ELT & Literary Studies Books
Oxford University Press Fasti
Book Synopsis''Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.''Ovid''s poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day by day account of festivals and observances and their origins, and a delightful retelling of myths and legends associated with particular dates. Written in the late years of the emperor Augustus, and cut short when the emperor sent the poet into exile, the poem''s tone ranges from tragedy to farce, and its subject matter from astronomy and obscure ritual to Roman history and Greek mythology. Among the stories Ovid tells at length are those of Arion and the dolphin, the rape of Lucretia, the shield that fell from heaven, the adventures of Dido''s sister, the Great Mother''s journey to Rome, the killing of Remus, the bloodsucking birds, and the murderous daughter of King Servius. The poem also relates a wealth of customs and beliefs, such as the unluckiness of marrying in May.This new prose transTrade ReviewReview from previous edition 'a thorough and meticulous work, distinguished by accuracy and fidelity to the Latin, and it will surely suit the serious Latinless reader who desires a reliable guide to this challenging and remarkable poem' * Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2012.04.36 *
£11.39
Oxford University Press A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic
Book SynopsisArden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English TravellerIn about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary people, instead of the genre''s usual complement of kings and queens and politicians. His play, Arden of Faversham, inaugurated a new genre of ''domestic'' drama, set in near-contemporary England and concerned with issues of marriage, crime, and property rather than war and power. Arden dramatizes a notorious murder case of forty years earlier, in which a wealthy husband was killed by his wife and her lover.In Thomas Heywood''s A Woman Killed with Kindness, a wife is caught by her husband in bed with his best friend, only to find that he takes unusual reprisals. The Witch of Edmonton combines a true-life story of witchcraft with a fictitious tale of bigamy and wife-murder, and The English Traveller deals with the unexpected and unwelcome changes people find when they return home after a lengthyTable of ContentsIntroduction ; Note on the Texts ; Select Bibliography ; A Chronology of the Plays and their Genre ; THE TRAGEDY OF MASTER ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM ; A WOMEN KILLED WITH KINDNESS ; THE WITCH OF EDMONTON ; THE ENGLISH TRAVELLER ; Appendix 1: The Unknown Author of Arden of Faversham ; Appendix 2: The Date of The English Traveller ; Explanatory Notes ; Glossary
£12.34
Oxford University Press The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Book SynopsisThe Oxford ShakespeareGeneral Editor: Stanley WellsThe Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers.- A new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings- Wide-ranging introduction explores the lyrical language with which Shakespeare dramatizes competing kinds of love- Detailed performance history designed to meet the needs of theatre professionals- On-page commentary and notes explain language, word-play, and staging- the only edition to provide a setting of the song ''Who is Silvia?'' , taken from an Elizabethan source- Illustrated with production photographs and related art- Full index to introduction and commentary- Durable sewn binding for lasting use''not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare'' ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each afforTrade ReviewRoger Warren's edition of the play in the excellent Oxford series is emphatically performance-orientated throughout. * Ruth Morse, Times Literary Supplement *
£7.59
Oxford University Press W. S. Graham The Poem as Art Object Oxford
Book SynopsisOn the peripheries of UK poetry culture during his lifetime, W. S. Graham is now recognized one of the great poets of the twentieth century. In the first concerted study of Graham''s poetics in a generation, David Nowell Smith argues that Graham is exemplary for the poetics of the mid-century: his extension of modernist explorations of rhythm and diction; his interweaving of linguistic and geographic places; his dialogue with the plastic arts; and the tensions that run through his work, between philosophical seriousness and play, solitude and sociality, regionalism and cosmopolitanism, the heft and evanescence of poetry''s medium. Drawing on newly unearthed archival materials, Nowell Smith orients Graham''s poetics around the question of the ''art object''. Graham sought to craft his poems into honed, finished ''objects''; yet he was also aware that the poem''s ''finished object'' is never wholly finished. Graham''s work thus facilitates a broader reflection on language as a medium for art-making.Table of Contents1: 'to make / An object' 2: 'He found his poetry arm' 3: 'A poem is made of words' 4: 'to interrupt silence into / Manmade durations' 5: 'my eye imprisoned by Art' 6: 'Speaking to you and not' 7: 'but I was only remembered' Postscript: 'Do not expect applause' Appendix 1: Composition Dates of Graham s Poems from Malcolm Mooney s Land and Implements in their Places Appendix 2: Archive Materials
£82.65
Oxford University Press Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis Friends in
Book SynopsisThis study of the literary relationship between Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis during the years 1936-1945 focuses on the theme of ''co-inherence'' at the centre of their friendship. The idea of ''co-inherence'' has long been recognized as an important contribution of Williams to theology, and had significant influence on the thought of Lewis. This account of the two writers'' conviction that human persons ''inhere'' or ''dwell'' both in each other and in the triune God reveals many inter-relationships between their writings that would otherwise be missed. It also shows up profound differences between their world-views, and a gradual, though incomplete, convergence onto common ground. Exploring the idea of co-inherence throws light on the fictional worlds they created, as well as on their treatment (whether together or separately) of a wide range of theological and literary subjects: the Arthurian tradition, the poetry of William Blake and Thomas Traherne, the theology of Karl Barth, the nature of human and divine love, and the doctrine of the Trinity. This study draws for the first time on transcriptions of Williams'' lectures from 1932 to 1939, tracing more clearly the development and use of the idea of co-inherence in his thought than has been possible before. Finally, an account of the use of the word ''co-inherence'' in English-speaking theology suggests that the differences that existed between Lewis and Williams, especially on the place of analogy and participation in human experience of God, might be resolved by a theology of co-inherence in the Trinity.Trade Reviewthe book as a whole is of scholarly value and can be useful for those interested to learn more about co-inherence and how Williams and Lewis employ this in their writings, and may lead to greater understanding of these authors * Tiffany Brooke Martin, Mythlore *Fiddes' book is consistently well-argued, well-structured and comprehensively referenced, .... it is approachable and thoughtful throughout. * Rupert Loydell, International Times *Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence is a rich and informative study which will not only become a significant contribution to the literature of commentary on these two remarkable men, their friendship, and their work, but will also increase our understanding of the concept of co-inherence itself which, in some form or other, stands at the heart of Christian life and faith. * Brian Horne, VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center *Table of ContentsPart I: The 'Secret Road' of Friendship 1: Two Lives Converge: 1936-1939 2: Together in Oxford: 1939-1945 3: Life After Death: 1945-1963 Part II: Ways of Exchange 4: Charles Williams and the Word of Co-inherence 5: Charles Williams and the Promise of Co-Inherence 6: C. S. Lewis and the Idea of Co-inherence 7: C. S. Lewis and a New Turn to Charles Williams Part III: A Collaboration in Co-inherence 8: Romantic Love and the Arthurian Myth: Divergence and Convergence in Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis Part IV: Further Studies in Co-inherence 9: The Web of the World: Charles Williams and William Blake 10: The Impossible Possibility: Charles Williams and Karl Barth 11: From Equilibrium to Exchange: The First Four Novels of Charles Williams 12: From Exchange to Co-inherence: Three More Novels of Charles Williams 13: The Great Dance in C. S. Lewis' Perelandra 14: The Poetics of Desire in Thomas Traherne and C. S. Lewis Part V: The Theology of Co-inherence 15: Co-inherence and Relations in the Trinity
£111.62
Oxford University Press Marcel Proust My Reading
Book SynopsisA witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust that allows author and reader to meet and perhaps quarrel, perhaps agree, to go wherever their collaboration leads them, with language itself acting as a conduit.Table of ContentsPreface 1: Impossible Music 2: That Evening 3: Dreyfus Time 4: The Scenery of the Event 5: Profound Albertine 6: Proust's Law School 7: After the Ball
£18.99
Oxford University Press Jerusalem Blake Parry and the Fight for
Book SynopsisA reception history of William Blake's 'Jerusalem' that traces the hymn's increasing associations with national identity and explores how different social and political factions, both left and right, have sought to impose their own meaning on building Jerusalem.Trade ReviewThis book is fascinating ... Blake the revolutionary was never more relevant * Michael Church *Jerusalem is a wonderfully researched, enjoyable work about a cultural phenomenon of the utmost familiarity, and it performs its task very successfully...Whittaker proves an excellent, lucid guide to realms of almost unimagined obscurity. * Philip Hensher, The Spectator *Whittaker produces fascinating and surprising insights. His analysis of the different ways that "Jerusalem" has been decontextualized and recontextualized serves as a comprehensive case study in reception history and highlights the complexities of national identity. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Arrows of Desire 1: And Did Those Feet? Blake and Milton, 1800-1827 2: Our Clouded Hills: Before 'Jerusalem', 1827-1915 3: Mental Fight: Parry, the Great War and its Aftermath, 1916-1922 4: Dark Satanic Mills: Peace and War, 1923-1945 5: Bring Me My Bow: Empire's End, 1945-1976 6: Chariot of Fire: Thatcher's Britain and the End of the Cold War, 1977-1996 7: Green and Pleasant Land: From Blair to Brexit, 1997-2016 Epilogue: Albion
£27.54
Oxford University Press Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early
Book SynopsisExplores how early American Republic literary texts about urban life played an important role in constructing urban spaces and identities in the young United States, and how books allowed readers to access and practice being urban.Trade ReviewUrban Rehearsals is an invaluable resource for instructors making the case for the centrality of literary studies to this interdisciplinary field-a case we must make as educators as often as we do as scholars. * Laura V. Hankins, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The City before the City Part One: The Protocity: Imagining the US City in the Eighteenth Century Prologue: Open House in New York: The Contrast 1: Drama Uncloseted in Boston: The Power of Sympathy 2: Philadelphia's Fevered Readers: Charlotte Temple 3: Getting Around the Protocity: The Coquette and The Boarding School Part Two: The Liminal City: Literary Philadelphia, 1800-1812 Entr'acte: Framing Urban Spaces 4: Urban Illuminations in Ormond 5: Obliged to Wander: Dorval and Monima 6: Kelroy's Shifting City Finale: The Future City, Franklin, and The Female Marine
£82.65
Oxford University Press The Private Life of William Shakespeare
Book SynopsisBreathes new life into Shakespeare's story by establishing fresh interpretations of his baptism; evidence pertaining to his father; his wedding; his home; his will; and his monument.Trade Review...Orlin has made the simple point that there will always be novel discoveries to be found within the broader depths of Warwickshire archives. Hers is a methodology that should arm researchers when approaching any historical figure, and any archival record. * Francesca Rhodes, Midland History journal *Lena Cowen Orlin's The Private Life of William Shakespeare sets a new standard for literary biography. Comparing the key documents of Shakespeare's biography to a wide array of similar documents from Shakespeare's contemporaries, Cowen Orlin manages to separate what is fact and what is probable about the life of England's most influential writer from what is mere speculation. Employing the most rigorous archival methodologies, her book challenges the shibboleths that have accumulated around the religion of Shakespeare's parents, his early marriage to the older Anne Hathaway, his life as a property owner, his will, and his death and monument [...] Early modern scholars will likely be reading and re-reading this book decades from now, perhaps arguing over this or that detail, but Cowen Orlin's approach will remain uncontested - a new benchmark for the field. * Brian Lockey, on behalf of the Committee for the Roland Bainton Prize in Literature *After more than three hundred years of research on Shakespeare we are unlikely to find more documents relating to the monument, and the question of authorship may never be fully resolved. What could be done, however, is to conduct a full physical and technical examination, which would certainly help with questions of authenticity and alterations. This would involve dismantling the memorial and removing at least some of the later paintwork which now obscures its history. It would be an expensive process, requiring the services of fully qualified conservators, but it would surely not be beyond the resources of Shakespeare devotees around the world. Professor Orlin's highly valuable book would serve as inspiration for the project. * Adam White, Church Monuments *Lena Cowen Orlin examines a series of seminal moments in the writer's private life … [a] painstakingly detailed recontextualisation of evidence * David McInnis, Australian Book Review *The great and lasting result of her labors is how punishingly she demolishes shoddy claims and biased inferences that have distorted our understanding of Shakespeare's life....it reads like a detective story in which a skilled investigator returns to a cold case...detailed and dazzling...[an] impressive and valuable book, a biography that will lead many to revise their classroom lectures. * James Shapiro, New York Times *Table of ContentsIntroduction: 26 April 1564 1: 23 January 1577: Shakespeare's Father 2: 28 November 1582: Shakespeare's Wedding 3: 4 May 1597: Shakespeare's Home 4: 25 March 1616: Shakespeare's Will 5: 25 April 1616: Shakespeare's Monument List of Abbreviations Appendix I. Shakespeare in the West Midlands Appendix II. The Quiney Papers Appendix III. Shakespeare's Last Will Appendix IV. Shakespeare's Earlier Will Appendix V. The 'Shakespeare Type' of Funerary Monuments Appendix VI. Shakespeare Documented
£32.49
Oxford University Press Honoré de Balzac My Reading
Book SynopsisA book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac.Trade ReviewBrooks never ceases to intrigue readers by his deeply probing work of literary and critical scholarship. * Dana Vuckovic, French Studies *Table of Contents1: Balzac: Reading for More 2: Fangs and Kisses 3: Making Books, Devouring Presses 4: The Shape of Time 5: To Say Everything
£18.99
Oxford University Press King Lear Shakespeares Dark Consolations My
Book SynopsisA book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays' which 'often begin with lives falling apart: an event--shipwreck, exile, doubt, or unexpected love--derails what had seemed secure. Those who participate in the plays, as players, audience members, or readers, are invited to see in those events the vulnerability of their own lives.Table of ContentsPrologue: A Tale of Two Families Vulnerable Reading The Unravelling The Refuge of Second Selves The Lost, the Mad, and the Image of Horror Reconciliations Living With an Unpromised End How King Lear Helps Tragic Sharing Coda: In Place of the Jig
£18.99
Oxford University Press Charles Dickens But for you dear stranger My
Book SynopsisDickens's first concern in all his fiction is with people's feelings and their imaginations. This book takes a personal approach to Dickens's art, paying attention to what magnetizes Federico or strikes her as newly relevant to our own world, and to her life, as she explores what Dickens' works are emotionally about.Trade Review... an illuminating perspective on the selected texts-a perspective that incidentally sheds light on how Dickens achieves his intimate and powerful impact. * John Edmondson, Independent Researcher, British Association for Victorian Studies *... I absolutely loved this book; I think very highly of Dickens anyway, and to see his work explored like this was fascinating... If "But for you…" is any indication, the My Reading series is going to be a winner... If you want a personal, thought-provoking and fascinating look at Dickens and the effect he can have on the reader, this is definitely a book for you! * Shiny New Books *Table of ContentsPreface 1: Where is Love? 2: Blessed Little Room 33: The Shadow Fell Like Light 4: But For You, Dear Stranger Works Cited
£18.99
Oxford University Press The Collected Peter Pan
Book SynopsisA new collection of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan stories--from his first appearance in The Little White Bird to the final version of the Peter Pan play we know today.Table of ContentsThe Little White Bird Anon: A Play Peter and Wendy Scenario for a Proposed Film of Peter Pan Peter Pan Appendix 1: On the Acting of a Fairy Play Appendix 2: When Wendy Grew Up: An Afterthought Appendix 3: The Blot on Peter Pan Appendix 4: Captain Hook at Eton Notes
£15.29
Oxford University Press Romantic Autopsy Literary Form and Medical
Book SynopsisToday, we do not expect a symptomatic reading to refer to bodily symptoms, or a literary dissection to be more than metaphorical. But this was not always true. In Romantic Autopsy, Arden Hegele considers a moment at the turn of the nineteenth century, when literature and medicine seemed embattled in rivalry, to find that the two fields collaborated to develop interpretive analogies that saw literary texts as organic bodies and anatomical features as legible texts. Together, Romantic readers and doctors elaborated protocols of diagnosis-practices for interpretation that could be used to diagnose disease, and to understand fiction and poetry.This volume puts essential works of British Romantic literature that seem at first to have little to do with medicine, such as the lyrics of William Wordsworth, the elegies of Percy Shelley and Alfred Tennyson, and the novels of Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and Mary Shelley, back into conversation with emergent medical disciplines of the period -- anatomy, pathology, psychiatry, and semiology. Poems and novels, Hegele argues, were historically understood through techniques designed for the analysis of disease; meanwhile, autopsy reports and case histories adopted stylistic features associated with literature. Countering the assumption of a growing specialization in Romanticism, these practices suggest that symptomatic reading (treating a text''s superficial signs as evidence of deeper meaning), a practice still used and debated today, might have originated from Romantic diagnostics. The first study of the interconnected literary and medical analytics of British Romanticism, Romantic Autopsy charts an important history underlying our own approaches to literary analysis.Trade ReviewAn exhilarating and original book that brings together lyric poetry, the novel, and the history of medicine, Arden Hegele's Romantic Autopsy makes a persuasive case for the shared "protocols of diagnosis" that directed the reading of bodies and texts alike in the Romantic period. Hegele's illuminating close reading anchors a powerful argument for an interdisciplinary approach to literature and medicine that prioritizes form, figure, and genre. This is an exciting and impressive debut. * Daniel Wright, University of Toronto *With learning and verve, Romantic Autopsy redeems and revitalizes the practice of symptomatic reading, providing a subtle, sensitive account of the practice's late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century origins. Arden Hegele offers a persuasive and original account of how much the authors and the medical practitioners of this period learned from one another's diagnostic procedures as she recovers now-forgotten affinities between practices of interpretation and strategies of medical examination. This is a major contribution to both Romantic literary studies and the medical humanities * Deidre Lynch, Harvard University *Arden Hegele mobilizes startling original evidence that Romantic-era literary and clinical interpretations of illness and death arose together, entwined, irrevocably shaping one another, their shared textual practices giving voice to otherwise inarticulable thought. From early in its history, Hegele proposes, the practice of medicine has been fundamentally a narrative, and even poetic, act. Hegele's comprehensive scholarship supports her break-through findings, paving the way for even more fundamental discoveries about form, close reading, and healing. Simultaneously an authoritative reference work and a breath-taking conceptual flag planted in the fields of medical humanities and critical reading theory, Romantic Autopsy opens wide the quest for deepening the readings of the future. * Rita Charon, Columbia University *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Reading Texts, Reading Bodies: Protocols of Diagnosis in Medicine and Literature 1: Hermeneutic Dissection in the Lyric 2: Postmortem, Elegy, and Genius 3: The Madness of Free Indirect Style 4: Unreliable Semiology from Frankenstein to Freud Coda: Reviving Symptomatic Reading
£76.00
Oxford University Press The Song of Songs and Its Tradition in
Book SynopsisTraditionally attributed to King Solomon and called by Rabbi Akiva the Holy of Holies among sacred Scriptures (Mishnah, Yadayim 3:5), the Song of Songs is one of the most fascinating and controversial biblical books, and played an essential role in the shaping of European spirituality and culture. Combining in a unique way a sensual and deeply lyrical celebration of love with a well-established tradition of Christian allegorical interpretation, this text, crucial to both the Middle Ages and the early modern period, held a particular appeal for poets devoted not only to religious verse, but also to love poetry. The Song of Songs and Its Tradition in Renaissance Love Lyric is the first systematic and wide-ranging investigation of the multifaceted use of the Song of Songs in Renaissance love lyric poetry, with specific attention to Italian, French, and, especially, English poetic production. At the same time, this investigation is embedded into a narrative that, comprising two initial chapters devoted to medieval poetry and to Francesco Petrarca, represents an unprecedented attempt to trace the role of the Song of Songs in the rise and development of the European love lyric, following its path - or rather, one of its paths - from the medieval origins of this tradition to the end of the sixteenth century. The picture of the general impact of the Song of Songs in the development of the European love lyric is combined with in-depth analysis of key works by specific authors -- including Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Torquato Tasso, Marguerite de Navarre, Anne de Marquets, Clément Marot, Richard Barnfield, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Elizabeth Melville, and Aemilia Lanyer - promoting a contextualization of their significance within a new interpretative framework. While the comparative standpoint characterizing this study fosters a deeper comprehension of the evolution of the European love lyric, its multidisciplinary approach, which considers the Song of Songs as the centre of a web of dynamics pertaining to the fields of literature, philosophy, theology, and religious and cultural history, contributes to the understanding of the thought and spirit of ages crucial to the shaping of European culture.
£138.99
Oxford University Press The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction The Literary
Book SynopsisUsing the figure of the monster as an interpretive lens across a wide range of fiction, this book shows how young adult fiction contributes to the cultural conversation by offering new ways of thinking about climate change and definitions of citizenship.Trade ReviewA rich exploration of YA literature as a category of books. * , School Library Journal *offers some provocative nuggets * , Kirkus Reviews *The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction is a strong introduction to some of the most pressing issues in contemporary YA speculative fiction. It is balanced, carefully argued, and unafraid to deal with difficult topics. * Michelle Deininger, International Journal of Young Adult Literature *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Children of the Book 2: Loving the Monsters 3: Making Bridges 4: Reading Harry Potter in Abu Dhabi Conclusion
£16.99
Oxford University Press The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern
Book SynopsisIn this study, Michael Ullyot makes two new arguments about the rhetoric of exemplarity in late Elizabethan and Jacobean culture: first, that exemplarity is a recursive cycle driven by rhetoricians'' words and readers'' actions; and second, that positive moral examples are not replicable, but rather aspirational models of readers'' posthumous biographies. For example, Alexander the Great envied Achilles less for his exemplary life than for Homer''s account of it. Ullyot defines the three types of decorum on which exemplary rhetoric and imitation rely, and charts their operations through Philip Sidney''s poetics, Edmund Spenser''s poetry, and the dedications, sermons, elegies, biographies, and other occasional texts about Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex, and Henry, Prince of Wales. Ullyot expands the definition of occasional texts to include those that criticize their circumstances to demand better ones, and historicizes moral exemplarity in the contexts of sixteenth-century Prote
£76.00
Oxford University Press Dublin Tales
Book SynopsisDublin is one of the world''s great literary cities, immortalized in works by some of the most celebrated international authors. It is a city of warmth and character, which combines the richest of histories with a vibrant contemporary edge, and which welcomes millions of people to its streets each year. In addition to being Ireland''s capital city, Dublin is a city with a proud European identity and with long-established, dynamic links with the rest of the world. Dublin Tales comprises an exciting selection of stories from across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries which are illustrative of this. The stories in Dublin Tales are variously vibrant, evocative, humorous, and diverse, and engage in different ways with Dublin''s history, its culture, its cityscape, and its people. It includes stories by writers who are intimately associated with the city (James Joyce and Brendan Behan), as well as by some of the most acclaimed Irish authors of the twentieth century (Elizabeth Bowen, Liam O''Flaherty, William Trevor, John McGahern, and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne). Less familiar authors are also included, as are specially commissioned stories from some of the most talented younger writers writing today (Caitriona Lally, Kevin Power, and Melatu Uche Okorie). Dublin Tales also includes bilingual versions of two stories which were originally written in the Irish language by Dara Ó Conaola and Caitlín Nic Íomhair, which have been specially translated into English for this startlingly original new book.Trade ReviewDublin Tales is home to a wide range of historical and present-day perspectives on the place...Eve Patten and Paul Delaney...navigate in a beautifully written introduction an awareness of the kitschy use of fictional landmarks for attracting visitors, while producing a real map of Dublin as a literary metropolis. * Catherine Toal, Irish Times *Dublin's many faces brought to life in eclectic collection of stories...Delaney and Patten's clear vision and painstaking selection of work creates a Janus-faced Dublin, sometimes wayward and sometimes constant, occasionally brutal and occasionally compassionate, above all capable of flicking from the familiar to the terrifying in a heartbeat. * Martina Devlin, Irish Independent *An engrossing, often moving, and very powerful anthology which really gets to the heart of its subject. I've enjoyed all of the 'Tales' collection from OUP, and this is a worthy addition - highly recommended! * Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings *A curated anthology of short fiction celebrates the city of Dublin as literary setting and muse. * The Booklist *Table of ContentsEditors' Introduction 1: George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright): Mammy 2: James Joyce: Two Gallants 3: Liam O'Flaherty: The Sniper 4: Elizabeth Bowen: Unwelcome Idea 5: James Stephens: A Rhinoceros, Some Ladies, and a Horse 6: Brendan Behan: The Confirmation Suit 7: John McGahern: Sierra Leone 8: Val Mulkerns: Four Green Fields 9: Dara Ó Conaola: I nGleic (In a Pickle) 10: William Trevor: Two More Gallants 11: Mary O'Donnell: The Black Church 12: Éilís Ní Dhuibhne: Miss Moffat Goes to Town 13: Mirsad Ibisevic: Emigrant 14: Caitlín Nic Íomhair: Cíocras (Relentless) 15: Melatu Uche Okorie: Arrival 16: Kevin Power: Catastrophe 17: Caitriona Lally: Tramlines
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell
Book SynopsisA comprehensive collection of original essays on the life and writings of poet and politician Andrew Marvell that offers a complete, one-stop guide to the literary, religious, and political complexities of his work.Trade ReviewThere is a unity of purpose, focus, and sometimes even methodology to this volume that one does not often find in a handbook. That unity allows the volume to stage important higher-order debates within Marvell studies, as well as suggest promising avenues for future research. * Ryan Netxley, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Milton Quarterly *For advanced students and for academics looking efficiently to get abreast of Marvell studies the The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell should be invaluable. These are essays of excellent quality, written by an impressive array of senior literary scholars and newer researchers, ably supported by leading historians of the mid-century and Restoration crises. * Thomas N. Corns, The Seventeenth Century *Highly recommended. Ambitious upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * B. E. Brandt, South Dakota State University, CHOICE *Non-specialists will find the Handbook intelligent and various; specialists will appreciate its scan of all that Marvell has to offer. The Handbook will be anarbiter in seminars and a fixture in Marvell citation. It gives hefty help to every Marvell reader, enthralled or aspiring. * Willis Goth Regier, University of Illinois, Renaissance and Reformation *As we mark the four-hundredth birthday of our author on March 31, 2021, The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell comes at a perfect time to celebrate the authors and networks who have in recent decades brought Marvell to the forefront of early modern studies. * Brendan Prawdzik, Seventeenth-Century News *Table of ContentsPreface PART 1: MARVELL AND HIS TIMES 1: Nicholas von Maltzahn: Marvell, Writer and Politician, 1621-1678 2: Emma Wilson: Andrew Marvell and Education 3: Nicholas von Maltzahn: Marvell and Patronage 4: Ann Hughes: Marvell and the Interregnum 5: Paul Seaward: Marvell and Parliament 6: Edward Holberton: Marvell and Diplomacy 7: Charles Édouard Levillain: England's 'Natural Frontier': Andrew Marvell and the Low Countries 8: Philip Connell: Marvell and the Church 9: Johanna Harris and N. H. Keeble: Marvell and Nonconformity 10: Lynn Enterline: Marvell's Unfortunate Lovers 11: Martin Dzelzainis: Marvell and Science 12: Paul Davis: Marvell and Manuscript Culture 13: Matthew Augustine: Marvell and Print Culture 14: Katherine Acheson: Visualizing Marvell 15: Helen Wilcox: Marvell and Music 16: Sean McDowell: Urban Marvell 17: Edward Paleit: Marvell's Classical Similitudes 18: Martin Dzelzainis: 'A Greater Errour in Chronology': Issues of Dating in Marvell PART 2: READINGS 19: Nigel Smith: 'To His Coy Mistress': The Greek Anthology and the History of Poetry 20: Gordon Teskey: Greenland: Marvell's 'The Garden' 21: Leah S. Marcus: Marvell's 'Nymph Complaining' and the Erotics of Vitalism 22: Steven Zwicker and Derek Hirst: Marvell and Lyrics of Undifference 23: Greg Chaplin: Marvell and Elegy 24: Annabel Brett: The Post-Machiavellian Poetry of 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland' 25: Warren Chernaik: Harsh Remedies: Satire and Politics in 'Last Instructions to a Painter' 26: Estelle Haan: Marvell's Latin Poetry and the Art of Punning 27: Julianne Werlin: 'Upon Appleton House' 28: Johanna Harris: Andrew Marvell's Letters 29: Alex Garganigo: The Rehearsal Transpros'd and The Rehearsal Transpros'd: The Second Part 30: Martin Dzelzainis and Steph Coster: The Commissioning, Writing, and Printing of Mr. Smirke: A New Account 31: Kendra Packham: Marvell, Political Print, and Picturing the Catholic: An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government PART 3: MARVELL AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES 32: Tom Lockwood: Marvell and Jonson 33: James Loxley: Andrew Marvell and Cavalier Poetics 34: Nicholas McDowell: Marvell's French Spirit 35: Tim Raylor: Marvell and Waller 36: Victoria Silver: 'Mr. Bayes in Mr. Bayes': The Art of Personation in Hobbes, Parker, and Marvell 37: John Rogers: Ruin the Sacred Truths: Prophecy, Form, and Nonconformity in Marvell and Milton 38: Ashley Marshall and Robert D. Hume: Marvell and the Restoration Wits 39: Mark Goldie: Marvell and his Adversaries, 1672-78 PART 4: MARVELL'S AFTERLIFE 40: Diane Purkiss: Bodleian Library MS Eng. Poet. d. 49 41: Annabel Patterson: Marvell the Patriot 42: Michael O'Neill: Marvell and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Wordsworth to Tennyson 43: Steven Matthews: Marvell in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
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Oxford University Press Military Men of Feeling
Book SynopsisMilitary Men of Feeling considers the popularity of the figure of the gentle soldier in the Victorian period. It traces a persistent narrative swerve from tales of war violence to reparative accounts of soldiers as moral exemplars, homemakers, adopters of children on the battlefield, and nurses. This material invites us to think afresh about Victorian masculinity and Victorian militarism. It challenges ideas about the separation of military and domestic life, and about the incommunicability of war experience. Focusing on representations of soldiers'' experiences of touch and emotion, the book combines the work of well known writers - including Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte Yonge - with previously unstudied writing and craft produced by British soldiers in the Crimean War, 1854-56. The Crimean War was pivotal in shaping British attitudes to military masculinity. A range of media enabled unprecedented public engagement with the progress and infamous ''blunders'' of the conflict. Soldiers and civilians reflected on appropriate behaviour across ranks, forms of heroism, the physical suffering of the troops, administrative management and the need for army reform. The book considers how the military man of feeling contributes to the rethinking of gender roles, class and military hierarchy in the mid-nineteenth century, and how this figure was used in campaigns for reform. The gentle soldier could also do more bellicose social and political work, disarming anti-war critiques and helping people to feel better about war. This book looks at the difficult mixed politics of this figure. It considers questions, debated in the nineteenth century and which remain urgent today, about the relationship between feeling and action, and the ethics of an emotional response to war. It makes a case for the importance of emotional and tactile military history, bringing the Victorian military man of feeling into contemporary debates about liberal warriors and soldiers as social workers.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: 'The company of gentlemen': Thackeray's Military Men of Feeling and Eighteenth-Century Traditions 2: Princes of War and of Peace: Secular and Spiritual Redemption in Dickens and Kingsley 3: Children of the Regiment: Narratives of Battlefield Adoption 4: 'Our poor Colonel loved him as if he had been his own son': Family Feeling in the Crimea 5: Sharing the Stuff of War: Soldier Art, Textiles and Tactility 6: Reparative Soldiering and its Limits: Cultures of Male Care-Giving Afterword: The Ballad of the Boy Captain Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities
Book SynopsisWilliam Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. Hrafnkel tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a vengeance, so to speak. The saga deals with complex issues with finely layered irony: who can one justifiably hit, when, and by what means? It does this with cool nuance, also taking on matters of torture and pain-infliction as a means of generating fellow-feeling. How does one measure pain and humiliation so as to get even, to get back to equal? People are forced to set prices on things we tell ourselves soporifically are priceless, such as esteem, dignity, life itself. Morality no less than legal remedy involves price-setting. This book flies in the face of all the previous critical literature which, with very few exceptions, imposes simplistic readings on the saga. A translation of the saga is provided as an appendix.Trade ReviewIt is difficult to fault [Miller's] dedication to reading [the saga] with such a fine-toothed comb that he manages, against the odds, to say something new about a saga about which so much has been said before. * Jackson Crawford, Scandinavian Studies *[A] tour-de-force combination of legal scholarship and passionate imaginative engagement with the work. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsNote to Readers Abbreviations Genealogies Key Farms Part I: Introduction 1: A Somewhat Querulous Introduction: Hrafnkel and the Critics 2: Of Names and Manageability Part II. Economic, Social, and Geological Context 3: The Saga's Economics (ch. 14) 4: New-found Land and Setting up Households (chs. 1-2) Part III. Horse, Vow, and Killing 5: Freysgoði, Frey, and Freyfaxi 6: The Ójafnaðarmaðr (the 'Unevenman') 7: Sam, Einar, and Hrafnkel (chs 3-6) 8: Freyfaxi and Hrafnkel: More on the Vow and its Price (chs 5-6) 9: Hrafnkel's Offer (ch. 7) 10: Thorbjorn's Rejection (ch. 7 cont.) Part IV. Lawsuit Ab Ovo to 'Final' Settlement 11: Mustering Support and Going Public (ch. 7 cont.) 12: The Lawsuit: Preparatory Stages (chs 8-9) 13: Thorkel's Homily on Fellow-feeling and Commensurating Pain (ch. 10) 14: The Trial (chs 11-12) 15: Hanging Upside-Down and Sam's Self-judgment (ch. 13) 16: Farewell Freyfaxi and Frey (chs 15-16) 17: The 'True' Nature of Hrafnkel's Transformation (ch. 16) Part V. Six Years Later 18: Eyvind Returns; a Griðkona Takes Over (ch. 17) 19: Who in Hell Are We Rooting For? (ch. 18) 20: Hrafnkel's Judgment and Justification (ch. 19) 21: Sam's Last Gasp (ch. 20) 22: Sam and Morpheus: What Counts as Taking a Turn 23: Conclusion: Hard Cases, Hard Choices Appendices A. Hrafnkels saga Freysgoði, translation of MS ÁM 156, fol. B. Glossary of Norse Terms Works Cited A.1 Hrafnkels saga, Editions and Translations Consulted A.2 Sources and Translations B. Secondary Works Maps Index
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Oxford University Press Procli Diadochi
Book SynopsisOxford Classical Texts, also known as Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, provide authoritative, clear, and reliable editions of ancient texts, with apparatus criticus on each page. This five volume work is a new critical text edition of the only surviving ancient commentary on Plato''s Timaeus, in which Proclus encompasses seven centuries of philosophical reflection on Plato''s cosmology. For many authors belonging to the Platonic tradition, Proclus'' commentary is the only extant source. For late Neoplatonic authors such as Proclus, writing commentaries on works by Plato and others was in fact a way to present their own highly original philosophical doctrines. Apart from being an important source text for the historiography of philosophy, this commentary on the Timaeus thus also provides a unique access way to Proclus'' own Neoplatonic views on cosmology, theology, physics, and metaphysics.This new edition is based on a thorough re-examination of the entire manuscript tradTrade ReviewProclus' voluminous Commentary on the Timaeus has been called with some justification "arguably the most important text of ancient Neoplatonism."...The merits of this edition will no doubt become more evident when colleagues will start to use it as the basis for their own research into the Platonic tradition. * Robbert M. van den Berg, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsBook I General Introduction
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Oxford University Press Proclus Commentary on Timaeus Book 4 Procli
Book SynopsisA new five volume critical text edition of the only surviving ancient commentary on Plato's Timaeus, in which Proclus encompasses seven centuries of philosophical reflection on Plato's cosmology. Each volume is preceded by a substantial introduction.Trade ReviewProclus' voluminous Commentary on the Timaeus has been called with some justification "arguably the most important text of ancient Neoplatonism."...The merits of this edition will no doubt become more evident when colleagues will start to use it as the basis for their own research into the Platonic tradition. * Robbert M. van den Berg, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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Oxford University Press Essays on Ethics and Culture
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a series of essays by Sabina Lovibond on moral philosophy, drawing on ideas from Platonic-Aristotelian ethics, the later Wittgenstein, and Iris Murdoch. A common theme is the lived experience of the socially situated subject, and Lovibond considers the role of imaginative literature (especially the novel) in ethical formation.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Wittgenstein and Moral Realism: The Debate Continues 2: Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, and the 'Apocalyptic View' 3: 'The Sickness of a Time': Social Pathology and Therapeutic Philosophy 4: Second Nature, Habitus, and the Ethical: Remarks on Wittgenstein and Bourdieu 5: Practical Reason and Character-Formation 6: Between Tradition and Criticism: The 'Uncodifiability' of the Normative 7: The Unquiet Life: Salience and Moral Responsibility 8: The Varieties of Attention 9: The Elusiveness of the Ethical: From Murdoch to Diamond 10: Post-Existentialist Moments: Murdoch and Highsmith 11: Iris Murdoch and the Quality of Consciousness 12: Vulnerable and Invulnerable: Two Faces of Dialectical Reasoning 13: Judith Butler on Political Agency 14: Philosophy, Literature, Politics: The Cases of Rorty and Collingwood Acknowledgements Index
£88.00
Oxford University Press Political Conversations in Late Republican Rome
Book SynopsisThis book analyses senatorial political conversations and illuminates the oral aspects of Roman politics; it offers a new perspective of Roman politics through the proxy of conversations and meetings.Trade Review...excellent work * Giuseppe La Bua, Classical Review *Rosillo-López's book will become required reading * Jordan Rogers, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Political Conversations is an excellently written study which represents a significant step toward a broader understanding of Roman civil society. * Tyler Broome, The Rosetta *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: A Wider Definition of Politics and Political Participation 2: Sources for Political Conversations in Late-Republican Rome 3: Face-to-Face Meetings 4: How to Have Conversations 5: Dynamics of Conversations 6: Oral Circulation of Information 7: The Role of Non-Senatorial Actors in Conversations and Meetings 8: The Senate from an Extra-Institutional Point of View 9: Conclusions Appendix: Prosopography of Non-Senatorial Actors
£92.15
Oxford University Press A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs
Book SynopsisWriting, publishing, and marketing five politically engaged novels that appeared between 1899 and 1908, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) was among the most prolific African American authors at the turn of the twentieth century. In contrast to his Northern contemporaries Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt, Griggs, as W. E. B. Du Bois remarked, spoke primarily to the Negro race, using his own Nashville-based publishing company to produce four of his novels. Griggs pastored Baptist churches in three Southern states and played a leading role in the influential but understudied National Baptist Convention. Until recently, little was known about the personal and professional life of this religious and community leader. Thus, critics could only contextualize his literary texts to a limited degree and were forced to speculate about how he published them. This literary biography, the first written about the author, draws extensively on primary sources and late nineteenth- and early twentiethTrade ReviewThorough research underpins John Cullen Gruesser's A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs -- and every serious student of Black literature will want to read this biography of an important figure in American history. * Donna Meredith, Southern Literary Review *John Cullen Gruesser's literary biography is an important addition to the reevaluation of this (turn-of-the-twentieth-century) era, in which the subject, Sutton E. Griggs, was a central figure. * Brandon Miller, Multi-Ethnic Literature of United States *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Sutton E. Griggs: Orator, Author, Activist, Elder, and Ancestor 1: The Early Years: A Family History Recovered, a Juneteenth Birth, and a Baptist Upbringing 2: Engaging in Debate and Turning to Fiction to Make His People's Case: Imperium in Imperio 3: Championing Black Labor and Fighting for the Franchise: Overshadowed and Unfettered 4: Risking All in an Attempt to Become a National Author and Publisher: The Hindered Hand 5: Transitioning away from the Novel: Pointing the Way
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Oxford University Press On Not Defending Poetry Defence and
Book SynopsisSidney''s Defence of Poesy--the foundational text of English poetics--is generally taken to present a model of poetry as ideal: the poet depicts ideals of human conduct and readers are inspired to imitate them. Catherine Bates sets out to challenge this received view. Attending very closely to Sidney''s text, she identifies within it a model of poetry that is markedly at variance from the one presumed, and shows Sidney''s text to be feeling its way toward a quite different--indeed, a de-idealist--poetics. Following key theorists of the new economic criticism, On Not Defending Poetry shows how idealist poetics, like the idealist philosophy on which it draws, is complicit with the money form and with the specific ills that attend upon it: among them, commodification, fetishism, and the abuse of power. Against culturally approved models of poetry as profitableas benefiting the individual and the state, as providing (in the form of intellectual, moral, and social capital) a quantifiable yieldthe Defence reveals an unexpected counter-argument: one in which poetry is modelled, rather, as pure expenditure, a free gift, a net loss. Where a supposedly idealist Defence sits oddly with Sidney''s literary writingswhich depict human behaviour that is very far from ideala de-idealist Defence does not. In its radical reading of the Defence, this book thus makes a decisive intervention in the field of early modern studies, while raising larger questions about a culture determined to quantify the ''value'' of the humanities and to defend the arts on those grounds alone.Trade Review...wittily titled and thoroughly contrary...This is a fine book....In one sense, Bates has written perhaps the first book in defence of Sidney's defence...Yet her ingenious buttressing of the Defence's weak spots comes under the guise of an attack...If this constitutes a paradox, it is...the kind of paradox that Sidney might, despite himself, have admired. * Robert Stagg, Times Literary Supplement *On Not Defending Poetry also represents something of a theoretical departure for scholarship on Sidney's Defence....by adopting a 'deconstructionist approach' akin to that of Fredric Jameson, Bates steers away from the trend set by recent scholars who have adhered to the New Historicist methodologies pioneered by the likes of Stephen Greenblatt. * Richard Wood, The English Association *Deeply learned ... an indispensable book. * Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900 *Table of ContentsPart One: The Poet's Golden World I: Poetry is Profitless II: Poetry is Profitable III: Poetry is Profitless Part Two: The Counterfeiter I: Poetry Lies II: Lies are Profitable III: Lies are Profitless IV: Poetry is Profitless V: Poetry is Free The Empty Chest I: Poetry Abuses II: Poetry is Useful III: Poetry is Abused Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of
Book SynopsisReimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales challenges the standard narrative of the relationship between England and Wales in the Middle Ages, which assumes that after Edward I''s conquest of Wales in 1282, England grew increasingly powerful while Wales faded into insignificance. This book shows instead that concepts of Welsh and British history (as told by Geoffrey of Monmouth and others) were in fact enduringly potent instruments of political power in late medieval Britain, and came to have a profound effect on late medieval thought about empire, monarchy, and succession. The introduction of these ideas into the broader stream of political consciousness was brought about by the interests of baronial families in the March of Wales (the borderlands between England and Wales). Georgia Henley demonstrates the emergence of a particular brand of marcher literature interested in succession, land rights, and the narrative scope of Geoffrey of Monmouth. Marcher patr
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Oxford University Press The Future of the Book Images of Reading in the
Book SynopsisA short study of modern utopian American literature that shows how books were produced, distributed, and consumed in the US during the late nineteenth century, and the ways in which utopian novels written at this time reflected these processes in their imagined futures.Trade Review...excellent book. * Matthew Leggatt, University of Winchester *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1: The Residential Library 2: The Public Library 3: The Idea of Authorship 4: The Newspaper 5: The Printed Page and the Written Word Conclusion
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Oxford University Press The Masnavi Book Five Oxford Worlds Classics
Book SynopsisThe first ever translation of the entirety of Book Five of Rumi's magnum opus, The Masnavi, into English. The Masnavi is well-known to contain much sexually explicit content within teaching stories about the path of annihilation of the self in a total and uncompromising way.Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Translation Select Bibliography Chronology Masnavi: Book Five Explanatory Notes Glossary
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Oxford University Press Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American
Book SynopsisLyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire re-examines the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, and Jorie Graham, changing our understanding of their writing and the field of post-war American poetry.
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Oxford University Press Jacobs Room Oxford Worlds Classics
Book Synopsis''What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages -- oh, here is Jacob''s room.''Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf''s third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce''s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot''s The Waste Land, follows this elusive title character from a sunlit childhood on the Cornwall coast to adventures in Cambridge, London, and Athens. Women fall in love with Jacob; young men desire his company and conversation. But Woolf keeps her scornful, charming protagonist at a distance, enveloping Jacob in mystery as he enters adulthood and the Great War thunders across Europe. A daring work that reimagines every element of the traditional novel, Jacob''s Room tells a new story for a new century.In 1922, Lytton Strachey pronounced Jacob''s Room ''a most wonderful achievementmore like poetry, it seems to me, than anything else, and as such I prophesy immortal.'' One hundred years after its publication, Woolf''s first full-length work of experimental fiction pulls us into the inexhaustible mysteries of intimacy and mortality.Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of Virginia Woolf Maps Jacob's Room Explanatory Notes
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Oxford University Press No Hamlets German Shakespeare from Nietzsche to Carl Schmitt
Book SynopsisNo Hamlets is the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany from the founding of the Empire in 1871 to the ''Bonn Republic'' of the Cold War era. In this sustained study, Andreas Höfele begins with Friedrich Nietzsche and follows the rightist engagement with Shakespeare to the poet Stefan George and his circle, including Ernst Kantorowicz, and the literary efforts of the young Joseph Goebbels during the Weimar Republic, continuing with the Shakespeare debate in the Third Reich and its aftermath in the controversy over ''inner emigration'' and concluding with Carl Schmitt''s Shakespeare writings of the 1950s. Central to this enquiry is the identification of Germany and, more specifically, German intellectuals with Hamlet. The special relationship of Germany with Shakespeare found highly personal and at the same time highIy political expression in this recurring identification, and in its denial. But Hamlet is not the only Shakespearean character with strong appeal: Carl Schmitt''s largely still unpublished diaries of the 1920s reveal an obsessive engagement with Othello which has never before been examined. Interest in German philosophy and political thought has increased in recent Shakespeare studies. No Hamlets brings historical depth to this international discussion. Illuminating the constellations that shaped and were shaped by specific appropriations of Shakespeare, Höfele shows how individual engagements with Shakespeare and a whole strand of Shakespeare reception were embedded in German history from the 1870s to the 1950s and eventually 1989, the year of German reunification.Trade ReviewIn taking this long view, Höfele rectifies any misconceptions we might have that 'right-wing Shakespeare' is purely a phenomenon of the Second World War, and in doing so he sheds fascinating light on less familiar aspects of German history in relation to right-wing politics and ideals and Shakespeare's role within these ... The position of Shakespeare comes full circle, from serving anti-democratic, racist, and fundamentalist causes, only to re-emerge as a powerful force in the midst of liberating and forward-thinking voices. Shakespeare, Hamlet, and to some extent Othello, thus become the keys to understanding German history, psyche, and identity in this powerful study. Höfele's work has all the potential to become an instant classic, a standard work for academics and teachers alike. * Alessandra Bassey, Modern Language Review *I cannot remember reading so compelling, important, and revelatory a Shakespeare book as this one ... This is a wonderfully, indeed movingly well-written book but the quality which particularly singles out No Hamlets is its intellectual and moral honesty. * Shakespeare Jahrbuch *Höfele tells a remarkable story about the way Shakespeare provides imaginative resources for some of the most challenging and troubling thought of the modern era ... also very much engaged with current conversations in early modern studies. * Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations A Note on Texts and Translations Introduction 1: Highest Formula: Nietzsche's Shakespeare 2: Shakespeare in the Master's Circle: Stefan George and the 'Secret Germany' 3: In the Master's Circle (II): Ernst Kantorowicz 4: Millions of Ghosts: Weimar Hamlets and the Sorrows of Young Goebbels 5: Little Otto: Carl Schmitt and the Moor of Venice 6: Third Reich Shakespeare 7: 'But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue': Hamlet in Inner Emigration 8: Hamlet in Plettenberg: Carl Schmitt and the Intrusion of the Time 9: Epilogue: Welcome to the Machine. Berlin 1989 Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Reading Novels During the Covid19 Pandemic
Book SynopsisDrawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history - showing what novels people turned to during the pandemic, how people experienced time during this period, and whether they chose to fill it with reading.Trade ReviewThis brilliantly written and meticulously researched book makes a major new contribution to literary studies. It demonstrates the value and importance of sociological approaches to reading in expanding the methods of the discipline and enabling new evidence-based insights into how lay readers read. It combines this with a sensitivity to text and temporality, narrative and nuance, that surely cannot but be approved of by even the most stalwart defenders of traditional literary critical methods. * Sarah Dillon, Professor of Literature and the Public Humanities, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge *How did the pandemic change our relationship to books? This eagerly awaited study does a deep dive into the role of literature in a time of crisis, looking closely at what and how people read in 2020 and 2021 as well as the times and places in which they picked up a book. The results are fascinating, revealing, and often unexpected * Rita Felski, University of Virginia *Did anyone actually spend the pandemic reading Proust? Find out in this intimate and revealing account of all the ways books kept us company during a time of almost unbearable isolation * Matthew Rubery, Queen Mary University of London *This is an extremely important book, mixing literary theory with qualitative and quantitive data in an innovative way in order to understand how and what we read during the pandemic, and what this means. It provides a vital insight into the life of literature during a crisis * Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway University of London *Overall, the book is a very timely contribution to discussions surrounding the seismic cultural and societal shifts triggered-or merely made visible-by the pandemic. The authors are well aware that their sample can shed light only on a slice of the reading public, but through their in-depth interviews and careful curation of the responses, we are treated to fascinating insights about readers and reading during the pandemic. Readers of the monograph will certainly think back to their own pandemic reading practices (and perhaps glance at their pandemic reading diaries?) as they peruse the pages of this tome. * Corinna Norrick-Rühl, University of Münster, Germany *Table of ContentsThe Readers Introduction 1: Time and What to Do in It 2: Plague Literature and the Question of Allegory 3: The Novel of Confinement 4: Old Books in New Times 5: Reading Outdoors 6: Reading Summer in Summer 2020 7: Reading the Romance 8: Reading About Race 9: Long Reads Appendix: The Surveys
£76.00
Oxford University Press Nigel of Longchamp Speculum Stultorum Oxford
Book SynopsisAn edition and English translation of the Speculum Stultorum (The Mirror for Fools), a long Latin beast epic written near the end of the twelfth century by a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury. It is not only a milestone in the history of medieval beast epic, but a rich source of information about contemporary life and events at Canterbury.Table of ContentsPreface Sigla Earlier Editions and Translations of the Speculum Stultorum This Edition: Editorial Conventions Headings Translation and Notes INTRODUCTION Text and Context The Poem The Date The Motive The Manuscripts Textual Transmission: The Manuscript Groups Nigel's Metre and Style SPECULUM STULTORUM APPENDICES APPENDIX A: The Interpolation on the Mendicant Friars APPENDIX B: Epistola ad Willelmum in Vienna 3467 APPENDIX C: Borrowings from the Speculum Stultorum in Gower's Vox Clamantis APPENDIX D: England and Sicily MANUSCRIPT DESCRIPTIONS
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Oxford University Press Sir Thomas Browne The Opium of Time My Reading
Book SynopsisIn this book, Gavin Francis writes about the resonance for him as medic in reading the work of early modern polymath Sir Thomas Browne.Trade Review[S]plendid...[an] excellent panegyric. * John Quinn, The Tablet *It always good to read something coming towards Browne from several directions at once. And especially the sympathies of a medical man, writer, and general practitioner. * Iain Sinclair *The biographical material and quotes from his writings accompany the beautifully written analysis, creating a book that reads well and is a fine introduction to the life and work of this remarkable seventeenth century physician. * Arpan K. Banerjee, Solihull, UK, Hektoen International *In Sir Thomas Browne: The opium of time,...autobiography and intellectual history are woven together under the conceptual generosity of eight thematic chapters and two letters to its subject. * Georgina Wilson, Times Literary Supplement *A compelling read ... Gavin Francis's perspective on Browne's life and works ... beautifully encapsulate[s] the complexity of [Browne's] character. * Nick Golding, Church Times *This slim volume forms part of a series of biographies whose authors express deeply rooted ties with their subjects and who share something of themselves and their own experiences to add an autobiographical dimension. The formula works and the result is a compelling read. * Revd Richard Greatrex, Church Times *Table of ContentsChronology An Introductory Letter to Dr Browne 1: Ambiguity 2: Curiosity 3: Vitality 4: Piety 5: Humility 6: Misogyny 7: Mobility 8: Mortality A Concluding Letter to Dr Browne
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Oxford University Press Colette
Book SynopsisThe power of Colette''s work comes from its modernist storytelling.Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her work provocatively uses unstable narratives, gaps, silences, fairytale, mythical tropes, and sensual evocations of childhood, sex, and landscapes. In this book, Michèle Roberts examines how Colette invents new forms to express her unsettling content on desire, perversion, ageing, and different forms of love. Delving into four keys texts, Roberts explores Colette''s willingness to break open taboos about older woman and desire, as well as hidden and forbidden aspects of human longings and pleasures.Through these re-readings, Roberts discovers that Colette''s work is even more entrancing, more disturbing, and more original than she first thought.
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Oxford University Press The Oxford English Literary History
Book SynopsisThe Oxford English Literary History is the new century''s definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar''s considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers. This book describes and seeks to explain the vast cultural, literary, social, and political transformations which characterized the period 1000-1350. Change can be perceived everywhere at this time. Theology saw the focus shift from God the Father to the suffering Christ, while religious experience became ever more highly charged with emotional affectivity and physical devotion. A new philosophy of interiority turned attention inward, to the exploration of self, and the practice of confession expressed that interior reality with unprecedented importance. The old understanding of penitence as a whole and unrepeatable event, a second baptism, was replaced by a new allowance for repeated repentance and penance, and the possibility of continued purgation of sins after death. The concept of love moved centre stage: in Christ''s love as a new explanation for the Passion; in the love of God as the only means of governing the self; and in the appearance of narrative fiction, where heterosexual love was suddenly represented as the goal of secular life. In this mode of writing further emerged the figure of the individual, a unique protagonist bound in social and ethical relation with others; from this came a profound recalibration of moral agency, with reference not only to God but to society. More generally, the social and ethical status of secular lives was drastically elevated by the creation and celebration of courtly and chivalric ideals. In England the ideal of kingship was forged and reforged over these centuries, in intimate relation with native ideals of counsel and consent, bound by the law. In the aftermath of Magna Carta, and as parliament grew in reach and importance, a politics of the public sphere emerged, with a literature to match. These vast transformations have long been observed and documented in their separate fields. The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 1: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation offers an account of these changes by which they are all connected, and explicable in terms of one another.Trade ReviewPlenty of textual examples, summary and background information is offered to familiarize readers with this strange and distant set of fictions and the details on how and why they were produced, and how the more impactful of these texts altered culture. The scholarly narrative is very polished and delivers the information readers need to comprehend the intricacies of this subject. * Anna Faktorovich, Pennsylvania Literary Journal *Ashe's sure-handed and vigorous translations, particularly those from French, are one of the delights of this volume. The extensiveness of the quotations draws attention to the remarkable literary production "in all three English languages", especially in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. ... The enduring contribution of Conquest and Transformation is its demonstration that "English writers were in the vanguard of new literary developments - narrative fiction, the romance, vernacular historiography - and made great contributions to the transformative theories of selfhood, interiority, and the will, to the emergence of affective piety, and to the theology and secular expression and celebration of love". * Daniel Donoghue, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsGeneral Editors' Preface List of Figures Note on Languages and Translations Introduction 1. England c.1000: This World is in Haste I: Violence in Crisis: Wulfstan and Ælfric Writing the Last Days II: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles: Writing what Was Lost III: Meaning and Uncertainty: Interpreting History IV: The Battle of Maldon: Asking Questions 2. Conquests, Kings, and Transformations I: Visions and Dreams: Miracle Stories in Conquered England II: Transformations 1: Return of the Warrior King III: Transformations 2: Soul-Searching IV: Chronicles of Post-Conquest Kingship V: Paying Court: New Ideals in the World 3. Know Yourslef: Interiority, Love, and God I: My Flesh Is Immune to All Corruption: Christina of Markyate's Certainty II: The Self Enclosed: Guarding the Heart in the Ancrene Wisse III: For who Is Richer than Christ?: The Love of God IV: Conclusion: Selfhood without Individuality 4. The Bellator and Chevalerie: The Struggle for the Warrior's Soul I: Chansons and Chronicles of Crusade: The Warrior's Entreaty II: The Ordene de chevalerie and Roman des eles: Remaking Knighthood III: Epic vassalage and Romance chevalerie: Knighthood Shaped by Narrative IV: The Soldier's Sacred Oath: Knighthood and the State V: Gui de Warewic: The Moral Claims of English Knighthood VI: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight's Noble Device: An English Poet Criticizes chevalerie 5. It is Different with Us: Love, Individuality, and Fiction I: Marie de France's Lais, Lancelot, and Other Lovers II: Strange Love: Thomas of Britain's Tristan III: 'What appears to all, this we call Being' IV: The Four Degrees of Violent Love 6. Conversations with the Living and the Dead I: King Arthur, from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Wace and Lazamon II: The Lamentations of Mary: Feeling for Christ in Latin Prose and French Verse III: 'Stond wel, morder, ounder rose': Lyrics of Passion IV: The Mirror of the Church and The Owl and the Nightingale: Orthodoxy and Reality V: The South English Legendary: Faith and Community 7. Engletere and the Inglis: Conflict and Construction I: The Community of the Realm: A New Public Discourse II: 'He dredden him so bhef doth clubbe': Power and Coercion in Havelok III: The French and English Brut: Vernacular Writing and the Politicization of History IV: Wynners and Defendours and Assaillours: Disorders of Society V: Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of EighteenthCentury Satire
Book SynopsisEighteenth-century Britain thought of itself as a polite, sentimental, enlightened place, but often its literature belied this self-image. This was an age of satire, and the century''s novels, poems, plays, and prints resound with mockery and laughter, with cruelty and wit. The street-level invective of Grub Street pamphleteers is full of satire, and the same accents of raillery echo through the high scepticism of the period''s philosophers and poets, many of whom were part-time pamphleteers themselves. The novel, a genre that emerged during the eighteenth-century, was from the beginning shot through with satirical colours borrowed from popular romances and scandal sheets. This Handbook is a guide to the different kinds of satire written in English during the ''long'' eighteenth-century. It focuses on texts that appeared between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. Outlier chapters extend the story back to the first decade of the seventeenth-century, and forward to the second decade of the nineteenth. The scope of the volume is not confined by genre, however. So prevalent was the satirical mode in writing of the age that this book serves as a broad and characteristic survey of its literature. The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire reflects developments in historical criticism of eighteenth-century writing over the last two decades, and provides a forum in which the widening diversity of literary, intellectual, and socio-historical approaches to the period''s texts can come together.Trade Reviewa collection of brilliant and intentionally provoking essays about how we have studied satire, how we study it now, and how, implicitly, we might study it in the future. * Andrew Benjamin Bricker, Eighteenth-Century Fiction *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1: Paddy Bullard: Describing Eighteenth-Century British Satire PART I: SATIRICAL ALIGNMENTS 2: Judith Hawley: Corporate Acts of Satire 3: Marcus Walsh: Against Hypocrisy and Dissent 4: George Southcombe: The Satire of Dissent 5: Claudine Van Hensbergen: The Female Wits: Gender, Satire, and Drama 6: David O'Shaughnessy: National Identity and Satire 7: Adam Rounce: Banter, Nonsense, and Irony: Churchill and his Circle 8: Robert W. Jones: Foxite Satire: Politics, Print, and Celebrity PART II: SATIRICAL INHERITANCES 9: Nicholas Mcdowell: The Double Personality of Lucianic Satire from Dryden to Fielding 10: Matthew C. Augustine: The Invention of Dryden as Satirist 11: Kristine Louise Haugen: Alexander Pope and the Philosophical Horace 12: Daniel Carey: Swift, Gulliver, and Travel Satire 13: Sophie Gee: Believing and Unbelieving in The Dunciad 14: Matthew Scott: Augustan Romantics PART III: SATIRICAL MODES 15: Paul Baines: Mixing It: Satire in the Miscellanies, 1680-1732 16: Gillian Wright: Fable and Allegory 17: Bonnie Latimer: Burlesque and Travesty: Pope's Early Satires 18: Jesse Molesworth: Graphic Satire: Hogarth and Gillray 19: Jonathan Lamb: Romance, Satire, and the Exploitation of Disorder 20: Ros Ballaster: Dramatic Satire 21: David Francis Taylor: The Practice of Parody PART IV: SATIRICAL OBJECTS 22: Sean Silver: Satirical Objects 23: Gregory Lynall: Science and Satire 24: Paddy Bullard: Against the Experts: Swift and Political Satire 25: Helen Deutsch: The Body of Thersites: Misanthropy and Violence 26: Louise Curran: Self-Portraiture 27: Melinda Alliker Rabb: 'Little Snarling Lapdogs': Satire and Domesticity PART V: SATIRICAL ACTIONS 28: Ashley Marshall: Thinking about Satire 29: Kate Loveman: Epigram and Spontaneous Wit 30: John McTague: Satire as Event 31: Joseph Hone: Legal Constraints, Libellous Evasions 32: Alexis Tadié: Quarrelling 33: Jill Campbell: Sexing Satire 34: Lawrence E. Klein: Ridicule as a Tool for Discovering Truth PART VI: SATIRICAL TRANSITIONS 35: James Fowler: Moralizing Satire: Cross-Channel Perspectives 36: Jennie Batchelor: Pamela and the Satirists: The Case for Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela (1741) 37: Peter Robinson: The Edge of Satire: Post-Mortem and other Effects 38: Lynn Festa: Satire to Sentiment: Mixing Modes in the Later Eighteenth-Century British Novel 39: Jon Mee: Satire in the Age of the French Revolution 40: Carolyn Steedman: Out of Somerset: Or, Satire in Metropolis and Province 41: Clare Bucknell: Satire, Morality, and Criticism, 1930-1965 Index
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Oxford University Press The Oxford English Literary History
Book SynopsisThe Oxford English Literary History is the new century''s definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar''s considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers. This volume covers the period 1645-1714, and removes the traditional literary period labels and boundaries used in earlier studies to categorize the literary culture of late seventeenth-century England. It invites readers to explore the continuities and the literary innovations occurring during six turbulent decades, as English readers and writers lived through unprecedented events including a King tried and executed by Parliament and another exiled, the creation of the national entity 'Trade ReviewThe stated purpose of this interesting and useful book is to provide cultural contexts for the literature of the period. It often quotes obscure texts or explains important, familiar texts in unusual, illuminating ways...Ms. Ezell's breadth and depth of learning is often breathtaking. * Paula R. Backscheider, The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats *The Later Seventeenth Century is exceptionally readable - clear, entertaining, and just a flat-out good read. * Paula R. Backscheider, Auburn University, The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats *The text is extremely polished and presents the needed information in a compact manner, addressing just the questions that I might not have even thought of yet, but that happen to inspire new ideas or potential new research streams. I highly recommend this book for all students and teachers of British literature, and I doubt anybody can seriously teach this subject without reading a few books like it. * Anna Faktorovich, Pennsylvania Literary Journal *The most impressive aspect of this volume is the sheer range and diversity of literary texts and authors Ezell incorporates ... they succeed in highlighting the complexities of seventeenth-century cultural institutions from which a diverse range of readers, writers, and literary forms emerge. * Nathan Hunt, The Seventeenth Century *Ezell's volume represents a considerable achievement ... it is written with unfailing concision and insight. * Review of English Studies *Throughout the book is authoritative and amusing: Ezell exhibits an uncommonly keen eye for the deft quotation (by no means the usual chestnuts) and the telling anecdote, many of which will surprise and delight veteran students of the period as well as undergraduate aspirants. ... Summing up: highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Figures Abbreviations A Note on the Texts A Preface to the Reader: Describing 'Literary Life' in the Mid- and Late Seventeenth Century 1. Ending the War, Creating a Commonwealth, and Surviving the Interregnum, 1645-1658 I: 1645 II: Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance, 1645-1658 III: Humphrey Moseley and London Literary Publishing: Making the Book, Image, and Word IV: Hearing, Speaking, Writing: Religious Discourse from the Pulpit, among Congregations, and from the Prophets V: Fiction and Adventure Narratives: Romantic Foreigners and Native Romances VI: Sociable Texts: Manuscript Circulation, Writers, and Readers in Britain and Abroad 2. The Return of the King, Restoration, and Innovation, 1659-1673 I: 1659-1660 II: Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance, 1660-1673 III: Renovating the Stage: Companies, Actresses, Repertoir, Theatre Innovations, and the Touring Companies IV: Enacting Libertinism: Court Performance and Literary Culture V: Creating Science: The Royal Society and the New Literatures of Science VI: 'Adventurous Song': Samuel Butler, Abraham Cowley, Katherine Philips, John Milton, and 1660s Verse 3. Reading and Writing for Profit and Delight, 1674 - 1684 I: 1674-1675 II: Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance, 1674-1684 III: Poets and the Politics of Patronage and Literary Criticism IV: Theatrical Entertainments Outside the London Commercial Playhouses: Smock Alley, Strollers, School Plays, and Private Performances V: Fictions: The Pilgrim's Progress, the New 'Novels', and Love and Erotica VI: Foreign Parts: English Readers and Foreign Lands and Culture 4. The End of the Century, Scripting Transitions, 1685-1699 I: 1685-1686 II: Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance, 1685-1699 III: Heard in the Street: Broadside Ballads IV: Seen on Stage: English Operas, the Female Wits, and the 'Reformed' Stage V: Debates between the Sexes: Satires, Advice, and Polemics 5. Writing the New Britain, 1700-1714 I: 1700 II: Laws Regulating Publication, Preaching, and Performance, 1700-1714 III: Kit-Cats and Scriblerians: Clubs, Wits, the Tatler, the Spectator, and The Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus IV: Booksellers and the Book Trade: John Dunton, Edmund Curll, Grub Street, and the Rise of Bernard Lintot V: 'The Great Business of Poetry': Poets, Pastoral, and Politics Appendix: Companion Volume: Table of Contents Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Race Politics and Irish America A Gothic History
Book SynopsisConsiders three centuries of writers and creatives of mostly Scots-Irish and post-Famine Irish descent whose work examines moments of entwined racial, social, and political transformation for those of that identity in America.Trade Reviewthis is an innovative, thought-provoking book that employs rich historical framings for its literary analysis. The book's uncovering of what might be called a "disguised Irish experience" in the work of a number of well-known American writers not generally thought of as "Irish" is intellectually stimulating and will, we predict, be a building block for further work. * James Donnelly, Chair of McGowan Prize (IACI) *Burke confronts the racial dynamics ever-present—but acknowledged to varying degrees—in works by authors whose ancestors may have been considered "off white" or ethnic others themselves. Burke presents her readers with ew ways of considering the Irishness of canonical American authors such as Henry James, William Faulkner, and Edgar Allan Poe, while also introducing a wider audience to less studied authors such as Frank Yerby, who was of mixed African and Irish descent. In so doing she establishes a new sub-genre, the Scots-Irish gothic. This book will be of value to scholars of Irish Studies and American literature, as it makes important new claims in these overlapping fields. * Matthew Reznicek, Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize (ACIS) *Race, Politics, and Irish America is of value because it refuses and exposes the homogeneous treatment of the Irish (as all descended from Famine refugees) in Irish American literary criticism. The book acts as a corrective for three prominent areas of scholarship...It provides a narrative in its own right that complements whiteness studies by bringing in a literary approach and an impressively nuanced view of the history of various groups in Ireland and America. * Beth O'Leary Anish, Community College of Rhode Island, Irish University Review *Burke's book is an exciting, necessary contribution to both Irish Studies and American literary studies. She impressively distills complicated histories on both sides of the Atlantic into comprehensible chunks, and then deftly applies that history to a range of texts, most with previously ignored Irish elements at the base of their protagonists' race and class anxieties. * Beth O'Leary Anish, Community College of Rhode Island, Irish University Review *Race, Politics, and Irish America makes a compelling argument for seeing ethnic identity as every bit as key to understanding Fitzgerald as his self-doubts over his class status and literary standing. * Kirk Curnutt, F. Scott Fitzgerald Review *For those of us who struggle with the contradiction of being Irish-American - how our ancestors, who were near the bottom of every racial hierarchy, came to side with their oppressors - Mary Burke's book is essential reading. Viewed through a Gothic lens with a focus on political, literary and artistic figures, Professor Burke's book connects the dots across five centuries of Irish history in the Americas. * Tim Quinn, BiblioCommons *Mary M. Burke has written a book that the field of Irish Studies in the United States will find hard to ignore or dismiss. * Peter McDermott, Irish Echo *A "luminous new study...[that] explores centuries of competing narratives about the Irish in America." * Cahir O'Doherty, Irish Central *This generic breadth helps Burke create a rich, nuanced, and complex picture of what it means to be Irish...Compellingly, Burke includes performers, "public women," and queer and multiracial authors in her analyses and thus rejects the traditional focus on straight, white, male authors. She promises, and delivers, a rich, rewarding, and challenging read...this powerful and timely examination of race and politics in Irish America challenges many stereotypes and frames well-known authors, celebrities, and politicians in a way that brings new understanding to them and their Irish identities. Burke is to be congratulated for producing such a fine, wide-ranging, and broadly appealing study. * Christine Kinealy, Eugene O'Neill Review *Burke's deeply researched and wide-ranging book provides a roadmap for future scholars to examine with far greater nuance than was previously the case the complexity of Irish identities in the United States. * Sinéad Moynihan, Irish Studies Review *The text is most enlightening when read as a linear whole, to understand the messy evolution of 'white' Irishness in a racially divided America. * Ciara Smart, Australasian Journal of Irish studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Past is a Foreign Country 1: Towards Scots-Irish Gothic 2: Closeted Irish: Henry James 3: How the Irish Became Red: O'Neill and Fitzgerald 4: Complicit Irishness: Plantation novels by Yerby, Mitchell, and Faulkner 5: White Wedding: Grace Kelly, spectacle, and Irish assimilation Epilogue: Kennedy Gothic
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Oxford University Press Shakespeares Blank Verse
Book SynopsisShakespeare''s Blank Verse: An Alternative History is a study both of Shakespeare''s versification and of its place in the history of early modern blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter). It ranges from the continental precursors of English blank verse in the early sixteenth century through the drama and poetry of Shakespeare''s contemporaries to the editing of blank verse in the eighteenth century and beyond. Alternative in its argumentation as well as its arguments, Shakespeare''s Blank Verse tries out fresh ways of thinking about meter--by shunning doctrinaire methods of apprehending a writer''s versification, and by reconnecting meter to the fundamental literary, dramatic, historical, and social questions that animate Shakespeare''s drama.
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Oxford University Press Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry
Book SynopsisSeldom has a royal court invited such intensive study as that of Henry VIII, or become so prominent in popular culture. Nonetheless, Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII is committed to offering a fresh perspective on Tudor court culture, by using continental sources to contextualize, nuance, and challenge long-held perspectives that have been formed through the use of well-studied, Anglophone sources.Using a wide variety of textual sources, from ambassadorial correspondence, account books, household étiquettes, legal records, royal warrants, and marital contracts, to play texts and travel accounts, this study presents original research in history, literature, and cultural history.The case studies in Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII address specific questions that challenge what we know or think we know about Tudor court culture. For example: was it good taste to bring a jester to a royal deathbed? Was John Blanke really the first black musician Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Queen's Trumpet or Second Fiddle 2: Deathbed Foolery 3: Food for thought 4: Fashion Victims 5: Leaving an Impression Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Orwell and Empire
Book SynopsisConsiders George Orwell's writing about the East, and the presence of the East in his writing and argues that in thinking of Orwell as an 'Anglo-Indian writer', not just in upbringing and experience, but in many of his views, perceptions, and reactions, a different Orwell emerges.Trade ReviewKerr's insights on Orwell and Rudyard Kipling are particularly perceptive. No other writer was more important to Orwell: his whole life "was a conversation, or quarrel, with Kipling", quoting him frequently throughout his writings. While it is tempting to see the two writers as opposites, Kerr is keen to identify their similarities: "Both of them were patriots though highly critical of their fellow-countrymen and frequently of their government. Both were public intellectuals who used their writing to raise political consciousness. Both loved animals and wrote books about them and both had a strong feeling for the English countryside". * Richard Lance Keeble, English Studies *eminently readable, and a fascinating new look at Orwell's work * , Shiny New Books *Thoughtful and methodical, Orwell and Empire is a good guide to [Orwell's] complex and not always consistent imperial attitudes. * Professor Krishan Kumar, The Times Literary Supplement *[T]his is among the most enjoyable books on the subject of Orwell that I have discovered in a long time, and without doubt the finest work on Orwell's connection to empire and the east that it has been my privilege to read. * Ron Bateman, The Orwell Society *Table of Contents1: Introduction: Anglo-India 2: Animals 3: Environment: Burmese Days 4: Class 5: Empire 6: Geography 7: Women 8: Race 9: Police 10: The Law 11: Literature Notes Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Homer in Wittenberg Rhetoric Scholarship Prayer
Book SynopsisHomer in Wittenberg discusses Homer's foundational significance for educational and theological reform during the Protestant Reformation. William P. Weaver provides a close examiantion of Melanchthon's use of Homer in his education reforms.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Homeric Grammar: Philip's Institutiones Graecae Grammaticae (1518) 2: Homeric Eloquence: Philip's 1518 Lectures on the Epistle to Titus and the iliad 3: Homeric Prudence: Melanchthon's 1523 Homer Lectures 4: The Homeric Poem 5: The Wittenberg Scholia 6: Rightly Dividing the Word Epilogue
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Oxford University Press John Berger Ways of Learning
Book SynopsisIona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working
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Oxford University Press Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Volume 60
Book SynopsisOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.Table of Contents1: Matthew Evans: The Work of Justice in Parmenides B 8 2: Tushar Irani: Perfect Change in Plato's Sophist 3: Thomas Johansen: Plato on Perceiving Through the Whole Body 4: Francesco Ademollo: The Anatomy of Primary Substance in Aristotle's Categories 5: Rachana Kamtekar: Experience and Preconception in Epicurus' Refutation of Determinism 6: Emily Katz: Contact and Continuity: What Happens at the Boundaries?
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Oxford University Press Valerius Flaccus Argonautica Book 8 Edited with
Book SynopsisThis volume is the first dedicated English commentary on the eighth and final book of Valerius Flaccus' Flavian epic Argonautica. The commentary addresses questions of the original length of the poem, of intertextuality, and of poetic practices in late first-century CE Rome.Trade ReviewThis well-researched book has a highly professional finish which is pleasingly free from errors. * Classical Journal *
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