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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey Volume 61 Shakespeare Sound and Screen Shakespeare Survey Series Number 61
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Cambridge University Press Journalism and the Novel
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 74
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Cambridge University Press John Donne in Context
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Cambridge University Press The Works of John Webster
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime
Book SynopsisAn accessible, wide-ranging introduction to one of the most important aspects of Romantic cultural history, aimed at scholars and students alike. This is the only collection of its kind to focus exclusively on the Romantic sublime, its sources, and its afterlives, including state-of-the-art perspectives in digital and environmental humanities.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The romantic sublime, then and now Cian Duffy; Part I. The Sublime Before Romanticism: 1. The classical sublime Patrick Glauthier; 2. The natural sublime in the seventeenth century Dawn Hollis; 3. The sublime in eighteenth-century English, Irish and Scottish philosophy Cian Duffy; 4. The Nordic sublime Lis Møller; Part II. Romantic Sublimes: 5. German romanticism and the sublime Christoph Bode; 6. The romantic sublime and Kant's critical philosophy Timothy M. Costelloe; 7. Alpine sublimes Patrick Vincent; 8. Urban sublimes Matthew Sangster; 9. Highlands, lakes, wales Simon Bainbridge; 10. Science and the sublime Richard C. Sha; 11. Musical sublimes Miranda Stanyon; 12. The arctic sublime Robert W. Rix; 13. The body and the sublime Norbert Lennartz; 14. The sublime in romantic painting Nina Amstutz; 15. From the sublime to the ridiculous Andrew McInnes; 16. The sublime in American romanticism Cassandra Falke; Part III. Legacies: 17. The Victorian chthonic sublime Tatjana Jukić; 18. Mapping the nineteenth-century sublime Joanna E. Taylor, Christopher Donaldson and Ian N. Gregory; 19. The romantic sublime and environmental Crisis Tess Somervell.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 65
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 66
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Textual Studies
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Cambridge University Press The Afterlife of Shakespeares Sonnets
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Cambridge University Press Secret Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Cambridge University Press George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture
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Cambridge University Press Boy Actors in Early Modern England
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Cambridge University Press Urban Aesthetics in Early Modern London
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
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Cambridge University Press The Masculinities of John Milton
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Cambridge University Press Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater
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Cambridge University Press Performing Restoration Shakespeare
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Cambridge University Press Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel
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Cambridge University Press Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire
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Cambridge University Press Late Romanticism and the End of Politics
Book SynopsisThis study invites researchers of Romantic literature and literary and political culture to consider how this period's imaginings of the end of the world shaped thinking about politics and political change. Its highly original arguments on this current theme will interest students of political thought, affect theory, and ecocriticism.Table of Contents1. The end of politics and the end of the world; 2. The last Whigs; 3. Byron, Brougham, and the end of slavery; 4. 'Crowns in the Dust': the ends of politics in The Last Man; 5. New worlds: Frankenstein, The Island, and the ends of the earth.
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Cambridge University Press Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature
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Cambridge University Press Theater War and Revolution in EighteenthCentury France and Its Empire
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Cambridge University Press Transnational Crusoe Illustration and Reading
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Cambridge University Press Early English Periodicals and Early Modern Social Media
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Cambridge University Press The Art of Walking in London
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Cambridge University Press Gothic Poland and British Fiction c. 17901830
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Cambridge University Press The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama 16201650
Book SynopsisLiterary geographies is an exciting new area of interdisciplinary research. Innovative and engaging, this book applies theories of landscape, space and place from the discipline of cultural geography within an early modern historical context. Different kinds of drama and performance are analysed: from commercial drama by key playwrights to household masques and entertainment performed by families and in semi-official contexts. Sanders provides a fresh look at works from the careers of Ben Jonson, John Milton and Richard Brome, paying attention to geographical spaces and habitats like forests, coastlines and arctic landscapes of ice and snow, as well as the more familiar locales of early modern country estates and city streets and spaces. Overall, the book encourages readers to think about geography as kinetic, embodied and physical, not least in its literary configurations, presenting a key contribution to early modern scholarship.Trade Review"In addition to her acknowledgement of critics and theorists who have come before, Sanders generously opens up new avenues-paths-waterways for future inquiry. One can imagine a raft of scholarship that will draw on her insights and apply them elsewhere." -Gavin Hollis,The City University of New York, Hunter CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: entering the bear pit: cultural geography and early modern drama; 1. Liquid landscapes: water, culture, and society in the Caroline period; 2. Into the woods: spatial and social geographies in the forest; 3. 'Hospitable fabrics': thinking through the early modern household; 4. Moving through the landscape: mobility and sites of social circulation; 5. Neighbourhoods and networks; 6. Writing the city: emergent spaces.
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Cambridge University Press Forging Romantic China
Book SynopsisFocusing on the literary and historical relations between Britain and China during the Romantic period and based on extensive archival investigations, this book shows how British knowledge was constructed from the writings and translations of a diverse range of missionaries, diplomats, travellers, traders, and literary men and women.Trade Review'[A] detailed study.' Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Thomas Percy and the forging of Romantic China; 2. 'A wonderful stateliness': William Jones, Joshua Marshman, and the Bengal School of Sinology; 3. 'They thought that Jesus and Confucius were alike': Robert Morrison, Malacca, and the missionary reading of China; 4. 'Fruits of the highest culture may be improved and varied by foreign grafts': the Canton School of Romantic Sinology: Staunton and Davis; 5. Establishing the 'Great Divide': scientific exchange and the Macartney Embassy; 6. 'You will be taking a trip into China, I suppose': kowtows, tea cups, and the evasions of British Romantic writing on China; 7. Chinese gardens, Confucius, and the prelude; 8. 'Not a bit like the Chinese figures that adorn our chimney-pieces': orphans and travellers: China on stage; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics
Book SynopsisLooking at Shakespeare's depictions of moral deliberation and individual choice in light of Renaissance debates about ethics, this collection illuminates Shakespeare's engagement with the most pressing moral questions of his time. It is of great interest to scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance studies, and the history of ethics.Table of ContentsIntroduction: rethinking Shakespeare and ethics Patrick Gray and John D. Cox; Part I. Shakespeare and Classical Ethics: 1. Fame, eternity, and Shakespeare's Romans Gordon Braden; 2. Shakespeare and the ethics of laughter Indira Ghose; 3. Aristotelian shame and Christian mortification in Love's Labour's Lost Jane Kingsley-Smith; 4. Shakespeare's Vergil: empathy and The Tempest Leah Whittington; Part II. Shakespeare and Christian Ethics: 5. Shakespeare's prayers John D. Cox; 6. The morality of milk: Shakespeare and the ethics of nursing Beatrice Groves; 7. Hamlet the rough-hewer: moral agency and the consolations of Reformation thought Russell M. Hillier; 8. 'Wrying but a little'? Marriage, punishment, and forgiveness in Cymbeline Robert S. Miola; Part III. Shakespeare and the Ethical Thinking of Montaigne: 9. 'Hide thy selfe': Montaigne, Hamlet, and Epicurean ethics Patrick Gray; 10. Conscience and the god-surrogate in Montaigne and Measure for Measure William M. Hamlin; 11. Shakespeare, Montaigne, and classical reason Peter Holbrook; 12. Madness, proverbial wisdom, and philosophy in King Lear Peter Mack.
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Cambridge University Press Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity
Book SynopsisClara Tuite explores Lord Byron's life and work, his public image and the reception of his writings through the idea of scandalous celebrity. Tuite analyses Byron's role in the literary, political and sexual scandals that mark the Regency as a vital period of social transition and emergent celebrity culture.Trade Review'Tuite traces the human relationships involved in the manufacture of a popular (or unpopular) idol […] bringing her expertise as a Jane Austen scholar into sophisticated decodings of social space.' Jane Stabler, Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsPrologue: proverbially notorious; Introduction: the meteor's milieu; Part I. Worldlings: 1. Caroline Lamb, more like a beast; 2. Stendhal, on his knees; 3. Napoleon, that fallen star; 4. Bloody Castlereagh; Part II. Writings: 5. Childe Harold IV and the pageant of his bleeding heart; 6. Don Juan: the life and work of infamous poems; Part III. After-Warriors: 7. Byron's Head and the pirate sphere; Epilogue: you may be devil; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Child Reader 17001840
Book SynopsisPioneering exciting methodologies, in this book Grenby looks at the first users of the new children's literature that developed in the eighteenth century. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of reading, of childhood, and of children's literature.Trade Review'Fascinating … [a] very readable scholarly work.' The Herald'For the specialist, it is an original and scholarly resource; for the non-specialist, it is an intriguing and often entertaining piece of detective work.' Carousel'Grenby's focus on the traces revealing how children actually used their books provides an astute counterbalance to current approaches to imagining the child reader.' Times Higher Education Supplement'A wonderful book - and beautifully produced … a very important contribution to children's literature, the history of the book, and the history of reading … it's certainly the kind of book which scholars in the field will want to buy … but also some dissertation students in literature and history.' Helen Rogers'… a welcome and long-awaited contribution to the historical study of children's literature. [This] thoroughly researched volume demonstrates that it is essential to extend the horizon of children's literature studies, endorsing a more decidedly cultural studies approach which considers all actors in the literary field.' Anja Müller, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik'Grenby's study marks a turning point in children's literature scholarship.' SharpTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Owners; 3. Books; 4. Acquisition; 5. Use; 6. Attitudes; 7. Conclusions; Select bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Milton in Context
Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the various ways in which Milton's works and experiences emerged from the culture and events of his time. In a series of concise, engaging essays, an international group of scholars examines both the social conditions and the broader intellectual currents that shaped his writings and reputation.Trade Review'… the quality of the essays in Milton in Context is almost uniformly high, with each essay providing a stimulating point of departure for further investigation.' Annotated Bibliography of English StudiesTable of ContentsPreface; Part I. Life and Works: 1. Biography Annabel Patterson; 2. Composition: process and chronology Juliet Lucy; 3. Early lives Edward Jones; 4. Letters, verse letters, and gift-texts Cedric C. Brown; 5. Milton on himself Stephen M. Fallon; 6. Poetic tradition, dramatic Ann Baynes Coiro; 7. Poetic tradition, epic Anthony Welch; 8. Poetic tradition, pastoral Barbara K. Lewalski; 9. Prose style Walter S. H. Lim; 10. Verse and rhyme John Creaser; Part II. Critical Legacy: 11. Critical responses, early John Rumrich; 12. Critical responses, 1825–1970 P. J. Klemp; 13. Critical responses, recent J. Martin Evans; 14. Later publishing history John T. Shawcross; 15. Translations Christophe Tournu; 16. Visual arts Wendy Furman-Adams; Part III. Historical and Cultural Contexts: 17. Astronomy Dennis Danielson; 18. The book trade Stephen B. Dobranski; 19. The Caroline court Nicholas McDowell; 20. Catholicism Joan S. Bennett; 21. The civil wars James Loxley; 22. Classical literature and learning Stella P. Revard; 23. Education Gregory Chaplin; 24. The English Church Neil Forsyth; 25. The Interregnum David Loewenstein; 26. Italy Catherine Gimelli Martin; 27. Law Lynne Greenberg; 28. Literary contemporaries Albert C. Labriola; 29. Logic Phillip J. Donnelly; 30. London Ian W. Archer; 31. Manuscript transmission Randall Ingram; 32. Marriage and divorce Shigeo Suzuki; 33. Music Diane McColley; 34. The natural world Karen L. Edwards; 35. The New World Amy Boesky; 36. Pamphlet wars N. H. Keeble; 37. Philosophy Pitt Harding; 38. Reading practices Elizabeth Sauer; 39. The Restoration Joad Raymond; 40. Theology William Poole; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Julius Caesar
Book SynopsisFor this third edition of Julius Caesar Jeremy Lopez has written a completely new Introduction and has also revised the textual commentary with an eye, and ear, to the contemporary student reader. The list of further readings has been updated to reflect the latest developments in scholarly criticism.Table of ContentsIntroduction Jeremy Lopez; Note on the text; Note on the commentary; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Appendix: excerpts from Plutarch; Reading list.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Memory Theatre
Book SynopsisLina Wilder argues that the 'places' and 'objects' of the memory arts inform Shakespeare's conception of theatre, and vice versa. Ranging from Yorick's skull to Desdemona's handkerchief, Shakespeare's mnemonic objects help audiences to recall, or imagine, staged and unstaged pasts.Trade Review'Wilder makes a convincing argument that invention and recollection were frequently figured as feminine reproductive activities.' The European LegacyTable of ContentsIntroduction. Staging memory; 1. Mnemonic desire and place-based memory systems: body, book, and theatre; 2. 'I do remember': the nurse, the apothecary, and Romeo; 3. Wasting memory: competing mnemonics in the Henry plays; 4. 'Baser matter' and mnemonic pedagogy in Hamlet; 5. 'The handkerchief, my mind misgives': false past in Othello; 6. 'Flaws and starts': fragmented recollection in Macbeth; 7. Mnemonic control and watery disorder in The Tempest; Conclusion. A 'most small fault': feminine 'nothings' and the spaces of memory; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Supernatural Environments in Shakespeares England Spaces Of Demonism Divinity And Drama
Book SynopsisBringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England explores a series of cultural spaces that focused attention on interactions between the human and the demonic or divine: the deathbed, purgatory, demonic contracts and their spatial surround, Reformation cosmologies and a landscape newly subject to cartographic surveying. It examines the seemingly incongruous coexistence of traditional religious beliefs and new mathematical, geometrical ways of perceiving the environment. Arguing that the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century stage dramatized the phenomenological tension that resulted from this uneasy confluence, this groundbreaking study considers the complex nature of supernatural environments in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Shakespeare's Othello, Hamlet, Trade Review"Poole navigates herself deftly though the minefield of ambiguities of literal and metaphorical language of the early modern supernatural....Supernatural Environments certainly succeeds in bringing to attention the important role of cartographic and mathematical developments in changing concepts of supernatural spaces and how these conflicting ideas are addressed in the theater. While much of the book’s introductory material on the need to reevaluate “the decline of magic” sounds all too familiar, the arguments that Poole follows with are significant as the implications of Clark’s monumental study have yet to be fully addressed in a theatrical context. Poole writes engagingly and the argument is fascinating. Supernatural Environments is an ambitious project and Poole quite rightly reveals the possibility of more research in the area. It will be interesting to see what follows." --Marlowe Society of America Newsletter"This is an important, clever, and well-written book that makes a striking contribution to early modern studies, and its epilogue offers a vision of a ‘‘reenchanted geography’’ (219) that is richly suggestive and should inspire new thinking about the period." --Renaissance Society of AmericaTable of ContentsPrologue: setting – and unsettling – the stage; Introduction: the space of the supernatural; 1. The devil's in the archive: Ovidian physics and Doctor Faustus; 2. Scene at the deathbed: Ars Moriendi, Othello, and envisioning the supernatural; 3. When hell freezes over: the fabulous Mount Hecla and Hamlet's infernal geography; 4. Metamorphic cosmologies: the world according to Calvin, Hooker, and Macbeth; 5. Divine geometry in a geodetic age: surveying, God, and The Tempest; Epilogue: re-enchanting geography.
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Cambridge University Press Miltons Visual Imagination
Book SynopsisCritics have traditionally found fault with the descriptions and images in John Milton''s poetry and thought of him as an author who wrote for the ear more than the eye. In Milton''s Visual Imagination, Stephen B. Dobranski proposes that, on the contrary, Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details. He contends that Milton''s imagery - traditionally disparaged by critics - advances the epic''s narrative while expressing the author''s heterodox beliefs. In particular, Milton exploits the meaning of objects and gestures to overcome the inherent difficulty of his subject and to accommodate seventeenth-century readers. Bringing together Milton''s material philosophy with an analysis of both his poetic tradition and cultural circumstances, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of early modern visual culture as well as of Milton''s epic.Trade Review'Dobranski finds Milton to have drawn much more on the material, visible, workaday world around him, for the conveyance of those impossible descriptions, than has been recognized until now.' Roberta Klimt, The Times Literary Supplement'Despite Dobranski's erudition and engagement with previous criticism, his prose is always lucid.' B. E. Brandt, Choice'Readers will welcome Dobranski's careful readings and explanations of the images and their functions as well as his inclusion of many clearly reproduced illustrations. Milton scholars will appreciate his ongoing engagement with the critical history and present state of his subject. The book itself is notably readable. Dobranski explains many difficult points with admirable clarity. Thus, this study deserves and should find a wide audience of scholars and students.' Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler, Renaissance Quarterly'Stephen B. Dobranski's splendid Milton's Visual Imagination: Imagery in 'Paradise Lost' draws upon the materialist turn in early modern studies, and specifically the vitalist turn in Milton studies, to confute an accusation prevalent since the days of Samuel Johnson: that Paradise Lost's visual imagery is impoverished. Dobranski's purpose, however, is not simply to demonstrate that Milton's imagery is vivid. Rather, he explicates the theological, cultural, and poetic import of the nature of visual imagery in Paradise Lost's Heaven, Hell, and Eden.' Katherine Eggert, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900'Milton's Visual Imagination has the strengths that we have come to expect from Stephen Dobranski's writing: sensitive close readings, careful research, and a staunch return to issues left unresolved or insufficiently considered by Milton scholars … The value of Milton's Visual Imagination lies in its eloquent, subtle demonstration of how images work in Milton's poem.' Karen L. Edwards, Modern Philology'It is full of vividly presented material things that often cast direct or associative light on Paradise Lost. Dobranski always astutely positions his own claims in relation to those made by others... an extremely illuminating and thought-provoking book.' Colin Burrow, Milton QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Introduction: of things invisible; 2. Free will and God's scales; 3. Heaven's gates; 4. Pondering Satan's shield; 5. What do bad angels look like?; 6. Transported touch; 7. Clustering and curling locks; 8. Images of the future and the son.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisIn the nineteenth century, Shakespeare achieved the status of international pre-eminence that we recognise today. He and his major characters were depicted in statues, paintings and illustrations, and in Stratford-upon-Avon the house where he was born was purchased for the nation and the first Memorial Theatre was built. His words were read, quoted and declaimed in domestic drawing rooms and theatres all around the world, as well as in the works of the leading writers of the day, in intimate love letters and in the pages of radical newspapers. As these new essays show, his was a voice that resonated tellingly throughout the century's cultural, political and literary arenas. The unique reference guide also shows just how popular he was in a number of London theatres and how integral a part he played in the publishing industry of the day and in the burgeoning field of literary criticism.Trade Review'… gives excellent coverage of many aspects of the reception, treatment, dramatisation and proliferation of attention given to the Shakespearean corpus in the nineteenth century … it includes a reference guide to nineteenth works about Shakespeare, play publication and an invaluable guide to performances of Shakespeare's plays in nineteenth century London. It contains an extensive bibliography, and Gail Marshall provides a very useful introduction … Anyone seeking to understand the complex nature of the social and intellectual life of the nineteenth century needs to take into account the popularity and esteem afforded to Shakespeare and his dramatic works through all segments of society. This excellent selection of essays assists in addressing that need. Each contribution is well researched, lucid and full of insights concerning the inescapable influence of England's greatest playwright. Collectively, they provide an extremely valuable resource for all readers with an interest in this period.' The Glass'… the significance of the collection lies in the varied approaches it opens for a scholar new to the territory. …Marshall's authors animate familiar narratives with lively details … But the volume is at its best in resisting received wisdom about 'Victorian Values' …' Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Gail Marshall; 1. Shakespeare editions Christopher Decker; 2. Shakespeare criticism Mark Hollingsworth; 3. Shakespeare in the periodicals Kathryn Prince; 4. Shakespeare our (nineteenth-century) contemporary Russell Jackson; 5. Shakespeare and nineteenth-century fiction Gail Marshall; 6. Shakespeare and nineteenth-century poetry Philip Shaw and Gail Marshall; 7. Shakespeare and drama David Taylor; 8. Shakespeare in London Russell Jackson; 9. Shakespeare in the provinces Richard Foulkes; 10. Shakespeare and music Julie Sanders; 11. Women and Shakespeare Georgianna Ziegler; 12. Shakespeare and politics William Greenslade; 13. Shakespeare and commercialism Julia Thomas; 14. Shakespeare and the visual arts Stuart Sillars; 15. Shakespeare in Europe John Stokes; 16. Shakespeare and Germany Frederick Burwick; 17. Shakespeare in America's Gilded Age Virginia Mason Vaughan; Reference guide: performances of Shakespeare's plays in nineteenth-century London Janice Norwood; Nineteenth-century works about Shakespeare: criticism, editions, reference works, biographies, play publication by year Mark Hollingsworth; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeares First Folio Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisShakespeare's First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the world's most studied books, prompting speculation about everything from proof-reading practices in the early modern publishing industry to the 'true' authorship of Shakespeare's plays. Arguments about the nature of the First Folio are crucial to every modern edition of Shakespeare and thus to every reader or student of the plays. This Companion surveys the critical methods brought to bear on the Folio and equips readers with the tools to understand it and to develop their skills in early modern book culture more generally. A team of international scholars surveys the range of bibliographic, historical and textual material relating to the Folio, its editors, collectors and critical reception. This revealing volume will be of wide interest to scholars of Shakespeare, the history of the book and early modern drama.Trade Review'… takes the reader on a journey through the history of perhaps the book world's most famous literary edition. … Readers of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio are lucky. Not only because they have in their hands an excellent resource that will elucidate many aspects of the edition, but also because modern digital renderings of the First Folio are now more accessible than ever.' William J. Humphries, The Seventeenth CenturyTable of ContentsPreface Emma Smith; 1. Shakespeare in print before 1623 Tara L. Lyons; 2. Publishing the First Folio Eric Rasmussen; 3. Printing the First Folio B. D. R. Higgins; 4. The prefatorial material Chris Laoutaris; 5. The provenance of the Folio texts Gabriel Egan; 6. 'Complete' works: the Folio and all of Shakespeare Peter Kirwan; 7. Early buyers and readers Jean-Christophe Mayer; 8. Editors Edmund G. C. King; 9. Collectors Steven K. Galbraith; 10. Reading the First Folio Emma Smith; 11. Digital First Folios Sarah Werner; 12. Afterword: the Folio as fetish Adam G. Hooks.
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Cambridge University Press Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare
Book SynopsisEarly Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare argues for editing Shakespeare's plays in a new way, without pretending to distinguish authorial from theatrical versions. Drawing on the work of the influential scholars A. W. Pollard and W. W. Greg, Werstine tackles the difficult issues surrounding 'foul papers' and 'promptbooks' to redefine these fundamental categories of current Shakespeare editing. In an extensive and detailed analysis, this book offers insight into the methods of theatrical personnel and a reconstruction of backstage practices in playhouses of Shakespeare's time. The book also includes a detailed analysis of nineteen manuscripts and three quartos marked up for performance - documents that together provide precious insight into how plays were put into production. Using these surviving manuscripts as a framework, Werstine goes on to explore editorial choices about what to give today's readers as 'Shakespeare'.Trade Review'… a remarkable scholarly achievement.' Ivan Lupić, Sharp NewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: reading W. W. Greg; 1. The discovery of 'foul papers'; 2. Redefining foul papers; 3. Playhouse MSS: what bookkeepers did not do; 4. Playhouse MSS: what bookkeepers did; 5. Behind the stage/in the tiring house; Conclusion; The manuscripts; Appendix A. Characteristics of Gregian 'foul papers' in playhouse texts; Appendix B. Knight's placement of stage directions in Beleeue; Appendix C. Physical evidence of dramatist-bookkeeper collaboration.
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Cambridge University Press Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Stuart England
Book SynopsisPre-Civil War English political culture was shaped by an extensive pamphlet literature, which has remained unknown due to its handwritten form. Drawing from book history and the history of political thought, Noah Millstone reconstructs the world of manuscript pamphleteering to explain how contemporaries came to see their world as political.Trade Review'In this learned and impressive book, Millstone provides scholars with such a survey [of scribal pamphleteering in the early Stuart era] and, more importantly, a persuasive argument about the different ways in which the circulation of manuscript pamphlets created, shaped and informed early modern English men and women's participation in and interpretation of politics … a groundbreaking contribution to the study of manuscripts, politics, and practices of dissemination and interpretation. To offer a thorough account of the nature and circulation of key scribal pamphlets in early seventeenth-century England is a significant contribution to scholarship, to simultaneously provide new ways of thinking about the invention of politics in the period is a remarkable achievement.' Alison Searle, Renaissance Studies'Millstone offers a series of compelling arguments about the nature of early Stuart politics while posing fascinating questions about the long-term origins of the English Revolution. Lucidly written, robustly argued and theoretically informed, this is one of the most impressive debuts I have read in many years. … marvelous.' Alastair Bellany, The Spenser Review'Noah Millstone's outstanding work supplies an invaluable survey of scribal pamphleteering during the Stuart era and provides rich new insights concerning the significance of their circulation. … By expertly addressing the manner by which 'collectors and diarists treated the texts themselves as forming a … political history of their own times' (167), Millstone bestows us with a modern equivalent that will prove useful to scholars with an interest in Stuart politics, regardless of their discipline.' Mark Kaethler, Renaissance Quarterly'Millstone has produced a deeply researched and highly sophisticated book that will be of the greatest interest to scholars and students of early seventeenth-century England. He has an admirable capacity to delineate detail without ever losing sight of the broader picture. … In guiding us elegantly through the surviving products of early Stuart scribes it whets the appetite for future works from the author's own pen.' David L. Smith, The English Historical ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Conditions of Production: 2. The social life of handwriting; 3. Tuning the instrument; 4. Performance and parliament; Part II. Subjects and Subjectivity: 5. Bristol's revenge; 6. Historians of the present; Part III. The Secret History of the State: 7. The antiquary and the malcontent; 8. The drift of the personal rule; 9. The ill-affected; 10. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Manuscript Drama
Book SynopsisThis book explores how Shakespeare wrote his plays and how the players revised them by examining manuscripts that have survived from use in early modern theatres. Looking at collaboration, theatre practice and the Shakespeare canon, it will greatly interest researchers and advanced students of Shakespeare studies, manuscript studies, and textual history.Trade Review'This is a temperate, scrupulous and exhaustive study, which deserves a longer review. … [Purkis's] meticulously detailed analyses, which represent a significant advance in our understanding of dramatic manuscripts generally, and Shakespeare's professional activities in particular.' Paul Dean, English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Text, Collaboration, Evidence: 1. The theatrical text and the new bibliography: John a Kent and John a Cumber; 2. 'Foul papers', 'prompt books', and textual sufficiency: The Captives; 3. Attribution, collaboration, and The Second Maiden's Tragedy; Part II. Shakespearean Coincidences: 4. Curious coincidences: the collaborations of Sir Thomas More; 5. Singularly Shakespearean: attributing the Hand-D addition of More; 6. Canon, apocrypha, and Sir Thomas More; Works cited; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespearean Sensations
Book SynopsisThis lively and accessible collection of essays explores the ways Shakespeare and his contemporaries imagined literature's impact on audiences' bodies, minds and emotions. Readers and theatregoers have always sought out literature for its emotional power, and this book shows how seriously early modern writers took their relationships with their audiences.Trade Review'The volume's contributors engage in meaningful dialogues with drama, poetry, and primary sources; with a growing body of secondary materials; and above all with one another. Both uninitiated readers and long-time students of embodiment in literature will find much to deepen their understanding of the physiological impacts of reading and playgoing … Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above.' P. D. Collington, Choice'… while each chapter offers a fascinating series of close readings in its own right, as a whole the book reminds us of the importance of thinking about theatre and reading as transitive acts - that is, things that impact upon something else.' Erin Sullivan, Cahiers Élisabéthains'Scholars and students alike will benefit from the lucid writing and strong, productive reinterpretations to be found in these essays - and in many other arguments throughout the collection as well. Together, the essays demonstrate that early modern conceptions of the body as a porous, volatile, affectible organism have surprising continuities as well as discontinuities with our own.' Jeremy Lopez, Sharp NewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: imagining audiences Katharine A. Craik and Tanya Pollard; Part I. Plays: 1. Feeling fear in Macbeth Allison P. Hobgood; 2. Hearing Iago's withheld confession Allison Deutermann; 3. Self-love, spirituality, and the senses in Twelfth Night Douglas Trevor; Part II. Playhouses: 4. Conceiving tragedy Tanya Pollard; 5. Playing with appetite in early modern comedy Hillary Nunn; 6. Notes towards an analysis of early modern applause Matthew Steggle; 7. Catharsis as 'purgation' in Shakespearean drama Thomas Rist; Part III. Poems: 8. Epigrammatic commotions William Kerwin; 9. Poetic 'making' and moving the soul Margaret Healy; 10. Shakespearean pain Michael Schoenfeldt; Afterword: senses of an ending Bruce R. Smith.
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Cambridge University Press Britain France and the Gothic 17641820
Book SynopsisAngela Wright sheds new light upon the genesis of the Gothic, examining the roles translation and military conflict played in its development in Britain. The author combines contextual and literary perspectives to situate the Gothic in relation to the Seven Years' War, the French Revolution and the Treaty of Amiens.Trade Review'Contributes to a far more nuanced understanding of the politics of the genre.' The Times Literary Supplement'Wright's elegantly written volume offers original perspectives and insights at every turn … Consistently and convincingly argued throughout, Britain, France and the Gothic avoids the pitfalls of unspecified 'influences' and general similarities. Instead it maps channels of contact, borrowing, adaptation, rewriting and translation in order to demonstrate how Gothic fully participated in the many networks of Franco-British cultural exchange between the Seven Years' War and the post-Napoleonic era. A crucial contribution to studies of Gothic and the cross-cultural dimensions of British Romanticism, Wright's book is set to change how we study and discuss these literary manifestations beyond purely national boundaries.' Diego Saglia, BARS Bulletin and Review'Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764–1820 is packed with precise textual analysis, clear historical investigation and contextualization, and many a well-turned sentence.' The Year's Work in English Studies'Wright's book traces the French influences that Walpole felt compelled to play down, as did subsequent Gothic authors from Clara Reeve and Sophia Lee to Anne Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis, whose work appeared just as the British antipathy toward France rose to a fever pitch of anti-Jacobin hysteria. Her book is thus a history of writers' secret love for a culture that their own surroundings required them to hate or at least to denigrate. It offers up to the reader the less evident aspects of the way Gothic fiction crossed the Channel back and forth in the form of influences, translations, parodies, borrowings, and outright plagiarisms.' Yael Shapira, Common KnowledgeTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The mysterious author Horace Walpole; 2. The translator cloak'd: Sophia Lee, Clara Reeve and Charlotte Smith; 3. Versions of Gothic and terror; 4. The castle under threat: Ann Radcliffe's system and the romance of Europe; 5. 'The order disorder'd': French convents and British liberty; Conclusion: afterlives; Works cited.
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Cambridge University Press The Severed Head and the Grafted Tongue Literature Translation and Violence in Early Modern Ireland
Book SynopsisSevered heads emblemise the vexed relationship between the aesthetic and the atrocious. During the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland, colonisers such as Edmund Spenser, Sir John Harington and Sir George Carew wrote or translated epic romances replete with beheadings even as they countenanced - or conducted - similar deeds on the battlefield. This study juxtaposes the archival record of actual violence with literary depictions of decapitation to explore how violence gets transcribed into art. Patricia Palmer brings the colonial world of Renaissance England face to face with Irish literary culture. She surveys a broad linguistic and geographical range of texts, from translations of Virgil's Aeneid to the Renaissance epics of Ariosto and Ercilla and makes Irish-language responses to conquest and colonisation available in readable translations. In doing so, she offers literary and political historians access not only to colonial brutality but also to its ethical reservations, while providingTrade Review'Palmer makes use of an impressive literary assortment ranging from the Iliad, through Irish- language poets to W. B. Yeats, Seanus Heaney, Sarah Broom, Padraic Fallon and John Montagu.' The Times Literary Supplement''Palmer [has] rare linguistic expertise …' Thomas Herron, Sixteenth Century Journal'Patricia Palmer's intelligent and eloquent new book has brought the life and literature of early modern Ireland to the foreground, illuminating the present through her revelation of the past and cementing her own place as one of our foremost cultural interpreters … this is a detailed and careful historical account, which owes a great deal to the author's painstaking work with original documents. One of its great virtues is Palmer's eye for the telling detail. She is capable of seeing through official memoranda to the story beyond.' Deirdre Serjeantson, Dublin Review of Books'Patricia Palmer has written a passionate, erudite and original book … her treatment of Carew in particular is welcome, and new to me. … She gives us a new approach to the motives and purposes of translation, applied to a striking instance of bodily involvement in struggle that is like the struggle with language, if less lethal.' Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Translation IrelandTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'A Horses Loade of Heades': conquest and atrocity in early modern Ireland; 2. The romance of the severed head: Sir John Harington's translation of Orlando Furioso; 3. Defaced: allegory, violence and romance recognition in The Faerie Queene; 4. The head in a bag: Sir George Carew's translation of Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana; 5. Elegy and afterlives.
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Cambridge University Press Art and Social Justice Education Culture as Commons
Book SynopsisFor nearly forty years Deirdre Le Faye, one of the world's leading authorities on Jane Austen, has been gathering and organising every single piece of information available about the Austen family before, during and after Jane's lifetime. She has now collected all this material together to produce a unique chronology, containing some 15,000 entries. For the first time, those interested in Jane Austen can discover where she was and what she was doing at many precise moments of her life. The entries, many taken from hitherto unexplored and unpublished documents, are presented in a clear and readable form, and each item of information is linked to its source. The volume includes family trees for the extended Austen and Knight families from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. This is a key work of reference that every scholar and reader of Austen will find fascinating and indispensable.Trade Review'… an indispensable addition to all libraries with humanities collections and those concerned with the facts relating to one of our greatest literary figures.' William Baker, Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsPrologue; Chronology of Jane Austen and her family; Bibliographies; Index of personal names; Family trees.
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Cambridge University Press Romanticism and the Emotions
Book SynopsisThere has recently been a resurgence of interest in the importance of the emotions in Romantic literature and thought. This collection, the first to stress the centrality of the emotions to Romanticism, addresses a complex range of issues including the relation of affect to figuration and knowing, emotions and the discipline of knowledge, the motivational powers of emotion, and emotions as a shared ground of meaning. Contributors offer significant new insights on the ways in which a wide range of Romantic writers, including Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Immanuel Kant, Lord Byron, Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey and Adam Smith, worried about the emotions as a register of human experience. Though varied in scope, the essays are united by the argument that the current affective and emotional turn in the humanities benefits from a Romantic scepticism about the relations between language, emotion and agency.Table of ContentsIntroduction: feeling Romanticism Joel Faflak and Richard C. Sha; 1. The motion behind Romantic emotion: towards a chemistry and physics of feeling Richard C. Sha; 2. 'A certain mediocrity': Adam Smith's moral behaviourism Thomas Pfau; 3. Like love: the feel of Shelley's similes Julie Carlson; 4. Jane Austen and the persuasion of happiness Joel Faflak; 5. The general fast and humiliation: tracking feeling in wartime Mary A. Favret; 6. A peculiar community: Mary Shelley, Godwin, and the abyss of emotion Tilottama Rajan; 7. Emotion without content: primary affect and pure potentiality in Wordsworth David Collings; 8. Kant's peace, Wordsworth's slumber Jacques Khalip; 9. Living a ruined life: De Quincey's damage Rei Terada.
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