Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

Book SynopsisCaterina Bernardini gauges the effects that Walt Whitman's poetry had in Italy from 1870 to 1945: the reactions it provoked, the aesthetic and political agendas it came to sponsor, and the creative responses it facilitated. Particular attention is given to women writers and noncanonical writers often excluded from previous discussions in this area of study. Bernardini also investigates the contexts and causes of Whitman's success abroad through the lives, backgrounds, beliefs, and imaginations of the people who encountered his work. Studying Whitman's reception from a transnational perspective shows how many countries were simultaneously carving out a new modernity in literature and culture. In this sense, Bernardini not only shows the interconnectedness of various international agents in understanding and contributing to the spread of Whitman's work, but, more largely, illustrates a constellation of similar pre-modernist and modernist sensibilities. This stands in contrast to the notion of sudden innovation: modernity was not easy to achieve, and it did not imply a complete refusal of tradition. Instead, a continuous and fruitful negotiation between tradition and innovation, not a sudden break with the literary past, is at the very heart of the Italian and transnational reception of Whitman. The book is grounded in archival studies and the examination of primary documents of noteworthy discovery.Trade ReviewWe have always known that Italian writers took an intense interest in Walt Whitman, but Caterina Bernardini's exciting study now fully opens us up to the astonishing degree to which Italy is Whitmanland. Whitman's reception in Italy, up to the breakdown of fascism in 1945, is not only a revealing story in itself but it also offers a history of transatlantic modernism in the context of the political and cultural distortions of the twentieth century. Bernardini's book is a case study demonstrating Whitman's place in Goethe's ever-relevant formula of Weltliteratur." - Walter Grünzweig, author, Constructing the German Walt Whitman"A spirited look at the intercultural conversations sparked by Whitman in Italy. Familiar names like Gabriele D'Annunzio and Cesare Pavese are joined by socialist Ada Negri and feminist Sibilla Aleramo, giving us a vibrant new map of Italian writings. Translation and reinvention transform the very meaning of 'literature' itself." - Wai Chee Dimock, author, Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival

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Book SynopsisWalt Whitman has served as a crucial figure within the tradition of Jewish American poetry. But how did Whitman, a non-Jewish, American-born poet, become so instrumental in this area of poetry, especially for poets whose parents, and often they themselves, were not “born here?” Dara Barnat presents a genealogy of Jewish American poets in dialogue with Whitman, and with each other, and reveals how the lineage of Jewish American poets responding to Whitman extends far beyond the likes of Allen Ginsberg. From Emma Lazarus and Adah Isaacs Menken, through twentieth-century poets such as Charles Reznikoff, Karl Shapiro, Kenneth Koch, Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich, Marge Piercy, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, and Gerald Stern, this book demonstrates that Whitman has been adopted by Jewish American poets as a liberal symbol against exclusionary and anti-Semitic elements in high modernist literary culture. The turn to Whitman serves as a mode of exploring Jewish and American identity.Trade Review“The arrival of this virtuosic study is surely cause for celebration. Barnat brilliantly illuminates the rich tapestry of complex intersections between America’s ‘Bard of Democracy’ and generations of significant Jewish American poets whom he inspired and provoked. Truly groundbreaking, it is an indispensable gift to scholars of Whitman and Jewish literature alike.” - Ranen Omer-Sherman, author, Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film“In Barnat’s highly readable, well-researched account, the enduring affinity between Jewish poets and Whitman becomes a prism through which to understand the history of Jewish American poetry itself. A welcome and timely contribution to the ongoing conversation about the remaking of Jewish culture and identity in the United States.” - Julian Levinson, author, Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture“From Emma Lazarus to Allen Ginsberg and beyond, Jewish American poets’ reactions to Whitman have been intense and nuanced, and formative of some of our country’s most impressive and influential literature. In this compact, long-overdue study, Barnat shows how these poets and others, have interpreted Whitman as ‘implicitly Jewish’ and in doing so redefined Whitman, themselves, and the American poetic tradition.” - Matt Miller, coeditor, Every Hour, Every Atom: A Collection of Walt Whitman’s Early Notebooks and Fragments

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Book SynopsisWhat Marcel Proust wanted from life most of all was unconditional requited love, and the way he went after it—smothering the objects of his affection with gifts—cost him a fortune. To pay for such extravagance, he engaged in daring speculations on the stock exchange. The task of his cousin and financial adviser, Lionel Hauser, was to make sure these speculations would not go sour. In Proust and His Banker, Gian Balsamo reveals that Proust was quite aware of the advantageous trade-off between financial indulgence and artistic inspiration; his liberal squandering of money provided the grist for fictional characters and incidents of surprising effectiveness, both in the artistic sphere and later on in the commercial one. But Hauser was not aware of this odd aspect of Proust’s creativity, nor could he have been since the positive returns from the writer’s masterpieces were late in coming. Focusing on more than 350 letters between Proust and Hauser and drawing on records of the Rothschild Archive and financial data assembled from the twenty-one-volume Kolb edition of Proust’s letters, Balsamo reconstructs Proust’s finances and provides a fascinating window into the writer’s creative and speculative process. Balsamo carefully follows Proust’s financial activities, including investments ranging from Royal Dutch Securities to American railroads to Eastern European copper mines, his exchanges with various banks and brokerage firms, his impetuous gifts, and the changing size and composition of his portfolio. Successes and failures alike provided material for Proust’s fiction, whether from the purchase of an airplane for the object of his affections or the investigation of a deceased love’s intimate background. Proust was, Balsamo concludes, a master at turning financial indulgence into narrative craftsmanship, economic costs into artistic opportunities.Over the course of their fifteen-year collaboration, the banker saw Proust squander three-fifths of his wealth on reckless ventures and on magnificent presents for the men and women who struck his fancy. To Hauser the writer was a virtuoso in resource mismanagement. Nonetheless, Balsamo shows, we owe it to the altruism of this generous relative, who never thought twice about sacrificing his own time and resources to Proust, that In Search of Lost Time was ever completed.

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Book SynopsisJames Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking tales - The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer (1823-1841) - romantically portray frontier America during the colonial and early republican eras. Bill Christophersen's Resurrecting Leather-Stocking: Pathfinding in Jacksonian America suggests they also highlight problems plaguing nineteenth-century America during the contentious decades following the Missouri Compromise, when Congress admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state.During the 1820s and 1830s, the nation was riven by sectional animosity, slavery, prejudice, populist politics, and finally economic collapse. Christophersen argues that Cooper used his fictions to imagine a path forward for the Republic. Cooper, he further suggests, brought back Leather-Stocking to test whether the common man, as empowered by Jackson's presidency, was capable of republican virtue - something the author considered key to renewing the nation.

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Book SynopsisTransnational battles for freedom and a personal work of remembrance

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Book Synopsis Song of Exile: A Cultural History of Brazil's Most Popular Poem, 1846–2018 is the first comprehensive study of the influence of Antônio Gonçalves Dias's "Canção do exílio." Written in Coimbra, Portugal, in 1843 by a homesick student longing for Brazil, "Song of Exile" has inspired thousands of parodies and pastiches, and new variations continue to appear to this day. Every generation of Brazilian writers has adapted the poem's Romantic verses to glorify the wonders of the nation or to criticize it via parody, exposing a litany of issues that have plagued the country's progress over the years. Based on a core of five hundred texts painstakingly gathered over a five-year span, this book catalogs the networks of the poem's reinvention as pastiche and parody in Brazilian print culture from nineteenth-century periodicals to new media. Mapping the reoccurrences of the original's keywords and phrases over time, the book uncovers how the poem has been used by successive generations to write and rewrite the nation's history. This process of reinvention has guaranteed the permanency of "Song of Exile" in Brazilian culture, making it not only the nation's most popular poem, but one of the most imitated in the world.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter One: "Minha terra tem palmeiras" : A Brief Introduction to Brazil's Most Popular Poem Chapter Two: "Adeus Coimbra inimiga": Precedents and Contexts Chapter Three: "Onde canta o rouxinol": Early Portuguese Responses Chapter Four: "Onde canta o periquito": The First Republic to the Vargas Era (1889–1945) Chapter Five: "Minha terra só tem tanques": The Military Regime (1964–1985) Chapter Six: "As sirenes que aqui apitam": Twenty-First-Century Songs of Exile (1999–2015) Chapter Seven: "Sou ali": Variations by Female Authors (1867–2015) Chapter Eight: "As aves que aqui twittam": Twitter, Instagram, and Beyond Chapter Nine: The Word, the Database, and the Algorithm Afterword: Literary Research as Data Art: An Experiment in Critical Reading (Manuel Portela) Appendix: Table of 500 Texts Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThat the Romantic movement was an international phenomenon is a commonplace, yet to date, historical study of the movement has tended to focus primarily on its national manifestations. This volume offers a new perspective. In thirteen chapters devoted to artists and writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, leading scholars of the period examine the international exchanges that were crucial for the rise of Romanticism in England and the United States.In the book’s introduction, Andrew Hemingway—building on the theoretical work of Michael Lowy and Robert Sayre—proposes that we need to remobilize the concept of Weltanschauung, or comprehensive world view, in order to develop the kind of synthetic history of arts and ideas the phenomenon of Romanticism demands. The essays that follow focus on the London and New York art worlds and such key figures as Benjamin West, Thomas Bewick, John Vanderlyn, Washington Allston, John Martin, J. M. W. Turner, Thomas Cole, James Fenimore Cooper, George Catlin, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Herman Melville. Taken together, these essays plot the rise of a romantic anti-capitalist Weltanschauung as well as the dialectic between Romanticism’s national and international manifestations.In addition to the volume editors, contributors include Matthew Beaumont, David Bindman, Leo Costello, Nicholas Grindle, Wayne Franklin, Janet Koenig, William Pressly, Robert Sayre, William Truettner, Dell Upton, and William Vaughan.

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Book SynopsisIn Thinking Outside the Book, Augusta Rohrbach works through the increasing convergences between digital humanities and literary studies to explore the meaning and primacy of the book as a literary, material, and cultural artifact. Rohrbach assembles a rather unlikely cohort of nineteenth-century women writers—Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts, Augusta Evans, and Mary Chesnut—to consider the publishing culture of their period from the perspective of our current digital age, bringing together scholarly concepts from both print culture and new media studies.In nineteenth-century America, women from a variety of racial and class affiliations were bombarding the print market with their literary productions, taking advantage of burgeoning rates of literacy and advances in publishing technology. Their work challenged prevailing modes of authorship and continues to do so today. Each chapter of Thinking Outside the Book positions a focal figure as both paradigmatic and problematic within the context of key terms that define the study of the book. In lieu of terms such as literacy, authorship, publication, edition, and editor, Rohrbach develops an alternate typology that includes mediation, memory, history, testimony, and loss. Recognizing that the field spans radio, cinema, television, and the Internet, she draws comparisons to the present day, when Web 2.0 allows writers from varying backgrounds and positions to seek out readers without “gatekeepers” limiting their exposure.More than a literary history, this book takes up theories of recovery, literacy, authorship, narrative, the book, and new media in connection with race, gender, class, and region.

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Book SynopsisIn the immediate aftermath of the Revolutionary War, only the wealthiest Americans could afford to enjoy illustrated books and prints. But, by the end of the next century, it was commonplace for publishers to load their books with reproductions of fine art and beautiful new commissions from amateur and professional artists.Georgia Brady Barnhill, an expert on the visual culture of this period, explains the costs and risks that publishers faced as they brought about the transition from a sparse visual culture to a rich one. Establishing new practices and investing in new technologies to enhance works of fiction and poetry, bookmakers worked closely with skilled draftsmen, engravers, and printers to reach an increasingly literate and discriminating American middle class. Barnhill argues that while scholars have largely overlooked the efforts of early American illustrators, the works of art that they produced impacted readers' understandings of the texts they encountered, and greatly enriched the nation's cultural life.

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Book SynopsisIn the immediate aftermath of the Revolutionary War, only the wealthiest Americans could afford to enjoy illustrated books and prints. But, by the end of the next century, it was commonplace for publishers to load their books with reproductions of fine art and beautiful new commissions from amateur and professional artists.Georgia Brady Barnhill, an expert on the visual culture of this period, explains the costs and risks that publishers faced as they brought about the transition from a sparse visual culture to a rich one. Establishing new practices and investing in new technologies to enhance works of fiction and poetry, bookmakers worked closely with skilled draftsmen, engravers, and printers to reach an increasingly literate and discriminating American middle class. Barnhill argues that while scholars have largely overlooked the efforts of early American illustrators, the works of art that they produced impacted readers' understandings of the texts they encountered, and greatly enriched the nation's cultural life.

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Book SynopsisIn the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Algerian piracy in the Mediterranean loomed large in the American imagination. An estimated seven hundred American citizens, sailors, and naval officers were taken captive over the course of the Barbary Crises (1784–1815), and this overseas danger threatened to grow and irreparably harm the young republic. Blood and Ink reconstructs the largely forgotten influence of these early American conflicts with North Africa on notions of publicity, print culture, and racial and national identity from independence to the Civil War. Exploring the extensive archive of texts inspired by the conflicts—from captivity narratives, novels, plays, and poems to broadsides, travel narratives, children’s literature, newspaper articles, and visual ephemera—Jacob Crane connects anxieties surrounding North African piracy and white slavery to both the development of American abolitionism and representations of transatlantic African and Jewish identities in the early national and antebellum periods.Trade ReviewCrane’s book makes a very clear case for why writing about Barbary piracy matters to the development of American ideas and ideas of race, freedom, and citizenship. He recovers several different early American works that can be used as the basis for further scholarship while also adding to the extant scholarship on the transatlantic and transnational origins of US literature." - Sharada Balachandran Orihuela, author of Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves: Piracy and Personhood in American Literature"Blood and Ink draws attention to a significant but critically neglected area of focus in early US print culture concerning Barbary discourse. It will have a major impact within early American studies of print culture and its relationship to race, nation, and global perceptions in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries." - Keri Holt, author of Reading These United States: Federal Literacy in the Early Republic, 1776–1830Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Appealing to the Nation Part One: Of Pirates and Print Chapter One The Patriot and the Sable Bard Chapter Two Barbary(an) Invasions Part Two: The Barbary and the Jewish Atlantic Chapter Three “A Vague Resemblance to Something Seen Elsewhere” Chapter Four Performing Diaspora in Noah’s Travels Part Three: The Long Shadow of the Barbary Chapter Five “The Advantage of a Whip-Lecture” Chapter Six Peter Parley in Tripoli Coda: Selim’s Archive Fever Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Algerian piracy in the Mediterranean loomed large in the American imagination. An estimated seven hundred American citizens, sailors, and naval officers were taken captive over the course of the Barbary Crises (1784–1815), and this overseas danger threatened to grow and irreparably harm the young republic. Blood and Ink reconstructs the largely forgotten influence of these early American conflicts with North Africa on notions of publicity, print culture, and racial and national identity from independence to the Civil War. Exploring the extensive archive of texts inspired by the conflicts—from captivity narratives, novels, plays, and poems to broadsides, travel narratives, children’s literature, newspaper articles, and visual ephemera—Jacob Crane connects anxieties surrounding North African piracy and white slavery to both the development of American abolitionism and representations of transatlantic African and Jewish identities in the early national and antebellum periods.Trade ReviewCrane’s book makes a very clear case for why writing about Barbary piracy matters to the development of American ideas and ideas of race, freedom, and citizenship. He recovers several different early American works that can be used as the basis for further scholarship while also adding to the extant scholarship on the transatlantic and transnational origins of US literature." - Sharada Balachandran Orihuela, author of Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves: Piracy and Personhood in American Literature"Blood and Ink draws attention to a significant but critically neglected area of focus in early US print culture concerning Barbary discourse. It will have a major impact within early American studies of print culture and its relationship to race, nation, and global perceptions in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries." - Keri Holt, author of Reading These United States: Federal Literacy in the Early Republic, 1776–1830

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Book Synopsis By the close of the eighteenth century, learning to read and write became closely associated with learning about the material world, and a vast array of games and books from the era taught children how to comprehend the physical world of “things.” Examining a diverse archive of historical periodicals, grammar books, toys, machinery displays, and literature from Maria Edgeworth, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Anna Letitia Barbauld, The Education of Things attests that material culture has long been central to children’s literature. Elizabeth Massa Hoiem argues that the combination of reading and writing with manual tinkering and scientific observation promoted in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain produced new forms of “mechanical literacy,” competencies that were essential in an industrial era. As work was repositioned as play, wealthy children were encouraged to do tasks in the classroom that poor children performed for wages, while working-class children honed skills that would be crucial to their social advancement as adults.Trade ReviewReading and learning about the physical world go hand in hand in Hoiem’s fascinating archive, and her focus on working-class children as well as middle-class ones redresses the bias toward the latter in much children’s literature criticism." - Hannah Field, author of Playing with the Book: Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader"The Education of Things is an important contribution to the study of children’s literature and the history of education—as well as to histories of object-based knowledge. Hoiem’s creative, multidisciplinary approach makes connections among fields that are often considered separately, making this a particularly exciting and novel intervention." - Sarah Anne Carter, author of Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material WorldTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Chapter 1 What Children Grasp The Tangible Properties of Objects Chapter 2 Moving Bodies Manual Labor and Children’s Play in Mechanical Philosophy Books Chapter 3 “The Empire of Man over Material Things” Children’s Books on Manufacturing and Trade Chapter 4 Self-Governing Machines Automata and Autonomy in Maria Edgeworth’s Fiction Chapter 5 “Knowledge That Shall Be Power in Their Hands” Radical Grammars for Working-Class Readers Conclusion William Lovett’s Case of Moveable Type Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBy the close of the eighteenth century, learning to read and write became closely associated with learning about the material world, and a vast array of games and books from the era taught children how to comprehend the physical world of “things.” Examining a diverse archive of historical periodicals, grammar books, toys, machinery displays, and literature from Maria Edgeworth, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Anna Letitia Barbauld, The Education of Things attests that material culture has long been central to children’s literature. Elizabeth Massa Hoiem argues that the combination of reading and writing with manual tinkering and scientific observation promoted in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain produced new forms of “mechanical literacy,” competencies that were essential in an industrial era. As work was repositioned as play, wealthy children were encouraged to do tasks in the classroom that poor children performed for wages, while working-class children honed skills that would be crucial to their social advancement as adults.Trade ReviewReading and learning about the physical world go hand in hand in Hoiem’s fascinating archive, and her focus on working-class children as well as middle-class ones redresses the bias toward the latter in much children’s literature criticism." - Hannah Field, author of Playing with the Book: Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader"The Education of Things is an important contribution to the study of children’s literature and the history of education—as well as to histories of object-based knowledge. Hoiem’s creative, multidisciplinary approach makes connections among fields that are often considered separately, making this a particularly exciting and novel intervention." - Sarah Anne Carter, author of Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World

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Book SynopsisTracks the genesis and evolution of Twain's reputation as a writer, revealing how and why the writer has been "under fire" since the advent of his career. Threatened by a rival editor brandishing a double-barreled shotgun, young Samuel Clemens had his first taste of literary criticism. Clemens began his long writing career penning satirical articles for his brother's newspaper in Hannibal, Missouri. His humor delighted everyone except his targets, and it would not be the last time his writing provoked threats of "dissection, tomahawking, libel, and getting his head shot off." Clemens adopted the name Mark Twain while living in the Nevada Territory, where his caustic comedy led to angry confrontations, a challenge to a duel, and a subsequent flight. Nursing his wounded ego in California, Twain vowed to develop a reputation that would"stand fire" and in the process became the classic American writer. Mark Twain under Fire tracks the genesis and evolution of Twain's reputation as a writer: his reception as a humorist, his "return fire" on genteel critics, and the development of academic criticism. As a history of Twain criticism, the book draws on English and foreign-language scholarship. Fulton discusses the forces and ideas that have influenced criticism, revealinghow and why Mark Twain has been "under fire" from the advent of his career to the present day, when his masterpiece Huckleberry Finn remains one of America's most frequently banned books. Joe B. Fulton is Professor of English at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He has published four previous books on Mark Twain.Trade ReviewFulton gives an excellent account of the difficulties faced by nineteenth-century American scholars . . . who wanted both to establish American literature on strong 'native' ground yet struggled to recognize that ground in Calaveras County, or a Colorado silver mine, or on the banks of the Mississippi. * TLS *Table of ContentsIntroduction "A Reputation That Can Stand Fire": Mark Twain's Early Reception through 1910 "All Right, Then, I'll Go to Hell": Mark Twain's Disputed Legacy, 1910-1950 "Only One Right Form for a Story": Mark Twain and Cold War Criticism, 1950-1970 "Everyone Is a Moon, and Has a Dark Side": New Phases of Mark Twain Criticism from the 1970s through the 1980s "It Is Difference of Opinion That Makes Horse-Races": Mark Twain as a Partisan in the Culture Wars, 1990s to 2015 Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisAn accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half. Herman Melville is among the most thoroughly canonized authors in American literature, and the body of criticism dealing with his writing is immense. Until now, however, there has been no standard volume on the history of Melvillecriticism. That a volume on this subject is timely and important is shown by the number of introductions and companions to Melville's work that have been published during the last few years (none of which focuses on the criticalreception of Melville's works), as well as the steady stream of critical monographs and scholarly biographies that have been published on Melville since the 1920s. Melville's Mirrors provides Melville scholars and graduateand undergraduate students with an accessible guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the years. It is a valuable reference for research libraries and for the personal libraries of scholars of Melville and of nineteenth-century American literature in general, and it is also a potential textbook for major-author courses on Melville, which are offered at many universities. BRIAN YOTHERS is the Frances Spatz Leighton Endowed Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso and associate editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. He is the author of Reading Abolition: The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass (Camden House, 2016).Trade ReviewYothers conducts [the] rather daunting task . . . of synthesizing the history of Melville criticism . . . with aplomb and successfully carries out his intention of creating a 'meaningful taxonomy of the various critical mirrors used to understand Melville's work.'. . . [T]his engaging and meticulously researched volume dedicated to the extensive field of Melville studies will be a useful text for scholars and reference libraries alike. * THE YEAR'S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES *Provides a useful guide to the overwhelming quantity of Melville studies produced in the last century and helps to demonstrate the utility of literary criticism for understanding and enriching the author's oeuvre. * AMERICAN LITERATURE *Of value to anyone wishing to get a purchase on critical approaches to Melville's work, the study is intriguing for its narrative form; Yothers becomes a disinterested Ishmael following scholars in their quest for Melville. The title and subtitle are appropriate because, as the author makes clear, Melville's work allows for a variety of critical perspectives and yet remains slightly beyond the critical moment. In an epilogue, Yothers highlights how Melville has moved from a figure of literary study to a cultural figure, making way for yet another future for Melville studies. * CHOICE *Melville, I think, would have appreciated the scope of Brian Yothers's recent book. With rigor and grace, Melville's Mirrors examines a topic as vast and seemingly ungraspable as Ishmael's snowy phantom: the history of Melville criticism from 1920 to 2010. . . . [This book is] the most comprehensive and judicious study of Melville scholarship to date. . . . Yothers weaves together a compelling guide to the major critical texts and trends. Yet the book's foremost contribution likely inheres in the deep history that it provides for contemporary scholarship. . . . [The] evolution [of interpretation] is slow and accumulative, but it is what makes possible the splendid critical resources we have today-to which this book is an invaluable contribution. * LEVIATHAN: A JOURNAL OF MELVILLE STUDIES *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface to the Paperback Edition: Melville's Critical Reception at His Bicentennial References to Herman Melville's Works Introduction: Seeking Melville Defining Melville: The Melville Revival andBiographical and Textual Criticism Literary Aesthetics and the Visual Arts Melville's Beard I: Religion, Ethics, and Epistemology Melville's Beard II: Gender, Sexuality, and the Body Aspects of America: Democracy, Nationalism, and War "An Anacharsis Clootz Deputation": Race, Ethnicity,Empire, and Cosmopolitanism Epilogue: Encountering Melville Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTraces the career of the widely read cultural historian Johannes Scherr and his development of a new kind of historical writing for the increasingly globalized 19th-century world. The German nineteenth century saw a boom in publishing and reading that created opportunities not only for Dichter, creators of great literature, but also for Schriftsteller, authors of the second rank. Among the latter were cultural mediators who helped readers negotiate the ever-expanding galaxy of print. Few achieved greater prominence than Johannes Scherr, whose remarkable career as a critic, anthologist, and historian of German and world literature began in the turbulent Vormärz era and continued during years of exile in the unlikely setting of the Zurich Polytechnic. He wrote from the vantage point of Switzerland, but his books were published in Germany, where his polemical style found favor. Andrew Cusack's study traces the process of Scherr's literary socialization as mediator in the "contact zone" formed by the Kingdom of Württemberg and Switzerland, whose liberal project of Volksbildung inspired him. It considers how his liminal position between nations and between the humanities and the sciences led him to develop a form of historical authorship for the increasingly globalized nineteenth century. The book considers Scherr's engagement with the totalizing paradigms of cultural history and world literature and sets his pessimistic worldview in the context of the materialism and violent political agitation that threatened democratic values in Switzerland and elsewhere.Trade ReviewThis is a convincing study that - without any transfiguration - treats Scherr's accomplishments and weaknesses and also asks about his relevance for the present. It reads the cultural historian Scherr in terms of cultural history, for Cusack rejects a literary and scholarly writing that only follows the high crest of canonical authors and concepts and thereby passes over one-time bestselling authors like Scherr. It represents therefore, commendably, a scholarly-political concern, and positions itself against scholarship, as a form of high culture, itself only dealing with what was and is defined by it as high culture. -- Olaf Briese * ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR GERMANISTIK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Translations and the Use of German Texts Introduction: The Success and Failure of Johannes Scherr Scherr's Liminality: Between Nations and Academic Cultures The Cultural Historian as Mediator Worlding German Literature Weltschmerz and Pessimism-Scherr's Old-Age Style Conclusion: Where Next for Scherr? Appendix: Overview of Essays in the Menschliche Tragikomödie Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history. The poetry of the transatlantic abolitionist movement represented a powerful alliance across racial and religious boundaries; today it challenges the demarcation in literary studies between cultural and aesthetic approaches. Now is a particularly apt moment for its study. This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history. Poetry that speaks to a broad cross-section of society with moral authority, intellectual ambition, and artistic complexity mattered in the fraught years of the mid nineteenth century; Brian Yothers argues that it can and must matter today. Yothers examines antislavery poetry in light of recent work by historians, scholars in literary, cultural, and rhetorical studies, African-Americanists, scholars of race and gender studies, and theorists of poetics. That interdisciplinary sweep is mirrored by the range of writers he considers: from the canonical - Whitman, Barrett Browning, Beecher Stowe, DuBois, Melville - to those whose influence has faded - Longfellow, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, John Pierpont, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell - to African American writers whose work has been recovered in recent decades - James M. Whitfield, William Wells Brown, George Moses Horton, Frances E. W. Harper.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Present Valor 1: Anglo-American Poetry, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the Haitian Revolution in United States Poetry 2: Antislavery Poetry in Public: George Moses Horton, John Pierpont, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3: Witness against Slavery: John Greenleaf Whittier, William Wells Brown, and Lydia Huntley Sigourney 4: Present Valor and the Trauma of Slavery: James Russell Lowell and Elizabeth Barrett Browning 5: Frances E. W. Harper and Harriet Beecher Stowe: Preaching, Poetry, and Pedagogy 6: Aspects of America: James M. Whitfield, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman Epilogue: W. E. B. DuBois and the Legacy of Antislavery Poetry Index

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Book SynopsisVolume 29 features articles on Anton Reiser; the legacies of German romanticism; Goethe's morphology and computational analysis; Goethe commemorations in Argentina; and Goethe's Weltliteratur in the context of trade with China, along with two special sections and the book review. Volume 29 features articles on Anton Reiser; the legacies and myths of German romanticism; Goethe's morphology as antecedent to computational analysis; on Goethe commemorations in Argentina; and a reconsideration of Goethe's Weltliteratur in the context of Handelsverkehr (trade) with China. Additionally, volume 29 features two special sections. The first commemorates an anniversary, Hölderlin's 250th birthday, with work devoted to "Reading and Exhibiting," compiled by Meike Werner. The other special section, on movement and edited by Heidi Schlipphacke, further explores research featured at MLA 2021 and revisits many questions of sentimentalism, visuality, and narration that are at the core of canon formation and eighteenth-century thresholds of modernity. As always, the book review section, edited by Sean Franzel, concludes the volume.Table of ContentsEditors' Preface Patricia Anne Simpson and Birgit Tautz "Hypochondria, Sentimental Friendship, and Same-Sex Desire in Anton Reiser" Edward Potter "The Witch in His Head: Rupturing the Patriarchal Discourse in Eichendorff's Ballad 'Waldgespräch'" Birgit A. Jensen "The Contemporary Legacy of Goethean Morphology: From Anschauende Urteilskraft to Algorithmic Pattern Recognition, Generation, and Exploration" Oriane Petteni "The Worldliness of Weltliteratur: Goethe's 'Handelsverkehr' between China and Weimar" Barry Murnane "Fleeting Hope in Foreboding Times: The 1932 Goethe Year in Argentina" Robert Kelz Special Section I: Hölderlin 2020 "Introduction Hölderlin 2020: Reading and Exhibiting" Meike Werner "Wie man Hölderlin in einer Ausstellung lesen kann" Heike Gfrereis "Die Saitenspiele ergossen sich über mein Innres": Hölderlin's Auditory Atmospheres Rolf Goebel "Eine andere Klarheit: Hölderlin, Philology, and the Idea of Rigor in Literary Study" James McFarland "Hölderlin's Hyperion as Eros: Between Symposiast and Hermit" Eleanor ter Horst "Articulate Precision and Ineffable Meaning in Hölderlin: A Commentary" Mark W. Roche Special Section II: "Movement" "Introduction: Movement and the Modern" Heidi Schlipphacke "Medien- und Emotionspolitik der Rührung: Rührung im Brief und auf der Bühne bei Christian Fürchtegott Gellert" Yulia Mevissen Discipline and Theatricality: Tableaux Vivants and the Vicissitudes of Movement in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften" Matthew Feminella "The Discovery of Self and Others Through Movement in Goethe's Lehrjahre and Wanderjahre" Susan Gustafson "'Was bedeutet die Bewegung?': Authorship as Movement in Goethe's West-östlicher Divan" Eleanor ter Horst Book Reviews Translations and Editions Monographs and Edited Volumes

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Book SynopsisThe Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, showcasing North American and international scholarship on Goethe and other authors and aspects of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Volume 30 seeks to prompt discussion of new directions in eighteenth-century scholarship with special sections on Enlightenment legacies of race and on the robust scholarship that rethinks the eighteenth-century body beyond the human organism. Beyond the two special sections there are articles on Wieland's Alceste, several essays on sex and gender (e.g., on Goethe's Werther; on gender, genre, and authorship in La Roche and Goethe; and on continued gender bias in scholarship on the German eighteenth century), a co-authored article on Goethe's Roman elegies, and an article on performativity and gestures in Kleist. The customary book review section rounds out the volume.Table of ContentsEditors' Preface Patricia Anne Simpson and Birgit Tautz ESSAYS Wielands Singspiel Alceste, ein Stein des Anstoßes für Goethe? Hans Hahn Lotte's Bird, Female Desire, and the Language of 'Sexuality' in Leiden des jungen Werthers Carl Niekerk La Roche and Goethe: Gender, Genre, and Authorship Maryann Piel The Persistence of Bias in Eighteenth-Century Studies Margaretmary Daley Things of Art and Amor: Mediation in Goethe's Römische Elegien Sebastian Meixner and Carolin Rocks Reading Performatively: Disruptive Gestures in Heinrich von Kleist Katherine Pollock NEW DIRECTIONS Re-Examining (White) Enlightenment Legacies Through a German Lens Birgit Tautz and Patricia Anne Simpson Fractured Visions, New Horizons: Debates in Eighteenth-Century Studies Beyond German Studies Birgit Tautz Black Actors: Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Decolonial Fantasies Patricia Anne Simpson Interior Whiteness: Race and the "Rise of the Novel" Sarah V. Eldridge Racial Classification, Slavery, and Human Rights: The Impacts of the Transatlantic Order in Eighteenth-Century Germany Sigrid Köhler and Claudia Nitzschke FORUM Unexpected Bodies in the Eighteenth Century Introduction and Select Bibliography Patricia Anne Simpson and Birgit Tautz Mind over Body? Stigma, Staring, and the Self Anna C. Spafford Unexpected Bodies of Water: On the "Blue" Goethezeit Benjamin D. Schluter Queering Material Nature: Bewitched Bodies and the Limits of the Enlightenment Melissa Sheedy Plants as Unexpected Bodies Heather Sullivan Euphorion as an Aesthetic Body Heidi Grek Book Reviews

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Book SynopsisIn writing about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn on the 100th anniversary of its 1885 publication, Henry Nash Smith remarked that the novel ""made vernacular language, with its new sources of pleasure and new energy, available for American prose and poetry in the twentieth century."" This volume of essays examines what made this vernacular so groundbreaking, as well as the controversy that still surrounds one of the first Great American novels.Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of ""Works Cited,"" along with endnotes. Finally, the volume's appendixes offer a section of useful reference resources: About This Volume Critical Context: Original Introductory Essays Critical Readings: Original In-Depth Essays Further Readings Detailed Bibliography Detailed Bio of the Editor General Subject Index

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Book SynopsisJada Ach's scholarship in Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880–1925 seeks to reevaluate the Progressive Era's environmental legacy. Taking an ecocritical approach to turn-of-the-century literature set in the American West, Ach interrogates texts by asking what kinds of environmental, national, and cultural stories the elements have to tell about land and oceanic management. Sand, Water, Salt investigates managerial engagements with dynamic ecologies in three particular Western environments: the arid deserts, the semiarid high plains, and the Pacific Ocean.At different times, and to varying degrees, Americans have deemed these environments economically unproductive, incompatible with Anglo-American settlement, and/or highly unmanageable. Despite these varied complaints, the United States has also intensely desired these "wasteland" spaces, perceiving them as sources of both national wealth and elite pleasure. Sand, Water, Salt moves through a variety of novels, memoirs, and cultural artifacts from the 1880s to the 1920s, including L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Frank Norris's McTeague, Mary Hunter Austin's The Land of Little Rain, The Virginian by Owen Wister, Life among the Piutes by Sarah Winnemucca, as well as Jack London's The Sea-Wolf and Yone Noguchi's The American Diary of a Japanese Girl. Ach ultimately asks what we gain by looking back at fin-de-siècle American literature with a queer, ecological justice-oriented eye, a particularly invigorating conversation that uniquely uses the elements as foci.

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Book SynopsisThe Global Wordsworth charts the travels of William Wordsworth’s poetry around the English-speaking world. But, as Katherine Bergren shows, Wordsworth’s afterlives reveal more than his influence on other writers; his appearances in novels and essays from the antebellum U.S. to post-Apartheid South Africa change how we understand a poet we think we know. Bergren analyzes writers like Jamaica Kincaid, J. M. Coetzee, and Lydia Maria Child who plant Wordsworth in their own writing and bring him to life in places and times far from his own—and then record what happens. By working beyond narratives of British influence, Bergren highlights a more complex dynamic of international response, in which later writers engage Wordsworth in conversations about slavery and gardening, education and daffodils, landscapes and national belonging. His global reception—critical, appreciative, and ambivalent—inspires us to see that Wordsworth was concerned not just with local, English landscapes and people, but also with their changing place in a rapidly globalizing world. This study demonstrates that Wordsworth is not tangential but rather crucial to our understanding of Global Romanticism. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"One aspect of Wordsworth’s poetry that has survived generations of revisionary scholarship is its sense of place. Katherine Bergren’s mildly shocking case for Wordsworth 'sense of planet' operates through patient and innovative readings of three writers 'repurposing' Wordsworth’s writings—a repurposing that in its turn reveals an entirely more worldly and global Wordsworth. Meticulously situating these intertextual encounters in the context of discussions of postcoloniality, transatlantic mobility, and ecocritical belonging, The Global Wordsworth updates a romantic worldliness we have only just begun to read." -- Pieter Vermeulen * author of Romanticism after the Holocaust *"A model of academic excellence, this literary study of William Wordsworth upon various cultures around the world is an extraordinarily informative and thought-provoking read." * Midwest Book Review *"Recommended." * Choice *"Beautifully written, equally attentive to Romanticism and its afterlives, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in Romanticism and its legacies, whether scholarly or general readers. It offers a genuinely original perspective on Wordsworth and his works, without insisting on the privilege of canonicity." * Review 19 *"The methodology of the Global Wordsworth is exciting and innovative and will have much to offer readers interested in understanding better the ways in which Romanticism might be deployed in a colonial or settler context....[T]he vision of Romanticism, and of Wordsworth, that emerges in Bergren’s book is more nuanced and indeed more 'worldly' than the one to which we have become accustomed." * European Romantic Review *"One aspect of Wordsworth’s poetry that has survived generations of revisionary scholarship is its sense of place. Katherine Bergren’s mildly shocking case for Wordsworth 'sense of planet' operates through patient and innovative readings of three writers 'repurposing' Wordsworth’s writings—a repurposing that in its turn reveals an entirely more worldly and global Wordsworth. Meticulously situating these intertextual encounters in the context of discussions of postcoloniality, transatlantic mobility, and ecocritical belonging, The Global Wordsworth updates a romantic worldliness we have only just begun to read." -- Pieter Vermeulen * author of Romanticism after the Holocaust *"A model of academic excellence, this literary study of William Wordsworth upon various cultures around the world is an extraordinarily informative and thought-provoking read." * Midwest Book Review *"Recommended." * Choice *"Beautifully written, equally attentive to Romanticism and its afterlives, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in Romanticism and its legacies, whether scholarly or general readers. It offers a genuinely original perspective on Wordsworth and his works, without insisting on the privilege of canonicity." * Review 19 *"The methodology of the Global Wordsworth is exciting and innovative and will have much to offer readers interested in understanding better the ways in which Romanticism might be deployed in a colonial or settler context....[T]he vision of Romanticism, and of Wordsworth, that emerges in Bergren’s book is more nuanced and indeed more 'worldly' than the one to which we have become accustomed." * European Romantic Review *Table of ContentsIllustrations ... ivAbbreviations ... vii Introduction ... 1 One The Global Routes of Daffodils ... 37 Two Landscape Pedagogy in J. M. Coetzee, The Prelude, and the Lucy Poems ... 74 Three Globalizing England: Lydia Maria Child and The Excursion ... 147 Four Localism Unrooted: Jamaica Kincaid and the Guide to the Lakes ... 221 Conclusion ... 282Acknowledgments ... 291Bibliography ... 293Index ... 321About the Author ... 322

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Book SynopsisLenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose experiences of slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction: Olaudah Equiano, Denmark Vesey, Joseph Cinqué, Madison Washington, and Washington Goode. These stories of sailors, both real and fictional, reveal how the history of mutiny and insurrection is both shaped by, and resistant to, the prevailing abolitionist rhetoric surrounding the efficacy of armed rebellion as a response to slavery. Pairing well-known texts with lesser-known figures (Billy Budd and Washington Goode) and well-known figures with lesser-known texts (Denmark Vesey and the work of John Howison), this book reveals the richness of literary engagement with the politics of slave violence. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"This book shows Lenora Warren working fluidly across US literary studies, African American studies and the literature of the African diaspora, Atlantic history, oceanic studies, and colonial and Early Republic literature. The book's topic is superb: the role of black sailors, particularly enslaved or emancipated black sailors, has been woefully understudied (other than the historiographic work of Jeffrey Bolster in Black Jacks or the articles of Charles Foy). In locating both revolutionary potential and abolitionist inspiration in the insurrectionary activity of black sailors, Warren provides a fresh, exciting new unit of analysis for scholars and students of American literary history. I cannot stress enough how vital and necessary the topic is, and how overlooked it has been." -- Hester Blum * Pennsylvania State University and President of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists *"New Books Network - New Books in History" podcast interview with Lenora Warren https://newbooksnetwork.com/lenora-warren-fire-on-the-water-sailors-slaves-and-insurrection-in-early-american-literature-1789-1886-rutgers-up-2019/ * New Books Network *"Recommended." * Choice *"Readers will find Fire on the Water an important contribution to the study of slavery and abolitionism. Moreover, this book also makes major contributions to Black Atlantic studies and to maritime and oceanic studies at large. Scholars working in these fields will find Warren’s book essential reading. They will also find the book’s clarity and concision impressive. Fire on the Water will teach well in both the undergraduate and graduate classrooms." * ALH Online Review *"An enjoyable, thought-provoking, and very rich book, which succeeds in the remarkable feat of adding an original voice to the study of several already well-rehearsed topics. Aimed primarily at literary scholars, it can also be of value for cultural and intellectual historians." * H-Net *"This work can help scholars have more complicated conversations about abolitionist rhetoric’s role in silencing enslaved people and what impact that silencing continues to have on our understanding of Black experiences." * Early American Literature *"This book shows Lenora Warren working fluidly across US literary studies, African American studies and the literature of the African diaspora, Atlantic history, oceanic studies, and colonial and Early Republic literature. The book's topic is superb: the role of black sailors, particularly enslaved or emancipated black sailors, has been woefully understudied (other than the historiographic work of Jeffrey Bolster in Black Jacks or the articles of Charles Foy). In locating both revolutionary potential and abolitionist inspiration in the insurrectionary activity of black sailors, Warren provides a fresh, exciting new unit of analysis for scholars and students of American literary history. I cannot stress enough how vital and necessary the topic is, and how overlooked it has been." -- Hester Blum * Pennsylvania State University and President of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists *"New Books Network - New Books in History" podcast interview with Lenora Warren https://newbooksnetwork.com/lenora-warren-fire-on-the-water-sailors-slaves-and-insurrection-in-early-american-literature-1789-1886-rutgers-up-2019/ * New Books Network *"Recommended." * Choice *"Readers will find Fire on the Water an important contribution to the study of slavery and abolitionism. Moreover, this book also makes major contributions to Black Atlantic studies and to maritime and oceanic studies at large. Scholars working in these fields will find Warren’s book essential reading. They will also find the book’s clarity and concision impressive. Fire on the Water will teach well in both the undergraduate and graduate classrooms." * ALH Online Review *"An enjoyable, thought-provoking, and very rich book, which succeeds in the remarkable feat of adding an original voice to the study of several already well-rehearsed topics. Aimed primarily at literary scholars, it can also be of value for cultural and intellectual historians." * H-Net *"This work can help scholars have more complicated conversations about abolitionist rhetoric’s role in silencing enslaved people and what impact that silencing continues to have on our understanding of Black experiences." * Early American Literature *Table of Contents Illustrations Introduction 1 Witness to the Atrocities: Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Clarkson, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade 2 Denmark Vesey, John Howison, and Revolutionary Possibility 3 Joseph Cinqué, The Amistad Mutiny and Revolutionary Whitewashing 4 The Black and White Sailor: Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor and the Case of Washington Goode Coda Acknowledgments Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisAround 1800, print culture became a particularly rich source for metaphors about thinking as well as writing, nowhere more so than in the German tradition of Dichter und Denker. Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel (among many others) used the preface in order to reflect on the problems of writing itself, and its interpretation. If Sterne teaches us that a material book enables mind games as much as it gives expression to them, the Germans made these games more theoretical still. Weaving in authors from Antiquity to Agamben, Williams shows how European–and, above all, German–Romanticism was a watershed in the history of the preface. The playful, paradoxical strategies that Romantic writers invented are later played out in continental philosophy, and in post-Structuralist literature. The preface is a prompt for playful thinking with texts, as much as it is conventionally the prosaic product of such an exercise. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"a study of tremendous academic rigor with original insights. it shows deep knowledge of both eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature and philosophy and the many conversations in contemporary literary studies pertaining to them.it is an achievement in scholarship pertaining to the age of Goethe, romanticism, and literary studies at large."— The German Quarterly "Recommended."— Choice "Pretexts for Writing discusses the history of the literary and philosophical self-authored preface in the German speaking world around 1800 with an intensity and analytical depth previously unachieved in scholarship."— Till Dembeck, University of Luxembourg "This debut book, in short, contains much that is scintillant and surely announces the arrival of an important new scholarly voice in Germanistik."— Modern Language Review "Pretexts for Writing is an insightful, original, and persuasive work—compelling pretexts for reading." — Goethe Yearbook "This book is perceptive, timely, and ambitious: perceptive in that it zeroes in on serious gaps in research, the exploration of which may alter our views of eighteenth-century German literature."— Lessing Yearbook/Jahrbuch XLVIIITable of Contents Abbreviations ... v A Note on Translations... vi Introduction: What Prefaces Are Not: Pedantic Notes ... 1 Historical Context and Precedent Paratextual Theory and Textual Autonomy Rhetorical Caesura: Comprehending Romanticism Writing to Write 1 Goethe: A Playful and Resistive Set of Preface Strategies ... 66 Zero Prefaces Ambiguous Prefaces Poetic Prefaces Embedded Prefaces Belated Prefaces A Hypertrophic Preface 2 Jean Paul: Autoprefacing ... 144 Baroque Beginnings: The Preface as Brow, Morsel, and Porch Reviewers and Readers Writers and Preface-Writers Prefatory Procrastination and Textual Foreplay The Logic of Length; Or, Digressive Fragmentation Countering Captatio Benevolentiae? Beyond Eloquence Conclusion: Preface to Prefatorial Philosophy (and Theory) 3 Hegel: Prefatorial Polemic Becomes Philosophy ... 237 Starting with Sterne? Literature and Philosophy around 1800 Descriptive Induction versus Performative Prefacing A New Style of Preface Sublation of Conventional Prefatory Content A Superior Preface Philosophical and Rhetorical Preface Paradigms Post-Structuralist Postscript Conclusion... 311 Acknowledgements ... 328 Bibliography ... 330 Index ... 371 About the Author ... 372

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Book SynopsisIn the Andes, indigenous knowledge systems based on the relationships between different beings, both earthly and heavenly, animal and plant, have been central to the organization of knowledge since precolonial times. The legacies of colonialism and the continuance of indigenous cultures make the Andes a unique place from which to think about art and social change as ongoing, and as encompassing more than an exclusively human perspective. Beyond Human revises established readings of the avant-gardes in Peru and Bolivia as humanizing and historical. By presenting fresh readings of canonical authors like César Vallejo, José María Arguedas, and Magda Portal, and through analysis of newer artist-activists like Julieta Paredes, Mujeres Creando Comunidad, and Alejandra Dorado, Daly argues instead that avant-gardes complicate questions of agency and contribute to theoretical discussions on vital materialisms: the idea that life happens between animate and inanimate beings—human and non-human—and is made sensible through art. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"From the pedagogical perspective, Beyond Human is teachable in its entirety in a course on Latin-American Vanguards or on the cultural production in the Andean region. The chapters can also be used as stand-alone material on the five intellectuals discussed in the book."— Bulletin of Spanish Studies "In recent years, a critical reevaluation of the avant-garde movements and their legacy has been taking place in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Beyond Human offers an innovative contribution to the understanding of the avant-garde and its legacy in the Andean region. With an approach that combines political philosophy and ecocriticism with current debates about the “'new materialism,” Tara Daly proposes a pluralistic view of avant-garde Andean arts, and argues that their uniqueness within the broad panorama of twentieth-century Vanguardisms centers on their reorientations of the multiple relationships among humans and the natural world, partly inspired by the indigenous cultures of the Americas. Cutting through the mainly sociopolitical readings that have traditionally been applied to the Andean avant-garde, Daly argues compellingly that these artistic movements are best understood in terms of a 'vitalistic materialism' that sought to establish a uniquely Andean middle way between capitalist commodification and Marxist utopianism."— Aníbal González, Yale University "Recommended."— Choice "Beyond Human offers an important reading that adds to ongoing discussions of new materialism....[A] very interesting book that proposes a fresh reading of materiality in the Andes."— Hispanic ReviewTable of Contents Illustrations ... vi A Note on Translations... vii Introduction: Revitalizing the Andean Avant-Gardes ... 1 1 César Vallejo’s Lithic Poetry: Stones as Material Guides ... 53 2 Alejandra Dorado’s Installation Art: Material Transmutations in Contemporary Cochabamba ... 111 3 José María Arguedas’s 1960s: The Air as Space of Material Encounters ... 157 4 Mujeres Creando Comunidad: Communitarian Feminisms from the Bolivian Soil ... 199 5 Magda Portal’s Bare Life in the Sea ... 245 Conclusion: New Material Orientations in the Andes and Beyond ... 300 Acknowledgments ... 311 Bibliography ... 314 Index ... 342 About the Author ... 343

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Book SynopsisIn the Andes, indigenous knowledge systems based on the relationships between different beings, both earthly and heavenly, animal and plant, have been central to the organization of knowledge since precolonial times. The legacies of colonialism and the continuance of indigenous cultures make the Andes a unique place from which to think about art and social change as ongoing, and as encompassing more than an exclusively human perspective. Beyond Human revises established readings of the avant-gardes in Peru and Bolivia as humanizing and historical. By presenting fresh readings of canonical authors like César Vallejo, José María Arguedas, and Magda Portal, and through analysis of newer artist-activists like Julieta Paredes, Mujeres Creando Comunidad, and Alejandra Dorado, Daly argues instead that avant-gardes complicate questions of agency and contribute to theoretical discussions on vital materialisms: the idea that life happens between animate and inanimate beings—human and non-human—and is made sensible through art. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"In recent years, a critical reevaluation of the avant-garde movements and their legacy has been taking place in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Beyond Human offers an innovative contribution to the understanding of the avant-garde and its legacy in the Andean region. With an approach that combines political philosophy and ecocriticism with current debates about the “'new materialism,” Tara Daly proposes a pluralistic view of avant-garde Andean arts, and argues that their uniqueness within the broad panorama of twentieth-century Vanguardisms centers on their reorientations of the multiple relationships among humans and the natural world, partly inspired by the indigenous cultures of the Americas. Cutting through the mainly sociopolitical readings that have traditionally been applied to the Andean avant-garde, Daly argues compellingly that these artistic movements are best understood in terms of a 'vitalistic materialism' that sought to establish a uniquely Andean middle way between capitalist commodification and Marxist utopianism." -- Aníbal González * Yale University *"Recommended." * Choice *"From the pedagogical perspective, Beyond Human is teachable in its entirety in a course on Latin-American Vanguards or on the cultural production in the Andean region. The chapters can also be used as stand-alone material on the five intellectuals discussed in the book." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"Beyond Human offers an important reading that adds to ongoing discussions of new materialism....[A] very interesting book that proposes a fresh reading of materiality in the Andes." * Hispanic Review *"In recent years, a critical reevaluation of the avant-garde movements and their legacy has been taking place in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Beyond Human offers an innovative contribution to the understanding of the avant-garde and its legacy in the Andean region. With an approach that combines political philosophy and ecocriticism with current debates about the “'new materialism,” Tara Daly proposes a pluralistic view of avant-garde Andean arts, and argues that their uniqueness within the broad panorama of twentieth-century Vanguardisms centers on their reorientations of the multiple relationships among humans and the natural world, partly inspired by the indigenous cultures of the Americas. Cutting through the mainly sociopolitical readings that have traditionally been applied to the Andean avant-garde, Daly argues compellingly that these artistic movements are best understood in terms of a 'vitalistic materialism' that sought to establish a uniquely Andean middle way between capitalist commodification and Marxist utopianism." -- Aníbal González * Yale University *"Recommended." * Choice *"From the pedagogical perspective, Beyond Human is teachable in its entirety in a course on Latin-American Vanguards or on the cultural production in the Andean region. The chapters can also be used as stand-alone material on the five intellectuals discussed in the book." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"Beyond Human offers an important reading that adds to ongoing discussions of new materialism....[A] very interesting book that proposes a fresh reading of materiality in the Andes." * Hispanic Review *Table of Contents Illustrations ... viA Note on Translations... vii Introduction: Revitalizing the Andean Avant-Gardes ... 1 1 César Vallejo’s Lithic Poetry: Stones as Material Guides ... 53 2 Alejandra Dorado’s Installation Art: Material Transmutations in Contemporary Cochabamba ... 111 3 José María Arguedas’s 1960s: The Air as Space of Material Encounters ... 157 4 Mujeres Creando Comunidad: Communitarian Feminisms from the Bolivian Soil ... 199 5 Magda Portal’s Bare Life in the Sea ... 245 Conclusion: New Material Orientations in the Andes and Beyond ... 300Acknowledgments ... 311Bibliography ... 314Index ... 342About the Author ... 343

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Book SynopsisNovel Bodies examines how disability shapes the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century novelists represent disability and sexuality in flexible ways to reconfigure the political and social landscapes of eighteenth-century Britain. In imagining the lived experience of disability as analogous to—and as informed by—queer genders and sexualities, the authors featured in Novel Bodies expose emerging ideas of able-bodiedness and heterosexuality as interconnected systems that sustain dominant models of courtship, reproduction, and degeneracy. Further, Farr argues that they use intersections of disability and queerness to stage an array of contemporaneous debates covering topics as wide-ranging as education, feminism, domesticity, medicine, and plantation life. In his close attention to the fiction of Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Scott, Maria Edgeworth, and Frances Burney, Farr demonstrates that disabled and queer characters inhabit strict social orders in unconventional ways, and thus opened up new avenues of expression for readers from the eighteenth century forward. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"While eighteenth-century scholars are familiar with most of these works, Farr reorients our understanding of how disability and sexuality are inextricably linked and how these intersecting categories shape the novel’s form and content....[B]y expanding the definition of disability beyond impairment, Farr deftly makes concrete and comprehensible the degree to which the early novel engages with variably-embodied subjectivity and non-normative desire in inextricable ways that anticipate its own futurity into the present time."— Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2021 issue) "Novel Bodies: Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature inhabits the fascinating messiness of Georgian-era literary imaginings of corporeal and sexual difference in order to better historicize disability’s formative role in the development of the modern self and its queer relationship to able-bodiedness."— Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies “Jason Farr’s Novel Bodies is a rigorously argued and elegantly written account of how eighteenth-century fiction represented the interrelations of sexuality and disability. As Farr persuasively demonstrates, within the pages of both canonical and noncanonical works, queer disability emerges as a narrative force that troubles our understanding of what it means to be ‘normal’ and ‘able-bodied.’ Novel Bodies is an important contribution to disability studies, queer studies, and, more generally, the history of the novel.”— Paul Kelleher, Emory University "This is an important first book that will establish Farr as a major voice in queer and disability studies. Across the manuscript, each chapter is firmly connected to those that precede and follow it. In Novel Bodies, Farr illustrates the centrality of queerness, disease, illness, and impairment to the history of the British novel, the gothic novel, and the long eighteenth century more generally; beyond that, he advances queer studies in significant and compelling ways by advocating inclusive, intersectional analysis."— Aphra Behn Online "This sensitive studies convincingly demonstrates just how ubiquitous is the eighteenth-century novel's engagement with the queer implications of disability, showing how disabled characters mark out alternative possibilities." — Eighteenth-Century Fiction "Farr’s framework, which further upholds form, content, and eighteenth-century social justice assuredly feels like one trajectory forward. In short, for those looking for a model in how to do intersectional work well in the eighteenth century, Novel Bodies fits the bill."— Studies in the Novel "Farr shows such sanctified realms to be under constant disturbance by figures who do not, will not, cannot conform, and whose resistance signals alternate realities to the ones novels try to sustain."— Digital Defoe " Novel Bodies makes a thrilling foray into a number of critical conversations. Its readability reflects Farr's careful articulation of the relation of each chapter to the others and to his primary argument. Scholars of British literature will benefit from Novel Bodies' new perspective on several canonical authors, while scholars of American literature might turn to it to consider how the representations of, and responses to, disability and queerness on which it focuses might have crossed the Atlantic, where many of these works were being read and discussed."— Eighteenth Century Studies “In this extremely lucid, well-researched, and well argued book, Farr uncovers a vast representational landscape of queer disability in which the heteronormative narratives of eighteenth-century fiction are profoundly imbricated and to which they are indebted.”— Helen Deutsch, UCLA "Novel Bodies raises an important intersection that clearly needs more careful attention from our scholarly community: race, sexuality, and disability....Novel Bodies succeeds in the story it wants to tell....By attending to representations of corporealities and sexualities that seem liberating, oppressive, recuperative, and resistant, Farr renders the genealogy of sex and disability in a way that challenges those consequences of the Enlightenment that we are still wrestling with today."— Eighteenth-Century FictionTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Disability and the Literary History of Sexuality 1 Deaf Education and Queerness in the Duncan Campbell Compendium (1720-1732) 2 The Reforming Bodies of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740) and Sarah Scott’s Fiction (1754-66) 3 Chronic Illness, Medicine, and the Healthy Marriages of Tobias Smollett’s The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) 4 Gendered Disfigurement and Queer Ocular Relations in Frances Burney’s Camilla (1796) and Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda (1801) Coda: Hypochondria and the Implausibility of Heterosexual Romance in Jane Austen’s Sanditon (1817) Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literature’s greatest writers, was also a major theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped in the works of Western literature and an imaginative reader of French Symbolist poetry, Machado creates, between 1880 and 1908, a “new narrative,” one that will presage the groundbreaking theories of Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure by showing how even the language of narrative cannot escape being elusive and ambiguous in terms of meaning. It is from this discovery about the nature of language as a self-referential semiotic system that Machado crafts his “new narrative.” Long celebrated in Brazil as a dazzlingly original writer, Machado has struggled to gain respect and attention outside the Luso-Brazilian ken. He is the epitome of the “outsider” or “marginal,” the iconoclastic and wildly innovative genius who hails from a culture rarely studied in the Western literary hierarchy and so consigned to the status of “eccentric.” Had the Brazilian master written not in Portuguese but English, French, or German, he would today be regarded as one of the true exemplars of the modern novel, in expression as well as in theory. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Earl E. Fitz advances the question of language as key to innovation and modernity in the mature works of Machado de Assis. Fitz attributes his departure from realism to a new awareness of the mutability, instability, self-referentiality and inescapable ambiguity of language in relation to meaning. What the novels are really about is not what they seem." -- K. David Jackson * Yale University *Is Machado de Assis a theoretician of the novel? Earl Fitz’s book is a fascinating response to such a question. In this exciting journey through the writer’s late novels, we learn that Machado didn’t tell us what he was thinking; differently, he showed us the very act of thinking through language. It’s worth reading: Fitz’s passion for Machado is contagious. -- Pedro Meira Monteiro, Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Spanish and Portuguese * Princeton University *"A masterwork of original and seminal scholarship that rescues a critically important Latin American writer from an undeserved obscurity." * Midwest Book Review *"Earl Fitz’s book should be appreciated as a complement to the many other excellent studies of Machado’s relation to a plentiful external landscape. Lest we become overly confident about our ability to know these realities, we should pause and, considering perspectives like those of this book, clean our glasses." * Journal of Lusophone Studies *"Fitz’s study provides a strong argument for why scholars interested in narrative theory and form should give, if not renewed, then new attention to the work of Machado de Assis." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"[A] passionate and convincingly argued monograph...Fitz’s study makes a vital contribution to Machadoan criticism in that it highlights, perhaps more clearly, more forcefully, and in more detail than previously offered, the holistic view Machado came to embrace of narrative as a dynamic confluence of unstable signs capable of creating seemingly stable realities." * Hispania *"Along with the translation of more works by Brazilian writers and scholars alike, books like Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory pave the way for the reception of literary works that, otherwise, remain regrettably off the radar even among many in academia." * Hispanic Review *"Earl E. Fitz advances the question of language as key to innovation and modernity in the mature works of Machado de Assis. Fitz attributes his departure from realism to a new awareness of the mutability, instability, self-referentiality and inescapable ambiguity of language in relation to meaning. What the novels are really about is not what they seem." -- K. David Jackson * Yale University *Is Machado de Assis a theoretician of the novel? Earl Fitz’s book is a fascinating response to such a question. In this exciting journey through the writer’s late novels, we learn that Machado didn’t tell us what he was thinking; differently, he showed us the very act of thinking through language. It’s worth reading: Fitz’s passion for Machado is contagious. -- Pedro Meira Monteiro, Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Spanish and Portuguese * Princeton University *"A masterwork of original and seminal scholarship that rescues a critically important Latin American writer from an undeserved obscurity." * Midwest Book Review *"Earl Fitz’s book should be appreciated as a complement to the many other excellent studies of Machado’s relation to a plentiful external landscape. Lest we become overly confident about our ability to know these realities, we should pause and, considering perspectives like those of this book, clean our glasses." * Journal of Lusophone Studies *"Fitz’s study provides a strong argument for why scholars interested in narrative theory and form should give, if not renewed, then new attention to the work of Machado de Assis." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"[A] passionate and convincingly argued monograph...Fitz’s study makes a vital contribution to Machadoan criticism in that it highlights, perhaps more clearly, more forcefully, and in more detail than previously offered, the holistic view Machado came to embrace of narrative as a dynamic confluence of unstable signs capable of creating seemingly stable realities." * Hispania *"Along with the translation of more works by Brazilian writers and scholars alike, books like Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory pave the way for the reception of literary works that, otherwise, remain regrettably off the radar even among many in academia." * Hispanic Review *Table of ContentsAbbreviations .. ivA Note on Translations... v Introduction ... 1 One - The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas ... 95 Two - The Psychiatrist ... 132 Three - Quincas Borba ... 169 Four - Dom Casmurro ... 196 Five - Esau and Jacob ... 235 Six - Counselor Ayres Memorial ... 260 Conclusion ... 283Acknowledgements ... 310Bibliography ... 311Index ... 324About the Author ... 325

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Book SynopsisThis book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literature’s greatest writers, was also a major theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped in the works of Western literature and an imaginative reader of French Symbolist poetry, Machado creates, between 1880 and 1908, a “new narrative,” one that will presage the groundbreaking theories of Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure by showing how even the language of narrative cannot escape being elusive and ambiguous in terms of meaning. It is from this discovery about the nature of language as a self-referential semiotic system that Machado crafts his “new narrative.” Long celebrated in Brazil as a dazzlingly original writer, Machado has struggled to gain respect and attention outside the Luso-Brazilian ken. He is the epitome of the “outsider” or “marginal,” the iconoclastic and wildly innovative genius who hails from a culture rarely studied in the Western literary hierarchy and so consigned to the status of “eccentric.” Had the Brazilian master written not in Portuguese but English, French, or German, he would today be regarded as one of the true exemplars of the modern novel, in expression as well as in theory. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Earl E. Fitz advances the question of language as key to innovation and modernity in the mature works of Machado de Assis. Fitz attributes his departure from realism to a new awareness of the mutability, instability, self-referentiality and inescapable ambiguity of language in relation to meaning. What the novels are really about is not what they seem." -- K. David Jackson * Yale University *Is Machado de Assis a theoretician of the novel? Earl Fitz’s book is a fascinating response to such a question. In this exciting journey through the writer’s late novels, we learn that Machado didn’t tell us what he was thinking; differently, he showed us the very act of thinking through language. It’s worth reading: Fitz’s passion for Machado is contagious. -- Pedro Meira Monteiro, Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Spanish and Portuguese * Princeton University *"A masterwork of original and seminal scholarship that rescues a critically important Latin American writer from an undeserved obscurity." * Midwest Book Review *"Earl Fitz’s book should be appreciated as a complement to the many other excellent studies of Machado’s relation to a plentiful external landscape. Lest we become overly confident about our ability to know these realities, we should pause and, considering perspectives like those of this book, clean our glasses." * Journal of Lusophone Studies *"Fitz’s study provides a strong argument for why scholars interested in narrative theory and form should give, if not renewed, then new attention to the work of Machado de Assis." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"[A] passionate and convincingly argued monograph...Fitz’s study makes a vital contribution to Machadoan criticism in that it highlights, perhaps more clearly, more forcefully, and in more detail than previously offered, the holistic view Machado came to embrace of narrative as a dynamic confluence of unstable signs capable of creating seemingly stable realities." * Hispania *"Along with the translation of more works by Brazilian writers and scholars alike, books like Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory pave the way for the reception of literary works that, otherwise, remain regrettably off the radar even among many in academia." * Hispanic Review *"Earl E. Fitz advances the question of language as key to innovation and modernity in the mature works of Machado de Assis. Fitz attributes his departure from realism to a new awareness of the mutability, instability, self-referentiality and inescapable ambiguity of language in relation to meaning. What the novels are really about is not what they seem." -- K. David Jackson * Yale University *Is Machado de Assis a theoretician of the novel? Earl Fitz’s book is a fascinating response to such a question. In this exciting journey through the writer’s late novels, we learn that Machado didn’t tell us what he was thinking; differently, he showed us the very act of thinking through language. It’s worth reading: Fitz’s passion for Machado is contagious. -- Pedro Meira Monteiro, Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Spanish and Portuguese * Princeton University *"A masterwork of original and seminal scholarship that rescues a critically important Latin American writer from an undeserved obscurity." * Midwest Book Review *"Earl Fitz’s book should be appreciated as a complement to the many other excellent studies of Machado’s relation to a plentiful external landscape. Lest we become overly confident about our ability to know these realities, we should pause and, considering perspectives like those of this book, clean our glasses." * Journal of Lusophone Studies *"Fitz’s study provides a strong argument for why scholars interested in narrative theory and form should give, if not renewed, then new attention to the work of Machado de Assis." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"[A] passionate and convincingly argued monograph...Fitz’s study makes a vital contribution to Machadoan criticism in that it highlights, perhaps more clearly, more forcefully, and in more detail than previously offered, the holistic view Machado came to embrace of narrative as a dynamic confluence of unstable signs capable of creating seemingly stable realities." * Hispania *"Along with the translation of more works by Brazilian writers and scholars alike, books like Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory pave the way for the reception of literary works that, otherwise, remain regrettably off the radar even among many in academia." * Hispanic Review *Table of ContentsAbbreviations .. ivA Note on Translations... v Introduction ... 1 One - The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas ... 95 Two - The Psychiatrist ... 132 Three - Quincas Borba ... 169 Four - Dom Casmurro ... 196 Five - Esau and Jacob ... 235 Six - Counselor Ayres Memorial ... 260 Conclusion ... 283Acknowledgements ... 310Bibliography ... 311Index ... 324About the Author ... 325

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Book SynopsisPublished in 1719, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife. German author Johann Gottfried Schnabel—who in 1731 penned his own island narrative—coined the term “Robinsonade” to characterize the genre bred by this classic, and today hundreds of examples can be identified worldwide. This celebratory collection of tercentenary essays testifies to the Robinsonade’s endurance, analyzing its various literary, aesthetic, philosophical, and cultural implications in historical context. Contributors trace the Robinsonade’s roots from the eighteenth century to generic affinities in later traditions, including juvenile fiction, science fiction, and apocalyptic fiction, and finally to contemporary adaptations in film, television, theater, and popular culture. Taken together, these essays convince us that the genre’s adapt- ability to changing social and cultural circumstances explains its relevance to this day. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Trade Review"An impressively ambitious and comprehensive collection of essays on Robinsonades." -- John Richetti * editor of the Cambridge Companion to Robinson Crusoe *“Rewriting Crusoe collects a wide range of international scholars to look at the Robinsonade tradition in various media across three centuries. The collection exhibits the range of responses to Robinson Crusoe and considers how they reflect various cultural and literary concerns.” -- Leah Orr * author of Novel Ventures: Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690-1730 *"Rewriting Crusoe offers invigorating re-examinations of a timeless and timely genre. The broad scope of texts examined and the international profile of its authors makes this book an important contribution to studies of the Robinsonade and testament that this genre still holds power." -- Rebecca Weaver-Hightower * author of Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest in Post/Colonial Island N *"Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media assembles an international group of scholars who present exciting new approaches to the cultural afterlives of Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel. Robinson Crusoe is one of the most successful books of all time, ubiquitous first in Europe and then around the world. Novel historians credit it with transforming prose fiction with psychological realism. It has been translated into dozens of languages and it has directly and indirectly inspired a plenitude of adaptations and appropriations in that time. The essays in Rewriting Crusoe follow the Robinsonades themselves across genres and media—fiction, film, plays, and TV—and they respond to a range of works, from immediate, direct responses in Britain to more distant and looser echoes across the globe. What is original and distinctive about the volume is its demonstration of how Robinsonades not only challenge key aspects of the archetypal castaway narrative—masculine individualism, literary realism, and ecological and colonial domination—but that these ideologies have always been in a process of contestation. Together the essays illuminate what editor Jakub Lipski calls 'the potential of the Robinsonade to adapt to changing circumstances, in terms of content and genre, and … its continuous relevance in new contexts.' The book provides a model for the potential of collaborative approaches to diffuse literary afterlives, and it is essential reading for those interested in the impact of eighteenth-century ideas through the ages." -- Nicholas Seager * Co-editor of The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction *"An impressively ambitious and comprehensive collection of essays on Robinsonades." -- John Richetti * editor of the Cambridge Companion to Robinson Crusoe *“Rewriting Crusoe collects a wide range of international scholars to look at the Robinsonade tradition in various media across three centuries. The collection exhibits the range of responses to Robinson Crusoe and considers how they reflect various cultural and literary concerns.” -- Leah Orr * author of Novel Ventures: Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690-1730 *"Rewriting Crusoe offers invigorating re-examinations of a timeless and timely genre. The broad scope of texts examined and the international profile of its authors makes this book an important contribution to studies of the Robinsonade and testament that this genre still holds power." -- Rebecca Weaver-Hightower * author of Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest in Post/Colonial Island N *"Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media assembles an international group of scholars who present exciting new approaches to the cultural afterlives of Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel. Robinson Crusoe is one of the most successful books of all time, ubiquitous first in Europe and then around the world. Novel historians credit it with transforming prose fiction with psychological realism. It has been translated into dozens of languages and it has directly and indirectly inspired a plenitude of adaptations and appropriations in that time. The essays in Rewriting Crusoe follow the Robinsonades themselves across genres and media—fiction, film, plays, and TV—and they respond to a range of works, from immediate, direct responses in Britain to more distant and looser echoes across the globe. What is original and distinctive about the volume is its demonstration of how Robinsonades not only challenge key aspects of the archetypal castaway narrative—masculine individualism, literary realism, and ecological and colonial domination—but that these ideologies have always been in a process of contestation. Together the essays illuminate what editor Jakub Lipski calls 'the potential of the Robinsonade to adapt to changing circumstances, in terms of content and genre, and … its continuous relevance in new contexts.' The book provides a model for the potential of collaborative approaches to diffuse literary afterlives, and it is essential reading for those interested in the impact of eighteenth-century ideas through the ages." -- Nicholas Seager * Co-editor of The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction *Table of ContentsNote on the Edition Used Foreword by Robert Mayer IntroductionJakub Lipski Part I: Exploring and Transcending the Genre Mushrooms, Capers, and other sorts of Pickles”: Remaking Genre in Peter Longueville’s The Hermit (1727)Rivka Swenson“If I had …”: Counterfactuals, Imaginary Realities and the Poetics of the Postmodern RobinsonadePatrick Gill Part II: National Contexts Castaways and Colonialism: Dislocating Cultural Encounter in The Female American (1767)Przemysław UścińskiSetting the Scene for the Polish Robinsonade: The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom (1776) by Ignacy Krasicki and the Early Reception of Robinson Crusoe in Poland, 1769-1775Jakub LipskiThe Rise and Fall of Robinson Crusoe on the London StageFrederick BurwickIslands in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped (1886): A Counter-RobinsonadeMárta Pellérdi Part III: Ecocritical Readings Stormy Weather and the Gentle Isle: Apprehending the Environment of Three RobinsonadesLora E. GeriguisRobinson’s Becoming-Earth in Michel Tournier’s Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967)Krzysztof Skonieczny Part IV: The Robinsonade and the Present Condition “The True State of Our Condition”: The Twenty-First-Century Worker as CastawayJennifer Preston Wilson Gilligan’s Wake, Gilligan’s Island, and Historiographizing American Popular CultureIan Kinane Coda: Rewriting the RobinsonadeDaniel Cook Acknowledgements Bibliography About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Best International Book Award from the Mormon History Association In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels, cartoons, and works of art focused on Mormons. Unlike American authors who portrayed Mormons as malevolent “others,” however, French dramatists used Mormonism to point out hypocrisy in their own culture. Aren't Mormon women, because of their numbers in a household, more liberated than French women who can't divorce? What is polygamy but another name for multiple mistresses? This new critical edition presents translations of four musical comedies staged or published in France in the late 1800s: Mormons in Paris (1874), Berthelier Meets the Mormons (1875), Japheth’s Twelve Wives (1890), and Stephana’s Jewel (1892). Each is accompanied by a short contextualizing introduction with details about the music, playwrights, and staging. Humorous and largely unknown, these plays use Mormonism to explore and mock changing French mentalities during the Third Republic, lampooning shifting attitudes and evolving laws about marriage, divorce, and gender roles. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Mormons in Paris is as erudite as it is enchanting. In their introduction, Corry Cropper and Christopher Flood show exceptional depth and breadth of knowledge about French theater, opera, and light opera and their place in late nineteenth-century French culture. The language of the translations is natural and readable, and the little songs in verse are especially delightful." -- Susan McCready * author of Staging France between the World Wars *"This well-introduced collection of little-known musical comedies featuring French characterizations of Mormonism is a welcome contribution to nineteenth-century French cultural studies. The translations themselves are excellent . . . the authors’ choices of idiomatic expressions capture just the right tone, neither anachronistically modern nor too archaic to retain their impact." -- Andrea Goulet * co-editor of Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1: Mormons in Paris Louis Leroy and Alfred Delacour Chapter 2: Berthelier Meets the Mormons Chapter 3: Japheth’s Twelve Wives Antony Mars and Maurice Desvallières Chapter 4: Stephana’s Jewel Arthur Bernède and Albert Dubarry Acknowledgements Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisEngland’s famed Lake District—best known as the place of inspiration for the Wordsworths, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and other Romantic-era writers—is the locus of this pioneering study, which implements and critiques a new approach to literary analysis in the digital age. Deploying innovative methods from literary studies, corpus linguistics, historical geography, and geographical information science, Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District combines close readings of a body of writing about the region from 1622-1900 with distant approaches to textual analysis. This path-breaking volume exemplifies interdisciplinarity, demonstrating how digital humanities methodologies and geospatial tools can enhance our appreciation of a region whose topography has been long recognized as fundamental to the shape of the poetry and prose produced within it.Trade Review"It is rare that one book can influence several disciplines. Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District is such a title. Taylor and Gregory offer a compelling case for the spatial humanities, and in the process, make valuable contributions to literary studies, geography, history, and cultural studies. A truly innovative work."— David Bodenhamer, co-editor of Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives “Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District will quickly become a new standard in the field of literary geography. Its spatial synthesis of aesthetics, Romanticism, sociology, history, literature, and cartography will excite scholars from across the digital-analog divide. I highly recommend the book to every scholar working in these fields, as well as any reader interested in the Lake District and its rich, layered literature and culture."— Ryan Heuser, King's College, Cambridge University "Taylor and Gregory brilliantly demonstrate how digital techniques developed for work at a wide scale can be employed for the full depth of deep mapping. The result is one of the most exciting demonstrations of the value of computational technologies in literary analysis that I’ve read in a long time."— James Loxley, co-editor of Ben Jonson's Walk to Scotland: An Annotated Edition of the 'Foot Voyage'Table of ContentsFigures Tables Note on the Data 1 Deep Mapping and the Corpus of Lake District Writing The Distant Reader and the Close: Toward Multiscalar Analysis The Corpus of Lake District Writing Corpus Linguistics and Geographic Information Science Geographical Text Analysis Deep Mapping as Literary Practice 2 Picturesque Technologies and the Digital Humanities Specifying in General: Deep Mapping and the Gilpinian Picturesque The Picturesque in the CLDW Protest against the Wrong: The Problem with Picturesque Data Virtual Playgrounds in Text and on Screen 3 Tourists, Travelers, Inhabitants: Variant Digital Literary Geographies The “Discovery” of the Lake District Keep Moving: Tourism in the Lakes Proceeding at Leisure: Traveling in the Lake District Away from the Show Place: The Inhabitants’ Lakeland 4 Walking in the Literary Lakes Types of Lake District Walking Walking along a Good Road: Taking a Lakeland Excursion “Linger There a Breathing While”: Being a Pedestrian in the Lakes 5 Seeing Sound: Mapping the Lake District’s Soundscape The Power of Sound, Noise, and Silence Wordsworthian Listening How the Water Comes Down: Listening to Waterfalls The “Most Expensive Luxuries”: Cannon-Fire and English Echoes 6 Digital Cartographies and Personal Geographies: (Re-)Mapping Scafell Mapping Scafell Climbing Scafell The View from the Top Conclusion: The Future of Deep Mapping Appendix: The Corpus of Lake District Writing Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAround the turn of the nineteenth century, no task seemed more urgent to German Romantics than the creation of a new mythology. It would unite modern poets and grant them common ground, and bring philosophers and the Volk closer together. But what would a new mythology look like? Only one model sufficed, according to Friedrich Schlegel: Dante’s Divine Comedy. Through reading and juxtaposing canonical and obscure texts, Dante in Deutschland shows how Dante’s work shaped the development of German Romanticism; it argues, all the while, that the weight of Dante’s influence induced a Romantic preoccupation with authority: Who was authorized to create a mythology? This question—traced across texts by Schelling, Novalis, and Goethe—begets a Neo-Romantic fixation with Dantean authority in the mythic ventures of Gerhart Hauptmann, Rudolf Borchardt, and Stefan George. Only in Thomas Mann’s novels, DiMassa asserts, is the Romantics’ Dantean project ultimately demythologized.Trade Review“Daniel DiMassa’s masterful book traces the fate of Dante in Germany, but in doing so tells a story of Romanticism and its many afterlives in Germany. From the Brothers Schlegel to the circle around Stefan George, DiMassa traces nothing less than the persistence of myth in German letters.”— Adrian Daub, author of What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley “DiMassa has brought together the long and complex history of Dante’s fascination for German writers in a lucid and stylish study. It is exhaustive in the documentation of every phase—Romanticism, the age of Goethe, on down to the political uncertainties and initiatives that followed World War I. Dante is shown to have been central to the quest for literary authority, the search for a new mythology, the potential of allegory, the need for a model of autobiographical self-presentation. It emerges convincingly that there is more Dante in the deep history of German culture than might have been expected. The large conceptions are supported by a fine grasp of the labyrinthine thinking of the Romantics and by close reading of key texts—Novalis’s ‘Hymnen an die Nacht’, Goethe’s ‘Ilmenau’, Schelling’s rarely analyzed poetry. Complexity nowhere generates obscurity. DiMassa’s text remains unpretentious and readable. He has drawn to good effect on his intimacy with two cultures.” — T.J. Reed, author of Genesis: The Making of Literary Works from Homer to Christa Wolf “An illuminating lens through which to reread the multi-faceted, discursive formation known as ‘German Romanticism.’ DiMassa shows how Dante, unlike Shakespeare and Cervantes, was not only rediscovered by the Early Romantics but crucially informed their understanding of modern literary authorship as a visionary task of myth-making. In a range of cases starting with Schelling, Novalis, and Goethe, DiMassa traces the spirit of Dante to the birth of the modern (German) literary author.” — Kirk Wetters, author of Demonic History: From Goethe to the Present “DiMassa’s erudite, intelligent, and elegantly written book offers an excellent overview of Dante’s reception in Germany in the context of Romanticism around 1800 and Neo-Romanticism in the early 20th century. He is not only very familiar with both German poetry and German literary criticism of the time; he also knows Dante’s text well.”— Vittorio Hösle, author of Dante’s "Commedia" und Goethe’s "Faust": Ein Vergleich der beiden wichtigsten philosophisc “It is still widely assumed that The Divine Comedy, given Goethe’s distaste for Dante, played little part in forming German modernity, and in shaping myths of a German return to medieval national and imperial glory. By leading us from a 1799 Jena reading circle to Stefan George and Thomas Mann, DiMassa fills in missing tranches of literary history to revise this potent, and ultimately tragic, narrative. Warmly recommended.”— David Wallace, editor of Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418 “The German Romantics made Dante the ideal of modern poets. He became a mythical authority, with an absolute claim to the roles of truth-teller and guide. Dante in Deutschland traces this dream from its creative power to its megalomaniac tendency—a unique case of one name becoming the measure of all things.” — Stefan Matuschek, author of Der gedichtete Himmel. Eine Geschichte der RomantikTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Abbreviations A Note on Translation Introduction: Orienting Romanticism Part I: Romanticism 1. Discovering Dante and Theorizing Myth: The Schlegel Brothers and the Origins of the Romantic Project 2. Schelling, Novalis, and the Legitimation of a Dantean Mythology 3. Goethe’s Dantean Mythologies of the Self and of the World Part II: Neo-Romanticism 4. Trespassing the Sign: The Mad Flight of Gerhart Hauptmann 5. Abolishing History: New Dantean Germanies in Rudolf Borchardt and Stefan George 6. Thomas Mann and the Demythologization of Dante Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly detailed rendering of the first days, the first principles, and the first efforts of modern culture. Its pages open to the works of all nations and language traditions, providing a truly global picture of a period that routinely shattered boundaries. Volume 28 of this long-running journal is no exception to this tradition of focused inclusivity. Readers will experience two blockbuster multi-author special features that explore both the deep traditions and the new frontiers of early modern studies: one that views adaptation and digitization through the lens of “Sterneana,” the vast literary and cultural legacy following on the writings of Laurence Sterne, a legacy that sweeps from Hungarian renditions of the puckish novelist through the Bloomsbury circle and on into cybernetics, and one that pays tribute to legendary scholar Irwin Primer by probing the always popular but also always challenging writings of that enigmatic poet-philosopher, Bernard Mandeville. All that, plus the usual cavalcade of full-length book reviews. ISSN: 1065-3112 Published by Bucknell University Press, distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review“Once again, 1650-1850 offers readers exciting perspectives, not only on literature of the long eighteenth century but also—especially—on innovative ways of doing research. By expanding and modeling new methods, the authors featured in this double special issue stand to expand the ways we think about and do eighteenth-century studies.” -- Ashley Bender * assistant professor of English, Texas Woman’s University *Table of ContentsSpecial Feature Adaptation and Digitization in the Long Eighteenth Century: Sterneana and BeyondEdited by M-C. Newbould and Helen Williams Introduction to the Special Feature: Fitting Things? Adaptation, Eighteenth-Century Afterlives, and Digital CulturesM-C. Newbould and Helen Williams Linking Austen’s and Sterne’s Reception JourneysDevoney Looser Laurence Sterne and Women’s Writing: Elizabeth Bonhôte, Jane Harvey, Jane Timbury, and Miss StreetHelen Williams “Ye Gods Annihilate Both Space and Time”: Excerpt Culture and the Digital Editing of Eighteenth-Century CorrespondenceJack Orchard Taking Tea with Joseph Addison: Virginia Woolf and the Eighteenth Century in Orlando (1928)Adam James Smith “Gabriel Shandy Looks Me Deeply in the Eye”: Early Sterne Adaptations and the Formation of the Novel in HungaryGabriella Hartvig Three Mid-Eighteenth-Century Mash-Ups: Hybridity and Conflicted Discourse in Robert Paltock’s Peter Wilkins and Its Early ImitationsJakub Lipski A Distributional Analysis of the Language of Sensibility in the Sterne Corpus and ECCOJohn Regan “[It] Were Wisdome It Selfe, to Read All Authors, asAnonymo’s”: Anonymity, Virtual Communities, and SterneanaM-C. Newbould Authorial Authority and the Mapping of An -AnaPaul GoringSpecial Feature Irwin Primer and Bernard MandevilleEdited by Sir Malcolm Jack Introduction to the Special Feature: Irwin Primer and Bernard MandevilleSir Malcolm Jack “What Strange Contradictions Man Is Made Of!”Rui Romao “Self Still Is at the Bottom”: Mandeville and French MoralistsBéatrice Guion The “System of Nature” and the French Reception ofThe Fable of the Bees in the Eighteenth CenturyEdmundo Balsemão-Pires Mandeville on Happiness, Self-Esteem, and HypochondriaMauro SimonazziBook ReviewsEdited by Samara Anne Cahill Cedric D. Reverand II, ed., Queen Anne and the Arts Reviewed by John Knapp Kimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki, eds., Johnson in Japan Reviewed by John Stone Kevin L. Cope, ed., Hemispheres and Stratospheres: The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International EnlightenmentReviewed by Christopher D. Johnson A. Joan Saab, Objects of Vision: Making Sense of What We See Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler, eds., Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 48Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind, A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism Reviewed by Sir Malcolm Jack Rory Muir, Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen’s England Reviewed by Paul J. de Gategno About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisWhat, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by examining the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses sparked by these commodities transformed the period’s literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness. Tracing exotic ingestion as a motif across a range of authors and genres, this book considers how, why, and whither writers used scenes of eating, drinking, and smoking to diagnose and interrogate their own solipsistic constructions of the Orient. As national and cultural boundaries became increasingly porous, such self-reflexive inquiries into the nature and role of otherness provided an unexpected avenue for British imperial subjectivity to emerge and coalesce.Trade Review"A bold and powerfully generative take on the literary shockwaves produced by the massive influx—at once unsettling and inspiring—of Eastern products in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. By centering eating and drinking as the paradigmatic forms of exotic consumption, Yin Yuan surfaces previously unrecognized currents of ironic self-reflexivity with respect to bodily and cultural boundaries set in motion by the period’s insatiable appetites for the Orient. Rarely has such a theoretically astute treatment of the cultural politics of eating made for such devilishly delicious fare."— David Porter, author of The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England "Focusing on early British Orientalism as a distinctly literary effort to negotiate the new material realities of imperial commerce, Alimentary Orientalism locates in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing about exotic comestibles an emergent form of semiotic theory. Imperial self-making, it shows, not only rehearsed mythologies of encounter, but did so as a way of orienting British selfhood in the liminal space where sign meets substance—the space where empire unfolds."— Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins, author of A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism “Eating, drinking, smoking—the bodies in nineteenth-century British writing took in Chinese influence both cavalierly and copiously. Yin Yuan’s book helps us understand this consumption by explaining, with erudition and grace, how such exotic ingestants navigated Britain’s symbolic and material Oriental encounters on their way to the heart of the empire.”— Elizabeth Hope Chang, author of Britain’s Chinese Eye: Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain "Bracingly original, Alimentary Orientalism moves beyond predictable ‘self/other’ binaries to delineate new complexities in British ‘Orientalist’ literary discourse. Focusing on such ‘psychoactive groceries’ as tea and opium, Yuan details how various texts represent the literal incorporation of otherness, even as they self-critically investigate the nature of Orientalist representation itself."— Alan Richardson, author of The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic TextsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Exotic Ingestion and Self-Reflexive Orientalism in Long-Eighteenth-Century Britain 1 Virtuous Leaf, “Intoxicating Liquor”: England’s Tea Talk (A Prelude on Tea) 2 “Eating Only What I Knew”: Exotic Consumerism and the Boundaries of Selfhood in The Citizen of the World and Vathek 3 Cups, Cures, and Curses: The Elusiveness of Cultural Identity in Lalla Rookh and The Talisman 4 The Exotic Self: De Quincey’s Opium Texts and Lamb’s Chinese Essays 5 “Barbarian Eye”: The Opium Wars as a Visual Project (An Interlude on Opium) 6 “Not the Track of the Time”: Antiquated Orientalismin Villette and Little Dorrit Afterword: The Inadequate Language of Contagion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by examining the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses sparked by these commodities transformed the period’s literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness. Tracing exotic ingestion as a motif across a range of authors and genres, this book considers how, why, and whither writers used scenes of eating, drinking, and smoking to diagnose and interrogate their own solipsistic constructions of the Orient. As national and cultural boundaries became increasingly porous, such self-reflexive inquiries into the nature and role of otherness provided an unexpected avenue for British imperial subjectivity to emerge and coalesce.Trade Review"A bold and powerfully generative take on the literary shockwaves produced by the massive influx—at once unsettling and inspiring—of Eastern products in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. By centering eating and drinking as the paradigmatic forms of exotic consumption, Yin Yuan surfaces previously unrecognized currents of ironic self-reflexivity with respect to bodily and cultural boundaries set in motion by the period’s insatiable appetites for the Orient. Rarely has such a theoretically astute treatment of the cultural politics of eating made for such devilishly delicious fare." -- David Porter * author of The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England *“Eating, drinking, smoking—the bodies in nineteenth-century British writing took in Chinese influence both cavalierly and copiously. Yin Yuan’s book helps us understand this consumption by explaining, with erudition and grace, how such exotic ingestants navigated Britain’s symbolic and material Oriental encounters on their way to the heart of the empire.” -- Elizabeth Hope Chang * author of Britain’s Chinese Eye: Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain *"Bracingly original, Alimentary Orientalism moves beyond predictable ‘self/other’ binaries to delineate new complexities in British ‘Orientalist’ literary discourse. Focusing on such ‘psychoactive groceries’ as tea and opium, Yuan details how various texts represent the literal incorporation of otherness, even as they self-critically investigate the nature of Orientalist representation itself." -- Alan Richardson * author of The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts *"Focusing on early British Orientalism as a distinctly literary effort to negotiate the new material realities of imperial commerce, Alimentary Orientalism locates in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing about exotic comestibles an emergent form of semiotic theory. Imperial self-making, it shows, not only rehearsed mythologies of encounter, but did so as a way of orienting British selfhood in the liminal space where sign meets substance—the space where empire unfolds." -- Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins * author of A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism *Table of Contents Introduction: Exotic Ingestion and Self-Reflexive Orientalism in Long-Eighteenth-Century Britain 1 Virtuous Leaf, “Intoxicating Liquor”: England’s Tea Talk (A Prelude on Tea) 2 “Eating Only What I Knew”:Exotic Consumerism and the Boundaries of Selfhood in The Citizen of the World and Vathek 3 Cups, Cures, and Curses: The Elusiveness of Cultural Identity in Lalla Rookh and The Talisman 4 The Exotic Self: De Quincey’s Opium Texts and Lamb’s Chinese Essays 5 “Barbarian Eye”: The Opium Wars as a Visual Project (An Interlude on Opium) 6 “Not the Track of the Time”: Antiquated Orientalismin Villette and Little Dorrit Afterword: The Inadequate Language of Contagion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWomen and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect on Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from musicology, literary studies, and gender studies challenges the conventional historical categories that marginalize women’s experience from Austen’s time. Contesting the distinctions between professional and amateur musicians, public and domestic sites of musical production, and performers and composers of music, the contributors reveal how women’s widespread involvement in the Georgian musical scene allowed for self-expression, artistic influence, and access to communities that transcended the boundaries of gender, class, and nationality. This volume’s breadth of focus advances our understanding of a period that witnessed a musical flourishing, much of it animated by female hands and voices. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Trade Review“Women and Music in the Age of Austen offers an expansive, lively, colourful view of the gendered musical practices of the eighteenth century and the Romantic period. These essays enrich our knowledge of the musical world of Jane Austen and Frances Burney while shining a spotlight on little-known female performers, critics, composers, consumers, collectors, fans, and musical entrepreneurs of the preceding decades.” -- Angela Esterhammer * author of Print and Performance in the 1820s: Improvisation, Speculation, Identity *“Finding inspiration in a broad range of sources, the volume reflects on women and their musical activities in Georgian England. A focus on Jane Austen and her novels moves in and out of the picture, amplified and receding against historical figures known and unknown. Through these essays by musically-informed literary scholars and musicologists, readers get a sense of the possibilities and desires of women engaged with music over a historical period that brackets the life of our beloved Jane.” -- Maribeth Clark * coeditor of Musicology and Dance: Historical and Critical Perspectives *“Music was important to Jane Austen, as her novels and letters attest, and women played a hitherto undervalued part in the musical world of her time. This sparkling and substantial collection of interdisciplinary essays illuminates Austen’s fiction and her age in many original and surprising ways.” -- Peter Sabor * coeditor of Jane Austen's Manuscript Works *Table of ContentsIllustrations Table Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: “It was all in harmony”: Musical Women in Austen’s Culture Linda Zionkowski with Miriam F. Hart Part I: Representing the Female Performer Chapter 1: A Musical Room of Her Own: Musical Spaces in Jane Austen’s Novels Pierre Dubois Chapter 2: “Prima la musica”: Gentry Daughters at Play in Town, Country, and Continent, 1815-1825 Kelly M. McDonald Chapter 3: Stage Fright: Female Musicians Crossing Musical Borders in Thicknesse’s The School for Fashion and Burney’s The Wanderer Danielle Grover Part II: Women and the Market in Music Chapter 4: Women on the Title Page: Celebrity Endorsement of Musical Scores Penelope Cave Chapter 5: The Lady’s Choice: Women and the Purchase of Music through Subscription Simon D. I. Fleming Chapter 6: Female Musical Entrepreneurship in the Eighteenth Century Alison C. DeSimone Part III: Women as Critics and Fans Chapter 7: Women as Quiet Critics Jane Girdham Chapter 8: Femininity and Foreignness in George Colman’s Farce, The Musical Lady Leslie Ritchie Chapter 9: Georgian Fangirls: Women and Castrati in Eighteenth-Century London Jeffrey A. Nigro Part IV: Women and the Bardic Tradition Chapter 10: Anna Gordon and the Ballad Collectors Ruth Perry Chapter 11: Antiquaries, Female Harpists, and the Survival of the Bardic Tradition Devon R. Nelson Part V: Revisiting the Age of Austen Chapter 12: “That Ecstatic Delight”: Gender and Performance in Adaptations of Sense and Sensibility Gayle Magee Chapter 13: “Here’s harmony!”: Music and Gender in Kirke Mechem’s Pride & Prejudice (2019) and Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park (2011) Juliette Wells Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisEdward Taylor Fletcher was a nineteenth-century literary figure almost completely forgotten by history. Poet, travel writer, essayist, surveyor, philologist, and translator, Fletcher shared many characteristics with the great literary figures of the time. Yet his writing represents a significant departure from his contemporaries and a close reading of his work reshapes our understanding of the Canadian long poem and the cultural values of Canadian poetry. Fletcher spoke English, French, German, Italian, and other modern languages fluently and he studied or translated literary works in Icelandic, Finnish, Polish, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit (among several others). His poetry interweaves Canadian landscapes with modern and ancient traditions of the East and West and integrates allusions and innovations from several different literary traditions including the Kalavela, the Mahabharata, and the Poetic Edda. By recuperating Fletcher’s nineteenth century works, James Gifford uncovers a unique Canadian literary voice who explored content, style, and concerns unlike the popular colonial narratives of his time.

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Book SynopsisBefore he had turned 21, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) upended the house of French poetry and left it in shambles. What makes Rimbaud's poetry important, argues Seth Whidden, is part of what makes his life so compelling: rebellion, audacity, creativity and exploration. Almost all of Rimbaud's poems were written between the ages of fifteen and twenty. Against the backdrop of the crumbling Second Empire and the tumultuous Paris Commune, the poet took centuries-old traditions of French versification and picked them apart with an unmatched knowledge of how they fitted together. Combining sensuality with pastoral, parody, political satire, fable, eroticism and mystery, Rimbaud's works range from traditional verse forms to prose-poetry and the two first free-verse poems written in French. By situating Rimbaud's writing in Africa as part of a continuum that spans his entire life, this book offers a corrective to the traditional split between his life as a poet and his life afterwards. Written for general readers and students of literature alike, Arthur Rimbaud presents the original damned poet who continues to captivate readers, artists and writers all over the world.

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of an early nineteenth-century London newspaper, the Representative, more important for the people who took part in its inception than for its journalistic merits. The gallery of characters who appear in the narrative includes prominent figures of the age, literary as well as political, such as Sir Walter Scott and his son-in-law, John Gibson Lockhart; Foreign Secretary George Canning; and certainly publisher John Murray II. The pivotal figure is, however, a very young Benjamin Disraeli, whose brilliant mind already displayed great powers of observation, verbal expression and manipulation of his elders and betters. Written in a fluent style, and drawing upon previously untapped original sources at The Bodleian Library and The John Murray Archive at The National Library of Scotland, the book presents documented proof that the events narrated are quite different from what has traditionally been accepted as truth, at the same time it unveils hitherto unknown facets of well-known figures of the age.Trade ReviewReviews ‘A book that will entertain and enlighten literary scholars interested in the history of newspaper publishing as well as in the life and times of the young, brash Benjamin Disraeli.’ Michel Pharand, Director, The Disraeli Project, Queen's University at Kingston'Intended as a rival to The Times, The Representative, established in 1825, only lasted some six months before it failed, costing the publisher, John Samuel Murray, heavy financial loss. Drawing on material held in the Bodleian Library and the National Library of Scotland, the scholarly Chilean author presents, in mellifluous English, a sequence of events that sheds new light on matters that led to estrangement between the Disraeli and Murray families, not least because of the duplicitous behaviour of the young Benjamin Disraeli in his dealings with John Gibson Lockhart and his cruel attack on Murray in Vivian Grey(1826). Indeed, Disraeli comes rather badly out of this fascinating story.'James Stevens Curl, Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsForewordDramatis PersonaeChapter I BackdropChapter II A ConspiracyChapter III The Intruder from the NorthChapter IV An Inauspicious StartChapter V Portrait of a NewspaperChapter VI The SequelEpilogueAppendix I The ‘Poisonous Pen’ of John Gibson LockhartAppendix II John Wilson Croker as a Literary CriticAcknowledgementsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis study of the poetry and drama of Percy Bysshe Shelley reads the letters and their biographical contexts to shed light on the poetry, tracing the ambiguous and shifting relationship between the poet’s art and life. For Shelley, both life and art are transfigured by their relationship with one another where the ‘poet participates in the eternal, the infinite, and the one’ but is equally bound up with and formed by the society in which he lives and the past that he inherits. Callaghan shows that the distinctiveness of Shelley’s work comes to rest on its wrong-footing of any neat division of life and art. The dazzling intensity of Shelley’s poetry and drama lies in its refusal to separate the twain as Shelley explores and finally explodes the boundaries between what is personal and what is poetic. Arguing that the critic, like the artist, cannot ignore the conditions of the poet’s life, Callaghan reveals how Shelley’s artistry reconfigures and redraws the actual in his poetry. The book shows how Shelley’s poetic daring lies in troubling the distinction between poetry as aesthetic work hermetically sealed against life, and poetry as a record of the emotional life of the poet.Trade ReviewReviews'Callaghan reads Shelley’s letters and their biographical concerns to illuminate his poetry, tracing the shifting relationship between the poet’s poetry and life. She shows that Shelley refused and exploded the boundaries between the personal and poetic by reconfiguring life events within his poetry and drama. The boundary between the poet’s life and art is a difficult one for a critic and often less useful than close textual analysis. Callaghan makes a case for the ways in which Shelley transmutes the personal into transformative poetry with Shelley’s understanding that ‘the poet man are of two different natures’ and that the ‘poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth’, where truth and eternity clash.' Tears in the Fence'Callaghan is a confident judge and writer … an able close reader, whose readings are equally adept at handling the discursive tenor of Shelley’s often philosophically involved poetry and the intricacies of his metrical and stanzaic patterning, and a diligent scholar with an impressive command of the secondary literature on Shelley’s work. She is clearly unafraid of overturning critical commonplaces that have become established in Shelley studies and, moreover, she makes a compelling case for taking the early poetry more seriously on artistic terms than it has been so far. Shelley’s Living Artistry will make study of his correspondence much more central to future accounts of his work. Shelley’s Living Artistry is, then, a notable contribution to contemporary study of Shelley and, in particular, provides a useful reminder of the different genres and modes in which he wrote and the often taut relations between them.' Ross Wilson, Cambridge Quarterly‘A valuable, ranging and deeply informed contribution…to any reader sympathetic to neo-formalism, and indeed any reader sympathetic to Shelley (who can be as frustrating a poet as a brilliantly incandescent one), this study will repay attention.’Christopher Stokes, The BARS Review‘In Shelley’s Living Artistry: Letters, Poems, Plays, Madeleine Callaghan offers a stimulating and absorbing account of the way that Shelley self-consciously stages his artistic development in his poetry and his efforts to "[transmute] the dross of the personal into the gold of art"...In short, Shelley’s Living Artistry makes a convincing case for reading Shelley’s poetry "through the lens of the letters" so as to bring into focus important aspects of his artistry and develop "a fuller consideration of Shelley’s poetic achievement".’Jonathan Quayle, English: Journal of the English Association‘Shelley’s art, in Callaghan’s monograph, is living. It is not something that has been created or recreated, but rather like the statue of Hermione in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, needs only to be touched to feel its living warmth.’ Dana Van Kooy, European Romantic Review'This is a compellingly argued book, and it represents a serious and substantial addition to Shelley scholarship. What is particularly refreshing, however, is that Callaghan is not simply an expert scholarly reader of Shelley. She quite clearly loves his poetry and is not afraid to say so, or to reach for superlatives when only superlatives will do. It is this passion for the poetry and for understanding the depths of Shelley’s artistry that drives her close reading and animates her account of individual texts. Surely a poet as attuned to the revolutionary potential of reading as was Shelley would be pleased to have found such a reader.' Daisy Hay, Keats-Shelley JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: ‘A poem is the very image of life’Standard Abbreviations and Note on Texts1. ‘Painted fancy’s unsuspected scope’: The Esdaile Notebook, Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, and Queen Mab2. ‘These transient meetings’: Alastor and Laon and Cythna3. ‘All that is majestic’: The Scrope Davies Notebook4. ‘That such a man should be such a poet!’: ‘To Wordsworth’, ‘Verses Written on Receiving a Celandine in a Letter from England’, and Julian and Maddalo5. ‘In a style very different’: Prometheus Unbound and The Cenci6. ‘The sacred talisman of language’: The Witch of Atlas and A Defence of Poetry7. ‘One is always in love with something or other’: Epipsychidion and the Jane Poems8. ‘The right road to Paradise’: Adonais and The Triumph of LifeBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book considers William Wordsworth’s use of iconography in his long poem The Excursion. Through the iconographical approach, the author steers a middle course between The Excursion’s two very different interpretive traditions, one focusing upon the poem’s philosophical abstraction, the other upon its touristic realism. Fresh readings are also offered of Wordsworth’s other major works, including The Prelude.Yen explores Wordsworth’s iconography in The Excursion by tracing allusions and correspondences in an abundance of post-1789 and earlier verbal and pictorial sources, as well as in Wordsworth’s prose and poetry. He analyses how the iconographical images in The Excursion contribute to, and impose limitations on, the overarching preoccupations of Wordsworth’s writings, particularly the themes of paradise lost and paradise regained in the post-revolutionary context. Shedding light on a vital aspect of Wordsworth’s poetic method, this study reveals the visual etymologies – together with the nuances and rhetorical capacities – of five categories of apparently ‘collateral’ images: envisioning, rooting, dwelling, flowing, and reflecting.Trade Review'Yen’s rich and fascinating study of The Excursion builds on Fiona Stafford’s recent revaluing of the local to focus on “the quiet functioning of local detail” at a linguistic and metaphorical level through mediated images of rural landscape. Yen works sensitively within the form of the long poem, with its extended passages of argument and reflection, to tease out “intratextual and intertextual recurrences” that resonate across the whole. Across five categories of “envisioning”; “rooting”, “dwelling”, “flowing”, and “reflecting” Yen pulls out the threads of allusion that link the language of the text into larger political events of the time, arguing for an iconographic power held in the figurative language of landscape. Methodologically sophisticated, the work both draws on and challenges the tenets of New Historicism so that, rather than displacing history, it seeks to awaken the history inherent within the allusive force of landscape imagery through a process of iconological interpretation. The writing is characterised by a remarkable attention to nuances of meaning, whilst the interpretation of political cartoons and symbols of the French Revolution grounds the argument in visual evidence. Brandon Yen’s study treats The Excursion with the respect it deserves as a major work of the late Revolutionary period.'Sally Bushell, Professor of Romantic and Victorian Literature, Lancaster University.‘It is a crucial book for students of The Excursion, but its positioning of that poem will also revitalize study of Wordsworth more generally… Yen’s impressively researched book should prompt critics to return to The Excursion with fresh eyes.’ David Stewart, European Romantic Review‘An outstanding and persistent feature of the book is Yen’s seamless integration of the poetry into his prose. This creates a hybrid voice, at once presenting the poetry for reconsideration and providing an enlightening interpretation of it. Ultimately, through this hybrid voice, Yen emerges as an advocate for renewed and increased scholarly attention to The Excursion.’ Brandon Wernette, The BARS Review'The most ambitious, learned, wide-ranging, and important book on The Excursion to date, one that firmly establishes the poem as the central text in Wordsworth’s re-imagining of British iconographic tradition and his reconfiguring of the post-revolutionary landscape.' Alison Hickey, The Review of English Studies‘Yen matches the number and complexity of Wordsworth’s local details with his own. I found the iconographical lens most productive in chapter 4, where Yen explicates a political tension within the iconography of rural cottages.’ Lawrence Evalyn, Eighteenth-Century Fiction'Yen takes a risk in downplaying the literal in Wordsworth and in locating a “new direction” not in new materials but in new modes of reading.' Lawrence Evalyn, Northeastern UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart 1: Themes and IconographyThe Excursion, Paradise Lost, and Paradise RegainedWordsworth's IconographyPart 2: EnvisioningIntroductionCastles in the AirLight and Ascent‘Speculative Height’The Wanderer's RevisitingPart 3: RootingIntroductionOak, Mountain Ash, the Liberty TreeTwo Ironic ImagesA Cosmopolitan VisionPart 4: DwellingIntroductionThe Devon Cottage and the Lakeland CottageThe Cottage of the ‘Wedded Pair’The Widower’s CottageThe ‘Cabinet for Sages Built’Part 5: Flowing and ReflectingIntroductionFlowingReflectingBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis volume of essays explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. This century saw a dramatic transition in literacy levels and in the education and language practices of the Irish population, yet the processes and full significance of these transitions remains critically under explored. This book traces how understandings of literacy and language shaped national and transnational discourses of cultural identity, and the different reading communities produced by questions of language, religion, status, education and audience. Essays are gathered under four main areas of analysis: Literacy and Bilingualism; Periodicals and their readers; Translation, transmission and transnational literacies; Visual literacies. Through these sections, the authors offer a range of understandings of the ways in which Irish readers and writers interpreted and communicated their worlds. List of contributors: Rebecca Anne Barr, Sarah-Anne Buckley, Muireann O’Cinneide, Niall Ó Ciosáin, Máire Nic an Bhaird, Liam Mac Mathúna, James Quinn, Nicola Morris, Elizabeth Tilley, Darragh Gannon, Florry O’Driscoll, Michèle Milan, Nessa Cronin and Stephanie Rains.Trade ReviewReviews ‘A cause for celebration and a strong indicator of the maturation of the field… this collection up-ends many assumptions about nineteenth-century Ireland as it grappled with literacies in both English and Irish during a century that witnessed tremendous change.’Karen Steel, Victorian Periodicals Review'The capacious key terms of Literacy, Language, and Reading allow the conceptual nets to be cast far and wide... the real contribution of this volume is the kaleidoscopic view that it both constructs and encourages.'Sean O’Toole, Victorian Studies'In addition to scholars of linguistics and language, this book will be of use to those researching the history of the book and printing in Ireland, journalism, cartography and religion. All reveal something of the social and culture life of nineteenth century Ireland.'Orla Fitzpatrick, Irish Studies ReviewTable of ContentsSection 1 Literacy and Bilingualism1 Varieties of Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland - Niall Ó Ciosáin 2 Douglas Hyde: First Steps in the Creation of a Linguist - Liam Mac Mathúna and Máire Níc BhairdSection 2 Periodicals and their Readers3 The Nation, History and the Making of a National Citizen - James Quinn4 Watchmen to the House of Israel? Irish Methodism and the Religious Press - Nicola Morris5 The Dublin Penny Journal and Alternative Histories - Elizabeth TilleySection 3 Translation, Transmission and Transnational Literacies6 Room With a View: Reading Ireland in the Irish College Old Library, Paris c. 1870-1900 - Darragh Gannon7 “May God bless you and all at home”: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Irish Views on Italy As Seen Through the Letters of Albert Delahoyde, 1860-1870 - Florry O Driscoll8 “Good Translations” or “Mental dram-drinking”? Translation and Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland - Michèle MilanSection 4 Visual Literacies9 From Dublin to Dehar Dun: Language, Translation and Mapping Ireland and India - Nessa Cronin 10 Reading the Hand: Palmistry, Graphology and Alternative Literacies - Stephanie Rains

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Book SynopsisAn enlightening, nuanced, and accessible introduction to the life and work of one of the greatest writers of short fiction in history. Anton Chekhov's stories and plays endure, far beyond the Russian context, as outstanding modern literary models. In a brief, remarkable life, Chekhov rose from lower-class, provincial roots to become a physician, leading writer, and philanthropist, all in the face of a progressive fatal disease. In this new biography, Michael C. Finke analyzes Chekhov's major stories, plays, and nonfiction in the context of his life, both fleshing out the key features of Chekhov's poetics of prose and drama and revealing key continuities across genres, as well as between his lesser-studied early writings and the later works. An excellent resource for readers new to Chekhov, this book also presents much original scholarship and is an accessible, comprehensive overview of one of the greatest modern dramatists and writers of short fiction in history.Trade Review“A crown achievement of his life-time engagement with Chekhov, Finke’s concise biography tells a compelling and comprehensive story of the Russian writer’s life and work. Written with surgical precision and creative sensitivity, this highly readable book pulsates with a multitude of insights into Chekhov as a person and an artist. Freedom from Violence and Lies will be a treasure for anyone interested in Russian literature and this great beloved writer.” -- Radislav Lapushin, Associate Professor of Russian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill“This valuable guide to the last great Russian writer of the nineteenth century achieves an exceptional balance between the life and the work. A wealth of biographical detail is harmoniously intertwined with rich analysis of Chekhov’s literary work, abounding with original and perspicacious interpretations. Chekhov’s life is studied in its two parallel streams—those of a writer’s career and of a medical professional. The latter further reveals competing lines of travail: as a practicing doctor, as a philanthropist, and as a student of the history and sociology of health care. The reader will enjoy a charming image of the writer, but also frequent, delicate reflections on the unique problems a scholar of Chekhov encounters, fascinating excavations into the deeper reaches of Chekhov’s work, and subtle commentaries on his poetics. An intellectual endeavor of considerable complexity, Finke’s book will have a distinguished place amidst the vast literature on Chekhov.” -- Savely Senderovich, Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature and Medieval Studies, Cornell University

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