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Philipp Reclam Jun Verlag GmbH Iphigenie auf Tauris
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Aschendorff Verlag Und Schier Zerflossen Raum Und Zeit.
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Harrassowitz Verlag Viele herrliche Früchte reifen im fernen Süden
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Romantik: Eine Einfuhrung
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Theorie Der Ironie
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Brill I Schoeningh The Flavour of the Road
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Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht Bürgerliches Leben zwischen literarischem Markt und christlicher Norm
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Brill I Fink Der Preis der Gleichgültigkeit
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Thorbecke Vormarzliche Verleger Zwischen Zensur, Buchmarkt
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Universitatsverlag Winter Mallarme - Der Wurfelwurf
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Universitatsverlag Winter Die Justiz Auf Der Buhne: Heinrich Von Kleists
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Universitätsverlag Winter Gescheiteter Kolumbus
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Ergon Verlag Uber Ruckert: Einen Der Liebenswertesten Unter
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Editon Synapse Recollections & Further Recollections of a Happy
Book SynopsisToday Marianne North is remembered for the gallery in Kew Garden named after her. Alongside Isabella Bird, she was the most popular and well-known lady-traveller in nineteenth-century England. She travelled to all parts of the world and left numerous botanical drawings. Unlike Isabella Bird, however, she did not leave any travel records and only the three volumes reprinted here are the textual source of her travelling. Compiled by her sister, these volumes are more like a chronological history of Marianne North’s travelling than a biography and provide indispensable material for those studying Victorian lady-travellers.Table of ContentsVolumes I–II Recollections of a Happy Life: Being the Autobiography of Marianne North Mrs John Addington Symonds Early Days and Home Life. Canada and United States. Jamaica. Brazil. Teneriffe-California-Japan-Singapore. Borneo and Java. Ceylon and Home. India. Hill Places in India. Rajputana. Second Visit at Borneo-Queensland-New South Wales. Western Australia-Tasmania-New Zealand. South Africa. Seychelles Islands. Chilli. Volume III Further Recollections of a Happy Life, selected from the Journals of Marianne North, 1859–1869 Mrs John Addington Symonds In the Pyrenees and Spain. Switzerland-Italy-Trieste-Pola-Fiume. Adriatic and Syria. Egypt. Palestine and Syria. In the Dolomite Alps, Australia. Mentone and Sicily. Syracuse and its Neighbourhood—Taormina, Monte Generoso, and Trafoi.
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Editon Synapse Nineteenth-Century Shakespeare Burlesques
Book SynopsisThis five-volume collection contains 32 English and American burlesques of Shakespeare dating from the 19th century. Detailed introductions for each volume give the essential background to the topic, and new foreword provides a concise survey of subsequent scholarship and criticism to date.Table of ContentsVolume I: John Poole and his Imitators Preface & Introduction Hamlet Travestie, in Three Acts with Annotations Romeo and Juliet Travesty, in Three Acts Richard III Travesties, in Three Acts, with Annotations King Richard III Travesties, A Burlesque, Operatic, Mock Terrific Tragedy, in Two Acts Volume II: Maurice Dowling (1834) to Charles Beckington (1847) Introduction Othello Travestie / Romeo and Juliet: ‘As the Law Directs’ King John (with the Benefit of the Act) Macbeth Modernised, A Most Illegitimate Drama Rummio and Juddy; or, Oh, This Love! This Love! This Love! King Richard Ye Third Hamlet the Dane; A Burlesque Burletta Volume III: The High Period: Francis Talfourd (1849) to Andrew Halliday (1859) Introduction Macbeth, Somewhat removed from the Text of Shakespeare Additional Songs and Choruses for Talfourd’s Macbeth Hamlet Travestie Shylock or The Merchant of Venice Preserved Perdita or the Royal Milkmaid, being The Legend upon which Shakespeare is supposed to have founded his Winter’s Tale Romeo and Juliet Buresque; or, The Cup of Cold Poison Volume IV: The Fourth Phase: F. C. Burnand, W. S. Gilbert and others (1860-1882) Introduction Julius Caesar Travestie A Thin Slice of Ham Let!! Antony and Cleopatra; or His-tory and Her-story in a Modern Nilo-metre The Rise and Fall of Richard III Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, A Tragic Episode Orlando Ye Brave and Ye Fayre Rosalynd; Or ‘As You Lump Hamlet, or Not Such a Fool as He Looks Volume V: American Shakespeare Travesties (1852-1888) Introduction Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, An Old Play in a New Garb Ye Comedie of Errours, Glorious, Uproarous Burlesque, Not Indecorous nor Censorous, with Many a Chorus, Warranted not to Bore us, now for the First Time Set Before Us Much Ado About a Merchant of Venice, from the Original Text – A Long Way Hamlet the Dainty, An Ethiopian Burlesque on Shakespeare’s Hamlet Othello; A Burlesque, as performed by Griffin and Christy’s Minstrels Hamlet Revamped, Modernized and Set to Music, A Travesty Without a Pun! Katharine: A Travesty
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Editon Synapse Oda: Lake District Tours (6-vol. set)
Book SynopsisThe Lake District—famous for its association with the Romantic poets—became a very popular destination for travellers towards the end of the eighteenth century, part of a growing trend of making picturesque tours during which nature was viewed with an emphasis on its spiritual qualities. During this period a variety of tourist guides, including Wordsworth’s successful Guide to the Lakes, were published.This is the very first collection of such travel guides to the Lake District and eight important titles are reprinted here in a facsimile edition. Together with many pictures and maps (some in colour) they represent vividly how the Lakes were perceived by contemporary English visitors. The collection will be welcomed as an important primary source for the study of English literature and history for the period spanning the end of the eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.Table of ContentsVolume 1Hutchinson, William.An Excursion to the Lakes, in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August 1773.1st Edition, 1774. 193 pp.West, Thomas.A Guide to the Lakes.1st Edition, 1778. 204 pp.Volume 2Budworth, Joseph.A Fortnight’s Ramble to the Lakes in Westmoreland, Lancashire and Cumberland.1st Edition, 1792. xxvii, 267 pp.Volume 3Housman, John.A Topographical Description of Cumberland, Westmoreland, Lancashire.1st Edition, 1800. xii, 536 pp.VolumeS 4 and 5Green, William.The Tourist’s New Guide, containing a description of the lakes, mountains, and scenery, in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire,…being the result of observations made during a residence of eighteen years in Ambleside and Keswick.1st Edition, 1819. xi,vii, 463 pp. / x, 507 ppVolume 6Wilkinson, Joseph and William Wordsworth.Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire.1st Edition, 1810. xxxiv, 46 pp. plus 48 plates.Otley, Jonathan.A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited; with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district.2nd Edition, 1825. 141 pp.Baines, Edward.A Companion to the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire; in a descriptive account of a family tour, and an excursion on horseback…with a new, copious, and correct itinerary.2nd Edition, 1830. vii, 312 pp.
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Editon Synapse The Morte Darthur:A Collection of
Book SynopsisThis is a 7 volume facsimile reprint collection of three important but ‘difficult to find’ editions of The Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory, two published in 1816, one in 1817. The three editions marked the revival of Medievalism in the Romantic era, and played an important role for the Romantic poets to ‘discover’ the richness of the medieval literature which was followed by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in the middle of the century.The edition in volumes 1-2 was the landmark of this literary movement. The Morte Darthur was published for the first time in nearly two centuries since William Stansby’s 1634 edition. They were small pocket size books (enlarged by 140% in this facsimile) and very popular among literary figures as such John Keats, William Wordsworth and Leigh Hunt.Volumes 3-5 include another pocket book edition (also enlarged by 140% in this collection) originally published in the same year, 1634, and particularly valuable as an example of a ‘bowdlerized’ edition of Thomas Malory’s text. It is known that Alfred Tennyson learned of The Morte Darthur from this book.The edition in volumes 6-7 (reprinted in the original quarto size) is the first Malory text scholarly edited, and is considered to be the most important contribution to the academic publishing history of The Morte Darthur. Based on William Caxton’s edition of 1485, the editor Robert Southey added a long introduction and detailed annotations which provided the medievalist with a valuable source for research. It also influenced such Pre-Raphaelists as William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones.Accompanied with a new bibliographic study in English by Yuri Fuwa, this facsimile collection of the three different editions of The Morte Darthur which are all rare in the antiquarian book market, should be in any academic libraries with courses of English literature. Table of ContentsVolume 1-2: (c. 1010 pp.) The History of the Renowned Prince Arthur of Britain; with his Life and Death, and All His Glorious Battles. Likewise, the Noble Acts and Heroic Deeds of his Valiant Knights of the Round Table, in two volumesLondon: Printed for Walker and Edwards; J.Richardson; F.C. and J. Rivington; J. Nunn; Law and Whittaker; Newman and Co.; Lackington and Co.; Longman, Hurst, Rees,Orme, and Brown; Cadell and Davies; Black and Co.; Sherwood, Neely, and Jones; R.Scholey; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; Gale and Fenner; J. Asperne; J. Robinson; and B. Reynolds. 1816.Preliminary Remarks on the Origin of the Following Romance, pp. v-viii.Preface, or Advertisement to the Reader, for the Better Illustration and Understanding of the Famous History, pp. ix-xviPreface of William Caxton, to the Christian Reader, pp. xvi. Contents, pp. xvii-xxxiiVolume 3-5, (c. 1,200 pp.)La Mort D’Arthur. The Most Ancient and Famous History of the Renowned Prince Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. By Sir Thos Malory, Knt. London. Printed & Published by R. Wilks, 89, Chancery Lane; Sold also by Simpkin & Marshall, Stationers Court, Ludgate Hill; and all other Booksellers: 1816.The Preface of William Caxton, to the Christian Reader, p. iii. The Prologue of William Caxton, pp. iv-vii. The Original Preface or Advertisement, to the Reader, for the Better Illustration and Understanding of the Famous History. pp. viii-xii.The Contents and Chapters of Part 1, pp.xiii-xxiv.Advertisement, Containing Some Account of the Respective Editions of Prince Arthur, pp. i-vi.Volume 6-7: (c. 995 pp.）The Byrth, Lyf and Actes of Kyng Arthur; of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table, Theyr Merveyllous Enquestes and Aduentures, Thachyeuyng of the Sanc Greal; and in the End le Morte Darthur, with the Dolorous Deth and Departyng Out of Thys Worlde of Them All. With an Introduction and Notes by Robert Southey, esq. London: Printed from Caxton’s Edition, 1485, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars, 1817.Preface, pp. i- xxxii. Notes to the Preface, pp. xxxiii-lxiii.
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Bloomsbury India Time, Doubt and Wonder in the Humanities: Between
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Oxford University Press The Life and Travels of Xavier Marmier 18081892
Book SynopsisThis is the first critical biography of Xavier Marmier. The celebrity of Marmier was such that his death made headline news in most major newspapers in France. Marmier made his reputation as a traveller, travel writer, translator, literary critic, comparatist, journalist, novelist, poet, lecturer, linguist, ethnologist, social historian, and latterly as an outspoken member of the Académie française. His work had a great deal of influence, both direct and indirect, on literary and intellectual developments in France, and also had a significant impact in a number of the countries he visited. Although his name still figures in studies of comparative literature or the history of travel writing, his innovations have gradually been eclipsed by his successors in various fields, resulting in the neglect of his overall achievements. Marmier''s numerous and diverse achievements are assessed here for the first time in their intellectual and historical context, and within the framework of his coloTrade ReviewWendy S. Mercer's biography of Xavier Marmier is in many respects a remarkable piece of work. Remarkable indeed for the quality and extent of the research undertaken in order to produce what is and will certainly remain the most comprehensive account of Marmier's life and publications. Remarkable also for the clarity and straightforwardness of Mercer's style and presentation which make her book very enjoyable to read ... But what makes Mercer's book remarkable in the first place is its subject: the incredibly rich and interesting life of Xavier Marmier. * Loic P. Guyon, Studies in Travel Writing *
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Oxford University Press French Novels and the Victorians
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The University of Chicago Press Sideshow U.S.A. Freaks and the American Cultural
Book SynopsisA staple of American popular culture during the 19th and early 20th centuries, the freak show seemed to vanish after World War II. However, as this book reveals, images of the freak show, with its combination of the grotesque, horrific and amusing, stubbornly reappeared in literature and the arts.
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The University of Chicago Press The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive assessment of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's complicated feminism by exploring the renowned writer's theories of sexuality and evolutionary analyses of androcentric, or male-dominated, culture.
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The University of Chicago Press The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive assessment of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's complicated feminism by exploring the renowned writer's theories of sexuality and evolutionary analyses of androcentric, or male-dominated, culture.
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The University of Chicago Press Forbidden Journeys Fairy Tales and Fantasies by
Book SynopsisA collection of eleven fairy tales by Victorian women.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Refashioning Fairy Tales The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Anne Thackeray Ritchie Beauty and the Beast, Anne Thackeray Ritchie The Brown Bull of Norrowa, Maria Louisa Molesworth Amelia and the Dwarfs, Juliana Horathia Ewing Part Two: Subversions Nick, Christina Rossetti Christmas Crackers, Julian Horathia Ewing Behind the White Brick, Frances Hodgson Burnett Melisande, or, Long and Short Division, E. Nesbit Fortunatus Rex & Co., E. Nesbit Part Three: A Fantasy Novel Mopsa the Fairy, Jean Ingelow Part Four: A Trio of Antifantasies Speaking Likenesses, Christina Rossetti Biographical Sketches Further Readings
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The University of Chicago Press Alice in Space The Sideways Victorian World of
Book SynopsisIn Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to delight and trouble readers of all ages today. What is often overlooked, however, is that Carroll conceived his Alice books during the 1860s, a moment of intense intellectual upheaval, as new scientific, linguistic, educational, and mathematical ideas flourished around him, in Oxford, and far beyond. Alice in Space reveals the contexts within which the Alice books first lived, bringing back the zest to jokes lost over time and poignancy to hidden references. Gillian Beer explores Carroll's work through the speculative gaze of Alice, for whom no authority is unquestioned and everything can speak. Parody and Punch, evolutionary debates, philosophical dialogues, educational works for children, math and logic, manners and rituals, dream theory and childhood studies all fueled the fireworks. While much has been written about Carroll's biography and his influence on ch
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The University of Chicago Press Interpreting the Self Two Hundred Years of
Book SynopsisIn this study, Diane Bjorklund explores the historical nature of self-narrative. Examining over 100 American autobiographies, she discusses not only well-known ones such as Mark Twain, but obscure ones such as a minstrel and a hoopskirt wire manufacturer.
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The University of Chicago Press In Praise of Antiheroes Figures Themes in
Book SynopsisThrough critical readings of key works of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero - the antihero - has arisen to replace the toppled heroic model. The works of Buchner, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Svevo, Hasek, Frisch, Camus and Levi are examined.
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The University of Chicago Press Disowned by Memory
Book SynopsisThe author connects the accidents of the poet Wordsworth's life with the originality of his works, tracking the impulses that turned him to poetry after the death of his parents and during his years as an enthusiastic disciple of the French Revolution. Bromwich argues that his political idealism deeply motivated his writings of the 1790s.
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The University of Chicago Press Things A Critical Inquiry Book
Book SynopsisThis book is an invitation to think about why children chew pencils; why we talk to our cars, our refrigerators, our computers; rosary beads and worry beads; Cuban cigars; why we no longer wear hats that we can tip to one another and why we don't seem to long to; and what has been described as bourgcois longing.
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The University of Chicago Press Thinking in Henry James
Book SynopsisThinking in Henry James identifies what is genuinely strange and radical about James's concept of consciousnessfirst, the idea that it may not always be situated within this or that person but rather exists outside or between, in some transpersonal place; and second, the idea that consciousness may have power over things and people outside the person who thinks. Examining these and other counterintuitive representations of consciousness, Cameron asks, How do we make sense of these conceptions of thinking?
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The University of Chicago Press Choosing Not Choosing
Book SynopsisAlthough Emily Dickinson copied and bound her poems into manuscript notebooks, in the century since her death her poems have been read as single lyrics with little or no regard for the context she created for them in her fascicles. Choosing Not Choosing is the first book-length consideration of the poems in their manuscript context. Sharon Cameron demonstrates that to read the poems with attention to their placement in the fascicles is to observe scenes and subjects unfolding between and among poems rather than to think of them as isolated riddles, enigmatic in both syntax and reference. Thus Choosing Not Choosing illustrates that the contextual sense of Dickinson is not the canonical sense of Dickinson. Considering the poems in the context of the fascicles, Cameron argues that an essential refusal of choice pervades all aspects of Dickinson's poetry. Because Dickinson never chose whether she wanted her poems read as single lyrics or in sequence (nor is it clear where any fascicle text
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The University of Chicago Press Bound Determined Captivity CultureCrossing
Book SynopsisThis work, covering a period of three centuries, analyzes the narratives of American women that were written whilst being held prisoner by a variety of different captors. It explores the relevance of such narrative for critical investigation into the construction of gender, race and nation.
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The University of Chicago Press Wordsworths Second Nature A Study of the Poetry
Book SynopsisWordsworth is England's greatest poet of the French Revolution: he witnessed some of its events first hand, participated in its intellectual and social ambitions, and eventually developed his celebrated poetic campaign in response to its enthusiasms. But how should that response be understood? Combining careful interpretive analysis with wide-ranging historical scholarship, Chandler presents a challenging new account of the political views implicit in Wordsworth's major worksin The Prelude, above all, but also in the central lyrics and shorter narrative poems. Central to the discussion, which restores Wordsworth to both the French and English contexts in which he matured, is a consideration of his relation to Rousseau and Burke. Chandler maintains that by the time Wordsworth set forth his program for poetry in 1798, he had turned away from the Rousseauist idea of nature that had informed his early republican writings. He had already become a poet of what Burke called second naturehum
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The University of Chicago Press England in 1819
Book SynopsisThe year 1819 in England was notable for the quality, value and topicality of its literature, while parliamentary and political reforms were widely demanded, especially by Romantic writers. This book argues that the writing demonstrates an awareness of its place both in history, and as history.
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The University of Chicago Press Jane Austens Cults and Cultures
Book SynopsisShows how Jane Austen became Jane Austen. The author begins by exploring the most important monuments and portraits of Austen, then passes through the four critical phases of Austen's reception - the Victorian era, the First and Second World Wars, and the establishment of the Austen House and Museum in 1949.Trade Review"Johnson's book makes sense, directly and indirectly, of the factual-fiction impulse behind novels like Pattillo's Jane Austen Ruined My Life, telling the fascinating story of how the mystique of Austen was gradually created, maintained, and spun out in unpredictable ways in the years after her death in 1817. Johnson unearths both the many-sided truths and the wide-ranging implications of our false fantasies of Austen, drawing conclusions from evidence ranging from portraits and memorials to fairy tales and relics." (Los Angeles Review of Books) "Johnson's prose is lively and witty.... Her writing is infused with nuanced appreciation of Austen's sophisticated art." (Times Literary Supplement) "Even the most devoted Janeite will learn much from this delightful book.... Essential." (Choice)"
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The University of Chicago Press Jane Austens Names Riddles Persons Places
Book SynopsisIn Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose itself. The author offers a comprehensive study of all the names of people and places - real and imaginary. It offers a fresh understanding of Austen's technique of creative anachronism.Trade Review"A brilliant, provocative, and important book. Doody has marshaled a truly unprecedented array of narrative material regarding names, places, and plotting culled from a dazzlingly expansive reading of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novels-as well as books on aesthetics, local history, and the English countryside. The result is a uniquely illuminating and enjoyable book that teaches us to think about Austen's artistry in a undamentally new way." (Claudia L. Johnson, uthor of Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures)Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments A Note on Texts Part I. England Chapter 1. Words, Names, Persons, and Places Chapter 2. Names as History: Invasion, Migration, War, and Conflict Chapter 3. Civil War, Ruins, and the Conscience of the Rich Part II. Names Chapter 4. Naming People: First Names, Nicknames, Titles, and Rank Chapter 5. Titles, Status, and Surnames: Austen's Great Surname Matrix Chapter 6. Personal Names (First Names and Surnames) in the "Steventon" Novels Chapter 7. Personal Names in the "Chawton" Novels Part III. Places Chapter 8. Humans Making and Naming a Landscape Chapter 9. Placing the Places Chapter 10. Counties, Towns, Villages, Estates: Real and Imaginary Places in the "Steventon" Novels Chapter 11. Real and Imaginary Places in the "Chawton" Novels Conclusion Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Catos Tears and the Making of AngloAmerican
Book SynopsisHow did the public expression of feeling become central to political culture in England and the United States? This revisionist account of a much expanded "Age of Sensibility" traces the evolution of the politics of emotion on both sides of the Atlantic, from the late-17th to early-19th century.
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The University of Chicago Press Modes of Production of Victorian Novels
Book SynopsisIn this sophisticated application of modern Marxist thought, N. N. Feltes demonstrates the determining influence of nineteenth-century publishing practices on the Victorian novel. His dialectical analysis leads to a comprehensive explanation of the development of capitalist novel production into the twentieth century. Feltes focuses on five English novels: Dickens's Pickwick Papers, Thackeray's Henry Esmond, Eliot's Middlemarch, Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Forster's Howards End. Published at approximately twenty year intervals between 1836 and 1920, they each represent a different first-publication format: part-issue, three-volume, bimonthly, magazine-serial, and single-volume. Drawing on publishing, economic, and literary history, Feltes offers a broad, synthetic explanation of the relationship between the production and format of each novel, and the way in which these determine, in the last instance, the ideology of the text. Modes of Production in Victorian Novels provide
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The University of Chicago Press The Ideas in Things
Book SynopsisExplores apparently inconsequential objects in popular Victorian texts to make contact with their fugitive meanings. Developing an innovative approach to analyzing nineteenth-century fiction, this title reconnects the things readers unwittingly ignore to the stories they tell.Trade Review"Ultimately, what Freedgood generates is far more than a new set of readings of key Victorian texts. In her important project of recuperating the meaning of things, Freedgood demonstrates the considerable delights and rewards of literal-mindedness." - Victorian Studies"
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University of Chicago Press The Ideas in Things
Book SynopsisExplores apparently inconsequential objects in popular Victorian texts to make contact with their fugitive meanings. Developing an innovative approach to analyzing nineteenth-century fiction, this title reconnects the things readers unwittingly ignore to the stories they tell.Trade Review"Ultimately, what Freedgood generates is far more than a new set of readings of key Victorian texts. In her important project of recuperating the meaning of things, Freedgood demonstrates the considerable delights and rewards of literal-mindedness." - Victorian Studies"
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The University of Chicago Press Romantic Things
Book SynopsisOur thoughts are shaped as much by what things make of us as by what we make of them. The author explores the world of objects and phenomena in nature as expressed in romantic poetry alongside the theme of sentience and sensory deprivation in literature and art. She discusses about objects and attributes that test our perceptions.Trade Review"This richly wide-ranging meditation on the lyrical mode and its representation of things reflects on the relationship between sensate and insensate forms, the emotive and poetic, philosophy and poetry, and literature and visual culture....Poignantly reminds us of the importance of the poetic act in seeing things anew." (European Romantic Review)
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The University of Chicago Press Seems Like Murder Here Southern Violence and the
Book SynopsisBlues recording artist and critic Adam Gussow begins his story in the 1890s, when the spectacle lynching of blacks became an insidious part of Southern life. Gussow identifies veiled references to real life incidents of these lynchings within the words of Blues songs and literature.Trade Review"Beneath the effusive and effervescent tone of Mister Satan's Apprentice lie gnawing questions of race and identity, of cultural imperialism and human connection. And precisely because Gussow stays close to his story, with all its eccentricity and youthful abandon, he arrives at a kind of profundity that eludes [most] commentators." - Samuel G. Freedman, Washington Post Book World
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University of Chicago Press Billy Budd Sailor
Book SynopsisThis is an accurate version of Melville's final novel. Based on a close analysis of the manuscript, thoroughly annotated and packaged with history of the text and perspectives for its criticism.
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The University of Chicago Press Victorian Relativity Radical Thought and
Book SynopsisThis text challenges the assumptions that the theory of relativity in physics sprang in its essence from the genius of Albert Einstein, and that scientific relativity is unconnected to ethical, cultural or epistemological relativisms.
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The University of Chicago Press Culture and Anomie Ethnographic Imagination in
Book SynopsisFew ideas are as important and pervasive in the discourse of the twentieth century as the idea of culture. Yet culture, Christopher Herbert contends, is an idea laden from its inception with ambiguity and contradiction. In Culture and Anomie, Christopher Herbert conducts an inquiry into the historical emergence of the modern idea of culture that is at the same time an extended critical analysis of the perplexities and suppressed associations underlying our own exploitation of this term. Making wide reference to twentieth-century anthropologists from Malinowski and Benedict to Evans-Pritchard, Geertz, and Lévi-Strauss as well as to nineteenth-century social theorists like Tylor, Spencer, Mill, and Arnold, Herbert stresses the philosophically dubious, unstable character that has clung to the culture idea and embarrassed its exponents even as it was developing into a central principle of interpretation. In a series of detailed studies ranging from political economy to missionary ethnograp
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The University of Chicago Press Royal Representations Queen Victoria British
Book SynopsisExamining Queen Victoria's own contributions to Victorian writing and art, this text looks at the cultural mechanisms through which her influence was felt. It explores the variability of Victoria's agency and of its representations using a wide array of literary, historical and visual sources.
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The University of Chicago Press Jane Austen Women Politics and the Novel
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The University of Chicago Press Equivocal Beings Politics Gender and
Book SynopsisFocusing on the work of Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney and Jane Austen, this book examines the relationships between politics, gender and feeling. It treats the qualities that were once seen to mar their work as strategies of representation during a time of political change.
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