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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Queer Studies Reader
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field.The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. The collection is edited by leading scholars in the field and presents: individual introductory notes that situate each work within its historical, disciplinary and theoretical contexts essays grouped by key subject areas including Genealogies, Sex, Temporalities, Kinship, Affect, Bodies, and Borders writings by major figures including Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, David M. Halperin, Josà Esteban MuÃoz, Elizabeth Grosz, David Eng, Judith Halberstam and Sara Ahmed. The Routledge Queer Studies Reader is a field-defining volume and presents an illuminating guide for established scholars and also those new to Queer Studies.Trade Review'It is hard to imagine a volume that could represent the field more knowingly!' Robyn Wiegman, Duke University, USA'This fresh, innovative, and significant volume demonstrates convincingly the queer moment is by no means over.' Laura Doan, University of Manchester, UK'Get prepared to enter a scene of provocation, a sexy sort of maelstrom, where trans meets butch meets brown meets "quare" meets intersex, racial, post-colonial, and disabled matters in juxtaposition, in telling combinations. Even subtleties and biting formulations appear side by side, in a queer cubism, leading both students and scholars to thoughts that will startle and seduce them.' Kathryn Bond Stockton, University of Utah, USA"The Queer Studies Reader will serve as an official and unofficial textbook for those interested in overthrowing the patriarchal gender binary and interrupting heteronormativity." — Rachel Wexelbaum, Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources, Vol 34 No 3-4 2013Table of ContentsPart 1: Genealogies 1. Queer And Now Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 2. Critically Queer Judith Butler 3. Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and The Transubstantiation Of Sex Jay Prosser 4. The Queer Intervention Steven Angelides 5. Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? Cathy J. Cohen 6. ‘Quare’ Studies, Or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother E. Patrick Johnson 7. Introduction: Queer of Color Critique, Historical Materialism, And Canonical Sociology Roderick A. Ferguson 8. The Material of Sex (Excerpts) Rosemary Hennessy 9. Lacan Meets Queer Theory Tim Dean Part 2: Sex 10. Sex in Public Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner 11. Viral Sex and The Politics Of Life Gregory Tomso 12. Experimental Desire: Rethinking Queer Subjectivity Elizabeth Grosz 13. Dinge Robert Reid-Pharr Part 3: Temporalities 14. Do you want queer theory or do you want the truth? Intersections of punk and queer in the 1970s Tavia Nyong’o 15. Turn the Beat Around: Sadomasochism, Temporality, History Elizabeth Freeman 16. How to Do the History of Male Homosexuality David M. Halperin 17. The Future Is Kid Stuff: Queer Theory, Disidentification and the Death Drive Lee Edelman Part 4: Kinship 18. Transnational Adoption and Queer Diasporas David Eng 19. Making Queer Familia Richard T. Rodríguez 20. Romancing Kinship: A Queer Reading of Indian Education and Zitkala-Sa’s American Indian Stories Mark Rifkin 21. Notes on Gridlock: Genealogy, Intimacy, Sexuality Elizabeth A. Povinelli Part 5: Affect 22. AIDS Activism And Public Feelings Ann Cvetkovich 23. Archiving Queer Feelings in Hong Kong Helen Hok-Sze Leung 24. Feeling Brown, Feeling Down: Latina Affect, the Performativity of Race, And the Depressive Position José Esteban Muñoz 25. Queer Feelings Sara Ahmed Part 6: Bodies 26. What can queer theory do for intersex? Iain Morland 27. Transgender Butch: Butch/ FTM Border Wars And The Masculine Continuum Judith Halberstam 28. Compulsory Able-Bodiedness And Queer/Disabled Existence Robert McRuer 29. Hypothalamic Preference: Levay’s Study Of Sexual Orientation Elizabeth A. Wilson Part 7: Borders 30. Queer Times, Queer Assemblages Jasbir Puar 31. Queer Intersections: Sexuality and Gender In Migration Studies Martin F. Manalansan IV 32. Border/line Sex: Queer Postcolonialities or How Race Matters Outside the U.S. Anjali Arondekar 33. Transgender without Organs? Mobilizing a Geo-affective Theory of Gender Modification Lucas Cassidy Crawford
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Modernism and Literature
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Taylor & Francis World Literature
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Taylor & Francis The Chinese Classic Novels Routledge Revivals An Annotated Bibliography of Chiefly EnglishLanguage Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Medieval Literature Criticism and Debates Routledge Criticism and Debates in Literature
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels A Routledge Study Guide Routledge Guides to Literature
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Anatomy of Literary Studies Routledge Revivals An Introduction to the Study of English Literature
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Anatomy of Literary Studies Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A New Companion to Greek Tragedy Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A New Companion to Greek Tragedy Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Global Literary Theory
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Taylor & Francis Victorian Literature
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Taylor & Francis Victorian Literature Routledge Criticism and Debate
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Taylor & Francis Dramatic Monologue Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Romantic Ecology Routledge Revivals Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition
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Taylor & Francis Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction
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Taylor & Francis The Medusa Reader
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Taylor & Francis The Medusa Reader
Book SynopsisRanging from classical times to pop culture, this collection will appeal to art historians, feminists, classicists, cultural critics, and anyone interested in mythology.Trade Review"A valuable addition to all mythology and folklore collections and even art collections." -- Library Journal"Marjorie Garber and Nancy J. Vickers have assembled an anthology of seventy-three references to Medsa in literature, philosophy, advertising, and eclectic...the choice of images and artifacts is creative, provocative, and playful." --Woman's Art JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 HOMER 2 HESIOD 3 PINDAR 4 EURIPIDES 5 PALAEPHATUS 6 APOLLODORUS 7 DIODORUS SICULUS 8 OVID 9 LUCAN 10 LUCIAN 11 PAUSANIAS 12 ACHILLES TATIUS 13 FULGENTIUS 14 JOHN MALALAS 15 DANTE ALIGHIERI 16 PETRARCH 17 COLUCCIO SALUTATI 18 CHRISTINE DE PIZAN 19 LEONE EBREO 20 GIORGIO VASARI 21 NATALE CONTI 22 VINCENZO CARTARI 23 JOHN HARINGTON 24 FRANCIS BACON 25 WILLIAM DRUMMOND 26 JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE 27 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 28 KARL MARX 29 DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI 30 FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 31 DAVID STARR JORDAN 32 LOUISE BOGAN 33 SIGMUND FREUD 34 SÁNDOR FERENCZI 35 COUNTEE CULLEN 36 WALTER BENJAMIN 37 PHILIP WYLIE 38 JEAN-PAUL SARTRE 39 JAMES MERRILL 40 ERICH NEUMANN 41 SYLVIA PLATH 42 ROGER CAILLOIS 43 DARYL HINE 44 MAY SARTON 45 JOHN FRECCERO 46 JO SPRINGER 47 HAZEL BARNES 48 JACQUES DERRIDA 49 ROLAND BARTHES 50 HÉLÈNE CIXOUS 51 COLLEEN J. MCELROY 52 LOUIS MARIN 53 ANN STANFORD 54 STEPHEN HEATH 55 SARAH KOFMAN 56 GANANATH OBEYESEKERE 57 NEIL HERTZ 58 TOBIN SIEBERS 59 TERESA DE LAURETIS 60 PATRICIA KLINDIENST JOPLIN 61 CRAIG OWENS 62 JEAN-PIERRE VERNANT 63 NANCY J. VICKERS 64 EMILY ERWIN CULPEPPER 65 AMY CLAMPITT 66 MARJORIE GARBER 67 RITA DOVE 68 BARBARA FRISCHMUTH 69 SANDER GILMAN 70 FRANÇOISE FRONTISI-DUCROUX 71 DIANA FUSS AND JOEL SANDERS 72 LIZBETH GOODMAN 73 GIANNI VERSACE
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Taylor & Francis Medieval Hagiography An Anthology Garland Library of Medieval Literature
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Theory of Criticsm From Plato to the Present A Reader
Book SynopsisThis book is divided into five parts and covers: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology. Each part contains several thematic sections in which extracts from different writers and periods are juxtaposed. The study of literary theory has tended to concentrate on very recent developments. This volume, however, establishes both a sense of the continuities from Plato to the present day as well as the discontinuities. These are presented through comparisons and contrasts across the entire field of critical history.Trade Review "If you seek a reader for the history of ideas...then Professor Selden's book is perfect." Modern Language Review "...an impressive feat of scholarship." Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 - Representation 1. Imaginative Representation 2. Mimesis and Realism 3. Nature and Truth 4. Language and Representation Part II - Subjectivity 1. Wit Judgement, Fancy and Imagination 2. Genius, Nature vs Art 3. Emotive Theories 4 Subjective criticism and the reader's reponse 5. Unconscious Processes Part III - Form, System and Structure 1. The Aesthetic Dimension 2. Unity and Literariness 3. Ambiguity and Polysemy 4. Impersonality and the 'death' of the author 5. Rhetoric - Style and point of view 6. Structuree and system 7. Structure and Indeterminacy Part IV - History and Society 1. Tradition and Intertextuality 2. History 3. Literature and 'life' 4. Class and Gender Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Victorian Women Poets
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Taylor & Francis The Grail
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Taylor & Francis PercevalParzival A Casebook 6 Arthurian Characters and Themes
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Taylor & Francis Contemporary Legend A Reader 4 New Perspectives in Folklore
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Taylor & Francis Medieval Scholarship Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline Religion and Art Philosophy and the Arts Garland Library of Medieval Literature
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Taylor & Francis Othello Critical Essays 28 Shakespeare Criticism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reading James Joyce
Book SynopsisReading James Joyce is a ready-at-hand compendium and all-encompassing interpretive guide designed for teachers and students approaching Joyce's writings for the first time, guiding readers to better understand Joyce's works and the background from which they emerged. Meticulously organized, this text situates readers within the world of Joyce including biographical exploration, discussion of Joyce's innovations and prominent works such as Dubliners, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake, surveys of significant critical approaches to Joyce's writings, and examples of alternative readings and contemporary responses. Each chapter will provide interpretive approaches to contemporary literary theories and key issues, including end-of-chapter strategies and extended readings for further engagement. This book also includes shorter assessments of Joyce's lesser-known workscritical writings, drama, poetry, letters, epiphanies, and personal recollectionsto contextualizTable of ContentsIntroduction1 Biography2 Approaching Dubliners3 Approaching A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man4 Approaching Ulysses5 Approaching Finnegans Wake6 Approaching the Minor WorksAppendices—Debunking popular myths about Joyce’s writingsI. The Uncle Charles PrincipleII. The love life of Bloom and Molly III. The Dream of Finnegans WakeIV. Definitions of Modernism and PostmodernismV. Epiphanies, Epicleti, and EpicletsVI. Satiric and Serious Joyce: "The Holy Office," "Gas from a Burner," and "A Curious History"VII. Currency Terms with Selected Examples from Joyce’s Literary WorksChronologyBibliographyMiscellaneous: Joyce Foundations and Journals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ibsen
Book SynopsisThis book, first published in 1950, could best be described as a combination of literary, psychological and social criticism. Considerable space is allotted to the personal inner drama of Ibsen, which provides not only a clue to his art but shows how most of his themes inevitably grew out of the other. The author also explores some of those factors which make Ibsen of interest to the generation that were facing the social and spiritual havoc of the post-war period. This book will be of interest to students of literature and theatre. Table of Contents1. Introductory 2. Some Aspects of Ibsen’s Art 3. A Romantic Rebel 4. A Moral Superman 5. The ‘Gyntish Self’ 6. The Paradox of Will 7. Ibsen the Realist 8. ‘Mankind has Failed’ 9. The Turning-Point 10. The ‘Insecurity of Conscience’ 11. The Law of Adjustment 12. The Master-Builder’s Downfall 13. Empty Heights 14. The ‘Danse Macabre’; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Word Unheard
Book SynopsisEliot's Four Quartets is arguably the finest long poem in modern English literature. It is also one that presents considerable problems of interpretation. In Word Unheard, first published in 1969, Blamires aims to unravel some of these problems by guiding the reader line by line through the poem, blending paraphrase with commentary. Blamires pays particular attention to the philosophical and theological dimensions of the poem and to its multifarious personal, historical and literary allusions. This title will be of interests to students of literature. Table of ContentsIntroductory Note; Burnt Norton; East Coker; The Dry Salvages; Little Gidding; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; Index
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisPopular commercial fiction emerged in the nineteenth century, with serialised novels and sensational penny dreadfuls. Today it remains a multi-million dollar industry giving pleasure to many, but it is also a field of growing interest for scholars and students of literature. This Companion covers the major developments in the history of popular fiction, with specially commissioned chapters on pulp fiction, bestsellers, and comics and graphic narratives. The volume also examines the public and personal everyday contexts within which popular texts are read, highlighting the ways in which such narratives have circulated across a variety of constantly changing media, including theatre, television, cinema and new computer-based digital forms. Case studies from key genres - crime fiction, romance and Gothic horror - as well as a full chronology and guide to further reading make this collection indispensable to all those interested in this complex and vibrant cultural field.Trade Review'It is a subject which stretches back (and forward) in time, across cultures, media, readers or consumers and is constantly shifting, especially now in the light of rapidly developing technology. This is a thorough survey of the current state of academic study of this area … for academics and students it is an invaluable source and guide to a subject, or subjects, of wide social, cultural and academic application.' Stuart James, Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction David Glover and Scott McCracken; 1. Publishing, history, genre David Glover; 2. Fiction, theatre, and early cinema Nicholas Daly; 3. Television and serial fictions John Caughie; 4. The public sphere, popular culture and the true meaning of the Zombie Apocalypse Roger Luckhurst; 5. The reader of popular fiction Nicola Humble; 6. Reading time: popular fiction and the everyday Scott McCracken; 7. Gender and sexuality in popular fiction Kaye Mitchell; 8. Pulp sensations Erin A. Smith; 9. Bestselling fiction: machinery, economy, excess Fred Botting; 10. Comic books and graphic novels Hilary Chute and Marianne Dekoven; 11. Popular fictions in the digital age Brenda Silver; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of French Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime
Book SynopsisAn accessible, wide-ranging introduction to one of the most important aspects of Romantic cultural history, aimed at scholars and students alike. This is the only collection of its kind to focus exclusively on the Romantic sublime, its sources, and its afterlives, including state-of-the-art perspectives in digital and environmental humanities.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The romantic sublime, then and now Cian Duffy; Part I. The Sublime Before Romanticism: 1. The classical sublime Patrick Glauthier; 2. The natural sublime in the seventeenth century Dawn Hollis; 3. The sublime in eighteenth-century English, Irish and Scottish philosophy Cian Duffy; 4. The Nordic sublime Lis Møller; Part II. Romantic Sublimes: 5. German romanticism and the sublime Christoph Bode; 6. The romantic sublime and Kant's critical philosophy Timothy M. Costelloe; 7. Alpine sublimes Patrick Vincent; 8. Urban sublimes Matthew Sangster; 9. Highlands, lakes, wales Simon Bainbridge; 10. Science and the sublime Richard C. Sha; 11. Musical sublimes Miranda Stanyon; 12. The arctic sublime Robert W. Rix; 13. The body and the sublime Norbert Lennartz; 14. The sublime in romantic painting Nina Amstutz; 15. From the sublime to the ridiculous Andrew McInnes; 16. The sublime in American romanticism Cassandra Falke; Part III. Legacies: 17. The Victorian chthonic sublime Tatjana Jukić; 18. Mapping the nineteenth-century sublime Joanna E. Taylor, Christopher Donaldson and Ian N. Gregory; 19. The romantic sublime and environmental Crisis Tess Somervell.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law
Book SynopsisDespite an unprecedented level of interest in the interaction between law and literature over the past two decades, readers have had no accessible introduction to this rich engagement in medieval and early Tudor England. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature addresses this need by combining an authoritative guide through the bewildering maze of medieval law with concise examples illustrating how the law infiltrated literary texts during this period. Foundational chapters written by leading specialists in legal history prepare readers to be guided by noted literary scholars through unexpected conversations with the law found in numerous medieval texts, including major works by Chaucer, Langland, Gower, and Malory. Part I contains detailed introductions to legal concepts, practices and institutions in medieval England, and Part II covers medieval texts and authors whose verse and prose can be understood as engaging with the law.Trade Review'The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature provides a useful introduction to the intersection of law and literature from the Middle Ages … this collection provides a rewarding read, and it will be of use to a broad array of literary scholars in later periods, as well as to those researching the origins of so many political and theological controversies in Anglo-American culture, many of which are shown to have their roots in medieval legal contexts.' Brian C. Lockey, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of ContentsPart I. Legal Contexts: 1. English law before the conquest Stefan Jurasinski; 2. Languages and law in late medieval England: English, French and Latin Gwilym Dodd; 3. Canon and civil law Peter D. Clarke; 4. Custom and common law Paul Raffield; 5. Magna Carta and statutory law Anthony Musson; 6. Treatises, tracts, and compilations Don C. Skemer; Part II. Literary Texts: 7. Treason Neil Cartlidge; 8. Complaint literature Wendy Scase; 9. Political literature and political law Andy Galloway; 10. William Langland Emily Steiner; 11. Geoffrey Chaucer Candace Barrington; 12. John Gower R. F. Yeager; 13. Lollards and religious writings Fiona Somerset; 14. Lancastrian literature Sebastian Sobecki; 15. Middle English romance and Malory's Le Morte Darthur Corinne Saunders; 16. Marriage and the legal culture of witnessing Emma Lipton.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Dantes Commedia
Book SynopsisThis newly commissioned volume presents a focused overview of Dante''s masterpiece, the Commedia, offering readers of today wide-ranging insights into the poem and its core features. Leading scholars discuss matters of structure, narrative, language and style, characterization, doctrine, and politics, in chapters that make their own contributions to Dante criticism by raising problems and questions that call for renewed attention, while investigating contextual concerns as well as the current state of criticism about the poem. The Commedia is also placed in a variety of cultural and historical contexts through accounts of the poem''s transmission and reception that explore both its contemporary influence and its continuing legacy today. With its accessible approach, its unstinting focus on the poem and its attention to matters that have not always received adequate critical assessment, this volume will be of value to all students and scholars of Dante''s great poem.Table of ContentsIntroduction Zygmunt G. Barański and Simon Gilson; 1. Narrative structure Lino Pertile; 2. Dante Alighieri, Dante-poet, Dante-character Giuseppe Ledda; 3. Characterization Laurence E. Hooper; 4. Moral structure George Corbett; 5. Title, genre, metaliterary aspects Theodore J. Cachey, Jr; 6. Language and style Mirko Tavoni; 7. Allegories of the corpus James C. Kriesel; 8. Classical culture Simone Marchesi; 9. Vernacular literature and culture Tristan Kay; 10. Religious culture Paola Nasti; 11. Doctrine Simon Gilson; 12. Politics Claire E. Honess; 13. Genesis, dating, and Dante's 'other works' Zygmunt G. Barański; 14. Transmission history Prue Shaw; 15. Early reception until 1481 Anna Pegoretti; 16. Later reception from 1481 to the present Fabio Camilletti.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood
Book SynopsisOffering a comprehensive overview of Atwood's ever-changing work, this second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood is designed for students, scholars and curious readers alike, placing emphasis on Atwood's recent dystopias including The Testaments, and the television adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale.Trade Review'Recommended.' T. Ware, Choice Connect'This book is a worthy addition to the series. Its focus on topics as diverse as Canadian identity, dystopias, power, poetry and poetics, environmentalism, humour, feminism, and digital technology ensure that there is something for all Atwood fans, and for Canadian scholars in general.' Jane Ekstam, British Journal of Canadian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Coral Ann Howells; 1. Margaret Atwood in her Canadian context David Staines; 2. Margaret Atwood on questions of power Pilar Somacarrera; 3. Home and nation in Margaret Atwood's later fiction Eleonora Rao; 4. Margaret Atwood's female bodies Sarah A. Appleton; 5. Margaret Atwood and environmentalism J. Brooks Bouson; 6. Margaret Atwood and history Gina Wisker; 7. Margaret Atwood's revisions of classic texts Fiona Tolan; 8. Margaret Atwood's humor Marta Dvořák; 9. Margaret Atwood's poetry and poetics Branko Gorjup; 10. Margaret Atwood's later short fiction Reingard M. Nischik; 11. Margaret Atwood's recent dystopias Coral Ann Howells; 12. The Hulu and MGM television adaptations of The Handmaid's Tale Eva-Marie Kröller.
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Cambridge University Press Dostoevsky in Context
Book SynopsisThis collection of thirty-five lively and accessible essays offers a comprehensive account of the life and work of Fyodor Dostoevsky (182181), set within social, political, cultural and literary contexts.Table of ContentsChronology; 1. Introduction: the many worlds of Dostoevsky Olga Maiorova and Deborah A. Martinsen; Part I. Social, Historical, and Cultural Contexts: Section 1. Changing Political, Economic, and Social Landscape: 2. The great reforms and the new courts Richard Wortman; 3. The abolition of serfdom Nathaniel Knight; 4. Punishment and crime Anna Schur; 5. Socialism, utopia, and myth James P. Scanlan; 6. Nihilism and terrorism Derek Offord; 7. The 'woman question', women's work, women's options Barbara Engel; 8. The economy and the print market Jonathan Paine; Section 2. Political, Social, and Cultural Institutions: 9. Russian monarchy and the people Richard Wortman; 10. Empire Olga Maiorova; 11. Service ranks Irina Reyfman; 12. Education Inessa Medzhibovskaya; 13. Science, technology, and medicine Michael D. Gordin; 14. Jews, race, and biology Harriet Murav; 15. Suicide Susan Morrissey; 16. Children Robin Feuer Miller; 17. Gambling Richard J. Rosenthal; Section 3. Space and Place: 18. Symbolic geography Anne Lounsbery; 19. St Petersburg Robert Belknap; 20. The Crystal Palace Sarah J. Young; Section 4. Religion and Modernity: 21. Orthodox spirituality Nel Grillaert; 22. Religious dissent Irina Paert; 23. Roman Catholicism Mikhail Dolbilov; 24. Islam Robert Geraci; Part II. Literature, Journalism, and Languages: 25. Modern print culture Konstantine Klioutchkine; 26. Realism Liza Knapp; 27. Dostoevsky: translator and translated Carol Apollonio; 28. Travel and travel writing Susan Layton; 29. Folklore Linda Ivanits; 30. Foreign languages Karin Beck; 31. Theater Maude Meisel; 32. Dostoevsky's journalism and fiction Ellen Chances; 33. Dostoevsky's journalism in the 1860s Sarah Hudspith; 34. Dostoevsky's journalism in the 1870s Kate Holland; 35. Censorship Irene Zohrab; Glossary; Further reading.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen EightyFour
George Orwell''s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) remains a book of the moment. This Companion builds on successive waves of generational inheritance and debate in the novel''s reception by asking new questions about how and why Nineteen Eighty-Four was written, what it means, and why it matters. Chapters on a selection of the novel''s interpretative contexts, the literary histories from which it is inseparable, the urgent questions it raises, and the impact it has had on other kinds of media, ranging from radio to video games, open up the conversation in an expansive way. Established concerns (e.g. Orwell''s attitude to the working class, his anxieties about the socio-political compartmentalization of the post-war world) are presented alongside newer ones (e.g. his views on evil, and the influence of Nineteen Eighty-Four on comics). Individual essays help us see in new ways how Orwell''s most famous work continues to be a novel for our times.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Womens
Book SynopsisThe Victorian period has a strong tradition of poetry written by women. In this Companion, leading scholars deliver accessible and cutting-edge essays that situate Victorian women''s poetry in its relation to print culture, diverse identities, and aesthetic and cultural issues. The book is inclusive in method, demonstrating, for example, the benefits of both distant and close reading approaches, and featuring major figures like Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti and over one hundred poets altogether. Thematically arranged, the chapters deliver studies on a comprehensive array of subjects that address women''s poetry in its manifold forms and investigate its global context. Essays shed light on children''s poetry, domestic relations, sexualities, and stylistic artifice and conclude by looking at how women poets placed their published poems and how we can ''place'' Victorian women poets today.Trade Review'The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry is an invigorating and accessible volume which is highly attuned to the pressures on the discipline in the wake of digitisation.' Jane Ford, Women's Writing'All of the chapters are deeply informed and scholarly, but also readable and accessible.' Martin Dubois, Tennyson Research BulletinTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Chronology of publications and events, compiled by Sofia Prado Huggins; 1. Introduction Linda K. Hughes; Part I. Form and the Senses: 2. Genres Monique R. Morgan; 3. Prosody Meredith Martin; 4. Haunted by voice Elizabeth Helsinger; 5. Floating worlds: wood engraving and women's poetry Lorraine Janzen Kooistra; 6. Embodiment and touch Jason R. Rudy; Part II. Women's Poetry in the World: 7. Publishing and reception Alexis Easley; 8. Transatlanticism, transnationality, and cosmopolitanism Alison Chapman; 9. Dialect, region, class, work Kirstie Blair; 10. Politics, protest, interventions: beyond a poetess tradition Marjorie Stone; 11. Religion and spirituality Charles Laporte; Part III. Nurturance and Contested Naturalness: 12. Children's poetry Laurie Langbauer and Beverly Taylor; 13. Marriage, motherhood, and domesticity Emily Harrington; 14. Sexuality Jill Ehnenn; 15. Poets of style: poetries of asceticism and excess Ana Parejo Vadillo; Part IV. Reading Victorian Women's Poetry: 16. Distant reading and Victorian women's poetry Natalie M. Houston; Afterword. Nineteenth-century women's poetry in the field of vision Isobel Armstrong; Further reading; Appendix. Poets' biographies.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot
Book SynopsisThis second editionof The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot includes several new chapters, providing an essential introductionto all aspects of Eliot''slife and writing. Accessible essays by some of the most distinguished scholars of Victorian literature provide lucid and original insights into the work of one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century, author most famously of Middlemarch, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Daniel Deronda. From an introduction that traces her originality as a realist novelist, the book moves on toextensive considerations of each of Eliot''s novels, her life and her publishing history. Chapters address the problems of money, philosophy, religion, politics, gender and science, as they are developedinher novels. With its supplementary materials, including a chronology and an extensive section of suggested readings, this Companion is an invaluable tool for scholars and students alike.Table of Contents1. Introduction – George Eliot and the art of realism Nancy Henry and George Levine; 2. A woman of many names Rosemarie Bodenheimer; 3. Marian Evans's journalism Fionnuala Dillane; 4. George Eliot and her publishers Donald Gray; 5. The early novels Josephine McDonagh; 6. The later novels Alexander Welsh; 7. George Eliot and money Dermot Coleman; 8. George Eliot and gender Kate Flint; 9. George Eliot and politics Nancy Henry; 10. George Eliot and science Amy M. King; 11. George Eliot and religion Barry V. Qualls; 12. George Eliot and philosophy Suzy Anger; 13. George Eliot's reputation Margaret Harris; Guide to further reading Allison Clymer.
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