Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books
Manchester University Press Hamlet Shakespeare in Performance S
Book SynopsisThis analysis of the performance history of "Hamlet" recreates many productions from three centuries. The final chapters extend the analysis to a number of film versions, and to important European stage productions. It is intended both for students of Shakespearean theatre and for playgoers.Table of ContentsList of PlatesSeries editor’s prefaceAcknowledgements1. Performing Hamlet’s meanings2. Hamlet on stage 1600-19003. The 1920s: old ways meet new stagecraft4. Gielgud and Olivier in the 1930s5. Post-war Hamlets at Stratford-upon-Avon: 1948 and 19656. Royal Shakespeare and Royal Court in 19807. Hamlet at the movies: Olivier and Kozintsev8. Through the looking glass: Zeffirelli and the BBC9. TranslationsNotesAppendixBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Thomas Heywoods Theatre 15991639
Book SynopsisIn this major reassessment of his subject, Richard Rowland restores Thomas Heywood-playwright, miscellanist and translator-to his rightful place in early modern theatre history. Rowland contextualizes and historicizes this important contemporary of Shakespeare, locating him on the geographic and cultural map of London through the business Heywood conducts in his writing. Arguing that Heywood''s theatrical output deserves the same attention and study that has been directed towards Shakespeare, Jonson, and more recently Middleton, this book looks at three periods of Heywood''s creativity: the end of the Elizabethan era and the beginning of the Jacobean, the mid 1620s, and the mid to late 1630s. By locating the works of those years precisely in the political and cultural conflicts to which they respond, Rowland initiates a major reassessment of the remarkable achievements of this playwright. Rowland also pays attention to Heywood in performance, seeing this writer as a jobbing playwrigTrade Review'Thomas Heywood’s Theatre, 1599-1639 fits a fascinating piece into the emerging picture of the "complete" early modern theatre. Rowland beds interpretation firmly in cultural, historical, and textual recuperation and analysis. He lets us know the weight and value of things in their time. He connects things to people and people to each other. He offers genealogies of circumstance and familiarity that vastly enrich our reading of the plays. He puts the authentic stink of London and her citizens into our nostrils. Rowland’s writing about Heywood makes you want to read Heywood - and even more, to see Heywood restored to our theatre.' Carol Chillington Rutter, University of Warwick, UK 'Richard Rowland’s lively study of Heywood is equally evocative of early modern London, demonstrating how the burgeoning self-awareness of the city and its citizens infused the drama appearing on its stages. The specificity of location in Edward IV is more than incidental to the drama, and owes much to the contemporary publication of John Stow’s Survey of London which helped to make topographical reference both safe and widely understood. Rowland further shows how Heywood explores another key component of early modern London society, the nexus of home, house and household. Here the emphasis is spatial rather than topographical, but the difficulties and dangers of metropolitan marriage and householding emerge clearly. Rowland argues that our appreciation of the complexity and power of Heywood’s drama gains greatly from its performance on stage, but this book will make at least an equal contribution to that end.' Vanessa Harding, Birkbeck, University of London, UK '...a work of fine scholarship... a significant and welcome achievement guiding us to reappraise a playwriting career that has too often been neglected...' Times Literary Supplement '... this excellent monograph is evidence of the importance of continuing scholarly work on this neglected playwright. It makes a sTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Heywood's English Landscapes: A 'London that yee see hourely': Heywood, Stow, and the invention of the city staged; Moving inside(s): Heywood's divided households. Part II Staging Roman Comedy in Stuart London: Introduction: stages of translation in early modern England; 'Of coyne and prtious marchandyse': trade and slavery in The Captives; 'Some mirth, some matter': the innovative tragicomedy of The English Traveller; Out of the dripping pan, into the fire: Loves Mistris. Part III Street Theatre: London's peaceable estate? The pageants; Index.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Incest and the English Novel 16841814
Book SynopsisFirmly establishing the importance of the topic for understanding eighteenth-century English literature and culture, her work is bound to spur further discussion of the significance of incest discourses in the early modern period and beyond.Trade ReviewIn this imaginative and provocative study, the relationship between gender, incest and fiction is explored through a series of cultural, materialist and psychoanalytic readings of texts. -- Alison Stenton Times Literary Supplement 2004 Pollak's remarkable book has qualities typical of the best scholarly criticism: a thorough and assured grasp of the history and current discussions of the topic; the capacity to forcefully assert its own place in those discussions; and elegant movement between close readings and broader implications. Choice 2004 Pollak writes with clarity, conviction, and precision; she has authored a brilliant book, and literary studies will be richer for it. -- Alison Conway Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2005 Pollak's book is well worth reading for its illuminating analyses of individual novels; but it also does modern women a real service by using these close readings to denaturalize our false, present-day assumptions about incest. -- Eve Tavor South Atlantic Review 2005 Pollak succeeds in reading dialectically the discourse of sex, race, and class in the eighteenth-century novel, skillfully avoiding the traps of reifying categories. -- Ros Ballaster Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 2006 The reading is illuminating, perhaps paradigm-altering... This book should change the way we think about fiction in the future. Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography 2007Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgments1 Introduction: Modernity, Incest, and Eighteenth-Century Narrative 2 Incest and Its Contingencies: Debates in Britain from the Reformation through the Eighteenth Century 3 Beyond Incest: Gender and the Politics of Transgression in Aphra Behn's Love Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister 4 Guarding the Succession of the (E)state: Incest and the Dangers of Representation in the Delarivier Manley's The New Atalantis 5 Moll Flanders, Incest, and the Structure of Exchange 6 Ingesting Incest: Maternity, Textuality, and the Problem of Origins 7 Incest and Liberty: Mansfield Park Notes Bibliography Index
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Northwestern University Press Shakespeares Legal Ecologies
Book SynopsisOffers the first sustained examination of the relationship between law and selfhood in Shakespeare's work. Taking five plays and the sonnets as case studies, Kevin Curran argues that law provided Shakespeare with the conceptual resources to imagine selfhood in social and distributed terms, as a product of interpersonal exchange or as a gathering of various material forces.Trade ReviewCurran mobilizes for the study of Shakespeare a deep knowledge of Enlightenment and modern philosophy, and is equally adept at negotiating the complexities of early modern English law and culture."" - Luke Wilson, author of Theaters of Intention: Drama and the Law in Early Modern England
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Northwestern University Press Matthew Arnold the Ethnologist
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1951, this book makes the original argument that the renowned English critic Matthew Arnold contributed to the climate of racialism current during his lifetime. Frederic Faverty shows that in his essays on national character, Arnold used anthropological concepts of race and language, albeit inconsistently.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Ghosts Holes Rips and Scrapes
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a magnificent contribution to bibliography that will be read enthusiastically by Shakespeare scholars and anyone working in the field of the history of the book, textual editing, and bibliography at the highest level. Zachary Lesser elegantly conveys the implications of his rigorous archival research, and the impression is-quite thrillingly-of a scholar rewriting in significant ways the history of a book that we thought we knew." * Adam Smyth, Balliol College, Oxford University *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Ghosts Chapter 2. Holes Chapter 3. Rips and Scrapes Conclusion. Questions Appendix A. Census of Known Sets of the 1619 Quartos Appendix B. Order of Plays in Known Bindings of the 1619 Quartos Appendix C. Copies Consulted Notes Index
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Fordham University Press Fate of the Flesh Secularization and
Book SynopsisThis book argues that in the seventeenth century the ancient hope for the physical resurrection of the body and its flesh began an unexpected second life as critical theory, challenging the notion of an autonomous self and driving early modern avant-garde poetry.Table of ContentsPreface: Christianity as Critical Theory | vii Introduction: Secularization and the Resurrection of the Flesh | 1 1. Secularization, Countersecularization, and the Fate of the Flesh in Donne | 29 2. Wanting to Be Another Person: Resurrection and Avant-Garde Poetics in George Herbert | 64 3. Luminous Stuff: The Resurrection of the Flesh in Vaughan’s Religious Verse | 101 4. The Feeling of Being a Body: Resurrection and Habitus in Vaughan’s Medical Writings | 124 5. Resurrection, Dualism, and Legal Personhood: Bodily Presence in Ben Jonson | 148 Epilogue: Resurrection and Zombies | 181 Acknowledgments | 191 Notes | 193 Index | 219
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and
Book SynopsisTraces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture. Serrano argues that the Gothic has provided a way to critique issues including colonization, authoritarianism, feudalism, and patriarchy.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) German Poetry from 1750 to 1900 Goethe Holderlin
Book SynopsisThis anthology of German verse in English translation covers a period that includes perhaps two-thirds of the superlative poets of the German language. Here are 147 poems representing 27 poets from Matthias Claudius to Friedrich Nietzsche. The selection is representative, including both the universally known (Goethe, Schiller, Holderlin) and the less familiar (Brentano, Droste-Hulshoff, Holty, Hebbel, Storm). Among the translations are classics by Coleridge, Longfellow, and the Irish poet James Mangan.Table of ContentsForeword: Michael Hamburger Introduction: Robert M. Browning MATTHIAS CLAUDIAS (1740-1814) Der Säemann säet den Samen/The sower is sowing his seed (K. Negus) Abendlied/Evening Song (A. Gode) Die Sternseherin Lise/The Stargazing Maiden (S.Z. Buehne) Kriegslied/A Song of War (A. Bloch) Christiane (J.W. Thomas) Der Tod und das Mädchen/Death and the Girl (J.W. Thomas) Der Tod/Death (R.M. Browning) GOTTFRIED AUGUST BÜRGER (1747-1794) Lenore/Leonore (J.C. Mangan) LUDWIG CHRISTOPH HEINRICH HÖLTY (1748-1776) Auftrag/Mandate (G.C. Schoolfield) Die Schale der Vergessenheit/The Cup of Oblivion (G.C. Schoolfield) An den Abendstern/To the Evening Star (J.W. Thomas) JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832) Mailied/May Song (J.F. Nims) Willkommen und Abschied/The Meeting, The Departure (J.F. Nims) Im Herbst 1775/Autumn, 1775 (R.M. Browning) Prometheus (M. Hamburger) Mahomets Gesang/A Song to Mahomet (C. Middleton) Auf dem See/On the Lake (J.S. Dwight) An den Mond/To the Moon (J.F. Nims) Grenzen der Menschheit/Human Limits (M. Hamburger) Wandrers Nachtlied/Ein Gleiches/Wanderer's Night-Songs (H.W. Longfellow) Mignon (Kennst du das Land)/Mignon (You know that land) (J.F. Nims) Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt/Who Yearning Knows (S. Spender) Alles geben die Götter/The Gods Give Everything (S. Spender) Anakreons Grab/Anacreon's Grave (M. Hamburger) Natur und Kunst/Sonnet (M. Hamburger) Gefunden/In a Glade (R. Garnett) Wiederfinden/Reunion (C. Middleton) Proemion (E.A. Bowring) Urworte, Orphisch/Primeval Words, Orphic (M. Knight and J. Fabry) Selige Sehnsucht/Blessed Longing (M. Hamburger) Dauer im Wechsel/Permanence in Change (J.F. Nims) FRIEDRICH SCHILLER (1759-1803) Dithyrambe/The Visit of the Gods (S.T. Coleridge) Des Mädchens Klage/The Maiden's Plaint (J.C. Mangan) Der Ring des Polykrates/Polycrates and His Ring (J.C. Mangan) Das Glück/The Gifts of Fortune (A. Gode) Nänie/Nenia (A. Gode) JOHANN GAUDENZ VON SALIS-SEEWIS (1762-1834)Lied, zu singen bei einer Wasserfahrt/Song to be Sung During a Trip on the Water(G.C. Schoolfield)FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN (1770-1843)Hyperions Schicksalslied/Hyperion's Song of Fate(C. Middleton)Abendphantasie/Evening Fantasy(K. Negus)Menschenbeifall/Public Approval(K. Negus)An die jungen Dichter/To Young Poets(K. Negus)An die Parzen/To the Fates(M. Hamburger)Diotima (Du schweigst und duldest/Diotima (You suffer and keep silent)(M. Hamburger)Geh unter, schöne Sonne.../Go down, fair sun...(E. Henderson) Der Abschied. Zweite Fassung/The Farewell. Second Version (C. Middleton) Andenken/Remembrance (C. Middleton) Lebensalter/The Ages of Life (M. Hamburger) Hälfte des Lebens/Half of Life (W. Trask and A. Gode) FRIEDRICH VON HARDENBERG ("NOVALIS") (1772-1801)Hymnen an die Nacht/Hymns to Night (R.M. Browning) LUDWIG TIECK (1773-1853) Liebe/Love (H. Salinger) CLEMENS BRENTANO (1778-1842) Der Spinnerin Lied/The Spinstress' Song (A. Gode) Abendständchen/Serenade (H. Salinger) Wenn ich ein Bettelmann wär/If I were a beggarman (D.B. Dickens) Am Berge hoch in Lüften/Adieu, Heart's Love, Adieu! (R. Garnett) Heil'ge Nacht, heil'ge Nacht/Holy night, holy night! (D.B. Dickens) Nachklänge Beethovenscher Musik/Echoes of Beethoven's Music (G.C. Schoolfield) JOSEPH FREIHERR VON EICHENDORFF (1778-1857) Wünschelrute/Divining Rod (A. Turner) Das zerbrochene Ringlein/The Broken Ring (G.H. Chase) Der Abend/Evening (E. Morgan) Nachts/Nocturne (H. Salinger) Mondnacht/Night of Moon (G.H. Chase) Sehnsucht/Longing (G.H. Chase) Der alte Garten/The Old Garden (W. Heider) Die Nachtblume/Night (I.S. MacInnes) Waldgespräch/Conversation in the Forest (G. Gillhoff) Auf meines Kindes Tod/On the Death of my Child (E. Dvoretzky) Memento mori! (R.M. Browning) Todeslust/Death Wish (R.M. Browning) JUSTINUS KERNER (1786-1862) Der schwere Traum/Oppressive Dream (J. Fitzell) LUDWIG UHLAND (1787-1862) Frühlingsglaube/Spring Faith (J.W. Thomas) Das Schloß am Meer/The Castle by the Sea (H.W. Longfellow) Der gute Kamerad/The Good Comrade (M. Münsterberg and C.T. Brooks) Der Wirtin Töchterlein/The Hostess' Daughter (M. Münsterberg) FRIEDRICH RÜCKERT (1788-1866) Barbarossa (J.W. Thomas) WILHELM MÜLLER (1794-1827) Der Lindenbaum/The Linden Tree (J. Fitzell) Wanderschaft/The Journeyman's Song (F. Owen) AUGUST GRAF VON PLATEN-HALLERMÜNDE (1797-1848) Tristan (H. Salinger) Wie rafft'ich mich auf/Remorse (H.W. Longfellow) Venedig liegt nur noch im Land der Träume/Venice, mere shadow of her elder day (C.T. Brooks) Der Pilgrim vor St. Just/The Pilgrim at St. Yuste (E. Morgan) ANNETTE VON DROSTE-HÜLSHOFF (1797-1848) Der Weiher/The Pond (H. Salinger) Die Mergelgrube/The Marl-pit (J.B. Dallett) Im Grase/In the Grass (U. Prideaux) HEINRICH HEINE (1797-1856) Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam/A Spruce is standing lonely (M. Knight) Wenn ich an deinem Hause/When I go past your window (H. Draper) Ich wollte, meine Lieder/I wish that all my love-songs (L. Untermeyer) Mir träumte wieder der alte Traum/I dreamt the old, old dream anew (H. Salinger) Die Lotusblume ängstigt/The lotus flower is drooping (H. Draper) Aus alten Märchen winkt es/From olden tales it flings out (H. Draper) Der Asra/The Asra (L. Untermeyer) Helena (E. Lazarus) Gedächtnisfeier/Memorial Day (M. Knight)
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Scott Dickens Eliot Hardy Great Shakespeareans
Book SynopsisAdrian Poole is Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge, UKand a Fellow of Trinity College, UK. His books include Tragedy: A very short introduction (OUP)and Shakespeare and the Victorians (Arden).
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Dr Sir Philip Sidney The Makers Mind
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Cambridge University Press Cervantes the Poet
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Cambridge University Press Mary Robinson and the Gothic
Book SynopsisA focussed examination of Mary Robinson's deployment of the Gothic in a selection of her poetry and prose fiction. Features accounts of how Robinson's Gothic reworks other major Gothic writers.Table of ContentsA Note on Texts; 1. A Gothic Life; 2. The Un-grounded Grounds of the Walpolean Gothic; 3. The Argument; 4. The Gothic Image of the Other; 5. The Gothic Mind; 6. The Gothic Performance of Gender; 7. The Gothic in Lyrical Tales; 8. Coda; References.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 75
Book SynopsisShakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year''s textual and critical studies and of the year''s major British performances. The theme for Volume 75 is ''Othello''. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/shakespeare-survey This fully searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic and save and bookmark their results.Table of Contents1. Understanding Iago (2009): Clientelism, Corruption, Politics Mark Thornton Burnett; 2. Circumventing marginality: The curious case of India's Othello screen adaptations Abhirup Mascharak; 3. Othello's Kin: Legacy, Belonging, and The fortunes of the Moor Patricia Cahill; 4. 'More fair than black': Othellos on British radio' Andrea Smith; 5. 'This fair paper': Othello and the Artists' book' Agnieszka Żukowska; 6. Othello: A dialogue with the built environment Yik Ling Yong; 7. '[A] maid called barbary:' Othello, Moorish maidservants, and the black presence in early modern England Iman Sheeha; 8. 'The Moor's abused by some most villainous knave, some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow': Legal spaces, Racial trauma, and Othello' Lisa R. Barksdale-Shaw; 9. Ben Jonson's Sejanus and Shakespeare's Othello: Two Plays Performed by the King's Men in c.1603 John-Mark Philo; 10. 'Lago and the clown: Disassembling the vice in Othello Nicole Sheriko; 11. Pitying desdemona in Folio Othello: Race, Gender, and the willow song Joshua Held; 12. 'Desdemona's honest friend' Jeremy Lopez; 13. 'Suffering scstasy: Othello and the drama of displacement' Jennifer J. Edwards; 14. 'Othello's sympathies: Emotion, Agency, and identification' Richard Meek; 15. 'Warning the Stage: Shakespeare's mid-scene entrance conventions' Margaret Jane Kidnie; 16. 'Looking for perdita in Ali Smith's summer' Bailey Sincox; 17. 'Grafted to the Moor: Anglo-Spanish dynastic marriage and miscegenated whiteness in The winter's tale' Zainab S. Cheema; 18. 'Rhyme, History, and Memory in A Mirror for Magistrates and Henry VI' Molly Clark; 19. 'Bad' Love lyrics and poetic hypocrisy from Gascoigne to Benson's Shakespeare' Katherine Mennis; 20. 'Viola's Telemachy' Robert B. Pierce; 21. 'New analogical evidence for Cymbeline's folkloric composition in the medieval icelandic Ála flekks saga' Jonathan Hui; 22. 'But when extremities speak': Harley Granville-Barker, Coriolanus, the world wars and the state of exception' Richard Ashby; 23. Shakespeare performances in England 2021: London Lois Potter; 24. Shakespeare performances in England 2021: outside London Peter Kirwan; 25. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January-December 2020 James Shaw; 26. The Year's contribution to Shakespeare studies: 1. Critical Studies reviewed by Jane Kingsley Smith, 2. Performance reviewed by Russell Jackson, 3. Editions and Textual Studies reviewed by Emma Depledge.
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Cambridge University Press Gothic Poland and British Fiction c. 17901830
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Intellectual and Imaginative Cartographies in
Book SynopsisTaking as its focus an age of transformational development in cartographic history, namely the two centuries between Columbus's arrival in the New World and the emergence of the Scientific Revolution, this study examines how maps were employed as physical and symbolic objects by thinkers, writers and artists. It surveys how early modern people used the map as an object, whether for enjoyment or political campaigning, colonial invasion or teaching in the classroom. Exploring a wide range of literature, from educational manifestoes to the plays of Marlowe and Shakespeare, it suggests that the early modern map was as diverse and various as the rich culture from which it emerged, and was imbued with a whole range of political, social, literary and personal impulses.Intellectual and Imaginative Cartographies in Early Modern England, 1550-1700 will appeal to all those interested in the History of CartographyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Weaving the Net / Chapter 1: ‘they say the world’s in one of them’: The World of the Map / Chapter 2: ‘Thou by thine arte dost so anatomize’: Embodying the Map in John Speed and Michael Drayton / Chapter 3: Judging the Plot of Ireland in Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland / Chapter 4: ‘There is none so good lernynge’: Cartography and Cartographic Instruments in Early Modern English Educational Treatises / Chapter 5: Francis Bacon and Geographic Science / Chapter 6: Plotting Marlovian Geographies / Chapter 7: Wenceslaus Hollar’s Cartographies / Conclusion: Mapping the Stars. And the Future
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Evangelical Party and Samuel Taylor
Book SynopsisIt has long been accepted that when Samuel Taylor Coleridge rejected the Unitarianism of his youth and returned to the Church of England, he did so while accepting a general Christian orthodoxy. Christopher Corbin clarifies Coleridge's religious identity and argues that while Coleridge's Christian orthodoxy may have been sui generis, it was closely aligned with moderate Anglican Evangelicalism. Approaching religious identity as a kind of culture that includes distinct forms of language and networks of affiliation in addition to beliefs and practices, this book looks for the distinguishable movements present in Coleridge's Britain to more precisely locate his religious identity than can be done by appeals to traditional denominational divisions. Coleridge's search for unity led him to desire and synthesize the warmth of heart religion (symbolized as Methodism) with the light of rationalism (symbolized as Socinianism), and the evangelicalism in the Church of England, being the Table of ContentsEntry
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Poem and the Garden in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisThis book draws attention to the pervasive artistic rivalry between Elizabethan poetry and gardens in order to illustrate the benefits of a trans-media approach to the literary culture of the period. In its blending of textual studies with discussions of specific historical patches of earth, The Poem and the Garden demonstrates how the fashions that drove poetic invention were as likely to be influenced by a popular print convention or a particular garden experience as they were by the formal genres of the classical poets. By moving beyond a strictly verbal approach in its analysis of creative imitation, this volume offers new ways of appreciating the kinds of comparative and competitive methods that shaped early modern poetics. Noting shared patternsboth conceptual and materialin these two areas not only helps explain the persistence of botanical metaphors in sixteenth-century books of poetry but also offers a new perspective on the types of contrastive illusioTable of ContentsIntroduction: Commonplace Concerns 1. "Glory to Garden, Glory to Muses, Glory to Vertue": The Englishing of Mount Parnassus 2. "A pleasaunt plotte of fragrant floures": Biblio-botanical Metaphors as Paratextual Framing Devices 3. To wander "as it were in a Labyrinthe": Spenser’s Garden Critiques on Reading Poetry 4. Of Patterns "more or lesse busie and curious": The Early Modern Knot Garden as a Poetic Device 5. Epilogue: Trans-media Matters
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey Volume 64 Shakespeare as Cultural Catalyst Shakespeare Survey Series Number 64
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost
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Cambridge University Press Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Stuart England
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Cambridge University Press Shakespearean Arrivals
Book SynopsisIn this distinctive study, Nicholas Luke explores the abiding power of Shakespeare''s tragedies by suggesting an innovative new model of his character creation. Rather than treating characters as presupposed beings, Luke shows how they arrive as something more than functional dramatis personae - how they come to life as ''subjects'' - through Shakespeare''s orchestration of transformational dramatic events. Moving beyond dominant critical modes, Luke combines compelling close readings of Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear with an accessible analysis of thinkers such as Badiou, Žižek, Bergson, Whitehead and Latour, and the ''adventist'' Christian tradition flowing from Saint Paul through Luther to Kierkegard. Representing a significant intervention into the way we encounter Shakespeare''s tragic figures, the book argues for a subjectivity which is not singular or abiding, but perilous and leaping.Trade Review'The book is at its best, its most exciting and enjoyable, when focused on the texts at hand, which Luke makes new. There is a great deal to value here, especially for those who are looking for a philosophical and theoretical consideration of character as exemplified by Shakespearean tragedy. Shakespearean Arrivals is sure to excite debate and to force a reconsideration of character as dynamic and multiple, shifting and changing, and, hence, new.' Cristina León Alfar, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Thinking arrivals: rupture, event, subject; 2. The subject of love in Romeo and Juliet; 3. Love's late arrival: wonder and terror in Othello's 'High-Wrought Flood'; 4. The ghostly event(s) of Hamlet; 5. Macbeth: the arrival of evil; 6. The Cordelia event: seizing the vanished in King Lear; Conclusion; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespearean Arrivals
Book SynopsisIn this distinctive study, Nicholas Luke explores the abiding power of Shakespeare''s tragedies by suggesting an innovative new model of his character creation. Rather than treating characters as presupposed beings, Luke shows how they arrive as something more than functional dramatis personae - how they come to life as ''subjects'' - through Shakespeare''s orchestration of transformational dramatic events. Moving beyond dominant critical modes, Luke combines compelling close readings of Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear with an accessible analysis of thinkers such as Badiou, Žižek, Bergson, Whitehead and Latour, and the ''adventist'' Christian tradition flowing from Saint Paul through Luther to Kierkegard. Representing a significant intervention into the way we encounter Shakespeare''s tragic figures, the book argues for a subjectivity which is not singular or abiding, but perilous and leaping.Trade Review'The book is at its best, its most exciting and enjoyable, when focused on the texts at hand, which Luke makes new. There is a great deal to value here, especially for those who are looking for a philosophical and theoretical consideration of character as exemplified by Shakespearean tragedy. Shakespearean Arrivals is sure to excite debate and to force a reconsideration of character as dynamic and multiple, shifting and changing, and, hence, new.' Cristina León Alfar, Renaissance Quarterly'The book is at its best, its most exciting and enjoyable, when focused on the texts at hand, which Luke makes new. There is a great deal to value here, especially for those who are looking for a philosophical and theoretical consideration of character as exemplified by Shakespearean tragedy. Shakespearean Arrivals is sure to excite debate and to force a reconsideration of character as dynamic and multiple, shifting and changing, and, hence, new.' Cristina León Alfar, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Thinking arrivals: rupture, event, subject; 2. The subject of love in Romeo and Juliet; 3. Love's late arrival: wonder and terror in Othello's 'High-Wrought Flood'; 4. The ghostly event(s) of Hamlet; 5. Macbeth: the arrival of evil; 6. The Cordelia event: seizing the vanished in King Lear; Conclusion; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Theatres of Feeling
Book SynopsisTheatre and theatregoing was central to the cultural life of later eighteenth-century Britain. In this engaging work, Jean I. Marsden explores the playhouse as a source of emotion during a period when the ability to feel demonstrated moral worth. Using first-hand accounts, reviews, and illustrations to complement the drama of the era, Marsden examines why both critics and audiences elevated the theatre above the pulpit and how they experienced the plays and performances that they witnessed. Tears and even fainting fits were a common reaction to powerful productions, and playwrights sought to harness this emotion. The book explores this intersection of text, performance, and affect in a series of case studies of plays exploring British liberty, empire and the evils of antisemitism. With a focus on emotional response, Theatres of Feeling delivers a new approach to dramatic literature and performance, one that moves beyond more limited studies of text or performance.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Divine sympathy: theatre, connection, and virtue; 2. Dangerous pleasures: theatregoing in the eighteenth century; 3. Roman fathers and Grecian daughters: tragedy and the nation; 4. Performing the West Indies: comedy, feeling, and British identity; 5. The moral muse: comedy as social engineering; Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press The Death Arts in Renaissance England
Book SynopsisThe first-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, this book draws together over 60 extracts and 20 illustrations to establish and analyse how people grappled with mortality in the 16th and 17th centuries. As well as providing a comprehensive resource of annotated and modernized excerpts, this engaging study includes commentary on authors and overall texts, discussions of how each excerpt is constitutive and expressive of the death arts, and suggestions for further reading. The extended Introduction takes into account death''s intersections with print, gender, sex, and race, surveying the period''s far-reaching preoccupation with, and anticipatory reflection upon, the cessation of life. For researchers, instructors, and students interested in medieval and early modern history and literature, the Reformation, memory studies, book history, and print culture, this indispensable resource provides at once an entry point into the field of early modern death studies aTable of ContentsPart I. Preparatory and dying Arts: I.1. To know well to die (1490); I.2. The Calendar of Shepherds (1518); I.3. The way of dying well (1534); I.4. The Lamentation of a Sinner (1547); I.5. 'A Meditation of a penitent Sinner' (1560); I.6. A Fruitful treatise…against the fear of Death (1564); I.7. A Spiritual Consolation (1578); I.8. The repentance of Robert Greene (1592); I.9. A Salve for a Sick Man (1595); I.10. The Mother's Blessing (1616); I.11. Selected Works (1628, 1635); I.12. 'The unnatural Wife' (1628); I.13. An antidote against purgatory (1634); I.14. Holy dying (1651); I.15. The virgin's pattern (1661); I.16. A Token for Children (1676); I.17. 'A True account of…last dying speeches' (1690); Part II. Funereal and Commemorative Arts: II.1.Chronicles (1548); II.2. 'The Order for the burial of the dead' (1549); II.3. The Primer set forth at large (1559); II.4. Acts and Monuments (1576); II.5. The Glorious Martyrdom of twelve Priests (1582); II.6. The life and death of Sir Philip Sidney (1587); II.7. The French History (1589); II.8. 'Doleful Lay of Clorinda' (1595); II.9. Selected Works (1603, 1604); II.10. 'A Mirror of Modesty' (1621); II.11. 'A Sermon…the 5th of November, 1606' (1629); II.12. The Phoenix of these late times (1637); II.13. Eikon Basilike (1649); II.14. 'An Elegy on the Lady Markham' (1653); II.15. A String of Pearls (1657); II.16. Poems (1669); II.17. 'An Essay upon Death' (1696); Part III. Knowing and Understanding Death: III.1. The despising of the World (1532); III.2. A Preservative against Death (1545); III.3. A Godly Meditation (1548); III.4. A Mirror for Magistrates (1587); III.5. The Haven of Health (1588); III.6. Protection for Woman (1589); III.7. Montaigne's Essays (1603); III.8. The Works of Seneca (1614); III.9. Navmachia (1622); III.10. 'Of Death' (1625); III.11. Mikrokosmographia (1631); III.12. 'A View of the present State of Ireland' (1633); III.13. A View of all Religions in the World (1653); III.14. Natural and Political Observations (1662); III.15. Philosophical Letters (1664); III.16. Lucretius's Six Books (1683); III.17. Principles of the most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1692); Part IV. Death Arts in Literature: IV.1. The Ship of Fools (1509); IV.2. The Summoning of Everyman (1528); IV.3. The Dance of Death (1554); IV.4. 'Complaint of a Dying Lover' (1557); IV.5. 'A Strange Punishment' (1566); IV.6. 'Gascoigne's Goodnight' (1573); IV.7. 'The Manner of her Will' (1573); IV.8. The Mirror of Princely deeds and Knighthood (1578); IV.9. Selected Works (1594, 1604); IV.10. Selected Works (1606, 1614); IV.11. Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611); IV.12. Selected Works (1611, 1613); IV.13. The Tragedy of Mariam (1613); IV.14. Urania (1621); IV.15. 'The last Will and Testament of Philip Herbert' (1650); IV.16. 'The Nymph complaining for the death of her Fawn' (1681); IV.17. Oroonoko (1688).
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Cambridge University Press Ireland Enlightenment and the English Stage
Book SynopsisThe theatre was a crucial forum for the representation of Irish civility and culture for the eighteenth-century English audience. Irish actors and playwrights, operating both as individuals and within networks, were remarkably popular and potent during this period, especially in London. As ideas of Enlightenment percolated throughout Britain and Ireland, Irish theatrical practitioners - actors, managers, playwrights, critics and journalists - exploited a growing receptivity to Irish civility, and advanced a patriot agenda of political and economic autonomy. Mobility, toleration and the capacity to negotiate multiple allegiances are marked features of this Irish theatrical Enlightenment, whose ambitious participants saw little conflict between their twin loyalties to the Crown and to Ireland. This collection of essays responds to recent work in the areas of eighteenth-century theatre studies, Irish studies and Enlightenment studies. The volume''s discussions of genre, colonialism, gendeTrade Review'Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage makes a bold and necessary intervention in the field. Its essays shed important new light on the dynamic contribution to English theatrical culture made by a multitude of Irish practitioners and also productively challenge the foundations of what we take 'the Enlightenment' to be in relation to ideas of nation, cosmopolitanism, and cultural production.' David Taylor, University of OxfordBurke's essay … strikes a note that synthesizes the volume. Theater, she writes, becomes a crucial vehicle for the spread of Enlightenment as it enables 'a broadening of horizons [that] did not require a jettisoning of the past'. In this volume, whose essays consistently pair careful historicist research with innovative thought, O'Shaughnessy and his fellow contributors exemplify this achievement for current scholarship as well.' Emily Hodgson Anderson, Review 19'Reconstructing and analysing the world of eighteenth-century theatre moreover demands research that extends beyond literary texts and is attentive to the contexts and the meanings of performance, and the different ways in which both text and performance were mediated and remediated in the period. The essays in this impressive collection not only navigate these challenges, they showcase an impressive sophistication in both the methods and approach employed, and in their nuanced conceptualization of the issues of identity on which the collection is focused ... This superb collection makes an important intervention in a number of different fields and should be considered essential reading for scholars of eighteenth-century Ireland across a range of disciplines, as well as for critics and historians of theatre in the long eighteenth century.' Clíona Ó Gallchoir, Eighteenth-Century Ireland'[an] impressive overview of a missing Irish theater history …' Misty G. Anderson, ECS ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: staging an Irish Enlightenment David O'Shaughnessy; Part I. Representations and Resistance: 1. Straddling: London-Irish actresses and their characters Felicity Nussbaum; 2. John Johnstone and the possibilities of Irishness, 1783–1820 Jim Davis; 3. The diminution of 'Irish' Johnstone Oskar Cox Jensen; Part II. Symbiotic Stages: Dublin and London: 4. Midas, Kane O'Hara and the Italians: an interplay of comedy between London and Dublin Michael Burden; 5. Trading loyalties: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal and the Irish propositions Robert W. Jones; 6. Sydney Owenson, Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and the domestic stage of post-inion politics Colleen Taylor; Part III. Enlightened Perspectives: 7. Civility, patriotism and performance: Cato and the Irish history play David O'Shaughnessy; 8. From Ireland to Peru: Arthur Murphy's (anti)-imperial dramaturgy Bridget Orr; 9. The provincial commencement of James Field Stanfield Declan Mccormack; 10. Worlding the village: John O'Keeffe's 'Excentric' pastorals Helen Burke.
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Cambridge University Press Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Book SynopsisFor readers interested in exploring the history ofemotional responses to suffering, this volume describes the theory and practice of compassion in the context of early modern Europe's sectarian strife, and will engage those looking to make connections between early modern history and our present political moment.Trade Review'… a convincing alternative to rigorous compassion scepticism …' James Waddell, Modern Language Review'Its commendable coherence is determined by both the central theme and the well-thought-through structure, which supports the topic's conceptualization … the volume is a valuable contribution on a timely topic …' Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee, Journal of Jesuit StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Kristine Steenbergh and Katherine Ibbett; Part I. Theorizing: 1. The ethics of compassion in early modern England Bruce R. Smith; 2. The compassionate self of the Catholic Reformation Katherine Ibbett; Part II. Consoling: 3. 'Hee left them not comfortlesse by the way': grief and compassion in early modern English consolatory culture Paula Barros; 4. Friendship, counsel, and compassion in early modern medical thought Stephen Pender; Part III. Exhorting: 5. 'Compassion and mercie draw teares from the godlyfull often': the rhetoric of sympathy in the early modern sermon Richard Meek; 6. Mollified hearts and enlarged bowels: practising compassion in reformation England Kristine Steenbergh; Part IV. Performing: 7. Civic liberties and community compassion: the Jesuit drama of Poland-Lithuania Clarinda E. Calma and Jolanta Rzegocka; 8. Compassion, contingency and conversion in James Shirley's The Sisters Alison Searle; Part V. Responding: 9. Mountainish inhumanity in Illyria: compassion in Twelfth Night as social luxury and political duty Elisabetta Tarantino; 10. Standing on a beach: Shakespeare and the sympathetic imagination Eric Langley; Part VI. Giving: 11. 'To feel what wretches feel': Reformation and the re-naming of English compassion Toria Johnson; 12. Alms petitions and compassion in sixteenth-century London Rebecca Tomlin; Part VII. Racializing: 13. Pity and empire in the Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias (1552) Matthew Goldmark; 14. 'Our Black hero': compassion for friends and others in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko John Staines; Part VIII. Contemporary Compassions: 15. Contemporary compassions: interrelating in the Anthropocene Kristine Steenbergh.
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Cambridge University Press British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth
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Cambridge University Press The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson
Book SynopsisStudents, scholars, and general readers alike will find the New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson deeply informed and appealingly written. Each newly commissioned chapter explores aspects of Johnson''s writing and thought, including his ethical grasp of life, his views of language, the roots of his ideas in Renaissance humanism, and his skeptical-humane style. Among the themes engaged are history, disability, gender, politics, race, slavery, Johnson''s representation in art, and the significance of the Yale Edition. Works discussed include Johnson''s poetry and fiction, his moral essays and political tracts, his Shakespeare edition and Dictionary, and his critical, biographical, and travel writing. A narrated Further Reading provides an informative guide to the study of Johnson, and a substantial Introduction highlights how his literary practice, philosophical values, and life experience provide a challenge to readers new and established. Through fresh, integrated insights, this auTable of ContentsIntroduction: contemporary Johnson Greg Clingham; 1. Johnson, ethics, and living Min Wild; 2. Johnson and the essay Philip Smallwood; 3. Johnson and Renaissance humanism Anthony W. Lee; 4. Johnson and language Lynda Mugglestone; 5. Johnson and British historiography Martine W. Brownley; 6. Johnson and fiction Freya Johnston; 7. Johnson and gender Samara Anne Cahill; 8. Johnson, race, and slavery Nicholas Hudson; 9. Johnson's politics Clement Hawes; 10. Johnson's poetry John Richetti; 11. Johnson's editions of Shakespeare Tom Mason; 12. Johnson's Lives of the Poets: a guided tour Fred Parker; 13. Johnson as biographer Leo Damrosch; 14. Johnson and travel Anne M. Thell; 15. Johnson and disability Paul Kelleher; 16. Representing Johnson in life and after Heather McPherson; 17. Johnson among the scholars Robert De Maria, Jr.
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Cambridge University Press Holding a Mirror up to Nature
Book SynopsisShakespeare has been dubbed the greatest psychologist of all time. This book seeks to prove that statement by comparing the playwright''s fictional characters with real-life examples of violent individuals, from criminals to political actors. For Gilligan and Richards, the propensity to kill others, even (or especially) when it results in the killer''s own death, is the most serious threat to the continued survival of humanity. In this volume, the authors show how humiliated men, with their desire for retribution and revenge, apocryphal violence and political religions, justify and commit violence, and how love and restorative justice can prevent violence. Although our destructive power is far greater than anything that existed in his day, Shakespeare has much to teach us about the psychological and cultural roots of all violence. In this book the authors tell what Shakespeare shows, through the stories of his characters: what causes violence and what prevents it.Trade Review'Whoever would have thought that William Shakespeare could help us prevent murder in the twenty-first century? In this extraordinary book, James Gilligan and David Richards shepherd their readers through a riveting and brilliantly written journey, explaining how the Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon can offer unique insights into the origins of violence. I simply could not put this down!' Estela V. Welldon, Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Honorary Member, American Psychoanalytic Association, UK'Were I able to persuade my political colleagues to imbibe the wisdom of one book, this is it. What Girard did with the novel, Gilligan and Richards do for Shakespeare, making him accessible and essential for understanding and responding to personal and political violence. It is both brilliant and transformational.' Lord John Alderdice, House of Lords, Westminster, UK'James Gilligan and David Richards, an eminent psychiatrist and a distinguished legal scholar with vast experience dealing with violent men, brilliantly help us explore how Shakespeare's plays are among the most insightful sources for understanding human nature and human psychology. In the course of their work, they met men who were virtual reincarnations of Macbeth, Othello, Richard III, Timon and others, who felt so overwhelmingly shamed and humiliated that they did not know how to bring their emotional pain to an end except by destroying the world around them. Shame and its opposite, pride and honor, are the central themes Shakespeare uses to describe the motivations for violence. Gilligan and Richards show how Shakespeare enables us to understand not only what causes violence, but also how we can prevent it.' Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score, founder of the Trauma Research Foundation, and Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University'The depth of Jim Gilligan's knowledge of the murderous mind and his understanding of shame as a motivating force are matched only by Shakespeare's poetic insights about what drives Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and others. Psychoanalysis and great creative writing join in Holding a Mirror up to Nature and give unique insights to the problems of violence in our modern age. Gilligan's work – together with the rational voice of law scholar David Richards – offer to the practitioner of Shakespeare's theater a road map to understand the great tragic heroes. It is an exhilarating mix of scholarship and dramatic knowledge, which can only deepen our appreciation of the power and truth of the plays of William Shakespeare.' Tina Packer, Founding Artistic Director, Shakespeare & CompanyTable of ContentsIntroduction: can we learn from Shakespeare about the causes and prevention of violence?; 1. Shame and guilt in personality and culture; 2. The cycle of violence in history plays; 3. Fathers and mothers: the perversion of love in King Lear and Coriolanus; 4. Make war, not love: Anthony and Cleopatra; 5. The motives and malignity: shame and masculinity in Othello and Macbeth; 6. Moral nihilism and the paralysis of action: Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida; 7. Apocalyptic vioence: Timon of Athens; 8. Transcending morality, preventing violence: Measure for Measure, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, and The Merchant of Venice; 9. The form and pressure of Shakespeare's time – and ours: what Shakespeare shows us about shame, guilt, love and violence; Acknowledgments.
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Bollywood Shakespeares Reproducing Shakespeare
Book SynopsisHere, essays use the latest theories in postcolonialism, globalization, and post-nationalism to explore how world cinema and theater respond to Bollywood's representation of Shakespeare. In this collection, Shakespeare is both part of an elite Western tradition and a window into a vibrant post-national identity founded by a global consumer culture.Trade Review"Shakespeare came to India during the British empire on the project of the 'civilizing mission.' Bollywood Shakespeares compellingly brings to life appropriations and adaptations of Shakespeare as a window into hybrid, post-national identities emerging from a global consumer culture in India today. In a theoretically nuanced framing argument, Dionne and Kapadia explore the interface between Shakespeare's theatre and the global stage of Bollywood cinema, while the ensuing essays examine in rich detail how Bollywood "uses" Shakespeare to represent and examine modern Indian life. Bollywood Shakespeares is an important and timely study into the politics of global culture and of the place of Shakespeare within it." - Jyotsna G. Singh, Professor of English, Michigan State University, USA "This edited collection traces the historical origins of Bollywood's engagement with the Bard to Parsi theater, provides nuanced readings of well-established films (such as Shakespeare Wallah), and introduces readers to some less familiar ones (such as The Last Lear). Collectively, the essays in Bollywood Shakespeares demonstrate how both terms in the book's title are complicated and unsettled by their interaction. The volume also makes a significant contribution to theoretical discussion of the relationship between Shakespearean appropriation/adaptation and the rapidly changing field of Global Shakespeare." - Christy Desmet, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of English, University of Georgia, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Shakespeare and Bollywood: the Difference a World Makes; Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia PART I: BOLLYWOOD'S DEBT TO THE THEATER: AESTHETIC AND CULTURAL MULTIVALENCY 1. Parsi Shakespeare: The Precursor to 'Bollywood Shakespeare'; Vikram Singh Thakur 2. Bollywood Battles the Bard: The Evolving Relationship Between Film and Theater in Shakespeare Wallah ; Parmita Kapadia PART II: SHAKESPEARE'S LOCAL FACE: USING SHAKESPEARE TO REARTICULATE INDIAN IDENTITIES 3. The Ambiguities of Bollywood Conventions and the Reading of Transnationalism in Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool ; Rosa María García Periago 4. No Country For Young Women: Empowering Emilia in Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara ; Mike Heidenberg 5. The Global as Local / Othello as Omkara; Brinda Charry and Gitanjali Shahani PART III: BOLLYWOOD'S CULTURAL CAPITAL: BOLLYWOOD SELLS SHAKESPEARE 6. Interrogating 'Bollywood Shakespeare': Reading Rituporno Ghosh's The Last Lear ; Paromita Chakravarti 7. The Sounds of India in Supple's Twelfth Night ; Kendra Preston Leonard 8. Comedies of Errors: Shakespeare, Indian Cinema, and The Poetics of Mistaken Identity; Richard Allen Afterword: Shakespeare and Bollywood
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Death and the Early Modern Englishwoman
Book SynopsisThis study explores the female experience of death in early modern England. By tracing attitudes towards gender through the occasion of death, it advances our understanding of the construction of femininity in the period. Becker illustrates how dying could be a positive event for a woman, and for her mourners, in terms of how it allowed her to be defined, enabled and elevated. The first part of the book gives a cultural and historical overview of death in early modern England, examining the means by which human mortality was confronted, and how the fear of death and dying could be used to uphold the mores of society. Becker explores particularly the female experience of death, and how women used the deathbed as a place of power from which to bestow dying maternal blessings, or leave instructions and advice for their survivors. The second part of the study looks at ''good'' and ''bad'' female deaths. The author discusses the motivation behind the reporting of the deaths and the veTrade Review'... a careful treatment of a wide variety of primary materials... the variety of examples (wills, poetry, commonplace books, sermons, letters, treatises, diaries, memorials) lends authority to her claim of a culture-wide picture... will give you a richer understanding of the complexity and contradictions implicit in early modern death and mourning.' ClioTable of ContentsContents: Death in Early Modern England: Facing death: The fear of death: pious publications; Death as God's will: acceptance and preparation; Recording death: rehearsing and revising; Early modern women and death: Witnessing death: the domestic deathbed; Wives, widows and mothers: transition and transformation; Women as healers: medicine and superstition; Death as a gendered experience: blurring the boundaries; The creation of posthumous female images: Patterns for posterity: selecting and editing; Dying mothers: blessings and instruction; A public death: exposure and judgement; Contrasting Images: Women dying badly: Recording poor deaths: private and public writings; Female weakness: physicality and irrationality; Controlling femininity: popular pamphlets; The crime of self-murder: sin and despair; Upholding the patriarchy: education and social cohesion; Women dying well: Women and the family: wives, mothers and daughters; Women and politics: propaganda and persuasion; Religious propaganda: assertion and negation; The upholding of gender: praise and condemnation; Enduring Images: Death as an Opportunity: Women and the rituals of death: Funerals: sermons and sanctification; Commemoration: private grief and public memorials; Execution: assertion and repression; Female martyrs: leadership and idolatry; Female identity in death: wills and posthumous marital status: Women's wills: expression and conformity; Posthumous marital status: temporal and spiritual husbands; Women's writing and death: Women and publication: writing and revealing; Female authorship: challenges and solutions; Autobiographical writing: creation and introspection; Mothers' literary legacies: parenting and authoring; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd EighteenthCentury Thing Theory in a Global Context
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Marriage and Its Dissolution in Early Modern England Volume 1
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Love and Language
Book SynopsisWhat is the nature of romantic love and erotic desire in Shakespeare''s work? In this erudite and yet accessible study, David Schalkwyk addresses this question by exploring the historical contexts, theory and philosophy of love. Close readings of Shakespeare''s plays and poems are delivered through the lens of historical texts from Plato to Montaigne, and modern writers including Jacques Lacan, Jean-Luc Marion, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Derrida, Alain Badiou and Stanley Cavell. Through these studies, it is argued that Shakespeare has no single or overarching concept of love, and that in Shakespeare''s work, love is not an emotion. Rather, it is a form of action and disposition, to be expressed and negotiated linguistically.Trade Review'Schalkwyk's arguments are closely reasoned and insightful … Essential.' C. Baker, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Shaping fantasies; 2. Love's troubled consummations; 3. The impossible gift of love; 4. The finality of the you; 5. Is love an emotion?
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Palgrave Macmillan Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century
Book SynopsisInnovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now emerging within this vital comparative field. The contributors model new ways to understand the unexpected roles that seduction stories and sentimental narratives played for readers struggling to negotiate previously unimagined differences between and among people, institutions, and ideas.Trade Review"The essays work together to highlight both the continuities between the sorts of epistemological questions being raised in different parts of the Atlantic world and the varied approaches taken to answering and exploring them. Bowers and Chico are opening up some large and complicated scholarly questions through the ways in which they frame this volume." - Critique de Livres "Bowers (Univ. of Pennsylvania) and Chico (Univ. of Maryland) assemble and introduce a thought-provoking collection of scholarship on the long 18th century. The essays are wide-ranging, and the titular umbrella that covers them is correspondingly large, but this breadth is a strength rather than a weakness. The scholarship is uniformly good, and an eclectic group of essays on a broad topic is preferable to an uneven-because-overspecialized collection. Notable in the collection: Jayne Elizabeth Lewis on Henry Fielding and the changed perception of witchcraft - scary in the 16th and 17th centuries and idle superstition in the early 18th, witchcraft was made sad and even sentimental by sensibility; Gideon Mailer and Karen Collis, who argue for Susanna Rowson's authorial claim on the literary conventions of evangelical narrative, as against aesthetic appeals; Melissa Sanchez showing how Andrew Marvell highlights lesbian and other queer sexualities to demonstrate the loss of liberty inherent in the ideal of domestic masculinity. Summing Up: Recommended." - Choice "This volume shows us the Atlantic World as a place where narratives of seduction and sentiment are not antagonistic, but on the contrary deeply intertwined. The eclectic nature of the narratives shows a variety of themes within the Atlantic World which apprehend the latter as a place where representations of sentiment and seduction of different nations and worlds constantly merged." - Sehepunkte 'In this invaluable collection, each essay demonstrates how rich yet diverse was the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth-century circum-Atlantic world. Together these essays bring to light the twin issues of seduction and sentiment as the obsessive concern of novels, travel accounts, historical narratives, gossip, history, newspaper reports, and theatrical productions, to name only a few of the many genres discussed. Challenging the old Atlantic narratives, this collection for the first time opens the question as to why the Atlantic world should have been the unique site where seduction and sentiment came together both in shaping the New World and in remapping the social geography of the Old.' - Len Tennenhouse, Duke University 'This collection of essays is a valuable contribution to the burgeoning field of Atlantic Studies, confirming imaginative literature's central role in the ongoing project of rethinking nation-based cultural history. Collectively, these essays challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries defined by the nation-state, moving beyond rubrics such as 'early American literature,' to explore the ways in which these narratives of sentiment, seduction, and adultery were appropriated as they traversed geographical regions, were repackaged in various genres, and adapted to and repurposed within local contexts of the north Atlantic world.' - Beth Tobin, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsSeduction and Sentiment: Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century; T.Bowers & T.Chico PART I: SCANDAL AND THE FATE OF DREAMS Adulterous Sentiments in Transatlantic Domestic Fiction, c. 1770-1805; E.T.Bannet Genuine Sentiments and Gendered Liberties: Migration and Marriage in Gilbert Imlay's The Emigrants; J.Shields "Heaven defend us from such fathers": Perez Morton and the Politics of Seduction; B.Waterman Charlotte: A Tale of Truth, A Premonition of American Revolutions; M.Zuckerman PART II: ACTS OF BELONGING AND RENUNCIATION "She Straightness on the Woods Bestows": Protestant Sexuality and English Empire in Marvell's "Upon Appleton House"; M.E.Sanchez "Spare his life to save his soul": Enthralled Lovers and Heathen Converts in "The Four Indian Kings Garland"; L.M.Stevens "O my ducats, O my daughter": Seductions and Sentimental Conversions of Jewish Female Characters in the Early American Theatre; H.S.Nathans Beware the Abandoned Woman: European Travelers, 'Exceptional' Native Women, and Interracial Families in Early Modern Atlantic Travelogues; C.Eastman PART III: BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND DOUBT Bewitched: The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon and the Seduction of Sentiment; J.E.Lewis The Boudoir in Philosophy or, Knowing Bodies in French Fiction; T.DiPiero Seduction, Juvenile Death Literature, and Phillis Wheatley's Child Elegies; J.Thorn Seduced by the Self: Susanna Rowson, Moral Sense Philosophy, and Evangelicalism; G.A.Mailer & K.J.Collis The Americanization of Gothic in Brockden Brown's Wieland; G.E.Haggerty
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Palgrave Macmillan Dorothy Wordsworth and Hartley Coleridge
Book SynopsisThis book provides a reassessment of the writings of Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth and presents them in a new poetics of relationship, re-evaluating their relationships with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to restore a more accurate understanding of Hartley and Dorothy as independent and original writers.Trade Review'In this very fine book, Nicola Healey raises and resolves a number of issues that will be of great interest to students of Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth, and to Romantic scholars more generally. The close readings, which are consistently excellent, take issue with a number of critics, from Derwent Coleridge and Thomas De Quincey through to twentieth- and twenty-first-century commentators. Healey thoroughly understands the various factors that limited these critics' perceptions at the times they were writing, and she anatomises the wrongness of some literary-critical habits that have gone on for too long. This book builds beautifully on the work of other scholars, and many ideas are handled genially and skilfully. Healey maintains cohesion with the growing multiplicity of the insights throughout the book, providing a vital new perspective on collaboration including all the tensions this entails. Arguably, however, the main achievement of this book is in its sensitivity to Hartley's and Dorothy's finest writings.' - Andrew Keanie, Lecturer in English, University of Ulster, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Author's Note Introduction: Hartley Coleridge, Dorothy Wordsworth, and the Poetics of Relationship 'Fragments from the universal': Hartley Coleridge's Poetics of Relationship The Coleridge Family: Influence, Identity, and Representation 'Who is the Poet?': Hartley Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and 'The Use of a Poet' Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals: Writing the Self, Writing Relationship Sibling Conversations: The Wordsworthian Construction of Authorship 'My hidden life': Dorothy, William, and Poetic Identity Postscript: 'The common life which is the real life': Family Authorship and Identity Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Narratives of Child Neglect in Romantic and Victorian Culture
Book SynopsisContextualizing the topos of the neglected child within a variety of discourses, this book challenges the assumption that the early nineteenth century witnessed a clear transition from a Puritan to a liberating approach to children and demonstrates that oppressive assumptions survive in major texts considered part of the Romantic cult of childhood.Trade Review'A thoughtful work on a subject that is as urgent now as it was more than a century ago. Benziman's new conceptualization of ambivalences in educational practices and of neglect of child rights yields unexpected and at times iconoclastic insights into much studied texts.' - Professor Leona Toker, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 'Narratives of Child Neglect in Romantic and Victorian Culture is a major intervention in the history of childhood and its representations in nineteenth-century English literature. Benziman offers a fresh, compelling analysis of familiar concepts, skillfully demonstrating the persistence of older Puritan and regulative attitudes toward the literary child within texts by Blake, Wordsworth, Dickens, and others that have long been identified unambiguously with the emerging reformist and liberatory treatment of childhood during the Romantic and Victorian periods. Rigorously argued and closely attentive to historical and intellectual contexts, including social class, Benziman's study opens challenging new perspectives on the topos of the neglected child and the portrayal of child subjectivity in poetry and fiction.' - Professor John Jordan, Department of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA 'Addressing the interconnectedness of catechizing and liberating views of childhood from the Romantics to Thomas Hardy, Galia Benziman provides an important contribution to the history of child neglect in nineteenth-century England. Her attention to representations of the child voice in literary texts, combined with readings of canonical and lesser-known philosophers and writers, makes this study essential reading in the field of child studies.' - Monica Flegel, Associate Professor, Department of English, Lakehead University, CanadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Concepts of Childhood and Adult Responsibility: Locke, Rousseau, More, and Edgeworth Redeeming or Silencing the Child's Voice: Blake and Wordsworth Child Neglect as Social Vice: Trollope, Tonna, and Working-Class Subjectivity The Split Image of the Neglected Child: Dickens Aged Children and the Inevitability of Being Neglected: Hardy Works Cited Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Necromanticism
Book SynopsisNecromanticism is a study of literary pilgrimage: readers'' compulsion to visit literary homes, landscapes, and (especially) graves during the long Romantic period. The book draws on the histories of tourism and literary genres to highlight Romanticism''s recourse to the dead in its reading, writing, and canon-making practices.Trade Review"Necromanticism is a critically reflective, thoroughly researched, and unexpectedly upbeat study of literary necro-tourism in Britain, associated Anglo-American discourses and cultural practises, and the implications for modern scholarly interpretations of Romantic historiography, reading and canon-making." - Samantha Matthews, University of Bristol, UK ''Westover's book, then, invites a critical reflection on our understanding of 'Romanticism' itself through his thoughtful analysis of the ways in which living authors writing about dead authors are engaged in defining (even as they hope, in turn, to become defined by) the commemorative narraties that go into creating a shared literary heritage.'' - Byron Journal ''Westover intelligently synthesises perspectives from different disciplines and critical approaches to produce a distinctive reading of the cultural ramifications of trying to commune with authors' spirits in close proximity to their bodies.'' - Samantha Matthews, Uniersity of Bristol, UK "A crucial development in the field of literary tourism... Westover's book is particularly insightful in providing literary touristic practices with a theoretical underpinning... Even when Westover is stepping on trodden critical ground, he provides a fresh perspective through subtle analysis... valuable reading for nineteenth-century scholars across the disciplines of the humanities." Rebecca Butler, The BARS ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction - Traveling to Meet the Dead On Ideal Presence The Origins of Literary Tourism William Godwin, Necro-Tourism, and the Empirical Afterlife of the Dead Imaginary Pilgrimages: Felicia Hemans, Dead Poets, and Romantic Historiography Interlude: Necromanticism and Romantic Authorship The Transatlantic Invention of 'English' Literary Heritage Illustration, Historicism, and Travel: The Legacy of Sir Walter Scott Notes Works Consulted Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Novel Minds
Book SynopsisEighteenth-century philosophy owes much to the early novel. Using the figure of the romance reader this book tells a new story of eighteenth-century reading. The impressionable mind and mutable identity of the romance reader haunt eighteenth-century definitions of the self, and the seductions of fiction insist on making an appearance in philosophy.Trade Review'Novel Minds delivers a nuanced understanding of the instabilities and uncertainties of the consciousness shaped by reading imagined in eighteenth-century philosophy and narrative prose. In a lively and engaging style, Tierney-Hynes brings the writings of significant writers into interesting conversation with each other.' - Ros Ballaster, Professor of 18th Century Studies, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: From Passions to Language: The Transformation of the Imagination Locke: Metaphorical Romances Behn: Romance from the Stage to the Letter Shaftesbury: Conversation and the Psychology of Romance Hume: Reading Romances, Writing the Self Richardson: How to Read Romance Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan The Politics of Romantic Theatricality 17871832
Book SynopsisThis book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene.Trade Review'...a book positively bursting with fascinating new material...both an intriguing and rewarding foray into the plebeian culture of the minor London playhouses.' David O'Shaughnessy, British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin& ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Busby, Burletta and Barnwell: Music, Stage and Audience Dramatic Topicality: Robert Merry's The Magician No Conjurer and the 1791 Birmingham Riots Black Face and Black Mask: The Benevolent Planters Versus Harlequin Mungo Belles Lettres to Burletta: William Henry Ireland as Fortune's Fool The Libertine Reclaimed : Burletta and the Cockney Presence The Royal Amphitheatre and Olympic Tom and Jerry Burlettas Moncrieff's Tom and Jerry and its Spin-Offs Conclusion: The Canadian Tom and Jerry Murder Notes Bibliography of Primary Sources Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Samuel Richardson Dress and Discourse
Book SynopsisThis book concerns itself with dress in the novels of Samuel Richardson, and how attire confirms, contributes to, or challenges the characters'' fashioning of self and the self as others (characters or readers) perceive it.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: THE BODY AND DRESS OF THOUGHT Dress and the Discourses of the Mind Dress in Eighteenth-Century Life and Literature PART II: DRESSING FOR SUCCESS WITH PAMELA Ladies, Gentlemen, and Servants: Virtue and the Domestic Ideal 'So Neat, So Clean, So Pretty!': Dressing Up Virtue Quaker, Rustic, and Fool: Masquerading with Mrs. B. PART III: WINDOWSHOPPING THE ESSENTIAL SELF WITH CLARISSA Virtuous Stays and Sexual Hoops: The Social Self 'Of Her Own Invention': Revealing the Self 'Where . . . Art is Disguised': Concealing the Self PART IV: REFASHIONING THE WORLD WITH SIR CHARLES GRANDISON 'A Conformist to Fashion': Dressing for Duty 'A Mighty Glitter': Seeing through the Veil 'Dressing in Colours': Changing the Guard Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Reading Sensations in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisHow did Renaissance literature affect readers' minds, bodies and souls? In what ways did the history of literary experience overlap with the history of humours and emotions? This book argues that a new aesthetic vocabulary based on the theory of the passions was formulated in the Renaissance to describe the affective power of literature.Trade Review'Reading Sensations in Early Modern England is a slim volume, but a valuable one...its clear argument and elegant execution make it a rewarding read.' - Erin Sullivan, Medical HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Word and the Flesh in Early Modern England Beneath the Skin: George Puttenham, Sir Philip Sidney and the Experience of English Poetry Arming the Reader: Sir Philip Sidney and the Literature of Choler 'These Spots are but the Letters': John Donne and the Medicaments of Elegy Eating his Words: Thomas Coryat and the Art of Indigestion Touching Stories: Richard Braithwait, Thomas Cranley and the Origins of English Pornography Afterword Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The English Jacobin Novel on Rights Property and the Law
Book SynopsisThe English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law is a study of the radical novel's critique of the evolving social contract in the 1790s.Trade Review'Johnson's argument goes straight to the heart of novel studies: fiction privileged property as the basis of enfranchisement and so limited the democratizing process it envisioned. The genius of her book is to come at this paradox through the curious body of fiction written during the period following revolutions in North America and France for the expressed purpose of exposing the limits of the Lockean model of government. This strikingly fresh look at the Jacobin novel shows it embracing fiction as culture's most powerful political medium and challenging the premises of modern nation building. In focusing on these particular novels, she therefore deals with the very topics that preoccupy scholars who read and write about fiction in any epoch, namely, the gendered identity of citizenship, the restriction of political agency, and the difficulty of imagining a future of collective transformation.' - Nancy Armstrong, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor, Brown University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Narrativizing a Critique of the Contract Debating Rights, Property and the Law Envisaging the New Citizen Acquiring Political Agency Bestowing the Mantle Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan Us The Practice of Quixotism
Book SynopsisUsing postmodern theory, The Practice of Quixotism explores eighteenth-century women's texts that use quixote narratives, which typically demand that individuals purge their minds of internalized fictions to insist instead that the reality we encounter is inevitably mediated by the texts we have read.Trade Review"Cervantes errant knight emerges as a metaphor for aberrant imagination in Scott Paul Gordon s discussion of the clash between Romantic and Enlightenment thought. Ranging across materials by early women writers - satire, poetry, and prose fiction - Gordon finds that the Quixotic becomes synonymous with misreading. This book then parries with established critical readings to offer provocative reinterpretations of its own." - Janine Barchas, University of Texas at Austin "The Practice of Quixotism is a profoundly learned, astonishingly clever, and repeatedly eye- opening book.Differentiating between orthodox quixote narratives (which ask us to believe in the possibility of waking up to the real) and those texts that foster greater skepticism toward how reality is constructed, Gordon illustrates the unexpected ways that the quixote trope was employed during the long eighteenth century in Great Britain. Through careful readings of works by Charlotte Lennox, Sarah Fielding, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Sophia Lee, and Ann Radcliffe, among others, Gordon offers fascinating epistemological and narrative connections.The book makes an important contribution to several fields of inquiry, simultaneously illuminating the literature of quixotes past and present theoretical controversies.Gordon convincingly demonstrates that all of us are quixotic, whether we acknowledge it or not, and shows that at least some eighteenth-century authors were wise to the problem.No previous scholar has given us such depth of perspective on the subject." - Devoney Looser, University of Missouri-Columbia"The Practice of Quixotism reflects Gordon's skill as a widely rea hermeneut, and it is a remarkable work of intellectual history and literary criticsm. By viewing the transition from Enlightenment to Romantic thought through the lenses of the quixote trope and postmodern theory, Gordon forces a reconsideration of the feminist critical consensus on works by Lennox, Lee, Sarah Fielding, and others. Through complex and subtle readings of women's writing, Gordon offers a new way to understand British culture in the long eighteenth century." - Stephen A. Raynie, Gordon CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Quixote Trope Historicizing Quixote and the Scandal of Quixotism Charlotte Lennox's Female Quixote and Orthodox Quixotism Suspicion and Experience in Sarah Fielding's David Simple Mary Wortley Montagu and the Quixotic Dream of Objectivity Quixotic Perception in Sophia Lee's The Recess Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and the Practice of Quixotism Epilogue: Beyond Quixotism?: Quixotism and Contemporary Theory
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Romanticism and Form
Book SynopsisThis book offers new analyzes of canonical texts, contextualizations of Romantic forms in relation to war, nationalism and empire, reassessments of neglected and marginalized writers and explorations of the relationship between form and reader. It showcases a range of new approaches that are informed by deconstruction, theology and new technology.Trade Review'The critics assembled here are close readers, attentive to metre, stanza form, figures of speech, but they are not nostalgic for the New Criticism of the 1950s and 1960s. If they are formalists, they are formalists of a new kind, less likely to celebrate the unifying power of art than the fragmented and the multitudinous, more likely to acknowledge Byron than Wordsworth, but just as ready to study a satiric print, or a poem by Ann Cristall. This volume sets a challenging new agenda for Romantic Studies.' - Richard Cronin, Professor of English Literature, University of Glasgow, UKTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction; A.Rawes Romantic Indirection; P.Curtis "Conscript Fathers and Shuffling Recruits": Formal Self-Awareness in Romantic Poetry; M.O'Neill Romantic Invocation: a Form of Impossibility; G.Hopps "Ruinous Perfection": Reading Authors and Writing Readers in the Romantic Fragment Poem; M.Sandy Combinatoric Form in Nineteenth-Century Satiric Prints; S.E.Jones Romantic Form and New Historicism: Wordsworth's "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey"; A.Rawes Southey's Forms of Experiment; N.Trott Believing in Form and Forms of Belief: the Case of Robert Southey; B.Beatty Seductions of Form in the Poetry of Ann Cristall and Charlotte Smith; J.Labbe "Seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely": Byron's Poetry, Austen's Prose and Forms of Narrative Irony; C.Franklin "What Constitutes a Reader?": Don Juan and the Changing Reception of Romantic Form; J.Stabler, A.Roberts, M.N.Carminati & M.H.Fischer Afterword; S.J.Wolfson Bibliography Index
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