Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

Book SynopsisThe work of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Carlyle and Mathew Arnold are explored in relation to ideas about fiction, journalism, drama, poetry, new women, gothic, horror and the Victorian sage.Table of ContentsChronology; Introduction to Victorian literature: Perspectives, Relationships, Contexts; Generic Traffic in Strangely Modern Places: Locating the Victorians (again); Observing 'Public Culture' in mid-Victorian Britain: an Ant colony, Ivy and Two Poets named 'Alfred'; 'Civilization and its Discontents': Productivity, Power and Governance in Dickens's Hard Times; Concluding Summary; 1: Novel Sensations in Early and Mid-Victorian Fiction: from 'Boz' to Middlemarch; Dickens the Novelist, Dickens the Journalist: Modes of Publication, Sketches, and the Making of The Old Curiosity Shop; Moving Sensations: Performing The Old Curiosity Shop; The Novel at mid-Century: Forming a Victorian Canon; Variable Sensations of the Real: Middlemarch; Concluding Summary; 2: Theatrical Exchanges: Gendered Subjectivity and Identity Trials in the Dramatic Imagination; Locating, Regulating and Expanding the Effects of 'Theatricality' in Victorian Culture; Melodrama and Public History: the Sexualized Conflicts of Empire in Boucicault's Jessie Brown; Masculinity, Melodrama and Mind: The Frozen Deep; Earnest Laughter, Queer Laughter: Fictive, Multiple identities in Farcical Dramas by Dickens and Wilde; Concluding Summary 3: Poetry: Dramatic Monologues and Critical Dialogues; Voicing Sensation in Tennyson and Browning: the Dramatic Monologue and Cultural Debate; Controversies of Faith: Doubt, Evolution and Love in a Modern Age; Making Women's Voices: Fairy Tales, Christian Tales, Old Wives' Tales; Concluding Summary 4: Victorians in Critical Time: Fin de Siecle and Sage-culture; Victorians at the end of Time: Thomas Hardy, New Women and Gothic; Horrors at the fin de siecle; Victorian Sages in Critical Time: Carlyle and Arnold; Concluding Summary; Conclusion: Neo-Victorianism, Postmodernism and Underground Cultures; Student Resources; Electronic sources and reference sources; Glossary; Guide to further reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisWalter Scott and Modernity argues that, far from turning away from modernity to indulge a nostalgic vision of the past, Scott uses the past as means of exploring key problems in the modern world.This study includes critical introductions to some of the most widely read poems published in nineteenth-century Britain (which are also the most scandalously neglected), and insights into the narrative strategies and ideological interests of some of Scott''s greatest novels. It explores the impact of the French revolution on attitudes to tradition, national heritage, historical change and modernity in the romantic period, considers how the experience of empire influenced ideas about civilized identity, and how ideas of progress could be used both to rationalise the violence of empire and to counteract demands for political reform. It also shows how current issues of debate - from relations between Western and Islamic cultures, to the political significance of the private conscience in a liberal society - areTrade ReviewThis is a major, sophisticated book which looks at Scott in relation to that 'modernity' which is usually claimed to have its roots in the Enlightenment and whose possible supersession by way of the 'postmodern' dominates contemporarry cultural debate. -- Claire Lamont, University of Newcastle Scott is becoming more widely recognized as a figure of central importance in British Romanticism as well as in the history of the novel and as a generative figure in the development of Scottish literature. Lincoln's persuasive and incisive book clarifies the political and philosophical as well as literary terms of that achievement. -- Ian Duncan, University of California, Berkeley a solid and significant contribution to Scott criticism -- Evan Gottlieb European Romantic Review [Lincoln's] treatment of The Heart of Mid-Lothian should be singled out for its skilful framing of the novel within the history of Anglo-Scottish relations. Walter Scott and Modernity extends the practice of creating a "useable past" to literary history. This is a major, sophisticated book which looks at Scott in relation to that 'modernity' which is usually claimed to have its roots in the Enlightenment and whose possible supersession by way of the 'postmodern' dominates contemporarry cultural debate. Scott is becoming more widely recognized as a figure of central importance in British Romanticism as well as in the history of the novel and as a generative figure in the development of Scottish literature. Lincoln's persuasive and incisive book clarifies the political and philosophical as well as literary terms of that achievement. a solid and significant contribution to Scott criticismTable of ContentsPreface; Chapter One. Introduction; Chapter Two. Towards the Modern Nation: The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley; Chapter Three. The Condition of England: Ivanhoe and Kenilworth; Chapter Four. Western Identities and the Orient: Guy Mannering, The Talisman; Chapter Five. Commerce, civilization, war and the Highlands: Rob Roy, A Legend of the Wars of Montrose; Chapter Six. Liberal Dilemmas. Scott and Covenanting Tradition: The Tale of Old Mortality, The Heart of Mid-Lothian; Chapter Seven. Liberal Dilemmas. Liberty or alienation? The Bride of Lammermoor, Redgauntlet; Chapter Eight. Postscript; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Wessex Tales; 2. A Group of Noble Dames; 3. Life's Little Ironies; 4. A Changed Man; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn the first full-length literary-historical study of its subject, Edward Larrissy examines the philosophical and literary background to representations of blindness and the blind in the Romantic period. In detailed studies of literary works he goes on to show how the topic is central to an understanding of British and Irish Romantic literature.While he considers the influence of Milton and the ''Ossian'' poems, as well as of philosophers, including Locke, Diderot, Berkeley and Thomas Reid, much of the book is taken up with new readings of writers of the period. These include canonical authors such as Blake, Wordsworth, Scott, Byron, Keats and Percy and Mary Shelley, as well as less well-known writers such as Charlotte Brooke and Ann Batten Cristall. There is also a chapter on the popular genre of improving tales for children by writers such as Barbara Hofland and Mary Sherwood.Larrissy finds that, despite the nostalgia for a bardic age of inward vision, the chief emphasis in the period is on the compensations of enhanced sensitivity to music and words. This compensation becomes associated with the loss and gain involved in the modernity of a post-bardic age. Representations of blindness and the blind are found to elucidate a tension at the heart of the Romantic period, between the desire for immediacy of vision on the one hand and, on the other, the historical self-consciousness which always attends it.Trade ReviewThis study of a fascinating and neglected topic from a methodologically current perspective is from an eminent and distinguished critic of Romantic literature. Its insightful readings significantly add to current knowledge of and thinking about Romanticism. -- Peter Kitson, University of Dundee This is a timely and provocative book from an author who is clearly learned and illuminating. He sees the complexity of the theme as a literary representation and uses it to provide original readings, ranging from the classic forms of Milton to the street ballads and popular lyrics of obscure authors. -- Marilyn Gaull, Professor of English, New York University This study of a fascinating and neglected topic from a methodologically current perspective is from an eminent and distinguished critic of Romantic literature. Its insightful readings significantly add to current knowledge of and thinking about Romanticism. This is a timely and provocative book from an author who is clearly learned and illuminating. He sees the complexity of the theme as a literary representation and uses it to provide original readings, ranging from the classic forms of Milton to the street ballads and popular lyrics of obscure authors.Table of ContentsCONTENTS; I: Introduction: The Enigma of the Blind; II: The Celtic Bard in Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Blindness and Second Sight; III: Blake: Removing the Curse by Printing for the Blind; IV: Edifying Tales; V: Wordsworth's Transitions; VI: Coleridge, Keats and a Full Perception; VII: Byron and Shelley: The Blindness of Reason; VIII: Mary Shelley: Blind Fathers and the Magnetic Globe: Frankenstein with Valperga and The Last Man; IX: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book surveys the impact of the British Empire on nineteenth-century British literature from a postcolonial perspective.Trade ReviewWith clarity and economy, a broad vista of political, socio-cultural and geographical factors are viewed, combining perspectives on the imperial source material with the critiques offered by postcolonial reassessments -- aesthetic and ethical. Brantlinger's longstanding scholarly expertise in this area is adroitly condensed into a mere 180 pages ... this concise yet considerable scope is the work's strength and should see it become a necessary guide to an almost unmanageably complex area. Routledge ABES With clarity and economy, a broad vista of political, socio-cultural and geographical factors are viewed, combining perspectives on the imperial source material with the critiques offered by postcolonial reassessments -- aesthetic and ethical. Brantlinger's longstanding scholarly expertise in this area is adroitly condensed into a mere 180 pages ... this concise yet considerable scope is the work's strength and should see it become a necessary guide to an almost unmanageably complex area.Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Timeline; Exploring the Terrain: Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Imperialism; Slavery and Empire in Romantic and Early Victorian Literature; The Empire Cleans Up Its Act; Emigration Narratives; Thrilling Adventures; Race and Character; Imperial Gothic; Debates: Imperial Historiography, Marxism, and Postcolonialism; Gender, Sexuality, and Race; Orientalism(s); 'Mimicry' versus 'Going Native'; Can Subalterns Speak?; Case Studies: Homecomings; Tennyson, Yeats, and Celticism; Oriental Desires and Imperial Boys: Romancing India; Imperial Boys: Romancing Africa; Coda; Primary Sources; Works Cited; Secondary Sources; Further Reading

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Book SynopsisThis book surveys the impact of the British Empire on nineteenth-century British literature from a postcolonial perspective.Trade ReviewWith clarity and economy, a broad vista of political, socio-cultural and geographical factors are viewed, combining perspectives on the imperial source material with the critiques offered by postcolonial reassessments -- aesthetic and ethical. Brantlinger's longstanding scholarly expertise in this area is adroitly condensed into a mere 180 pages ... this concise yet considerable scope is the work's strength and should see it become a necessary guide to an almost unmanageably complex area. Routledge ABES With clarity and economy, a broad vista of political, socio-cultural and geographical factors are viewed, combining perspectives on the imperial source material with the critiques offered by postcolonial reassessments -- aesthetic and ethical. Brantlinger's longstanding scholarly expertise in this area is adroitly condensed into a mere 180 pages ... this concise yet considerable scope is the work's strength and should see it become a necessary guide to an almost unmanageably complex area.Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Timeline; Exploring the Terrain: Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Imperialism; Slavery and Empire in Romantic and Early Victorian Literature; The Empire Cleans Up Its Act; Emigration Narratives; Thrilling Adventures; Race and Character; Imperial Gothic; Debates: Imperial Historiography, Marxism, and Postcolonialism; Gender, Sexuality, and Race; Orientalism(s); 'Mimicry' versus 'Going Native'; Can Subalterns Speak?; Case Studies: Homecomings; Tennyson, Yeats, and Celticism; Oriental Desires and Imperial Boys: Romancing India; Imperial Boys: Romancing Africa; Coda; Primary Sources; Works Cited; Secondary Sources; Further Reading

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Book SynopsisThis collection is the first to set Stevenson in his social, political and literary contexts from Scotland to the South Seas. Written an by international team of scholars, these essays cover the essential aspects of Stevenson's changing career as a professional writer.Table of Contents1. Stevenson and Fiction, Ian Duncan; 2. Romance and Social Class, Robert P. Irvine; 3. Childhood and Psychology, Julia Reid; 4. Stevenson and Fin-de-Siecle Gothic, Stephen Arata; 5. Stevenson, Scott and Scottish History, Alison Lumsden; 6. Travel Writing, Caroline McCracken-Flesher; 7. Stevenson's Poetry, Penny Fielding; 8. Stevenson and the Pacific, Roslyn Jolly; 9. Stevenson and Henry James, John Lyon; 10. Stevenson's Afterlives, Alex Thomson.

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Book SynopsisCultural Authority in the Age of Whitman deals with narratives of cultural legitimation in nineteenth-century US literature, in a transatlantic context. Exploring how literary professionalism shapes romantic and modern cultural space, Leypoldt traces the nineteenth-century fusion of poetic radicalism with cultural nationalism from its beginnings in transatlantic early romanticism, to the poetry and poetics of Walt Whitman, and Whitman''s modernist reinvention as an icon of a native avant-garde. Whitman made cultural nationalism compatible with the rhetorical needs of professional authorship by trying to hold national authenticity and literary authority in a single poetic vision. Yet the notion that his ''language experiment'' transformed essential democratic experience into a genuine American aesthetics also owes much to Whitman''s retrospective canonization. What Leypoldt calls Whitmanian authority is thus a transatlantic and transhistorical discursive construct that can be approached from four angles: this book begins with an overview of transatlantic contexts such as the 19th-century literary field (Bourdieu) and the romantic turn to expressivism (Taylor); a detailed analysis of how Whitman''s positions develop from the intellectual habitus and cultural criticism of Ralph Waldo Emerson follows, and in a third section Whitmanian authority is located within three conceptual fields that function as contact zones for European and American theories of culture: romantic notions of national style as a kind of music; place-centered concepts of national aesthetics; and traditional ideas about the aesthetic effects of democratic institutions. The final section, on Whitman''s reinvention between the 1870s and the 1940s, discusses how the heterogeneous nineteenth-century perceptions of Whitman''s work were streamlined into a modernist version of Whitman''s nationalist program.Trade ReviewTheoretical rigour and emphatic assurance Discerning analysis -- Andrew Radford Journal of American Studies Gunter Leypoldt's impressive new book represents a sophisticated theoretical attempt to historicize the transnational by showing how Whitman conceived of his cultural authority as involving a deliberate attempt to create parallels and analogies among different aspects of U.S. culture. By contrasting this synthetic version of romantic nationalism with more heterogeneous versions of nineteenth-century aesthetics, including a fascinating chapter on Whitman's own involvement with the language of classical music, Lepoldt extends both the chronological and philosophical boundaries of critical discussions about the transnational turn. -- Paul Giles, Professor of American Literature, University of Oxford This impressive study in cultural politics clarifies two puzzles: why did Whitman believe that there was a tight connection between free citizens and the "lawless music" of free verse? and why has anyone else ever believed it? With real erudition, Leypoldt spans a history from the Enlightenment to Modernism, while maintaining his focus on Whitman. Rich resources from British, German, French, and American intellectual history are marshaled by a strong sociological thesis. -- Jonathan Arac, Mellon Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh. ... a thoroughly engaging, intelligent, eloquent book. -- Daniel Goske ZAA - Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik Impeccably edited, amply annotated and indexed, this book provides rich food for thought. -- Daniel Goske ZAA - Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik Theoretical rigour and emphatic assurance Discerning analysis Gunter Leypoldt's impressive new book represents a sophisticated theoretical attempt to historicize the transnational by showing how Whitman conceived of his cultural authority as involving a deliberate attempt to create parallels and analogies among different aspects of U.S. culture. By contrasting this synthetic version of romantic nationalism with more heterogeneous versions of nineteenth-century aesthetics, including a fascinating chapter on Whitman's own involvement with the language of classical music, Lepoldt extends both the chronological and philosophical boundaries of critical discussions about the transnational turn. This impressive study in cultural politics clarifies two puzzles: why did Whitman believe that there was a tight connection between free citizens and the "lawless music" of free verse? and why has anyone else ever believed it? With real erudition, Leypoldt spans a history from the Enlightenment to Modernism, while maintaining his focus on Whitman. Rich resources from British, German, French, and American intellectual history are marshaled by a strong sociological thesis. ... a thoroughly engaging, intelligent, eloquent book. Impeccably edited, amply annotated and indexed, this book provides rich food for thought.Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Whitman and the 'Lawless Music' of American Culture; 1. The 19th Century Intellectual Field; 2. US Discourse and the Expressivist Turn; 3. The Poet as Orphic Singer: Ralph Waldo Emerson; 4. Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the Future; 5. The Music of America; 6. National Identity and the Smell of the Woods; 7. The Democratic Muse; 8. Contemporary Reception; 9. Whitman among the Moderns; Epilog: After the American Renaissance; Bibliography; Primary Works; Secondary Works; Index.

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Book SynopsisContributions to Musical Collections and Miscellaneous Songs provides access to the relevant material in the various musical collections to which Hogg refers in his 1831 head notes, thus allowing the new readers of the 21st century to see in facsimile what Hogg himself saw.

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Book SynopsisDarwin's Bards is a comprehensive study of how poets have responded to the ideas of Charles Darwin.Trade ReviewJohn Holmes's coverage of the relationship between science and poetry in Darwin's Bards: British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution is remarkably complete. He has a scientist's grasp of evolutionary theory and a thorough understanding of the controversies the theory has engendered. He also understands the difficulty many have had in finding meaning in an existence framed by Darwinism. Holmes's investigation of how poetry addresses these problems is unique, and he is correct in thinking that, "poems can even change how we think about Darwinism itself." Evolutionary science provides many of the details for understanding why the world is the way it is, but we need "Darwin's Bards" to help us interpret these details, incorporate them into our collective consciousness, and fully understand what it means to live in a Darwinian world. -- Douglas Shedd, Thoresen Professor of Biology, Randolph College Darwin's Bards is a bracing, original and exciting contribution to our understanding and appreciation of the cultural impact of Darwinism; indeed, John Holmes is to be commended for writing an exhilarating and genuinely interdisciplinary study with revealing insights on every page. -- Roger Ebbatson The Thomas Hardy Journal Darwin's Bards affords subtle, precise, sharp-eyed readings of verse by such well-known Victorian poets as Tennyson, Browning, Meredith, Swinburne and Hardy, as well as more recent poems by the likes of Ted Hughes, Philip Appleman and Thom Gunn. Each of these poets, Holmes argues, grapples with the fundamental, largely unchanging challenges posed by Darwinian evolution, with the book's chapters each focusing on topics including theology, death and immortality, humanity's cosmic insignificance and relationship with other animals, and sex and reproduction! the detailed analysis of verse that deals with these issues often yields fresh insights that will be of interest to more historically minded critics. -- Gowan Dawson, University of Leicester British Journal for the History of Science Darwin's Bards is a welcome study. Holmes has selected a bold and expansive topic, one that needed the careful attention that he has shown it ... No doubt we will hear more about Darwin among the poets (it is to be hoped that we do), and Holmes will have provided this narrative with a fitting point of origin. -- Jason David Hall, University of Exeter The British Society for Literature and Science 'Rich and meticulous analyses ... Darwin's Bards is important not only because it engages oft-overlooked evolutionary poetry, but because its critical discussions provide us with a heretofore missing link in Darwinian literary criticism; in so doing, they give us new views of our Darwinian realities.' -- Janine Rogers, Mount Allison University Review of English Studies Poetry makes evolution conceivable, letting the ear and the imagination know that which the mind struggles to grasp. With its fine ear for poetry's engagement with the science of its age, Darwin's Bards contributes to this work, encouraging an alertness to and enjoyment of the poetry of evolution. -- Anna Barton, University of Sheffield Tennyson Research Bulletin

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Book SynopsisIntroduces new readers and students to a celebrated and controversial Victorian novel-poemMichele C. Martinez guides readers through the poem''s major themes and literary and social contexts, introducing a range of interpretive frameworks. Long extracts from the poem are accompanied by helpful explanatory commentary. The text''s composition history, major influences and modes of poetic expression are also discussed. The teaching and bibliographic chapters offer supplementary materials including print and internet resources.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations; Chapter 1. Mapping and Making the Long Poem: Aurora Leigh in Its Biographical and Literary Contexts; Chapter 2. Interpreting Aurora Leigh: Text, Commentary, Analysis; i. Poetic Vision; ii. Love and Poetry; iii. Epistolary Fiction; iv. Epic and Society; v. Motherhood and Sexual Transgression; vi. Poetry and Prophecy; Chapter 3. Contexts for Reading Aurora Leigh; Chapter 4. Teaching Aurora Leigh; Chapter 5. Print and Internet Resources; Appendix: Aurora Leigh at a Glance

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Book SynopsisThe book traces the development of British Indian literature from the early days of the 19th century through the Victorian period. Previously unstudied poems and essays drawn from the thriving periodicals culture of British India are examined alongside novels and travel-writing by authors including Emma Roberts and Philip Meadows Taylor.

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Book SynopsisJames Hogg (1770-1835) is increasingly recognised as a major Scottish author and one of the most original figures in European Romanticism. 16 essays written by international experts on Hogg draw on recent breakthroughs in research to illuminate the contexts and debates that helped to shape his writings. The book provides an indispensable guide to Hogg''s life and worlds, his publishing history, reception and reputation, his treatments of politics, religion, nationality, social class, sexuality and gender, and the diverse literary forms - ballads, songs, poems, drama, short stories, novels, periodicals - in which he wrote.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Series Editors' Preface; Brief Biography of James Hogg - Ian Duncan; Introduction: Hogg and his Worlds - Ian Duncan; 1. Hogg, Ettrick, and Oral Tradition - Valentina Bold and Suzanne Gilbert; 2. Hogg and the Book Trade - Peter Garside; 3. Magazines, Annuals and the Press - Gillian Hughes; 4. Hogg's Reception and Reputation - Suzanne Gilbert; 5. Hogg and the Highlands - Hans de Groot; 6. Hogg and Working-Class Writing - Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson; 7. Politics and the Presbyterian Tradition - Douglas S. Mack; 8. Hogg and Nationality - Caroline McCracken-Flesher; 9. Hogg, Gender, and Sexuality - Silvia Mergenthal; 10. Hogg and Music - Kirsteen McCue; 11. Hogg as Poet - Fiona Wilson; 12. Hogg and the Theatre - Meiko O'Halloran; 13. Hogg and the Short Story - John Plotz; 14. Hogg and the Novel - Graham Tulloch; 15. Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Approaches - Penny Fielding; 16. Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Afterlives - Gillian Hughes; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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Book SynopsisIntroduces Tennyson's famous elegy to first-time readers, students and teachers of the poem.Trade ReviewSure-handed and generously conceived to address a contemporary student's difficulties with In Memoriam and turn them into opportunities. Users of this guide will especially thank Barton for the model essays she has crafted on four strikingly different threads that traverse the poem: language, touch, economics, and ritual cycle. -- Professor Herbert Tucker, University of Virginia Sure-handed and generously conceived to address a contemporary student's difficulties with In Memoriam and turn them into opportunities. Users of this guide will especially thank Barton for the model essays she has crafted on four strikingly different threads that traverse the poem: language, touch, economics, and ritual cycle.Table of ContentsContents; Acknowledgements; Editions; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Mapping and Making; Part I: Monuments and Fragments; Part II: The In Memoriam Stanza; Part III: Remembering the Elegy; Chapter 2: The Poem; Part I: Outline; Part II: Poem; Chapter 3: The Guide; Theme I: Lost for Words; Theme II: Losing Touch; Theme III: Profit and Loss; Theme IV: Cycle and Ritual; Chapter 4: Contexts and Reception; Part I: Compositional Contexts; Part II: Scientific Contexts; Part III: Reviews and Anthologies; Part IV: Modernist Reactions; Chapter 5: Teaching the Text; Part I: Reading the Text; Part II: Initial Responses; Part III: Teaching In Memoriam as a Victorian Text; Part IV: Thinking about Form; Part V: Module Outline; Annotated Bibliography; Works Cited

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Book SynopsisIntroduces Tennyson''s famous elegy to first-time readers, students and teachers of the poem. This guide takes readers through Tennyson''s elegy, providing:* The full text of the poem* Information about its cultural, historical and literary contexts* Four different reading strategies for approaching the text* Suggested seminar activities, assessments and module outlines for teachers and lecturersIn Memoriam is one of the most famous and influential poems of the 19th century. Composed over nearly three decades and spanning over 100 sections, it is one of the longest elegies in the English language. It is at once a deeply personal description of grief and a wide-ranging discussion of its age.Trade ReviewSure-handed and generously conceived to address a contemporary student's difficulties with In Memoriam and turn them into opportunities. Users of this guide will especially thank Barton for the model essays she has crafted on four strikingly different threads that traverse the poem: language, touch, economics, and ritual cycle. -- Professor Herbert Tucker, University of Virginia Sure-handed and generously conceived to address a contemporary student's difficulties with In Memoriam and turn them into opportunities. Users of this guide will especially thank Barton for the model essays she has crafted on four strikingly different threads that traverse the poem: language, touch, economics, and ritual cycle.Table of ContentsContents; Acknowledgements; Editions; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Mapping and Making; Part I: Monuments and Fragments; Part II: The In Memoriam Stanza; Part III: Remembering the Elegy; Chapter 2: The Poem; Part I: Outline; Part II: Poem; Chapter 3: The Guide; Theme I: Lost for Words; Theme II: Losing Touch; Theme III: Profit and Loss; Theme IV: Cycle and Ritual; Chapter 4: Contexts and Reception; Part I: Compositional Contexts; Part II: Scientific Contexts; Part III: Reviews and Anthologies; Part IV: Modernist Reactions; Chapter 5: Teaching the Text; Part I: Reading the Text; Part II: Initial Responses; Part III: Teaching In Memoriam as a Victorian Text; Part IV: Thinking about Form; Part V: Module Outline; Annotated Bibliography; Works Cited

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Book SynopsisThe Edinburgh Companion to the Victorian Gothic is an essential resource for students and scholars working on the Gothic, Victorian literature and culture, and critical theory.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Locating the Victorian Gothic - Andrew Smith and William Hughes; Realism and the Victorian Gothic: Objects of Terror Transformed - Martin Willis; Sensation Fiction: A Peep Behind the Veil - Laurence Talairach-Vielmas; Victorian Gothic Pulp Fiction - Jarlath Killeen; Victorian Gothic Drama - Diane Long Hoeveler; Victorian Gothic poetry: The Corpse's Text - Caroline Franklin and Michael Franklin; The Victorian Ghost Story - Nick Freeman; Victorian Gothic and National Identity - Avril Horner; The Victorian Gothic and Gender - Carol Margaret Davison; Queer Victorian Gothic - Ardel Thomas; Victorian Gothic Death - Andrew Smith; Science and the Gothic - Kelly Hurley; Victorian Medicine and the Gothic -William Hughes; Imperial Gothic - Patrick Brantlinger; Fin de Siecle Gothic - Vicky Margree and Bryony Randall; Index.

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Book SynopsisExamines the anglophone literatures of the archipelago from 1890 to 1970 for what they tell us about changing identities, geographies, and ecologies. This book questions established terms such as 'Modernism' or 'the Angry Young Men' and explores new terms such as 'critical realism' and literary developments such as 'the Scottish New Wave'.

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Book SynopsisMaps the fin de siecle mission to open up the 'Dark Continent'

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Book SynopsisA masterclass in attentive reading that opens up brilliant insights into two of George Eliot''s novels Can reading Adam Bede and Middlemarch be justified in this time of climate change, financial meltdown and ineffective politicians? J. Hillis Miller shows how, to be read for today, they must be read slowly, closely and carefully, with much attention to linguistic detail and especially to figures of speech. By relating mistakes like Dorothea''s about Casaubon to current affairs, Miller''s ''readings for today'' can help us to come to terms with our human, social and political situation and even inspire us to act to ameliorate it.Table of ContentsForeword: Required Reading or 'some of us, at least', Julian Wolfreys; Prelude; Acknowledgements; 1. Realism Affirmed and Dismantled in Adam Bede; Adam Bede and Romanticism; Adam Bede as Paradigmatic Realist Novel; Challenges to the Paradigm of Realism in Adam Bede; Four Passages Challenging Mimetic Realism; What Do These Passages Really Say?; The Irony of Mistaken Interpretation in Adam Bede; Hetty Sorrel as Sophist Figure; Adam Bede as a Story about the Reading of Signs and as a Text to be Read; Repetition in Adam Bede; The Community Restored; 2. Reading Middlemarch Right for Today; Totalization Affirmed and Undermined in Middlemarch; Versions of Totalization; Middlemarch as Pseudo-History; Demystification of the Connection of Narrative and History; Totalizing Metaphors in Middlemarch; Middlemarch as Fractal Pattern; Middlemarch as Web; Middlemarch as Stream; Minutiae in Middlemarch; Triumph of Metaphorical Totalization; The Optical Metaphor; Creative Seeing as the Will to Power; The Parable of the Pier-Glass; Human Beings as False Interpreters; 3. Chapter Seventeen of Adam Bede: Truth-Telling Narration; Down with the Art of the Unreal!; The Language of Realism; Performative Undecidability; 4. Returning to Middlemarch: Interpretation as Naming and (Mis)Reading; Interpretation as the Creation of Totalizing Emblems; Money as Metaphor; The Boomerang Effect of the Monetary Metaphor; Money as Universal Measure; The Uses of Art; Conclusions About Metaphor; O Aristotle!; The Roar on the Other Side of Silence; The Ruin of Totalization in a Cascade of Misreadings: A Summary Description of the Ground Gained So Far; Form as Repetition in Unlikeness; A Finale in Which Nothing is Final; Dorothea's Limitless "Yes"; Dorothea as Ariadne; George Eliot's Life and Work as an Uneven Tissue of Ungrounded Repetitions; Coda; Notes; Index

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Book SynopsisSome of James Hogg's best stories appeared in The Shepherd's Calendar, a work of the 1820s in which he sets out to re-create on paper the manner and the content of the traditional oral storytelling of Ettrick Forest.Trade ReviewThe stories are about storms, sheep, lairds, about farmers with designs on their servant girls, as in one of the most memorable, 'Tibby Hyslop's Dream', where a pious, winsome lass, prophesied over by a second-sighted, 'unco parabolical' great-aunt, copes with such designs - and the farmer in this case comes to one of Hogg's suicidal ends. -- Karl Miller The reader is not being treated to a quaint display of an outmoded lifestyle, but privileged with glimpses of a community possessed of special knowledge and internal laws. Hogg's shepherds are far removed from those of Virgil or Spenser, while even Wordsworth's Michael seems remote from the narrator who can describe the destruction of '12 scores of excellent ewes' with such calmness and compassion: 'when the snow went away they were discovered all lying dead with their heads one way as if a flock of sheep had dropped dead going from the washing. -- Fiona Stafford An important and addictively readable addition to the Scottish canon. -- Christopher Harvie Gin e'er ye wantit 'infinite riches' in a wee buik, James Hogg's 'The Shepherd's Calendar' certes cums gey near the merk. These attractive editions of Hogg's work are set directly from the original texts, and in the case of the Perils of Woman and The Shepherd's Calendar, actually represent the first ever republications of the originals... these paperback reprints further aid the dissemination of Hogg's best works, creating affordable and accessible editions. Texts previously available only to those with the golden keys of academia can now be bought and enjoyed by a wider readership... the infectiously enthusiastic introduction by Douglas Mack relates the very relevant publication history of this piece, which originally appeared as a series of articles in Blackwood's Magazine![this] edition represents the first to be set directly from the magazine articles! Now that it has been brought together unbowdlerised for the first time in paperback, we can now see this collection's coherence as a single work, celebrating the vivacity of Hogg's home community. The stories are about storms, sheep, lairds, about farmers with designs on their servant girls, as in one of the most memorable, 'Tibby Hyslop's Dream', where a pious, winsome lass, prophesied over by a second-sighted, 'unco parabolical' great-aunt, copes with such designs - and the farmer in this case comes to one of Hogg's suicidal ends. The reader is not being treated to a quaint display of an outmoded lifestyle, but privileged with glimpses of a community possessed of special knowledge and internal laws. Hogg's shepherds are far removed from those of Virgil or Spenser, while even Wordsworth's Michael seems remote from the narrator who can describe the destruction of '12 scores of excellent ewes' with such calmness and compassion: 'when the snow went away they were discovered all lying dead with their heads one way as if a flock of sheep had dropped dead going from the washing. An important and addictively readable addition to the Scottish canon. Gin e'er ye wantit 'infinite riches' in a wee buik, James Hogg's 'The Shepherd's Calendar' certes cums gey near the merk. These attractive editions of Hogg's work are set directly from the original texts, and in the case of the Perils of Woman and The Shepherd's Calendar, actually represent the first ever republications of the originals... these paperback reprints further aid the dissemination of Hogg's best works, creating affordable and accessible editions. Texts previously available only to those with the golden keys of academia can now be bought and enjoyed by a wider readership... the infectiously enthusiastic introduction by Douglas Mack relates the very relevant publication history of this piece, which originally appeared as a series of articles in Blackwood's Magazine![this] edition represents the first to be set directly from the magazine articles! Now that it has been brought together unbowdlerised for the first time in paperback, we can now see this collection's coherence as a single work, celebrating the vivacity of Hogg's home community.

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Book SynopsisHogg's powerful novel combines two stories that hauntingly echo each other, one set in Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders in the early 1820s, and the other set in the Highlands in 1746, the time of Culloden and its devastating aftermath.Trade ReviewCommentators once dismissed Perils of Woman as a bad book because it trampled on the flowerbeds of early-nineteenth-century decorum; they now acclaim it a masterpiece for the very same reason, reading subversive craft in the place of oafishness. -- Ian Duncan Both stories [of The Three Perils of Woman] are generically diverse, self-consciously impure. Hogg described them as 'domestic tales', apparently soliciting a female readership whose delicacy he then assaults with speculations about promiscuity and prostitution, and with prayers so chattily informal that reviewers found them blasphemous. Both stories modulate suddenly from comedy to tragedy, though one - but which? - struggles through to what may be a happy ending. [...] What matters about The Three Perils of Woman is not the conclusions it has to offer about the issues it raises, but the fact that these are addressed with such painful urgency. They have become urgent once again, and will continue to be so; and if the book provides an especially useful way of thinking about them, it's because it offers an 'unflinching' account of a violent national past while acknowledging the temptation, the impulse, even the need, to flinch. -- John Barrell These attractive editions of Hogg's work are set directly from the original texts, and in the case of the Perils of Woman and The Shepherd's Calendar, actually represent the first ever republications of the originals... these paperback reprints further aid the dissemination of Hogg's best works, creating affordable and accessible editions. Texts previously available only to those with the golden keys of academia can now be bought and enjoyed by a wider readership. The Three Perils of Woman is a remarkable and disturbing book. This is truly a work of extremes but this excellent edition, particularly with the extra new material of the paperback edition, enables us to appreciate how all these extremes fit together and how they relate to the literary, social and historical context in which they were created. Commentators once dismissed Perils of Woman as a bad book because it trampled on the flowerbeds of early-nineteenth-century decorum; they now acclaim it a masterpiece for the very same reason, reading subversive craft in the place of oafishness. Both stories [of The Three Perils of Woman] are generically diverse, self-consciously impure. Hogg described them as 'domestic tales', apparently soliciting a female readership whose delicacy he then assaults with speculations about promiscuity and prostitution, and with prayers so chattily informal that reviewers found them blasphemous. Both stories modulate suddenly from comedy to tragedy, though one - but which? - struggles through to what may be a happy ending. [...] What matters about The Three Perils of Woman is not the conclusions it has to offer about the issues it raises, but the fact that these are addressed with such painful urgency. They have become urgent once again, and will continue to be so; and if the book provides an especially useful way of thinking about them, it's because it offers an 'unflinching' account of a violent national past while acknowledging the temptation, the impulse, even the need, to flinch. These attractive editions of Hogg's work are set directly from the original texts, and in the case of the Perils of Woman and The Shepherd's Calendar, actually represent the first ever republications of the originals... these paperback reprints further aid the dissemination of Hogg's best works, creating affordable and accessible editions. Texts previously available only to those with the golden keys of academia can now be bought and enjoyed by a wider readership. The Three Perils of Woman is a remarkable and disturbing book. This is truly a work of extremes but this excellent edition, particularly with the extra new material of the paperback edition, enables us to appreciate how all these extremes fit together and how they relate to the literary, social and historical context in which they were created.

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Book SynopsisBy returning to a pivotal moment in South African history - the Cape Colony in the period 1770-1830 - this book addresses current debates about nationalism, colonialism and neo-colonialism, and postcolonial/post-apartheid culture.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Remembering the Khoikhoi victory over Dom Francisco d'Almeida at the Cape in 1510: Luiz de Camoes and Robert Southey; 2. French Representations of the Cape 'Hottentots': Jean Tavernier, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Francois Levaillant; 3. The Scottish Enlightenment and colonial governance: Adam Smith, John Bruce, and Lady Anne Barnard; 4. African Land for the American Empire: John Adams, Benjamin Stout, and Robert Semple; 5. Historical and literary re-iterations of Dutch Settler Republicanism; 6. Literature and Cape Slavery; 7. History and the Griqua Nation: Andries Waterboer and Hendrick Hendricks; Conclusion; Index.

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Book SynopsisBy looking beyond the works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Grace Greenwood, Margaret Fuller and Frederick Douglass to their public commentaries in lectures, reviews, and newspaper columns, this study uncovers their startling contributions to transatlantic culture.

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Book SynopsisExplores Thomas Hardy's engagement with Victorian legal debates in his prose fiction. This book demonstrates that throughout his prose fiction Hardy engages with contentious legal issues that were debated by legal professionals and literary figures of his day.

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Book SynopsisExamining the representation of women in the spaces of the railway in literature and culture of the 19th and early 20th century, this book brings together the sensation, realist, and modernist railway narratives by female and male authors, analyzing women's trajectories within and beyond the city but also the nation, as urban passengers, and more.

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Book SynopsisA guide to research methods for final-year undergraduates, postgraduates taking Masters degrees and PhDs students of 19th- and 20th-century Literary Studies. Each chapter centres on one particular method, offering both advice on how to utilise it and exploring some of the methodological issues that are involved in the use of the particular method.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; 1. Introduction (Gabriele Griffin); 2. Archival Methods (Carolyn Steedman); 3. Auto/biographical Methods (Mary Evans); 4. Oral History (Penny Summerfield); 5. Visual Methodologies (Gillian Rose); 6. Discourse Analysis (Gabriele Griffin); 7. The Uses of Ethnographic Methods in English Studies (Rachel Alsop); 8. Numbers and Words: Quantitative Methods for Scholars of Texts (Pat Hudson); 9. Textual Analysis (Catherine Belsey); 10. Interviewing (Gabriele Griffin); 11. Creative Writing as a Research Method (Jon Cook); 12. English Research Methods and the Digital Humanities (Marilyn Deegan); Notes on contributors.

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Book SynopsisThis new study looks at the relationship of rhetoric and music in the era''s intellectual discourses, texts and performance cultures principally in Europe and North America. Catherine Jones begins by examining the attitudes to music and its performance by leading figures of the American Enlightenment and Revolution, notably Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. She also looks at the attempts of Francis Hopkinson, William Billings and others to harness the Orphean power of music so that it should become a progressive force in the creation of a new society. She argues that the association of rhetoric and music that reaches back to classical Antiquity acquired new relevance and underwent new theorisation and practical application in the American Enlightenment in light of revolutionary Atlantic conditions. Jones goes on to consider changes in the relationship of rhetoric and music in the nationalising milieu of the nineteenth century; the connections of literature, music and music theory to changing models of subjectivity; and Romantic appropriations of Enlightenment visions of the public ethical function of music.

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Book SynopsisA study of Darwin's Legacy for relegion, ecology and the arts. It argues that poetry can have a profound impact on how we think and feel about the human condition in a Darwinian world. It includes over 50 complete poems and substantial extracts from several more, Holmes shows how poets have responded to the discovery of evolution.Table of ContentsA. R. Ammons: 'Questionable Procedures'; Philip Appleman: 'How Evolution Came to Indiana', 'Waldorf-Astoria Euphoria'; D. M. Black: 'Kew Gardens'; Mathilde Blind: The Ascent of Man [extracts]; Robert Browning: 'Caliban upon Setebos' [extracts]; William Canton: 'The Latter Law' [sonnet from a sequence]; Stephen Crane: 'A man said to the universe'; Richard Eberhart: 'Sea-Hawk'; Robert Frost: 'Design', 'The Oven Bird', 'The Most of It', 'Our Hold on the Planet'; Thom Gunn: 'Adultery', 'The Garden of the Gods'; Thomas Hardy: 'Hap', 'Your Last Drive', 'Rain on a Grave', 'At Castle Boterel', 'An August Midnight', 'The Darkling Thrush', 'Shelley's Skylark', 'The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House', 'To Outer Nature', 'On a Fine Morning'; Robinson Jeffers: 'Vulture', Cawdor [extract], 'Rock and Hawk'; George Meredith: 'The Woods of Westermain' [opening lyric], 'In the Woods' [8 lyrics out of a sequence of 9], 'The Lark Ascending' [extracts], Modern Love [3 sonnets from a sequence], 'Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn' [extracts]; Edna St Vincent Millay: 'The Fawn', 'I shall forget you presently, my dear', Fatal Interview [2 sonnets from a sequence]; Edwin Morgan: 'Eohippus', 'The Archaeopteryx's Song', 'Trilobites'; Lewis Morris: 'Ode of Creation' [extract]; Constance Naden: 'Natural Selection'; Agnes Mary Robinson: 'Darwinism'; Pattiann Rogers: 'Against the Ethereal', 'The Possible Suffering of a God During Creation', 'Geocentric'; Neil Rollinson: 'My Father Shaving Charles Darwin'; John Addington Symonds: 'An Old Gordian Knot' [sonnet from a sequence]; Alfred Tennyson: 'Flower in the Crannied Wall', 'By an Evolutionist', 'The Dawn', 'The Making of Man', 'Frater Ave atque Vale', 'Lucretius' [extracts].

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field—the history of letters and letter writing—is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century American politics, history or literature.

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary study that explores both the personal and political significance of climate in the Victorian imagination. It analyses foreboding imagery of miasma, sludge and rot across non-fictional and fictional travel narratives, speeches, private journals and medical advice tracts.

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Book SynopsisHow are University instructors to contribute to a growing field when most PhDs continue to be conferred in British or American literature? To provide a foundational resource for teaching Anglo American transatlanticism in the long 19th century, this volume outlines conceptual approaches to transatlanticism and offers practical resources.

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Book SynopsisHow are University instructors to contribute to a growing field when most PhDs continue to be conferred in British or American literature? To provide a foundational resource for teaching Anglo American transatlanticism in the long 19th century, this volume outlines conceptual approaches to transatlanticism and offers practical resources.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Note on Companion Website; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction: Tracing Currents and Joining Conversations; Linda K. Hughes and Sarah R. Robbins; Part I Curricular Histories and Key Trends; 2. On Not Knowing Any Better; Susan M. Griffin; 3. Transatlantic Networks in the Nineteenth Century; Susan David Bernstein; 4. Rewriting the Atlantic: Symbiosis, 1997-2014; Christopher Gair; Part II Organising Curriculum Through Transatlantic Lenses; 5. Anthologising and Teaching Transatlantic Romanticism; Chris Koenig-Woodyard; 6. 'Flat Burglary'? A Course on Race, Appropriation, and Transatlantic Print Culture; Daniel Hack; 7. Dramatising the Black Atlantic: Live Action Projects in Classrooms; Alan Rice; Part III Teaching Transatlantic Figures; 8. The Canadian Transatlantic: Susanna Moodie and Pauline Johnson; 9. Kate Flint Frederick Douglass, Maria Weston Chapman, and Harriet Martineau: Atlantic Abolitionist Networks and Transatlanticism's Binaries; Marjorie Stone; 10. 'How did you get here? and where are you going?': Transatlantic Literary History, Exile, and Textual Traces in Herman Melville's Israel Potter; Andrew Taylor; 11. Americans, Abroad: Reading Portrait of a Lady in a Transatlantic Context; Sandra A. Zagarell; Part IV Teaching Genres in Transatlantic Context; 12. Making Anglo-American Oratory Resonate; Tom F. Wright; 13. Genre and Nationality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Poetry; Meredith L. McGill, Scott Challener, Isaac Cowell, Bakary Diaby, Lauren Kimball, Michael Monescalchi, and Melissa Parrish; 14. Teaching 'Transatlantic Sensations'; John Cyril Barton, Kristin Huston, Jennifer Phegley, and Jarrod Roark; 15. Prophecy, Poetry, and Democracy: Teaching Through the International Lens of the Fortnightly Review; Linda Freedman; Part V Envisioning Digital Transatlanticism; 16. Transatlantic Mediations: Teaching Victorian Poetry in the New Print Media; Alison Chapman; 17. Digital Transatlanticism: An Experience of and Reflections on Undergraduate Research in the Humanities; Erik Simpson; 18. Twenty-First-Century Digital Publics and Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Public Spheres; Tyler Branson; Part VI Afterword; 19. Looking Forward; Larisa Asaeli, Rachel Johnston, Molly Knox Leverenz, and Marie Martinez; Index.

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Book SynopsisExplores a specific site - the Reading Room of the British Museum - as a space of imaginative potential in relation to the emergence of modern women writers in Victorian and early 20th-century London. This book challenges an assessment of the Reading Room of the British Museum as a bastion of class and gender privilege.

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Book SynopsisExamines the full stylistic range of the novels and biographies which Trollope explored in his final decade

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first full-length study of one of the most widely read publications of nineteenth-century Britain, the London Journal, over a period when mass-market reading in a modern sense was born. Treating the magazine as a case study, the book maps the Victorian mass-market periodical in general and provides both new bibliographical and theoretical knowledge of this area. Andrew King argues the necessity for an interdisciplinary vision that recognises that periodicals are commodities that occupy specific but constantly unstable places in a dynamic cultural field. He elaborates the sociological work of Pierre Bourdieu to suggest a model of cultural ''zones'' where complex issues of power are negotiated through both conscious and unconscious strategies of legitimation and assumption by consumers and producers. He also critically engages with cultural theory as well as traditional scholarship in history, art history, and literature, combining a political economic approach to the cTrade Review'... King has taken on the task of correcting this historiographic imbalance by thoroughly excavating some of the more obscure purlieus of mid-nineteenth century Grub Street, and nearly every page of the book bears witness to the assiduity and ingenuity of his primary research... a detailed and illuminating contribution to the expanding list of books dealing with various aspects of Victorian print culture published as part of Ashgate’s impressive 'The Nineteenth Century' series.' SHARP News '... remarkable study. Its comprehensiveness and interdisciplinarity are likely to make it attractive to scholars in such diverse fields as media history, library science, cultural studies, journalism, and literary studies. King makes a convincing case for the London Journal as a key text in the history of the mass media, and provides a variety of interpretative tools that scholars are likely to find useful as they continue to explore the vast field of Victorian journalism.' The Library 'Andrew King has succeeded in writing a well-informed and thought-provoking study that breaks new ground, particularly in the way it balances theoretical insights with more traditional periodical historiography.' Victorian Periodicals Review ’Andrew King's detailed examination of the production and reception of the London Journal during the mid-nineteenth century offers an excellent model for analyses of literary periodicals...’ Script and PrintTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Part 1 Periodical Discourse: Periodical questions; Periodical titles; or, 'The London Journal' as a signifier. Part 2 Periodical Production; 1845-9. Theoretical issues; or, genre, title, network, space; Cultural numerology; or, circulation, demographics, debits and credits; 1849-57. Moving from the miscellany; or, J.F. Smith and after; 1857-62. When is a periodical not itself? or, Mark Lemon and his successors; 1862-83. The secret of success; or, American women and British men; Part 3 Periodical Gender; or, the Metastases of the Reader: 1845-55. Gender and the implied reader; or, the re-gendering of news; 1863. Lady Audley's secret zone; or, is subversion subversive?; 1868-83. Dress, address and the vote; or, the gender of performance; 1883: The revenge of the reader; or, Zola out and in; Appendix; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisSibling bonds, both literal and figurative, have had a crucial role in American writings of queer desire and identity. In nuanced and original readings, Denis Flannery demonstrates the centrality of fraternal and sororal love to queer strands of nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts from the elemental wildnesses of Moby-Dick to David Fincher''s postmodern cinema; from the brutal and comic decorum of Henry James''s major fiction to the elegiac memoir-writing of Jamaica Kincaid. Questions driving Flannery''s exploration of sibling relations: How do we characterize the relationship between sibling love, queer possibility and the formal intensities of American writing? Why do so many American texts rely on the presence of sibling love to articulate queer desire? Why is brotherhood invoked as a positive value in announcements of United States national aspirations but used repeatedly and ominously in that nation''s texts to herald a fall? Written with lyrical clarity and verve, On Sibling Trade Review'To bring siblings to gay attachments and queer theory to sibling relationships is inspirational. Each informs and shapes the other in Flannery's brilliant and innovative re-reading of American writing and culture'. Juliet Mitchell, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface. Part 1: Introduction; The monkey-rope; The appalling Mrs Luna: sibling love, queer attachment and Henry James's The Bostonians. Part 2: Cinematic siblings: Paris is Burning; Wolf-trapping: Cormac McCarthy, sibling love and the lupine queer; Sibling love, queer attachment, a fear of falling: David Fincher's The Game; Jamaica Kincaid and Chuck Palahniuk: AIDS, resurrection and recognition; Works cited; Index.

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes major concepts in the travel literature of Mark Twain and notes how his ouvre revolves around travel as a central issue. This book focuses especially on his representations of time, place, and identity in works such as: ""Roughing It"", ""A Tramp Abroad"", ""The Innocents Abroad"", ""Life on The Mississippi"", and ""Following the Equator"".

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Book SynopsisGarland''s magnificent facsimile series of the manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in the Bodleian Library, Oxford ( The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts , 22 volumes, 1986-1997) is now made complete by the publication of its Index-volume. Volume XXIII provides the key to the contents of the Shelleyan notebooks and papers in all their complexity: poems, prose, translations, fragments, calculations, drawing and doodles, addresses and other miscellaneous jottings. The accumulated findings provide a treasure-trove of information about the Shelley''s lives: their writings and readings, and echoes of classical and later authors; the people they met, corresponded with, rented houses from, or saw perform; the towns they visited, the very houses in which they lived, the lakes and rivers they sailed and the mountains they climbed. The intellectual and physical data of these manuscripts will help open new vistas for students of their lives, thought and creative writinTable of ContentsPart 1 Shelleyan Writing-Materials in The Bodleian Library: A Catalogue of Formats, Papers and Watermarks, B.C. Barker-Benfield]bp2 Catalogue and Index of the Shelley Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and a General Index to the Facsimile Edition, vols. I-XXII, Tatsuo Tokoo;

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Book SynopsisProvides an introduction to the context, language, themes, criticism and afterlife of the novel "Middlemarch". This guide presents an account of its critical reception. It also discusses the cultural afterlife including film and TV adaptations. It includes points for discussion and suggestions for further study.Trade Review'An excellent and very thorough explication of the background and contexts, utilizing multiple critical perspectives, to illuminate the genius of one of the greatest of Victorian novels ... [this] book should be on every students shelf.' Professor William Baker, Northern Illinois University, USA."The latest in Continuum's excellent series of 'Reader's Guides' ... [a] highly readable and clearly informative book." - Ian Brinton, The Use of EnglishTable of Contents1. Contexts; 2. Language, Style and Form; 3. Reading Middlemarch; 4. Critical Reception and Publishing History; 5. Adaptation, interpretation and influence; 6. Guide to Further Reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisOffers an introduction to literature and culture in the Victorian period. This textbook provides a one-stop resource for literature students, presenting the information and guidance needed from introducing the historical and cultural context to key authors, texts and genres. It includes case studies for reading literary and critical texts.Trade Review"A practical and comprehensive guide that will surely prove useful for students and teachers alike. Its coverage is superb and its list of contributors impressive." - Donald E. Hall, Distinguished Professor of English, West Virginia University, USA"A highly readable and intelligent guide which will give students confidence in mapping their way through the increasingly complex world of nineteenth-century literature ... it equips readers with the ideal toolkit to enter the debate about the past, present and future of Victorian Studies." - Professor Valerie Sanders, University of Hull, UK"It is strikingly different from its competitors in ways which will be useful to our students; in particular in its closing section it stands back from single author or single topic discussions and gives the kind of overview of Victorian criticism, recent and particularly present, which students have little time to acquire during their courses, but would find really useful..." - Ian Campbell, University of Edinburgh, UK"Teachers will find the appendix especially interesting for its survey of Victorian literature curricula in 50 British and American universities revealing current pedagogical trends and ending with a helpful list of Websites. The handbook is an indispensable modern guide for both students and teachers of Victorian literature." - Charlotte Lindgren, American Reference Books Annual, Vol. 40, 2009The Victorian Literature Handbook provides a helpful collection of resources for undergraduates new to the study of the literature and culture of the Victorian period. The Handbook's greatest strength lies in its novel and straightforwardly helpful approach to presenting ideas and information. -- Routledge ABESTable of Contents1. Introduction and Timeline: Alexandra Warwick (University of Westminster) and Martin Willis (University of Glamorgan); 2. The Historical Context of Victorian Literature: Alexandra Warwick (University of Westminster); 3. Literary and Cultural Contexts: edited by Kirsty Bunting and Rhian Williams (University of Warwick); 4. Case Studies in Reading Literary Texts: Kirstie Blair (University of Glasgow), Michael Helfand (University of Pittsburgh), Priti Joshi (University of Puget Sound), Grace Moore (University of Melbourne) and Tamara Wagner (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); 5. Case Studies in Reading Critical Texts: Miriam Burstein (SUNY Brockport), Carol Margaret Davison (University of Windsor, Canada), Martin Danahay (Brock University) and Solveig C. Robinson (Pacific Lutheran University); 6. Key Critical Concepts: edited by Alexandra Warwick (University of Westminster); 7. Changes in the Literary Canon: Jane E. Thomas (University of Hull); 8. Changes in the Critical Canon: Martin Willis (University of Glamorgan); 9. Interdisciplinarity in Victorian Studies: Laurie Garrison (Royal Holloway, University of London); 10. Mapping the future of Victorian Studies: Ruth Robbins (Leeds Metropolitan University); Appendix: A survey of Victorian Literature Curricula: Mark Bennett; Further Reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Introduction: The Emergence of the Classic Fairy-Tale Tradition Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University, USA Chapter 1: The Age of the merveilleux: Forms of Marvelous in the Eighteenth Century Tatiana Korneeva, University of Venice and Freie Universität Berlin Chapter 2: Fairy-Tale Adaptations in the Long Eighteenth Century Charlotte Trinquet du Lys, University of Central Florida, USA Chapter 3: Gender and Sexuality Aileen Douglas, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Chapter 4: The Human and the Non-Human in Fairy Tales, 1650-1800 Lewis C. Seifert, Brown University, USA Chapter 5: Monsters and the Monstrous: Of Ogre Pyramids, Ruby-Eyed Dragons, and Gnomes with Crooked Spines Kathryn A. Hoffmann, University of Hawai‘I, USA Chapter 6:Space and Narrative Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Tales in East and West Richard van Leeuwen, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Chapter 7: Slight Channels: Socialization in Tales of Wonder Rania Huntington, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Chaper 8: Political and Social Power in Fairy and Oriental Tales Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University, USA Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNaomi J. Wood is Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Kansas State University, USA.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Preface Introduction: Fairy Tales and the Long Nineteenth Century Naomi Wood 1. Forms of the Marvelous Laurence Talairach 2. Adaptation Jan Susina 3. Gender and Sexuality Amy Billone 4. Humans and Non-Humans: Uncanny Encounters in the Grimms’ Tales Nicole Thesz 5. Monsters and the Monstrous Zeynep Cakmak and Sarah Marsh 6. Spaces: Physical, Liminal, and Other John Pennington 7. Socialization: Civilizing Child’s Play Michelle Beissel Heath 8. Power Molly Clark Hillard Notes References Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisRussia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this new book, Ira Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, Virginia Woolf, and H.G. Wells. Framed by the story of two romantic encounters, between Walter Benjamin and the actress Asja Lacis in Moscow in 1926 and between Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova in 1945, Love and Russian Literature casts a vivid new light on the ways in which responses to Russia shaped the history of British modernism.Trade ReviewTo paraphrase James Joyce, this is a book about how love loves to love Russian love, or how prominent Anglo-American cultural figures in the first half of the 20th century got swept away by human and literary manifestations of “Russianness.” * Galya Diment, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Washington, USA *Ira Nadel takes readers on a dizzying journey to the mysterious, intoxicating world of love & literature, passion & politics. Embodied in nine paradoxical stories of thinkers, writers, diplomats, fermented with the live yeast of Russian’s catastrophic history, the book plunges you into the thunderstorm atmosphere of a century of upheaval. A fantastic celebration of Modernism’s centennial! * Olga Panova, Lead Research Fellow, Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia *Table of ContentsIntroduction: ‘Magnanimous Despair’ Prelude: Walter Benjamin in Love Ch. 1 Somerset Maugham: ‘Love and Russian Literature’ Ch. 2 H. Bruce Lockhart: Love and Revolution Ch. 3 Jane Harrison: In Love with Language Ch. 4 William Gerhardie: Flattery is Not Enough Interlude: Edmund Wilson: In Love with Lenin/ EdmundWilson Russian Love Ch. 5 H.G. Wells: Triangles Ch. 6 Virginia Woolf: The Sound of Russian Love Postscript: Isaiah Berlin: From the Finland Station Index

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Book SynopsisFor nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death, war and peace, yes, even crime and punishment; readers across the globe have found in Russian writing a substantial measure of intellectual provocation, aesthetic pleasure, emotional resonance, and personal solace. Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature explores the familiar names of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov to connect readers with these experiences. With a lively, jargon-free style and insightful analyses of thought-provoking texts, this concise volume helps you to understand more fully the pleasure to be found in reading, and re-reading. By identifying what readers seek and find in Russian booksfrom aesthetically pleasing descriptions to apt psychological renderingsAngela Brintlinger aims to enhance the gratification of reading, giving armchair travelers an excuse to embark on a series of fascinating journeys. Drawing on BTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1: Introduction: Why we need Russian literature 2: In the beginning there was Pushkin 3: Larger than life: Leo Tolstoy’s world 4: Dostoevsky, amateur psychologist 5: Chekhov and the pleasures of the written word Afterword Appendix: More books to read Works cited and consulted

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