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Book SynopsisThis book treats the literary work of Julia Augusta Webster within the context of Websters participation in nineteenth century British aestheticism. Websters personal life, her experience as a member of the Suffrage Society and her tenure on the London School Board, as well as her position as poetry reviewer for the Athenaeum and participation in the salon society of the 1880s, inform her later work, but her earliest poetry and fiction also reflect the beginnings of the aestheticist perspective on the transience and impermanence of life. This book makes use of extensive archival materials to provide context for a study of Websters literary work, beginning with her first volume of poetry Blanche Lisle and concluding with her posthumously published Mother and Daughter sonnets. In tracing the trajectory of Websters development as an aestheticist poet, Patricia Rigg extends Webster scholarship into areas of the writers work not previously explored.

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Book SynopsisThe subject of this book-an Italian-born exiled Prince-has become an icon of misjudged romanticism and Scottish nationalism; much of this is due to the way he has been portrayed over the years. This study traces how the enduring visual image of Prince Charles Edward Stuart was created, beginning with his birth in 1720 and ending with the exhibition of John Pettie's Prince Charles Edward Stuart Entering the Ballroom at Holyrood - probably still the most enduring and popular image of the Stuart prince-at the Royal Academy in 1892. This book considers the role of portraiture in the Stuart court, both before and after exile in 1688 and how the well-established traditions of royal portraiture and image-making were used by the Stuart dynasty to promote their ambitions and stature. Charles's birth in 1720 resulted in a flurry of portrait commissions in which he was depicted as the royal heir apparent. The messianic role with which he was invested reached its apotheosis with the Jacobite uprising of 1745. He adopted the costume and manners of an idealized Highland chieftain and within the space of a few months created an abiding iconography which was to endure long after his death. The major portraits of Charles executed during his lifetime are considered, from the early court portraits of Antonio David and Domenico Dupra to the final images of a broken man by Ozias Humphrey and Hugh Douglas Hamilton. Alongside this, there is a thorough examination of a parallel phenomenon in which works of art, observing established parameters, were copied and adapted, and then re-copied, until the tartan-clad ideal of 1745 began to eclipse the real person. The revering of Charles Edward and the manufacture of items bearing his likeness are compared to other "cults" of the individual and contrasted with the "commercialization of politics" which several commentators have identified as a coherent phenomenon of late eighteenth-century British life. The extent to which the material culture that surrounded the persona of CharTrade Review"Mr. Nicholson's fruitfully eclectic methodology enables him to deal insightfully with both 'high' and 'low' art. He takes full advantage of his position as curator of the Drambuie Liqueur Company (Edinburgh) collection of Scottish and Jacobite art." -- Vincent Carretta, author of Equiano: The African

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores a wide range of Victorian texts, including novels, poems, sermons, and some less easily categorized writings, in terms of their use of language and imagery suggestive of the Apocalypse. The focus is less upon the conscious or deliberate use of the Apocalypse as a source of sublime metaphors or as a guide to cultural decline than on the ways in which certain tropes recur in the writings of the period. These can be characterized in terms of oppositions that both structure apocalyptic literature and characterize much Victorian writing: human/inhuman, desert/city, veiled/revealed, time/the eternal, this world/other world. The book sets out to show that what might be called a cultural affinity exists between the writing of the Victorian era and apocalyptic literature, and to argue that such a relationship was unavoidable for a society steeped in the bible as it confronted dramatic changes in its relationships with nature, God, and time.Trade Review"The lucid and sensitive readings in this monograph enrich our understanding. They reveal a great deal about the layers of Victorian apocalypse, without ever removing the veil imagined so powerfully by different apocalyptic writers." -- Mark Knight * Roehampton University, Literature and Theology, 22.4, December 2008 *

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Book SynopsisEnrique Lihn (1929-1988), winner of the Premio Casa de las Amèricas (Poesía de paso, 1966), was one of Chile's most significant creative minds of the twentieth century. Surprising his predecessors, inspiring his contemporaries, and always venerated by younger inheritors of his legacy, he is as important to the Latin American literary community as Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, or Nicanor Parra. This book provides a detailed study of all major stages of his literary production, from his third book, La pieza oscura [The Dark Room] (1963) to his posthumous Diario de Muerte [Diary of Dying] (1989). A critical introduction provides an orientation to Lihn's work as related to the critical apparatus of Western Marxism and postmodern theory. An additional auxiliary section comes between chapters two and three, accommodating the vary significant change in historical period from the pre- to post-Pinochet eras, and further investigating Theodor Adorno's provocative questioning of whether "art after Auschwitz" can truly exist.

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Book SynopsisThis book is about an alternative mode of reading, thinking, and representing the intricacies of human experience in Chinese literature of the late twentieth century, which the author calls the aesthetics of the 'beyond.' It investigates how contemporary Chinese writers, by means of dynamic interface of literary practice and cultural philosophical considerations, engage the reader in critical reflection on and aesthetic appreciation of the complexity of human conditions. By studying the 'beyond' in its various manifestations: the semiotics of human embodiment, the discourse of the phantasm, the politics of nostalgia with regard to 'origin' and 'center,' and the metaphysics of death in the writings of some major contemporary Chinese writers, the book explores the ways in which the 'beyond' is constructed as a new paradigm of critical thinking in literary, aesthetic, and philosophical terms. It examines how its discursive strategies, structural features, and aesthetic possibilities are presented and how varied literary tropes are used in an attempt to unravel human experience in all its aspects.

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Book SynopsisThis book builds upon critical reevaluations of modernism and British literature of the 1930s with a simultaneous focus on discourses of race, gender, and empire. The essays direct attention to the complications and ambivalence accumulating around the meanings of Englishness. They reject analyses of texts as chronicles of personal psychological development in favor of analyses that assume texts are shaped by their authors' public intellectual involvement. In addition, they offer detailed, specific explorations of ways in which British women in the 1930s narrativize empire and war. Thus they will resonate with significance for readers in the early twenty-first century for women empire and war, as well as terror and security, are part of the discourse of everyday life.

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Book SynopsisThis book begins with a study of the few ancient texts which provide the source material for all subsequent accounts of the seventh-century British queen Boudica and her ferocious yet ultimately unsuccessful rebellion against the Romans. It shows how their information was assembled over centuries to create the entity we know as Boudica as an individual, including her appearance, personal ties and home life. It follows by discussing their opinions on the atrocities she suffered and committed, their assessment of her fitness for command and chances of victory, and the spiritual, political and national implications of her rebellion, concluding with a brief examination of ways in which writers have invited others to share her story. Are her metamorphoses without limits, governed solely by the requirements of individual authors, or variations on a distinctive theme, generated by a flexible yet enduring narrative pattern?

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Book SynopsisThreshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity is a study of the challenge intersubjective experience poses to doctrinal formulations of difference. Focusing on Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes and using feminist and relational psychoanalytic theory, the project examines representations of looking, working, eating, conversing, and touching, to argue that encounters between selves in 'threshold space' dismantle the binary oppositions that support categorical thinking. A key term throughout the study is recognition, defined as the capacity to tolerate both sameness and difference between separate selves. Recognition of likeness-in-difference thus undermines the exclusionary logic of patriarchal and political hierarchies. Both Eve and Dalila demonstrate the ability to respect the borders of the other while seeking out similarity, but where Paradise Lost depicts the eventual achievement of intersubjective understanding between Adam and Eve after the fall, Samson Agonistes records its failure when Samson, maintaining the boundaries of difference, refuses Dalila's effort to make contact.

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Book SynopsisGleaning Modernity shows how earlier eighteenth-century literary texts might have eased the way for Britain's increasing modernity. They allowed Modern scenarios to be played out imaginatively, as simulations for experimental, predictive ends. The process spoke to the needs and desires of readers in a world of rapid, managed change. It worked unobtrusively first because of the practice of recycling old forms, as Pope and Richardson did, for example, with Horatian and tragic models, respectively; and second because given texts offered different readers a range of interpretative options. Along with providing original readings of such major texts as Gulliver's Travels and Clarissa, this study enlarges our sense of the Modernizing process. It also shows how a consumer-driven Darwinian model of adaptive change, affecting literature and its readership, can help us understand the ways in which literature can have social efficacy.

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive study of the literary output of Sir John Suckling reconstructs the various contexts in which the poems, plays, letters, and prose tracts were produced and, by means of close textual analysis, reveals the nature of one writer's engagement_both creative and subversive_with the social, religious, political, and cultural dimensions of Caroline England. It challenges the common view of Suckling as primarily a court wit and courtier playwright and makes a case for reading much of his poetry and drama as a critique of the social values and aesthetic fashions associated with the patronage of Queen Henrietta Maria. In other words, this so-called 'Cavalier' is revealed as an astute and skeptical commentator on national and international affairs, whose discontent with the religious and political consequences of King Charles I's government during the 1630s was often at odds with his unshakable loyalty to the crown.

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Book Synopsis“All aspiring authors know the value of a great literary agent, but few know how to get one. Lucinda Halpern has written the definitive guide to attracting an agent and laying the groundwork for a book well worth publishing.” — Adam Grant, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Think Again and Hidden Potential, and host of the TED podcast Re:ThinkingIn this practical, immediately actionable guide, Lucinda Halpern, who has represented New York Times bestsellers and brokered numerous deals with major publishers for over a decade, divulges what agents look for in authors and the shortcuts they use to get book deals but have never revealed—until now. Lucinda has personally helped hundreds of writers and entrepreneurs launch timeless, best-selling books. But the path to literary success begins with knowing the answers to questions like: · How do I make my book idea marketable to agents and publishers? · What essential ingredients should my book pitch possess? · What common pitfalls and errors should I avoid? · How do I find a reputable agent who shares my vision? · What can I do if I'm getting rejected by agents and publishers? With her unique 6-step method, Lucinda provides the tools and concrete strategies to: · Write a query letter that gets an agent's attention · Build an effective marketing platform · Create a timeless bestseller Packed with interviews from best-selling authors, leading book editors from Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette, and more, Get Signed is the indispensable roadmap you need right now to get noticed and become a published author.

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Book SynopsisThe twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion of speculative fiction in translation (SFT). Rachel Cordasco examines speculative fiction published in English translation since 1960, ranging from Soviet-era fiction to the Arabic-language dystopias that emerged following the Iraq War. Individual chapters on SFT from Korean, Czech, Finnish, and eleven other source languages feature an introduction by an expert in the language's speculative fiction tradition and its present-day output. Cordasco then breaks down each chapter by subgenre--including science fiction, fantasy, and horror--to guide readers toward the kinds of works that most interest them. Her discussion of available SFT stands alongside an analysis of how various subgenres emerged and developed in a given language. She also examines the reasons a given subgenre has been translated into English. An informative and one-of-a-kind guide, Out of This World offers readers and scholars alike a tour of speculative fiction's new glTrade Review"Out of this World: Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium establishes an essential element of the genre's infrastructure." --Science Fiction Studies"A really great introduction to translated speculative fiction that deserves to have its flag enthusiastically waved. . . . Can't recommend this book highly enough to those who want to learn more about the world of speculative fiction out there." --BookforagerTable of ContentsIntroduction ixArabic-Language SFT 1Chinese-Language SFT 12Czech-Language SFT 24Finnish-Language SFT 33French-Language SFT 47German-Language SFT 81Hebrew-Language SFT 105Italian-Language SFT 115Japanese-Language SFT 133Korean-Language SFT 167Polish-Language SFT 178Russian-Language SFT 197Spanish-Language SFT 225Swedish-Language SFT 258Resources 271Acknowledgments 273Contributors 275Index 279

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Book SynopsisStudents of English literature now rarely receive instruction in versification (theory or practice) at either the undergraduate or the graduate level. The Long and the Short of It is a clear, straightforward account of versification that also functions as an argument for a renewed attention to the formal qualities of verse and for a renewed awareness of the forms and traditions that have shaped the way we think about English verse. After an introduction and discussion of basic principles, Joseph A. Dane devotes a chapter to quantitative verse (Latin), syllabic or isosyllabic verse (French), and accentual verse (Old English/Germanic). In addition to basic versification systems, the book includes a chapter on musical forms, since verse was originally sung. Most serious studies of these systems in English have been designed for language students, and are not accessible to students of English literature or general readers. This book will enable the reader to scan verse in Trade Review“Joseph Dane’s The Long and the Short of It is simply the clearest, most concise, and also the most elegant book about versification that I have ever read. What a relief to have this extraordinary tool for the classroom and to be able to pass it along to friends who are poetry readers as well. Dane's section on “The Power of Music” is a revelation in its discussion of the practical distinctions between systems of literary and musical notation. This is a long overdue and remarkably precise guide to those practices that have too often remained mysterious to many readers of poetry, both old and new.” —David St. John, University of Southern California“This book makes an original contribution in its approach, which demonstrates how English prosody depends on and derives from the metrical systems of earlier poetic forms. But it does more than that: it brings into one place a succinct description of Latin prosody—surprisingly hard to find—that is then linked to other forms students might have heard of in other classes.” —Sarah Spence, University of Georgia"This is a remarkably clear, succinct, and at times witty handbook to literary versification. Its primary goal is to explain the basic forms of prosody in Latin, French, English, and the older Germanic languages. Students of literature, and of creative writing, need to understand that verbal expression is not the unmediated release of sensibility but the crafted and highly nuanced organization of that sensibility in forms." —Seth Lerer, University of California, San Diego“ . . . Dane has ‘made a career’ publishing books that challenge consensus on common myths in the field: ‘the critical mythology of irony,’ ‘the myth of a “textualized” Chaucer,’ and ‘the myth of print culture.’ In this latest book, Dane challenges the ubiquitous notion of iambic pentameter as a purely English form, arguing instead for the simpler practice of counting syllables. A helpful glossary of terms is included. Studious undergraduates may find explanations and models of forms (which appear in the original language as well as in translation) helpful.” —Choice

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Book SynopsisThe first full account of North America's largest collection of traditional Irish-language manuscripts.Harvard University has the largest collection of Irish-language codices in North America, held in Houghton Library, its rare book repository. The manuscripts are a part of the age-old heritage of Irish book production, dating to the early Middle Ages. Handwritten works in Houghton contain versions of medieval poetry and sagas, recopied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to which period most of the library's documents belong. Contemporary writings from that time, as well as ones by the post-Famine Irish immigrant community in the United States, are included. This catalogue describes the collection in full for the first time and will be an invaluable aid to research on Irish and Irish American cultural and literary output. The author's introduction examines how the collection was formed. This untold story is an important chapter in America's intellectual historTrade Review"The catalogue is thoroughly researched, well indexed, and beautifully produced. It should unquestionably lead many more Irish scholars to the door of Houghton Library." —Cambrian Medieval Celtic StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Accentual verse 2. Ogham; accentual verse 3. Ossianic verse; tale 4. Manuscript and book catalogues 5. Accentual verse; prophecies; anecdotes 6. Book of the O’Byrnes 7. Ossianic and accentual verse 8. Lecture to Philo-Celtic Society 9. Accentual verse; tale 10. Ossianic and accentual verse 11. Grammar; accentual verse 12. Tales 13. Accentual verse 14. Ossianic verse; tale 15. Life of St Finbarr 16. Tales 17. Accentual verse; tale 18. Folktales 19. Tale; Ossianic and accentual verse 20. Genealogies 21. Tales; accentual and Ossianic verse 22. Ossianic and accentual verse; tale 23. Religious prose; devotional and Ossianic verse 24. Reserved number 25. O’Clery’s Glossary 26. Trinity College, Dublin, Ms. H.3.18 (part) (photostat) 27. Drama of Christ’s Birth 28. Religious prose; syllabic and accentual verse 29. Royal Irish Academy, Ms. 23 A 46 (photostat) 30. Royal Irish Academy, Ms. 23 A 47 (photostat) 31. Royal Irish Academy, Ms. 23 A 33 (photostat) 32. Royal Irish Academy, Ms. 23 B 3 (photostat) 33. Maclean Manuscript (photostat) 34. Proverbs 35. Accentual verse; anecdote 36. Oidhche Sheanchais (documentary film) 37. Ridire an Chlóca Uaithne 38. Religious prose; verse 39. Trompa na bhFlaitheas 40. Accentual and Ossianic verse 41. Tale; accentual verse 42. Ossianic and accentual verse; tales 43. Frontier prose and verse 44. Frontier verse 45. Dictionary 46. Bibliography 47. Texts from Leabhar Breac

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Book SynopsisThe Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey from an international galaxy of scholars writing new pieces, specifically for a student readership, under the editorship of Duncan Wu.Trade Review"A major contribution to our understanding and appreciation of the period in which Wordsworth and his contemporaries lived and worked." The Keswick Reminder "It is a collection which will no doubt have extensive use in any library. It provides a sound and up-to-date introduction to contexts, ideas, approaches and texts, and frequently goes further than a mere introduction." Chris Jones, University of Wales, Bangor "Meticulously scholarly. An essential student course book." Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. . Part I: Contexts and Perspectives 1790-1830. 1. Romanticism: The Brief History of a Concept (Seamus Perry). 2. Preromanticism (Michael Tolley). 3. From Revolution to Romanticism: The Historical Context from 1800 (David Duff). 4. Beyond the Enlightenment: the Philosophical, Scientific, and Religious Inheritance (Peter Kitson). 5. Britain at War: The Historical Context (Philip Shaw). 6. Literature and Religion (Maey Wedd). 7. The Picturesque, the Beautiful, and the Sublime (Nicola Trott). 8. The Romantic Reader (Stephen C. Behrendt) . Part II: Readings. 9. William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Nelson Hilton). 10. Edmund Burke, Reflections Upon the Revolution in France (David Bromwich). 11. Charlotte Smith, The Old Manor House (Miranda Burgess). 12. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel (Seamus Perry). 13. Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (Scott McEathron). 14. Dorothy Wordsworth, Journals (Pamela Woof). 15. Joanna Baillie, A Series of Plays (Janice Patten). 16. William Wordsworth, The Prelude (Jonathan Wordsworth). 17. Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin (John Strachan). 18. Mary Tighe, Psyche (John Anderson). 19. Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head (Jacqueline Labbe). 20. Walter Scott, Waverley (Fiona Robertson). 21. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Beth Lau). 22. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (John Beer). 23. John Keats, Odes (John Creaser). 24. George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan (Jane Stabler). 25. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (Michael O'Neill). 26. Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Damian Walford Davies). 27. Charles Lamb, Elia (Duncan Wu). 28. William Hazlitt, Spirit of the Age (Bonnie Woodbery). 29. Letitia Landon (L. E. L.), The Improvisatrice (Adam Roberts). 30. John Clare, The Shepherd's Calendar (John Lucas). 31. Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman (Adam Roberts). Part III: Genres and Modes. 32. The Romantic Drama (Frederick Burwick). 33. The Novel (John Sutherland). 34. Gothic Fiction (David S. Miall). 35. Parody and Imitation (Graeme Stones). 36. Travel Writing (James A. Butler). 37. Romantic Literary Criticism (Seamus Perry) . Part IV: Issues and Debates. 38. Romanticism and Gender (Susan J. Wolfson). 39. Romanticism and Feminism (Elizabeth Fay). 40. New Historicism (David Simpson). 41. Romantic Ecology (Tony Pinkney). 42. Psychological Approaches (Douglas B. Wilson). 43. Dialogic Approaches (Michael James Sider). 44. The Romantic Fragment (Anne Janowitz). 45. Performative Language and Speech-Act Theory (Angela Easthammer). 46. Slavery and Romantic Writing (Alan Richardson). 47. Apocalypse and Millennium (Morton D. Paley). 48. The Romantic Imagination (Jonathan Wordsworth). 49. England and Germany (Rosemary Ashton). 50. Romantic Responses to Science (Ian Wylie). 51. Shakespeare and the Romantics (Frederick Burwick). 52. Milton and the Romantics (Nicola Trott). Index.

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Book SynopsisSarah Iles Johnston argues that the nature of myths as gripping tales starring vivid characters enabled them to do their most important work: sustaining belief in the gods and heroes of Greek religion. She shows how Greek myths—and the stories told by all cultures—affect our shared view of the cosmos and the creatures who inhabit it.Trade ReviewWith unparalleled audacity and finesse, Sarah Iles Johnston cuts loose from traditional scholarship and connects us with the complicated, mysterious, high-wattage world of Greek myths. How did they gather their power and energize audiences? Johnston shows us how stories about Zeus, Theseus, Arachne, or Hecate not only entertained, engaged, and animated in their time but also did the important cultural work of shaping beliefs and values. -- Maria Tatar, author of Enchanted Hunters and coeditor of The Annotated African American FolktalesWhy people tell stories based on myths and how they come to believe those stories is central to understanding religion. In this compelling book, Sarah Johnston offers brilliant new analyses of the Greek myths and the stories through which they circulated in the ancient world. It will change the way in which we talk about myths, Greek literature, and religion. -- T. M. Luhrmann, author of When God Talks BackSarah Johnston has produced a wholly original treatment of ancient Greek mythology. Writing with verve and lucidity, she gives us a new way to understand myth’s enduring power to speak to us all. -- Peter Struck, author of Divination and Human NatureThe Story of Myth provides a vivid and clear account of how Greek myths engage ancient and modern audiences both cognitively and emotionally. Johnston probes the rich, elaborate evidence found in myths to uncover what the ancient Greeks thought and felt about their world. Using comparisons that range from the ancient myths of other cultures to contemporary movies and television series, Johnston shows parallels in modes of thought and expression while highlighting what makes Greek mythology distinctive. -- Radcliffe Edmonds, author of Myths of the Underworld JourneyAn excellent overview of Greek myth. -- Robert A. Segal * Times Higher Education *In this elegantly written, meticulously researched volume, Johnston invites the reader to consider how ancient Greek audiences experienced myths and to take seriously the narrative forms, rich with plots and characters (many gods, even more heroes), in which these compositions appeared. * Choice *Entertaining and clarifying. -- Carl Rudbeck * Svenska Dagbladet *Johnston is to be commended for such an informed, clear, and impressive work, which brings Greek myth back to the core of Greek religion and religious belief in Greek antiquity. -- Nickolas P. Roubekas * Religious Studies Review *

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Book SynopsisThe papers collected in The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny explore the legacy for which James Loeb is best known, the Loeb Classical Library, and the three series it inspired, and take stock of these series in light of more general themes bearing on translations of classical texts and their audiences.Trade ReviewAn excellent collection shedding light on many facets of the translation (and publication) of classical literature. * Complete Review *Thought-provoking…Illustrates how much the ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and South Asian ‘classics’ have to offer us, either in the original or in translation…The illuminating chapters on the four Libraries provide a major contribution to the field of classical publications and demonstrate that bilingual editions are a promising topic within the study of translations. -- Mirte Liebregts * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

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Book SynopsisIn a culture of the Self that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, we spare little thought for the great ideals courage, contemplation, and compassion that once gave life meaning. Here, Mark Edmundson makes an impassioned attempt to defend the value of these ancient ideals and to resurrect Soul in the modern world.

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Book SynopsisEvery writer is a player in the marketplace for literature. Jonathan Paine locates the economics ingrained within the stories themselves, showing how the business of literature affects even storytelling devices such as genre, plot, and repetition. In this new model of criticism, the text is a record of its author’s sales pitch.Trade ReviewThis is a remarkable, pathbreaking book. I found myself consistently challenged and engaged by its arguments. The book is most impressive in its suggestions as to how economic concerns are represented through strictly literary devices. Paine shows how works are shaped by their authors’ position in regard to literary value. He fascinatingly recasts what it means to read The Brothers Karamazov, and offers a genuinely new approach to Dostoevsky, Balzac, and Zola. -- Eric Naiman, University of California, BerkeleyPaine’s survey of these three novelists is masterful…As he depicts them, Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Zola are neither puppets of an inexorable free market nor puppeteers of their readers’ false consciousness. Instead, Paine shows how economic concerns, as one guiding force among many, influenced their creative impulses, but did not—in naive Marxian fashion—overdetermine them…[A] considerable achievement. -- Marta Figlerowicz * Public Books *Jonathan Paine provides a breath of fresh air for nineteenth-century fiction studies, especially for studies of Dostoevsky. -- William Mills Todd III, Harvard UniversityScrupulously situates each text within its historical context and adroitly mobilizes pertinent histories of finance and business…effectively demonstrates the importance of social, cultural, and economic history for literary analysis. -- Erika Vause * Journal of Modern History *An interesting, well-written consideration of important relationships between authors and their public in the 19th century. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Helpful spin-offs from an acclaimed 'mother volume.'"--Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Alphabetical List of Entries xi Bibliographical Abbreviations xiii General Abbreviations xvii Contributors xix Entries A to Z 1 Index 393

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Book Synopsis"The articles in this reference book, all fully updated and from the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Fourth Edition, provide a complete survey of the poetic history and practice in over 100 major national, regional, and diasporic literatures and language traditions throughout the world"--Trade Review"Helpful spin-offs from an acclaimed 'mother volume.'"--Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Alphabetical List of Entries xi Bibliographical Abbreviations xiii General Abbreviations xvii Contributors xix Entries A to Z 1 Index 613

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Book Synopsis"The articles in this reference book, all fully updated and from the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Fourth Edition, provide a complete survey of the poetic history and practice in over 100 major national, regional, and diasporic literatures and language traditions throughout the world"--Trade Review"Helpful spin-offs from an acclaimed 'mother volume.'"--Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Alphabetical List of Entries xi Bibliographical Abbreviations xiii General Abbreviations xvii Contributors xix Entries A to Z 1 Index 613

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Helpful spin-offs from an acclaimed 'mother volume.'"--Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Alphabetical List of Entries xi Bibliographical Abbreviations xiii General Abbreviations xvii Contributors xix Entries A to Z 1 Index 393

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Book SynopsisTrade Review'[…] cette recherche, appuyée sur une parfaite connaissance de la littérature critique – voir l’abondante bibliographie très à jour – constitue enfin une très intéressante contribution aux nouvelles voies d’analyse de la lexicographie historique comparée.'- Recherches sur Diderot et sur l’‘Encyclopédie’'In his Conclusion, Loveland argues that the study of little-known encyclopedias adds to our understanding of the more famous ones. This fascinating account of one such example will be of value to readers interested in many issues of publishing and readership in the eighteenth century.'- French StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Coetlogon’s life and autobiography2. The publication of the Universal history3. The compilation of the Universal history4. A novel organisational plan5. Advertising in and around encyclopedias6. A polemical encyclopediaConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis edition presents photographs and transcriptions of three revised typescripts of "Oedipus at Colonus" that Yeats prepared and extensively revised over a period of eight-and-a-half months and a reading text based on the first publication of the play.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review""[A] volume that has earned a place on every Langland scholar's shelves, and will make an important contribution to future work on Piers Plowman."" * Speculum *"Of all the poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman is the one that most deserves and needs annotation of the fullest and best possible kind, both because it is a text of unrivaled literary quality and interest, and because it is characteristically knotty and deploys a language of unusual richness, density, and allusiveness. Much of this allusiveness is to areas of learning that are not at every modern reader's fingertips. A particular difficulty is the existence of the poem in three authorial versions of almost desperate complexity. It will be an immense triumph to have a commentary which elucidates their relationships as a matter of policy and not simply as the result of conflating annotation on the different versions." * Derek Pearsall *"The Penn Commentary series is not for first-time readers or undergraduates to purchase or to read directly, but it will serve as a reference work for teachers prepping class at any level and for advanced scholars pursuing new work on the poem. Lawler's 500-page volume, like the three already published, is a font of knowledge, critical, historical, literary, theological, and bibliographical." * The Medieval Review *Table of ContentsNote to the Reader Preface C Passus 15; B Passūs 13-14 C Passus 16; B Passūs 14-15 C Passus 17; B Passus 15 C Passus 18; B Passus 16 C Passus 19; B Passus 17 Works Cited Index Passages Cited

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Book SynopsisThe Harlem Renaissance, a broad artistic movement of the 1920s and early '30s was one of the most productive eras in American literary history. This title provides coverage and insight into the literature of the Harlem Renaissance. It has more than 800 entries that explain how the writer, work, or idea helped shape American literature.

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Book SynopsisA three-volume, hardcover set of Gary Scharnhorst’s biography of Samuel Clemens that includes The Life of Mark Twain: The Early Years, 1835-1871; The Life of Mark Twain: The Middle Years, 1871-1891; and The Life of Mark Twain: The Final Years, 1891-1910.

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Book SynopsisAn advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory, The Encyclopedia of the Novel offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, genre and theory of the novel.Table of ContentsAlphabetical List of Entries vii List of Entries by Topic ix Editors xi Board of Advisors xii Contributors xiv Introduction xvii Acknowledgments xx The Novel A–Z 1 Index of Novelists 691 General Index 736

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Book SynopsisPresents information about the range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901. This work explains issues such as Victorian religions, class structure and Darwinism. It is suitable for students and researchers seeking coverage of contexts and trends, or as a starting point for a survey course.Trade Review"These are wonderful essays [...] written by important scholars in the field. [...]Highly recommended." Choice "another Blackwell reference work of prodigious proportions [...] by a galaxy of distinguished scholars [...] indispensable for any comprehensive reference library, destined indeed to be of permanent value and importance for many years to come." Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viii The Contributors ix Introduction 1Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing Part I Historical Contexts and Cultural Issues 9 1 The Publishing World 11Kelly J. Mays 2 Education, Literacy, and the Victorian Reader 31Jonathan Rose 3 Money, the Economy, and Social Class 48Regenia Gagnier 4 Victorian Psychology 67Athena Vrettos 5 Empire, Race, and the Victorian Novel 84Deirdre David 6 The Victorian Novel and Religion 101Hilary Fraser 7 Scientific Ascendancy 119John Kucich 8 Technology and Information: Accelerating Developments 137Christopher Keep 9 Laws, the Legal World, and Politics 155John R. Reed 10 Gender Politics and Women’s Rights 172Hilary M. Schor 11 The Other Arts: Victorian Visual Culture 189Jeffrey Spear 12 Imagined Audiences: The Novelist and the Stage 207Renata Kobetts Miller Part II Forms of the Victorian Novel 225 13 Newgate Novel to Detective Fiction 227F. S. Schwarzbach 14 The Historical Novel 244John Bowen 15 The Sensation Novel 260Winifred Hughes 16 The Bildungsroman 279John R. Maynard 17 The Gothic Romance in the Victorian Period 302Cannon Schmitt 18 The Provincial or Regional Novel 318Ian Duncan 19 Industrial and “Condition of England” Novels 336James Richard Simmons, Jr. 20 Children’s Fiction 353Lewis C. Roberts 21 Victorian Science Fiction 370Patrick Brantlinger Part III Victorian and Modern Theories of the Novel and the Reception of Novels and Novelists Then and Now 385 22 The Receptions of Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy 387Elizabeth Langland 23 Victorian Theories of the Novel 406Joseph W. Childers 24 Modern and Postmodern Theories of Prose Fiction 424Audrey Jaffe 25 The Afterlife of the Victorian Novel: Novels about Novels 442Anne Humpherys 26 The Victorian Novel in Film and on Television 458Joss Marsh and Kamilla Elliott Index 478

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Book SynopsisThe result is an easy-to-consult reference for digital media scholars or anyone wishing to become familiar with this fast-developing field.Trade ReviewA splendid, sensitively written, solidly researched and thoroughly enjoyable reference work on the defining technologies of our day. A reference work that you want to read from cover to cover is an extraordinarily rare thing, The authors and editors of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media have achieved a work worthy of that attention and have done with world of digital scholarship a substantial favor in the process. A quick glance at an entry on a subject you know well should be enough to convince you both of the merits of the entry and the substantial thought that went into selecting and situating the entries in such a readable and logical way... In a field where change comes so quickly and memories are fleeting, even for those who have grown up in and studied the computing revolution, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media fills a void in scholarship and provides the needed authority to mark and gauge digital media's lineage and impacts. It is just what our culture needed. -- Sean S. Costigan Publishing Research Quarterly In encyclopedic format, this guide introduces nearly every digital format and genre conceived thus far. For collection managers concerned with documenting the digital, or getting a jump start on pondering the mind-boggling future problems of content access and curation, this volume will serve as a fantastic one-stop, all-inclusive introduction. -- Darby Orcutt Collection Management The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media represents a valuable and lasting contribution to the field of media studies by revealing current attitudes toward media as digital and material, preserved in bits while moving through multiple communities of practice, and key in unraveling the multiple entwinements between culture and technology. Comprehensive and accessible, there are an impressive 154 entries in the Guide that in combination offer a glimpse of the current state of scholarly work in digital media that is both detailed and broad... It will serve as a key resource to which future students and scholars alike can turn for its representation of the current state of digital media studies. -- Alex Christie Journal of Digital Humanities An impressive undertaking and it will be well received by both newcomers to the field and more seasoned scholars. Like any good encyclopedia, it offers the reader an opportunity to get lost among its riches. Given that is a book and not a website or ebook, the text is also a unique and certain pleasure: take the book off the shelf, feel its weight in your hands, and then begin flipping through the pages to randomly encounter a new topic. -- Karen Gregory Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

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Book SynopsisThe result is an easy-to-consult reference for digital media scholars or anyone wishing to become familiar with this fast-developing field.Trade ReviewA splendid, sensitively written, solidly researched and thoroughly enjoyable reference work on the defining technologies of our day. A reference work that you want to read from cover to cover is an extraordinarily rare thing, The authors and editors of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media have achieved a work worthy of that attention and have done with world of digital scholarship a substantial favor in the process. A quick glance at an entry on a subject you know well should be enough to convince you both of the merits of the entry and the substantial thought that went into selecting and situating the entries in such a readable and logical way... In a field where change comes so quickly and memories are fleeting, even for those who have grown up in and studied the computing revolution, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media fills a void in scholarship and provides the needed authority to mark and gauge digital media's lineage and impacts. It is just what our culture needed. -- Sean S. Costigan Publishing Research Quarterly In encyclopedic format, this guide introduces nearly every digital format and genre conceived thus far. For collection managers concerned with documenting the digital, or getting a jump start on pondering the mind-boggling future problems of content access and curation, this volume will serve as a fantastic one-stop, all-inclusive introduction. -- Darby Orcutt Collection Management The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media represents a valuable and lasting contribution to the field of media studies by revealing current attitudes toward media as digital and material, preserved in bits while moving through multiple communities of practice, and key in unraveling the multiple entwinements between culture and technology. Comprehensive and accessible, there are an impressive 154 entries in the Guide that in combination offer a glimpse of the current state of scholarly work in digital media that is both detailed and broad... It will serve as a key resource to which future students and scholars alike can turn for its representation of the current state of digital media studies. -- Alex Christie Journal of Digital Humanities An impressive undertaking and it will be well received by both newcomers to the field and more seasoned scholars. Like any good encyclopedia, it offers the reader an opportunity to get lost among its riches. Given that is a book and not a website or ebook, the text is also a unique and certain pleasure: take the book off the shelf, feel its weight in your hands, and then begin flipping through the pages to randomly encounter a new topic. -- Karen Gregory Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

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Book SynopsisWith new entries and sensitive edits, this fifth edition places J.A. Cuddon's indispensable dictionary firmly in the 21st Century. Written in a clear and highly readable style Comprehensive historical coverage extending from ancient times to the present day Broad intellectual and cultural range Expands on the previous edition to incorporate the most recent literary terminology New material is particularly focused in areas such as gender studies and queer theory, post-colonial theory, post-structuralism, post-modernism, narrative theory, and cultural studies. Existing entries have been edited to ensure that topics receive balanced treatment Trade Review“Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduate students in English and comparative literatures; general readers.” (Choice, 1 August 2013)Table of ContentsPreface to the Fifth Edition by M. A. R. Habib vi Preface to the Fourth Edition by C. E. Preston viii Preface to the Third Edition by J. A. Cuddon x Acknowledgements xvi List of Abbreviations xvii A-Z of Entries 1-784

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Book SynopsisThe critical condition and historical motivation behind Time Studies The concept of time in the post-millennial age is undergoing a radical rethinking within the humanities. Time: A Vocabulary of the Present newly theorizes our experiences of time in relation to developments in post-1945 cultural theory and arts practices. Wide ranging and theoretically provocative, the volume introduces readers to cutting-edge temporal conceptualizations and investigates what exactly constitutes the scope of time studies. Featuring twenty essays that reveal what we talk about when we talk about time today, especially in the areas of history, measurement, and culture, each essay pairs two keywords to explore the tension and nuances between them, from past/future and anticipation/unexpected to extinction/adaptation and serial/simultaneous. Moving beyond the truisms of postmodernism, the collection newly theorizes the meanings of temporality in relationship to aesthetic, cultural, technological, and ecTrade Review"All in all, the twenty contributions collected in the volume stand as an ambitious and rewarding discussion, which encourages the reader to rethink the problem of time in contemporary theory and art practices." * Kronoscope *"The many writings in this book make clear that time studies are thriving." * Library Journal *"Arriving at a moment in which there is a need for new frameworks around temporality, historicity, and memory,Timeoffers a rich and beautiful mapping of the concept of & time, showing where we have come from in our thinking, but more importantly, where we are headed. A true intellectual gem." -- Amir Eshel,author of Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past"New critical discourses about time—what Joel Burges and Amy J. Elias allude to as the 'postmillennial emergence of time studies' in their introduction to Time—challenge this linearity and the methods related to it. Centered in studies of contemporary literature and art, the new temporalities dismantle the teleology of linear chronology and reconceive time as multidimensional and multiplicitous." -- Susan Stanford Friedman, PMLA"Time: A Vocabulary of the Present is an outstanding and cohesive collection filled with insights and provocations. It will merit frequent re-readings from a number of perspectives as time studies continues to evolve as a multi-disciplinary field...[The] volume represents an important step toward developing new and more critical ways of thinking about time" -- David Sigler, ariel: A Review of International English Literature

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Book SynopsisCures for Chance examines how early modern dramatic representations of adoption test conventional notions of family and nature.Trade Review“Ellerbeck’s study makes a contribution to our understanding of family more generally and to ‘early modern concepts of familial possibility.’” -- Jonathan Locke Hart, Shandong University * Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Shaping the Family 1. Shakespeare’s Adopted Children and the Language of Horticulture 2. Animal Parenting in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus 3. Adopted Bastards in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside 4. Adoptive Names in Middleton’s Women Beware Women Afterword: In loco parentis Bibliography

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Book SynopsisParadise Lost, possibly the 'most read, most criticized, and most exalted' poem in the English language, has been published more often perhaps in the three hundred years of its existence than any other work of English literature. In the eighteenth century alone, when the English nation went Milton mad, more than a hundred editions were made available to the English reading public. This study traces the transmission history of the poem from its first appearance in 1667, through the eighteenth century with its emphasis on conjectural criticism, to the present century when it was subjected to unwarranted 'restoration.' For the editor of Paradise Lost, who must seek the know 'everything there is to know' about the authoritative texts, that history is a complex one; it includes a first edition with internal variants in five distinct issues, a revised second edition redevised into twelve books, with more than a thousand variants between the two, and subsequent edi

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Book SynopsisThere has never been an accurate, comprehensive account of the origin, development, and significance of Balzac's use of recurring characters in the many volumes of the Comedie humaine, although the device is well recognized and such a study has long been deemed essential by Balzac scholars. One cannot read far in the Comedie without encountering characters whom one has met in other novels. Balzac did not introduce recurring characters until after he had written thirty of forty stories, but he kept revising his work from one printing or edition to the next so that earlier stories have as many of the recurring characters as the later ones. Professor Pugh traces the use of the device and unravels its complexities over the whole of Balzac's career by providing a year-by-year account of the author's struggles between 1829 and 1847 to unify his fictional world of some 3,000 characters. This study illuminates the genesis of several novels and sheds totally new light on the validity of

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Book SynopsisWritten in straightforward, jargon-free language, A Concise Dictionary of Comics guides students, researchers, readers, and educators of all ages and at all levels of comics expertise. It provides them with a dictionary that doubles as a compendium of comics scholarship.

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Martin Amis is a comprehensive guide to the novels, short stories and non-fiction by one of Britain's most highly acclaimed and controversial authors. Building on the first edition, of 1995, James Diedrick draws on personal interviews, reviews and criticism to map the distinctive features of Martin Amis's imaginative landscape - the sociosexual satire of ""Money"" and ""Yellow Dog"", the bold experimentation of ""Time's Arrow"" and ""Night Train"", and the provocative blend of autobiography and cultural analysis in ""Experience"" and ""Koba the Dread"". Diedrick illustrates how Amis has reshaped the British literary landscape, expanding its stylistic and thematic range while creating forms adequate to the experience of postmodernity. Diedrick analyzes an increasing cultural conservatism in Amis's work, rooted in Amis's relationship with his father, the novelist Kingsley Amis. During his early career, the younger Amis opposed his father's political and aesthetic conservatism. But his opposition has given way to frequent expressions of political and literary solidarity. Diedrick shows how this filial relationship continues to shape the son's outlook and writing. Diedrick also identifies two complementary impulses in Amis's work. The first is journalistic and satirical, expressed in an incisive wit aimed at contemporary social realities. The second is aesthetic, manifesting a Nabokovian love of verbal play and formal experimentation. Besides analyzing the ways Amis's fiction forges the topical into the literary, Diedrick argues for the importance of Amis's considerable journalistic oeuvre and provides close readings of his non-fiction collection and his uncollected essays and reviews.

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Book SynopsisNew essays on the first flowering of German literature, in the High Middle Ages and especially during the period 1180-1230. The High Middle Ages, and particularly the period from 1180 to 1230, saw the beginnings of a vibrant literary culture in the German vernacular. While significant literary achievements in German had already been made in earlier centuries, they were a somewhat precarious vernacular extension of Christian Latin culture. But the vernacular literary culture of the High Middle Ages was an integral part of broader cultural developments in which the unquestioned validity of traditional authoritative models began to lose its hold. A secular culture began to emerge in which positive value began to be attached to the -- however transitory -- allegiances, pleasures, and loves of life. In new essays dealing with the most significant literary genres (the heroic epics, the romances, the love lyrics, and political poetry) and with broader political, social, and cultural issues (control of aggression, territorialization), this third volume of the Camden House History of German Literature demonstrates how the emergence of a vernacular literary culture in Germany was an important part of a broader cultural transformation in which medieval people began to redefine themselves, their relationships to one another, and the position of humanity in the scheme of things. Contributors: Albrecht Classen, Nicola McLelland, Rodney Fisher, Neil Thomas, Marion Gibbs and Sidney Johnson, Rüdiger Krohn, Will Hasty, Nigel Harris, Susann Samples, Sara Poor, Michael Resler, Rüdiger Brandt, Elizabeth A. Andersen, Ulrich Müller and Franz Viktor Spechtler, Ruth Weichselbaumer, W. H. Jackson, Charles Bowlus. Will Hasty is Professor of German Studies and co-founder and co-director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida.Trade ReviewOffering brilliant essays ... the volume reorients and refreshes knowledge of cultural developments of the period. * CHOICE *There is much offered and almost nothing lacking in this volume, which is the best current vade mecum for Middle High German literature of which I am aware. This book is a must-have for any serious library.... The Camden House German Literature of the High Middle Ages will remain the premier literary history of this period for many years to come. * MONATSHEFTE *Thoughtful, solidly researched and written in an engaging style, these essays are as instructive as they are a pleasure to read. * H-NET BOOK REVIEW *The volume is an eminently worthy addition to this ambitious series and should be purchased by the libraries of both scholarly and undergraduate-oriented institutions. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *[The book] should be enormously useful to a variety of audiences, from undergraduates taking survey courses to medievalist Germanists who need quick but thorough and often insightful introductions to an author or a work outside their usual speciality. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Will Hasty Heinrich von Veldeke - Albrecht Classen Hartmann von Aue - Rodney Fisher Gottfried von Strassburg and the Tristan Myth - Rüdiger Krohn Wolfram von Eschenbach [coauthored with Sidney Johnson] - Marion E. Gibbs Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet - Nicola McLelland Walther von der Vogelweide - Will Hasty Didactic Poetry - Nigel Harris Minnesang: The Medieval German Love Lyrics - Will Hasty The German Heroic Narratives - Susanne Samples Early Mystical Writings - Sara S. Poor Wirnt von Grafenberg's Wigalois and Heinrich von dem Türlin's Diu Crône - Neil Thomas Der Stricker - Michael Resler Konrad von Würzburg - Rüdiger Brandt Rudolf von Ems - Elizabeth A. Andersen Ulrich von Liechtenstein (coauthored with Franz Viktor Spechtler) - Ulrich Muller Wernher der Gärtner - Ruth Weichselbaumer Court Literature and Violence in the High Middle Ages - Harry Jackson Mobility, Politics, and Society in Medieval Germany - Charles Bowlus

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Book SynopsisNew essays providing an overview of the major movements, genres, and authors of 19th-century German literature in social and political context. This volume provides an overview of the major movements, genres, and authors of 19th-century German literature in the period from the death of Goethe in 1832 to the publication of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams in 1899. Although the primary focus is on imaginative literature and its genres, there is also substantial discussion of related topics, including music-drama, philosophy, and the social sciences. Literature is considered in its cultural and socio-political context, and the German literary scene takes its place in a wider European perspective. Following the editors' introduction, essays consider the impact of Romanticism on subsequent literary movements, the effectsof major movements and writers of non-German-speaking Europe on the development of German literature, and the impact of politics on the changing cultural scene. The second section presents overviews of the principal movements ofthe time (Junges Deutschland, Vormärz, Biedermeier, Poetic Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, and Impressionism), and the third section focuses on the major genres of lyric poetry, prose fiction, drama, and music-drama. The final section provides bibliographical resources in the form of a critical bibliography and a list of primary sources. Contributors to the volume are distinguished scholars of German literature, culture, and history from North America andEurope: Andrew Webber, Lilian Furst, Arne Koch, Robert Holub, Gail Finney, Ernst Grabovszki, Benjamin Bennett, Jeffrey Sammons, Thomas Pfau, Christopher Morris, John Pizer, Thomas Spencer. Clayton Koelb is Guy B. Johnson Distinguished Professor of German at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Eric Downing is Associate Professor of German at the same institution.Trade ReviewThe ninth volume of the Camden House History of German Literature series, German Literature of the Nineteenth Century 1832-1899, not only conveys a great deal of information and analysis of the span of literature covered, but also contains many insights and views, explicit and implicit, on the field of literary history, how it has changed over the decades, and how it is best conceptualized at present. * GERMANIC NOTES AND REVIEWS *The essays in this ninth volume of the 'Camden House History of German Literature' capture nicely the uncertainty and ambivalence of the time.... An excellent resource for graduate students... This collection... fills an important gap in current English-language resources and provides a wide-ranging introduction to post-Romantic German literature.... * MONATSHEFTE *Exciting about this work is not only that it thoughtfully surveys the principal authors, movements, and genres . . . but that it features original and stimulating arguments as well. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW, January 2007 *[T]his volume is one of the most comprehensive literary histories of 19th century German literature of the last two decades. * JAHRBUCH FÜR INTERNATIONALE GERMANISTIK *Table of ContentsIntroduction - and Eric Downing The Afterlife of Romanticism - Andrew J. Webber Parallels and Disparities: German Literature in the Context of European Culture - Lilian R. Furst Revolution and Reaction: The Political Context of Central European Literature - Arne Koch Literary Controversy: Naming and Framing the Post-Romantic, Pre-Realist Period - Robert C. Holub Poetic Realisim, Naturalism, and the Rise of the Novella: 1850-1889 - Gail Finney Literary Currents of the 1890s: Symbolism, Impressionism, and Turn-of-the-Century Austria - Ernst Grabovszki The Absence of Drama in Nineteenth-Century Germany - Benjamin K. Bennett The Nineteenth-Century German Novel - Jeffery L. Sammons Lyric Poetry - Thomas Pfau Richard Wagner: Opera and Music Drama - Christopher Morris Navigating the Nineteenth Century: A Critical Bibliography - John Pizer List of Primary Sources - Thomas Spencer

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Book SynopsisAll the original author essays were evaluated for their currency, and 145 of them were given substantial revision, in some cases by the original contributor. The sections "Other literary forms," "Achievements," "Biography," and "Analysis" were updated to include recent developments: new titles or awards, changes in residence or employment, and alterations in critical and popular reception. For these essays, material on one or more specific stories or collections was added.This edition adds 145 new writers. A significant effort was made to add more women; they include such notable figures as Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, Anita Desai, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Carol Shields, and Christa Wolf. Many important authors from around the world are featured for the first time in this edition; those with works in English translation include such as Daniel Alarcon, J. M. G. Le Clézio, Haruki Murakami, and Mario Vargas Llosa.

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Book SynopsisThe Critical Survey of Mythology and Folklore series offers analytical articles and plot summaries of the major myths, fairy tales, and other traditional literature for studies in advanced high school and undergraduate classrooms. The Critical Survey of Mythology and Folklore presents articles on myths, folktales, legends, and other traditional literature. The second title in the series is Heroes and Heroines. Drawing upon the most widely-read literature, as well as introducing to readers overlooked yet significant tales, the theme of the hero and heroine is one of the most universal stories told across cultures. This volume covers a diverse range of countries and cultures, as well as important retellings in the modern tradition. Articles begin with a contextual overview of the important cultural and social currents surrounding the myth and the life of the author. A summary offers readers the major actions and characters in a myth followed by an in-depth analysis drawing upon scholarship in the field. The series is unique in the attention given to the cross-cultural significance of mythology. Sidebars with a brief explanation of mythic characters in sculpture and art provide an added feature to the cultural survey. Myth has long sparked the imagination of poets, dramatists, and other artists as they explore the full dimension of human life. The articles close with an extended introduction and analysis of the many uses of the myth and characters in music, literature, and the arts. Students, educators, and general readers will discover a broad critical and cultural survey that engages the contemporary imagination in the importance of myth, fairy tale, and other traditional literature.

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Book SynopsisHerman Melville’s Moby-Dick is often considered the greatest American novel – a vast epic that combines deep philosophy and high adventure as well as rich comedy and profound tragedy. Moby-Dick also offers a particularly diverse array of characters of various types, personalities, and ethnic backgrounds, and its styles are as varied as the people it depicts. Full of humorous dialects and idioms and brimming with probing, impassioned, poetic speeches, Melville’s novel explores the fascinating world of whale-hunting in the mid-nineteenth century, even as it also explores some of the most perennial questions about the purposes and meanings of life. The final impact of the book, when enraged whale meets pursuing ship, is one of the most memorable episodes in all of American literature.This volume and author of nearly 30 books and over 300 essays) is designed to help make Melville’s great novel more readily accessible to a wide audience, especially students and everyday readers. Containing numerous essays by many prominent Melville scholars, the book places Melville and his epic novel in their various historical contexts while also showing how the novel continues to be relevant – and powerful – today. The volume seeks to show that Moby-Dick is no mere period piece but instead fully deserves its reputation as perhaps the greatest work of American fiction.

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Book SynopsisDiverse in theme, style and cultural context, the American short story can take many forms. The only common theme is the short story’s unique ability to captivate an audience. This volume discusses the origin and popularity of the short story. Original critical essays on a diverse collection of writers highlight Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, O. Henry, Kate Chopin and many others.Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of ""Works Cited,"" along with endnotes. Finally, the volume's appendixes offer a section of useful reference resources.

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Book SynopsisPatriotism has long been an important theme in world literature, especially during the era of the so-called "nation-state." Millions of people, motivated by patriotism, have served their countries in many different ways, including in military service in which millions have died. What is patriotism? How has it been defined, embraced, and sometimes rejected? How are various attitudes toward it reflected in literature? These are the kinds of questions this volume will explore from deliberately diverse perspectives.

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