Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

Book SynopsisThis collection explores the genesis of John Polidori's foundational novella The Vampyre (1819). It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy from the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, through further Gothic fictions and horror films, to twenty-first century paranormal romance. -- .

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children’s Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children’s culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants. Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.Trade Review‘Pasts at play makes a valuable contribution to scholarship on informal learning, revealing how much more we understand about the history of education when we look beyond the school gates.’ Siân Pooley, Victorian Studies -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: pasts at play – Rachel Bryant Davies and Barbara GriblingPart I: Biblical and archaeological pasts1 Noah’s Ark-aeology and nineteenth-century children – Melanie Keene2 Bringing Egypt home: children’s encounters with ancient Egypt in the long nineteenth century – Virginia ZimmermanPart II: Classical pasts3 Didactic heroes: masculinity, sexuality and exploration in the Argonaut story of Kingsley’s The Heroes – Helen Lovatt4 ‘Fun from the Classics’: puzzling antiquity in The Boy’s Own Paper – Rachel Bryant DaviesPart III: Medieval and early modern pasts5 Youthful consumption and conservative visions: Robin Hood and Wat Tyler in late Victorian penny periodicals – Stephen Basdeo6 A tale of two ladies? Stuart women as role models for Victorian and Edwardian girls and young women – Rosemary MitchellPart IV: Revived pasts7 Tarry-at-home antiquarians: children’s ‘tour books’ 1740–1840 – M. O. Grenby8 Playing with the past: child consumers, pedagogy and British history games, c. 1780–1850 – Barbara Gribling9 Re-enacting local history in the Stepney Children’s Pageant, 1909 – Ellie ReidAppendix A: A list of 'tour books' – M. O. GrenbyAppendix B: A list of British history-themed toys and games – Barbara GriblingIndex

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Book SynopsisDon Catrín de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and caste and plays with other aspects of the self considered more extrinsic, such as appearance and social disguise. While not directly mentioning the Mexican wars of independence, Don Catrín offers a vivid representation of the political and social frictions that burst into violence around 1810 and gave birth to the independent countries of Latin America.Trade ReviewThe work offers a complex portrait of negotiated identities, and, despite its ending on a moralizing note, a modern audience will find it delightfully subversive." —Kelly Washbourne, Kent State University

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Book Synopsis“A visual treat as well as a literary one…for gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanical illustration, and those who seek a deeper understanding of the life and work of Emily Dickinson.” —The Wall Street Journal Emily Dickinson was a keen observer of the natural world, but less well known is the fact that she was also an avid gardener—sending fresh bouquets to friends, including pressed flowers in her letters, and studying botany at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke. At her family home, she tended both a small glass conservatory and a flower garden. In Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life, award-winning author Marta McDowell explores Dickinson’s deep passion for plants and how it inspired and informed her writing. Tracing a year in the garden, the book reveals details few know about Dickinson and adds to our collective understanding of who she was as a person. By weaving together Dickinson’s poems, excerpts from letters, contemporary and historical photography, and botanical art, McDowell offers an enchanting new perspective on one of America’s most celebrated but enigmatic literary figures.

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Book SynopsisLiterature not only represents Canada as "our home and native land" but has been used as evidence of the civilization needed to claim and rule that land. Indigenous people have long been represented as roaming "savages" without land title and without literature. Literary Land Claims: From Pontiac's War to Attawapiskat analyzes works produced between 1832 and the late 1970s by writers who resisted these dominant notions. Margery Fee examines John Richardson's novels about Pontiac's War and the War of 1812 that document the breaking of British promises to Indigenous nations. She provides a close reading of Louis Riel's addresses to the court at the end of his trial in 1885, showing that his vision for sharing the land derives from the Indigenous value of respect. Fee argues that both Grey Owl and E. Pauline Johnson's visions are obscured by challenges to their authenticity. Finally, she shows how storyteller Harry Robinson uses a contemporary Okanagan framework to explain how white refusal to share the land meant that Coyote himself had to make a deal with the King of England. Fee concludes that despite support in social media for Theresa Spence's hunger strike, Idle No More, and the Indian Residential School Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the story about "savage Indians" and "civilized Canadians" and the latter group's superior claim to "develop" the lands and resources of Canada still circulates widely. If the land is to be respected and shared as it should be, literary studies needs a new critical narrative, one that engages with the ideas of Indigenous writers and intellectuals.Trade ReviewFee contributes to the decolonization of literary studies in Canada and readers will benefit from Fee's contextualization of Indigenous notions of land rights and language. ... scholars interested in issues related to decolonization and Indigenous sovereignty will find this work especially useful. -- Lianne Leddy -- H-Envirnoment, 2016Literary Land Claims is an extremely important contribution to conversations about literature in Canada. ... At a time when universities across Canada are endeavouring to heed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's "Calls to Action," Fee points readers toward a goal of consensus building, one that is predicated on muddying the binary and hierarchical logics through which we have tended to understand identity and, indeed, colonialism itself. She opens up an engaging and necessary conversation, offering a model for rich, ethical scholarly engagement with a literary landscape that is extends far beyond this book, and beyond the confines of "Canlit." -- Sarah Krotz -- English Studies in Canada... Literary Land Claims is timely reading. ... a rich and thoughtful book which will appeal to anyone writing or teaching in fields relating to settler-colonial, Canadian, and Indigenous studies. Historians in particular will find Fee's chapters a valuable complement to the original texts she discusses. -- Megan Harvey -- BC Studies, 2017Fee's argument is a compelling reframing of Indigenous literatures and Canadian cultural nationalism. Her case that literature and storytelling are powerful decolonial tools arrives at a crucial time for Indigenous literature and theory as well as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's calls to decolonize the academy and public school systems, both of which are bound up within Canada's literary canon. Thus, I wholeheartedly endorse Fee's text as an important addition to our decolonial theoretical toolkit. -- Joshua Whitehead -- ariel, 2018Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Literary Land Claims: The âIndian Land Questionâ from Pontiac's War to Attawapiskat by Margery Fee Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Imagining "The Indian Land Question" from Here 2 "Why have they taken our hunting grounds?": John Richardson's Lament for a Nation 3 "That 'ere Ingian's one of us!": Richardson Rewrites the Burkean Savage 4 "We have to walk on the ground": Constitutive Rhetoric in Riel's Addresses to the Court 5 "We Indians own these lands": Performance, Authenticity, Disidentification, and E. Pauline Johnson / Tekahionwake 6 "They taught me much": Imposture, Animism, Ecosystem and Archibald Belaney / Grey Owl 7 "They never even sent us a letter": Literacy and Land in Harry Robinson's Origin Story Conclusion: Attawapiskat v. #Ottawapiskat Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisBestselling author, pioneering photographer, mathematical don and writer of nonsense verse, Lewis Carroll remains a source of continuing fascination. Though many have sought to understand this complex man he remains for many an enigma. Now leading international authority, Edward Wakeling, offers his unique appraisal of the man born Charles Dodgson but whom the world knows best as Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. This new biography of Carroll presents a fresh appraisal based upon his social circle. Contrary to the claims of many previous authors, Carroll's circle was not child centred: his correspondence was enormous, numbering almost 100,000 items at the time of his death, and included royalty and many of the leading artists, illustrators, publishers, academics, musicians and composers of the Victorian era. Edward Wakeling draws upon his personal database of nearly 6,000 letters, mostly never before published, to fill the gaps left by earlier biographies and resolve some of the key myths that surround Lewis Carroll, such as his friendships with children and his drug-taking. Meticulously researched and based upon a lifetime's study of the man and his work, this important new work will be essential reading for scholars and admirers of one of the key authors of the Victorian age.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Foreword by Rhona Lewis, Christ Church, Oxford Preface Acknowledgements A Chronology of C. L. Dodgson’s Life 1. The Dodgson Family 2. Teachers and Oxford University Associates 3. Publishers and Printers 4. Illustrators 5. Mathematicians and Logicians 6. Photographers 7. Artists and Musicians 8. Actors and Dramatists 9. Friends and Children 10. Professionals 11. Royalty 12. Famous Acquaintances Epilogue: Full Circle Bibliography Short Titles Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written with reference to Browning correspondence only recently available, argues that the poet was a strong and determined woman largely responsible for her own incarceration in Wimpole Street. The author traces her life from her early childhood and adolescence and explores her marriage. She draws a picture of early Victorian family life and aims to show that Elizabeth was a considerable and dedicated poet, self-willed, witty and courageous. Forster has also edited the companion volume "Selected Poems" of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and is author of several other biographies.Trade ReviewThis is the most exciting sort of biography to read, or to write: the myth-dispelling biography which overturns an old story, and does so most convincingly' * New Statesman *If it is a test of a good biography to send the reader hot-foot to the subject's works, Margaret Forster's has succeeded triumphantly * The Times *

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Book SynopsisWithin the Euro-American literary tradition, Gothic stories of childhood and adolescence have often served as a tool for cultural propaganda, advancing colonialist, white supremacist and patriarchal ideologies. This book turns our attention to modern and contemporary Gothic texts by hemispheric American writers who have refigured uncanny youth in ways that invert these cultural scripts. In the hands of authors ranging from Octavio Paz and Maryse Conde to N. Scott Momaday and Carmen Maria Machado, Gothic conventions become a means of critiquing pathological structures of power in the space of the Americas. As fictional children and adolescents confront persisting colonial and neo-imperialist architectures, grapple with the everyday ramifications of white supremacist thinking, navigate rigged systems of socioeconomic power, and attempt to frustrate patterns of gendered, anti-queer violence, the uncanny and the nightmarish in their lives force readers to reckon affectively as well as intellectually with these intersecting forms of injustice.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 - Haunted Perennial Girlhoods Chapter 2 - Cursed Pregnancies and Uncanny Children Chapter 3 - Gothic Boyhoods and Adult Betrayals Chapter 4 - The Teen Girls Aren't Alright Chapter 5 - Writing Gothic Scenes for Kids Conclusion - Resistance, Resilience, and the Gothic Happy Ending

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Book SynopsisSituated at the intersection of affect studies, ecocriticism, aesthetics, and Romantic studies, this book presents a genealogy of love in Romantic-era poetry, science, and philosophy. While feeling and emotion have been traditional mainstays of Romantic literature, the concept of love is under-studied and under-appreciated, often neglected or dismissed as idealized, illusory, or overly sentimental. However, Seth Reno shows that a particular conception of intellectual love is interwoven with the major literary, scientific, and philosophical discourses of the period. Romantic-era writers conceived of love as integral to broader debates about the nature of life, the biology of the human body, the sociology of human relationships, the philosophy of nature, and the disclosure of being.Amorous Aesthetics traces the development of intellectual love from its first major expression in Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics, through its adoption and adaptation in eighteenth-century moral and natural philosophy, to its emergence as a Romantic tradition in the work of six major poets. From William Wordsworth and John Clare’s love of nature, to Percy Shelley’s radical politics of love, to the more sceptical stances of Felicia Hemans, Alfred Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold, intellectual love is a pillar of Romanticism.This book will interest scholars and students of Romanticism, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, affect studies, ecocriticism, aesthetics, and those who work at the intersection of literature and science.Trade Review‘Amorous Aesthetics is an important contribution to the field of Romantic studies and a successful first book…the book is significant for tracking an indisputably major concept, love, across many decades of Romantic writing and a significant number of canonical poets, which, I think, could make the book foundational for further research in this area.’ David Sigler, The Review of English Studies'Throughout Amorous Aesthetics, Reno resists the insights of the New Historicism, which subordinated aesthetics and affect to cultural context and ideology. Focusing on 1788 to 1805 (from The Evening Walk to The Prelude), his reading of the former poem is masterful, for it highlights the tension between sublimity (that vertical, fearsome force of nature) and sentimentality (a warmer and more horizontalizing form of affect).'Colin Carman, European Romantic Review'With focus on Romantic poetry, Reno's book interrogates quests for transcendental love in relation to the seemingly contrary pull of human bonds. [...Reno's] challenge to the dominant interpretations of young Wordsworth as an unadulterated Pantheist is welcome [...and] the first chapter breaks new ground in explaining Erasmus Darwin's influence on Wordsworth. [...] While much remains for scholarship to say on intellectual love, this book offers substantial contributions.'Chris Murray, Review 19Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Recovering Intellectual LoveChapter 1: Wordsworthian LoveChapter 2: John Clare and Ecological LoveChapter 3: Shelleyan LoveChapter 4: Felicia Hemans and the AffectionsChapter 5: Tennyson, Arnold, and the Victorians: The Legacy of Romantic LoveBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisMary Elizabeth Braddon's The Factory Girl (1863) was a cheap serial intended for working-class readers. The sprawling plot centres on Laura Leslie and her daughter, Dora, who are the targets of a diverse cast of villains. After Laura's tragic death, Dora and her adoptive mother start a new life working in a cotton mill, but Dora's beauty attracts unwelcome attention, putting them in danger. Dora is the classic factory girl, a nineteenth-century revision of the Gothic heroine. Republished in the US in both newspapers and as a book, and translated into French, the novel has been out of print since the 1860s. This edition reproduces the original Halfpenny Journal text and illustrations, and adds a scholarly introduction placing the novel in numerous cultural contexts, including the rise of sensation fiction; nineteenth-century popular theatre; the transformation of the genre of the Gothic; and the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution.

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Book SynopsisThough Julia Wedgwood is still remembered as a commentator on the work of her uncle, Charles Darwin, and for her brief but intense friendship with Browning, her contemporary standing as a writer (“the thoughtful woman par excellence”) has been obscured as has her role in the pioneering days of women’s higher education and the first campaigns for female suffrage. Based on her extensive correspondence and unusually wide-ranging work, this biography unites the private person and the public writer. It also looks at her many relationships with leading Victorian cultural figures including not only Darwin and Browning but George Eliot, Mrs Gaskell, Harriet Martineau, Frances Power Cobbe, F. D. Maurice, Richard Hutton, Arthur Munby and the young E. M. Forster. It considers the challenges facing a single, deaf Victorian woman in establishing her own independent, but unconventional, life.Trade Review‘This sparkling biography is as wide-ranging as its subject, a serious writer and niece of Charles Darwin who enjoyed friendships with luminaries from Elizabeth Gaskell (in whose home Wedgwood heard gossip about Charlotte Brontë), to Robert Browning, and – thanks to her long life – E. M. Forster. A fascinating life!’—Linda Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature, Texas Christian University, USA‘Susan Brown’s deeply researched and penetrating study corrects a historical erasure and brings to full prominence the multifaceted influence of Julia Wedgwood on 19th and early 20th century literature and thought. Skilfully interweaving a wide array of correspondents, collaborators and intellectual companions, Brown’s biography traces the enthralling history of a brilliant but stubbornly self-contained mind and reveals Wedgwood’s substantial contributions to Victorian literature, philosophy, science and theology. Thoughtful, moving and beautifully written, Julia Wedgwood: The Victorian Female Intellectual explores the ways in which Wedgwood’s uncompromising pursuit of the life of the mind and principled retreat from intimacy attracted and repelled the leading writers and thinkers of her day.’—Jane Susan Stabler, Professor, School of English, The University of St Andrews, UK‘A compelling portrait of a remarkable, highly gifted Victorian woman and her contribution to nineteenth-century thought.’—Joanne Shattock, Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature, University of Leicester, UK‘This is a beautifully written book about an important, yet neglected, Victorian intellectual that provides a new perspective on a number of central figures of the period. Julia Wedgwood was at the center of many of the important philosophical, social, religious, and literary movements of the era. A restless spirit, her broad intellectual interests and commitments brought her into contact with so many fascinating Victorians, including Browning (who interested her romantically), Darwin (who was her uncle), George Eliot, F. D. Maurice, R. H. Hutton, James Martineau, and many others. The author has a knack for analyzing Wedgwood’s relationships with these figures, probing both their intellectual ties and the personalities that could attract or repel. She also has an uncanny ability to examine, with a great deal of sensitivity, the dynamics of the family relationships within the Darwins and the Wedgwoods.’ — Bernard Lightman, Professor of Humanities, York University‘This engaging biography brings to light a remarkable and forceful figure who has long required attention. Sue Brown’s study – detailed, immaculately researched and eloquently written – reveals the full range of Julia Wedgwood’s achievements and intriguingly situates her at the centre of a wide network of nineteenth-century writers, scientists, reformers and intellectuals. It is certainly hard to imagine this biography being surpassed.’ — Simon Avery, Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Westminster UniversityBrown’s biography surveys Wedgwood’s influence and popularity as they developed across her lifetime and in the context of luminaries such as F. D. Maurice, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary, and George Boole, and Richard Hutton as well as prominent debates on suffrage, women’s education, vivisection, and the role of science within religion. Brown traces the complex shifts in Wedgwood’s thinking about each of these through close readings of her private letters, her letters to monthly periodicals, and her essays for a range of upmarket monthlies — Mercedes Sheldon, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Volume 55, Number 3&4, Fall/Winter 2022, pp. 472-474 (Article).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations; Introduction: ‘The Formidable Snowie’; Part I The Education of Julia Wedgwood Chapter One A Brilliant Child; Chapter Two Mentors, Friends and Pioneers; Chapter Three Waiting; Chapter Four The Young Novelist; Part II Great Men and Female Friends Chapter Five The Promise of Darwinism; Chapter Six ‘The Era of My Life’; Chapter Seven A Woman’s World; Chapter Eight The Responsibilities of the Poet; Part III Becoming a Woman of Letters Chapter Nine Finding a Voice; Chapter Ten A Forgotten Feminist; Chapter Eleven Doubt and the Fallibility of Idols; Chapter Twelve Domestic Contentment; Chapter Thirteen Coming to Terms with Darwin and His Legacy; Part IV The ‘Thoughtful Woman Par Excellence’ Chapter Fourteen The Message of Julia Wedgwood; Chapter Fifteen ‘The Old Order Changeth’; Chapter Sixteen ‘A Satisfi ed Guest’; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisWordsworth’s process of revision, his organization of poetic volumes and his supplementary writings are often seen as distinct from his poetic composition. Bates asserts that an analysis of these supplementary writings and paratexts are necessary to a full understanding of Wordsworth’s poetry.Trade Review'meticulously researched and documented ... refreshingly clearly written and free of jargon, while at the same time critically astute.' Romanticism 'Wordsworth's Poetic Collections is an admirable addition to a series that has produced first-rate works for those interested in book history, genre, authorship, and the emerging reader.' SHARP News 'Bates's book can teach us something about fundamental qualities of Wordsworth 's style' New Books Online 19 'Bates does make stimulating suggestions about the literary and editorial context of Wordsworth's compositions' CERCLES 'a fascinating and detailed study of Wordsworth's paratext and parody.' BARS BulletinTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 Reframing Lyrical Ballads (1800/1798); Chapter 2 Textual Travelling in the 1800 Lyrical Ballads; Chapter 3 Short-Circuiting Wordsworth’s 1807 Poems : Richard Mant’s the Simpliciad; Chapter 4 Wordsworth’s 'Library of Babel’: The Excursion and the 1815 Poems; Chapter 5 Opening up Chapter 13 of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria; Chapter 6 J. H. Reynolds’s ‘Peter Bell’ and the Wordsworthian Reputation; Chapter 7 The River Duddon Volume and Wordsworth’s Canonical Ascent;

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Book SynopsisThe inherent 'metropolitanism' of writing for a Romantic-era periodical is here explored through the Elia articles that Charles Lamb wrote for the London Magazine.Trade Review'This is an extraordinary study that covers an impressive body of often overlooked literature with subtlety, skill and aplomb ... It is a must-read for for readers of Lamb, Cockneyism and writings of the city.' The Charles Lamb Bulletin 'Simon Hull's book is an especially welcome reevaluation of Lamb's essay writing.' New Books Online 19Table of ContentsIntroduction, Simon P. Hull; Chapter 1 Consuming the Periodical Text: Hunt, Hazlitt and the Anxiety of Cockneyism, Simon P. Hull; Chapter 2 Domesticating the Flaneur: Coleridge, De Quincey and the Forms of Metropolitanism, Simon P. Hull; Chapter 3 The Great Wen and the Rural Gothic, Simon P. Hull; Chapter 4 Utility and Pity: Wordsworth, Blake and Egan, and the Act of Charity, Simon P. Hull; Chapter 5 Lamb, Theatricality and the Fool, Simon P. Hull; Chapter 102 Conclusion, Simon P. Hull;

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Book SynopsisThe "Quarterly Review" presents a rare opportunity to Romantic scholars to test the truth of Marilyn Butler's claim that the early nineteenth-century periodical is the matrix for democratization of public writing and reading. This is the second title in this series to look at its influence.Trade Review'An outstanding contribution to the study of Romantic print culture.' BARS Bulletin and ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 Origins; Chapter 2 Launching the Quarterly Review; Chapter 3 Competition for Editorial Control; Chapter 4 The Quarterly Review Ascendant; Chapter 5 The Transition to Lockhart;

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Book SynopsisOpened in 1837 and inspired by the Pere Lachaise in Paris, West Norwood became known as the Millionaire's Cemetery. But within its opulent grounds there are twelve buried names whose currency is language: these are the dead poets of West Norwood. In the first instalment of a project to map the Magnificent Seven, Chris McCabe takes us off the main track of London writing and asks why the works of Hopkins, Tennyson and Browning are still read above those buried in this suburban enclave of South London. Join McCabe on the hunt for a great lost poet, as he walks the winding Gothic paths of the Cemetery and makes an unexpected discovery underground in the catacombs. The stories of those loved and dismissed by Charles Dickens are carefully uncovered; those who influenced Lewis Carroll and Winston Churchill; and those whose burial in the common ground has not been enough to silence them. A startling and original work of literary detection, In the Catacombs is written across a range of forms - prose, Gothic fiction, criticism and poetry - and places West Norwood Cemetery and its dead poets back into the foreground of the London psyche.

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Book SynopsisThis volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children's literature throughout the long nineteenth century. As well as revisiting much-loved authors such as Stevenson, Barrie, and MacDonald, it explores the neglected role of women writers in shaping the inheritance of Scottish children's literature, the significant contribution of Gaelic writers, and the role of folklore and tradition. Essays also examine the significance of children as literary protagonists, and as readers themselves. In recovering these marginal voices and texts, and in showing how well-known stories explore questions of culture, identity, and language, The Land of Story-Booksseeks to restore the traditions of children's writing to the heart of Scottish literary history.

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Book SynopsisThe first book in the new series, `Writers and their Contexts'', to be published by EER. Who is more open with posterity than Anthony Trollope? What other Victorian novelist of eminence exposed himself more frankly than the Chronicler of Barsetshire? Or did he...

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Book SynopsisThe Black Butterfly focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants—Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. These authors wrote in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Brazil moved into and then through the 1888 abolition of slavery. Assis was Brazil's most experimental novelist; Alves was a Romantic poet with passionate liberationist politics, popularly known as "the poet of the slaves"; and da Cunha is known for the masterpiece Os Sertões (The Backlands), a work of genius that remains strangely neglected in the scholarship of transatlantic slavery.Wood finds that all three writers responded to the memory of slavery in ways that departed from their counterparts in Europe and North America, where emancipation has typically been depicted as a moment of closure. He ends by setting up a wider literary context for his core authors by introducing a comparative study of their great literary abolitionist predecessors Luís Gonzaga Pinto da Gama and Joaquim Nabuco. The Black Butterfly is a revolutionary text that insists Brazilian culture has always refused a clean break between slavery and its aftermath. Brazilian slavery thus emerges as a living legacy subject to continual renegotiation and reinvention.Trade Review“A groundbreaking interpretation of Brazilian literature in the context of transatlantic slavery and studies of race.”- Aquiles Alencar Brayner, the British Library

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Book SynopsisThis book serves as a retrieval and reevaluation of a rich haul of comic caricatures from the turbulent years between the Reform Bill crisis of the early 1830s and the rise and fall of Chartism in the 1840s. With a telling selection of illustrations, this book deploys the techniques of close reading and political contextualization to demonstrate the aesthetic and ideological clout of a neglected tranche of satirical prints and periodicals dismissed as ineffectual by historians or distasteful by contemporaries. The prime exhibits are the work of Robert Seymour and C.J. Grant giving acerbic comic edge to the case for reform against class and state oppression and the excesses of the monarchical regime under the young Queen Victoria.Trade Review“Haywood unpacks the amazingly complicated and inventive imagery, shared by words and pictures in the 1830s and purposed by the radical press to expose the myths of a united nation. … Haywood’s and Maidment’s books are seriously and importantly relevant to any reconsideration of Dickens’s work through the 1830s and 1840s.” (Robert L. Patten, The Dickensian, Vol. 117 (515), Winter, 2021)“Ian Haywood’s The Rise of Victorian Caricature is a book that takes caricature seriously as having played a variety of important cultural and political roles in the 1830s. … A comparison between the visual cultures associated with the three Reform Acts would make for fascinating reading and viewing.” (Dominic Janes, Victorian Studies, Vol. 64 (1), 2021)“In this impressive volume of visual, cultural, and social history, Haywood captures the sense of urgency and emotive responses to the politics of the day, while his carefully chosen illustrations introduce readers to the broader themes of class, antigovernment, and pro-Chartist ideology.” (Rose Roberto, BAVS Newsletter, 2021)“Haywood’s detailed analysis, subtle points regarding social class distinctions, and numerous examples of broadsheets and their caricatures all render this book at once wide-ranging and specific. The Rise of Victorian Caricature represents a valuable contribution to studies of visual and print culture and an indispensable resource for research into the history of political caricature in Victorian periodicals.” (Jo Devereux, Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 53 (3), 2020)“Besides illuminating caricature, this book enriches our understanding of so many other key fields that it should be required reading in British history courses. … [Haywood] sheds a volume of new light on the evolving class system. … Along with the highest quality of reproduction and all the work required to gain rights and permissions, this wealth of illustrative material should be applauded.” (Richard Scully, Review19, nbol-19.org, October 17, 2020)Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Re-forming caricature: political crisis and the reinvention of the satirical image 1830–1832.- 3. Everybody’s caricature: Charles Jameson Grant.- 4. The Reform Hurricane: radical satirical broadsheets.- 5. The Chartist Carnival.- 6. Laughing at Victoria: A Queen in Caricature.

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Book SynopsisTracing the shift from liberal to neoliberal education from the nineteenth century to the present day, this open access book provides a rich and previously underdeveloped narrative of value in higher education in England. Value and the Humanities draws upon historical, financial, and critical debates concerning educational and cultural policy. Rather than writing a singular defence of the humanities against economic rationalism, Zoe Hope Bulaitis constructs a nuanced map of the intersections of value in the humanities, encompassing an exploration of policy engagement, scientific discourses, fictional representation, and the humanities in public life. The book articulates a kaleidoscopic range of humanities practices which demonstrate that although recent policy encourages higher education to be entirely motivated by outcomes, fiscal targets, and the acquisition of employability skills, the humanities continue to inspire and aspire beyond these limits. This book is a historically-grounded and theoretically-informed analysis of the value of the humanities within the context of the market. Trade Review“Bulaitis’s analysis of the values conveyed both in higher education speech and policies provides a useful study of how they are perceived, imagined, and put into practice within the British neoliberal context. … Bulaitis has articulated very convincing academic arguments to explain the shift from liberal to neoliberal university values and debates. This book offers accurate, clear, and meaningful food for thought for those interested in the study of the processes of ‘marketisation’ and ‘economisation’ of higher education.” (Catherine Coron, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60 (4), October, 2021)Table of ContentsChapter One: IntroductionPart I: The State of the DebateCritical University Studies The Public Value of the Humanities Social Impact Studies New Contributions Part II: The Relationship with the Past: From Liberal to Neoliberal EducationDescribing 2008-18 as the Present Moment in Higher EducationEconomic Value as a Monoculture under Neoliberalism The Dominance of Economic Value within Higher Education Arguing Against Crisis in the HumanitiesPart III: From Liberal to Neoliberal Education Articulating the Values of a Liberal Education Speaking of Liberal Values in the Neoliberal University Part IV: Chapter Synopses Chapter Two: A History of Payment by Results: Lowe’s Code (1862) and the Browne Report (2010)Introduction Part I: Lowe’s CodeThe Newcastle Commission Robert Lowe and Economic Motivations Critical Responses to Payment by Results Part II: The Browne Report Contextualising the Browne Report: The Move towards Minimal Government Involvement in Higher Education National Economic Motivations National Gains: The Debate Concerning Tangible Knowledge The Rise of Individualism and the Student as Consumer ConclusionChapter Three: Controversy and Conversation: The Relationship Between the Humanities and the SciencesIntroductionPart I: Policy and the Relationship between the DisciplinesPresent Policy PreferencesA Brief History of an Age-Old ArgumentPart II: The “Two Cultures Controversy”, Then and NowThe Birth of a Controversy The Form of the Debate The Two Cultures Today Part III: A Liberal Valuation: Arnold and Huxley’s Exchange The Start of a Conversation “Darwin’s Bulldog” and “Our Chief Apostle of Culture” Articulating the Value of a Liberal Education Conclusion Chapter Four: The Relationship between Academic Fiction and Academic LifeIntroduction Part I: Using Academic Fiction as a Discursive Tool Part II: Defining Academic Fiction Understanding the Appeal of Academic Fiction Situation and Settings for the Academic Novel Subject Matter and Style in Academic Fiction Part III: Investigation One: The Qualities of a Liberal Education The Qualities of an Education in Tom Brown at Oxford The Secret History: A Classical Education Out of Time Assessing the Value of the Humanities in Novels that Engage with Educational Principles from the Past Part IV: Investigation Two: Representing the Processes of Humanities Research Middlemarch and the Pursuit of the Key to All Mythologies Possession and the Processes of Scholarship Assessing the Value of the Humanities in Novels that Explore the Process of Writing and Research Part V: Investigation Three: Pressures of Economics in Education Jude the Obscure and Barriers to Education Frank Parkin’s The Mind and Body Shop: Everything for Sale The Future of a Liberal Education in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty ConclusionChapter Five: Impact and the Humanities: The Rise of Accountability in Public Cultural LifeIntroduction Part I: Debates in Public Access, Use, and Accountability in the Victorian Museum Defining Foucauldian Governmentality National Interests in the Public Museum: Governance and Powers of Display The British Museum: The Rise of Debates in Public Accountability and Access The Rise of Accountability: Quantification as Justification in the Victorian MuseumConclusions, Regarding the Victorian Public Museum Part II: Public Expenditure and Public Values“There is No Alternative”: The Rise of Economic Models of Valuation in the Cultural Sector New Public Management Responses from the Cultural Sector The Arts and the Economy Embroiled: The Rise of the Creative Industries Part III: REF-lections for the Academic Humanities Reinforcing National Interests within the Impact Agenda The Focus on Outputs and Impacts Misrepresents the Value of the Humanities “The System Does Not Speak for Me” The Humanities and the Creative Industries Part IV: A Response from the Humanities Conclusion Chapter Six: Conclusion Part I: Reflections on Questions of Value Part II: Future Directions for ResearchPart III: Voices of the Humanities, and a Call to ArmsPart IV: The Need for the Humanities in an Age of Populism

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Book SynopsisThis book updates our understanding of working-class fiction by focusing on its continued relevance to the social and intellectual contexts of the age of Trump and Brexit. The volume draws together new and established scholars in the field, whose intersectional analyses use postcolonial and feminist ideas, amongst others, to explore key theoretical approaches to working-class writing and discuss works by a range of authors, including Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, Jack Hilton, Mulk Raj Anand, Simon Blumenfeld, Pat Barker, Gordon Burn, and Zadie Smith. A key informing argument is not only that working-class writing shows ‘working class’ to be a diverse and dynamic rather than monolithic category, but also that a greater critical attention to class, and the working class in particular, extends both the methods and objects of literary studies. This collection will appeal to students, scholars and academics interested in working-class writing and the need to diversify the curriculum.Table of Contents1. Working-Class Writing and Experimentation - Ben Clarke.- 2. Interwoven Histories: Working Class Literature & Theory - Jack Windle.- 3. Meaning It: Everyday Hermeneutics and the Language of Class in Literary Scholarship - Cassandra Falke.- 4. Kings in Disguise and 'Pure Ellen Kellond': Literary Social Passing in the Early Twentieth Century - Luke Seaber.- 5. Democratic Art or Working-Class Literature? Virginia Woolf, the Women's Cooperative Guild and Literary Value in the 'Introductory Letter' - Natasha Periyan.- 6. The Bakhtin Circle in Caribbean London: Race, Class and Narrative Strategy - Matti Ron.- 7. 'Look at the State of this Place!': The Impact of Domestic Space on Post-War Class Consciousness - Simon Lee.- 8. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's Helen of Four Gates: Recasting Melodrama in Novel and Cinematic Form - Pamela Fox.- 9. Representation of the Working Classes of the British Colonies and/as the Subalterns in Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie - Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay.- 10. London Jewish... and Working-Class? Social and Geographic Mobility in Simon Blumenfeld and Alexander Baron - Jason Finch.- 11. The Deindustrialist Novel: Twenty-first Century British fiction and the Working Class - Phil O'Brien.- 12. Working-Class Heritage Revisited in Alan Warner's The Deadman's Pedal - Peter Clandfield.- 13. Respectability, Nostalgia and Shame in Contemporary English Working-Class Fiction - Nick Hubble.

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Book SynopsisThis book traces the emergence of modern pessimism in nineteenth-century France and examines its aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and political implications. It explores how, since pessimism as a worldview is not empirically verifiable, writers on pessimism shift the discussion to verisimilitude, opening up rich territory for cross-fertilization between philosophy and literature. The book traces debates on pessimism in the nineteenth century among French nonfiction writers who either lauded its promotion of compassion or condemned it for being a sick and unliveable attempt at renunciation. It then examines the way novelists and poets take up and transform these questions by portraying characters in lived situations that serve as testing grounds for the merits or limitations of pessimism. The debate on pessimism that emerged in the nineteenth century is still very much with us, and this book offers an interhistorical argument for embracing pessimism as a way of living well in the world, aesthetically, ethically, and politically.Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Schopenhauer: Resignation, Compassion, and Narrative3 Debates on Pessimism in Late Nineteenth-Century France4 Pessimism and the Novel: Fiction and the “As-If”5 Pessimism and the Poetic Imagination6 Conclusion: Living Well with Pessimism, Then and Now

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Book SynopsisThis monograph reorients discussion of Blake’s prophetic mode, revealing it to be not a system in any formal sense, but a dynamic, human response to an era of momentous historical change when the future Blake had foreseen and the reality he was faced with could not be reconciled. At every stage, Blake’s writing confronts the central problem of all politically minded literature: how texts can become action. Yet he presents us with no single or, indeed, conclusive answer to this question and in this sense it can be said that he fails. Blake, however, never stopped searching for a way that prophecy might be made to live up to its promise in the present. The twentieth-century hermeneuticist Paul Ricoeur shared with Blake a preoccupation with the relationship between time, text and action. Ricoeur’s hermeneutics thus provide a fresh theoretical framework through which to analyse Blake’s attempts to fulfil his prophetic purpose.Trade Review“Cogan’s book does an exceptional job of exploring such tensions across the range of Blake’s corpus. None of the caveats above lessens my admiration for its daring and innovative engagement with Blake’s treatment of prophecy.” (G. A. Rosso, Blake, An Illustrated Quarterly, Vol. 56 (3), 2022-2023)Table of Contents1 Introduction: Prophetic Failure2 Calling All Prophets3 Prophetic Action4 The Origins of Loss5 Delusive Visions6 Prophet of Eternity7 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe Famine Diaspora and Irish American Women’s Writing considers the works of eleven North American female authors who wrote for or descended from the Irish Famine generation: Anna Dorsey, Christine Faber, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Mother Jones, Kate Kennedy, Margaret Dixon McDougall, Mary Meaney, Alice Nolan, Fanny Parnell, Mary Anne Sadlier, and Elizabeth Hely Walshe. This collection examines the ways the writings of these women contributed significantly to the construction of Irish North-American identities, and played a crucial role in the dissemination of Famine memories transgenerationally as well as transnationally. The included annotated excerpts from these women writers’ works and the accompanying essays by prominent international scholars offer insights on the sociopolitical position of the Irish in North America, their connections with the homeland, women’s activities in transnational (often Catholic) publishing networks and women writers’ mediation of Ireland’s cultural heritage. Furthermore, the volume illustrates the generic variety of Irish American women’s writing of the Famine generation, which comprises political treatises, novels, short stories and poetry, and bears witness to these female authors’ profound engagement with political and social issues, such as the conditions of the poor and woman’s vote. Table of ContentsSection I: Irish American Women’s Activism (1880-1920).- 1. Fanny Parnell: The Songstress of the Land League.- 2. Mother Jones, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Famine Memory.- 3. Kate Kennedy, Irish Famine Refugee, American Feminist.- Section II: Famine Memory and Irish American Women’s Writing.- 4. From Regional Remembrance to Transatlantic Heritage: the Transportability of Famine memory in Fiction by Mary Anne Sadlier, Anna Dorsey and Alice Nolan.- 5. Margaret Dixon McDougall’s The Days of a Life (1883); an Irish-Canadian Perspective of the Repetitive Nature of Irish History.- Section III: The Global Famine Diaspora: Mary Anne Sadlier and Her Contemporary Female Authors.- 6. Irish Catholic and Irish Protestant Women Writers’ Perceptions of the Famine Migration and Resettlement in British North America.- 7. Sentimentally Irish, Racially White: The Balancing Act of Irish-American Identity in the Novels of Sadlier and Meany.

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Book SynopsisThis book considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s engagement with ‘Whig poetry’: a tradition of verse from the eighteenth century which celebrated the political and constitutional arrangements of Britain as guaranteeing liberty. It argues that, during the 1790s, Coleridge was able to articulate radical ideas under the cover of widely accepted principles through his references to this poetry. He positioned his poetry within a mainstream discourse, even as he favoured radical social change. Jacob Lloyd argues that the poets Mark Akenside, William Lisle Bowles, and William Cowper each provided Coleridge with a kind of Whig poetics to which he responded. When these references are understood, much of Coleridge’s work which seems purely personal or imaginative gains a political dimension. In addition, Lloyd reassess Coleridge’s relationship with Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, to provide an original, political reading of ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’. This book revises our understanding of the political and poetic development of a major poet and, in doing so, provides a new model for the origins of British Romanticism more broadlyTable of Contents1 Introduction.- 2 Coleridge and Whig Politics, 1794–1796.- 3 Whig Poetics and Akenside.- 4 Coleridge, Enthusiasm, and Bowles.-5 Coleridge’s Poetry of 1796 and 1797.-6 The Politics of Ancient Ballads: ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’ and Christabel.-7 Retirement Politics in the Fears in Solitude Quarto.-8 ‘Dejection. An Ode’ and the Renunciation of Political Poetics.-9 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisH.C. Andersens (1805-1875) brevveksling med B.S. Ingemann (1789-1862) og hustruen Lucie (1792-1862) er en af eventyrdigterens sidste store korrespondancer, som nu udgives i sin helhed. Den er ikke alene en vigtig kilde til forståelse af såvel Andersens som Ingemanns liv og forfattterskab, men bidrager også til belysning af den danske guldalderkulturs historie. Korrespondancens 392 bevarede breve spænder over mere end 45 år fra 1820 til 1867 - fra H.C. Andersen som fattig og ukendt opsøger Ingemann i København, til han beretter om udnævnelsen til æresborger i Odense kort før Lucie Ingemanns død. Brevvekslingen viser Ingemanns store betydning for den unge Andersen som seriøs litterær kritiker og vejleder og den afslører, hvordan rollerne senere til en vis grad byttes om. Sidst, men ikke mindst vidner den om den menneskelighed og forståelse hos Lucie og B.S. Ingemann, som Andersen altid satte så stor pris på. Den bekræfter til fulde sandheden af H.C. Andersens karakteristik af Ingemann i Mit Livs Eventyr, at de begge var "Mennesker i hvis Omgivelser, man ligesom bliver bedre; det Bittre og hele Verden faaer en Solglands, der udgaar fra det hyggelige Hjem".

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Book SynopsisGeorge Gissing’s The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact of ‘odd’ or ‘redundant’ women, the cultural impact of ‘the new woman,’ and the opportunities for and conditions of employment in the expanding service sector of the economy. At the heart of these issues as many late Victorians saw them was a problem of the imbalance in the ratio of men to women in the population. There were more females than males, which meant that more and more women would be left unmarried; they would be ‘odd’ or ‘redundant,’ and would be forced to be independent and to find work to support themselves. In the Broadview edition, Gissing’s text is carefully annotated and accompanied by a range of documents from the period that help to lay out the context in which the book was written.In Gissing’s story, Virginia Madden and her two sisters are confronted upon the death of their father with sudden impoverishment. Without training for employment, and desperate to maintain middle-class respectability, they face a daunting struggle. In Rhoda Nunn, a strong feminist, Gissing also presents a strong character who draws attention overtly to the issues behind the novel. The Odd Women is one of the most important social novels of the late nineteenth century.Trade Review“When it comes to the complexities of everyday life in late-Victorian London, there is no better guide than Gissing and no better Gissing than The Odd Women. And now, in Arlene Young’s carefully edited and annotated edition, we have the definitive guide to Gissing’s novel. Students will also find the historical documents gathered in this volume an invaluable resource in the study of the “woman question” and the sociology of work in the 1890s.” — Stephen Arata, University of Virginia“Broadview’s enterprise is especially welcome in the case of The Odd Women, Gissing’s second most commonly studied novel. [This edition] deserves to become the text of choice for teachers—especially given its modest price.” — The Gissing JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextGeorge Gissing: A Brief ChronologyThe Odd WomenAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews Glasgow Herald 20 April 1893 Saturday Review 29 April 1893 Athenaeum 27 May 1893 Pall Mall Gazette 29 May 1893 Nation (New York) 13 July 1893 Illustrated London News (Clementia Black) 5 August 1893 Appendix B: Attitudes Towards Women and Marriage in Victorian Culture Sarah Ellis, from The Daughters of England (1842) Alfred Lord Tennyson, from The Princess (1847) Coventry Patmore, from The Angel in the House: “The Rose of the World” (1854) Thomas Henry Huxley, from “Emancipation—Black and White,” Reader (20 May 1865) John Ruskin, from “Of Queens’ Gardens,” in Sesame and Lilies (1865) John Stuart Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1869) Mona Caird, from “Marriage,” Westminster Review (1888) Appendix C: Debate over the “Woman Question” Grant Allen, from “Plain Words on the Woman Question,” Fortnightly Review (October 1889) Bernard Shaw, from “The Womanly Woman,” The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891) Eliza Lynn Linton, from “The Wild Women: As Politicians,” Nineteenth Century (July 1891) Eliza Lynn Linton, from “The Wild Women: As Insurgents,” Nineteenth Century (October 1891) Mona Caird, “A Defense of the So-Called ‘Wild Women’,” Nineteenth Century (May 1891) From “Character Note: The New Woman” Cornhill Magazine (October 1894) Nat Arling, “What is the Role of the ‘New Woman?’” Westminster Review (November 1898) Appendix D: Women and Paid Employment: The Limitations of Aspirations and the Actualities Charlotte Brontë, from Shirley (1849) From “The Disputed Question,” English Woman’s Journal (August 1858) Evelyn March Phillips, from “The Working Lady in London,” Fortnightly Review (August 1892) Clara Collet, from “The Employment of Women,” Report to the Royal Commission on Labour (1893) Frances H. Low, from “How Poor Ladies Live,” Nineteenth Century (March 1897) Eliza Orme, from “How Poor Ladies Live: A Reply,” Nineteenth Century (April 1897) Appendix E: Conditions of Work for Men in the White-Collar Sector James Fitzjames Stephen, from “Gentlemen” Cornhill Magazine (March 1862) B.O. Orchard, from The Clerks of Liverpool (1871) Charles Edward Parsons, from Clerks: their Position and Advancement (1876) Thomas Sutherst, from Death and Disease Behind the Counter (1884) H.G. Wells, from Kipps (1905) H.G. Wells, from Experiment in Autobiography (1934) Appendix F: Map of London (1892)Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisHerman Melville’s The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short fiction that he published in hislifetime, and it includes his two most famous short stories, Bartleby, the Scrivener and Benito Cerenoalong with the less well-known but deeply engaging sketches of the Galapagos Islands that make up TheEncantadas and three more short stories: The Piazza, The Bell-Tower, and The Lightning-Rod Man. This edition places these stories in the context of nineteenth-century debates over slavery, free willand determinism, science and technology, and the nature and value of literary artistry. The stories in ThePiazza Tales demonstrate the global range of Melville’s cultural and aesthetic concerns, as Melville sethis stories in locales ranging from rural western Massachusetts and Wall Street in the United States to thePacific coast of South America and southern Europe.This edition is especially concerned with Melville’s engagement with both political questions related toslavery and imperialism and aesthetic questions germane to the short story tradition as developed by hisnear contemporaries Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.Trade Review“At last! Although the stories in The Piazza Tales have been collected and anthologized before, only in this version, with Brian Yothers’s meticulous editing, general introduction, and selection of contextual readings, do we get the book Herman Melville envisioned—for twenty-first-century readers and students. Yothers presents a seasoned novelist, but an experimental writer of tales, laboring within a hectic magazine economy and changing literary history forever. He also exhibits a Melville who responds vigorously to contemporary debates over slavery, urbanization, capitalism, and changing gender roles, and who engages with nineteenth-century science, philosophy, and religion, as well as with a transatlantic cast of canonical and popular authors. Prepare to be delighted and surprised by a Melville you may not have known existed.” — Wyn Kelley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology“In this new Broadview Press edition of Melville’s original 1856 version of The Piazza Tales, Brian Yothers provides a valuable classroom edition that includes reviews, sources and allusions, and other contemporary writings on the art of the story, on slavery and inequality, on science and philosophy, and on other topics of importance to an understanding of the diverse worlds embodied in these tales. Yothers’s illuminating introduction highlights the distinctive character of each of the stories while adroitly placing them in the context of Melville’s personal history and career as a fiction writer and poet, making an eloquent case for reading all six stories together for their imaginative variety and skillful artistry. For teachers of Melville, this compact volume fills a long-standing need.” — Christopher Sten, George Washington University“This new edition makes a strong claim to become the Piazza Tales of choice in the undergraduate classroom. … The appendices feature many inspired choices that will amplify the literary and historical resonance of The Piazza Tales without encumbering students with lengthy supplementary readings.” — Dawn Coleman, LeviathanTable of Contents Appendix A: The Art of the Short Story and the Romance 1. Herman Melville, “Hawthorne and his Mosses” (1850) 2. Edgar Allan Poe, Rev. of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales, Graham’s, 1842 3. Rev. of The Piazza Tales in United States Democratic Review, September 1856 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (1851) Appendix B: Race, Slavery and Inequality 1. Amasa Delano, Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Comprising Three Voyages Round the World, Together With a Voyage of Survey and Discovery in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands (1817) 2. Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1852) 3. George Lippard, New York, Its Upper Ten and Lower Million (1854) 4. John Quincy Adams, The United States v. The Amistad (1841) 5. The slave deck of the bark ""Wildfire,"" brought into Key West on April 30, 1860 Appendix C: Allusions to Poetry and the Bible 1. “Mariana,” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1830) 2. Matthew 5:38-48, The Bible, King James Version 3. Job 3:1-26, The Bible, King James Version 4. Judges 4:4-22, The Bible, King James Version Appendix D: Science and Philosophy 1. Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. From 1832 to 1836 [October 1835] (1840) 2. Jonathan Edwards, Freedom of the Will (1754), Section V, Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of Moral Agency 3. Joseph Priestley, The Doctrine of Philosophic Necessity Illustrated (1777)

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Book SynopsisThis monograph is nothing less than a bold attempt at solving the riddle of Gogol’s novel Dead Souls that even inspired a staging of Dead Souls at Schauspiel Stuttgart. Heftrich gives a comprehensive, coherent answer to the question of the novel’s meaning by meticulously laying bare its structure. The first part of the monograph is dedicated to one section of Gogol’s novel that has been neglected by virtually all critics - a clue that leads to a strictly ethical reading of Gogol’s epic. Gogol, as it emerges, constructed Dead Souls strictly according to a moral pattern. It is amazing to discover how flawlessly Dead Souls is built in this regard. The novel thus proves to be a true descendant of medieval romance with its inseparable interrelation between ethics and epics.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForewordIntroduction: Of Beauty, Truth, and EvilPart One: Chichikov’s Prehistory Ethos and Epic The Ground Plan of Dead Souls The Ground Plan of Dead Souls Revisited Part Two: Chichikov’s Crime On Truth and Lies in a Moral Sense The Five Faces of Lying In the Shadow Realm of Lies Part Three: Chichikov’s Punishment Judgment and Rumor The Five Acts of the Drama Ethos and Epic: Chichikov’s Crime and Punishment IllustrationsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIt is human nature to want to fit in. The lengths people have gone to do so have provided creative minds with material for centuries. This book explores the consequences of being marked an outsider in the Russian-speaking world through a close study of several seminal works of Russian literature. The author combines the fields of literary studies, linguistics, and sociology to illuminate what prompted Christof Ruhl, an economist at the World Bank, to comment, about Russia, “On a very broad scale, it’s a country where people care about their family and friends. Their clan. But not their society.”Trade Review“Don’t be a Stranger is an important and extremely relevant contribution to Russian literary studies. While the book focuses on two literary works, Galie also reflects on the relevance of ‘свой-чужой’ to contemporary Russian society more broadly, and on the ways in which leading figures of the Putin regime and media have utilized their pejorative associations. Indeed, scholars of ethnicity, gender and sexuality studies in Russia will find this book particularly useful and stimulating in the broad discussion surrounding identity and belonging in Putin’s Russia.” — Thomas Reid, University of St. Andrews, Forum For Modern Language StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Fitting in Russian Style1. The Crux of the Svoj/Chuzhoj Opposition2. Making Svoj/Chuzhoj Divisive in Alexander Griboedov’s “Woe from Wit”3. “Woe from Wit” as Social Gospel4. The Demons are SocialDemonsThe SettingThe PlotThe Audience and the StageThe OppositionVerkhovenskyA Stranger’s SinsThe First ArgumentThe Second ArgumentThe DuelAt Our People’sThe Murder of ShatovIn Place of a ConclusionBibliographyPrimary SourcesSecondary Sources

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Book SynopsisThis long awaited collection brings together in one volume the definitive essays on Anton Chekhov by renowned Chekhov scholar Robert Louis Jackson, including work that has never appeared in English as well as brand new essays published here for the first time. The volume offers a series of “slow” readings that yield insight after exquisite insight. They also model fruitful ways of discerning the rich complexity of Chekhov’s deceptively simple work. The volume’s introduction by Robin Feuer Miller captures beautifully what Jackson undertakes in his careful scrutiny of Chekhov’s text. The editor’s afterword by Cathy Popkin includes passages from the editorial correspondence in which Jackson reflects on his work and articulates his aspirations; the authorial voice thus resounds in the section Jackson expected to write himself. The editor also outlines the arguments and insights of Jackson’s remarkable unfinished essays. Finally, an appendix provides the full text of his virtually complete but still open-ended treatment of “On Official Business,” the story Jackson returned to repeatedly for decades, the previously unpublished culmination of his life’s work on Chekhov. Essays on Anton P. Chekhov: Close Readings is fully accessible to readers without knowledge of Russian while also providing complete documentation for scholars in the field.Trade Review“A virtuoso performance by the maestro of Russian literary criticism. This lovingly edited and produced volume, itself a conversation, tells the story of Professor Jackson’s lifelong engagement with the great short-story master. These close readings, many of which will be new even to scholars, focus in on the microscopic elements of a text—the sounds and roots of individual words—and lead from there along inexorable, but previously unnoticed paths to the big questions of justice and faith, good and evil, fate and conscience. Along the way, we realize that Chekhov, too, was in conversation with masters—with the Bible, with Dante, with writers of his time, most notably Dostoevsky, and with others who were to come after. These seemingly disparate essays themselves add up to a majestic, and yet uniquely accessible, body of work. Riches emerge when reader meets text, slows down, and gives it the attention it deserves. It turns out that to understand this, we needed a teacher.”— Carol Apollonio, Duke University“Over twenty years ago, Janet Malcolm assessed that Robert Louis Jackson's ‘writing and teaching on the religious subtext in Chekhov's stories have inspired a generation of younger critics.’ With this volume of exquisitely written, penetrating studies—many of which previously appeared in inaccessible venues or in languages other than English, and one that was not quite finished—Jackson's profound influence on the field will endure. In editing Jackson’s work and ushering it to publication, Cathy Popkin has repaid that younger generation's debt, to the benefit of us all.”— Michael Finke, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignTable of ContentsIntroduction Robin Feuer Miller Editor’s NoteCathy Popkin On Chekhov’s ArtChekhov’s Seagull: The Empty Well, the Dry Lake, and the Cold Cave“If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem”: An Essay on Chekhov’s “Rothschild’s Fiddle”Dostoevsky in Chekhov’s Garden of Eden: “Because of Little Apples”“The Betrothed”: Chekhov’s Last TestamentChekhov and Proust: A Posing of the Problem“The Steppe”: Space and the Journey. A Metaphor for All Times“The Enemies”: A Story at War with ItselfChekhov’s “The Student”The Ethics of Vision: The Punishment of the Tramp Prokhorov in The Island of SakhalinDantesque and Dostoevskian Elements in Chekhov’s “In Exile”Biblical and Literary Allusions in Chekhov’s “Gusev”Russian Man at the Rendezvous: The Narrator in Chekhov’s “A Little Joke”“Small Fry”: A Nice Little Easter StoryChekhov’s “Rothschild’s Fiddle”: “By the Waters of Babylon” in Eastern Orthodox LiturgyThree Deaths: A Boy, A Goose, and an InfantA Fragment from the Aggregate: Sinai and Sakhalin in Chekhov’s Letters to Suvorin“Grief”: Once Again about the Ending of the StoryDogs: Text and Subtext in “Lady with a Pet Dog”Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” and Gurov’s Oreanda Meditations in Chekhov’s “Lady with a Pet Dog” Afterword Cathy Popkin Appendix: Robert Louis Jackson on “Po delam sluzhby” [“On Official Business”]Index

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Book SynopsisJulia Kristeva has been both attracted and repelled by Dostoyevsky since her youth. In this extraordinary book, by turns poetic and intensely personal, she brings her unique critical sensibility to bear on the tormented and visionary Russian author.Trade ReviewPoetic, stunning, fascinating, and deeply insightful, Kristeva’s readings of Dostoyevsky are as much about us and our time as they are about him and his works. This book is a celebration of literature and language as an antidote to the extremes of nihilism and fundamentalism that still threaten us today. -- Kelly Oliver, philosopher, novelist, and professor emerita, Vanderbilt UniversityThe full force of Julia Kristeva’s lifetime of (psycho)analyzing revolutionary writers and speaking beings come together in this masterful analysis of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s life and work. Dostoyevsky’s polyphonic novels, as Kristeva brilliantly shows, exemplify the human capacity for sublimation. Decades before Freud’s discovery of the unconscious and its primary processes, Dostoyevsky was very deliberately wielding the sting of the negative, turning demons into words, new meanings, and art. -- Noëlle McAfee, author of Fear of Breakdown: Politics and PsychoanalysisTable of ContentsPrefacePart I: The Flood of Language1. The Condemned Man, the Sacred Malady, and the Sun2. Dostoyevsky, “Author of My Life”3. In the Steps of the Liberated Convict4. Beyond Neurosis5. The God-Man, the Man-God6. The Purloined Letter7. Everything Is PermittedPart II: A Carnivalesque Theologian8. The Russian Virus9. Christocentrism10. The Pleasures of Evil and Misfortune11. The National Christ12. Catholicism, Atheism, Nihilism13. The Nihilist Seeking God14. Laughter, Spokesperson for the Obscene15. “The Novel Is a Poem”NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiographical, and theoretical questions about how slave emancipation has (and has not) been theorized as revolution.

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Book SynopsisMiles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American transcendentalists. The strangeness of nineteenth-century poetic vision is exemplified most famously by Emerson's transparent eyeball. That disembodied, omniscient seer is able to shed its body and transcend sight paradoxically in order to see - not to create - poetic language manifest on the American landscape. In Miles of Stare, Michelle Kohler explores the question of why, given American transcendentalism's anti-empiricism, the movement's central trope becomes an eye purged of imagination. And why, furthermore, she asks, despite its insistent empiricism, is this notorious eye also so decidedly not an eye? What are the ethics of casting a boldly equivocal metaphor as the source of a national literature amidst a national landscape fraught with slavery, genocide, po

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking volume explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens's writing and personal life. Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture focuses on an overlooked feature of the story of one of America's most celebrated writers. Investigating Samuel Clemens's often conflicting but insightful views on the roles of money in American culture and identity, this collection of essays shows how his fascination with the complexity of nineteenth-century economics informs much of Mark Twain's writing. While most readers are familiar with Mark Twain the worldly wise writer, fewer are acquainted with Samuel Clemens the avid businessman. Throughout his life, he sought to strike it rich, whether mining for silver in Nevada, founding his own publishing company, or staking out ownership in the Paige typesetting machine. He was ever on the lookout for investment schemes and was intrigued by inventions, his own and those of others, that he imagined Trade ReviewMark Twain and Money is based on sound research and scholarship and offers interesting reassessments of familiar works and valuable new treatments of lesser-known works. This book should be appealing not only to students of Twain but also to Americanists generally and to anyone interested in interdisciplinary studies of American literature and culture."" - Robert Sattelmeyer, coeditor of One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn: The Boy, His Book, and American Culture""Mark Twain and Money is a provocative collection of essays on a subject that is both central to understanding Twain's life, thought, and writing, and, at the same time, focusing on an under-examined aspect of the man and his writing."" - Tom Quirk, author of Mark Twain and Human Nature and Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction

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Book SynopsisLiterary history generally locates the primary movement toward poetic innovation in twentieth-century modernism, an impulse carried out against a supposedly enervated late-Romantic poetry of the nineteenth century. The original essays in Active Romanticism challenge this interpretation by tracing the fundamental continuities between Romanticism's poetic and political radicalism and the experimental movements in poetry from the late-nineteenth-century to the present day. According to editors July Carr and Jeffrey C. Robinson, active romanticism is a poetic response, direct or indirect, to pressing social issues and an attempt to redress forms of ideological repression; at its core, active romanticism champions democratic pluralism and confronts ideologies that suppress the evidence of pluralism. Poetry fetter'd, fetters the human race, declared poet William Blake at the beginning of the nineteenth century. No other statement from the era of the French Revolution marks with such tersen

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Book SynopsisCollects reminiscences by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Stephen Crane that illuminate the life of this often misunderstood and misrepresented writer. The 75 reminiscences gathered here offer a much-needed account of Crane's life from a variety of viewpoints, as well as important information about the contributors themselves.

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Book SynopsisThroughout the Progressive Era, reform literature became a central feature of the American literary landscape. Works like Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper,” and Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives topped bestseller lists and jolted middle-class readers into action. While realism and social reform have a long-established relationship, prominent writers of the period such as Henry James, Edith Wharton, James Weldon Johnson, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Kate Chopin resisted explicit political rhetoric in their own works and critiqued reform aesthetics, which too often rang hollow. Arielle Zibrak reveals that while these writers were often seen as indifferent to the political currents of their time, they actively engaged in reform work in their private lives. Examining the critique of reform aesthetics within the tradition of American realist literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Writing against Reform promises to change the way we think about the fiction of this period and many of America’s leading writers.Trade ReviewWriting against Reform is an engagingly written and persuasively argued piece of scholarship that is a pleasure to read. This is the work of a scholar widely and comfortably knowledgeable in her field of study, and a model of how scholarship should be done: deeply researched, coherently reasoned, and always eloquent." - MarÍa Carla SÁnchez, author of Reforming the World: Social Activism and the Problem of Fiction in Nineteenth-Century America"An engrossing and compelling study, Writing against Reform uses an impressive range of references and thorough understanding of publishing and social contexts to offer a convincing argument that is as satisfying as it is provocative." - Keith Newlin, author of Hamlin Garland: A LifeTable of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Hideously Political Part One: Against Reform Chapter One Rebecca Harding Davis and Celebrity Reform Chapter Two Kate Chopin’s Art Panic Part Two: There Is No Opposition Chapter Three Political Intimacy in Henry James Part Three: Art in an Emergency Chapter Four James Weldon Johnson’s Political Formalism Chapter Five Edith Wharton at War in the Land of Letters Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory is the most comprehensive collection of poetry from the period ever published. Included are generous selections from the work of all major poets, and a representation of the work of virtually every poet of significance, from Thomas Ashe at the beginning of the era to Charlotte Mew at its end. The work of Victorian women poets features very prominently, with extensive selections not only from canonical poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti, but also from poets such as Augusta Webster for which high claims have recently been made by critics. The anthology reflects (and will contribute to) the ongoing reassessment of the canon that is central to English Studies today; in all, sixty-six poets are represented.The editors have included complete works wherever feasible — including the complete texts of Tennyson’s In Memoriam and of a number of other long poems. A headnote by the editors introduces the work of each poet, and each selection has been newly annotated.The inclusion of twenty-five selections of the poetic theory from the period is an important feature rounding out the anthology.This anthology is also available in a concise edition.Trade Review“What we have needed has been the Victorian poetic texts, by many writers—and here they are, splendidly assembled! Thank you.” — William N. Rogers, San Diego State University“I’m excited about the appearance of this comprehensive anthology—especially about its inclusion of so many full-text long poems.” — Peter W. Sinnema, University of Alberta“A long overdue collection that balances representative and canonical works with traditionally under-represented ones.” — Barbara Gates, University of DelawareTable of ContentsPOETRYAnonymousA New Song on the Birth of the Prince of WalesAshe, Thomas (1770-1835)Corpse-BearingTo Two BereavedLandor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)For An Epitaph At FiesoleIanthe LeavesDying Speech of an Old PhilosopherDeath’s LanguageHer NameA Foreign RulerClare, John (1793-1864)“I Am”An Invite to EternityThe Old YearThe YellowhammerSonnet: “I Am”Stanzas “The passing of a dream”“There is a charm in Solitude that cheers”Stanzas “Black absence hides upon the past”The Winters SpringAn Anecdote of LoveTo Miss B.“The thunder mutters louder…”Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835)The Suloite MotherThe Lady of The CastleTo WordsworthCasabianca Properzia RossiThe Memorial PillarThe Grave of a PoetessThe Image In LavaThe Indian With His Dead ChildThe Rock of Cader IdrisHenry, James“Two hundred men and eighteen killed … ”Hood, Thomas (1799-1845)The Song of the ShirtBarnes, William (1801-1886)Uncle an’ AuntPolly Be-En Upzides Wi’ TomThe Vaïces that Be GoneChildhoodThe TurnstileJay A-Pass’dLandon, Letitia .E. (1802-1838) from The Improvisatrice AdvertisementSappho’s Song Erinna“Preface” to The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, A History of the Lyre, and Other PoemsThe Nameless GraveThe FactoryCarthageFelicia HemansRydal Water and Grasmere LakeInfanticide in Madagascar R.E. Egerton Warburton (1804-1891)Past and PresentElizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) The Romaunt of the PageLady Geraldine’s CourtshipThe Dead PanThe Cry of the ChildrenA Man’s RequirementsSonnets From the Portuguese IIIXXIIXXIXXLIII The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s PointAurora Leigh 1st Book2nd Book5th Book A Curse for a Nation (Prologue)A Musical Instrument Frederick Tennyson (1807-1898)Old AgeCaroline Norton (1808-1877)from Voice From the FactoriesThe Creole GirlThe Poet’s ChoiceSonnet IVSonnet VIII (To My Books)Sonnet XI The WeaverEdward FitzgeraldRubáiyát of Omar KhayyámTennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)MarianaSupposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive MindThe PoetThe Poet’s MindThe MysticThe KrakenThe Lady of ShalottTo ——. With the following Poem [Palace of Art]The Palace of ArtThe HesperidesThe Lotos-Eaters (107)The Two VoicesSt Simeon StylitesUlyssesTiresiasThe Epic [Morte d’Arthur]Morte d’Arthur“Break, break, break”Locksley HallThe Vision of SinIn Memoriam A.H.H. (33)The Charge of the Light BrigadeMaudTithonusThe Higher Pantheism“Flower in the crannied wall”Crossing the BarIdylls of the KingThe Coming of ArthurLancelot and ElaineBrowning, Robert (1812-1889) My Last DuchessSoliloquy of the Spanish CloisterJohannes Agricola in MeditationPorphyria’s LoverPictor Ignotusthe Lost LeaderThe Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s ChurchThe LaboratoryLove Among the RuinsFra Lippo LippiA Toccata of Galuppi’sBy the Fire-SideAn Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician”Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”The Statue and the BustHow It Strikes a ContemporaryThe Last Ride TogetherBishop Blougram’s ApologyAndrea del SartoOld Pictures in FlorenceIn a BalconySaulCleonTwo in the CampagnaA Grammarian’s FuneralDîs Aliter Visum or Le Byron de Nos JoursAbt VoglerRabbi Ben EzraCaliban Upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the IslandThe Ring and the BookThe Ring and the Book: Book I Count Guido Franceschini: Book VPompilia: Book VIGuido: Book XI Prologue (to Asolando)Development Lear, Edward (1812-1888)The Owl and the PussycatThe Dong with a Luminous NoseHow Pleasant to Know Mr. LearBrontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)The MissionaryMaster and PupilOn the Death of Emily Jane BrontëOn the Death of Anne BrontëReason“The house was still—the room was still”The Lonely Lady"Is this my tomb, this humble stone”"Obscure and little seem my way”Brontë, Emily Jane (1818-1848)“Riches I hold in light esteem”To ImaginationPlead For MeRemembranceThe Prisoner“No coward soul is mine”Stanzas—“Often rebuked, yet always back returning”A Farewell to Alexandria“Long neglect has worn away”“The night is darkening round me”“What winter floods, what showers of spring”“She dried her tears, and they did smile”Cook, Eliza (1818-1889)LinesThe WatersThe Ploughshare of Old EnglandThe Old Arm-ChairSong of the Red IndianSong of The Ugly MaidenMy Old Straw HatLines Written for the Sheffield Mechanics Exhibition, 1846A Song For The WorkersMy Ladye LoveClough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861)Duty—that’s to say complyingQui Laborat, OratThe Latest Decalogue“Say not the struggle nought availeth”Amours de VoyageEliot, George (1819-1880) “O, May I Join the Choir Invisible”The Spanish Gypsy Book IBook III ArmgartBrother and Sister Sonnets IIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIIIIXX Brontë, Anne (1820-1849)A Fragment—“Maiden, thou wert thoughtless once”Lines Written at Thorp Green“My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring”A Word to the CalvinistsThe Captive DoveViews of LifeSelf-CommunionThe BluebellDreamsA Voice from the DungeonIngelow, Jean (1820-1897)Supper At The MillRemonstranceA Lily And A LuteGladys And Her IslandOn The Borders of Cannock ChaseGreenwell, Dora (1821-1882)The SingerThe Railway StationThe Picture and the ScrollThe Broken ChainOld LettersTo Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1851To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861One FlowerA ScherzoA Song to Call to RemembranceSperanza (Lady Wilde) (1821?-1896)The Voice of the PoorA RemonstranceA Lament For the PotatoFatalityCorinne’s Last Love-SongTristan and IsoldeThe Poet’s DestinyAn Appeal to IrelandArnold, Matthew (1822-1888)To a Gipsy Child by the Sea-ShoreThe Strayed RevellerResignationThe Forsaken MermanTo Marguerite—ContinuedStanzas in Memory of the Author of “Obermann”Empedocles on EtnaMemorial VersesDover BeachThe Buried LifeStanzas from the Grande ChartreuseThe Scholar-GipsyPhilomelaThyrsisPatmore, Coventry (1823-1896)The ToysMagna est VeritasThe Angel in the HouseAllingham, William (1824-1889)The Fairies“Four Ducks on a Pond”WritingExpressDobell, Sydney (1824-1874)The Botanist’s VisionTo the Authoress of “Aurora Leigh”PerhapsTwo Sonnets on the Death of Prince AlbertMacDonald, George (1824-1905)Professor NoctutusNo End of No-StoryProcter, Adelaide Anne (1825-1864)The Cradle Song of the PoorIncompletenessMy Picture GalleryAn AppealThe Jubilee of 1850HomelessA Woman’s QuestionA Woman’s AnswerA Woman’s Last WordEnvyA Legend of ProvencePhilip and MildredCollins, MortimerLotos EatingBigg, J. Stantyon (1828-1865)An Irish PictureMassey, Gerald (1828-1907)Hope On, Hope EverThe Cry of the UnemployedA Song in the City“As proper mode of quenching legal lust…”WomankindMeredith, George (1838-1909)Modern LoveLucifer in StarlightRossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) The Blessed DamozelMy Sister’s SleepJennyThe PortraitThe WoodspurgeThe Ballad of Dead LadiesA Last ConfessionThe Sea-LimitsFoundAt the Sunrise in 1848The House of Life: A Sonnet Sequence “A Sonnet is a moment’s monument,—”Nuptial SleepThe PortraitSilent NoonWillowwoodThe Soul’s SphereThe LandmarkAutumn IdlenessThe Hill SummitOld and New ArtSoul’s BeautyBody’s BeautyA SuperscriptionThe One Hope Munby, Arthur (1828-1910)The Serving MaidPost MortemA Husband’s EpisodesT’ Runawaa Lass“Followers Not Allowed”Woman’s RightsSiddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862)The Lust of the EyesWorn OutAt LastLove and HateBrown, T.E. (1830-1870)A Sermon at ClevedonRossetti, Christina (1830-1894)Goblin MarketA BirthdayAfter DeathAn Apple GatheringEcho“No, Thank you, John”SongUphillA Better Resurrection“The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children”Monna Innominata 1 - 14“For Thine Own Sake, O My God”In an Artist’s StudioCarroll, Lewis (1832-1898)JabberwockyThe Walrus and the CarpenterThe Hunting of the SnarkMorris, William (1834-1896)The Defence of GuinevereThe Haystack in the FloodsRiding TogetherNear AvalonAn ApologyA Garden by the SeaThe End of MayThomson, James (1834-1882)The City of Dreadful NightE.B.B. 1861A Real Vision of SinWarren, John Leicester (Lord de Tabley) (1835-1895)The Strange ParableA Song of Faith ForswornEchoes of HellasL’EnvoiConclusionBraddon, Mary Elizabeth (1837-1915)Queen GuinevereAt LastWaitingUnder GroundWakingSwinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)Atalanta in CalydonLaus VenerisThe Triumph of TimeItylusAnactoriaHymn to ProserpineThe LeperDoloresThe Garden of ProserpineHerthaA Forsaken GardenAt A Month’s EndAve Atque ValeA Jacobite’s FarewellThe Lake of GaubeWebster, Augusta (1837-1894) CirceA CastawayMother and Daughter Sonnets Sonnet VI - VIISonnet IXSonnet XIISonnet XIII - XVII The Wind’s Tidings In August 1870To-DayHer MemoriesA Coarse MorningNot To BeOnceThe Old Dream Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)HapNeutral TonesA Broken AppointmentThe Darkling ThrushThe Self-UnseeingIn TenebrisThe Minute Before MeetingNight in the Old HomeThe Something that Saved HimAfterwardsA Young Man’s ExhortationSnow in the SuburbsIn a WoodDowden, Edward (1843-1913)BurdensLeonardo’s “Monna Lisa”EuropaSeeking GodIn a June NightBridges, Robert (1844-1930)London SnowOn a Dead ChildHopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1899)The Wreck of the DeutschlandGod’s GrandeurThe WindhoverPied BeautyHarrahing in HarvestThe Caged SkylarkPeaceFelix Randal“As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame”The Leaden Echo and the Golden EchoSpelt from Sibyl’s LeavesCarrion Comfort“No worst, there is none”“To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life”“I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day”“Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray”“My own heart let me more have pity on”Tom’s GarlandHarry PloughmanIt was a hard thing to undo this knotLee-Hamilton, Eugene (1845-1907) The Keys of the ConventIntroduction (Picciola)The New MedusaThe RaftTo the MuseRiver BabbleTwilightWhat the Sonnet IsSunken GoldThe Ever Young IIIIII The Mandolin Field, MichaelPrefaceDrawing of Roses and VioletsLa GiocondaThe Birth of VenusA PortraitA “Sant’ Imagine”The MagdalenA Pen-Drawing of Leda“Death, men say, is like a sea”“Ah, Eros doth not always smite”“Sometimes I do despatch my heart”An Apple-Flower“Solitary Death, make me thine own”“A curling thread”A Spring Morning By the SeaLove’rsquo;s Sour Leisure“It was deep April, and the morn”NoonAn Aeolian HarpCyclamensMeynell, Alice (1847-1922) A Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old AgeIn February A Poet’s Fancies The Love of NarcissusTo Any PoetUnlikned The ShepherdessParentageCradle-Song at TwilightIn Manchester SquareMaternityA Study Before LightAbout NoonAt Twilight A Father of WomenThe Threshing MachineReflections (I) In Ireland(II) In “Othello”(III) In Two Poets Dolben, Digby Mackworth (1848-1867)A SongA Poem Without A NameAfter Reading AeschylusGood FridaySister DeathPro CastitateHenley, William Ernest (1849-1903)WaitingMallock, William H. (1849-1923)Christmas Thoughts, by a Modern ThinkerStevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)Bed in SummerTravelThe Land of CounterpaneThe Land of Story-booksRequiemThe Celestial Surgeon“I have trod the upward and the downward slope”“So live, so love, so use that fragile hour”“I saw red evening through the rain”Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) RequiescatHélas!Impressionsle jardinla mer Symphony in Yellow Davidson, John (1857-1909)Thirty Bob a WeekA Ballad of a NunA Ballad in Blank VerseA Northern SuburbA Woman and Her SonYuletideRobinson, A. Mary F. (1857-1944)The Scape-GoatThe IdeaDarwinismAn Orchard at AvignonLove, Death, and ArtArt and LifeSongNeurastheniaTo My MuseStephen, J.K. (1859-1907)In the BacksThompson, Francis (1859-1907)The Hound of HeavenColeridge, Mary (1861-1907)IX — The Other Side Of A MirrorXIV — ReginaXXVII — Winged WordsLX — MarriageLXIII — In Dispraise of the MoonLXXVI — The White WomenXCVII — The Fire LampCXIV — To the writer of a poem on a bridgeCXCI — Tar Ublia Chi Bien EimaCCVI — A Clever WomanLevy, Amy (1861-1889)XantippeFelo De SeTo a Dead PoetA Minor PoetMagdalenA London Plane-TreeLondon PoetsOn The ThresholdIn The Black ForestTo Vernon LeeTo E.Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1889)Gentlemen-RankersIn the Neolithic AgeRecessionalThe White Man’s BurdenIfGray, JohnThe BarberPoemDowson, Ernest (1867-1900)Nuns of the Perpetual AdorationNon Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno CynaraeVillanelle of SunsetTo One in BedlamBenedictio DominiAd Manus PuellaeTerre PromiseSpleenVitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longamJohnson, Lionel (1867-1902)The Dark AngelSummer StormDeadThe EndNihilismThe DarknessIn a WorkhouseBagley WoodThe Destroyer of a SoulThe Precept of SilenceA ProselyteMew, Charlotte (1869-1909) The Farmer’s BrideThe FêteIn Nunhead CemeteryKenMadeleine In ChurchThe Road To KérityI Have Been Through The GatesThe CenotaphV. R. I. i. January 22nd, 1901ii. January 2nd, 1901 POETIC THEORYFox, William Johnson (1786-1864)Tennyson — Poems, Chiefly Lyrical — 1830 Pub. 1831Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833)On some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson Pub. 1831Landon, Letitia E. (1802-1838)On the Ancient and Modern Influence of Poetry Pub. 1832Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873)“What is poetry?”“Two kinds of poetry” Pub. January and October 1833Taylor, Sir Henry (1800-1886)Preface to Philip Van Artevelde Pub. 1834Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)Hand and Soul Pub. 1850Browning, Robert (1812-1889)An Essay on Percy Bysshe Shelley Pub. 1851Clough, Arthur HughRecent English Poetry: A Review of Several Volumes of Poems by Alexander Smith, Mathew Arnold, and othersArnold, Matthew (1822-1888)Preface to the 1853 Edition of Poems Pub. 1853Massey, Gerald (1828-1907)Preface to the Third Edition of Babe Christabel Pub. 1854Ruskin, John (1819-1900)Of the Pathetic Fallacy Pub. 1856Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)The Function of Criticism at the Present Time Pub. 1864Bagehot, Walter (1826-1877)Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Poetry Pub. 1864Morley, JohnMr. Swinburne’s New Poems: Poems and BallardsDallas, Eneas Sweetland (1828-1879)The Secrecy of Art Pub. 1888Buchanan, Robert (1841-1901)The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D.G. Rossetti Pub. 1871Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)The Stealthy School Of Criticism Pub. 1871Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)Under The Microscope Pub. 1872Pater, Walter (1839-1890)Preface to The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry Pub. 1873Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889)Author’s Preface Pub. 1883Levy, AmyJames Thompson: A Minor PoetWhistler, James McNeill (1834-1903)Ten O’Clock Pub. 1890Morris, WilliamOf the Origins of Ornamental ArtWilde, Oscar (1854-1900)The Critic as Artist Pub. 1890Symons, Arthur (1865-1945)The Decadent Movement in Literature Pub. 1893The Symbolist Movement In Literature Pub. 1899Meynell, AliceTennysonRobert BrowningThe Rhythm of LifeRobins, ElizabethWoman’s SecretHardy, Thomas (1840-1928)Apology Pub. 1922INDEXESIndex of First LinesIndex of Authors and Titles

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Book SynopsisIncludes illustrations, of places, creatures, objects or tools, and processes connected with nineteenth-century whaling, that are original boxwood engravings by Massachusetts artist Barry Moser.Trade Review"Andrew Hoyem’s Arion Press edition of Moby Dick, published in San Francisco in 1979, in an edition of 265 total copies, is considered one of the two or three greatest American fine press books ever. . . .a trade edition published by University of California Press retains the look of the type and the illustrations, done in woodcut by Barry Moser." * The New Antiquarian *"A great American edition with features more diverse than those in any previous edition of Melville's classic." -- Stuart C. Sherman, * Fine Print *Table of ContentsETYMOLOGY EXTRACTS CHAPTER I Loomings 2 The Carpet Bag 3 The Spouter-Inn 4 The Counterpane 5 Breakfast 6 The Street 7 The Chapel 8 The Pulpit 9 The Sermon 1O A Bosom Friend II Nightgown I2 Biographical I3 Wheelbarrow I4 Nantucket IS Chowder I6 The Ship I7 The Ramadan I8 His Mark I9 The Prophet 20 All Astir 2I Going Aboard 22 Merry Christmas 23 The Lee Shore 24 The Advocate 25 Postscript 26 Knights and Squires 27 Knights and Squires 28 Ahab 29 Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb 30 The Pipe 3I Queen Mab 32 Cetology 33 The Specksynder 34 The Cabin Table 35 The Mast-Head 36 The Quarter-Deck · Ahab and all 37 Sunset 38 Dusk 39 First Night-Watch 40 Forecastle-Midnight 41 Moby Dick 42 The Whiteness of the Whale 43 Hark! 44 The Chart 45 The Affidavit 46 Surmises 47 The Mat-Maker 48 The First Lowering 49 The Hyena 50 Ahab's Boat and Crew-Fedallah 51 The Spirit-Spout 52 The Pequod meets the Albatross 53 The Gam 54 The Town Ho's Story 55 Monstrous Pictures of Whales 56 Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales 57 Of Whales in Paint, in Teeth, &c. 58 Brit 59 Squid 6o The Line 61 Stubb kills a Whale 62 The Dart 63 The Crotch 64 Stubb's Supper 65 The Whale as a Dish 66 The Shark Massacre 67 Cutting In 68 The Blanket 69 The Funeral 70 The Sphynx 71 The Pequod meets the Jeroboam ·Her Story 72 The Monkey-rope 73 Stubb and Flask kill a Right Whale 74 The Sperm Whale's Head 75 The Right Whale's Head 76 The Battering Ram 77 The great Heidelburgh Tun 78 Cistern and Buckets 79 The Prairie 8o The Nut 8I The Pequod meets the Virgin 82 The Honor and glory of Whaling 83 Jonah Historically Regarded 84 Pitch poling 85 The Fountain 86 The Tail 87 The Grand Armada 88 Schools & Schoolmasters 89 Fast Fish and Loose Fish 90 Heads or Tails 91 The Pequod meets the Rose Bud 92 Ambergris 93 The Castaway 94 A Squeeze of the Hand 95 The Cassock 96 The Try-Works 97 The Lamp 98 Stowing Down & Clearing Up 99 The Doubloon IOO The Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of London IOI The Decanter I02 A Bower in the Arsacides I03 Measurement of the Whale's Skeleton I04 The Fossil Whale I05 Does the Whale Diminish? I06 Ahab's Leg I07 The Carpenter I08 The Deck · Ahab and the Carpenter 109 The Cabin · Ahab and Starbuck IIO Queequeg in his Coffin III The Pacific II2 The Blacksmith Il3 The Forge 114 The Gilder II5 The Pequod meets the Bachelor II6 The Dying Whale II7 The Whale-Watch II8 The Quadrant II9 The Candles I20 The Deck 121 Midnight, on the Forecastle I22 Midnight, Aloft I23 The Musket I24 The Needle I25 The Log and Line I26 The Life, Buoy 127 Ahab and the Carpenter I28 The Pequod meets the Rachel 129 The Cabin· Ahab and Pip 130 The Hat I31 The Pequod meets the Delight I32 The Symphony I33 The Chase · First Day I34 The Chase · Second Day I35 The Chase · Third Day EPILOGUE

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Book SynopsisWilkie Collins''s classic thriller took the world by storm on its first appearance in 1859, with everything from dances to perfumes to dresses named in honor of the woman in white.  The novel''s continuing fascination stems in part from a distinctive blend of melodrama, comedy, and realism; and in part from the power of its story.     The catalyst for the mystery is Walter Hartright''s encounter on a moonlit road with a mysterious woman dressed head to toe in white.  She is in a state of confusion and distress, and when Hartright helps her find her way back to London she warns him against an unnamed man of rank and title.  Hartright soon learns that she may have escaped from an asylum and finds to his amazement that her story may be connected to that of the woman he secretly loves.  Collins brilliantly uses the device of multiple narrators to weave a story in which no one can be trusted, and he also famously creates, in the figure

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