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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to George Eliot. Edited by Amanda
Book SynopsisThis collection offers students and scholars of Eliot s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism.Trade ReviewReview copy sent on 04.04.14 to The Hudson Review "Recommended for general readers, graduate students, researchers and teachers." (Reference Reviews, 1 March 2014) "Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." (Choice, 1 November 2013)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Amanda Anderson and Harry E. Shaw Part I: Imaginative Form and Literary Context 19 1 Eliot and Narrative 21 Monika Fludernik 2 Metaphor and Masque 35 Michael Wood 3 “It Is of Little Use for Me to Tell You”: George Eliot’s Narrative Refusals 46 Robyn Warhol 4 Surprising Realism 62 Caroline Levine 5 Two Flowers: George Eliot’s Diagrams and the Modern Novel 76 John Plotz Part II: Works 91 6 Scenes of Clerical Life and Silas Marner: Moral Fables 93 Stefanie Markovits 7 Adam Bede: History’s Maggots 105 Rae Greiner 8 The Mill on the Floss and “The Lifted Veil”: Prediction, Prevention, Protection 117 Adela Pinch 9 Romola: Historical Narration and the Communicative Dynamics of Modernity 129 David Wayne Thomas 10 Felix Holt: Love in the Time of Politics 141 David Kurnick 11 Middlemarch: January in Lowick 153 Andrew H. Miller 12 Daniel Deronda: Late Form, or After Middlemarch 166 Alex Woloch 13 Poetry: The Unappreciated Eliot 178 Herbert F. Tucker 14 Essays: Essay v. Novel (Eliot, Aloof) 192 Jeff Nunokawa 15 Impressions of Theophrastus Such: “Not a Story” 204 James Buzard Part III: Life and Reception 217 16 The Reception of George Eliot 219 James Eli Adams 17 George Eliot Among Her Contemporaries: A Life Apart 233 Lynn Voskuil 18 Feminist George Eliot Comes from the United States 247 Alison Booth 19 Transatlantic Eliot: African American Connections 262 Daniel Hack Part IV: Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts 277 20 Sympathy and the Basis of Morality 279 T. H. Irwin 21 George Eliot, Spinoza, and the Emotions 294 Isobel Armstrong 22 George Eliot and the Law 309 Jan-Melissa Schramm 23 George Eliot and Finance 323 Nancy Henry 24 George Eliot and Politics 338 Carolyn Lesjak 25 Imagining Locality and Affiliation: George Eliot’s Villages 353 Josephine McDonagh 26 George Eliot’s Liberalism 370 Daniel S. Malachuk 27 George Eliot: Gender and Sexuality 385 Laura Green 28 The Cosmopolitan Eliot 400 Bruce Robbins 29 The Continental Eliot 413 Hina Nazar 30 George Eliot and Secularism 428 Simon During 31 Living Theory: Personality and Doctrine in Eliot 442 Amanda Anderson 32 George Eliot and the Sciences of Mind: The Silence that Lies on the Other Side of Roar 457 Jill L. Matus 33 George Eliot and the Science of the Human 471 Ian Duncan 34 Eliot, Evolution, and Aesthetics 486 Jonathan Loesberg Index 500
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Alfred A. Knopf Keats
Book SynopsisA dazzling new look into the short but intense, tragic life and remarkable work of John Keats, one of the greatest lyric poets of the English language, seen in a whole new light, not as the mythologized Victorian guileless nature-lover, but as the subversive, bawdy complex cynic whose life and poetry were lived and created on the edge.In this brief life, acclaimed biographer Lucasta Miller takes nine of Keats's best-known poems—Endymion; On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer; Ode to a Nightingale; To Autumn; Bright Star among them—and excavates how they came to be and what in Keats's life led to their creation. She writes of aspects of Keats's life that have been overlooked, and explores his imagination in the context of his world and experience, paying tribute to the unique quality of his mind. Miller, through Keats’s poetry, brilliantly resurrects and brings vividly to life, the man, the poet in all his complexity and spirit, l
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Random House USA Inc Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Random House USA Inc The Warden
Book SynopsisWhen John Bold decides to challenge corruption in the Church of England he sets the whole town of Barchester by the ears with consequences both comic and sad. Trollope's first masterpiece is the study of conflicting loyalties and principles in a cathedral city where the gentle warden becomes an unwilling focus of national controversy. The resulting story is both a fine comedy of manners and a magnificent group portrait. THE WARDEN is the first novel of the Barsetshire series.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Poems of John Keats
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Portrait of a Lady
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Random House USA Inc Vanity Fair
Book SynopsisA panoramic satire of English society during the Napoleonic Wars, Vanity Fair is William Makepeace Thackeray’s masterpiece. At its center is one of the most unforgettable characters in nineteenth-century literature: the enthralling Becky Sharp, a charmingly ruthless social climber who is determined to leave behind her humble origins, no matter the cost. Her more gentle friend Amelia, by contrast, only cares for Captain George Osborne, despite his selfishness and her family’s disapproval. As both women move within the flamboyant milieu of Regency England, the political turmoil of the era is matched by the scheming Becky’s sensational rise—and its unforeseen aftermath. Based in part upon Thackeray’s own love for the wife of a friend, Vanity Fair portrays the hypocrisy and corruption of high society and the dangers of unrestrained ambition with epic brilliance and scathing wit. With an introduction by Catherine Peters.
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Random House USA Inc Middlemarch A Study of Provincial Life Everymans
Book SynopsisOne of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small landscape, Eliot's large cast of precisely delineated characters and the rich tapestry of their stories result in a wise, compassionate, and astute vision of human nature. As Virginia Woolf declared, George Eliot was one of the first English novelists to discover that men and women think as well as feel, and the discovery was of great artistic moment.Introduction by E. S. Shaffer(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
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Random House USA Inc David Copperfield
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Random House USA Inc Far from the Madding Crowd Everymans Library
Book SynopsisFar From the Madding Crowd, published in 1874, is the book that made Hardy famous. Bathsheba Everdene is a prosperous farmer in Hardy’s fictional Wessex county whose strong-minded independence and vanity lead to disastrous consequences for her and the three very different men who pursue her: the obsessed farmer William Boldwood, dashing and seductive Sergeant Frank Troy, and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Despite the violent ends of several of its major characters, Far from the Madding Crowd is the sunniest and least brooding of Hardy’s great novels, as Bathsheba and her suitors move through a beautifully realized late-nineteenth-century agrarian landscape that is still almost untouched by the industrial revolution and the encroachment of modern life. With an introduction by Michael Slater
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Random House USA Inc Great Expectations
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Random House USA Inc Jane Eyre
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Random House USA Inc Plays Prose Writings and Poems of Oscar Wilde
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Alfred A. Knopf Persuasion
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Random House USA Inc Sense and Sensibility
Book SynopsisIn its marvelously perceptive portrayal of two young women in love, Sense and Sensibility is the answer to those who believe that Jane Austen’s novels, despite their perfection of form and tone, lack strong feeling. Its two heroines, Marianne and Elinor—so utterly unlike each other–both undergo the most violent passions when they are separated from the men they love. What differentiates them, and gives this extraordinary book its complexity and brilliance, is the way each expresses her suffering: Marianne–young, impetuous, ardent–falls into paroxysms of grief when she is rejected by the dashing John Willoughby; while her sister, Elinor—wiser, more sensible, more self-controlled—masks her despair when it appears that Edward Ferrars is to marry the mean-spirited and cunning Lucy Steele. All, of course, ends happily—but not until Elinor’s “sense” and Marianne’s “sensibility” have e
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Villette Everymans Library
Book SynopsisLeft by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Charlotte Brontë's last novel, published in 1853, has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as strikingly modern psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness. With an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallet.
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Random House USA Inc Frankenstein
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Random House USA Inc The Moonstone
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Random House USA Inc The Awkward Age Everymans Library Classics
Book SynopsisHenry James had arrived at such mastery of the forms and uses of fiction by the time he published The Awkward Age in 1899 that this story of a young girl introduced into a casually corrupt circle of sophisticates is at once a universal drama of innocence confronting evil, a detailed examination of a social order, and a stunning picture of a civilization in crisis. On the verge of what was to be his greatest period of creativity, James produced, in The Awkward Age, one of the finest, most rounded, and, in some ways, most intimate and revealing of his long string of masterpieces.Introduction by Cynthia Ozick
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Random House USA Inc The Collected Tales And Poems Of Edgar Allan Poe
Book SynopsisEdgar Allan Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime. He was a seminal figure in the development of science fiction and the detective story, and exerted a great influence on Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, and Charles Baudelaire, who championed him long before Poe was appreciated in his own country. Baudelaire's enthusiasm brought Poe a wide audience in Europe, and his writing came to have enormous importance for modern French literature. This edition includes his most well-known works--'The Raven,' 'The Pit and the Pendulum,' 'Annabel Lee,' 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'--as well as less-familiar stories, poems, and essays.
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Random House USA Inc David Copperfield
Book SynopsisHugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens''s own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens''s power of invention, Somerset Maugham wrote: 'There were never such people as the Micawbers, Peggotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of Dickens''s exultant imagination...you can never quite forget them.'This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize finalist David Gates, in addition to new explanatory notes.
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University of Queensland Press Bibliography of Australian Literature The PZ 4
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British Library Publishing Holmes Watson
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Art of Alibi
Book SynopsisThe author reconstructs the relation of the novel to 19th-century law courts. He argues that the courts, newly fashioned as a site in which to orchestrate voices and reconstruct stories, arose as a cultural presence influencing the shape of the English novel.Trade ReviewAmong those texts that attend both to historical environment and formal or generic pressures, Jonathan H. Grossman's The Art of Alibi stands out. -- Andrew H. Miller Studies in English Literature 2003 [An] absorbing study of the cultural influence of the law courts on the Victorian novel... Grossman's refusal to simply draw an analogy between trials and novels distinguishes his argument from others working in the crossover territory between legal studies and literary criticism. -- David McAllister Times Literary Supplement 2003 Grossman's innovative study is a provocative reconsideration of the early nineteenth-century novel and should stimulate further exploration of the generative intersection of law and literature. -- Gareth Cordery Dickens Quarterly 2004Table of ContentsContents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction ONE: From Scaffold to Law Court, from Criminal Broadsheet and Biography to Newspaper Novel TWO: Caleb Williams and the Novel's Forensic Form THREE: Mary Shelley's Legal Frankenstein FOUR: Victorian Courthouse Structures FIVE: Mary Barton's Telltale Evidence SIX: The Newgate Novel and Advent of Detective Fiction Conclusion Notes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Imagining Inclusive Society in NineteenthCentury
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide range of literary, cultural, and historical thinkers-Jurgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, Benedict Anderson, Mary Poovey, and Charles Tilly-Morris makes an original and highly sophisticated contribution to our understanding of the complex and always contested processes of imagining social inclusiveness.Trade ReviewA must read for Victorianists interested in politics, the novel, and cultural studies in general. Choice 2005 Morris's forays into imagining cultural and literary constructions of inclusive society in Victorian England are both informed and informative. Dickens Quarterly 2005 A well-researched study. -- Gerardo Del Guercio Cercles 2005 Morris tells with rigor and intelligence an important story. -- Ivan Kreilkamp Modern Philology 2006Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPart I: Introduction Chapter 1. Imagining Inclusive Society, 1846–1867: Theoretical Perspectives Chapter 2. Producing Inclusive Society, 1846–1867: Empirical Histories Part II: Inclusive Leadership: Heroes of DomesticityChapter 3. Shirley: Charisma or Sincerity?Chapter 4. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: The Hero as Sincere ManPart III: The Constitution of the PublicChapter 5. Bleak House: Interested Knowledge and Imaginary PowerChapter 6. North and South: From Public Sphere to Manipulative PublicityPart IV: Embodying Mass CultureChapter 7. Romola: The Politics of DisinterestednessChapter 8. Our Mutual Friend: Visualizing DistinctionConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Neural Sublime Cognitive Theories and
Book SynopsisThe Neural Sublime features an array of cognitive and neuroscientific approaches, providing an engaging and readable introduction to the emergent field of cognitive literary studies.Trade ReviewThis exemplary book may prove one of the most influential books on Romantic literature for decades to come... Essential. Choice 2011 A work of considerable variety and ambition, engagingly written, refreshingly undogmatic in its methods and generous in acknowledging related work in the field, The Neural Sublime will be essential reading for those interested in romanticism's relationship with the human sciences; it is also highly recommended for anyone in the field of romantic studies partial to interdisciplinary conversations. -- Tim Milnes Review of English Studies 2011Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction: Cognitive Historicism2. The Neural Sublime3. The Romantic Image, the Mind's Eye, and the History of the Senses4. Romantic Apostrophe: Everyday Discourse, Overhearing, and Poetic Address5. Reading Minds—and Bodies—in Emma6. Romantic Incest: Literary Representation and the Biology of Mind7. Language Strange: Motherese, the Semiotic, and Romantic PoetryNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Reading Fiction in Antebellum America
Book SynopsisIn so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors' conceptions of their own readership.Trade Review"An important book that fills significant gaps in literary and historical scholarship on the reading, reception, publishing, and interpretation of antebellum fiction." (Barbara Hochman, Ben Gurion University)"Table of ContentsPrefacePart I: Reading Reading Historically1. Historical Hermeneutics, Reception Theory, and the Social Conditions of Reading in Antebellum America2. Interpretive Strategies and Informed Reading in the Antebellum Public SpherePart II: Contextual Receptions, Reading Experiences, and Patterns of Response: Four Case Studies3. "These Days of Double Dealing": Informed Response, Reader Appropriation, and the Tales of Poe4. Multiple Audiences and Melville's Fiction: Receptions, Recoveries, and Regressions5. Response as (Re)Construction: The Reception of Catharine Sedgwick's Novels6. Mercurial Readings: The Making and Unmaking of Caroline Chesebro'Conclusion: American Literary History and the Historical Study of Interpretive PracticesNotesIndex
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Schocken Books The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem The Remarkable Life
Book SynopsisPart of the Jewish Encounters seriesThe first comprehensive biography of one of the most beloved authors of all time: the creator of Tevye the Dairyman, the collection of stories that inspired Fiddler on the Roof. Novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist, and editor, Sholem Aleichem was one of the founding giants of modern Yiddish literature. The creator of a pantheon of characters who have been immortalized in books and plays, he provided readers throughout the world with a fascinating window into the world of Eastern European Jews as they began to confront the forces of cultural, political, and religious modernity that tore through the Russian Empire in the final decades of the nineteenth century. But just as compelling as the fictional lives of Tevye, Golde, Menakhem-Mendl, and Motl was Sholem Aleichem’s own life story. Born Sholem Rabinovich in Ukraine in 1859, he endured an impoverished childhood, married into fabul
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Beetle Leg
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Ubu Roi
Book SynopsisA stunning, controversial work that immediately outraged audiences with its scatological references during the 1896 premiere, Ubu Roi satirizes the tendency of the successful bourgeois to abuse his authority and become irresponsibly complacent.Trade Review"What more is possible? After us, the Savage God." -- W.B. Yeats
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Life of Monsieur de Molière
Book SynopsisThis portrait of Molière, by Mikhail Bulgakov, goes far beyond mere biography. The Russian master brings a kindred spirit vividly to life in this novelistic story of art and the struggle it demands.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Well to the Woods No More Novel 0682 New
Book SynopsisTrade Review"When we read this type of novel we accomplish something we can never do in our daily lives. We actually succeed in penetrating into the consciousness of another and sometimes into the inner worlds of several persons. " -- Leon Edel
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The University Press of Kentucky Salvator Rosa in French Literature From the
Book SynopsisArranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa's life and work in the world of French letters.Trade ReviewImpeccable scholarship...this will be the definitive study of Rosa in France. - Allan PascoTable of ContentsFishing for the [Mediating] Self: Identity and Storytelling in Big Fish Catwoman: Constructions of Identity and Power in Tim Burton's Batman Returns The Consolations and Dangers of Fantasy: Burton, Poe, and Vincent Johnny Depp is a Big Baby!: The Philosophical Significance of Tim Burton's Preoccupation with Childhood Consciousness in Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood Mars Attacks!: Burton, Tocqueville, and the Self-Organizing Power of the American People "Pinioned by a Chain of Reasoning"?: Anti-Intellectualism and Models of Rationality in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow Culture, Hermeneutics, and the Batman Burtonology: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Essences, Christmas, & Vincent Price A Symphony of Horror: the Sublime Synaesthesia of Sweeney Todd Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and the Fantastic It's Uncanny: Death in Tim Burton's Corpus Affect without Illusion: The Films of Edward D. Wood, Jr. after Ed Wood Little Burton Blue: Tim Burton and the Product(ion) of Color in the Fairy Tale Films The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride
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The University Press of Kentucky Benjamin Franklins Humor
Book SynopsisHumor is sometimes a serious business, especially the humor of Benjamin Franklin, a master at revealing the human condition through comedy. Dedicated to the uniquely appealing and enduring humor of Benjamin Franklin, Zall lovingly samples Franklin's apologues on the necessity of living reasonably even when life's circumstances may seem absurd.Trade ReviewThe growth in Franklin's control of his comic sense is gradually revealed as Zall traces his wit from his youth to his old age. - ROBERT MIDDLEKAUFF, AUTHOR OF The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution 1763-1789
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The University Press of Kentucky A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau
Book SynopsisWith a resurgence of interest in recent years, A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau is the first volume focused exclusively on Thoreau's ethical and political thought.Jack Turner illuminates the unexamined aspects of Thoreau's political life and writings.
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University of Alabama Press Gears and God
Book SynopsisProvides a revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith. In Gears and God, Nathaniel Williams analyses the genre of technology-themed exploration novels - dime novel adventure stories featuring steam-powered and electrified robots, airships, and submersibles.Trade ReviewGears and God is a clearly written, persuasive book which brings fresh insights to bear on the rich literature of dime novels, science fiction, and technocratic exploration narratives at the turn of the twentieth century."" - Gregory M. Pfitzer, author of History Repeating Itself: The Republican Phenomenon in Children's Historical Literatureand the Christian Right and Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840–1920
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University of Exeter Press El Ritmo Exeter Hispanic Texts LIII
Book SynopsisEl ritmo is a collection of letters from Salvador Rueda to the Catalonian critic Jose Yxart, first published in Madrid in 1894. El ritmo sets out, in a sometimes ironical tone, a panorama of the state of poetry in Spanish at the end of the nineteenth century.Trade Review Table of ContentsINTRODUCCION, v; 1. El ritmo en el contexto de la renovacion poetica de Salvador Rueda, vi; 2. El ritmo y su relacion con la teoria poetica espanola del ultimo tercio del siglo XIX, xiv; 3. Analisis de El ritmo, xxi; La edicion, xxxv; NOTAS, xxxvii; BIBLIOGRAFIA CITADA, xlv; EL RITMO, 1; NOTAS, 47.
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University of Exeter Press Histoire dEleonore de Parme Exeter French Texts
Book SynopsisIn 1810, Stendhal read the sentimental novella Histoire d'Eleonore de Parme, whose anonymous author was certainly a woman. This text poses the question: can it be asserted that Stendhal took inspiration from this novella when he wrote La Chartreuse de Parme, and not from real life?Trade Review Table of ContentsFrontispice: Portrait de femme (Gravure anglaise anonyme 1810), ii; Introduction, vii; Le Texte, xxxiii; Bibliographie, xxxiv; HISTOIRE D'ELEONORE DE PARME; Resume de l'episode qui precede l'Histoire d'Eleonore, 2; Le Recit d'Eleonore, 5.
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University of Exeter Press Sick Heroes French Society and Literature in the
Book SynopsisSick Heroes examines the cultural practices that created those remarkably offensive, though strangely appealing, romantic heroes that appeared in European and especially in French literature in the latter half of the eighteenth century.Trade Review “Meticulously documented, written in a clear and witty manner, Sick Heroes is ambitious in the scope of literature it examines and audacious in its application of modern studies in the behavioural sciences to fiction. It is a valuable addition to the criticism of the Romantic novel because of the fresh insights it brings to well-known works and for the wealth of information it provides on lesser-known literature. Its most significant contribution to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French studies, however, is the coherent and convincing psychological portrait it paints of an age so obviously afflicated with many of the problems of the twentieth century. Pasco succeeds admirably in accounting for the appeal of his unusual heroes and heroines, characters who expressed a popular mentality to a much greater degree than historians and literary scholars have previously recognized.” (Philosophy and Literature, April 1998) “Pasco does not preach, does not try to make literary works into the heroes or accessory villains of a political struggle in which he feels invested. Instead, they are symptoms of a sociopathology that one could readily corroborate with examples of abused and neglected children in the fictions of Hugo or Dickens. Pasco offers an impressive, harmonious blend of "hard scholarship" (investigation of original sources) and imaginative synthesis. One can anticipate that this study, like his important overview that opens Allusion (Toronto UP, 1994), will become widely influential.” (Nineteenth Century French Studies, Vol. 27, Nos. 1 and 2) “This attractively-written and thoroughly researched and documented study redefines Romanticism as primarily a cultural phenomenon and paints a sweeping portrait of the French people’s collective mentality during the period extending from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, a time-frame which encompasses the most profound social, political, and aesthetic changes. . . This is a remarkably rich, informative, and in many ways innovative examination of a crucial period in French literary and cultural history.” (French Review, March 1999) Table of Contents
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University of Exeter Press Translating Rimbauds Illuminations
Book SynopsisTranslating Rimbaud's Illuminations is a critique of the assumptions which currently underlie our thinking on literary translation. It offers an alternative vision; extending the parameters of literary translation by showing that such translation is itself a form of experimental creative writing.Trade Review ‘…this bold and highly stimulating exploration of the limits of translation activity…’ ‘His passion and enthusiasm for an experimental translation which defamiliarises and destabilises make this an exciting tour de force and a significant contribution to the field of translation studies.’ (Forum for Modern Language Studies, 43, 3 July 2007) ‘…highly stimulating and challenging work…’ ‘…one enjoys and applauds this adventurous attempt to release the source text from the obsession with understanding and to prevent the traduttore of Rimbaud’s prose poems from becoming a traditore.’ (MLR, 102.4, 2007) ‘Clive Scott’s highly original study forges innovative lines of inquiry, while being a pleasure to read thanks to its fluid prose, thorough research and clear presentation of the translation techniques.’(Denise Merkle, Target, 21:1, 2009) Table of Contents
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Verso Books Late Imperial Romance Haymarket
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WW Norton & Co Portrait of a Novel
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Red Wheel/Weiser Astrology for Initiates Astrological Secrets of
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Hebrew Union College Press,U.S. Between Snow and Desert Heat
Book SynopsisHebrew literature, from the second half of the 19th century to well into the 20th, was unmistakably influenced in style and substance by Russian prose and poetry. Rina Lapidus systematically identifies those Hebrew authors and poets upon whom Russian influence is most striking and upon whom it seems to have exerted the greatest power.
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Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S. Blake Jung and the Collective Unconscious The
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Academy Chicago Publishers The Intellectuals and the Masses Pride and
Book SynopsisAnalyses the elitist view of some of the most highly respected literary icons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This devastating attack on the intellectuals exposes the loathing which the mass of humanity ignited in many of the virtual founders of modern culture: Pound, Joyce, Forster, Woolf, Eliot and others. Professor Carey compares their detestation of common humanity to Nietzche, whose philosophy helped to create the atmosphere leading to the rise of Adolph Hitler.
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Records Of Shelley Byron And The Author New York
Book SynopsisIn 1822, after having been discharged from the British navy, deserted by his wife, and as good as disowned by his father, the thirty-two year old Edward John Trelawny set off for Italy to make the acquaintance of his hero, Lord Byron. 'I have met today the personification of my Corsair,' Byron wrote in a letter. 'He sleeps with the poem under his pillow, and all his past adventures and present manners aim at this personification.' But though Byron enjoyed the company of his admirer, and was eventually to embark with him on his ill-fated final expedition to aid in the War of Greek Independence, he had grown guarded and ironical with age, and the perfect meeting of minds that Trelawny had envisioned was not to be. Shelley, however, enchanted him. In the months before his death at sea, he and Trelawny were frequent companions, and the young poet emerges from these pages in all his splendid carelessness and otherworldly concentration.
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