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De Gruyter Bertolt Brecht and Rudyard Kipling: A Marxist's Imperialist Mentor
Table of ContentsFrontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. Collaboration, Affinity, and Original Creativity -- II. The Augsburg Years -- III. Learning from Kipling: The Lyrics -- IV. Exploiting Kipling's Prose -- V. Brecht's "Many Inventions" using Leopold Lindau's Translations -- VI. The Berlin Years -- VII. The World of "Man is Man" -- VIII. "Rudyard Brecht": The Late Twenties -- IX. Kipling in a Marxist World -- X. The Final Years -- XI. "Never the Twain shall meet"? - Conclusions -- Appendices -- Works consulted -- Index
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Zubaan Words to Win – The Making of a Modern
Book SynopsisThe first full-length autobiography in Bengali, Amar Jiban (My Life) was written in the early nineteenth century by an upper-caste rural housewife named Rashundari Debi. Published in 1868 when she was eighty-eight years old, the book is a fascinating snapshot of life for women in the nineteenth century. Debi, who gave birth to eleven children - her first was born when she was eighteen years old, the last when she was forty-one - ruminates on her very individual understanding of bhakti beliefs as well as the new times that were unfolding around her. Offering a translation of major sections of this remarkable autobiography, Words to Win is a portrait of a woman who wants to compose a life of her own, wishes to present it in the public sphere, and eventually accomplishes just that. The words, in the end, win out. First published in 1999, the book is a must-read for anyone interested in nineteenth-century Indian history. The classic text is reissued here in a new paperback format.Trade Review"Tanika Sarkar's dissection of the text-the autobiography of an upper-caste East Bengali widow from a family of landlords, who teaches herself to read and write in secrecy as it's a taboo to do so-yields a cracking yarn of social history." (Pothik Ghosh, Outlook)"
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Oxford University Press The School of Hawthorne
Book SynopsisWhere does a literary reputation originate and why are so many writers'' reputations subject to the caprices of academic or critical fashion? Basing his arguments on the tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who has survived long periods in the literary wilderness to become one of America''s most important novelists, Brodhead investigates the question of how pasts get created and distributed, and what it means to live within or without the presence of such pasts.Trade Review`Brodhead's book is a very good addition to Hawthorne criticism as well as to the theory of how literary tradition is made and remade...will be a welcomed text in graduate and major university libraries.' Choice `Richard Brodhead...proves here once again that he is a brilliant reader and a brilliant writer. In fact, one is almost inclined to distrust a prose so consistently and simultaneously dense and lucid and so studded with witty and wise phrases and sentences...The School of Hawthorne is a joy to read. But what will make it an important and enduring contribution to the study of American literature and culture is the wisdom of its argument...Richard Brodhead will become (dare one say it?) a `classic' interpreter of American literature and of its complex history.' New England Quarterly
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Oxford University Press, USA Jane Austens Emma A Casebook Casebooks in
Book SynopsisAlthough Jane Austen famously referred to Emma as a heroine whom no one but myself will much like, the irony of her remark has been obvious since the first appearance of her novel in December 1815. The central character may have attracted diverse reactions, but there can be no doubt about the endless enjoyment afforded to generations of readers. The essays in this collection demonstrate the varied delights of reading Emma. Most have been written in the last twenty years, but each draws on the cumulative body of scholarship and critical analysis that has built up since the novel was first published. The purpose of the collection is to introduce readers of Austen to new ways of interpreting her most substantial and rewarding novel. Each essay engages with Emma, but there is considerable dialogue taking place between the different approaches, which collectively contributes to the enriched readings of Austen''s work. The collection opens with an introduction encouraging readers to re-read Emma, and to find its pleasures magnified by the critical interpretations and scholarship represented in this casebook.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Fionna Stafford Acknowledgements 1: 'Opinions of Emma' collected by Jane Austen (1816) 2: Walter Scott, Unsigned review of Emma (1816) 3: Reginald Farrer, 'Jane Austen, ob. July 18, 1817' (1917) 4: Lionel Trilling, 'Emma and the Legend of Jane Austen' (1957) 5: Wayne C. Booth, 'Control of Distance in Jane Austen's Emma' (1961) 6: Claudia L. Johnson, 'Woman, lovely woman reigns alone' (1988) 7: Joseph Litvak, 'Reading Characters: Self, Society and Text in Emma' (1985) 8: John Dussinger, 'Desire: Emma in Love' (1990) 9: John Wiltshire, 'Emma: The Picture of Health' (1992) 10: Mary Waldron, 'Men of Sense and Silly Wives: The Confusion of Mr Knightley' (1999) 11: Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield, 'Filming Highbury: Reducing the Community in Emma to the Screen' (1999) 12: Gayle Wald, 'Clueless in the neo-colonial world order' (2000) 13: Brian Southam, 'Emma: England, Peace, and Patriotism' (2000) 14: Frances Ferguson, Jane Austen, Emma and the Impact of Form' (2000)
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Oxford University Press Letters Volume 6 Volume 6 18261834 Oxford Scholarly Classics
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Oxford University Press HOMES HAUNTS C Touring Writers Shrines and Countries
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Oxford University Press Romanticism
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive guide to the richness and diversity of the Romantic field. It includes 46 specially commissioned chapters by an international team of leading scholars and combines chapters offering background and contextual information with detailed readings of Romantic texts. The volume is divided into four parts - ''Romantic Orientations'', ''Reading Romanticism'', ''Romantic Forms'' and ''Romantic Afterlives''.Table of ContentsPART 1 ; ROMANTIC ORIENTATIONS ; 1. The Historical Context ; 2. The Literary Background ; 3. Classical Inheritances ; 4. Sensibility ; 5. The Visual Arts and Music ; 6. Print Culture ; 7. Romanticism and Science ; 8. Religion and Philosophy ; 9. England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland ; 10. Europe ; 11. Easts ; 12. Americas ; PART 2 ; READING ROMANTICISM ; 13. Historicist/Marxist Approaches ; 14. Feminist Approaches ; 15. Ecological Approaches ; 16. Psychoanalytic Approaches ; 17. Postcolonial Approaches ; 18. Formalist Approaches ; PART 3 ; ROMANTIC FORMS ; 19. Introduction to Romantic Forms ; 20. The Lyric ; 21. Epic ; 22. The Sonnet ; 23. Narrative Poetry ; 24. The Novel ; 25. Satire ; 26. Drama ; 27. Essays, Newspapers and Magazines ; 28. Biography and Autobiography ; 29. Romance ; 30. Gothic ; 31. Fragments ; 32. Forgeries ; 33. Non-Fictional Prose ; 34. Travel Writing ; 35. Letters, Diaries and Journals ; PART 4 ; ROMANTIC AFTERLIVES ; 36. Literary Criticism and Theory ; 37. The Poetic Tradition ; 38. The Novel ; 39. Film ; 40. Romantic Afterlives and Legacies in the Theatre ; 41. Idea of the Author ; 42. Modernism and Postmodernity ; 43. Politics ; 44. Science ; 45. Environmentalism ; 46. Romanticism in the Electronic Age
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Oxford University Press, USA Victorian Afterlives The Shaping of Influence in NineteenthCentury Literature
Book SynopsisQuestions of survival were much discussed during the nineteenth-century, ranging from debates over the likelihood of a personal immortality, to anxieties over the more dispersed and unpredictable aftermath of particular acts and utterances. Some of these questions emerged in the intellectual and stylistic preoccupations of individual writers, such as Dickens, Tennyson, and FitzGerald. Others contributed towards the cultural atmosphere they shared, in which shifty and overlapping ideas of ''influence'' (from the seductive touch of the mesmerist to the contagious breath of the poor) became central to attempts to work out how far-reaching were the effects which people had on one another and themselves.Victorian Afterlives sets out to recover this atmosphere, and to explain why its pressures are still being exercised on and in our own ways of thinking. Moving freely between different fields of enquiry (including literary criticism, philosophy, and the history of science), and written in a lively and accessible style, this major new study redraws the map of nineteenth-century culture to show what the Victorians made of one another, and what they might still help us make of ourselves.Trade ReviewReview from hardback edition ... neatly phrased, incisive commentary is a precious feature of this book: its strength lies in such observations, in the author's highly-trained discrimination as a close reader of words. * Dickens Quarterly *Review from hardback edition It is perhaps the most remarkable achievement of Victorian Afterlives that this book, whose subject seems at first so uncertain, so forced, so peculiar to itself, should emerge as a significant combination of subjects previously known. * MODERNISM/modernity *Review from previous edition This book is one of the most impressive critical analyses of nineteenth-century literary culture that I have read in a long time. A closely written and argued discussion of theories of literary influence in a nineteenth-century context, it ranges widely and makes always interesting and sometimes brilliant connections . . . This is a major work of Victorian literary criticism, and a book to be read over and over again for its myriad insights and felicities. * Tennyson Research Bulletin *Close readings unravel the manner in which "dead" voices haunt Tennyson's poetry, and the author is uncommonly sharp-eared for nuance. * Scotland on Sunday *Ambitious, delightful, frustrating, wide-ranging, often beautifully written . . . Its sheer range sets it apart from the usual academic monograph . . . refreshingly free of jargon. * Angela Leighton, Times Literary Supplement *One of the enjoyable features of Douglas-Fairhurst's writing is its commitment to close reading. He can make a word or line come alive by a turn of phrase which resonantly prolongs its momentum. * Angela Leighton, Times Literary Supplement *'Douglas-Fairhurst's excellent ear for the influential voices in the Victorian air is . . extraordinarily impressive in its demonstration of an ambitiously capacious conception of influence . . . the range of reference and allusion in the book is dizzying, . . . and the evocation of these echoing voices provides an extraordinary resonance to his discussions, especially, of Dickens' Great Expectation, Tennyson's "sympathy", and Edward FitzGerald's nostalgic savouring of the afterlives of friends and texts in memory.' * Victorian Poetry *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ; Introduction ; 1. Forms of Survival ; 2. Voices in the Air ; 3. Tennyson's Sympathy ; 4. Edward FitzGerald: Under the Influence ; Afterword ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Coleridge and the Doctors
Book SynopsisWhat did Coleridge know about medicine and how did it influence the development of his critical thought? Neil Vickers sets out to answer this question in this radical reinterpretation of Coleridge''s career between 1795 and 1806. Coleridge and the Doctors changes the way we look at Coleridge''s intellectual development and reveals the richness of his involvement in the eighteenth-century tradition of ''philosophical medicine'' and its determining influence on his critical and philosophic stance. The book also contains a revisionary analysis of Coleridge''s dealings with opiates and offers a comprehensive account of British early Romantic medicine.Trade ReviewAltogether Vicker's book is an erudite, elegantly written and utterly compelling re-assessment of Coleridge's illnesses, an indispensable contribution to our knowledge of the poet and the period. * Michael John Kooy *Some books close down the subjects they explore: they spare others the trouble of revisiting the subject for the next half-century. But some, like this one, open avenues. Not only is a wealth of medical and contemporary interpretive detail gathered here into a coherent account, but the potential of the material is fully evident and capable of rich expansion. * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"[The] refusal to simplify Colerdige's belief systems to package them prettily for students of literary criticism (for example) is one of the many strengths of this splendid book. I doubt that anyone could have compressed more matter into such a short book."--George Rousseau, Nunciusthis scrupulous study, will make a nuanced difference to future readings of Coleridge's poetry. * TLS *Anyone who reads Coleridge's letters must be struck by their graphic and elaborate diagnoses of the diverse ailments from which the poet suffered. Neil Vickers's innovation in Coleridge and the Doctors is to read such passages as medical texts in their own right, informed by Coleridge's intense engagement with philosophical medicine between 1800 and 1808. Vickers revisits Coleridge's accounts of volcanic activity in his bowels and of his attempt to manage his neuralgic pains by running around the house naked (p. 68) with a seriousness that Coleridge would appreciate: he diligently recovers the theoretical assumptions behind these and many other case histories, often reuniting the largely symptomatic accounts of the letters with contemporaneous, more philosophical passages from Coleridge's notebooks. * Noah Heringman, Studies in English Literature *Vickers's scrupulous reading of the medical theory ...illuminates the professional imperatives behind the increasingly scientific and philosophical tendencies of medicine and also establishes the role of Brunonian medicine in directing Coleridge's attention to German Idealism. Vickers's analysis successfully balances recent accounts of Coleridge as a "secret materialist" with an emphasis on the "mentalist" influence of Beddoes beginning in 1803. Beddoes, too, alerted Coleridge to the possibility that a patient's journal could function as both case history and therapy, an insight that dovetails nicely with Caldwell's account of medical narrative. * Noah Heringman, Studies in English Literature *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; CONCLUSION
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