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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2002. This is the final Volume IV of the five G. Wilson Knight collected works series and focuses on Shakespeare as the Poet of Royalism together with related essays and indexes to earlier volumes. The emphasis in this volume is the shift from Shakespeare as the poet of England to Shakespeare as the poet of royalism, in a wide sense.Table of ContentsChapter 1 This Sceptred Isle; Chapter 2 The Third Eye; Chapter 3 What’s in a Name?; Chapter 4 The Shakespearian Integrity; Chapter 5 Some Notable Fallacies;

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, 26 newly commissioned essays provide distinct, original and sometimes playful or unusual definitions of theoretical keywords - both unexpected terms as well as words well established in the critical canon.Trade ReviewThis challenging and entertaining volume!is a celebration of critical theory at its most exciting! a most compelling compilation. I find myself really curious about Wolfreys's Glossalalia - An Alphabet of Critical Keywords . The topics are so diverse and so tantalizing (Flirting! Yarn! X!). The attraction of essays approaching the large topic of theory from such slightly offbeat perspectives is immense. Wolfreys has assembled an impressive collection of collaborators from both Britain and the United States. -- J Hillis Miller, Distinguished Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine This challenging and entertaining volume!is a celebration of critical theory at its most exciting! a most compelling compilation. I find myself really curious about Wolfreys's Glossalalia - An Alphabet of Critical Keywords . The topics are so diverse and so tantalizing (Flirting! Yarn! X!). The attraction of essays approaching the large topic of theory from such slightly offbeat perspectives is immense. Wolfreys has assembled an impressive collection of collaborators from both Britain and the United States.Table of ContentsForeword: the alpahbetic body; Brian Rotman, Ohio State University; Animality; Frederick Young, University of Florida; Biotechnologies; Christopher Johnson, Keele University; Chora; Gregory Ulmer, University of Florida; Difference; Arkady Plotnitsky, Director, Theory and Cultural Studies Program, Purdue University; Event; Julian Wolfreys, University of Southern California; Flirting; Ruth Robbins, Nene College; Genetics; Stephanie Smith, University of Florida; Hypertext; Terry Harpold, Department of English, University of Florida; I; Thomas Pepper, University of Minnesota; Jouissance; Juliet Flower MacCannell, University of California, Irvine; Knowledge; Margaret Russett, University of Southern California; Love; Daniel Cottom, University of Idaho; Music; Simon Critchley, Essex University; Nation; John Brannigan, Queen's, Belfast; Origins; Julian Wolfreys; Poetics; Geoff Ward, University of Dundee; Quilting; John P. Leavey, Jr., University of Florida; Reification; Silvia Lopez, Carleton College, Minnesota; Schizoanalysis; Tamsin Lorraine, Swarthmore College; Tele-techno-theology; Martin McQuillan, Staffordshire University; Universals; Mark Currie, University of Westminster; Visuality; Steven Ungar, University of Iowa; Wit; Drew Milne, Cambridge University; X; Tom Conley, Harvard University; Yarn; Valentine Cunningham, Oxford University; Zero; J Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine; Notes on Contributors.

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Book SynopsisThe first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Latin America and the Philippines.Table of ContentsPreface, Walter Mignolo; INTRODUCTION, Prem Poddar, Rajeev Patke, Lars Jensen; Acknowledgements; General editors & section editors; List of maps; Map 1: World Colonisation 1550; A selective chronology; Map 2: World Colonisation 1914; BELGIUM & ITS COLONIES; Map 3: The Belgian Colonial Empire; Introduction, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture (University of Warwick); Anthropology & Ethnography, Maarten Couttenier (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Anticolonial Resistance, Carina Yervasi (Swarthmore College); Belgian Imperial Policy, Martin Shipway (Birkbeck College, University of London); Belgian Missionaries in the Congo, Pascale Stacey (Liverpool University); Colonial & Postcolonial Exhibitions, Sabine Cornelis (Royal Museum of Central Africa, Brussels); Comics & the Belgian Congo, Nancy Hunt (Michigan University); Evolues, Priscilla Ringrose (Trondheim University); Historiography: The Belgian Congo, Pascale Stacey & Victoria Reid (Liverpool University); Kimbangu, Anne Melice (Liege University); Leopold II, Lieve Spaas (Kingston University, London); Missions in the Danish-Norwegian colonies, Louise Sebro (Lund University); Mobutu, Priscilla Appama (Universit de Franche-Comt, Besanon, France); Narratives of Empire: Postcolonial Congo, Pierre Halen (Paul Verlaine-Metz University); The Red Rubber Scandal, Aisling Campbell (Liverpool University); The Rwanda Genocide of the 1990s, Colette Braeckman (Brussels); Andre Ryckmans, Heidi Bojsen (Roskilde University); Pierre Ryckmans, Therese De Raedt (Utah University); The Scramble for the Congo, Colette Braeckman (Brussels); Tippu Tip, Fiona Barclay (University of Glasgow); DENMARK AND ITS COLONIES; Map 4: Denmark and Norway: Colonial Possessions c.1800; Introduction, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University); Abolition of Slavery, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University); Anthropology, Greenland and Colonialism, Ole Hoiris (Aarhus University); Charter Companies, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University); Colonial Exhibitions, Cheralyn Mealor (Aarhus University); Creolisation, Heidi Bojsen (Roskilde University); The Greenlandic Colonial Administration, Mette Ronsager (Copenhagen University); Greenlandic Writers, Karen Langgard (University of Greenland); Grundtvig, N.F.S., Lars Jensen (Roskilde University); Thorkild Hansen and the Critique of Empire, Marianne Stecher-Hansen (University of Washington); Historiography, Michael Bregnsbo (University of Southern Denmark); Home Rule, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University); Migrancy, Kirsten Hvenegard-Lassen (Roskilde University); Missions in the Danish-Norwegian Colonies, Louise Sebro (Lund University); Modernisation of Greenland, Klaus Georg Hansen (Nuuk); Narratives and Fictions of Empire, Claire Thomson (University College, London); Orientalism and Exoticism, John Botofte (Brussels); Race and Ethnicity, Greenland, Karen Langgard (University of Greenland); Knud Rasmussen, Nanna Folke Olsen (Copenhagen); Thule, Pia Kruger Johansen (Roskilde University); Tropical Colonies, Esther Fihl (Copenhagen Unversity); Viking Settlements, Lasse Wolsgard(Copenhagen); FRANCE AND ITS COLONIES; Map 5: The French Colonial Empire; Introduction, Charles Forsdick (Liverpool University); The Algerian War, Nicholas Harrison (King's College); Anthropology and Ethnography, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture (University of Warwick); Anti-colonialism, Andy Stafford (University of Leeds); Colonial Administration, Tony Chafer (University of Portsmouth); Colonial Education, Claire Griffiths (University of Hull); Creolisation and Creoleness, Maeve McCusker (Queen's University); Decolonization, Stephen Tyre (University of St Andrews); Exploration and Travel, Aedin Ni Loingsigh (University of Edinburgh); France in Asia and the Indian Ocean, Kate Marsh (Liverpool University); France in North America, Bill Marshall (University of Glasgow); France in the South Pacific, Amanda Macdonald (University of Queensland); Francophone, Margaret A. Majumdar (University of Portsmouth); Francophone Black Atlantic, H. Adlai Murdoch (University of Illinois); Francophone Caribbean, Martin Munro (University of the West Indies); Haiti, Mariana Past (Dickinson College); Historiography, Stephen Tyre (University of St Andrews); Imperial Policy, Tony Chafer (University of Portsmouth); Internal Colonialism, Eamon O Ciosain (National University of Ireland); Massacres, Charles Forsdick, (Liverpool University), Migrancy, Aedin Ni Loingsigh (University of Edinburgh); Narratives and Fictions of Empire, David Murphy (University of Stirling); Negritude, Patrick Corcoran (Roehampton University); Neo-colonialism, Andy Stafford (University of Leeds); North Africa and the Middle East, Patrick Crowley (University College, Cork); Orientalism and Exoticism, Siobhan Shilton (Bristol University); Race and Ethnicity, Andy Stafford (University of Leeds); Religion, Kamal Salhi (University of Leeds); Slavery and Abolition, Maeve McCusker (Queen's University, Belfast); Sub-Saharan Africa, David Murphy (University of Stirling); Tirailleurs Senegalais, Charles Forsdick (Liverpool University); Women's Histories, Winifred Woodhull (University of California at San Diego); GERMANY AND ITS COLONIES; Map 6: The German Colonies; Introduction, Birthe Kundrus (Hamburger Institut fur Sozialforschung); African Playground, Nana Badenberg (Basel); Anthropology and Ethnography, H. Glenn Penny (University of Iowa); Anti-colonial Struggles, Tanja Buhrer (Universitat Bern); Askari and Askari Myth, Michelle Moyd (Ithaca); Berlin Conference, Tanja Buhrer (Universitat Bern); Black Germans, Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool); Cameroon, Ralph A. Austen (University of Chicago); Colonial Administration, Jurgen Zimmerer (University of Sheffield); Colonial Culture-Impact on Germany, Alexander Honold (Universitat Basel); Colonial Education, Sven Werkmeister (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin); Colonial Literature, Alexander Honold (Universitat Basel); Colonial Migration and the Law, Pascal Grosse (Universitatsmedizin, Berlin); Colonial Monuments, Joachim Zeller (Berlin); Colonial Revisionism, Susann Lewerenz (Hamburg); Colonialism and African Writing, Nina Berman (Ohio State University); Commercial Ethnographic Exhibitions, Hilke Thode-Arora (Markt Schwaben); German East Africa, Christian Geulen (Universitat Koblenz-Landau); German New Guinea, Birthe Kundrus (Hamburger Institut fur Sozialforschung); German Samoa, Birthe Kundrus (Hamburger Institut fur Sozialforschung); German South-west Africa, Daniel J. Walther (Wartburg College); Herero Genocide, Jurgen Zimmerer (University of Sheffield); Historiography: Germany, Sebastian Conrad (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut); Hybridity and Race Relations, Frank Becker (Historisches Seminar, Munster); Kiaochow, Klaus Mulhahn (University of Turku); The Language Question, Sven Werkmeister (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin); Missions, Ulrich van der Heyden (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin), NS-Colonialism, Dirk van Laak (Weimar); Orientalism, Nina Berman (Ohio State University); Race and Ethnicity, Michael Schubert (Universitat Osnabruck); Slavery, the Slave Trade and Abolition, J.-G. Deutsch and M. Zeuske (Universitat zu Koln); Togo, Peter Sebald (Berlin); TheVersailles Conference, Boris Barth (Universitat Konstanz); West Africa: 17th-18th Century, Ulrich van der Heyden (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin); Women's Histories, Lora Wildenthal (Rice University); ITALY AND ITS COLONIES; Map 7: The Italian Colonies 1940; Introduction, Ruth Ben-Ghiat (New York University); Adwa, Alessandro Triulzi (Istituto Orientale, Naples); Albania, Nicola Mai (London Metropolitan University); Anthropology and Ethnology, Barbara Sorgoni (Universita Federico II); Anti-colonial Resistance in Eastern Libya, Ali Abdullah Ahmida (University of New England); Anti-colonial Resistance in Italian East Africa, Ruth Iyob (Washington University); Dodecanese Islands, Nicholas Doumanis (University of South Wales); Eritrea to 1935, Tekaeste Negash (Dalarna University); Ethiopian War, Nicola Labanca (Siena University); Fictions and Narratives of Empire, Charles Burdett (Bristol University); Antonio Gramsci and the Southern Question, Nelson Moe (Barnard College); Rodolfo Graziani, Nicola Labanca (Siena University); Haile Selassie, William R. Scott (Lehigh University); Immigration, Jacqueline Andall (Bath Unversity); Italian East Africa, Ruth Iyob (Washington University); Italophone Literature, Cristina Lombardi-Diop (American University in Rome); Land Expropriations, Federico Cresti (Catania University); Land Settlements, Federico Cresti (Catania University); Libya, Mia Fuller (University of California at Berkeley); Orientalism, Cristina Lombardi-Diop (American University in Rome); Racial Policies, Barbara Sorgoni (Universita Federico II); The Sanusi Order or Sanusiyya, 1837-1932, Ali Abdullah Ahmida (University of New England); Somalia before 1935, Tekeste Negash (Dalarna University); Women's Histories, Ruth Iyob (Washington University); THE NETHERLANDS AND ITS COLONIES; Map 8: The Dutch Colonial Empire; Introduction, Luc Allofs (Museum of Aruba), Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State), Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Theo D'haen (University of Leiden); Anthropology and Ethnography, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Patricia Krus (University of Stirling); Anti-colonial Resistance, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); Edgar Cairo, Wim Rutgers (University of Aruba); Colonial Administration, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Patricia Krus (University of Stirling); Counts of Orange, Eric Martone (Waterbury); Creolisation and Creoleness, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy), Patricia Krus (University of Stirling) and Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); Critique of Imperialism/Anti-colonialism, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); December Killings, Patricia Krus (University of Stirling); Decolonisation, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Patricia Krus (University of Stirling); The Dutch Colonisation of N. America J. P. Alessi (Colorado Springs); The Dutch in Brazil, Mark Meuwese (Winnipeg University); The Dutch in Colonial America, Richard C. Kagan (Hamline University); The Dutch in Taiwan, Richard C. Kagan (Hamline University); The Dutch in the Caribbean, Wim Rutgers (University of Aruba); Albert Helman, Wim Rutgers (University of Aruba); Historiography, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy), P. Krus and Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); Immigration in the Netherlands, Jeroen Doomernik (University of Amsterdam); Missionaries and Religion, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Wim Rutgers (University of Aruba); Narratives of Empire, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy), Wim Rutgers (University of Aruba) and Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); Nationalism/Nationhood, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Patricia Krus (University of Stirling); Orientalism/Exoticism, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Wim Rutgers (University of Aruba); Race and Ethnicity, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Patricia Krus (University of Stirling); Race and Language in South Africa, Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); Slavery and Abolition, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and P. Krus; Women's Histories, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy), Patricia Krus (University of Stirling), Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); OTHER EUROPES; Clash of Civilisations, Couze Venn (Nottingham Trent University); The Jewish Diaspora, Ilan Pappe (Haifa University); Postcolonial Russia, Ewa Thompson (Rice University); Postcolonial Sweden, Sheila Ghose (New York University); Turkey, Hamit Bozarslan (EHESS); PORTUGAL AND ITS COLONIES; Map 9: The Portuguese Colonial Empire 1415-1999; Introduction, Phillip Rothwell (Rutgers University); Anthropology and Ethnography, Miguel Vale de Almeida (Lisbon University); Anti-Colonial Struggles, David Robinson (University of Western Australia); The Brazilian Independence Process, Claire Williams (Liverpool University); Amilcar Cabral, Claire Williams (Liverpool University); The Carnation Revolution, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez (Wisconsin University); Charter Companies/Prazos, Corrado Tornimbeni (Bologna University); Creolisation and Creoleness, David Brookshaw (Bristol University); Explorations and Discoveries, Isabel Moutinho (La Trobe University); FRELIMO (Mozambique), David Robinson (University of Western Australia); FRETILIN and Xanana Gusmao, Anthony Soares (Belfast University); The Frontline States, David Robinson (University of Western Australia); Goa, Claire Williams (Liverpool University); Henry the Navigator, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez (Wisconsin University); Historiography, Phillip Rothwell (Rutgers University); Independence Movements (Azores and Madeira), Carmen Maria, Ramos Villar (Sheffield University); The Liberation Wars and Decolonisation, Norrie MacQueen (Dundee University); Lusophone African Literature, Russell Hamilton (Vanderbilt University); Lusotropicalism, Race and Ethnicity, Anna Klobucka (University of Massachusetts); Samora Machel, Branwen Gruffydd Jones (Aberdeen University); Eduardo Mondlane, Branwen Gruffydd Jones (Aberdeen University); Moorish Portugal, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez (Wisconsin University); MPLA (Angola), Helia Santos (Coimbra University); Agostinho Neto, Branwen Gruffydd Jones (Aberdeen University); Orientalism in the Lusophone World, Ana Maria Mao-de Ferro Martinho (Lisbon Nova University); Overseas Provinces/The Colonial Act, Robert Moser (Georgia University); PAIGC (Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde); Claire Williams (Liverpool University); Pepetela, Igor Cusack (Birmingham University); Postcolonial African Immigration to Portugal, Sheila Khan (Belfast University); RENAMO (Mozambique), David Robinson (University of Western Australia); Salazar and the New State, Victor J. Mendes (University of Massachusetts); Dom Sebastiao, Phillip Rothwell (Rutgers University); Slavery and Abolition, David Brookshaw (Bristol University); Timor and Indonesia: Shared currents, Anthony Soares (Belfast University); UNITA (Angola), Helia Santos (Coimbra University); Vasco da Gama, Claire Williams (Liverpool University); Women's Histories, Hilary Owen (Manchester University); Map 10: The Iberian Empires 1581-1640; SPAIN. LATIN AMERICA AND THE PHILIPPINES; Map 11: The Spanish Colonial Empire; Introduction, Elizabeth Monasterios (University of Pittsburgh); The Andean Avant-Garde, Elizabeth Monasterios (University of Pittsburgh); Andean Textiles, Denise Arnold (Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara); Anti-colonial Struggle, Arturo Arias (University of Redlands); Arturo Borda, Elizabeth Monasterios (University of Pittsburgh); 'Caliban', John Beverley (University of Pittsburgh); Christian Influences on Philippine Society, Dante L. Ambrosio (University of the Philippines); Colonial Baroque, John Beverley (University of Pittsburgh); Colonialism and Popular Culture, Denise Arnold (Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara); Discovery and Conquest, Gonzalo Lamana (University of Pittsburgh); Uriel Garcia, Elizabeth Monasterios (University of Pittsburgh); Hibridacion, Joshua Lund (University of Pittsburgh); Indigeneity, Gustavo Verdesio (University of Michigan); Indigenismo and Mestisaje, Javier Sanjines (University of Michigan); Latin American Critical Thought, Michael Handelsman (University of Tennessee); Marianisation in the Philippines, Evelyn A. Miranda (University of the Philippines); Marronage and Rebellion, Juan Antonio Hernandez (Cornell University); The Philippines-Mexico Connection, Jaime Veneracion (University of the Philippines); The Popol Vuj, Carlos Lopez (Marshall University); Postcoloniality and Alternative Histories, Julia Suarez Krabbe (Roskilde University); Fausto Reinaga, Marcia Stephenson (Purdue University); The Role of Literature in Filipino Resistance, Maria Luisa T. Reyes (University of the Philippines); Spain, Modernity, and Colonialism, John Beverley (University of Pittsburgh); Spanish Colonialism in a World Perspective, Julia Suarez Krabbe (Roskilde University); The Tupac Amaru Rebellion, John Beverley (University of Pittsburgh); Map 12: World Colonisation 1945; Alphabetical List of Contributors; Index of Authors (cited); Index of Subjects.

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Book SynopsisA gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading—how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader.“A playful, illustrated treatise on how words give rise to mental images.” —The New York TimesWhat do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did Melville ever really tell us what, exactly, Ishmael looked like? The collection of fragmented images on a page—a graceful ear there, a stray curl, a hat positioned just so—and other clues and signifiers helps us to create an image of a character. But in fact our sense that we know a character intimately has little to do with our ability to concretely picture our beloved—or reviled—literary figures. In this remarkable work of nonfiction, Knopf's Associate Art Director Peter Mendelsund combines his profession, as an award-winnin

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Book SynopsisOnce upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries descr

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Book SynopsisFrom Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith to Val McDermid and JK Rowling, After Agatha is an indispensable guide to women's crime writing over the last century and an exploration of why women read crime...Trade ReviewIn After Agatha, Sally Cline offers a brilliantly readable overview of the genre that succeeds in being both comprehensive and detailed. A real tour de force and a must read for fans of crime fiction -- Leigh Russell, bestselling author of the DI Geraldine Steel seriesA valuable addition to any critical shelf -- Maxim Jakubowski * Crime Time *

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Book SynopsisThe Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and performance studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on the key methods and questions surrounding the performance event, the audience, and the archive the primary sources on which performance studies draws. It identifies the recurring trends and fruitful lines of inquiry that are generating the most urgent work in the field, but also contextualises these within the histories and methods on which researchers build. A central section of research-focused essays offers case studies of present areas of enquiry, from new approaches to space, bodies and language to work on the technologies of remediation and original practices, from consideration of fandoms and the cultural capital invested in Shakespeare and his contemporaries to political and ethical interventions in performance practice. A distinctive Trade ReviewA major new volume in Shakespeare studies … this research handbook is truly triumphant: Kirwan and Prince have produced an indispensable volume for researchers at all levels. * Shakespeare Survey *Brilliantly executed, consistently illuminating and abundantly engaging, this is an indispensable, one-stop discussion of Shakespeare and contemporary performance. Whether it is film, digital video or theatre, performance is explored in its multiple manifestations, and via content characterised by global reach and density. Attentive to mediation and reception, and featuring interviews with creatives and practitioners, The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance is a rich and revealing achievement. * Mark Thornton Burnett, Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen's University Belfast, UK *In focusing on performance as a process that begins well before the proverbial curtain rises and continues long after it falls, this vibrant, politically engaged, and globally oriented collection offers readers an account of Shakespeare in contemporary performance that is at once authoritative and interrogative, comprehensive and open-ended. By foregrounding the different kinds of labour involved in the creation, reception, and history of performance, it creates a space where we can hear a more diverse range of voices talk about what Shakespearean performance means – and why it matters today – than has often been the case. * Erin Sullivan, Senior Lecturer at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK *This collection makes for an invigorating read as it injects critical energy into established debates and stretches the edges of the field just that little bit further. Contributors offer committed and thoughtful explorations of anti-racist pedagogies, ethics and cultural competence in the rehearsal room, and the structural changes organisations have to undergo in order to for them to be actively inclusive. Through thoughtful scholarship, interviews with a diverse selection of practitioners, and a range of research resources including an annotated bibliography and tour-de-force mapping of the entire field, this Handbook models what progressive Shakespeare performance studies may achieve in the coming decade. -- Pascale Aebischer, University of Exeter, UKTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Peter Kirwan (University of Nottingham, UK) and Kathryn Prince (University of Ottawa, Canada) Part 1: Research Methods and Problems 1.1 The Archive: Show Reporting Shakespeare Rob Conkie (La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia) 1.2 The Audience: Receiving and Remaking Experience Margaret Jane Kidnie (University of Western Ontario, Canada) 1.3 The Event: Festival Shakespeare Paul Prescott (University of Warwick, UK) Part 2: Current Research and Issues 2.1 Original Practices: Old Ways and New Directions Sarah Dustagheer (University of Kent, UK) 2.2 Space: Locus and Platea in Modern Shakespearean Performance Stephen Purcell (University of Warwick, UK) 2.3 Economics: Shakespeare Performing Cities Susan Bennett (University of Calgary, Canada) 2.4 Networks: Researching Global Shakespeare Sonia Massai (King's College London, UK) 2.5 Global Mediations: Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Global and Digital Cultures Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA) 2.6 Canon: Framing Not-Shakespeare Performance Eoin Price (Swansea University, UK) 2.7 Pedagogy: Decolonizing Shakespeare on Stage Andrew James Hartley (UNC Charlotte, USA), Kaja Dunn (UNC Charlotte, USA) and Christopher Berry (Black Theatre Network & Black Arts Institute) 2.8 Ethics: Practising Diversity at the Stratford Festival of Canada: Shakespeare, Performance and Ethics in the Twenty-First Century Erin Julian (University of Roehampton London/King's College London, UK) and Kim Solga (Western University, Canada) 2.9 Bodies: Gender, Race, Ability and the Shakespearean Stage Roberta Barker (Dalhousie University, Canada) 2.10 Technology: The Desire Called Cinema: Materiality, Biopolitics, and Post-Anthropocentric Feminism in Julie Taymor’s The Tempest Courtney Lehmann (University of the Pacific, USA) Part 3: New Directions in Shakespeare and Performance Curated by C. K. Ash (Independent researcher) and Nora J. Williams (University of Essex, UK) 3.1 Anne G. Morgan 3.2 Jatinder Verma 3.3 Judith Greenwood 3.4 Dan Bray and Colleen MacIsaac 3.5 Migdalia Cruz 3.6 Lisa Wolpe 3.7 Julia Nish-Lapidus and James Wallis 3.8 Ravi Jain 3.9 Emma Whipday 3.10 Wole Oguntokun 3.11 Vishal Bhardwaj 3.12 Adam Cunis 3.13 James Loehlin 3.14 Denice Hicks 3.15 @Shakespeare 3.16 Jung-ung Yang Part 4: Resources for Researchers 4.1 A Fifty-Year History of Performance Criticism James C. Bulman (Allegheny College, USA) 4.2 A-Z of Key Terms Bríd Phillips (University of Western Australia, Australia), with Peter Kirwan (University of Nottingham, UK) and Kathryn Prince (University of Ottawa, Canada) 4.3 Annotated Bibliography Karin Brown (University of Birmingham, UK), Peter Kirwan (University of Nottingham, UK) and Kathryn Prince (University of Ottawa, Canada) 4.4 Resources Peter Kirwan (University of Nottingham, UK) and Kathryn Prince (University of Ottawa, Canada) Index

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Book SynopsisThe Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and textual studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on all the major areas of current research, notably the Shakespeare manuscripts; the printed text and paratext in Shakespeare's early playbooks and poetry books; Shakespeare's place in the early modern book trade; Shakespeare's early readers, users, and collectors; the constitution and evolution of the Shakespeare canon from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century; Shakespeare's editors from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century; and the modern editorial reproduction of Shakespeare. The Handbook also devotes separate chapters to new directions and developments in research in the field, specifically in the areas of digital editing and of authorship attribution methodologies. In addition, the Companion contains various sections that provide non-specialists with Trade ReviewAn indispensable resource covering both established and emergent scholarship, this volume is also an immensely practical guide to the field. Commendably too, this handbook demonstrates that profound erudition, scholarly illumination, and pioneering research can be presented as an accessible pedagogical intervention. -- Dympna C. Callaghan, William L. Safire Professor in Modern Letters, Syracuse University, USAIf you have ever wondered exactly why colleagues become so excited about Shakespeare textual studies, Lukas Erne’s Research Handbook will give you the answer. He has assembled an immensely impressive array of textual scholars and all of them write in a way that is both profoundly scholarly and consistently accessible. More than yet another collection of chapters, this really is a reference guide, a how-to handbook that will make its readers as enthusiastic as its authors. -- Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USAAs Lukas Erne notes, this is a perfect moment to reflect on Shakespearean textual studies. He has assembled a genuinely international cast of the very best textual scholars for a collection that is both timely and exemplary. If you seek a precise and engaging snapshot of the current state of play in the field, you’re in the right place. -- Gordon McMullan, Professor of English and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre, King’s College London, UKThe collection … is an ideal reference work for university students as well as early and established scholars. … The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies offers an important historical moment, in this case the current state of Shakespearean textual criticism. The collection will be of immeasurable benefit to readers. * Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations List of Illustrations List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Lukas Erne (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Part 1: Research Methods and Problems 1.1 Shakespeare and ‘Textual Studies’: Evidence, Scale, Periodization and Access Claire M. L. Bourne (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Part 2: Current Research and Issues 2.1 The Shakespeare Manuscripts Cathy L. Shrank (University of Sheffield, UK) and Paul Werstine (King’s University College, UK) 2.2 The Early Printed Texts of Shakespeare John Jowett (University of Birmingham, UK) 2.3 Shakespeare’s Early Modern Books: Printing, Paratext and Text Emma Smith (Hertford College Oxford, UK) 2.4 Shakespeare in the Early Modern Book Trade Marta Straznicky (Queen’s University, Canada) 2.5 Shakespeare’s Early Readers and Users: Annotation, Commonplacing, Collecting Laura Estill (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada) 2.6 The Shakespeare Canon from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century Peter Kirwan (University of Nottingham, UK) 2.7 Shakespeare’s Editors from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century Andrew Murphy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 2.8 The Modern Editing of Shakespeare: The Text Margaret Jane Kidnie (University of Western Ontario, Canada) 2.9 The Modern Editing of Shakespeare: The Apparatus Suzanne Gossett (Loyola University Chicago, USA) Part 3: New Directions 3.1 Shakespeare and Authorship Attribution Methodologies Hugh Craig (University of Newcastle, Australia) 3.2 Shakespeare and Digital Editions Sonia Massai (King’s College London, UK) Part 4: Material for Further Research 4.1 Chronology Alan B. Farmer (Ohio State University, USA) 4.2 Resources Emma Depledge (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) 4.3 A-Z of Key Terms and Concepts Eric Rasmussen (University of Nevada, USA) and Ian H. De Jong (Academy of Nevada, USA) 4.4 Annotated Bibliography Jean-Christophe Mayer (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France) Index

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Book SynopsisThe first complete scholarly edition of Galt's short fiction and essays on transatlantic themes, including never before published manuscript texts.

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Book SynopsisAn authoritative assessment of the changing relationship between the Bible and the artsIn this unique Companion, 35 scholars, from world-famous to just beginning, explore the role of the Bible in art and of artistic motifs in the Bible. The specially commissioned chapters demonstrate that just as the arts have portrayed biblical stories in a variety of ways and media over the centuries, so what we call ?the? Bible is not actually a single entity but has been composed of fiercely contested translations of texts in many languages, whose selection has depended historically on a variety of cultural pressures, theological, social, and, not least, aesthetic.

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Book SynopsisThis collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century.

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the war's upheavals across a wide range of media and genres, from poetry to pamphlets, sculpture to television documentary, and requiems to war reporting.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Ann-Marie Einhaus and Katherine isobel Baxter; Section I: Literature; 1. The Uncertain War a Century on: The First World War in British and Irish Fiction, Marie Stern-Peltz; 2. Poetry of the First World War in Britain, Clara Dawson; 3. First World War Short Fiction, Ann-Marie Einhaus; 4. Theatre: 1914 and After, Andrew Maunder; 5. Words from Home: Wartime Correspondences, Alice Kelly; 6. Transnational Lives: Colonial Life Writing and the First World War, Anna Maguire Section II: Visual Arts; 7. The'Abysmal inexcusable middle class', Painting, Commemoration, and the First World War, Matthew Potter; 8. Varied to Infinity: The First World War and Sculpture, Laura Brandon; 9. Memorials: Embodiment and Unconventional Mourning, Laura Wittman; 10. Posters, Advertising and the First World War in Britain, James Thompson Section III: Music; 11. We think you ought to go: Music Hall and Recruitment in the First World War, Robert Dean; 12. British Soldiers'Songs, George Simmers; 13. The First World War in Popular Music since 1958, Peter Grant; 14. Requiems and Memorial Music, Kate Kennedy Section IV: Periodicals and Journalism; 15. Popular Periodicals: Wartime Newspapers, Magazines and Journals, Kate Macdonald; 16. Evolving Wartime Print Cultures of the Anglo-American Modern Literary Renaissance, Christopher J. La Casse; 17. Pamphlets and Political Writing, Matthew Shaw; 18. 'The whole of war is an atrocity': Morgan Philips Price and First World War Reporting in the Ottoman/Russian Borderlands, Jo Laycock; Section V: Film and Broadcasting; 19. Official War Films in Britain: The Battle of the Somme 1916, Its Impact Then and Its Meaning Today, Toby Haggith; 20. Too Colossal to be Dramatic: The Cinema of the Great War, Michael Paris; 21. Representations of the First World War in Contemporary British Television Drama, Emma Hanna; 22. The Sound of War: Audio, Radio and the First World War, Richard J. Hand Section VI: Publishing and Material Culture; 23. The British Publishing Industry and the First World War, Jane Potter; 24. Photography and the First World War, J. J. Long; 25. The Imperial War Museum and the material culture of the First World War, 1917-2014, Alys Cundy; 26. The Evolution of First World War Computer Games, Chris Kempshall.

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Book SynopsisThis Companion offers a critical overview of the diverse and dynamic field of Atlantic literary studies, with contributions by distinguished scholars on a series of topics that define the area.

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Book SynopsisContemporary Spanish Gothic is the first book to study how the Gothic mode intersects with cultural production in Spain today, considering some of the ways in which such production feeds off and simultaneously feeds into Gothic production more widely.

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Book SynopsisThis innovative volume presents for the first time collective expertise on women's magazines and periodicals of the long eighteenth century.

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Book SynopsisProvides acomprehensive and original guide to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and other writing, including literary criticism and prose fiction.

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Book SynopsisContemporary Spanish Gothic' is the first book to study how the Gothic mode intersects with cultural production in Spain today, considering some of the ways in which such production feeds off and simultaneously feeds into Gothic production more widely.

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Book SynopsisIncluding thirty-two newly written chapters on representations by and of refugees from leading researchers in the field, Refugee Imaginaries establishes the case for placing the study of the refugee at the centre of contemporary critical enquiry.

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Book SynopsisXu Xu and Wumingshi were among the most widely read authors in China during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). This groundbreaking book re-establishes their importance within the popular Chinese literature of the 1940swith in-depth analyses of their innovative short stories and novels.

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Book SynopsisVolume 3 of the new authoritative edition of Katherine Mansfield's complete correspondence

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Book SynopsisThis forward-thinking reference volume draws on new developments in philosophy including speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, the new materialisms, posthumanism, analytic philosophy of language and metaphysics, and ecophilosophy alongside close readings of a range of texts from the literary canon.

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Book SynopsisThe Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories showcases the latest approaches to diverse narratives across many media and in numerous disciplines.

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Book SynopsisWomen's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s draws attention to the wide range of postwar print cultures for women. The collection spans domestic, cultural and feminist magazines and extends to ephemera, novels and other printed matter as well as digital magazine formats.

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Book SynopsisVolume 4 is devoted to the last years (1857-64); while age and declining health saw a waning of the composer's personal optimism, this was hardly the case artistically speaking. This last volume contains a series of glossaries listing his compositions and the musical and theatrical works he attended throughout his life, as well as a bibliography of the composer, his contemporaries, and the operatic and social milieu of the times.

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Book SynopsisEdith Wharton enjoyed a complex relationship with earlymodernism. On the one hand, as a writer committed to the seriousness of novel writing as an art, her love of French literature and her close relationship with Henry James made her open to experiment. Other elements in her circumstances made her resistant to change. She enjoyed enormous success with The House of Mirth, and the public clearly demanded more from her in this style. That novel's naturalism and didactic purpose, Peel argues, conformed to her own belief in the moral purpose of literature, and ultimately Wharton's reading of politics, culture, and society led her to abandon modernistic experiment for ethical, rather than aesthetic reasons. Apart from Modernism explores the political and cultural influences that helped shape Edith Wharton. Peel examines such subjects as her politics, her relationship to bohemianism and modernist experiment, and her idea of the good society through a discussion of her fiction 1900 - 1915, starting with a survey of the early novellas and novels such as The Valley of Decision, The House of Mirth, and The Fruit of the Tree, before concentrating in detail on the years which saw the publication of The Reef, Ethan Frome, and The Custom of the Country. Important issues such as Wharton's reading of gender, empire, and class form a central part of this discussion. The study emphasizes the crucial role that Wharton's contact with Europe had on her writing, and the significance intellectually and politically of her relationship with Morton Fullerton and her reading of his books on politics. It locates Wharton in her period, surrounded as she was by discourses which called for political and social change, change which an outlook that Peel calls 'American Toryism' made her reluctant to embrace. Her love of motorcars and her excitement about other technological developments such as aeroplanes was inspired by a feeling of exclusivity and not the democratization of culture, whic

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Book SynopsisThis book scrutinizes the genre of the author-as-character with respect to three broad issues–authorship, the posthumous, and cultural revisionism–that arise in reading such works from a contemporary perspective. Late twentieth-century fiction 'postmodernizes' romantic and modern authors not only to understand them better, but also to understand itself in relation to a past (literary tradition, aesthetic paradigms, cultural formations, etc.) that has not really passed. Penelope Fitzgerald's 'The Blue Flower', Peter Ackroyd's 'The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde and Chatterton', Peter Carey's 'Jack Maggs', Michael Cunningham's 'The Hours', Colm Toibin's 'The Master', and Geoff Dyer's 'Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence - 'the mighty dead' (Harold Bloom) are brought back to life, reanimated and bodied forth in new textual bodies that project a postmodern understanding of the author as a historically and culturally contingent subjectivity constructed along the lines of gender, sexual orientation, class, and nationality.

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Book SynopsisAs a result of fabricated accounts endlessly repeated since his death, the early nineteenth-century French satirist, J. J.Grandville (180347), is often perceived as being as bizarre as his inventive protosurrealist imagery. With the recent bicentennial of his birth, it is time for a reassessment of this seminal artist based on primary sources. The Diary of J. J. Grandville and the Missouri Album: The Life of an Opposition Caricaturist and Romantic Book Illustrator in Paris under the July Monarchy by Clive F. Getty does just that. This first major study in English of Grandville allows him to speak for himself through a careful examination of his diary, fragments of which are to be found in a previously unexamined album of drawings in the Special Collections of the University of Missouri-Columbia Libraries.An introductory biography situates the artist within the political, social,and cultural climate of France during the Romantic era and the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe. The main body of the book consists of an annotated catalog of the albums drawings. Since the majority originate from his diaries, they provide valuable new insights into Grandville's life and work, particularly during those years most extensively represented: 1830, 1833, and 1846. An epilogue explores the genesis of the Missouri Album. The biography follows Grandville from his native Nancy to Paris where he first gained fame as a satirist with the human/ animal hybrids of Les Mtamorphoses du jour (182829). After the Revolution of 1830, he produced opposition caricatures for Philipons La Caricature, Le Charivari, and the Association mensuelle. With the establishment of press censorship in 1835, Grandville turned to book illustration, producing such innovative masterpiecesas Scnes de la vie prive et pub-liquedes animaux (1842) and Un autre monde (1844). The biography ends with the unusual circumstances of Grandville's death in 1847 and an analysis of the distorted accounts about the deceased artist andTrade ReviewJ. J. Grandville's work is central to any understanding of modern Parisian culture during the Romantic Age. His early embrace of lithography, delight in the far reaches of the imagination, and fierce commitment to liberal politics sets him apart from hispeers. Not even Daumier, with his Balzacian wit, perceptive powers of observation, and vigorous and descriptive graphic line could compare to the bohemian-influenced, satiric range of Grandville's pen drawings and lithographs. In many ways, the impudent,whip whirling gnomish figure on the masthead of the satirical journal La Caricature stands as Grandville's self-image: delighting in the masquerade of carnival, he revels in the humiliation of the staid, self-important, bourgeoisie. Clive Getty has already published a ground breaking study of Grandville's drawings, Grandville: Dessins originaux (Nancy, 1986). And now he has turned his encyclopedic knowledge of the artist's life and work to the publication of Grandville's Missouri Album, a little known album of drawings many of them intimate sketches, almost doodles, of initial ideas with excerpts of the artist's diaries. The album gives us insight into the culture and preoccupation of this quintessential Romantic artist, from the social whirl of soires to -- James Cuno, Art Institute of ChicagoJ. J. Grandville's work is central to any understanding of modern Parisian culture during the Romantic Age. His early embrace of lithography, delight in the far reaches of the imagination, and fierce commitment to liberal politics sets him apart from his peers. Not even Daumier, with his Balzacian wit, perceptive powers of observation, and vigorous and descriptive graphic line could compare to the bohemian-influenced, satiric range of Grandville's pen drawings and lithographs. In many ways, the impudent,whip whirling gnomish figure on the masthead of the satirical journal La Caricature stands as Grandville's self-image: delighting in the masquerade of carnival, he revels in the humiliation of the staid, self-important, bourgeoisie. Clive Getty has already published a ground breaking study of Grandville's drawings, Grandville: Dessins originaux (Nancy, 1986). And now he has turned his encyclopedic knowledge of the artist's life and work to the publication of Grandville's Missouri Album, a little known album of drawings many of them intimate sketches, almost doodles, of initial ideas with excerpts of the artist's diaries. The album gives us insight into the culture and preoccupation of this quintessential Romantic artist, from the social whirl of soires to the cafe disputes of oppositional politics to visits to the Jardin des Plantes and the Tuileries Gardens. This book makes a most valuable contribution to our understanding of the artistic culture of Paris at the turn of the July Monarchy, and should be read by anyone interested in the world of Balzac, Hugo, and even the emerging Baudelaire. They all intersect in the imaginative universe of J. J. Grandville. -- James Cuno, Art Institute of ChicagoThis volume combines a short biography of the life of French caricaturist and book illustrator J.J. Grandville (1803-1847) with a systematic catalog of a previously unexamined album of his drawings from the years 1830 to 1846 in the Special Collections of the U. of Missouri-Columbia Libraries. The album is notable for more than just the drawings in that it also contains a significant number of excerpts from Grandville's diaries and thus allow for a fuller understanding of Grandville's life and work. * Book News, Inc. *

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