Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
Cambridge University Press Literature Science and Public Policy
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Cambridge University Press NineteenthCentury Literature in Transition The 1830s
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Cambridge University Press Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom
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Cambridge University Press Scale Crisis and the Modern Novel
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Cambridge University Press Sound and Sense in British Romanticism
Book SynopsisThis unparalleled exploration reveals how understandings of sound shifted and multiplied in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on literary studies, musicology and history, and interrogating how writers of this period thought with and through sound, this book opens up a new chapter in the history of the senses.Table of Contents1. William Hogarth: looking and listening for a painting Lydia Goehr; 2. Collecting ballads, historicizing sounds: appropriating Scottish national music in the eighteenth century Maria Semi; 3. Realising The Enraged Musician Oskar Cox Jensen; 4. 'A strange jingle of sounds': scenes of aural recognition in early nineteenth-century English literature Josephine McDonagh; 5. The sound of news: affective rhythm, rupture, and nostalgia William Tullett; 6. The resounding fame of Fingal's Cave Jonathan Hicks; 7. Echoing sounds: what was poetry for Gilbert White? Courtney Weiss Smith; 8. Mary Somerville's sound accomplishments: scientific writing and the sonorous sublime Katherine Fry; 9. Organizing modernity: Henry Liston's euharmonic organ and natural tuning in Company India Daniel Walden; 10. Stethoscopic fantasies Melissa Dickson.
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Cambridge University Press Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire
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Cambridge University Press Late Romanticism and the End of Politics
Book SynopsisThis study invites researchers of Romantic literature and literary and political culture to consider how this period's imaginings of the end of the world shaped thinking about politics and political change. Its highly original arguments on this current theme will interest students of political thought, affect theory, and ecocriticism.Table of Contents1. The end of politics and the end of the world; 2. The last Whigs; 3. Byron, Brougham, and the end of slavery; 4. 'Crowns in the Dust': the ends of politics in The Last Man; 5. New worlds: Frankenstein, The Island, and the ends of the earth.
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Cambridge University Press NineteenthCentury Literature in Transition The 1810s
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Cambridge University Press Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel
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Cambridge University Press Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the NineteenthCentury British Novel
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Cambridge University Press The New NineteenthCentury American Literary
Book SynopsisThe New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies takes stock of critical developments over the past twenty years, offering a fresh examination of key interpretative issues in this field. In eclectic fashion, it presents a wide range of new approaches in such areas as print and material culture, Black studies, Latinx studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, postsecular studies, and Indigenous studies. This volume also maps out new directions for the future of the field. The evidence and examples discussed by the contributors are compelling, grounded in case studies of key literary texts, both familiar and understudied, that help to bring critical debate into focus and model fresh interpretive perspectives. Essays provide new readings and framings of such figures as Herman Melville, Harriet Wilson, Charles Chesnutt, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, and Zitkála-?á.
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Cambridge University Press Black Women and Energies of Resistance in NineteenthCentury Haitian and American Literature
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Cambridge University Press Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism
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Cambridge University Press Henry James and the Promise of Fiction
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Cambridge University Press The Art of Uncertainty
Book SynopsisDaniel Williams reveals how George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, William Thackeray, Thomas Hardy, and Joseph Conrad drew on science, mathematics, philosophy, and the law to cultivate responses to uncertainty as intellectual and cultural concern, and how they both participated in and resisted the ideas of a profoundly numerical age.
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Cambridge University Press Temporal Forms and the NineteenthCentury Mediterranean
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Cambridge University Press Modernism and Finance Capital
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Cambridge University Press Mudies Select Library and the Shelf Life of the NineteenthCentury Novel
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Cambridge University Press Dickens and the Gothic
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Cambridge University Press The Portrait of a Lady
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Cambridge University Press The Sacred Fount
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Cambridge University Press William James and Literary Studies
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Cambridge University Press The Prefaces
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Cambridge University Press Tales of Unrest The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad
Book SynopsisThe five stories brought together in Tales of Unrest (1898) mark a turning point in the writer's career. Conrad's first short story collection evidences a writer firmly in control of his new craft staking a claim to diverse cultural and fictional territories. The introduction situates the writing of these stories in Conrad's career and discusses their sources and contemporary reception. The explanatory notes identify literary and historical references and real-life places, and indicate influences. Two maps and six illustrations enrich the explanatory matter. The essay on the text lays out the history of the work's composition and publication, details interventions by Conrad's typists, compositors and editors, and explains editorial policy. This edition, established through modern textual scholarship, presents Conrad's stories and his preface to the collection in forms more authoritative than any so far printed.Trade Review'This latest instalment in the Cambridge edition of Conrad's collected works, edited by Allan H. Simmons and J. H. Stape, aims to recover an experience of reading Conrad stripped of the interventions that produced the texts with which we are now familiar … Conrad studies today, much like Conrad's career then, are in vital, vibrant form.' Andrew Purssell, English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920Table of ContentsGeneral editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Introduction; Tales of Unrest: Author's note; 'Karain: A Memory'; 'The Idiots'; 'An Outpost of Progress'; 'The Return'; 'The Lagoon'; The texts: an essay; Apparatus; Appendices; Explanatory notes.
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Cambridge University Press Edgar Allan Poe in Context Literature in Context
Book SynopsisEdgar Allan Poe mastered a variety of literary forms over the course of his brief and turbulent career. As a storyteller, Poe defied convention by creating Gothic tales of mystery, horror and suspense that remain widely popular today. This collection demonstrates how Poe's experience of early nineteenth-century American life fueled his iconoclasm and shaped his literary legacy. Rather than provide critical explications of his writings, each essay explores one aspect of Poe's immediate environment, using pertinent writings - verse, fiction, reviews and essays - to suit. Examining his geographical, social and literary contexts, as well as those created by the publishing industry and advances in science and technology, the essays paint an unprecedented portrait of Poe's life and times. Written for a wide audience, the collection will offer scholars and students of American literature, historians and general readers new insight into Poe's rich and complex work.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Part I. Geographical Contexts: 1. Great Britain Christopher Gair; 2. The south James Hutchisson; 3. The American west Nathaniel Lewis; 4. The sea David Dowling; 5. France Andrea Goulet; 6. The Near East Travis Montgomery; 7. The polar regions Mark Canada; Part II. Social Contexts: 8. The urban environment Bran Nicol; 9. Curiosity Lindsey Hursh; 10. Alcohol, addiction, and rehabilitation Paul Fisher; 11. Fashion, furnishings, and style Patricia A. Cunningham; 12. The American stage Philip E. Phillips; 13. Lions and bluestockings Anne Boyd Rioux; 14. Slavery and abolitionism Paul Christian Jones; 15. The cult of mourning Therese M. Rizzo; Part III. The Contexts of Publishing: 16. The literary profession John Evelev; 17. Magazines Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock; 18. Gift books Kathryn K. Shinn; 19. Literary piracy Michael Everton; 20. The art of reviewing Jonathan Hartmann; 21. The politics of publishing Amy Branam; Part IV. Literary Contexts: 22. Ancient classics Gregory Hays; 23. Rabelais and Lesage Lois Davis Vines; 24. The Gothic movement Alan Brown; 25. Byron Chris Beyers; 26. Folk narrative Katherine Kim; 27. Transcendentalism Heidi Silcox; 28. Charles Dickens Tara Moore; 29. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the art of the tale Meghan A. Freeman; Part V. Scientific and Pseudoscientific Contexts: 30. Phrenology Brett Zimmerman; 31. Photography Satwik Dasgupta; 32. Mesmerism Bruce Mills; 33. Architecture Alvin Holm; 34. Fiction science Peter Swirski; 35. Cosmology and cosmogony Jonathan Taylor; 36. Forensic science Benjamin F. Fisher; 37. Technology John Tresch; Further reading.
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Cambridge University Press Emily Dickinson in Context Literature in Context
Book SynopsisLong untouched by contemporary events, ideas and environments, Emily Dickinson's writings have been the subject of intense historical research in recent years. This volume of thirty-three essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive introduction to the contexts most important for the study of Dickinson's writings. While providing an overview of their topic, the essays also present groundbreaking research and original arguments, treating the poet's local environments, literary influences, social, cultural, political and intellectual contexts, and reception. A resource for scholars and students of American literature and poetry in English, the collection is an indispensable contribution to the study not only of Dickinson's writings but also of the contexts for poetic production and circulation more generally in the nineteenth-century United States.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments and note on the text; List of abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction Eliza Richards; Part I. Local Environments: 1. Amherst Domhnall Mitchell; 2. Reading in the Dickinson libraries Eleanor Elson Heginbotham; 3. Education Angela Sorby; 4. New England Puritan heritage Jane Donahue Eberwein; 5. Nature's influence Margaret H. Freeman; Part II. Literary Contexts: Sources, Influences, Intertextual Engagements: 6. The Bible Emily Seelbinder; 7. Shakespeare Páraic Finnerty; 8. Renaissance and eighteenth-century literature David Cody; 9. British Romantic and Victorian influences Elizabeth Petrino; 10. Transatlantic women writers Páraic Finnerty; 11. Immediate US literary predecessors Cristanne Miller; 12. US literary contemporaries: Dickinson's moderns Mary Loeffelholz; 13. Periodical reading Joan Kirkby; Part III. Social, Cultural, Political, and Intellectual Contexts: 14. Religion James McIntosh; 15. Death and immortality Joan Kirkby; 16. Gendered poetics Shira Wolosky; 17. Democratic politics Paul Crumbley; 18. Economics Elizabeth Hewitt; 19. Law and legal discourse James Guthrie; 20. Slavery and the Civil War Faith Barrett; 21. Popular culture Sandra Runzo; 22. Visual arts: the Pentimento Alexander Nemerov; 23. Natural sciences Sabine Sielke; 24. Nineteenth-century language theory and the manuscript variants Melanie Hubbard; 25. 'Say some philosopher!' Jed Deppman; Part IV. Reception: 26. Editorial history I: beginnings to 1955 Martha Nell Smith; 27. Editorial history II: 1955 to the present Alexandra Socarides; 28. On materiality (and virtuality) Gabrielle Dean; 29. The letters archive Cindy MacKenzie; 30. Critical history I: 1890 to 1955 Theo Davis; 31. Critical history II: 1955 to the present Magdalena Zapedowska; 32. Dickinson's influence Thomas Gardner; 33. Translation and international reception Domhnall Mitchell; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Ralph Waldo Emerson in Context
Book SynopsisComprising thirty-two fresh essays and a detailed chronology, this collection presents Ralph Waldo Emerson in the philosophical, aesthetic, theological, scientific, familial, social and political contexts in which he thought and wrote, and surveys the popular and critical reception that made him a complex national and international icon.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; Chronology Sterling F. Delano; Part I. Emerson and a Sense of Place(s): 1. Boston and Concord Jacob Risinger; 2. America Roger Thompson; 3. Britain Wesley T. Mott; 4. Europe Jan Stievermann; 5. Asia Alan Hodder; 6. Travel Jason Berger; Part II. Emerson and Ideas: 'The Wide World': 7. Reading Jennifer Gurley; 8. Literature Albert J. von Frank; 9. Poetry and poetics Saundra Morris; 10. Nature David Greenham; 11. Divinity David M. Robinson; 12. Human mind Kristin Boudreau; 13. History Neal Dolan; 14. Democracy Daniel S. Malachuk; 15. Revolution Daniel Koch; 16. Science and technology Jennifer J. Baker; Part III. Emerson and Society: 'Hodiernal Circles': 17. Life against death Ronald A. Bosco; 18. Family Noelle Baker; 19. Friendship John Lysaker; 20. Ethics Susan L. Dunston; 21. Clubs Alfred G. Litton; 22. Gender Leslie Elizabeth Eckel; 23. Race Len Gougeon; 24. Reform Todd H. Richardson; 25. Money Joel Myerson; 26. Publishers David O. Dowling; Part IV. Emerson and his Legacies: From Infidel to Icon: 27. Portraits Leslie Perrin Wilson; 28. Fame Bonnie Carr O'Neill; 29. Biography Robert D. Habich; 30. Critics: 1836–1948 Glen M. Johnson; 31. Critics: 1948–2013 Randall Fuller; 32. A national icon Jillmarie Murphy; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Forging Romantic China
Book SynopsisFocusing on the literary and historical relations between Britain and China during the Romantic period and based on extensive archival investigations, this book shows how British knowledge was constructed from the writings and translations of a diverse range of missionaries, diplomats, travellers, traders, and literary men and women.Trade Review'[A] detailed study.' Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Thomas Percy and the forging of Romantic China; 2. 'A wonderful stateliness': William Jones, Joshua Marshman, and the Bengal School of Sinology; 3. 'They thought that Jesus and Confucius were alike': Robert Morrison, Malacca, and the missionary reading of China; 4. 'Fruits of the highest culture may be improved and varied by foreign grafts': the Canton School of Romantic Sinology: Staunton and Davis; 5. Establishing the 'Great Divide': scientific exchange and the Macartney Embassy; 6. 'You will be taking a trip into China, I suppose': kowtows, tea cups, and the evasions of British Romantic writing on China; 7. Chinese gardens, Confucius, and the prelude; 8. 'Not a bit like the Chinese figures that adorn our chimney-pieces': orphans and travellers: China on stage; Bibliography.
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Peking University Press (PUP) The Development of Chinese Martial Arts Fiction A History of Wuxia Literature The Cambridge China Library
Book SynopsisChen Pingyuan is one of the leading scholars of modern Chinese literature, known particularly for his work on wuxia, a popular and influential genre of historical martial arts fiction still celebrated around the world today. This work, presented here in English translation for the first time, is considered to be the seminal work on the evolution, aesthetics and politics of the modern Chinese wuxia novel in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tracing the resurgence of interest in classical chivalric tales in China.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Wuxia novels and me; 1. The Xiake dream of the literati through the ages; 2. Haoxia stories of the Tang and Song dynasties; 3. Xiayi novels of the Qing dynasty; 4. Twentieth-century Wuxia novels; 5. Carrying a sword and doing Xiake deeds; 6. Sweet revenge; 7. The smiling proud Xiake; 8. Roving to the ends of the world; 9. Wuxia novels as a literary genre; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press NineteenthCentury American Literature and the Long Civil War 174 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 174
Book SynopsisAmerican literature in the nineteenth century is often divided into two asymmetrical halves, neatly separated by the Civil War. In Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War, Cody Marrs argues that the war is a far more elastic boundary for literary history than has frequently been assumed. Focusing on the later writings of Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson, this book shows how the war took imaginative shape across, and even beyond, the nineteenth century, inflecting literary forms and expressions for decades after 1865. These writers, Marrs demonstrates, are best understood not as antebellum or postbellum figures but as transbellum authors who cipher their later experiences through their wartime impressions and prewar ideals. This book is a bold, revisionary contribution to debates about temporality, periodization, and the shape of American literary history.Table of Contents1. Walt Whitman's dialectics; 2. Frederick Douglass's revisions; 3. Herman Melville's Civil Wars; 4. Emily Dickinson's erasures.
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Cambridge University Press George Eliots Intellectual Life
Book SynopsisGeorge Eliot's intelligence and her wide knowledge of history, literature, philosophy and political thought shaped her fiction and her non-fiction. This intellectual biography tells the story of her development from her initial Christian culture towards a humanistic and progressive world view which informed her crowning literary achievements.Trade Review"One strength of the book is that it returns to some of Eliot's essays, attending not only to the points that have been central to recent critical discussion, but also drawing out elements that have been overlooked." --Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The 'evangelical': starting out in a Christian culture; 2. The apostate: moving beyond the Christian mythos; 3. The journalist: editing, reviewing, shaping a worldview; 4. The Germanist: balancing the counterweight of German thinkers; 5. The novelist: mixing realism, naturalism and myth-making; 6. The historian: tracking the idealistic - utopian and national - in Romola and The Spanish Gypsy; 7. The 'radical': taking an anti-political stance in Felix Holt; 8. The encyclopaedist: transcending the past in Middlemarch; 9. The visionary: transmitting ideals in Daniel Deronda; 10. The intellectual: cultural critique in Impressions of Theophrastus Such; Works cited; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Virginia Woolf and the Victorians
Book SynopsisCriticism of Woolf is often polarised into viewing her work as either fundamentally progressive or reactionary. In Virginia Woolf and the Victorians, first published in 2007, Steve Ellis tracks Woolf's response to the Victorian era through her fiction and other writings, arguing that Woolf can be seen as more 'Post-Victorian' than 'modernist'.Trade Review'There is … a fascinating and thought-provoking examination, recurring throughout the book, of light and shadow in her work.' Virginia Woolf Bulletin'… refreshingly unassuming, accessible style, Virginia Woolf and the Victorians is really a grand sweep of a book, a comprehensive and evolutionary look at the ambivalent response to the Victorian period contained in Woolf's fiction, essays, letters and diaries. … Ellis convincingly argues for a new and more balanced evaluation of the Woolfian retrospect as 'a complex relationship of difference and debt'.' Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen'… Virginia Woolf and the Victorians contains much of genuine interest to neo-Victorian researchers, as well as scholars of Woolf and Modernism.' Marie-Luise Kohlk, Swansea University'The conclusion of this study, which is both well referenced and carefully considered, is that Virginia Woolf's 'deep sense of the unchanging' overshadows her commitment to the modern.' Contemporary Review'… an extremely well thought out, provoking and highly scholarly study …' Cuadernos de Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana'… helpful, suggestive, and important study … a keystone text in Virginia Woolf's lifelong fascination with her Victorian inheritance.' Woolf Studies AnnualTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Reclamation: Night and Day; 2. Synchronicity: Mrs Dalloway; 3. Integration: To the Lighthouse; 4. Disillusion: The Years; 5. Incoherence: the final works; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Crimean War in the British Imagination 68 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 68
Book SynopsisThe Crimean War (1854â6) was the first to be fought in the era of modern communications, and it had a profound influence on British literary culture, bringing about significant shifts in perceptions of heroism and national identity. In this book, Stefanie Markovits explores how mid-Victorian writers and artists reacted to an unpopular war: one in which home-front reaction was conditioned by an unprecedented barrage of information arriving from the front. This history had formal consequences. How does patriotic poetry translate the blunders of the Crimea into verse? How does the shape of literary heroism adjust to a war that produced not only heroes but a heroine, Florence Nightingale? How does the predominant mode of journalism affect artistic representations of 'the real'? By looking at the journalism, novels, poetry, and visual art produced in response to the war, Stefanie Markovits demonstrates the tremendous cultural force of this relatively short conflict.Trade Review'… [an] imaginative and thought-provoking study …' Contemporary ReviewTable of ContentsPreface: the blossom of war; A brief history of the war: Part I. Rushing into Print: Journalism and the Crimean War: 1. 'The Times war'; 2. 'Mr. Russell's 'war''; 3. 'The people's war'; Part II. From Amyas Leigh to Aurora Leigh: Gender and Heroism in the Novels of the Crimean War: 1. Eastward ho?: the Kingsleys, the Crimean War, and the novel; 2. From East and West to North and South; 3. 'Heroic womanhood'; Part III. 'The Song that Nerves a Nation's Heart': The Poetry of The Crimean War: 1. The poetic (battle-) field; 2. Giving voice to the war: Tennyson's Charge and Maud's battle-song; Part IV. Painters of Modern Life: (Re)mediating the Crimean War in the Art of John Leech and John Everett Millais: 1. 'Nothing like knowing the country'; 2. Playing at war; 3. Peace concluded?; Afterword: Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler, the roll call, and the afterlife of the Crimean War.
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Cambridge University Press Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity
Book SynopsisClara Tuite explores Lord Byron's life and work, his public image and the reception of his writings through the idea of scandalous celebrity. Tuite analyses Byron's role in the literary, political and sexual scandals that mark the Regency as a vital period of social transition and emergent celebrity culture.Trade Review'Tuite traces the human relationships involved in the manufacture of a popular (or unpopular) idol […] bringing her expertise as a Jane Austen scholar into sophisticated decodings of social space.' Jane Stabler, Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsPrologue: proverbially notorious; Introduction: the meteor's milieu; Part I. Worldlings: 1. Caroline Lamb, more like a beast; 2. Stendhal, on his knees; 3. Napoleon, that fallen star; 4. Bloody Castlereagh; Part II. Writings: 5. Childe Harold IV and the pageant of his bleeding heart; 6. Don Juan: the life and work of infamous poems; Part III. After-Warriors: 7. Byron's Head and the pirate sphere; Epilogue: you may be devil; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Modernism and Naturalism in British and Irish Fiction 18801930
Book SynopsisIn this volume, Simon Joyce examines the ways in which readers have come to view canonical modernists such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, showing how their work might be read in conjunction with lesser-known Irish and 'New Woman' novelists such as George Moore, Sarah Grand, and George Egerton.Table of Contents1. How Zola crossed (and didn't cross) the English Channel; 2. Portraits and artists: impressionism and naturalism; 3. A naturalism for Ireland; 4. Proto-sensitivity: naturalism, aestheticism, and the New Woman novel; 5. The voice of witlessness: Virginia Woolf and the poor.
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Cambridge University Press The Child Reader 17001840
Book SynopsisPioneering exciting methodologies, in this book Grenby looks at the first users of the new children's literature that developed in the eighteenth century. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of reading, of childhood, and of children's literature.Trade Review'Fascinating … [a] very readable scholarly work.' The Herald'For the specialist, it is an original and scholarly resource; for the non-specialist, it is an intriguing and often entertaining piece of detective work.' Carousel'Grenby's focus on the traces revealing how children actually used their books provides an astute counterbalance to current approaches to imagining the child reader.' Times Higher Education Supplement'A wonderful book - and beautifully produced … a very important contribution to children's literature, the history of the book, and the history of reading … it's certainly the kind of book which scholars in the field will want to buy … but also some dissertation students in literature and history.' Helen Rogers'… a welcome and long-awaited contribution to the historical study of children's literature. [This] thoroughly researched volume demonstrates that it is essential to extend the horizon of children's literature studies, endorsing a more decidedly cultural studies approach which considers all actors in the literary field.' Anja Müller, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik'Grenby's study marks a turning point in children's literature scholarship.' SharpTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Owners; 3. Books; 4. Acquisition; 5. Use; 6. Attitudes; 7. Conclusions; Select bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Henry James in Context
Book SynopsisDesigned as a contextual and critical resource for scholars and students, this volume's 42 essays examine novelist Henry James (18431916) and his fiction in the context of the history, sociology, and aesthetic and material culture of modernity.Trade Review'Not only a sober, practical guide to the requirements of James studies in the twenty-first century, Henry James in Context also displays abundant examples of elegant writing, trenchant reading, and playful thinking.' Dennis Flannery, The Henry James ReviewTable of ContentsPreface; Chronology Christopher Carmona; Part I. Life and Career, Times and Places: 1. Nineteenth-century America (1843–70) Andrew Taylor; 2. Nineteenth-century Europe (1843–1900) Millicent Bell; 3. Victorian England (1870–90) Priscilla L. Walton; 4. Fin-de-siècle London (1890–1900) Michael Levenson; 5. The twentieth-century world (1901–16) Martha Banta; 6. Autobiographies and biographies Sheila Teahan; 7. Letters and notebooks Philip Horne; 8. The James family Pierre A. Walker; Part II. Historical and Cultural Contexts: 9. Aestheticism and decadence Michèle Mendelssohn; 10. Authorship Richard Salmon; 11. Children Kevin Ohi; 12. Consumer culture Miranda El-Rayess; 13. Cosmopolitanism Jessica Berman; 14. Courtship, marriage, family Lynn Wardley; 15. Ethics Merle A. Williams; 16. Language Elsa Nettels; 17. Law Stuart Culver; 18. Manners Mary Ann O'Farrell; 19. Media and communication technologies Mark Goble; 20. Modernism Eric Haralson; 21. Money and class June Hee Chung; 22. Museums and exhibitions Tamara L. Follini; 23. Nationalism and imperialism John Carlos Rowe; 24. Print culture Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen; 25. Psychology Sarah Blackwood; 26. Race Kenneth W. Warren; 27. Realism and naturalism Phillip Barrish; 28. Sexualities and sexology Hugh Stevens; 29. Social sciences and the disciplines Wendy Graham; 30. Things Victoria Coulson; 31. Time Deidre Lynch; 32. Travel and tourism Roslyn Jolly; 33. Urbanity Eric Savoy; 34. Visual culture Kendall Johnson; 35. Women and men Donatella Izzo; 36. Work Rory Drummond; Part III. Reception: 37. Publishing history and contemporary reception Linda Simon; 38. Critical response, 1916–47 Michael Anesko; 39. Critical response, 1947–85 Jonathan Freedman; 40. Recent criticism (since 1985) Gert Buelens; 41. Translation and international reception Annick Duperray and Jeremy Tambling; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisIn the nineteenth century, Shakespeare achieved the status of international pre-eminence that we recognise today. He and his major characters were depicted in statues, paintings and illustrations, and in Stratford-upon-Avon the house where he was born was purchased for the nation and the first Memorial Theatre was built. His words were read, quoted and declaimed in domestic drawing rooms and theatres all around the world, as well as in the works of the leading writers of the day, in intimate love letters and in the pages of radical newspapers. As these new essays show, his was a voice that resonated tellingly throughout the century's cultural, political and literary arenas. The unique reference guide also shows just how popular he was in a number of London theatres and how integral a part he played in the publishing industry of the day and in the burgeoning field of literary criticism.Trade Review'… gives excellent coverage of many aspects of the reception, treatment, dramatisation and proliferation of attention given to the Shakespearean corpus in the nineteenth century … it includes a reference guide to nineteenth works about Shakespeare, play publication and an invaluable guide to performances of Shakespeare's plays in nineteenth century London. It contains an extensive bibliography, and Gail Marshall provides a very useful introduction … Anyone seeking to understand the complex nature of the social and intellectual life of the nineteenth century needs to take into account the popularity and esteem afforded to Shakespeare and his dramatic works through all segments of society. This excellent selection of essays assists in addressing that need. Each contribution is well researched, lucid and full of insights concerning the inescapable influence of England's greatest playwright. Collectively, they provide an extremely valuable resource for all readers with an interest in this period.' The Glass'… the significance of the collection lies in the varied approaches it opens for a scholar new to the territory. …Marshall's authors animate familiar narratives with lively details … But the volume is at its best in resisting received wisdom about 'Victorian Values' …' Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Gail Marshall; 1. Shakespeare editions Christopher Decker; 2. Shakespeare criticism Mark Hollingsworth; 3. Shakespeare in the periodicals Kathryn Prince; 4. Shakespeare our (nineteenth-century) contemporary Russell Jackson; 5. Shakespeare and nineteenth-century fiction Gail Marshall; 6. Shakespeare and nineteenth-century poetry Philip Shaw and Gail Marshall; 7. Shakespeare and drama David Taylor; 8. Shakespeare in London Russell Jackson; 9. Shakespeare in the provinces Richard Foulkes; 10. Shakespeare and music Julie Sanders; 11. Women and Shakespeare Georgianna Ziegler; 12. Shakespeare and politics William Greenslade; 13. Shakespeare and commercialism Julia Thomas; 14. Shakespeare and the visual arts Stuart Sillars; 15. Shakespeare in Europe John Stokes; 16. Shakespeare and Germany Frederick Burwick; 17. Shakespeare in America's Gilded Age Virginia Mason Vaughan; Reference guide: performances of Shakespeare's plays in nineteenth-century London Janice Norwood; Nineteenth-century works about Shakespeare: criticism, editions, reference works, biographies, play publication by year Mark Hollingsworth; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Bronts in Context Literature in Context
Book SynopsisVery few families produce one outstanding writer. The Brontà family produced three. The works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne remain immensely popular, and are increasingly being studied in relation to the surroundings and wider context that formed them. The forty-two new essays in this book tell 'the Brontà story' as it has never been told before, drawing on the latest research and the best available scholarship while offering new perspectives on the writings of the sisters. A section on Brontà criticism traces their reception to the present day. The works of the sisters are explored in the context of social, political and cultural developments in early-nineteenth-century Britain, with attention given to religion, education, art, print culture, agriculture, law and medicine. Crammed with information, The BrontÃs in Context shows how the BrontÃs' fiction interacts with the spirit of the time, suggesting reasons for its enduring fascination.Trade Review'General readers will enjoy it as much as Brontë students and fans, and its careful avoidance of anything too topical or controversial will keep it fresh for years. Thormählen's high quality contributors, assembly of reliable facts and data, pertinent commentary, maps, illustrations, splendid chronology and further reading lists make it everything that one could wish for.' Claire Harman, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsChronology; Introduction Marianne Thormählen; Part I. Places, Persons and Publishing: 1. Haworth in the time of the Brontës Michael Baumber; 2. Domestic life at Haworth Parsonage Ann Dinsdale; 3. Northern-England locations associated with the Brontës' lives and works Ann Dinsdale; 4. The father of the Brontës Dudley Green; 5. A mother and her substitutes: Maria Brontë (née Branwell), Elizabeth Branwell and Margaret Wooler Bob Duckett; 6. Patrick Branwell Brontë Victor A. Neufeldt; 7. Charlotte Brontë Dinah Birch; 8. Emily Brontë Lyn Pykett; 9. Anne Brontë Maria Frawley; 10. Friends, servants and a husband Stephen Whitehead; 11. The Brontës' sibling bonds Drew Lamonica Arms; 12. Juvenilia Christine Alexander; 13. The Brussels experience Sue Lonoff; 14. The Brontë correspondence Margaret Smith; 15. Portraits of the Brontës Jane Sellars; 16. The poetry of the Brontës Janet Gezari; 17. Literary influences on the Brontës Sara J. Lodge; 18. The Brontës' way into print Linda H. Peterson; 19. Reading the Brontës: their first audiences Stephen Colclough; Part II. Scholarship, Criticism, Adaptations and Translations: 20. Brontë biography: a survey of a genre Tom Winnifrith; 21. Mid-nineteenth-century critical responses to the Brontës Miriam Elizabeth Burstein; 22. Brontë scholarship and criticism, 1920–70 Herbert Rosengarten; 23. Brontë scholarship and criticism, approx. 1970–2000 Sara J. Lodge; 24. Current trends in Brontë criticism and scholarship Alexandra Lewis; 25. Adaptations, prequels, sequels, translations Patsy Stoneman; Part III. Historical and Cultural Contexts: 26. Religion David Jasper; 27. The philosophical-intellectual context Stephen Prickett; 28. Education Dinah Birch; 29. Art and music Christine Alexander; 30. Natural history Barbara T. Gates; 31. Politics Simon Avery; 32. Newspapers and magazines Joanne Shattock; 33. Agriculture and industry Marianne Thormählen with Steven Wood; 34. Transport and travel Edward Chitham; 35. Law Ian Ward; 36. Class Elizabeth Langland; 37. Careers for middle-class women Elizabeth Langland; 38. Marriage and family life Marianne Thormählen; 39. Dress Birgitta Berglund; 40. Sexuality Jill L. Matus; 41. Physical health Janis McLarren Caldwell; 42. Mental health Janis McLarren Caldwell; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Selected Critical Studies of Baudelaire
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1949, this book contains the French text of various essays by Charles Baudelaire. The essays cover a range of topics, from Edgar Allen Poe to Delacroix and Madame Bovary, and the majority are taken from Baudelaire's 1868 publication L'art romantique.Table of ContentsForeword; Introduction; 1. Pierre Dupont; 2. Les drames et les romans honnêtes; 3. L'ecole païenne; 4. Edgar Allan Poe, sa vie, et ses oeuvres; 5. Notes nouvelles sur Edgar Poe; 6. Madame Bovary par Gustave Flaubert; 7. Théophile Gautier; 8. Le peintre de la vie moderne; 9. Richard Wagner et Tannhäuser à Paris; 10. Victor Hugo; 11. Pétrus Borel; 12. Auguste Barbier; 13. Théodore de Banville; 14. Les martyrs ridicules; 15. L'oeuvre et la vie d'Eugène Delacroix.
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Cambridge University Press The Poetry of Victorian Scientists Style Science and Nonsense Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture
Book SynopsisA surprising number of Victorian scientists wrote poetry. Many came to science as children through such games as the spinning-top, soap-bubbles and mathematical puzzles, and this playfulness carried through to both their professional work and writing of lyrical and satirical verse. This is the first study of an oddly neglected body of work that offers a unique record of the nature and cultures of Victorian science. Such figures as the physicist James Clerk Maxwell toy with ideas of nonsense, as through their poetry they strive to delineate the boundaries of the new professional science and discover the nature of scientific creativity. Also considering Edward Lear, Daniel Brown finds the Victorian renaissances in research science and nonsense literature to be curiously interrelated. Whereas science and literature studies have mostly focused upon canonical literary figures, this original and important book conversely explores the uses literature was put to by eminent Victorian scientistsTrade Review'… provides fresh perspectives on, and a thorough engagement with, the wider scientific and literary culture of the era … it is likely to become a standard point of departure for those studying the poetry of that most remarkable and multifaceted of Victorian natural philosophers, James Clerk Maxwell.' London Mathematical Society Newsletter'… does for verse what Beer's Darwin Plots (1983) did for the novel, and reveals, often compellingly, how poetry and poetics were crucial components of the working practices and intellectual activities of many of the most influential men of science in the second half of the nineteenth century … a stimulating and fascinating book.' Gowan Dawson, Journal of Victorian Culture'Daniel Brown's highly original and stimulating new book shows us that poetry mattered to Victorian scientists … Brown's scholarship is intense and impressive.' John Holmes, University of Reading'The book argues persuasively for the importance of poetry to a number of Victorian scientific figures … The Poetry of Victorian Scientists does valuable work in mapping and contextualizing the various poetic writings of these figures, and it represents a major contribution to scholarship on poetry by 19th-century scientists.' Gregory Tate, The Review of English StudiesTable of Contents1. Professionals and amateurs, work and play: William Rowan Hamilton, Edward Lear and James Clerk Maxwell; 2. Edinburgh natural philosophy and Cambridge mathematics; 3. Knowing more than you think: James Clerk Maxwell on puns, analogies and dreams; 4. Red Lions: Edward Forbes and James Clerk Maxwell; 5. Popular science lectures: 'A Tyndallic Ode'; 6. John Tyndall and 'The Scientific Use of the Imagination'; 7. 'Molecular Evolution': Maxwell, Tyndall and Lucretius; 8. James Joseph Sylvester: the romance of space; 9. James Joseph Sylvester: the calculus of forms; 10. Science on Parnassus; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press John Clare and Community 96 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 96
Book SynopsisJohn Clare (1793â1864) is one of the most sensitive poetic observers of the natural world. Born into a rural labouring family, he felt connected to two communities: his native village and the Romantic and earlier poets who inspired him. The first part of this study of Clare and community shows how Clare absorbed and responded to his reading of a selection of poets including Chatterton, Bloomfield, Gray and Keats, revealing just how serious the process of self-education was to his development. The second part shows how he combined this reading with the oral folk-culture he was steeped in, to create an unrivalled poetic record of a rural culture during the period of enclosure, and the painful transition to the modern world. In his lifelong engagement with rural and literary life, Clare understood the limitations as well as the strengths in communities, the pleasures as well as the horrors of isolation.Trade Review'Adds yet another joyous dimension to this endlessly fascinating character.' The Times Literary Supplement'Goodridge's long-awaited study represents another milestone in the critical understanding and reception of Clare's poetry … Simply put, there is no better reader of Clare alive today. Not only does Goodridge know the poetry as intimately as the editors of the monumental Oxford English Texts edition, but he also has the richest and most astute sense of the broader literary and socio-cultural milieu in which Clare wrote and to which Clare responded.' European Romantic ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Clare and community; Part I. Brother Bards and Fellow Labourers: 1. Great expectations: Clare, Chatterton and becoming a poet; 2. 'Three cheers for mute ingloriousness!': Clare and eighteenth-century poetry; 3. Junkets and Clarissimus: the Clare–Keats dialogue; 4. 'Neighbour John': Bloomfield, companionship and isolation; Part II. Representing Rural Life: 5. Enclosure and the poetry of protest; 6. The bird's nest poems, protection and violation; 7. Festive ritual and folk narrative; 8. Storytellings: 'old womens memorys'; Conclusion: community and solitude; Works consulted; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Britain France and the Gothic 17641820
Book SynopsisAngela Wright sheds new light upon the genesis of the Gothic, examining the roles translation and military conflict played in its development in Britain. The author combines contextual and literary perspectives to situate the Gothic in relation to the Seven Years' War, the French Revolution and the Treaty of Amiens.Trade Review'Contributes to a far more nuanced understanding of the politics of the genre.' The Times Literary Supplement'Wright's elegantly written volume offers original perspectives and insights at every turn … Consistently and convincingly argued throughout, Britain, France and the Gothic avoids the pitfalls of unspecified 'influences' and general similarities. Instead it maps channels of contact, borrowing, adaptation, rewriting and translation in order to demonstrate how Gothic fully participated in the many networks of Franco-British cultural exchange between the Seven Years' War and the post-Napoleonic era. A crucial contribution to studies of Gothic and the cross-cultural dimensions of British Romanticism, Wright's book is set to change how we study and discuss these literary manifestations beyond purely national boundaries.' Diego Saglia, BARS Bulletin and Review'Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764–1820 is packed with precise textual analysis, clear historical investigation and contextualization, and many a well-turned sentence.' The Year's Work in English Studies'Wright's book traces the French influences that Walpole felt compelled to play down, as did subsequent Gothic authors from Clara Reeve and Sophia Lee to Anne Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis, whose work appeared just as the British antipathy toward France rose to a fever pitch of anti-Jacobin hysteria. Her book is thus a history of writers' secret love for a culture that their own surroundings required them to hate or at least to denigrate. It offers up to the reader the less evident aspects of the way Gothic fiction crossed the Channel back and forth in the form of influences, translations, parodies, borrowings, and outright plagiarisms.' Yael Shapira, Common KnowledgeTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The mysterious author Horace Walpole; 2. The translator cloak'd: Sophia Lee, Clara Reeve and Charlotte Smith; 3. Versions of Gothic and terror; 4. The castle under threat: Ann Radcliffe's system and the romance of Europe; 5. 'The order disorder'd': French convents and British liberty; Conclusion: afterlives; Works cited.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Womens Writing in the Romantic Period Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisThe Romantic period saw the first generations of professional women writers flourish in Great Britain. Literary history is only now giving them the attention they deserve, for the quality of their writings and for their popularity in their own time. This collection of new essays by leading scholars explores the challenges and achievements of this fascinating set of women writers, including Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Mary Shelley alongside many lesser-known female authors writing and publishing during this period. Chapters consider major literary genres, including poetry, fiction, drama, travel writing, histories, essays, and political writing, as well as topics such as globalization, colonialism, feminism, economics, families, sexualities, aging, and war. The volume shows how gender intersected with other aspects of identity and with cultural concerns that then shaped the work of authors, critics, and readers.Trade Review'A welcome addition to the excellent Cambridge Companions series, this collection of clearly written essays is both interesting and informative, and fills a scholarly void.' L. J. Larson, Choice'These essays make clear that Austen can be read - and re-read - productively within the communities of women writers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. … the collection succeeds in achieving Looser's editorial goal: to emphasize the range of reasons - literary, historical, and social - that we append to Romantic-era women's writings. It will surely succeed in furthering the discussion it ably surveys. A very helpful guide to further reading, included at the end of the volume, will assist scholars carrying forward the work of this collection.' Elizabeth Chang, Jane Austen Society of North America News'… a superb new resource for teachers and researchers alike.' Jenny Davidson, Studies in English Literature'For scholars of women's writing and Romanticism, to see The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period is to feel that one has a veritable intellectual home. … Perhaps most forcefully, this volume, with its abundant accounting of a range women's contributions to nearly every genre and debate of the time, asks us how we might begin to articulate a field that will neither be erased nor defined by past erasures or those to come, but will be a field all its own.' Kate Singer, Modern Philology'This excellent addition to the Cambridge Companion series does much to deepen our understanding of how gender shaped the production and reception of texts in the Romantic period while also demonstrating the sheer volume and variety of works produced by women in what editor Devoney Looser terms 'a watershed moment for British women's writing' … In addition to scholars interested in issues related to gender and authorship, this volume should interest anyone seeking to better understand the dynamics of the literary culture in the Romantic period.' Angela Rehbein, Notes and QueriesTable of ContentsChronology; Introduction; 1. Poetry Stephen C. Behrendt; 2. Fiction Anthony Mandal; 3. Drama Catherine Burroughs; 4. Essays and political writing Anne Mellor; 5. The gothic Angela Wright; 6. Travel writing Elizabeth A. Fay; 7. History writing and antiquarianism Crystal Lake; 8. Writing in wartime Catherine Ingrassia; 9. Enlightenment feminism and the bluestocking legacy Caroline Franklin; 10. The global context Deirdre Coleman; 11. Social, familial, and literary networks Julie A. Carlson; 12. The economics of female authorship Jacqueline M. Labbe; 13. Age and aging Devoney Looser; 14. National identities and regional affiliations Fiona Price; 15. Sexualities Jillian Heydt-Stevenson; Guide to further reading.
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Cambridge University Press Art and Social Justice Education Culture as Commons
Book SynopsisFor nearly forty years Deirdre Le Faye, one of the world's leading authorities on Jane Austen, has been gathering and organising every single piece of information available about the Austen family before, during and after Jane's lifetime. She has now collected all this material together to produce a unique chronology, containing some 15,000 entries. For the first time, those interested in Jane Austen can discover where she was and what she was doing at many precise moments of her life. The entries, many taken from hitherto unexplored and unpublished documents, are presented in a clear and readable form, and each item of information is linked to its source. The volume includes family trees for the extended Austen and Knight families from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. This is a key work of reference that every scholar and reader of Austen will find fascinating and indispensable.Trade Review'… an indispensable addition to all libraries with humanities collections and those concerned with the facts relating to one of our greatest literary figures.' William Baker, Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsPrologue; Chronology of Jane Austen and her family; Bibliographies; Index of personal names; Family trees.
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Cambridge University Press Forging Romantic China SinoBritish Cultural Exchange 17601840 105 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 105
Book SynopsisThe first major cultural study to focus exclusively on this decisive period in modern British-Chinese relations. Based on extensive archival investigations, Peter J. Kitson shows how British knowledge of China was constructed from the writings and translations of a diverse range of missionaries, diplomats, travellers, traders, and literary men and women during the Romantic period. The new perceptions of China that it gave rise to were mediated via a dynamic print culture to a diverse range of poets, novelists, essayists, dramatists and reviewers, including Jane Austen, Thomas Percy, William Jones, S. T. Coleridge, George Colman, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, William and Dorothy Wordsworth and others, informing new British understandings and imaginings of China on the eve of the Opium War of 1839â42. Kitson aims to restore China to its true global presence in our understandings of the culture and literature of Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Trade Review'[A] detailed study.' Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Thomas Percy and the forging of Romantic China; 2. 'A wonderful stateliness': William Jones, Joshua Marshman, and the Bengal School of Sinology; 3. 'They thought that Jesus and Confucius were alike': Robert Morrison, Malacca, and the missionary reading of China; 4. 'Fruits of the highest culture may be improved and varied by foreign grafts': the Canton School of Romantic Sinology: Staunton and Davis; 5. Establishing the 'Great Divide': scientific exchange and the Macartney Embassy; 6. 'You will be taking a trip into China, I suppose': kowtows, tea cups, and the evasions of British Romantic writing on China; 7. Chinese gardens, Confucius, and the prelude; 8. 'Not a bit like the Chinese figures that adorn our chimney-pieces': orphans and travellers: China on stage; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Foundation of the Unconscious
Book SynopsisThis study of the emergence of a psychology of the 'unconscious' in the Romantic period provides a fascinating account of the rise and role of the 'unconscious' in modernity. It draws together interdisciplinary research that will appeal to readers from psychology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, Romanticism and intellectual history.Trade Review'… persuasive, well argued and intellectually ambitious - this is an impressive piece of work.' Matthew Bell, King's College London'… an impressive contribution to the history of philosophy and the history of psychoanalysis.' John Forrester, University of Cambridge'It has long been recognised that Freud did not discover the unconscious and that the modern concept originated in philosophy not psychology. In his meticulous work, Ffytche traces the concept back to the German idealist philosopher Friedrich Schelling. Most original is the argument that the concept served a political function: to confer moral autonomy on the individual. Brilliant.' Robert A. Segal, The Times Higher Education Supplement'Ffytche's excellent book sets a new standard for philosophically sensitive historical writing on the concept of the unconscious.' Tom Eyers, Radical Philosophy'A thoughtful and intricate historiography of the unconscious … Ffytche's study will be useful to researchers and postgraduates engaged in contemporary theoretical speculations about the relationship between concepts of subjectivity, political life and the legacy of the Enlightenment.' BooknotesTable of ContentsIntroduction: the historiography of the unconscious; Part I. The Subject before the Unconscious: 1. A general science of the I: Fichte and the crisis of self-identification; 2. Natural autonomy: Schelling and the divisions of freedom; Part II. The Romantic Unconscious: 3. Divining the individual: towards a metaphysics of the unconscious; 4. The historical unconscious; 5. Post-idealism and the Romantic psyche; Part III. The Psychoanalytic Unconscious: 6. Freud: the Geist in the machine; 7. The liberal unconscious; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press GhostSeers Detectives and Spiritualists
Book SynopsisThis book is a study of the narrative techniques which developed for two very popular forms of fiction in the nineteenth century - ghost stories and detective stories - and the surprising similarities between them in the context of contemporary theories of vision and sight.Trade Review"Ghost-Seers, Detectives, an Spiritualists presents absorbing discussions of overlooked theories and diversifies our understanding of visual perception in the nineteenth century, especially as it applies to the popular literature of the period." --JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Outer Vision, Inner Vision: Ghost-Seeing and Ghost Stories: 1. Contextualizing the ghost story; 2. The rise of optical apparitions; 3. Inner vision and spiritual optics; 4. 'Betwixt ancient faith and modern incredulity'; Part II. Seeing is Reading: Vision, Language, and Detective Fiction: 5. Visual learning: sight and Victorian epistemology; 6. Scopophilia and scopophobia: Poe's readerly flâneur; 7. Stains, smears, and visual language in The Moonstone; 8. Semiotics vs. encyclopedism: the case of Sherlock Holmes; Part III. Into the Invisible: Science, Spiritualism, and Occult Detection: 9. Detective fiction's uncanny; 10. Light, ether, and the invisible world; 11. Inner vision and occult detection: Le Fanu's Martin Hesselius; 12. Other dimensions, other worlds; 13. Psychic sleuths and soul doctors; Coda.
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