Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
Palgrave MacMillan UK The Double in NineteenthCentury Fiction Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society
Book SynopsisDuality and the divided mind have been a source of perennial fascination for literary artists and especially for novelists, and this is particularly true of the Romantic generation and their later nineteenth-century heirs.Table of ContentsPreface - The Psychological and Theological Background - The Emergence and Development of the Double Theme - Terror, Pursuit and Shadows - E.T.A. Hoffmann - James Hogg - Edgar Allan Poe - The Russian Double - The Double in Decline - Into Psychology - Notes - Selected Bibliography - Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Emma New Casebooks
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Frankenstein New Casebooks
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Anthony Trollope and his Contemporaries A Study in the Theory and Conventions of MidVictorian Fiction
Book SynopsisAcknowledgements - Notes on References - Preface to the Second Edition - Introduction - The Establishment of Trollope's Reputation - Critical Concerns of the Sixties: Tragedy and Imagination - The Morality of Fiction and the Deception of Vice - Moral and Social Acceptability - Richard Holt Hutton and Trollope's Characterisation - Trollope's Theory and Practice of Novel-Writing - Appendix I: Notes on Some Uses of the Word `Realism' in Mid-Victorian Criticism of the Novel - Bibliography - IndexTable of ContentsAcknowledgements - Notes on References - Preface to the Second Edition - Introduction - The Establishment of Trollope's Reputation - Critical Concerns of the Sixties: Tragedy and Imagination - The Morality of Fiction and the Deception of Vice - Moral and Social Acceptability - Richard Holt Hutton and Trollope's Characterisation - Trollope's Theory and Practice of Novel-Writing - Appendix I: Notes on Some Uses of the Word `Realism' in Mid-Victorian Criticism of the Novel - Bibliography - Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti
Book SynopsisDespite new historical study of her contexts, Christina Rossetti continues to haunt the reader as a displaced subjectivity emptied of history.Trade Review'The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti is a stunning piece of work, which merges biography, literary criticism and feminist theory in an innovative and exciting conjunction...Alison Chapman, in this theoretically informed and sophisticated study, examines Rossetti in the light of what is now acknowledged as a complex and often uneasy relationship between literature and history...Chapman is a brilliant scholar and a perceptive and original critic. Her study goes to the heart of the problems that confront all readers of nineteenth-century literature.' - Judy Simons, Professor of English and Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, De Montfort University Chapman's study of Christina Rossetti, based in Kristevan models of reading women's texts and their authors as subjects-in-process, presents the most exciting and original approach to Rossetti - and by extension to other nineteenth-century women writers - that has emerged in the last two decades. It is wonderfully lucid, a critical and theoretical tour de force. It's critique of the new historicism is compelling.' - Antony H. Harrison, North Carolina State University '...exposes reductive readings of Goblin Market, describes biographical constructions of the trope Christina Rossetti, and gives a careful account of Dante Gabriel's revisions of his sister's work before publication.' - Matthew Reynolds, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations List of Plates Introduction: The Haunting of Christina Rossetti 'A Bizarre Medium': The Return of the Dead and New Historicism Speaking with the Dead: Recovering Lost Voices Christina Rossetti in Effect: Reading Biographies Defining the Feminine Subject: Fraternal Revisions I Spectres and Spectators: Fraternal Revisions II Father's Place, Mother's Space: Italy and the Paradisal The Afterlife of Poetry: 'Goblin Market' Bibliography Index
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WW Norton & Co In the Shade of Spring Leaves The Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyo a Woman of Letters in Meiji Japan The Life of Higuchi Ichiyo with Nine of Her Best Stories
Book SynopsisHiguchi Ichiyo, Japan's first woman writer of stature in modern times, wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multi-volumed diary. This book is made up of a critical biography, interlaced with extracts from the diary, and Robert Danly's translations of nine representative stories.
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WW Norton & Co Charlotte Bronte A Passionate Life
Book SynopsisThis highly acclaimed biography looks beyond the insistent image of the modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones. Instead we see a strong, fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art. Lyndall Gordon looks at the shared gifts and class ambitions of the Bronte family, and also at significant people-the active feminist Mary Taylor, the demanding mentor Constantin Heger, the rising publisher George Smith-whom Charlotte strove to possess in life and fiction. Drawing on unpublished letters, the Roe Head Journal, early stories, the manuscript of Villette, and her last, unfinished novel, Lyndall Gordon explores the gaps in Charlotte Bronte's life. How did she arrive at her understanding of passion from a woman's point of view? Could she resolve the testing conflict between a writer's life and a seemingly incongruous marriage to the devoted curate Arthur Bell Nicholls? Looking into the shadow between the facts, Gordon takes biography into that uns
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Taylor & Francis Dickenss Secular Gospel
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iUniverse The Fall of the House of Poe and Other Essays
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Victor, Broadstreet & Johnson Publishing CS Lewis Called Him Master
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Dunwich House Greek and Roman Ghost Stories
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Pluto Press Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet and Revolutionary
Book SynopsisA biography of one of England's greatest poets, uncovering his radical, political influence.Trade Review'Humankind needed Shelley back then, and this book reminds us of how much we need him now. It is an honest look at a truly revolutionary life' -- Benjamin Zephaniah'I love reading. I'm about to start Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen' -- Jeremy Corbyn'A compelling and eye-opening study. Reminds us of Shelley's robust socio-political vision, that remains as relevant and vital for our own volatile times' -- Stephen C. Behrendt; George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English, University of Nebraska'Fresh, clear and compelling, this is the best compact account of Percy Bysshe Shelley's revolutionary life currently available' -- Nicholas Roe, Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews'Highly readable, this is an absorbing study of Shelley's life, thought, and writing. Jacqueline Mulhallen has written a valuable book' -- Michael O’Neill, Professor of English, Durham University'A fresh and impassioned account of the significance of Shelley's radical life and writings. A fine and highly readable achievement' -- Michael Rossington, Professor of Romantic Literature, Newcastle University'An excellent biographical account of Shelley's political radicalism ... that brings a contemporary radical sensibility into bracing conjunction with nineteenth-century history' -- Philip Connell, Romantic Circles'Lively, well-paced and highly readable ... packed with fascinating insights into Shelley's times' -- Counterfire'Enjoyable' -- Peace News'Illuminating ... [a] stimulating introduction to Shelley's life and radical politics' -- Romantic CirclesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Prologue 1. Shelley’s Family Background and Education: 1792-1811 2. The Lake District, Ireland and Devon: 1811-13 3. Tremadog, Queen Mab and the ‘Hermit of Marlow’: 1813-18 4. Italy and Shelley’s Annus Mirabilis: 1818-19 5. Satire and Drama: 1819-22 Notes Index
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Liverpool University Press Vernon Lee
Book SynopsisThis book explores Vernon Lee's ground-breaking literary work in light of the turbulent friendships that she had with figures such as Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells and Virginia Woolf.
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Liverpool University Press The Nineteenth Century Sensation Novel
Book SynopsisThis study responds to developments of the sensation novel within literature, television and popular culture, and takes into account recent studies of the genre.
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Johns Hopkins University Press What Does a Woman Want
Book Synopsis"What does a woman want?" is a male question, originally posed by Freud. This book explores whether this question can engender a woman's voice as its speaking subject. It examines autobiographical texts by Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir and Adrienne Rich, as well as psychoanalytic works.Trade ReviewFelman pries open, radically displaces, and reengenders this question, through literature... psychoanalysis... and women's autobiographical writing. -- Frances L. Restuccia NovelTable of ContentsChapter 1. What Does a Women Want? The Question of Autobiography and the Bond of ReadingChapter 2. Women and Madness: The Critical PhallacyChapter 3. Textuality and the Riddle of BisexualityChapter 4. Competing Pregnancies: The Dream from which Psychoanalysis ProceedsChapter 5. With Whom Do You Believe Your Lot is Cast? Woolfe, de Beauvoir, Rich and the Struggle for AutobiographyNotesIndex
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Child the State and the Victorian Novel
Book SynopsisTraces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as “childhood” became a distinct category, Laura C. Berry contends, stories of children in danger were circulated as part of larger debates about child welfare and the role of the family in society.
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Ohio State University Press Sex Celibacy and Deviance
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Wayne State University Press After Images
Book SynopsisExplores the intersections of photography, archaeology, and psychoanalysis and their effect on conceptions of the subject and his formation or Bildung in the literature and theory of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This title examines works from Thomas Mann, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Hawthorne and Melville Writing a Relationship
Book SynopsisA collection of twelve essays that focus on a number of provocative personal, professional, and literary ambiguities existing between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. It also covers topics such as professional competitiveness; Melville's search for a father figure; and, masculine ambivalence in the marketplace.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Emily Bronte and Beethoven Romantic Equilibrium in Fiction and Music
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Hyperion and Selected Poems Friedrich Hderlin V 22 German Library S
Table of ContentsChronology Introduction: Reading Hölderlin in the Age of Difference: Eric L. Santner HYPERION, OR THE HERMITT IN GREECE Translated by Willard R. Trask Adapted by David Schwarz POEMS Da ich ein Knabe war.../When I was a boy... (C. Middleton) Empedokles/Empedocles (M. Hamburger) Sophokles/Sophocles (M. Hamburger) Wurzel alles Übels/The Root of All Evil (M. Hamburger) Mein Eigentum/My Possessions (M. Hamburger) Heidelberg/Heidelberg (C. Middleton) Lebenslauf/The Course of Life (M. Hamburger) Der Abschied (Zweite Fassung)/The Farewell (Second Version) (M. Hamburger) Natur und Kunst oder Saturn und Jupiter/Nature and Art or Saturn and Jupiter (M. Hamburger) Dichterberuf/The Poet's Vocation (C. Middleton) Stimme des Volks (Zweite Fassung)/Voice of the People (Second Version) (M. Hamburger) Chiron/Chiron (M. Hamburger) Blödigkeit/Timidness (M. Hamburger) Ganymed/Ganymede (C. Middleton) Menons Klagen um Diotima/Menon's Lament for Diotima (M. Hamburger) Brod und Wein/Bread and Wine (M. Hamburger) Hälfte des Lebens/Half of Life (R. Sieburth) Der Winkel von Hahrdt/The Shelter at Hahrdt (R. Sieburth) Lebensalter/Ages of Life (R. Sieburth) Wie wenn am Feiertage.../As on a holiday... (M. Hamburger) Am Quell der Donau/At the Source of the Danube (M. Hamburger) Die Wanderung/The Migration (R. Sieburth) Germanien/Germania (M. Hamburger) Der Rhein/The Rhine (C. Middleton) Friedensfeier/Celebration of Peace (M. Hamburger) Der Einzige (Erste Fassung)/The Only One (First Version) (R. Sieburth) Patmos (Dem Landgrafen von Homburg)/Patmos (For the Landgrave of Homburg) (M. Hamburger) Patmos (Bruchstücke der späteren Fassung)/Patmos (Fragments of the Later Version) (M. Hamburger) Andenken/Remembrance (R. Sieburth) Der Ister/The Ister (M. Hamburger) Mnemosyne/Mnemosyne (R. Sieburth) Reif sind.../The fruits are ripe... (R. Sieburth) Wenn nemlich der Rebe Saft/When the sap... (R. Sieburth) Meinest du es solle gehen.../Do you think... (R. Sieburth) Vom Abgrund nemlich.../We set out from the abyss... (R. Sieburth) Griechenland (Dritte Fassung)/Greece (Third Version) (M. Hamburger) Der Frühling/Spring (M. Hamburger) Endnotes Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Academic Keynotes and Discords Late Victorian and Early Modernist Women Writers
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Shelleys Frankenstein Readers Guides
Book SynopsisA guide to Mary Shelley's gothic novel, "Frankenstein" - a key text for introductory literature courses at undergraduate level. It is helpful for reading and studying the novel, setting it in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, and offering analyses of its themes, style and structure.Table of Contents1. Contexts; 2. Language, Style and Form; 3. Reading Frankenstein; 4. Critical Reception and Publishing History; 5. Adaptation, interpretation and influence; 6. Guide to Further Reading; Index.
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The Merlin Press Ltd Essays on Thomas Mann
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Liveright Portrait of a Novel
Book Synopsis“...literary criticism at its most lucid and engaging, as it shows James embarking on his great work and displays Gorra, filled with enthusiasm and insight, as the book’s most ideal and intelligent reader.” Colm Tóibín, Books of the Year 2012, The GuardianTrade Review"...he [Gorra] has written the kind of patient, sensitive, acute study that gifted teachers should write but rarely do." -- London Review of Books"Michael Gorra...has pulled off an astounding feat...in this impressive study...Gorra goes anywhere that strikes his fancy, and the result is splendid: a book to reread in years to come, a model for what criticism can do when happily married to biography." -- Literary Review
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Moonrise Press Ltd The Innocent Diversion
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Cambridge University Press Embodiment in NineteenthCentury American Literature
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Studies in Early Victorian Literature
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Creative Media Partners, LLC A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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Creative Media Partners, LLC A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Parnasse Et Symbolisme
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Cambridge University Press Music and Victorian Liberalism
Book SynopsisPresents a new perspective on the aesthetic aspects of liberalism through examinations of music and ideas about music, including listening practices, performance contexts and modes of embodiment across elite and amateur spheres. This book will nuance current understanding, and will appeal to scholars of both Victorian literature and music.Trade Review'This book is a most welcome contribution to the renewed interest in liberalism and music culture. It reveals that Victorian liberal values were shaped by aesthetic debates in which the acts of performing and listening to music played an important role. The essays offer an absorbing illustration of the various tensions between music as recreation and music as a means of control, examining the role of human agency and the endeavour to experience life as an individual liberal subject.' Derek B. Scott, University of LeedsTable of Contents1. Aesthetic liberalism Sarah Collins; Part I. Cultivation and/as Control: 2. Musical discipline and Victorian liberal reform Erin Johnson-Williams; 3. 'Brightening the lives of the people on Sunday': the National Sunday League and liberal attitudes towards concert promotion in Victorian Britain Simon McVeigh; 4. Music and mass education: cultivation or control? Rosemary Golding; Part II. Dissent, Individualism and Agency: 5. A musical presence among liberal thinkers: Eliza Flower and her circle, 1832–1845 Kate Bowan; 6. 'That more liberal mode of life': Rosa Newmarch, aestheticism, and queer listening in Victorian and Edwardian Britain Phillip Ross Bullock; Part III. Character and Emotion: 7. Style, character and revelation in Parry's Fourth Symphony Matthew Riley; 8. The Parrys and Prometheus Unbound: actualizing liberalism Phyllis Weliver; 9. Liberalism and Victorian musical sympathy Bennett Zon; 10. Music and character in the Victorian reception of Wagner: conducting the Philharmonic ca. 1855 Katherine Fry; 11. Afterword: liberalism in the round Peter Mandler.
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Cambridge University Press NineteenthCentury American Womens Serial Novels
Book SynopsisThis book shows how serials deployed the repetition of plots and the traumas representing the sources of women's anxieties and pain. It addresses how American literature scholars engaged with expanding the range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century women's novels, especially as those fictions are available on HathiTrust and other digital services.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Why read more Southworth?; 2. Stephens and the serial novel; 3. Women in nineteenth-century prisons; 4. Mary Jane Holmes's 'spooneys', 'crackers', and 'white niggers'; 5. Laura Jean Libbey and sexual transformation; 6. Racial intimacy and women serial writers.
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Cambridge University Press Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in NineteenthCentury American Literature
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Palgrave MacMillan UK American Womens Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age Palgrave Gothic
Book SynopsisThis book shows just how closely late nineteenth-century American women's ghost stories engaged with objects such as photographs, mourning paraphernalia, wallpaper and humble domestic furniture. Featuring uncanny tales from the big city to the small town and the empty prairie, it offers a new perspective on an old genre. Trade Review“Downey’s readings would be valuable for any instructor or student studying the ghost story, American gothic, or gender in the Gilded Age. Her clear discussions of literary and historical context make the book accessible and engaging for advanced and undergraduate scholars alike, and her productive use of repetition and a reflective format make it useful as a whole or in teachable excerpts.” (Laura R. Kremmel, Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, Issue 15, 2016)With references from Poe to Marx to Derrida, this volume is an intriguing and often fascinating mixture of historical and socio-cultural analysis and literary criticism. Rich in ideas that frequently overlap, contradict or complement each other - often exposing the slippery nature of notions themselves - Dara Downey's work eschews the usual psychoanalytical readings of ghost story motifs and offers fresh perspectives. Not just for academics, this book will prove useful to readers wishing to explore the causes and contexts of American ghost stories of the Gilded Age. - The Green Book, (2015) JV 'A compelling volume that powerfully challenges the Western canon of Memory Studies to define a new age of cultural memory in the East.' - Andrew HoskinsTable of Contents
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