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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
£190.00
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
£18.99
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.
£18.04
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
£32.77
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
£58.70
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
£43.31
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
£27.54
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.
£27.54
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
£27.54
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
£82.00
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?
£67.45
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 *
£150.00
Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvious: heroic drama, libertine comedy, scandalous lyrics, and the short but brilliant career of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester. Could there be an age when the coincidence of literary culture and political rule were any more obvious? But as this Handbook will remind us, some of the most wonderful literature of this Restoration came from writers who had lived across the decades of turbulence and into an age when the Stuart kings returned, when the Church and House of Lords were restored, a world made safe for bishops and for the memory of divine right rule. Of course, these returns and restorations did not meet with uniform celebration. John Milton wrote his great epic poems not in quiet submission but in a kind of resistance to the dominant culture of the 1660s, and Andrew Marvell produced his most brilliant satiric verse by holding up a looking glass to court corruption and Anglican intolerance. So we begin with the most obvious conclusion: Restoration literature does and does not fit to the categories that so long defined the late Stuart age. This book explores and contests, challenges and reimagines the experience embodied by the writing of the late Stuart world and invites readers new to this world and those who have often read its literatures to the pleasures but as well to the challenges and discomforts of its texts.
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Oxford University Press Modernism and the Aristocracy Monsters of English
Book SynopsisDuring a modern age that saw the expansion of its democracy, the fading of its empire, and two world wars, Britain''s hereditary aristocracy was pushed from the centre to the margins of the nation''s affairs. Widely remarked on by commentators at the time, this radical redrawing of the social and political map provoked a newly intensified fascination with the aristocracy among modern writers. Undone by history, the British aristocracy and its Anglo-Irish cousins were remade by literary modernism. Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege is about the results of that remaking.The book traces the literary consequences of the modernist preoccupation with aristocracy in the works of Elizabeth Bowen, Ford Madox Ford, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, Rebecca West, and others writing in Britain and Ireland in the first half of the twentieth century. Combining an historical focus on the decades between the two world wars with close attention to the verbal textures and formal structures of literary texts, Adam Parkes asks: What did the decline of the British aristocracy do for modernist writers? What imaginative and creative opportunities did the historical fate of the aristocracy precipitate in writers of the new democratic age? Exploring a range of feelings, affects, and attitudes that modernist authors associated with the aristocracy in the interwar period--from stupidity, boredom, and nostalgia to sophistication, cruelty, and kindness--the book also asks what impact this subject-matter has on the form and style of modernist texts, and why the results have appealed to readers then and now. In tackling such questions, Parkes argues for a reawakening of curiosity about connections between class, status, and literature in the modernist period.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Aristocracy Unmade and Remade 1: Hierarchies of Idiocy: Stupidity and Intelligence 2: The Noble Style: Aristocratic Boredom 3: Aches, Holes, and Howls: Country-House Nostalgia 4: Hieroglyphic Worlds: Transatlantic Sophistication 5: Capricious Benevolence: Kindness and Cruelty Coda: Monsters After Modernism Works Used by Permission Select Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in
Book SynopsisHow should science be written? It is a question that piqued natural philosophers of the seventeenth century as they experimented with the rhetorical figures, neologisms, verse-forms, and generic variety that characterise the literary texture of their work. Inspired laymen were quick to borrow from the new philosophy and from practising scientists in order to deploy ideas and images from astronomy, optics, chemistry, biology, and medicine. Between them, scientists, natural historians, poets, dramatists, and essayists produced new, adjusted, or hybrid literary forms. The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England examines those forms and that literary-scientific texture, as well as representations of the scientific--the laboratory, collaborative experimental retirement, and the canons of scientific conversation--and proposes that the writing of seventeenth-century science mirrors the intellectual and investigative processes of early modern science itself.Trade ReviewIt is no wonder that Claire Preston's scrupulously well-researched The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England is such a pleasure to read ... Inspired by Enlightenment reason and Brownian fecundity alike, Preston's study does right by both the early modern era and our own. * Wendy Beth Hyman, Renaissance Quarterly *Preston's argument marries rhetorical elegance with the patterned clarity of the quincunxes admired by [Thomas] Browne. * Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900 *The book asks not a new question but an important one: what do or can science and the humanities say to each other, what do they have in common? * Clio Doyle, Los Angeles Review of Books *This book offers an important framework for understanding the variety of intersecting and dialogic interactions between natural history and imaginative writing during the early modern period and beyond. * George E. Haggerty, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *Claire Preston's book is a stimulating and wide-ranging analysis of the nexus between science and literature in the age of the putative English scientific revolution. * Robert J. Mayhew, Journal of Historical Geography *Table of ContentsIntroduction 'A Distemper of Learning': The Languages of Science 1: Orlando Curioso: The Lapsarian Style of Thomas Browne 2: Equivocal Boyle and the Enamelled Telescope 3: 'A Blessing in the Wilderness': Fictions of Polity and the Place of Science 4: Dining Out in the Republic of Letters: The Rhetoric of Scientific Correspondence 5: The Counsel of Herbs: Scientific Georgic Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Engagements with Aimé Césaire
Book SynopsisAimé Césaire is due a major critical reinterpretation and that is exactly what this book carries out. Through an in-depth grasp of the trajectory and core significance of Césaire''s work, Jason Allen-Paisant highlights a set of links it makes between ''spirit,'' ''poetry,'' and ''knowing''. These explications, setting Césaire''s work in relation to a rigorously accounted for set of influences, reframe how we understand his writings, enhancing their philosophical, rather than merely political, aspects. Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits is about more than Negritude (which has come to mean something less than a deep poetic sensibility with its own aspirational aesthetics and metaphysics, and rather something more like a fantasy-ridden iteration of pan-Africanism). It shows an Aimé Césaire deeply relevant to today: to the crises of ecological collapse, capitalist dystopias, and ideologies predicated upon fear and the threat of foreigners; and to contemporary chatter arouTrade ReviewJason Allen-Paisant introduces us to a pedagogy of spirit in which the rigid divisions of Western thought, and the rigid Western interpretations of Aimé Césaire, are transformed into a homage to the daily inspirited materialities of African/diasporic social poiesis. The most original and inspiring reading of Césaire in decades. * Professor Stefano Harney, Academy of Media Arts Cologne - co-author of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study *Stunning, sensuous, and urgent, Jason Allen-Paisant's poetic meditation on the ecopoetics of Aimé Cesaire is also a wholly original philosophical inquiry into the shifting ways of being human under conditions of coloniality and climate catastrophe. He gives us a vibrant new language, deeply rooted in the ancestral lands and Black vitality of his native Jamaica, to engage the vibrational intelligence of the earth, and open ourselves to a regenerative ethics of life. * Professor Kris Manjapra, Northeastern University - author of Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation *Beautifully written and propelled by a fascinating new approach and its direct intervention to Aimé Césaire's scholarship, Thinking with Spirits will cement Jason Allen-Paisant's reputation as a rigorous critical thinker. * Professor Frieda Ekotto, University of Michigan - author of Race and Sex Across the French Atlantic: The Color of Black in Literary, Philosophical and Theater Discourse *
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Oxford University Press William Blake
Book SynopsisThis volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of William Blake (1757-1827). The edition features a selection of Blake's poetry, illuminated poetry, and prose, and includes an Introduction, Chronology, and full commentary notes.Trade ReviewThe latest edition of Blakes selected works rich with both textual and explanatory annotations and 120 black-and-white images. * Wayne C. Ripley, An Illustrated Quarterly *Peter Otto's William Blake (Oxford, 2018) presents the latest edition of Blake's selected works. Part of the 21st-Centu-ry Oxford Authors series, the book runs over 800 pages, and is rich with both textual and explanatory annotations and 120 black-and-white images. The works are arranged chronologically rather than generically, even to the point of offering Songs of Innocence alone and again with Songs of Experience. * Wayne C. Ripley, Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chronology From Poetical Sketches (1783) [An Island in the Moon] (c.1785) From Annotations to Lavater's Aphorisms on Man (1788) All Religions Are One (1788) There Is No Natural Religion (1788) From Annotations to Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell (1784; notes c.1789) Songs of Innocence (1789) The Book of Thel (1789) From Annotations to Swedenborg's Divine Love and Divine Wisdom (1788; notes c.1790) From Annotations to Swedenborg's Divine Providence (1790; notes c.1790) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790) From The Notebook (c.1791-93) Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) America a Prophecy (1793) To the Public [Prospectus] (1793) From The Notebook (c.1793) For Children: The Gates of Paradise (1793) Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) Europe a Prophecy (1794) The First Book of Urizen (1794) The Song of Los (1795) The Book of Ahania (1795) The Book of Los (1795) From Vala or The Four Zoas (1797-c.1807) From The Notebook (c.1797-99) From Annotations to Watson's An Apology for the Bible (1797; notes 1798) From Annotations to Bacon's Essays (1798; notes c.1798) From Annotations to The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1798; notes c.1798-1809) Letters [1799-1800] From Annotations to Boyd's Translation of the Inferno (1785; notes c.1800) Letters [1802-3] Memorandum in Refutation of the . . . Complaint of John Scolfield (August 1803] Letters [1803-4] From The Notebook (c.1803-04) Milton a Poem (c.1804-1811) [The Pickering Manuscript] (c.1805-07) From The Notebook (c.1807-09) Blake's Exhibition (1809) From Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (1804-c.1820) From [A Vision of the Last Judgment] (1810) From [A Public Address to the Chalcographic Society] (c.1810) Europe, Title page (late revisions, c.1815-20) From Annotations to Spurzheim's Observations (1817; notes c.1818) Letters [1818] The Everlasting Gospel (c.1818) For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise (1820) Annotations to Berkeley's Siris (1744; notes c.1820) From Annotations to Wordsworth's Preface to The Excursion (1814; notes 1826) From Annotations to Wordsworth's Poems (1815; notes 1826) From Annotations to Thornton's The Lord's Prayer (1827) Letter [1827] On Homers Poetry and On Virgil (c.1820) The Ghost of Abel (1822) [Jehovah]& his two Sons Satan & Adam [The Laocoön] (c.1826-27) List of Abbreviations Notes Index of Titles and First Lines
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Oxford University Press Reading for Life
Book SynopsisDavis presents original case-histories of readers to delve into just what reading is and how it works. Each chapter begins with a poem or excerpt which becomes the scene either of a reading-group transcription or of a thought-piece from an interviewed reader to explore therapeutic reading and how culture might impact upon health.Trade ReviewDavis' subjects have often tried many forms of therapy over many years, and he persuasively argues that literature, with its unpredictable and powerful effects, can help people break out of the rote narratives that therapy can inculcate, and make new and transformative discoveries. Davis, a professor of literature and psychology, trains his critical eye just as closely on the transcripts of the group sessions and interviews as on the literary works, many of which are included in part or in full. * Joanna Scutts, Times Literary Supplement *Philip Davis is brave in entering long forbidden waters, immersing himself not only in our emotional life as readers but also in the existential questions we have about ourselves, and about what life is. This is how we ought to be teaching literature, or, at least, how we ought to be making this kind of experience available for those who want it. I was so excited reading it, I could hardly contain myself: Reading for Life is a legitimization of everything that makes literature great. * Jane Tompkins, Professor of English, Emerita, Duke University *Reading for Life deserves to be called transformative. When I was about halfway through Reading for Life, I found myself pulling neglected books off my shelf and reading these rediscovered books with a closer attention to their language and a renewed intensity of response. Reading for Life is a book not only about reading; it has the potential to create a changed reader. * Arthur Frank, Literature & Medicine *Powerful and urgent, Reading for Life by Philip Davis shows how poetry and fiction can make a difference. * Marina Warner, President of the Royal Society of Literature *With its extraordinary mix of literature, neuroscience, history, and case studies, this beautifully written book exemplifies the alchemy that can happen when words come to life on the page. Reading can change the trajectory of a life, which changes our society, which propels our future species. Philip Davis shows us why this is so. * Maryanne Wolf, Director at Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice *
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Oxford University Press Speculative Fictions
Book SynopsisSpeculative Fictions places Alexander Hamilton at the center of American literary history to consider the important intersections between economics and literature.Trade ReviewSpeculative Fictions will alter the way we must read the period of the framers, economic writing, and literary writing of many forms. Hewitt's volume should inspire us to read through her lens the more traditionally labeled literature we tend to teach, and to broaden the forms of literature we include in syllabi. * Howard Horwitz, The University of Utah *This is a timely and important work—deeply and creatively researched, expansive, interdisciplinary (without cliché), and original in conception and execution. * Philip Gould, Brown University *Hewitt makes a compelling, lucid, and insightful case for reading what are now considered the separate domains of early economic theory and literature as interdependent and mutually illuminating...Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * A. T. Hale, University of Puget Sound, CHOICE *
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Oxford University Press The Idea of the Book and the Creation of
Book SynopsisThe Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature explores the intersection of literary history and the history of the book. For several millennia, books have been the material embodiment of knowledge and culture, and an essential embodiment for any kind of knowledge involving texts. Texts, however, do not need to be books-they are not even necessarily written. The oldest poems were composed to be recited, and only written down centuries later. Much of the most famous poetry of the English Renaissance was composed in manuscript form to circulate among a small social circle. Plays began as scripts for performance. What happens to a play when it becomes a book, or to a collection of poems circulated among friends when it becomes a volume of sonnets? How do essays, plays, poems, stories, become Works? How is an author imagined? In this new addition to the Oxford Textual Perspectives series, Stephen Orgel addresses such questions and considers the idea of the book not simply as a container for written work, but as an essential element in its creation.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1: Introduction 2: Some Plays 3: Some Works 4: Poetry and Drama 5: How to be a Poet 6: What is a Book? Index
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Oxford University Press Reinventing Babel in Medieval French
Book SynopsisHow can untranslatability help us to think about the historical as well as the cultural and linguistic dimensions of translation? For the past two centuries, theoretical debates about translation have responded to the idea that translation overcomes linguistic and cultural incommensurability, while never inscribing full equivalence. More recently, untranslatability has been foregrounded in projects at the intersections between translation studies and other disciplines, notably philosophy and comparative literature. The critical turn to untranslatability re-emphasizes the importance of translation''s negotiation with foreignness or difference and prompts further reflection on how that might be understood historically, philosophically, and ethically. If translation never replicates a source exactly, what does it mean to communicate some elements and not others? What or who determines what is translatable, or what can or cannot be recontextualized? What linguistic, political, cultural, orTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reinventing Babel: Translation and Untranslatability in Medieval French Texts 1: Cultivating Difference: Translation and 'Remainder' in Wauchier de Denain's L'Histoire des Moines d'Egypte 2: Spiritual Translatio in the French Lives of Saint Catherine of Alexandria: Gender and Hagiographic Translation 3: Translation, Memory, and the Limits of Translatability in the Writing of Marie de France 4: Translatio and the Afterlives of Translation in Chrétien de Troyes' Cligés 5: Monolingualism, Absolute Translation, and Linguistic Mastery in Franco-English Jargon Texts: Jehan et Blonde and Renart teinturier 6: Translating Nature in French Verse Bestiaries: Translation and/as Ontology Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American
Book SynopsisSensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in Antebellum literature. It demonstrates how the "Sensational Jew" is a revealing figure in antebellum culture, as well as an important antecedent to contemporary Antisemitism in the US.Trade ReviewAntisemitism has appeared in many times and places-and, as David Anthony shows in his informative, unsettling Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature, in many genres.... In exploring this seamy side of antebellum America, Anthony follows many critics who have examined nineteenth - century sensational culture over the past several decades. But he is the first to highlight Jewish characters. * David S. Reynolds, The New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Money Laundering and the Sensational Jew 1: Region, Capitalism, and the Jew in the Post-Tom Plantation Novel 2: La Belle Juive, or "Jew"?: From Rachel Félix to The Marble Faun 3: Desire by Proxy: The Cosmopolitan Jew in Theodore Winthrop's Cecil Dreeme 4: Fagin in America Conclusion: Race, Money, and the Jew Coda: Charlottesville, "Molineux," and the Phantom Jew
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Oxford University Press The Middle English Book
Book SynopsisThe monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue--in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science--but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism.The Middle English Book addresses a series of questions about the copying and cirTrade Review...this book's insights into literary culture have the potential to enrich approaches to bibliographic studies beyond the field. * The Review of English Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Nomenclature 2: The Elaborate Book 3: The Streamlined Book 4: The Evolving Book 5: The D. I. Y. Book 6: The Proliferation of Scribes, I 7: The Proliferation of Scribes, II Conclusion Coda Appendix: The Manuscripts in My Corpus
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Oxford University Press Osbern Bokenham
Book SynopsisThis is the second edition of a major work by the translator and hagiographer Osbern Bokenham. Unknown before the discovery of the unique manuscript in 2005, Bokenham''s work comprises a complete translation of Legenda Aurea, a collection of saints'' lives compiled by the Dominican friar Jacobus de Voragine which achieved widespread popularity throughout the Middle Ages and survives in over eight hundred manuscripts, supplemented with accounts of the lives of various British saints, including those of Cedde, Felix, Edward, and Oswald. Writing in the fifteenth century, Bokenham''s work, which combines prose and verse, was influenced by major writers such as Chaucer and Lydgate, both in its content and in its verse forms and style, and thus sheds new light on their fifteenth-century reputation. Bokenham''s work is also important for his naming of the patrons for whom he translated a number of these saints'' lives, allowing scholars to trace networks of patronage amongst prominent members
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Oxford University Press Mapping Medea
Book SynopsisThe late-eighteenth century witnessed multiple Medeas take to the stages of Europe, in the Americas, and across the Russian empire. Performances took place in Moscow and São Paulo, in London and Lisbon, in Gotha, Stuttgart, and Venice. This lively collection of essays examines the various reasons why Medea, the ancient mother who killed her own children, attracted the attention of authors, audiences, actors, and rulers in Europe and its dominions during the pivotal period 1750 to 1800, and to what effects. As a migrant and iconoclast, Medea crosses a number of eighteenth-century borders: linguistic, cultural, national, temporal, spatial, aesthetic, ethical, and generic. Moreover, the fact that late-eighteenth-century playwrights, poets, composers, and choreographers all turned to one of the most problematic characters of Greco-Roman antiquity offers a unique opportunity to examine the remarkable flexibility of the reception process itself. Medea therefore functions as an intriguing case study, reflecting a wider context of cultural and political change within Europe and its colonies in the late-eighteenth century. By drawing together eighteenth-century specialists working across multiple languages and disciplines with the reception perspective of classical scholars, this volume brings much rare material from a range of archives across continental Europe to critical attention for the first time. Mapping Medea shows how the eighteenth century made Medea modern, and Medea helped to shape modern performance.Table of Contents1: Anna Albrektson and Fiona Macintosh: Mapping Medea: Revolutions and Transfers 1750-1800 I: Medea in an Expanding Eighteenth-Century World 2: Edith Hall: Pushing the Boundaries of Operatic Convention and European Identity: Generic and Historical Perspectives on Georg Benda's 1775 Medea 3: Larisa Nikiforova: Medea's Russian Images on Stage and in Literature: The Politics and Poetics of Female Characters 4: Anthony John Lappin: An Imperial Medea: Spain, Portugal, the Colonies 5: Anna Albrektson: Inverting the Barbarian: Estrangement and Excess in the Eighteenth-Century Medea II: Local Interpretations and Global Issues: Ontology and Form 6: Fiona Macintosh: From Hearth to Hades: Breaking Boundaries with Medea and ballet d'action 7: Jörg Krämer: Shaping Complexity: Medea in the German-Language Theatre of the Eighteenth Century 8: Petra Dotla%cilová: Visual Narrative: The Role of Costumes in Noverre's ballet d'action, Médée et Jason 9: Zoé Schweitzer: Medea as Infanticidal Mother in the Late Eighteenth-Century Theatre 10: Roland Lysell: Medea--Sorceress or Woman? c.1750 and Beyond Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press James Baldwins Sonnys Blues
Book SynopsisA close reading of James Baldwin''s short story Sonny''s Blues that provides insight into his life and ideas about art.Tom Jenks''s reading of James Baldwin''s Sonny''s Blues follows a scene-by-scene, sometimes line-by-line, discussion of the pattern by which Baldwin indelibly writes Sonny''s Blues into the consciousness of readers. It provides ongoing observations of the aesthetics underlying the particulars of the story, with references to Edward P. Jones (whose magnificent story All Aunt Hagar''s Children bears a knowing relationship to Sonny''s Blues,) to Charlie Parker''s music, and to Billie Holiday''s Am I Blue? and John Coltrane''s A Love Supreme as part of the musical progression Baldwin creates, and with attention to Baldwin''s oratorical gifts and the biblical references in the story, to its time structure, characterizations, dramatic action, and, most of all, its totality of effect. Drawing on Baldwin''s book-length essay The Fire Next Time, which Baldwin published a decade
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Oxford University Press Writing and Righting Literature in the Age of
Book SynopsisA bold and accessible argument for the moral and political value of literature in rightless times.The obvious humanity of books would seem to make literature and human rights natural allies. But what is the real connection between literature and human rights? In this short polemical book, Lyndsey Stonebridge shows how the history of human rights owes much to the creative imagining of writers. Yet, she argues, it is not enough to claim that literature is the empathetic wing of the human rights movement. At a time when human rights are so blatantly under attack, the writers we need how are the political truthtellers, the bold callers out of easy sympathy and comfortable platitudes.Trade ReviewOver the past 20 years, Lyndsey Stonebridge has emerged as one of our most interesting literary critics. She brings together modern writers and their experience of some of the darkest episodes of the 20th century: exile, war crimes trials, humanitarian disasters... The book often has the strengths of Stonebridge's earlier works. She moves between detailed literary criticism and large questions about human rights and contemporary society. Perhaps most important of all is the originality of her subject, expanding the remit of literary criticism... Stonebridge is at her best offering fascinating close readings that open onto big, important subjects. * David Herman, New Statesman *Stonebridge is an immensely gifted writer and thinker. Her new book will help to revitalise literary criticism. * Bryan Cheyette, Times Higher Education *Pithy and powerful, this book plumbs the crucial questions of our times. If its focus is on what literature can be and do, its preoccupation is with the ethics and politics of writing in a world where liberal individualism and the pursuit of rights has tipped us into a malign logic of totalitarianism. Stripped of citizenship, millions are stripped of the right to be heard. Yet words can make injustice visible, sometimes in their intensity, even take on performative power. Stonebridge's literary ammunition comes from both history and the present, from Virginia Woolf to Kamila Shamsie, from Freud and Sartre to writers like Yousif Qasmiyeh in a refugee camp, while Hannah Arendt's philosophical force underpins her arguments. This is a passionate book, quick to read, but with a slow burn. * Lisa Appignanesi, author of Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love *Magnificent- a journey across our times, told with eloquence and depth, ideas and observations abound, opening vistas aplenty * Philippe Sands, author of East West Street *This slim but comprehensively researched, rigorously argued volume tackles human rights, literature, moralities, philosophy, aesthetics as well as our discourses about these in a complex, nuanced and yet completely accessible way. It makes for a challenging, thought-provoking, illuminating, and at times discomfiting read. This volume -to borrow from Stonebridge herself -is a must read for lawyers and philosophers, ideologues and academics, to thinkers, writers, teachers, readers, artists, activists, survivors and indeed each one of us who has ever lost themselves to a story that may be our own or entirely of another. * Sunny Singh, Professor of Creative Writing & Inclusion in the Arts, London Metropolitan University *Table of Contents1: Introduction: Literature in the Endtimes (?) of Human Rights 2: Once More with Feeling 3: Experimental Human Rights: Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas 4: Words of Fire: Creative Citizenship 5: The Bewilderment of Everyday Violence: Shamima Begum, Freud, Citizenship and Law 6: Survival Time/Human Time: Hannah Arendt and Behrouz Boochani 7: Conclusion: Hannah Arendt in Baddawi
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Oxford University Press Ernest Dowson
Book SynopsisErnest Dowson: Lyric Lives is the first full-length critical study of this canonical writer to appear in English. It challenges the many myths that have surrounded Dowson''s life and work for more than a century, contending that, in his distinct theory of muse-fired inspiration; his authentic Catholic confessionalism; his deep love of France, its literary tradition, and its culture; his prolonged battle with tuberculosis; and his final abandonment of creative writing, Dowson is among the most engaged and representative artists of this fascinating era. Far from the moribund dream-lover of legend, Dowson, in fact, led an engrossing and robust existence, while practicing a vigorous, sullen craft; he wrote about the subjects which poets have always written about, with inimitable style and incorrigible élan. Ernest Dowson presents a chronological and comprehensive series of generative new readings of his work, situated in relation to that of his notable contemporaries, as well as the pressiTable of ContentsIntroduction. The Muses' Sterner Laws 1: The Right Type of Girl 2: Love (In the Shade) 3: The All Absorbing Subject 4: Still Point of the Turning World 5: Dowson's Lunatic Asylum 6: The Reign of Reverie 7: Betwixt the Bounds of Life and Death 8: The End of All the Songs Afterlives: In Epilogue
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Oxford University Press Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Volume 62
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: Richard Neels: Opposites and Explanations in Heraclitus 2: Suzanne Obdrzalek: Evaluative Illusion in Plato's Protagoras 3: Michael Wiitala: That Difference is Different from Being: Sophist 255c9-e2 4: Christopher Bobonich: Is Plato a Consequentialist? 5: Joshua Mendelsohn: Aristotle's Argument for the Necessity of What We Understand 6: Wei Wang: Aristotle on Digestion, Self-Motion, and the Eternity of the Universe: A Discussion of Physics 8.6 and De somno 7: Allison Piñeros Glasscock: Giving Gifts and Making Friends: Seneca's De beneficiis on How to Expand One's Sphere of Ethical Concern 8: Ralph Wedgwood: Hierocles' Concentric Circles 9: Matthew Evans: Archaic Epistemology: A Discussion of Jessica Moss, Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming
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Oxford University Press Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Volume 62
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: Richard Neels: Opposites and Explanations in Heraclitus 2: Suzanne Obdrzalek: Evaluative Illusion in Plato's Protagoras 3: Michael Wiitala: That Difference is Different from Being: Sophist 255c9-e2 4: Christopher Bobonich: Is Plato a Consequentialist? 5: Joshua Mendelsohn: Aristotle's Argument for the Necessity of What We Understand 6: Wei Wang: Aristotle on Digestion, Self-Motion, and the Eternity of the Universe: A Discussion of Physics 8.6 and De somno 7: Allison Piñeros Glasscock: Giving Gifts and Making Friends: Seneca's De beneficiis on How to Expand One's Sphere of Ethical Concern 8: Ralph Wedgwood: Hierocles' Concentric Circles 9: Matthew Evans: Archaic Epistemology: A Discussion of Jessica Moss, Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming
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Oxford University Press The Writings of Phillis Wheatley Peters
Book SynopsisThis edition includes all of the known surviving writings of the poet Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753-1784), several of which have been discovered since the last attempt at a complete edition in 2001. The poems and the extant prose writings are accompanied by an Introduction to her life and times, and textual and explanatory notes.Trade ReviewVincent Carretta's edition will be essential reading for anyone seriously interested in Wheatley Peters's life and work... The vanishing point of [Wheatley Peters's] work stands at the far side of the history of enslavement. Given that the poems do exist, the critical imperative is to think carefully about how, and under what conditions, they came to be. Carretta makes a crucial contribution to this project. * Andrea Haslanger, Eighteenth - Century Fiction *This text leaves no stone unturned to provide a clear path for teaching the Wheatley corpus with the added benefit of drawing new and contemporary allusions to the study of "racism, sexism, and slavery", as "issues" that the early Black American poet "subtly and indirectly confronts"... Clearly, Writings is soon to become a standard for early American literature courses and one of the most practical, convenient, and useful classroom tools. * April Langley, University of Missouri-Columbia, Early American Literature *This edition, prepared by the outstanding scholar in the field, supersedes previous collections from Julian D. Mason (1966; 1989), John C. Shields (1988) and Carretta himself (Penguin, 2001). It is the fullest in scope, with abundant bibliographical detail, and it takes advantage of the steady growth in secondary literature... the most generally informative and revealing edition that has ever appeared. * Pat Rogers, Author of The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Editorial Note Note on Money The Writings of Phillis Wheatley Textual and Explanatory Notes Index of First Lines of Titles of Phillis Wheatley's Poems Index of First Lines of Phillis Wheatley's Poems General Index
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Oxford University Press Shakespeares First Folio
Book SynopsisCelebrating the 400th Anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare''s First FolioThis is the biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare''s plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now spread around the world about their eventful lives. From ink blots to pet paws, from annotations to wineglass rings, First Folios teem with evidence of their place in different contexts with different priorities. This study offers new ways to understand Shakespeare''s reception and the history of the book. Unlike previous scholarly investigations of the First Folio, it is not concerned with the discussions of how the book came into being, the provenance of its texts, or the technicalities of its production. Instead, it reanimates, in narrative style, the histories of this book, paying close attention to the details of individual copies now located around the world - their bindings, marginalia, general condition, sales history, and location - to discuss five major themes: owning, reading, decoding, performing, and perfecting. This is a history of the book that consolidated Shakespeare''s posthumous reputation: a reception history and a study of interactions between owners, readers, forgers, collectors, actors, scholars, booksellers, and the book through which we understand and recognize Shakespeare.Trade ReviewA fascinating and provocative book. * Daniel Swift, Spectator *Delightful. * Jerry Brotton, The Daily Telegraph *Her diligence in considering every aspect of the Folio's material existence is commendable. * Brian Vickers, Times Literary Supplement *This is a beautifully judged book about books, impeccably researched yet wry and affectionate. * Jerry Brotton, Financial Times *Smith's account of the Folio's distinguished career is very nicely written and consistently entertaining and informative... It is the modern equivalent of a magic book, and Smith's own book does justice to that magic. * Times Higher Education *Emma Smith's book comes as a welcome corrective to the fascination with Shakespeare the man ... as it is the "biography" of something far more interesting: a book. * Stuart Kelly, Independent *I've been looking forward to Emma Smith's Shakespeare's First Folio ever since I heard her give a paper that asked, "can you actually read the First Folio?" It's that sort of arresting question that wouldn't occur to many other people that makes her scholarship so inventive and absorbing. * Jem Bloomfield, Times Higher Education, Summer Reads 2016 *A charming, enlightening account, not so much of the origins, as of the fortunes over the years subsequently, of the great edition. * David Sexton, Evening Standard *Smith is one of the cleverest scholars around, but her academic weight is balanced with an accessible tone and wry humour. * Bristol Magazine *A marvelous bit of scholarship. Detailed without being dry, playful without being silly, it's a well-researched, thoroughly balanced account of this 'iconic book.' * The Oxford Culture Review *The book is well illustrated, and Smith writes with great style. * Ben Higgins, Review of English Studies *... offers a wealth of important information, fascinating episodes, and sophisticated critical insight. It will, therefore, be of great interest to a variety of scholars in different disciplines, with literary critics, cultural historians, and scholars of book history foremost among them. * José María Pérez Fernández, Bulletin of the Comediantes *[A] compassionate biography... a wonderful testimony to the 'worlds most expensive book' and the readers who keep it that way. * Charlotte Scott, Shakespeare Survey *This book is a very good read, a largely anecdotal but always entertaining account of copies of the Shakespeare First Folio from their production in 1623 to the present ... the pleasure and instruction this book will bring to the casual bibliophile or the Shakespeare enthusiast. * Alan H. Nelson, Renaissance Quarterly *Smith's second book, Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book, picks up where The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio leaves off, tracing different ways of interacting with the Folio owning, reading, forging, acting, collecting, and studying from the seventeenth century to our own time, and from Europe and America to Africa and Asia. * Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *Thoroughly researched, and well-organized. * Anna Faktorovich, Pennsylvania Literary Journal *[An] excellent companion. * Camille Ralphs, Poetry Foundation *Authoritative, lively and accessible. * Rhodri Lewis, Prospect *Table of ContentsIntroduction Sir Edward Dering goes shopping 1: Owning 2: Reading 3: Decoding 4: Performing 5: Perfecting Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press In Dialogue with Dickens
Book SynopsisWritten in the form of a back-and-forth dialogue between the two authors, this book is about the relationship between feeling and thinking in Dickens''s novels. It presents Dickens as a psychological thinker, whose generative thought may be conscious, unconscious, half-conscious, or in transit between one state and another. This Dickens is always in live process, improvizing from one monthly number to the next, subtly revizing as he goes, shifting moods, tenses, and tones from one paragraph or sentence to the next, as what he writes sparks off what he suddenly, newly, thinks. The chapters approach this inquiry through close readings of chosen passages, including studies of telling revisions in Dickens''s manuscripts that reveal the power of his deepened second thoughts. They also draw on selected moments from his personal letters and prefaces when these more casual writings prove to be sketches or rehearsals for thoughts and feelings that achieve new life when they are transformed into
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Oxford University Press Woman Much Missed Thomas Hardy Emma Hardy and
Book SynopsisWoman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of his first wife Emma. It shows how Emma's writings and experiences were fundamental to Hardy's evolution into both a best-selling novelist and into one of the greatest poets of the twentieth centuryTrade ReviewFord's close reading of Hardy's poetry and his analysis of many of his influences and sources is impressive. There's a wealth of fascinating material in this book. * Harriet, Shiny New Books *[O]utstanding: admirably concise but rich in the meticulous close reading at which Ford excels...Mark Ford sets it all out - the necromantic poet, his much-missed wife, and her "shy, pliant, star-struck" but no less ghost-ridden understudy - without ever passing judgement, except on the poetry. Compassionate, intelligent and supremely tactful, this is the deeply humane book all three deserve. * TLS *Table of ContentsNote on Texts Abbreviations Preface Prologue: She Opened the Door What Poetry Meant to Hardy 1: Votary of the Muse 2: The Other Side of Common Emotions Lyonnesse 3: Emma's Devon and Cornwall 4: Courtship The Rift 5: A Preface Without Any Book 6: Divisions Dire and Wry Afterwards 7: Dear Ghost 8: Two Bright-Souled Women Selected Bibliography Acknowledgements
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Oxford University Press The Uley Tablets
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Oxford University Press Aristotle the Philosopher
Book SynopsisDiscusses Aristotle's views on change, natural science, the mind, logic, philosophical method, metaphysics, and ethics, and suggests why the Greek philosopher still provokes controversy.Trade Review'An excellent little book. One cannot sufficiently recommend this book as an up-to-date fascinating introduction to Aristotle, clearly presented and accessible to the non-specialist. Even for the specialist, although its content will be known to him, this brief volume gives an interesting and, above all, refreshing presentation. Philosophical Studies
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Oxford University Press Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThis book provides an accessible introduction to aesthetics, especially in relation to literature, and is particularly useful for readers new to literary theory and contemporary philosophy. Anne Sheppard discusses what it is that all works of art have in common - what gives them their value as art - and asks, wisely, whether there can ever be one correct interpretation of a work of art. The scope of the book includes chapters on form, beauty and aesthetic appreciation, and the relationship between art and morals.Trade Reviewa well-written, accessible introduction to a difficult subject * THES *
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OUP Oxford Classical Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis Oxford Reader seeks to introduce some of the main philosophical questions raised by the Greek and Roman philosophers of classical antiquity. Selections from the writings of ancient philosophers are interspersed with Terence Irwin''s incisive commentary, and sometimes with contributions from modern philosophers expounding relevant philosophical positions or discussing particular aspects of classical philosophy. The arrangement of the book is thematic, rather than chronological, allowing the reader to focus on philosophical problems and ideas, but a general introduction places philosophers and schools within their historical context. Irwin brings together contributions which shaped debates about knowledge, freedom, ethics, politics, and religious belief - debates which continue to be contested today, 2500 years from their conception.Trade ReviewThe book is overwhelmingly good, and will certainly become a set text in universities throughout the English-speaking world. * Robin Waterfield, The Heythrop Journal,Vol.41, No.4 *Irwin ... has the ability to communicate the importance and interest of ancient philosophy for beginners in an accessible and lucid fashion, which is highly informative and deeply thoughtful without being dense. * Robin Waterfield, The Heythrop Journal,Vol.41, No.4 *Commentary is achieved through a series of remarkable introductions ... each edition is a mini-masterpiece of compression. * Robin Waterfield, The Heythrop Journal, Vol.41, No.4. *Table of ContentsI INTRODUCTION; II NATURE, CHANGE, AND CAUSE: NATURAL PHILOSOPHY BEFORE PLATO; III ORIGINS OF SCEPTICISM: KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF IN EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY; IV KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF: FROM SOCRATES TO SCEPTICISM; V KNOWLEDGE, BELIEF, AND FORMS: SOCRATES AND PLATO; VI FORM AND MATTER: ARISTOTLE AND STOICISM; VII KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF: ANSWERS TO SCEPTICISM; VIII SOUL AND BODY; IX FREE WILL; X GOOD, PLEASURE, AND HAPPINESS; XI KNOWLEDGE AND DESIRE IN VIRTUE; XII THE GOOD OF OTHERS; XIII VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS; XIV POLITICAL THEORY; XV PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY; INDEX OF AUTHORS; FURTHER READING; GENERAL INDEX
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Oxford University Press The Sonnet
Book SynopsisProvides a study of one of the oldest and most popular forms of poetry - the sonnet. This book combines a historical overview of the sonnet with detailed analysis to show how the sonnet has achieved its special status and popularity among poets in Britain, Ireland, and America.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Renaissance; 2. Shakespeare; 3. Milton; 4. The Romantic Revival of the Sonnet; 5. Victorian Sonnet Sequences; 6. The Irish Sonnet; 7. The American Sonnet; 8. The Modern Sonnet; Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Greek Dialogue in Antiquity PostPlatonic
Book SynopsisThis book examines the Greek genre of dialogue in the period after the death of Plato, between the mid-fourth century BCE and the mid-first century CE.Trade ReviewIn Greek Dialogue in Antiquity, Katarzyna Jażdżewska challenges the traditional narrative of a decline and displacement of dialogue in post-Platonic antiquity followed by a revival of the genre in the imperial period. * Greece & Rome *
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Oxford University Press A Commentary on Ovid Remedia Amoris
Book SynopsisThe Ovidian Renaissance seems to have left the Remedia Amoris behind. The poem has remained marginal, read either as a reversal of the Ars Amatoria''s teaching that brings the world of Ovidian elegy to a banal end, or as an over-determined supplement to the Ars which ironically fails in its ostensible aim of ''curing'' the dissatisfied lover. While recent work has explored how the poem functions not just as a palinode to, but also as a continuation of, the Ars, the critical status quo continues to present it as a minor appendage rather than as an important chapter in Ovid''s project as a poet of desire. Victoria Rimell''s commentary resets critical perspectives by reading the Remedia as distinctive and original, and as a pivotal text within Ovid''s oeuvre as a whole. In her immersive, creatively interpretative guide to the poem, the Remedia emerges as an intricate work that interacts with medical texts, works on rhetoric, law, magic and ritual, philosophical thinking about self-discipl
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare''s comic enterprises. It engages with perennial, yet still urgent questions raised by the comedies and looks at them from a range of new perspectives that represent the most recent methodological approaches to Shakespeare, genre, and early modern drama.Several chapters take up firmly established topics of inquiry such Shakespeare''s source materials, gender and sexuality, hetero- and homoerotic desire, race, and religion, and they reformulate these topics in the materialist, formalist, phenomenological, or revisionist terms of current scholarship and critical debate. Others explore subjects that have only relatively recently become pressing concerns for sustained scholarly interrogation, such as ecology, cross-species interaction, and humoral theory. Some contributions, informed by increasingly sophisticated approaches to the material conditions and embodied experience of theatrical practice, speak to a resurgence of interest in performance, from Shakespeare''s period through the first decades of the twenty-first century. Others still investigate distinct sets of plays from unexpected and often polemical angles, noting connections between the comedies under inventive, unpredicted banners such as the theology of adultery, early modern pedagogy, global exploration, or monarchical rule. All the chapters offer contemporary perspectives on the plays even as they gesture to critical traditions, and they illuminate as well as challenge some of our most cherished expectations about the ways in which Shakespearean comedy affects its audiences. The Handbook situates these approaches against the long history of criticism and provides a valuable overview of the most up-to-date work in the field.Table of ContentsHeather Hirschfeld: Introduction: Encountering Shakespearean Comedy Part I: Settings, Sources, Influences 1: James Bednarz: Encountering the Elizabethan Stage 2: Robert Miola: Encountering the Past I: Shakespeare's Reception of Classical Comedy 3: Helen Cooper: Encountering the Past II: Shakespearean Comedy, Chaucer, and Medievalism 4: Kirk Melnikoff: Encountering the Present I: Shakespeare's Early Urban Comedies and the Lure of True Crime and Satire 5: Andy Kesson: Encountering the Present II: Shakespearean Comedy and Elizabethan Drama Part II: Themes and Conventions 6: Kenneth Graham: Shakespearean Comedy and Early Modern Religious Culture 7: Amanda Bailey: Shakespearean Comedy and the Early Modern Marketplace: Sympathetic Economies 8: Catherine Richardson: Shakespearean Comedy and the Early Modern Domestic Sphere 9: Kent Cartwright: Place and Being in Shakespearean Comedy 10: Geraldo U. de Sousa: Shakespearean Comedy and the Question of Race 11: Simon Barker: Farce and Force: Shakespearean Comedy, Militarism, and Violence 12: Julie Sanders: Water Memory and the Art of Preserving: Shakespearean Comedy and Early Modern Cultures of Remembrance 13: Matthew Steggle: The Humors in Humor: Shakespeare and Early Modern Psychology 14: Kevin Curran: Shakespearean Comedy and the Senses 15: Steve Mentz: Green Comedy: Shakespeare and Ecology 16: Carolyn Sale: The Laws of Comedy: Shakespeare and Early Modern Legal Culture 17: Judith Haber: Comedy and Eros: Sexualities on Shakespeare's Stage 18: David L. Orvis: Queer Comedy 19: Erin Minear: The Music of Shakespearean Comedy 20: Michelle M. Dowd: Gender and Genre: Shakespeare's Comic Women 21: Anne M. Myers: The Architecture of Shakespearean Comedy: Domesticity, Performance, and the Empty Room 22: Laurie Shannon: Poor Things, Vile Things: Shakespeare's Comedy of Kinds Part III: Conditions and Performance 23: Lina Perkins Wilder: Stage Props and Shakespeare's Comedies: Keeping Safe Nerissa's Ring 24: Frederick Kiefer: Shakespearean Comedy and the Discourses of Print 25: Jeremy Lopez: Imagining Shakespeare's Audience 26: Erika T. Lin: Comedy on the Boards: Shakespeare's Use of Playhouse Space 27: Katherine Scheil: Adapting Shakespeare's Comedies 28: Bridget Escolme: Brexit Dreams: Comedy, Nostalgia, and Critique in Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night's Dream 29: Doug Lanier: Shakespearean Comedy on Screen Part IV: Plays 30: John Parker: Holy Adultery: Marriage in The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, and The Merry Wives of Windsor 31: Joanne Diaz: Comedies of Tough Love: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labour's Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, and Much Ado About Nothing 32: Lisa Hopkins: Comedies of the Green World: A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night 33: Oliver Arnold: Problem Comedies: Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, and All's Well That Ends Well
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Oxford University Press Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels
Book SynopsisLatin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels establishes and explores connections between Greek imperial literature and Latin poetry. This work challenges conventional thinking about literary and cultural interaction of the period, which assumes that imperial Greeks were not much interested in Roman cultural products (especially literature). Instead, it argues that Latin poetry is a crucially important frame of reference for Greek imperial literature. This has significant ramifications, bearing on the question of bilingual allusion and intertextuality, as well as on that of cultural interaction during the imperial period more generally. Three of these novels in particular-Chariton''s Chaereas and Callirhoe, Achilles Tatius'' Clitophon and Leucippe, and Longus'' Daphnis and Chloe-are analysed for the extent to which they allude to Latin poetry, and for the effects (literary and ideological) of such allusion. After establishing the cultural context and parameters of the study, each chapter pursues the strategies of an individual novelist in connection with Latin poetry. The work offers the first book-length study of the role of Latin literature in Greek literary culture under the empire, and thus provides fresh perspectives and new approaches to the literature and culture of this period.Trade ReviewJ.'s comprehensive study is a serious and timely piece of scholarship that will make a difference in the study of the Greek novel and the reception of Latin authors in the Greek world. * Stefan Tilg, Journal of Roman Studies *This book is one of the most ambitious in recent scholarship on the Ancient Greek novel ... The large, intensely detailed product of Jolowicz's thorough investigations merits the scrutiny not only of experts on the Greek Novel but of scholars engaged in the broader question of (Roman) Greek intertextual affiliation with earlier Latin literary texts. * Calum Maciver, Classical Journal *This groundbreaking and engagingly written book is a welcome addition to the corpus of scholarly literature on allusion and intertextuality in the ancient Greek novels. * Jo Norton-Curry, Classical Review *Jolowicz's rigorously argued and methodologically convincing monograph deserves to be read widely, and with close attention. * Malcolm Heath, Greece & Rome *The book is convincing, well written, and a model of methodology. * Marie - Pierre Bussières, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsNotes On Editions and Translations Abbreviations Introduction 1: Chariton and Latin Elegy I: The Language of Love 2: Chariton and Latin Elegy II: Ovidian Letters and Exile 3: Chariton and Vergil's Aeneid 4: Achilles Tatius and Latin Elegy 5: Achilles Tatius and Vergil's Aeneid 6: Achilles Tatius and the Destruction of Bodies: Ovid, Lucan, Seneca 7: Longus and Vergil Conclusion Works Cited
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Oxford University Press Milton in Translation
Book SynopsisMilton in Translation represents an unprecedented collaboration that demonstrates the breadth of John Milton''s international reception, from the seventeenth century through today. This book collects in one volume new essays written on the translation of Milton''s works written by an international roster of experts: stalwart and career-long Miltonists, scholars primarily of translation studies, and practitioners who have translated Milton''s works. Chapters are grouped geographically but also, by and large, chronologically, given that Milton''s works radiated further abroad over time. The chapters on the twenty-three individual languages showcased in this volume are framed by ''Part I: Approaches'', consisting of an introduction and two major essays on the global reach and the aural nature of Milton''s poetry, and by an epilogue. ''Part II: Influential Translations'' features the most influential languages in translations of Milton''s works (English, Latin, German, French). Then, accouTrade ReviewWinner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuel Memorial Award (2017)[Milton in Translation] is important for bringing to notice the existence of over 300 translations of Milton into ?fty-seven languages, and the fact that there have been more such translations in the last thirty years than the preceding 300. It is fascinating to read, across a number of essays, of Milton's appropriation as a revolutionary in, for example, the Protestant colonies of North America (Thomas N. Corns), the Catholic colonies of postindependence Latin America (Mario Murgia), and in both Maoist and contemporary China (Bing Yan). * Catherine Bates, Studies in English Literature *What Angelica Duran, Islam Issa, and Jonathan R. Olson have put together for Milton in Translation proves that translation continues to serve an important role in the interpretation of literature. Duran, Issa, and Olson also make an important contribution to Milton studies, despite the exhaustive corpus of literary studies devoted to John Milton's work ... Overall, the editors and contributors provide an engaging look at Milton studies through translation studies and a text that will appeal to scholars and students in both areas. * William John Silverman Jr., Renaissance Quarterly *The volume creates an impressive panopticon of the diversity of target-language-specific reformulations of Milton's epic vision ... this [is a] marvelous insightful, and truly pioneering volume. * Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Milton Quarterly *[Milton] would have approved of Milton in Translation...In total, twenty-three languages are represented in this fascinating volume, including Chinese, Korean, Bulgarian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian and the Finno-Ugric languages. * Neil Forsyth, Times Literary Supplement *Winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuel Memorial Award (2017)Fifty years ago, William Riley Parker opined that 'A good book on the translating of Milton into other languages (and his influence on other literatures) is long overdue.' Here is that book, appearing close to the 350th anniversary of the first appearance of Paradise Lost. * John Hale, Translation and Literature *Milton in Translation (2017) offers an expansive and novel study of the global reach of John Milton through translations into twenty-three languages, bringing together a wealth of knowledge by a wide variety of specialists in their respective fields. Ranging from western Europe to Asia and the Americas, the volume strives to be as inclusive as possible. Given the rising interest in the combined approach of translation and literary studies, this volume demonstrates the potential fruitfulness of such research in both a historical and a more contemporary context. * Rena Bood, H-Nationalism *This is an important collection of essays on the wide range of translations that have been made of Milton's works, encompassing several centuries of publication...The sheer number of translations that the collection manages to catalogue is breathtaking, ranging over the major European languages, through Latin and Hebrew, as well as noting cultural reception from South America to Asia...one can imagine Milton would have approved of the demonstration of this global engagement with his work. * Esther van Raamsdonk, The Modern Language Review *Table of ContentsPart I Approaches 1: Angelica Duran and Islam Issa: Introduction: From 'Cambalu' to 'El Dorado' 2: Thomas N. Corns: Milton's Global Reach 3: Beverley Sherry: Lost and Regained in Translation: The Sound of Paradise Lost Part II Influential Translations 4: Aaron Shapiro: 'Levelling the Sublime': Translating Paradise Lost into English in the Eighteenth Century 5: Estelle Haan: 'Translated Verse': Milton's Latin Poetry in the Long Eighteenth Century 6: Estelle Haan: 'Latinizing' Milton: Paradise Lost, Latinitas, and the Long Eighteenth Century 7: Curtis Whitaker: Domesticating and Foreignizing the Sublime: Paradise Lost in German 8: Christophe Tournu: 'The French Connection' among French Translations of Milton and within du Bocage's Paradis terrestre Part III Western European and Latin American Translations 9: Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen: Paradise Lost in Dutch, 1728-2003: Form, Politics, Religion 10: Anne Lange: A Vision in Times of Need: Milton in Estonia 11: David Robertson: Traces of the Birth of the State of Finland in Jylhä's Translation of Paradise Lost 12: Ástráður Eysteinsson: Iceland's Milton: On Jón Þorláksson's Translation of Paradise Lost 13: Daniele Borgogni: 'Censur'd to Be Much Inferiour': Paradise Lost and Regained in Italian 14: Hélio J.S. Alves: Milton in Portuguese: A Story in Blank Verse 15: Angelica Duran: Paradise Lost in Spanish Translation and as World Literature 16: Mario Murgia: Either in Prose or Rhyme: Translating Milton in(to) Latin America Part IV Central and Eastern European Translations 17: Alexander Shurbanov: The Quest for the Right Accent: Milton in Bulgarian Translation 18: %SárkaTobrmanová: Jungmann's Translation of Paradise Lost in the Vanguard of Modern Czech Culture 19: Miklós Péti: In 'Milton's Prison': Milton in Hungarian Translation 20: Joanna Rzepa: Translation as Resistance: Three Centuries of Paradise Lost in Polish 21: Marjan Strojan: Milton in Serbian/Montenegrin: Paradise Lost from behind Bars 22: Marjan Strojan: Milton in Illyria Part V Middle Eastern Translations 23: Islam Issa: Paradise Lost in Arabic: Images, Style, and Technique 24: Noam Reisner: Pre-Eminent among Gentiles: Milton's Major Poetry in Hebrew Translations 25: Jeffrey Einboden: Plotting a Persian Paradise: Milton's Iranian Afterlives Part VI East Asian Translations 26: Bing Yan: Milton in China 'Yet Once More' 27: Hiroko Sano: Translating Milton's Poetry into Japanese with a Case Study of Samson Agonistes 28: Kim Hae Yeon with Angelica Duran: The 1960s and Paradise Lost in Korean Gordon Campbell: Epilogue: Multilingual and Multicultural Milton
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Oxford University Press The End of the Tether
Book SynopsisThis selection of four relatively neglected stories by Conrad -- 'The End of the Tether', ' The Duel', ' The Return', and 'Amy Foster' --remind readers that he is not just the teller of sea stories and tales of imperialist action, but a writer for an age of global terror and individual trauma.Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of Joseph Conrad THE END OF THE TETHER THE DUEL THE RETURN AMY FOSTER Explanatory Notes
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Oxford University Press American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon
Book SynopsisWhat if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their polity and society. While some informed their thinking with reference to classical texts, which comprehensively consider tyranny''s dangers, most drew on a more contemporary source--Napoleon Bonaparte, the century''s most famous man and its most notorious tyrant. Because Napoleon defined tyranny around the nineteenth-century Atlantic world--its features and emergence, its relationship to democratic institutions, its effects on persons and peoples--he provides a way for nineteenth-century Americans to explore the parameters of tyranny and their complicity in its cruelties. Napoleon helps us see the decidedly plural forms of tyranny in the US, bringing their fictions into focus. At the same time, however, there are distinctly American modes of tyranny. From the tyrannical style of the American imagination to the usurping potential of American individualism, Elizabeth Duquette shows that tyranny is as American as democracy.Trade ReviewElizabeth Duquette has written an ambitious, monumental book that proposes a fundamental reframing of the nineteenth century as the long age of Napoleon. Dislodging "democracy" as the nation's mythic political basis and putting "tyranny" in its place, Duquette amasses a substantial archive of America's obsession with Napoleon Bonaparte to develop a thoroughly convincing account of the multiple tyrannies that stand at the foundation of US political culture-from the actual oppression of slavery to those purported incursions on the liberty of aggrieved elites that form the "tyrannical style" of nineteenth-century political discourse. * Jennifer Greiman, Wake Forest University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Dispatches Introduction: Seeing Tyranny 1: Tyranny in America, or David Walker 2: The Tyrannical Style of American Politics 3: Raking Imperial Muck 4: The Bedazzler 5: Napoleonic Codes 6: Séjour's Spectacles 7: Young Men From the Provinces Coda: Napoleon Complex, or Mad About Napoleon Bibliography Notes Index
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