Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

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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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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Book SynopsisIn this major study, leading Austen scholar John Wiltshire offers new interpretations of Jane Austen's six novels, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1818). Much recent criticism of Austen has concentrated on the social, historical and intellectual context of her work, but Wiltshire turns attention back to Austen's prose techniques. Arguing that each of Austen's works has its own distinct focus and underlying agenda, he shows how Austen's interest in psychology, and especially her treatment of attention and the various forms of memory, helped shape her narratives. Through a series of compelling close readings of key passages in each novel, Wiltshire underscores Austen's unique ability to penetrate the hidden inner motives and impulses of her characters, and reveals some of the secrets of her narrative art.Trade Review'[A] finely observed study.' London Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Into the open with Catherine Morland; 2. Elinor Dashwood and concealment; 3. Elizabeth's memory and Mr Darcy's smile; 4. The religion of Aunt Norris; 5. The story of Fanny Price; 6. Emma's overhearing; 7. Anne Elliot and the ambient world; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisHow have our conceptions of truth been shaped by romantic literature? This question lies at the heart of this examination of the concept of truth both in romantic writing and in modern criticism. The romantic idea of truth has long been depicted as aesthetic, imaginative and ideal. Tim Milnes challenges this picture, demonstrating a pragmatic strain in the writing of Keats, Shelley and Coleridge in particular, that bears a close resemblance to the theories of modern pragmatist thinkers such as Donald Davidson and JÃrgen Habermas. Romantic pragmatism, Milnes argues, was in turn influenced by recent developments within linguistic empiricism. This book will be of interest to readers of romantic literature, but also to philosophers, literary theorists, and intellectual historians.Trade Review"This very original, timely and deftly-written study joins a conspicuous body of critical work on British romantic literature and pragmatics....an engaging and fascinating reading of three major poets of British Romanticism." -Annalisa Volpone, NBOL 19"“Clearly written, with a stimulating breadth of research and depth of scholarship, Milnes' work provides an important link between modern linguistic/pragmatic philosophy and romantic/empiricist poetics. Recognizing precedent study in “the discourse of communicative rationality,” Milnes cites often and judiciously Kathleen Wheeler, Paul Hamilton, and Angela Esterhammer as central to the “the pragmatic, future-directed accent of romantic literature” -William C. Horrell,Wordsworth Circle"This very original, timely and deftly-written study joins a conspicuous body of critical work on British romantic literature and pragmatics….Milnes' book offers an engaging and fascinating reading of three major poets of British Romanticism.” -Annalisa Volpone,NBOL-19Table of ContentsIntroduction: the pragmatics of romantic idealism; 1. Romanticising pragmatism: dialogue and critical method; 2. Pragmatising romanticism: radical empiricism from Reid to Rorty; 3. This living Keats: truth, deixis, and correspondence; 4. An unremitting interchange: Shelley, elenchus, and the education of error; 5. The embodiment of reason: Coleridge on language, logic, and ethics; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book links literary works to psychological and philosophical beliefs of the Victorian era, by demonstrating a common concern among poets, novelists, philosophers, psychologists, and devotees of the occult with the question of whether thinking about someone can cause something to happen to them.Trade Review'The book's first surprise is to make a seemingly broad subject strikingly specific. Pinch's dazzling readings of a variety of literary forms ensure we will envision 'a Victorian world crowded with extra personal thought-energy' for a long time to come.' Debra Gettelman, The Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: love thinking; 1. Thinking as action: James Frederick Ferrier's Philosophy of Consciousness; 2. Foam, aura, or melody: theorizing mental force in Victorian Britain; 3. Thinking in the second person in nineteenth-century poetry; 4. Thinking and knowing in Patmore and Meredith; 5. Daniel Deronda and the omnipotence of thought; Conclusion: the ethics of belief and the poetics of thinking about another person.

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Book SynopsisThis book tells a story about the transformation of mid-Victorian urban writing in response both to London's growing size and diversity, and Britain's shifting global fortunes. Tanya Agathocleous departs from customary understandings of realism, modernism, and the transition between them, to show how a range of writers throughout the nineteenth century - including William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, William Morris, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Joseph Conrad - explored the ethical, social and political implications of globalization. Showcasing a variety of different genres, Agathocleous uses the lens of cosmopolitan realism - the literary techniques used to transform the city into an image of the world - to explain how texts that seem glaringly dissimilar actually emerged from the same historical concept, and in doing so presents startlingly new ways of thinking about the meaning and effect of cosmopolitanism.Trade Review"Tanya Agathocleous provocatively investigates the mid-Victorian roots of our conflicted responses to urbanization and globalization....Effectively tracing the "long literary history of London-as-cosmopolis" from the 1850s through the 1920s, this book demonstrates its author's strengths as an archivist and her engagement with the growing body of scholarship on this topic." -Joseph McLaughlin, Assc Profc of English at Ohio University, Editor for the Ohio University Press series in Victorian Studies, and the author of Writing the Urban Jungle: Reading Empire in London from Doyle to Eliot (2000)."One of this particular study’s merits, along with its generous selection of excellent illustrations, is that it maps out the considerable critical literature on Cosmopolitanism. Its author, Tanya Agathocleous, is a well-qualified guide to the territory..." -Dickens Quarterly"Agathocleous situates her study among the growing body of work that seeks to "transcend a focus on the nation and nationalism"(2). She does so by focusing on the evolution of a distinctive form of cosmopolitanism that emerged in writing about London from the 1850's onward." -- Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: cosmopolitan realism; Part I. The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Realism: 1. The palace and the periodical: the Great Exhibition, Cosmopolis, and the discourse of cosmopolitanism; 2. The sketch and the panorama: Wordsworth, Dickens, and the emergence of cosmopolitan realism; Part II. Cosmopolitan Realism at the Fin de Siècle and Beyond: 3. Realist details and romance plots: James, Doyle, and the aesthetics of fin-de-siècle cosmopolitanism; 4. Ethnography and allegory: socialist internationalism and realist Utopia in News from Nowhere and In Darkest England; 5. The moment and the end of time: Conrad, Woolf and the temporal sublime; Conclusion: 'a city visible but unseen': cosmopolitan realism and the invisible metropolis.

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Book SynopsisReading Victorian literature and science in tandem, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination investigates how the concept of energy was fictionalized - both mystified and demystified - during the rise of a new resource-intensive industrial and economic order. The first extended study of a burgeoning area of critical interest of increasing importance to twenty-first-century scholarship, it anchors its investigation at the very roots of the energy problem, in a period that first articulated questions about sustainability, the limits to growth, and the implications of energy pollution for the entire global environment. With chapters on Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells, Allen MacDuffie discusses the representation of urban environments in the literary imaginary, and how those texts helped reveal the gap between cultural fantasies of unbounded energy generation, and the material limits imposed by nature.Table of ContentsIntroduction: limited environments, fictions of escape; Part I. Thermodynamics and its Discontents: 1. The city and the sun; 2. The death of the sun at the dawn of the Anthropocene; Part II. Unsustainable Fictions: 3. Energy systems and narrative systems in Charles Dickens's Bleak House; 4. The renewable energies of Our Mutual Friend; 5. John Ruskin's alternative energy; 6. Personal fantasy, natural limits: Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; 7. Joseph Conrad: energy, entropy, and the fictions of empire; 8. Evolutionary energy and the future: Henry Maudsley and H. G. Wells; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1958, this book forms the second part of a two-volume edition of Keats's letters, covering the period from 1819 to 1821. Several letters and papers not previously contained in English editions of the correspondence are included, and advances in the understanding of the dating and arrangement of the letters are reflected. Detailed editorial notes are provided throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Keats's letters and the development of Keats scholarship.Table of ContentsLetters and papers 1819–21; Index of correspondents and documents; General index.

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Book SynopsisReprinted from the Pall Mall Gazette and published anonymously in 1865, Leslie Stephen's Sketches From Cambridge provides an affectionately sarcastic glimpse of student life at Cambridge University and its colleges. The wickedly funny prose explores the manners and customs of a variety of student stereotypes of the day. Profiled in these caricatures are athletes â with one chapter filled with typically light-hearted venom devoted specifically to rowers; and mathematicians, philosophers, and those poor wandering souls that pursue the social sciences. The collection is intended to provide a complete natural history of that curious specimen the Cambridge student, and it is brilliantly written by Stephen, a former member of the species. While the Cambridge student's fondness for whist, whiskey and billiards is examined, the distinction between him and the even lower, sub-human student form that belongs at Oxford and other institutions is definitively drawn.Table of Contents1. Introductory; 2. The rowing man; 3. Athletic sports; 4. Mathematics; 5. Reading men; 6. The Union; 7. Various; 8. Dons; 9. Tuition; 10. College tutors; 11. Heads of Houses; 12. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis seventh volume of the magisterial Library Edition (1903–1912) of the works of John Ruskin contains Volume 5 of Modern Painters.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Vol. 7; Bibliographical note; Part I. Modern Painters Vol. V (Containing the Text of All the Editions); Section 6. Of Leaf Beauty: 1. The earth-veil; 2. The leaf-orders; 3. The bud; 4. The leaf; 5. Leaf aspects; 6. The branch; 7. The stem; 8. The leaf monuments; 9. The leaf shadows; 10. Leaves motionless; Section 7. Of Cloud Beauty: 1. The cloud-balancings; 2. The cloud-flocks; 3. The cloud-chariots; 4. The angel of the sea; Section 8. Of Ideas of Relation - First, of Invention Formal: 1. The law of help; 2. The task of the least; 3. The rule of the greatest; 4. The law of perfectness; Section 9. Of Ideas of Relation - Second, of Invention Spiritual: 1. The dark mirror; 2. The lance of Pallas; 3. The wings of the lion; 4. Dürer and Salvator; 5. Claude and Poussin; 6. Rubens and Cuyp; 7. Of vulgarity; 8. Wouvermans and Angelico; 9. The two boyhoods; 10. The Nereid's guard; 11. The Hesperid Aeglé; 12. Peace; Epilogue (1888); Part II: Appendix.

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Book SynopsisA rare first-hand Victorian account of this little-known region, published in 1888 when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In a highly engaging, anecdotal style, novelist Emily Gerard combines her personal recollections of with a detailed account of the landscape, people, superstitions and customs.Table of Contents27. Roumanian superstition continued. Animals, weather, mixed superstitions, spirits, shadows, etc.; 28. Saxon superstition. Remedies, witches, weather-makers; 29. Saxon superstition continued. Animals, plants, days; 30. Saxon customs and dramas; 31. Buried treasures; 32. The Tziganes. Liszt and Lenau; 33. The Tziganes. Their life and occupations; 34. The Tziganes. Humour, proverbs, religion and morality; 35. The gipsy fortune-teller; 36. The Tzigane musician; 37. Gipsy poetry; 38. The Szekels and Armenians; 39. Frontier regiments; 40. Wolves, bears, and other animals; 41. A Roumanian village; 42. A gipsy camp; 43. The Bruckenthals; 44. Still-life at Hermanstadt. A Transylvanian Cranford; 44. Fire and blood. The Hermanstadt murder; 46. The Klausenburg carnival; 47. Journey from Hermanstadt to Kronstadt; 48. Kronstadt; 49. Sinala; 50. Up the mountains; 51. The Bulea See; 52. The Wienerwald. A digression; 53. A week in the pine-region; 54. La Dus and Bistra; 55. A night in the Stina; 56. Farewell to Transylvania. The enchanted garden.

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Book SynopsisHarriet Martineau (18021876) was a British scholar. These volumes, first published in 1877, contain her autobiography, which she wrote in 1855, believing herself to be dying. The books remain remarkable for her vivid descriptions and candid opinions of Victorian society. Volume 3 contains Maria Chapman's biography of Martineau.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Infancy; 2. Youth; 3. Womanhood; 4. Fame; 5. Foreign life - western; 6. Consequences - without; 7. Consequences - within; 8. Consequences - to life passive; 9. Foreign life - eastern; 10. Home; 11. Philosophy; 12. The life sorrow; 13. Work; 14. Fresh foreign intercourse; 15. Conversations; 16. Waiting for death; 17. Self-estimate, and other; 18. Survivorship.

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Book SynopsisIn this 1846 publication Charles Dickens describes the landscapes, architecture, people and customs he observed during a year's stay in Italy with his family in 1844. Originally published as letters in the Daily News, the book is notable for the same shrewd social observations that Dickens demonstrates in his novels.Table of ContentsOne reader's passport; Going through France; Lyons, the Rhone, and the Goblin of Avignon; Avignon to Genoa; Genoa and its neighbourhood; To Parma, Modena, and Bologna; Through Bologna and Ferrara; An Italian dream; By Verona, Mantua, and Milan, across the Pass of the Simplon into Switzerland; To Rome by Pisa and Siena; Rome; A rapid diorama.

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Book SynopsisThis 1895 centenary collection of 214 'racy, lively, inimitably good-tempered' letters by the Romantic poet John Keats (17951821) to his family, friends and fiancée was edited by the Harry Buxton Forman (18421917). Forman included previously unpublished correspondence, aiming to 'complete the picture of the true Keats'.Table of ContentsPreface; Letters I-CCXIV (1816–20); First lines of poems scattered throughout the letters.

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Book SynopsisWalter Pater (183994) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and on aesthetic experience. Published alongside Pater's collected works of 19001, this collection reprints his literary essays from The Guardian, composed in the late 1880s. They include reviews of new publications of English and French poetry and prose.Table of Contents1. English literature; 2. Amiel's Journal Intime; 3. Browning; 4. Robert Elsmere; 5. Their Majesties' servants; 6. Wordsworth; 7. Mr. Gosse's poems; 8. Ferdinand Fabre; 9. The Contes of M. Augustin Filon.

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Book SynopsisLeslie Stephen (18321904), the founding Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, was one of the leading literary figures of the nineteenth century. This extensive biography, published in 1906, draws heavily from Stephen's letters to give a detailed account of the life of a most influential Victorian.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Parentage; 3. Boyhood (1832–50); 4. The undergraduate (1850–4); 5. Sketches of a don at Cambridge (1854–64); 6. The playground of Europe (1855–94); 7. The Times and the war (1863–5); 8. Free-thinking and plain-speaking (1862–5); 9. Journalism (1865–71); 10. The first marriage (1865–71); 11. Hours in a library (1867–73); 12. More hours in a library (1873–5); 13. Cornhill and Schreckhorn (1871–5); 14. Wordsworth's ethics (1875–8); 15. The second marriage (1878); 16. An ethical treatise (1878–82); 17. Tramps and contributors (1879–91); 18. The struggle with the Dictionary (1882–91); 19. An agnostics apology (1891–5); 20. Studies of a biographer (1895–1902); 21. The sunset (1902–4); Appendix I. Leslie Stephen's works; II. List of the Sunday Tramps; Index.

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Book SynopsisA creative titan of the Victorian age, William Morris (1834â96) produced a prodigious variety of literary and artistic work in his lifetime. In addition to his achievements as a versatile designer at the forefront of the arts and crafts movement, Morris distinguished himself as a poet, translated Icelandic sagas and classical epics, wrote a series of influential prose romances, and gave lectures promoting his socialist principles. His collected works, originally published in 24 volumes between 1910 and 1915, were edited by his daughter Mary (May) Morris (1862â1938), whose introductions to each volume chart with insight and sympathy the development of her father's literary, aesthetic and political passions. Volume 1 contains Morris' early verse, including The Defence of Guenevere (1858), as well as prose contributions to the short-lived Oxford and Cambridge Magazine.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Bibliographical notes; The defence of Guenevere and other poems; The hollow land and other contributions to the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine.

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Book SynopsisA creative titan of the Victorian age, William Morris (1834â96) produced a prodigious variety of literary and artistic work in his lifetime. In addition to his achievements as a versatile designer at the forefront of the arts and crafts movement, Morris distinguished himself as a poet, translated Icelandic sagas and classical epics, wrote a series of influential prose romances, and gave lectures promoting his socialist principles. His collected works, originally published in 24 volumes between 1910 and 1915, were edited by his daughter Mary (May) Morris (1862â1938), whose introductions to each volume chart with insight and sympathy the development of her father's literary, aesthetic and political passions. Volume 14 contains the fantasy novels The House of the Wolfings (1889) and The Story of the Glittering Plain (1891).Table of ContentsIntroduction; Bibliographical note to The House of the Wolfings and The Story of the Glittering Plain; A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark; The Story of the Glittering Plain, or the Land of Living Men.

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Book SynopsisA creative titan of the Victorian age, William Morris (1834â96) produced a prodigious variety of literary and artistic work in his lifetime. In addition to his achievements as a versatile designer at the forefront of the arts and crafts movement, Morris distinguished himself as a poet, translated Icelandic sagas and classical epics, wrote a series of influential prose romances, and gave lectures promoting his socialist principles. His collected works, originally published in 24 volumes between 1910 and 1915, were edited by his daughter Mary (May) Morris (1862â1938), whose introductions to each volume chart with insight and sympathy the development of her father's literary, aesthetic and political passions. Volume 15 contains the fantasy novel The Roots of the Mountains (1889).Table of ContentsIntroduction; Bibliographical note; The Roots of the Mountains: 1. Of Burgstead and its folk and its neighbours; 2. Of Face-of-god and his kindred; 3. They talk of diverse matters in the hall; 4. Face-of-god fareth to the woods again; 5. Face-of-god falls in with the menfolk in the mountain; 6. Of Face-of-god and those mountain-dwellers; 7. Face-of-god talketh with the friend on the mountain; 8. Face-of-god cometh home again to Burgstead; 9. Those brethren fare to the yew-wood with the bride; 10. New tidings in the dale; 11. Men make oath at Burgstead; 12. Stone-face telleth concerning the wood-wights; 13. They fare to the hunting of the elk; 14. Concerning Face-of-god and the mountain; 15. Murder amongst the folk of the woodlanders; 16. The bride speaketh with Face-of-god; 17. The token cometh from the mountain; 18. Face-of-god talketh with the friend in shadowy vale; 19. The fair woman telleth Face-of-god of the kindred; 20. Those two together hold the ring of the earth-god; 21. Face-of-god looketh on the dusky men; 22. Face-of-god cometh home to Burgstead; 23. Talk in the hall in the house of the face; 24. Face-of-god giveth that token to the bride; 25. Of the gate-thing at Burgstead; 26. The ending of the gate-thing; 27. Face-of-god leadeth a band through the wood; 28. The men of Burgdale meet the runaways; 29. They bring the runaways to Burgstead; 30. Hall-face goeth towards Rosedale; 31. Of the weaponshow of the men of Burgdale and their neighbours; 32. The men of Shadowy Vale come to the spring market at Burgstead; 33. The alderman gives gifts to them of Shadowy Vale; 34. The chieftains take counsel in the house of the face; 35. Face-of-god talketh with the sunbeam; 36. Folk-might speaketh with the bride; 37. Of the folk-mote of the dalesmen, the shepherd-folk, and the woodland carles; 38. Of the great folk-mote; 39. Of the great folk-mote; 40. Of the hosting in Shadowy Vale; 41. The host departeth from Shadowy Vale; 42. The host cometh to the edges of Silverdale; 43. Face-of-god looketh on Silverdale; 44. Of the onslaught of the men of the steer, the bridge, and the bull; 45. Of Face-of-god's onslaught; 46. Men meet in the market of Silverstead; 47. The kindreds win the mote-house; 48. Men sing in the mote-house; 49. Dallach fareth to Rosedale; 50. Folk-might seeth the bride and speaketh with her; 51. The dead borne to bale; 52. Of the new beginning of good days in Silverdale; 53. Of the word which Hall-ward of the steer had for Folk-might; 54. Tidings of Dallach; 55. Departure from Silverdale; 56. Talk upon the wild-wood way; 57. How the host came home again; 58. How the maiden ward was held in Burgdale; 59. The behest of Face-of-god to the bride accomplished.

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Book SynopsisIn this two-volume memoir of 1906, William Michael Rossetti (18291919) provides an unparalleled glimpse into the dynamics of the Rossetti family, dealing with his own childhood and that of his siblings, the genesis of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and friendships with many outstanding cultural figures of the Victorian age.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Earliest years; 2. My parents, sisters, and brothers; 3. School; 4. Family life, 1839 to 1844; 5. The excise office; 6. Home life - my brother and myself; 7. The Praeraphaelite Brotherhood; 8. Beginnings in literature; 9. My father's last years; 10. Some shaping of mind and character; 11. Some artistic acquaintances; 12. Some literary acquaintances; 13. Theatrical and other diversions; 14. Dante Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal; 15. Further acquaintances; 16. The Brownings, Landor, Tennyson; 17. Some personal and general details; 18. Cheyne Walk and Endsleigh Gardens.

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Book SynopsisDetermined not to write a biography about his friend Joseph Conrad (1857â1924) in the usual dry style, Ford Madox Ford (1873â1939) instead produced a novel. As a result, some biographical facts are given less emphasis than others, in particular the acrimony which later blighted relations between the two men. But the work is distinguished by its liveliness and by a wealth of vivid detail. Ford describes Conrad's remarkably long-eared horse, his haphazard use of adverbs and their fraught collaboration over their second joint novel, Romance, during which Ford's carefully unexciting style provoked the adventure-loving Conrad to depression. Ford's impressionistic portrayal of Conrad as an elegant, likeable swindler and 'beautiful genius' strikes a far richer chord than a purely historical account. First published in 1924, just after Conrad's death, this work remains a striking example of creative non-fiction, instructive for scholars and students of English literature.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. C'est toi qui dors dans l'ombre, o sacré souvenir; 2. Excellency? A few goats; 3. It is above all to make you see; 4. That, too, is romance; Appendix.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1908, this two-volume collection was prepared by journalist, critic and Brontë enthusiast Clement King Shorter (1857–1926). Building on Elizabeth Gaskell's research, the volumes document through correspondence the remarkable careers of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë. Previously unpublished manuscripts and letters broadened the scope of the work.Table of ContentsPreface; Preliminary; 1. Patrick Brontë and Maria his wife; 2. The Brontës at Thornton; 3. Infancy at Howarth and Cowan Bridge; 4. A literary childhood; 5. School-days at Roe Head; 6. Haworth, 1832–5; 7. Governess at Roe Head and Dewsbury Moor; 8. Mrs Sidgwick's nursery governess; 9. The art of love; 10. Upperwood House, Rawdon; 11. The Pensionnat Héger, Brussels; 12. Second sojourn in Brussels; 13. A quiet year at Haworth; 14. Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell; 15. The Professor and Jane Eyre; 16. A literary friendship; 17. Mary Taylor; 18. The death of Branwell Brontë.

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Book SynopsisCount Pietro Gamba (180127) accompanied Byron on his mission to Greece in 1823, and was described by the poet as 'one of the most amiable, brave, and excellent young men' he had ever encountered. This eyewitness account of the mission and of Byron's death was published in 1825.Table of ContentsDedication; 1. Lord Byron's departure for Greece; 2. Arrival of Colonel Stanhope; 3. Communication from the legislative body with Lord Byron; 4. Lord Byron's visit to Anatolico; 5. News from the Morea; 6. Affray between one of Lord Byron's guard and a citizen of Missolonghi; Notes.

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Book SynopsisDuring the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the ''grave of Europeans''. At the apex of British colonialism in the region between 1764 and 1834, the rapid spread of disease amongst colonist, enslaved and indigenous populations made the Caribbean notorious as one of the deadliest places on earth. Drawing on historical accounts from physicians, surgeons and travellers alongside literary works, Emily Senior traces the cultural impact of such widespread disease and death during the Romantic age of exploration and medical and scientific discovery. Focusing on new fields of knowledge such as dermatology, medical geography and anatomy, Senior shows how literature was crucial to the development and circulation of new medical ideas, and that the Caribbean as the hub of empire played a significant role in the changing disciplines and literary forms associated with the transition to modernity.Table of ContentsCommunicating disease: literature and medicine in the Atlantic World; Part I. Health, Geography and Aesthetics: 1. 'What new forms of death': the poetics of disease and cure; 2. The diagnostics of description: medical topography and the colonial picturesque; Part II. Colonial Bodies: 3. Skin, textuality and colonial feeling; 4. 'A Seasoned Creole' and 'a Citizen of the World': White West Indians and Atlantic medical knowledge; Part III. Revolution and Abolition: 5. The 'intimate union of medicine and magic': Obeah, revolution and colonial modernity; Afterword: colonial modernities and after abolition.

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Book SynopsisJohn Clare (17931864), one of England's most important early chroniclers of nature and environmental change, was keenly interested in natural history, folk culture, balladry and the literary tradition. This collection assesses Clare's work from many different angles analysing his engagements with religion, ecology, 'green' politics, class prejudice and working-class culture.Trade Review'This fine collection of essays exemplifies, as the editors' note in their introduction, the 'striking variety' of Clare's writings and the 'interpretive capaciousness' of this fertile moment in Clare scholarship … Ranging widely from Clare's engagement with eighteenth-century verse to his reception in the years following his death, the contributors shed new light on some of his most characteristic forms and themes and on his complex place in the literary and political cultures of his day … ground-breaking and important not only for Clare scholarship but also for the study of nineteenth-century literature.' Stephanie Kuduk Weiner, Modern Philology'New Essays on John Clare marks a fresh departure in John Clare studies, and it will prove rewarding to Clare specialists and to generalist readers who seek to understand Clare's place in the broader historical development of literary culture in the Romantic and Victorian periods.' Jim McKusick, The Wordsworth Circle'New Essays on John Clare serves as a new landmark collection that articulates the wonderfully diverse avenues for rereading Clare as a full participant in the nineteenth-century intellectual milieu of literature, art, and politics.' Katey Castellano, Romanticism Journal'Simon Kövesi's and Scott McEathron's collection represents an engaging and timely contribution to Clare studies, one most rewarding for the way it testifies to Clare's 'ongoing status as an uncategorizable literary and social misfit'.' Daniel Westwood, The Keats-Shelley ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Simon Kövesi and Scott McEathron; Part I. Poetry: 1. John Clare's colours Fiona Stafford; 2. John Clare, William Cowper and the eighteenth century Adam Rounce; 3. John Clare's conspiracy Sarah M. Zimmerman; Part II. Culture: 4. John Clare and the new varieties of enclosure: a polemic John Burnside; 5. Ecology with religion: kinship in John Clare Emma Mason; 6. The lives of Frederick Martin and the first Life of John Clare Scott McEathron; 7. John Clare's deaths: poverty, education, and poetry Simon Kövesi; Part III. Community: 8. John Clare's natural history Robert Heyes; 9. 'This is radical slang': John Clare, Admiral Lord John Radstock and the Queen Caroline affair Sam Ward; 10. John Clare and the London Magazine Richard Cronin.

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Book SynopsisThis Companion provides an engaging and expansive overview of gustation, gastronomy, agriculture and alimentary activism in literature from the medieval period to the present day, as well as an illuminating introduction to cookbooks as literature. Bringing together sixteen original essays by leading scholars, the collection rethinks literary food from a variety of critical angles, including gender and sexuality, critical race studies, postcolonial studies, eco-criticism and children''s literature. Topics covered include mealtime decorum in Chaucer, Milton''s culinary metaphors, early American taste, Romantic gastronomy, Victorian eating, African-American women''s culinary writing, modernist food experiments, Julia Child and cold war cooking, industrialized food in children''s literature, agricultural horror and farmworker activism, queer cookbooks, hunger as protest and postcolonial legacy, and ''dude food'' in contemporary food blogs. Featuring a chronology of key publication and histTrade Review'The book is clearly written and full of engaging facts and literary connections.' M. K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: the literature of food J. Michelle Coghlan; 1. Medieval feasts Aaron K. Hostetter; 2. The art of early modern cookery Joe Moshenska; 3. The Romantic revolution in taste Denise Gigante; 4. The matter of early American taste Lauren Klein; 5. The culinary landscape of Victorian literature Kate Thomas; 6. Modernism and gastronomy Allison Carruth; 7. Cold War cooking J. Michelle Coghlan; 8. Farm horror in the twentieth century Michael Newbury; 9. Queering the cookbook Katharina Vester; 10. Guilty pleasures in children's literature Catherine Keyser; 11. Postcolonial tastes Parama Roy; 12. Black power in the kitchen Erica Fretwell; 13. Farmworker activism Sarah D. Wald; 14. Digesting Asian America Anne Anlin Cheng; 15. Postcolonial foodways in contemporary African literature Jonathan Bishop Highfield; 16. Blogging food, performing gender Emily Contois.

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Book SynopsisMark B. Sandberg explores the architectural metaphors that Henrik Ibsen introduced into mainstream Western thought - embodied by the titles of his plays A Doll's House, Pillars of Society, and The Master Builder. His book will appeal to those interested in architectural theory, literary and theater history, and Scandinavian studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Ibsen's uncanny; 2. Facades unmasked; 3. Home and house; 4. The tenacity of architecture; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisAddressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period''s immense transformations while troubling the ideology of progress that underwrote much of its self-understanding. This volume queries the various forms and formations of post-Reconstruction American literature. It contends that the literature of this period, most often referred to as ''turn-of-the-century'' might be more productively oriented by the end of Reconstruction and the haunting aftermath of its emancipatory potential than by the logic of temporal and social advance that underwrote the end of the century and the beginning of the Progressive Era. Acknowledging that nearly all US literature after 1876 might be described as post-Reconstruction, the volume invites readers to reframe this period by asking: under what terms did post-Reconstruction American literature challenge or re-consolidate the ''nation'' as an affective, political, and discursive phenomenon? And what kind of alternative pasTable of ContentsIntroduction: We have never been post-reconstruction Lindsay V. Reckson; I. Transitive States: 1. Radical pasts, radical futures Michelle Coghlan; 2. Unsettled colonialisms Mary Zaborskis; 3. Secularism, race, and sex Peter Coviello; 4. Sex and the suicide plot Dana Seitler; 5. Virtual subjects Katherine Biers; II. Post-Reconstruction Aesthetics: 6. Lyrics of the color line Sonya Posmentier; 7. Experimental realisms Natalia Cecire; 8. Species of sentiment Lisa Mendelman; 9. The micro-climates of regionalism William Gleason; 10. Racial topographies and the poetics of mass culture Alexandra Socarides; III. Old Materialisms: 11. Oil Jamie L. Jones; 12. Waste Stephanie Foote; 13. Blood Nancy Bentley; 14. Color against realism Nicholas Gaskill; IV. Immanent Techniques: 15. Francis Harper's reconstruction Brigitte Fielder; 16. Emma Lazarus's cosmopolitanism Sharon Oster; 17. Henry James's temporalities Pamela Thurschwell; 18. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's pragmatism Cécile Roudeau; 19. Nicholas Black Elk's cosmology (or, post-reconstructing Black Elk) Matthew A. Taylor.

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Book Synopsis''Romanticism'', though a debated term, is broadly understood as a cultural movement which gripped the European imagination in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Embodying a poetics of feeling intersecting with nature and the notion of the sublime, its experiential aesthetics were furthermore bound up with ideas of personal and political rebellion. Michael Ferber''s lively anthology includes lesser-known verse from the best-known poets, as well as a few fine poems by little-known poets. Perfect for readers who would like to enjoy the many riches of arguably poetry''s greatest era, or for those already familiar with the poets but who would welcome some happy surprises, this varied international selection includes verse translated from six languages, with several poems appearing in the original language alongside its translation. This engaging selection features concise, informative headnotes and a helpful introduction that charts a course to understanding the Romantic mTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Charlotte Smith; 2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; 3. William Blake; 4.Robert Burns; 5. Friedrich Schiller ; 6. Helen Maria Williams; 6. André Chénier; 7. Friedrich Hölderlin; 7. Sophie Mereau; 8. William Wordsworth; 9. Sir Walter Scott; 10. Friedrich Schlegel; 11. Samuel Taylor Coleridge; 12. Robert Southey; 13. Ugo Foscolo; 14. Clemens Brentano; 15. Thomas Moore; 16. Karoline von Günderode; 17. Leigh Hunt; 18. Marceline Desbordes-Valmore; 19. Joseph Freiherr on Eichendorff; 20. Lord Byron; 21. Susan Evance; 22. Alphonse de Lamartine; 23. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822; 24. John Clare; 25. Felicia Dorothea Hemans; 26. William Cullen Bryant; 27. John Keats; 28. Annette von Droste-Hülshoff; 29. Alfred de Vigny; 30. Heinrich Heine; 31. Giacomo Leopardi; 32. Anton Delvig; 33. Amable Tastu; 34. Adam Mickiewicz; 35. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin; 36. Victor Hugo; 37. Letitia Elizabeth Landon; 38. Alexander Odoevsky; 39. Ralph Waldo Emerson; 40. Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve; 41. Elizabeth Barrett Browning; 42. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; 43. Gérard de Nerval; 44. Edgar Allen Poe; 45. Alfred de Musset; 46. Théophile Gautier; 47. Mikhail Lermontov; 48. Emily Brontë; 49. Walt Whitman; 50. Emily Dickinson; 51. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer; 52. William Butler Yeats.

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Book SynopsisRealism has long been associated with the secular, but in early nineteenth-century England a realist genre existed that was highly theological: popular natural histories informed by natural theology. The Divine in the Commonplace explores the ''reverent empiricism'' of English natural history and how it conceives observation and description as a kind of devotion or act of reverence. Focusing on the texts of popular natural historians, especially seashore naturalists, Amy M. King puts these in conversation with English provincial realist novelists including Austen, Gaskell, Eliot, and Trollope. She argues that the English provincial novel has a ''reverent form'' as a result of its connection to the practices and representational strategies of natural history writing in this period, which was literary, empirical, and reverent. This book will appeal to students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature, science historians, and those interested in interdisciplinary connections between Trade Review'In this elegantly written study of the relationship between nineteenth-century natural history, natural theology, and the English novel, King has shown how all three are designed to celebrate the commonplace. Rather than reading this as a sign of the advance of a secular empiricism, King brilliantly explores how the focus on the ordinary, the hallmark of English provincial realism à la Austen, Gaskell, Kingsley, Trollope, and Eliot, is actually indebted to the reverent form of natural history.' Bernard Lightman, York University'Amy King's The Divine in the Commonplace marks a quiet but major revision in our thinking about Victorian realism. Instead of reading it in relation to secular scientific empiricism, she demonstrates with scholarly authority its greater closeness to natural history writing and its religious understanding of the natural world. Her analysis of its strategies and of novels that emulate it is startlingly new, and her wonderful coinage, 'reverent empiricism', should become a standard descriptive term in criticism of the Victorian novel.' George Levine, Rutgers University, New Jersey'Through its thorough engagement with recent history of science scholarship, and the yoking of this with exemplary close readings of fiction, The Divine in the Commonplace makes some insightful broader points about the nineteenth-century realist novel … The Divine in the Commonplace also argues for a new understanding of the novel's relation to religion … King's carefully articulated 'alternative interpretation' to the view that nineteenth-century realist fiction was the 'cultural twin' to Victorian scientific naturalism has every reason to prove as influential as Levine's original proposal for scholars of science and literature and the novel more broadly.' Gowan Dawson, Nineteenth-Century Literature'Amy King's [is a] revisionary history of the nineteenth-century British novel … This argument makes a formidable contribution … King's study challenges readers to rethink the formal affiliations of realism as well as the 'persistence of a religious worldview' in the Victorian novel. These are substantial claims, and the overall cohesiveness of the argument owes much to King's comprehensive and detailed introduction … [which] shows the depth of King's engagement with scholarship by historians of science, who began in the 1990s to challenge the reductive binary of 'science vs. religion' as applied to studies of nineteenth-century culture. Her synthesis of scholarship on this topic by Jonathan Topham and John Hedley Brooke, among others, provides strong evidence of how 'religiosity persist[s] in genres we have previously understood as secular'.' Noah Heringman, Nineteenth-Century Contexts'King's quiet historicism allows her (and us) to see the continuities, residues and renewals of faith and affirmation because of, not in spite of, science … King's research shows how, as novels sat with bestselling natural histories at railway kiosks, natural theology, natural history and realism were parallel and often entwined practices, rooted in philosophical empiricism and in reverence for the everyday, the exceptional of the commonplace, and for a nature that is both material and luminous … [King] writes an accepting, accommodating and open book and a tale for our times, a reflection of the compatibilities, co-existences and reciprocities of faith and science, that strikes a chord as we seek new emotional and spiritual connection with nature.' Angelique Richardson, Times Literary Supplement'King not only declares the importance of honoring the divine in the nineteenth-century commonplace but also quietly invokes a loving and devotional respect for the everyday in our own.' Emma Mason, Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: natural history, the theology of nature, and the novel; 1. Reverent natural history, the sketch, and the novel: modes of English realism in White, Mitford, and Austen; 2. Early Victorian natural history: reverent empiricism and the aesthetic of the commonplace; 3. The formal realism of reverent natural history: tidepools, aquaria and the seashore natural histories of P. H. Gosse and G. H. Lewes; 4. Reverence at the seashore: seashore natural history, Charles Kingsley's Two Years Ago (1855), and Margaret Gatty's Parables from Nature (1857); 5. Seeing the divine in the commonplace: George Eliot's paranaturalist realism, 1856–1859; 6. Elizabeth Gaskell's everyday: Reverent form and natural theology in Sylvia's Lovers (1863) and Wives and Daughters (1866); Epilogue: Barsetshire via Selborne: Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867).

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Book SynopsisThis collection of thirty-five lively and accessible essays offers a comprehensive account of the life and work of Fyodor Dostoevsky (182181), set within social, political, cultural and literary contexts.Table of ContentsChronology; 1. Introduction: the many worlds of Dostoevsky Olga Maiorova and Deborah A. Martinsen; Part I. Social, Historical, and Cultural Contexts: Section 1. Changing Political, Economic, and Social Landscape: 2. The great reforms and the new courts Richard Wortman; 3. The abolition of serfdom Nathaniel Knight; 4. Punishment and crime Anna Schur; 5. Socialism, utopia, and myth James P. Scanlan; 6. Nihilism and terrorism Derek Offord; 7. The 'woman question', women's work, women's options Barbara Engel; 8. The economy and the print market Jonathan Paine; Section 2. Political, Social, and Cultural Institutions: 9. Russian monarchy and the people Richard Wortman; 10. Empire Olga Maiorova; 11. Service ranks Irina Reyfman; 12. Education Inessa Medzhibovskaya; 13. Science, technology, and medicine Michael D. Gordin; 14. Jews, race, and biology Harriet Murav; 15. Suicide Susan Morrissey; 16. Children Robin Feuer Miller; 17. Gambling Richard J. Rosenthal; Section 3. Space and Place: 18. Symbolic geography Anne Lounsbery; 19. St Petersburg Robert Belknap; 20. The Crystal Palace Sarah J. Young; Section 4. Religion and Modernity: 21. Orthodox spirituality Nel Grillaert; 22. Religious dissent Irina Paert; 23. Roman Catholicism Mikhail Dolbilov; 24. Islam Robert Geraci; Part II. Literature, Journalism, and Languages: 25. Modern print culture Konstantine Klioutchkine; 26. Realism Liza Knapp; 27. Dostoevsky: translator and translated Carol Apollonio; 28. Travel and travel writing Susan Layton; 29. Folklore Linda Ivanits; 30. Foreign languages Karin Beck; 31. Theater Maude Meisel; 32. Dostoevsky's journalism and fiction Ellen Chances; 33. Dostoevsky's journalism in the 1860s Sarah Hudspith; 34. Dostoevsky's journalism in the 1870s Kate Holland; 35. Censorship Irene Zohrab; Glossary; Further reading.

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Book SynopsisIn this original and important study, leading scholar Jon Klancher discusses how early nineteenth-century writers and thinkers adopted and transformed Enlightenment ideas of knowledge. His conclusions transform the ways we think about knowledge, both in the Romantic period and in our own.Trade Review'… one of the most ambitious and illuminating of recent studies …' Paul Keen, Huntington Library Quarterly'… Klancher establishes the prehistory to our current understanding of the liberal arts … [His] study allows us to see how crucial the Romantic era was to the development of the modern public sphere …' Adela Pinch, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900'Consistently interesting and closely researched …' Adrian Tait, British Society for Literature and Science (bsls.ac.uk)Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Questions of the Arts and Sciences: 1. From the age of projects to the age of institutions; 2. The administrator as cultural producer: restructuring the arts and sciences; 3. Wild bibliography: the rise and fall of book history in the nineteenth century; 4. Print and institution in the making of art controversy; 5. History and organization in the Romantic-age sciences; Part II. Questions of the Literary: 6. The Coleridge Institution; 7. Dissension in the arts and sciences; Epilogue: transatlantic crossings; Bibliography; Notes.

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1933, this book was written by the renowned British literary scholar Elsie Duncan-Jones (née Phare; 19082003). The text is notable for being the first full-length study on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, providing a highly readable survey and commentary on his works.Table of ContentsPreface; The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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Book SynopsisThis nuanced yet accessible study is the first to examine the range of religious experience imagined in Hopkins' writing. By exploring the shifting way in which Hopkins imagines religious belief in individual history, Martin Dubois contests established views of his poetry as a unified project.Trade Review'Diverse, generous, flexible, contingent. After reading this book, I believe these words best express both the version of Hopkins it offers and the nature of its author's unique critical approach … Along with his excellent argumentation and thorough grounding in biographical research and religious history, Dubois displays an intimate knowledge of the poems and a fine ear for their idiosyncrasies.' Summer J. Star, Review 19'Dubois's study is a rigorous and scholarly investigation which highlights the close dependence of Hopkins's work on elements of contemporary Catholic religious practice.' Joseph Phelan, The Times Literary Supplement'Martin Dubois' brilliantly simple project in Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience is to restore this recognition of the essential variety or 'mixed insight' of Hopkins' thought to our understanding of his theological and spiritual awareness … Dubois demonstrates how these various contexts of religious experience were further variegated by a number of persistent cross-pressures in Hopkins' theological thinking, charting them along a number of axes … [A] compelling account of the varieties of religious experience in Hopkins' verse …' A. J. Nickerson, The Cambridge Quarterly'The approach is flexible, skilful, believable, and helpful … Dubois' acute appreciation of the rhythm and music of Hopkins' lines as the patterns of sound shift and create different effects is an additional pleasure in experiencing these poems … It is a pleasure to read a scholarly work that is so in harmony with its subject, not bogged down in theory but adept at offering balanced readings and giving a host of other interpretations an opportunity to be heard.' James Finn Cotter, Hopkins Quarterly'[A] fine, detailed, and extremely thoughtful study.' Adrian Grafe, Victorian Poetry'Through close readings of poems like 'The Wreck of the Deutschland', 'Spelt from Sybil's Leaves' and 'That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection', and with a keen ear for prosody capable of handling the linguistic daring of Hopkins, Dubois insightfully unpacks the theological narrowness of Hopkins's notion of a final judgement and its contrast with the beauty and dignity of natural and human life that his best-loved poems celebrate.' Sean Sheehan, Dublin Review of Books'Although his aim is to illuminate complexity, Dubois argues his claims with admirable clarity. … [Dubois] invites Hopkins scholars to understand the man's work more inclusively and with a more attentive eye to the 'spiritual as well as … linguistic importance' of his poetic choices. It is a compelling invitation.' Sarah Weaver, Victoriographies'Throughout the book, the fluency and depth of Dubois's readings impress, steeped as they are in painstaking research and close readings of lapidary detail. The precision and particularity of Dubois's attention echo those of the poems themselves and fittingly unveil the 'piedness' of Hopkins's poetic vision. … [Dubois] demonstrates most profoundly the density and intricacy inherent in Hopkins's religious works.' Amanda Paxton, Modern Language Review'… a clear-sighted and necessary study … It brings forward and gives due consideration to unjustly neglected and occasionally maligned texts, as well as mobilizes insightful new readings of the canonical poetry … This poised and unconstraining study of Hopkins's religious experience, of 'the miscellaneousness of his lived experience,' offers a strong fillip for Hopkins studies, a standard and stimulus for further scholarship.' Daniel Brown, Victorian Studies'… deeply scholarly and at the same time absorbingly readable …' Jean Ward, The Heythrop JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Forms of Devotion: 1. Bibles; 2. Prayer; Part II. Models of Faith: 3. The soldier; 4. The martyr; Part III. Last Things: 5. Death and judgement; 6. Heaven and hell.

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Book SynopsisThe Victorian period has a strong tradition of poetry written by women. In this Companion, leading scholars deliver accessible and cutting-edge essays that situate Victorian women''s poetry in its relation to print culture, diverse identities, and aesthetic and cultural issues. The book is inclusive in method, demonstrating, for example, the benefits of both distant and close reading approaches, and featuring major figures like Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti and over one hundred poets altogether. Thematically arranged, the chapters deliver studies on a comprehensive array of subjects that address women''s poetry in its manifold forms and investigate its global context. Essays shed light on children''s poetry, domestic relations, sexualities, and stylistic artifice and conclude by looking at how women poets placed their published poems and how we can ''place'' Victorian women poets today.Trade Review'The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry is an invigorating and accessible volume which is highly attuned to the pressures on the discipline in the wake of digitisation.' Jane Ford, Women's Writing'All of the chapters are deeply informed and scholarly, but also readable and accessible.' Martin Dubois, Tennyson Research BulletinTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Chronology of publications and events, compiled by Sofia Prado Huggins; 1. Introduction Linda K. Hughes; Part I. Form and the Senses: 2. Genres Monique R. Morgan; 3. Prosody Meredith Martin; 4. Haunted by voice Elizabeth Helsinger; 5. Floating worlds: wood engraving and women's poetry Lorraine Janzen Kooistra; 6. Embodiment and touch Jason R. Rudy; Part II. Women's Poetry in the World: 7. Publishing and reception Alexis Easley; 8. Transatlanticism, transnationality, and cosmopolitanism Alison Chapman; 9. Dialect, region, class, work Kirstie Blair; 10. Politics, protest, interventions: beyond a poetess tradition Marjorie Stone; 11. Religion and spirituality Charles Laporte; Part III. Nurturance and Contested Naturalness: 12. Children's poetry Laurie Langbauer and Beverly Taylor; 13. Marriage, motherhood, and domesticity Emily Harrington; 14. Sexuality Jill Ehnenn; 15. Poets of style: poetries of asceticism and excess Ana Parejo Vadillo; Part IV. Reading Victorian Women's Poetry: 16. Distant reading and Victorian women's poetry Natalie M. Houston; Afterword. Nineteenth-century women's poetry in the field of vision Isobel Armstrong; Further reading; Appendix. Poets' biographies.

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Book SynopsisAurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression. The texts in this selection are based in the main on the earliest printed versions of the poems. What Edgar Allan Poe called 'her wild and magnificent genius' is abundantly in evidence. In addition to Aurora Leigh, this volume contains poetry from the several volumes of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's published poetry from 1826 to 1862, including Casa Guidi Windows (1851), Songs for the Ragged Schools of London (1854) and the British Library manuscript text of the 'Sonnets from the Portuguese' (1846) which records her courtship with Robert Browning.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughoTrade Review"Her ardour and abundance, her brilliant descriptive powers, her shrewd and caustic humour infect us with her own enthusiasm. We laugh, we protest, we complain – it is absurd, it is impossible, we cannot tolerate this exaggeration a moment longer – but, nevertheless, we read to the end enthralled. What more can an author ask?" —Virginia WoolfTable of ContentsAurora Leigh and Other Poems - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Edited by John Robert Glorney Bolton and Julia Bolton HollowayPrefaceAcknowledgmentsTable of DatesFurther ReadingAurora LeighFrom Essay on Mind, with Other Poems (1826)Verses to My BrotherStanzas on the Death of Lord Byron [1824]Lines on the Portrait of the Widow of RiegoFrom Prometheus Bound, and Miscellaneous Poems (1833)The Death-Bed of Teresa del RiegoThe Cry of the Children (1843, 1844)From Poems (1844)Past and FutureTo George Sand. A DesireLady Geraldine's CourtshipCrowned and Wedded [1840]Wine of CyprusThe Dead PanCaterina to CamoënsThe Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point (1848, 1849, 1850)From Poems (1850)Flush or FaunusHiram Powers' Greek SlaveHugh Stuart Boyd: His BlindnessHugh Stuart Boyd: LegaciesSonnets from the Portugese [1846]Casa Guidi Windows (1851)From Two Poems by Elizabeth Barrett and Robert BrowningA Plea for the Ragged Schools of LondonFrom Poems Before Congress (1860)Christmas GiftsFrom Last Poems (1862)The North and the South [1861]Psyche Gazing on Cupid [1845]NotesIndex of TitlesIndex of First Lines

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Book SynopsisContains twelve free-flowing, untitled poems which embrace almost every realm of experience.Trade Review"Whitman's best poems have that permanent quality of being freshly painted, of not being dulled by the varnish of the years."--Malcolm Cowley

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Book SynopsisOne of Charles Dickens’s most critically admired novels, this story of a monumental and life-consuming court case features one of his most vast and varied casts of colorful characters.In Bleak House, competing claims of love and inheritance—complicated by murder—have given rise to a costly and decades-long legal battle that one litigant refers to as “the family curse.” The insidious London fog that rises from the river Thames and seeps into the very bones of the characters symbolizes the pervasive corruption of the legal system and the society that supports it, targets of Dickens’s satirical wrath. Displaying Dickens’s familiar panoramic sweep and brilliant characters—including the mysterious orphan Esther Summerson, her gentle guardian John Jarndyce, the haughty Lady Dedlock, and the scheming lawyer Mr. Tulkinghorn—the novel is also a bold experimental narrative that unforgettably dramatizes our most basic human c

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Book SynopsisThe shortest of Charles Dickens’s novels, Hard Times is also his most pointed and impassioned satire of social injustice.Set in Coketown, a fictional industrial town in the north of England, Hard Times was born of its author’s indignation at the soul-crushing conditions of the industrial age, and yet it vibrantly transcends the stock situations and polemical weaknesses typical of social protest fiction of the time. The indelible characters—Mr. Gradgrind, whose utilitarian educational philosophy emotionally cripples his own children; the hypocritical factory owner Josiah Bounderby; Stephen Blackpool, an honest worker wrongly accused of a crime; and Sissy Jupe, a circus performer whose father abandons her to what he hopes is a better life—all come alive in classic Dickensian fashion, and contribute to a satiric vision of society tempered equally by righteous anger and compassionate humanity.

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Book SynopsisIbsen ascended to the first ranks of European writers in the late nineteenth century and has remained there ever since.

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Book SynopsisThis Second Edition reprints the text of the authoritative 1912 Macmillan Wessex Edition.

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Book SynopsisFew writers have transformed literature and theater so dramatically. Based on Henry J. Schmidt’s translations of The Hessian Messenger, Danton’s Death, Lenz, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Acknowledgments The Texts of Büchner’s Major Works The Hessian Messenger Danton’s Death Lenz Leonce and Lena Woyzeck A Reconstruction The Drafts Introduction to On Cranial Nerves (translated by Matthew Wilson Smith) Contexts Selected Letters Karl Vogt • [Impression of the Giessen Student Georg Büchner] Wanted Poster Johann Friedrich Oberlin • From Pastor Oberlin’s Diary Johann Christian August Clarus • From The Legal Accountability of the Murderer Johann Christian Woyzeck Caroline Schulz • From Diary Account of Büchner’s Last Days Criticism GENERAL Herbert Lindenberger • Forebears, Descendants, and Contemporary Kin: Büchner and Literary Tradition Laura Ginters • Georg Büchner—A Selective Stage History The Hessian Messenger Hans Magnus Enzensberger • [The Hessian Messenger in the Political Context of 1964] Victor Brombert • [Büchner and Rhetoric] Danton’s Death Bertolt Brecht • [On Danton’s Death] Edward McInnes • Skepticism, Ideology, and History in Büchner’s Dantons Tod Henry J. Schmidt • Women, Death, and Revolution Accounts of Three Productions Ernst Stern • [On Max Reinhardt’s Danton’s Death] John Houseman • [On Orson Welles’s Danton’s Death] Richard Thomas • Wilson, Danton, and Me Lenz Erika Swales • Büchner, Lenz Leonce and Lena Thomas Bernhard • Leonce and Lena: Tragic Comedy by Georg Büchner Andrew Webber • Büchner, Leonce und Lena Woyzeck Rainer Maria Rilke • [On Woyzeck] George Steiner • [Woyzeck and Lear] John A. McCarthy • Some Aspects of Imagery in Büchner’s Woyzeck John Reddick • Natur and Kunst Peter J. Schwartz • Clarus, Woyzeck, and the Politics of Accountability Four Georg Büchner Prize Talks Paul Celan • The Meridian Christa Wolf • Speaking of Büchner Heiner Müller • The Wounded Woyzeck Durs Grünbein • Breaking the Body Georg Büchner: A Chronology Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMaggie: A Girl of the Streets was the first major naturalistic novel in America.

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Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition reprints the original 1850 text of Dickens’ most autobiographical novel, and his own personal favorite, including all of the line drawings by Phiz.

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