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

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Book SynopsisKawai Koume (1804–1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking samurai family in a provincial castle town. Through her eyes and words, Simon Partner opens a window on social, economic, and cultural life amid some of the most dramatic periods of Japan’s transformative nineteenth century.Trade ReviewSimon Partner’s latest biography offers a fresh look at nineteenth-century Japan through the diary of a Wakayama artist. In elegant prose, Koume’s World reconstructs how this prolific painter gained the respect of her castle-town community and helped steer her family’s fortunes through tumultuous times. A valuable addition to the slim shelf of English-language volumes on Tokugawa women's lives. -- Kären Wigen, Stanford UniversitySimon Partner’s Koume’s World is a tremendously interesting account of the daily life of a samurai woman based on her detailed diary about how she took care of her household, engaged in painting and poetry, and observed her world. Partner employs many other sources to present an uncommonly sensitive view of regional urban society, in this case the understudied and fascinating city of Wakayama, which he reveals in its normal rhythms and the riveting drama pervading the collapse of the Tokugawa regime and the dynamic society of the early Meiji era. -- Luke Roberts, University of California, Santa BarbaraSimon Partner’s wonderfully engaging Koume’s World is chockablock with surprising details about the uncertain fortunes of a poor but respectable samurai family during a time of unprecedented change. Based on the matriarch’s diary, this book opens a window onto the travails of samurai in real life in mid-nineteenth-century Japan. -- David L. Howell, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsKawai Family TreeMonetary ValuesChronologyIntroduction1. Growing Up in Kishū Domain2. A Year of Calamities3. In the Shadow of the Black Ships4. Work and Family5. War and Revolution6. The Artist’s Life7. Across the DivideConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisKawai Koume (1804–1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking samurai family in a provincial castle town. Through her eyes and words, Simon Partner opens a window on social, economic, and cultural life amid some of the most dramatic periods of Japan’s transformative nineteenth century.Trade ReviewSimon Partner’s latest biography offers a fresh look at nineteenth-century Japan through the diary of a Wakayama artist. In elegant prose, Koume’s World reconstructs how this prolific painter gained the respect of her castle-town community and helped steer her family’s fortunes through tumultuous times. A valuable addition to the slim shelf of English-language volumes on Tokugawa women's lives. -- Kären Wigen, Stanford UniversitySimon Partner’s Koume’s World is a tremendously interesting account of the daily life of a samurai woman based on her detailed diary about how she took care of her household, engaged in painting and poetry, and observed her world. Partner employs many other sources to present an uncommonly sensitive view of regional urban society, in this case the understudied and fascinating city of Wakayama, which he reveals in its normal rhythms and the riveting drama pervading the collapse of the Tokugawa regime and the dynamic society of the early Meiji era. -- Luke Roberts, University of California, Santa BarbaraSimon Partner’s wonderfully engaging Koume’s World is chockablock with surprising details about the uncertain fortunes of a poor but respectable samurai family during a time of unprecedented change. Based on the matriarch’s diary, this book opens a window onto the travails of samurai in real life in mid-nineteenth-century Japan. -- David L. Howell, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsKawai Family TreeMonetary ValuesChronologyIntroduction1. Growing Up in Kishū Domain2. A Year of Calamities3. In the Shadow of the Black Ships4. Work and Family5. War and Revolution6. The Artist’s Life7. Across the DivideConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Accessible, timely, and practical." --Legacy"Relevant not only to practitioners and theorists of digital humanities but also to students and scholars of 19th-century American literature. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice"In this compelling collection of essays, Travis and DeSpain explore the many ways in which digital humanities scholarship is remaking the pedagogy of nineteenth-century American literature. Teaching with Digital Humanities highlights the virtues of estrangement--how we can better see books, manuscripts, and newspapers once they've been tagged, aggregated, or otherwise reconfigured. Both the material forms of texts and the contents they convey are ripe for fresh analysis in a digital environment. This book is an invaluable guide to teaching within a new horizon of possibility introduced by digital methods."--Kenneth M. Price, coeditor of The Walt Whitman Archive

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Accessible, timely, and practical." --Legacy "Relevant not only to practitioners and theorists of digital humanities but also to students and scholars of 19th-century American literature. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice "In this compelling collection of essays, Travis and DeSpain explore the many ways in which digital humanities scholarship is remaking the pedagogy of nineteenth-century American literature. Teaching with Digital Humanities highlights the virtues of estrangement--how we can better see books, manuscripts, and newspapers once they've been tagged, aggregated, or otherwise reconfigured. Both the material forms of texts and the contents they convey are ripe for fresh analysis in a digital environment. This book is an invaluable guide to teaching within a new horizon of possibility introduced by digital methods."--Kenneth M. Price, coeditor of The Walt Whitman ArchiveTable of ContentsCoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Digital Humanities and the Nineteenth-Century American Literature ClassroomAdditional TagsPART ONE. MAKE1. Kaleidoscopic Pedagogy in the Classroom Laboratory2. The Trials and Errors of Building Prudence Person’s Scrapbook: An Annotated Digital Editio3. Nineteenth-Century Literary History in a Web 2.0 WorldPART TWO. READ4. Melville by Design5. Data Approaches to Emily Dickinson and Eliza R. Snow6. Reading Macro and Micro Trends in Nineteenth-Century Theater HistoryPART THREE. RECOVER7. What We’ve Learned (about Recovery) through the Just Teach One Project8. The Just Teach One: Early African American Print Project9. Teaching the Politics and Practice of Textual Recovery with DIY Critical EditionsPART FOUR. ARCHIVE10. Putting Students “In Whitman’s Hand”11. Making Digital Humanities Tools More Culturally Specific and More Culturally Sensitive12. Teaching Bioregionalism in a Digital AgePART FIVE. ACT13. DH and the American Literature Canon in Pedagogical Practice14. Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Archives of Injustice15. Merging Print and Digital Literacies in the African American Literature ClassroomAbout the ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis rich collection of essays develops our understanding of the Anglo-American philanthropic discourse in multiple directions. . . . It will be warmly appreciated by literary scholars and historians alike. * British Assn for Victorian Studies Newsletter *Philanthropic Discourse offers the nineteenth-century literary historian a clearer insight into the scope and function of philanthropy in political and private life and the impacts that women writers and activists had in directing the action and debate. * Edith Wharton Review *Table of ContentsPreface, Telescopic Philanthropy Redeemed / Frank Q. Christianson and Leslee Thorne-MurphyAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, Writing Philanthropy in the United States and Britain / Frank Q. Christianson and Leslee Thorne-Murphy1. The Poverty of Sympathy / Lori Merish2. Self-Undermining Philanthropic Impulses: Philanthropy in the Mirror of Narrative / Daniel Bivona3. Education as Violation and Benefit: Doctrinal Debate and the Contest for India's Girls / Suzanne Daly4. Urban Reform and the Plight of the Poor in Women's Journalistic Writing / Monica Elbert5. Lady Bountiful for the Empire: Upper-class Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society / Dorice Williams Elliott6. Patrons, Philanthropists, and Professionals: Henry James's Roderick Hudson / Francesca Sawaya7. "Witnessing them day after day": Ethical Spectatorship and Liberal Reform in Walter Besant's Children of Gibeon / Tanushree Ghosh8. "The Orthodox Creed of the Business World"? Philanthropy and Liberal Individualism in Edith Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree / Emily Coit9. Sustaining Gendered Philanthropy through Transatlantic Friendship: Jane Addams, Henrietta Barnett and Writing for Reciprocal Mentoring / Sarah Robbins Conclusion / Frank Q. Christianson and Leslee Thorne-Murphy Afterword, Follow the Money / Kathleen D. McCarthy

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis rich collection of essays develops our understanding of the Anglo-American philanthropic discourse in multiple directions. . . . It will be warmly appreciated by literary scholars and historians alike. * British Assn for Victorian Studies Newsletter *Philanthropic Discourse offers the nineteenth-century literary historian a clearer insight into the scope and function of philanthropy in political and private life and the impacts that women writers and activists had in directing the action and debate. * Edith Wharton Review *Table of ContentsPreface, Telescopic Philanthropy Redeemed / Frank Q. Christianson and Leslee Thorne-MurphyAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, Writing Philanthropy in the United States and Britain / Frank Q. Christianson and Leslee Thorne-Murphy1. The Poverty of Sympathy / Lori Merish2. Self-Undermining Philanthropic Impulses: Philanthropy in the Mirror of Narrative / Daniel Bivona3. Education as Violation and Benefit: Doctrinal Debate and the Contest for India's Girls / Suzanne Daly4. Urban Reform and the Plight of the Poor in Women's Journalistic Writing / Monica Elbert5. Lady Bountiful for the Empire: Upper-class Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society / Dorice Williams Elliott6. Patrons, Philanthropists, and Professionals: Henry James's Roderick Hudson / Francesca Sawaya7. "Witnessing them day after day": Ethical Spectatorship and Liberal Reform in Walter Besant's Children of Gibeon / Tanushree Ghosh8. "The Orthodox Creed of the Business World"? Philanthropy and Liberal Individualism in Edith Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree / Emily Coit9. Sustaining Gendered Philanthropy through Transatlantic Friendship: Jane Addams, Henrietta Barnett and Writing for Reciprocal Mentoring / Sarah Robbins Conclusion / Frank Q. Christianson and Leslee Thorne-Murphy Afterword, Follow the Money / Kathleen D. McCarthy

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Book SynopsisAlyssa Quint explores the early years of the modern Yiddish theater, from roughly 1876 to 1883, through the works of one of its best-known and most colorful figures, Avrom Goldfaden.Trade ReviewThis is the final word on the subject; the sources are in Yiddish, Russian, Hebrew, French, and German. If the adjective definitive holds any meaning in literary history, it can be applied to this volume, yet the prose is transparent and comfortable for any reader. * Choice *Finalist, 2019 Jewish Book Awards, ScholarshipThis is a major contribution that fills longstanding scholarly gaps, both in our understanding of Goldfaden as a historical figure and in our understanding of how modern Yiddish theater first developed. -- Debra Caplan * In Geveb A Journal of Yiddish Studies *Quint sucessfully outlines the interconnections between theatre producers, audience, actors, and theatre critics as well as Yiddish critics. * The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationThe Social Life of Jewish Theater in the Russian Empire: An Introduction1. Goldfaden, Elite (1876–1883)2. The Rise of the Yiddish Actor 3. The Rise of the Jewish Audience 4. The Rise of the Jewish Playwright5. The Rise of the Female Yiddish Actor 6. The Ban, Cultural Momentum, and the Modern Yiddish TheaterAfterword: The Fall and Rise of Avrom GoldfadenAppendix I: Synopses of Goldfaden's OperettasAppendix II: The SorceressAppendix III: Excerpt from the memoirs of Avrom FishzonBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword: Cavendish's Daughters: Speculative Fiction and Women's History by Jonathan KearnsStitched and Bound by Love and Fear: Books, Monsters, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Rebecca BaumannCase 1: Mary Shelley and the Birth of FrankensteinCase 2: Mary and PercyCase 3: Mary Beyond FrankensteinCase 4: Mary's Father, William GodwinCase 5: Mary's Mother, Mary WollstonecraftCase 6: Mad ScienceCase 7: The GothicCase 8: The Monster's BooksCase 9: Victor Frankenstein's BooksCase 10: Frankenstein in Popular CultureCase 11: The UndeadCase 12: Artificial LifeCase 13: Adapting FrankensteinCase 14: Illustrating FrankensteinCase 15: Outsiders and OthersCase 16: More MonstersCase 17 and Case 18: Weird WomenBibliography

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKrutikov's book is the most definitive and accessible work in English to date on Der Nister and his monumental novel The Family Mashber. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *I think that Der Nister would have really liked Krutikov's book. It gives justice to Der Nister without making him into a saint, villain, or a misguided idealist, but instead sees him as a writer searching for his path... -- Anna Shternshis * AJS REVIEW *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. 1929: The Year of the Great Turn and the End of Symbolism2. From Symbolism to Reality: Space, Politics and Self in Hoyptshtet3. The 1930s in Children's Poetry4. The Generation of 1905 5. Text and Context of The Family Mashber6. The Last Decade, 1939–1949: Revealing "The Hidden"EpilogueBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKrutikov's book is the most definitive and accessible work in English to date on Der Nister and his monumental novel The Family Mashber. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *I think that Der Nister would have really liked Krutikov's book. It gives justice to Der Nister without making him into a saint, villain, or a misguided idealist, but instead sees him as a writer searching for his path... -- Anna Shternshis * AJS REVIEW *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. 1929: The Year of the Great Turn and the End of Symbolism2. From Symbolism to Reality: Space, Politics and Self in Hoyptshtet3. The 1930s in Children's Poetry4. The Generation of 1905 5. Text and Context of The Family Mashber6. The Last Decade, 1939–1949: Revealing "The Hidden"EpilogueBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAdam R. Ochonicky gives a critical overview of the Midwest's symbolic and often contradictory meanings in film and literature. Starting with the frontier writings of Frederick Jackson Turner, this book examines Midwestern film and literary texts stretching from the late-19th century through the beginning of the 21st century.Trade Review"This is a page-turner in the best sense of the word, for each new page reveals some fresh insight about the period that simply hasn't been examined before."—Wheeler Winston Dixon, author of Synthetic Cinema: The 21st Century Movie Machine"Adam Ochonicky presents an important reading of how nostalgia shapes the Midwest in the American imagination as a place of identity and violence. Past and present slip in this compelling and well researched approach to the workings of contemporary culture."—Vera Dika, author of Recycled Culture: The Uses of Nostalgia in Contemporary Art and Film"By centering the concept of region, Adam Ochonicky provides an insightful and refreshing reading of American popular culture. In texts ranging from Richard Wright's Native Son to John Carpenter's Halloween, Ochonicky demonstrates the complex terrain of the Midwest in our cultural imaginary and the diverse memories and meanings we project upon it."—Kendall R. Phillips, author of A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema, Syracuse University"Describing the Midwest as a 'nostalgia museum,' Ochonicky approaches it as a container or showcase for aspects of the nation's self-fashioning (88). As this book thoughtfully shows, certain foundational texts have clearly enabled the forgetting of inconvenient facts and the imposition of more romantic myths. Ochonicky's book reminds us how powerful – and seductive – such regional place stories can be."—Brigid Magner, RMIT University, Literary GeographiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Nostalgia and RegionalismPART 1: Twentieth-Century Narratives of Nostalgia and the Midwest1. Nostalgic Spatiality2. Spatial Constriction, Race, and Midwestern Stagnation3. Nostalgic Violence, Nebulous Spaces, and Blank IdentitiesPART 2: The Millennial Midwest on Film4. Masculinity, Race, and Violence5. Locating Sincerity, Disillusionment, and Paranoia6. Nostalgic AtonementConclusion: Nostalgic FrontiersAfterword: Regionalism and Politics

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Book SynopsisAdam R. Ochonicky gives a critical overview of the Midwest's symbolic and often contradictory meanings in film and literature. Starting with the frontier writings of Frederick Jackson Turner, this book examines Midwestern film and literary texts stretching from the late-19th century through the beginning of the 21st century.Trade Review"This is a page-turner in the best sense of the word, for each new page reveals some fresh insight about the period that simply hasn't been examined before."—Wheeler Winston Dixon, author of Synthetic Cinema: The 21st Century Movie Machine"Adam Ochonicky presents an important reading of how nostalgia shapes the Midwest in the American imagination as a place of identity and violence. Past and present slip in this compelling and well researched approach to the workings of contemporary culture."—Vera Dika, author of Recycled Culture: The Uses of Nostalgia in Contemporary Art and Film"By centering the concept of region, Adam Ochonicky provides an insightful and refreshing reading of American popular culture. In texts ranging from Richard Wright's Native Son to John Carpenter's Halloween, Ochonicky demonstrates the complex terrain of the Midwest in our cultural imaginary and the diverse memories and meanings we project upon it."—Kendall R. Phillips, author of A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema, Syracuse University"Describing the Midwest as a 'nostalgia museum,' Ochonicky approaches it as a container or showcase for aspects of the nation's self-fashioning (88). As this book thoughtfully shows, certain foundational texts have clearly enabled the forgetting of inconvenient facts and the imposition of more romantic myths. Ochonicky's book reminds us how powerful – and seductive – such regional place stories can be."—Brigid Magner, RMIT University, Literary GeographiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Nostalgia and RegionalismPART 1: Twentieth-Century Narratives of Nostalgia and the Midwest1. Nostalgic Spatiality2. Spatial Constriction, Race, and Midwestern Stagnation3. Nostalgic Violence, Nebulous Spaces, and Blank IdentitiesPART 2: The Millennial Midwest on Film4. Masculinity, Race, and Violence5. Locating Sincerity, Disillusionment, and Paranoia6. Nostalgic AtonementConclusion: Nostalgic FrontiersAfterword: Regionalism and Politics

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Book SynopsisContests the notion that women occupied a separate private sphere in England during the Romantic Era. This title demonstrates the various ways in which they attempted to shape British public policy and cultural behaviour in the areas of religious and governmental reform, education, philanthropy, and patterns of consumption.Trade ReviewIntellectual and social historians (and not just feminists) have long believed that the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Britain saw an increasing separation of the male (public) and female (domestic) realms, with the result that the public sphere theorized by Jurgen Habermas and others to have emerged in the Enlightenment almost entirely excluded women. With energy, wit, and admirable command of her sources, Mellor (UCLA), author of distinguished books on Romanticism (English Romantic Irony, CH, Feb'81, and Romanticism and Gender, CH, Jul'93, to name just two), demonstrates that just the opposite was true: in the years around 1800, women became the primary producers and consumers of writing in Britain and vitally participated in the discursive public sphere—many arguing in their different ways for what Hannah More (the most popular author of the period) called a moral revolution in the national manners and principles. Though Mellor's splendid survey of women novelists, poets, critics, playwrights, and social theorists would profit from a surer grasp of these writers' Augustan forebears and the author probably goes too far in positing a distinctive female epistemology for them, this bracing and important work of revision deserves a place in serious academic libraries serving both undergraduates and advanced scholars. -- D. L. Patey * Choice *. . . this bracing and important work of revision deserves a place in serious academic libraries serving both undergraduates and advanced scholars.December 2002 * Choice *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Women and the Public Sphere in England, 1780-18301. Hannah More, Revolutionary Reformer2. Theatre as the School of Virtue3. Women's Political Poetry4. Literary Criticism, Cultural Authority, and The Rise of the Novel5. The Politics of Fiction Desmond PersuasionPostscript: The Politics of ModernityNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Yeats and Afterwords, contributors articulate W. B. Yeats''s powerful, multilayered sense of belatedness as part of his complex literary method. They explore how Yeats deliberately positioned himself at various historical endpointsof Romanticism, of the Irish colonial experience, of the Ascendancy, of civilization itselfand, in doing so, created a distinctively modernist poetics of iteration capable of registering the experience of finality and loss. While the crafting of such a poetics remained a constant throughout Yeats''s career, the particular shape it took varied over time, depending on which lost object Yeats was contemplating. By tracking these vicissitudes, the volume offers new ways of thinking about the overarching trajectory of Yeats''s poetic engagements.Yeats and Afterwords proceeds in three stages, involving past-pastness, present-pastness, and future-pastness. The first, The Last Romantics, examines how Yeats repeats classic motifs and verbal Trade Review"This ground-breaking collection of essays examines Yeats's sense of historical belatedness as theme, as trope, in formal embodiments such as the afterword, and in his strong critical shaping of literary history. In doing so, it historicizes Yeats's own sense of history with unparalleled depth, while seriously acting on the acceptance that form is itself historical. In showing how Yeats's moulding of the past was also the creation of a future, it offers a range of productive new starting-points for the study of this great poet." —Edward Larrissy, emeritus, Queen's University, Belfast"Although Yeats and Afterwords focuses broadly on questions of inheritance and legacy, it marks a new departure because it re-conceptualizes belatedness in a more complex and more theoretically useful manner than prior studies. What impressed me most about the collection is that the theoretical paradigms introduced at the outset are at once defining and fluid. The editors conceptualize belatedness in such a way that this insight gives structure to the volume, even as it allows for a multiplicity of readings. This volume will have a major impact on Yeats studies and will be useful for scholars working more broadly in Irish and modernist studies." —Rob Doggett, SUNY Geneseo"The book offers a dialectical Yeats, and indeed that word recurs throughout, as critical assumptions are trumped by the unresolved dialogue carried in his oeuvre. A stellar cast of latter-day Yeatsians strengthens the case for the resurgence of close reading in Yeats studies." —Times Literary Supplement "This impressive collection of essays is organized around the theme of 'Yeats's sense of cultural belatedness,' his tendency to place himself 'at the end' of Romanticism, of the Protestant ascendancy, of a particular cycle of civilization. . . . Several essays offer provocative and competing readings of Yeats's late play Purgatory, and these alone make the volume worth reading." —Choice"While each of the essays in this volume examine Yeats's belatedness in diverse and unique ways, they share a common, unifying theme that provides the book with a clear sense of purpose and order. One of the most valuable things about this book is its inclusivity, suggesting that it will appeal to a variety of Yeats scholars in addition to those working within the broader field of Irish studies." —James Joyce Literary Supplement“This is a superb collection of essays, only one of which, Ronald Schuchard’s on Yeats’s influence in contemporary Irish poetry, is previously published. The editors’ helpful introduction defines the perspective that frames the volume, Yeats’s deliberate belatedness.” —Irish Literary Supplement“Marjorie Howes and Joseph Valente’s critically important introduction not only suggests that a ‘powerful, multilayered sense of cultural belatedness’ is key to Yeats’ complex literary method, but also teases out the larger significance of this volume, which indeed makes many revealing interventions not only in Yeats studies but also in studies of the Irish Revival, Irish modernism, and contemporary Irish poetry. . . Taking the theme of ‘belatedness’. . . what this important volume achieves is to reveal new ways of seeing ‘belatedness’, revision, temporality and legacy as being central, underpinning factors in Yeats’s poetic structures throughout his career.” —Irish Studies Review“Overall, Yeats and Afterwords is a focused look at the most prevalent aspect of Yeats’ work and offers new connections—and sometimes surprising conclusions—with respect to the way the poet may have understood his own project. The editors thoroughly account for every facet of Yeats’ belatedness and the structure of the work crystalizes the interplay across the element of time.” —Symploke“In Yeats and Afterwords, editors Marjorie Howes and Joseph Valente have collected a compelling selection of essays by twelve of the leading scholars in Irish studies around the concept of ‘belatedness’ in the work of W.B. Yeats. Although ‘afterwords’ and ‘belatedness’ may seem like conveniently vague rubrics to connect dissimilar essays, Yeats’ ‘intricate nexus of temporal vectors’ is consistently and impressively central to each peace.” —James Joyce Quarterly

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Book SynopsisIn Deep-Rooted Things, Rob Doggett examines Yeats''s shifting relationship with the warring discourses of British cultural imperialism and Irish nationalism during Ireland''s transition from colony to partially independent nation. By focusing on key historical events that Yeats witnessed and on the nationalist movements he both embraced and resisted, Doggett identifies the core features of Yeats''s aesthetic program through new readings of central poems and plays in the Yeats canon.Doggett presents Yeatsian nationalism as a fluid category, a series of masks that Yeats adopted, rejected, and re-created throughout his life. He casts Yeats''s continual artistic reinventionhis privileging of contradiction over resolutionas repeated attempts to provide in art some foundations for national unity. He reveals Yeats''s deep and often conflicted response to issues of identity, history, and nationhoodissues always central to discourses of colonization, colonial resistance, and poTrade Review“According to Doggett, Yeats' nationalism reflects an imagined nation in which all 'accept a common design' without demanding a specific vision. Focusing on the first decade of the 20th century and on 1919-28, Doggett reads drama and poetry as dialectical, moving between unity and disunity, reinventing the present in light of the past. . . Doggett shows Yeats' movement from imagined exile to poems of engagement to poems informed by his visionary system. This cycle provides a space where the Irish nation can be contemplated and imagined anew." —Choice"Rob Doggett's Deep-Rooted Things is a wonderfully nuanced, deeply thoughtful study which should have a lasting place in Yeats studies. Richly responsive to the twists and turns of Yeats's thinking, profoundly revealing of the currents and crosscurrents in his magnificent oeuvre, this is a major contribution." —Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia"Doggett defines Yeats's nationalism in a particularly effective, original, and compelling way. Yeats's nationalism is not a new topic, but many scholars have tended to see it as something that is intellectually simple, divorced from the complexities of Yeats's thought. Of those who acknowledge its complexity, few actually demonstrate this complexity at length, which is what Doggett has done." —Marjorie Howes, Associate Professor of English, Boston College and author of Yeats's Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness

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Book SynopsisThis eagerly awaited study brings to completion Louis Dupré''s planned trilogy on European culture during the modern epoch. Demonstrating remarkable erudition and sweeping breadth, The Quest of the Absolute analyzes Romanticism as a unique cultural phenomenon and a spiritual revolution. Dupré philosophically reflects on its attempts to recapture the past and transform the present in a movement that is partly a return to premodern culture and partly a violent protest against it. Following an introduction on the historical origins of the Romantic Movement, Dupré examines the principal Romantic poets of England (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats), Germany (Goethe, Schiller, Novalis, Hölderlin), and France (Lamartine, de Vigny, Hugo), all of whom, from different perspectives, pursued an absolute ideal. In the chapters of the second part, he concentrates on the critical principles of Romantic aesthetics, the Romantic image of the person as reflected in the novel, and RoTrade Review"The Quest of the Absolute is the third volume in Louis Dupré's trilogy dealing with the origins and development of modernity and the major cultural currents defining its history. It follows Passage to Modernity (1993) and The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture (2004). This third volume deals with the Romantic movement. Dupré's impressive account is concerned to restore something of the full dimensionalities to Romanticism as a whole, to acknowledge something of the immense intellectual, political, and spiritual ambitions at work in it, without reneging on a reflective critical relation to it." —William Desmond, author of The Intimate Strangeness of Being: Metaphysics after Dialectic“Louis Dupré’s fascinating portrayal of the Romantic soul urges us to look afresh at this crucial ‘third wave’ of modernity. His thorough insight, astonishing erudition, mild judgment, and unparalleled perspicacity bring to life the works and ideas of many whimsical personalities. He convincingly demonstrates that their restless search for existential depth and authenticity reveals layers of truth and meaning that can function as a mirror for our times.” —Joris Geldhof, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium"In this extraordinarily comprehensive and penetrating study, the capstone to a great scholarly career, Louis Dupré undertakes nothing less than a grand synthesis of Romantic thought; yet the book is beautifully written and a joy to read. Discussions of English, French, and German poetry and fiction are seamlessly linked to systematic analyses of Romantic aesthetics, psychology, and ethics, as well as such other aspects of Romantic thought as the new religious and historical conceptions that emerge in the period. The Quest of the Absolute is a brilliant, indeed indispensable, book, one that demonstrates, more clearly than any previous study, why Romanticism is still relevant to the struggles that confront us in the twenty-first century." —Henry Weinfield, University of Notre Dame"With this volume, Dupré completes a trilogy that began with Passage to Modernity (1993) and proceeded with The Enlightenment and Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture. . . . In spite of its subtitle, this volume is more than an intellectual history; it is a new synthesis of a diverse complement of beliefs and works. Dupré's vision affirms the coherence of romanticism by emphasizing its persistent quest for an unrealizable ideal. . . . The book is breathtaking in its erudition and thoughtful in its assertions." —Choice"Dupré delivers a lifetime of mature erudition attentive at once to a dizzying array of specific thinkers and a general theme that coalesces them. Reminiscent of Hegel, Heidegger, and Cassirer, Dupré refreshingly affirms against contemporary reductive models of reason that historically developing culture bears permanent intelligence. . . . More specialized studies of many sources exist, notably the literary ones, but the commentary on aesthetics, ethics, and philosophy emerges as nonpareil." —Theological Studies"The first and greatest merit of this particular study is its organization. It differs from the numerous other studies of Romanticism by its stratification. The first section is devoted to poetry. There follows a somewhat more hybrid section which includes psychology, ethics, fictional typologies, aesthetic and political theories, and finally, at the top of the pyramid an examination of Romantic theories of history, philosophical systems, and incursions in the romantic understanding or religion. . . . Perhaps the most important contribution of Dupré is the way in which he suggests delicately the continuing impact of Romanticism." —The Review of Metaphysics"The Quest of the Absolute describes the Romantic spirit as an attempt to break through the limits of finitude toward an all-inclusive absolute, a search expressed in poetry, art, and philosophy, and also in political theory, and in new modes of religious symbolization. . . . Dupré brings to life the personalities of the players, both the well-known and the obscure, and situates them in the larger events of the historical period between the revolutions of 1789 and 1848." —Catholic Library World". . . this valuable book is an introduction of great scholarly rigour, and it is therefore much more than a textbook or introduction. It should be used in any upper level course on modernity and Romantic literature and is able to shed light on the various cultural streams within the movement (German, English, and French). As the concluding volume of a trilogy, The Quest of the Absolute should be read in tandem with the first two installments, and all three together constitute an illuminating picture of the evolution of modernity before the twentieth century." —Reviews in Religion and Theology“Dupré’s sympathetic sketches of figures and themes reflect a deep knowledge of classical and early modern literature and a practitioner’s grasp of Christian theology. . . . Dupré knows the game well, and his analyses of many of his subjects give a subtle advantage to explanations that keep something like monotheistic longings consciously of unconsciously in play within their reflections.” —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Book SynopsisThe Portrait of Beatrice examines both Dante''s and D. G. Rossetti''s intellectual experiences in the light of a common concern about visuality. Both render, in different times and contexts, something that resists clear representation, be it the divine beauty of the angel-women or the depiction of the painter''s own interiority in a secularized age. By analyzing Dante''s Vita Nova alongside Rossetti''s Hand and Soul and St. Agnes of Intercession, which inaugurates the Victorian genre of ''imaginary portrait'' tales, this book examines how Dante and Rossetti explore the tension between word and image by creating ''imaginary portraits.'' The imaginary portraitDante''s sketched angel appearing in the Vita Nova or the paintings evoked in Rossetti''s narrativesis not (only) a non-existent artwork: it is an artwork whose existence lies elsewhere, in the words alluding to its inexpressible quality. At the same time, thinking of Beatrice as an ''imaginary Trade Review"This monograph is interdisciplinary in character, being primarily a study of the imaginary image of Beatrice and other muse/soul figures in the nineteenth-century poet-painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti's work and the impossibility of such representation. This subtle, rich, and impressive study makes a substantial and original contribution to Rossetti studies." —Alison Milbank, University of Nottingham"Elegantly written, carefully researched, and beautifully erudite, The Portrait of Beatrice offers an original and compelling interpretation of Dante’s Vita Nova and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s post-enlightenment reappropriations through the concept of metamorphosis. Combining a profound knowledge of Dante’s and Rossetti’s oeuvre with psychoanalysis and a critical line of thought that from Warburg arrives at Agamben and Didi-Huberman, Camilletti challenges the distinction between original and copy and between image and writing and not only offers unexpected and thought-provoking analyses but also helps the readers to reconsider their methodological assumptions and to embrace an intellectual journey into uncharted territories that is both unsettling and tremendously rewarding." —Manuele Gragnolati, Sorbonne Université and ICI Berlin"Fabio Camilletti takes a wholly original approach to understanding these works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He relies on literary theory, philosophy, and psychoanalytic theory, but also touches on art historical scholarship. His approach to understanding Rossetti, who was both a poet and an artist, is unique and makes for fascinating reading." —Aida Audeh, Hamline University"Fabio Camilletti offers a fascinating insight into the mystical and dreamlike imagery inspired by themes in Dante, through a composite 'portrait of Beatrice.'" —Speculum“Fabio Camilletti’s The Portrait of Beatrice, with its highly intriguing, penetrating, and sophisticated perspective, is an important contribution in both Dante and Rossetti scholarship.” —Journal of Dante Studies

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Book Synopsis A compelling selection of essays by twelve of the leading scholars in Irish studies around the concept of "belatedness" in the work of W.B. Yeats.Trade Review"This ground-breaking collection of essays examines Yeats's sense of historical belatedness as theme, as trope, in formal embodiments such as the afterword, and in his strong critical shaping of literary history. In doing so, it historicizes Yeats's own sense of history with unparalleled depth, while seriously acting on the acceptance that form is itself historical. In showing how Yeats's moulding of the past was also the creation of a future, it offers a range of productive new starting-points for the study of this great poet." —Edward Larrissy, emeritus, Queen's University, Belfast"Although Yeats and Afterwords focuses broadly on questions of inheritance and legacy, it marks a new departure because it re-conceptualizes belatedness in a more complex and more theoretically useful manner than prior studies. What impressed me most about the collection is that the theoretical paradigms introduced at the outset are at once defining and fluid. The editors conceptualize belatedness in such a way that this insight gives structure to the volume, even as it allows for a multiplicity of readings. This volume will have a major impact on Yeats studies and will be useful for scholars working more broadly in Irish and modernist studies." —Rob Doggett, SUNY Geneseo"The book offers a dialectical Yeats, and indeed that word recurs throughout, as critical assumptions are trumped by the unresolved dialogue carried in his oeuvre. A stellar cast of latter-day Yeatsians strengthens the case for the resurgence of close reading in Yeats studies." —Times Literary Supplement "This impressive collection of essays is organized around the theme of 'Yeats's sense of cultural belatedness,' his tendency to place himself 'at the end' of Romanticism, of the Protestant ascendancy, of a particular cycle of civilization. . . . Several essays offer provocative and competing readings of Yeats's late play Purgatory, and these alone make the volume worth reading." —Choice"While each of the essays in this volume examine Yeats's belatedness in diverse and unique ways, they share a common, unifying theme that provides the book with a clear sense of purpose and order. One of the most valuable things about this book is its inclusivity, suggesting that it will appeal to a variety of Yeats scholars in addition to those working within the broader field of Irish studies." —James Joyce Literary Supplement“This is a superb collection of essays, only one of which, Ronald Schuchard’s on Yeats’s influence in contemporary Irish poetry, is previously published. The editors’ helpful introduction defines the perspective that frames the volume, Yeats’s deliberate belatedness.” —Irish Literary Supplement“Marjorie Howes and Joseph Valente’s critically important introduction not only suggests that a ‘powerful, multilayered sense of cultural belatedness’ is key to Yeats’ complex literary method, but also teases out the larger significance of this volume, which indeed makes many revealing interventions not only in Yeats studies but also in studies of the Irish Revival, Irish modernism, and contemporary Irish poetry. . . Taking the theme of ‘belatedness’. . . what this important volume achieves is to reveal new ways of seeing ‘belatedness’, revision, temporality and legacy as being central, underpinning factors in Yeats’s poetic structures throughout his career.” —Irish Studies Review“Overall, Yeats and Afterwords is a focused look at the most prevalent aspect of Yeats’ work and offers new connections—and sometimes surprising conclusions—with respect to the way the poet may have understood his own project. The editors thoroughly account for every facet of Yeats’ belatedness and the structure of the work crystalizes the interplay across the element of time.” —Symploke“In Yeats and Afterwords, editors Marjorie Howes and Joseph Valente have collected a compelling selection of essays by twelve of the leading scholars in Irish studies around the concept of ‘belatedness’ in the work of W.B. Yeats. Although ‘afterwords’ and ‘belatedness’ may seem like conveniently vague rubrics to connect dissimilar essays, Yeats’ ‘intricate nexus of temporal vectors’ is consistently and impressively central to each peace.” —James Joyce Quarterly

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes the reception of nineteenth-century French women poets, including Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Amable Tastu, Élisa Mercœur, Mélanie Waldor, Louise Colet, Anaïs Ségalas, Malvina Blanchecotte, Louise Ackermann, and Marie Krysinska, to recover the diversity of women’s voices. Places their contributions within the medical and literary debate about the sex of genius.Trade Review“This is a valuable book that will become a significant point of reference. Along with studies like Margaret Cohen’s Sentimental Education of the Novel, it makes a major contribution to our understanding of the cultural context in which women were writing. . . . Paliyenko has opened up new horizons, and this book will certainly invite, provoke, and make possible further work in an important field.”—Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe H-France“Adrianna Paliyenko brings to her work on French women’s poetry an already most impressive background, and she writes with authority and solid, yet graceful, erudition. Genius Envy will attract and inform many readers, male and female—especially at a time when nouns like auteur(e) and écrivain(e) are asserting their presence in the language—and will undoubtedly become a long-lasting milestone in the burgeoning study of French women poets.”—Norman R. Shapiro,editor and translator of French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff and the Pen“Adrianna Paliyenko’s major new assessment of poetry composed or theorized by women, Genius Envy, is long overdue in professional nineteenth-century French studies circles. Her incisive reexamination of this undervalued literary corpus and recent scholarship about it puts to rest for good the myth that female poets—contemporaries of Lamartine, Hugo, Gautier, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé—were somehow less aesthetically significant than more widely celebrated male writers.”—Stamos Metzidakis,author of Difference Unbound: The Rise of Pluralism in Literature and Criticism“The fruit of more than a decade of research, Genius Envy radically upends current thinking about women poets, their reception, and their engagement with the allegedly male-dominated world of nineteenth-century French literature. Evoking a multiplicity of female voices and touching on colonial history, social class, philosophy, science, and aesthetics, Adrianna Paliyenko’s remarkable new book is required reading for those interested in genius, the history of canon formation, and literary and social equity.”—Elizabeth Emery,author of Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum (1881–1914): Privacy, Publicity, and Personality“Genius Envy makes a major contribution to studies of nineteenth-century French poetry. Adrianna Paliyenko’s treatment of women writers who challenge the previously male-defined notion of genius reframes much more than the study of these five writers; it cuts through stale definitions of writers as masculine or feminine and argues convincingly for a new way of considering genius, creativity, and the poetic. As a result, it raises important questions about women’s place in discourse, important today as it was then.”—Seth Whidden,author of Authority in Crisis in French Literature, 1850–1880“After centuries during which genius was defined as exclusively male, Adrianna Paliyenko provides a brilliant, learned, and highly readable account of the extremes to which men went in order to deny genius to women. With equal brilliance she restores several pages excised from nineteenth-century literary history by this gendering, and she gives voice to French women poets as they challenge their exclusion. Thanks to Paliyenko’s groundbreaking book, the sexing of genius has lost its self-evidence, and the nineteenth century has gained five major poets.”—Ann Jefferson,author of Genius in France: An Idea and Its UsesTable of ContentsContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgments Introduction Part One: Reception Matters1. Un/sexing Genius 2. Literary Reception and its Discontents 3. The Other History of French Poetry, 1801-1900Part Two: Women Thinking Through Poetry and Beyond4. Anais Ségalas on Race, Gender, and “la mission civilisatrice” 5. Work, Genius, and the In-Between in Malvina Blanchecotte 6. The Poetic Edges of Dualism in Louisa Siefert7. Louise Ackermann’s Turn to Science 8. Marie Krysinska on Eve, Evolution and the Property of Genius Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe text of The Brothers Karamazov is removed from English-speaking readers not only by time but also by linguistic and cultural boundaries. Victor Terras's companion work offers readers an understanding of the Dostoevsky novel as the expression of a philosophy and a work of art.

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Book SynopsisThis work explores the art and development of Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949), the poet and theorist who articulated a highly influential concept of Symbolism. The German writers Goethe and Novalis also played a central part in his vision, being precursors in the proto-Symbolist pantheon.

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Book SynopsisExamines the rise of the Russian empire as a literary theme simultaneous with the evolution of Russian poetry between the 1730s and 1840 - the century during which poets defined the main questions facing Russian literature and society. This work shows how imperial ideology became implicated in a range of issues.Trade ReviewAn original and persuasive illumination of the history of Russian poetry. - William Mills Todd III, Harvard University ""An excellent knowledge of specifically Russian and general European contexts, incisive textual analyses, and a very fine aesthetic sensibility make Ram's book an outstanding achievement."" - Boris Gasparov, Columbia University ""Given its broad perspective and eloquent argument, Ram's study of the confluent rise of the imperial sublime and the modern Russian poetic language should prove a vital resource for scholars of Russian history and poetics.... Ram breaks new ground in forging a synthesis of historical concern and poetic tradition. Essential."" - N. Tittler, Choice

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Book SynopsisA study of Jane Austen's life and writings, this work surveys two centuries of editing, censorship, and fiction that created a pious, wistful, romantically pining, and frustrated Austen. It serves up an antidote to that icon - a dynamic, brave, and buoyant writer - by examining subtle self-portraits in the author's works.Trade Review[Auerbach's] detailed knowledge of Austen's sources [gives] us a more complete impression of Austen's wide and eclectic interests. - New York Review of Books ""The Austen sketched here is an ambitious novelist, confident in her superior talent, with a subversive and biting sense of humor.... Readers who enjoyed the novel The Jane Austen Book Club will find similar pleasures here."" - Publishers Weekly ""Emily Auerbach's approach to Jane Austen is lively, engaging, and thoroughly modern. Like Austen, Auerbach wears her wide learning lightly and imparts a great deal of information in a most enjoyable manner. A witty, approachable introduction to Jane Austen for today's readers, using modern analytical techniques to reveal new aspects of a great writer."" - Margaret Drabble, editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature ""This 'search' for Jane Austen finds the playfulness and irreverence of her early writings present, to varying degrees, in all of the novels, but also finds a daring and powerful artist polishing her craft. Novel by novel, Auerbach overturns patronizing concepts about Austen's tiny canvas and limited view."" - Booklist

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Book SynopsisRobert Louis Stevenson was the author of ""Treasure Island"". This work looks, with varied critical approaches, at his literary production and unites to confer scholarly legitimacy on this writer. It says that Stevenson reinvented the ""personal essay"" and the ""walking tour essay,"" in texts of ironic stylistic brilliance.Trade ReviewThe pick of the papers delivered at an international conference on Robert Louis Stevenson. - Dick Ringler, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Book SynopsisAims to reveal how the novels of Jane Austen illuminate English history in the quarter century between 1792 and 1817. The book builds a picture of Austen's life and personality and of the social and political world she inhabited in the period during and immediately after the Napoleonic Wars.Table of ContentsIntroduction: History and Fiction I Parentage and Sisterhood: Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion. 2 growing up: Northanger Abbey and Juvenalia. 3 religion: Mansfield Park. 4 income: Sense and Sensibility. 5 social traffic: Emma. 6 the female economy: Lady Susan and the Waltons. 7 the epoch: Sandition.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"His essays are like Thoreau's sauntering, invitations to follow an acute and learned scholar to places you had not visited with such a guide. What this collection 'adds up' to, then, is forty-five years worth of rumination on two of this country's finest minds by someone eminently suited to investigate them in all their varied complexity."—Philip F. Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"Porte's concentration on Emerson as writer is not so common an approach as it may seem; balanced against the way in which Emerson is conventionally considered—as philosopher, as aphorist, as cultural icon—Porte's keen attention to the quality of the prose itself and the artfulness of an essay's organization yields rewarding and highly readable results."—Larzer Ziff, Johns Hopkins University

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Book SynopsisStarting with a comparison of Queens Elizabeth I and Victoria, this title examines works by poets and painters, essayists and dramatists, architects and musicians. It explores the literary nature of Victorian history writing, and author reveals the degree to which painters were indebted to written records both fictional and factual.Trade Review“Andrew Sanders’s book. . .as well as calling up a host of images from the Victoria era, challenges our own way of viewing, changing, cleansing and rose-tinting the past. It is an example of Yale University Press at its lavish best with superb colour illustrations”—A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement -- A. N. Wilson * TLS *“Sanders explores the ways in which retro styles and subject were used to highlight the Victorian progress. . . This beautifully illustrated book focuses on both literary reception of literary forebears and on Victorian paintings of historical and literary subjects.“—Adela Pink, SEL -- Adela Pinch * Studies in English Literature *

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Book SynopsisA window onto the lives of the Romantic poets through the re-creation of one legendary night in 1817.Trade Review"Engrossing account..." -- The Bookseller

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Book SynopsisFourteen conjure tales by one of America's most influential African American fiction writers.Table of ContentsIntroduction A Note on the Texts THE TEXTS OF THE CONJURE STORIES The Goophered Grapevine Po' Sandy The Conjurer's Revenge Dave's Neckliss A Deep Sleeper Lonesome Ben The Dumb Witness A Victim of Heredity; or, Why the Darkey Loves Chicken The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt Mars Jeems's Nightmare Sis' Becky's Pickaninny Tobe's Tribulations Hot-Foot Hannibal The Marked Tree CONTEXTS Sarah Ingle • The Terrain of Chesnutt's Conjure Tales Charles W. Chesnutt • From His Journal, Spring 1880 [Why could not a colored man . . . write a far better book about the South?] [I think I must write a book] William Wells Brown • [Voudooism in Missouri] Joel Chandler Harris • The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox Ovid • The Transformation of Daphne into a Laurel Charles W. Chesnutt • Letters to Albion W. Tourgée and George Washington Cable To Tourgée, Sept. 26, 1889 To Cable, March 29, 1890 To Cable, June 13, 1890 Paul Laurence Dunbar • The Deserted Plantation Charles W. Chesnutt • Superstitions and Folk-lore of the South The Free Colored People of North Carolina Adaptation of "The Dumb Witness" The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed? Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem CRITICISM EARLY CRITICISM Critical Notices of The Conjure Woman William Dean Howells • Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories Benjamin Brawley • [Fiction with a Firm Sense of Art] Helen M. Chesnutt • Chesnutt and Walter Hines Page MODERN CRITICISM Robert Hemenway • [Black Magic, Audience, and Belief] William L. Andrews • [A Critique of the Plantation Legend] Robert B. Stepto • [The Cycle of the First Four Stories] John Edgar Wideman • [Julius's Ex-Slave Narrative] Werner Sollors • [Reason, Property, and Modern Metamorphoses] Houston A. Baker Jr. • [The Sound of the Conjure Stories] Eric J. Sundquist • [Chesnutt's Revision of Uncle Remus] Richard H. Brodhead • [Chesnutt's Negotiation with the Dominant Literary Culture] Candace J. Waid • Conjuring the Conjugal: Chesnutt's Scenes from a Marriage Glenda Carpio • [Black Humor in the Conjure Stories] Charles W. Chesnutt: A Chronology Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion of notable American authors and individual stories, from Benjamin Franklin s The Speech of Miss Polly Baker in 1747 to The Joy Luck Club .Table of ContentsPreface vii Part 1 Introduction 1 Part 2 Historical Overview of the American Short Story 9 The American Story to Washington Irving 12 The Age of Romanticism 20 Realism and Naturalism 26 American Modernism 39 The Contemporary American Short Story 46 Part 3 Notable Authors of American Short Stories 55 Washington Irving 57 Edgar Allan Poe 62 Nathaniel Hawthorne 67 Herman Melville 71 Mark Twain 76 Bret Harte 82 Henry James 86 Kate Chopin 91 Stephen Crane 96 O. Henry 101 Sarah Orne Jewett 105 Charles W. Chesnutt 109 Willa Cather 115 F. Scott Fitzgerald 120 Ernest Hemingway 126 John Steinbeck 132 William Faulkner 139 Jamaica Kincaid 144 Tim O’Brien 150 Louise Erdrich 156 Part 4 Great American Short Stories 163 Benjamin Franklin, “The Speech of Polly Baker” 165 Ruri Colla, “The Story of the Captain’s Wife and an Aged Woman” 168 Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” 172 Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” 177 Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” 180 Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” 184 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “The Two Offers” 189 Hamlin Garland, “Under the Lion’s Paw” 192 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” 196 Henry James, “The Real Thing” 202 Kate Chopin, “Désirée’s Baby” 206 Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” 210 Stephen Crane, “The Blue Hotel” 214 Frank Norris, “A Deal in Wheat” 218 Edith Wharton, “The Other Two” 222 Willa Cather, “A Wagner Matinée” 226 Jack London, “To Build a Fire” 230 Jean Toomer, “Blood-Burning Moon” 233 F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited” 236 Ernest Hemingway, “Indian Camp” 241 John Steinbeck, “The Chrysanthemums” 245 Eudora Welty, “Petrified Man” 249 William Faulkner, “Barn Burning” 253 Flannery O’Connor, “The River” 257 Tillie Olsen, “Help Her to Believe” [“I Stand Here Ironing”] 261 Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” 265 Louise Erdrich, “The Red Convertible” 269 Susan Minot, “Hiding” 273 Amy Tan, “The Joy Luck Club” 277 Tim O’Brien, “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” 281 Jamaica Kincaid, “Columbus in Chains” 285 Judith Cofer, “Nada” 289 A Glossary for the Study of the American Short Story 293 Selected Books for Further Study of the American Short Story 303 Index 307

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Book SynopsisThis is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion of notable American authors and individual stories, from Benjamin Franklin s The Speech of Miss Polly Baker in 1747 to The Joy Luck Club .Table of ContentsPreface vii Part 1 Introduction 1 Part 2 Historical Overview of the American Short Story 9 The American Story to Washington Irving 12 The Age of Romanticism 20 Realism and Naturalism 26 American Modernism 39 The Contemporary American Short Story 46 Part 3 Notable Authors of American Short Stories 55 Washington Irving 57 Edgar Allan Poe 62 Nathaniel Hawthorne 67 Herman Melville 71 Mark Twain 76 Bret Harte 82 Henry James 86 Kate Chopin 91 Stephen Crane 96 O. Henry 101 Sarah Orne Jewett 105 Charles W. Chesnutt 109 Willa Cather 115 F. Scott Fitzgerald 120 Ernest Hemingway 126 John Steinbeck 132 William Faulkner 139 Jamaica Kincaid 144 Tim O’Brien 150 Louise Erdrich 156 Part 4 Great American Short Stories 163 Benjamin Franklin, “The Speech of Polly Baker” 165 Ruri Colla, “The Story of the Captain’s Wife and an Aged Woman” 168 Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” 172 Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” 177 Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” 180 Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” 184 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “The Two Offers” 189 Hamlin Garland, “Under the Lion’s Paw” 192 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” 196 Henry James, “The Real Thing” 202 Kate Chopin, “Désirée’s Baby” 206 Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” 210 Stephen Crane, “The Blue Hotel” 214 Frank Norris, “A Deal in Wheat” 218 Edith Wharton, “The Other Two” 222 Willa Cather, “A Wagner Matinée” 226 Jack London, “To Build a Fire” 230 Jean Toomer, “Blood-Burning Moon” 233 F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited” 236 Ernest Hemingway, “Indian Camp” 241 John Steinbeck, “The Chrysanthemums” 245 Eudora Welty, “Petrified Man” 249 William Faulkner, “Barn Burning” 253 Flannery O’Connor, “The River” 257 Tillie Olsen, “Help Her to Believe” [“I Stand Here Ironing”] 261 Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” 265 Louise Erdrich, “The Red Convertible” 269 Susan Minot, “Hiding” 273 Amy Tan, “The Joy Luck Club” 277 Tim O’Brien, “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” 281 Jamaica Kincaid, “Columbus in Chains” 285 Judith Cofer, “Nada” 289 A Glossary for the Study of the American Short Story 293 Selected Books for Further Study of the American Short Story 303 Index 307

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Book SynopsisBy examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth's early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet's most creative period of life and writing. Features new research into Wordsworth's financial situation, and into how the poet and his family survived financially Offers a new understanding of the role of his great unwritten poem The Recluse' Presents a new assessment of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge Trade Review“John Worthen’s engaging new biography of Wordsworth begins by quoting the poet’s recollection of himself at around the age of 10, surveying tall trees, black chasms, and dizzy crags: ‘I loved to stand and & read j Their looks forbidding’, he says, ‘read & disobey’ (p. 3). . . Worthen’s book is a revealing account of the consequences of that daring.” (The Review of English Studies, 15 October 2014)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments x Abbreviations and Texts xii Foreword: “The Prelude”: A Poem of My Own Life? xvii Part I Early Years 1 1 Versions of Home: 1770–83 3 2 Hawkshead and Esthwaite: 1783–7 18 3 Cambridge: 1787–90 37 4 To the Alps: and What Followed: 1790–1 53 5 Annette Vallon, Michel de Beaupuy, and the Bishop of Llandaff: 1791–3 69 Part II Writer 91 6 Salisbury Plain and its Consequences: 1793–5 93 7 Racedown: 1795–7 113 8 Coleridge and Alfoxton: 1797–8 135 9 Lyrical Ballads: 1798 157 10 Hamburg to the Harz: 1798 173 11 Writing in Goslar: 1798–9 183 12 Sockburn to Grasmere: 1799–1800 198 Part III Town-End 213 13 “Home at Grasmere,” the “Ode,” “Michael”: 1800–1 215 14 Hurting: 1800–1 241 15 Marrying: 1801–2 249 16 Grasmere to Calais and on to Gallow Hill: 1802 265 17 Marriage, First Child, and the Trip to Scotland: 1802–3 284 18 “The Prelude” I: 1804 303 19 “The Prelude” II: 1804–5 315 20 “Elegiac Stanzas,” Poems, in Two Volumes: 1806–7 328 Part IV The Light of Common Day 341 21 “The Recluse” and The Convention of Cintra: 1808–9 343 22 Loss and Grief: 1809–12 356 23 Stamp-officer and Poet of The Excursion: 1812–14 368 24 “What though it be past”: 1814 387 Part V Sketches of Late Years 397 25 Poetry, Family, and Polemic: 1815–18 399 26 Peter Bell and “the ghosts of what they were”: 1819–26 407 27 “The Recluse” and “The Prelude”: 1827–33 418 28 The Past Enshrined: 1834–42 429 29 No Resting Place: 1843–50 439 Afterword 447 Bibliography 451 Index 457

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Book SynopsisNow in paperback , A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens s world. This work traces the development of Dickens s career as a journalist and novelist and includes original essays by leading Dickensian scholars on each of Dickens s fifteen novels.Trade Review“Pykett’s chapter is preceded by a rewarding chapter on the literary culture of the day by Michael Hollington and followed by the final essay on ‘Postcolonial Dickens’. As if to insist that any competition in the Dickens Companion industry is essentially good-natured, John O. Jordan has contributed this, rather wonderful, last word to close the book.” (Oxford Journal Clippings, 1 November 2012) "Several of these pieces should be indispensable reading for undergraduates... Each of the three Companions to Charles Dickens now available is a valuable resource for students, but Paroissien's is certainly the richest, and-- with simultaneous electronic publication- likely to be of most immediate and beneficial assistance to students." (Notes and Queries, March 2010)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors ix Preface xiv Acknowledgments xvi Abbreviations xvii Part I Perspectives on the Life 1 1 A Sketch of the Life 3 Michael Allen 2 Dickens’s Use of the Autobiographical Fragment 18 Nicola Bradbury 3 “Faithfully Yours, Charles Dickens”: The Epistolary Art of the Inimitable 33 David Paroissien 4 Three Major Biographies 47 Catherine Peters Part II Literary/Cultural Contexts 63 5 The Eighteenth-century Legacy 65 Monika Fludernik 6 Dickens and the Gothic 81 Robert Mighall 7 Illustrations 97 Malcolm AndrewsCOPYRIGHTED MATERIAL 8 The Language of Dickens 126 Patricia Ingham 9 The Novels and Popular Culture 142 Juliet John Part III English History Contexts 157 10 Dickens as a Reformer 159 Hugh Cunningham 11 Dickens’s Evolution as a Journalist 174 John M. L. Drew 12 Dickens and Gender 186 Natalie McKnight 13 Dickens and Technology 199 Trey Philpotts 14 Dickens and America (1842) 216 Nancy Aycock Metz 15 Dickens and Government Ineptitude Abroad, 1854–1865 228 Leslie Mitchell 16 Dickens and the Uses of History 240 John Gardiner 17 Dickens and Christianity 255 Valentine Cunningham 18 Dickens and the Law 277 Jan-Melissa Schramm Part IV The Fiction 295 19 The Pickwick Papers 297 David Parker 20 Oliver Twist 308 Brian Cheadle 21 Nicholas Nickleby 318 Stanley Friedman 22 The Old Curiosity Shop 328 Gill Ballinger 23 Barnaby Rudge 338 Jon Mee 24 Martin Chuzzlewit 348 Goldie Morgentaler 25 Dombey and Son 358 Brigid Lowe 26 David Copperfi eld 369 Gareth Cordery 27 Bleak House 380 Robert Tracy 28 Hard Times 390 Anne Humpherys 29 Little Dorrit 401 Philip Davis 30 A Tale of Two Cities 412 Paul Davis 31 Great Expectations 422 Andrew Sanders 32 Our Mutual Friend 433 Leon Litvack 33 The Mystery of Edwin Drood 444 Simon J. James Part V Reputation and Infl uence 453 34 Dickens and the Literary Culture of the Period 455 Michael Hollington 35 Dickens and Criticism 470 Lyn Pykett 36 Postcolonial Dickens 486 John O. Jordan Index 501

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Book SynopsisAs Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin travelled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom's journey.Trade ReviewSweeping in its scope and imaginative in its approach, this collection challenges contemporary scholars to revisit one of the most influential works in the American canon and to recognize that mere national borders never have and never can curtail the flow of ideas and culture. The essays illuminate the ways that even seemingly innocuous adaptations or translations shaped the resonance of Uncle Tom's Cabin for audiences around the world. The study should be a model for how to approach the impact of translation and adaptation across time and in different cultural contexts." - Heather S. Nathans, Tufts University

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Book SynopsisContains the letters that trace young Sam Clemens' remarkable self-transformation from a footloose, irreverent West Coast journalist to a popular lecturer and author of The Jumping Frog, soon to be a national and international celebrity.

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