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Yale University Press On Color
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Sparkling and informative.”—Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal (Holiday Gift Book selection)“A great addition to the collection of anyone who is, to some degree, passionate about color.”—Angelica Frey, Hyperallergic“[A] scholarly yet highly entertaining book.”—Natalie Angier, New York Times“On Color pays tribute to everyday visual wonders so often taken for granted, and enriches our perception by emphasizing just how strange the history of seeing in colour can be.” —Eric Bulson, Times Literary SupplementWinner of the Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 award sponsored by Choice“Here is a subtle and imaginative insight into the slippery phenomenon we call colour – and how variously we perceive and emblemise it: a wise and fascinating study.”—Colin Thubron"Like the best works of cultural criticism, On Color changes how we see the world. I mean that quite literally. After reading this brilliant book, the mundane appears sharper, richer, and more meaningful."—James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare“This lively, erudite, and far-reaching introduction to the poetics of color combines anecdotal art history with cultural and literary studies to illustrate a fundamental truth: that color is relational as well as subjective. This entertaining and humane book effortlessly deepens our engagement with the visual world.”—David Salle“On Color is a deliciously readable, gloriously illumined work of meditation and exploration, written in high resolution.”—Jay Parini, author of The Last Station and Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal
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Pearson Education Twelfth Night York Notes for GCSE
Book SynopsisTable of Contents - Intro ¿ How to Study a Play, Novel- Author Profile ¿ Historical timeline, context with dates, author life, works , historical events.- Map/family tree/character tree- Summaries (numbered summaries for every scene)- Commentary ¿ covering themes, characters, language analysis, style- exam questions end of each section- Answers to Checkpoints and exam questions- Exam questions with annotated model answers (D grade ¿ B grade)- Coursework assignments/resources/top marks/advice- Key Quotations ¿ how to use them.- Glossary/Literary terms- Timeline of events- Other titles in the Series
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Harvard University Press The Fairest of Them All
Book SynopsisVersions of the Snow White story have been shared across the world for centuries. Acclaimed folklorist and translator Maria Tatar places the well-known editions of Walt Disney and the Brothers Grimm alongside other tellings, inviting readers to experience anew a beloved fantasy of melodrama and imagination.Trade ReviewTilt the magic mirror this way, that, and you’ll find in The Fairest of Them All nearly two dozen reflections, each dazzling, of the ur-fairy tale known as Snow White. With her trademark brio and deep-tissue understanding, Maria Tatar opens the glass casket on this undying story, which retains its power to charm twenty-one times, and counting. -- Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Mirror MirrorA fascinating volume…Far from demystifying fairy tales, Tatar’s analysis has the effect of deepening an appreciation for their magic…The Fairest of Them All delivers a trove of forgotten fairy tales to readers and returns the Snow White of Disney and the Brothers Grimm to her international context—as but one version in a strange, beguiling history of stories about beauty, jealousy, and maternal persecution. * Wall Street Journal *Is the story of Snow White the cruelest, the deepest, the strangest, the most mythopoeic of them all? The answer must be yes. Maria Tatar trains a keen eye on the appeal of the bitter conflict between women at the heart of the tale, unearths retellings from far and wide, and spreads a feast of rich thoughts on the tale’s remarkable aesthetic migrations into literature and film. The Fairest of Them All is an exciting and authoritative anthology from the wisest good fairy in the world of the fairy tale. -- Marina Warner, author of Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale and Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian NightsThe Snow White tales that Tatar presents here are not as slick as the confections of the Grimms and Disney… What Tatar urges in her deft and thoughtful introduction is that we read each variation, whether it is from West Africa, Afghanistan or China, with equal attention… This provides a way of thinking about how fairy tales reveal more than the essentially early 20th-century upper bourgeois insights of Freudian psychoanalysts. There are plenty of examples of mother–daughter rivalries in these tales to be sure, but there is so much more of the material and temporal world—food, hunger, disease, and war—too. -- Kathryn Hughes * The Guardian *[A] fascinating collection of tales…Shocking yet familiar, these stories of regeneration and transformation even when written down retain the secret whisper of storytelling. This is a properly magical, erudite book that follows Snow White’s trail into the darker forests of the human psyche in which she originated. -- Lucy Lethbridge * Literary Review *Going to the root of a story is a journey to the very core of the soul. Reading across the world, the inimitable Maria Tatar offers us a maze of mothers and daughters and within that glorious tangle an archetype with far more meaning than we imagine when we say ‘Snow White.’ -- Honor Moore, author of Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury
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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland Volume 1
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Cambridge University Press The Princess Casamassima
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Cambridge University Press Walt Whitman in Context
Book SynopsisDesigned for students and scholars, Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural and political - in which to engage Whitman's life and work.Table of ContentsPart I. Locations: 1. Long Island William T. Walter; 2. Brooklyn and Manhattan Karen Karbiener; 3. Camden and Philadelphia William Pannapacker; 4. Washington, DC Kenneth M. Price; 5. The American South Matt Cohen; Part II. Literary and Artistic Contexts: 6. Verse forms Michael C. Cohen; 7. Periodical poetry Ingrid I. Satelmajer; 8. Periodical fiction Stephanie Blalock; 9. Journalism Jason Stacy; 10. Oratory Leslie Eckel; 11. Opera Carmen Trammell Skaggs; 12. Performance and celebrity David Haven Blake; 13. Visual arts and photography Ruth Bohan; 14. Erotica Paul Erickson; 15. Notebooks and manuscripts Matt Miller; 16. Bookmaking Nicole Gray; 17. The literary marketplace David Dowling; 18. Transatlantic book distribution Jessica DeSpain; Part III. Cultural and Political Contexts: 19. Transcendentalism Regina Schober; 20. Philosophy Stephen John Mack; 21. Bohemianism Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley; 22. Gender Maire Mullins; 23. Sexuality Jay Grossman; 24. Politics Kerry Larson; 25. Imperialism and globalization Walter Grünzweig; 26. Nineteenth-century religion Brian Yothers; 27. Civil War Peter Coviello; 28. Reconstruction Martin Buinicki; 29. Death and mourning Adam Bradford; 30. Slavery and abolition Ivy G. Wilson; 31. Native American and immigrant cultures Rachel Rubinstein; 32. The rank and file Jerome Loving; 33. Romanticism Edward S. Cutler; 34. The natural world Christine Gerhardt; 35. Science and medicine Lindsay Tuggle; Part IV. Reception and Legacy: 36. Disciples Michael Robertson; 37. Influence in the United States Sascha Pöhlmann; 38. Impact on the World Ed Folsom.
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Cambridge University Press Decadence and Literature
Book SynopsisDecadence and Literature explains how the concept of decadence developed since Roman times into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power. No longer just a term of opprobrium for mannered art or immoral behaviour, decadence today describes complex cultural and social responses to modernity in all its forms. From the Roman emperor''s indulgence in luxurious excess as both personal vice and political control, to the Enlightenment libertine''s rational pursuit of hedonism, to the nineteenth-century dandy''s simultaneous delight and distaste with modern urban life, decadence has emerged as a way of taking cultural stock of major social changes. These changes include the role of women in forms of artistic expression and social participation formerly reserved for men, as well as the increasing acceptance of LGBTQ+ relationships, a development with a direct relationship to decadence. Today, decadence seems more important than ever to an informed understanding of contemporary anxietiTable of ContentsIntroduction Jane Desmarais and David Weir; Part I. Origins: 1. Decadence in Ancient Rome Jerry Toner; 2. Decadence and Roman historiography Shushma Malik; 3. Nineteenth-century literary and artistic responses to Roman decadence Isobel Hurst; 4. Decadence and the enlightenment Chad Denton; 5. Decadence and the urban sensibility Michael Shaw; 6. Decadence and the critique of modernity Jane Desmarais; 7. Decadence and aesthetics Sacha Golob; Part II. Developments: 8. Decadence and the visual arts Laura Moure Cecchini; 9. Decadence and music Emma Sutton; 10. Decadence, parody, and new women's writing Kate Krueger; 11. The philosophy of decadence Nicholas D. More; 12. The sexual psychology of decadence Melanie Hawthorne; 13. The theology of decadence Matthew Bradley; 14. The science of decadence Jordan Kistler; 15. The sociology of decadence Jeffrey Sachs; Part III. Applications: 16. Decadence and urban geography Theresa Zeitz-Lindamood; 17. Socio-aesthetic histories: Vienna 1900 and Weimar Berlin Katharina Herold; 18. Decadence and cinema David Weir; 19. Transnational decadence Stefano Evangelista; 20. Decadence and modernism Gerald Gillespie; 21. Modern prophetic poetry and the decadence of empires: from Kipling to Auden Chris Baldick; 22. The gender of decadence: Paris-Lesbos from the fin de siècle to the interwar era Deborah Longworth; 23. Decadence and popular culture Alice Condé.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Irish Womens Poetry
Book SynopsisA History of Irish Women''s Poetry is a ground-breaking and comprehensive account of Irish women''s poetry from earliest times to the present day. It reads Irish women''s poetry through many prisms mythology, gender, history, the nation and most importantly, close readings of the poetry itself. It covers major figures, such as Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, as well as neglected figures from the past. Writing in both English and Irish is considered, and close attention paid to the many different contexts in which Irish women''s poetry has been produced and received, from the anonymous work of the early medieval period, through the bardic age, the coterie poets of Anglo-Ireland, the nationalist balladeers of Young Ireland, the Irish Literary Revival, and the advent of modernity. As capacious as it is diverse, this book is an essential contribution to scholarship in the field.Trade Review'Thanks to ground-breaking volumes such as this one, the radiant light of women's poetry will no longer be extinguished and obscured. One of the achievements of this volume is the decision to describe the literary scene not only by drawing on well-known major figures but also by including often overlooked or under-researched writers, depicting a cultural panorama of complexity and multiplicity. ' Pilar Villar-Argáiz, Estudios Irlandeses'a comprehensive overview covering everything from medieval Ireland to the present day.' Erin Cunningham, Times Literary Supplement'… highly recommended …' Pauline Harrison, Women's WritingTable of ContentsIntroduction: why foremothers? Ailbhe Darcy and David Wheatley; 1. The reception of Irish women poets Anne Fogarty; 2. Women in the medieval poetry business Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha; 3. Seventeenth century women's poetry in Ireland Danielle Clarke and Sarah McKibben; 4. The oral tradition Tríona Ni Shíocháin; 5. Archipelagic Ireland: women's anglophone poetry from the eighteenth century Sarah Prescott; 6. Irish Romanticism Catherine Jones; 7. Mary Tighe in life, myth, and literary vicissitude Stephen Behrendt; 8. Masculinity, nationhood and the Irish woman poet, 1860–1922 Lucy Collins; 9. The eclipse of Dora Sigerson Matthew Campbell; 10. Between revivalist lyric and Irish modernism Sarah Bennett; 11. The other 'northern renaissance' Jaclyn Allen; 12. Rematriating mid-century modernism: Carla Lanyon Lanyon Moynagh Sullivan; 13. Accidental Irishness and the transnational legacy of Lola Ridge Daniel Tobin; 14. Crisis and renewal: Irish-language poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Daniela Theinová; 15. The poetry of Máire Mhac an tSaoi and the indivisibility of love Patricia Coughlan; 16. Voices from limbo: Biddy Jenkinson David Wheatley; 17. Bilingual poetry Kenneth Keating; 18. Catholicism in modern Irish women's poetry Catriona Clutterbuck; 19. 1970s–80s feminism Kit Fryatt; 20. The art of fabrication: reading Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin Maria Johnston; 21. Eavan Boland, history and silence Guinn Batten; 22. Paula Meehan and the public poem Kathryn Kirkpatrick; 23. Formalism and contemporary women's poetry Tara McEvoy; 24. Susan Howe, Maggie O'Sullivan, Catherine Walsh Nerys Williams; 25. Irish women's poetry beyond the now Anne Mulhall.
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Pearson Education Limited Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde AQA Practice Tests with
Book Synopsis Feel confident, ready and fully prepared for the 2021 assessments and 2022 exams. Feel confident, prepared and totally ready for any test, exam or assessment. Beat your nerves by getting familiar with test and assessment-style questions. Seven sample tests for you to work through so you can eliminate your worries and feel ready to impress. Maximise your full potential and aim for the best possible assessment grade by comparing your work against the sample answers provided. York Notes are the long-established experts in English Literature, and we take your success seriously. So if you''re studying Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson for your GCSE and are looking for some essential test practice before you''re fully assessed, you can trust this book to get you up to speed. Proper practice is crucial if you want to perform at your best in formal tests, ex
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Cambridge University Press W. G. Sebald in Context
Book SynopsisWithin the five years before his premature death in 2001, W.G. Sebald made an astounding ascent into the canon of world literature. This accessible volume offers a comprehensive overview of the contexts in which his life, work and legacy are located, with special focus on his unpublished and untranslated texts.Trade Review'A terrific book which manages to return Sebald-studies back to a Sebaldian place where grand historical sweeps and the merest marginalia illuminate each other to new effect. Overall, it refreshes both our sense of Sebald as an academic and literary subversive and of the astonishing breadth of themes addressed in and provoked by his work - in film, in pop music, in relation to the Anthropocene, in the cult of The Sebaldian to name a few - and it does so while remaining accessible.' Grant Gee, director of Patience: After Sebald (2011)'This is a wonderful handbook of short, readable essays that explores the lesser-known aspects of this complex and elusive writer whose documentary style of prose has always beguiled us into believing we know more about the man than we do.' Tacita Dean, artistTable of ContentsPart I. Biograpical Aspects: 1. Allgäu Kai Wolfinger; 2. Sebald's grandfather Christoph Steker; 3. Manchester Catharine Annabel; 4. East Anglia Jo Catling; 5. Academia Florian Radvan; 6. The British centre for literary translation Duncan Large; 7. Between Germany and Britain Rüdiger Görner; Part II. The Literary Works: 8. Unpublished Juvenilia Melissa Etzler; 9. Film scripts Michael Hutchins; 10. The 'Prose project'Paul Whitehead; 11. Auto-/biography Christoph Singer; 12. Natural history and the anthropocene Bernhard Malkmus; 13. The corsica project Lisa Kunze; 14. Poetry Iain Galbraith; 15. The world war project Richard Hibbitt; 16. Interviews Torsten Hoffmann; Part III. Themes and Influences: 17. Critical writings Sven Meyer; 18. Minor writing Uwe Schütte; 19. Franz kafka Ritchie Robertson; 20. Literary predecessors Ben Hutchinson; 21. Walter benjamin Luisa Banki; 22. Philosophical models and influences Paul Thompson; 23. History Lynn L. Wolff; 24. Polemics Uwe Schütte; 25. Holocaust Jakob Hessing; 26. Photography Nick Warr; 27. Paintings and ekphrasis Leonida Kovač; 28. Media theory Florian Leitner; 29. Travel writing David Anderson; 30. Eco-criticism and animal studies Lisa Kunze; Part IV. Reception and Legacy: 31. Sebald scholarship Lynn L. Wolff; 32. Sebald in translation Martin Schauss; 33. The 'Sebaldian' Adrian Nathan West; 34. Film Andrew J. Webber; 35. Pop music Hendrik Otremba; 36. Literary prizes Uwe Schütte; 37. Visual arts and exhibitions Terry Pitts; 38. The cult of Sebald Ian Ellison.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Winter is Coming
Book SynopsisThe debate and discussion around Game of Thrones has covered questions of climate issues, industrialization, and questions of power, sex and gender. But in this essential companion to both George R.R. Martin''s novels and the HBO show, Carolyne Larrington explores how this remarkable universe was constructed from the actual Middle Ages. The book examines sigils, giants, dragons and direwolves in medieval texts; ravens, old gods and the Weirwood in Norse myth; and a gothic, exotic orient in the eastern continent, Essos. From the White Walkers to the Red Woman, from Casterly Rock to the Shivering Sea, this is an indispensable guide to the 21st-century''s most important fantasy creation.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter One: The Centre Chapter Two: The North Chapter Three: The West Chapter Four: Across the Narrow Sea Chapter Five: The East Epilogue Notes List of Further Reading Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary
Book SynopsisAdopting a unique historical approach to its subject and with a particular focus on the institutions involved in the creation, dissemination, and reception of literature, this handbook surveys the way in which the Cold War shaped literature and literary production, and how literature affected the course of the Cold War. To do so, in addition to more traditional' sources it uses institutions like MFA programs, university literature departments, book-review sections of newspapers, publishing houses, non-governmental cultural agencies, libraries, and literary magazines as a way to understand works of the period differently.Broad in both their geographical range and the range of writers they cover, the book's essays examine works of mainstream American literary fiction from writers such as Roth, Updike and Faulkner, as well as moving beyond the U.S. and the U.K. to detail how writers and readers from countries including, but not limited to, Taiwan, Japan, Uganda, South Africa, I
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Edinburgh University Press Reading Elizabeth Bishop
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive and original guide to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and other writing, including literary criticism and prose fiction.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Arden Dictionary Of Shakespeare Quotations
Book SynopsisJane Armstrong is a freelance writer and copy editor.
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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts
Book SynopsisThe Gothic in all its artistic forms and ramifications is traced from the medieval to the twenty-first century.
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Edinburgh University Press Refugee Imaginaries
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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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies
Book SynopsisThis volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies.
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Grey House Publishing Inc War and Peace
Book SynopsisTolstoy’s epic novel is one of the most famous pieces of Russian literature and is on the short list of the most important works of literature in the world. This volume examines Tolstoy’s unique achievement through a number of thought-provoking essays, and the interplay of the many genres of the text, including historical fiction, war drama, romance and realism.
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Grey House Publishing Inc Critical Insights: Julius Caesar
Book SynopsisJulius Caesar is one of William Shakespeare's most famous and important plays, and one of the most frequently taught, especially in high schools. Dealing with one of the most significant events in the history of Rome, the assassination of Julius Caesar and the subsequent end of the Roman Republic, the play has been performed and filmed numerous times. This volume examines the play from many different perspectives, including historical, aesthetic, and comparative points of view, among others, to add to the ongoing lively conversation the play has always stimulated.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc How to Read Literature Like a Professor
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University of Illinois Press Out of This World
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Romanticism
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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Harvard University Press The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny
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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Harvard University Press Self and Soul
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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Harvard University Press Selling the Story
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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Princeton University Press The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries
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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LUP - Voltaire Foundation An Alternative Encyclopedia Dennis de Coetlogons
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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John Wiley & Sons Becoming Sui Sin Far Early Fiction Journalism
Book SynopsisNewly discovered works by one of the earliest Asian North American writers.Trade Review"A polished and nuanced study that will make an extraordinary intervention into studies of Edith Eaton and scholarship about Asian North American writers. Mary Chapman has done a heroic act of recovery work, and developed a very strong argument about the significance of Eaton' s writing." Martha Curtter, University of Connecticut "A major contribution that will be greeted with great enthusiasm by those familiar with Eaton' s work and captivate the attention of new readers." Jean Lutes, Villanova University
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman Volume 4 C
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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Oldcastle Books Ltd After Agatha
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Encyclopedia of the Novel
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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Picador USA By the Book
Book SynopsisEvery Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian or artist will be the subject of the By the Book feature. These wide-ranging interviews are conducted by Pamela Paul, the editor of the Book Review, and here she brings together sixty-five of the most intriguing and fascinating exchanges.Trade Review"A captivating hodgepodge of literary musings." - Publishers Weekly
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Pearson Education Limited AQA English Literature Unseen Poetry Study and
Book SynopsisFind everything you need to achieve your full potential with York Notes for GCSE Study Guides, now updated for GCSE (9-1).
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Victorian Novel
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary
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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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary
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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Edinburgh University Press Annals of the Parish
Book SynopsisJohn Galt's Annals of the Parish is the first novel of the Industrial Revolution.
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Edinburgh University Press WomenS Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain
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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New York University Press Time
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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University of Toronto Press The Text of Paradise Lost
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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University of Toronto Press Balzacs Recurring Characters
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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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi A Concise Dictionary of Comics
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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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi A Concise Dictionary of Comics
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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Clemson University Digital Press “Something that I read in a book”: W. B. Yeats’s
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Clemson University Digital Press “Something that I read in a book”: W. B. Yeats’s
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Johnson in Japan
Book SynopsisThe study and reception of Samuel Johnson’s work has long been embedded in Japanese literary culture. The essays in this collection reflect that history and influence, underscoring the richness of Johnson scholarship in Japan, while exploring broader conditions in Japanese academia today. In examining Johnson’s works such as the Rambler (1750-52), Rasselas (1759), Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779-81), and Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), the contributors—all members of the half-century-old Johnson Society of Japan—also engage with the work of other important English writers, namely Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, and Matthew Arnold, and later Japanese writers, including Natsume Soseki (1867-1916). If the state of Johnson studies in Japan is unfamiliar to Western academics, this volume offers a unique opportunity to appreciate Johnson’s centrality to Japanese education and intellectual life, and to reassess how he may be perceived in a different cultural context. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"In conveying the ‘state of play’ of Johnson’s reputation in a world that might not previously have been thought receptive, Johnson in Japan makes a significant mark . . . successful in offering new critical insights, its presence means that there are important implications for Johnson’s cultural penetration (and therefore the kind of writer he is)." -- Philip Smallwood * author of Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment *"Samuel Johnson was fascinated by travel, and the Orient particularly took his fancy. He once seriously recommended that Boswell undertake a trip to see the Great Wall of China, because it would distinguish him in the eyes of other Britons. More recently, the East has reciprocated this interest, as scholars in Japan and China formed Johnsonian societies and published important books and articles on the Great Cham. Johnson in Japan draws together a number of intriguing and valuable essays under a rubric that is original and persuasive. It at once advances our knowledge of the intersection between Johnson and the East forward considerably, yet it perhaps more urgently encourages that Western scholars explore this richly fertile yet largely untapped field with greater assiduity." -- Anthony Lee * author of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle *"It is a pleasure to read these essays, eloquently written, informative and free of jargon." * The New Rambler *“To publish contemporary critical essays together with the historical review of Johnson studies makes an important statement about the vibrancy of Johnson scholarship, past and present, in Japan.” -- Lisa Berglund * Eighteenth Century Fiction *"In conveying the ‘state of play’ of Johnson’s reputation in a world that might not previously have been thought receptive, Johnson in Japan makes a significant mark . . . successful in offering new critical insights, its presence means that there are important implications for Johnson’s cultural penetration (and therefore the kind of writer he is)." -- Philip Smallwood * author of Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment *"Samuel Johnson was fascinated by travel, and the Orient particularly took his fancy. He once seriously recommended that Boswell undertake a trip to see the Great Wall of China, because it would distinguish him in the eyes of other Britons. More recently, the East has reciprocated this interest, as scholars in Japan and China formed Johnsonian societies and published important books and articles on the Great Cham. Johnson in Japan draws together a number of intriguing and valuable essays under a rubric that is original and persuasive. It at once advances our knowledge of the intersection between Johnson and the East forward considerably, yet it perhaps more urgently encourages that Western scholars explore this richly fertile yet largely untapped field with greater assiduity." -- Anthony Lee * author of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle *"It is a pleasure to read these essays, eloquently written, informative and free of jargon." * The New Rambler *“To publish contemporary critical essays together with the historical review of Johnson studies makes an important statement about the vibrancy of Johnson scholarship, past and present, in Japan.” -- Lisa Berglund * Eighteenth Century Fiction *Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables Foreword by Greg Clingham Note on Reference Introduction Chapter 1: A Brief History of Johnsonian Studies in Japan Hideichi Eto Chapter 2: Johnson, Biography, and Modern Japan Noriyuki Harada Chapter 3: Scientific Curiosity in Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Kimiyo Ogawa Chapter 4: Jane Austen and the Reception of Samuel Johnson in Japan: The Domestication of Realism in Soseki Natsume’s Theory of Literature (1907) Yuri Yoshino Chapter 5: Johnson the Tea Poet: A Scholarly Role Model and a Literary Doctor in Modernizing Japan Mika Suzuki Chapter 6: Johnson and Garrick on Hamlet Miki Iwata Chapter 7: Abyssinian Johnson Noriyuki Hattori Chapter 8: Johnson’s Prose Style and His Notion of the Periodical Writer Tadayuki Fukumoto Chapter 9: An Analysis of Johnson's View of Knowledge: A Corpus Stylistic Approach Masaaki Ogura Chapter 10: Johnson’s Final Words: With Particular Reference to Boswell’s Dirty Deed on Sastres Hitoshi Suwabe Appendix Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Johnson in Japan
Book SynopsisThe study and reception of Samuel Johnson’s work has long been embedded in Japanese literary culture. The essays in this collection reflect that history and influence, underscoring the richness of Johnson scholarship in Japan, while exploring broader conditions in Japanese academia today. In examining Johnson’s works such as the Rambler (1750-52), Rasselas (1759), Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779-81), and Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), the contributors—all members of the half-century-old Johnson Society of Japan—also engage with the work of other important English writers, namely Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, and Matthew Arnold, and later Japanese writers, including Natsume Soseki (1867-1916). If the state of Johnson studies in Japan is unfamiliar to Western academics, this volume offers a unique opportunity to appreciate Johnson’s centrality to Japanese education and intellectual life, and to reassess how he may be perceived in a different cultural context. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"In conveying the ‘state of play’ of Johnson’s reputation in a world that might not previously have been thought receptive, Johnson in Japan makes a significant mark . . . successful in offering new critical insights, its presence means that there are important implications for Johnson’s cultural penetration (and therefore the kind of writer he is)." -- Philip Smallwood * author of Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment *"Samuel Johnson was fascinated by travel, and the Orient particularly took his fancy. He once seriously recommended that Boswell undertake a trip to see the Great Wall of China, because it would distinguish him in the eyes of other Britons. More recently, the East has reciprocated this interest, as scholars in Japan and China formed Johnsonian societies and published important books and articles on the Great Cham. Johnson in Japan draws together a number of intriguing and valuable essays under a rubric that is original and persuasive. It at once advances our knowledge of the intersection between Johnson and the East forward considerably, yet it perhaps more urgently encourages that Western scholars explore this richly fertile yet largely untapped field with greater assiduity." -- Anthony Lee * author of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle *"It is a pleasure to read these essays, eloquently written, informative and free of jargon." * The New Rambler *“To publish contemporary critical essays together with the historical review of Johnson studies makes an important statement about the vibrancy of Johnson scholarship, past and present, in Japan.” -- Lisa Berglund * Eighteenth Century Fiction *"In conveying the ‘state of play’ of Johnson’s reputation in a world that might not previously have been thought receptive, Johnson in Japan makes a significant mark . . . successful in offering new critical insights, its presence means that there are important implications for Johnson’s cultural penetration (and therefore the kind of writer he is)." -- Philip Smallwood * author of Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment *"Samuel Johnson was fascinated by travel, and the Orient particularly took his fancy. He once seriously recommended that Boswell undertake a trip to see the Great Wall of China, because it would distinguish him in the eyes of other Britons. More recently, the East has reciprocated this interest, as scholars in Japan and China formed Johnsonian societies and published important books and articles on the Great Cham. Johnson in Japan draws together a number of intriguing and valuable essays under a rubric that is original and persuasive. It at once advances our knowledge of the intersection between Johnson and the East forward considerably, yet it perhaps more urgently encourages that Western scholars explore this richly fertile yet largely untapped field with greater assiduity." -- Anthony Lee * author of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle *"It is a pleasure to read these essays, eloquently written, informative and free of jargon." * The New Rambler *“To publish contemporary critical essays together with the historical review of Johnson studies makes an important statement about the vibrancy of Johnson scholarship, past and present, in Japan.” -- Lisa Berglund * Eighteenth Century Fiction *Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables Foreword by Greg Clingham Note on Reference Introduction Chapter 1: A Brief History of Johnsonian Studies in Japan Hideichi Eto Chapter 2: Johnson, Biography, and Modern Japan Noriyuki Harada Chapter 3: Scientific Curiosity in Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Kimiyo Ogawa Chapter 4: Jane Austen and the Reception of Samuel Johnson in Japan: The Domestication of Realism in Soseki Natsume’s Theory of Literature (1907) Yuri Yoshino Chapter 5: Johnson the Tea Poet: A Scholarly Role Model and a Literary Doctor in Modernizing Japan Mika Suzuki Chapter 6: Johnson and Garrick on Hamlet Miki Iwata Chapter 7: Abyssinian Johnson Noriyuki Hattori Chapter 8: Johnson’s Prose Style and His Notion of the Periodical Writer Tadayuki Fukumoto Chapter 9: An Analysis of Johnson's View of Knowledge: A Corpus Stylistic Approach Masaaki Ogura Chapter 10: Johnson’s Final Words: With Particular Reference to Boswell’s Dirty Deed on Sastres Hitoshi Suwabe Appendix Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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