Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
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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Harvard University, Asia Center The Chinese Political Novel
Book SynopsisFocusing on its adaptation in the Chinese context, Catherine Vance Yeh traces the rise of the political novel to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s. Yeh explores in detail the tensions characteristic of transcultural processes, among them the dynamics through which a particular, and seemingly local, literary genre goes global.
£42.46
Harvard University Press The Passion of Emily Dickinson
Book SynopsisIn a profound new analysis of Dickinson's life and work, Judith Farr explores the desire, suffering, exultation, spiritual rapture, and intense dedication to art that characterize Dickinson's poems, deciphering their many complex and witty references to texts and paintings of the day.Trade ReviewFarr...is one of the most intelligent and authoritative guides to this extraordinary American poet. -- Paul Delany * New York Times Book Review *Well-argued and eloquently written...Farr's study contributes essential cultural and historical contexts and offers superb readings of Dickinson's letters and lyrics. For these reasons, The Passion of Emily Dickinson enriches our understanding of one of the greatest and most enigmatic of American poets. -- Stephanie A. Tingley * American Literature *A richly revealing contribution...[with] eye-opening readings of' Dickinson's poems. -- Jane Donahue Eberwein * Belles Lettres *I admire [the book’s] even temperament… Farr admirably avoids ideological rigidity, even while acknowledging, and adopting, strengths of particular advocates. Her relating Dickinson to nineteenth-century American art is a major contribution. -- R. W. Franklin, editor of The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum EditionFarr has opened new ground in our understanding of the poetry. I find entirely convincing her consideration of the relationships with Hudson River and Luminist painting in the period. -- John Wilmerding * Princeton University *Table of Contents*1. The Hidden Face *2. Solitary Mornings on the Sea *3. The Narrative of Sue *4. The Narrative of Master *5. A Vision of Forms *6. Art as Life * Abbreviations * Appendix: Poems for Sue and Poems for Master * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index of First Lines * Index
£25.16
Harvard University Press Representative Men
Book SynopsisAs Judith Shklar has pointed out, Emerson built Representative Men around the principle of ‘rotation,’ which had become a political axiom in Jacksonian America—the idea that no man, no matter how imposing, should be accorded permanent authority. Representative Men honors the language of democracy in its very title.Table of ContentsHistorical Introduction Statement of Editorial Principles Textual Introduction REPRESENTATIVE MEN: SEVEN LECTURES 1. Uses of Great Men 2. Plato, or the Philosopher Plato: New Readings 3. Swedenborg, or the Mystic 4. Montaigne, or the Skeptic 5. Shakspeare, or the Poet 6. Napoleon, or the Man of the World 7. Goethe, or the Writer Notes Textual Apparatus Annex A: The Manuscript Appendix 1: The 1850 Compositors Appendix 2: Revisions in the Manuscript Annex B: Parallel Passages Index
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Harvard University Press Shelleys Major Verse
Book SynopsisShelley has long been viewed as a dreamer isolated from reality, a beautiful and ineffectual angel, in Arnold's words. In contrast, Sperry's book emphasizes the life forces originating in the poet's childhood that impelled and shaped his career, and reasserts Shelley's relevance to the social and cultural dilemmas of contemporary life.Trade ReviewTo trace the life force of his poetry and its transformation and efflorescence in the course of his development, Sperry has taken Shelley’s eight major poetic works—Queen Mab, Alastor, The Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound Acts I–IV, The Cenci, The Witch of Atlas, Epipsychidion, and The Triumph of Love—and examined them chronologically within the context of the poet’s life. Supported by impeccable scholarship, Sperry’s incisive analyses illuminate for modern readers not only Shelley the poet but Shelley the man. -- Sharon Wong * Library Journal *One of the finest books on Shelley to appear in recent years. Its special strength lies in its elucidation of Shelley’s extreme idealism. Sperry finds in the major poetry life-values that are not only defensible but even prophetic for both individuals and societies. -- Donald H. ReimanTable of ContentsPreface 1. Our Proper Destiny: Queen Mab 2. Broodings in Solitude: Alastor 3. The Triumph of Love: The Revolt of Islam 4. The Human Situation: Prometheus Unbound, Act I 5. Hope and Necessity: Prometheus Unbound, Act II 6. The Transforming Harmony: Prometheus Unbound, Acts III and IV 7. Sad Reality: The Cenci 8. Romantic Irony: The Witch of Atlas 9. Love's Universe: Epipsychidion 10. Tragic Irony: The Triumph of Lift Notes Index
£63.71
Harvard University Press Inventing Edward Lear
Book SynopsisEdward Learthe father of nonsensewrote some of the best-loved poems in English. He was also admired as a naturalist, landscape painter, travel writer, and composer. Awkward but funny, absurdly sympathetic, Lear invented himself as a Victorian character. Sara Lodge offers a moving account of one of the era's most influential creative figures.Trade ReviewInventing Edward Lear is an exceptional, valuable, original study, presenting new materials on aspects of Lear’s life and work. -- Jenny Uglow, author of Mr. Lear and The Lunar MenSets the standard for future work. This is criticism that, far from smashing its subject into submission, brings Lear’s poetry, art and music to life, lighting up the imagination and inviting us to revisit the songs and limericks we think we know from childhood. -- Anna Barton * Times Literary Supplement *Deeply knowledgeable and sharply written…Lodge has not written a biography of Lear, though her book is full of biographical information. It is more a study in contexts, returning Lear to the local sources from which his apparently autonomous imaginative world originally gathered its strength…[A] rich and sympathetic book. -- Seamus Perry * Literary Review *This is a dazzling book, certainly the best study of Lear yet written. -- Richard Cronin, University of GlasgowBrilliantly original and deeply researched, Sara Lodge’s account of Lear’s tragicomic life and work will confirm his standing among the greatest of the Victorians. -- Dinah Birch, University of LiverpoolEdward Lear is one of those figures that everyone knows but few know much about. Lodge’s book represents a delightfully crisp and engaging introduction to Lear’s whole artistic career without losing sight of the humour and zest that keep him close to the hearts of adults and children alike. Never did nonsense make so much sense. -- Jon Mee, University of YorkSeeks to capture the multiple facets of Lear’s talent…The great achievement of Lodge’s richly illustrated and carefully researched and referenced work is to convey the reach and rigor of Lear’s ‘concrete and fastidious’ mind alongside his discomfiting combination of dazzling self-confidence and intense self-loathing. -- Ranti Williams * Standpoint *An elegant, well-considered romp. * Providence Journal *Lodge brings to this wide-ranging study of Edward Lear (1812–88) a combination of erudition and enthusiasm. * Choice *
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Harvard University Press Beginning at the End
Book SynopsisRobert Stilling shows how aestheticism’s decadence became a key idea in postcolonial thought, describing the failures of revolutionary nationalism and asserting cosmopolitanism in poetry and art. Breaking down the boundaries around decadent literature, he takes it outside Europe and emphasizes the global reach of its imaginative transgressions.Trade ReviewGives new and global life to decadence…This is a deeply learned and original work that shows the necessity of bringing modernist and postcolonial studies together. -- Citation for First Book Prize, Modernist Studies AssociationIn a series of brilliant readings, Robert Stilling offers a new understanding of anticolonial anglophone cultural production, one in which liberatory aims are best served, counterintuitively, not by the nationalist arts of social realism but rather by a cosmopolitan modernist poetics of decadence: arts and literatures that celebrate the aesthetic for its own sake. -- Citation for Honorable Mention, First Book Prize, Modern Language AssociationA dazzling confluence of fin-de-siècle aesthetics and postcolonial thought. -- Robert Volpicelli * Modernism/modernity *One of the joys of Beginning at the End is its provision of fresh and surprising perspectives on canonical figures of literary decadence by embedding their writing in the material contexts of colonialism and postcolonial criticism. -- Conor Linnie * Irish Studies Review *This book presents a highly timely contribution to our understanding of modernism, decadence, and postcolonial literary history. Ranging impressively over a global frame of reference, and joining the wrongly divorced sensibilities of modernism and decadence, Stilling shows how a modernist poetics of decadence may serve equally to record a process of decline in history and a register of critique of those developments. This is a major work of literary history. -- Vincent Sherry, Washington University in St. LouisStilling argues that late-nineteenth-century ‘decadent’ writing—its styles, governing tropes, and ways of imagining the past—have proven crucial to poets, playwrights, and visual artists whom we now call postcolonial. These are artists whose subjects include new nations, immigrants, people of color, the new global economy, and new international relations, and decadence has helped them to address these topics without illusions and after the failure of simplist or ill-fated realist or revolutionary programs. This is a book that scholars across the discipline are going to have to read. -- Stephanie Burt, Harvard UniversityRobert Stilling is at the forefront of a group of scholars exploring the powerful legacy of fin-de-siècle culture in twentieth-century art and literature. Beginning at the End convincingly demonstrates that decadent texts and imagery were central to the project of postcolonial writing, and carried a political charge that few others have noticed. It will figure in discussions of both decadence and global modernism for many years to come. -- Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah
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Harvard University Press Selling the Story
Book SynopsisEvery writer is a player in the marketplace for literature. Jonathan Paine locates the economics ingrained within the stories themselves, showing how the business of literature affects even storytelling devices such as genre, plot, and repetition. In this new model of criticism, the text is a record of its author’s sales pitch.Trade ReviewThis is a remarkable, pathbreaking book. I found myself consistently challenged and engaged by its arguments. The book is most impressive in its suggestions as to how economic concerns are represented through strictly literary devices. Paine shows how works are shaped by their authors’ position in regard to literary value. He fascinatingly recasts what it means to read The Brothers Karamazov, and offers a genuinely new approach to Dostoevsky, Balzac, and Zola. -- Eric Naiman, University of California, BerkeleyPaine’s survey of these three novelists is masterful…As he depicts them, Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Zola are neither puppets of an inexorable free market nor puppeteers of their readers’ false consciousness. Instead, Paine shows how economic concerns, as one guiding force among many, influenced their creative impulses, but did not—in naive Marxian fashion—overdetermine them…[A] considerable achievement. -- Marta Figlerowicz * Public Books *Jonathan Paine provides a breath of fresh air for nineteenth-century fiction studies, especially for studies of Dostoevsky. -- William Mills Todd III, Harvard UniversityScrupulously situates each text within its historical context and adroitly mobilizes pertinent histories of finance and business…effectively demonstrates the importance of social, cultural, and economic history for literary analysis. -- Erika Vause * Journal of Modern History *An interesting, well-written consideration of important relationships between authors and their public in the 19th century. * Choice *
£34.81
Princeton University Press Shifting the Blame
Book SynopsisDrawing on legal cases, legal debates, and fiction including works by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Charles Chesnutt, thsi book investigates changing notions of responsibility and agency in nineteenth-century America.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction3Ch. 2A Clear Showing: The Problem of Fault in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers15Ch. 3Negligence before the Mast: Ship Collisions and the Nautical Literature of the Mid-Nineteenth Century35Ch. 4"Nobody to Blame": Steamboat Accidents and Responsibility in Twain65Ch. 5The Law of the Good Samaritan: Cross-Racial Rescue in Stephen Crane and Charles Chesnutt98Ch. 6Stop, Look, and Listen: The Signs and Signals of the Railroad Accident133Ch. 7Epilogue159Notes171Index193
£78.20
Princeton University Press Men in Wonderland
Book SynopsisFascination with little girls pervaded Victorian culture. For many, girls represented the true essence of childhood or bygone times of innocence; but for middle-class men, especially writers, the interest ran much deeper. This title explores the ways in which various nineteenth-century British male authors constructed girlhood.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2001 "What is new about Robson's argument is her contention that for many well-to-do men the image of perfect childhood, lost and desired, remained feminine... Understood this way, the idealisation of little girls in Victorian culture is an attempt to repossess the remembered self rather than a wish for sexual possession of the other."--Dinah Birch, London Review of Books "[An] illuminating study of the relationships that existed between little girls and a whole synod of Victorian middle-class men... What Robson detects in these men is less paedophilic desire and more a melancholy sense of something lost... Ruskin, Carroll, and their fellow enthusiasts, she contends, were chasing their own pasts."--Matthew Sweet, Independent on Sunday "This wide-ranging, penetrating investigation contributes significantly to the areas of childhood and gender studies, and 19th century British social history."--Library Journal "Robson skillfully interweaves the tales of these two seminal Victorian [Ruskin and Carroll] with discussion of child-labour legislation, painting, literature and conduct books."--Gill Gregory, Times Literary Supplement "An important addition... Well written, scrupulously researched."--Choice "[Victorians] certainly had a complicated relationship with sexuality and the young. This book can be recommended for throwing at least some new light on this troubled topic."--Nicholas Tucker, Times Higher Education Supplement "A provocative addition to ongoing debates about gender and subjectivity."--Christine Roth, Nineteenth Century Studies "An excellent book ... powerfully and persuasively written ... free of jargon, rich in its scholarship, and fully in touch with recent work in a burgeoning field. In all, it is a valuable addition to a growing list of books that help us see the Victorians and their world in fresher, richer ways."--Carole G. Silver, Nineteenth-Century LiteratureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION 3 CHAPTER ONE Of Prisons and ngrown Girls: Wordsworth, De Quincey, and Constructions of the Lost Self of Childhood 16 CHAPTER TWO The Ideal Girl in Industrial England 46 CHAPTER THREE The Stones of Childhood: Ruskin's "Lost Jewels" 94 CHAPTER FOUR Lewis Carroll and the Little Girl: The Art of Self-Effacement 129 CHAPTER FIVE A "New 'Cry of the Children' ": Legislating Innocence in the 1880s 154 APPENDIX Lewis Carroll's Letter to the St. James's Gazette, July 22, 1885 195 Notes 199 Works Cited 231 Index 243
£31.50
Princeton University Press The Rise and Fall of Meter
Book SynopsisUncovering the unexplored archive in the history of poetics, the author shows that the history of prosody is tied to the ways Victorian England argued about its national identity.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2013 Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism, Robert Penn Warren Center and Western Kentucky University Co-Winner of the 2013 Sonia Rudikoff Prize, Northeast Victorian Studies Association Winner of the 2012 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association "[T]hrough her skillful close readings, Martin reveals a generation of war poets much more finely tuned to nationalist discourses of metre and their changing relationship to them than had been previously acknowledged."--Elizabeth Micakovic, Literature & History "Martin's great accomplishment, done with impressive detail, panache, and style, is to reveal the ideological presuppositions, political desires, and personal needs of metrical practitioners and theorists in the culture and period that she examines."--Richard Cureton, Review of English Studies "This book open[s] new horizons for historical poetics and prosody... Martin's [work] is at once the most historically capacious work to date and the one that goes the farthest toward proving not only the utility of a historically attuned prosody for the study of poetry but the necessity of the field to both formalism and cultural studies."--Ben Glaser, Modern Language QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Failure of Meter 1 Modern Instability 1 Metrical Communities 5 Meter as Culture 10 A Note on Historical Prosody 14 Chapter 1: The History of Meter 16 A Metrical History of England 16 A Grammatical History of England 33 Grammatical Instability 39 Metrical Instability 42 Chapter 2: The Stigma of Meter 48 Metrical Irrelevance 48 The British Empire of Letters 52 Marking Instress 54 Acute Stress in --The Wreck of the Deutschland-- 61 Mistrusting the Ear 67 Chapter 3: The Institution of Meter 79 Metrical Mastery 79 Inventing the Britannic 87 Dynamic Reading 91 Mastery for the Masses 94 The English Ear 99 A Prosodic Entity 102 Chapter 4: The Discipline of Meter 109 Patriotic Pedagogy 109 Matthew Arnold's Metrical Intimacy 112 Henry Newbolt's Cultural Metrics 122 Private Meters, Public Rhythms 130 The Sound of the Drum 139 Chapter 5: The Trauma of Meter 145 Wartime, Poetics 145 Sad Death for a Poet! 150 Therapeutic Measures 158 Bent-Double 171 The Kindred Points of Heaven and Home 176 Chapter 6: The Before- and Afterlife of Meter 181 Metrical Modernism 181 Make It Old: Robert Bridges and Obsolescence 187 Alice Meynell's "English Metres" 198 Toward a Critical Prosody 203 Notes 207 Works Cited 241 Index 261
£37.80
Princeton University Press Reaping Something New African American
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[F]ascinating and original... Hack's skill and sensitivity as a literary critic and the thoroughness of his research make Reaping Something New one of the most compelling works of trans-Atlantic literary scholarship to appear in recent years."--Joseph Rezek, Chronicle of Higher Education "As Hack observes, the relationship between Victorian literature and African American literature has been neglected, and this book fills that gap."--ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction The African Americanization of Victorian Literature 1 1 Close Reading Bleak House at a Distance 23 2 (Re-) Racializing "The Charge of the Light Brigade" 45 3 Affiliating with George Eliot 76 4 Racial Mixing and Textual Remixing: Charles Chesnutt 102 5 Cultural Transmission and Transgression: Pauline Hopkins 135 6 The Citational Soul of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois 176 Afterword After Du Bois 205 Notes 213 Bibliography 259 Index 273
£31.50
Princeton University Press The Political Poetess Victorian Femininity Race
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It will be required reading for advanced scholars of Anglo-American poetry and women's writing."--ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Slaves, Spheres, Poetess Poetics 1 Section 1 Racializing the Poetess: Haunting "Separate Spheres" 1 Antislavery Afterlives: Changing the Subject / Haunting the Poetess 29 2 "Not Another 'Poetess' ": Feminist Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Poetry, and the Racialization of Suicide 54 Section 2 Suspending Spheres: The Violent Structures of Patriotic Pacifism 3 Spheres, Suspending Disbelief: Hegel's Antigone, Craik's Crimea, Woolf's Three Guineas 83 4 Turning and Burning: Sentimental Criticism, Casabiancas, and the Click of the Cliche 116 Section 3 Transatlantic Occasions: Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Poetics at the Limits 5 Teaching Curses, Teaching Nations: Abolition Time and the Recoils of Antislavery Poetics 153 6 Harper's Hearts: "Home Is Never Natural or Safe" 180 Notes 213 Works Cited 283 Acknowledgments 313 Index 319
£40.50
Princeton University Press Good Form The Ethical Experience of the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is itself very good at illuminating matters half-known, pointing out things about the Victorian novel that the reader might already have been aware of, but rendering them newly interesting... In an exhilarating series of conceptual connections, the brilliant final chapter on George Eliot's Daniel Deronda moves from exploring the development of statistics, to the psychology of gambling, to new close readings of Eliot's narrative complications..."--Kirsty Martin, Times Literary Supplement "At once familiar and original, brilliant and intuitive, Good Form ... will inform studies of narrative well beyond the temporal boundaries of the Victorian period."--Jonathan Farina, Wordsworth CircleTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction "Moralised Fables" 1 1 What Feels Right: Ethics, Intuition, and the Experience of Narrative 10 2 The Subject of the Newgate Novel: Crime, Interest, What Novels Are About 42 3 Getting David Copperfield: Humor, Sensus Communis, and Moral Agreement 78 4 Back in Time: The Bildungsroman and the Source of Moral Agency 124 5 The Large Novel and the Law of Large Numbers: Daniel Deronda and the Counterintuitive 153 Afterword 191 Notes 197 Bibliography 235 Index 251
£40.50
Princeton University Press Victorian Pain
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Victorian Pain is a clear-eyed, beautifully written investigation of the role and uses of pain in the work of John Stuart Mill, Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin and Thomas Hardy. . . . No one who is fortunate enough to read this book will look at the works it discusses in the same way again." * Times Literary Supplement *"Ablow explores the idea of pain in Victorian thought and literature, navigating between understanding pain as private, incommunicable, and pre-social (theorized most prominently in Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain, CH, Jan'86) and theories of pain as mediated by language and produced through social life." * Choice *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Introduction Pain, Subjectivity, and the Social 1 1 John Stuart Mill and the Poetics of Social Pain 24 2 Harriet Martineau and the Impersonality of Pain 48 3 Pain and Privacy in Villette 72 4 Charles Darwin's Affect Theory 93 5 Wounded Trees, Abandoned Boots 114 Afterword The Fantasy of the Speaking Body 135 Notes 141 Works Cited 173 Index 187
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Princeton University Press Human Forms
Book SynopsisDuncan reorients readers' understanding of the novel's formation during its cultural ascendancy, arguing that fiction produced new knowledge in a period characterized by the interplay between literary and scientific discourses--even as the two were separating into distinct domains.ains.Trade Review"Duncan’s study is a wide ranging, superbly researched and brilliantly written account of the ways in which the history of the novel is interwoven with the emergence of the new discourse of ‘natural'history, and its logic of an organic transformation of forms and kinds.’ . . . . Human Forms is a rich and brilliant examination of the complex dynamics between the history of scientific ideas and the development of the novel and, as such, will be invaluable to all those interested in Victorian fiction."---Iain Crawford, Dickens Quarterly"[An] exhilarating study which follows in the footsteps of Gillian Beer, Sally Shuttleworth, and George Levine in exploring the resonances between nineteenth-century literature and science."---David Womersley, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900"Duncan teases out, in intimate detail, the deep engagement between putatively Romantic and Victorian modes of thought and writing. This insight should give present studies of the novel renewed urgency. . . . Human Forms casts a bright light on the nineteenth-century novel not simply as an accessory to scientific thought, but as a powerful instrument for formulating questions about the status of the human as a social and biological problem"---Devin Griffiths, Modern Philology
£29.75
Princeton University Press SmackBam or The Art of Governing Men
Book SynopsisLaboulaye, one of 19th-century France's most prominent politicians and an instrumental figure in establishing the Statue of Liberty, was also a prolific writer of fairy tales. This volume brings together new translations of 16 of his most wry, political stories that continue to impart lessons today.Trade Review"Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men collects sixteen tales by Édouard Laboulaye, a French law professor and jurist of the Second Empire, and a strong supporter of the abolition of slavery and of women’s rights. Laboulaye’s creative work has been eclipsed by his political career, but in his day he was recognized as a writer of fiction, too, and especially known for his fairy-tales—with their satirical asides, irreverent humor, and free use of international sources, it is not hard to see why."---James Guida, New York Review of Books"The tales are delightful, and they offer a look at a little-known aspect of fairy tale history contemporary with the tale collectors and writers from the nineteenth century."---Sarah N Lawson, Journal of Folklore Research
£17.09
Princeton University Press Quaint Exquisite
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the NAVSA Best Book of the Year, North American Victorian Studies Association""Quaint, Exquisite is a beautifully written book. . . . [Lavery] is an invigorating, compelling collaborative critical voice which demands, and amply repays, the reader’s time and thought."---Gail Marshall, Times Higher Education"[Lavery’s] musings are worlds away from the archival explorations and excavations preoccupying most Victorianists now. But both approaches, hands-on and theoretical, are valid and valuable . . . . Grace Lavery combines them, most eloquently when reading individual works. That is rather a rare skill."---Jacqueline Banerjee, Times Literary Supplement
£38.25
Princeton University Press Novel Relations
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Award, Northeast Victorian Studies Association""Winner of the Courage to Dream Book Prize, American Psychoanalytic Association""Christoff writes beautifully and passionately, and her interpretations are fascinating."---Jane O'Grady, Times Higher Education"A fascinating, deeply rewarding study, which helps us think afresh about how the Victorian novel alerts us to our most vital shared experiences."---Fraser Riddell, Victoriographies
£31.50
Princeton University Press Worlds Enough
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Spiced with citations of critics past and present, this cogent, necessary book is ideal for students in Victorian surveys because it both covers the field and stretches it out to the global and the decolonizing."---N. Birns, Choice Reviews"[A] provocative and important new book on Victorian fiction."---John O. Jordan, Dickens Quarterly"Written with her trademark combination of sharp-wittedness and bluntness, Elaine Freedgood’s short but ambitious book, Worlds Enough: The Invention of Realism in the Victorian Novel, aims to show that the prevailing understandingof the Victorian novel’s realism is fundamentally wrong and, more important, pernicious in its effects. . . . Elaine Freedgood is an iconoclastic, inventive critic whose work is suffused with moral and political urgency."---Daniel Hack, Modern Philology"What this book is especially good on is the experience of process in the reading of the [Victorian] novel."---Philip Davis, Review of English Studies"Rigorously theoretical, enlivened with an eye for quirks of material, social, and textual meaning, and full of keen perceptions about a wide range of novels. A luminous provocation, it will spark much discussion and debate."---John Kucich, Victorian Studies
£28.50
Princeton University Press Good Form
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Good Form: The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel is a major contribution to the study of ethics in realist fiction. Grounded in a masterful command of philosophy and literary theory, and argued through careful readings of Victorian novels, it sheds considerable light on a central topic in fiction studies. It will be vigorously discussed and greatly valued in Victorian studies and narrative studies generally."---John Kucich, Victorian Studies"This book is itself very good at illuminating matters half-known, pointing out things about the Victorian novel that the reader might already have been aware of, but rendering them newly interesting. . . . In an exhilarating series of conceptual connections, the brilliant final chapter on George Eliot's Daniel Deronda moves from exploring the development of statistics, to the psychology of gambling, to new close readings of Eliot’s narrative complications. . . ."---Kirsty Martin, Times Literary Supplement"At once familiar and original, brilliant and intuitive, Good Form . . . will inform studies of narrative well beyond the temporal boundaries of the Victorian period."---Jonathan Farina, Wordsworth Circle"This thoughtful study adds an interesting set of coordinates by which to map Victorian novels as a genre. It recovers a branch of Victorian moral philosophy that has languished under the critique (or neglect) of modernism and post-structuralism and supplies a methodology for examining with fresh theoretical sophistication the very 'readerliness' of those texts that fall on the wrong side of Roland Barthes's 'writerly/readerly' dichotomy. Such reconsideration is over-due, and Rosenthal presents it with admirable erudition."---Sarah Gates, Dickens Quarterly"Each of the body chapters is rich with rewards of its own. . . . If scholarship consists, as Rosenthal proposes, of an ongoing temporally extended conversation with ‘ourselves,' I was left with no doubt that Rosenthal was one of the selves with whom I would want to speak."---John Plotz, Nineteenth Century Literature"Jesse Rosenthal's Good Form: The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel provides a meticulously researched and original approach to both Victorian literature and novel theory, all the more impressive given that this is the author’s first book. . . . A compelling work of scholarship, one that is sure to be of use to scholars of Victorian literature and culture and novel theory alike."---Isabella Cooper, Studies in the Novel"Rosenthal enlivens our sense of the possibilities and powers of narrative by arguing that the temporal unfolding of a novel is a moral, philosophical, and ethical matter."---Katherine Voyles, Victorian Review"Brilliant. . . . [Good Form] is a formidably inventive, urbane, and compelling work of scholarship that marshals historical and philosophical insight alongside deft close analysis to reimagine key tenets of novel theory."---Daniel Williams, MLN"A major contribution to the study of ethics in realist fiction. Grounded in a masterful command of philosophy and literary theory, and argued through careful readings of Victorian novels, [Good Form] sheds considerable light on a central topic in fiction studies. It will be vigorously discussed and greatly valued in Victorian studies and narrative studies generally."---John Kucich, Victorian Studies"A most inspiring and insightful book where he brings up the interconnectedness between moral intuition and the form of the novel—the nineteenth century Victorian novel, to be more specific; but with implications for contemporary literature as well."---Jan Kyrre Berg Friis, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
£27.00
Princeton University Press The Political Poetess
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It will be required reading for advanced scholars of Anglo-American poetry and women's writing." * Choice *"Intellectual vibrant [and] important. . . . A politically committed, intellectually generous, and abundantly useful book."---Julia Hansen, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature"An unforgettable account of female poets as blazingly politically involved. Lootens turns the Poetess on her head in The Political Poetess: Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres. No longer a pale, lovely, swooning maiden, Lootens’s Poetess is a person of color, a person deeply imbricated in transatlantic antislavery rhetoric, a woman who speaks for a nation. In bravura rereadings of well-known poems (and some not known at all), Lootens makes us see anew by interrogating 'how national sentimentality thinks.'"---Talia Schaffer, Studies in English Literature"Lootens marshals a considerable number of cultural sources, literary and not, to build a thorough case for her reexamination of the connections between racial and separate spheres ideology. . . . At its ambitious best, The Political Poetess suspends the boundaries that continue to haunt our current critical lives: between black and white, public and private, British and American, past and present."---Amanda Adams, Victorian Periodicals Review"In all these ways, the Political Poetess becomes integral to the revisionist history of the female literary tradition emphasising national anxieties. . . . [Lootens] reads with acumen and diligently researches the historical circumstances of poetic production."---Georgia Gotsi, Historical Review
£27.00
Princeton University Press Jane Austen Early and Late
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An A Kennedy Smith Book of the Year""Fans of Jane Austen will enjoy Freya Johnston’s Jane Austen, Early and Late, which examines some of the teenage writings from the author of Pride and Prejudice, many of which were, surprisingly, full of ‘gallows humour.’"---Martin Chilton, Independent"If you know your Austen, this book is a dream."---Norma Clarke, Literary Review"Austenites will appreciate the historical context Johnston provides. . . . Students and devotees of Austen will appreciate the light shed on a lesser-known part of her career." * Publishers Weekly *"A wonderfully expansive reimagining of the corpus. . . . The great achievement of Johnston’s book is putting us face-to-face with the writing itself: with the sheer compositional energy of Austen’s work."---Alex Woloch, Nineteenth-Century Contexts"In a stream of perceptive and engaging close readings of Austen’s writing, the book insists on stylistic, thematic and conceptual connections not only between her juvenilia and published novels, but among all the author’s written output. . . . Johnston also weaves into her analysis a stunning array of works that likely constituted Austen’s own reading."---Michelle Levy, Review of English Studies
£29.75
Princeton University Press Communities of Care
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize""Honorable Mention for North American Victorian Studies Association Best Book Award""It is not often that a literary critic working in a historical period writes such a timely book. . . . Schaffer shows in a practical way how we can use our skills as literary scholars to effect the kinds of changes in academic life that we want to see."---Rachael Scarborough King, Los Angeles Review of Books"A groundbreaking work. . . . Schaffer’s explanation of reparative reading and discussion of what care ethics means to readers and thinkers in the present gives this study relevance beyond Victorian studies." * Choice Reviews *"Schaffer’s attunement to a historically-informed understanding of Victorian caring allows her to recalibrate our understanding of novels we thought we knew well. . . . Communities of Care is truly a book that brings Victorian studies into alignment with some of the pressing issues of our time."---Adela Pinch, Victorian Studies"A rare academic book that provides a fresh approach to Victorian literature. . . . [Communities of Care is] capacious, smart, and engaging."---Catherine J. Golden, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature
£37.80
Princeton University Press What the Victorians Made of Romanticism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2018 Scottish Research Book of the Year, Saltire Society""Received the Judges’ Commendation for the 2018 SHARP DeLong Book History Book Prize, The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing""Winner of the 2018 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture, Media Ecology Association""A broad study of material reimaginings of the Romantics, What the Victorians Made of Romanticism not only highlights the interconnected nature of these various objects in reception history—even as the narratives they build are contradictory—but also legitimizes them as spaces for further literary study."---Megan Peiser, Victorian Periodicals Review"What the Victorians Made of Romanticism is a major achievement."---Richard Cronin, BARS Review"What the Victorians Made of Romanticism offers valuable, always fascinating, insights into cultural history."---George P. Landow, Victorian Web"Mole’s What the Victorians Made of Romanticism extends the catalogue of recent studies that take seriously the mobility of Romantic writing across generations."---Paul Westover, Studies in Romantacism"Fascinating, erudite, and imaginative . . . this monograph is a rich new reception history for an interdisciplinary age."---Natalie Reeve, Wilkie Collins Journal
£27.00
Princeton University Press Worlds Enough
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Spiced with citations of critics past and present, this cogent, necessary book is ideal for students in Victorian surveys because it both covers the field and stretches it out to the global and the decolonizing."---N. Birns, Choice Reviews"[A] provocative and important new book on Victorian fiction."---John O. Jordan, Dickens Quarterly"Written with her trademark combination of sharp-wittedness and bluntness, Elaine Freedgood’s short but ambitious book, Worlds Enough: The Invention of Realism in the Victorian Novel, aims to show that the prevailing understandingof the Victorian novel’s realism is fundamentally wrong and, more important, pernicious in its effects. . . . Elaine Freedgood is an iconoclastic, inventive critic whose work is suffused with moral and political urgency."---Daniel Hack, Modern Philology"What this book is especially good on is the experience of process in the reading of the [Victorian] novel."---Philip Davis, Review of English Studies"Rigorously theoretical, enlivened with an eye for quirks of material, social, and textual meaning, and full of keen perceptions about a wide range of novels. A luminous provocation, it will spark much discussion and debate."---John Kucich, Victorian Studies
£20.90
Princeton University Press Jane Austen Early and Late
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An A Kennedy Smith Book of the Year""Fans of Jane Austen will enjoy Freya Johnston’s Jane Austen, Early and Late, which examines some of the teenage writings from the author of Pride and Prejudice, many of which were, surprisingly, full of ‘gallows humour.’"---Martin Chilton, Independent"If you know your Austen, this book is a dream."---Norma Clarke, Literary Review"Austenites will appreciate the historical context Johnston provides. . . . Students and devotees of Austen will appreciate the light shed on a lesser-known part of her career." * Publishers Weekly *"A wonderfully expansive reimagining of the corpus. . . . The great achievement of Johnston’s book is putting us face-to-face with the writing itself: with the sheer compositional energy of Austen’s work."---Alex Woloch, Nineteenth-Century Contexts"In a stream of perceptive and engaging close readings of Austen’s writing, the book insists on stylistic, thematic and conceptual connections not only between her juvenilia and published novels, but among all the author’s written output. . . . Johnston also weaves into her analysis a stunning array of works that likely constituted Austen’s own reading."---Michelle Levy, Review of English Studies"The delicate but strong web of argument which is spun in this book, by an author who has read everything written by Austen’s contemporaries and everything written about her, will delight the scholar. General readers who are willing to follow the book’s intricacies will also be rewarded with a range of fascinating insights into a writer whose œuvre has become almost too familiar, so great is her popular appeal."---Michael Wheeler, Church Times
£18.00
Princeton University Press Novel Relations
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Award, Northeast Victorian Studies Association""Winner of the Courage to Dream Book Prize, American Psychoanalytic Association""Christoff writes beautifully and passionately, and her interpretations are fascinating."---Jane O'Grady, Times Higher Education"A fascinating, deeply rewarding study, which helps us think afresh about how the Victorian novel alerts us to our most vital shared experiences."---Fraser Riddell, Victoriographies
£23.75
Princeton University Press American Insecurity and the Origins of
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Princeton University Press Esthetics as Nightmare Russian Literary Theory
Book SynopsisAs an epoch of "censorship terror" drew to a close with the death of Nicholas I and the end of the Crimean War, Russian intellectuals had begun expressing their desires for political, philosophical, and religious reform through passionate debates over literature and esthetics. Charles Moser re-creates the leading controversies over literature and aTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. ix*Illustrations, pg. xi*Preface, pg. xiii*A Note on the References, pg. xxiii*Chapter One. The Disputants and Their Journals, pg. 3*Chapter Two. Art and Rationality, pg. 87*Chapter Three. Art and Morality, pg. 150*Chapter Four. Aft and Reality, pg. 218*Bibliography, pg. 271*Index, pg. 281
£40.50
Princeton University Press Rural Scenes and National Representation
Book SynopsisElizabeth Helsinger's iconoclastic book explores the peculiar power of rural England to stand for conflicting ideas of Britain. Despite the nostalgic appeal of Constable's or Tennyson's rural scenes, they record the severe social and economic disturbances of the turbulent years after Waterloo. Artists and writers like Cobbett, Clare, Turner, EmilyTrade Review"Helsinger's discussions of images and texts offer new and important insights into the political and cultural uses of the countryside, and they will essential reading for anyone interested in that history of this period. While it is impossible to do justice to the scope, interest, and nuance of her arguments, this review must suffice to say that this is the kind of book students of British landscape painting and literature will turn to again and again with pleasure and profit."--AlbionTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi INTRODUCTION Land and the Nation 3 PART I: ICONS AND AUDIENCES CHAPTER ONE Constable: The Making of a National Painter 41 CHAPTER TWO Out of the Heart of the Country: Tennyson's English Idyls 65 PART II: CONTESTED GROUND CHAPTER THREE Cobbett's Radical Husbandry 103 CHAPTER FOUR Clare and the Place of the Peasant Poet 141 CHAPTER FIVE Turner's England and Wales 162 CHAPTER SIX Bronte's Ghosts 175 RETROSPECT Eliot's Risky History 217 NOTES 239 INDEX 283
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Princeton University Press Shelleys Major Poetry
Book SynopsisProfessor Baker is concerned primarily with Shelley's development ns a philosophical and psychological poet, and it is precisely in this that the great achievement of the book lies Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the diTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFATORY NOTE, pg. ix*CONTENTS, pg. xi*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*1. NECESSITY, pg. 19*2. THE PROBLEM OF EVIL, pg. 87*3. THE SPIRIT'S SPLENDOR, pg. 191*APPENDICES, pg. 277*SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 292*INDEX, pg. 297
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Princeton University Press The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume 13
Trade Review"Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers"
£166.60
Voltaire Foundation Correspondance générale de La Beaumelle 1754
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Liverpool University Press Ma238tres de leurs ouvrages l233dition 224
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReviews'This is a thorough and carefully-constructed book, and it makes significant contributions to our understanding of publishing practices and the myriad issues relating to changing conceptions of literary property. It will probably remain the definitive treatment of self-publishing and of the population of self-publishing authors in late eighteenth-century Paris for a long time.’H-France Review‘Felton’s study is tremendously informative, and her case for the significance of self-publishing in the last decades of the Old Regime in an inarguably strong and important one.’Journal of Modern History‘Marie-Claude Felton s’attaque à un véritable serpent de mer, une question souvent évoquée mais rarement étudiée à fond par les historiens du livre, celle de l’édition “à compte d’auteur’ […] Son étude apporte sur cet épisode particulier de l’histoire de l’édition française un éclairage neuf et suggestif.'Bulletin du bibliophile‘L’ouvrage de Marie-Claude Felton est une étude minutieuse et solidement documentée d’un phénomène toujours peu connu touchant l’édition et le marché du livre en France au XVIIIe siècle […] Il paraît particulièrement actuel pour notre ère du numérique où tout un chacun peut devenir auteur grâce aux maisons d’édition dites “alternatives”.’Studi francesiTable of ContentsListe des illustrations et tableauxPréface de Roger ChartierRemerciementsListe des abréviationsIntroduction1. L’édition à compte d’auteur: vers une nouvelle pratique auctoriale autonome et modernei. L’auteur, l’argent et la propriété littéraire: l’évolution des discours aux XVIIe et XVIIIe sièclesii. Luneau de Boisjermain contre les libraires de Parisiii. Les arrêts de 1777-1778 et l’autonomie auctorialeiv. L’édition à compte d’auteur: du discours à la pratique2. L’auteur-éditeur et ses livres: un portraiti. Les ouvrages édités à compte d’auteurii. Les auteurs-éditeurs: un portraitiii. Les auteurs et les institutions du ‘champ littéraire’Conclusion3. D’auteur à éditeuri. Les permissions et privilèges: un long parcoursii. Le choix de l’imprimeuriii. La souscriptioniv. Les ententes avec l’imprimeurv. L’auteur en contrôle de l’éditionConclusion4. L’auteur-éditeur et le livre-objeti. Matérialité et souscriptionii. La collecte des données bibliographiquesiii. La valeur des livresiv. Les paraphes: outils pour déjouer la contrefaçonConclusion5. Les stratégies publicitairesi. La publicité aux XVIIe et XVIIIe sièclesii. Le Catalogue hebdomadaireiii. Les stratégies promotionnellesiv. Le choix du publicConclusion6. D’auteur à marchand de livresi. La vente par l’auteurii. Les associésiii. Vendre à compte d’auteur chez le libraireiv. La rentabilité de l’édition à compte d’auteurConclusionConclusionAnnexe. Liste des auteurs et de leurs ouvrages édités ‘A Paris, chez l’auteur’, entre 1750 et 1791BibliographieIndex
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Liverpool University Press Une Carri232re de g233ographe au si232cle des
Book SynopsisFocuses on the cartographer Jean-Baptiste d'Anville, exploring how he succeeded in mapping the New World, his contemporary reception in the French press, in Britain and abroad and his legacy and posterity.Trade ReviewReviews'Readers are encouraged to immerse themselves in Lucile Haguet’s and Catherine Hofmann’s masterfully organized, well-illustrated collection. Rediscovering d’Anville, his biography, methodology and impact is an intellectual journey that is sure to enchant both experienced map historians and the larger public.' Imago MundiTable of ContentsLaurence Engel, PréfaceChristian Jacob, Avant-proposLucile Haguet et Catherine Hofmann, Introduction généraleI. Faire carrière au dix-huitième siècle1. Participer à l’éducation des princes: d’Anville et son élève Louis XV (1718-1730), Pascale Mormiche2. Elargir ses réseaux, diversifier ses commandes: les travaux de d’Anville pour la couronne portugaise, Júnia Ferreira Furtado3. Convaincre ses mécènes: un plan d’affaire prévisionnel pour faire commerce de cartes, Mary Sponberg PedleyII. Dessiner le monde depuis sa chambre1. La bibliothèque cartographique, outil de travail du géographe de cabinet, Lucile Haguet2. Une ‘science de pure érudition’, la géographie critique et comparée selon Jean-Baptiste d’Anville, Georges Tolias3. L’utilisation des sources orientales par Jean-Baptiste d’Anville, Jean-Charles Ducène4. Jean-Baptiste d’Anville et la cartographie de l’Amérique du Nord, Jean-François PalominoIII. La réception de l’œuvre de d’Anville1. Entre publicité, débat scientifique et vulgarisation: Jean-Baptiste d’Anville dans les journaux, Nicolas Verdier2. D’Anville, Gibbon et l’espace des empires: la réception britannique du géographe français à travers l’exemple de l’historien anglais, Robert Mankin3. L’appropriation des cartes de d’Anville dans le monde luso-brésilien: mémoire toponymique et stratégie diplomatique dans la région amazonienne, 1798 et 1904, Iris KantorIV. La réception institutionnelle, patrimoniale et symbolique d’un ‘grand homme’1. Splendeur et décadence d’un ‘grand homme’: réception et postérité de d’Anville et son œuvre, Lucile Haguet2. La ‘collection d’Anville’ au ministère des Affaires étrangères (1772-1828): modalités et enjeux d’une appropriation, Catherine Hofmann3. D’Anville et la Bibliothèque royale/nationale: forces et ambiguïtés d’un héritage, Catherine HofmannConclusion: célèbre et méconnu – un géographe réévalué, Jean-Marc BesseAnnexesBibliographieIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Night in French libertine fiction 2018 201806
Book SynopsisExplores why and how the nocturnal and the erotic came to be so intrinsically connected in French eighteenth century fiction between the start of a rakish Regence (1715-1723) and 1789.Trade Review'With an engaging narrative arc, Night in French Libertine Fiction shows how the playful dichotomy between celebrating the limits imposed by the night and using the night to transgress social or moral limits (as detailed in chapters two through six) is destroyed by the Sadean extension of the logic of libertinism.' Craig Koslofsky, H-FranceTable of ContentsIntroductioni. Libertine fiction: a nocturnal genre?ii. Libertine nocturnesiii. The ‘Nocturnal Order’ of libertine nightsiv. The eroticisation of the nocturnalv. The nocturnalisation of eroticismvi. Chapter outline1. Enlightening the night: a cultural and historical perspective on eighteenth-century nightsi. Intellectual enlightenmentii. Material enlightenment2. The nocturnal aesthetics of libertine fictioni. Libertine writing, pornography and obscurityii. The embellishing obscurity of Crébillon’s oriental talesiii. The eroticism of demi-jours in Le Souper des petits-maîtres and Les Soupers de Daphnéiv. Voluptuous shadows in Thémidorev. Félicia and sublime obscurity3. Night as a hiding spacei. Night as a private space within communal living in Le Portier des chartreux and Mémoires de Suzonii. Night as an indulgent architectural space in La Petite Maisoniii. Night as an intimate body part in La Nuit merveilleuse4. Nocturnal illusions: dreams of sylph-like loversi. The dream: the sleep of reason produces sylphs in Le Sylpheii. The mistake: the genie Makis, or the mistaken lover in Angolaiii. The lie: Clitandre, or a sylph of no consequence in La Nuit et le momentiv. The illusion: Mirbelle, or the fleshless sylph in Les Malheurs de l’inconstance5. Nocturnal revelationsi. Damon’s Nyctelian initiation in Point de lendemainii. Laure’s nocturnal education in Le Rideau levéiii. Cécile’s nightly enlightenment in Les Liaisons dangereuses6. Queens of the night: women and their nocturnal mystery in Les Liaisons dangereusesi. The marquise de Merteuil’s nights, or the masquerade of femininityii. The présidente de Tourvel’s shadow, or the female mystery7. The end of libertine nights: Les Cent Vingt Journées de Sodomei. Sade’s Gothic and sublime nocturnes: within the dark night of the soulii. The Sadean nocturnal fortressiii. Sade versus the libertine clair-obscurEpilogue: beyond libertine nights – mornings and morrowsi. Morningsii. MorrowsBibliographyIndex
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Pluto Press William Godwin
Book SynopsisA new biography of the infamous early anarchist whose life and work was at the heart of British Radicalism. Thomas reads Godwin afresh, addressing the souring of his critical reputation since his death and the unsympathetic twentieth-century scholarship, now drawing extensively on newly published letters and journals.Trade Review'This is a crisp, insightful and absorbing overview of William Godwin's life, work and networks. A book that will make Godwin more accessible within the classroom and the wider world has been needed for some time. Richard Gough Thomas does an excellent job of providing it' -- Sophie Coulombeau, Cardiff University 'Richard Thomas has produced a warm and accessible study of Godwin. His book covers the full breadth of Godwin's work and recognises his achievements as an inventive, progressive, challenging and anti-systems philosopher' -- Ruth Kinna, Loughborough University '"William Godwin: A Political Life" is an impressive achievement. Thomas provides a highly readable, thoughtful, and informative assessment of the works and life of the founder of philosophical anarchism. A first-rate introduction to a thinker who contributed a unique perspective of continuing relevance to British moral and political thought' -- Mark Philp, University of WarwickTable of Contents1. The Anarchist 2. The Minister: 1756-1793 3. The Philosopher: 1793 4. The Activist: 1794-1795 5. The Husband: 1796-1799 6. The Educator: 1800-1809 7. The Father: 1810-1819 8. The Pensioner: 1819-1836 9. The Legacy Abbreviations
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Pluto Press William Godwin
Book SynopsisA new biography of the infamous early anarchist whose life and work was at the heart of British Radicalism. Thomas reads Godwin afresh, addressing the souring of his critical reputation since his death and the unsympathetic twentieth-century scholarship, now drawing extensively on newly published letters and journals.Trade Review'This is a crisp, insightful and absorbing overview of William Godwin's life, work and networks. A book that will make Godwin more accessible within the classroom and the wider world has been needed for some time. Richard Gough Thomas does an excellent job of providing it' -- Sophie Coulombeau, Cardiff University 'Richard Thomas has produced a warm and accessible study of Godwin. His book covers the full breadth of Godwin's work and recognises his achievements as an inventive, progressive, challenging and anti-systems philosopher' -- Ruth Kinna, Loughborough University '"William Godwin: A Political Life" is an impressive achievement. Thomas provides a highly readable, thoughtful, and informative assessment of the works and life of the founder of philosophical anarchism. A first-rate introduction to a thinker who contributed a unique perspective of continuing relevance to British moral and political thought' -- Mark Philp, University of WarwickTable of Contents1. The Anarchist 2. The Minister: 1756-1793 3. The Philosopher: 1793 4. The Activist: 1794-1795 5. The Husband: 1796-1799 6. The Educator: 1800-1809 7. The Father: 1810-1819 8. The Pensioner: 1819-1836 9. The Legacy Abbreviations
£72.25
Liverpool University Press John Clare
Book SynopsisJohn Lucas’s unique volume reveals a knowing and articulate poet writing as an essentially oral artist.
£18.69
Liverpool University Press Joseph Conrad
Book SynopsisProfessor Watts’s study examines the main phase in Joseph Conrad’s literary development.
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Liverpool University Press William Hazlitt
Book SynopsisThis study presents William Hazlitt as a brilliant and perceptive essayist and critic whose critical impressions of his contemporaries and their work gave a sense of an age and the leading figures who populated it in a particularly vivid way.
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Liverpool University Press Charlotte Yonge
Book SynopsisAlethea Hayter’s book appraises Charlotte Yonge as a writer, not simply as a symptom of her times, surveying her non-fictional studies in history, onomastics and wild-life as well as her family chronicles, historical novels and children’s books.
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Liverpool University Press PreRaphaelitism Poetry and Painting
Book SynopsisPre-Raphaelitism: Poetry & Painting offers an in-depth analysis of the impact of Pre-Raphaelitism on the arts.
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Liverpool University Press Percy Bysshe Shelley
Book SynopsisThis book is both a general introduction to and a particular interpretation of Shelley’s thought and major writings.
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Liverpool University Press Anthony Trollope
Book SynopsisThis study of Anthony Trollope looks particularly at the nature and quality of his political intelligence and at his grasp of processes of manipulation, personal interaction, media/press exploitation and the integration of the private and the public, whilst also assessing Trollope’s continuing popularity as a writer.
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Liverpool University Press Jane Austen
Book SynopsisIn this study, Robert Miles argues that many of the reasons for Austen’s construction as an English Cultural icon are to be found in the works’ formal qualities, and often in her most innovative techniques.
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Liverpool University Press Victorian Quest Romance Stevenson Haggard
Book SynopsisThis book views the Victorian quest romance genre in the light of debates within the then nascent sciences of Anthropology and Archaeology.
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