Chambers, “Axes for Frozen Seas” (1985)Hazel Rochman, “Introduction: Beyond Political Correctness” (1993)Naser Yusefi, “Good Books, Bad Books—and Who Decides Why” (1995)Chapter II: Historical Children’s LiteratureIntroductionGillian Adams, “Medieval Children’s Literature: Its Possibility and Actuality” (1998)Peter Hunt, “Passing on the Past: The Problem of Books That Are for Children and That Were for Children” (1996)Susan R. Gannon, “Report from Limbo: Reading Historical Children’s Literature Today” (1998)Chapter III: The PicturebookIntroductionMarcia Brown, “Distinction in Picture Books” (1958)Deborah Stevenson, “Narrative in Picture Books or, The Paper That Should Have Had Slides” (1998)Aidan Chambers, “Why ‘Tell Me’?” (1993)Aidan Chambers, From “Scenes from ‘Tell Me’ in Action” (1993)Scott McCloud, From “The Vocabulary of Comics” and “Blood in the Gutters” in Understanding Comics (1993)Emer O’Sullivan, “Translating Pictures” (1999)Chapter IV: Poetry and Nursery RhymesIntroductionPerry Nodelman, “The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose: A World without Glasses” (1987)Morag Styles, “‘From the Best Poets’?: How the Canon of Poetry for Children Is Constructed” (1998)Chapter V: Fairy Tales and FantasyIntroductionHugh Crago, “What Is a Fairy Tale?” (2003)Anna E. Altmann, “Parody and Poesis in Feminist Fairy Tales” (1994)C.W. Sullivan III, “Fantasy” (1992)Chapter VI: Young Adult LiteratureIntroductionAnne Scott Macleod, “The Journey Inward: Adolescent Literature in America, 1945–1995” (1997)Virginia Monseau, From “Responding to Response” in Responding to Young Adult Literature (1996)Geralde Schmidt-Dumont, “Poetic Encryption and ‘Sex Scrubbed Clean’: A Report from Germany” (1994)Caroline Hunt, “Young Adult Literature Evades the Theorists” (1996)Chapter VII: Drama and TheatreIntroductionSanjay Kumar, “Theatre for Children in India: An Instrument for Social Change?” (1998)Jack Zipes, “Political Children’s Theatre in the Age of Globalization” (2003)Wolfgang Schneider, “‘Rosy Cheeks’ and ‘Shining Eyes’ as Criteria in Children’s Theatre Criticism” (1995)Chapter VIII: Film AdaptationsIntroductionKeith Mehlinger, “A Case Study of The Planet of Junior Brown” (2000)A. Waller Hastings, “Moral Simplification in Disney’s The Little Mermaid” (1993)Shaul Bassi, “Traffic in the Jungle: Teachers, Lawyers, Doctors, and Animals in Three Kipling Films” (2001)Chapter IX: Theoretical Explorations and Practical IssuesIntroductionWendy Lamb, “Strange Business: The Publishing Point of View” (1998)Margaret Mahy (Lyttelton), “The Writer in New Zealand: Building Bridges through Children’s Books” (1996)Perry Nodelman, “Fear of Children’s Literature: What’s Left (or Right) After Theory?” (1997)Margaret Mackey, “Playing in the Phase Space: Contemporary Forms of Fictional Pleasure” (1999)Further Readings SourcesIndex

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