Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
Stanford University Press Emerson and the Climates of History
Book SynopsisThis book brings together a wide range of materials from history, religion, philosophy, horticulture, and meteorology to argue that Emerson articulates his conception of history through the language of the weather.Trade Review“Beautifully written and brilliantly conceived and organized, this is the most illuminating and original work on Emerson that I have read. Cadava works to historicize Emerson by tracing the thematic and rhetorical connections between his writing and the literary, theological, and political texts of his period, and, in so doing, hopes to establish a model for reading the relation between literature and history. In my opinion, he is completely successful.”—Edgar A. Dryden, University of ArizonaTable of ContentsContents Preface Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three
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Stanford University Press FindeSiècle Splendor
Book SynopsisChallenging the reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature, this book argues that signs of reform and innovation can be discerned long before May Fourth.Trade Review'The outstanding merit of David Wang's Fin-de-siècle Splendor is bestcharacterized by quoting the concluding sentence of this impressive study oflate Qing fiction However preliminary, I hope this study has conveyed the sense of wonder and pleasure that any reader must feel when suddenly aware thata literature is on the verge of recovering itself, of letting all its voicesspeak as if the departing century had at least learned from its painful experiments and was ready to begin again - without the illusion of a wholly new beginning. ... Wang possesses a capacity that is sometimes deplorably rare among scholars: to demonstrate a genuine enthusiasm for his field of study and to transfer this enthusiasm to his readers.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic SocietyTable of ContentsContents 1 2 3 4 5 6
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Stanford University Press Between Race and Culture Representations of the
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays examines various representations of "the Jew" in British and American literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyzes in detail the literary racism and antisemitism of some of the most important and influential writers of this period.Trade Review“In cutting-edge critiques of race and gender, each as a value of ‘otherness,’ the contributors bring to light refreshingly new and insightful understandings of familiar works. As a result, readers may not read any of these works the same way again. Even the canonically enforced distinction between the two national literatures begins to break down in the face of these contributors’ exciting new work.”—James E. Young, University of MassachusettsTable of ContentsContributors; 1. Introduction: unanswered questions Bryan Cheyette; 2. Romanticism and/or antisemitism William Galperin; 3. Mark Twain and the diseases of the Jews Sander K. Gilman; 4. Seeing double: Jews in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and George Eliot Murray Baumgarten; 5. Henry James and the discourses of antisemitism Jonathan Freedman; 6. The imaginary Jew; T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound Maud Ellmann; 7. A nightmare of history: Ireland's Jews and Joyce's Ulysses Marilyn Reizbaum; 8. Dorothy Richardson and the Jew Jacqueline Rose; 9. The milk of our mother's kindness has ceased to flow: Virginia Woolf, Stevie Smith and the representation of the Jew Phyllis Lassner; 10. The protection of masculinity: Jews as projective pawns in the texts of William Gerhardi and George Orwell Andrea Freud Loewenstein; 11. Some uses for Jewish ambivalence: Abraham Cahan and Michael Gold Eric Homberger; Notes; Index.
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Stanford University Press Changing Stories in the Chinese World
Book SynopsisThis is an imaginative evocation and analysis—through the medium of translations (the author's own) of once popular but now forgotten literature—of the variety of "stories" in terms of which the Chinese have interpreted their lives since the early years of the 19th century.Table of ContentsContents 1. Ruzhen Li 2. Yingchang Zhang 3. Jinya Ping 4. Ran Hao 5. Zhongyuan Sima 6. Ze'nan Yuan
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Stanford University Press Closet Performances
Book SynopsisDisplaced to Italy by their politics and morals, Byron and Shelley wrote, between 1816 and 1823, a series of closet dramas that the author reveals as being deeply embedded in contemporary radical culture. Why did they write dramas in Italy that were to be published in England but not to be produced theatrically? Why do these dramas invoke and apparently oppose textual and theatrical versions of themselves? In answering these questions, this book addresses other questions about the historical invention of English literature, the relation between literature and drama, and the relation between literature and political culture.The plays are shown to acquiesce in, and yet also resist, subvert, and ironize by means of a parodic self-censorship, the political, theatrical, and ecclesiastical censorship of the post-Waterloo period. The author argues that they not only explore questions of political action in their plots but also reconstruct, by reconvening, a radical audience that hadTrade Review"Its impressively learned contentions from topics of historical fact are framed in a thoughtful context of literary-theoretical debate. . . . The scholarship and the critical perspicuity of Closet Performances make this book one of the best on its topic and one that is likely to be valuable as a resource and as a locus for contention for a long time to come."—Studies in RomanticismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: 1. The theoretical management of theatrical spectacle; 2. The politics of language and the language of politics; Part II. 3. The matter of political drama; 4. The economic comedy of (self)censorship; Part III: 5. Secrets of the closet: the private mind and public body; Envoi: across the stage of Europe; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.
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Stanford University Press Relays Literature as an Epoch of the Postal
Book SynopsisThis book examines how one aspect of the social and technological situation of literature-namely, the postal system as a mode of transmission-determined how literature was produced and what was produced within literature.Trade Review"This will be important reading for anyone interested in the enormous influence of communication systems on literature and philosophy."—ChoiceTable of ContentsList of tables and figures Introduction 1. An epoch of the postal system Part I. The Logistics of the Poet's Dream: 2. On time (registered letterI) 3. Gellert's coup: folding the private letter 4. Post day in Wahlheim 5. Set the controls for the heart of the night 6. Postage 7. Goethe's postal empire 8. The timbre of a calling (attunement) 9. The logistics of the poet's dream: kleist Part II. On The Way To New Empires 1840-1900: 10. System time (registered letter II) 11. Postage one penny: Rowland Hill's post office reform 12. The standards of writing 13. Hill/Babbage/Bentham: the mechanical alliance of 1827 14. Mail in 1855: a misuse of love letters 15. The worl postal system, or the end of the world 16. The postcard 17. The telegraph: land and sea 18. The virgin machine Part III. Mail Beyond Human Communication: 19. Typewriter and carbon paper 20. The poet's matter in extremis 21. Mail, or the impossibility of writting letters 22. In the presence of noise Notes Bibliography.
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Stanford University Press The Leisure Ethic Work and Play in American
Book SynopsisThis literary and cultural history of the rise of modern leisure shows how American writers from Henry David Thoreau to Zora Neale Hurston both responded to and helped shape19th- and early-20th-century ideas of work and play.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Escape, Evasion, Ambivalence: 1. Re-creating Walden: Thoureau's economy of work and play; 2. Old ways, new ways: anxiety and identity in Roughing It and Life on the Missisippi; Part II. Alternative Articulations: 3. Frontier Fairy Tales: Cahan, Rolvaag, and the resistance to play progressivism; 4. 'Find their Place and Fall in Line': the revisioning of women's work in Herland and Emma McChesney & Co.; Part III. Whose Golden Age?: 5. 'An ideal body to be lived up to': play, display, and the self in The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man and The Great Gatsby; 6. Public space, private lives: recreation and re-creation in An American Tragedy and Native Son; 7. Southern Counterpoint: bodily control and the 'problem' of leisure in Sanctuary and Their Eyes Were Watching God; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Stanford University Press Commemorating Pushkin
Book SynopsisCommemorating Pushkin is a study of the fascination with Pushkin that has helped Russian culture define itself, as seen in poems, stories, essays, memoirs, films, museums, and commemorative celebrations.Trade Review"Stephanie Sandler's long-awaited book, Commemorating Pushkin: Russia's Myth of a National Poet, offers us a thorough and erudite look at the Pushkin phenomenon in Russia....Her comments and discussions are at all times perceptive and immensely well-informed, and her readings are nuanced and imaginative."--Slavic and East European Journal"This book will be of interest to a wide range of Russian cultural scholars, offering both a valuable introduction to the subject of Pushkin's legacy and also detailed insights in specific areas, particularly with regard to visual culture." -- Modern Language Review
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Stanford University Press Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century Performing
Book SynopsisA study of the reflexive relationship between music and language in the 19th century, this book maintains a discrete historical focus while drawing on an aesthetic going back to problems of epic delivery in ancient Greece. Franz Liszt is the organizing figure in this detailed study of music in Heine and Baudelaire.Trade Review"Bernstein revitalizes the nineteenth century with her cogent examination of different discourses, genres and media. Her observations about the interwoven nature of music and literature are lucid and always to the point. This thoughtfully prepared study is a wonderful resource for dix-neuviémistes."—Susan Crampton-Frenchik, University of North CarolinaTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Virtuosity and journalism; 2. Instruments of virtuosity; 3. Virtuosity; 4. Virtuosity, rhapsody, and Romantic philology; 5. Liszt's bad style; 6. Poetic originality and musical debt: paradoxes of translation; 7. Rivalry among the arts and professional limitations; 8. Music, painting, and writing in Baudelaire's Petits poemes en prose; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Stanford University Press Formal Charges The Shaping of Poetry in British
Book SynopsisWhy care about poetic form and its intricacies, other than in nostalgia for a bygone era of criticism? The purpose of this book is to refresh today this care for criticism, applying a historically aware formalist reading to poetic form in Romanticism and showing how in theory and practice Romantic writers addressed, debated, tested, and contested fundamental questions about what is at stake in the poetic forming of language. In the process, it suggests the importance of these conflicted inquiries for contemporary critical discussion and demonstrates the pleasures of attending to the complex changes of form in poetic writing.After an introductory chapter on the controversies about poetic form and formalism from the Romantic era to our own, succeeding chapters consider particular instances in Romantic poetry in which experimental agendas or unsettled traditions promote an awareness of new textual possibilities. The author shows how Blake''s Poetical Sketches predicts manTrade Review"This book is the real thing: learned, patient, thoroughly researched, fresh, corrective, and expertly written. It confronts the chill that has descended on the major poetic texts of Romantic studies from the anti-formalist animus of certain latter-day practitioners with a cool authority all its own. This is counter-critique at its very best."—Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa"A fine book that consciously flies in the face of prevailing critical currents through its detailed emphasis on poetic form in the big six Romantic poets. . . . This is a first-rate book—persuasive, well written, and with the interpretive radar on high."—European Romantic Review"An important study by an important critic."—Studies in English Literature"Wolfson's strengths are comprehensiveness and attention to process; her book includes and excellent introductory chapter on the history of formalism that reviews critical debates that have erupted over how poetry reforms traditional practice."—Choice"The publication of Susan Wolfson's ...book Formal Charges is a terribly important event, not only in the history of Romantic Studies, but in the history of the theoretical discourses currently questioning whether the study of literature should become Cultural Studies, and asking to what extent the practice of aesthetic appreciation should be abandoned for political criticism."—Romanticism on the NetTable of ContentsAbbreviations 1. Formal intelligence: formalism, romanticism, and formalist criticism 2. Sketching verbal form: Blake's Political Sketches 3. The formings of simile: Coleridge's 'comparing power' 4. Revision as form: Wordsworth's drowned man 5. Heroic form: couplets, 'self', and Byron's Corsair 6. Teasing form: the crisis of Keats's last lyrics 7. Social form: Shelley and the determination of reading Notes Index.
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Stanford University Press Silent Urns Romanticism Hellenism Modernity
Book SynopsisThe study of Greece as an icon of culture appears to be as old as Greece itself, as if its cultural significance had attained full maturity at birth. In Silent Urns, the author reveals how Greece attained such significance as the result of the attempt to reconcile individuality, freedom, history, and modernity in 18th-century aesthetics.Trade Review"This is a truly remarkable volume, remarkable for its originality, for the driving coherence of its complex subject matter, for its bringing together a number of fields of study in a manner that forces us into new realizations about their interrelationships. This book is-there is no way to overemphasize this-an exceedingly important meditation not only on Romanticism, eighteenth-century studies, and the ways we interpret art, history, and Hellenism; it is beyond all that a superb and daring commentary on cultural studies and historicism in their relationship to theories of criticism and language." -Carol Jacobs,State University of New York, BuffaloTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Greece and the invention of culture: Winckelmann; 2. The silence of Greece: Keats; 3. The choice of tragedy: from Keats to Schelling; 4. The history of freedom: from Aeschylus to Shelley; 5. The time of judgment: Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; 6. The recall of thought: Holderlin; Notes; Index.
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Stanford University Press The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the
Book SynopsisThe emergence of the fantastic tale in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reflects a growing fascination with the supernatural, the marvelous, and the occult as the site for literary innovation. Taking Jacques Cazotte''s prototypical The Devil in Love as a starting point, this book examines the genre''s early development in the fantastic tales of the German romantics Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, and E. T. A. Hoffmann; the subsequent French rediscovery of the genre in works by Théophile Gautier and Prosper Mérimée; and Edgar Allan Poe''s contributions to the new literary form.The literary innovation of the fantastic tale contributed to the production of a mode of subjectivity intrinsic to the history of sexuality. It arose at a moment in the history of communication when similarity and perfect openness were no longer considered the unquestioned basis of friendship or love, when the other''s potentially dark secrets became seductive and fascinating. Trade Review"The brilliance of The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale is its intellectual courage and sure footedness in contextualizing complexity of subjectivity in the nineteenth century when the many ways of knowing the world were implicated in a competition for political dominance that insisted on the exclusion of any alternatives...[T]he book's virtues in exposing the intellectual dynamic of the beginning of the modern age make it valuable even for those not intimately engaged in literary study." -- Leonardo Reviews
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Stanford University Press The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the
Book SynopsisThe emergence of the fantastic tale in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reflects a growing fascination with the supernatural, the marvelous, and the occult as the site for literary innovation. Taking Jacques Cazotte''s prototypical The Devil in Love as a starting point, this book examines the genre''s early development in the fantastic tales of the German romantics Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, and E. T. A. Hoffmann; the subsequent French rediscovery of the genre in works by Théophile Gautier and Prosper Mérimée; and Edgar Allan Poe''s contributions to the new literary form.The literary innovation of the fantastic tale contributed to the production of a mode of subjectivity intrinsic to the history of sexuality. It arose at a moment in the history of communication when similarity and perfect openness were no longer considered the unquestioned basis of friendship or love, when the other''s potentially dark secrets became seductive and fascinating. Trade Review"The brilliance of The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale is its intellectual courage and sure footedness in contextualizing complexity of subjectivity in the nineteenth century when the many ways of knowing the world were implicated in a competition for political dominance that insisted on the exclusion of any alternatives...[T]he book's virtues in exposing the intellectual dynamic of the beginning of the modern age make it valuable even for those not intimately engaged in literary study." -- Leonardo Reviews
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Stanford University Press Poetrys Appeal
Book SynopsisSocrates banished poetry from the ideal republic, adopting the philosophical position that poetic language operates outside the conventions of public discourse and is private in expression. But what does the banished language of poetry say about its relation to public space? Is it possible to draw a line severing the language of beauty from the language of truth? Derrida asks whether the line ought rather to pass between Western metaphysics, with its logic of polar opposites, and another way that does not organize everything in oppositional terms. The verbal economy organized around the poem as inscription, for instance, fits awkwardly with a division between a public discourse under the aegis of truth and a private one regulated by aesthetic pleasure.Poetry''s Appeal takes the reemergence of a viable poetry in the politicized culture of revolutionary and post-revolutionary France as a signal that poetry''s sentence of exile from the public arena is unresolved. It findTrade Review"Poetry's Appeal situates itself in what might be considered the single most significant critical debate in Romanticism over the last two or so decades. Its principal concern being the relation between (poetic) language and history, it reconsiders what has been characterized as the retreat of literature, and in particular the lyric, from politics. . . . Burt's readings follow in the line of important critics such as Paul de Man, Barbara Johnson, and Kevin Newmark, who have brought the most finely tuned rhetorical readings to nineteenth-century French literature." -- European Romantic ReviewTable of ContentsPart I. On Shifting Ground: Poetry's Orders: 1. (Dis)arming Minerva: of performatives and prosthetics in Chenier's 'La Jeune captive'; 2. Mallarmes 'bound action': the orders of the garter; Part II. Memories of the Poem: Histories, Chances: 3. Cracking the code: the poetical and political legacy of Chenier's 'antique verse'; 4. Hallucinatory history: Hugo's Revolution; 5. 'An immoderate taste for truth': censoring history in Baudelaire's 'les bijoux'; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Stanford University Press Emersons Transcendental Etudes
Book SynopsisThis book is Stanley Cavell's definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic and provocative philosophical critic of Emerson that America has yet known. The sustained effort of that labor is drawn together here for the first time into a single volume, which also contains two previously unpublished essays and an introduction by Cavell that reflects on this book and the history of its emergence.Students and scholars working in philosophy, literature, American studies, history, film studies, and political theory can now more easily access Cavell's luminous and enduring work on Emerson. Such engagement should be further complemented by extensive indices and annotations. If we are still in doubt whether America has expressed itself philosophically, there is perhaps no better space for inquiry than reading Cavell reading Emerson.Trade Review"[A] challenging but endlessly and unpredictably rewarding book."—The Times Literary SupplementTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Author's Acknowledgements i Editor's Preface ii Author's Introduction ii @toc2:1 Thinking of Emerson 0 2 An Emerson Mood 00 3 The Philosopher in American Life (Toward Thoreau and Emerson) 00 4 Emerson, Coleridge, and Kant (Terms as Conditions) 00 5 Being Odd, Getting Even (Descartes, Emerson, Poe) 000 6 Finding as Founding: Taking Steps in Emerson's "Experience" 000 7 Staying the Course 000 8 Aversive Thinking: Emersonian Representations in Heidegger and Nietzsche 000 9 Epilogue 000 10 Hope Against Hope 000 11 A Cover Letter 000 12 What is the Emersonian Event? A Comment on Kateb's Emerson 000 13 Emerson's Constitutional Amending: Reading "Fate" 000 14 What's the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist? 000 15 Henry James Reading Emerson Reading Shakespeare 000 16 Old and New in Emerson and Nietzsche 000 @toc4:Index of Emerson Citations 000 Endnotes 000 Works Cited 000 Selected Works by Stanley Cavell 000 Selected Secondary Bibliography 000 Name and Concept Index 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Criticism and interpretation, Transcendentalism (New England)Philosophy in literature
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Stanford University Press Failure Nationalism and Literature
Book SynopsisAgainst prevailing views on what it means to enjoy power as individuals, cultures, or nations, this book looks at the making of cultural and national identities in modern China as building success from failure.Trade Review"Tsu's findings are compelling. She argues that in the wake of repeated military humiliations and the Western discourse on Chinese racial deficiency or inferiority, the formation of modern Chinese national identity was fueled by a self-perception as humiliated and deficient in a way the typically assumed patriotic pride and desire for sovereignty could never have done." -- Nations and Nationalism"This is an important book. . . offering suggestive new insights through a genre-bending analysis that owes much to intellectual history and literary analysis but is beholden to neither. . . . Using foundational texts of Chinese modernity along with some texts scarcely noticed before, Tsu has defamiliarized China." -- Academia Sinica, Taiwan"...a bold and useful book." -- Etudes Chinoises"Failure, Nationalism, and Literature achieves two important features of excellent scholarship—it helps makes sense of the past in new and challenging ways and in so doing provides numerous new points of departure for future scholarly work. Moreover, it stands as an excellent example of the unique contribution first-rate literary analysis can make to enhancing our understanding of the complexity of China's path through the twentieth century. This is a seriously good read." -- The China Journal"Tsu's book shows that China's national identity is premised upon a narrative of victimhood, and that this victimhood has become a rationale permitting all kinds of retaliatory action—avenging the injustices of the past becomes a nationalist project encased in a conception of a national identity of group humiliation. Tsu Jing's thesis about the widespread belief that 'the victim has a moral right to seek revenge' provides a rather unsettling contrast to the repeated government protestations about China's desires for a 'peaceful rise'." -- Journal of Contemporary HistoryTable of ContentsContents Illustrations xxx Acknowledgments xxx Chapter 1: Failure and National Identity 1 Chapter 2: The Yellow Race 000 Chapter 3: The Menace of Race 000 Chapter 4: Loving the Nation, Preserving the Race 000 Chapter 5: The Quest for Beauty and Notions of Femininity 000 Chapter 6: Community of Expiation: Confessions, Masculinity, and Masochism 000 Chapter 7: Kumen, Cultural Suffering 000 Conclusion: The Emergence of Culture in Failure 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Character List 000 Index 000
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Stanford University Press Sing Stranger
Book SynopsisSing, Stranger is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into English for the first time. This anthology reveals both an amazing achievement of Jewish creative work and an important body of American poetry.Trade Review"This latest work of Benjamin and Barbara Harshav, truly the doyens of the field of Yiddish poetry in translation, is an important achievement. Many anthologies have tended to give relatively furtive glimpses of a poet's creation, or suggestive hints of the flavours of his or her poetry. Both the impressive, but not cumbersome, size of this anthology and its historical and geographic focus allow for making more than such fleeting acquaintances. The strength of the work, the thing that makes it of such moment, is the heterogeneous and fluid notion of Americanness which is at the heart of the project."—Modern Language Review"This anthology consists of excellent English translations of the Yiddish poetry of major American Yiddish writers... highly recommended reading for all."—Association of Jewish Libraries NewsletterTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:A Note on Transcriptions iii Preface iii @toc1:Prelude 000 @toc1:Part One: Proletarian Poets 000 @toc2: Morris Rosenfeld(18621923) 000 Dovid Edelshtat(18661892) 000 Yoysef Bovshover(18731915) 000 @toc1:Part Two: The Lyrical Turn 000 @toc2: Yehoash (18721927) 000 Mani Leyb (18831953) 000 Y. Rolnik (18791955) 000 Ruven Ayzland (18841955) 000 B. Vladek (18861938) 000 Zisho Landoy (18891937) 000 Avrom Reyzen (18761953) 000 @toc1:Part Three: Symbolism and Expressionism 000 @toc2: H. Leyvik (18881962) 000 Moyshe-Layb Halpern (18861932) 000 Berish Vaynshteyn (19051967) 000 @toc1:Part Four: Introspectivism 000 @toc2:A. L'yeles (18891966) 000 Jacob Glatshteyn (18961971) 000 J. L. Teller (19121972) 000 Ruven Ludvig (18951926) 000 B. Alquit (n.d.) 000 @toc1:Part Five: On the Left 000 @toc2:Moyshe Nadir (18851943) 000 Menke Katz (19061991) 000 @toc1:Part Six: Narrative Poetry 000 @toc2: I. Y. Shvarts (18851971) 000 @toc1:Part Seven: Women Poets 000 @toc2:Anna Margolin (18871952) 000 Tsilya Drapkin (18881956) 000 Malka Heifetz-Tussman (18961987) 000 @toc1:Songs by Yiddish Poets 000 @toc4:Glossary 000
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Stanford University Press The Marriage of Minds
Book SynopsisThe Marriage of Minds examines the implications of the common Victorian claim that novel reading can achieve the psychic, ethical, and affective benefits also commonly associated with sympathy in married life.Trade Review"Well anchored in secondary material, Ablow's historically premised, nuanced mode of reading generates new perspectives on well-known Victorian novels." -- CHOICE"Ablow's sophisticated, theoretically expansive treatment of sympathy-as-relation is timely, robust, and altogether welcome." -- Victorian Studies"In The Marriage of Minds, Rachel Ablow offers a new perspective on the relationship between reading, one of the favorite activities of the Victorians, and the institution of marriage, and how society viewed that relationship The Marriage of Minds deservingly ranks as one of the more cogently argued and readable literary criticisms of Victorian literature of recent time." * H-Net *"...Rachel Ablow deftly incorporates primary historical sources in her analysis of marital and readerly sympathy....Ablow's ability to locate her literary analysis within various Victorian discourses makes The Marriage of Minds indispensible for anyone seeking a general overview of Victorian perceptions of the relationships among marriage, sympathy, and reading." -- Clio"This authoritative and innovative book on sympathy and the novel is a must-read for any student of Victorian fiction. It participates energetically in the major arguments about Victorian fiction that have been made in the last two decades. A significant achievement that fills a surprising void in the field." -- Christopher Rovee * Stanford University *"The Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot is a richly incisive exploration of the Victorian novel, which offers stunningly fresh and perceptive readings of major works alongside a suggestive account of novel reading itself. Going beyond the familiar insistence that novels interpellate readers into a social order not of their making, The Marriage of Minds discovers in the representation of sympathy a newly exacting understanding of how this might take place, and what the consequences of the process—political, ethical, and psychic—might be. The result is a major contribution to the study of Victorian fiction." -- James Eli Adams * ornell University *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Reading Sympathy 000 1. Labors of Love: The Sympathetic Subjects of David Copperfield 000 2. The "Failure" of Wuthering Heights 000 3. George Eliot's Art of Pain 000 4. Good Vibrations: The Sensationalization of Masculinity in The Woman in White 000 5. Anthony Trollope and the Pleasures of Alienation 000 Notes 000 Works Cited 000 Index 000
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Stanford University Press Consequences of Consciousness
Book SynopsisConsequences of Consciousness shows how great Russian authors conversed with each other through their fictions as they explored both the limits and the autonomy of subjective consciousness.Trade Review"Consequences of Consciousness is an estimable scholarly endeavor, expertly researched, frequently thought-provoking, and blessedly free of jargon. Shedding new light and revealing light on the interrelationships among the three literary giants of nineteenth-century Russia, it will make its readers far more conscious of the workings of consciousness in both Russian and western literature." -- Slavic Review"Consequences of Consciousness offers a particularly rich sense of the interactions among these three writers (and some others, like Herzen) as, in overt and implicit reference to each other, they debated and redebated ethics, meaning, and selfhood...I hope I do not exaggerate, but it seems to me that Orwin has put her finger on the pulse of Russian realism and reminded us why it matters." -- Russian Review"The great Russian Realists were also great lay psychologists. In a century bewitched by norms and the pursuit of scientific truths, they set out to defend the absolute reality of each person's subjectivity. Orwin's wonderful study helps us to see, once again, how subtle are the narrative techniques that transmit ordinary irreducible life and why the quest to legitimize individualized experience results paradoxically in a Russian novel where each reader (from a vast variety of eras, cultures, languages) feels uniquely 'at home.'" -- Caryl Emerson * Princeton University *Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Note on Documentation iii @toc2:Introduction 1 1. The Origins of Self-Consciousness as a National Trait of the Russian Literary Tradition 000 2. Turgenev: Subjectivity in the Shadows 000 3. Dostoevsky's Hidden Author 000 4. Taming the Author: The Platonic and the Turgenevian Moments in Tolstoy's Fiction 000 5. Romantic Longing in Turgenev 000 6. Dostoevsky's Critique of Turgenev 000 7. Reflection as a Tool for Understanding in Russian Psychological Prose 000 8. Childhood in Dickens, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy 000 9. The Psychology of Evil in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky 000 Conclusion 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Selected Bibliography 000 Index 000
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Stanford University Press Bohemia in America 18581920
Book SynopsisAmerican Bohemias explores the construction and emergence of "Bohemia" in American literature and culture.Trade Review"Because of Levin's depth of research and polished prose, Bohemia in America offers readers an incredibly rich look at a fertile period in American arts . . . As long as discontented souls seek la vie bohème, Levin's book should stand as a cornerstone of counterculture criticism." -- Brett C. Sigurdson * Western American Literature *"Joanna Levin's Bohemia in America, 1858-1920 promises to fill a niche in the history of American literature and culture by providing a timely and comprehensive account of 'the textual and geographic spaces in which Bohemia was conjured'." -- Wendy Graham * Vassar College *"Joanna Levin's exhaustively researched and cogently argued survey, Bohemia in America, examines quite another slice of late-nineteenth-century cultural politics. . . The standout chapters of this book examine the domestication and merchandising of 'bohemia' as a concept and a brand." -- Kevin R. McNamara * American Literature *"The research contained in Bohemia in America is impeccable, indeed, extraordinary. It will make an important contribution to late nineteenth and early twentieth-century US literary studies. The arguments the book offers are smart, and make us look at familiar questions—the relation between bohemian and bourgeois, the consolidation and reticulation of middle-class culture, and many more—in a new and more complex light." -- Jonathan Freedman * University of Michigan *"[Bohemia in America] offers a carefully argued and supported thesis, and provides cultural historians and literary scholars with fresh insights into cultural resistance and accommodation." -- Thomas Lawrence Long * Canadian Journal of History *"Bohemia in America is revisionist history in the best sense. Not only does it overturn received wisdom but it also reveals, on a vast canvas long assumed to be more or less blank, a vivid collage of scenes and portraits, rich in both concrete details and meaningful abstractions. . . Whether critiquing bohemia from an ideological distance or singing its praises, the dozens of contemporary voices that Levin captures make for a highly textured, engaging account. Bohemia in America is an important and authoritative book with remarkable reach." -- Sarah Wadsworth * Journal of American History *"Levin's distinctions among various regional bohemias lends a sound organizational structure to her book, and Harte is but one of an impressive assembly of writers who undergo fresh assessment . . . This well-researched and sharply written study will serve to introduce a novel subject to some readers and provide a solid foundation for subsequent scholars interested in exploring a compelling and colorful chapter in American literature and culture." -- Kent P. Ljungquist * Resources for American Literary Study *"Exhaustively researched and dynamically interdisciplinary, Levin persuasively challenges the widely held assumption that American Bohemianism was a 'feeble imitation' of its European counterpart. Instead, her text demonstrates the vitality of this American expression." -- Forum for Modern Language Studies"Readers will find much to admire in this history of Bohemianism in America. Levin's dynamic historical narrative, her impeccable research, and her ever-changing cast of literary and cultural figures make for an engaging and rewarding survey of an often-neglected movement . . . Highly recommended." -- Choice"In a thorough and insightful study of Bohemianism in the United States, Joanna Levin documents the significance of the term, 'part literary trope, part cultural nexus, and part socioeconomic landscape,' and traces its wavering course as the sign of cultural dissent, and of dissent emulated and commodified." -- David M. Robinson * American Literary Realism *"[T]he book treats Bohemia as a cultural identity that draws on even while confounding our current categories: it is ethnic, racial, gendered, local, national, transnational, geographic, utopian, historical, ahistorical—all and none of these. Perhaps the profoundest challenge and intervention that this book produces lies in its ability to confound the taxonomies on which Americanists rely in their engagement with nineteenth century culture. While much scholarship over the past decades has challenged our cultural epistemologies in productive ways, this book shows how messy the historical past is, and thus unsettles our habit of taxonimizing its conflicting strands." -- Colleen Glenney Boggs * New Books on Line 19 *
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Stanford University Press Monopolizing the Master
Book SynopsisAnesko reveals the remarkable social, political, and sexual intrigue that inspired-and influenced-the deliberate construction of the Legend of Henry James.Trade Review"This remarkable tale of scholarly intrigue, censorship, and family anxiety shows enormous damage done—some of it permanent—to our study of Henry James's life and works."—James Emmett Ryan, Journal of American Studies of Turkey"In this eminently entertaining history of Henry James's reception, Michael Anesko shows in meticulously researched detail that the truism is right . . . Although this book is full of juicy bits of gossip and intrigue, it also offers a long view of how an author is constructed and reconstructed through his (or her) reception."—Paul Armstrong, Common Knowledge"Monopolizing the Master is exemplary: smoothly written, impeccably researched, and thoroughly knowledgeable. It will certainly become a basic resource for [Henry James] scholars at all levels."—Nina Baym, RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY"Michael Anesko's book is a remarkable and closely reason exhumation of the efforts of Henry James, his wider family, and several generations of scholars to define his cultural patrimony and his personal and literary reputation. The story Professor Anesko tells with its twists, turns, and revealed intrigue is worthy of a novella by James himself. It is an important contribution to James studies, with its detailed depiction of efforts to control the study of James's papers . . . Meticulously researched and documented, wittily written with an eye to the ironic, Michael Anesko's book is one that every James scholar, literary executor, and archivist should read."—David J. Supino, The Book Collector"Anesko's lucid, jargon-free prose in Monopolizing the Master is a pleasure to read. . . [T]he study is informed by the author's ground breaking work on James and the literary marketplace as well as a wealth of more recent findings. The engaging yet incisive handling of this material makes this a book that will be read for years to come."—Miranda El-Rayess, Times Literary Supplement"Anesko's archival work, and the sense he makes of it, is every bit as impressive here as we have seen in his earlier books . . . This revealing book will fascinate and appall anyone who thought the writing was the hardest part of literary scholarship."—Kristin Boudreau, Review of English Studies"Michael Anesko's book addresses the urbanely industrious ways in which writers, critics, and family members have monopolised the terms by which we consider James and his writings . . . [O]f great interest and value for its contribution to literary history."—Matthew Peters, Essays in Criticism"Oh, I am going to [expletive deleted] like this book."—Jessa Crispin, Bookslut.com"Michael Anesko's important, fiercely witty book on the mediation—manipulation—of James's works and reputation by his heirs and successive scholars is hard to put down. Not only Jamesians but lovers of literary gossip will relish his treasure trove of archival revelations about the keepers of the Jamesian flame, from Percy Lubbock to Leon Edel. This inside study of the politics of literary institutions is certain to become a classic, of a very remarkable kind."—Philip Horne, University College London"Michael Anesko combines scholarship with the writer's craft to engage both the seasoned Jamesian and the educated general reader. The story he tells is significant and compelling: it promises to change once again the way that we understand Henry James, all while opening a window onto academe's seamier side."—Greg Zacharias, Creighton University"For Jamesians, this is a page-turner, a must-have. It will also absorb the general reader in a compelling narrative that has everything: the fall and rise of a major literary figure; complicated money-making deals, sexual secrets, family dynamics, contention over intellectual property rights, self-protecting Boston/Harvard hierarchies, conspiracies and cover-ups, and power-grabs by an accomplished villain."—Martha Banta, University of California, Los Angeles"As this extraordinary work of scholarship shows, it would be family, friends, publishers, biographers, and critics who strove to perpetuate one or another 'Henry James' in accordance with their view of the dead author. Anesko gives a vivid presence to these secondary actors like the novelist's nephew, Percy Lubbock (the first editor of James's letters), and Leon Edel, whose successful campaign to obtain and retain exclusive rights to publish James's letters and biography is a scandal of modern scholarship only now being exposed in detail."—Millicent Bell, Emerita, Boston University
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Stanford University Press NineteenthCentury Jewish Literature
Book SynopsisRecent scholarship has brought to light the existence of a dynamic world of specifically Jewish forms of literature in the nineteenth centuryfiction by Jews, about Jews, and often designed largely for Jews. This volume makes this material accessible to English speakers for the first time, offering a selection of Jewish fiction from France, Great Britain, and the German-speaking world. The stories are remarkably varied, ranging from historical fiction to sentimental romance, to social satire, but they all engage with key dilemmas including assimilation, national allegiance, and the position of women. Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars.Trade Review"Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature is very readable, provoking Jewish introspection about all aspects of Jewish life in all times and all locations. It is a worthwhile compendium to Nineteenth-Century literature in general."—Nira Wolfe, Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) Newsletter"The editors selected short stories and novellas that navigate four issues with particular relevance to nineteenth-century Jewish audiences modernization, assimilation, national allegiance, and the status of women . . . The stories do not articulate a singular vision for reconciling Jewish tradition with the rapid modernization of the non-Jewish world; rather each author engages the aforementioned themes differently, highlighting the interdisciplinarity of the collection. Moreover, the authors profiled here emulate and adapt literary styles popular with the majority cultures, justifying their place alongside canonical European authors . . . Perhaps the most innovative aspect of the collection is that, although the stories are placed into specific contexts, the stories reach across these boundaries, and the reader will find that the texts intersect thematically and structurally in almost limitless ways."— Lindsay Dearinger, Women in Judaism: A Multidiciplinary Journal"As a compendium of previously unavailable material, Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature gives us a glimpse into a forgotten world. By presenting the literature itself, this book opens rather than closes the question of what this body of literature means, allowing readers to see it for themselves and engage with it in new ways. The editors' earlier works are well known for their top-notch interpretations of 19th century Jewish literature in national contexts, and this book reflects their deep understanding of not only the literature but also its social and cultural functions in nineteenth-century Western Europe."—Lisa Moses Leff, American University"Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature is an unparalleled collection in contemporary literary studies: an anthology that recovers the earliest popular narratives that translated the Jewish experience into English, French, and German—and in the process taught the Jews reading them how to think of themselves as modern, European citizens. The challenges posed by how to negotiate Jewish traditions with modern culture(s) remain relevant today, and the subjects of such dilemmas—all of us—would learn much by considering these first responses."—Marc Caplan, Johns Hopkins University
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LSU Press Grand Emporium Mercantile Monster
Book SynopsisFocusing on the crucial period of 1820 to 1860, this volume examines the strong economic bonds between the antebellum plantation South and the burgeoning city of New York that resulted from the highly lucrative trade in cotton.
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Northwestern University Press Stein Reader
Book SynopsisThis important collection presents Gertrude Stein for the first time in her brilliant modernity. Ulla E. Dydo's textual scholarship demonstrates Stein's constant questioning of convention, and A Stein Reader changes the balance of work in print, concentrating on Stein's experimental work and including many key works that are virtually unknown or unavailable.
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Northwestern University Press When Russia Learned to Read Literacy and Popular
Book SynopsisLate Imperial Russia's revolution in literacy touched nearly every aspect of daily life and culture, from social mobility and national identity to the sensibilities and projects of the country's writers. This title tells the story of this profound transformation of culture, custom and belief.Table of ContentsUses of Literacy; Primary Schooling; The Literature of the Lubok; Periodicals, Installment Adventures and Potboilers; Bandits - Ideas of Freedom and Order; Nationalism and National Identity; Science and Superstition; Success; The Educated Response - Literature for the People.
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Northwestern University Press Under the Sky of My Africa Alexander Pus
Book SynopsisAround 1705, an African boy from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was taken to Russia as a gift to Peter the Great. He was to become the great-grandfather of the poet, Alexander Pushkin. It is the contention of the editors that Pushkin's African ancestry has played the role of a wild card as a formative element in Russian cultural mythology.
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Northwestern University Press Thinking with Tolstoy and Wittgenstein Expression
Book SynopsisIn this highly original interdisciplinary study incorporating close readings of literary texts and philosophical argumentation, Henry W. Pickford develops a theory of meaning and expression in art intended to counter the meaning skepticism most commonly associated with the theories of Jacques Derrida. Pickford arrives at his theory by drawing on the writings of Wittgenstein to develop and modify the insights of Tolstoy's philosophy of art. Pickford shows how Tolstoy's encounter with Schopenhauer's thought on the one hand provided support for his ethical views but on the other hand presented a problem, exemplified in the case of music, for his aesthetic theory, a problem that Tolstoy could not successfully resolve. Wittgenstein's critical appreciation of Tolstoy's thinking, however, not only recovers its viability but also constructs a formidable position within contemporary debates concerning theories of emotion, ethics, and aesthetic expression.
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Northwestern University Press Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
Book SynopsisAfter more than a century, the urgency with which the writing of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche speaks to us is undiminished. Nietzsche explicitly acknowledged Dostoevsky's relevance to his work, noting its affinities as well as itspoints of opposition. Both of them are credited with laying much of the foundation for what came to be called existentialist thought. The essays in this volume bring a fresh perspective to a relationship that illuminates a great deal of twentieth-centuryintellectual history. Among the questions taken up by contributors are the possibility of morality in a godless world, the function of philosophy if reason is not the highest expression of our humanity, the nature of tragedy when performed for a bourgeois audience, and the justification of suffering if it is not divinely sanctioned. Above all, these essays remind us of the supreme value of the questioning itself that pervades the work of Dostoevsky and Nietzsche.
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Northwestern University Press Adulterous Nations Family Politics and National
Book SynopsisEnlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery, showing how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperialistic and the colonized. In the context of the long-standing practice of gendering nations as female, the novels under discussion here can be understood as depicting international crises on the scale of the nuclear family.
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Northwestern University Press One Foot in the Finite Melvilles Realism
Book SynopsisOne Foot in the Finite inspires a radical shift in our view of Melville's project in Moby-Dick, for its guiding notion is that Melville uses his book to call into question the naturalism that distinguishes the early modern period in Europe. Naturalism is not only the idea that reality is exhausted by nature, or that there exists a domain of physical entities subject to autonomous laws and unaffected by human ingenuity; it also implies a counterpart, a world of pretense and deception, a domain of mental entities ontologically distinct from physical entities and therefore constituting a different realm. To naturalists, whales are part of the background of existing objects against which man assembles his various, subjective, rather arbitrary interpretations. But in Moby-Dick Melville casts upon the world a more ingenious eye, one free of the dualist veil. He confronts a basic misconception: that the contents of consciousness comprise a different order from physical life. He rubs out the dTrade Review"[F]or readers interested in either the connections between literature and philosophy or ordinary language philosophy, this is an important, even indispensable text." — ALH Online Review, XVIII
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Northwestern University Press Handsomely Done
Book SynopsisBrings together leading and emerging scholars from comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies to examine Melville's works in light of their ongoing afterlife and seemingly permanent contemporaneity.Table of Contents Introduction: Handsomely Done, Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz Part 1. Melville and the Limits of the Political 1. Moby-Dick and Perpetual War, Sorin Radu Cucu and Roland Végsö 2. Bartleby Politics, Emily Apter 3. Land and See: The Theatricality of the Political in Schmitt and Melville, Walter Johnston 4. The Coward’s Paradox: Pip’s Weak Resistance, Barbara Natalie Nagel 5. From Lima to Attica: Benito Cereno, the Nixon Recordings, and the 1971, Prison Uprising, Paul Downes Part 2. Audio-Visual Melville 6. “A Sound Not Easily to Be Verbally Rendered”: The Literary Acoustic of Billy Budd, David Copenhafer 7. Necrophilology: Still/Hearing Bartleby, Jacques Lezra 8. Whaling in the Abyss between Melville and Zeppelin: Alex Itin’s Orson Whales, John Hamilton 9. The Confidence-Image (Melville, Godard, Deleuze), Peter Szendy 10. Belle Trouvaille: Aesthetics and Philology in Billy Budd (after Beau Travail), Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz 11. A-religion, Jean-Luc Nancy
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Northwestern University Press Wireless Dada Telegraphic Poetics in the
Book SynopsisDemonstrates that the poetics of the Dada movement were profoundly influenced by the telegraph and the technological and social transformations that it brought about in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Trade ReviewWireless Dada offers a new and consistent reading of one of the most enigmatic movements of twentieth-century literature. It is an important, original, and far-reaching contribution not only to literary studies but also to the cultural and media history of the twentieth century." —Wolf Kittler, author of Die Geburt des Partisanen aus dem Geist der Poesie (The Birth of the Partisan out of the Spirit of Poetry)Table of Contents 1. Dada Dots and Dashes: Poetry in the Age of the Telegraph 2. Telegraphic Traditions: Telegrammstil and Télégraphie Sans Fil 3. Simultaneous Spirits: “L’amiral” and his Allies 4. Wireless Waves: Channeling “Karawane” 5. Ciphers and Codes: Raoul Hausmann’s Cryptopoetics 6. Dada Goes Global: Consequences and Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index
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Northwestern University Press At the Limit of the Obscene German Realism and
Book SynopsisExamines the fear of materiality in German-language realist and postrealist literature. The book argues that with German literature's turn in the mid-nineteenth century to the depiction of the profane, sensual world, anxiety emerged about the terms of that depiction.Trade ReviewAt the Limit of the Obscene is a masterful study of the concept of obscenity, in both its historical and theoretical permutations, as it played out in the tradition of nineteenth-century German realist literature and its afterlife in the early twentieth century. Weitzman moves with enviable grace through the German intellectual tradition from Kant forward, weaving in references to legal cases and contemporary critical interventions, and with great originality leads the discussion into the equally important tradition of French phenomenology." - Eric Downing, author of The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940"In her impeccably researched and elegantly written book, Weitzman uses the category of the obscene to unlock Poetic Realism's contradictions as well as its solutions. Mandatory reading for all those interested in 19th-century German prose and, more generally, in questions of materialism and literature." - Eva Geulen, author of The End of Art: Readings in a Rumor after HegelTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: 'Scenes that do not belong in the light of day' 1. Against Nature: Adalbert Stifter 2. Base Matter: Gustav Freytag 3. Iconoclasm and Iconolatry: Theodor Fontane 4. Presence as Profanation: Arno Holz 5. Dead Ends: Gottfried Benn 6. Filth: Franz Kafka Coda: "As if she were saying something shameless" Notes Bibliography Index
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Northwestern University Press The Novel in the Age of Disintegration
Book SynopsisScholars have long been fascinated by the creative struggles with genre manifested throughout Dostoevsky's career. In The Novel in the Age of Disintegration, Kate Holland shows that Dostoevsky aimed to use the form of the novel as a means of depicting the disintegration caused by various crises in Russian society in the 1860s.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Writing Huck Finn
Book SynopsisFocuses on Twain's artistry in stylistic matters, such as tone of voice, characterization, humor, plot, description, and imagery, using genetic criticism to reveal how the novel grew through creative revision. This title uses the evidence from the manuscript to explore thematic interpretations about the role of nobility and religion in the novel.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Deadly Encounters
Book SynopsisAn evocative retelling ot two sensational crimes that rocked Victorian London.Trade Review"Altick's book vividly preserves an important and fascinating element of daily Victorian life. As such, it is the best sort of historical scholarship: the kind that puts us in close touch with a lost world and with people very much like ourselves." * Smithsonian *"An engaging study in historical sociology." * Washington Post *
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University of Pennsylvania Press American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting
Book SynopsisThe antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Meredith L. McGill argues, a mass market for books in this period was built and sustained through what we would call rampant literary piracy: a national literature developed not despite but because of the systematic copying of foreign works. Restoring a political dimension to accounts of the economic grounds of antebellum literature, McGill unfolds the legal arguments and political struggles that produced an American culture of reprinting and held it in place for two crucial decades.In this culture of reprinting, the circulation of print outstripped authorial and editorial control. McGill examines the workings of literary culture within this market, shifting her gaze from first and authorized editions to reprints and piracies, from the form of the book to the intersection of book and periodical publishing, and from a national literature to an internally divideTrade Review"McGill's book will have a major impact on history of the book scholarship as well as upon American literary and cultural studies more generally." * Janice Radway *"In meticulously researched and richly detailed readings, McGill . . . finds an exuberant reprint culture that is both regional and transatlantic." * American Literature *
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University of Pennsylvania Press In the Shadow of the Gallows
Book SynopsisIn the Shadow of the Gallows reveals how a sense of racialized culpability shaped Americans' understandings of personhood prior to the Civil War. Jeannine Marie DeLombard draws from legal, literary, and popular texts to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.Trade Review"This is a powerful book filled with important, paradigm-shifting ideas about the presentation of African Americans in print and the media. Though not suited to the casual reader, its contents are thought provoking and address contemporary race issues in ways that scholarship on the history of print and readership rarely does." * Journal of American History *"In this impressively researched and provocative study, Jeannine Marie DeLombard argues for an alternative literary and legal history of early black writing and, more broadly, nineteenth-century cultural formations of racial subjectivity." * New England Quarterly *"DeLombard's expertly researched book stands as a model of interdisciplinary scholarship, and her arguments on the foundational nexus of race, criminality, and citizenship offer scholars of English and history much to consider. In the Shadow of the Gallows, with DeLombard's deft analysis of early American literature, persuasively pushes back the plantation-to-prison narrative to the very founding of the nation, and demonstrates the importance of criminality in the development of early black subjectivity." * Law and History Review *"DeLombard ingeniously shows from deep research how much the creation of an African American 'voice' stemmed from ancient assumptions about race, criminality, and guilt. Her reading of Frederick Douglass's arrest and jailing as a young slave rebel is alone worth the price of this book, but she demands that we see race, literature, and citizenship in the age of the Civil War as a national crucible played out in courts, on gallows, in jails, and ultimately on the printed page." * David W. Blight, author of American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era *"In her exquisitely written In the Shadow of the Gallows, Jeannine DeLombard reads early American criminal law in conjunction with the idea of social contract to illustrate the intricacies of political belonging from the early Republic through the antebellum period. Through the double helix of print and legal history, she chronicles the metamorphic role of authorship in African Americans' bids for enfranchisement against the backdrop of a nation entangled in contradictory definitions of personhood and property and of criminality and civility. Exemplary of humanities scholarship at its best, the book establishes the connections between American literature and the African American struggle for civic inclusion." * Priscilla Wald, Duke University *"I have long thought that DeLombard is at the absolute top of the scholars working on law and literature in North America, and In the Shadow of the Gallows confirms her status." * Alfred Brophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *"The significance of DeLombard's project can be measured by the centrality of its claims to a wide variety of fields. The issues that DeLombard takes up here strike at the heart of the current disciplinary configurations defining not only American and African American literary studies but also American and African American history and critical race studies." * Lloyd Pratt, University of Oxford *Table of ContentsIntroduction: How a Slave Was Made a Man PART I Chapter 1. Contracting Guilt: Mixed Character, Civil Slavery, and the Social Compact Chapter 2. Black Catalogues: Crime, Print, and the Rise of the Black Self PART II Chapter 3. The Ignominious Cord: Crime, Counterfactuals, and the New Black Politics Chapter 4. The Work of Death: Time, Crime, and Personhood in Jacksonian America Chapter 5. How Freeman Was Made a Madman: Race, Capacity, and Citizenship Chapter 6. Who Aint a Slaver? Citizenship, Piracy, and Slaver Narratives Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child
Book SynopsisFrom her youth, Mary Shelley immersed herself in the social contract tradition, particularly the educational and political theories of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as the radical philosophies of her parents, the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the anarchist William Godwin. Against this background, Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818. In the two centuries since, her masterpiece has been celebrated as a Gothic classic and its symbolic resonance has driven the global success of its publication, translation, and adaptation in theater, film, art, and literature. However, in Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child, Eileen Hunt Botting argues that Frankenstein is more than an original and paradigmatic work of science fiction—it is a profound reflection on a radical moral and political question: do children have rights?Botting contends that Frankenstein invites its readers to reason throughTrade Review"Botting's intervention in Frankenstudies is an important one." * Times Literary Supplement *"Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child, in its passion and commitments, vividly illustrates Frankenstein's continuing power, two hundred years on, to comment on the pressing political issues of the day." * Modern Philology *""One sets a very high bar in claiming that a book on Frankenstein advances a new, important reading-especially one appearing in 2018, when worldwide commemorations of the bicentenary of the first edition are focusing unprecedented attention on Shelley's novel. But such a feat is ventured and gained by Eileen Hunt Botting's Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child"" * The Modern Language Review *"Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child shows that Botting’s measured, logical, stepwise scholarly approach has produced a truly revolutionary intervention in the understanding of, and potential responses to, posthuman justice, speciesism, and cosmopolitan belonging." * 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries of the Early Modern Era *"Treating the creature as an abandoned and abused child, Eileen Hunt Botting brilliantly uses the novel Frankenstein to mount a series of thought experiments that interrogate the enduring political questions of whether children have rights and, if so, which ones. Deftly summarizing the positions of such writers as Hobbes, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, and Onora O'Neill, Botting persuasively argues for a child's universal rights to care, identity, and love-rights that Botting here extends to disabled, stateless, and genetically modified children." * Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles *"While there has been a great deal written within literary theory and criticism on the novel Frankenstein, and there is a substantial, and growing, literature within moral and political philosophy on the rights of children and the obligations of parents, Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child is the first book to bring these two areas of inquiry together. Eileen Hunt Botting's fascinating analysis shows how literary texts, suitably reinterpreted, can make better sense of key philosophical claims." * David Archard, Queen's University Belfast *"Readers of Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child will never again be able to read Frankenstein simply as a work of Gothic fiction that questioned the counter-theology and scientific bravado of its day. Eileen Hunt Botting, more thoroughly than any previous commentator, has revealed the philosophical content of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and has firmly placed it in the context of modern political thought." * Gordon Schochet, Rutgers University *Table of ContentsPreface. Welcome to the Creature Double Feature Introduction. Frankenstein and the Question of Children's Rights Chapter 1. The Specter of the Stateless Orphan from Hobbes to Shelley Chapter 2. Wollstonecraft's Philosophy of Children's Rights Chapter 3. Shelley's Thought Experiments on the Rights of the Child Chapter 4. Three Applications of Shelley's Thought Experiments: The Rights of Disabled, Stateless, and Posthuman Children Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Reclaiming Authorship
Book SynopsisReclaiming Authorship augments our knowledge of the female literary tradition and enriches our grasp of the process by which women authors sought public status in a publishing marketplace. It challenges basic tenets of the origins of realism and posits a definable historical transition from the romantic to the realist.-Cecelia TichiTrade Review"Reclaiming Authorship augments our knowledge of the female literary tradition and enriches our grasp of the process by which women authors sought public status in a literary publishing marketplace which was (and remains) customarily considered to be a masculine realm. It challenges, moreover, basic tenets of the origins of realism and does so by positing a definable historical transition from the romantic and sentimental to the realist." * Cecelia Tichi, Vanderbilt University *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. Defining Female Authorship Chapter 2. Writing in and out of the Home: Parlor Culture and Authorship Chapter 3. Authorizing Reception: Maria Cummins and The Lamplighter Chapter 4. Revising Romance: Louisa May Alcott, Hawthorne, and the Civil War Chapter 5. Contractual Authorship: Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Abigail Dodge Chapter 6. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Ethical Authorship Chapter 7. Epilogue: Amateurs and Professionals in Woolson and James Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Ruins of Experience
Book SynopsisA brilliant study of legal events and of literary texts concerned with the Scottish Highlands in the late eighteenth to nineteenth century, which then provides a structure for exploring the decay of and nostalgia for experience in subsequent culture.-Tilottama Rajan, University of Western OntarioTrade Review"A brilliant study of legal events and of literary texts concerned with the Scottish Highlands in the late eighteenth to nineteenth century, which then provides a structure for exploring the decay of and nostalgia for experience in subsequent culture." * Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario *Table of ContentsPreface: Scottish Highland Romance: A Reappraisal Introduction: Experience and the Allure of the Improbable PART I. STRUCTURE Chapter 1. A Musket Shot and Its Echoes: The Romantick Origins of the Modern Witness Chapter 2. Aftershocks of the Appin Murder: Scott, Stevenson, and "Storytell[ing]" Chapter 3. Evidence and Equivalence: The Parallel Logics of Proof and Progress Chapter 4. Improvement and Apocalypse: Afterimages of the "Promised Land" of Modern Romance PART II. FEELING Chapter 5. The Compulsions of Immediacy: Macpherson, Wilkomirski, and Their Fragments Controversies Chapter 6. Of Mourning and Machinery: Contrasting Techniques of Highland Vision Chapter 7. Highland Romance in Late Modernity Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Book of God
Book SynopsisThe Book of God manages to be at once ambitious, deliberate, and nuanced in its interconnecting conceptions of philosophy and literary criticism.-Orrin Wang, University of MarylandTrade Review"An erudite, refreshing study of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century concept of intentional design that rethinks the equation of romanticism, modernity, and secularization underwriting romantic studies for the last fifty years. The Book of God manages to be at once ambitious, deliberate, and nuanced in its interconnecting conceptions of philosophy and literary criticism." * Orrin Wang, University of Maryland *"The claim that God's existence can be inferred from the order and intricacy of the world has an ancient lineage. The Book of God explores the literary, philosophical, and theological inflection of this avowal in the context of encroaching secularism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. . . . It is a timely work, for the historical survey bears also on contemporary discussion. Some recent commentators have made much of the alleged incompatibly between science and religion. Colin Jager's sensitivity to the complexity of 'secularization' serves to subvert this binary thinking." * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction. Nature is the Book of God Chapter 1. The Argument Against Design from Deism to Blake Chapter Two. Arbitrary Acts of Mind: Natural Theology in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Chapter Three. Theory, Practice, and Anna Barbauld Chapter Four. Natural Designs: William Paley, Immanuel Kant, and the Power of Analogy Chapter Five. Mansfield Park and the End of Natural Theology Chapter Six. Wordsworth: The Shape of Analogy Chapter Seven. Reading With a Worthy Eye: Secularization and Evil Chapter Eight. Religion Three Ways Afterword. Intelligent Design and Religious Ignoramuses; or, the Difference between Theory and Literature Endnotes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£56.10
University of Pennsylvania Press The Fabrication of American Literature
Book SynopsisDrawing on a rich archive of magazine fiction, verse satires, comic almanacs, false slave narratives, minstrel song-sheets, and early literary criticism, this book uncovers the controversies over literary fraudulence that plagued the antebellum period and shows how they at once made and unmade American literature.Trade Review"The Fabrication of American Literature is fresh and surprising in its arguments, and deeply learned in its scholarship. Antebellum American literature, we learn, was not just interested in the topic of fraudulence, it was itself fraudulent-and this is a good thing. I am confident that readers will be deeply interested and thoroughly impressed by Lara Langer Cohen's wonderful accomplishment." * Christopher Looby, University of California, Los Angeles *"Reader, this book is no fraud. In fact, Lara Langer Cohen's The Fabrication of American Literature not only carries its smart and consequential argument to very satisfyingly conclusive lengths but it also saves us many a yawn in doing so, with its showman's sense of pith and pace." * Nineteenth-Century Literature *Table of ContentsIntroduction: American Literary Fraudulence Chapter 1. "One Vast Perambulating Humbug": Literary Nationalism and the Rise of the Puffing System Chapter 2. Backwoods and Blackface: The Strange Careers of Davy Crockett and Jim Crow Chapter 3. "Slavery Never Can Be Represented": James Williams and the Racial Politics of Imposture Chapter 4. Mediums of Exchange: Fanny Fern's Unoriginality Conclusion: The Confidence Man on a Large Scale Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments
£49.30
University of Pennsylvania Press English Letters and Indian Literacies
Book SynopsisFocusing on boarding schools established by New England missionaries, English Letters and Indian Literacies explores the ways Native students negotiated the variety of pedagogical practices and technologies of literacy and managed those technologies for their own ends.Trade Review"Wyss's emphasis on the material culture of native experience and the missionary schools is fresh and compelling; her analysis of the Wheelock-Occum letters is perhaps the best reading of them to date; and the book's highlighting of figures whom history has shuffled aside-such as the Cherokee David Brown-make this volume well worth the read." * Journal of American History *"Hillary Wyss's English Letters and Indian Literacies quite fruitfully revises and expands existing accounts of Native participation in networks of written English in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." * American Literature *"Wyss skillfully draws on the fascinating history of literacy and literacy instruction in early New England to show how the process of learning to read was taught separately from the ability to comprehend the meaning of written words and how the act of learning to write was taught separately from the skill of self-expression." * History: Reviews of New Books *"English Letters and Indian Literacies promises to advance our understanding of the encounter between American Indians and Protestant English missionaries significantly. It deserves much attention from scholars in religion, literature, and history focused on the colonial period, Native responses to contact, the history of education, and literacy studies." * Laura M. Stevens, University of Tulsa *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Technologies of Literacy Chapter 1. Narratives and Counternarratives: Producing Readerly Indians in Eighteenth-Century New England Chapter 2. The Writerly Worlds of Joseph Johnson Chapter 3. Brainerd's Missionary Legacy: Death and the Writing of Cherokee Salvation Chapter 4. The Foreign Mission School and the Writerly Indian After Words: Native Literacy and Autonomy Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments
£52.20
University of Pennsylvania Press International Bohemia
Book SynopsisHow did this vagabond word, bohemia, migrate across national borderlines over the course of the nineteenth century, and what happened to it as it traveled? In International Bohemia, Daniel Cottom studies how various individuals and groups appropriated this word to serve the identities, passions, cultural forms, politics, and histories they sought to animate. Beginning with the invention of bohemianism''s modern sense in Paris during the 1830s and 1840s, Cottom traces the twists and turns of this phenomenon through the rest of the nineteenth century and into the early years of the twentieth century in the United States, England, Italy, Spain, and Germany.Even when they traveled under the banner of l''art pour l''art, the bohemians of this era generally saw little reason to observe borderlines between their lives and their art. On the contrary, they were eager to mix up the one with the other, despite the fact that their critics often reproached them on thisTrade Review"Polished, eloquent, and witty, International Bohemia is a spectacular achievement, a truly profound exploration of the mobile and ever shape-shifting phenomenon known as la vie bohème." * Joanna Levin, Chapman University *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. Bohemian Poseur Jew Chapter 2. Maggie, Not a Girl of the Streets Chapter 3. The Indignity of Labor Chapter 4. Unknowing Privat Chapter 5. America, the Birthplace of Bohemia Chapter 6. The Poverty of Nations Chapter 7. Sherlock Holmes Meets Dracula Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments
£52.70
University of Pennsylvania Press Goethes Allegories of Identity
Book SynopsisGoethe's Allegories of Identity shows how Goethe's literary works, as the essential middle steps between Rousseau and Freud, lay the basis for modern depth psychology. Its illuminating scholarly yet accessible readings of five major works may also serve as an introduction to readers coming to Goethe for the first time.Trade Review"A marvel of a book. Rich and forcefully argued, Goethe's Allegories of Identity gives us a remarkably illuminating view of Goethe's oeuvre that is drawn in clear, sharp lines." * David E. Wellbery, University of Chicago *Table of ContentsPART I. THE PROBLEM Chapter 1. Representing Subjectivity Chapter 2. Goethe Contra Rousseau on Passion Chapter 3. Goethe Contra Rousseau on Social Responsibility PART II. EXPERIMENTS IN SUBJECTIVITY Chapter 4. The Theatrical Self Chapter 5. The Scientific Self: Identity in Faust Chapter 6. The Narrative Self PART III. THE LANGUAGE OF INTERIORITY Chapter 7. Goethe's Angst Chapter 8. "Es singen wohl die Nixen": Werther and the Romantic Tale Chapter 9. Goethe and the Uncanny Conclusion: Classicism and Goethe's Emotional Regime Notes Works Cited Index
£49.30
