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Book SynopsisLord Peter Wimsey-amateur detective, man of fashion, talented musician, and wealthy intellectual-is known to legions of readers. His enduring presence and popularity is a tribute to his creator, Dorothy L. Sayers, who brought Lord Peter to life during “the long week-end” between the First and Second World Wars, as British aristocracy began to change, making way for a modern world.In Conundrums for the Long Week-End, Robert McGregor and Ethan Lewis explore how Sayers used her fictional hero to comment on, and come to terms with, the social upheaval of the time: world wars, the crumbling of the privileged aristocracy, the rise of democracy, and the expanding struggle of women for equality.

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Book SynopsisIlluminating the central struggle in The Lord of the Rings to deepen understanding of the whole of Tolkien's legendariumIn this remarkable work of close reading and analysis, Thomas P. Hillman gets to the heart of the tension between pity and the desire for power in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. As the book traces the entangled story of the One Ring and its effects, we come to understand Tolkien's central paradox: while pity is necessary for destroying the Ring, it cannot save the Ring-bearer from the Ring's lies and corruption.In composing The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien explored the power of the Ring and the seeming powerlessness of pity. All the themes his mythology had come to encompass—death and immortality, fate and free will, divine justice and the problem of evil, power and war—took on a new dimension in the journey of Frodo Baggins. Hillman's attention to specific etymologies and patterns of words used in the text, complemented by his judicious use of Tolkien's letters, earlier drafts of the novels, and Tolkien's essays, leads to illuminating and original insights. Instead of turning his interpretation to allegory or apologetics, Hillman demonstrates how the story works metaphorically, allowing Tolkien to embrace both Catholic views and pagan mythology.With this fresh understanding of familiar material, Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring will ignite new discussions and deeper appreciation among Tolkien readers and scholars alike.Trade Review"Tom Hillman brings compassion—and a wealth of knowledge—to this analysis of Tolkien's use of pity in The Lord of the Rings. Scholars, students, and fans will learn from it." —Verlyn Flieger, author of Splintered Light and A Question of Time "Thomas Hillman gives the finest sustained close reading that The Lord of the Rings has ever received. Hillman examines how pity, as a concept and sentiment, manifests itself in the actions of Frodo and others as they struggle with the uncanny, malevolent lure of the One Ring." —Nicholas Birns, author of The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien "Hillman's study of Tolkien is both timely and timeless. Timely, because events in our world seem to be mirroring what Tolkien saw around him as he wrote and revised his masterpiece. Timeless, because Hillman's insights, despite being entirely original, are the kinds of observations that make you think 'Of course! How did I not think of that?' and forever change your understanding of a work you thought you knew."—Michael D. C. Drout, Wheaton College, Massachusetts

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Book SynopsisCelebrate the King of Horror’s 75th birthday with Stephen King, which explores the connections between Stephen King’s life and his body of work.Trade Review"Holy smokes, what an awesome book…It’s a must read for any fan." * Being Fictional *"...noted King chronicler Bev Vincent’s spent years delving into the undoubtedly haunted halls of King’s archives, unearthing letters, notes, outlines and photos that shed light on the novelist’s inspirations and frustrations. The resulting encyclopedic account of the novelist’s life and career, with pitstops in such terrifying towns as Castle Rock and Derry, is a (trick or) treat for all of us Constant Readers." -- Marcus Errico * Yahoo! *"Frankly, it’s a beautiful book, designed with character and creepiness that enhance the experience without becoming a gimmick or nuisance to reading." * Horror Obsessive *"Vincent consistently displays that same knack for expertly tucked-away nuggets amidst a more conventional narrative paved on book publications and career milestones. Vincent writes about King in a direct and simple style that allows King, often quoted verbatim, to rise to the fore. The volume, ‘‘published on the occasion of Stephen King’s seventy-fifth birthday,’’ transcends the simple marketing tool or hagiographic indulgence it might have been by combining studious knowledge with accessibility and insight." -- Alvaro Zinos-Amaro * Locus Mag *"Less than a dozen pages in and I knew this was everything I had hoped for. Bev Vincent has found a way to celebrate King’s complete body of work in a way that feels both academic and casual." * Derry Public Radio - Constant Readers *"This is a great reference book that the casual reader of King’s books will learn a lot from and in which, even we King nerds that read everything he has written still find new things." * Lilja's Library *"The almost conversational tone of the book is engaging and accessible, with extensive footnotes, credits, and appendices to extend readers’ experience with the topic." * Library Journal *"Bev Vincent did an amazing job putting this book together. It has everything you need to know about Stephen King. If you are about to delve into Stephen King, I recommend you start with Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work Life, and Influences by Bev Vincent." * Sandbox World *"...takes fans on an in-depth look at exactly what it is that makes the King of Horror tick. Vincent knows his material and delivers the sort of depth and detail that many ‘behind the scenes’ books promise, but rarely deliver." * FilmJuice *"When it comes to expounding on King’s work, Vincent knows his stuff, through and through. Whether writing about King’s radio station or time with the Rock-Bottom Remainders, Vincent is curious in his approach and thorough in his results." -- Michael Berry * Portland Press Herald *"It’s a blast to open the book at random and dive in, and Vincent ensures every King text receives its just due." * TheFilmStage.com *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 THE FUTURE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (1950–1969) INTERLUDE: THE POETRY OF STEPHEN KING CHAPTER 2 THE DOUBLEDAY YEARS (1970s) INTERLUDE: STEPHEN KING AS RICHARD BACHMAN INTERLUDE: WELCOME TO CASTLE ROCK CHAPTER 3 MIDAS TOUCH (1980s) INTERLUDE: THE DARK TOWER INTERLUDE: UNSEEN KING INTERLUDE: WELCOME TO DERRY CHAPTER 4 EXPERIMENTATION AND CHANGE (1990s) INTERLUDE: THE ACCIDENT CONTENTS CHAPTER 5 AFTER THE ACCIDENT (2000s) INTERLUDE: THE STEPHEN KING UNIVERSE CHAPTER 5 KING OF CRIME (2010 AND BEYOND) CONCLUSION THE TEST OF TIME SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDIX I BOOKS APPENDIX II SHORT STORIES AND NOVELLAS APPENDIX III ADAPTATIONS ENDNOTES IMAGE CREDITS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Book SynopsisWho is Holmes? The world's most famous detective? A drug addict with a heart as cold as ice? A millstone around the neck of his creator? He's all of these things and much, much more. Sherlock Holmes was the brainchild of Portsmouth GP Arthur Conan Doyle. A writer of historical romantic fiction, Doyle became unhappy that the detective's enormous success eclipsed his more serious offerings. But after attempting to wipe him out at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, Doyle was faced with a vociferous backlash from the general public and eventually he had no choice but to bring his sleuth back from the grave to face more puzzling mysteries. While not strictly speaking 'canonical', Holmes' deerstalker, curved pipe and cries of 'Elementary, my dear Watson!' have been immortalised in countless stage, film, television and radio productions. An iconic fictional creation, inseparable from his partner-in-crime Dr John Watson, Sherlock Holmes has charmed and fascinated millions of people around the world since his first appearance over a century ago. He is one of English literature's finest creations.Trade ReviewMark Campbell on Conan Doyle's Dartmoor * Independent on Saturday *Mark Campbell on Sherlock Holmes' London Haunts * Independent on Saturday *

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Book SynopsisDevils, witches and evil - the insubstantial but terrifying world of the supernatural as it was seen by Robert Burns and his contemporaries is examined in this new book, brought out for the 250th anniversary of the poet's birth. Several of Burns' poems dealt with the supernatural, the most famous of which, "Tam o Shanter", is examined in detail. It is from this poem that the book's title comes: 'And roars out, "Weel done, Cutty-sark!" And in an instant all was dark And scarcely had he Maggie rallied When out the hellish legion sallied.' In contrast with the 'other world' was the everyday lives of the country people and the nature of the material world in which they lived; the book also examines this and the changes that were taking place in Burns' time.Trade Review'The "hellish legion" referred to in the title of this informative and friendly book, is that body of witches, ghosts, satanic sprites and anything else devilish that might have informed the lives of Robert Burns and his fellow Ayrshire men and women, and further, his own epic poem, Tam o' Shanter. ... It's possible, then, to read Tam o' Shanter also as a nostalgic piece, a recording of a way of looking at the world that was passing by.' The Herald '... does an excellent job in introducing the man and the places in which he lived.' The Folklore SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Life of Robert Burns The People of Lowland Scotland The Deil, Death and Ghosts Witches, Spirits and otehr Curious Things Eveil Men, Bad Weather and the Awful Future Medicines The Year Tam o' Shanter Select Bibliography Further Reading and Exploring Index

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Book SynopsisJohn Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a literary landmark. His reworking of Biblical tales of the loss of Eden constitutes not only a gripping literary work, but a significant musing on fundamental human concerns ranging from freedom and fate to conscience and consciousness.Designed for students new to Milton's complex, lengthy work, this sourcebook:* outlines the often unfamiliar contexts of seventeenth-century England which are so crucial to Paradise Lost* completes the contextual study with a chronology and reprinted documents from the period* examines and reprints a broad range of responses to the poem, from early reactions to recent criticism* reprints the most frequently studied passages of the poem, along with extensive commentary and annotation of unfamiliar or significant terms used in Milton's work* provides cross-references between the textual, contextual and critical sections of the sourcebook, to show how all the materials can be called upon in an individual reader's encounter with the text* suggests further reading for those facing the huge array of critical work on the poem.With an emphasis on enjoying as well as understanding what can be a somewhat daunting work, this sourcebook will be a welcome resource for anyone new to Paradise Lost.

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Book SynopsisAsks how the Victorians understood the ethical, epistemological, and biological implications of social belonging and participation. Specifically, Tina Choi considers the ways nineteenth-century journalists, novelists, medical writers, and social reformers took advantage of spatial frames-of-reference in a social landscape transforming due to intense urbanization and expansion.Trade Review“Choi’s work makes a unique and original point: complex, multi-plot Victorian narratives and notions of the social order fed and were fed by one another. . . . This book will be an important one for scholars of Victorian literature and culture.”—Laura Otis, Emory University“In this astute interdisciplinary study, Tina Choi examines new understandings of material connections between bodies—miasmas, microbes, body parts, waste—across geographical distances and social classes in the Victorian period. Anonymous Connections moves between literary and scientific texts to forcefully demonstrate that transformed conceptions of bodily intimacies also transformed conceptions of social relations. Surprisingly, such connections were not necessarily conceived of as threatening, but also inspired positive ideas of social cohesion. One of the great virtues of Choi’s study is that it persuasively shows that the scientific and medical theories she discusses have important implications for plot and narrative form in the nineteenth-century novel.”—Suzy Anger, University of British Columbia

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Book SynopsisThis ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the multi-ethnic, multi-media culture of the present day. In a set of original essays by renowned scholars from all over the world, the volume extends important critical debates and frames new ones. Offering new views of American classics, it also breaks new ground to show the role of popular genres - such as science fiction and mystery novels - in the creation of the literary tradition. One of the original features of this book is the dialogue between the essays, highlighting cross-currents between authors and their works as well as across historical periods. While offering a narrative of the development of the genre, the History reflects the multiple methodologies that have informed readings of the American novel and will change the way scholars and readers think about American literary history.Trade Review'… an innovative approach that is bound to prove as stimulating as the best of American fiction already does.' Contemporary ReviewTable of ContentsGeneral introduction; Part I. Inventing the American Novel: Introduction; 1. Transatlantic currents and the invention of the American novel; 2. Susanna Rowson, Hannah Webster Foster, and the seduction novel in the early US; 3. Charles Brockden Brown and the novels of the early Republic; 4. The novel in the antebellum book market; 5. American land, American landscape, American novels; 6. Cooper and the idea of the Indian; 7. The nineteenth-century historical novel; 8. Hawthorne and the aesthetics of American romance; 9. Melville and the novel of the sea; 10. Religion and the nineteenth-century American novel; 11. Manhood in the early American novel; 12. Sentimentalism; 13. Supernatural novels; 14. Imagining the South; 15. Stowe, race and the antebellum American novel; 16. The early African American novel; Part II. Realism, Protest, Accommodation: Introduction; 17. Realism and radicalism: the school of Howells; 18. James, pragmatism, and the realist ideal; 19. Theories of the American novel in the age of realism; 20. The novel in postbellum print culture; 21. Twain, class, and the Gilded Age; 22. Dreiser and the city; 23. Novels of civic protest; 24. Novels of American business, industry, and consumerism; 25. New Americans and the immigrant novel; 26. Cather and the regional imagination; 27. Wharton, marriage, and the new woman; 28. The postbellum racial novel; 29. The African American novel after Reconstruction; 30. Literary Darwinism and the rise of naturalism; 31. Imagining the frontier; 32. Imperialism, orientalism, and Empire; 33. The Hemispheric novel in the post-Revolutionary era; 34. The woman's novel beyond sentimentalism; 35. Dime novels and the rise of mass market genres; 36. Readers and reading groups; Part III. Modernism and Beyond: Introduction; 37. Hemingway, Stein, and American modernisms; 38. The Great Gatsby and the 1920s; 39. Philosophy and the American novel; 40. Steinbeck and the proletarian novel; 41. The novel, mass culture, mass media; 42. Wright, Hurston, and the direction of the African American novel; 43. Ellison and Baldwin: aesthetics, activism, and the social order; 44. Religion and the twentieth-century American novel; 45. Faulkner and the Southern novel; 46. Law and the American novel; 47. Twentieth-century publishing and the rise of the paperback; 48. The novel of crime, mystery, and suspense; 49. US novels and US wars; 50. Science fiction; 51. Female genre fiction in the twentieth century; 52. Children's novels; 53. The American novel and the rise of the suburbs; 54. The Jewish great American novel; 55. The Beats and the 1960s; 56. Literary feminisms; 57. Reimagining genders and sexualities; Part IV. Contemporary Formations: Introduction; 58. Postmodern novels; 59. The nonfiction novel; 60. Disability and the American novel; 61. Model minorities and the minority model – the neoliberal novel; 62. The American Borderlands novel; 63. The rise of the Asian American novel; 64. Toni Morrison and the post-Civil Rights African American novel; 65. Hemispheric American novels; 66. The worlding of the American novel; 67. The Native American tradition; 68. Eco-novels; 69. Graphic novels; 70. Twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary communities; 71. A history of the future of narrative; A selected bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisWhile humans have used their hands to engage in combat since the dawn of man, boxing originated in Ancient Greece as an Olympic event. It is one of the most popular, controversial and misunderstood sports in the world. For its advocates, it is a heroic expression of unfettered individualism. For its critics, it is a depraved and ruthless physical and commercial exploitation of mostly poor young men. This Companion offers engaging and informative essays about the social impact and historical importance of the sport of boxing. It includes a comprehensive chronology of the sport, listing all the important events and personalities. Essays examine topics such as women in boxing, boxing and the rise of television, boxing in Africa, boxing and literature, and boxing and Hollywood films. A unique book for scholars and fans alike, this Companion explores the sport from its inception in Ancient Greece to the death of its most celebrated figure, Muhammad Ali.Table of Contents1. Boxing in the ancient world Byron J. Nakamura; 2. The bare-knuckle era Elliott J. Gorn; 3. Jem Mace and the making of modern boxing Adam Chill; 4. Race and boxing in the nineteenth century Louis Moore; 5. Joe Gans and his contemporaries: the contest for supremacy in the Queensberry realm Colleen Aycock; 6. Dempsey-Tunney, Tunney-Greb, and the 1920s Carlo Rotella; 7. Prime time and crime time: boxing in the 1950s Troy Rondinone; 8. The Africans: boxing and Africa Adeyinka Makinde; 9. A century of fighting Latinos: from the margins to the mainstream Benita Heiskanen; 10. Women's boxing: bout time Cathy van Ingen; 11. Jews in twentieth-century boxing Steven A. Riess; 12. A surprising dearth of top English-born Jewish fighters in the bare-knuckle era Tony Gee; 13. Joe Louis: 'you should have seen him then' Randy Roberts; 14. The furious beauty of Sugar Ray Wil Haygood; 15. Echoes from the jungle: Muhammad Ali in the early 70s Lewis Erenberg; 16. The unusable champions: Sonny Liston (1962–64) and Larry Holmes (1978–85) Michael Ezra; 17. Emile Griffith: an underrated champion Mark Scott; 18. Pierce Egan, boxing, and British nationalism Adam Chill; 19. Jose Torres: the boxer as writer Adeyinka Makinde; 20. 'Well, what was it really like?' George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, and the heavyweights Kasia Boddy; 21. Jack London and the great white hopes of boxing literature Scott D. Emmer; 22. Body and soul of the screen boxer Leger Grindon; 23. Black Slaver: Jack Johnson and the Mann Act Rebecca Wanzo; 24. Yesternow: Jack Johnson, documentary film, and the politics of jazz Benjamin Cawthra; 25. Opera for boxers Rosalind Early; 26. The voice of boxing: a brief history of American broadcasting ringside Colleen Aycock; 27. Ralph Wiley's surprising serenity Shelley Fisher Fishkin; 28. Muhammad Ali, king of the inauthentic Gerald Early.

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Book SynopsisHow were the Crusades, and the crusaders, narrated, described, and romanticised by the various communities that experienced or remembered them?This Companion provides a critical overview of the diverse and multilingual literary output connected with crusading over the last millennium, from the first writings which sought to understand and report on what was happening, to contemporary medievalism, in which crusading is a potent image of holy war andjihad. The chapters show the enduring legacy of the crusaders'' imagery, from thechansons de gesteto Walter Scott, from Charlemagne to Orlando Bloom. Whilst the crusaders'' hold on Jerusalem was relatively short-lived, thedesirefor Jerusalem has had a long afterlife in many cultural contexts and media.Trade Review'The quality and variety of the contributors' scholarship make it an important resource for instructors and students (preferably graduate), both as a critical source and as an incitement to further study.' Thomas H. Crofts, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching'… significantly contributes to scholarship on crusading literature and its intersections with medieval studies. … I will … be ordering it for the library and recommending it to my students.' Hülya Taflı Düzgün, Journal of the Medieval MediterraneanTable of ContentsPart I. Genres: 1. Chronicles Elizabeth Lapina; 2. Chansons de geste Marianne Ailes; 3. The troubadours and their lyrics Linda Paterson; Part II. Contexts and Communities: 4. Rome, Byzantium, and the Idea of Holy War Connor Wilson; 5. Women's writing and patronage Helen Nicholson; 6. Reading and writing in Outremer Anthony Bale; 7. Hebrew crusade literature in its Latin and Arabic contexts Uri Zvi Shachar; Part III. Themes and Images: 8. The earthly and heavenly Jerusalem Suzanne Yeager; 9. Orientalism and the 'Saracen' Lynn Ramey; 10. Chivalry, masculinity, and sexuality Matthew Mesley; Part IV. Heroes: 11. Richard the Lionheart and Saladin Christine Chism; 12. 'El Cid' (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar) Julian Weiss; 13. Charlemagne, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Louis IX of France Anne Latowsky; Part V. Afterlives: 14. Romance and crusade in Late Medieval England Robert Rouse; 15. Renaissance crusading literature Lee Manion; 16. Crusading and medievalism Louise D'Arcens.

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Book SynopsisNobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee is amongst the most acclaimed and widely studied of contemporary authors. The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee provides a compelling introduction for new readers, as well as fresh perspectives and provocations for those long familiar with Coetzee''s works. All of Coetzee''s published novels and autobiographical fictions are discussed atlength, and there is extensive treatment of his translations, scholarly books and essays, and volumes of correspondence. Confronting Coetzee''s works on the grounds of his practice, the chapters address his craft, his literary relations and horizons, and the relationship between his writings and other arts, disciplines and institutions. Written by an international team of contributors, this Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to this important writer, establishes new avenues of discovery, and explains Coetzee''s undiminished ability to challenge and surprise his readers with inventive works of striking power andTable of ContentsIntroduction Jarad Zimbler; Part I. Forms: 1. Composition and craft: Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K David Attwell; 2. Scenes and settings: Foe, Boyhood, Youth, Slow Man Meg Samuelson; 3. Stories and narration: In the Heart of the Country, The Master of Petersburg, The Childhood of Jesus Jarad Zimbler; 4. Styles: Dusklands, Age of Iron, Disgrace, The Schooldays of Jesus David James; 5. Genres: Elizabeth Costello, Diary of a Bad Year, Summertime Derek Attridge; Part II. Relations: 6. Translations Jan Steyn; 7. Collaboration and correspondence Rachel Bower; 8. Criticism and scholarship Sue Kossew; 9. Influence and intertextuality Patrick Hayes; 10. Worlds, world-making, and Southern horizons Ben Etherington; Part III. Mediations: 11. Other arts and adaptations Michelle Kelly; 12. Philosophies Anthony Uhlmann; 13. Lives and archives Andrew Dean; 14. Publics and personas Andrew van der Vlies; Further reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisNobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee is amongst the most acclaimed and widely studied of contemporary authors. The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee provides a compelling introduction for new readers, as well as fresh perspectives and provocations for those long familiar with Coetzee''s works. All of Coetzee''s published novels and autobiographical fictions are discussed atlength, and there is extensive treatment of his translations, scholarly books and essays, and volumes of correspondence. Confronting Coetzee''s works on the grounds of his practice, the chapters address his craft, his literary relations and horizons, and the relationship between his writings and other arts, disciplines and institutions. Written by an international team of contributors, this Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to this important writer, establishes new avenues of discovery, and explains Coetzee''s undiminished ability to challenge and surprise his readers with inventive works of striking power andTable of ContentsIntroduction Jarad Zimbler; Part I. Forms: 1. Composition and craft: Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K David Attwell; 2. Scenes and settings: Foe, Boyhood, Youth, Slow Man Meg Samuelson; 3. Stories and narration: In the Heart of the Country, The Master of Petersburg, The Childhood of Jesus Jarad Zimbler; 4. Styles: Dusklands, Age of Iron, Disgrace, The Schooldays of Jesus David James; 5. Genres: Elizabeth Costello, Diary of a Bad Year, Summertime Derek Attridge; Part II. Relations: 6. Translations Jan Steyn; 7. Collaboration and correspondence Rachel Bower; 8. Criticism and scholarship Sue Kossew; 9. Influence and intertextuality Patrick Hayes; 10. Worlds, world-making, and Southern horizons Ben Etherington; Part III. Mediations: 11. Other arts and adaptations Michelle Kelly; 12. Philosophies Anthony Uhlmann; 13. Lives and archives Andrew Dean; 14. Publics and personas Andrew van der Vlies; Further reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis Companion showcases the best scholarship on Ian McEwan''s work, and offers a comprehensive demonstration of his importance in the canon of international contemporary fiction. The whole career is covered, and the connections as well as the developments across the oeuvre are considered. The essays offer both an assessment of McEwan''s technical accomplishments and a sense of the contextual factors that have provided him with inspiration. This volume has been structured to highlight the points of intersection between literary questions and evaluations, and the treatment of contemporary socio-cultural issues and topics. For the more complex novels - such as Atonement - this book offers complementary perspectives. In this respect, The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan serves as a prism of interpretation, revealing the various interpretive emphases each of McEwan''s more complex works invite, and to show how his various recurring preoccupations run through his career.Table of ContentsChronology; Introduction Dominic Head; 1. 'Shock lit': the early fiction Eluned Summers-Bremner; 2. Moral dilemmas Lynn Wells; 3. Science and climate crisis Astrid Bracke; 4. The novel of ideas Michael Lemahieu; 5. Cold War fictions Richard Brown; 6. The construction of childhood Peter Childs; 7. The public and the private David Malcolm; 8. Masculinities Ben Knights; 9. The novellas Dominic Head; 10. Realist legacies Judith Seaboyer; 11. Limited modernism Thom Dancer; 12. Narrative artifice David James; Further reading.

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Book SynopsisThe 1930s is frequently seen as a unique moment in British literary history, a decade where writing was shaped by an intense series of political events, aesthetic debates, and emerging literary networks. Yet what is contained under the rubric of 1930s writing has been the subject of competing claims, and therefore this Companion offers the reader an incisive survey covering the decade''s literature and its status in critical debates. Across the chapters, sustained attention is given to writers of growing scholarly interest, to pivotal authors of the period, such as Auden, Orwell, and Woolf, to the development of key literary forms and themes, and to the relationship between this literature and the decade''s pressing social and political contexts. Through this, the reader will gain new insight into 1930s literary history, and an understanding of many of the critical debates that have marked the study of this unique literary era.Trade Review'Brilliantly conceived, constructed and executed, Smith's collection is an outstanding one.' Alistair Davies, Textual PracticeTable of ContentsIntroduction James Smith; 1. Poetry Janet Montefiore; 2. The literary novel Marina MacKay; 3. Drama Claire Warden; 4. Publishing and periodicals Peter Marks; 5. The middlebrow and popular Isobel Maddison; 6. Modernism Tyrus Miller; 7. Communism and the working class John Connor; 8. Empire Judy Suh; 9. Travel Timothy Youngs; 10. The regional and the rural Kristin Bluemel; 11. The queer 1930s Glyn Salton-Cox; 12. Remembering and imagining war Phyllis Lassner; 13. Fascism and anti-fascism Mia Spiro; 14. Fashioning the 1930s Benjamin Kohlmann.

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Book SynopsisThis Companion showcases the best scholarship on Ian McEwan''s work, and offers a comprehensive demonstration of his importance in the canon of international contemporary fiction. The whole career is covered, and the connections as well as the developments across the oeuvre are considered. The essays offer both an assessment of McEwan''s technical accomplishments and a sense of the contextual factors that have provided him with inspiration. This volume has been structured to highlight the points of intersection between literary questions and evaluations, and the treatment of contemporary socio-cultural issues and topics. For the more complex novels - such as Atonement - this book offers complementary perspectives. In this respect, The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan serves as a prism of interpretation, revealing the various interpretive emphases each of McEwan''s more complex works invite, and to show how his various recurring preoccupations run through his career.Table of ContentsChronology; Introduction Dominic Head; 1. 'Shock lit': the early fiction Eluned Summers-Bremner; 2. Moral dilemmas Lynn Wells; 3. Science and climate crisis Astrid Bracke; 4. The novel of ideas Michael Lemahieu; 5. Cold War fictions Richard Brown; 6. The construction of childhood Peter Childs; 7. The public and the private David Malcolm; 8. Masculinities Ben Knights; 9. The novellas Dominic Head; 10. Realist legacies Judith Seaboyer; 11. Limited modernism Thom Dancer; 12. Narrative artifice David James; Further reading.

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Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of writing. Encompassing a diverse range of texts and styles, performances and forms, postcolonial travel writing recounts journeys undertaken through places, cultures, and communities that are simultaneously living within, through, and after colonialism in its various guises. The Companion is organized into three parts. Part I, ''Departures'', addresses key theoretical issues, topics, and themes. Part II, ''Performances'', examines a range of conventional and emerging travel performances and styles in postcolonial travel writing. Part III, ''Peripheries'' continues to shift the analysis of travel writing from the traditional focus on Eurocentric contexts. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the field, appealing to students and teachers of travel writing and postcolonial studies.Table of Contents1. Towards a genealogy of postcolonial travel writing: an introduction Robert Clarke; Part I. Departures: 2. Postcolonial travel writing and postcolonial theory Justin D. Edwards; 3. Walk this way: postcolonial travel writing of the environment Jill Didur; 4. History, memory, and trauma in postcolonial travel writing Robert Clarke; Part II. Performances: 5. Diasporic 'returnees' and imagined homelands Srilata Ravi; 6. Diplomats as postcolonial travellers Eva-Marie Kröller; 7. The metropolitan journeys of Francophone postcolonial travellers Charles Forsdick; 8. African American travel writing Tim Youngs; 9. Seeking the sacred in postcolonial travel writing Asha Sen; 10. Contemporary postcolonial journeys on the trails of colonial travellers Christopher Keirstead; Part III. Peripheries: 11. Postcolonial travel journalism and the new media Brian Creech; 12. Travel magazines and settler (post)colonialism Anna Johnston; 13. Refugee and asylum seeker narratives as travel writing April Shemak; 14. Travellers in postcolonial fiction Stephen M. Levin; 15. Afterword Mary Louise Pratt.

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Book SynopsisDesigned for teachers, this is a comprehensive book of lesson plans, projects, discussion questions, reproducible worksheets and more.

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Book SynopsisMary Hays (1759-1843) is often best remembered for her early revolutionary novels The Memoirs of Emma Courtney and The Victim of Prejudice. In this collection, however, Gina Luria Walker reveals the extraordinary range of Hays’s oeuvre. The selections are mainly from Hays’s non-fiction writings, including letters, life-writing, political commentary, and essays. The extracts demonstrate her importance as an advanced and innovative thinker, philosophical commentator, and writer of deliberately experimental fiction.This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and full annotation. Texts by numerous other writers are interleaved chronologically with Hays’s writings to illustrate her idiosyncratic intellectual genealogy, how her understanding modulated over time, and the multiple ways in which she influenced and was influenced by the most significant issues and figures of her age.Trade Review“Over the past 10 years or so, the work of Mary Hays has become increasingly familiar to those studying the literature of the French Revolutionary period. Interest has focused mainly on her two experimental 1790s novels, however, while her equally important philosophical and biographical writings remain less well known and are difficult to access. Gina Luria Walker’s The Idea of Being Free: A Mary Hays Reader will thus be invaluable—not just in bringing Hays’s non-fictional publications to a wider readership, but in the way it makes the most of the excellent Broadview Editions format, providing a rich selection from other contemporary texts in order to set Hays’s work in its intellectual context.” — Vivien Jones, University of LeedsTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionMary Hays in Her Times: A Brief ChronologySourcesA Note on the TextChapter One 1779-81Mary Hays and John EcclesLove-LettersSamuel RichardsonFrom Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady (1747-48)Edward YoungFrom Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality;or,The Complaint (1741)Alexander PopeFrom Imitations of Horace,The First Satire (1733)“Eloisa to Abelard” (1717)Chapter Two 1782-92From Robert Robinson’s Letters to Mary HaysJacques SaurinSermon on the Repentance of the Unchaste Woman (1775, 1784)Robert RobinsonSlavery Inconsistent with the Spirit of Christianity (1786, 1788)Gilbert WakefieldAn Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public or Social Worship (1791)[Mary Hays]Cursory Remarks on an Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public or Social Worship … [by] Eusebia (1791,1792)Gilbert WakefieldLetter to William Frend (undated)William FrendLetter to Hays (16 April 1792)Anna BarbauldRemarks on Mr.Wakefield’s Enquiry (1792)George Dyer“On Liberty,” Poetics (1812)Robert RobinsonA Political Catechism (1782)Report of Edmund Burke’s speech, March 2, 1790William FrendPeace and Union Recommended to the Associated Bodies of Republicans and Anti-republicans (1793)Chapter Three 1793Mary HaysLetters and Essays I, II, III,V, XII (1793)Joseph PriestleyThe History and Present State of Electricity: with original experiments (1767)William Enfield“The Pyrrhonic Sect,” History of Philosophy (1791)Theophilus LindseyLetter to Mary Hays (15 April 1793)Mary WollstonecraftLetters to Mary Hays (12 November 1792; [late 1792])Chapter Four 1794-99Mary HaysLetter to William Godwin (13 October 1795)Mary HaysMemoirs of Emma Courtney (1796)Matthew PriorHenry and Emma, a Poem, Upon the Model of the Nut-brown Maid(1709)Jean-Jacques RousseauFrom La Nouvelle Heloise: Julie, or the New Eloise. Letters of Two Lovers, Inhabitants of a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps(1761)William GodwinFrom Things as They Are; or,The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794)[Thomas S. Norgate]The Cabinet, “On The Rights of Woman” (1795)Helvétius in The Cabinet“Abbreviation from the Code of Nature” (1795)[William Enfield]From Monthly Magazine, “The Enquirer.” No. III (1796)Mary HaysLetters to the Editor, Monthly Magazine (1796)From The Victim of Prejudice (1799)Richard PolwheleFrom The Unsex’d Females (1798)Chapter Five 1800-07[Mary Hays]Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women (1798)“Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft,” Annual Necrology for 1797-8; Including, also,Various Articles of Neglected Biography,Vol. I (1800)From Female Biography, or Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of all Ages and Countries Alphabetically Arranged in SixVolumes (1803)“Preface”“Anne Askew”“Catharine Macaulay Graham”“Heloise”From “Mrs. Charlotte Smith,” Public Characters of 1800-1801 (1807)Letters to William Tooke (1799-1807)Chapter Six 1814-36Mary HaysLetter to Henry Crabb Robinson (26 November 1814)Memoirs of Queens (1821)Preface“Caroline, Wife of George IV”Mary ShelleyLetter to Mary Hays (20 April 1836)Mary HaysLetter to Mary Shelley (30 November 1836)EpilogueMary HaysLetter to Henry Crabb Robinson (April 1842)Mary HaysLast Will and TestamentJohn HaysLetters to Henry Crabb Robinson (20 February, 23 February 1843)E. Kell“Memoir of Mary Hays,” The Christian ReformerMary Robinson BrownLetter to Hays (17 May 1791)[Elizabeth Hays]“Josepha, or the Pernicious Effects of Early Indulgence,”Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous (1793)Charles LambLetter to Matilda Betham (27 September 1811)Henry Crabb RobinsonHandwritten Note (c. 1843)Capel LofftLetter to William Godwin [undated] (1805)Amelia AldersonLetter to Mary Wollstonecraft (15 December 1796)Amelia AldersonLetter to William Godwin (22 December 1796)William GodwinLetter to David Booth (14 October 1799)Robert SoutheyLetter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge (16 January 1800)Samuel Taylor ColeridgeLetter to Robert Southey (25 January 1800)Elizabeth HamiltonLetter to Mary Hays (13 March 1797)Elizabeth HamiltonMemoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800)William BeloeThe Sexagenarian; or the Reflections of a Literary Life (1817)Eliza FenwickLetters to Mary Hays (31 March 1806, 10 February1813)William ThompsonAppeal of One Half of the Human Race,Women, against the pretensions of the other half, Men, to retain them in political andthence in civil and domestic slavery, in reply to a paragraph of Mr. Mill’s celebrated article on Government (1825)Joyce M.S.Tompkins“Mary Hays, Philosophess,” The Polite Marriage: Eighteenth Century Essays (1938)Anna BarbauldLetter to Maria Edgeworth (1804)Kenneth N. CameronShelley and his Circle (1961)Roy PorterEnlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (2000)Barbara Taylor“Gallic Philosophesses,” Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (2003)Mary HaysLetter to Henry Crabb Robinson (1807)Appendix A: Principal Figures and Important TermsAppendix B: Selected Reviews of Hays’s Publications Reviews of Letters and Essays From the Critical Review (August 1793) From the English Review (October 1793) Reviews of Female Biography From the Critical Review (April 1803) From the Monthly Magazine (June 1803) From the Monthly Review (January 1804) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe companion volume to the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.Samuel Pepys's Diary was first published in abbreviated form in 1825. A succession of new versions brought out in the Victorian era made the Diary one of the best-known books and Pepys one of the best-known figures of English history. However, not until the publication of the Latham and Matthews edition was the Diary presented in its complete form, with a newly transcribed text and the benefit of a systematic commentary. The text of the Diary is in nine volumes, followed by this Companion and an Index. The edition has justly become established as the definitive version, hailed by The Times as one of the glories of contemporary English publishing' and by C. P. Snow as a triumph of modern scholarship'.The Companion has been compiled and edited by Robert Latham, with specialist contributions from other scholars. The result of many years' research, it is an essential adjunct to the DiTrade Review‘In paperback at last! The maps, glossary, single-volume Companion and superbly usable Index, the inexhaustible footnotes, are all here. This is a marvellous and cheering event.’Observer ‘There is horror… and there is humour… and its availability at an affordable price deserves recognition as a laudable publishing achievement.’Cambridge Evening News

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