Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Tragedy Walks the Streets
Book SynopsisSurveying this expanded field of inquiry, Buckley weaves together a coherent formal genealogy of the drama during this period and offers a new, more continuous generic history of modern drama in its first and most turbulent phase of development.Trade ReviewThe book is both interdisciplinary and highly readable. Choice 2007 Those working on British Romanticism are often monolingual and indeed monocultural and so it is refreshing to see a monograph engaging with France, Britain and Germany in its re-evaluation of the development of modern drama. -- Katherine Astbury French History 2007 Compelling account of the birth of modern drama and its relationship with the French Revolution... Redraws the boundaries of scholarly insight and represents a valuable contribution to the field of Eighteenth-Century Studies. -- Radosveta Getova Modern Language Review 2008 A thought-provoking and intellectually ambitious study. -- Mark Darlow Journal of European Studies 2008 Disciplined and concise with its scope and material, and in this way, it serves as a model for interdisciplinary rigor. -- Wendy C. Nielsen Modern Philology 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Theater of the Revolution2. The Drama of the Revolution3. The Revolution and British Theatrical Politics4. The Fall of Robespierre and the Tragic Imagination5. Reviving the Revolution: Dantons TodConclusionNotesIndex
£46.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Republic of Intellect The Friendly Club of New
Book SynopsisVoluntary association and print culture helped these young New Yorkers, Waterman concludes, to produce a broader and more diverse post-revolutionary public sphere than scholars have yet recognized.Trade ReviewThis book is excellent... Highly recommended for anyone interested in early American print culture, the late Enlightenment, or literary networks. -- Jeremy B. Dibbell philobiblos.blogspot.com 2007 Over the course of Waterman's narrative, the reader is treated to charming and informative vignettes that feature many leading early American intellectuals... His affection for the Friendly Club's endeavor makes Waterman's book charming, vibrant, even persuasive. -- Mark Garrett Longaker American Historical Review 2008 Remarkable study... The book has so much to offer and produces such a fascinating account of late eighteenth-century American cultural life. -- Edward Larkin Modern Intellectual History 2008 Meticulously researched, elegantly written... will be of lasting value to students of eighteenth-century fiction... The depth and quality of research is obvious on every page of Republic of Intellect, as is the author's love of his topic. -- Thomas Allen Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2008 Subtle, convincing book. -- William Howell Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 The perhaps unexpected contribution of this book... is that it also has sly relevance for writing, religion, and politics in the twenty-first century... Republic of Intellect should also make its way among colleagues in our professional circles of literary criticism and history. -- Russ Castronovo Early American Literature 2008 I see Waterman's book as one of genuine quality and rarity, because it truly understands the vital and contradictory spaces that are generated when young men really think about the world they are to inherit. -- Michael J. Collins Journal of American Studies 2008 Groundbreaking history of the Friendly Club, the first comprehensive monograph on that organization... Waterman's discriminating readings and his insightful contextualization of texts in wider issues make Republic of Intellect a necessary study in understanding the development of early national culture. -- Jeffrey H. Richards Eighteenth-Century Studies 2009 A truly enlightening case study of the synergy between literary and intellectual culture... Readers interested in the way literary production responds to public discourse will find this book a lucid,well-researched, and rewarding case study. -- Robert D. Habich Journal of American History 2009 Republic of Intellect provides us with a deeply compelling picture of one remarkable group of early national intellectuals in action. Along the way, he enriches our understanding of the relations between national and international politics, between religion and skepticism, between private conversation and public prints. And that, surely, is enough to secure Republic of Intellect a place at the top of the 'must-read' lists of American historians and literary scholars. -- Catherine E. Kelly William and Mary Quarterly 2009Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "There exists in this city, a small association of men"Part I: AssociationPrelude: Pictures at an Exhibition1. "The Town is the only place for rational beings": Sociability, Science, and the Literature of Intimate Inquiry2. Dangerous Associations: The Illuminati Conspiracy Scare as a Crisis of Public Intellectual Authority3. Unrestrained Conversation and the "Understanding of Woman": Radicalism, Feminism, and the Challenge of Polite SocietyPart II: Industries of KnowledgePrelude: James Kent, Legal Knowledge, and the Politics of Print4. The Public Is in the House: William Dunlap's Park Theatre and the Making of American Audiences5. "Here was fresh matter for discourse": Yellow Fever, the Medical Repository, and Arthur MervynCoda: The End of the American Enlightenment: Samuel Miller's A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth CenturyAppendix: Friendly Club Membership and Nineteenth-Century New York City HistoriographyAbbreviationsNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading
Book SynopsisConsidering the remarkable range of Johnson's reading, DeMaria discovers in one extraordinary career a synoptic view of the subject of reading.Trade ReviewEnacts Johnson's celebrated variation on a theme from Horace-it does not merely delight and instruct, but rather instructs by delighting us... DeMaria proves himself a reader altogether worthy of his subject. Times Literary Supplement Fascinatingly perceptive both of Johnson's own reading habits and of their significance in the cultural history of reading. -- Allan Ingram Modern Language Review Both a scholarly and an imaginative achievement, combining detailed detective work, abstract categorization, and sympathetic understanding. The finished product re-creates the detailed fabric of Johnson's reading career while locating it in a cultural landscape of rapid publication and growing literacy... Eminently readable, learned, and thoughtful. -- Helen Deutsch Modern Philology 2000 An intellectual history of the writer and his age. -- Joseph Rosenblum Magill's Literary Annual 1998 DeMaria presents an imaginative re-creation of Johnson's library and suggests how his reading habits offered a model for preventing the disappearance of the reader. Biblio 1998Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. The Life of Reading2. Notes and Marginalia3. Study4. Perusal5. Mere Reading6. Curious Reading7. Samuel Johnson and the Future of ReadingNotesIndex
£29.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare Disinheriting
Book SynopsisBradley's century-old Shakespearean Tragedy.Trade ReviewProfessor Kottman has written a thoughtful and thought-provoking book. It addresses very major issues, in what is for the most part quite an original way, and I found much of what I read illuminating. -- Joost Daalder Review of English Studies 2010 Calm, methodical, yet urgent humanist philosophy. -- Emma Smith Comparative Drama 2010 Reading this book is like following an intensely intellectual yet personal lecture... Essential. Choice 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Disinheriting the Globe1. On As You Like It2. On Hamlet3. On King Lear4. On The TempestNotesIndex
£55.50
Northwestern University Press Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination
Book SynopsisOffers a general introduction to the emerging field of postcolonial Scottish studies, assessing both its potential and limitations in order to promote further interdisciplinary dialogue. Accessible to readers from various backgrounds, the book combines overviews of theoretical, social, and cultural contexts with detailed case studies of literary and non-literary texts.
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Northwestern University Press Emotion in the Tudor Court
Book SynopsisDeploying literary analysis, theories of emotion from the sciences and humanities, and an archival account of Tudor history, Emotion in the Tudor Court examines how literature both reflects and constructs the emotional dynamics of life in the Renaissance court. In it, Bradley J. Irish argues that emotionality is a foundational framework through which historical subjects embody and engage their world, and thus can serve as a fundamental lens of social and textual analysis. Spanning the sixteenth century, Emotion in the Tudor Court explores Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and Henrician satire; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and elegy; Sir Philip Sidney and Elizabethan pageantry; and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and factional literature. It demonstrates how the dynamics of disgust,envy, rejection, and dread, as they are understood in the modern affective sciences, can be seen to guide literary production in the early modern court. By combining Renaissance concepts of emotion with modern rese
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The University of Alabama Press La Florida Del Inca and the Struggle for Social
Book SynopsisAmong the early Spanish chroniclers who contributed to images of the New World was the Amerindian-Spanish historian and literary writer, El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. In this volume, the author explores El Inca's rationale and motivations in writing his chronicle. He suggests that El Inca was trying to influence events by influencing discourse.Trade ReviewSteigman places Garcilaso in a historical context that is sure to be of interest to historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars. This is a fascinating story well told. - Marvin T. Smith, author of Coosa: The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom
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University of Exeter Press Stendhals Italy Themes of Political and Religious
Book SynopsisThe essential thrust of this book is an examination of the origins and development of the satirical element of Stendal's writing in Italy, which culminates with the creation of what many critics consider to be his finest achievement, the novel La Chartreuse de Parme.Trade Review ". . . The work as a whole becomes a kind of Resistance text containing - to pursue the author's comparison - a contrebande message for its contemporary reader, an exhortation to consider the impact of political and spiritual repression not just in Italy but in Europe generally. The links with earlier works, through which Stendhal's view of Italy has already been traced with considerable firmness and cogency, are constantly kept in play and the satirical content of La Chartreuse is thereby restated and reinforced." (Journal of European Studies) Table of Contents
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University of Exeter Press Sick Heroes French Society and Literature in the
Book SynopsisSick Heroes examines the cultural practices that created those remarkably offensive, though strangely appealing, romantic heroes that appeared in European and especially in French literature in the latter half of the eighteenth century.Trade Review “Meticulously documented, written in a clear and witty manner, Sick Heroes is ambitious in the scope of literature it examines and audacious in its application of modern studies in the behavioural sciences to fiction. It is a valuable addition to the criticism of the Romantic novel because of the fresh insights it brings to well-known works and for the wealth of information it provides on lesser-known literature. Its most significant contribution to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French studies, however, is the coherent and convincing psychological portrait it paints of an age so obviously afflicated with many of the problems of the twentieth century. Pasco succeeds admirably in accounting for the appeal of his unusual heroes and heroines, characters who expressed a popular mentality to a much greater degree than historians and literary scholars have previously recognized.” (Philosophy and Literature, April 1998) “Pasco does not preach, does not try to make literary works into the heroes or accessory villains of a political struggle in which he feels invested. Instead, they are symptoms of a sociopathology that one could readily corroborate with examples of abused and neglected children in the fictions of Hugo or Dickens. Pasco offers an impressive, harmonious blend of "hard scholarship" (investigation of original sources) and imaginative synthesis. One can anticipate that this study, like his important overview that opens Allusion (Toronto UP, 1994), will become widely influential.” (Nineteenth Century French Studies, Vol. 27, Nos. 1 and 2) “This attractively-written and thoroughly researched and documented study redefines Romanticism as primarily a cultural phenomenon and paints a sweeping portrait of the French people’s collective mentality during the period extending from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, a time-frame which encompasses the most profound social, political, and aesthetic changes. . . This is a remarkably rich, informative, and in many ways innovative examination of a crucial period in French literary and cultural history.” (French Review, March 1999) Table of Contents
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Iter Press The Book of the Mutability of Fortune
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewGeri Smith’s full English version of Christine de Pizan’s monumental universal history, the Mutacion de Fortune, is a feat of Herculean proportions. This prose translation of the great majority of this mostly verse composition, completed with an elegant summary of the less prominent passages, makes the work available to English-language readers. Smith follows the original Middle French with precision and delightfully captures the often piquant quality of Christine’s turns of phrase. The division of the text into short segments facilitates reference to Suzanne Solente’s critical edition. Footnotes summarize Solente’s key findings while providing a valuable repertory of subsequent studies related to specific passages. Smith’s translation is an impressive milestone in the dissemination of Christine de Pizan’s works. Christine Reno Vassar College, Emerita, French and Francophone Studies“Geri Smith’s full English version of Christine de Pizan’s monumental universal history, the Mutacion de Fortune, is a feat of Herculean proportions. This prose translation of the great majority of this mostly-verse composition, completed with an elegant summary of the less prominent passages, makes the work available to English-language readers. Smith follows the original Middle French with precision and delightfully captures the often piquant quality of Christine’s turns of phrase. The division of the text into short segments facilitates reference to Suzanne Solente’s critical edition. Footnotes summarize Solente’s key findings while providing a valuable repertory of subsequent studies related to specific passages. Smith’s translation is an impressive milestone in the dissemination of Christine de Pizan’s works.” -- Christine Reno, Vassar CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xvIntroduction 1The Book of the Mutability of Fortune 29Appendix 245Bibliography 259Index 283
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US The Poetry of Marcia Belisarda A Bilingual
Book SynopsisSor María de Santa Isabel, writing under the pseudonym Marcia Belisarda, was one of the most prolific female poets of seventeenth-century Spain. The body of her known work is preserved in one manuscript in the Biblioteca Nacional Española (Madrid), ms. 7469, prepared for publication but never published. Belisarda has received some critical attention; she is represented in a number of anthologies of women's writings from Iberia, and a recent edition of her poems appeared in Spanish (2015). The present edition provides students and researchers with the first transcription of ms. 7469 together with an English translation for those interested in women's writing from the early Modern Period but who are not trained as Hispanists.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and
Book SynopsisDiana E. Henderson is the Arthur J. Conner Professor of Literature at MIT, USA. She teaches, publishes and edits widely in the fields of Shakespeare, media studies and early modern studies, and is a dramaturg, designer of online educational modules and documentary producer. Stephen O'Neill is Associate Professor in English and Shakespeare Studies at Maynooth University, Ireland. He has published widely on adapted Shakespeare, especially in digital cultures.Trade ReviewThis is an essential volume for anyone working on contemporary Shakespeare, and will no doubt remain a rewarding resource within the field for many years to come. * Shakespeare Bulletin, Volume 41, Number 1, Spring 2023 *A treasure trove for those interested in the re-tellings of Shakespeare’s work. * Shakespeare Survey *Featuring a breath-taking array of examples and interventions, The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation is a stellar accomplishment. Embracing the full gamut of forms of adaptation, it ranges widely over theatre, poetry, film, fiction, television, and digital/media platforms, mapping a multiplicity of venues and celebrating the vitality of Shakespeare as a catalysing force. Context- and culture-specific, the case-studies offer a range of entry points into the field, whether through discussions of method, analyses of ideology, prioritisation of authorial voice or the ignition of global conversations. Crucially, as the intersecting chapters unfold, we are encouraged to participate in debate and reflect on Shakespeare’s past, present and future iterations. The generous provision of resources (sites and tools) is a particularly attractive feature. Above all, this is a Handbook that showcases the value of adaptation as practice and object of scholarly enquiry. As such, it is refreshing, revealing, and abundantly creative – indispensable. * Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen’s University Belfast, UK *This handbook reframes the subject of Shakespeare and Adaptation for a new generation of scholars. It combines what the editors call a “‘big tent’ vision of Shakespeare adaptation studies” with sharp focus on individual case studies, theoretical problems and themes that illuminate the range and vitality of Shakespeare-inspired adaptations. Leaving classificatory concerns behind, the volume focuses on work concerned with intermediality and appropriation, drawing additional critical energy from translation studies. This is a book that will inspire and guide a new generation of adaptation scholars interested in global challenges, social justice and how to do new things with Shakespeare. * Pascale Aebischer, University of Exeter, UK *Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors List of Illustrations 1. Introduction Diana E. Henderson and Stephen O’Neill 2. Research Methods and Problems 2.1 Shakespeare as Adaptor Emma Smith (University of Oxford, UK) 2.2 Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory: Unfinished Business Douglas M. Lanier (University of New Hampshire, USA) 2.3 What is Shakespeare Adaptation? Why Pericles? Why Cloud? Why Now? Julie Sanders (Newcastle University, UK) 3. Current Research and Issues Histories and Politics of Adaptation 3.1 Politics, Adaptation, Macbeth William C. Carroll (Boston University, USA) 3.2 Animating an Archive of Black Performance: Swing, William Alexander Brown, and The African Company Presents ‘Richard III’ Joyce Green MacDonald (University of Kentucky, USA) 3.3 ‘Does anyone know another text?’ Post-Migratory Othello Adaptations on the German-Speaking Stage Sabine Schülting (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) 3.4 Japanese Novelizations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macbeth: the culture of hon’an as adaptational practice Yukari Yoshihara (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Shakespeare in Parts 3.5 Shakespeare Live! and the Commemorative Gala Revue: Rhetoric, Festivity and Fragmented Adaptation Ailsa Grant Ferguson (University of Brighton, UK) 3.6 ‘What burgeons in the memory…’: Transgression, Culture and Canon in Postmodern Adaptations of the Sonnets Rui Carvalho Homem (University of Porto, Portugal) 3.7 ‘Play On’, or the Memeing of Shakespeare: Adaptation and Internet Culture Anna Blackwell (De Montfort University, UK) 3.8 Bollywood Gertrudes and Global Shakespeares Varsha Panjwani (NYU, London, UK) Media Lenses and Digital Cultures 3.9 Screening Dreamy LA: Reading Genre in Casey Wilder Mott’s Hollywood A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2018) Melissa Croteau (California Baptist University, USA) 3.10 Televisual Adaptation of Shakespeare in a Multi-Platform Age Susanne Greenhalgh (University of Roehampton, UK) 3.11 On Location in Asian Shakespeare Stage Adaptations Yong Li Lan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) 3.12 “And We Will Ship Him Hence”: The Case for Shakespeare Fan Studies Valerie M. Fazel (Arizona State University, USA) and Louise Geddes (Adelphi University, USA) 4. New Directions 4.1 Reduce, Rewrite, Recycle: Adapting A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Yosemite Katherine Steele Brokaw and Paul Prescott (University of California, USA) 4.2 Hamlet in the Age of Algorithmic Production Annie Dorsen (Independent Scholar interviewed by Miriam Felton-Dansky (Bard College, USA) 4.3 A King Lear Sutra Preti Taneja (Newcastle University, USA) 5. Resources Vanessa I. Corredera (Andrews University, USA) 6. Annotated Bibliography Kavita Mudan Finn (George Washington University, USA) 7. Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability
Book SynopsisWhat work did physically disabled characters do for the early modern theatre? Through a consideration of a range of plays, including Doctor Faustus and Richard III, Genevieve Love argues that the figure of the physically disabled prosthetic body in early modern English theatre mediates a set of related likeness problems' that structure the theatrical, textual, and critical lives of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The figure of disability stands for the relationship between actor and character: prosthetic disabled characters with names such as Cripple and Stump capture the simultaneous presence of the fictional and the material, embodied world of the theatre. When the figure of the disabled body exits the stage, it also mediates a second problem of likeness, between plays in their performed and textual forms. While supposedly imperfect textual versions of plays have been characterized as lame', the dynamic movement of prosthetic disabled characters in thTrade ReviewThis monograph is important both for performance studies scholars and for literary historians of disability. * Theatre Journal *Love promotes the “figure of disability” as the key figure for the ways that early modern theatre imagined itself, a figuration of and for figuration – this book is a stunner from the very first word to the final full stop. -- Professor Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin University, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on the text Introduction: Disability and/as Theatricality 1 The Work of Standing and of Standing-for: Disability, Movement, Theatrical Personation in The Fair Maid of the Exchange 2 The Sound of Prosthetic Movement: Transnational and Temporal Analogy in A Larum for London 3 ‘Faustus has his legge again’: Truncation and Prosthesis, Theatricality and Bibliography in Doctor Faustus 4 Richard’s ‘giddy footing’: Degree of Difference and Cyclical Movement in Shakespeare’s Richard III Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Studying Shakespeares Contemporaries
Book SynopsisStudying Shakespeare's Contemporaries is an accessible guide to non-Shakespearian English drama of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Featuring works of prestigious playwrights such as Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and Middleton, Lars Engle describes the conditions under which Renaissance plays were commissioned, written, licensed, staged, and published. Plays are organized by theme and explored individually, creating a text that can be read as a complete overview of English Renaissance drama or used as an indexed reference resource.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface: How to use this book xi Part One: Inwardness 1 1.1 The Inward Self 2 1.2 The Inward Self in Soliloquy: The Jew of Malta 4 1.3 The Inward Self in Aside: The Changeling 16 1.4 A Digression: The Inner Life of Modernized Texts 25 1.5 The Christian/Stoic Soul Under Duress: The Duchess of Malfi 36 1.6 How to Behave When You Have a Soul Always Already Damned: Doctor Faustus 42 1.7 Obsession and Delusion: Comic Inwardness in Every Man in His Humor 53 1.8 Epicene 63 1.9 Tamburlaine the Great 1 and 2: Interior Strength, External Weakness 68 1.10 Disguise and Honor in The Malcontent 78 1.11 Conclusion: A Drama of Interiority? 80 Part Two: Intimacy, Rivalry, Family 83 2.1 Rivalry and Intimacy in A Trick to Catch the Old One 85 2.2 The Tragedy of Mariam: Intimacy, Tyranny, and Ambivalence 90 2.3 Domestic Tragedy and Moral Commentary: Arden of Faversham 96 2.4 The Battle of the Sexes: The Woman’s Prize 99 2.5 Intimacy, Rivalry, Family: Women Beware Women 103 2.6 Familiar and Familial: Incest in ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore 113 Part Three: Society, Politics, the City, and the State 123 3.1 Dreaming Up the Free City: The Roaring Girl 124 3.2 The Shoemaker’s Holiday 138 3.3 A New Way to Pay Old Debts 144 3.4 The Knight of the Burning Pestle 155 3.5 The State at War in The Spanish Tragedy 161 3.6 Two Bodies: State and Self in Edward II 167 3.7 Resistance to Tyranny in The Maid’s Tragedy 173 3.8 Tyranny as a Boundary Condition for a Subject’s Violence: The Duchess of Malfi and The Revenger’s Tragedy 189 3.9 Republic and Tyranny in Sejanus 190 Part Four: Not Shakespeare – Lives of the Theater Poets 207 4.1 “Non-Shakespearean”: The Dire Privative 207 4.2 Christopher Marlowe 209 4.3 Ben Jonson 211 4.4 Thomas Middleton 215 4.5 Thomas Kyd 217 4.6 Thomas Dekker 218 4.7 Francis Beaumont 218 4.8 John Fletcher 219 4.9 John Ford 220 4.10 John Marston 221 4.11 Philip Massinger 221 4.12 Elizabeth Cary 222 Appendix: Performance History 225 Bibliography 245 Index 251
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A History of EighteenthCentury British Literature
Book SynopsisA History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is a lively exploration of one of the most diverse and innovative periods in literary history. Capturing the richness and excitement of the era, this book provides extensive coverage of major authors, poets, dramatists, and journalists of the period, such as Dryden, Pope and Swift, while also exploring the works of important writers who have received less attention by modern scholars, such as Matthew Prior and Charles Churchill. Uniquely, the book also discusses noncanonical, working-class writers and demotic works of the era. During the eighteenth-century, Britain experienced vast social, political, economic, and existential changes, greatly influencing the literary world. The major forms of verse, poetry, fiction and non-fiction, experimental works, drama, and political prose from writers such as Montagu, Finch, Johnson, Goldsmith and Cowper, are discussed here in relation to their historical context. A History ofTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viii Introduction 1 1 Verse in the Early Eighteenth Century, I: Pope, Gay, Swift 8 2 Verse in the Early Eighteenth Century, II: Prior, Addison, Defoe, Finch, Montagu, Thomson 59 3 English Verse, III: Mid-Century Onwards: Johnson, Gray, the Wartons, Collins, Smart, Watts, Goldsmith, Churchill, Cowper 92 4 Eighteenth-Century Verse, IV: Women, Workers, and Non-Elite Poets 132 5 Prose Fiction in the Early Eighteenth Century: Behn, Haywood, Defoe, Swift 153 6 Prose Fiction in the Mid-Eighteenth Century: Richardson, Fielding, Smollett 180 7 The Novel Past Mid-Century: New Directions and Experiments: Johnson, Sterne, Mackenzie, Walpole, Goldsmith, Burney 223 8 Non-Fictional Prose, I: Addison to Burke 254 9 Non-Fictional Prose, II: Political and Polemical Prose 291 10 Eighteenth-Century Drama: Sentimental Pathos, Melodrama, and Humor 319 Index 357
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Johns Hopkins University Press Anna Letitia Barbauld and EighteenthCentury
Book SynopsisScholars of British literature and women writers will welcome this important study of one of the eighteenth century's foremost writers.Trade ReviewWatkins makes a solid case for treating Barbauld as a major poet. Choice Watkin's own vision of Barbauld, presented in Anna Letitia Barbauld and Eighteenth-Century Visionary Poetics, is a useful one. His detailed exploration of the intellectual and visionary scope of Barbauld's poetry will no doubt have a significant impact on the way in which this still underappreciated writer is subsequently viewed. -- Claire Knowles European Romantic Review Daniel Watkins's Anna Letitia Barbauld and Eighteenth-Century Visionary Poetics makes a convincing case for reading Barbauld's published volumes as volumes, rather than as atomized poems... It is a bold claim, but one borne out by the quality of Barbauld's poetry. The Year's Work in English Studies Watkins's work offers a remarkable guide to [Barbaul's Poems], and a fine celebration of Barbauld's distinctive political and poetic intellect. The Year's Work in English Studies Thoughtfully engaging with major trends in critical perspectives on female poetics, Watkin's goal, explored in his introduction, is to enlarge our discussions of women's writing in the period... This, indeed, is the great strength of his discussion of Barbauld as visionary and as poet: he seeks to bring out the allusive richness of each poem while remaining alert t the larger aims of the volume as a whole. -- Felicity James Modern Language Review ... Watkins is the reader Barbauld deserves. -- Harriet Kramer Linkin Tulsa Studies in Women's LiteratureTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Barbauld's Poems in Context2. Politics, Vision, and Pastoral3. Satire, Antipastoral, and Visionary Poetics4. Personal Life and Visionary Poetics5. Reflections on Writing6. The Personal and Biblical Principles of Poetic Vision7. God, Vision, and the Political MomentConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Literature Religion and the Evolution of Culture
Book SynopsisLiterature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660-1780 analyzes the texts and contexts of several major and minor authors, including Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Olaudah Equiano, Maria De Fleury, Lord George Gordon, Nathaniel Lancaster, Henry Sacheverell, Tobias Smollett, and Edward Synge.Trade ReviewEach chapter is brilliant, informed by Weinbrot's astonishingly wide reading and ability to make the past come alive... As he has done before, Weinbrot makes serious intellectual history fun... Highly recommended. Choice Professor Weinbrot ranges wide and delves deep in this study, which could nostalgically be called intellectual history... Moreover, Weinbrot provides accurate and succinct historical summaries along the way. -- Robert G. Walker Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture is a formidable work of scholarship written by one of the period's sharpest critics. Its erudition is pronounced, its analysis acute... Digital Defoe Weinbrot's examination of the gradual evolution of English cultural perceptions of religious "others" makes an important contribution to eighteenth-century studies. The University of Chicago Press Mr. Weinbrot's study is an infinitely rewarding sourcebook for important eighteenth-century religious concepts (including passive obedience, the Thirtieth of January Sermon, or Augustinianism) and movements (such as Methodism). Without doubt, he offers a most impressive reconstruc- tion of the raging religious feuds. Moreover, his study of Defoe's monumental Shortest Way with the Dissenters is as careful as it is penetrating. His book is informed by his keen sense of injustice: its pages are suffused with his indignation about cruelties, such as the "state terrorism"... Scriblerian ... a watershed moment in our field. Notes and QueriesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Groundwork of ChangeA Note on NotesPart I: Threats to the Species: Madness, Discontent, and the Danger of Dissolution1. Causation and Contexts of Hatred: Savage Beasts Mortal and Deadly2. Madness, Extirpation, and Defoe's Shortest Way withthe DissentersPart II: Taking the Cure and Improving the Species: Sermons, Compulsion, and Methodists3. The Thirtieth of January Sermon: From Exterminationto Inclusion4. "Compel Them to Come In," Luke 14:23: From Persecution toPersuasion; Against Augustinian Compulsion5. Adopt Men From All the Nations of the Earth: Equiano's ConversionPart III: Evolutionary Reversion: The Gordon Riots, Return to Rage, and Reinventing a Cure6. Déjà Vu All Over Again? The Gordon Riots; Bedlam Revisited, Restoration of Order, and a Trial on Trial7. A Very Near Thing: State Terrorism, the Fury of the Aggrieved, and Incompatibility with the Safety of Millions8. Coping, Repairing, and Dickens' Barnaby RudgeIllustrating EvolutionIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Monstrous Motherhood
Book SynopsisMonstrous Motherhood will compel scholars in eighteenth-century studies, women's studies, family history, and cultural studies to reevaluate a foundational assumption that has driven much of the discourse in their fields.Trade ReviewThe virtues of this study are too many to recite here. Francus's work is a pleasure to read; it is thoroughly researched and very carefully planned... Monstrous Motherhood is a significant study with a great deal to add to our understanding of the representation of mothers in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. -- Jennifer Golightly Women's History Review In short, Francus' book is an important insight into a complex topic. It uncovers fascinating material drawn from both historical and literary sources, delivering an invaluable and compelling study. -- Teresa Barnard BARS Bulletin and Review One doesn't need to be an expert on eighteenth-century literature to appreciate the extent of Marilyn Francus's study. -- Allen Zhang MAKE: A Literary Magazine With her deft interweaving of the literary and historical and expansive overview of a broad number of complex texts, Marilyn Francus develops, through her nuanced readings, our understanding of imperatives and anxieties surrounding the domestic ideal in eighteenth-century Britain. Her book is an invaluable addition to women's studies as well as literature and culture of the eighteenth century. -- Tanya M. Caldwell New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century Francus complicates discourses on domesticity prevalent in literary and historical contexts by analyzing texts in various genres written by both male and female authors. In so doing, she rightly asks us to rethink what critics and theorists have called "domestic ideology." -- Natalia Roxburgh Eighteenth-Century Fiction Francus's readings employ a broadly psychoanalytical hermeneutic, with much interesting textual, contextual, and critical matter. Years Work in English Studies Marilyn Francus's Monstrous Motherhood is a meticulously researched and comprehensive study that will change the way our field discusses domesticity and is essential reading for scholars of literature, women's studies, and cultural studies. -- Phyllis Ann Thompson ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts In Monstrous Motherhood, Marilyn Francus offers a provocative examination of 18th-century domestic ideology... In the way of groundbreaking studies, Monstrous Motherhood is replete with intriguing opportunities for future work. -- Karen Gevirtz Wordsworth Circle Marilyn Francus's Monstrous Motherhood is a wide-reaching, deeply researched and vitally important look at the construction of motherhood. The Eighteenth-Century IntelligencerTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Ideology of Domesticity Reexamined1. Mothers of the Apocalypse: Maternal Allegory and Myth in Swift and Pope2. All Too Human: Maternal Monstrosity and Hester Thrale3. Suffer the Little Children? The Infanticidal Motherin Literature4. Until Proven Innocent: Infanticide in the Public Record and in Court5. Be Monstrous or Be Marginal: Stepmothers in Literature6. Pin the Tale on the Stepmother: Elizabeth Allen and the Burneys7. But She's Not There: The Rise of theSpectral MotherNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Sounding Imperial
Book SynopsisSounding Imperial offers a more nuanced sense of poetry's unseen role in larger historical processes, emphasizing not just appropriation or collusion but the murky middle range in which most British authors operated during their colonial encounters and the voices that they used to make those cross-cultural encounters seem vivid and alive.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent book, and one that will appeal not just to lovers of poetry but to historians of the Empire and sociologists who study trans-national influences. -- Clifford Cunningham Sun News Miami Sounding Imperial is a very readable book. It will be mainly of interest to students and scholars of English literature and history. -- Sadhana Naithani Journal of Folklore Research James Mulholland has produced an important new study of eighteenth-century British poetry... -- Evan Gottlieb Review of English Studies James Mulholland's Sounding Imperial: Poetic Voice and the Politics of Empire, 1730-1820 brings the context of British imperialism to Romantic-era poetics, illuminating the concerns of orientalism within the history of print culture. -- Adela Pinch Studies in English Literature What Sounding Imperial tells us about colonialism and culture is that we need to look again at their relationship with fresh eyes. Eighteenth-Century LifeTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Global Aesthetics of Poetic Voice1. Thomas Gray, Virtual Authorship, and the Performed VoiceAuthoring Gray's "Elegy"Performing Gray's "Elegy"Impersonating the Bard?Wildness and Welsh ProsodyQuotation Marks(Un)Editing the Bards2. Wales, Public Poetry, and the Politics of Collective VoiceBardic Nationalism ReconsideredThe Aboriginal Aesthetics of Iolo MorganwgListening to the Welsh PastDead Voices Reanimated3. Scotland and the Invention of VoicePrimitive Passions, Poetry Addiction, HistoryAmbiguous SpeechWriting, Re- performance, and Restored VoicesIntimate HailingOssian's Afterlife4. Impersonating Native Voices in Anglo- Indian PoetryWilliam Jones and the Fountainhead of VerseMaking the Subaltern SpeakRewriting Gray's "The Bard" in IndiaDislocated OrientalismCoda: Reading the Archive of the InauthenticNotesBibliographyIndex
£58.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Let There Be Enlightenment
Book SynopsisChallenging the triumphalist narrative of Enlightenment secularism. According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational awakening, a radical break from a past dominated by religion and superstition. But in Let There Be Enlightenment, Anton M. Matytsin, Dan Edelstein, and the contributors they have assembled deftly undermine this simplistic narrative. Emphasizing the ways in which religious beliefs and motivations shaped philosophical perspectives, essays in this book highlight figures and topics often overlooked in standard genealogies of the Enlightenment. The volume underscores the prominent role that religious discourses continued to play in major aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thought. The essays probe a wide range of subjects, from reformer Jan Amos Comenius's quest for universal enlightenment to the changing meanings of the light metaphor, Quaker influences on Baruch Spinoza's theology, and the unexpected persistence of Aristotle in the Enlightenment. ETrade ReviewThis book has many merits. All of its chapters are very original and even groundbreaking in several respects. By employing interdisciplinary approaches that pay due attention to both texts and contexts, the contributors to this volume rediscover and revalue several intellectual currents and figures traditionally neglected by historiography . . . [Let There Be Enlightenment] provides excellent food for thought for both specialists in the field and educated lay readers willing to acquire a deeper insight into this fascinating and complex period of human history.—Diego Lucci, American University in Bulgaria, Journal of Jesuit StudiesI am delighted to have this collection in my library . . . [Let There Be Enlightenment] asserts stronger and more complex continuities between medieval thought and the Enlightenment, making it worth noting for not only specialists in early modern history, but more broadly scholars of religion and ideas in pre-nineteenth-century Europe.—Chad Denton, H-France ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. LuxChapter 1. Via Lucis in tenebras: Comenius as Prophet of the Age of Light Chapter 2. Whose Light Is It Anyway? The Struggle for Light in the French EnlightenmentChapter 3. The "Lights" before the Enlightenment: The Tribunal of Reason and Public OpinionChapter 4. Writing the History of Illumination in the Siècle des Lumières: Enlightenment Narratives of LightPart II. VeritasChapter 5. Another Dialogue in the Tractatus: Spinoza on "Christ's Disciples" and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Chapter 6. A Backward Glance: Light and Darkness in the Medieval Theology of PowerChapter 7. Lumen unitivum: The Light of Reason and the Aristotelian Sect in Early-Modern ScholasticismChapter 8. The Aristotelian EnlightenmentPart III: TenebraeChapter 9. Secular Sacerdotalism in the Anglican Enlightenment, 1660–1740Chapter 10. Refracting the Century of Lights: Alternate Genealogies of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century CultureChapter 11. Enlightenment in the Shadows: Mysticism, Materialism, and the Dream State in Eighteenth-Century FranceChapter 12. Light, Truth, and the Counter-Enlightenment's EnlightenmentContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Artifacts
Book SynopsisA literary history of the old, broken, rusty, dusty, and moldy stuff that people dug up in England during the long eighteenth century. In the eighteenth century, antiquarieswary of the biases of philosophers, scientists, politicians, and historiansused old objects to establish what they claimed was a true account of history. But just what could these small, fragmentary, frequently unidentifiable things, whose origins were unknown and whose worth or meaning was not self-evident, tell people about the past?In Artifacts, Crystal B. Lake unearths the four kinds of old objects that were most frequently found and cataloged in Enlightenment-era England: coins, manuscripts, weapons, and grave goods. Following these prized objects as they made their way into popular culture, Lake develops new interpretations of works by Joseph Addison, John Dryden, Horace Walpole, Jonathan Swift, Tobias Smollett, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, among others. Rereading these authors with the artifact in Trade ReviewWhile this review singles out only a few, Lake's examination of the narratives generated by many eighteenth-century first responders to coins, weapons, manuscripts and grave goods, is thorough and illuminating, as are her detailed and scholarly readings of literary texts where artifacts shape form and content.—Frances Singh, Hostos Community College, CUNY (emerita), Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer[A] engaging and thought-provoking study.—Kate Smith, University of Birmingham, Journal of British Studies..., the book is a powerful reminder of the nuances that paying more attention to objects can bring to the study of the intersections between literature and politics in the long eighteenth century.—Giacomo Savani, University College Dublin, Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations AcknowledgmentsPrologue. Things Speaking for ThemselvesPart I. Terms and ContextsChapter 1. Leaving Room to Guess Chapter 2. Ten Thousand GimcracksPart II. Case StudiesChapter 3. Coins: The Most Vocal Monuments Chapter 4. Manuscripts: Burnt to a Crust Chapter 5. Weapons: A Wilderness of Arms Chapter 6. Grave Goods: The Kings' Four BodiesAfterword. The Artifactual FormNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Downward Mobility
Book SynopsisHow do the stories we tell about money shape our economies?Beginning in the late eighteenth century, as constant growth became the economic norm throughout Europe, fictional stories involving money were overwhelmingly about loss. Novel after novel tells the tale of bankruptcy and financial failure, of people losing everything and ending up in debtor's prison, of inheritances lost and daughters left orphaned and poor. In Downward Mobility, Katherine Binhammer argues that these stories of ruin are not simple tales about the losers of capitalism but narratives that help manage speculation of capital's inevitable collapse. Bringing together contemporary critical finance studies with eighteenth-century literary history, Binhammer demonstrates the centrality of the myth of downward mobility to the cultural history of capitalismand to the emergence of the novel in Britain. Deftly weaving economic history and formal analysis, Binhammer reveals how capitalism requires the novel's complex techTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Fictitious Capital and the Social History of Debt 2. Leveraging Fiction: When Debt Becomes Equity 3. Narrative Exchange: The Value of Stories-within-Stories 4. The Plot of Capital I: Cecilia and Risk Management 5. The Plot of Capital II: Camilla, Closure, and the Realization of Capital Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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Chronicle Books You Kiss by th Book New Poems from Shakespeares
Book SynopsisIn his engaging new collection, National Book Award finalist Gary Soto creates poems that each begin with a line from Shakespeare and then continue in Soto's fresh and accessible verse.
£12.43
DK The Shakespeare Book
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Generous helpings of illustrations, time lines, plot diagrams, and character guides ensure that even readers in their 'salad days' will enjoy every dish at the Shakespearean feast." — Booklist"Enlightening" — YA Book Central"In this latest addition to the series, the Bard comes alive for young aficionados." — School Library Journal"Countless volumes have been written about William Shakespeare and his work, but here is a single volume that has organized his plays (and some of his sonnets) in exactly what the subtitle says: 'Big Ideas Simply Explained…a must-have.'" — VOYA magazine
£23.75
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shakespeare in the Theatre The American
Book SynopsisPaul Menzer is Professor and the Director of the Mary Baldwin College MLitt/MFA Shakespeare and Performance graduate programTable of ContentsChapter 1: Revolutionary Nostalgia Chapter 2: A Peculiar Institution Chapter 3: Bringing History to Light Chapter 4: Ready or not Chapter 5: In Others’ Words Appendices: Timelines; Performance history; Architectural History Bibliography Notes Index
£33.22
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night : Performed
Book Synopsis
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Medieval Institute Publications From the Romans to the Normans on the English
Book SynopsisThis book examines the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century engagement with a crucial part of Britain's past, the period between the withdrawal of the Roman legions and the Norman Conquest. A number of early modern plays suggest an underlying continuity, an essential English identity linked to the land and impervious to change. This book considers the extent to which ideas about early modern English and British national, religious, and political identities were rooted in cultural constructions of the pre-Conquest past.Trade Review"In the context of Brexit, as the rethinking of Europe and its borders is very much part of an enterprise bound up with memory of conquest, empire, and independence, this is a book that will get students reading, critics thinking, and people talking." Willy Maley, University of Glasgow "Hopkins concludes her compelling study with the statement that there 'is a recurrent acknowledgment that a purely British identity is no longer possible (if indeed it ever was), because bloodlines have been diluted by wave after wave of invasion, but there is also a sense of a link between land and identity' (191). Hers is a book that presents a wealth of material and offers intriguing insights on questions of identity, succession, legitimacy, but also on how early modern writers viewed the distant past and gave it political significance." --Nicole Nyffenegger, University of Bern, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Legacies "Bisson Conspectuities": Language and National Identity in Shakespeare's Roman Plays Profit and Delight? Magic and the Dreams of a Nation "A Borrowed Blood for Brute": From Britain to England Part Two: Ancestors and Others Queens and the British History Dido in Denmark: Danes and Saxons on the Early Modern English Stage Valiant Welshwomen: When Britain Came Back Athelstan, the Virgin King Conclusion Works Cited
£74.10
Medieval Institute Publications Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, and the Nature
Book SynopsisShakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, and the Nature of Fame is a characterological study offering new perspectives on Antony and Cleopatra, the most ambiguous of Shakespeare's plays. It also offers new insights about the origins and nature of Shakespeare's imperishable fame. Wide-ranging in its concerns, this monograph promises to make an essential difference in the way scholars view characterizations, fame, Shakespeare's reputation, and the eminence of the celebrated figures of the play.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Viewing Shakespeare's Kinetic Characterizations 2. Antony and Cleopatra in Seventeenth-Century Contexts 3. "Immortal Longings": Shakespeare's Perspective on Fame 4. Standards of Measure in Antony and Cleopatra 5. "The Varying Shore": Changing Perceptions, Sustaining Illustriousness 6. "A Pair So Famous": Achieving Permanent Renown 7. Shakespeare's Imperishable Fame Bibliography and Further Reading Index
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Dartmouth College Press New World Courtships
Book SynopsisVarieties of marriage in early American and British novels
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University of Delaware Press Comparative Essays on the Poetry and Prose of
Book SynopsisThis book brings together ten essays on John Donne and George Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume represents the first collection of its kind to draw close connections between these two distinguished early modern thinkers and poets who are justly coupled because of their personal and artistic association. The contributors' distinctive new approaches and insights illuminate a variety of topics and fields while suggesting new directions that future study of Donne and Herbert might take. Some chapters explore concrete instances of collaboration or communication between Donne and Herbert, and others find fresh ways to contextualize the Donnean and Herbertian lyric, carefully setting the poetry alongside discourses of apophatic theology or early modern political theory, while still others link Herbert's verse to Donne's devotional prose. Several chapters establish specific theological and aesthetic grounds for comparison, considering Donne and Herbert's respective positions on religious assurance, comic sensibility, and virtuosity with poetic endings. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Russell M. Hillier and Robert W. Reeder, Introduction Part I: Negative Theology, Political Theory, and the Lyric Chapter 1: Kirsten Stirling, “Donne’s Negative Theology of the Cross” Chapter 2: Angela Balla, “Prayer as Political Theory: Conscience, Sovereignty, and Natural Law in Donne and Herbert” Part II: Encounters: Exchange and Collaboration Chapter 3: Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise, “‘Resplendence of women, men’s means to zeal’: Fashioning Female Sanctity in Donne and Herbert’s Commemoration of Lady Danvers” Chapter 4: Kimberly Johnson, “Crossings: Sacramental Signs Across the Verse of Donne and Herbert” Chapter 5: Greg Miller, “Crucifying Craft: A Donne-Herbert Dialogue” Part III: Sin, Salvation, and Assurance Chapter 6: Robert W. Reeder, “‘Extreme Audacity of Penitential Humility’: Devotions 10 and the Donne-Herbert Dichotomy” Chapter 7: Kate Narveson, “Imagining Prayer in Donne’s Devotions and Herbert’s Poems of Complaint” Chapter 8: Danielle A. St. Hilaire, “Recuperating the Incapacities of the Fallen Self in Donne and Herbert: Possibility and Promise” Part IV: Appraisals Chapter 9: Christopher Hodgkins, “Donne’s ‘Comedy of Eros’ and Herbert’s ‘World of Mirth’” Chapter 10: Helen Wilcox, “‘The dot over the i’: How Donne and Herbert Close Their Poems” Appendix: Catherine R. Freis, Richard Freis, and Greg Miller, trans., “Donne and Herbert’s Latin Poems on the Seal of Christ on the Anchor” About the Contributors Index
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University of Delaware Press Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France:
Book SynopsisStorytelling in Sixteenth-Century France is an innovative, interdisciplinary examination of parallels between the early modern era and the world in which we live today. Readers are invited to look to the past to see how then, as now, people turned to storytelling to integrate and adapt to rapid social change, to reinforce or restructure community, to sell new ideas, and to refashion the past. This collection explores different modalities of storytelling in sixteenth-century France and emphasizes shared techniques and themes rather than attempting to define narrow kinds of narrative categories. Through studies of storytelling in tapestries, stone, and music as well as distinct genres of historical, professional, and literary writing (addressing both erudite and more common readers), the contributors to this collection evoke a society in transition, wherein traditional techniques and materials were manipulated to express new realities. Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Table of ContentsEmily E. Thompson, Introduction Part I: Putting the Real into Words Chapter 1. Amy Graves Monroe, “The Memorialist and the Historian: A Tale of Two Storytellers” Chapter 2. Kathleen Loysen, “‘Ceste histoire veritable’: Women’s Narrative and Truth-Telling in the Comptes amoureux and the Angoisses douleureuses” Chapter 3. Marian Rothstein, “The Queen’s Quandary: Storytelling in Jeanne d’Albret’s Ample Déclaration” Chapter 4. David LaGuardia, “Telling the True and the Real in the Canards Sanglants” Part II: Playing with Expectations Chapter 5. Colette H. Winn, “Urania in Physician’s Robes or Poetry in the Service of Medicine: Girolamo Fracastoro, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus (1530)” Chapter 6. JoAnn DellaNeva, “Storytelling at the Crossroads of Diplomacy, History, and Poetry: ‘The Story of the Death of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England,’ by Lancelot de Carle” Chapter 7. Emily E. Thompson, “In Defense of Stories: Henri Estienne Reclaims the Story Collection for a New Readership” Chapter 8. Dora E. Polachek, “Recasting the Heptaméron Novellas in Brantôme’s Vie des dames galantes” Part III: Repurposing Stories through Shifting Forms Chapter 9. Cathy Yandell, “Sex, Salvation, Extermination: Contrafacta and the French Wars of Religion” Chapter 10. Sheila ffolliott, “Storytelling in Tapestry: Examples for a French Queen” Chapter 11. Phillip John Usher, “The Night before Geology: Fossil Stories from Early Modern France” Works Cited About the Contributors
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University of Delaware Press England's Asian Renaissance
Book SynopsisEngland's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped shape the country's culture and contributed to its national identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio as geographic movement, linquistic transformation, and cultural grafting, the collection gives pride of place to convergence, approximation, and hybridity, thus underscoring the radical mobility of early modern culture. In so doing, England's Asian Renaissance also moves away from entrenched narratives of Western cultural sovereignty to think anew England's debts to Asia.Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Table of Contents England’s Asian Renaissance: An Introduction Su Fang Ng and Carmen Nocentelli Part 1 The Eurasian Continuum 1 The Ottomans in and of Europe Abdulhamit Arvas 2 Robert Sherley and the Persian Habit Nedda Mehdizadeh 3 The East India Spice Trade and the Circulation of Shakespearean Imagination Thea Buckley Part 2 Religious and Cultural Negotiations 4 Religious Emotion and Racialization: Marlowe’s Sigismund and the Making of Europe Jennifer Feather 5 Solomon, Ophir, and the English Quest for the East Indies Amrita Sen 6 Welfare and Work for All: King Lear and Poor Relief in China and Early Modern England Rachana Sachdev Part 3 Making the English Stage Eastern 7 Staging China and India in Jacobean Court Masques: Negotiating Antiquity, Admiration, and Authority in 1604 Emily Soon 8 Constructing the New Exchange: Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Bourse Richmond Barbour Bibliography About the Contributors
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University of Delaware Press England's Asian Renaissance
Book SynopsisEngland's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped shape the country's culture and contributed to its national identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio as geographic movement, linquistic transformation, and cultural grafting, the collection gives pride of place to convergence, approximation, and hybridity, thus underscoring the radical mobility of early modern culture. In so doing, England's Asian Renaissance also moves away from entrenched narratives of Western cultural sovereignty to think anew England's debts to Asia.Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Table of Contents England’s Asian Renaissance: An Introduction Su Fang Ng and Carmen Nocentelli Part 1 The Eurasian Continuum 1 The Ottomans in and of Europe Abdulhamit Arvas 2 Robert Sherley and the Persian Habit Nedda Mehdizadeh 3 The East India Spice Trade and the Circulation of Shakespearean Imagination Thea Buckley Part 2 Religious and Cultural Negotiations 4 Religious Emotion and Racialization: Marlowe’s Sigismund and the Making of Europe Jennifer Feather 5 Solomon, Ophir, and the English Quest for the East Indies Amrita Sen 6 Welfare and Work for All: King Lear and Poor Relief in China and Early Modern England Rachana Sachdev Part 3 Making the English Stage Eastern 7 Staging China and India in Jacobean Court Masques: Negotiating Antiquity, Admiration, and Authority in 1604 Emily Soon 8 Constructing the New Exchange: Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Bourse Richmond Barbour Bibliography About the Contributors
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University of Delaware Press English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800
Book SynopsisThe essays in English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explore the theatrical anecdote’s role in the construction of stage fame in England’s emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing such anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. This collection showcases scholarship that complicates the theatrical anecdote and shows its many sides and applications beyond the expected comic punch. Discussing anecdotal narratives about theatre people as producing, maintaining, and sometimes toppling individual fame, this book crucially investigates a key mechanism of celebrity in the long eighteenth century that reaches into the nineteenth century and beyond. The anecdote erases boundaries between public and private and fictionalizing the individual in ways deeply familiar to twenty-first century celebrity culture.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Miniature Stages of Celebrity: English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1600–1800Heather Ladd and Leslie RitchiePART IACTING BADLY: MISBEHAVING PERFORMERS1 Killing Delane; or, Mimickry and the Anecdota obscuraLeslie Ritchie2 Violent Afterlives: The Anecdote in Eighteenth-Century Theater BiographiesMáire Macneill3 Samuel Foote, Esq.: Caricature, Class, and the Comic Theatrical AnecdoteHeather LaddPART IIANECDOTAL BODIES4 Pregnancy and the Late Stuart Stage, 1661–1702Chelsea Phillips5 “A High Treat to the Anecdote Hunters!”: The Body of Mrs. Sophia BaddeleyNevena Martinocvić6 A Bellyful of Nightingales: Seven Stories of Seven SingersMichael BurdenPART IIIACTING CAREERS AND THE PROFESSIONAL ANECDOTE7 Anecdote and the Regional Actress: A History of the Farren Family in Several AnecdotesFiona Ritchie8 Neither Confirmed nor Refuted: The Anecdotal Elizabeth BarrySeth WilsonPART IVANECDOTES’ AFTERLIVES: SCHOLARLY ENCOUNTERS9 Anecdotal Origin Stories: Mary Ann Yates’s Trip to Drury LaneElaine Mcgirr10 The Vanishing Subject in “Anecdotal” Abridgments of Theatrical BiographiesAmanda Weldy Boyd11 Queering Roxane from Davenant to RichardsonDanielle BobkerCoda: Whither Theatrical Anecdote?Heather Ladd and Leslie RitchieBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
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University of Delaware Press English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800
Book SynopsisThe essays in English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explore the theatrical anecdote’s role in the construction of stage fame in England’s emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing such anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. This collection showcases scholarship that complicates the theatrical anecdote and shows its many sides and applications beyond the expected comic punch. Discussing anecdotal narratives about theatre people as producing, maintaining, and sometimes toppling individual fame, this book crucially investigates a key mechanism of celebrity in the long eighteenth century that reaches into the nineteenth century and beyond. The anecdote erases boundaries between public and private and fictionalizing the individual in ways deeply familiar to twenty-first century celebrity culture.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Miniature Stages of Celebrity: English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1600–1800Heather Ladd and Leslie RitchiePART IACTING BADLY: MISBEHAVING PERFORMERS1 Killing Delane; or, Mimickry and the Anecdota obscuraLeslie Ritchie2 Violent Afterlives: The Anecdote in Eighteenth-Century Theater BiographiesMáire Macneill3 Samuel Foote, Esq.: Caricature, Class, and the Comic Theatrical AnecdoteHeather LaddPART IIANECDOTAL BODIES4 Pregnancy and the Late Stuart Stage, 1661–1702Chelsea Phillips5 “A High Treat to the Anecdote Hunters!”: The Body of Mrs. Sophia BaddeleyNevena Martinocvić6 A Bellyful of Nightingales: Seven Stories of Seven SingersMichael BurdenPART IIIACTING CAREERS AND THE PROFESSIONAL ANECDOTE7 Anecdote and the Regional Actress: A History of the Farren Family in Several AnecdotesFiona Ritchie8 Neither Confirmed nor Refuted: The Anecdotal Elizabeth BarrySeth WilsonPART IVANECDOTES’ AFTERLIVES: SCHOLARLY ENCOUNTERS9 Anecdotal Origin Stories: Mary Ann Yates’s Trip to Drury LaneElaine Mcgirr10 The Vanishing Subject in “Anecdotal” Abridgments of Theatrical BiographiesAmanda Weldy Boyd11 Queering Roxane from Davenant to RichardsonDanielle BobkerCoda: Whither Theatrical Anecdote?Heather Ladd and Leslie RitchieBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s
Book SynopsisSamuel Johnson’s life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships—and antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that explore relationships between Johnson and several of his main contemporaries—including James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, Robert Chambers, Oliver Goldsmith, Bennet Langton, Arthur Murphy, Richard Savage, Anna Seward, and Thomas Warton—and analyzes some of the literary productions emanating from the pressures within those relationships. In their detailed and careful examination of particular works situated within complex social and personal contexts, the essays in this volume offer a “thick” and illuminating description of Johnson’s world that also engages with larger cultural and aesthetic issues, such as intertextuality, literary celebrity, narrative, the nature of criticism, race, slavery, and sensibility.Contributors: Christopher Catanese, James Caudle, Marilyn Francus, Christine Jackson-Holzberg, Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Elizabeth Lambert, Anthony W. Lee, James E. May, John Radner, and Lance Wilcox. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"This volume of essays advances the field not only because it focuses on a new topic but also because of the patient and imaginative analysis in the various essays. The audience here extends beyond Johnsonians because so many other figures of interest are included, from Frances Burney, Burke, Warton, Seward, and Arthur Murphy to Goldsmith and of course Boswell." -- Steven Lynn * University of South Carolina *"An invaluable, erudite, thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to the study of Samuel Johnson's life, philosophy, and literary work, Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle is an extraordinary body of informative and deftly scripted scholarship." * Midwest Book Review *"The scholarship is of a consistently high level, and the prose is clear and well edited. Community and Solitude provides a salutary reminder that authorship is not always the solitary activity that many people assume. Recommend." * Choice *"This collection of ten essays begins with three solid essays, all making good use of correspondence." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *"Lee, as editor, sets out to counterbalance Johnson’s need for solitude to accomplish his literary works with his at times almost desperate search for company to alleviate his periods of despair and disillusion. How could someone with such a sociable character and love of conversation succeed in creating such a corpus of work that within its pages we can find epithets suitable for most occasions in life?" * The New Rambler *"These essays, well presented in this volume by Bucknell University Press, bring context, color, and an array of information that should prove of value to students and scholars of Johnson’s expansive circle." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"The book uses...discussions to provide an engaging illustration of time, place, and character for a wide audience. For scholars who know Boswell’s biography and eighteenth-century London well, the book offers primarily a useful synthesis of biographies and cultural history." * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *"As a monograph designed for considering the historical interconnectedness in readings of literature, history, and culture, Community and Solitude, part of Bucknell University Press's Transits series, accomplishes its goal with welcome fidelity." * The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats *"This volume of essays advances the field not only because it focuses on a new topic but also because of the patient and imaginative analysis in the various essays. The audience here extends beyond Johnsonians because so many other figures of interest are included, from Frances Burney, Burke, Warton, Seward, and Arthur Murphy to Goldsmith and of course Boswell." -- Steven Lynn * University of South Carolina *"An invaluable, erudite, thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to the study of Samuel Johnson's life, philosophy, and literary work, Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle is an extraordinary body of informative and deftly scripted scholarship." * Midwest Book Review *"The scholarship is of a consistently high level, and the prose is clear and well edited. Community and Solitude provides a salutary reminder that authorship is not always the solitary activity that many people assume. Recommend." * Choice *"This collection of ten essays begins with three solid essays, all making good use of correspondence." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *"Lee, as editor, sets out to counterbalance Johnson’s need for solitude to accomplish his literary works with his at times almost desperate search for company to alleviate his periods of despair and disillusion. How could someone with such a sociable character and love of conversation succeed in creating such a corpus of work that within its pages we can find epithets suitable for most occasions in life?" * The New Rambler *"These essays, well presented in this volume by Bucknell University Press, bring context, color, and an array of information that should prove of value to students and scholars of Johnson’s expansive circle." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"The book uses...discussions to provide an engaging illustration of time, place, and character for a wide audience. For scholars who know Boswell’s biography and eighteenth-century London well, the book offers primarily a useful synthesis of biographies and cultural history." * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *"As a monograph designed for considering the historical interconnectedness in readings of literature, history, and culture, Community and Solitude, part of Bucknell University Press's Transits series, accomplishes its goal with welcome fidelity." * The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats *Table of Contents List of Tables… vAbbreviations … vi Introduction ... 1Part I. Personal Relationships: Letters and Conversation ... 11 One Connecting with Three “Young Dogs”: Johnson’s Early Letters to Robert Chambers, Bennet Langton, and James Boswell ... 12John Radner Two James Elphinston and Samuel Johnson: Contact, Irritations, and an “Argonautic” Letter ... 44Christine Jackson-Holzberg Three The Case of the Missing Hottentot: John Dun’s Conversation with Samuel Johnson in Tour to the Hebrides as Reported by Boswell and Dun ... 79James CaudlePart II. Literary Relationships: Major Texts and Topics ... 118 Four Oliver Goldsmith’s Revisions to The Traveller ... 119James E. May Five “Down with her, Burney!”: Johnson, Burney, and the Politics of Literary Celebrity ... 165Marilyn Francus Six In the First Circle: The Four Narrators of the Life of Savage ... 205Lance Wilcox Seven “Under the shade of exalted merit”: Arthur Murphy’s A Poetical Epistle to Mr. Samuel Johnson, A.M. ... 236Anthony W. Lee Eight Johnson, Burke, Boswell, and the Slavery Debate ... 258Elizabeth Lambert Nine Samuel Johnson and Anna Seward: Solitude and Sensibility ... 295Claudia Thomas Kairoff Ten Johnson, Warton, and the Popular Reader ... 331Christopher CataneseAcknowledgments... 358Bibliography ... 360Index ... 389About the Contributors ... 390
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in
Book SynopsisWith issue twenty-four of 1650–1850, this annual enters its second quarter-century with a new publisher, a new look, a new editorial board, and a new commitment to intellectual and artistic exploration. As the diversely inventive essays in this first issue from the Bucknell University Press demonstrate, the energy and open-mindedness that made 1650–1850 a success continue to intensify. This first Bucknell issue includes a special feature that explores the use of sacred space in what was once incautiously called “the age of reason.” A suite of book reviews renews the 1650–1850 legacy of full-length and unbridled evaluation of the best in contemporary Enlightenment scholarship. These lively and informative reviews celebrate the many years that book review editor Baerbel Czennia has served 1650–1850 and also make for an able handoff to Samara Anne Cahill of Nanyang Technological University, who will edit the book review section beginning with our next volume. Most important of all, this issue serves as an invitation to scholars to offer their most creative and thoughtful work for consideration for publication in 1650–1850. About the annual journal 1650-18501650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines—literature (both in English and other languages), philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications of ideas, and encourages studies that move between the arts and the sciences—between the “hard” and the “humane” disciplines. The editors encourage proposals for “special features” that bring together five to seven essays on focused themes within its historical range, from the Interregnum to the end of the first generation of Romantic writers. While also being open to more specialized or particular studies that match up with the general themes and goals of the journal, 1650-1850 is in the first instance a journal about the artful presentation of ideas that welcomes good writing from its contributors.First published in 1994, 1650-1850 is currently in its 24th volume.ISSN 1065-3112.Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Scholarly communities, especially those joined in eighteenth-century studies, can raise a shout (or glass) over the prospect of the annual 1650-1850’s future publication by Bucknell University Press. This will provide us with regular publication and broader distribution of the journal Kevin Cope has so impressively edited for over 20 years. With contributions from around the world, 1650-1850 has long been providing essays focused on fields as diverse as art and philosophy and others truly inter-disciplinary. It has carried many special issues on topics like 'Death and Dying in the Early Modern Era.' It has also distinguished itself by including lengthy essays and reviews. While 1650-1850 has always been an important annual for seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century studies, its temporal focus is all the more valuable now that so much exciting research is being produced." -- James E. May * editor, 18th-Century Intelligencer, Pennsylvania State University, Dubois *"For more than two decades, 1650-1850 has offered its readers an inspiring example of what a scholarly annual concentrating on interdisciplinary and international topics can be. The work of seasoned scholars appears alongside that of 'mid-career' scholars and newly-minted PhDs, creating a heady variety of approaches and subject matter in every volume. The articles, the reviews, the 'special features,' and even the occasional 'Editor’s Choice' on underappreciated books always advance knowledge in large and small ways. Equally important, each contribution is typically written with verve and allusive pluckiness. There has never been anything doctrinaire about 1650-1850, other than an energy to display compelling new work to its best advantage. That Bucknell University Press has committed itself to this exciting annual is a cause for celebration." -- J.T. Scanlan * co-editor, The Age of Johnson, Providence College *“A good read and an intellectually responsible read, a worthwhile component of our literary public sphere that deserves our wellwishes.” -- Michael McKeon * Rutgers University *Table of Contents“A Picture of My Mind, My Sentiments All Laid Open to Their View”: Lady Chudleigh’s Printed Verse, the Coterie Reader, and the Modern EditorIGOR DJORDJEVIC Addison’s Anglican Rationalism, Cato’s Tragic Flaw, and StoicismMORGAN STRAWN Robert Harley and the Politics of Daniel Defoe’s Review, 1710–1713ASHLEY MARSHALL “All for Duty”: Dryden’s Critical Agenda in All for LovePETER BYRNE William Congreve as SatiristPATRICIA GAEL Classical Example and Gospel Rhetoric in the Sermons of In de pen dent Preacher Thomas BrooksKEVIN JOEL BERLAND Expanding Identity through Imagination; or, How Thomas Tryon Becomes the MarginalizedN. S. BOONE Johnson and China: Culture, Commerce, and the Dream of the Orient in Mid- Eighteenth- Century EnglandGREG CLINGHAM Technofacts: Christopher Smart and the Curiosity Cabinet WILLIAM HALL 243 Catesby’s Eclecticism and the Origin of His StyleALEX SELTZERSPECIAL FEATURE, EDITED BY WILLIAM STARGARD, PINE MANOR COLLEGE “SACRED SPACES AND SPIRITUALITY IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Special feature introduction by William Stargard Maria Clara Paulino, “Portuguese Religious Architecture, Beliefs and Practices in Northern European Travel Accounts (1750s–1850s)” Donovan Tann, Hesston College, “Ascetic Cosmopolitanism: Imagining Religious Retreat in Mary Astell’s Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Parts I and II and Letters Concerning the Love of God” Robin L. Thomas, “Convent and Crown: Redecorating Santa Chiara in Naples 1741–59"
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century
Book SynopsisWriting Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. The essays revolve around recognized male and female figures—returning to the Boswell and Burney circle—but present arguments that dismantle traditional privileging of biographical modes. The contributors reconsider the processes of hero making in the beginning phases of a culture of celebrity. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material “from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs,” each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy. New work on Frances Burney D’Arblay’s son, Alexander, as revealed through letters; on Isabelle de Charriere; on Hester Thrale Piozzi; and on Alicia LeFanu and Frances Burney’s realignment of family biography extend current conversations about eighteenth century biography and autobiography. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Trade Review"Rich and thought-provoking, Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century offers fresh perspectives on figures at the centre of studies of eighteenth-century life writing, including James Boswell and Frances Burney, and engages them in a fascinating dialogue with less prominent writers, such as Isabelle de Charrière and Alicia LeFanu. The essays are deeply knowledgeable, elegantly written, and pose important questions for studies of the genre. Collectively, they will be of significant value to scholars of eighteenth-century literature and life writing." -- Amy Culley * author of British Women’s Life Writing, 1760-1840: Friendship, Community, and Collaboration *"Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century offers a rich and expansive collection of essays by accomplished scholars, demonstrating how underserved the topic of life writing has been in the field that, arguably, invented its modern form." -- Laura Rosenthal * author of Nightwalkers: Prostitute Narratives from the Eighteenth Century *"Rich and thought-provoking, Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century offers fresh perspectives on figures at the centre of studies of eighteenth-century life writing, including James Boswell and Frances Burney, and engages them in a fascinating dialogue with less prominent writers, such as Isabelle de Charrière and Alicia LeFanu. The essays are deeply knowledgeable, elegantly written, and pose important questions for studies of the genre. Collectively, they will be of significant value to scholars of eighteenth-century literature and life writing." -- Amy Culley * author of British Women’s Life Writing, 1760-1840: Friendship, Community, and Collaboration *"Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century offers a rich and expansive collection of essays by accomplished scholars, demonstrating how underserved the topic of life writing has been in the field that, arguably, invented its modern form." -- Laura Rosenthal * author of Nightwalkers: Prostitute Narratives from the Eighteenth Century *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Art of Writing Lives Tanya Caldwell Chapter 1: Dr. Johnson’s Apology for the Married Life of Hester Thrale’: Hester Lynch Piozzi’s Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson LLD Lisa Berglund Chapter 2: The Education of Alexander d’Arblay: “The Idol of the World” Peter Sabor Chapter 3: Trying to Set the Record Straight: Alicia LeFanu, Frances Burney D’Arblay, and the Limits of Family Biography Marilyn Francus Chapter 4: The Life of Isabelle de Charrière: ‘Written by Herself’ Victoria Warren Chapter 5: Clashes of conversations in James Boswell’s Hebrides and Life of Johnson and ‘My Firm Regard to Authenticity’ James J. Caudle Chpater 6: Charles Burney’s Handel Reconsidered Todd Gilman Acknowledgements Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey: A Legacy
Book SynopsisLaurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. Deemed more accessible than Sterne’s Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and often assigned as a college text, A Sentimental Journey has received its share of critical attention, but—unlike Tristram Shandy—to date it has not been the subject of a dedicated anthology of critical essays. This volume fills that gap with fresh perspectives on Sterne’s novel that will appeal to students and critics alike. Together with an introduction that situates each essay within A Sentimental Journey’s reception history, and a tailpiece detailing the culmination of Sterne’s career and his death, this volume presents a cohesive approach to this significant text that is simultaneously grounded and revelatory.Trade Review"This collection brings together a group of distinguished Sterne scholars whose focus on the author’s final publication demonstrates the way new questions, new methodologies, new pairings, and new contexts can invigorate our understanding of Sterne, his world, and his work." -- Elizabeth Kraft * author of Laurence Sterne Revisited *"The prime virtue of this collection is that it combines more traditional literary approaches with more recent models of literary scholarship, influenced by affect theory, gender studies, animal studies, and thing theory. As such, it stands as a valuable snapshot of Sterne studies in the present." -- Jesse Molesworth * author of Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic *"A welcome addition to criticism on Sterne." * XVII-XVIII *"The strength of the resulting volume lies not only in the constituent essays, but also in the intelligence and creativity with which Newbould and Gerard have disposed and framed them, setting them in constantly illuminating conversation with one another. In their expert editorial hands, A Sentimental Journey has never looked so rich in imaginative implication and interpretative possibility." * The Shandean *"This collection brings together a group of distinguished Sterne scholars whose focus on the author’s final publication demonstrates the way new questions, new methodologies, new pairings, and new contexts can invigorate our understanding of Sterne, his world, and his work." -- Elizabeth Kraft * author of Laurence Sterne Revisited *"The prime virtue of this collection is that it combines more traditional literary approaches with more recent models of literary scholarship, influenced by affect theory, gender studies, animal studies, and thing theory. As such, it stands as a valuable snapshot of Sterne studies in the present." -- Jesse Molesworth * author of Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic *"A welcome addition to criticism on Sterne." * XVII-XVIII *"The strength of the resulting volume lies not only in the constituent essays, but also in the intelligence and creativity with which Newbould and Gerard have disposed and framed them, setting them in constantly illuminating conversation with one another. In their expert editorial hands, A Sentimental Journey has never looked so rich in imaginative implication and interpretative possibility." * The Shandean *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations and Conventions W. B. Gerard and M-C. Newbould, “Introduction: A Sentimental Journey’s Critical Legacies.” I. Men, Women, and other Animals 1. Shaun Regan, “Refining Masculinity in Yorick’s Journey: Courtesy, Chivalry, Gallantry.” 2. Julia Banister, “Yorick’s War: Patriot Politics, Military Men, and Willing Women in A Sentimental Journey.” 3. Glynis Ridley, “Sterne’s Journey into Animal Affect.” II. Words, Structures, Things 4. Chris Ewers, “Spatial Digression and the Borders of Knowledge in A Sentimental Journey.” 5. Alexander Hardie-Forsyth, “(O)economy and Order: Laurence Sterne’s Chaptering.” 6. Fraser Easton, "Yorick's Speech and the Starling's Song: The Limits of Elocution in A Sentimental Journey" 7. Jennifer Preston Wilson, “Things of the Spirit: Vibrant Matter in A Sentimental Journey.” III. Historical Contexts, Rewritten Texts 8. Melvyn New, “Boswell and Sterne in 1768.” 9. Peter Budrin, “The Shadow of Eliza: Sterne’s Underplot in A Sentimental Journey.” 10. Paul Goring, “Debt, Death, and Literary Inheritance: The Ends of Sterne and A Sentimental Journey.” Pat Rogers, “Afterword” Acknowledgments Works Cited and Selected Bibliography Index About the Contributors
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Robinson Crusoe after 300 Years
Book SynopsisThere is no shortage of explanations for the longevity of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, which has been interpreted as both religious allegory and frontier myth, with Crusoe seen as an example of the self-sufficient adventurer and the archetypal colonizer and capitalist. Defoe’s original has been reimagined multiple times in legions of Robinsonade or castaway stories, but the Crusoe myth is far from spent. This wideranging collection brings together eleven scholars who suggest new and unfamiliar ways of thinking about this most familiar of works, and who ask us to consider the enduring appeal of “Crusoe,” more recognizable today than ever before.Trade Review"The editors have gathered a collection of excellent essays by eminent scholars on the continuing relevance and power after three hundred years of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Informative and provocative, these essays provide an essential testimonial to the cultural and philosophical implications of Defoe’s classic novel through those centuries into our own." -- John Richetti * editor of The Cambridge Companion to Robinson Crusoe *"This rich, wide-ranging volume brings into view the kinds of concerns and contexts that have informed the reception of Robinson Crusoe itself as well as countless remediations: gender, individualism, imperialism; pantomime, cinema, animal stories for children; more variously, Newton, tobacco, the sequel, and Crusoeian iconicity. This collection is valuable both for its deepening contribution to Defoe studies and its broadening relevance to a larger conversation about the genres of the Robinsonade." -- Rivka Swenson * author of Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603-1832 *"[An]outstanding collection of essays that demonstrates the enduring significance of literature’s most famous castaway." * Restoration Journal *"A highly entertaining and enlightening collection of contemporary essays." * The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *Table of ContentsA Note on the Text Introduction Andreas K. E. Mueller and Glynis Ridley PART ONE: Generic Revisions 1 The Martian: Crusoe at the Final Frontier Glynis Ridley 2 Robinson’s Transgender Voyage: or, Burlesquing Crusoe Geoffrey Sill 3 Animal Crusoes: Anthropomorphism and Identification in Children’s Robinsonades Amy Hicks and Scott Pyrz PART TWO: Mind and Matter 4 Defoe and Newton: Modern Matter Laura Brown 5 Crusoe’s Ecstasies: Passivity, Resignation, and Tobacco Rites Daniel Yu 6 Taken by Storm: Robinson Crusoe and Aqueous Violence Jeremy Chow 7 Life Gets Tedious: Crusoe and the Threat of Boredom Pat Rogers PART THREE: Character and Form 8 Crusoe’s Rambling Benjamin F. Pauley 9 Crusoe’s Encounters with the World and the Problem of Justice in The Farther Adventures Maximillian E. Novak 10 “To Us the Mere Name Is Enough”: Robinson Crusoe, Myth, and Iconicity Andreas K. E. Mueller Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in
Book SynopsisVolume 26 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era travels beyond the usual discussions of power, identity, and cultural production to visit the purlieus and provinces of Britain’s literary empire. Bulging at its bindings are essays investigating out-of-the-way but influential ensembles, whether female religious enthusiasts, annotators of Maria Edgeworth’s underappreciated works, or modern video-based Islamic super-heroines energized by Mary Wollstonecraft’s irreverance. The global impact of the local is celebrated in studies of the personal pronoun in Samuel Johnson’s political writings and of the outsize role of a difficult old codger in catalyzing the literary career of Charlotte Smith. Headlining a volume that peers into minute details in order to see the outer limits of Enlightenment culture is a special feature on metaphor in long-eighteenth-century poetry and criticism. Five interdisciplinary essays investigate the deep Enlightenment origins of a trope usually associated with the rise of Romanticism. Volume 26 culminates in a rich review section containing fourteen responses to current books on Enlightenment religion, science, literature, philosophy, political science, music, history, and art.About the annual journal 1650-18501650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines: literature (both in English and other languages), philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications of ideas, and encourages studies that move between the arts and the sciences—between the “hard” and the “humane” disciplines. The editors encourage proposals for special features that bring together five to seven essays on focused themes within its historical range, from the Interregnum to the end of the first generation of Romantic writers. While also being open to more specialized or particular studies that match up with the general themes and goals of the journal, 1650-1850 is in the first instance a journal about the artful presentation of ideas that welcomes good writing from its contributors. ISSN 1065-3112. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Scholarly communities, especially those joined in eighteenth-century studies, can raise a shout (or glass) over the prospect of the annual 1650-1850’s future publication by Bucknell University Press. This will provide us with regular publication and broader distribution of the journal Kevin Cope has so impressively edited for over 20 years. With contributions from around the world, 1650-1850 has long been providing essays focused on fields as diverse as art and philosophy and others truly inter-disciplinary. It has carried many special issues on topics like 'Death and Dying in the Early Modern Era.' It has also distinguished itself by including lengthy essays and reviews. While 1650-1850 has always been an important annual for seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century studies, its temporal focus is all the more valuable now that so much exciting research is being produced." -- James E. May * editor, 18th-Century Intelligencer *"For more than two decades, 1650-1850 has offered its readers an inspiring example of what a scholarly annual concentrating on interdisciplinary and international topics can be. The work of seasoned scholars appears alongside that of 'mid-career' scholars and newly-minted PhDs, creating a heady variety of approaches and subject matter in every volume. The articles, the reviews, the 'special features,' and even the occasional 'Editor’s Choice' on underappreciated books always advance knowledge in large and small ways. Equally important, each contribution is typically written with verve and allusive pluckiness. There has never been anything doctrinaire about 1650-1850, other than an energy to display compelling new work to its best advantage. That Bucknell University Press has committed itself to this exciting annual is a cause for celebration." -- J.T. Scanlan * coeditor, The Age of Johnson *“A good read and an intellectually responsible read, a worthwhile component of our literary public sphere that deserves our well wishes.” -- Michael McKeon * author of The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge *"Under Kevin L. Cope’s leadership, this annual continues to display the wide-range not only of subject matter but also of critical approach that is suggested by its subtitle. The heart of this year’s volume comprises six essays edited by Cope [and] the always fulsome book review section, under the direction of Samara Anne Cahill, completes the volume." * The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *Table of ContentsESSAYS Edited by Kevin L. Cope Prostitutes or Proselytes: Eighteenth-Century Female Enthusiasts ROBIN RUNIA Edmund Burke on Monarchy: Keystone and Trials of Strength NORBERT COL “These Kings of me”: The Provenance and Significance of an Allusion in Johnson’s Taxation No Tyranny MATTHEW M. DAVIS Localizing Women? Mary Wollstonecraft, Burka Avenger, and the Adaptable Heroine SAMARA ANNE CAHILL The Woman, the Politician, and the Will: Charlotte Smith’s Literary Assaults on John Robinson, “The Lowest Rank of Human Degradation” ANDREW CONNELL In Quotes: Annotating Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda MELVYN NEW SPECIAL FEATURE Metaphor in the Poetry and Criticism of the Long Eighteenth Century Edited by Mark A. Pedreira Introduction to the Special Feature: Metaphor in the Poetry and Criticism of the Long Eighteenth Century MARK A. PEDREIRA Organizing Poetry in the Eighteenth Century: Anthologies and Metaphor ADAM ROUNCE Curvilinear Thinking in the Long Eighteenth Century TAYLOR CORSE Feeling Allegory: Affect, Metaphor, and Milton’s Eighteenth-Century Reception MICHAEL EDSON The Worldliness of Edward Young and the Metaphorics of Georgian Patronage JACOB SIDER JOST Coleridge and Metaphor: Crossing Thresholds LINDA L. REESMAN BOOK REVIEWS Edited by Samara Anne Cahill Janet Aikins Yount, ed., Clarissa: The Twentieth-Century Response, 1900–1950, 2 vols. Reviewed by SÖREN HAMMERSCHMIDT O. M. Brack Jr. and Robert De Maria Jr., eds., The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Volume 20. Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings Reviewed by GREG CLINGHAM Anthony W. Lee, ed., Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle Reviewed by JOHN J. BURKE Anthony W. Lee, ed., New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER D. JOHNSON Anthony W. Lee, ed., Samuel Johnson among the Modernists Reviewed by JOHN SITTER Leo Damrosch, The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age Reviewed by MALCOLM JACK Samara Anne Cahill, Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature Reviewed by ASHLEY BENDER Teresa Barnard, ed., British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century Reviewed by GEFEN BAR-ON SANTOR Trevor Ross, Writing in Public: Literature and the Press in Eighteenth-Century Britain Reviewed by MALCOLM JACK Rivka Swenson, Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832 Reviewed by PAUL J. DeGATEGNO Paul Corneilson, ed., Ballet Music from the Mannheim Court. Part V, Christian Cannabich. Les Fêtes du sérail, and Carol G. Marsh, ed., Angélique et Médor, ou Roland furieux Reviewed by GLORIA EIVE Margaret Jacob, The Secular Enlightenment Reviewed by R. J. W. MILLS Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler, eds., Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Vol. 46 Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER D. JOHNSON Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler, eds., Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Vol. 47 Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER D. JOHNSON About the Contributors
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Serious Reflections During the Life and
Book SynopsisSerious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World, first published in 1720 and considered a sequel to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of essays written in the voice of the Crusoe character. Expressing Defoe’s thoughts about many moral questions of the day, the narrator takes up isolation, poverty, religious liberty, and epistemology. Defoe also used this volume to revive his interest in poetry, not the satiric poetry of the early eighteenth century, but the more inspirational verse that appeared in some of his later works. Serious Reflections also includes an imaginative flight in which Crusoe wanders among the planets, a return to the moon voyage impulse of Defoe’s 1705 work The Consolidator. Illuminating the ideas and philosophy of this most influential of English novelists, it is invaluable for any student of the period. Trade Review"Robinson Crusoe takes credit in the Preface for the authorship of this third part of the trilogy of The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, but this book is markedly different from the first two volumes. Crusoe rambles through a dozen large questions of social and religious morality which he contends are allegorized in his life. Even the best readers of Defoe can benefit from having a guide through this philosophical labyrinth. Fortunately, the introduction and notes to this superbly edited volume provide the necessary guidance and insight to make the Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe accessible, perhaps for the first time." -- Geoffrey Sill * editor of The Works of Daniel Defoe: Satire, Fantasy, and Supernatural Writings *"The editors of Serious Reflections provide useful, contextual, and reasonably tempered reflections of their own on the abundant run of Defoe’s material. Serious Reflections is a kind of topographical survey of the early eighteenth-century mind and this definitive edition charts that survey with a wonderful scholarly and critical agility throughout." -- Michael Seidel * author of Exile and the Narrative Imagination *Table of ContentsContributorsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSerious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick WorldRobinson Crusoe’s PrefacePublisher’s Introduction1 Of SOLITUDE2 An Essay upon HONESTY3 of the Immorality of Conversation, and The Vulgar Errors of Behaviour4 An Essay on the present State of Religion in the World5 Of listning to the Voice of Providence6 Of the Proportion between the Christian and Pagan WorldA Vision of the Angelick WorldBibliographic DescriptionsList of Editorial EmendationsSelected BibliographyAbout the EditorsIndex
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France
Book SynopsisCollecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play—from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself—this volume offers new insights into how play was used to represent and reimagine the world in eighteenth-century France. In documenting various modes of play, contributors theorize its relation to law, religion, politics, and economics. Equally important was the role of “play” in plays, and the function of theatrical performance in mirroring, and often contesting, our place in the universe. These essays remind us that the spirit of play was very much alive during the “Age of Reason,” providing ways for its practitioners to consider more “serious” themes such as free will and determinism, illusions and equivocations, or chance and inequality. Standing at the intersection of multiple intellectual avenues, this is the first comprehensive study in English devoted to the different guises of play in Enlightenment France, certain to interest curious readers across disciplinary backgrounds.Trade Review"Bringing together game studies and 18th-century French studies, Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France is a most welcome contribution to the study of French literature, history, and culture. The collection introduces us to understudied works and provides fresh approaches to canonical texts, broadening our understanding of the interaction between play, culture, and politics." -- Tracy Rutler * co-creator of Legacies of the Enlightenment *"An enjoyable and stimulating collection, this volume will be of much interest to students and scholars alike. It will undoubtedly spur new scholarly work on the history of play which, as the editors and contributors so convincingly show, is no trivial matter." -- Gemma Tidman * H-France Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Fayçal Falaky and Reginald McGinnis 1 Playing with Dolls in Old Regime Fairy Tales Rori Bloom 2 The Morality of Bilboquet, or the Equivocations of Language Jean-Alexandre Perras 3 Fiction as Play: Rhetorical Subversion in Alain-René Lesage’s Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane Zeina Hakim 4 Playthings of Fortune: Lots, Games of Chance, and Inequality in l’Abbé Prévost Masano Yamashita 5 Boundless Play and Infinite Pleasure in the Chevalier de Béthune’s Relation du monde de Mercure Erika Mandarino 6 The Politics of Orientalist Fantasy in French Opera Katharine Hargrave 7 Playing at Theater: Modes of Play in Théâtre de Société Maria Teodora Comsa 8 Between Play and Ritual: Profane Masquerade in the French Revolution Annelle Curulla 9 The Return of Play, or the End of Revolutionary Theater Yann Robert 10 Video Games as Cultural History: Procedural Narrative and the Eighteenth-Century Fair Theater Jeffrey M. Leichman Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Book SynopsisSeafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the specter of shipwreck loomed large. Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World probes this preoccupation by examining portrayals of nautical disasters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture. The essays collected here showcase shipwreck’s symbolic deployment to question colonial expansion and transoceanic trade; to critique the Christian enterprise overseas; to signal the collapse of dominant social order; and to relay moral messages and represent socio-political debates. The contributors find examples in poetry, theater, narrative fiction, and other print artifacts, and approach the topic variously through the lens of historical, literary, and cultural studies. Ultimately demonstrating how shipwrecks both shaped and destabilized perceptions of the Spanish Empire worldwide, this analytically rich volume is the first in Hispanic studies to investigate the darker side of mercantile and imperial expansion through maritime disaster.Trade Review"This is a timely collection of essays that provides students and scholars of early modernity with new perspectives and insights on the importance of shipwrecks as a major cultural and political event. For all the authors in the volume, a shipwreck is the unavoidable partner of empire and colonial expansion, signaling the perilous path of conquest and at the same time revealing the fissures of the entire imperial enterprise. Going beyond rhetoric, the volume argues for a more comprehensive approach to shipwrecks, defined as significant cultural events that expose not only the precarious nature of imperial expansion and colonial rule, but also issues related to gender, sexuality, identity, and morality." -- Luis Avilés * author of Avatares de lo invisible: Espacio y subjetividad en los Siglos de Oro *"Rodríguez-Guridi and Ruiz's Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World is an excellent example of the rich interdisciplinary orientation that prevails in the field of Early Modern Hispanic Studies, providing fertile ground for in-depth analyses on resistance to Spanish conquest and colonization." -- Raúl Marrero-Fente * author of Epic, Empire, and Community in the Atlantic World: Silvestre de Balboa’s Espejo de pacienc *"Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World is perhaps the only English-language collection of essays structured around this central theme or metaphor in recent times. Now that a number of literary critics, cultural studies scholars, and historians are working on maritime matters in the Spanish-speaking world, the chapters of this book offer a distinctive way of looking at topics relevant to these scholars and to early modernists, generally." -- Elizabeth Davis * author of Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain *Table of ContentsForeword Josiah Blackmore Introduction Elena Rodríguez-Guridi and Carrie L. Ruiz Chapter 1: Turbulent Waters: Shipwreck in Zayas’s “Tarde llega el desengaño” Carrie L. Ruiz Chapter 2: Two Small and Two Large Imperial Shipwrecks by Cervantes and Góngora Julio Baena Chapter 3: The Reader as Castaway: Problematics of Reading Soledades by Luis de Góngora Elena Rodríguez-Guridi Chapter 4: On Moral Truth and the Controversy over the Amerindians: The Relación (1542), by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca Natalio Ohanna Chapter 5: The Discourse of Poverty in Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios Fernando Rodríguez Mansilla Chapter 6: Shipwreck, Exile, and Political Critique in the Comedia de Fernán Méndez Pinto en China (1631) by Antonio Enríquez Gómez Carmen Hsu Chapter 7: The Manila Galleon Shipwrecks: Writing Crisis and Decline in the Spanish Global Empire Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez Chapter 8: The Shipwreck of the Manila Galleon San Felipe in Seventeenth-Century Histories and Accounts on Japan Noemí Martín Santo Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District: A
Book SynopsisEngland’s famed Lake District—best known as the place of inspiration for the Wordsworths, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and other Romantic-era writers—is the locus of this pioneering study, which implements and critiques a new approach to literary analysis in the digital age. Deploying innovative methods from literary studies, corpus linguistics, historical geography, and geographical information science, Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District combines close readings of a body of writing about the region from 1622-1900 with distant approaches to textual analysis. This path-breaking volume exemplifies interdisciplinarity, demonstrating how digital humanities methodologies and geospatial tools can enhance our appreciation of a region whose topography has been long recognized as fundamental to the shape of the poetry and prose produced within it.Trade Review"It is rare that one book can influence several disciplines. Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District is such a title. Taylor and Gregory offer a compelling case for the spatial humanities, and in the process, make valuable contributions to literary studies, geography, history, and cultural studies. A truly innovative work."— David Bodenhamer, co-editor of Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives “Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District will quickly become a new standard in the field of literary geography. Its spatial synthesis of aesthetics, Romanticism, sociology, history, literature, and cartography will excite scholars from across the digital-analog divide. I highly recommend the book to every scholar working in these fields, as well as any reader interested in the Lake District and its rich, layered literature and culture."— Ryan Heuser, King's College, Cambridge University "Taylor and Gregory brilliantly demonstrate how digital techniques developed for work at a wide scale can be employed for the full depth of deep mapping. The result is one of the most exciting demonstrations of the value of computational technologies in literary analysis that I’ve read in a long time."— James Loxley, co-editor of Ben Jonson's Walk to Scotland: An Annotated Edition of the 'Foot Voyage'Table of ContentsFigures Tables Note on the Data 1 Deep Mapping and the Corpus of Lake District Writing The Distant Reader and the Close: Toward Multiscalar Analysis The Corpus of Lake District Writing Corpus Linguistics and Geographic Information Science Geographical Text Analysis Deep Mapping as Literary Practice 2 Picturesque Technologies and the Digital Humanities Specifying in General: Deep Mapping and the Gilpinian Picturesque The Picturesque in the CLDW Protest against the Wrong: The Problem with Picturesque Data Virtual Playgrounds in Text and on Screen 3 Tourists, Travelers, Inhabitants: Variant Digital Literary Geographies The “Discovery” of the Lake District Keep Moving: Tourism in the Lakes Proceeding at Leisure: Traveling in the Lake District Away from the Show Place: The Inhabitants’ Lakeland 4 Walking in the Literary Lakes Types of Lake District Walking Walking along a Good Road: Taking a Lakeland Excursion “Linger There a Breathing While”: Being a Pedestrian in the Lakes 5 Seeing Sound: Mapping the Lake District’s Soundscape The Power of Sound, Noise, and Silence Wordsworthian Listening How the Water Comes Down: Listening to Waterfalls The “Most Expensive Luxuries”: Cannon-Fire and English Echoes 6 Digital Cartographies and Personal Geographies: (Re-)Mapping Scafell Mapping Scafell Climbing Scafell The View from the Top Conclusion: The Future of Deep Mapping Appendix: The Corpus of Lake District Writing Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Dystopias of Infamy: Insult and Collective
Book SynopsisInsults, scorn, and verbal abuse—frequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulter—are destined to fail when that language is appropriated and embraced by the maligned group. In such circumstances, slander may instead empower and reinforce the collective identity of those perceived to be a threat to an idealized society. In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties, and fantasies of early modern Spain. Drawing on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary works, archival research, religious and political literature, and iconographic documents, Dystopias of Infamy traces how the production of insults haunts the imaginary of power, provoking latent anxieties about individual and collective resistance to subjectification. Of particular note is Cervantes’s tendency to parody regulatory fantasies about infamy throughout his work, lampooning repressive law for its paradoxical potential to instigate the very defiance it fears.Trade Review"Dystopias of Infamy shows convincingly how the discourse and practices of insult shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties, and fantasies of early modern Iberia. The significance of Irigoyen-García’s study lies in an innovative approach that reveals infamy’s resilience as much as its liabilities, its foreseeable victims as much as its unexpected mutations. Through the recuperation of little-known historical documents and incisive interpretation of well-established texts, this book provides fresh, nuanced insights into the social workings of both the dominant and marginalized in pre-modern Spain." -- Paul Michael Johnson * author of Affective Geographies: Cervantes, Emotion, and the Literary Mediterranean *"Extremely well-researched and well-written, Dystopias of Infamy is bound to be of interest not just to Hispanists, but also to cultural anthropologists and scholars interested in issues of identity formation among both dominant and marginalized groups." -- Anthony J. Cascardi * author of Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics *"Dystopias of Infamy shows convincingly how the discourse and practices of insult shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties, and fantasies of early modern Iberia. The significance of Irigoyen-García’s study lies in an innovative approach that reveals infamy’s resilience as much as its liabilities, its foreseeable victims as much as its unexpected mutations. Through the recuperation of little-known historical documents and incisive interpretation of well-established texts, this book provides fresh, nuanced insights into the social workings of both the dominant and marginalized in pre-modern Spain." -- Paul Michael Johnson * author of Affective Geographies: Cervantes, Emotion, and the Literary Mediterranean *"Extremely well-researched and well-written, Dystopias of Infamy is bound to be of interest not just to Hispanists, but also to cultural anthropologists and scholars interested in issues of identity formation among both dominant and marginalized groups." -- Anthony J. Cascardi * author of Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics *Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Names full of vituperations” 1. Insulting as a Social Speech Act: Communities of Affronters 2. Self-deprecation and Social Existence 3. Dystopias of Infamy 4. Fancy sambenitos: The Ethnicization of Infamy 5. “They did not bray in vain”: History, Insult, and Collective Identity Epilogue: Spanish History as sambenito Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Families of the Heart: Surrogate Relations in the
Book SynopsisIn this innovative analysis of canonical British novels, Campbell identifies a new literary device—the surrogate family—as a signal of cultural anxieties about young women’s changing relationship to matrimony across the long eighteenth century. By assembling chosen families rather than families of origin, Campbell convincingly argues, female protagonists in these works compensate for weak family ties, explore the world and themselves, prepare for idealized marriages, or sidestep marriage altogether. Tracing the evolution of this rich convention from the female characters in Defoe’s and Richardson’s fiction who are allowed some autonomy in choosing spouses, to the more explicitly feminist work of Haywood and Burney, in which connections between protagonists and their surrogate sisters and mothers can substitute for marriage itself, this book makes an ambitious intervention by upending a traditional trope—the model of the hierarchal family—ultimately offering a new lens through which to regard these familiar works.Trade Review“Campbell opens our eyes to a revolution of choice taking place during the eighteenth century. This groundbreaking study of surrogate families in the novels of Defoe, Richardson, Haywood, and Burney highlights the changing dynamics of family and marital politics, influenced not by blood but by bond.”— Katherine Ellison, author of A Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals “Ann Campbell’s Families of the Heart is a richly detailed study that provides a nuanced examination of surrogate families in the novels of Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, and Burney. Campbell’s insights about the roles of these families in the marriage plots of these novels are generative for scholars of the period.”— Jennifer Golightly, author of The Family, Marriage, and Radicalism in British Women's Novels of the 1790s: Public Affection and Private Affliction (Bucknell University Press) “This study skillfully synthesizes, builds on, and extends, through careful close reading, existing scholarship on surrogate families. Careful textual analysis is supplemented by an array of contextual work, from Defoe’s didactic writing, to Richardson’s own epistles to his female friends, and Haywood’s periodicals. The novels under study, by Defoe, Richardson, Burney, and Haywood, are well selected and indicate not only broad changes over time but also, at times, the way authors experimented within their own corpus. Of particular note, is the perceptive reading of the way Richardson’s novels, in distinct and dynamic ways, experiment with familial configurations, moving towards a grand quasi-utopian vision of surrogate families in Sir Charles Grandison, one in which surrogate siblings become crucial to the intellectual and emotional development of main characters. Most valuable to this reader was the way in which this study reveals the way that women writers transformed inherited models of the surrogate family to create dynamic families who exist not merely to propel the female protagonist towards marriage but also to enhance the emotional and intellectual development of female characters, to encourage discernment in the selection of close advisers, and to demonstrate that women can live fulfilling lives regardless of circumstances. This close examination of ten novels provides a useful typology of surrogate families that is relevant both within and beyond the eighteenth century.”— Sharon Alker, coauthor of Besieged: Early Modern British Siege Literature, 1642-1722 “Ann Campbell’s Families of the Heart is a richly detailed study that provides a nuanced examination of surrogate families in the novels of Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, and Burney. Campbell’s insights about the roles of these families in the marriage plots of these novels are generative for scholars of the period.”— Jennifer Golightly, author of The Family, Marriage, and Radicalism in British Women's Novels of the 1790s: Public Affect “This study skillfully synthesizes, builds on, and extends, through careful close reading, existing scholarship on surrogate families. Careful textual analysis is supplemented by an array of contextual work, from Defoe’s didactic writing, to Richardson’s own epistles to his female friends, and Haywood’s periodicals. The novels under study, by Defoe, Richardson, Burney, and Haywood, are well selected and indicate not only broad changes over time but also, at times, the way authors experimented within their own corpus. Of particular note, is the perceptive reading of the way Richardson’s novels, in distinct and dynamic ways, experiment with familial configurations, moving towards a grand quasi-utopian vision of surrogate families in Sir Charles Grandison, one in which surrogate siblings become crucial to the intellectual and emotional development of main characters. Most valuable to this reader was the way in which this study reveals the way that women writers transformed inherited models of the surrogate family to create dynamic families who exist not merely to propel the female protagonist towards marriage but also to enhance the emotional and intellectual development of female characters, to encourage discernment in the selection of close advisers, and to demonstrate that women can live fulfilling lives regardless of circumstances. This close examination of ten novels provides a useful typology of surrogate families that is relevant both within and beyond the eighteenth century.”— Sharon Alker, coauthor of Besieged: Early Modern British Siege Literature, 1642-1722 “Campbell opens our eyes to a revolution of choice taking place during the eighteenth century. This groundbreaking study of surrogate families in the novels of Defoe, Richardson, Haywood, and Burney highlights the changing dynamics of family and marital politics, influenced not by blood but by bond.”— Katherine Ellison, author of A Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography ManualsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Just Business: Surrogate Families as Entrepreneurial Ventures in Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders and Roxana 2 Building a Foundation for the Family of the Heart: Prototypes of Surrogate Families in Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and Pamela in her Exalted Condition 3 Perfecting the Family of the Heart: Relationship Remembered in Richardson’s Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison 4 An Affinity for Learning: Eliza Haywood’s The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless and The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy 5 Adopting to Change: Choosing Family in Frances Burney’s Evelina and Cecilia Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Families of the Heart: Surrogate Relations in the
Book SynopsisIn this innovative analysis of canonical British novels, Campbell identifies a new literary device—the surrogate family—as a signal of cultural anxieties about young women’s changing relationship to matrimony across the long eighteenth century. By assembling chosen families rather than families of origin, Campbell convincingly argues, female protagonists in these works compensate for weak family ties, explore the world and themselves, prepare for idealized marriages, or sidestep marriage altogether. Tracing the evolution of this rich convention from the female characters in Defoe’s and Richardson’s fiction who are allowed some autonomy in choosing spouses, to the more explicitly feminist work of Haywood and Burney, in which connections between protagonists and their surrogate sisters and mothers can substitute for marriage itself, this book makes an ambitious intervention by upending a traditional trope—the model of the hierarchal family—ultimately offering a new lens through which to regard these familiar works.Trade Review“Campbell opens our eyes to a revolution of choice taking place during the eighteenth century. This groundbreaking study of surrogate families in the novels of Defoe, Richardson, Haywood, and Burney highlights the changing dynamics of family and marital politics, influenced not by blood but by bond.”— Katherine Ellison, author of A Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals “Ann Campbell’s Families of the Heart is a richly detailed study that provides a nuanced examination of surrogate families in the novels of Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, and Burney. Campbell’s insights about the roles of these families in the marriage plots of these novels are generative for scholars of the period.”— Jennifer Golightly, author of The Family, Marriage, and Radicalism in British Women's Novels of the 1790s: Public Affection and Private Affliction (Bucknell University Press) “This study skillfully synthesizes, builds on, and extends, through careful close reading, existing scholarship on surrogate families. Careful textual analysis is supplemented by an array of contextual work, from Defoe’s didactic writing, to Richardson’s own epistles to his female friends, and Haywood’s periodicals. The novels under study, by Defoe, Richardson, Burney, and Haywood, are well selected and indicate not only broad changes over time but also, at times, the way authors experimented within their own corpus. Of particular note, is the perceptive reading of the way Richardson’s novels, in distinct and dynamic ways, experiment with familial configurations, moving towards a grand quasi-utopian vision of surrogate families in Sir Charles Grandison, one in which surrogate siblings become crucial to the intellectual and emotional development of main characters. Most valuable to this reader was the way in which this study reveals the way that women writers transformed inherited models of the surrogate family to create dynamic families who exist not merely to propel the female protagonist towards marriage but also to enhance the emotional and intellectual development of female characters, to encourage discernment in the selection of close advisers, and to demonstrate that women can live fulfilling lives regardless of circumstances. This close examination of ten novels provides a useful typology of surrogate families that is relevant both within and beyond the eighteenth century.”— Sharon Alker, coauthor of Besieged: Early Modern British Siege Literature, 1642-1722 “Campbell opens our eyes to a revolution of choice taking place during the eighteenth century. This groundbreaking study of surrogate families in the novels of Defoe, Richardson, Haywood, and Burney highlights the changing dynamics of family and marital politics, influenced not by blood but by bond.”— Katherine Ellison, author of A Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals “Ann Campbell’s Families of the Heart is a richly detailed study that provides a nuanced examination of surrogate families in the novels of Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, and Burney. Campbell’s insights about the roles of these families in the marriage plots of these novels are generative for scholars of the period.”— Jennifer Golightly, author of The Family, Marriage, and Radicalism in British Women's Novels of the 1790s: Public Affect “This study skillfully synthesizes, builds on, and extends, through careful close reading, existing scholarship on surrogate families. Careful textual analysis is supplemented by an array of contextual work, from Defoe’s didactic writing, to Richardson’s own epistles to his female friends, and Haywood’s periodicals. The novels under study, by Defoe, Richardson, Burney, and Haywood, are well selected and indicate not only broad changes over time but also, at times, the way authors experimented within their own corpus. Of particular note, is the perceptive reading of the way Richardson’s novels, in distinct and dynamic ways, experiment with familial configurations, moving towards a grand quasi-utopian vision of surrogate families in Sir Charles Grandison, one in which surrogate siblings become crucial to the intellectual and emotional development of main characters. Most valuable to this reader was the way in which this study reveals the way that women writers transformed inherited models of the surrogate family to create dynamic families who exist not merely to propel the female protagonist towards marriage but also to enhance the emotional and intellectual development of female characters, to encourage discernment in the selection of close advisers, and to demonstrate that women can live fulfilling lives regardless of circumstances. This close examination of ten novels provides a useful typology of surrogate families that is relevant both within and beyond the eighteenth century.”— Sharon Alker, coauthor of Besieged: Early Modern British Siege Literature, 1642-1722Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Just Business: Surrogate Families as Entrepreneurial Ventures in Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders and Roxana 2 Building a Foundation for the Family of the Heart: Prototypes of Surrogate Families in Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and Pamela in her Exalted Condition 3 Perfecting the Family of the Heart: Relationship Remembered in Richardson’s Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison 4 An Affinity for Learning: Eliza Haywood’s The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless and The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy 5 Adopting to Change: Choosing Family in Frances Burney’s Evelina and Cecilia Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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