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Book SynopsisThrough extensive Romance Languages archival and field research, this book challenges eurocentric notions of World Literature to create a 'Latin-African' literary history that interweaves the influential voices of African, Caribbean, and Latinx/Chicanx authors. This book bridges the long-neglected distance between hemispheric and African studies.Trade Review'By rehabilitating and privileging the African archive in her account of Latinx/Caribbean relations, Sarah Quesada's book provides a fresh and very welcome instalment to debates about Pan-Africanism. But here, Pan-Africanism is more than just an aspirational political project, long distracted by the cynical pragmatism of political leaders. Rather, it is a work of re-animation that will redefine African and African diasporic relations through a well-grounded and nuanced humanities perspective. This book is a magnificent gift offering.' Ato Quayson, Stanford University'Beautifully written, well researched and bold in its formulations, The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature is an important intervention in the reading of Latinx and Latin American literature, widely defined. The brilliance of the book is manifest in the analysis, in which the Sarah Quesada unearths discreet connections to Africa and unfolds them into an ambitious and successful re-cartography of the Atlantic through a Latin America-Africa axis that is very persuasive and unique.' Ignacio Sanchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis'Sarah Quesada has written a BIG book, both in its scholarly import and geographic scope. Quesada finally centers Africa in study of the Black Atlantic. She also redresses its exclusion of Latin America - a region that received three-quarters of enslaved Africans during the colonial period - while making plain why Latinx literature has always been a world literature. Reading comparatively and with laser focus across four languages, dozens of colonial archives, and three continents, Quesada traces the textual memory and political internationalism that has thrived for over eighty years among authors and political actors from the US Southwest, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Colombia, and Benin, Nigeria, Senegal, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Quesada presents the reader with the beating nexus of cultural, political, and aesthetic Latin-Africa, in vivid and engaging prose, such as only a generational thinker can accomplish. Afrolatinidad is redefined in her capable hands.' María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, New York University'Quesada's The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature transforms Paul Gilroy's notion of The Black Atlantic into an Afro-Latino Atlantic…Quesada is able to make a hopeful argument for the possibility of fiction - whether traditional print novels or heritage site oral storytelling - to helpfully respond to and potentially transform the path wrought by this real and symbolic violence.' Tom McEnaney, University of California, BerkeleyTable of Contents1. Fear: Junot Díaz's zombies and les contorsions extraordinaires in 'Monstro'; 2. Commodification: Badagry and the African safari of Achy Obejas's Ruins; 3. Obliteration: Gabriel García Márquez and his Angolan chronicles of a 'Latin-African' death foretold; 4. Archival distortion: The Chicano-Congo Relación of Tomás Rivera and Rudolfo Anaya.

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Book SynopsisBram Stoker''sDraculais the most famous vampire in literature and film. This new collection of sixteen essays brings together a range of internationally renowned scholars to provide a series of pathways through this celebrated Gothic novel and its innumerable adaptations and translations. The volume illuminates the novel''s various pre-histories, critical contexts and subsequent cultural transformations. Chapters explore literary history, Gothic revival scholarship, folklore, anthropology, psychology, sexology, philosophy, occultism, cultural history, critical race theory, theatre and film history, and the place of the vampire in Europe and beyond. These studies provide an accessible guide of cutting-edge scholarship to one of the most celebrated modern Gothic horror stories. ThisCompanionwill serve as a key resource for scholars, teachers and students interested in the enduring force of Dracula and the seemingly inexhaustible range of the contexts it requires and readings it might genTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors; Note on the Text; Chronology; Introduction Roger Luckhurst; Part I. Dracula in the Gothic Tradition: 1. Dracula's Pre-History: The Advent of the Vampire Nick Groom; 2. Dracula's Debts to the Gothic Romance William Hughes; 3. Dracula and the Late Victorian Gothic Revival Alex Warwick; Part II. Contexts: 4. Dracula and the Occult Christine Ferguson; 5. Dracula and Psychology Roger Luckhurst; 6. Dracula and Sexology Heike Bauer; 7. Dracula in the Age of Mass Migration David Glover; 8. Dracula and the East Matthew Gibson; 9. Dracula's Blood Anthony Bale; 10. Dracula and Women Carol Senf; Part III. New Directions: 11. Dracula Queered Xavier Aldana Reyes; 12. Dracula and New Horror Theory Mark Blacklock; 13. Transnational Draculas Ken Gelder; Part IV. Adaptations: 14. Dracula on Stage Catherine Wynne; 15. Dracula on Film 1931-1959 Alison Peirse; 16. Dracula on Film and TV, 1960 to present Stacey Abbott; Guide to Further Reading; Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores three crucial stages in Dickens'' on-going voyage of discovery into what has been called the ''hidden springs'' of his fiction; arguing that in three of Dickens best known novels, we witness Dickens responding to some identifiable force represented as coming from underneath the ground plan of the book in question.Trade Review"The reader of this excellent study of Dickens's Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, and Bleak House quickly becomes enmeshed in Gordon's impassioned inquiries. Exhilarating reads, these serious novels provide inexhaustible material for critical analyses. Drawing on the work of such scholars as J. Hillis Miller, Terry Castle, and Michel Slater (author of the magisterial Charles Dickens, CH, Apr'10, 47-4288), Gordon (Connecticut College) sheds light on Dickens's magical force. Among the topics he examines are pedophilia, anti-Semitism, industrialism, capitalism, and liminal experiences. Dickens's complex narrative style includes a variety of tropes - melodrama, fairy tale, the gothic. The three novels depict child sacrifice, corrupt patriarchs, and social disharmony. Oliver Twist is preoccupied by sadism and infanticide, horrors Dickens buffers with Oliver's good fortune and hypnagogic trances. Dombey and Bleak House move beyond that fairy-tale world, dealing with contemporaneous social institutions and issues (railroads, capitalism, social leadership). In the complex Bleak House, women's trials constitute a special subset of issues as women seek satisfaction in an elusive motherhood; the narrative intertwines a retrospective, wounded female voice with a dominating masculine presence. Thus the reader of the novelist's "psychological pleasure palace" is challenged by alternative perceptions. Gordon's discussion of all this makes for an excellent book." - Choice "With the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth imminent, we can expect a flood of books on Charles Dickens. I suspect, however, that few of them will display as much critical intelligence as Sensation and Sublimation in Charles Dickens, and I doubt that any will match the positively Dickensian energy, wit, and gusto that Gordon brings to his subject." - Austin Briggs, Tompkins Professor of English Emeritus, Hamilton College "This astonishingly alert reading explores the tension between surface narrative and covert allusion. Its many new insights strengthen our sense ofDickens's creative brilliance anddeepenourunderstanding of three of his novels." - Robert Lapides, Professor of English, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsWhat Right Have They to Butcher Me?' 'Thankee, Mum,' said Toodle, 'Since You Are Suppressing' 'In a Thick Crowd of Sounds, but Still Intelligibly Enough to be Understood' 'Is Esther Pretty?' and Nine Other Questions About Bleak House

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Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on the literary connotations of the ''Channel Packet'' and sets forth lively dialogues between French and British culture at a key period of artistic innovation and exchange between ''high'' and popular art forms.Trade Review'With its wide range of insightful essays on both French- and English-language texts, Radford and Reid's book has much to contribute to our understanding both of Modernism as a transnational phenomenon and, more specifically, of the rich and peculiar cultural history of the Channel and its coasts.' - Dominic Rainsford, Professor of Literatures in English, Aarhus University; author of Literature, Identity and the English ChannelTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Channel Vision; A.Radford & V.Reid Sea Change: English Responses to French Poetry between Decadence and Modernism; J.Higgins Entente asymétrique? Franco-British Literary Exchanges in 1908; R.Hibbitt Misfits in France: Wild(e) about Dieppe; J.Barnes & H.Lee Transposing Wilde's Salomé: The French Operas by Strauss and Mariotte; E.Eells Valery Larbaud, Thomas Hardy and The Dynasts, with two letters from Larbaud to Hardy; D.Roe Exploring English Realist Fiction: André Gide and his Correspondents; P.Pollard Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes, the Nouvelle Revue Française and the English Adventure Novel; D.Steel Marcel Schwob and Robert Louis Stevenson: Encounters in Death and Letters; V.Reid Croisset-London and Back, or, Flaubert's Anglo-Saxon Ghosts; C.Patey The Imagination of Space: Ford Madox Ford and France; L.Colombino An Atlas of Unknown Worlds: Charting Interwar Paris in the Short Stories of Mary Butts; A.Radford Index

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Book SynopsisNecromanticism is a study of literary pilgrimage: readers'' compulsion to visit literary homes, landscapes, and (especially) graves during the long Romantic period. The book draws on the histories of tourism and literary genres to highlight Romanticism''s recourse to the dead in its reading, writing, and canon-making practices.Trade Review"Necromanticism is a critically reflective, thoroughly researched, and unexpectedly upbeat study of literary necro-tourism in Britain, associated Anglo-American discourses and cultural practises, and the implications for modern scholarly interpretations of Romantic historiography, reading and canon-making." - Samantha Matthews, University of Bristol, UK ''Westover's book, then, invites a critical reflection on our understanding of 'Romanticism' itself through his thoughtful analysis of the ways in which living authors writing about dead authors are engaged in defining (even as they hope, in turn, to become defined by) the commemorative narraties that go into creating a shared literary heritage.'' - Byron Journal ''Westover intelligently synthesises perspectives from different disciplines and critical approaches to produce a distinctive reading of the cultural ramifications of trying to commune with authors' spirits in close proximity to their bodies.'' - Samantha Matthews, Uniersity of Bristol, UK "A crucial development in the field of literary tourism... Westover's book is particularly insightful in providing literary touristic practices with a theoretical underpinning... Even when Westover is stepping on trodden critical ground, he provides a fresh perspective through subtle analysis... valuable reading for nineteenth-century scholars across the disciplines of the humanities." Rebecca Butler, The BARS ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction - Traveling to Meet the Dead On Ideal Presence The Origins of Literary Tourism William Godwin, Necro-Tourism, and the Empirical Afterlife of the Dead Imaginary Pilgrimages: Felicia Hemans, Dead Poets, and Romantic Historiography Interlude: Necromanticism and Romantic Authorship The Transatlantic Invention of 'English' Literary Heritage Illustration, Historicism, and Travel: The Legacy of Sir Walter Scott Notes Works Consulted Index

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Book SynopsisThis highly original study opens up a new dimension to Joseph Conrad by revealing his lifelong fascination with the popular culture of his day.Trade Review'Donovan is to be praised both for the care and detail of his excavation of popular culture in Conrad's oeuvre and for the lucidity with which he presents his results...Not only does this volume provoke renewed interest in its subject matter, but it also stands as a paradigm in its meticulous research, so that the combination provides that novel and most welcome thing - a riveting new work of Conrad scholarship.' - The Conradian 'What strikes the reader in this volume is Donovan's appreciation of Conrad's life and works, and his ability to bind together Conrad's innumerable subtle reflections on the emerging dominance of popular culture. This work is one of the most readable and informative studies of Conrad to appear in many years, an example of what rigorous scholarship and fine writing can achieve.' - English Literature in Transition 'Donovan's rewarding new study .... successfully demonstrates how thoroughly Conrad's fiction is permeated by the material traces of popular culture. ... Each of its extended readings and biographical anecdotes serves both to consolidate and to invite reconsideration of the new face of Conrad that has emerged in Victorian and modernist studies over the past few decades. The aura of this new face deserves many more such studies.'- Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Visual Entertainment Tourism Advertising Magazine Fiction Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWilliam Blake is one of the most important influences on twentieth-century literature. This study will ask why he is a figure central to the Modernist re-definition of past art. He also appears to be an acceptable sage for postmodernists, he can be associated with an opposition to authority without imposing one version of his own mythology.Trade Review'this first full-length study of Blake's influence on twentieth-century literature is fascinating in it's range of reference.' - The Use of English '...the most consistent and comprehensive text yet on Blake's literary influence.' - Jason Whittaker, Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Blake, Between Romanticism, Modernism and Postmodernism Zoas and Moods: Myth and Aspects of the Mind in Blake and Yeats Eliot between Blake and Yeats Blake and Oppositional Identity in Yeats, Auden and Dylan Thomas Blake and Joyce Deposits and Rehearsals: Repetition and Redemption in The Anathémata of David Jones: A Comparison and Contrast with Blake Blake, Postmodernity and Postmodernism Joyce Carey: Getting It From the Horse's Mouth Two American Disciples of Blake: Robert Duncan and Allen Ginsberg Postmodern Myths and Lies: Iain Sinclair and Angela Carter Salman Rushdie, Myth and Postcolonial Romanticism Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIncorporating the most recent discoveries concerning Blake's heritage and cultural context, Visionary Materialism in the Early Works of William Blake: The Intersection of Enthusiasm and Empiricism proposes a radical new reading of his early works, that sees them taking enlightenment ideas to heights never dreamed of by Locke and Priestley.Trade Review'This work can serve as an excellent resource for scholars interested in Blake's materialism, and it also demonstrates the necessity of value of conjectural leaps in humanities research.' - Marcel O'Gorman, RomanticismTable of ContentsAcknowledgements- A Note on Texts and Illustrations Introduction: Blake and his Traditions PART 1: EXPERIENCES OF EMPIRICISM Blake and Locke: Friendship and Enmity Closet and Cavern Priestley and the Material Soul PART 2: THE TREE OF MYSTERY Obscurity and the Sublime Infinity: Causes and Consequences The Corporealisation of Thought 'Surgeing Sulphureous Fluid': The Case of Urizen PART 3: RIGHT REASON AND 'SENSE SUPERNATURAL' 'Where Else is Heaven': The Ranting Impulse and Inner Light The Spiritual Substance The Abyssal Eye PART 4: THE OPENING EYE 'He Conversed with Angels' Divine Vision as Political Force PART 5: THE ARK OF GOD 'What is Man!' The First Principle Perception, Liberty and Organic Light The Bounding Line Outlining the Vessels of Eternity PART 6: THE SUBLIME ACT Incarnations and Inheritance Index

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Book SynopsisTennyson is the most important English poet of the Victorian age. He knew its key figures and was deeply involved in its science, religion, philosophy and politics. The Palgrave Literary Dictionary for the first time gives easily accessible information, under more than 400 headings, on his poetry, his circle, the period and its contexts.Trade Review'This dictionary, as wide as an encyclopedia, is sure to be often consulted as a reliable and enjoyable source of information.' - Reference Reviews Journal 'This very useful book gives a near complete account of all Tennyson's works and all the people he knew...Much industry, knowledge and research has gone into the making of the excellent dictionary.' - Lincolnshire History and Archaeology '...it is certainly the case that, with this dictionary, the editors' encyclopaedic knowledge has placed all Tennysonians in their debt and provided a work of reference to which we shall all have profitable recourse for the forseeable future.' - The Tennyson SocietyTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Foreword Acknowledgements Preface Entries A-Z Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a unique sociological examination of British raciology, focusing on women''s literary works of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and drawing from a range of academic disciplines, particularly literature, history and cultural studies. Wright traces the emergence of British modernity through the writings of a select group of women writers (including Jane Austen, Hannah More, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Maria Edgeworth) of diverse political and philosophical affiliations, and fills a gap in scholarship on feminist accounts of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women''s writing.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Epigraphs Introduction PART 1: THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, RACE AND ENLIGHTENED FEMINISM Race and the Late Eighteenth Century Feminism and the Late Eighteenth Century Literature and Social Theory PART 2: POLITICS OF POPULATION: EMPIRE, SLAVERY AND RACE Empire and Slavery Jane Austen and Empire Poverty, Welfare and Crime Racialized Compassion Sex, Race and Civilization PART 3: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND BRITISH RACIOLOGY Political Imagination and the French Revolution Patriotism Nationalism and War Raciology of Belonging Representation Othering Slavery and Civilization PART 4: MORAL ECONOMIES OF NATURE, RELIGION AND SCIENCE Nature, God and Women Rationality and Human Nature Enlightenment, Romanticism and Racial Subjectivities Romantic Genealogy of Culture Islam Enlightenment and the Raciology of Civilization Christianity and Slavery Catholicism and the Other Education and Patriarchal Relations Women and Science Science and Race Notes and References Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAfter its succès de scandale in France in 1856, Flaubert''s Madame Bovary was widely adapted, sometimes so closely they were dismissed as plagiarism yet they achieved canonical status in their national traditions. This study traces Madame Bovary''s journey abroad and asks why the novel was given such import in foreign literatures.Trade Review'A strikingly brilliant approach to influence and intertextuality, Importing Madame Bovary sheds new light on erotic play and its potential for socio-political upheaval in major French, Spanish and Portuguese novels from the nineteenth century. A remarkably sharp, exacting and insightful book.' - Francisco Caudet, Catedrático, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 'Amann's Importing Madame Bovary is a finely crafted and clearly written comparative analysis of three major nineteenth-century novels of adultery: Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Eça de Queirós's O primo Basilio and Leopoldo Alas's (Clarín) La Regenta. Through masterly readings of these texts she intelligently argues and, moreover, convinces - that O primo Basilio and La Regenta rather than being imitations of Flaubert's masterpiece are deliberate acts of appropriation by the Iberian authors. A groundbreaking study, Importing Madame Bovary brilliantly explores the textual dialogues among these three novels in order to reveal the historical context in which Flaubert, Eça de Queirós and Clarín inscribed in their novels. This book should be required reading for students of the nineteenth-century European realist novel in that it proves that a comparative cultural, historical, and textual reading is essential to understanding the dialogic nature of the adultery novel in France, Portugal and Spain.' - Alda Blanco, Professor of Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Amann argues that some of the most important 19th-century French, Spanish, and Portuguese adultery novels make allegorical references to the revolutionary struggles of 1848, to the breakdown of the alliance between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, and to the rise of the French Second Empire. The contrast between the sentimentality of a tear-jerking narrative genre and its hidden political message is entirely unexpected. A smart, seductive book." - Thomas Pavel, Gordon J. Laird Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago "This is a major accomplishment, a book so full of original insights and intelligent analysis that it will leap to the top of the pile of criticism on the nineteenth-century European novel. Amann has done a spectacular job of coaxing out of four major novels fresh ideas and smart commentary, and she provokes serious thinking on the part of her readers. While the main focus of the book is the reception/adaptation/'importation' of Flaubert's Madame Bovary into the Iberian Peninsula in the form of Eça de Queirós's O primo Basílio and Leopoldo (Clarín) Alas's La regenta, Amann also weaves into her discussion another text, Dumas's La dame aux camélias, which serves as a kind of ur-text to the discussion she lays out in dazzling detail." - David T. Gies, Commonwealth Professor of Spanish, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsExhuming Marguerite Gautier An Unbridled Bride A Marriage Sans-culotte On Tour Grafting

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Book SynopsisTraber reexamines the practice of self-marginalization in Euro-American literature and popular culture that depict whites adopting varied markers of otherness to disengage from the dominant culture.Trade Review"How does the marginalized individual become the national type? Through a series of nuanced readings of key American texts, Daniel Traber expertly traces the ambiguous cultural politics where outlaws confirm mainstream culture, and otherness is re-appropriated and reconfigured as the heart of the national project. A deft and discerning application of recent cultural theory - itself implicated in the romanticization and neutralization of otherness - this book has telling consequences for American and literary studies, as well as for the fields of cultural studies and whiteness studies." - Nick Mansfield, Macquarie University; Author of Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to Haraway 'This book makes a very clear, and even relentless, argument about the long history of literatures which present instances of White characters 'evading whiteness' and seeking common ground elsewhere (amongst Native Americans, African Americans, the rural and urban poor, etc.). Not only are some of the largest theoretical names of the last thirty years front and center, but Traber has successfully understood these works to the point where he can offer critiques and new insights of them. I love the reach of this book: each and every chapter has been carefully researched on its own, and made to fit within the parameters of the broader idea. It is as if a hidden America has been revealed in these pages.' - Scott Michaelsen, Michigan State University; Author of The Limits of Multiculturalism: Interrogating the Origins of American Anthropology 'Through trenchant readings of celebrated American narratives from Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to Alex Cox's Repo Man, Traber traces the paradoxical power of liberal individualism, an ideology that celebrates autonomy and individuality even as it serves as the grounds for conformity. Traber shows how writers and thinkers who attempt to dramatize alternatives to individualist ideology often find the ground of resistance shifted out from under them by US culture's uncanny ability to incorporate otherness and marginality. Traber's study offers a cautionary tale to those critics and theorists who would celebrate the power of hybridity and marginality without sufficiently acknowledging the continuing cultural efficacy of individualist modes of thought and representation." - Cyrus R. K. Patell, New York University; Author of Negative Liberties: Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal IdeologyTable of ContentsThey're After Us!': Criminality and Hegemony in Huckleberry Finn Stephen Crane and Maggie's White Other One of None: Quasi-Hybridity in The Sun Also Rises Back to the Future: Suttree (and The Pioneers) L.A. Punk's Sub-Urbanism Repo Man, Ambivalence, and the Generic Mediation Whither Agency?

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Book SynopsisThis book offers new analyzes of canonical texts, contextualizations of Romantic forms in relation to war, nationalism and empire, reassessments of neglected and marginalized writers and explorations of the relationship between form and reader. It showcases a range of new approaches that are informed by deconstruction, theology and new technology.Trade Review'The critics assembled here are close readers, attentive to metre, stanza form, figures of speech, but they are not nostalgic for the New Criticism of the 1950s and 1960s. If they are formalists, they are formalists of a new kind, less likely to celebrate the unifying power of art than the fragmented and the multitudinous, more likely to acknowledge Byron than Wordsworth, but just as ready to study a satiric print, or a poem by Ann Cristall. This volume sets a challenging new agenda for Romantic Studies.' - Richard Cronin, Professor of English Literature, University of Glasgow, UKTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction; A.Rawes Romantic Indirection; P.Curtis "Conscript Fathers and Shuffling Recruits": Formal Self-Awareness in Romantic Poetry; M.O'Neill Romantic Invocation: a Form of Impossibility; G.Hopps "Ruinous Perfection": Reading Authors and Writing Readers in the Romantic Fragment Poem; M.Sandy Combinatoric Form in Nineteenth-Century Satiric Prints; S.E.Jones Romantic Form and New Historicism: Wordsworth's "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey"; A.Rawes Southey's Forms of Experiment; N.Trott Believing in Form and Forms of Belief: the Case of Robert Southey; B.Beatty Seductions of Form in the Poetry of Ann Cristall and Charlotte Smith; J.Labbe "Seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely": Byron's Poetry, Austen's Prose and Forms of Narrative Irony; C.Franklin "What Constitutes a Reader?": Don Juan and the Changing Reception of Romantic Form; J.Stabler, A.Roberts, M.N.Carminati & M.H.Fischer Afterword; S.J.Wolfson Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book builds on a critical and scholarly revival of interest in Collins. Baker draws upon biographical revelations and the recent publication of Collins's letters to provide a unique insight into both the man and the writer. The volume will appeal to all students of Collins and those with an interest in the life of Nineteenth-century England.Trade Review'...this Chronology is an indispensable work of reference for readers not only interested in Wilkie Collins but also in his contemporaries in the worlds of literature, theatre and art. It is systematically and comprehensively complied and is enhanced by its wide-ranging references.' Donald Hawes, Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsGeneral Editor's Preface Introduction and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Chronology Principal Sources Consulted Index of Works by Wilkie Collins Index of People Index of Places

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Book SynopsisIn Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity Weller argues through an analysis of the interrelated topics of translation, comedy, and gender that to read Beckett in this way is to miss the strangely 'anethical' nature of his work, as opposed to the notion that the literary event constitutes the affirmation of an alterity.Trade Review'The book offers a challenge to the deconstructive readings of Benjaminian translation, an exhaustive account of the ethics of comedy, and an insightful survey and analysis of 'feminine alterities', with useful readings of Irigaray, Cixous, and Kristeva. Weller's performance of the anethical throughout the text produces an argument that will come as a surprise to many Beckett critics - a surprise because it maintains a critical reading that is neatly positioned 'between' the conventional approaches to Beckett and ethics. I strongly recommend this book.' - Professor Richard J. Lane, Malaspina University-College, Canada 'This is an extremely well-researched and thought-out work of Beckett criticism. The chapter organization in which each of the three chosen themes is treated first from a theoretical perspective, followed by specific examples taken from Beckett, is limpid and the argument always clearly signposted. This makes the book accessible even to the reader unfamiliar with the vast array of Western thought Shane Weller summons effortlessly.' - Helen Penet-Astbury, Études irlandaisesTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Literature and Alterity PART I: IN OTHER WORDS - ON THE ETHICS OF TRANSLATION Translation and Difference: Dispatching Benjamin Translation and Negation: Beckett and the Bilingual Oeuvre PART II: THE LAUGH OF THE OTHER - ON THE ETHICS OF COMEDY Pratfalls into Alterity: Laughter from Baudelaire to Freud and Beyond Last Laughs: Beckett and the ' risus purus ' PART III: THE DIFFERENCE A WOMAN MAKES - ON THE ETHICS OF GENDER Feminine Alterities: From Psychoanalysis to Gender Studies 'As If the Sex Mattered': Beckett's Degenderations Conclusion: Beckett and the Anethical Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis new book asks a key question- what did it mean to have a Victorian feminist write for an established newspaper or periodical? Using the example of Frances Power Cobbe, it focuses on Victorian feminism and its political workings, and urges us to reconsider what feminism looked like in the nineteenth-century.Trade Review"Hamilton's is a highly readable, focused monograph that illuminats the history and metahistory of feminism, the active presence (rather than lurking marginality) of feminist discourse in the mainstream press, and Cobbe's verve, skill, and power as a writer." - Linda K. Hughes, Texas Christian UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Victorian Feminism and the Periodical Press 'She and I have Lived Together': Women's Celibacy and Signature in Cobbe's Early Writing The 'Force' of Sentiment: Married Women's Property and the Idea of Marriage in Fraser's Magazine 'Speaking in Fleet Street': The Feminist Politics of the Editorial in the London Echo , 1868-1875 Making History with France Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminism, Domestic Violence and the Language of Imperialism 'A Crisis in Woman's History': Duties of Women and the Practice of Everyday Feminism Notes to Chapters Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Lost Thread, Rancière debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologies, and instead foregrounds the egalitarian and democratic impulses of modernist literature. Contrary to the canonical interpretation of the relation between modernism and capitalism via the commodification of everyday life, Rancière proposes a radical rethinking of our received ideas regarding the politics of aesthetics in the modern era. Through a complex and original stitching together of form and content, modernists strove to depict by embodying new forms and regimes of material and everyday life. Rancière articulates this substantial change in the politics of representation by explaining the shattering of the sacrosanct hierarchies of the genres and life-forms of classical literature. In the midst of the 19th century, poets, novelists and playwrights challenged the narrative staples of noble means and moral ends, and Trade ReviewRancière’s continues his recent explorations of the aesthetics and politics of fiction, poetry, and theater in this beautifully written and elegantly translated volume. The dissensual strategies of thinking, speaking, and acting that Rancière finds in literary modernism are no less active in the spheres of politics and the social sciences, and this book will be of immense interest not only to scholars and students working in these fields, but to artists, writers, and activists experimenting with new modes of aesthetic and political invention today. * Kenneth Reinhard, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director, Program in Experimental Critical Theory, UCLA, USA *Table of ContentsTranslator’s Introduction Foreword I. The Lost Thread of the Novel II. Marlow’s Lie III. The death of Prue Ramsay IV. Republic of the poets V. The infinite taste of the Republic VI. The Theatre of Thoughts Notes Index

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Book SynopsisEmily Ennis received her PhD from the University of Leeds in 2016. Since then, she has taught Victorian and Modernist literature, as well as modules on visual cultures, at University of Leeds, Newcastle University and Bishop Grosseteste University.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Capturing the Image Part One: Thomas Hardy, Photography, and Reality Chapter One: The Figure of the Author and Amateur Photography Chapter Two: Obscuring the Boundaries: Art, Imagination, Photography Part Two: Bram Stoker, Theatrical Culture, and the Photographic Heritage of the Vampire Chapter Three: Photography, Promotion, and the Theatrical Profession in Bram Stoker’s Correspondence Chapter Four: ‘Could not codak him’: Theatrical Monsters and Popular Photography Part Three: Joseph Conrad: Photography, Identity, and Modernity Chapter Five: Past and Present Lives: Conrad, Heritage, and Literary Celebrity Chapter Six: Modernity, Mass Media, and Moving Pictures Part Four: Photography, Composition, Memory: Virginia Woolf’s Early Prose and Family Albums Chapter Seven: Photography and Woolf’s Non-Fiction Chapter Eight: Woolf as Rachel Vinrace: Biography, Photography, and The Voyage Out (1915) Coda(k): Professional Writing, Leisure, and Class Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJane Suzanne Carroll is Ussher Assistant Professor in Children's Literature at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She has published a monograph, Landscape in Children's Literature (2012), as well as articles on Susan Cooper, Jules Verne, J.R.R. Tolkien, ghost stories, and children's fantasy.Trade ReviewAn invaluable exploration of an aspect of children’s literature that is often overlooked, even though (or perhaps because) it lies in plain sight. * Modern Language Review *Provides a fresh and insightful perspective on the dynamic and non-trivial relationships nineteenth-century children had with the material culture that often goes unnoticed as the mundane backdrops of their lives. * BAVS Newsletter *This is a brilliantly fresh account of the relationship between children, children’s literature and consumer culture. In tracing the trajectory from Victorian books that enthusiastically teach children to be appreciative and discerning consumers to Edwardian works that show the relationship between children and the bought objects around them as fraught and sometimes frightening, Jane Suzanne Carroll takes in science, manufacturing, séances, magic and mysterious deaths. The writing is lively and often witty, making this as entertaining as it is informative. * Professor Kimberley Reynolds, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction 'Devoured by a Desire to Possess': Children's literature, commodities and consumption Children's books as commodities and vehicles for consumerism Children's books and the creation of new products Reading objects Structure of this book Chapter One Remarkable and perplexing items: Children and the Great Exhibition Learning to look Getting lost Guiding children Head, hand & heart The world of goods Conclusion Chapter Two The wonders of common things: Worldly goods in the nineteenth century The history of the it-narrative Children's it-narratives The History of a Pin The Story of a Needle 'A China Cup' The wonders of common things Conclusion Chapter Three A hailstorm of knitting needles: Otherworldly goods and domestic fantasy Commodity fetishism Spiritualism and fiction The rise of domestic fantasy Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There Speaking likenesses The cuckoo clock Conclusion Chapter Four ‘A Disgraceful State of Things’: Bad consumers and bad commodities Bad things and bad consumers in E. Nesbit's writing for children Bad things in Nesbit's work The Enchanted Castle and the live thing Bad mice and crooked sixpences: Material deviance in Beatrix Potter's work The (mis)adventures of Mr Toad Conclusion Conclusions Failed palaces and magic cities References

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Book SynopsisWidely seen as evolution's founding figure, Charles Darwin is taken by many evolutionists to be the first to propose a truly modern theory of evolution. Darwin's greatness, however, has obscured the man and his work, at times even to the point of distortion. Accessibly written, this book presents a more nuanced picture and invites us to discover some neglected ambiguities and contradictions in Darwin's masterwork. Delisle and Tierney show Darwin to be a man who struggled to reconcile the received wisdom of an unchanging natural world with his new ideas about evolution. Arguing that Darwin was unable to break free entirely from his contemporaries' more traditional outlook, they show his theory to be a fascinating compromise between old and new.Rediscovering this other Darwin and this other side of On the Origin of Species helps shed new light on the immensity of the task that lay before 19th century scholars, as well as their ultimate achievements.Trade ReviewThe book shows that biology, especially evolutionary biology, is a dynamic and extremely exciting field and that there is much left to be discovered by the next generations of biologists. It delves deeply into Darwin’s Origin of Species as well as into the paradigm prevailing during his time. * Alexander Czaja, Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution *Delisle and Tierney have immersed themselves in the text of On the Origin of Species like few, if any, before. This is a highly original, critical, yet sympathetic deconstruction of the Darwin idolatry that has dominated biological evolution theory for decades. * Nicolaas Rupke, Professor of the History of Science, University of Göttingen, Germany and Washington and Lee University, USA *A much-needed deconstruction of the ‘Darwin Legend’, that is, the seemingly irresistible temptation of many modern readers to read their own ideas back into On the Origin of Species, and to make Darwin an ahistorical icon, or the father figure of an even more ahistorical ‘Darwinism’. * Antonello La Vergata, Professor of the History of Philosophy, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Two Sides of Darwin Part One The Charles Darwin We Think We All Know 1 A Primer of Evolution’s Complexities 2 What Time Selected from Darwin: The Standard View Part Two Charles Darwin and the Static Worldview 3 The Tree That Hides the Forest: Charles Darwin’s “Tree of Life” 4 Divergence: A Geometry That Shatters Creative Time and Novelty 5 A Cyclical World in Equilibrium 6 Natural Selection: The Core of Darwin’s Theory? Part Three Charles Darwin Viewed in Piecemeal Fashion 7 When So-Called New Ideas Hide Old Ones Conclusion: Back to the Future Index

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of how nineteenth-century writers turned to the realist novel in order to reimagine Jesus during a century where traditional religious faith appeared increasingly untenable. Re-workings of the canonical Gospels and other projects to demythologize the story of Jesus are frequently treated as projects aiming to secularize and even discredit traditional Christian faith. The novels of Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, Eliza Lynn Linton, and Mary Augusta Ward, however, demonstrate that the work of bringing the Christian tradition of prophet, priest, and king into conversation with a rapidly changing world can at times be a form of authentic faitheven a faith that remains rooted in the Bible and historic Christianity, while simultaneously creating a space that allows traditional understandings of Jesus' identity to evolve.Trade ReviewOverall, this is a thought-provoking book that continues the important project of revaluing theology’s significance for Victorian fiction, alongside the work of scholars like Susan E. Colón, Joshua King, Mark Knight, and J. Russell Perkin. Readers who have engaged with contemporary work in narrative theology may be intrigued by its conclusions about storytelling and community * Modern Philology *“The ubiquity of Christ is not just a theological principle; it’s also a fact of Victorian culture. Jessica Ann Hughes has brilliantly taken on this alpha and omega of all themes, and traced it insightfully across some of the period’s influential works of fiction. Jesus in the Victorian Novel is Victorian Studies at its very best.” * Timothy Larsen, McManis Professor of Christian Thought and Professor of History at Wheaton College, USA and author of A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians *“Mainstream Victorian realists reimagined Jesus not to debunk the Christian story, as Jessica Hughes shows, nor to secularize it, but rather to relocate it within a decidedly modern sensibility. Such is the premise of this spectacular, beautifully argued book. Along the way, too, we encounter much additional intrigue: German higher criticism, the period’s tensions between theology and science, rival atonement theories, and—perhaps most interesting of all—the question of how best to represent God in fiction. Some works are especially easy to recommend. This is one of them.” * Ryan J. Stark, Professor of Humanities, Corban University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Theological Consequences of Cultural Narratives Chapter 2: The Narrative Consequences of Theology Chapter 3: Jesus the Revolutionary King Chapter 4: Jesus the Reconciling High Priest Chapter 5: Jesus the Moral Prophet Conclusion: Resurrecting Jesus: Religious Experience and the Novel Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTaking readers through the various stages of criticism of Emily Dickinson's poetry, this guide identifies both the essential critical texts and the key debates within them. The texts chosen for discussion represent the canonical readings which have typically shaped the area of Dickinson studies throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first century and provide a lens through which to view current critical trends. Chapters focus on style and meaning, gender and sexuality, history and race, religion and hymn culture, and performance and popular culture. In all, this guide serves as a user-friendly reference tool to the vast body of criticism on Dickinson to date by suggesting formative starting points and underlining essential critical highlights. It provides students and scholars of Dickinson with a sense of where these critical texts can be placed in relation to one another, as well as an understanding of pivotal moments within the history of reception of Dickinson from late nineteeTrade ReviewMorgan expertly guides readers through the history of Dickinson criticism and provides them with key insights that help illuminate the most pertinent issues and recurring debates that have shaped and continue to shape Dickinson’s reputation. * Dr Páraic Finnerty, Reader in English and American Literature, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Biographies and publication 1.1 Biographers 1.2 Dickinson as poet: Self-publication and early publication 2. Style and Meaning 2.1 Early criticism 2.2 Later revaluations 3 The female tradition, gender and sexuality 3.1 The female tradition 3.2 Writing the body 3.3 Queering Dickinson 4 History, Civil War and race 4.1 Historicizing Dickinson 4.2 The US Civil War 4.3 Dickinson, ethnicity and race 5 Religion and hymn culture 5.1 Rejecting orthodoxy 5.2 Religion and aesthetics 5.3 Dickinson and hymnody 6 Performance and reception 6.1 Performance in Dickinson’s Poetry 6.2 Dickinson and popular Culture 6.3 Digital Dickinson and international reception Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that, in Victorian literature, transgressive desires that cannot be openly acknowledged are often buried and encrypted in the marble bodies of statues.

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Book SynopsisExamines the way the corporation a legal concept of enduring and timely importance in the Anglo-American legal tradition was imagined in the nineteenth century historical imagination.

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Book SynopsisThe first book-length investigation of the history of pre-chapter epigraphs in the English novel

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Book SynopsisPositions the sensation novel, and nineteenth-century popular fiction more generally, as vital to the history of feeling

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Book SynopsisA Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers. An exceptionally broad-ranging and accessible Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century Brings together 29 essays by top scholars, each of which presents a synthesis of the best research and offers an original perspective Divided into sections on historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors Covers a mixture of canonical and the non-canonical themes, authors, literatures, and critical approaches Explores innovative topics, such as ecological literature and ecocriticism, children''s literature, and the influence of Darwin on fiction Trade Review"All praise to Lamb and Thompson … Comprehensive, well written and carefully edited ... Essential." Choice "The editors have intended the Companion to be an introduction to the field and a reference tool for 'advanced undergraduates, graduate students, faculty members and general intellectuals'. In this they have succeeded admirably." Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations x Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xviii Editors' Introduction 1 Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson PART I Historical Traditions and Genres 13 1 The Practice and Promotion of American Literary Realism 15 Nancy Glazener 2 Excitement and Consciousness in the Romance Tradition 35 William J. Scheick 3 The Sentimental and Domestic Traditions, 1865–1900 53 Gregg Camfield 4 Morality, Modernity, and "Malarial Restlessness": American Realism in its Anglo-European Contexts 77 Winfried Fluck 5 American Literary Naturalism 96 Christophe Den Tandt 6 American Regionalism: Local Color, National Literature, Global Circuits 119 June Howard 7 Women Authors and the Roots of American Modernism 140 Linda Wagner-Martin 8 The Short Story and the Short-Story Sequence, 1865–1914 149 J. Gerald Kennedy PART II Contexts and Themes 175 9 Ecological Narrative and Nature Writing 177 S. K. Robisch 10 "The Frontier Story": The Violence of Literary History 201 Christine Bold 11 Native American Narratives: Resistance and Survivance 222 Gerald Vizenor 12 Representing the Civil War and Reconstruction: From Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus 240 Kathleen Diffley 13 Engendering the Canon: Women's Narratives, 1865–1914 260 Grace Farrell 14 Confronting the Crisis: African American Narratives 279 Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. 15 Fiction's Many Cities 296 Sidney H. Bremer 16 Mapping the Culture of Abundance: Literary Narratives and Consumer Culture 318 Sarah Way Sherman 17 Secrets of the Master's Deed Box: Narrative and Class 340 Christopher P. Wilson 18 Ethnic Realism 356 Robert M. Dowling 19 Darwin, Science, and Narrative 377 Bert Bender 20 Writing in the "Vulgar Tongue": Law and American Narrative 395 William E. Moddelmog 21 Planning Utopia 411 Thomas Peyser 22 American Children's Narrative as Social Criticism, 1865–1914 428 Gwen Athene Tarbox PART III Major Authors 449 23 An Idea of Order at Concord: Soul and Society in the Mind of Louisa May Alcott 451 John Matteson 24 America Can Break Your Heart: On the Significance of Mark Twain 468 Robert Paul Lamb 25 William Dean Howells and the Bourgeois Quotidian: Affection, Skepticism, Disillusion 499 Michael Anesko 26 Henry James in a New Century 518 John Carlos Rowe 27 Toward a Modernist Aesthetic: The Literary Legacy of Edith Wharton 536 Candace Waid and Clare Colquitt 28 Sensations of Style: The Literary Realism of Stephen Crane 557 William E. Cain 29 Theodore Dreiser and the Force of the Personal 572 Clare Virginia Eby Index 587

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Book SynopsisWhat the Victorian history of self-help reveals about the myth of individualism. Stories of hardworking characters who lift themselves from rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. From the popularity of such stories, it is clear that the Victorians valorized personal ambition in ways that previous generations had not. In Material Ambitions, Rebecca Richardson explores this phenomenon in light of the under-studied reception history of Samuel Smiles's 1859 publication, Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance. A compilation of vignettes about captains of industry, artists, and inventors who persevered through failure and worked tirelessly to achieve success in their respective fields, Self-Help links individual ambition to the growth of the nation. Contextualizing Smiles's work in a tradition of Renaissance self-fashioning, eighteenth-century advice books, and inspirational biography, Richardson argues that the burgeoning self-help genre of the VictoriaTrade ReviewRebecca Richardson shows that even those writers who appear to celebrate self-help invite more nuanced readings. They explored the ways in which aspiration encourages not only ambition but competition, and often exploitation – inequities, as declared by Richardson in a brief polemical coda, that persist today.—Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Self-Help and the Story of the Ambitious Individual1. Forming the Ambitious Individual in Samuel Smiles's Self-Help2. Expanding the Story of Ambition, Work, and Health in a Limited World: Harriet Martineau's Economic and Illness Writing3. Enabling the Self-Help Narrative in Dinah Craik's John Halifax, Gentleman4. "At What Point This Ambition Transgresses the Boundary of Virtue": From Thackeray's Barry Lyndon to Vanity Fair5. Individuating Ambitions in a Competitive System: Trollope's Autobiography and The Three Clerks6. Placing and Displacing Ambition: Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career and My Career Goes BungCodaNotes BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFyodor Dostoevsky''s The Brothers Karamazov is unquestionably one of the greatest works of world literature. With its dramatic portrayal of a Russian family in crisis and its intense investigation into the essential questions of human existence, the novel has had a major impact on writers and thinkers across a broad range of disciplines, from psychology to religious and political philosophy. This proposed reader''s guide has two major goals: to help the reader understand the place of Dostoevsky''s novel in Russian and world literature, and to illuminate the writer''s compelling and complex artistic vision. The plot of the novel centers on the murder of the patriarch of the Karamazov family and the subsequent attempt to discover which of the brothers bears responsibility for the murder, but Dostoevsky''s ultimate interests are far more thought-provoking. Haunted by the question of God''s existence, Dostoevsky uses the character of Ivan Karamazov to ask what kind of God would Trade ReviewA superb introduction to Dostoevsky's great novel. Connolly offers a wealth of original and convincing new insights, situating them within a thorough reading of both classic and recent scholarship. Of particular value is the pitch-perfect analysis of The Brothers Karamazov in its religious context. The extensive and up-to-date bibliography is one of the best I have seen. Connolly's book will be an essential resource for first-time readers and seasoned scholars alike. -- Carol Apollonio, Professor of the Practice, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Duke University, USAThis is an excellent guide to Dostoevsky’s final grand statement as a novelist, illuminating the complexities of its plot, characters, themes, and motifs, and paying special attention to its religious dimensions. Drawing on a wide body of scholarship, it will be helpful both for first readers of the novel and for its more advanced students. -- John Burt Foster, Professor of World and Comparative Literature, George Mason University, USAfter guiding the readers through the intricacies of Nabokov’s Lolita, Julian W. Connolly once again produced a valuable companion, this time to Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. Connolly should be commended for the lucid and at the same time insightful and nuanced presentation of the complexities of Dostoevsky’s last novel. Connolly’s book will be indispensable not only for students in every echelon of academic learning, but also for all those interested in Russian literature. -- Gavriel Shapiro, Professor of Comparative and Russian Literature, Cornell University, USConnolly does an excellent job of guiding the reader through Dostoevsky's vast and complex novel. His prose is straightforward and free of jargon; the book is a pleasure to read. [...] Even an experienced student of Dostoevsky will find Connolly's survey and deployment of recent scholarly work on the novel to be of great interest and assistance. [...] Connolly's guide to The Brothers Karamazov will be useful and illuminating for students and general readers as well as Russianists interested in an incisive précis of recent work on the novel. -- Susanne Fusso, Wesleyan University * Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 58, No. 2, Summer 2014 *Table of Contents1. Contexts 2. Language, Form and Style 3. Reading The Brothers Karamazov 4. Critical Reception, Composition and Publishing History 5. Adaptation, Interpretation and Influence 6. Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisThere is an unresolved tension in Dostoevsky's novels - a tension between believing and not believing in the existence of God. This book enables us to consider the nature of God in the 21st Century through the lens of Dostoevsky's novels.Trade Review"'The Archbishop of Canterbury has written a book on Dostoevsky which illuminates the real operations of religion in human minds' A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement 'Rowan Williams is an excellent literary critic. He makes you want to read, or reread, everything that Dostoevsky wrote. The books that he describes are spacious enough to contain a whole world, and beautiful enough to serve as icons that illuminate ours' The Guardian 'Although Rowan Williams is very modest about his credentials in writing an important book on Dostoevsky, it is difficult to think of anyone who is better qualified... a remarkable contribution to understanding not just Dostoevsky, but what it might involve to be a religious believer in the world today' Richard Harries, Church Times "...a real feeling for literary narrative... a profound and thought provoking book" Salley Vickers, The Times"Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. Christ Against the Truth; 2. Devils; 3. The Last Word? Dialogue and Recognition; 4. Exchanging Crosses; 5. Sacrilege and Revelation: The Broken Image; Conclusion; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisBy bringing the work of Mansfield and von Arnim together including on matters of artistry, on mourning, on gardens, on female resistance this book establishes shared preoccupations in ways that refine and extend our knowledge of writing in the period.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law and legal treatise, Cathrine O. Frank traces the ways conventions of literary characterisation mingled with character-centred legal developments to produce a jurisprudential theory of character that extends beyond the legal profession.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law and legal treatise, Cathrine O. Frank traces the ways conventions of literary characterisation mingled with character-centred legal developments to produce a jurisprudential theory of character that extends beyond the legal profession.

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Book SynopsisProvides a uniquely detailed and accessible insight into the terminology and culture of the Victorian periodTrade Review"Key Concepts in Victorian Studies is a landmark reference work for any scholar working on the period. All the major issues and innovations are outlined, from Anarchism to Zoetrope. The excellent overview of parliamentary legislation provides an invaluable account of social and economic change. Scholarly and accessible, this is an essential guide to the period." -Andrew Smith, University of Sheffield

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Book SynopsisNahum Dimitri Chandler offers a philosophical interpretation of W. E. B. Du Bois's 1897 American Negro Academy address, The Conservation of Races, proposing both a close reading of Du Bois's engagement of the concept of race and a meditation on Du Bois's conceptualization of historicity.Trade Review"A complex and detailed philosophical analysis of W.E.B. Du Bois’ early thought. ... Chandler’s a sophisticated thinker and crafty wordsmith with broad knowledge, a vast vocabulary, and a writing style ripe with complex analytic musing and artistic stylization." -- Sean Elias * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xv Note on Citations xvii Part I. On Paragraph Four of “The Conservation of Races” 1 Part II. On the Question of the Illimitable in the Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois 81 Afterthought 145 Notes 147 References 161 Index 173

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Book SynopsisReimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and timeEmergent Worlds re-locates nineteenth-century America from the land to the oceans and seas that surrounded it. Edward Sugden argues that these ocean spaces existed in a unique historical fold between the transformations that inaugurated the modern eracolonialism to nationalism, mercantilism to capitalism, slavery to freedom, and deferent subject to free citizen. As travellers, workers, and writers journeyed across the Pacific, Atlantic, and Caribbean Sea, they had to adapt their political expectations to the interstitial social realities that they saw before them while also feeling their very consciousness, particularly their perception of time, mutate. These four domainsoceanic geography, historical folds, emergent politics, and dissonant timesin turn, provided the conditions for the development of three previously unnamed genres of the 1850s: the Pacific elegy, tTrade ReviewAn astute, surprising, and inventive study of the experiential and aesthetic possibilities that became imaginable during moments of historical and geographical irresolution in the & long nineteenth century, as older world-systems receded before new ones cohered. In those liminal & folds, Sugden remaps oceanic geoculture through a series of richly illuminating and refreshingly original interpretations of a host of texts, canonical and understudied. Emergent Worlds is, like the worlds it examines, full of possibilities and pleasures. -- Christopher Castiglia, author of Practices of Hope (NYU Press, 2017)Sugden has the rare gift of being able to synthesize complex conversations and formulations and then to intervene within them generously and wisely. His archive of texts is rich, bringing together an unusual grouping of authors ranging from Melville to the first Haitian novelist, Émeric Bergeaud. Emergent Worlds considers these texts as a collective & archival form that does more than merely preserve the interstitial states of emergent political thought that existed precariously in the time of their original production; it also protects a kind of seedbed for unknown futures: emergent forms of political imagining that might one day be called upon to remake a precarious world. -- Anna Brickhouse, University of VirginiaEmergent Worlds is an aspirational and counterfactual history of what might have been—and might yet emerge—within the archives of nineteenth-century American literacy and cultural study. * Early American Literature *You feel you are reading the work of a trailblazer. * Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies *In a book that makes forceful yet elegant interventions into conversations about the timelines of American studies and oceanic forms of relation, Sugden shows a remarkable ability to zoom among various temporal and literary scales, from the quirkily local to the global, from the canonical to the surprisingly marginalized. * Early American Literature *

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Book SynopsisIn 1826 Angela Veronese, a gardener’s daughter, wrote and published the first modern autobiography by an Italian woman. Veronese’s account focuses on her unique experience as a peasant girl who came of age among the Venetian elite, and details how she attained a certain renown in and out of Italy by improvising, writing, and publishing her own lyrics. Courting Celebrity is a bilingual annotated edition of Veronese’s autobiography. To better elucidate Veronese’s thinking, the book includes the autobiographical writing of another contemporary Italian poet, Teresa Bandettini, a well-known Tuscan poet-improviser. The book offers a substantial sample of Veronese’s poems, translated and in the original. These compositions, together with detailed bibliographical documentation, point to the success of Veronese’s autobiographical enterprise and offer an unparalleled view of both high society and popular culture at the time. Courting Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword 1. Angela Veronese Notizie sulla vita di Aglaja Anassillide scritte da lei medesima Information on the Life of Aglaja Anassillide, Written by Herself Selected Poems by Angela Veronese Biography of Angela Veronese Bio-Bibliography for Angela Veronese 2. Teresa Bandettini “Autobiografia” “Autobiography” Biography of Teresa Bandettini 3. Contexts and Conclusions 4. Poem by Luigi Carrer Dedicated to Angela Veronese Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisParisian Pauline Guyot (1805-1886), who wrote under the nom de plume Camille Lebrun, published many novels, translations, collections of tales, and articles in French magazines of her day. Yet she has largely been forgotten by contemporary literary critics and readers. Among her works is a hitherto-untranslated 1845 French novel, Amitié et dévouement, ou Trois mois à la Louisiane, or Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana, a moralizing, educational travelogue meant for a young adult readership of the time. Lebrun''s novel is one of the few perspectives we have by a mid-nineteenth-century French woman writer on the matters of slavery, abolition, race relations, and white supremacy in France''s former Louisiana colony. E. Joe Johnson and Robin Anita White have recovered this work, providing a translation, an accessible introduction, extensive endnote annotations, and period illustrations. After a short preface meant to educate young readers about the geTrade ReviewThere are not many female voices from this time period in French literature and none that I am aware of who write about Louisiana. Through the eyes of a French woman, Friendship and Devotion offers a new and necessary perspective to the history of antebellum Louisiana and Louisiana French history and culture. Friendship and Devotion stands apart from others of the time because it is written by a female author of note in the 1800s, Camille Lebrun, and because it has, until now, only ever appeared in French. This will be the first chance English readers have to engage with this material—a text representative of what young, educated people would have read at the time that highlights the notion that nineteenth-century writers were very much aware of the injustice of the enslavement system in the US.

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Book SynopsisFrom the teeming streets of Dickens''s London to the households of domestic fiction, nineteenth-century British writers constructed worlds crammed beyond capacity with human life. In Populating the Novel, Emily Steinlight contends that rather than simply reflecting demographic growth, such pervasive literary crowding contributed to a seismic shift in British political thought. She shows how the nineteenth-century novel in particular claimed a new cultural role as it took on the task of narrating human aggregation at a moment when the Malthusian specter of surplus population suddenly and quite unexpectedly became a central premise of modern politics.In readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Mary Braddon, Thomas Hardy, and Joseph Conrad that link fiction and biopolitics, Steinlight brings the crowds that pervade nineteenth-century fiction into the foreground. In so doing, she transforms the subject and political stakes of the VictoTrade ReviewPopulating the Novel is an impressive and thought-provoking work. It lays down a gauntlet to other scholars for further examination of biopower and surplus in nineteenth-century literature and culture. * Dickens Quarterly *Steinlight's study moves across a truly impressive array of materials and does so without ever sacrificing close attention to the particular texts under consideration. The book moves fluently beyond the rigid periodizations that continue to govern the professional life of nineteenth-century scholars. * Modern Philology *Populating the Novel is an extremely accomplished and wide-ranging monograph that contributes forcefully to the field of nineteenth-century novel studies. The argument that the multitude, not the individual, is the focus of nineteenth-century fiction takes criticism in an exciting new direction. * Modern Language Review *Populating the Novel is a compelling, thought-provoking work of criticism. Steinlight's reading of traditional narratives in the nineteenth century helps redefine pre-existing ideas about the novel's cultural role while simultaneously considering how its form was heavily influenced by demographics. This significant contribution to scholarship helps reimagine life in the aggregate while demonstrating a unique approach to socio-political aspects of the English novel. * Victorian Review *A work of scholarship that fulfills and exceeds the multitude of promises contained in its title. After describing and delineating the overcrowded demographics of Romantic and Victorian writing, Steinlight makes a provocative claim about population: in an age of efflorescence of biopolitical principles and quantitative social science, population becomes a political, economic, sociological, and, above all, literary problem. * V21 Collations Book Forum *While England's population more than tripled during the nineteenth century, the congested narratives of this era's fiction do not simply reflect demographic change. Instead, as Steinlight powerfully contends, they turn that reality into a pressing political problem that exposes the limits of social and political institutions to contain, manage, and care for the biological life of the populace. * Studies in the Novel *

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Book SynopsisIn The One, Other, and Only Dickens, Garrett Stewart casts new light on those delirious wrinkles of wording that are one of the chief pleasures of Dickens's novels but that go regularly unnoticed in Dickensian criticism: the linguistic infrastructure of his textured prose. Stewart, in effect, looks over the reader's shoulder in shared fascination with the local surprises of Dickensian phrasing and the restless undertext of his storytelling. For Stewart, this phrasal undercurrent attests both to Dickens's early immersion in Shakespearean sonority and, at the same time, to the effect of Victorian stenography, with the repressed phonetics of its elided vowels, on the young author's verbal habits long after his stint as a shorthand Parliamentary reporter.To demonstrate the interplay and tension between narrative and literary style, Stewart draws out two personas within Dickens: the Inimitable Boz, master of plot, social panorama, and set-piece rhetorical cadences, and a veTrade ReviewThe One, Other, and Only Dickens is sui generis... Stewart offers an exuberant appreciation of Dickens's language, a celebration of craft.... Stewart points toward a return to the pleasurable, slow reading of both criticism and primary texts, but Stewart champions sustained and passionate attentiveness as integral to that process. Stewart's lovely reading, and writing, will be a pleasure to readers who agree with Thackeray's 1847 appraisal of Dickens that 'There's no writing against such power as this-one has no chance!' * SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 *A series of compelling readings from the inklings of nebulous popular consensus. * Dickens Quarterly *Passage after passage of this kind not only leave you feeling as if you have consistently under-read Dickens, but also, retracing Stewart's granular detail, that Dickens is the unequaled master of English prose, the only peer in prose to Shakespeare in verse. * Victorian Studies *Table of ContentsForeword: Preparing the Way Introduction: Some "Reagions" for Reading 1. Shorthand Speech / Longhand Sound 2. Secret Prose / Sequestered Poetics 3. Phrasing Astraddle 4. Reading Lessens Afterword: "That Very Word, Reading" Endpiece: The One and T'Otherest Notes Index

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Book SynopsisMary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most popular novels in western literature. It has been adapted and re-assembled in countless forms, from Hammer Horror films to young-adult books and bandes dessinées. Beginning with the idea of the ‘Frankenstein Complex’, this edited collection provides a series of creative readings that explore the elaborate intertextual networks that make up the novel’s remarkable afterlife. It broadens the scope of research on Frankenstein while deepening our understanding of a text that, 200 years after its original publication, continues to intrigue and terrify us in new and unexpected ways.Trade Review'...covers an impressively wide range of adaptations of Shelley’s classic and that can only be warmly recommended to anyone interested in Frankenstein, or in adaptation studies in general for that matter.'Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionThe Frankenstein Complex: when the text is more than a text – Dennis R. Cutchins and Dennis R. PerryPart I: Dramatic adaptations of Frankenstein on stage and radio1 Frankenstein’s spectacular nineteenth-century stage history and legacy – Lissette Lopez Szwydky2 A Frankensteinian model for adaptation studies, or ‘It lives!’: adaptive symbiosis and Peake’s Presumption, or the fate of Frankenstein – Glenn Jellenik3 The gothic imagination in American sound recordings of Frankenstein – Laurence RawPart II: Cinematic and television adaptations of Frankenstein4 A paranoid parable of adaptation: Forbidden Planet, Frankenstein, and the atomic age – Dennis R. Perry5 The Curse of Frankenstein: Hammer film studios’ reinvention of horror cinema – Morgan C. O’Brien6 The Frankenstein Complex on the small screen: Mary Shelley’s motivic novel as adjacent adaptation – Kyle Bishop7 The new ethics of Frankenstein: responsibility and obedience in I, Robot and X-Men: First Class – Matt Lorenz8 Hammer films and the perfection of the Frankenstein project – Maria K. Bachman and Paul C. Peterson Part III: Literary adaptations of Frankenstein9 ‘Plainly stitched together’: Frankenstein, neo-Victorian fiction, and the palimpsestuous literary past – Jamie Horrocks10 Frankensteinian re-articulations in Scotland: monstrous marriage, maternity, and the politics of embodiment – Carol Margaret Davison11 Young Frankensteins: graphic children’s texts and the twenty-first-century monster – Jessica Straley12 In his image: the mad scientist remade in the young adult novel – Farran L. Norris Sands13 The soul of the matter: Frankenstein meets H. P. Lovecraft’s ‘Herbert West—Reanimator’ – Jeffrey Andrew WeinstockPart IV: Frankenstein in art, illustrations, and comics14 Illustration, adaptation, and the development of Frankenstein’s visual lexicon – Kate Newell15 ‘The X-Men meet Frankenstein! “Nuff Said”’: adapting Mary Shelley’s monster in superhero comic books – Joe Darowski16 Expressionism, deformity, and abject texture in bande dessinée appropriations of Frankenstein – Véronique Bragard and Catherine ThewissenPart V: New media adaptations of Frankenstein17 Assembling the body/text: Frankenstein in new media – Tully Barnett and Ben Kooyman18 Adaptations of ‘liveness’ in theatrical representations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – Kelly JonesFrankenstein’s pulse: an afterword – Richard J. HandIndex

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Book SynopsisThe dome of thought is the first study of phrenology based primarily on the popular – rather than medical – appreciation of this important and controversial pseudoscience. With detailed reference to the reports printed in popular newspapers from the early years of the nineteenth century to the fin de siècle, the book provides an unequalled insight into the Victorian public’s understanding of the techniques, assumptions and implications of defining a person’s character by way of the bumps on their skull. Highly relevant to the study of the many authors – Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot, among them – whose fiction was informed by the imagery of phrenology, The dome of thought will prove an essential resource for anybody with an interest in the popular and literary culture of the nineteenth century, including literary scholars, medical historians and the general reader.Table of ContentsPreamble ‘This far-famed skull’: exhumation and the autopsy of talent1 ‘Dr Gall, the anatomist, who gives lectures on the skull’: phrenology in Britain during the first decade of the nineteenth century2 ‘A field for quacks to fatten in’: phrenology in the British Isles3 ‘The doctrines of phrenology shall spread over Britain’: George Combe and the rise of British phrenology4 ‘That strange amalgamation of the two sciences’: mesmerism, celebrity practitioners and the schism of 1842-3Conclusion: The decadence of phrenology: materiality and meaninglessness in modern BritainCoda The phrenology of Donald J. TrumpBibliographyIndex

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