Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

Book SynopsisExamining the notion of migration and transnationalism within the life and work of Joseph Conrad, this book situates the multicultural and transnational characters that comprise his fiction while locating Conrad as a subject of the Russian state whose provenance is Polish, but whose identity is that of a merchant sailor and English country gentleman. Conrad's characters are often marked by crossings changes of nation, changes of culture, changes of identity which refract Conrad's own cultural transitions. These crossings not only subjectivise the experience of the migrant through the modern complexities of technology and speed, but also through cross-cultural encounters of food and language. Collectively, these essays explore the experience of the migrant as exile; the inescapable intermeshing of migration, modernity and transnationalism as well as Conrad's own global and multicultural outlook. Conrad's work writes across historical, political and ethnic borders speaking to a transTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES ACKOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Tania Zulli & Kim Salmons Part One: Crossing Borders CONRAD’S RITES OF ENTRY AND RETURN Robert Hampson BACK IN (THE) UKRAINE: RITES OF PASSAGE AND RITES OF ENTRY William Atkinson FROM BERDYCZÓW TO BISHOPSBOURNE: CONRAD’S REAL AND IMAGINARY JOURNEYS Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech ‘THE VISION OF A COSMOPOLITAN’: THE TRANSNATIONAL AESTHETIC OF A PERSONAL RECORD Riccardo Capoferro Part Two: Empire, Movement and Migration ‘NEW SHADES OF EXPRESSION:’ DEATH AND EMPIRE IN CONRAD’S UNRESTFUL TALES. Richard Niland ‘QUEER FOREIGN FISH’: FOOD AND MIGRATION IN ALMAYER’S FOLLY AND THE SECRET AGENT Kim Salmons “THE EAST SPOKE TO ME, BUT IT WAS IN A WESTERN VOICE”: PERLOCUTIONARY ACTS AND THE LANGUAGE OF MIGRATION IN CONRAD’S FICTION Tania Zulli A ‘SETTLED RESIDENT’: MOVEMENTS OF PEOPLES AND CULTURES IN CONRAD’S MALAY FICTION Andrew Francis Part Three: Modernity and the Transnational ARAB AND MUSLIM TRANSNATIONALISM IN CONRAD’S MALAY FICTION Katherine Baxter ‘AMY FOSTER’, AMERIKA AND AFTER BREAD: MODERNISM, TECHNOLOGY AND THE IMMIGRANT Yael Levin FOUR EXILES IN THREE VOLUMES: W. G. SEBALD, EWA KURYLUK, JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ AND JOSEPH CONRAD Laurence Davies AFTERWORD: HOW BLACK LIVES MATTER FOR CONRAD’S PERSONAL RECORD OF MIGRATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM Christopher Gogwilt

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Trade ReviewNot just a book about telephony and literature, but a book about how the telephone has actively contributed to the deconstruction of literature and culture, while steadily working to deconstruct our own lives. Jackson acts as the deft operator of a complex international switchboard, taking us through the developments of this process of deconstruction, by way of an exciting range of texts by twentieth-century and twenty first-century novelists, poets, and theorists. * Nicoletta Asciuto, Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature, University of York, UK *Jackson connects literature and the telephone in powerful and invigorating ways. Through lucid readings of Frank O’Hara, Tom Raworth, Fady Joudah, Muriel Spark, Ali Smith, Mourid Barghouti and others, we come to see how phones are not just thematically important but how they pervade all of our thinking about the nature of modern literature. Literature and the Telephone is also a special kind of listening book, with a particular ear for questions of responding and responsibility. Jackson never loses sight of the inextricably entangled everyday dimensions of her topic – from the nuclear hotline to the Israeli treatment of Palestinians, from refugee boat deaths to the ecological damage and toxic afterlives of the objects so many of us carry around, mostly without thinking, practically everywhere we go. * Nicholas Royle, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Sussex, UK *Jackson’s elegant study reconceptualizes the relationship between reading, writing, listening and calling, with an awareness of the wider ethical, political and spatial possibilities of the exchange. In the true spirit of pioneering work like Nicholas Royle's Telepathy and Literature and Avital Ronell's Telephone Book, it is a must-read for anyone fascinated by the uncanny ramifications between the literary and the tele-technological. * Laurent Milesi, Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China *Table of ContentsPreface: Hello, yes? Introduction – Switchboard Chapter 1 – Queer Lines: Voice and Desire in E. M. Forster, Dana Spiotta and Haruki Murakami Chapter 2 – Scrambled Messages: Networks of Signification in Patrick Hamilton and Jon McGregor Chapter 3 – Telepoetics: Interference and Errancy in Frank O’Hara, Tom Raworth and Fady Joudah Chapter 4 – Secrets: Call and Response in Muriel Spark Chapter 5 – Listening-­-In: Reading Surveillance in Graham Greene, Anna Burns and Will Self Chapter 6 – Calling without Calling: Mourid Barghouti, Jacques Derrida and ‘The International Day of Telephones’ Chapter 7 – Distress Calls: New (Im)mobilities in Behrouz Boochani and Asiya Wadud Conclusion – Telefutures: Electronic Waste in Emily St John Mandel and Ling Ma Afterword – The Long Goodbye Bibliography

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Trade ReviewWhile describing how writers have used items of clothing in neo-Victorian narratives, this book also does much more. It helps us to appreciate gloves, gowns, veils, and jewels in fiction as active agents; it illuminates beautifully their lives as individual characters with their own memorable stories and emotional baggage. * Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies, University of Delaware, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Re-Fashioning the Victorians Re-Fashioning the Past Reading and Writing Dress: Texts and Textiles (Neo-)Victorian Sartorial and Material Culture Neo-Victorian Fashions: Chapter Outlines 2. Gowns Neo-Victorianism and New Materialism Dynamic Dresses in The Master Sartorial Entanglements in Alias Grace 3. Gloves Fashioning Identity, Agency, and Desire in Waters’s Neo-Victorian Trilogy ‘The impress of her hand’: Victorian Gloves Neo-Victorian Gloves: Touch, Materiality, and Queer Desire Material Traces of the Past 4. Veils Victorian Veils Neo-Victorian Veils Veils and Canvases in The Ghost Writer: Revealing the Past Veils, Bindings, Skin: Concealing Bodies and Books in The Journal of Dora Damage 5. Jewellery Ornamenting the Victorian Woman Heirlooms and Afterlives: Jewellery in Great Expectations and Havisham ‘Talisman’ Turquoises and ‘Poisoned’ Diamonds in Daniel Deronda and Gwendolen 6. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative open access book reappraises the health resort in literature from its rise in the late Enlightenment period to the wellness age of the 21st century. Most of the existing body of academic work on the subject is concerned with either the classic spa novel or sanatorium narratives, and focuses on distinct national literatures, selected canonical texts, and particular themes. Contrary to this convention The Health Resort in Modern European Literature covers all types of health resort texts and sees them as part of a transnational resort narrative that covers the whole of Europe. Its uniquely broad corpus goes beyond the famous English, French, German and Russian novels and includes work in all genres, by female and male authors, from high literature and popular culture, in less studied languages such as Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Polish, Swedish or Ukrainian, right up to the present day. Drawing on theorists such as Barthes, Deleuze and Foucault, Henrike Schmidt and A

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Book SynopsisEileen M. Hunt is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, USA.Trade ReviewGloriously readable...This compendium of reaction to the famous radical starts with 18th-century print and image, moving through the canon—Virginia Woolf, poetry by Robert Browning—to contemporary international reception. Cartoons rub shoulders with Oxford lectures in a rich new kind of portraiture of both Wollstonecraft and our changing society. * The Tablet *The most monumental achievement...documents and reflects on Wollstonecraft’s cross-cultural influence on debates about women’s rights over the course of two centuries. * Literature Compass *An important collection that makes significant contributions to our understanding of Wollstonecraft’s influence as a thinker and philosopher. Hunt demonstrates that far from disappearing from the world stage after her death—an assumption made by many Wollstonecraft scholars—her ideas spread worldwide, shaping generations of writers, thinkers, and ordinary people. This is an essential new finding in Wollstonecraft scholarship as it provides evidence of Wollstonecraft’s significance as a political scientist, writer, and philosopher. Hunt demonstrates how Wollstonecraft has played a far larger role in the history of ideas than hitherto acknowledged. * Charlotte Gordon, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Endicott College, USA *It is unique. Rich in discoveries and surprises, this book brings together a multitude of responses to Wollstonecraft as a literary and philosophical figure and of perspectives on her works from her contemporaries in Britain and abroad as well as a variety of authors in the 19th and early 20th century. * Sylvana Tomaselli, Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge, UK *Table of ContentsPreface: Charting Wollstonecraft's Global Reception Editorial Policy Part I: Public Sightings, 1785-1804 Chapter 1. The Earliest Portraiture of Wollstonecraft, 1785-1804 1. C. 1787-92. Portrait by John Keenan 2. C. 1785-90. Photograph (1936) of oval miniature by James Sowerby and C. 1785-90. Photograph (1937) of rectangular miniature by James Sowerby 3. C. 1790-91. Portrait by John Opie 4. C. 1791. Portrait by John Williamson 5. 1791. Frontispiece by William Blake for Original Stories from Real Life 6. 1796. Engraving by William Ridley 7. 1797. Portrait by John Opie 8. 1797. Engraving by James Heath and 1798 and Engraving by John Chapman 9. 1802. Engraving by Roy 10. 1804. Copy of 1797 Opie by John Keenan Chapter 2. Her International Reception in Print, 1787-1797 11. 1787. Book review of Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (London) 12. 1788. Book review of Mary, a Fiction (London) 13. 1788. Book review of Original Stories from Real Life (London) 14. 1790. Book review of A Vindication of the Rights of Men (London) 15. 1791. Newspaper editorial on A Vindication of the Rights of Men (Kingston, Jamaica) 16. 1792. Book review of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London) 17. 1792. Book review of the first French edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Madrid) 18. 1792. “On Modesty,” excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London) 19. 1792. Thomas Taylor's A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes (London) 20. 1793. Book review of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paris) 21. 1793. Christian Salzmann's "Preface" to the first German Edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Schnepfenthal) 22. 1794. Ann Harker's "Salutatory Oration" at the Young Ladies' Academy (Philadelphia) 23. 1795. John Henry Colls's Poetical Epistle Addressed to Mary Wollstonecraft (London) 24. 1796. "The Lost First Dutch Edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (Amsterdam), by Myriam Everard 25. 1796. Book review of Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (London) 26. 1797. Newspaper advertisement for William Godwin's Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London) Part II: Global Afterlives, 1798-1913 Chapter 3 Biographies in English, 1798-1884 27. 1798. William Godwin's Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London) 28. 1798. Priscilla Wakefield's diary entry on Godwin's Memoirs (London) 29. 1800. Mary Hays's “Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft” (London) 30. 1803. Anonymous, “A defence of the character and conduct of the late Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin” (London) 31. 1831. John Knowles's The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli (London) 32. 1833. Anonymous, “A Brief Sketch of the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft" (New York) 33. 1840. William Hamilton Drummond's Autobiography of Archibald Hamilton Rowan (Dublin) 34. 1854. William Linton, woodcut engraving of "Mary Wollstonecraft" for The English Republic (Brantwood, England) 35. 1876. Charles Kegan Paul's William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries (London) 36. 1876. Sara A. Underwood's Heroines of Freethought (New York) 37. 1879. Charles Kegan Paul's Letters to Imlay, with Prefatory Memoir (London) 38. 1884. Elizabeth Robins Pennell's Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (London) Chapter 4 International Perspectives, 1798-1913 39. 1798. Pierre-Louis Roederer's “Miscellanies: Of Two New Novels” (Paris) 40. 1799. Hipólito José da Costa's Diário da minha viagem para Filadélfia (Long Island Sound) 41. 1799. “Translator’s Note” to the first Swedish edition of Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman (Stockholm) 42. 1800. Richard Polwhele's The Unsex'd Females (New York) 43. 1801-02 "Jørgen Borch's first Danish edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"(Kiøbenhavn) by Arman Teymouri Niknam 44. 1805. "Domenico Antonio Filippi's Italian translations from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Godwin's Memoirs (Vienna),” by Serena Vantin 45. 1818. Hannah Mather Crocker's Observations on the Real Rights of Women (Boston) 46. 1827. José da Silva Lisboa, Diário da Câmara dos Senadores do Impériodo Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 47. 1832-1853. "Nísia Floresta Brasileira Augusta and the Public Reception of Wollstonecraft in Brazil," by Charlotte Hammond Matthews 48. 1836. Gustav von Schlabrendorf's “Mary Wollstonecraft” (Hechingen) 49. 1859. Gustav Klemm, Die Frauen (Dresden) 50. 1866. Lucretia Mott's remarks delivered at the 11th National Woman’s Rights Convention (New York) 51. 1885. "Marie Catfauminges de La Forge's 'Uma Educadora' (Santa Catarina, Brazil)," by Charlotte Hammond Matthews 52. 1889. "A Difficult Vindication: Olive Schreiner's Wollstonecraft," by Carolyn Burdett 53. 1889. Olive Schreiner's “Introduction to the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman” (Cape Town) 54. 1891. Elizabeth Robins Pennell, “Prefatory Note” to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Budapest) 55. 1899. Bertha Pappenheim, translator's introduction to the second German edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Dresden and Leipzig) 56. 1904. Cover art, frontispiece, and translator's preface by Anna Holmová, for the first Czech edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Prague) 57. 1901-1913. Elvira’s Lopez’s El Movimiento Feminista and La Nacion’s “El Movimiento Sufragistra” (Buenos Aires) Part III Making an International Feminist Icon, 1801-2020 Chapter 5. Literary and Graphic Depictions in English, 1801-2015 58. 1801. Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's poem “The Vision of Liberty” (London) 59. 1803. William Blake's poem “Mary” (London) 60. 1805. "Equality of the Sexes," frontispiece to John Corry's novella, Memoirs of Francis Goodwin (London) 61. 1831. Mary Shelley's “Introduction" to Frankenstein (London) 62. 1845. Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Boston) 63. 1855. George Eliot's essay “Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft” (London) 64. 1862. Mrs. Tamar Davis's poem “Mary Wollstonecraft” (Boston) 65. 1877. Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (London) 66. 1883. Robert Browning's poem “Mary Wollstonecraft and Fuseli” (London) 67. 1922. Josephine Peabody's play Portrait of Mrs. W. (Boston) 68. 1929. G.E.G. Catlin's introduction to the Everyman edition of The Rights of Woman and The Subjection of Women (London and New York) 69. 1932. Virginia Woolf's essay “Mary Wollstonecraft” (London) 70. 1954. Pamela Frankau's introduction to the Everyman edition of The Rights of Woman and The Subjection of Women (London) 71. 1967. Charles W. Hagelman, Jr.'s introduction to the Norton Edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (New York) 72. 1972. David Levine cartoon of Wollstonecraft for The New York Review of Books (New York) 73. 1974. Cover art for Richard Cobb's book review of Claire Tomalin's The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft in The Times Literary Supplement (London) 74. 1975. Miriam Brody Kramnick's introduction to the Penguin Pelican edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (New York and Harmondsworth) 75. 1976. David Levine cartoon of Wollstonecraft for The New York Review of Books (New York) 76. 1982. Barbara Johnson's review essay, "My Monster/ My Self" (Ithaca, New York) 77. 2002. Women's Graphic Collective poster of "Wollstonecraft-Shelley"(Chicago) 78. 2009. Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey's "Mary Wollstonecraft!" comic in ACTION PHILOSOPHERS! (New York) 79. 2015. Claire Robertson's prototype illustration for Jordan Stratford's The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency series (New York) Chapter 6. Global Feminisms, 1891-2020 80. 1891. Millicent Fawcett's introduction to a centennial edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London) 81. 1893. Voltairine de Cleyre's poem “Mary Wollstonecraft” (Philadelphia) 82. 1898. Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough's A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman (London and Madras) 83. 1908. Mary Lowndes's "Mary Wollstonecraft" suffrage banner (London) 84. 1911. Emma Goldman's lecture, “Mary Wollstonecraft, Her Tragic Life and Passionate Struggle for Freedom" (New York) 85. 1914-17. Ruth Benedict, manuscript chapter on “Mary Wollstonecraft” (New York) 86. 1915. "WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN IN BOOKS," illustrated cover page of The New York Times Review of Books (New York) 87. 1949. Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (Paris) 88. 1963. Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (New York) 89. 1970. Susan Moller (Okin)'s B. Phil. chapter on Wollstonecraft (Oxford) 90. 1974. "Gionata's Italian translation of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman for the Anarchist Journal Volontà (Milan),” by Serena Vantin 91. 1979. Judy Chicago's "Wollstonecraft Table Runner" for the art installation, The Dinner Party (New York) 92. 1980. Cover art for the first Japanese edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Tokyo) 93. 1980. Translator Shirai Takako's commentary on the first Japanese edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Tokyo) 94. 1986. Martha Nussbaum's book review, "Women's Lot," in The New York Review of Books (New York) 95. 1992. Translator's Preface to the first Chinese edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Beijing) 96. 1997. Translator Kawatsu Masae's afterword to the first Japanese edition of Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman (Tokyo) 97. 2004. Amartya Sen's keynote address, "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary!" at the 13th annual conference of the International Association for Feminist Economics (Oxford) 98. 2011. Translator Moon Suhyo?n's introduction to and commentary on the 2011 Korean edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Seoul) 99. 2013. Stewy's street art, "Mary Wollstonecraft" (London) 100. 2014. Translator Son Yongmi's preface to the 2014 Korean edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Seoul) 101. 2017. Merrily Grashin's cartoon, "Bloody Mary Woll Stout Craft," in The Paris Review (New York) 102.2020. Maggi Hambling, “Statue for Wollstonecraft” (London) NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisHarriet Fletcher is Lecturer in Media and Communication at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. Having completed her PhD at Lancaster University, Harriet has several forthcoming peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on Gothic literature, film, popular culture and celebrity studies.

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Book SynopsisNaomi J. Wood is Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Kansas State University, USA.

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Book SynopsisThe first complete edition of Peter's Letters since 1819Trade Review"Part fictional travelogue, part manifesto for Romantic cultural nationalism, Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk set the agenda for Scottish cultural criticism well into the twentieth century. This superb critical edition recaptures the gossipy zest as well as polemical seriousness of Lockhart's anatomy of personalities and institutions in the 'Age of Scott'." -Ian Duncan, University of California, Berkeley

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Book SynopsisFreeman is best known today for her short regionalist fiction. Recently, Freeman studies have taken new turns including ecocriticism, trauma studies, the Gothic, and queer theory. The essay collection pushes these developments further. Contributors aim at revisiting and going beyond Freeman?s regionalism. They challenge earlier feminist readings of the female realm by arguing that her short fiction and novels depict women and girls as violent and criminal, suffocating as well as nurturing; they bring to light questions of race and ethnicity that have been conspicuously absent from scholarship on Freeman, as well as issues of class. Because questions of women?s work are central to Freeman?s oeuvre, this collection discusses Freeman?s acumen as a businesswoman herself, a participant as well as a castigator of turn-of-the-century US capitalism. Finally, essays reconsider the periodization of Freeman by exploring her little acknowledged post-1902 and therefore post-marriage fiction?her war stories and her urban stories.

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Book SynopsisTraces authors' attitudes toward US economic expansionism through their fictional allusions to internationally-traded commoditiesTrade Review"By examining the cultural lives of goods such as cotton, coal, fur (and others), Wayne's fascinating study reveals how American writers critiqued U.S. imperial ambitions in the decades after the Civil War. The book makes a significant contribution not only to American literary studies but also to strands of postcolonial and ecocritical scholarship devoted to cultures of extraction, resource narratives and exploitative histories." -Sin ad Moynihan, University of Exeter

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Book SynopsisThe most wide-ranging study of the history of children's periodicals to date

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Book SynopsisA scholarly edition of Lockhart's most intricate and sophisticated contribution to the Scottish historical novelTrade Review"Thomas C. Richardson's edition of Lockhart's strange but compelling History of Matthew Wald (1824) helpfully contextualises the religious, political and linguistic aspects of the novel's eighteenth-century Scottish setting while brilliantly situating it in relation to Lockhart's previous fiction, his role at Blackwood's Magazine and to a new Godwinian strain of the Romantic novel." -Anthony Jarrells, University of South Carolina

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Book SynopsisReconstructs the surprising, self-interested, at times paradoxical attempts of Victorian novelists to define the limits of middle-class status

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Book SynopsisProvides paratextual readings of Anglophone and Hispanophone poems about celebrities, panics, pandemics and colonisation in the nineteenth-century United States

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Book SynopsisMIKE EDWARDS was until recently Head of Humanities at Crosskeys College in Gwent, where he taught English. His publications include Charlotte Bronte: The Novels and E. M. Forster: The Novels, also in the Analysing Texts series.

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Book SynopsisJohn Burt Foster, Jr., is University Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University, USA. He is the author of Heirs to Dionysus: A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism (Princeton University Press, 1981) and Nabokov's Art Memory and European Modernism (Princeton University Press, 1993) and the editor, with Wayne J. Froman, of Dramas of Culture: Theory, History, Performance (Lexington Books, 2008). He is the past editor of The Comparatist and of Recherche littéraire / Literary Research, the journal of the International Comparative Literature Association.Trade ReviewTransnational Tolstoy is a welcome and groundbreaking addition to Tolstoy studies, and to the transnational reading of Russian literature generally … In this rewarding volume, John Burt Foster has updated and extended the exhausted genres of ‘Tolstoy and the West’ and ‘Tolstoy and World Literature.’ … Transnational Tolstoy provokes consideration … and plays an exemplary role in opening Tolstoy’s complex position ‘between the west and the world’ to new and productive approaches. -- William Nickell, University of Chicago * Slavic and East European Journal *Transnational Tolstoy is unlike any other current work on Tolstoi today. It provides a refreshing and thought-provoking look at one of the major figures of Russian literature and the dialogues he inspired and initiated around the globe. -- Justin Weir, Harvard University * Slavic Review *Foster ... clearly has a gift for condensing his arguments into self-contained, well-expressed units. He also writes with a stylistic finesse and an apparent aversion to generating critical antipathy; his focus is always on saying things as well and persuasively as possible. Judging by his wide cultural knowledge, refined style, and pleasing attitude, he could have been a diplomat. * Cambridge Quarterly Review *Foster's book is a laudable venture into a new critical method of reading great fiction transnationally ... [He] works with splendid erudition and ingenuity ... [to provide] a refreshing and welcome method of reading and understanding Tolstoi. * Modern Language Review *Transnational Tolstoy is a tour de force of old-fashioned comparative literature, taking in, as it does, such a wide selection of authors from such a wide selection of cultures and nations. * The European Legacy *Foster's engaging study makes a crucial point: that, far from being a monologist or solipsist or hegemonic universalist, Tolstoi developed an ever more nuanced recognition of the incredibly complex interplay of different influences on which any cultural product must depend . . . To have returned this magnificently plural Tolstoi to us, as Foster has in lucid and mercifully jargon-free prose, is a substantial achievement. -- Jeff Love, Clemson University, US * Slavonic and East European Review *I immensely enjoyed reading John Burt Foster's Transnational Tolstoy, a monumental work that puts Tolstoy at the very heart of world literature, relating his work, and especially War and Peace, Anna Karenina and Hadji Murad, to that of immediate predecessors such as Stendhal, contemporaries like Flaubert, and successors including Malraux and Lampedusa, Premchand and Mahfouz. Fully informed by the most recent thinking on comparative and world literature, yet always wearing its learning lightly, Transnational Tolstoy stands as a guide and an inspiration for literary scholars worldwide. -- Theo D'haen, Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of Leuven, Belgium, and author of The Routledge Concise History of World LiteratureIn Transnational Tolstoy: Between the West and the World John Burt Foster, Jr., offers a new framework for reading the works of Lev Tolstoy. Often viewed as one of the pillars of 'western' literature, Tolstoy’s works now receive a thorough consideration from a fresh perspective, defining Tolstoy’s art through the concepts of 'transnational' writing and 'global' literature. Foster uses these concepts effectively to open up intriguing sides of Tolstoy’s art and to encourage readers to think differently about Tolstoy. Foster probes the middle-aged and aged Tolstoy’s views of himself as non-Western. Finally, he investigates the ways in which twentieth-century non-Western writers of various stylistic bents—modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial; imagist and magical realist—have engaged with Tolstoy’s art. The result is a stimulating read for literary scholars and the educated public alike. -- Edith W. Clowes, Brown-Forman Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia, USA, and author of Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet IdentityTransnational Tolstoy is a consistently illuminating and lucidly written examination of Tolstoy as a central figure in the fluid movement of culture around the world. More broadly, this wonderful book is also a methodologically innovative, provocative, and inspiring example of how to conduct literary study in the twenty-first century. -- Vladimir Alexandrov, B. E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Director of Graduate Studies, Yale University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Transnational Tolstoy and the New Comparatism Part One: Facing West 1. "Occidentalism" in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Culture Shock on European Visits 2. Vengeance is Mine: Anna Karenina and Stendhal's Italy 3. Napoleonic Anniversaries: War and Peace and Flaubert's Sentimental Education 4. From Worldliness to World Literature: Tolstoy between Goethe and Proust Part Two: Outside the Soviet Canon 5. Realism as Imagism: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and Modernist Fiction 6. Toxic Nationalism: From Tolstoy and Stendhal to Malraux and Lampedusa 7. Felt History: From Anna Karenina to Magical Realism Part Three: Into the World 8. What is Art?, Hadji Murad, and World Literature 9. Dialogues with Tolstoy: Premchand and Mahfouz 10. "Show Me the Zulu Tolstoy": Who Owns War and Peace? 11. Postcoloniality and Islamic Identity in Hadji Murad Conclusion: Between the West and the World Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together three short novels that reveal the diversity of Galt's creative abilities. They cast light on significant phases of Galt's career as a writer and reveal his versatility in experimenting with themes, genres and styles.

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Book SynopsisReturning to the range of historical fiction written before Scott, Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical novels written in the late eighteenth-century. It explores how these works participated in a contentious debate concerning political change and British national identity.

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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.

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Book SynopsisFifteen enlightening chapters by leading international biographers, critics and poets examine letter writing among poets in the last two hundred years. They range from Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley in the nineteenth-century to Eliot, Yeats, Bishop and Larkin in the twentieth.

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Book SynopsisSelf-Harm in New Woman Writing offers a trans-disciplinary study of Victorian literature, culture and medicine through engagement with the recurrent trope of self-harm in writing by and about the British New Woman.

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Book SynopsisWithout a consideration of periodical poetry, Victorian poetry studies is quite simply anachronistic

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Book SynopsisDickens and Demolition' examines how tropes, characters, or extracts from Dickens' fiction were repurposed as a portable terminology in arguments for large-scale demolition and redevelopment projects in London during his lifetime.

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Book SynopsisThe Dissolution of Character in Late Romanticism' studies texts written by contemporary poets, novelists, essayists, journalists, philosophers, phrenologists, sociologists, gossip-mongers and anonymous correspondents.

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Book SynopsisBeginning with Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), this study positions feminine genres such as the Gothic romance and Bluestocking poetry, usually seen as outliers in a masculine Age of Reason, as essential to understanding emotion's role in Enlightenment narratives of progress.

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Book SynopsisThis landmark study explores replication as a nineteenth-century phenomenon. Replication, defined by Victorian artists as subsequent versions of a first version, similar but changed, occurred in art, literature, the press, merchandising, and historical reproductions in architecture and museums.

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Book SynopsisThis new Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture

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Book SynopsisBritish India and Victorian Culture extends current scholarship on the Victorian period with a wide-ranging and innovative analysis of the literature of British India.

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Book SynopsisThe first monograph to trace the Pacific islands as represented through the lens of British fiction and non-fiction across the long nineteenth century.

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Book SynopsisEngaging with the critical frameworks of cultural geography, cartography, and the burgeoning field of oceanic studies 'Radical Romantics 'reformulates theories of colonization and empire in the Romantic period.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers detailed discussions of the background to thirteen major little magazines of the Victorian era, both situating these within the periodical press of their day and providing interpretations of representative items.

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Book SynopsisTwo hundred years after the massacre of protestors in Manchester, known as Peterloo, distinguished scholars of Romantic-era literature join together in this commemorative volume to assess the implications of the violence.

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Book SynopsisTwo hundred years after the massacre of protestors in Manchester, known as Peterloo, distinguished scholars of Romantic-era literature join together in this commemorative volume to assess the implications of the violence.

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Book SynopsisThe Victorian Male Body' examines some of the main expressions and practices of Victorian masculinity and its embodied physicality.

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Book SynopsisThe Victorian Male Body examines some of the main expressions and practices of Victorian masculinity and its embodied physicality.

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Book SynopsisAt 250, Walter Scott points toward our possible futures.

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Book SynopsisVictorian Liberalism and Material Culture' assesses the unexplored links between Victorian material culture and political theory.

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Book SynopsisThis study explores lyric poetry's response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian Modernity, offering an analysis of literature usually elided by studies of the modern formation of the genre and uncovering previously unrecognized discourses within it.

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Book SynopsisLiterature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press' investigates how periodicals cultivated innovative literary forms, ideologies and discourses that reflected and shaped medical culture of Romantic-era Scotland.

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Book SynopsisAmerican Travel Literature' analyses US tourist writings about Italy from 1824 to 1862 to explain what roles transatlantic travel, aesthetic response, and the genre of tourist writing played in the formation of the United States.

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Book SynopsisAmerican Travel Literature analyses US tourist writings about Italy from 1824 to 1862 to explain what roles transatlantic travel, aesthetic response, and the genre of tourist writing played in the formation of the United States.

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Book SynopsisPresents 35 thematically organised, research-led essays on women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain.

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Book SynopsisThis book reveals a distinct but comparable concern with cultural defence and revivalism in fin-de-siecle Scotland, evident in the work of a number of writers and artists including Robert Louis Stevenson, Patrick Geddes, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Mona Caird, John Duncan and various contributors to The Evergreen.

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Book SynopsisThis volume' 'examines the cultural importance of the coastline in Britain during a time of vast change.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores Tennyson's poetic relationship with Wordsworth through a close analysis of Tennyson's borrowing of the earlier poet's words and phrases, an approach that positions Wordsworth in Tennyson's poetry in a more centralised way than previously recognised.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores Tennyson's poetic relationship with Wordsworth through a close analysis of Tennyson's borrowing of the earlier poet's words and phrases, an approach that positions Wordsworth in Tennyson's poetry in a more centralised way than previously recognised.

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Book SynopsisUsing close readings from 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Mrs Dalloway', 'Emma', 'The Waves', 'Persuasion' and 'The Years', this bookdemonstrates the materialist sensibilities of Austen and Woolf.

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