Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
University of California Press The Endurance of Frankenstein Essays on Mary
Book SynopsisThe two Shelleys, Byron, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont, and John William Polidori (Byron's physician) spent a wet, ungenial summer in the Swiss Alps. Byron suggested that each write a ghost story. If one is to trust Mary Shelley's account, only she and poor Polidori took the contest seriously.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley and Frankenstein: A Chronology Part I. Traditions: Looking Forwards and Backwards Part II. Biographical Soundings: Of Mothers and Daughters Part III. Contexts: Society and Self Part IV. Texture: Language and the Grotesque Part V: The Visual Progeny: Drama and Film Appendix Contributors Selected Annotated Bibliography Index
£26.10
University of California Press The House by the Medlar Tree
Book SynopsisTells the story of the Malavoglia, a family of poor Sicilian fisherman. This book renders the theme of mankind's struggle for self-betterment, the dignity of the struggle in the face of poverty and hardship, and the tragedy that the struggle inevitably incurs.
£24.30
University of California Press Mark Twains Letters Volume 4 18701871 9 Mark
Book SynopsisContains 338 letters that document the first two years of the author's loving marriage to Olivia L Langdon. This title recounts a tumultuous time: a growing international fame, the birth of a sickly first child, and the near-fatal illness of his wife.
£84.00
University of California Press The Feminine Sublime Gender and Excess in Womens
Book SynopsisOffers an insight into the modes and devices employed in the creation of women's fiction since the eighteenth century. This book argues that traditional theorizations of the sublime depend upon unexamined assumptions about femininity and sexual difference, and that the sublime could not exist without misogynistic constructions of 'the feminine.'
£22.50
University of California Press The Crowd
Book SynopsisBetween 1800 and 1850, political demonstrations and the tumult of a ballooning street life not only brought novel kinds of crowds onto the streets of London, but also fundamentally changed British ideas about public and private space. This book demonstrates the influence of these crowds, riots, and demonstrations on the period's literature.
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University of California Press Mark Twains Letters Volume 6
Book SynopsisMark Twain's letters for 1874 and 1875 encompass one of his most productive and rewarding periods as author, husband and father, and man of property. This is sixth volume contains 348 of his letters covering this period, all of which have been thoroughly annotated and indexed.Trade Review"Few things, as Pudd'nhead observed, are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example, and this building collection of the letters is horribly, excruciatingly good. It sets standards of diligence that will cause future editors of writers' letters to weep."-Jonathan Raban, Times Literary Supplement "One of the most important collections of letters by an American author... admirably organized and set forth as to become a source of wonder to general readers and delight to advanced students of literary history"-Genevieve Stuttaford, Publishers Weekly "One of the great scholarly enterprises of the century. Since the 1970s the... members of the Mark Twain Project at the University of California have been turning out magnificent editions of the writer's letters, notebooks, travel narratives and fiction. If you want to enjoy, and to understand fully, the genius of Mark Twain, the California editions are the only texts to have."-Michael Shelden, London Telegraph
£84.00
University of California Press William Dean Howells
Book SynopsisPossibly one of the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in the realist tradition. This biography traces the writer's life from his boyhood in Ohio, to his consularship in Italy under President Lincoln, to his rise as editor of Atlantic Monthly.Table of ContentsPreface Chronology of Howells' Life and Work 1. Parallel Lives 2. Warring Ambitions, 1851--1859 3. Years of Decision, 1859--1861 4. Consul at Venice, 1861--1865 5. Atlantic Years, 1: 1865--1867 6. Atlantic Years, 2: 1867--1871 7. His Mark Twain, from 1869 8. Fictional Lives, 1871--1878 9. "From Venice as Far as Belmont," 1878--1882 10. In England and Italy, 1882--1883 11. The Man of Business, 1883--1886 12. "Heartache and Horror," 1886--1890 13. Words and Deeds, 1890--1894 14. Peripatetic, 1895--1899 15. Kittery Point, 1900--1905 16. Greater Losses, 1906--1910 17. Reconsiderations, 1911--1917 18. Eighty Years and After, 1918--1920 Notes Index
£36.00
University of California Press Mark Twains Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts
Book SynopsisOffers a glimpse of Mark Twain's creative process on what many critics consider the finest fiction of his later years. While the work was begun in 1897 and revised first in 1902 and then in 1908, the third version was the only manuscript titled "The Mysterious Stranger". These texts provide an opportunity to observe Mark Twain's literary struggle.Table of ContentsABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION The Texts The Chronicle of Young Satan Schoolhouse Hill No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger APPENDIXES A: Marginal Notes B: Working Notes and Related Matter EXPLANATORY NOTES
£22.50
University of California Press Dangerous Intimacy
Book SynopsisRecovers Twain's final years as they really were - lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the light of the author's unflagging energy and enthusiasm.Trade Review"A brilliant literary detective, Lystra is also particularly good at presenting the prejudicial myths." - Anthony Glavin, Irish Times "Explores a chapter in the life of America's greatest storyteller, one he deeply regretted to the day he died. It is a chapter full of Victorian melodrama. At times, it reads like a steamy romance novel; at other times, like a textbook on power by Machiavelli." - Hartford Courant "Lystra's narrative moves quickly, and offers an illuminating portrait of an aging Twain. The research is thorough, the personalities colorful." - The Jerusalem Post "This gripping examination of Twain's later life recounts a family drama so fantastic it reads like the subplot of a daytime soap.... For all its intrigue and melodrama, this is a remarkably powerful and moving study." - Library Journal"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface A Note on Names 1. Mark Twain--and Sam's Women 2. Heartbreak 3. Rearranging the Household 4. Looking for Love 5. A Pact with the Devil 6. Life in the Sanitarium 7. Someone to Love Him and Pet Him 8. A Viper to Her Bosom 9. Innocence at Home 10. Stormfield 11. An American Lear 12. Illusions of Love 13. Unraveling 14. The Exile Returns 15. Confrontation 16. A Formidable Adversary 17. False Exoneration 18. The Funniest Joke in the World 19. Melting Marble with Ice 20. The End of My Autobiography Epilogue: How Little One May Tell Notes Index
£20.70
University of California Press Walt Whitman and the Civil War
Book SynopsisShortly after the third edition of Leaves of Grass was published in 1860, Walt Whitman seemed to drop off the literary map, only to emerge two and a half years later. This work reconstructs the forgotten years of Whitman through letters and manuscripts, as well as mapping his associations through newspapers and magazines in which he published.Trade Review"Genoways' account fills in a major gap in previous biographies of Whitman and rebuts the canard that Whitman was unaffected by the war and the run-up to it." -- Jay Strafford Richmond Times-Dispatch "A wonderful book." -- Barbara Rich Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va) "Paints a vivid picture of an evolving America reacting to an internal conflict that virtually no one was prepared to address." Foreword "This compelling narrative will change the interpretation of Whitman and this time period... Highly recommended." Choice "Fascinating... Interesting and original information ... [is] uncovered through Genoways' original research." -- Helene Littmann Journal Of Historical BiographyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Quicksand Years Chapter 1 The Red-Hot Fellows of Those Times Chapter 2 The Representative Man of the North Chapter 3 The Volcanic Upheaval of the Nation Chapter 4 War-Suggesting Trumpets, I Heard You Chapter 5 Dead and Divine, and Brother of All Conclusion List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
£32.30
University of California Press A Coat of Many Colors
Book SynopsisFor the major poets of Osip Mandelstam's generation, poetry represented a calling in the most tangible sense. This book examines Mandelstam's legacy and lays the groundwork for approaching modernist Russian poetry as a charismatic institution.
£27.90
University of California Press Wordsworths Heroes
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£64.00
University of California Press Herman Melville
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of Goethe
Book SynopsisGoethe established a major European reputation and profoundly influenced his contemporaries and literary successors, not least among them the British Romantic writers Coleridge, Scott, and Byron. Offers a comprehensive one-volume study of a major European literary figure. Deals in depth and detail with the totality of Goethe''s output and activity. Trade Review"The Life of Goethe admirably fills a gap in Goethe studies. John Williams provides a patient and thorough life-story." Alain de Botton "Williams's study of Goethe's life and letters is a welcome contribution to Goethe scholarship. By translating all German citations, quotations, and references into English, Williams makes Goethe accessible to the English-speaking audience. "The German Quarterly "Details importantly formative or influential are mentioned. All examples of significant experience conveyed in his poetry are given in both German as originally written and in English translation. "Psychological Reports "To attempt a critical biography of a writer of Goethe's stature is no mean task and John Williams has shown that he is more than equal to it. He has provided what must be one of the most scholarly and readable accounts in English of Goethe's life and massive achievement. The style is lively and energetic and the English translations of the Goethe quotations are always apt and remarkably close to the original. This is an excellent book, lucid and penetrating. Dr Williams is to be congratulated on this major contribution to Goethe scholarship and for the infectious way in which he communicates his knowledge of, and love for, his subject." Forum for Modern Language Studies "Intended for Germanists and non-Germanists alike, John Williams's The Life of Goethe: A Critical Biography deserves to go straight to the top of undergraduate reading lists. As a critical survey, it is hard to see this being surpassed." Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsList of Plates. Preface. 1. The Life. 2. The Lyric Poet. 3. The Dramatist. 4. The Novelist: Prose and Verse Narratives. 5. The Scientist. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Index to Goethe's Works.
£83.55
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of W. B. Yeats
Book SynopsisW B Yeats, widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century, believed that the life of a lyric poet was an experiment in living that should be told. This biography seeks to tell that story as it unfolded in the various contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and as a public figure.Trade Review"For general readers and undergraduates, Brown's is the best choice. Brown's excellent biography is highly recommended for all readership levels."Choice "This is a wonderful critical history, meticulously providing a full context in time and place for all of Yeats's writings."The Sunday Tribune Brown is especially good at showing how Yeats constructed his volumes of poetry as a 'work in progress', and at rooting his acheivements in the venemous politics of Dublin culture wars."New York Times Book Review "The work is fascinating and a pleasure to read, Brown an illuminating and companiable guide."John McGahern, The Irish Times "One of the many splendid qualities of Terence Brown's recent biography is its critical appreciation of the poet's extraordinary cultural accomplishments within the broader context of a brilliantly rendered political and social history of modern Ireland. "Brown's book is nonetheless the finest single-volume biography of the Irish poet since the publication of Richard Ellmann's seminal Yeats: The Man and the Masks in 1948." Reason "Exceptional!!!!" Today's Books Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface and Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Prologue: Sindbad's Yellow Shore. 1. Victorian Cities: London and Dublin. 2. The English 1890s. 3. Poems 1895. 4. Conflicts and Crises. 5. Patronage and Powers. 6. An Irish Ireland. 7. The Strong Enchanter. 8. The Mid-Life Mask. 9. Darkened Rooms. 10. The Lonely Height. 11. All Changed. 12. Occult Marriage. 13. The Weasel's Tooth. 14. Senator and Seer. 15. Visionary Modernist. 16. Home and Abroad. 17. An Old Man's Frenzy. 18. Stroke of Midnight. Epilogue: Afterlife. Works Cited. Select Bibliography and Guide to Further Reading. Index.
£84.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Book SynopsisPresents Samuel Taylor Coleridge - poet, critic, thinker, plagiarist, cultural omnivore, enchanting companion, feckless husband, fabled conversationalist, guilt-ridden opium addict - in his complexity. This biography shows how Coleridge's writings in verse and prose are especially directly expressive of his opinions and emotions.Trade Review"A fine addition to the biographical attempt to catch the complex and elusive figure of Coleridge. The volume is notable for its aliveness, its signal success in giving us a living breathing human being." Professor Thomas McFarland, Princeton University "This book provides the student or general reader with an excellent critical introduction to Coleridge's life and work. Ashton has a gift for elucidating difficult concepts in clear and straightforward language. I can think of no better single volume Coleridge biography." Duncan Wu, University of Glasgow "This is a stimulating study of a man of many obvious talents." Alan Bold, The Herald "Ashton writes lucidly, and the book will be accessible to the layman and student as well as useful to the card-carrying Coleridge scholar; it is good, at last, to have a biography one can recommend so highly." Seamus Perry, Times Literary Supplement "Rosemary Ashton sets store by telling the sheer story. As vitally documented narrative, altogether free from melodrama. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a deft feat." Christopher Dicks, London Quarterly "Here is a new biography of Coleridge that is likely to become the standard life of the poet. Rosmary Ashton's The Life of Sammuel Taylor Coleridge: A critical Biography offers a comprehensive and judicious survey of the poet's life and writings. John Strachen University of Sunderland " Professor Ashton identifies the tangle of abilities and pursuits that ranged from poetry to criticism philosophy to politics, opium-induced imagination to sparkling conversation."Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I:1772-1803:. 1. Inspired Charity Boy 1772-1791. 2. Cambridge and Pantisocracy 1791-1794. 3. Bristol and Marriage 1795-1796. 4. Nether Stowey and 'Kubla Khan' 1796-1797. 5. The Ancient Mariner. 6. To Germany and Back 1798-1800. 7. Greta Hall 1800-1802. Part II: 1803-1834:. 8. In Search of Health: To Malta and Back: 1803-1806. 9. Friendships and The Friend 1807-1810. 10. Life-in-Death: London 1810-1814. 11. Risen Again : Biographia Literaria 1814-1817. 12. Highgate 1818-1821. 13. Coleridge the Sage: Aids to Reflection 1821-1825. 14. Progress and Permanence 1826-1829. 15. Last Years: Church and the State 1830-1834. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
£98.96
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Romanticism
Book Synopsis* Compiled as a cutting--edge critical companion to the major anthology. * Contains 18 key essays on Romanticism written in the last 10 years. * Represents a wide range of theoretical approaches. * Major contributors include Edward Said, Jerome J. McGann, Marilyn Butler, Tom Paulin and others. .Table of ContentsIntroduction. A Note on Texts and Abbreviations. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Blake:. 1. Blakean Zen: Nelson Hilton. 2. Blake's Concept of the Sublime: Vincent Arthur De Luca. Wordsworth:. 3. Wordsworth, Rousseau and the Politics of Education: James K. Chandler. 4. The History of Imagination: Alan Liu. Coleridge: . 5. 'Kubla Khan' and the Art of Thingifying: Kathleen M. Wheeler. 6.'Christabel': The Wandering Mother and the Enigma of form: Karen Swan. Shelley: . 7. Adonais : Shelley's Consumption of Keats: James A. W. Heffernan. . 8. Deconstruction or Reconstruction: Reading Shelley's Prometheus Unbound (Tilottama Rajan) . Byron: . 9. Don Juan and Byron's Imperceptiveness to the English Word: Peter J. Manning. 10. Byron and the Anonymous Lyric: Jerome J. McGann. Keats:. 11. The Two Hyperions : Compositions and Decompositions: Balachandra Rajan. 12. Imagination and Growth in the Great Odes: Leon Waldoff. Other Writers: . 13. Godwin, Burke and Caleb Williams: Marylin Butler. 14. Murder Incorporated: Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Eve Kosofsky Sedwick. 15. Bearing Demons: Frankenstein's Circumvention of the Maternal: Margaret Homas. 16. John Clare in Babylon: Tom Paulin. 17. 'A Revolution in Female Manners': Anne K. Mellor. 18. Jane Austen and Empire: Edward Said. List of Contributors. Bibliography. Index.
£38.90
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of Robert Browning
Book Synopsisaeo Only book published in the last 50 years that treats chronologically and at length the whole Browning corpus. aeo Questions the idea that Browning was an objective, dramatic poet, whose works are distinct and separate from himself. aeo Relates Browning the poet to Browning the man. .Trade Review"The best introduction to the entirety of Browning's career. The most significant aspects of life, writing, theme, development, contemporary reception, and 20th-century criticism are presented with great clarity and efficiency. Ryals's mastery of his subject is unrivaled." Choice. "Only a handful of scholars could have written this book, and it is surely now the best introduction to the entirely of Browning's career... Ryals's mastery of his subject is... unrivalled... to be recommended as the best first book to read on Browning." Choice "This biography, more successfully than any that has preceded it, achieves a fine balance between its sensitive commentary on the poet's life and the poet's art, and it further illuminates these subjects by locating them in a rich and wide-ranging cultural and historical context."Nineteenth-Century Literature. "... a thoroughly admirable contribution - an introduction for the general reader, at a modest price, of the corpus fo Browning, described and summarized and commented upon in such a way as to provoke reading of the texts to verify the riches the critic announces he has found" John Stasny, Victorian Poetry. "Clyde de L. Ryals has published two distinguished studies of Browning's works, and his knowledge of the field is second to none. ... Eminently readable, Ryal's study covers a huge amount of ground, offeringclear and reliable summaries of the poet's works and days. This kind of book is obviously much more useful to the current generation of students than the earlier handbooks compiled by Alexandra Orr and William." Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface. Abbreviations. 1. Growing up in Camberwell. 2. Into the World. 3. Taking Stock: Sordello. 4. Bells and Pomegranates. 5. Courtship and the Early Years of Marriage. 6. At Home and Abroad, 1850-54. 7. Men and Women. 8. The Last Years Together. 9. In London Again. 10. The Ring and the Book. 11. Memory and Desire. 12. Redefining Poetry. 13. Fame is the Spur. 14. An Idyllic Interlude. 15. Looking Backwards and Forwards:The Parleyings. 16. Death in Venice and Burial in London. Epilogue. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index.
£42.70
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Frederick Douglass
Book SynopsisIn this powerful volume, 15 leading American philosophers examine and critically reassess Douglass''s significance for contemporary social and political thought. Philosophically, Douglass''s work sought to establish better ways of thinking, especially in the light of his convictions about our humanity and democratic legitimacy - convictions that were culturally and historically shaped by his experience of, and struggle against, the institution of American slavery. Contributors include Bernard R. Boxill, Angela Y. Davis, Lewis R. Gordon, Leonard Harris, Tommy L. Lott, Howard McGary, and John P. Pittman.Trade Review"Frederick Douglass and his writings shine as beacons of freedom and hope. Bill Lawson and Frank Kirkland have put us in their debt for commissioning - from the best minds practicing philosophy in the African-American traditions - powerful essays on the philosophical significance of Douglass's work. The book will invigorate Douglass scholarship and philosophy, and fan the embers of our love of freedom and hope." Emmanuel Eze, Bucknell UniversityTable of ContentsList of Contributors ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Part I: Racial Assimilation And Emigration 19 Part II: Natural Law And American's Founding Documents 83 Part III: Enlightenment And Enslavement 143 Part IV: Moral Suasion And Rebellion 205 Part V: Incarcerating And Lynching Black Bodies 311 Part VI: Douglass (1818-95): One Hundred Years Later 363 Selected Bibliography 392 Index 395
£40.80
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Gothic
Book SynopsisThis Companion is a standard reference work for scholars and students of the Gothic from its origins to the present day. Providing stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy, it offers coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned.Trade Review"The obvious value of ... A Companion to the Gothic is its wealth of critical approaches—from good, old-fashioned "history of ideas" readings to the most sophisticated of recent theory." (Romanticism on the Net, November 2000) "Anyone lucky enough to have this volume sitting on their shelves has instant access to the recent thinking of a long list of scholars who have led the way in Gothic studies. The book is a veritable Baedecker's guide that ranges from the historical Goths of the third century to Stephen King in the twentieth century; that explores dimensions of Gothic through painting and cinema, as well as written texts; that roams across Europe and America as well as the British Isles. Punter himself contributes a concise but stimulating introduction." (Studies in Hogg and His World) "The individual essays are narrow enough to describe discrete topics but useful to newcomer and scolar alike." "Punter's volume is sure to be a standard reference for some time to come for undergraduates and scholars." (Choice) "The book does not offer a house view of what Gothic is, but instead faithfully reproduces the status of current debates on the relevant genres. Many essays provide useful summaries of criticism or of primary texts; others offer new critical insights." (Times Higher Education Supplement) "Without foreclosing interpretative possibilities ... A Companion to the Gothic offers a range of strategies for understanding the genre, and is an excellent resource for students, teachers, and scholars of the Gothic." (Gothic Studies)Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Ghost of a History. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. PART ONE. GOTHIC BACKGROUNDS. 1. In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture (Fred Botting). 2. The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic (Robin Sowerby). 3. European Gothic (Neil Cornwell). PART TWO. THE ‘ORIGINAL’ GOTHIC. 4. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis (Robert Miles). 5. Mary Shelley, Arthur of Frankenstein (Nora Crook). 6. Walter Scott, James Hogg and Scottish Gothic (Ian Duncan). 7. Irish Gothic: C.R. Maturin and J.S. LeFanu (Victor Sage). 8. The Political Culture of Gothic Drama (David Worrall). PART THREE. NINETEENTH-AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY TRANSMUTATIONS. 9. Nineteenth-Century American Gothic (Allan Lloyd-Smith). 10. The Ghost Story (Julia Briggs). 11. Gothic in the 1890s (Glennis Byron). 12. Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (William Hughes). 13. Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition (Clive Bloom). 14. Love Bites: Contemporary Women’s Vampire Fictions (Gina Wisker). 15. Gothic Film (Heidi Kaye). 16. Shape and Shadow: On Poetry and the Uncanny (David Punter). PART FOUR. GOTHIC THEORY AND GENRE. 17. Gothic Criticism (Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall). 18. Psychoanalysis and the Gothic (Michelle A. Massé). 19. Comic Gothic (Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik). PART FIVE. THE CONTINUING DEBATE. 20. Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics (Kate Ferguson Ellis). 21. Picture This: Stephen King’s Queer Gothic (Steven Bruhm). 22. Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation (Scott Brewster). 23. The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection (Jerrold E. Hogle). 24. The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic (Lucie Armitt). Index.
£151.16
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Wordsworth
Book SynopsisThis original study is the first fully to acknowledge the impact of early grief on Wordsworth''s poetry and to integrate it into a critical account of how his art developed from 1787 to 1813. Looks at the impact of grief on Wordsworth''s great poetry. Explains the importance of the poet''s great, unfinished epic ''The Recluse'' to his work as a whole. Includes 20 illustrations from original notebooks. Contains the first annotated text of ''The White Doe of Rylstone''. Trade Review"A major achievement. A marvellous combination of profound scholarship and equally profound speculative insight." Professor Stephen Gill, Oxford University "Wordsworth: An Inner Life shows that it is still possible to say new things about a life and a literary oeuvre which might seem, in outline, all too familiar." Times Literary Supplement "This is traditional scholarship at its best, attentive to detail and immersed in a welter of poetic sources, which will no doubt be studied and absorbed by bright graduate students and Wordsworth experts." Times Higher Education Supplement "In his reconstruction of Wordsworth's "inner life", Wu offers a compelling blend of biography and literary criticism." Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface viii Acknowledgments xii A Note on Texts xiv Abbreviations xv 1 ‘Perhaps my pains might be beguil’d 1 2 ‘In black Helvellyn’s inmost womb’ 20 3 ‘Charg’d by magic’ 43 4 ‘The world is poisoned at the heart’ 69 5 ‘Their life is hidden with God’ 88 6 ‘The vital spirit of a perfect form’ 118 Part I: October 1798-April 1799 118 Between Parts I and II: April-May 1799 134 Part II: May-December 1799 146 7 ‘Serious musing and self-reproach’ 167 8 ‘I yearn towards some philosophic song’ 189 9 ‘That vast Abiding-place’ 210 10 ‘I only look’d for pain and grief’ 231 11 ‘Forbearance & self-sacrifice’ 257 12 ‘O teach me calm submission to thy will’ 275 Epilogue 303 Appendix: The White Doe of Rylstone (1808 Text) and it’s ‘Advertizement’ 316 Bibliography 347 Index 361
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Plain Speaker
Book SynopsisIn this selection from the two-volume Plain Speaker, Tom Paulin and Duncan Wu have given priority to essays that address some of the most important critical issues both in romantic studies today and the poetics of prose. Provides the only edition of The Plain Speaker available outside libraries since 1928. Contains Hazlitt''s seminal essays on plain speaking and the major romantic topics. Includes a brilliant introduction by Tom Paulin, the greatest poet-critic of his generation and the editorial expertise of Duncan Wu. Trade Review"This is a beautifully presented edition and a fine addition to Hazlitt scholarship." Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction by Tom Paulin. Editor's Note. Editorial Principles. Acknowledgements. 1. The Plain Speaker. . 2. On the Prose-Style of Poets. 3. On the Conversation of Authors. 4. The Same Subject Continued. 5. On Reason and Imagination. 6. On Application to Study. 7. On the Old Age of Artists. 8. On Envy (A Dialogue). 9. Whether Genius in Conscious of its Powers?. 10. On the Pleasure of Hating. 11. On Egotism. 12. Hot and Cold. 13. On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking. 14. On a Portrait of an English Lady, by Vandyke. 15. Madame Pasta and Mademoiselle Mars. Appendix I: Advertisement to Hazlitt's Table Talk (Paris, 1825). Appendix II: 'A Half-length': an uncollected Hazlitt portrait. Appendix III: Reynolds' account of Hazlitt, 28 April 1817. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake
Book Synopsis* This definitive Companion provides a critical overview of literary culture in the period from John Milton to William Blake (1608--1827). * Its broad chronological range responds to recent reshapings of the canon and identifies new directions of study.Trade Review"This volume is No. 7 in the Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series and it more than comes up to the standard of the previous six. The whole volume is a formidable piece of work, not one to be read start to finish, but one for specialists to consult and study. Such consultation is made easier by the provision of a good index." Reference Reviews "This collection's 55 original essays offer general critical introductions to specific periods, topics, genres, and works in English literature, roughly 1640s to 1790s. Indexing points to other major works and topics not treated separately. The essays on specific works vary in scope and perspective: some address only themes, others cover critical reception; some keep great critical distance, others offer close readings. For most academic collections, lower-division through faculty." Choice "A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, like its renaissance counterpart, is a bumper compendium of fifty-five essays on contexts, texts, periods and genres[...]There are numerous helpful pieces..." A Journal of English Language and LiteratureTable of ContentsIntroduction: David Womersley. Notes on Contributors. Part I: Contexts, Issues and Debates:. 1. The Civil War and British Literature: Martin Dzelzainis. 2. Women Writers and Readers: Sue Wiseman. 3. Literature and Party: Brean Hammond. 4. Sentiment and Sensibility: Ann Jessie van Sant. 5. Classical Imitation: David Hopkins. 6. Forgery and Plagiarism: Nick Groom. 7. Literature and Nationhood: Murray Pittock. 8. The Book Trade: Michael Suarez. Part II: Readings: . 9. Milton, Areopagitica: Martin Dzelzainis. 10. Herrick, Hesperides: Peter Davidson. 11. Marvell, Horatian Ode: Thomas Healy. 12. Hobbes, Leviathan: David Wootton. 13. Katherine Philips, Poems: Jane Spencer. 14. Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs: David Norbrook. 15. Bunyan, Grace Abounding: Anita Pacheco. 16. Milton, Paradise Lost: Nicholas von Maltzahn. 17. Aphra Behn, The Rover: Ros Ballaster. 18. Rochester, Satyr Against Reason à: Paddy Lyons. 19. Aphra Behn, Poems: Sarah Prescott. 20. Dryden, Fables: David Hopkins. 21. Congreve, The Way of the World: Malcolm Kelsall. 22. Swift, Tale of a Tub: Claude Rawson. 23. Pope, Windsor Forest: Christine Gerrard. 24. Gay, Trivia: David Nokes. 25. Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year: David Womersley. 26. Eliza Haywood, Fantomina: Sarah Prescott. 27. Thomson, The Seasons: David Fairer. 28. Pope, Dunciad: Valerie Rumbold. 29. Duck, Poems on Several Subjects: Bridget Keegan. 30. Akenside, Pleasures of the Imagination: David Fairer. 31. Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character: Katherine Turner. 32. Richardson, Clarissa: Tom Keymer. 33. Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes: Tom Kaminski. 34. Fielding, Tom Jones: Richard Braverman. 35. Gray, An Elegy à:Katherine Turner. 36. Johnson, Dictionary: Anne McDermott. 37. Johnson, Rasselas: Anne McDermott. 38. Smart, Jubilate Agno: Alun David. 39. Sterne, Tristram Shandy: David Fairer. 40. Macpherson, Fingal: Dafydd Moore. 41. Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling: David Womersley. 42. Boswell, The Life of Johnson: Bruce Redford. 43. Blake, Innocence and Experience: Jon Mee. Part III: Periods:. 45. 1681-1688: Abigail Williams. 46. 1701-1713: Stuart Sherman. 47. 1733-1742: Christine Gerrard. 48. 1756-1776: Nick Groom. Part IV: Genres and Modes:. 49. Pamphlets and News: Joad Raymond. 50. Political Writing: David Wootton. 51. Philosophical Writing: Peter Walmsley. 52. Historical Writing: Karen O'Brien. 53. Religious Writing: Brian Young. 54. The Novel: Simon Varey. 55. Poetry: David Fairer. 56. Drama: Paulina Kewes. Index.
£44.60
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Romantic Poetry
Book SynopsisEasily adaptable as both an anthology and an insightful guide to reading and understanding Romantic Poetry, this text discusses the important elements in the works from poets such as Smith, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Barbauld, Byron, Shelley, Hemans, Keats and Landon.Trade Review" ... this anthology's real strength lies in its wide-ranging, brilliant, and erudite annotations, which sometimes occupy as much space as the poetry itself. One could nearly read this volume in lieu of formal instruction. Packed with wonderful readings, excellent references (and recommendations for additional reading), extremely helpful footnotes, and engaging attention to the workings of form, Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology could make a significant contribution to many instructors, students, and general readers." (Keats-Shelley Journal) "The head notes and commentary will prove invaluable, as they expertly identify literary sources and allusions.... The extensive biographies are superb, especially Charles Mahoney's on Keats, and the suggestions for further reading helpful ... Romantic Poetry does what it sets out to do and is a useful new addition to Blackwell's ongoing series of annotated anthologies." (Keats-Shelley Reviews, December 2008) "The editors have a particular commitment to the role that an appreciation of poetic form can play in critical understanding, and it is on account of this formal detail that the anthology is so valuable. Introductory headnotes elucidate the subtleties of each poem's craft, while footnotes comment on line endings, rhyme patterns, and other features of the text. Some comments are so brilliantly incisive as to deserve separate publication, such as the account of the metre of Christabel: 'each line seems like a stealthy event' (p. 207). Without question, this is by far the best way that any reader could be introduced to these poets, and the anthology is careful not to suggest that an attention to poetic detail precludes other types of investigation. Understanding how a poem creates meaning, however, is the vital first step, and for this reason Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology will doubtless be the standard teaching anthology for many years." Year's Work of English Studies (2010) Table of ContentsSelected Contents by Theme. List of Plates. Note on Texts and Editorial Method. Index of Themes. Chronology of Events and Poetic Landmarks. Introduction: Romantic Doubleness. Acknowledgements. Anna Laetitia Barbauld, neé Aikin (1743--1825). The Rights of Woman. Inscription for an Ice-House. To Mr. S. T. Coleridge. Charlotte Smith, neé Turner (1749--1806). Sonnet 1 ['The partial Muse, has from my earliest hours']. Sonnet VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale. Sonnet XII. Written on the Sea Shore. – October, 1784. Sonnet XXX. To the River Arun. Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy. Sonnet XXXIX. To Night. Sonnet XLIV. Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex. William Blake (1757--1827). from Songs of Innocence and of Experience. (from Innocence). Introduction. The Ecchoing Green. The Lamb. The Little Black Boy. The Chimney Sweeper. Holy Thursday. Nurse’s Song. (from Experience). Introduction. The Clod and the Pebble. Holy Thursday. The Sick Rose. The Fly. The Tyger. Ah! Sun-flower. London. A Poison Tree. Visions of the Daughters of Albion. The First Book of Urizen. The Mental Traveller. The Crystal Cabinet. William Wordsworth (1770--1850). Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed. Simon Lee, the old Huntsman, With an incident in which he was concerned. Anecdote for Fathers, Shewing how the practice of Lying may be taught. Lines written in early Spring. The Thorn. The Last of the Flock. The Idiot Boy. Expostulation and Reply. The Tables Turned; An Evening Scene, on the same subject. Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798. The Ruined Cottage. Strange Fits of Passion I have Known. Song: 'She Dwelt among th'untrodden Ways'. A Slumber did my Spirit Seal. The Two April Mornings. The Fountain, A Conversation. Nutting. Michael, A Pastoral Poem. From The Prelude (1805), Book 1. Resolution and Independence. The World is Too Much With Us. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803. Ode (from 1815 entitled ‘Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’). The Solitary Reaper. Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834). The Eolian Harp. Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire. Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement. This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison. Kubla Khan. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Christabel. Frost at Midnight. France: An Ode. The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, April, 1798. The Pains of Sleep. Dejection: An Ode. George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788--1824). Stanzas to [Augusta]. [Epistle to Augusta]. Stanzas to the Po. Don Juan. The Dedication. Canto 1. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822). Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. Mont Blanc. Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni. Prometheus Unbound, Act I. Ode to the West Wind. Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of ‘Endymion’, ‘Hyperion’, etc. Felicia Hemans, née Browne (1793--1835). Properzia Rossi. The Homes of England. The Spirit’s Mysteries. The Graves of a Household. The Image in Lava. Casabianca. The Lost Pleiad. The Mirror in the Deserted Hall. John Keats (1795--1821). On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. The Eve of St Agnes. La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Ode to Psyche. If by dull rhymes our english must be chain’d. Ode to a Nightingale. Ode on a Grecian Urn. Ode on Melancholy. Ode on Indolence. To Autumn. Bright star, Would I Were Stedfast as thou art. Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) (1802--38). Lines Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love-Letter. A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk. By Stewardson. Lines of Life. Felicia Hemans. Index of Titles and First Lines
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Romanticism
Book SynopsisThe Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey from an international galaxy of scholars writing new pieces, specifically for a student readership, under the editorship of Duncan Wu.Trade Review"A major contribution to our understanding and appreciation of the period in which Wordsworth and his contemporaries lived and worked." The Keswick Reminder "It is a collection which will no doubt have extensive use in any library. It provides a sound and up-to-date introduction to contexts, ideas, approaches and texts, and frequently goes further than a mere introduction." Chris Jones, University of Wales, Bangor "Meticulously scholarly. An essential student course book." Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. . Part I: Contexts and Perspectives 1790-1830. 1. Romanticism: The Brief History of a Concept (Seamus Perry). 2. Preromanticism (Michael Tolley). 3. From Revolution to Romanticism: The Historical Context from 1800 (David Duff). 4. Beyond the Enlightenment: the Philosophical, Scientific, and Religious Inheritance (Peter Kitson). 5. Britain at War: The Historical Context (Philip Shaw). 6. Literature and Religion (Maey Wedd). 7. The Picturesque, the Beautiful, and the Sublime (Nicola Trott). 8. The Romantic Reader (Stephen C. Behrendt) . Part II: Readings. 9. William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Nelson Hilton). 10. Edmund Burke, Reflections Upon the Revolution in France (David Bromwich). 11. Charlotte Smith, The Old Manor House (Miranda Burgess). 12. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel (Seamus Perry). 13. Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (Scott McEathron). 14. Dorothy Wordsworth, Journals (Pamela Woof). 15. Joanna Baillie, A Series of Plays (Janice Patten). 16. William Wordsworth, The Prelude (Jonathan Wordsworth). 17. Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin (John Strachan). 18. Mary Tighe, Psyche (John Anderson). 19. Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head (Jacqueline Labbe). 20. Walter Scott, Waverley (Fiona Robertson). 21. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Beth Lau). 22. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (John Beer). 23. John Keats, Odes (John Creaser). 24. George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan (Jane Stabler). 25. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (Michael O'Neill). 26. Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Damian Walford Davies). 27. Charles Lamb, Elia (Duncan Wu). 28. William Hazlitt, Spirit of the Age (Bonnie Woodbery). 29. Letitia Landon (L. E. L.), The Improvisatrice (Adam Roberts). 30. John Clare, The Shepherd's Calendar (John Lucas). 31. Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman (Adam Roberts). Part III: Genres and Modes. 32. The Romantic Drama (Frederick Burwick). 33. The Novel (John Sutherland). 34. Gothic Fiction (David S. Miall). 35. Parody and Imitation (Graeme Stones). 36. Travel Writing (James A. Butler). 37. Romantic Literary Criticism (Seamus Perry) . Part IV: Issues and Debates. 38. Romanticism and Gender (Susan J. Wolfson). 39. Romanticism and Feminism (Elizabeth Fay). 40. New Historicism (David Simpson). 41. Romantic Ecology (Tony Pinkney). 42. Psychological Approaches (Douglas B. Wilson). 43. Dialogic Approaches (Michael James Sider). 44. The Romantic Fragment (Anne Janowitz). 45. Performative Language and Speech-Act Theory (Angela Easthammer). 46. Slavery and Romantic Writing (Alan Richardson). 47. Apocalypse and Millennium (Morton D. Paley). 48. The Romantic Imagination (Jonathan Wordsworth). 49. England and Germany (Rosemary Ashton). 50. Romantic Responses to Science (Ian Wylie). 51. Shakespeare and the Romantics (Frederick Burwick). 52. Milton and the Romantics (Nicola Trott). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Victorian Novel
Book SynopsisThe Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901. * Provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published during the Victorian period.Trade Review"These are wonderful essays [...] written by important scholars in the field. [...]Highly recommended." Choice "another Blackwell reference work of prodigious proportions [...] by a galaxy of distinguished scholars [...] indispensable for any comprehensive reference library, destined indeed to be of permanent value and importance for many years to come." Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viii The Contributors ix Introduction 1Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing PART I Historical Contexts and Cultural Issues 9 1 The Publishing World 11Kelly J. Mays 2 Education, Literacy, and the Victorian Reader 31Jonathan Rose 3 Money, the Economy, and Social Class 48Regenia Gagnier 4 Victorian Psychology 67Athena Vrettos 5 Empire, Race, and the Victorian Novel 84Deirdre David 6 The Victorian Novel and Religion 101Hilary Fraser 7 Scientific Ascendancy 119John Kucich 8 Technology and Information: Accelerating Developments 137Christopher Keep 9 Laws, the Legal World, and Politics 155John R. Reed 10 Gender Politics and Women’s Rights 172Hilary M. Schor 11 The Other Arts: Victorian Visual Culture 189Jeffrey Spear 12 Imagined Audiences: The Novelist and the Stage 207Renata Kobetts Miller PART II Forms of the Victorian Novel 225 13 Newgate Novel to Detective Fiction 227F. S. Schwarzbach 14 The Historical Novel 244John Bowen 15 The Sensation Novel 260Winifred Hughes 16 The Bildungsroman 279John R. Maynard 17 The Gothic Romance in the Victorian Period 302Cannon Schmitt 18 The Provincial or Regional Novel 318Ian Duncan 19 Industrial and “Condition of England” Novels 336James Richard Simmons, Jr. 20 Children’s Fiction 353Lewis C. Roberts 21 Victorian Science Fiction 370Patrick Brantlinger PART III Victorian and Modern Theories of the Novel and the Reception of Novels and Novelists Then and Now 385 22 The Receptions of Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy 387Elizabeth Langland 23 Victorian Theories of the Novel 406Joseph W. Childers 24 Modern and Postmodern Theories of Prose Fiction 424Audrey Jaffe 25 The Afterlife of the Victorian Novel: Novels about Novels 442Anne Humpherys 26 The Victorian Novel in Film and on Television 458Joss Marsh and Kamilla Elliott Index 478
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Victorian Novel
Book SynopsisThis guide looks at how the Victorian novel has been read over the past 100 years. Unlike other critical guides, it not only provides students with examples of significant strands of criticism, but also helps them to make sense of these articles and extracts by means of a narrative framework.Trade Review"O'Gorman functions as more author than editor in this second volume in the "Blackwell Guides to Criticism" series, providing a lucid, readable narrative accessible to the non-specialist.[...] In its definition and summary of current critical theories, the book will prove useful to all students of literature, not just those interested in the Victorian period. Highly recommended for all collections." Choice "this will be a useful companion to any English or History course whatever the level of study and will provide a concise and clear critique that can be applied to any Victorian novel." Reference Reviews "It is the kind of book you come back to, repeatedly consult, and would find absorbing whether or not you were an academic teacher. It is likely to serve for a long time as a fruitful reminder of how the practice of literary criticism has permanently changed the way we enjoy the old-fashioned narrative pleasures of the Victorian novel." The Brown BookTable of ContentsAcknowledgements xv Textual Note xix Introduction 1 1. Early Criticism of the Victorian Novel from James Oliphant to David Cecil 17 The State of the Novel in 1900. University Study of Victorian Literature. Principles of Literary History. The Approach of George Saintsbury. Extract from Saintsbury's The English Novel (1913). E.M. Forster and Critiquing Literary History. The Modernist Construction of Victorian Fiction. David Cecil's View of Victorian Novels and Culture. Extract from Cecil's Early Victorian Novelists (1934). Further Reading. 2. F.R. Leavis and The Great Tradition 46 Outline of the Chapter. Leavis's Influence. The Principles of Leavis' Criticism. The Idea of Tradition. 1980s' Reactions to the Politics of Leavis' Criticism. The Principles of Leavis' The Great Tradition (1948). Its Treatment of Dickens and Leavis' Later Views on Him. Extract from The Great Tradition. Further Reading. 3. Feminism and the Victorian Novel in the 1970s 66 The Influence of 1970s' Feminism. Outline of the Chapter. Ellen Moers' Literary Women (1976). Elaine Showalter and the Female Tradition. Discussion of Showalter's A Literature of Their Own (1977). 1980s' Response to Showalter. Extract from A Literature of Their Own. Significance of Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic (1979). The Madwoman Discussed. Gilbertand Gubar's Appraisal of The Madwoman. Extract from The Madwoman. Further Reading. 4. Realism 94 Preliminary Questions. Outline of the Chapter. Histories of Realism. Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel (1957) Discussed. The Cartesian Certainties of Realism. Watt Critiqued. Alternative Histories of Realism. Epistemology of Realism. Ioan Williams and Realism's Certainties. George Levine's View of Realism and Self-Consciousness. Extract from Levine's The Realist Imagination (1981). Psychological Coherence in Realism: Bersani's A Future for Astyanax (1976). Politics of Classic Realism and Coherence Criticized in 1980s. Extract from Belsey's Critical Practice (1980). Belsey Critiqued. D.A. Miller's The Novel and the Police (1988) Discussed. The Turn Against Realism in the 1980s. Interest in Gothic. Interest in the not-Said of Realism. The Feminist Recuperation of Realism in 1980s. Extract from Boumehla's 'Realism and the Ends of Feminism' (1988). New Historicism and Historicizing the Real. Rothfield's Vital Signs (1992). Nancy Armstrong and Kate Flint. Conclusion. Further Reading. 5. Social-Problem Fiction: Historicism and Feminism 149 What is Social-Problem Fiction? Outline of the First Part of Chapter. Cazamian's Reading in 1903. The Significance of Raymond Williams. Williams's 'Structures of Feeling'. Williams's Criticisms of Social-Problem Fiction. The Knowable Community in Williams's The English Novel (1970). Extract from The English Novel. Williams's Generalizations. Sheila Smith's Particularization of Williams. More Problems Found in Social-Problem Fiction. Brantlinger's Historicization: a Context for Social-Problem Fiction. New Historicism: Further Contexts. Context 2. Gallagher and the Discourse over Industrialism. Context 3. Mary Poovey and the Social Body. Extract from Mary Poovey's Making a Social Body (1995). Criticisms of New Historicism. Guy and Individualism in the Victorian Mind. Extract from Guy's The Victorian Social-Problem Novel (1996). Feminism and the Social-Problem Novel. Outline of Second Part of Chapter. Recent Work on Elizabeth Gaskell. Bergmann's Views on Strong Female Characters. Kestner's Canon Revision. Nord, Female Novelists, and Transgression. Harman, Female Novelists, and Transformation. The Future of Social-Problem Fiction Criticism. Further Reading. 6. Language and Form 196 Outline of the Chapter. Language and The Victorian Novel. General Linguistic Studies of the Novel. Language of Individual Victorian Novelists. Chapman's Forms of Speech (1994). Relation of Arguments to Thinking about Realism. Other Documentary Work on Victorian Language. Bakhtin and Language Studies. Ingham's Views on Gender and Class. Extract from Ingham The Language of Gender and Class (1996). Bakhtin and Literature Studies. Form and The Victorian Novel. Henry James on Monster Novels. Van Ghent's Reaction and Emphasis on Unity. Extract from Van Ghent The English Novel (1953). Barbara Hardy's Reaction: the Advantages of Fluidity in Form. Hillis Miller and Form without God. Deconstruction and Incoherence. Garrett's Deconstructionist Views of Multiplot Fiction. Extract from Garrett's The Victorian Multiplot Novel (1980). Keen and Narrative Annexes. Approaches to Form in 1980s and 90s Summarized. Further Reading (Including Narratology). 7. Science and the Victorian Novel 230 Outline of the Chapter. Early Approaches to Field. Stevenson's Darwin Among the Poets (1932) Discussed. Henkin's Darwinism in the English Novel (1940) Discussed. Cosslett's Work on Overlaps of Science and Literature. Beer on Darwin and Fiction. Extract from Beer's Darwin's Plots (1983). Science and Literature Read Alongside Each Other. Levine's Study of Novelists Who Did Not Read Science. Levine's Influential Concept of the One Culture. Extract from Levine's Darwin and the Novelists (1988). Dickens and Science. 1990s' Interest in Pathology and Mind Sciences. Helen Small and Love's Madness. Small's Critique of the One Culture Model. Sally Shuttleworth on Psychology. Logan on Hysteria, Wood on Neurology. Eugenics and the Novel. Further Reading. 8. The History of the Book 261 Diversity of History of the Book Studies. Outline of the Chapter. Bibliographical Work of Relevance to Victorian Fiction. Butt and Tillotson and the Material Conditions of Authorship. Altick and the Reader. The Three-Volume Novel and Its Problems. Extract from Sutherland's Victorian Novelists and Publishers (1976). Feltes and Marxist Readings of Production and Authorship. Feminist Revision of Sutherland Publishing History. Working-Class Fiction Recovered. 1990's Emphasis on the Reader. Flint and the Woman Reader. Gender and the Marketplace. Catherine Judd's 'Male Pseudonyms and Female.'. Authority in Victorian England' (1995). Further Reading. 9. Postcolonial Readings 306 Range and Diversity of Postcolonialism. Central Interests of Postcolonialism. Outline of the Chapter. Early Views of Victorian Fiction and Empire. Said's Orientalism (1978) and Its Consequences for Fiction. Spivak's Critique of Feminism. The Embeddedness of Fiction in Colonial Ideology. Extract from Spivak 'Three Women's Texts and Critique of Imperialism'. Brantlinger's Rule of Darkness (1988) and Explicit Engagements with Empire. Bivona and the Hidden Presence of Empire. Perera and Colonial Anxieties. Sharpe and Fiction's Collusion with Ideology. Richards and the Imperial Archive. Azim and the Imperial Form of Fiction. Extract from Azim's The Colonial Rise of the Novel (1993). Deirdre David, Women, and the Empire. Meyer and Fiction's Double Relationship with Colonial Ideology. Extract from Imperialism at Home (1996). Further Reading 332 Index 335
£104.36
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Victorian Novel
Book Synopsis* Presents the most influential and significant critical writing on Victorian fiction. * Offers students careful guidance through the critical literature by means of a narrative framework. * Encourages students to engage with critical debates about Victorian literature.Trade Review"O'Gorman functions as more author than editor in this second volume in the "Blackwell Guides to Criticism" series, providing a lucid, readable narrative accessible to the non-specialist.[...] In its definition and summary of current critical theories, the book will prove useful to all students of literature, not just those interested in the Victorian period. Highly recommended for all collections." Choice "this will be a useful companion to any English or History course whatever the level of study and will provide a concise and clear critique that can be applied to any Victorian novel." Reference Reviews "It is the kind of book you come back to, repeatedly consult, and would find absorbing whether or not you were an academic teacher. It is likely to serve for a long time as a fruitful reminder of how the practice of literary criticism has permanently changed the way we enjoy the old-fashioned narrative pleasures of the Victorian novel." The Brown BookTable of ContentsAcknowledgements xv Textual Note xix Introduction 1 1. Early Criticism of the Victorian Novel from James Oliphant to David Cecil 17 The State of the Novel in 1900. University Study of Victorian Literature. Principles of Literary History. The Approach of George Saintsbury. Extract from Saintsbury's The English Novel (1913). E.M. Forster and Critiquing Literary History. The Modernist Construction of Victorian Fiction. David Cecil's View of Victorian Novels and Culture. Extract from Cecil's Early Victorian Novelists (1934). Further Reading. 2. F.R. Leavis and The Great Tradition 46 Outline of the Chapter. Leavis's Influence. The Principles of Leavis' Criticism. The Idea of Tradition. 1980s' Reactions to the Politics of Leavis' Criticism. The Principles of Leavis' The Great Tradition (1948). Its Treatment of Dickens and Leavis' Later Views on Him. Extract from The Great Tradition. Further Reading. 3. Feminism and the Victorian Novel in the 1970s 66 The Influence of 1970s' Feminism. Outline of the Chapter. Ellen Moers' Literary Women (1976). Elaine Showalter and the Female Tradition. Discussion of Showalter's A Literature of Their Own (1977). 1980s' Response to Showalter. Extract from A Literature of Their Own. Significance of Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic (1979). The Madwoman Discussed. Gilbertand Gubar's Appraisal of The Madwoman. Extract from The Madwoman. Further Reading. 4. Realism 94 Preliminary Questions. Outline of the Chapter. Histories of Realism. Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel (1957) Discussed. The Cartesian Certainties of Realism. Watt Critiqued. Alternative Histories of Realism. Epistemology of Realism. Ioan Williams and Realism's Certainties. George Levine's View of Realism and Self-Consciousness. Extract from Levine's The Realist Imagination (1981). Psychological Coherence in Realism: Bersani's A Future for Astyanax (1976). Politics of Classic Realism and Coherence Criticized in 1980s. Extract from Belsey's Critical Practice (1980). Belsey Critiqued. D.A. Miller's The Novel and the Police (1988) Discussed. The Turn Against Realism in the 1980s. Interest in Gothic. Interest in the not-Said of Realism. The Feminist Recuperation of Realism in 1980s. Extract from Boumehla's 'Realism and the Ends of Feminism' (1988). New Historicism and Historicizing the Real. Rothfield's Vital Signs (1992). Nancy Armstrong and Kate Flint. Conclusion. Further Reading. 5. Social-Problem Fiction: Historicism and Feminism 149 What is Social-Problem Fiction? Outline of the First Part of Chapter. Cazamian's Reading in 1903. The Significance of Raymond Williams. Williams's 'Structures of Feeling'. Williams's Criticisms of Social-Problem Fiction. The Knowable Community in Williams's The English Novel (1970). Extract from The English Novel. Williams's Generalizations. Sheila Smith's Particularization of Williams. More Problems Found in Social-Problem Fiction. Brantlinger's Historicization: a Context for Social-Problem Fiction. New Historicism: Further Contexts. Context 2. Gallagher and the Discourse over Industrialism. Context 3. Mary Poovey and the Social Body. Extract from Mary Poovey's Making a Social Body (1995). Criticisms of New Historicism. Guy and Individualism in the Victorian Mind. Extract from Guy's The Victorian Social-Problem Novel (1996). Feminism and the Social-Problem Novel. Outline of Second Part of Chapter. Recent Work on Elizabeth Gaskell. Bergmann's Views on Strong Female Characters. Kestner's Canon Revision. Nord, Female Novelists, and Transgression. Harman, Female Novelists, and Transformation. The Future of Social-Problem Fiction Criticism. Further Reading. 6. Language and Form 196 Outline of the Chapter. Language and The Victorian Novel. General Linguistic Studies of the Novel. Language of Individual Victorian Novelists. Chapman's Forms of Speech (1994). Relation of Arguments to Thinking about Realism. Other Documentary Work on Victorian Language. Bakhtin and Language Studies. Ingham's Views on Gender and Class. Extract from Ingham The Language of Gender and Class (1996). Bakhtin and Literature Studies. Form and The Victorian Novel. Henry James on Monster Novels. Van Ghent's Reaction and Emphasis on Unity. Extract from Van Ghent The English Novel (1953). Barbara Hardy's Reaction: the Advantages of Fluidity in Form. Hillis Miller and Form without God. Deconstruction and Incoherence. Garrett's Deconstructionist Views of Multiplot Fiction. Extract from Garrett's The Victorian Multiplot Novel (1980). Keen and Narrative Annexes. Approaches to Form in 1980s and 90s Summarized. Further Reading (Including Narratology). 7. Science and the Victorian Novel 230 Outline of the Chapter. Early Approaches to Field. Stevenson's Darwin Among the Poets (1932) Discussed. Henkin's Darwinism in the English Novel (1940) Discussed. Cosslett's Work on Overlaps of Science and Literature. Beer on Darwin and Fiction. Extract from Beer's Darwin's Plots (1983). Science and Literature Read Alongside Each Other. Levine's Study of Novelists Who Did Not Read Science. Levine's Influential Concept of the One Culture. Extract from Levine's Darwin and the Novelists (1988). Dickens and Science. 1990s' Interest in Pathology and Mind Sciences. Helen Small and Love's Madness. Small's Critique of the One Culture Model. Sally Shuttleworth on Psychology. Logan on Hysteria, Wood on Neurology. Eugenics and the Novel. Further Reading. 8. The History of the Book 261 Diversity of History of the Book Studies. Outline of the Chapter. Bibliographical Work of Relevance to Victorian Fiction. Butt and Tillotson and the Material Conditions of Authorship. Altick and the Reader. The Three-Volume Novel and Its Problems. Extract from Sutherland's Victorian Novelists and Publishers (1976). Feltes and Marxist Readings of Production and Authorship. Feminist Revision of Sutherland Publishing History. Working-Class Fiction Recovered. 1990's Emphasis on the Reader. Flint and the Woman Reader. Gender and the Marketplace. Catherine Judd's 'Male Pseudonyms and Female.'. Authority in Victorian England' (1995). Further Reading. 9. Postcolonial Readings 306 Range and Diversity of Postcolonialism. Central Interests of Postcolonialism. Outline of the Chapter. Early Views of Victorian Fiction and Empire. Said's Orientalism (1978) and Its Consequences for Fiction. Spivak's Critique of Feminism. The Embeddedness of Fiction in Colonial Ideology. Extract from Spivak 'Three Women's Texts and Critique of Imperialism'. Brantlinger's Rule of Darkness (1988) and Explicit Engagements with Empire. Bivona and the Hidden Presence of Empire. Perera and Colonial Anxieties. Sharpe and Fiction's Collusion with Ideology. Richards and the Imperial Archive. Azim and the Imperial Form of Fiction. Extract from Azim's The Colonial Rise of the Novel (1993). Deirdre David, Women, and the Empire. Meyer and Fiction's Double Relationship with Colonial Ideology. Extract from Imperialism at Home (1996). Further Reading 332 Index 335
£38.90
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of Thomas Hardy
Book SynopsisTurner''s strikingly original and penetrating account of Hardy''s extraordinarily creative life and longevity offers a series of thirty-two chapters, each of which relates the biographical and literary background of a single work.Trade Review"... his method has much recommended it. The useful book contains illustrations and notes and is recommended for all academic libraries." Choice "This is a very intriguing and useful work. The result is a book of great interest at various levels, and of value to a range of readers. Students at all levels will find much closely argued material (and meticulously referenced throughout) to help interpretation of the author and his works. Those of us who think we know the man and his work will find new ways of looking at and interpreting the already familiar. This is an intriguing and useful work which opens many new avenues into and through Hardy and his work, both the novels and the poetry. It makes a useful addition to a scholarly series, although this volume at least (I cannot speak for any of the others since I have not read them) has much to offer any interested reader. It is recommended for any literature collection." Languages and Literature "Although it does, indeed, contain a great deal of interesting biographical material this new life has an important new dimension. It explores in considerable detail Hardy's use in his writing of his wide and erudite background of reading. The book is full of instances of Turner's insight into the influence of Hardy's reading on his writing, {and} adds substantially to our knowledge of Hardy's creative methods." The Thomas Hardy Journal "For a critical biography so largely concerned with Hardy's reading, Paul Turner has proved an excellent choice. He brings to his task an intimate familiarity with the classical texts to which Hardy's imagination recurred. Turner renews one's sense of Hardy's writing as at once more spirited and artful and gnarled than a reader is ever quite prepared for." The Review of English Studies "Turner has an admirably broad view of Hardy and literary tradition: he is learned and interesting on Hardy's relation to English and classical tradition, particularly Tennyson, Browning, Greek tragedy and Horace. The pace is brisk, and the tone is often pleasingly crisp, with Turner unafraid to offer a judgement on issues like the tiredness of parts of 'The Dynasts' or the intellectual extremity of some of Hardy's satires." Tim Armstrong, Victorian Poetry "'The Life of Thomas Hardy' is an original, radical biography. This critical biography reveals much about Hardy's thinking and feeling and even more about his creative methods." Day by DayTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface and Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. 'How I Built Myself a House'. 2. The Poor Man and the Lady. 3. Desperate Remedies. 4. Under the Greenwood Tree. 5. Pair of Blue Eyes. 6. Far From the Madding Crowd. 6. The Hand of Ethelberta. 7. The Return of the Native. 8. The Trumpet-Major. 9. A Laodicean. 10. Two on a Tower. 11. The Mayor of Casterbridge. 12. The Woodlanders. 13. Wessex Tales. 14. A Group of Noble Dames. 15. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. 16. Life's Little Ironies. 17. Jude the Obscure. 18. The Well-Beloved. 19. Wessex Poems. 20. Poems of the Past and Present. 21. The Dynasts Part First. 22. The Dynasts Part Second. 23. The Dynasts Part Third. 24. Time's Laughingstocks. 25. A Changed Man and Other Tales. 26. Satires of Circumstance. 27. Moments of Vision. 28. Late Lyrics and Earlier. 29. The Queen of Cornwall. 30. Human Shows. 31. Winter Words. Notes. Bibliography.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of W B Yeats A Critical Biography Wiley
Book SynopsisW.B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story of his life as it unfolded in the various contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and as public figure.Trade Review"For general readers and undergraduates, Brown's is the best choice. Brown's excellent biography is highly recommended for all readership levels."Choice "This is a wonderful critical history, meticulously providing a full context in time and place for all of Yeats's writings."The Sunday Tribune Brown is especially good at showing how Yeats constructed his volumes of poetry as a 'work in progress', and at rooting his acheivements in the venemous politics of Dublin culture wars."New York Times Book Review "The work is fascinating and a pleasure to read, Brown an illuminating and companiable guide."John McGahern, The Irish Times "One of the many splendid qualities of Terence Brown's recent biography is its critical appreciation of the poet's extraordinary cultural accomplishments within the broader context of a brilliantly rendered political and social history of modern Ireland. "Brown's book is nonetheless the finest single-volume biography of the Irish poet since the publication of Richard Ellmann's seminal Yeats: The Man and the Masks in 1948." Reason "Exceptional!!!!" Today's Books Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface and Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Prologue: Sindbad's Yellow Shore. 1. Victorian Cities: London and Dublin. 2. The English 1890s. 3. Poems 1895. 4. Conflicts and Crises. 5. Patronage and Powers. 6. An Irish Ireland. 7. The Strong Enchanter. 8. The Mid-Life Mask. 9. Darkened Rooms. 10. The Lonely Height. 11. All Changed. 12. Occult Marriage. 13. The Weasel's Tooth. 14. Senator and Seer. 15. Visionary Modernist. 16. Home and Abroad. 17. An Old Man's Frenzy. 18. Stroke of Midnight. Epilogue: Afterlife. Works Cited. Select Bibliography and Guide to Further Reading. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Victorian Poetry
Book SynopsisThis volume distils into two hundred pages some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian period. Distils into one volume the key poems of the Victorian era. Organised chronologically, allowing readers to perceive continuities and changes through the century. Includes a general introduction, giving readers an overview of the poets and the period. Represents texts in their entirety where possible. Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction (Duncan Wu). 1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61). Sonnets from the Portuguese (extracts). From Aurora Leigh: First Book. . 2. Alfred (Lord) Tennyson (1809-92). . Mariana. The Lady of Shalott. Ulysses. Morte d'Arthur. 'Break, Break, Break'. From The Princess; A Medley. From In Memoriam A.H.H. The Charge of the Light Brigade. From Maud. I ('I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood'). XXII ('Come into the garden, Maud'). Crossing the Bar. . 3. Robert Browning (1812-89). My Last Duchess. The Lost Leader. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister. Porphyria's Lover. Home-Thoughts, from Abroad. The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church. Meeting at Night. Parting at Morning. Love Among the Ruins. Fra Lippo Lippi. A Toccata of Galuppi's. ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'. Memorabilia. Andrea del Sarto. Two in the Campagna. A Grammarian's Funeral. Never the Time and the Place. . 4. Emily (Jane) Brontë (1818-48). 'What winter floods, what showers of spring'. 'Long neglect has worn away'. 'The night is darkening round me'. 'All hushed and still within the house'. 'O Dream, where art thou now?'. 'How still, how happy! those are words'. 'Mild the mist upon the hill'. 'Come, walk with me'. To Imagination. Remembrance ('R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida'). Julian M. and A. G. Rochelle ('The Prisoner'). 'No coward soul is mine'. . 5. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61). 'Say not the struggle naught availeth'. 'That there are powers above us I admit'. . 6. Matthew Arnold (1822-88). To Marguerite in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis. Self-Dependence. Dover Beach. The Scholar-Gipsy. . 7. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82). The Blessed Damozel. From The House of Life: A Sonnet-Sequence. Part I: Youth and Change. Sonnet VI: The Kiss. Sonnet VII: Supreme Surrender. Sonnet XI: The Love-Letter. Sonnet XXVI: Mid-Rapture. Sonnet LIII: Without Her. Sonnet LIV: Love's Fatality. Part II: Change and Fate. Sonnet LXIX: Autumn Idleness. Sonnet LXXVII: Soul's Beauty. Sonnet LXXVIII: Body's Beauty. Sonnet LXXXI: Memorial Thresholds. Sonnet LXXXII: Hoarded Joy. Sonnet XCVII: A Superscription. Sonnet CI: The One Hope. Nuptial Sleep. 'Found' (For a Picture). . 8. Christina G. Rossetti (1830-94). Remember. Goblin Market. . 9. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928):. Neutral Tones. Nature’s Questioning. The Impericipeint. In aEweleaze near Weatherbury. "I look into my glass’. A Broken Appointment. The Darkling Thrush. The Self-Unseeing.. 10. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89). The Wreck of the Deutschland. God's Grandeur. The Windhover. Pied Beauty. Binsey Poplars. Felix Randal. 'As Kingfishers Catch Fire'. Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves. 'Thou art indeed just, Lord'. . 11. A. E. Housman (1859-1936). From A Shropshire Lad. From Last Poems. . 12. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). The Stolen Child. Down by the Salley Gardens. The Rose of the World. The Lake Isle of Innisfree. When You Are Old. Who Goes with Fergus?. The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner. The Song of Wandering Aengus. He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven. Adam’s Curse. Red Hanrahans’s Song about Ireland.. Index of Titles and First Lines.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of Goethe
Book SynopsisGoethe established a major European reputation and profoundly influenced his contemporaries and literary successors, not least among them the British Romantic writers Coleridge, Scott, and Byron. Offers a comprehensive one-volume study of a major European literary figure. Deals in depth and detail with the totality of Goethe''s output and activity. Trade Review"The Life of Goethe admirably fills a gap in Goethe studies. John Williams provides a patient and thorough life-story." Alain de Botton "Williams's study of Goethe's life and letters is a welcome contribution to Goethe scholarship. By translating all German citations, quotations, and references into English, Williams makes Goethe accessible to the English-speaking audience. "The German Quarterly "Details importantly formative or influential are mentioned. All examples of significant experience conveyed in his poetry are given in both German as originally written and in English translation. "Psychological Reports "To attempt a critical biography of a writer of Goethe's stature is no mean task and John Williams has shown that he is more than equal to it. He has provided what must be one of the most scholarly and readable accounts in English of Goethe's life and massive achievement. The style is lively and energetic and the English translations of the Goethe quotations are always apt and remarkably close to the original. This is an excellent book, lucid and penetrating. Dr Williams is to be congratulated on this major contribution to Goethe scholarship and for the infectious way in which he communicates his knowledge of, and love for, his subject." Forum for Modern Language Studies "Intended for Germanists and non-Germanists alike, John Williams's The Life of Goethe: A Critical Biography deserves to go straight to the top of undergraduate reading lists. As a critical survey, it is hard to see this being surpassed." Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsList of Plates. Preface. 1. The Life. 2. The Lyric Poet. 3. The Dramatist. 4. The Novelist: Prose and Verse Narratives. 5. The Scientist. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Index to Goethe's Works.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Gothic
Book SynopsisThis Companion is a standard reference work for scholars and students of the Gothic from its origins to the present day. Providing stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy, it offers coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned.Trade Review"Anyone lucky enough to have this volume sitting on their shelves has instant access to the recent thinking of a long list of scholars who have led the way in Gothic studies. The book is a veritable Baedecker's guide that ranges from the historical Goths of the third century to Stephen King in the twentieth century; that explores dimensions of Gothic through painting and cinema, as well as written texts; that roams across Europe and America as well as the British Isles. Punter himself contributes a concise but stimulating introduction." Studies in Hogg and His World "The individual essays are narrow enough to describe discrete topics but useful to newcomer and scolar alike." "Punter's volume is sure to be a standard reference for some time to come for undergraduates and scholars." Choice "The book does not offer a house view of what Gothic is, but instead faithfully reproduces the status of current debates on the relevant genres. Many essays provide useful summaries of criticism or of primary texts; others offer new critical insights." Times Higher Education Supplement "Without foreclosing interpretative possibilities ... A Companion to the Gothic offers a range of strategies for understanding the genre, and is an excellent resource for students, teachers, and scholars of the Gothic." Gothic StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Ghost of a History. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. PART ONE. GOTHIC BACKGROUNDS. 1. In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture (Fred Botting). 2. The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic (Robin Sowerby). 3. European Gothic (Neil Cornwell). PART TWO. THE ‘ORIGINAL’ GOTHIC. 4. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis (Robert Miles). 5. Mary Shelley, Arthur of Frankenstein (Nora Crook). 6. Walter Scott, James Hogg and Scottish Gothic (Ian Duncan). 7. Irish Gothic: C.R. Maturin and J.S. LeFanu (Victor Sage). 8. The Political Culture of Gothic Drama (David Worrall). PART THREE. NINETEENTH-AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY TRANSMUTATIONS. 9. Nineteenth-Century American Gothic (Allan Lloyd-Smith). 10. The Ghost Story (Julia Briggs). 11. Gothic in the 1890s (Glennis Byron). 12. Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (William Hughes). 13. Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition (Clive Bloom). 14. Love Bites: Contemporary Women’s Vampire Fictions (Gina Wisker). 15. Gothic Film (Heidi Kaye). 16. Shape and Shadow: On Poetry and the Uncanny (David Punter). PART FOUR. GOTHIC THEORY AND GENRE. 17. Gothic Criticism (Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall). 18. Psychoanalysis and the Gothic (Michelle A. Massé). 19. Comic Gothic (Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik). PART FIVE. THE CONTINUING DEBATE. 20. Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics (Kate Ferguson Ellis). 21. Picture This: Stephen King’s Queer Gothic (Steven Bruhm). 22. Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation (Scott Brewster). 23. The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection (Jerrold E. Hogle). 24. The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic (Lucie Armitt). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reading the American Novel 1865 1914
Book SynopsisAn indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period. Locates American novels and stories within a specific historical and literary context Offers fresh analyses of key selected literary works Addresses a wide audience of academics and non-academics in clear, accessible prose Demonstrates the changing mentality of 19th-century America entering the 20th century Explores the relationship between the intellectual and artistic output of the time and the turbulent socio-political context Trade Review Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1 Toward the “Great American Novel”: Romance and Romanticism in the Age of Realism 9 2 Of Realism and Reality: Definitions and Contexts 25 3 Dramas of the Broken Teacup: American “Quiet” Realism 41 4 The Nature of Naturalism: Definitions and Backgrounds 55 5 Implacable Nature, Household Tragedy, and Epic Romance 73 6 Frank Norris: The Beast Within 91 7 The Rocking Horse Winners: Theodore Dreiser and Urban Naturalism 109 8 Subjective Realism: Stephen Crane’s Impressionist Fictions 125 9 Impressions of War: The Interior Battlefield 141 10 Sense and Sensibility: Sentimental Domesticity and “New Woman’s Fiction” 157 11 Domestic Feminism: The Problematic Louisa May Alcott 179 12 “All the Happy Endings”: Marriage, Insanity, and Suicide 195 13 Vulgarians at the Gate: Edith Wharton and the Collapse of Gentility 215 14 Tea-Table as Jungle: Henry James and “The Psychopathology of Everyday Life” 235 15 Economies of Pain: W. D. Howells 261 16 The “Gilded Age”: Genteel Critics and Militant Muckrakers 283 17 What Is An American? Regionalism and Race 299 18 The Territory Ahead: Emerging African American Voices 323 19 The “Dream of a Republic”: War, Reconstruction, and Future History 343 20 At the Modernist Margin: Mark Twain 367 Bibliographical Resources 387 Index 421
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Harvard University Press Jump Jim Crow Lost Plays Lyrics and Street Prose
Book SynopsisBeginning in the 1830s, white actor Thomas Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered—and forever transformed—American popular culture. Jump Jim Crow brings together for the first time the plays and songs performed in this guise and reveals how these texts code the complex use and abuse of blackness.Trade ReviewLhamon’s new Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture is a monumental labor of textual reconstruction matched by a long and extraordinary introduction. -- Robert Christgau * The Believer *Lhamon provides a superb follow-up to his outstanding Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop. This study focuses on the character of Jim Crow (a ‘cultural collage’) as evolved largely by actor Thomas D. Rice (1806–1860), before the meaning of the name became chiseled in stone… At the heart of the book are expertly and thoroughly edited texts of thirteen songs, nine plays (including the never-published Otello), and two street prose versions of Jim Crow’s life. These, along with illustrations and a perceptive, many-layered, and lengthy analytical introduction, make for the most complete offering of primary sources and criticism available to lead readers toward an understanding of these complex texts, their coding, and the controversial figure of Jim Crow. -- D. B. Wilmeth * Choice *In the developing field of Atlantic proletarian studies, and the associated study of minstrelsy and the minstrel stage, Jump Jim Crow is a milestone. Lhamon’s discovery of and scholarship upon the songs and plays is admirably painstaking and in many ways groundbreaking. He has made it easier to imagine this early stage of minstrelsy as a confluence of free-floating vernacular material with the local struggles among urban proto-classes; cliques, gangs, parties, and publics in the 1820s and ’30s. He has, in other words, built foundations under Constance Rourke’s intuition of sixty years ago that Jim Crow belongs with Crockett and Fink on the frontier—literally and figuratively—of the market revolution. Much of what has been theorized or imagined about the popular culture of the 1830s and ’40s from Rourke onwards emerges with new freshness and clarity in these texts, and some that has not yet been either theorized or imagined. -- Robert Cantwell, author of Bluegrass Breakdown and When We Were GoodScholars are belatedly coming to realize that minstrelsy is the source of much that we value in American vernacular music and much that we abhor in views that many white Americans have held and still hold toward African Americans. If we are to begin to understand either of these consuming issues, we must address minstrelsy. The topic is, in brief, of immense social, political, and cultural importance. Lhamon is the first to do full justice to the life, work, and politics of T. D. Rice, the most important early blackface minstrel, and his book is the first to collect in one resource extant plays and lyrics by Rice, many of which Lhamon has rediscovered. This book makes an important and impressive contribution to the field. -- Dale Cockrell, author of Demons of Disorder and Pasticcio and Temperance Plays in AmericaTable of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Introduction: An Extravagant and Wheeling Stranger Lateral Sufficiency Gumbo Cuff and the New York Desdemonas Change the Joke and Slip the Stereotype The Phases of Jim Crow's Runaway Stage Songs "Coal Black Rose" "The Original Jim Crow" "Jim Crow, Still Alive!!!" "Dinah Crow" "Jim Crow" (London) "De Original Jim Crow" "Jim Crow" (Boston) "All de Women Shout Loo! Loo!" "Clare de Kitchen" "Gombo Chaff" "Sich a Gitting Up Stairs" "Jim Crack Corn, or the Blue Tail Fly" "Settin' on a Rail, or, Racoon Hunt" Plays Oh! Hush! or, The Virginny Cupids! Virginia Mummy Bone Squash Flight to America The Peacock and the Crow Jim Crow in His New Place The Foreign Prince Yankee Notes for English Circulation Otello Street Prose "Life of Jim Crow" "A Faithful Account of the Life of Jim Crow the American Negro Poet" Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press Sinceritys Shadow
Book SynopsisEver since Wordsworth redefined poetry as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, poets in English have sought to represent a sincere self-consciousness through their work. Forbes's generative insight is that this project can only succeed by staging its own failures.Trade ReviewThe ambitious project undertaken by Deborah Forbes in Sincerity's Shadow is to reinvigorate sincerity as a critical concept...Overall...this is a wonderfully stimulating book, which should energize debate about poetic selfhood. * Year's Work in English Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Personal Universal Sincerity as Integrity in the Poetry of Wordsworth and Rich 2. Before and After Sincerity as Form in the Poetry of Wordsworth, Lowell, Rich, and Plath 3. Sincerity and the Staged Confession The Monologues of Browning, Eliot, Berryman, and Plath 4. The Drama of Breakdown and the Breakdown of Drama The Charismatic Poetry of Byron and Sexton 5. Agnostic Sincerity The Poet as Observer in the Work of Keats, Bishop, and Merrill Conclusion Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Emerson
Book SynopsisExamining the long shadow cast by Emerson, and his role and significance as a truly American institution, Buell conveys both the style and substance of Emerson’s accomplishment—in his conception of America as the transplantation of Englishness into the new world, and in his prodigious work as writer, religious thinker, and philosopher.Trade ReviewThis is a splendid book, an important one, and one that will have wide appeal. This will be an indispensable book on Emerson, putting the keys to that complex man and his work into the reader's hand. If you want to know why we are still reading and talking about Emerson, start here. -- Robert Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire and Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind.Lawrence Buell has made it his business to set forth exciting new lines of inquiry. He has done so once again: bringing Emerson up to date, moving him away from a nation-based paradigm, and firing him up as an entry point to a global, cross-lingual circuit. -- Wai Chee Dimock, author of Empire for Liberty.This book is a literary-cultural event: the harvest of the past half-century of Emersonian revaluations and the harbinger, guide, and provocation for the next generations of Emerson scholars and critics. One cannot call a work on Emerson definitive, even provisionally, but I cannot imagine that any Americanist - or for that matter, anyone interested in America, specialist or non-specialist -- will be able to do without this book in the foreseeable future. -- Sacvan Bercovitch, author of The American Jeremiad, and The Puritan Origins of the American Self.This a splendid book, an important one, and one that will have wide appeal. This will be an indispensable book on Emerson, putting the keys to that complex man and his work into the reader's hand. If you want to know why we are still reading and talking about Emerson, start here. -- Robert Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire and Henry Thoreau: A Life of the MindLawrence Buell has made it his business to set forth exciting new lines of inquiry. He has done so once again: bringing Emerson up to date, moving him away from a nation-based paradigm, and firing him up as an entry point to a global, cross-lingual circuit. -- Wai Chee Dimock, author of Empire for LibertyThis book is a literary-cultural event: the harvest of the past half-century of Emersonian revaluations and the harbinger, guide, and provocation for the next generations of Emerson scholars and critics. One cannot call a work on Emerson definite, even provisionally, but I cannot imagine that any Americanist--or, for that matter, anyone interested in America, specialist or nonspecialist--will be able to do without this book in the foreseeable future. -- Sacvan Bercovitch, author of The American Jeremaid and The Puritan Origins of the American SelfI learned from and greatly enjoyed reading Lawrence Buell's Emerson. -- Susan Sontag * Times Literary Supplement *Lawrence Buell has written a comprehensive, penetrating and timely study, the distillation of a lifetime's scholarship, of this great thinker and writer, 'the poet of ordinary days,' as his disciple, John Dewey, beautifully called him. -- John Banville * Irish Times *In this book Buell distills a lifetime of study and teaching on Emerson. Its tone is easy and confident, friendly and inviting, and Buell's aim is to share his admiration for America's first public intellectual with a new generation of readers. -- P. J. Ferlazzo * Choice *In this book Lawrence Buell shows us why Emerson remains worth reading in our own time...What Buell has to say here about Emerson is not only persuasive but also consistently interesting, surprisingly original...and, best of all, written in straightforward, lucid language...Buell's discussion of the relationship between Emerson and his prize pupil, Henry David Thoreau, is brilliant. -- Daniel W. Howe * Common-Place *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Used in This Book Introduction 1. The Making of a Public Intellectual 2. Emersonian Self-Reliance in Theory and Practice 3. Emersonian Poetics 4. Religious Radicalisms 5. Emerson as a Philosopher? 6. Social Thought and Reform: Emerson and Abolition 7. Emerson as Anti-Mentor Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University, Asia Center The Beauty and the Book Women and Fiction in
Book SynopsisThis study of Chinese women in the book trade begins with three case studies, each of which probes one facet of the relationship between women and fiction in the early 19th century. Building on these studies, the second half of the book focuses on the many sequels to the Dream of the Red Chamber and the significance of this novel for women.
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Harvard University, Asia Center The Uses of Memory
Book SynopsisThe writer Higuchi Ichiyō (1872–1896) has been described as a consummate stylist of classical prose. Timothy Van Compernolle investigates the social dimensions of Ichiyo’s imagination and argues that she reworked the Japanese literary tradition in order to understand and critique the emerging modernity of the Meiji period.
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Harvard University, Asia Center Practices of the Sentimental Imagination
Book SynopsisBy examining the obscured histories of publication, circulation, and reception of widely consumed literary works from late Edo to the early Meiji period, Zwicker traces a genealogy of the literary field across a long nineteenth century: one that stresses continuities between the generic conventions of early modern fiction and the modern novel.
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Harvard University Press Affecting Fictions
Book SynopsisThrailkill offers a new understanding of late-nineteenth-century American literary realism that draws on neuroscience and cognitive psychology, positioning her argument against the emotionless interpretations of the New Critics.Trade ReviewThis is a truly important project of reading realism through somatic experience, including sensation, aesthetics, and physiology. Thrailkill offers bold interpretations of the relations between corporality and realism. Working at the intersections of modernity, genre, and history, Thrailkill challenges us to incorporate "physiological thinking" into our theories of affect and reading realism's effects on the body. An impressive response to the explosion of work on sentimental and sensational fictions. -- Dale Bauer, Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Thrailkill opens up fresh ways of thinking about our whole aesthetic experience—meaning our whole body-and-mind experience—by combining contemporary theories of emotion with surprising readings of literature and philosophy from a century ago. The book excitingly reorients our understanding American literary realism, and it uses this literature to advance our current discussions of the place of affect in writing and reading. -- Randall Knoper, author of Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of PerformanceTable of ContentsIntroduction: The "Affective Fallacy" Fallacy The Entanglements of Two Cultures Literature and Neurology, 1860-1910 Rethinking Emotion 1. "The Zest, the Tingle, the Excitement of Reality" Toward a New Conceptual Genealogy for American Literary Realism "Being Moved": Modernity, Evolution, and the Reflex Arc Laughter, Reflection, and Realization in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2. Statistical Pity: Elsie Venner and the Controversy over Childbed Fever The Case against Contagion Representing "Ontological Shadows" Holmes's "Algebra of Human Nature" Pathological Particularity in the Novel Coda: Anecdote and Abstraction 3. Fear and Epistemology: Tracking the Train of Feeling in A Mortal Antipathy From Physiognomy to Physiology Excess and Dissolution of the Nervous System Embodied Memory and the Pathogenic Secret The Forensic Self 4. Nervous Effort: Gilman, Crane, and the Psychophysical Pathologies of Everyday Life Freud, Feminist Reading, and Interrogative Criticism A Physiological Approach to Nervousness Effort, Agitation, Aesthetics Fracture and Fabrication: Crane's The Red Badge of Courage Coda: Reconstruction and "The Yellow Wallpaper" 5. "Mindless" Pleasure: Embodied Music in The Awakening and Theron Ware New Varieties of Religious Experience Theron Ware and the Ironic Rhythm of the Sick Soul Kate Chopin's Lyrical "Gospel of Relaxation" Music and the Sounding Board of the Body The Rhythm of Desire in The Awakening The Pleasures of "The Storm" 6. Corporeal Wonder: The Occult Entrancements of The Wings of the Dove Charming Milly From Trance to Transference--and Back Again William James and Mrs. Piper: The Medium Is the Message "Tremendous Rites of Nullification" Conclusion: Burning Issues Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest
Book SynopsisThe Annotated Importance of Being Earnest provides facing-page commentary on Oscar Wilde’s greatest play. Editor Nicholas Frankel highlights the play’s relation to the author’s homosexuality and to the climate of sexual repression that led to Wilde’s imprisonment just months after the play’s London opening in 1895.Trade Review[This] edition admirably achieves its stated aim to enlarge the understanding and pleasure of readers and students of Wilde’s most perfect, most studied, and most frequently performed play. -- John Sloan * The Wildean *Frankel’s command of all the relevant materials—textual, literary-critical, historical, biographical—is impressive, and he puts that knowledge to splendid use in The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest. -- Stephen Arata, University of VirginiaAn excellent edition with new insights and superb annotations that continues Frankel’s lively and important work on Wilde. -- Linda Peterson, Yale University
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Harvard University Press Declaring His Genius
Book SynopsisArriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had “nothing to declare but my genius.” But Wilde was, rarely for him, underselling himself. A chronicle of his sensational 11-month speaking tour of America, this book offers an indelible portrait of both Wilde and the Gilded Age.Trade ReviewOscar Wilde's year-long lecture-tour of America was a major cultural event—a Victorian precursor to the British Invasion of the 1960s. Wilde came like an apostle, preaching the gospel of Art, and he left an indelible mark on America, just as America did on the mind of Wilde himself. Morris's is a much-needed and highly enjoyable account, distinguished by wit and insight as much as by his singular command of rarely-told facts. -- Nicholas Frankel, editor of The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored EditionMorris chronicles a year in the life of Irish dandy and belletrist Wilde, who, at age 27, was bent on invading America the way Dickens had a generation before… Wilde was a self-promoting genius, Morris writes, 'created, cultivated and commodified,' like celebrities today. He hadn't yet written his famous works or openly embraced gayness, but in his elaborate, precious outfits, sporting sunflowers and lilies, dropping affected bons mots for journalists to scoop up as he instructed American audiences with authority on 'The Beautiful' and 'The Artistic Character of the English Renaissance,' Wilde was challenging traditional notions of masculinity and also creating his celebrity… A fondly erudite look at a young, likable celebrity in the making. * Kirkus Reviews *[A] delightful account of the tour. -- Anthony Paletta * Daily Beast *When he arrived in New York in January 1882, Oscar Wilde is supposed to have told customs officials: 'I have nothing to declare except my genius.' Roy Morris's contention is that the then 27-year-old Wilde's American tour marked the beginning of the modern cult of celebrity. Wilde, Morris writes, made quite an impression on his American hosts, 'who were naturally predisposed to appreciate rugged individualism in even its most exotic forms.' * New Statesman *Declaring His Genius...is as entertaining a tour through Gilded Age America as Wilde's own journey must have been. -- Adam Kirsch * Barnes and Noble Review *[A] terrifically engaging biographical study...Though a rigorous historian, Morris is at heart a storyteller, and Declaring His Genius is so packed with 19th-century curiosities that it at time reads like an oral history by a contemporary of Twain's, if not by Twain himself. The book is full of digressions, creating a colorful tableau of American characters and their stories. -- Martin Riker * Wall Street Journal *A panorama of life on the road in the Gilded Age. -- Owen Richardson * Sydney Morning Herald *If we think of Wilde in America, it is of a preening show-off announcing at customs that 'I have nothing to declare but my genius'; and going on to epigrammatize his way across the continent. The valuable point made by Morris is that beneath the performance--and it was one, with Wilde conscientiously playing the mocker's role the public paid to see, and the public collecting its due of pleasurable annoyance--there was something deeper. Elaborate mask aside, Wilde possessed an eye that was both avid and innocent; and if there was much in America and Americans to criticize, there was much that surprised, instructed, and pleased him. -- Richard Eder * Boston Globe *[A] delightful romp. -- Fred Setterberg * San Francisco Chronicle *Morris tells the story with verve. It is difficult not to be amused by Wilde's encounter with the ebullient Leadville miners or the dour Jefferson Davis...It is delightful and in depth. Recommended both for those new to Wilde, and for his well-informed fans. -- David Azzolina * Library Journal *Enlightening and entertaining. -- Brooke Allen * New Criterion *Roy Morris Jr.'s exhaustive narrative chronicles everywhere [Wilde] went [in America], everyone he met and (almost) everything he ate. While this is very much a book for Wilde devotees, it still contains valuable insights into the media event that quickly became a blueprint for aspiring celebrities in all walks of life...Wilde may have been an incurable show-off, but Morris's blow-by-blow account shows that he was also an unusually kind man. He never used his wit to humiliate people, only to entertain them. Many Americans came along expecting to jeer at him and were quickly won over by his warm and robust personality...[The book] deserves credit for shedding new light on a period which many Wilde biographers have treated as a frivolous curtain-raiser before the main event. -- Andrew Lynch * Business Post *Roy Morris Jr. treats us to a lively account of Wilde's rollicking tour through post-Civil War America, fleshing out the varied impressions of contemporary newspaper reports with fascinating digressions on the cast of characters Wilde met along the way. -- Justin Beplate * Literary Review *Morris…paints a vivid portrait of Oscar Wilde’s 1882 tour of the U.S. His book is at once a scholarly and thoroughly researched text and an engaging--almost novelistic--narrative that academic researchers and the reading public alike can appreciate. It is replete with fascinating and amusing stories of Wilde’s encounters with Americans from all walks of life and social and economic classes; literature enthusiasts are likely to be particularly interested in tales of his meetings with the likes of Walt Whitman and Henry James. Stories of his ruffling feathers and winning admirers, challenging expectations and changing minds fill these pages of this captivating, must-read book. -- M. E. DiPaolo * Choice *
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Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies On the Wonders of Land and Sea
Book SynopsisOn the Wonders of Land and Sea is a comparative study of travel writers in the eastern Islamic world from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Situating texts in their socio-historical contexts, the essays study works by male and female Muslim and Parsi/Zoroastrian travelers in the Hijaz, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Europe.
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Harvard University Press On Modern Poetry
Book SynopsisGuido Mazzoni tells the story of poetry’s revolution in the modern age. The chief transformation was the rise of the lyric as it is now conceived: a genre in which a first-person speaker talks about itself. Mazzoni argues that modern poetry embodies the age of the individual and has wrought profound changes in the expectations of readers.Trade ReviewA valuable text…It is, at its core, a rich literature review circling what Mazzoni goes to great lengths to illustrate is the slipperiness of its subject. Modern poetry becomes no clearer after the author’s rigorous analysis, but as a continued step in the inscrutable analysis of poetry, On Modern Poetry offers a necessary and well-rehearsed step forward. -- Anthony DeGenaro * Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature *In this sweeping comparative study, Guido Mazzoni shows how poetry’s fate in the post-Romantic world reflects the individualism of modern Western society: atomized by small differences, narcissistic, ‘free.’ His sociological reading of modern poetry goes well beyond the conventional approach of matching poems and poets with local context. It discusses an entire corpus against the largest historical backdrop. Revelatory and often troubling, On Modern Poetry is criticism of the highest order. -- David Quint, author of Epic and EmpireRanging widely across European and American verse traditions, Guido Mazzoni maps the space of a modern poetry fundamentally determined by the Romantic revolution of self-expression. He shrewdly illuminates the ways in which modern poetry departs from earlier poetic conventions, shaped indelibly by the paradoxes of modern life. -- Jonathan Culler, author of Theory of the LyricThis is a book that many people will want to read, and a book that contemporary scholars should read. Tackling the uneven historical development of ‘Western’ ideas of lyric, On Modern Poetry is engaged in exactly the conversation those of us interested in the field of poetics need to have right now. I, for one, am grateful for Mazzoni’s many contributions. -- Virginia Jackson, author of Dickinson’s Misery: A Theory of Lyric ReadingThis richly erudite book isn’t shy about its provocative thesis. Modern poetry, Mazzoni argues, diverges from both earlier poetic forms and the novel by virtue of its relentless drive toward subjectivism, autobiographism, and egocentrism. Charting the gaudy triumph of lyric individuation, he ranges impressively across two hundred years of canonical poetry in English, Italian, French, German, and Spanish. -- Jahan Ramazani, author of Poetry in a Global Age
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Harvard University Press Emily Dickinson
Book SynopsisIn this inventive work on Emily Dickinson's poetry, Cristanne Miller traces the roots of Dickinson's unusual, compressed, ungrammatical, and richly ambiguous style, finding them in sources as different as the New Testament and the daily patterns of women's speech. Dickinson writes as she does both because she is steeped in the great patriarchal texts of her culture, from the Bible and hymns to Herbert's poetry and Emerson's prose, and because she is conscious of writing as a woman in an age and culture that assume great and serious poets are male. Miller observes that Dickinson's language deviates from normal construction along definable and consistent lines; consequently it lends itself to the categorical analysis of an interpretive grammar such as the one she has constructed in this book. In order to facilitate the reading of Dickinson's poems and to reveal the values and assumptions behind the poet's manipulations of language, Miller examines in this grammar how specific elements of the poet's style tend to function in various contexts. Because many, especially modernist, poets use some of the same techniques, the grammar throws light on the poetic syntax of other writers as well. In the course of her analysis, Miller draws not only on traditional historical and linguistic sources but also on current sociolinguistic studies of gender and speech and on feminist descriptions of women's writing. Dickinson's language, she concludes, could almost have been designed as a model for twentieth-century theories of what a women's language might be. As a critical examination of the relationship between linguistic style and literary identity in America's greatest woman poet, Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar provides a significant addition to feminist literary studies.Trade ReviewCristanne Miller’s study is…densely researched and…living and contemporary in its readings of the poems. Miller works from the assumption that Dickinson sees herself ‘oppositionally, defining her position in the world negatively, by distance from some social construct or law’. And Miller shows how those negations have a constructive role. -- Tom Paulin * London Review of Books *By returning us to fundamental issues of style, Miller focuses our attention on the relation between gender identity and literary creation… The accuracy of insight Miller brings to bear on Dickinson’s ‘cryptic revelations’ compels us to turn again to the poems to assess the revolutionary force of Dickinson’s gender-inflected, elliptic grammar of disguise. -- Joanne Feit Diehl * Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature *Miller is such an exciting reader… Close and thoughtful interpretation is combined with good humor throughout [the book]… [It] is readable and often delightful. Like Dickinson herself, Miller is quietly full of surprise… Cristanne Miller discovers Dickinson ‘in words (her own)’ (to use Adrienne Rich’s phrase); she sees a self-conscious, determined, decisive Emily Dickinson, not someone so stricken with grief or pain or even her own sensitivity that she doesn’t quite know what she’s doing or what she’s writing. Reminding us that Dickinson called her poems her ‘letter to the World,’ Miller views the poems as communicative, not solipsistic, acts. -- Martha Nell Smith * Women’s Review of Books *This grammar is neither too dry nor reductive nor abstract. Rather, it provides a way to organize Miller’s insights into the particular moments and larger implications of Dickinson’s art… Miller’s understanding of Dickinson as a woman poet is especially convincing, especially compelling… A fine book: satisfying and stimulating. -- Suzanne Juhasz * Legacy *Emily Dickinson: A Poet’s Grammar will be especially welcome… Miller’s study ultimately shows the linguistic canniness and aesthetic consciousness with which Emily Dickinson consistently distilled ‘amazing sense/From ordinary Meanings.’ -- Sandra M. Gilbert * American Literary Realism *Miller shows readers what is actually at stake in this idiosyncratic verse and maps better than anyone to date the links between the grammatical choices and literary identity. -- David Porter * Nineteenth-Century Literature *Reading this book makes one realize just how clumsy our approach to Dickinson’s poetry has always been. Rather than casting about for specific referents for Dickinson’s highly ambiguous references, Miller provides a method for understanding and appreciating the extraordinary suggestiveness of Dickinson’s work… This text should revise our approach to Dickinson, laying the groundwork for the meticulous examination of fundamental language use that her poems demand. * Choice *Table of ContentsLetters to the World A Grammar Texts of the Poems Compression Disjunction Repetition Syntax Speech Reading the Poems "He fumbles at your Soul" "This was a Poet--It Is That" "My Life had stood -- a Loaded Gun" "To pile like Thunder to it's close" Names and Verbs: Influences on the Poets Language The Language of the Bible Seventeenth-Century Stylists The Hymns of Isaac Watts The American Plain Style Emerson's Theories of Language Noah Webster and Lexicography Nineteenth-Century Women Writers The Consent of Language and the Woman Poet Notes Index of First Lines Index
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Harvard University, Asia Center Plucking Chrysanthemums
Book SynopsisMatthew Fraleigh examines the life and works of Narushima Ryuhoku (18371884): Confucian scholar, world traveler, pioneering journalist, and irrepressible satirist. This is the first book-length study of Ryuhoku in a Western language and one of the first Western-language monographs to examine Sinitic poetry and prose composition in modern Japan.Trade ReviewJapan’s preeminent poet and social critic in the two decades leading up to the advent of the modern novel, Narushima Ryūhoku is today sadly relegated to the backwaters of literary history. Fraleigh’s beautifully written and precisely documented history of the writer’s turn from samurai to official ‘field’ journalist leads the reader to consider how literary discourses would come, albeit briefly, to inform the political and economic realities of late nineteenth-century Japan. Highly recommended for all students of classical and modern Asian culture. -- Robert Campbell, University of TokyoJust as Narushima Ryūhoku was one of the preeminent writers of his era in the realm of Sinitic Japanese literature (kanshibun), so has his biographer Matthew Fraleigh become a leader among the growing number of scholars working to revive this once vibrant literary space. Plucking Chrysanthemums and its companion work, New Chronicles of Yanagibashi and Diary of a Journey to the West, at once compellingly elucidate kanshibun texts and vividly describe the culture in which they were created and received. -- H. Mack Horton, University of California, BerkeleyWith Matthew Fraleigh’s new book, a great oversight in the tale of Japan’s early road to modernity is now finally being remedied. His study demonstrates the importance of kanbun as a written language of nineteenth-century modernization and drives home the forgotten truth that, if we wish to grasp more fully the mindsets of Japanese caught in the transition toward the modern age, we must also read the vast output of Sinitic poetry and prose of the Meiji period. Narushima Ryūhoku is indeed an emblematic figure in this process. -- Ivo Smits, Leiden UniversityA work of enormous erudition that brings to readers in vivid detail the remarkable and varied life of this significant but often neglected figure of Japan’s late nineteenth century. Ryūhoku’s life, and Fraleigh’s recounting of that life, suggest the rich complexity of this period. -- Jonathan Zwicker * Monumenta Nipponica *
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Harvard University Press Poetry Manuscripts of Harvard Belknap Press
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsEditor's Introduction The Living Hand of Keats: An Essay on the Manuscripts, by Helen Vendler Facsimiles of the Holographs 1. On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Same Ladies (fair copy) 2. Happy is England! I could be content (fair copy) 3. To My Brother George (pencil draft) 4. To My Brother George (flair copy) 5. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (draft or early fair copy) 6. To My Brothers (pencil draft) 1-8 7. To My Brothers (fair copy) 8. To My Brothers (fair copy) 9. Addressed to the Same [B. R. Haydon] (fair copy) 10. To G. A. W (fair copy) 11. I stood tip-toe upon a little hill (parts of the draft) 12. I stood tip-toe upon a little hill (fair copy) 13. Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition (draft) 14. On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt (fair copy) 15. To the Ladies Who Saw Me Crown'd (fair copy) 16. To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles (fair copy) 17. On Seeing the Elgin Marbles (fair copy) 18. God of the golden bow (draft) 19. On a Leander Which Miss Reynolds, My Kind Friend, Gave Me (draft) 20. O grant that like to Peter I (draft and revision) 21. Apollo to the Graces (draft?) 22. Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair (draft) 23. Lines on the Mermaid Tavern (fair copy) 24. To. J. R. (draft?) 25. Isabella (parts of the draft) 26. There is a joy in footing slow across a silent plain (draft?) 27. Hush, hush, tread softly, hush, hush, my dear (draft?) 28. The Eve of St. Agnes (draft) 29. Song of Four Fairies (fair copy) 30. Shed no tear-O shed no tear (fair copy?) 31. Otho the Great (parts of the draft) 32. Lamia (parts of the draft) 33. Lamia (fair copy) 34. To Autumn (draft) 35. To Fanny (draft) 36. King Stephen (parts of the draft) 37. The Jealousies (parts of the draft) 38. This living hand, now warm and capable (draft) 39. Notes to the Manuscripts
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