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Cambridge University Press African American Literature in Transition 19001910 Volume 7
Book SynopsisAfrican American Literature in Transition, 19001910 offers a wide ranging, multi-disciplinary approach to early twentieth century African American literature and culture. It showcases the literary and cultural productions that took shape in the critical years after Reconstruction, but before the Harlem Renaissance, the period known as the nadir of African American history. It undercovers the dynamic work being done by Black authors, painters, photographers, poets, editors, boxers, and entertainers to shape ''New Negro'' identities and to chart a new path for a new century. The book is structured into four key areas: Black publishing and print culture; innovations in genre and form; the race, class and gender politics of literary and cultural production; and new geographies of Black literary history. These overarching themes, along with the introduction of established figures and movement, alongside lesser known textsand original research, offer aradicalre-conceptualization of this critTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of images; Introduction Shirley Moody-Turner; Part I. Transition in African American Authorship, Publishing and the Visual Arts: 1. Black bibliographers and the category of negro authorship Laura E. Helton; 2. Transitions in African American book publishing and print culture Alisha Knight; 3. Re-evaluating African American art before the Harlem renaissance Rhonda Reymond; Part II. New Negro Aesthetic and Transitions in Genre and Form: 4. African American novels and new slavery in the new south M. Giulia Fabi; 5. Anti-lynching poetry and the poetics of protest Laura Vrana; 6. The politics of performance, character, and literary genre in transition April Logan; Part III. Modernist Masculinities and Transitions in Black Leadership: 7. Charting the tensions between optimism and despair at mid-decade Hanna Wallinger; 8. W. E. B. Du Bois and transitions in black intellectual thought Keith Byerman; 9. Celebrity and black masculinity at the turn into the twentieth century Jeffrey Leak; Part IV. Remapping the Turn of the Twentieth Century: 10. Can the subaltern speak through Alain Locke and Paul Laurence Dunbar? Jeffrey Stewart; 11. Race and manhood in African American representations of the frontier James Leiker; 12. Narratives of black and Chinese citizenship after Plessy v. Ferguson Edlie Wong; 13. Black transpacific culture and the migratory imagination Vince Schleitwiler.
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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 Decadence
Book SynopsisDecadence, that flowering of a mannered literary style in France during the Second Empire, and in the last two decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, holds an endless fascination. Yet the ambiguity of the term ''decadence'' and the challenges of identifying its practitioners make grasping its contours difficult. From the obsession with classical cultures, to the responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, this book offers one of the most comprehensive histories of literary Decadence. The essays here interrogate and expand the formal, geographical, and temporal frameworks for understanding Decadent literature, while offering a renewed focus on the role played by women writers. Featuring essays by leading scholars on sexuality, politics, science, translation, the New Woman, Russian and Spanish American Decadence, the influence of cinema on Decadence, and much more, it is essential reading for all those interested in the literature of the 1890s and Oscar Wilde.Trade Review'This is necessarily a specialist volume but one which eschews jargon. Recommended for students and scholars of the Aesthetic and Decadent Movements and late Victorian culture.' Alexander Adams, alexanderadamsart.wordpress.comTable of Contents1. Nineteenth-Century Decadence and Neoclassical Aesthetics: Androgyny and Collecting Culture Daniel Orrells; 2. British Decadence and Renaissance Italy Hilary Fraser; 3. 'Rather a Delicate Subject': Verlaine, France and British Decadence Matthew Creasy; 4. Fighting Like Cats and Dogs: Decadence and Print Media Nick Freeman; 5. Varieties of Decadent Religion Mark Knight; 6. The New Woman and Decadent Gender Politics Sarah Parker; 7. Decadence, Darwinism, Science and Technological Modernity Will Abberley; 8. Decadence and Politics Matthew Potolsky; 9. Seeds of Discord: Decadent Sexuality and Dissipating Species Dennis Denisoff; 10. Decadent Poetics After Swinburne Catherine Maxwell; 11. Theatre and Decadence Sos Eltis; 12. 'Restless Mystical Ardours': Decadence and Music Emma Sutton; 13. Decadence in Painting Richard A. Kaye; 14. Decadent Poetry and Translation: The Suffusive and the Prosodic Clive Scott; 15. Spanish American Literature and the Transatlantic Dimensions of Decadence María del Pilar Blanco; 16. Decadent America 1890-1930 Kirsten MacLeod; 17. Russian and Czech Decadence: The Fall of Rome and the Destruction of Sodom Kirsten Lodge; 18. A Politics of Modernism in the Poetics of Decadence Vincent Sherry; 19. Camp Modernism and Decadence Kristin Mahoney; 20. Making Decadence New: Carl Van Vechten's Cinematic Fiction Kate Hext; 21. Writing Decadent Lives and Letters Ellen Crowell and Alex Murray; 22. Decadence in the Time of AIDS Allan Kilner-Johnson.
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Cambridge University Press Magical Realism and Literature
Book SynopsisMagical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the fantastic, and it provided the late-twentieth century novel with an infusion of creative energy in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and beyond. Writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Salman Rushdie, Ben Okri, and many others harnessed the resources of narrative realism to the representation of folklore, belief, and fantasy. This book sheds new light on magical realism, exploring in detail its global origins and development. It offers new perspectives of the history of the ideas behind this literary tradition, including magic, realism, otherness, primitivism, ethnography, indigeneity, and space and time.Trade Review'Taking an interdisciplinary, comparative, and transgeographical approach, this book encourages readers to rethink and amplify their knowledge of magical realism ... Recommended.' I. Portaro, Choice Magazine'the essays collected in this dense and well-edited critical anthology make abundantly clear that magical realism has become a truly cosmopolitan mode of writing in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries … this volume offers innovative perspectives on a mode of writing that is now entering its second century. Being a coherently structured and effectively written book, Magical Realism and Literature will rapidly become an indispensable research tool for all scholars in the field.' Marc Maufort, Magical Realisms for a Global Twenty-first CenturyTable of ContentsIntroduction Christopher Warnes and Kim Anderson Sasser; Part I. Origins: 1. Magic and otherness Christopher Warnes; 2. Primitivism, ethnography, and magical realism Erik Camayd-Freixas; 3. Magical realism and indigeneity: from appropriation to resurgence Maggie Ann Bowers; 4. Insubstantial selves in magical realism in the Americas Lois Parkinson Zamora; 5. Space, time and magical realism Ato Quayson; Part II. Development: 6. Magical realism and the 'boom' of the Latin American novel Ignacio López-Calvo; 7. Magical realism: the European trajectory Theo D'haen; 8. Beautiful lies: magical realism in Australasia Maria Takolander; 9. Myth, orality and the African novel Graham Riach; 10. Breaking boundaries: the tale of North American magical realism Shannin Schroeder; 11. East Asian magical realism Ben Holgate; 12. Magic and realism in South Asia Sourit Bhattacharya; 13. Fantastic cohabitations: magical realism in Arabic and Hebrew Alexandra Chreiteh (Shraytekh); Part III. Application: 14. From the inside of belief: magic and religion Kim Anderson Sasser; 15. Word, image, and cinematic ekphrasis in magical realist trauma narratives Eugene Arva; 16. Scheherazade in the diaspora: home and the city in Arab migrant fiction Jumana Bayeh; 17. Ecomagical realism in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria and Linda Hogan's People of the Whale Laura A. Pearson; 18. Proximate magic: magical realism in Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 Wendy Faris and Miho Nonaka; 19. Magic and the literary market Ursula Kluwick; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press African American Literature in Transition 18651880 Volume 5 18651880
Book SynopsisThis volume offers the most nuanced treatment available of Black engagement with print in the transitional years after the Civil War. It locates and studies materials that many literary historians leave out of narratives of American culture. But as important as such recovery work is, African American Literature in Transition, 18651880 also emphasizes innovative approaches, recognizing that such recovery inherently challenges methods dominant in American literary study. At the book''s core is the recognition that many period texts - by writers from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and William Wells Brown to Mattie Jackson and William Steward - are not only aesthetically striking but also central to understanding key socio-historical and cultural trends in the nineteenth century. Chapters by leading scholars are grouped in three sections - ''Citizenships, Textualities, and Domesticities'', ''Persons and Bodies'', and ''Memories, Materialities, and Locations'' - and focus on debates over raceTable of ContentsBlack Reconstructions: Introduction Eric Gardner; Part I. Citizenships, Textualities, and Domesticities: 1. Sketching Black Citizenship on Installment after the 15th Amendment Derrick R. Spires; 2. Stories of Citizenship: The Rise of Narrative Black Poetry During Reconstruction Stephanie Farrar; 3. National Housekeeping: (Re)dressing the Politics of Whiteness in Nineteenth-Century African American Literary History Rynetta Davis; 4. Reconstructing the Rhetoric of AME Ministry Eric Gardner; Part II. Persons and Bodies: 5. Black Reform, Writing, and Resistance: Textual Politics in the Post-War Era Kathy L. Glass; 6. Post-Civil War Black Childhoods Nazera Sadiq Wright; 7. Disabling Freedom: Bloody Shirt Rhetoric in Postbellum Slave Narratives Keith Michael Green; 8. Radical Respectability and African American Women's Reconstruction Fiction Brigitte Fielder; Part III. Memories, Materialities, and Locations: 9. The Civil War in African American Memory Cody Marrs; 10. African American Literature of the West and the Landscape of Opportunity Janet Neary; 11. Reconstructions of the South in African American Literature Sherita L. Johnson; 12. 'This Is Especially Our Crop': Blackness, Value, and the Reconstruction of Cotton Katherine Adams.
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Cambridge University Press African American Literature in Transition 18501865 Volume 4 18501865
Book SynopsisThe period of 1850-1865 consisted of violent struggle and crisis as the United States underwent the prodigious transition from slaveholding to ostensibly ''free'' nation. This volume reframes mid-century African American literature and challenges our current understandings of both African American and American literature. It presents a fluid tradition that includes history, science, politics, economics, space and movement, the visual, and the sonic. Black writing was highly conscious of transnational and international politics, textual circulation, and revolutionary imaginaries. Chapters explore how Black literature was being produced and circulated; how and why it marked its relation to other literary and expressive traditions; what geopolitical imaginaries it facilitated through representation; and what technologies, including print, enabled African Americans to pursue such a complex and ongoing aesthetic and political project.Table of ContentsTimeline; Volume 4: 1850-1865, Introduction, Teresa Zackodnik; Part 1. Black personhood and citizenship in transition: Section introduction, Teresa Zackodnik; 1. Freedom's accounts—the semi-citizenship narrative, Stephen Knadler; 2. Conduct discourse, slave narratives, and Black male self-fashioning on the eve of the Civil war, Erica L. Ball; 3. Picturing Blackness with and against Stowe's lens, Michael A. Chaney; 4. African American periodicals and the transition to visual intercourse, Autumn Womack; Part 2. Generic transitions and textual circulation: Section introduction, Teresa Zackodnik; 5. Overhearing the African American novel, 1850-1865, Hollis Robbins and Mark Sussman; 6. Black romanticism and the lyric as the medium of the conspiracy, Matt Sandler; 7. Black newspapers, novels and the racial geographies of transnationalism, Ben Fagan; 8. Creoles of color, poetry and the periodic press in union occupied New Orleans, Jennifer Gipson; 9. The Haitian and American revolutions and Black historical writing at mid-century, Stephen Gilroy Hall; Part 3. Black geographies in transition: Section introduction, Teresa Zackodnik; 10. Freedom to move, Janaka Bowman-Lewis; 11. Black activism, print culture and literature in Canada 1850-1865, Winfried Siemerling; 12. Antislavery activist networks and transatlantic texts, Barbara McCaskill; 13. Haiti as diasporic crossroads in transnational African American writing, Marlene L. Daut; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press African American Literature in Transition 18001830 Volume 2 18001830
Book SynopsisAfrican American literature in the years between 1800 and 1830 emerged from significant transitions in the cultural, technological, and political circulation of ideas. Transformations included increased numbers of Black organizations, shifts in the physical mobility of Black peoples, expanded circulation of abolitionist and Black newsprint as well as greater production of Black authored texts and images. The perpetuation of slavery in the early American republic meant that many people of African descent conveyed experiences of bondage or promoted abolition in complex ways, relying on a diverse array of print and illustrative forms. Accordingly, this volume takes a thematic approach to African American literature from 1800 to 1830, exploring Black organizational life before 1830, movement and mobility in African American literature, and print culture in circulation, illustration, and the narrative form.Trade Review'… AALT is a welcome addition to the bookshelves of scholars of nineteenth-century African American literature specifically, or for scholars of nineteenth-century American literature generally; it will also be of great interest to scholars who specialize in histories of organizational, print, and visual culture of the period.' Dana Murphy, Early American LiteratureTable of ContentsIntroduction Jasmine Nichole Cobb; Part I. Black Organizational Life before 1830: 1. Race, writing, and eschatological hope, 1800-1830 Maurice Wallace; 2. Daniel Coker, David Walker, and the politics of dialogue with whites in early nineteenth-century African American literature William L. Andrews; 3. Black entrepreneurship, economic self-determination and early print in Antebellum Brooklyn Prithi Kanakamedala; Part II. Movement and Mobility in African American Literature: 4. Early African American literature and the British Empire, 1808-1835 Joseph Rezek; 5. Robert Roberts's The House Servant's Directory and the Performance of Stability in African American Print, 1800–1830 Britt Rusert; 6. Dream visions in early Black autobiography; or, why Frederick Douglass doesn't dream Bryan Sinche; Part III. Print Culture in Circulation: 7. Reading, Black feminism, and the press around 1827 Teresa Zackodnik; 8. Theresa and the early transatlantic mixed-race heroine: Black solidarity in Freedom's Journal Brigitte Fielder; 9. Redemption, the historical imagination, and early Black biographical writing Stefan Wheelock; Part IV. Illustration and the Narrative Form: 10. Theorizing vision and selfhood in early Black writing and art Sarah Blackwood; 11. Embodying activism, bearing witness: the portraits of early African American ministers in Philadelphia Aston Gonzalez; 12. Visual insubordination within early African American portraiture and illustrated books Martha J. Cutter.
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Cambridge University Press Jorge Luis Borges in Context
Book SynopsisJorge Luis Borges (18991986) is Argentina''s most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked; from the history of the Borges family and that of modern Argentina, through two world wars, to events including the Cuban Revolution, military dictatorship, and the Falklands War. Borges'' distinctive responses to the Western tradition, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Kafka, and the European avant garde are explored, along with his appraisals of Sarmiento, gauchesque literature and other strands of the Argentine cultural tradition. Borges'' polemical stance on Catholic integralism in early twentieth-century Argentina is accounted for, whilst chapters on Buddhism, Judaism and landmarks of Persian literature illustrate Borges''s engagement with the East. Finally, his legacy is visible in the literatures of the Americas, in European countries such as Italy and Portugal, and in the novels of J. M. Coetzee, representing the GlobalTrade Review'… this is an excellent, up-to-date study of the masterful Argentine writer.' J. S. Bottaro, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction. Borges in context, context in Borges Robin Fiddian; Part I. Self, Family and the Argentine Nation: 1. Borges and the question of Argentine identity Edwin Williamson; 2. Borges and the Banda Oriental Gustavo San Román; 3. Borges in person: family, love, and sex Edwin Williamson; 4. Jorge Luis Borges's fictions and the two world wars Efrain Kristal; 5. Dictatorship and writing (1976–83) Annick Louis; 6. The public author and democracy (1984–86) Annick Louis; 7. Borges and Las Islas Malvinas Ben Bollig; 8. Borges and Sarmiento Sandra Contreras; 9. Borges and the Gauchesque Sarah Roger; 10. Twenties' Buenos Aires Eleni Kefala; 11. Borges and the Argentine Avant-Garde Eamon Mccarthy; 12. The Argentine writer and tradition Humberto Nuñez-Faraco; 13. Borges, tangos, and milongas Ana C. Cara; 14. Borges and Bioy Casares Mariela Blanco; 15. Borges and popular culture Phil Swanson; 16. Argentine responses: César Aira and Ricardo Piglia Niall Geraghty; Part II. The Western Canon, The East, Contexts of Reception: 17. Borges and Cervantes Roberto González Echevarría; 18. Borges's Shakespeare Patricia Novillo-Corvalán; 19. The dialectics of idealism Marina Martin; 20. The English Romantics and Borges Jason Wilson; 21. The early avant garde in Spain Xon de Ros; 22. Borges and James Joyce: makers of labyrinths Patricia Novillo-Corvalán; 23. Borges and Kafka Sarah Roger; 24. Borges and the Bible Lucas Adur; 25. Borges and Judaism Corinna Deppner; 26. Borges and Buddhism Evelyn Fishburn; 27. Borges and Persian literature Shaahin Pishbin; 28. Borges and the 'Boom' Dominic Moran; 29. Argentina and Cuba: the politics of reception Alfredo Alonso Estenoz; 30. Borges and Coetzee Fernando Galván; 31. Borges in Portugal Phillip Rothwell; 32. Borges and Italy Robert Gordon.
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Cambridge University Press New York
Book SynopsisNew York City''s streets, parks, museums, architecture, and its people appear in an array of literary works published from New York''s earliest settlement to the present day. The exploration of the city as both a symbol and as a reality has formed the basis of New York''s literature. Using the themes of adaptation, innovation, identity, and hope, this history explores novels, poetry, periodicals, and newspapers to examine how New York''s literature can be understood through the notion of movement. From the periodicals of the nineteenth century, the Arabic writers of the city in the early twentieth century, the literature of homelessness, childhood, and the spaces of tragedy and resilience within the metropolis, this diverse assessment opens up new areas of research within urban literature. It provides an innovative examination of how writing has shaped the lives of New Yorkers and how writing about the city has shaped the modern world.Trade Review'The collection is too eclectic and wide-ranging to serve as a reference resource, but all the essays are thoughtful, well written, and provocative. The study of literature through the lens of space and place is a significant critical trend, one to which this book is an important contribution … Highly recommended.' J. W. Miller, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Introduction: a history of New York literature Ross Wilson; Part I. Adaptation and Adjustment: 2. Changing culture: the contribution of European immigrants to New York City literature, 1870–1940 Martino Marazzi; 3. Agitators and intellectuals: radical Jewish storytellers Catherine Morley; 4. The mirror of the West: Arab-American literature in early twentieth century New York City Raphael Cormack; 5. Writing the Big Apple in Chinese and Chinese American literature Pin-chia Feng; Part II. Innovation and Inspiration: 6. Sharing social space: New York as a city of the housed and unhoused Dorothea Löbbermann; 7. Health reform in the mid-nineteenth-century New York periodical press David Dowling; 8. Neoliberal New York: contemporary literature and the politics of urban redevelopment Catalina Neculai; 9. The marvellous and the mundane: ekphrastic New York novels Monika Gehlawat; Part III. Identity and Place: 10. Growing up in Manhattan: children's literature and New York City Pádraic Whyte; 11. Wartime reading in the city, 1914–1918 Ross Wilson; 12. The periodical and the flâneur in early New York writing Peter Ferry; 13. Multiple voices: New York City poetry Rona Cran; 14. The New York School: toward a definition Yasmine Shamma; Part IV. Tragedy and Hope: 15. The spatial drama of hope and desire in contemporary New York City literature Bart Eeckhout; 16. New and Old Amsterdam in twenty-first century fiction Maria Lauret; 17. Beats, black culture and bohemianism in mid-twentieth century New York City Douglas Field; 18. 'The sixth borough': imagining New York after 9/11 Birgit Däwes; 19. Walking the modern city: emotion and space in New York Nathalie Cochoy; 20. Afterword Lisa Keller.
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Cambridge University Press The American Scene
Book SynopsisHenry James left America in 1875 for the sake of his art and for the rich cultural heritage of Europe. His return in the late summer of 1904, based on both romantic and practical motives, allowed him to revisit the now-transformed cities of his youth as well as to experience for the first time the country''s southern states. The American Scene is a major work from James'' final, most adventurous creative phase and offers a cultural and social critique of contemporary American society as well as a personal series of ''gathered impressions'', a form of indirect yet sometimes intimate autobiography. This new edition includes detailed explanatory notes, a general introduction, a chronology, an itinerary of James'' journey, a record of textual variants and rare manuscript material, appendices which include the journal James kept, texts for the two lectures he gave, and two additional essays written on his return to England.Trade Review'… Collister's The American Scene is furnished with abundant resources in terms of its critical apparatus and annotations, far outstripping those included in previous editions of the text. These do rigorous work historicising James' text, linking the incidents of the travelogue to the events of James' own journey, offering insight into the relationship between life and art … Of added interest to [the] scholarly community … will be Collister's collations of variants on the basis of the galley proofs for the chapter on 'New England', held today at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale … Collister's introduction is masterful and authoritative, and very useful is his inclusion of an itinerary of James' American journey, as are his appendices … Collister's The American Scene is an excellent edition, which will hopefully provide the text with a new readership.' Giles Whiteley, Notes and Queries'The editor, Peter Collister, an expert on the late James, has done a fine job … Collister's The American Scene is furnished with abundant resources in terms of its critical apparatus and annotations, far outstripping those included in previous editions of the text. These do rigorous work historicising James' text, linking the incidents of the travelogue to the events of James' own journey, offering insight into the relationship between life and art … Collister's introduction is masterful and authoritative, and very useful is his inclusion of an itinerary of James' American journey, as are his appendices … [This] is an excellent edition, which will hopefully provide the text with a new readership.' Giles Whiteley, Notes and Queries'This edition represents a daunting amount of work, and is full of things to be grateful for in coming to terms with this difficult, self-reflexive, controversial book …the core of valuable research here is a serious achievement.' TLS'… this publication abundantly displays the kind of comprehensiveness that we have come to expect from Collister's work.' Michael Anesko, The Henry James Review'Peter Collister's new edition of The American Scene is an indispensable guide to this experimental narrative.' Sarah B. Daugherty, American Literary ScholarshipTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; A note on this edition; Chronology: Henry James' life and writings; James' American itinerary; List of abbreviations; Editor's introduction; The American Scene; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes on textual variants; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Mark Twain in Context
Book SynopsisMark Twain In Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of one of the most celebrated American writers. It is a collection of short, lively contributions covering a wide range of topics on Twain''s life and works. Twain lived during a time of great change, upheaval, progress, and challenge. He rose from obscurity to become what some have called ''the most recognizable person on the planet''. Beyond his contributions to literature, which were hugely important and influential, he was a businessman, an inventor, an advocate for social and political change, and ultimately a cultural icon. Placing his life and work in the context of his age reveals much about both Mark Twain and America in the last half of the nineteenth century, the twentieth century, and the first decades of the twenty-first century.Trade Review'Mark Twain in Context is a treasure trove of information … It is an ideal collection for undergraduates and readers new to Twain, but those with more experience are also likely to find it of much use … all the chapters are excellent, well-researched introductions to the various ways Twain was a man of his time and remains relevant in the present time.' J. W. Miller, ChoiceTable of ContentsPart I. Life: 1. Life Gary Scharnhorst; 2. Reading Alan Gribben; 3. Autobiography John Bird; 4. Biographies Kevin Mac Donnell; Part II. Literary Contexts: 5. Southwestern humor Henry B. Wonham; 6. Literary comedians David E. E. Sloane; 7. Local color and regionalism Joseph A. Alvarez; 8. Early periodical writing James Caron; 9. Travel writing Jeffrey Melton; 10. Short fiction Peter Messent; 11. Publishing Bruce Michelson; 12. Lectures and speeches Tracy Wuster; 13. Contemporary writers Kelly Richardson; 14. Realism and naturalism Chad Rohman; Part III. Historical and Cultural Contexts: 15. Politics James S. Leonard; 16. Business and economics Lawrence Howe; 17. Religion Harold K. Bush; 18. Science and technology Nathaniel Williams; 19. Race and ethnicity: African Americans Shelley Fisher Fishkin; 20. Race and ethnicity: native Americans Kerry Driscoll; 21. Race and ethnicity: Chinese Hsuan L. Hsu; 22. Cosmopolitanism Ann M. Ryan; 23. Gender issues: women and domesticity Laura Skandera-Trombley; 24. Gender issues: sexuality Linda A. Morris; 25. History Gregg Camfield; 26. Animals and animal rights Emily VanDette; 27. Nationalism and anti-Imperialism Susan K. Harris; 28. Philosophy James Wharton Leonard; Part IV. Reception and Criticism: 29. Contemporary and early reception and criticism (to 1960) Joe B. Fulton; 30. Reception and criticism (1960-present) Joseph Csicsila; 31. Translation and international reception Selina Lai-Henderson; Part V. Historical, Creative, and Cultural Legacies: 32. Film, television, and theater adaptations R. Kent Rasmussen; 33. Copyright, trademark, and brand Judith Yaross Lee; 34. Mark Twain sites Hillary Iris Lowe.
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Cambridge University Press Caribbean Literature in Transition 19702020
Book SynopsisThe period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 traces the region''s contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and drama into emerging areas of creative non-fiction, memoir and speculative fiction with a particular attention on challenging the narrow canon of Anglophone male writers. It maps shifts and continuities between late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Caribbean literature in terms of innovations in literary form and style, the changing role and place of the writer, and shifts in our understandings of what constitutes the political terrain of the literary and its sites of struggle. Whilst reaching across language divides and multiple diasporas, it shows how contemporary Caribbean Literature has focused its attentions on social complexity and ongoing marginalizations in its continued preoccupations with identity, belonging and freedoms.Trade Review'Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020 will remain a rich source for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars within Caribbean studies, diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, and performance studies who are interested in the political, cultural, and social life of the literary imagination … this volume functions as a necessary reflection on some of the major developments in Caribbean literary production over the past fifty years.' Jovante Anderson, Journal of West Indian Literature'The new and timely perspectives on migration, gender, and the environment, amongst other topics, enable this series to bring attention to an incredibly diverse canon of writers, literary forms, and historical contexts. In doing so, the volumes invite readers to revisit established figures - with Walcott and Naipaul still looming large - whilst also re-examining Caribbean literary history to include a corpus of voices that are not necessarily anglophone or male-centric. For this reason, the series deserves to lay the foundations of new critical explorations into the heterogeneity and global scope of Caribbean creativity from its roots in the colonial past through to its many fluid and fragmentary strands in the present.' Matthew Whittle, Journal of Postcolonial WritingTable of ContentsIntroduction. Caribbean Assemblages: 1970s-2020 Alison Donnell and Ronald Cummings; Part I. Literary and Generic Transitions: 1. Writing and the Responsibility to Memory: The Role of White Female Planters in Contemporary Caribbean Novels Tanya L. Shields; 2. Caribbean Identities and Diversifying the Creole Mix Shivanee Ramlochan; 3. Carnival, Calypso, and Dancehall Cultures: Making the Popular Political in Contemporary Caribbean Writing Emily Zobel Marshall; 4. Life Writing, Gender and Caribbean Narrative 1970-2015: Itinerant Self-Making in the Postcolonial Caribbean Denise Decaires Narain; 5. Forwarding Dubpoetry in this Generation: A Grassroots Performance and Neo-Literary Genre in Transition Susan Gingell; 6. Postcolonial Ruins, Reconstructive Poetics: Caribbean Urban Imaginaries Christopher Winks; 7. Reimagining Caribbean Time and Space: Speculative Fiction Rebecca Romdhani; 8. Drama and Performance Justine Mcconnell; 9. Here are the Others: Caribbean Creative Nonfiction Kei Miller; 10. 'Let every child run wild': Cultural Identity and the Role of the Child in Caribbean Children's and Young Adult Fiction Aisha Takiyah Spencer; Part II. Cultural and Political Transitions: 11. Caribbean Feminist Criticism: Towards a New Canon of Caribbean Feminist Theory and Theorizing Simone A. James Alexander; 12. Writing of and for a Revolution Alison Donnell and Nalini Mohabir; 12. Digital Yards: Caribbean Writing on Social Media and Other Digital Platforms Kelly Baker Josephs; 13. Developing and Sustaining Literary Publics: Prizes, Festivals, and New Writing Ifeona Fulani; Part III. The Caribbean Region in Transition: 14. The Caribbean and Britain Sarah Lawson Welsh; 15. Acts of Trespass and Collapsing Borders: Alternate Landscapes in Contemporary Caribbean-Canadian Literature Camille A. Isaacs; 16. The Caribbean and the United States Jocelyn Fenton Stitt; 17. The Caribbean and the Tourist Gaze Supriya M. Nair; 18. Caribbean Subjects in the World Kezia A. Page; Part IV. Critical Transitions: 19. Visuality in Caribbean Literature and Visual Culture Marta Fernández Campa; 20. From Counter-Textuality to Intertextuality: Continuing the Caribbean Canon Emily L. Taylor; 21. Caribbean Eco-Poetics: The Categorial Imperative and Indifference in the Caribbean Environment Keja L. Valens; 22. Sexual Subjects Faizal Deen and Ronald Cummings; 23. Caribbean Literature and Literary Studies: Past, Present, and Future Alison Donnell; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Irish Literature in Transition 19802020 Volume 6
Book SynopsisIrish Literature in Transition, 19802020elucidates the central features of Irish literature during the twentieth century''s long turn, covering its significant trends and formations, reassessing its major writers and texts, and providing path-making accounts of its emergent figures. Over the past forty years, life in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland has been transformed by new material conditions in each polity and by ideological shifts in the way people understand themselves and their relation to the world. Amid these remarkable changes, culture on both sides of the border has emerged as a global phenomenon, one that both reflects and intervenes in rapidly changing contemporary conditions. This volume accounts for broad patterns of literary and cultural production in this period anddemonstrates the value of Irish contemporary literature within anglophone and European traditions and as a body of work that has kept its eye trained on the particularities of the island and itsTrade Review'This is an extraordinary achievement, a hugely enjoyable and instructive read. It does not leave Irish Studies as it found it, instead renovating and extending the subject.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times'These reckonings acutely register the 'future's productively uncertain relation to the present world', as Falci writes of Boland and Heaney, and establishes the strengths and challenges of Irish Studies within this unpredictable present.' Liam Harisson, Irish Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds; Part I. Times: 1. The contemporary conditions of Irish language literature Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh; 2. The cultures of poetry in contemporary Ireland David Lloyd; 3. Troubles literature and the end of the troubles Julia Obert; 4. Contemporary Irish theatre and media Paige Reynolds; 5. Writing childhood: young adult and children's literature Patricia Kennon; Coda: Eavan Boland and Seamus Heaney Eric Falci; Part II. Spaces: 6. Habitations: space, place, real estate Adam Hanna; 7. Crossings: Northern Irish literature from Good Friday to Brexit Stefanie Lehner; 8. Adaptations: commemoration and contemporary Irish theatre James Moran; 9. Relocations: diaspora, travel, migrancy Ellen McWilliams; 10. Arrivals: inward migration and Irish literature Anne Mulhall; Coda: Tom Murphy and Brian Friel Patrick Lonergan; Part III. Forms of Experience: 11. The Irish realist novel Joe Cleary; 12. Faith, secularism, and sacred institutions Diarmaid Ferriter; 13. Writing the tiger: economics and culture Sarah Townsend; 14. Violence, trauma, recovery Christopher Langlois; 15. Modes of witnessing and Ireland's institutional history Emilie Pine, Susan Leavy, Mark Keane, Maeve Casserly and Tom Lane; Coda: Edna O'Brien and Eimear McBride Clair Wills; Part IV. Practices, Institutions, and Audiences: 16. Mediation and translation in Irish language literature Rióna Ní Fhrighil; 17. Irish studies and its discontents Ronan McDonald; 18. Historical transitions in Ireland on screen Barry Monahan; 19. Irish blockbusters and literary stars at the end of the millenium Stephen Watt; 20. Contemporary literature and public value Margaret Kelleher; Coda: The Irish Times, Tramp Press, and the future present Paige Reynolds.
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Cambridge University Press Caribbean Literature in Transition 18001920 Volume 1
Book SynopsisThis volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, including an enormous range of genres, in varying venues, and in multiple languages of the Caribbean. Essays examine lesser-known authors and writing previously marginalized as nonliterary: popular writing in newspapers and pamphlets; fiction and poetry such as romances, sentimental novels, and ballads; non-elite memoirs and letters, such as the narratives of the enslaved or the working classes, especially women. Many contributions are comparative, multilingual, and regional. Some infer the cultural presence of subaltern groups within the texts of the dominant classes. Almost all of the chapters move easily between time periods, linking texts, writers, and literary movements in ways that expand traditional notions of literary influence and canon formation. Using literary, cultural, and historical analyses, this book provides a complete re-exTrade Review'Caribbean Literature in Transition covers the literary, sociopolitical, and historical advancements and criticisms of Caribbean literature from 1800 to 2020 … The set's chronological arrangement yields insights about the varied availability of information over the three centuries. Transitions in coverage of gender, culture, and political movements represented in Caribbean literature are highlighted. Overall, the set is far more comprehensive than other collections on Caribbean literature, which makes the set excellent for up-to-date research … Highly recommended.' D. M. Jarrett, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsIntroduction Evelyn O'Callaghan and Tim Watson, with contributions from Marlene L. Daut; Part I. Literary and Generic Transitions: 1. Conquest Narratives Kelly Wisecup; 2. Creole Testimonies in Caribbean Women's Slave Narratives Nicole N. Aljoe; 3. Jonkanoo Performances of Resistance, Freedom, and Memory Jenna M. Gibbs; 4. Caribbean Picturesque from William Beckford to Contemporary Tourism Evelyn O'Callaghan; 5. From Novels of the Caribbean, to Caribbean Novels Candace Ward; 6. Early Caribbean Poetry and the Modern Reader John T. Gilmore; 7. Towards a West Indian Romance Poetics Rhonda Kareen Harrison; Part II. Cultural and Political Transitions: 8. John Jacob Thomas and the grammar of freedom Faith L. Smith; 9. How Barbados transformed radical British author Eliza Fenwick into a reactionary Lissa Paul; 10. Mary Seacole's travels and tales Norval (Nadi) Edwards; 11. Genealogy and nonhistory in Adolphus, A Tale RJ Boutelle; 12. Obeah, religion, and nineteenth-century literature of the Anglophone Caribbean Janelle Rodriques; Part III. The Caribbean Region In Transition: 13. Antillean Sovereignty in Pan-Caribbean Writing Marlene L. Daut; 14. Caribbean Literature as Diasporic Archive Rhonda Cobham-Sander; 15. The Representation of the Caribbean in Nineteenth-Century African American Newspapers Curdella Forbes; 16. The Impact of the American Civil War on Political Writing in Jamaica and Cuba Jonathon T. Booth; 17. South Asian Migration and Settlement Stories, 1800–1920 Atreyee Phukan; 18. Francophone-Anglophone Connections in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean Elizabeth Kelly; 19. Cuban Literature before 1920: Antislavery, Historiography, Women's Writing, and the Nation Daylet Domínguez; 20. José Martí, José Rizal, and their Speculative Extended Caribbean Susan Gillmaz; 21. Translating the Revolution from Haiti to Louisiana Sarah Jessica Johnson; Part IV. Critical Transitions: 22. Creative Rewritings of Early Caribbean Texts Sheri-Marie Harrison; 23. Digital Restaging of Early Caribbean texts Laurie N. Taylor; 24. Lost Mothers in the Caribbean Plantation and Contemporary Black Maternal and Infant Mortality Kerry Sinanan; 25. Reading the Colonial Archive through Joscelyn Gardner's Creole Portraits I–III Melanie Otto.
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Cambridge University Press Gender in American Literature and Culture
Book SynopsisGender in American Literature and Cultureintroduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism.Itoffers nuanced readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present andmoves beyond inflexible categories of masculinity and femininity that have reinforced misleading assumptions about public and private spaces, domesticity, individualism, and community. The book also demonstrates how rigid inscriptions of gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States. Responding toa sense of 21st century cultural and political crisis, itilluminates the literary histories and cultural imaginaries that have set the stage for urgent contemporary debates.Trade Review'Required reading for anyone seeking to understand the wide diversity of approaches to gender in American literature, this book is a welcome update for scholars of American studies and gender studies … Highly recommended.' D. E. Magill, Choice MagazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Gender Criticism in the Age of Trump Jean M. Lutes and Jennifer Travis; Part I. Intimacies: 1. The Price of Freedom: Racialized Female Desire in Early America Anna Mae Duane; 2. Post-Reproductive Female Sexuality and the Early American Novel Marion Rust; 3. The Effeminate Man in Nineteenth-Century America Travis Foster; 4. Rereading Puritan Masculinity through Trans Theory Ivy Schweitzer; 5. 'Unbounded Grief': Black Maternal Sorrow and the Literature of Slavery Shermaine M. Jones; 6. Rethinking Reproductive Freedom through Transpacific Narratives Yu-Fang Cho; 7. Slow Emergency: Life Writing, Dementia, Gender, and Care Rachel Adams; Part II. Aggressions: 8. Sexual Violence and Indigenous Women: Rereading the Archive of Catharine Brown (Cherokee) Theresa Strouth Gaul; 9. Intergenerational Memory and the Making of Indigenous Literary Kinships Susan Bernardin; 10. US Women Writers, Sexual Violence, and Narrative Resistance Catherine Keyser; 11. Gender, Violence, and Accountability in Contemporary Queer Latina Writing Lourdes Torres; 12. The Literature of Racial Uplift and White Feminist Failure Brigitte Fielder; 13. Black Male Studies and Contemporary African American Writing Seulghee Lee; 14. Representations of White Masculinity in Veteran-Authored Iraq War Fiction Hamilton Carroll; 15. What a Doctor Should Look Like: Queer Femme Erasure and the Politics of Dress in the Nineteenth Century Christine 'Xine' Yao; 16. Genderqueer: Literary and Gender Experimentation in Twentieth-Century American Literature Jaime Harker; 17. Fanfiction, Transformative Works, and Feminist Resistance in Digital Culture Anastasia Salter and Bridget Blodgett; 18. Vulnerable States: Immigration and Gender in American Literature Sigrid Anderson; 19. The Mahjar: Arab Women's Literary Culture in America at the Early Twentieth Century Elizabeth Claire Saylor; 20. Disabled Women's Life Writing and the Problem with Recovery Clare Mullaney; 21. Feeling, Memory, and Peoplehood in Contemporary Native Women's Poetry Mark Rifkin.
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Cambridge University Press Norman Mailer in Context
Book SynopsisThis volume offers new insight into the breadth of contexts that inform Norman Mailer''s body of work. It examines important literary, critical, theoretical, cultural, and historical frameworks for Mailer''s writing, highlighting the ways his work reflects the concerns of twentieth and twenty-first century America. This book traces Mailer''s literary influences; his contributions to a variety of literary genres; his participation in the American political sphere; the philosophical, religious, and gendered contexts that shape his work; and the iconic American figures he profiled. The book concludes with reflections on Mailer''s literary and cultural legacy, emphasizing his advocacy for literary freedom and the contemporary resonance of his work.Trade Review'… introduces all facets of Mailer's work and directs interested readers to further resources … the book emphasizes the work over the person, so readers will gain a fresh understanding of Mailer's writing … Recommended.' B. Diemert, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsIntroduction Maggie McKinley; Part I. Literary Influences: 1. Early influences Raymond M. Vince; 2. Mailer and Hemingway Linda Wagner-Martin; 3. Friendships and Feuds Matthew Hinton; Part II. Form and Genre: 4. New Journalism Jason Mosser; 5. Essays and Columns Enid Stubin; 6. The Novel Peter Balbert; 7. Criticism Phillip Sipiora; 8. Film Justin Bozung; 9. Modernism Jerry Schuchalter; 10. Postmodernism Scott Duguid; Part III. Political Contexts: 11. Marxism and Malaquais David Anshen; 12. JFK and Political Heroism J. Michael Lennon; 13. The Vietnam War Ann Luppi von Mehren; 14. 1968 Political Conventions Robert Francis Saxe; 15. Left Conservatism Kevin M. Schultz; Part IV. Philosophical and Cultural Contexts: 16. Totalitarianism Erin Mercer; 17. The Hipster Raj Chandarlapaty; 18. Manichaeism and Existentialism Victor Peppard; 19. Technology Walter Lewallen; 20. Violence Maggie McKinley; 21. Race Douglas Taylor; 22. Judaism Mashey Bernstein; Part V. Gender and Sexuality: 23. Masculinity Brad Congdon; 24. The Second Wave Feminist Movement Bonnie Culver; 25. Sex and Sexuality Nicole DePolo; Part VI. Profiles and Literary Biographies: 26. Marilyn Monroe Carl Rollyson; 27. Muhammad Ali Ronald K. Fried; 28. Picasso Linda Patterson Miller; 29. The Criminal Mind: Gary Gilmore and Lee Harvey Oswald Mark Olshaker; Part VII. Mailer's Legacy: 30. Literary Activism Heather Braun; 31. Mailer in Translation Jasna Potocnik Topler; 32. Letters John Whalen-Bridge; 33. Mailer Studies in the 21st Century Robert Begiebing; 34. Political Resonance Gerald R. Lucas; Primary Bibliography; Selected Secondary Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of American Modernism
Book SynopsisCovering key forms, media, locations, individuals, and communities, this book addresses both familiar topics and emergent scholarship. Seeing US modernism as fundamentally multiracial, both national and transnational, and steeped in the markets of new mass media, this will be the benchmark volume on US literary modernism for years to come.Table of ContentsPart I. Methodologies: 1. The US and Geomodernism Yogita Goyal; 2. Evading Comstockery: The Provincetown Theater, the Harlem Renaissance, and US Queer Modernism Benjamin Kahan; 3. Our Americas: Locating Modernisms, Dislocating Regionalisms and the Place of Cultures Eric Aronoff; 4. Green Modernism Joshua Schuster; 5. Modernism and the Middlebrow Faye Hammill; 6. 'The Accent of the Future': Ethnic American Modernism Catherine Morley; Part II. Forms, Genre, and Media; 7. New Visual Media Julian Murphet; 8. Midwestern Modernism and the Radio: Eliot, Hughes, Niedecker Tom McEnaney; 9. Modernist Writing and Painting John Fagg; 10. Modern Folk, Modernist Documentary Sonnet Retman; 11. Skyscraper Organizations: Architecture and US Literary Modernism Adrienne Brown; 12. The Jazz Age Jessica Teague; 13. Modernism's Deep Roots: the fin-de-siecle and the Transformation of the American Novel Guy Reynolds; 14. Modernizing the American Short Story Kasia Boddy; 15. Modernist American Long Poems Michael Kindellan; 16. The Modernist Lyric and its Discontents Linda Kinnahan; 17. Anthologies Jeremy Braddock; 18. Fragile Realism: American Drama in the Interwar Period Katherine Biers; 19. Post-WWII Theater and Media: Citation and Improvisation Shonni Enelow; 20. The Limits of an American Modernist Avant-Garde Lisa Siraganian; 21. Magazines Andrew Thacker; 22. The Modernist Presses Lise Jaillant; 23. Literary Criticism Ichiro Takayoshi; 24. Libertad Bajo Palabra: Surrealism in the Americas Jonathan P. Eburne; Part III. Situating US Modernism: A. Situating in History; 25. War Jonathan Vincent; 26. Modernism, Personality, and the Racialized State Matthew Stratton; 27. Modernism of the Streets: How the Left Made a Culture from Below Bill V. Mullen; 28. Late Modernism Greg Barnhisel; B. Situating in Geography; 29. Transnational Circuits and Homemade Machines: US Modernism in Europe Eric B. White; 30. The American Metropolis Nathaniel Cadle; 31. Hemispheric Modernisms, Imperial Modernisms: Modernism in the Americas Rachel Galvin; 32. Southern Modernism Jon Smith; 33. Transpacific Modernism Josephine Park; C. Situating in Movements and Communities; 34. Indigenous Modernism Melanie Benson Taylor; 35. Sketching the Terrain of African American Modernism Cherene Sherrard-Johnson; 36. The New Woman and American Modernism Alex Goody; 37. Celebrity and American Modernism: Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway Karen Leick.
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Cambridge University Press Irish Literature in Transition 19401980 Volume 5
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the history of Irish writing between the Second World War (or the ''Emergency'') in 1939 and the re-emergence of violence in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. It situates modern Irish writing within the contexts of cultural transition and transnational connection, often challenging pre-existing perceptions of Irish literature in this period as stagnant and mundane. While taking into account the grip of Irish censorship and cultural nationalism during the mid-twentieth century, these essays identify an Irish literary culture stimulated by international political horizons and fully responsive tochanges in publishing, readership, and education. The book combines valuable cultural surveys with focussed discussions of key literary moments, and of individual authors such as Seán O''Faoláin, Samuel Beckett, Edna O''Brien, and John McGahern.Trade Review'… a remarkably ambitious project, taking the temperature of Irish literature from 1730 to the present in approximately 2,400 pages.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times'The final essay of the collection, by Shaun Richards, is a very useful overview of the development of critical approaches and practices in the period. Irish Literature in Transition 1940-1980 is an expertly-edited collection of essays. The essays are lucid, insightful and jargon-free. For Irish Studies scholars of this period, it is indispensable.' Eoghan Smith, Irish Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Eve Patten; Part I. After the War: Ideologies in Transition: 1. The Second World War and its literary legacies Guy Woodward; 2. Outside the whale: Seán O'Faoláin and the European public intellectual Brad Kent; 3. Irish writers and Europe Aidan O'Malley; 4. Becoming a Republic: Irish writing in transition Nicholas Allen; Part II. Genres in Transition: 5. Intermodernism and the middlebrow in Irish writing John Brannigan; 6. Transitional life writing: Frank O'Connor and the autobiographical tradition Muireann Leech; 7. Somehow it is not the same: Irish theatre and transition Chris Morash; 8. Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien and the literature of absurdity David Wheatley; Part III. Sex, Politics and Literary Protest: 9. Censorship, law and literature Eibhear Walshe; 10. Sex, dissent and Irish fiction: reading John McGahern Frank Shovlin; 11. History, memory and protest in Irish theatre Emilie Pine; 12. Violence, politics and the poetry of the troubles Rosie Lavan; Part IV. Identities and Connections: 13. State, space and experiment in Irish language prose writing Máirín Nic Eoin; 14. Anglo-Ireland: the big house novel in transition Heather Ingman; 15. American-Irish literary relations Ellen McWilliams; 16. 'Home rule in our literature': Irish-British poetic relations Tom Walker; Part V. Retrospective Frameworks: Criticism in Transition: 17. Literary biography in transition Paul Delaney; 18. Publishing, Penguin and Irish writing Paul Rooney; 19. Curriculum to canon: Irish writing and education Margaret Kelleher; 20. Critics, criticism and the formation of an Irish literary canon Shaun Richards.
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Cambridge University Press Irish Literature in Transition 18801940 Volume 4
Book SynopsisThe years between 1880 and 1940 were a time of unprecedented literary production and political upheaval in Ireland. It is the era of the 1916 Easter Rising, the Irish Revival, and a time when many major Irish writers - Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Lady Gregory - profoundly impacted Irish and World Literature. Recent research has uncovered new archives of previously neglected texts and authors. Organized according to multiple categories, ranging from single author to genre and theme, this volume allows readers to imagine multiple ways of re-mapping this crucial period. The book incorporates different, even competing, approaches and interpretations to reflect emerging trends and current debates in contemporary scholarship. As ongoing research in the field of Irish studies discovers new materials and critical strategies for interpreting them, our sense of Irish literary history during this period is constantly shifting. This volume seeks to capture the richness and complexity of the years 1880-Trade Review'… a remarkably ambitious project, taking the temperature of Irish literature from 1730 to the present in approximately 2,400 pages.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times'The overarching achievements of this collection are its extensions of the scope for critical intervention into the years during and immediately succeeding the Revival. The collection also greatly bene!ts from its inclusion of criticism on overlooked writers such as George Egerton, Katherine Cecil Thurston, and George Moore alongside regular stalwarts such as Joyce, Yeats, and Bowen. Eclectic, necessarily diverse, and rigorous, Irish Literature in Transition, 1880-1940 is an important investigation into two periods of distinctive artistic and critical creativity that manages to seamlessly survey the development of cultural discourses and identify the cultural movements that made them possible.' Loic Wright, Irish Studies ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction Marjorie Howes; Part I. Revisionary Foundations: 2. The apotheosis of the vernacular: dialects and the Irish revival Brian Ó'Conchubhair; 3. Origins of modern Irish poetry, 1880–1922 Alex Davis; 4. Theatrical Ireland: new routes from the Abbey Theatre to the Gate Theatre Paige Reynolds; 5. Recovery and the ascendancy novel 1880–1932 Vera Kreilkamp; Part II. Revoutionary Forms: 6. Print culture landscapes 1880–1922 Niall Carson; 7. Revolutionary lives in the rearview mirror: memoir and autobiography Karen Steele; 8. The Hugh Lane controversy and the Irish revival Lucy McDiarmid; 9. New Irish women and new women's writing Tina O'Toole; Part III. Major Figures in Transition: 10. Aging Yeats: from fascism to disability Joseph Valente; 11. 'I myself delight in Miss Edgeworth's novels': gender, power, and the domestic in Lady Gregory's work Lauren Arrington; 12. Synge and disappearing Ireland Gregory Castle; 13. Drumcondra modernism: Joyce's suburban aesthetic Enda Duffy; 14. London Irish: Wilde, Shaw and Yeats Nicholas Grene; Part IV. Aftermaths and Outcomes: 15. Reimagining realism in post-independence Irish writing Mark Quigley; 16. The free state of poetry Lucy Collins; 17. Live wires and dead noise: revolutionary communications Emily C. Bloom; 18. The dead, the undead, and the half-alive: the transition from narrative plot to formal trope in late modern Irish writing Clair Wills; Part V. Frameworks in Transition: 19. Irish literary criticism during the revival Gerry Smyth; 20. Retrospective readings: the rise of global Irish studies Peter Kuch.
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Cambridge University Press Cormac McCarthy in Context
Book SynopsisCormac McCarthy is a writer informed by an intense curiosity. His interests range from the natural world, to philosophy and religion, to history and culture. Cormac McCarthy in Context offers readers the opportunity to understand how various influences inform his rich body of work. The collection explores the relationship McCarthy has with his favourite authors, writers such as Herman Melville, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway. Other contexts are tremendously informative, including the American Romance tradition of the nineteenth century as well as modernity and the modernist literary movement. Influence and context are of absolute importance in understanding McCarthy, who is now being understood as one of the most significant authors of the contemporary period.Trade Review'This wide-ranging volume is a fitting response to McCarthy's corpus. And, like McCarthy's own works, it will provoke substantive discussions across a remarkable array of academic disciplines.' J. Bilbro, ChoiceTable of ContentsPart I. Environments: 1. Life and career Steven Frye; 2. The South Scott Yarbrough; 3. The Southwest Lydia Cooper; 4. The Santa Fe Institute Ciaran Dowd; Part II. Literary Contexts: Sources, Influences, Allusions: 5. William Faulkner Jay Watson; 6. Ernest Hemingway Olivia Carr Edenfield; 7. Herman Melville and the American Romance tradition G. R. Thompson; 8. Romanticism Dustin Anderson; 9. Naturalism Adam H. Wood; 10. The Bible Alan Noble; 11. Allusion and allegory Bill Hardwig; Part III. Intellectual Contexts: 12. The Judeo-Christian tradition James Dorson; 13. Gnosticism Benjamin West; 14. Classical and pre-classical philosophy David Williams; 15. Nineteenth and twentieth-century philosophy Julius Greve; 16. Formal aesthetic choices Bryan Vescio; 17. Science and technology Jay Ellis; Part IV. Social and Cultural Contexts: 18. American politics David Holloway; 19. Race and cultural difference John Dudley; 20. Ecology Susan Kollin; 21. Modernity Nicholas Monk; 22. A visual artist on McCarthy Peter Josyph; 23. Cinematic adaptations Lee Clark Mitchell; 24. Cinematic influences Petra Mundik; Part V. Archives, Critical History, Translation: 25. The archives and the Tennessee years, I: The Orchard Keeper and Outer Dark Dianne C. Luce; 26. The archives and the Tennessee years, II: Child of God, The Gardener's Son, and Suttree Dianne C. Luce; 27. The San Marcos archives: Blood Meridian and the West Michael Lynn Crews; 28. Letters and correspondence Katie Salzmann; 29. Critical history Stacey Peebles; 30. Translation and international reception, I Beatrice Trotignon; 31. Translation and international reception, II Beatrice Trotignon.
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Cambridge University Press Philip Roth in Context
Book SynopsisWritten by leading scholars on Philip Roth from around the globe, this book offers new insight into the various contexts that inform his body of work. Itopens with an overview of Roth''s life and literary influences, before turning to important critical, geographical, theoretical, cultural, and historical contexts. It closes with focused meditations on the various iterations of Roth''s legacy, from the screen to international translations of his work to his signature stylistic imprint on American letters. Together, all of these chapters reveal Roth''s range as a writer, as he interrogates American national identity and history, and explores the dimensions of the individual self.Trade Review'… a reasonable starting point for anyone seeking a complete picture of how Roth is viewed within the context of academic literary criticism … Recommended.' S. Gittleman, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors; Introduction Maggie McKinley; Part I. Life and Literary Contexts: 1. Life Matthew Shipe; 2. Literary Influences Rachael McLennan; 3. Literary Conversations Dan A. O'Brien; 4. Roth's Comic Seriousness Paule Lévy; 5. Writing about Writing James D. Bloom; Part II. Critical Contexts: 6. The Early Years Ira Nadel; 7. Portnoy and its Aftermath Pia Masiero; 8. The Zuckerman Books David Hadar; 9. The Kepesh Books Mike Witcombe; 10. The 'Philip Roth' books Gurumurthy Neelakantan; 11. The Late Novellas Victoria Aarons; Part III. Geographical Contexts: 12. Newark Jessica Lang; 13. The Berkshires Daniel Anderson; 14. Prague Claudia Franziska Brühwiler; 15. Israel Leona Toker; Part IV. Theoretical Contexts: 16. Psychoanalysis Maren Scheurer; 17. Postmodernism Michael Kalisch; 18. Trauma Theory Aimee Pozorski; 19. Narrative Medicine Miriam Jaffe; Part V. Jewish American Identity: 20. Roth as 'Jewish American Writer' Jennifer Glaser; 21. The Holocaust in Roth's Work Hilene Flanzbaum; 22. Judaism and Secularism Jacques Berlinerblau; 23. Antisemitism Gustavo Sánchez Canales; 24. The Black-Jewish Matrix Brett Ashley Kaplan and Naomi Taub; Part VI. Gender & Sexuality: 25. Roth and Women Debra Shostak; 26. Masculinity Maggie McKinley; 27. Sexuality David Brauner; Part VII. Political Contexts: 28. Political Satire David Gooblar; 29. Class Politics Andy Connolly; 30. American Individualism Brittany Hirth; 31. The War on Terror Margaret Scanlan; Part VIII. Roth's Legacy: 32. Roth in Adaptation Gerard O'Donoghue; 33. Roth in Translation Velichka Ivanova; 34. Philip Roth on Philip Roth James Schiff; 35. Roth in Retirement Timothy Parrish; Primary Bibliography; Selected Secondary Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Lifes Little Ironies
Book SynopsisAn invaluable resource for students of nineteenth-century writing and of Hardy in particular, this edition presents a text which closely reflects Hardy's original intentions. All his revisions are clearly shown, enabling readers to trace his creative process. An introductory essay outlines the stories' composition, publishing history and reception.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Life's Little Ironies: The Son's Veto; For Conscience' Sake; A Tragedy of Two Ambitions; On the Western Circuit; To Please his Wife; The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion; The Fiddler of the Reels; A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four; A Few Crusted Characters; Apparatus; Editorial Emendations; Textual Notes; Record of Variants – Accidentals; End-of-line Word Division; Appendices; Explanatory Notes; Glossary of Dialect Terms.
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Cambridge University Press War and American Literature
Book SynopsisThis book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and scholarship in the field. War and American Literature provides a comprehensive synthesis of the literature and scholarship of US war writing, illuminates how themes, texts, and authors resonate across time and wars, and provides multiple contexts in which texts and a war''s literature can be framed. By focusing on American war writing, from the wars with the Native Americans and the Revolutionary War to the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this volume illuminates the unique role representations of war have in the US imagination.Trade Review… a diverse volume … It analyses war literature through themes including propaganda, injury, memorialization, cultural change, patriotism, queerness, ecocriticism and whiteness.' Alice Kelly, The Times Literary Supplement'Highly recommended.' G. Grieve-Carlson, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsIntroduction Jennifer Haytock; Part I. Aspects of War in American Literature: 1. War and morality Ty Hawkins; 2. Propaganda for war from the revolution to the Vietnam war Nicholas J. Cull; 3. Representing soldiers Jennifer Haytock; 4. Bodies, injury, medicine Michael Zeitlin; 5. Veterans, trauma, afterwar Philip Beidler; 6. Mourning, elegy, memorialization from the Civil war to Vietnam Steven Trout; 7. On antiwar literature Lawrence Rosenwald; Part II. Cultural Moments and the American Literary Imagination: 8. Liberty, freedom, independence, and war James J. Gigantino II; 9. Indians, defeat, persistence, and resistance Tammy Wahpeconiah; 10. Civil war literature and memory Sarah E. Gardner; 11. African American literature, citizenship, and war, 1863-1932 David Davis; 12. World war I and cultural change in America Pearl James; 13. On the home fronts of two world wars Karsten Piep; 14. Patriotism, nationalism, globalism Jonathan Vincent; 15. The 'good war' script Diederik Oostdijk; 16. The Vietnam war and its legacy Mark A. Heberle; 17. The forever wars Stacey Peebles; Part III. New Lines of Inquiry: 18. War and queerness Eric Keenaghan; 19. War and disability studies John M. Kinder; 20. War and ecocriticism Laura Wright; 21. War and whiteness Roger Luckhurst; 22. War and posthumanism Tim Blackmore.
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Cambridge University Press Orientalism and Literature
Book SynopsisOrientalism and Literature discusses a key critical concept in literary studies and how it assists our reading of literature. It reviews the concept''s evolution: how it has been explored, imagined and narrated in literature. Part I considers Orientalism''s origins and its geographical and multidisciplinary scope, then considers the major genres and trends Orientalism inspired in the literary-critical field such as the eighteenth-century Oriental tale, reading the Bible, and Victorian Oriental fiction. Part II recaptures specific aspects of Edward Said''s Orientalism: the multidisciplinary contexts and scholarly discussions it has inspired (such as colonial discourse, race, resistance, feminism and travel writing). Part III deliberates upon recent and possible future applications of Orientalism, probing its currency and effectiveness in the twenty-first century, the role it has played and continues to play in the operation of power, and how in new forms, neo-Orientalism and IslamophobiTrade Review'The organization is excellent, and the essays are brief and get right to the point. Literary scholars will find this collection an excellent complement to Said's Orientalism.' K. M. Kapanga, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction Geoffrey P. Nash; Part I. Origins: 1. Styles of Orientalism in the eighteenth century Suvir Kaul; 2. The origin and development of the Oriental tale James Watt; 3. Romantic Orientalism and Occidentalism Saree Makdisi; 4. The Victorians: empire and the East Sukanya Banerjee; 5. Orientalism and Victorian fiction Daniel Bivona; 6. Orientalism and race: Aryans and Semites Christopher Hutton; 7. Orientalism and the Bible Ivan D. Kalmar; Part II. Development: 8. Said, Bhabha and the colonized subject Eleanor Byrne; 9. The Harem: gendering Orientalism Reina Lewis; 10. Orientalism and Middle East travel writing Ali Behdad; 11. Nineteenth and twentieth American Orientalism David Weir; 12. Edward Said and resistance in colonial and postcolonial literatures Valerie Kennedy; 13. Can the cosmopolitan writer be absolved of racism? Andrew C. Long; Part III. Application: 14. From Orientalism to Islamophobia Mahmut Mutman; 15. Applications of neo-Orientalism and Islamophobia in recent writing Peter Morey; 16. Orientalism and cultural translation: Middle-Eastern American writing Carol W. N. Fadda; 17. New Orientalism and the American media: New York Cleopatra and Saudi 'giggly black ghosts' Moneera Ghadeer; 18. On Orientalism's future(s) Anouar Majid; 19. The engine of survival: a future for Orientalism Patrick Williams.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 72
Book SynopsisThe 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The articles are drawn from the programme of the International Shakespeare Conference held in Stratford-upon-Avon in the summer of 2018. The theme is ''Shakespeare and War''.Trade Review'… it is a most useful collection offering many new insights into Shakespeare's plays. It proves particularly instructive, often original, and always pleasant to read.' Sophie Chiari, CerclesTable of ContentsList of illustrations; 1. Henry V after the War on Terror Ramona Wray; 2. Economies of gunpowder and ecologies of peace: accounting for sustainability; Randall Martin; 3. Shakespeare and religious war: new developments on the Italian sources of Twelfth Night Elisabetta Tarantino; 4. 'Thou laidst no sieges to the music-room': anatomising wars, staging battles Michael Hattaway; 5. Shakespearian narratives of war: trauma; repetition; and metaphor Ros King; 6. War without Shakespeare: reading Shakespearean absence, 1642–1649 Eoin Price; 7. Antic dispositions: Shakespeare, war, and cabaret Irene Makaryk; 8. The comedy of Hamlet in Nazi-occupied Warsaw: an exploration of Lubitsch's To be or not to be (1942) Reiko Oya; 9. The lion and the lamb: Hamlet in London during World War II Zoltán Márkus; 10. Dividing to conquer or joining the ReSisters: Shakespeare's Lady Anne (and Woolf's Three Guineas) in the wake of #MeToo Diana Henderson; 11. The Homeland of Coriolanus: war homecomings between Shakespeare's stage and current complex TV Christina Wald; 12. Scholarly method, truth, and evidence in Shakespearian textual studies Gabriel Egan; 13. Beautiful polecats: the living and the dead in Julius Caesar Lisa Hopkins; 14. Ancient aesthetics and current conflicts: Indian Rasa theory and Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider (2014) Melissa Croteau; 15. Failure to thrive Elizabeth Mazzola; 16. Tippett's Tempest: Shakespeare in The Knot Garden Michael Graham; 17. Tautological character: Troilus and Cressida and the problems of personation Samuel Fallon; 18. 'Rude wind': King Lear – canonicity versus physicality Peter Smith; 19. Content but also unwell: distributed character and language in The Merchant of Venice Elena Pellone and David Schalkwyk; 20. This autistic island's mine: neurodiversity, autistic culture, and the Hunter Heartbeat Method Sonya Freeman Loftis; 21. The Senecan tragedy of Feste in Twelfth Night Judith Rosenheim; 22. Shakespearean performance in England, 2018 Stephen Purcell and Paul Prescott; 23. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, 2017 James Shaw; 24. The year's contribution to Shakespeare studies: critical studies reviewed by Charlotte Scott; Shakespeare in performance reviewed by Russell Jackson; Editions and textual studies reviewed by Peter Kirwan; Abstracts.
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Cambridge University Press Asian American Literature in Transition 18501930 Volume 1
Book SynopsisThe years between 1850 and 1930 witnessed the first large-scale migration of peoples from East Asia and South Asia to North America and the emergence of the US as an imperial power in the Pacific. This period also produced the first instances of Asian North American writing, theater, and film. This exciting collection examines how the many literary and cultural works from this period approached questions of migration, exclusion, and identity. Covering an extensive ranges of topics including anticolonialist writing, the erotics of queer modernist poetry, interracial desire, and the racial gaze in silent film, the book shows the diverse and multi-ethnic nature of literary and cultural production at a crucial period in modern formations of race as well as literary and cultural aesthetics.Table of ContentsI. Empire and Resistance: 1. Reframing Colonial Fantasy and Benevolent Violence: Marriage, Family, and 'Global' Racial Consciousness in Edith Eaton's Caribbean Stories Yu-Fang Cho; 2. Uncollected: Remapping Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton Hsuan Hsu and Edlie Wong; 3. South Asian American Anticolonial Writings: Critical Reflections on Race, Empire, and Immigration in North America Seema Sohi; 4. Challenging Enactments of Power: Remembering the Komagata Maru Incident in Drama and Performance Nandi Bhatia; 5. Saum Song Bo on the Statue of Liberty: A Protest Against U.S. Chinese Exclusion and French Imperialism Cynthia Wu; 6. Island in Between: The Politics of Place in the Poetry of Angel Island Julia H. Lee; II. Bodies at Work and Play: 7. Objects of an Orientalist Gaze: Chinese Immigrants in American Silent Film Philippa Gates; 8. Labor, Freedom, and Typicality in Chinese Canadian Railroad Fiction Christopher Lee; 9. Bret Harte's 'Heathen Chinee' in US Literature after Slavery Caroline Yang; 10. On the Genealogy of Asian American Drama Sean Metzger; 11. Decorative Orientalism Josephine Lee; III. Crossings: 12. Affect and Form in the Writings of the Eaton Sisters Dominika Ferens; 13. Osato-san's Hands: Untimely Tales Gesture to Humanity's Horizons Andrew Leong; 14. Revolutionary Formalisms Audrey Wu Clark; 15. Slave to Love: Racial Form in Early Asian American Miscegenation Plots Jolie Sheffer; 16. Anna May Wong's Greetings to the World Yiman Wang.
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Cambridge University Press Asian American Literature in Transition 19962020 Volume 4
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the concerns of Asian American literature from 1996 to the present. This period was not only marked by civil unrest, terror and militarization, economic depression, and environmental abuse, but also unprecedented growth and visibility of Asian American literature. This volume is divided into four sections that plots the trajectories of, and tensions between, social challenges and literary advances. Part One tracks how Asian American literary productions of this period reckon with the effects of structures and networks of violence. Part Two tracks modes of intimacy desires, loves, close friendships, romances, sexual relations, erotic contacts that emerge in the face of neoimperialism, neoliberalism, and necropolitics. Part Three traces the proliferation of genres in Asian American writing of the past quarter century in new and in well-worn terrains. Part Four surveys literary projects that speculate on future states of Asian America in domestic and global contextsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Present Tensions, Future Flux Betsy Huang and Victor Román Mendoza; Part I. Neoimperialisms, Neoliberalisms, Necropolitics: 1. Transpacific Ecological Imagination: Envisioning the Anthropocene in Ecocritical Asian North American Literature Jeffrey Santa-Ana; 2. Garden in the Machine: Grace Lee Boggs's Living for Change: An Autobiography and Detroit's Urban-Agrarian Future Jina Kim; 3. Writing Asia-Latin America: Migrant Intersectionality and Differential Racialization in the Literature of Doris Moromisato and Siu Kam Wen Junyoung Verónica Kim; 4. States of Violence Rajini Srikanth; Part II. Intersections, Intimacies: 5. Between the Heteronormative Model Minority and the Homonormative LGBTQ Subject: Historicizing Contemporary Queer Asian American Literature Martin Joseph Ponce; 6. Intimacies and Animacies: Queer Ecologies in Asian American Literature Laura Anh Williams; 7. Trans Feminism, Asian America's Queer Exception? Stephanie Hsu; 8. No Home away from Home: Queer Asian North American Heritage Plots Stephen Hong Sohn; Part III. Genres, Modalities: 9. The Asiatic Model Imagination Mark Jerng; 10. Revisualizing Race: Graphic Narratives and Asian American Literature Stella Oh; 11. Contemporary Asian American Women's Popular Literature and Neoliberal Form Pamela Thoma; 12. This is Not a Page: The Changing Vehicles of Asian American Literature Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis; Part IV, Movements, Speculations: 13. Asian American Literary Studies and the Challenge of Utopia Pacharee Sudhinaraset; 14. What is Asian America to Asians?: Two Episodes of Transpacific Disturbance Christopher Patterson; 15. Mixed Race Asian American Literature at the Turn into the 21st Century Jennifer Ho; 16. Global Asias: On the Structural Incoherence of Imaginable Ageography Tina Chen; Finale, or, Alternative Originaries: Imagining an Asian American Superhero of North Korean Origin Seo-Young Chu.
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Cambridge University Press A History of American Puritan Literature
Book SynopsisFor generations, scholars have imagined American puritans as religious enthusiasts, fleeing persecution, finding refuge in Massachusetts, and founding ''America''. The puritans have been read as a product of New England and the origin of American exceptionalism.This History challenges the usual understanding of American puritans, offering new ways of reading their history and their literary culture. Together, an international team of authors make clear that puritan America cannot be thought of apart from Native America, and that its literature is also grounded in Britain, Europe, North America, the Caribbean, and networks that spanned the globe. Each chapter focuses on a single place, method, idea, or context to read familiar texts anew and to introduce forgotten or neglected voices and writings. A History of American Puritan Literature is a collaborative effort to create not a singular literary history, but a series of interlocked new histories of American puritan literature.Trade Review'Teachers of early American literature will likely find their own approaches to Puritan literature benefit from the straightforward, substantial, and lucid essays … Highly recommended.' G. D. MacDonald, Choice'… a new paradigm for understanding and organizing a range of textual and nontextual media largely produced in settler colonial New England.' Teresa Toulouse, Early American Literature'In a series of masterful, erudite, and original essays, the volume dismantles the seemingly intractable connection many are still inclined to make between the puritans, the birth of the nation, and policy decisions driven by racial, ethnic, and religious animosity. … Each essay offers new angles for scholarship even as it manages to speak to a more general audience of students. By uncovering new voices in the archive and recontextualizing old ones among the diverse others who peopled the puritans' world, A History of American Puritan Literature invaluably reassesses the puritan past without losing sight of the uses to which that past has been put in a series of US presents.' Nan Goodman, American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction Kristina Bross and Abram Van Engen; Prologue. Pilgrims, puritans, and the origin of America Abram Van Engen; Part I. Places: 1. Native America Drew Lopenzina; 2. British Isles David D. Hall; 3. Europe Jan Stievermann; 4. Colonial North America Evan Haefeli; 5. Caribbean Kristina Bross; 6. Global America Michelle Burnham; Part II. Approaches: 7. Theology Lisa M. Gordis; 8. Aesthetics Joanne van der Woude; 9. Gender Tamara Harvey; 10. Race Cassander L. Smith; 11. Print culture Jonathan Beecher Field; 12. Ritual Matthew P. Brown; 13. Manuscript culture Meredith Marie Neuman; 14. Environment Timothy Sweet; 15. Science Ralph Bauer; 16. Millennialism Christopher Trigg; 17. Postsecularism Bryce Traister; Afterword. The puritan imaginary and the puritans' world Abram Van Engen.
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Cambridge University Press Small World
Book SynopsisSeamus Deane was one of the most vital and versatile authors of our time. Small World presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing, and of writing about Irish issues, from 1798 to the present day. Elegant, polemical, and incisive, it addresses the political, aesthetic, and cultural dimensions of several notable literary and historical moments, and monuments, from the island''s past and present. The style of Swift; the continuing influence of Edmund Burke''s political thought in the USA; the echoing debates about national character; aspects of Joyce''s and of Elizabeth Bowen''s relation to modernism; memories of Seamus Heaney; analysis of the representation of Northern Ireland in Anna Burns''s fiction these topics constitute only a partial list of the themes addressed by a volume that should be mandatory reading for all those who care about Ireland and its history. The writings included here, from one of Irish literature''s most renowned critics, have individually had a piercing impact, but they are now collectively amplified by being gathered together here for the first time between one set of covers. Small World: Ireland, 17982018 is an indispensable collection from one of the most important voices in Irish literature and culture.Trade Review'Seamus Deane was one of our greatest critics, sharp of mind and fearless in opinion. As this superb collection demonstrates, he had the large world of literature, and of Irish and Anglo-Irish literature in particular, secure within his frame of reference - there was no finer master of the art of close reading. Nothing small here, only the broadest view and the deepest insight. Ave magister.' John Banville'Over several decades Seamus Deane revolutionized the study of Irish literature and culture, and his critical innovations also helped to shape the fields of postcolonial and transnational studies. Combining theoretical brio with a scrupulous historical sense and dazzling breadth of learning, his distinctive voice - suave, wry, sinuous, incisive - made his pioneering insights unforgettable. Small World brings together some of Deane's most influential essays and adds exciting new work, especially on Irish women writers.' Maud Ellmann, University of Chicago'He was a product of a grand European tradition, now disappearing from the scene, in which the critic might at the same time be an intellectual. The combination in Deane's case has leant a seriousness to his work that is unmatched among the burgeoning commentariat. Small World offers a panoramic overview of his development, exhibiting his sympathies and accomplishments. The book contains a compelling blend of history and criticism, marshalling Deane's finespun amalgamation of disinterestedness and passion.' Richard Bourke, Dublin Review of Books'The energy and intellectual fireworks peristed all his life, as this magnificent volume fully attests.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times'Many moments in this collection convey the unique power of his voice; one hears as much as reads.' Margaret Kelleher, Sunday Independent'Irish writing, in Deane's hands, becomes the lens through which matters of worldly import can be examined: in the wake of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, the project of modernity in its various inflections (empire, capital, historicism, nationalism, the state of exception) is illuminated in the optic of Irish experience … His book is titled Small World, yet Deane was the most cosmopolitan of Irish critics. No other Irish critical voice would or could so suavely discuss Joyce in comparison with Broch or Gide or Mann. Deane had a unique power to read the world through the culture of a small marginal European island … But Small World is not a gloomy book. Refusing the foolish wisdom of resignation, it stands as a splendid testament to critique and to the intellectual vocation. With Seamus Deane's death we have lost the critic, but his cogent thinking can and will be thought elsewhere, by others.' Conor McCarthy, Los Angeles Review of Books'… densely rewarding …' Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal'It is impossible not to revere this anthology even without opening it.' Josephine Fenton, Irish Examiner'This beautifully produced volume shows Deane at his most acute: an insightful and politically committed thinker.' James Moran, The Tablet'Those in search of literary/historical/cultural nourishment could spend at least a year ingesting the compressed nourishment of Small World: Ireland 1798–2018 ...' Jude Collins, An Irish Quarterly Review'The chronological range of engagement is impressive, from the late eighteenth century to the present day, each essay displaying a depth of scholarly knowledge that brings weight to the unfolding arguments … Deane's insightful commentaries opened Irish literature up to the rigour of theory.' Derek Hand, English Studies'This essay collection has many virtues it is well-written, jargonfree, ingeniously organised and packed with interesting content. It is also … a book that has arrived at the right moment.' Carlo Gébler, SocietyTable of ContentsForeword, Joe Cleary; 1. Swift as Classic; 2. Burke in the USA; 3. Tone: The Great Nation and the Evil Empire; 4. Imperialism and Nationalism; 5. Irish National Character 1790–1900; 6. Civilians and Barbarians; 7. Heroic Styles: The Tradition of an Idea; 8. Ulysses: The Exhaustion of Literature and the Literature of Exhaustion; 9. Dead Ends: Joyce's Finest Moments; 10. Elizabeth Bowen: Sentenced to Death: The House in Paris; 11. Elizabeth Bowen: Two Stories in One; 12. Mary Lavin: Celibates; 13. Emergency Aesthetics; 14. Wherever Green is Read; 15. The Famous Seamus; 16. The End of the World.
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Cambridge University Press Asian American Literature in Transition 19651996 Volume 3
Book SynopsisAsian American Literature in Transition Volume Three: 19651996 offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the political and aesthetic stakes of what is now recognizable as an Asian American literary canon. It takes as its central focus the connections among literature, history, and migration, exploring how the formation of Asian American literary studies is necessarily inflected by demographic changes, student activism, the institutionalization of Asian American studies within the U.S. academy, U.S foreign policy (specifically the Cold War and conflicts in Southeast Asia), and the emergence of ''diaspora'' and ''transnationalism'' as important critical frames. Moving through sections that consider migration and identity, aesthetics and politics, canon formation, and transnationalism and diaspora, this volume tracks predominant themes within Asian American literature to interrogate an ever-evolving field. It features nineteen original essays by leading scholars, and is accessible to beginners in the field and more advanced researchers alike.Table of ContentsPart I. Immigration, Migration and Movement: 1. Scrutinizing Impossible Subjects Monica Chiu; 2. The Model Minority and Debt Erin Khuê Ninh; 3. Displaced Subjects and Refugee Literature Timothy August; 4. 1.5 Generation Literature as Asian Americanist Critique Marguerite Nguyen; Part II. Politics, Art and Activism: 5. Furious Dialectics: Diasporic Anger in the Poetry of Li-Young Lee James Kim; 6. Asian American Literature and the Vietnam War Catherine Fung; 7. Cross-Racial Solidarities and Asian American Literature Jeehyun Lim; 8. Re/Collecting Asian American Performance Christine Mok; 9. Multiculturalism and its Discontents Lynn Itagaki; Part III. Institutionalization and Canon Formation: 10. On Recovering Early Asian American Literature Floyd Cheung; 11. Asian American Poetics Warren Liu; 12. Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: A Milestone in Asian American Literature Lan Dong; 13. Making a Necessity of Extravagance: Work and Play in the Asian American (ist) Economy Chris A. Eng; 14. Marking the Difference made by 'Heterogeneity, Hybridity and Multiplicity': Lisa Lowe's Impact on Asian American Studies Melissa Phruksachart; Part IV. Diaspora and the Transnational Turn: 15. Rethinking Nationalistic Attachments through Narratives of Return, 1965–1995 Patricia Chu; 16. Diasporic Longings Bakirathi Mani; 17. Transnational Sexualities Patrick S. Lawrence; 18. Intimacy, Imperialism and America: Revisiting Post-47 Postcolonial and Asian American Writing Kavita Daiya; 19. Hemispheric Imaginings and Global Transitions: The Geopolitics of Asian American Literature in the Americas Crystal Parikh.
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Cambridge University Press New Orleans
Book SynopsisThe neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination. This book leads the reader along five thoroughfares that define these different parts of town Royal, St. Claude, Esplanade, Basin, and St. Charles to explore how the writers who have lived around them have responded in closely related ways to the environments they share. On the outskirts of New Orleans today, the city''s precarious relation to its watery surroundings and the vexed legacies of race loom especially large. But the city''s literature shows us that these themes have been near to hand for New Orleans writers for several generations, whether reflected through questions of masquerade, dreams of escape, the innocence of children, or the power of money or of violence or of memory.Trade Review'A thoughtful, comprehensive stations-of-the-cross journey through the literary history and traditions of a city that has done more, pound for pound, to create our American culture than any other. If you love New Orleans, you need this compendium in your library. If you don't love New Orleans, there is something wrong with you and this volume is as valuable a medicinal as a Wild Tchoupitoulas album, a Zulu golden coconut or the middle section of the menu at Mosca's.' David Simon, The Wire and Tremé'Dazzling in depth and breadth, this book sings with the voices of those who have been moved to create art about New Orleans, from Walt Whitman to Zora Neale Hurston to Beyonce to Maurice Carlos Ruffin. An outstanding endeavor, for anyone who loves New Orleans, anyone who loves literature, and of course, for anyone who loves both.' Jesmyn Ward, two-time winner of the National Book Award'T. R. Johnson has summoned a parade of ghosts from a town that has always been made of memories, dreams, and shadows. They dance through these pages and down these old streets, story by story, generation by generation, far into the night. Johnson makes it joy to follow along.' Rickie Lee Jones, Two-time Grammy Winner'In this insightful volume, T. R. Johnson analyzes New Orleans writers, past and present, by where they lived—their streets, neighborhoods, and neighbors. What results is a fascinating exploration of the roles played by local inspiration and social propinquity in the creation of literature—and confirmation that New Orleans is, indeed, a world unto itself.' Richard Campanella, two-time winner of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book-of-the-Year-Award'A nuanced and captivating literary geography of one of the world's truly unique places.' Ladee Hubbard, Guggenheim Fellow'If you only read one book about New Orleans, make it this one. Because if you do, you'll go on to read many more books about the city. T. R. Johnson, who has read them all, gives you a hundred possible entry points. If you already know your way around New Orleans, you'll be intrigued by the way he spatializes the city's literature, taking it neighborhood by neighborhood, making any number of surprising connections as he glides through a dizzying panorama of writing - yes, including music - that has emerged out of this world-historic treasure of a city in the three centuries since it first rose out of the swamp.' Ned Sublette, Guggenheim Fellow, historian, composer, film-maker, and Afro-Pop Worldwide radio producer'Much of what I know about New Orleans and its literature, I learned from T. R. Johnson. In this book, he distills a lifetime's worth of knowledge into a compulsively readable and richly rewarding guide to the city and its literary culture, perfect for visitors, but also for aficionados, who will be reminded that, in New Orleans, there's always another layer to uncover.' Zachary Lazar, Winner of the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters'The book shows how New Orleans and its literature both grow together, feeding off each other . . . a masterpiece in its architecture and its scope.' CounterpunchTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Royal Street – A masked ball: Between canal and esplanade; 2. St. Claude Avenue – Hard times and good children: The Lower 9th Ward – Desire – St. Roch – Bywater; 3. Esplanade Avenue – Escape routes: The Marigny – The 7th Ward – Bayou St. John; 4. Basin Street – Memory and music: Congo Square – Storyville – Tremé; 5. St. Charles Avenue – Blood and money: The Garden District – The Irish Channel – The University District – Central City; 6. Outskirts – Writing through loss.
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Cambridge University Press NineteenthCentury Literature in Transition The 1890s
Book SynopsisAs useful and informative to scholars and advanced students in the field as to relative newcomers, this collection demonstrates how the 1890s continue to be an area of perennial interest and relevance even while our understanding of the period changes with our own era's shifting cultural and political concerns.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The 1890s: Decade of a Thousand Movements Dustin Friedman and Kristin Mahoney; 1. Race and Empire in the 1890s Zarena Aslami; 2. Island Dandies, Transpacific Decadence, and the Politics of Style Lindsay Wilhelm; 3. The 1890s and East Asia: Towards a Critical Cosmopolitanism Stefano Evangelista; 4. Indulekha; or The Many Lives of Realism at the Fin De Siècle Sukanya Banerjee; 5. Reading World Religions in the 1890s Sebastian Lecourt; 6. Night Lights: The 1890s Nocturne Emily Harrington; 7. The Green 1890s: World Ecology in Women's Poetry Ana Parejo Vadillo; 8. 'Only Nature is a Thing Unreal': The Anthropocene 1890s Elizabeth Carolyn Miller; 9. Weird Ecologies and the Limits of Environmentalism Dennis Denisoff; 10. Queer Theories of the 1890s Simon Joyce; 11. Eugenics and Degeneration in Socialist-Feminist Novels of the Mid-1890s Diana Maltz; 12. The Conservative and Patriotic 1890s Alex Murray; 13. Decadence and the Antitheatrical Prejudice Adam Alston; 14. Religion and Science in the 1890s Anne Stiles; 15. Little Magazines and/in Media History Lorraine Janzen Kooistra; 16. Fin-de-Siècle Visuality (and Textuality) and the Digital Sphere Rebecca N. Mitchell.
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Broadview Press Ltd The Broadview Pocket Glossary of Literary Terms
Book SynopsisThis compact guide covers a wide variety of terms commonly used in academic discussions of poetry, fiction, drama, rhetoric, and literary theory. Definitions are kept concise; examples are abundant. The coverage ranges from traditional topics through to recent scholarship, and the straightforward entries aim to enable students to learn new terms with confidence. The pocket glossary brings together entries from a variety of Broadview publications—including The Broadview Anthology of British Literature and The Broadview Anthology of Short Fiction—and adds a number of new entries.Trade Review“ … [T]his pocket dictionary gives students access to almost any term they will encounter, or need to use, in their literary studies. Longer entries on topics ranging from animal studies to Theory … will give their instructors a wide choice of readings to assign for discussion or research. The single alphabetic listing includes cross references to the main entries as well as to the authors and critics cited in various entries.” — Thomas Willard, University of Arizona“This Pocket Glossary offers a deftly miniaturized panorama of literary terms, a terrarium of literary phenomena neatly tagged and mapped. Especially in the entries about literary movements, aesthetic styles, and critical theory, readers will be able to perceive at a glance the continuities linking literary forms to philosophy and the other arts, both within and across historical eras. For its size, the volume is admirably comprehensive in the number and quality of its definitions. [Alongside definitions] concerning, for example, ancient Greek and Roman poetics, … we are offered a lively awareness of recent literary forms, from life writing and graphic literature to slam poetry and steampunk. Notably strong are the glossary’s entries on contemporary literary and cultural theory: from affect theory to History of the Book, from New Historicism to critical animal studies. But there is no parochialism of the present here when it comes to explication of earlier literary theory; the ideas of figures from Aristotle to I.A. Richards are also included with due attention.” — Martin Hipsky, Ohio Wesleyan University
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New Falcon Publications,U.S. Lovecraft Lexicon: A Reader's Guide to Persons,
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Marvellous Maps Great British Literature Map
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Monash University Publishing Bibliography of Australian Literature Supplement
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NeWest Press South Away: The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Sixth Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize - Nonfiction Category!Shortlisted for Best Trade Non-Fiction at the 2020 Book Publishing Awards!South Away follows Meaghan Marie Hackinen and her sister in the adventure of a lifetime: bicycling from Terrace, BC down the West Coast to (almost) the tip of the Baja Peninsula. Along the way Hackinen battles with the elements in Vancouver Island''s dense northern forests and frigid Mexican deserts; encounters strange men, suicidal highways and monster trucks; and makes some emergency repairs as ties and spokes succumb to the ravages of the journey. Luckily, the pair meet some good people along the way and glean some insight about the kindness of strangers.A rare road-trip story with two female leads, this travel memoir also chronicles an inner journey, as the author begins to better understand her relationship with her adventurous (and not-so-adventurous) family. South Away tells an engaging and personable tale, with imaginative and memorable depictions of land and sea along the ever-winding coast.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern
Book SynopsisIn the decades between the 1870s and 1920s, literary periodicals (sahitya patrika), much like the newspapers and the books, became popular among the middle-class Bengali homes both as an affordable recreation for leisure hours, and as a major vehicle for the circulation of ideas in the public domain. Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture: Bengal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century begins by looking at the logistics of the production and circulation of periodicals that were oriented towards a widening readership market. Given their easily understood nature, their capacity for sustaining debates and adaptability by readers with diverse reading competencies, periodicals became the preferred means for dispensing modern education and enjoyment through the vernacular.
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HarperCollins Winning Arguments
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Oxford University Press Inc Oxford Handbook of Montaigne
Book SynopsisIn 1580, Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) published a book unique by its title and its content: EssaysR. A literary genre was born. At first sight, the Essays resemble a patchwork of personal reflections, but they engage with questions that animate the human mind, and tend toward a single goal: to live better in the present and to prepare for death. For this reason, Montaigne''s thought and writings have been a subject of enduring interest across disciplines. This Handbook brings together essays by prominent scholars that examine Montaigne''s literary, philosophical, and political contributions, and assess his legacy and relevance today in a global perspective. The chapters of this Handbook offer a sweeping study of Montaigne across different disciplines and in a global perspective. One section covers the historical Montaigne, situating his thought in his own time and space, notably the Wars of Religion in France. The political, historical and religious context of Montaigne''s Essays reTrade ReviewIn conclusion, it is in the domain of pedagogy that The Oxford Handbook of Montaigne has the potential to shine the brightest. It can provide instructors not only with a sense of what is at stake in Montaigne, but with an idea of what essays to assign or excerpt, as well as readymade secondary readings and useful, albeit somewhat scant, suggestions for further reading. Hopefully, Desan and his fellow contributors have started a trend that will someday see Oxford Handbooks for other luminaries of early modern France. * Scott M. Francis, Renaissance Quarterly *This is obviously a book that the reader delves into as the need arises. ... [the chapters] are all learned, they are all informative, and they all make us think about Montaigne in ways that diverge from tradition. Most importantly, they are almost all stimulating to read. * John McClelland, Renaissance and Reformation *Table of ContentsCONTENTS Note on editions Montaigne's Essays: A Book Consubstantial with its Author Philippe Desan PART I: HISTORICAL MONTAIGNE 1. From Eyquem to Montaigne Philippe Desan 2. Montaigne's Education George Hoffmann 3. The Humanist Tradition and Montaigne John O'Brien 4. Montaigne, Translator of Raymond Sebond Mireille Habert 5. La Boétie and Montaigne Michel Magnien 6. The Public Life of Montaigne Philippe Desan 7. Montaigne and the Wars of Religion Mark Greengrass 8. Publishing History of the Essays Jean Balsamo 9. Montaigne's Travel Journal François Rigolot 10. Montaigne, the New World, and Precolonialisms Timothy Reiss 11. Montaigne and History John Lyons 12. Montaigne's Political Thought Biancamaria Fontana 13. Montaigne's Turn to Modern Philosophy Ann Hartle 14. Montaigne: Early Modern, Modern, Postmodern Zachary Schiffman PART II: RECEPTION OF MONTAIGNE 15. Montaigne in the World Paul Smith 16. Montaigne in England and America Warren Boutcher 17. Montaigne and Shakespeare William Hamlin 18. Montaigne and Descartes Michael Moriarty PART III: MODERN AND GLOBAL MONTAIGNE 19. Montaigne on Language Katie Chenoweth 20. Montaigne on Style Kathy Eden 21. Montaigne on Rhetoric Déborah Knop 22. Montaigne on Reading Peter Mack 23. Montaigne on Free Thinking Richard Scholar 24. Montaigne on Self Marie-Clarté Lagrée 25. Montaigne on Justice and Law Valérie M. Dionne 26. Montaigne on Violence Cynthia Nazarian 27. Montaigne on Virtue and Ethics Ullrich Langer 28. Montaigne on Faith and Religion Alain Legros 29. Montaigne on Truth and Skepticism Jan Miernowski 30. Montaigne on Gender Todd W. Reeser 31. Montaigne on Women Mary McKinley 32. Montaigne on Empathy Sarah Bakewell 33. Montaigne on Friendship Eric McPhail 34. Montaigne on Love Elizabeth Guild 35. Montaigne on Memory Andrea Frisch 36. Montaigne on Curiosity Zahi Zalloua 37. Montaigne on Imagination Wes Williams 38. Montaigne on Alterity Tom Conley 39. Montaigne on Monsters and Monstrosity Kathleen Long 40. Montaigne on Animals Thierry Gontier 41. Montaigne on Aging Cynthia Skenazi 42. Montaigne on Health and Death Dorothea Heitsch Conclusion: Bibliographic and Research Resources on Montaigne Philippe Desan
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) American Literature The Essential Glossary Essential Glossary Series 2
Book SynopsisStephen Matterson is Senior Lecturer in English Studies, Trinity College, University of Dublin. He has taught at Sunderland Polytechnic an at the University of Minnesota. He is one of the co-authors of Studying Poetry (Arnold, 2000)
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Mariner Books On the Plain of Snakes
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Penguin Publishing Group Ayn Rand Answers
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