Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
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.
£18.69
Liverpool University Press Alfred Tennyson
Book SynopsisThis title is a study of Tennyson's lyrical imagination, describing its complex fascinations with recurrence, progress, narrative, and loss, and its doubts about its own artfulness.
£18.69
Liverpool University Press Anne Bronte
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£18.69
Liverpool University Press Swinburne
Book SynopsisThis book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections - Poems and Ballads 1 (1866), Songs before Sunrise (1871) and Poems and Ballads 2 (1878), as well as a number of his most influential essays.
£21.84
Liverpool University Press Women Poets of the 19th Century
Book SynopsisThis study explores the inter-relationship between emotion and religion in women's poetry of the Romantic and Victorian eras.
£18.69
Liverpool University Press Swinburne
Book SynopsisThis book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections - Poems and Ballads 1 (1866), Songs before Sunrise (1871) and Poems and Ballads 2 (1878), as well as a number of his most influential essays.
£67.92
Liverpool University Press Women Poets of the 19th Century
Book SynopsisThis study explores the inter-relationship between emotion and religion in women's poetry of the Romantic and Victorian eras.
£67.92
Liverpool University Press Arthur Hugh Clough
Book Synopsis'The excellent explanatory notes extend the book's audience to non-specialists.Recommended.'T. Hoagwood, Choice
£18.69
Liverpool University Press Edward Lear
Book SynopsisJames Williams’s account, the first book-length critical study of the poet since the 1980s, sets out to re-introduce Lear and to accord him his proper place: as a major Victorian figure of continuing appeal and relevance, and especially as a poet of beauty, comedy, and profound ingenuity.Trade Review'A treat – scholarly, incisive and moving, with brilliantly surprising readings of Lear's work'. Jenny Uglow, author of Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense'A wonderfully engaging and revealing book, one that talks a great deal of sense about nonsense (without talking too much sense). The imaginative incisiveness of Williams's reading – and the deftness of his writing – make this the best study of Lear's poetry we have.' Matthew Bevis, University of Oxford'This is a study whose significance for the field belies its physical size, standing not only as the best account of Lear’s poetry yet published, but as a work which ought to reorient our sense of Lear’s place in the history of nineteenth-century poetry. […] Williams’s patient explication of the truth it speaks about both sense and nonsense should be regarded as a foundational articulation of Lear’s poetic achievement.'Benjamin Westwood, The Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Biographical Outline Abbreviations and References List of Illustrations Introduction 1: Beginnings This Mystery of Eggs Little Folks Merry The Pobble who has no Toes 2: Odd Beasts Amiable Frogs Virulent Bulls, Triumphant Chimpanzees The Owl and the Pussy-cat 3: The Scroobious Traveller Agonies of Packing Gooseberries and Gringhegi The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò 4: The Morbids Never . . . again Full of Despair Worse Things The Dong with a Luminous Nose Coda Notes Select Bibliography Index
£67.92
Liverpool University Press Edward Lear
Book SynopsisJames Williams’s account, the first book-length critical study of the poet since the 1980s, sets out to re-introduce Lear and to accord him his proper place: as a major Victorian figure of continuing appeal and relevance, and especially as a poet of beauty, comedy, and profound ingenuity.Trade Review'A treat – scholarly, incisive and moving, with brilliantly surprising readings of Lear's work'. Jenny Uglow, author of Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense'A wonderfully engaging and revealing book, one that talks a great deal of sense about nonsense (without talking too much sense). The imaginative incisiveness of Williams's reading – and the deftness of his writing – make this the best study of Lear's poetry we have.' Matthew Bevis, University of Oxford'This is a study whose significance for the field belies its physical size, standing not only as the best account of Lear’s poetry yet published, but as a work which ought to reorient our sense of Lear’s place in the history of nineteenth-century poetry. […] Williams’s patient explication of the truth it speaks about both sense and nonsense should be regarded as a foundational articulation of Lear’s poetic achievement.'Benjamin Westwood, The Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Biographical Outline Abbreviations and References List of Illustrations Introduction 1: Beginnings This Mystery of Eggs Little Folks Merry The Pobble who has no Toes 2: Odd Beasts Amiable Frogs Virulent Bulls, Triumphant Chimpanzees The Owl and the Pussy-cat 3: The Scroobious Traveller Agonies of Packing Gooseberries and Gringhegi The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò 4: The Morbids Never . . . again Full of Despair Worse Things The Dong with a Luminous Nose Coda Notes Select Bibliography Index
£23.74
Liverpool University Press W. B. Yeats
Book SynopsisThis study shows how Yeats moved from passionate identification with the idea of Ireland in his early work, through a period in which he re-emphasizes his Anglo-Irish inheritance and its difference from that of Catholics, to a new sense of unity in his later work, founded on the belief that the Gaelic and the Anglo-Irish aristocracies were fundamentally alike.Trade ReviewLarrissy's readings of the poems are illuminating - ' Irish Studies Review
£21.84
MobyDick Herman Melville
Book SynopsisHerman Melville was already considered to be a successful author when he wrote ""Moby-Dick"" in just under two years. This book offers commentary on the canvas of symbols, themes, and subjects presented in this novel, as well as an introduction, a chronology, a bibliography, and an index.
£38.21
MB - Cornell University Press Rule of Darkness British Literature and Imperialism 18301914
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MB - Cornell University Press The Power of Lies Transgression Class and Gender
Book SynopsisAlthough moral earnestness has long been considered characteristic of the Victorians, Kucich maintains that English fiction in the nineteenth century was as interested in lies as in honesty. In this important book, Kucich explores the fascination with...Trade ReviewThis critic offers a meticulously constructed argument that intertwines contemporary linquistic, psychological, and social theories with scrupulous analyses of the literary works themselves. It is a rare thing for an academic study of the appropriations of the language of class and gender to engage its readers so thoroughly... Gossip and lies might be subversive, might be defiant, might even be downright nasty, but never have they seemed so appealing. * The Wordsworth Circle *
£97.20
Cornell University Press Dandies and Desert Saints Styles of Victorian
Book SynopsisWhile drawing on work in feminism, queer theory, and cultural history, Dandies and Desert Saints challenges scholars to rethink simplistic notions of Victorian manhood.Trade ReviewOffers a rich and complex argument.... Builds on important work by Victorianists such as Linda Dowling, Norma Clarke, and Herbert Sussman, and is as much at home with Walter Houghton as with Michel Foucault. By foregrounding issues of gender and placing these ideas in a more precise social and historical context than is usual, Dandies and Desert Saints deepens and expands the discussion of masculinities in the Victorian period. -- Joseph H. O'Mealy, Department of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa * Journal of the History of Sexuality *
£97.20
Cornell University Press Phantom Formations
Book SynopsisMarc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He combines a wide-ranging account of the history and theory of aesthetics with close readings of novels by Goethe, George Eliot, and Gustave Flaubert. For...Trade ReviewA thoughtful, complex book that integrates aesthetic philosophy, close textual readings, and literary theories, all of which eventually make a leap to talk about what we mean by culture, history, and humanity, what we do when we read or teach literature, and why the twentieth-century institutionalization of literature has generated the curious phenomenon of ‘literary theory'. -- Lorely French * European Romantic Review *
£42.30
Cornell University Press Sexual Encounters
Book SynopsisEuropean literary, artistic, and anthropological representation has long viewed the Pacific as the site of heterosexual pleasures. The received wisdom of these accounts is based on the idea of female bodies unrestrained by civilization. In a...Trade ReviewFocuses on expressions of male homoerotic fantasy in the Western literature and art of South Sea exploration. * Chronicle of Higher Education *Sexual Encounters bursts with absorbing information about sexuality and the South Pacific.... The overall thesis of the work, however, is absolutely compelling: heterosexist assumptions have blinkered both Western fantasies about Polynesia and critiques of those fantasies. -- Robert Deam Tobin, Whitman College * H-Net Reviews *In Sexual Encounters: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities, Lee Wallace proposes a new understanding of the erotics and ambivalences of encounters between Euro-Americans and Polynesians.... Wallace argues that contact placed at issue not—as he has been widely assumed—degrees of heterosexual freedom, but rather the cultural permutations of male relationships. The book reveals its brilliance at the level of close reading. It proceeds through a series of beguiling exegeses that cumulatively expose some of the blind spots in recent reappraisals of Pacific encounters.... Her approach to the alternately prurient, fascinated or studiously silent documents of early contact is a mode of interstitial analysis, always necessitated in reading archives of encounters between oral and literate cultures, and acquiring an added imperative for Wallace by the absence of explicit referencing of homosexuality in her chosen texts. She theorizes the challenge to speak for her subject skillfully and directly, never resorting to the knee-jerk double-entendre of vulgar Freudianism. -- Vanessa Smith, University of Sydney * Journal of Polynesian Society *Table of ContentsPacific texts, modern sexualities; Sexual encounter in Hawaii on Cook's third voyage; Marquesan encounter and male visibility; Sexual difference and the expulsion of William Yate; Gauguin's Manao Tupapau and sodomitical invitation; Fa'afafine, queens of Samoa and sexual elision.
£81.00
Cornell University Press Seeing Chekhov
Book Synopsis"Chekhov's keen powers of observation have been remarked by both memoirists who knew him well and scholars who approach him only through the written record and across the distance of many decades. To apprehend Chekhov means seeing how Chekhov sees...Trade Review"Chekhov was a master at deflecting critical attention away from his own personality, both in his writing and in his private life. But he reckoned without the supreme forensic skills of a scholar such as Michael C. Finke, who seeks to probe beneath the layers of dusty cliché that have accumulated during the past century. In his incisive new book, Finke lays Chekhov bare by marshaling an impressive arsenal of analytical tools and by playing the writer at his own game, using X-ray vision to penetrate the unexpected points of contact between the life and the creative work. It is exhilarating to see Chekhov through Finke's eyes." -- Rosamund Bartlett, author of Chekhov: Scenes from a Life"In Seeing Chekhov, Michael C. Finke succeeds in integrating Chekhov's life and work, his art and his science, his role as a physician and as a patient, as a dramatist and a prose writer, the personal and the professional, the pseudonyms that efface his identity and those that all but proclaim it. Chekhov's preference for not being seen, as it turns out, demands that we examine his strategies of hiding rather than obligingly averting our eyes. The payoff in terms of insight into Chekhov's poetics is enormous." -- Cathy Popkin, Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University"Michael C. Finke has written an outstanding and innovative piece of work: a psychobiography of Chekhov the man and writer based on deep and sensitive readings of the Russian author's prose, plays, and letters, and of extensive biographical writings and materials. Thoroughly informed, Finke does not merely talk 'about' Chekhov or rehash general ideas, but opens up an unknown Chekhov, or, in any case, aspects of the man that the writer, Chekhov, rigorously guarded, and that have hitherto been seen or described mostly from the outside, and apart from Chekhov's writing and poetics. 'Seeing, being seen, hiding and showing,' in Finke's words, are signal concepts for exploring Chekhov the man and the writer. Here is a book that will interest both a wide range of specialists and the interested general reader." -- Robert Louis Jackson, B. E. Bensinger Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
£40.50
Cornell University Press The Word Made Self
Book SynopsisWhen Osip Mandelstam wrote that the Russian word was "sentient and breathing flesh," he voiced one of the most powerful themes in his culture. In The Word Made Self, Thomas Seifrid explores this Russian fascination with the power of the word as...Trade Review"For the last two centuries, serious Russian thought about language has been nourished by sources alien to the current conventions of scholarly Anglophone discourse. In place of the snappy pragmatic essay or the empirical argument based on clinical evidence, we find Neoplatonism, the theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church, and German Romantic philosophy. Thomas Seifrid's patient, lucid treatment of this difficult and vital material will matter to anyone interested in literature, philosophy of language, speculative theology, sociology, and political rhetoric in Russia." -- Caryl Emerson, Princeton University"The Word Made Self is a fascinating study of the intersection of philosophy, linguistics and theology in the age of Russian Modernism. Thomas Seifrid provides a compelling introduction to and analysis of the works of Sergei Bulgakov, Pavel Florenskii, Aleksei Losev, Aleksandr Potebnia, and Gustav Shpet. He shows how the idea of language as a carrier of subjectivity was central to all these thinkers. He is particularly sensitive to the way they wove together philosophical strands from German Romanticism, the Orthodox tradition, and phenomenology. The arguments here will be of major interest to historians of the Soviet period, particularly those working with notions of Soviet subjectivity and contemporary concepts of ideology. The Word Made Self is also an invaluable resource for all scholars whose work deals with the Symbolist and Formalist movements." -- Eric Naiman, University of California, Berkeley"The Word Made Self is the first comprehensive examination in English of the rich and multifarious body of discourses on language produced in Russia over a period of some seventy years, from the abolition of serfdom to the rise of Stalinism. Wide-ranging and sensitive to a variety of disciplines and writing practices from theology and philosophy to literary criticism, fiction, and psychology, Thomas Seifrid's book will become an important reference point in the field." -- Galin Tihanov, Lancaster University
£51.00
Cornell University Press The Novel of Purpose
Book SynopsisIn the nineteenth century, Great Britain and the United States shared a single literary marketplace that linked the reform movements, as well as the literatures, of the two nations. The writings of transatlantic reformers—antislavery, temperance, and...Trade ReviewIn a work of impressive range and depth, Amanda Claybaugh focuses on the exchanges and reciprocal influences of American and English novelists of the nineteenth century. Several concentric arguments thread through Claybaugh's book, but the most foundational is the contention that English-language print culture in the nineteenth century was above all transnational, bound together by transatlantic reprinting, circulation, and mutual influence. And of all these connective links, social reform, Claybaugh argues, was particularly potent in binding together the two nations and their literatures, functioning as a 'central conduit for these exchanges'.... The Novel of Purpose is densely packed with finely honed arguments and observations, but a few points merit mention. First, Claybaugh's discussion of realism is a refreshing and important contribution to a well-worked-over field. With admirable poise, she offers a precise and clear definition of realism, distinguishes Anglo-American from continental realism, and charts the complicated history of realist criticism over the last several decades.... The Novel of Purpose is well written, impressively researched, and wide ranging. Claybaugh offers an important and long overdue analysis of this novelistic genre, and her book deserves to rank among the finest recent contributions to transnational literary history. * H-SHGAPE, H-Net Reviews *The Novel of Purpose is a major contribution to the study of nineteenth-century literature on both sides of the Atlantic—one, moreover, that provides innovative and timely insight into the complex relationship between aesthetic production and political engagement. * Novel: A Forum on Fiction *
£53.10
Cornell University Press Who What Am I
Book SynopsisGod only knows how many diverse, captivating impressions and thoughts evoked by these impressions... pass in a single day. If it were only possible to render them in such a way that I could easily read myself and that others could read me as I do... Such was the desire of the young Tolstoy. Although he knew that this narrative utopiaturning the totality of his life into a bookwould remain unfulfilled, Tolstoy would spend the rest of his life attempting to achieve it. Who, What Am I? is an account of Tolstoy''s lifelong attempt to find adequate ways to represent the self, to probe its limits and, ultimately, to arrive at an identity not based on the bodily self and its accumulated life experience.This book guides readers through the voluminous, highly personal nonfiction writings that Tolstoy produced from the 1850s until his death in 1910. The variety of these texts is enormous, including diaries, religious tracts, personal confessions, letters, autobiographical fragments, anTrade ReviewOffers a rare exploration into the internal world of Tolstoy by examining his nonfictional, first-person writings, including diaries, letters, reminiscences, autobiographical and confessional statements, and essays.... Paperno makes an invaluable contribution to Tolstoy scholarship. -- R. A. Erb * CHOICE *Paperno reads all his [Tolstoy’s] writings in relation to the central project of his life: the transformation of his life into a book that would teach others how to live.... ‘Who, What Am I?’ is an important book that will become a standard source for students, general readers and scholars alike. * SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW *Paperno deftly shows how Tolstoi's attempt to write an autobiography failed, but his perceived failure at capturing the moral, philosophical, and technical issues accurately becomes a testament to his literary honesty (102). "Who, What Am I?" is highly important for any Tolstoi researcher, as it brings together the whole of his writings dealing with the exploration of the self. -- Radha Balasubramanian * Slavic Review *This is a relatively short book, yet it is rich in content, taking on some of the most important and challenging problems Tolstoy faced as a writer and thinker. [Irina Paperno] draws on a full range of Tolstoy's nonfiction writings from the 1850s until his death in 1910: diaries, letters, reminiscences, autobiographical and confessional statements, essays, and religious tracts. In addition, her book is informed by vast reading in other sources, primary and secondary. -- Randall A. Poole * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. "So That I Could Easily Read Myself": Tolstoy's Early DiariesTolstoy Starts a Diary—The Moral Vision of Self and the Temporal Order of Narrative—What Is Time? Cultural Precedents—“A History of Yesterday”— Time and Narrative—The Dream: The Hidden Recesses of Time—What Am I? The Young Tolstoy Defines Himself—What Am I? Cultural PrecedentsInterlude: Between Personal Documents and FictionFrom Diaries to Childhood: Tolstoy Becomes a Writer (1852)—“I Think I Will Never Write Again”: Tolstoy Attempts to Renounce Literature (1859)—“I . . . Don’t Even Think about the Accursed Lit-t-terature and Lit-t-terateurs”: Tolstoy Renounces Literature Again (1870); and Again (1874–75)Chapter 2. “To Tell One’s Faith Is Impossible. . . . How to Tell That Which I Live By. I’ll Tell You, All the Same. . . .” Tolstoy in His Correspondence“What Is My Life? What Am I?”: Tolstoy’s Philosophical Dialogue with Nikolai Strakhov—“I Wish that You, Instead of Reading Anna Kar [ enina ], Would Finish It. . . .”—“In the Form of Catechism,” “In the Form of a Dialogue”—To Tell One’s Life—Rousseau and His Profession/Confession—The Parting of Ways: Tolstoy Writes His Confession, and Strakhov Continues to Confess in His Letters to TolstoyChapter 3. Tolstoy’s Confession : What Am I?Tolstoy Publishes his Confession—The Conversion Narrative: Excursus on the Genre—Tolstoy’s Confession : Step by Step—Tolstoy’s Confession Related to Rousseau’s and Augustine’s—After Confession: “Presenting Christ’s Teaching as Something New after 1,800 Years of Christianity”—Coda: Tolstoy’s InfluenceChapter 4. “To Write My Life ”: Tolstoy Tries, and Fails, to Produce a Memoir or AutobiographyThe Author Biography—“My Life”: “On the Basis of My Own Memories”—“Reminiscences”: “More Useful Than All That Artistic Prattle with Which the Twelve Volumes of My Works Are Filled”—“Reminiscences”: “I Cannot Provide a Coherent Description of Events and States of Mind”—“The Green Stick”: “Où Suis-Je? Pourquoi Suis-Je? Que Suis-Je?”—Tolstoy and the Autobiographical TraditionChapter 5. “What Should We Do Then?”: Tolstoy on Self and Other“Why Have You, a Man from a Different World, Stopped near Us? Who Are You?”—Master and Slave: Tolstoy Rewrites Hegel—Tolstoy and the Washerwoman—The Order of Things: The Church, the State, the Arts and Sciences—“Master and Man”—Coda: Nonparticipation in EvilChapter 6. “I Felt a Completely New Liberation from Personality”: Tolstoy’s Late DiariesTolstoy Resumes his Diary—The Temporal Order of Narrative: The Last Day—“On Life and Death ”—The Diary as a Spiritual Exercise—“I, the Body, Is Such a Disgusting Chamber Pot”—“I Am Conscious of Myself Being Conscious of Myself Being Conscious of Myself. . . .”—“I Have Lost the Memory of Everything, Almost Everything. . . . How Can One Not Rejoice at the Loss of Memory?”—Sleeping, Dreaming, and Awakening—Tolstoy’s Dreams—Dreams: The World beyond Time and Representation—The Book of life: “It Is Written on Time”—The Circle of Reading: “To Replace the Consciousness of Leo Tolstoy with the Consciousness of All Humankind”—“The Death of Socrates”—Tolstoy’s DeathAppendix: Russian QuotationsNotesIndex
£33.25
Cornell University Press Metropolis on the Styx
Book SynopsisIn Metropolis on the Styx, David L. Pike considers how underground spaces and their many myths have organized ways of seeing, thinking about, and living in the modern city. Expanding on the cultural history of underground construction in his acclaimed...Trade ReviewPike has a collector's passion for viaducts, arches, quarries, tunnels, sewers, and arcades, and for the many and varied things that nineteenth-century observers had to say about them. His enthusiasm is especially contagious in an era when long-term government neglect of infrastructure has filled the news with breached levees, collapsing bridges, neighborhoods falling off the power grid, and other end-of-the-world style disasters.... Following the lead of Walter Benjamin, Pike reflects brilliantly on the devil in Baudelaire, while he also uncovers plausible devil surrogates in Eugene Sue's Les Mysteres de Paris, in the Gothic genre (relocated from the country to the city), in detective stories (the detective as another limping devil, taking off the housetops to reveal the hidden world of connections), in film noir and neo-noir. -- Bruce Robbins * Minnesota Review *Pike's book presents us with both a new of of spatializing capitalist modernity and a truly impressive archive of texts about the city and its underground spaces. The carefully chosen epigraphs dotted throughout each chapter speak volumes on their own, and the astonishing range of works and phenomenon analyzed within each chapter (from journalism to panoramas to the trench cities of World War I) are illustrated by many rare and wonderful images (110 in total).... Metropolis on the Styx's ambitious purview makes the density of material it analyzes necessary, for its arguments reach across space (from London to Paris) and time (spanning two full centuries).... All this breadth and depth makes for a work that is profoundly interdisciplinary, bringing together the interests of urban studies, English and comparative literature, history, art history, architecture, and geography as if to propose a new field—subterranean studies—and provide enough material to keep it going for some time. -- Tanya Agathocleous * Victorian Studies *This is an engaging and erudite volume throughout. Pike avoids becoming overly mired in a quagmire of theoretical considerations, and his arguments are firmly grounded in the urban landscapes that are the subject of his analysis. His work is a welcome addition to a long line of literature critically concerned with the rise of the modern industrial metropolis.... It is recommended for any scholar interested in the form of the urban world as a product of technology and the evolution of our attitudes about it. I expect that it will find wide use in upper division courses in American studies, geography, and urban studies. -- John P. McCarthy * Technology and Culture *
£28.49
Cornell University Press Feminist Conversations
Book SynopsisIn a new account of the relationship between Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Christina Zwarg recreates a feminist conversation that has gone unheard. In Zwarg''s view, the intimate, yet restrained, letters between the two writers are most significant in confronting the challenges posed by gender and desire. Focusing on their exploration of Charles Fourier''s utopianism and particularly his concept of passionate attraction, Zwarg offers the only detailed reading of Emerson''s letters to Fuller.Trade ReviewThis theoretically dense, well-researched book focuses on the relationship between two great 19th-century intellectuals: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller.... Because of its originality and excellent research, this book will be mandatory reading for Fuller and Emerson scholars and those interested in the development of 19th-century women's writing. * Choice *
£36.10
MB - Cornell University Press Dandies and Desert Saints
Book SynopsisWhile drawing on work in feminism, queer theory, and cultural history, Dandies and Desert Saints challenges scholars to rethink simplistic notions of Victorian manhood.Trade ReviewOffers a rich and complex argument.... Builds on important work by Victorianists such as Linda Dowling, Norma Clarke, and Herbert Sussman, and is as much at home with Walter Houghton as with Michel Foucault. By foregrounding issues of gender and placing these ideas in a more precise social and historical context than is usual, Dandies and Desert Saints deepens and expands the discussion of masculinities in the Victorian period. -- Joseph H. O'Mealy, Department of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa * Journal of the History of Sexuality *
£23.19
Cornell University Press Sexual Encounters
Book SynopsisEuropean literary, artistic, and anthropological representation has long viewed the Pacific as the site of heterosexual pleasures. The received wisdom of these accounts is based on the idea of female bodies unrestrained by civilization. In a...Trade ReviewFocuses on expressions of male homoerotic fantasy in the Western literature and art of South Sea exploration. * Chronicle of Higher Education *Sexual Encounters bursts with absorbing information about sexuality and the South Pacific.... The overall thesis of the work, however, is absolutely compelling: heterosexist assumptions have blinkered both Western fantasies about Polynesia and critiques of those fantasies. -- Robert Deam Tobin, Whitman College * H-Net Reviews *In Sexual Encounters: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities, Lee Wallace proposes a new understanding of the erotics and ambivalences of encounters between Euro-Americans and Polynesians.... Wallace argues that contact placed at issue not—as he has been widely assumed—degrees of heterosexual freedom, but rather the cultural permutations of male relationships. The book reveals its brilliance at the level of close reading. It proceeds through a series of beguiling exegeses that cumulatively expose some of the blind spots in recent reappraisals of Pacific encounters.... Her approach to the alternately prurient, fascinated or studiously silent documents of early contact is a mode of interstitial analysis, always necessitated in reading archives of encounters between oral and literate cultures, and acquiring an added imperative for Wallace by the absence of explicit referencing of homosexuality in her chosen texts. She theorizes the challenge to speak for her subject skillfully and directly, never resorting to the knee-jerk double-entendre of vulgar Freudianism. -- Vanessa Smith, University of Sydney * Journal of Polynesian Society *Table of ContentsPacific texts, modern sexualities; Sexual encounter in Hawaii on Cook's third voyage; Marquesan encounter and male visibility; Sexual difference and the expulsion of William Yate; Gauguin's Manao Tupapau and sodomitical invitation; Fa'afafine, queens of Samoa and sexual elision.
£27.54
Cornell University Press Gothic Reflections Narrative Force in
Book SynopsisThe Gothic has long been seen as offering a subversive challenge to the norms of realism. Locating both Gothic and mainstream Victorian fiction in a larger literary and cultural field, Peter K. Garrett argues that the oppositions usually posed between...Trade ReviewApproaching literary gothicism with an emphasis on its reflexivity, Garrett offers interesting interpretations of old warhorse fictions by writers from Horace Walpole through Henry James.... Overall, Garrett highlights the psychological plausibilities inherent in gothicism, which bear out Poe's dictum that terror emanates from the soul rather than from sleazy gimmicks to enthrall imperceptive readers. Summing Up: All collections supporting serious study of literary Gothicism, upper-division undergraduates and above. * Choice *Gothic Reflections demonstrates the interplay of Gothic and realistic elements from Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764) to James's The Ambassadors. Everyone who studies nineteenth-century fiction as well as recent theories of narrative will find it helpful, at times provocative (forceful but not forced), and always engaging. -- Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University * Victorian Studies *
£29.45
Cornell University Press Narrating Reality Austen Scott Eliot
Book SynopsisNarrating Reality offers a provocative and original critique of nineteenth-century British realist fiction and our ways of understanding it. Paying close attention to the role of the narrator, Harry E. Shaw challenges the denigration of realism that...Trade ReviewThis is a powerfully integrative book.... Narrating Reality is... as much a dramatic exercise in critical self-scrutiny as it is an analysis of a literary tradition... A remarkable, often moving book. -- Andrew H. Miller, Indiana University * Victorian Studies *This work is a classic example of statement and amplification: the notion of realism is the focus, the examination of the works of Austen, Scott, and Eliot the demonstration of that idea. The book is judicious, balanced, tightly structured, and tremendously informed.... With a sharply defined focus and a lucid, close-to-informal style, Shaw adeptly leads his reader through what can easily be a bewildering and overlapping maze of narratological theories.... A significant and original analysis. * Choice *
£24.80
Cornell University Press Penelope Voyages Women and Travel in the British
Book SynopsisLooking at travel writing by British women from the seventeenth century on, Karen R. Lawrence asks an intriguing question: What happens when, instead of waiting patiently for Odysseus, Penelope voyages and records her journey...Trade ReviewLawrence provides an important interrogation of travel writing as a genre and travel as a formative concept in women's identity. Women's narrative wandering is, according to Lawrence, a 'risky' and 'rewardingly excessive' phenomenon (240), of which Penelope Voyages is both an analysis and an example. * Novel *
£32.30
Johns Hopkins University Press Sex Politics and Science in the NineteenthCentury
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis collection is... a lesson to editors about how different types of subjects may profitably be brought together in one volume. And though the feminist orientation is provocative, there is a complete absence of any tone of vindictiveness, and an obvious determination to get at the truth. -- Eugene Kraft English Literature in Translation
£25.17
Johns Hopkins University Press The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe
Book SynopsisRenza, Shawn Rosenheim, and Laura Saltz.Trade Review"Avoiding the mere Frenchification of Poe that was dominant in the eighties, on the one hand, but, on the other, steadfastly refusing to return to the traditional formalist and thematic style which never really accounted for the French Poe, these essays make a wonderful case for a vitally social Poe--returning him home again, but with a difference that makes all the difference. They do so because their authors are at once theoretically current and widely experienced with the American canon. And they do so, even more, because they are quality essays, valuable individually as well as collectively."--Kenneth Dauber, State University of New York, Buffalo
£23.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Civil Wars
Book SynopsisAbove all, Goodman shows that novels of manners are central to American literature, and that these novels speak in a large cultural way about who and what composes America.Trade ReviewGoodman aims to show the many ways in which American novelists have scrutinized the norms of everyday life for clues about character, history, morality, social change, and national identity... Her discussions of William Dean Howells, Ellen Glasgow, and Jessie Fauset are particularly cogent. -- Merle Rubin Washington Times Foregrounding questions of taste and manners leads Goodman to a number of new perspectives on the literary production of her subjects. -- Alex Feerst American Literature 2004 Goodman presents an original and compelling argument that forces readers to acknowledge that the novel of manners-which typically focused on attitudes toward race, class, and national identity-did in fact play a central role in American literary and cultural history. This book is notable for its insight and originality. Choice 2003Table of ContentsContents: Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: American Novelists and Manners 1 William Dean Howells: The Lessons of a Master 2 Henry James: The Final Paradox of Manners 3 Edith Wharton: A Backward Glance 4 Willa Cather: "After 1922 or Thereabout" 5 Ellen Glasgow: A Social History of America 6 Jessie Fauset: The Etiquette of Passing Conclusion: Excursives Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Romantic Interactions
Book SynopsisThis fresh, informative account of key writers, important texts, and complex cultural currents promises keen interest for students and scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians.Trade ReviewSusan Wolfson is not afraid to profess the study of literature. Her impressive body of work has reasserted the claims of close reading and formal literary values in the face (or the wake) of New Historical and other forms of social, materialist criticism which have tended to reduce poetic texts to the socio-political arguments that can be based on-or against-them. Yet she does this not in simple reaction to what has become a very prevailing trend in the field of Romantic criticism, but with a keen alertness to the moral issues raised in Romantic poetry, especially when they involve the status of women, and particularly women writers, then and now. The present book takes a further step in this direction by investigating poetic language and feminist issues, including the possibly 'feminine' valences of poetry itself. Its procedure is highly intertextual, reading texts back and forth, for and against, each other. New Books on Literature 19 2010 Wolfson employs historicizing criticism to study the relationship between Romantic authors' subjective agency and social connections. Choice 2011Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsNote on TextsIntroduction: "The will of a social being"I. Two Women & Poetic Tradition1. Charlotte Smith's Emigrants and the Politics of Allusion2. Mary Wollstonecraft: Re:Reading the Poets3. The Poets' "Wollstonecraft"II. Gender Interactions, Generative Interactions: Two Wordsworths4. Lyrical Ballads and the Pregnant Words of Men's Passions5. William's Sister: Alternatives of Alter Ego6. Dorothy's Conversation with WilliamIII. A Public Attraction7. Gazing on "Byron": Separation and Fascination8. Byron and the Muse of Female PoetryNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press romanticnarrative
Book SynopsisEffective, articulate, and readable, Romantic Narrative will appeal to scholars in both nineteenth-century studies and narrative theory.Trade ReviewWith philosophical sophistication and extraordinary critical intelligence, Rajan also presents complex and original readings. Choice 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionList of Abbreviations1. The Trauma of Lyric: Shelley's Missed Encounter with Poetry in Alastos2. Shelley's Promethean Narratives: Gothic Anamorphoses in Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne, and Prometheus Unbound3. Unbinding the Personal: Autonarration, Epistolarity, and Genotext in Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma Courtney4. The Scene of Judgment: Trial and Confession in Godwin's Caleb Williams and Other Fiction5. Gambling, Alchemy, Speculation: Godwin's Critique of Pure Reason in St. Leon6. Whose Text? Godwin's Editing of Mary Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of WomanNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press All a Novelist Needs Colm Tibn on Henry James
Book SynopsisToibin's remarkable insights provide scholars, students, and general readers a fresh encounter with James's well-known texts.Trade ReviewThe book does not disappoint. The essays may be incidental-reviews, introductions, lectures-but each conveys a sense of Toibin's deep engagement with his subject and his writer's way with words. Irish Times 2010 Anyone interested in Toibin's process of transforming the life of James into a novel of immense subtlety should look carefully at a recent volume of essays. -- Jay Parini Chronicle of Higher EducationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Susan M. GriffinChapter 1. Henry James in Ireland: A FootnoteChapter 2. The Haunting of Lamb HouseChapter 3. A More Elaborate Web: Becoming Henry JamesChapter 4. Pure Evil: "The Turn of the Screw"Chapter 5. The Lessons of the MasterChapter 6. Henry James's New YorkChapter 7. A Death, a Book, an Apartment: The Portrait of a LadyChapter 8. Reflective BiographyChapter 9. A Bundle of LettersChapter 10. All a Novelist NeedsChapter 11. The Later JamesesAfterword: SilenceIndex
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University of Toronto Press Constance Lindsay Skinner
Book SynopsisBorn in 1877 on the British Columbia frontier, Constance Lindsay Skinner died in New York City in 1939, a successful and prolific writer. In contrast to her reputation in the United States, she remains virtually unknown in the country of her birth.
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University of Toronto Press Fitting Sentences Identity in Nineteenth and
Book SynopsisBy analysing the works of specific prison writers but not being limited to a single locale or narrow time span, Fitting Sentences offers a significant historical and global overview of a unique genre in literature.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Opening Statements Part One: The Carceral Society *'They locked the door on my meditations': Thoreau, Society, and the Prison House of Identity *'Cast of Characters': Problems of Identity and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Part Two: Writing Wrongs *'To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law': The Paradox of the Individual in De Profundis * Positioning Discourse: Martin Luther King Jr's 'Letter from Birmingham City Jail' Part Three: Prisons, Privilege, and Complicity * Being Jane Warton: Lady Constance Lytton and the Disruption of Privilege * Frustrating Complicity in Breyten Breytenbach's The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist Closing Statements / Opening Arguments Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Toronto Press The First Falls on Monday
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University of Toronto Press Thackeray
Book SynopsisAlthough few critics deny Thackeray’s position as a major novelist, he has had comparatively little of the kind of critical attention that has been devoted to Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, or Henry James in the last thirty years. His curious combinations of satire and sentiment, geniality and deviousness, snobbery and anti-snobbery, and his habits of retreating from one disguise to another, have made him difficult to deal with, and his practice of exposing his stories as fictions has evoked hostility in many critics who are none the less fascinated by him.In this original and revealing study of the major novels, Juliet McMaster contends that Thackery is a consummate artist and a highly sophisticated ironist, exploiting to the full the potential of the various personae he adopts, and introducing ambiguity deliberately, to sharpen the reader’s moral perceptions and to evoke the complexity of experience itself.
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University of Toronto Press Hopkins the Self and God
Book SynopsisGeneral Manley Hopkins was not alone among Victorians in his attention to the human self and to the particularities of things in the world around him, where he savoured the ‘selving or ‘inscape’ of each individual existent. But the intensity of his interest in the self, as a focus of exuberant joy as well as sometimes of anguish, both in his poetry and his prose, marks him out as unique even among his contemporaries. In these studies Professor Ong explores some previously unexamined reasons for Hopkins’ uniqueness, including unsuspected connections between nineteenth-century sensibility and certain substructures of Christian belief.Hopkins was less interested in self-discovery or self-concept than in what might be called the confrontational or obtrusive self – the ‘I,’ ultimately nameless, that each person wakes up to in the morning to find simply there, directly or indirectly present in every moment of consciousness. Hop
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University of Toronto Press The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold Or The Modern Oedipus
Book SynopsisIn 1816, John William Polidori travelled to Geneva as Byron’s personal physician; there he met Mary and Percy Shelley and took part in the most famous house party in literary history. To pass the time in ‘a wet, ungenial summer,’ the travellers took to writing ghost stories. Byron wrote his Faustian drama Manfred (1817); Mary Shelley wrote her masterpiece, Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818). Polidori appropriated an unfished story by Byron and turned it into the The Vampyre (1819). Polidori’s tale, with its nightmarish atmosphere and seductive, aristocratic villain, was a scandalous success; the fact that it was originally published, without Polidori’s knowledge, under Byron’s name, didn’t hurt. All the most famous vampires of popular culture, from Stoker’s Dracular to Anne Rice’s Lestat, descend from Polidori’s Byronic prototype.Polidori also contributed an original novel to
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MY - University of Toronto Press Ghostly Paradoxes
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University of Nebraska Press Winter Wheat
Book SynopsisIntroduces Ellen Webb, who lives in the dryland wheat country of central Montana during the early 1940s. This title is about growing up, becoming a woman, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and within the space of a year and a half.
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Stanford University Press The Consolations of Space
Book SynopsisThis text examines the concept of the mental landscape in American romantic literature. It contends that this landscape creates a space in the imagination that helps to form a writer's perspective. The book also explores the function of literary allusion in 19th-century American romance.Trade Review'A book of the first importance. I take particular delight in its moral intelligence, its deep aesthetic insight, and its ability to sketch a powerful and suggestive theory of American romanticism in a few strokes ... What this book is finally about is not only what an American romance is, but also how to specify the conditions under which imagination imagines and the logic of its action ... It also enters with beautiful precision and accessibility into the deep and primary questions of what art is supposed to be about and for.' John Burt, Brandeis UniversityTable of ContentsA note on sources; Introduction; Part I. Hawthorne: Re-placing Romance: 1. Prefatory remarks; 2. A wonder book; 3. The marble faun; Part II. Melville and James: The far-Hidden Places: 4. Melville: inland voyages; 5. James: 'the science of my response'; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Stanford University Press The Poetics of the Occasion
Book SynopsisA Stanford University Press classic.
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Stanford University Press Standard Deviations
Book SynopsisOffering a new approach to narrative theory by arguing that chance is the unrepresentable Other of narrative, this book traces the theme of chance in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Joseph Conrad's Chance, and James Joyce's Ulysses, and relates the novelistic treatment of chance to philosophical and scientific thinking.
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Stanford University Press Loves Litany Writing of Modern Homoerotics The
Book SynopsisThis analysis of the relation of erotic philosophy to homosexuality in the modern period focuses on homoerotic (mis)appropriations and subversions of homoerotic conceptions of romantic love in texts by authors including Oscar Wilde, Andre Gide, Ronald Firbank, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein.Trade Review"At once invitingly stylish and excitingly lucid, Love's Litany disentangles a rich, distinct tradition of philosophizing homoerotic love that looks back to Romanticism and urges forward toward modernism—toward the passionate merging, crystallization, camaraderie, experimentation, and mortal loss that mark our own fin de siècle." -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick * Duke University *"Everywhere tenderly epigrammatic, Kevin Kopelson's voice—moving with a litigator's clean, panoptic brio—demonstrates that critique can be a form of courtship, even a form of love." -- Wayne Koestenbaum * Yale University *Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Wilde's love deaths; 2. Pederastic trappings: Gide and Firbank; 3. Another other: Woolf and Stein; 4. Friends and lovers: Yourcenar and Renault; 5. Barthes's love-tricks; Notes; Index.
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Stanford University Press Writing in Parts
Book SynopsisProposing a new interpretation of literature and mass culture in nineteenth-century Europe, this book focuses on works by Marx, Balzac, Dickens, Adorno, and Benjamin to explore in them a complex "mimetic" disposition toward commodification in the realm of culture.
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Stanford University Press Alcibiades at the Door
Book SynopsisFocusing on works by Rene Crevel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, and Herve Guibert, this book studies how the figures of homosexuality function at the limits of narrative, as part of the deep structure of narrative, and at the border between public and private discourse.Trade Review“This fascinating book operates on the simple, fundamental premise that homosexuality inhabits a social place between public and private, and that, consequently, it serves as a sort of deep structure of knowledge, narrative, and identity. In five compelling and provocative chapters, Schehr works through the ramifications of his theory, uncovering unexpected alliances between and among his subjects, in the process giving us original, challenging, and potentially polemical insights.”—Thomas DiPiero, University of RochesterTable of ContentsAbbreviations; Introduction; Heterosexual surrealism and the problem of Rene Crevel; Sartre as midwife; On vacation with Gide and Barthes; Cippus: Guibert; Index.
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