Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
Oxford University Press A Christmas Carol
Book SynopsisA Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe or plum pudding. This edition reprints the story alongside Dickens's four other Christmas Books: The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man.Trade ReviewAnother brilliant edition of the timeless classic. * Paul Norman, Books Monthly *A lovely new hardback edition from Oxford World's Classics. It's beautifully produced, with some of the original illustrations for each story, and is one of those volumes that is a physical pleasure to read... Id say it is perfect Christmas gift material for any Dickens fan, except Id never be willing to give my copy away! * Leah Galbraith, Goodreads *Table of ContentsA Christmas CarolThe ChimesThe Cricket on the HearthThe Battle of LifeThe Haunted Man
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Oxford University Press By Accident or Design
Book Synopsis''Ohe banks of the Thames it is a tremendous chapter of accidents''. As Henry James surveys London in 1888, he sums up what had fascinated urban observers for a century: the random and even accidental development of this unprecedented form of human settlement, the modern metropolis. By Accident or Design: Writing the Victorian Metropolis takes James at his word, arguing that accident was both a powerful metaphor and material context through which the Victorians arrested the paradoxes of metropolitan modernity and reconfigured understandings of form and change. Paul Fyfe shows how the material conditions of urban accidents offer new and compelling modes of analysis for intellectual and literary history. Through extensive archival study and interdisciplinary analysis of urban-industrial accidents, risk management, and civic improvements, By Accident or Design reclaims the metropolis as ground zero for some of the most important thinking about causation in the nineteenth century. It demonstrates the centrality of interdependent concepts of design and accident not only to metropolitan discourse, but also to current critical discourse about the formal and circulatory dynamics of Victorian metropolitan writing. Thus, this book offers a new vocabulary for the dialectics of the modern city and the signature forms of writing about it, including the newspaper, the illustrated periodical, the industrial novel, and urban broadsheets.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition The material here is fascinating ... [Fyfe] has provided readers with stimulating new ways of looking at a broad literary spectrum and that is a considerable achievement. * Jacqueline Banerjee, The Times Literary Supplement *an absorbing and complex piece of work ... There is a critical self-awareness throughout; the book is engaging and methodologically alert ... Fyfe's ability to bring together concerns of urban and intellectual history, literary criticism, archival theory, and more, certainly makes this a stimulating read. * Anna Feintuck, Reviews in History *By Accident or Design constitutes a thoughtful and richly dense literary-historical study of chance, risk and accident in the Victorian city, and one that is alert to the many debates with which it engages. * Ben Moore, Dickens Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Accidents in the News 2: Dickens and the Traffic of Accidents 3: Industrial Accidents and Novel Insurances 4: Street Literature and the Remediation of Accident 5: Chaos and Connections on the Victorian Railway Afterword: An Accidental Excursion
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Oxford University Press Translating Early Modern China Illegible Cities
Book SynopsisA volume on translation and language in China from the fifteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. It uses fictional narrative to discuss translators who worked between Chinese and (mostly) non-European languages and studies dictionaries, language primers, grammars, poetry collections, and conversation manuals.Trade ReviewIllegible Cities is an important work of history, arguing against the temptation in Sinology to reduce pre-twentieth-century China to what occurred in one language alone * Lucas Klein, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *This reading exemplifies the most admirable characteristics of Nappi's book: its richness, interdisciplinarity, and postmodern spirit. Translating Early Modern China is not a strictly academic book that only scholars could read and appreciate. * Elisa Frei, Catholic Theology and Church History, Goethe-Universität Frankfurtam Main, Comitatus *This book highlights the strategic linguistic tactics Chinese rulers continue to employ to control a nation of diverse religions and cultures. Unique but difficult to categorize, this book is a welcome addition to scholarship on not only Chinese history but also the art of linguistics and translation theory. * K. Liu, CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface: On History and Its Opposites Introduction: On Cities and Their Opposites Gathering 1: Glossary (1578) 2: Documents (1389/1608) 3: Grammar (1678) 4: Primer (1730) 5: Poems (1848) Dispersal Bibliography
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Oxford University Press The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
Book SynopsisThe nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography, these letters give us unique insights into his life, and are essential reading for Dickens fans everywhere. Whether you dip in or read straight through, this selection of his letters creates afresh the brilliance of being Dickens, and the sheer pleasure of being in his company.Trade ReviewIn short, the whole book bursts with the author's energy, and you will love him and know him better after reading even a few of these letters. If you don't buy it now, or put it on your Christmas list, it can only be because you already have a copy. * Guardian, Nicholas Lezard *This is Dickens by Dickens. Do not miss it. * Sunday Times Magazine, John Carey *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; Note on the Text ; Select Bibliography ; A Chronology of Charles Dickens ; Abbreviations and Symbols ; SELECTED LETTERS ; Index
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The University of Chicago Press Choosing not Choosing
Book SynopsisAlthough Emily Dickinson copied and bound her poems into manuscript notebooks, in the century since her death her poems have been read as single lyrics with little or no regard for the context she created for them in her fascicles. Choosing Not Choosing is the first book-length consideration of the poems in their manuscript context. Sharon Cameron demonstrates that to read the poems with attention to their placement in the fascicles is to observe scenes and subjects unfolding between and among poems rather than to think of them as isolated riddles, enigmatic in both syntax and reference. Thus Choosing Not Choosing illustrates that the contextual sense of Dickinson is not the canonical sense of Dickinson. Considering the poems in the context of the fascicles, Cameron argues that an essential refusal of choice pervades all aspects of Dickinson's poetry. Because Dickinson never chose whether she wanted her poems read as single lyrics or in sequence (nor is it clear where any fascicle text
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The University of Chicago Press England in 1819
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The University of Chicago Press Closet WritingGay Reading Paper The Case of
Book SynopsisArguing in favour of a retrieval of a repressed, closeted gay literary heritage, Creech shows how a literary critic can be receptive to implicit and closeted sexual content, and analyzes what he considers the exemplary novel of the 19th-century closet, Melville's Pierre; or, The Ambiguities.
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The University of Chicago Press Catos Tears the Making of AngloAmerican Emotion
Book SynopsisHow did the public expression of feeling become central to political culture in England and the United States? This revisionist account of a much expanded Age of Sensibility traces the evolution of the politics of emotion on both sides of the Atlantic, from the late-17th to early-19th century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Someday Bridges May Have Feelings Too Chapter 1: Conspiracy, Sensibility, and the Stoic Chapter 2: Cato's Tears Chapter 3: The Deathbed of the Just Chapter 4: Female Authorship, Public Fancy Chapter 5: Vagrant Races Chapter 6: Walkers, Stalkers, Captives, Slaves Conclusion: Liberal Guilt and Libertarian Revival Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press One of Us The Mastery of Joseph Conrad
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The University of Chicago Press Culture Anomie Ethnographic Imagination in the
Book SynopsisFew ideas are as important and pervasive in the discourse of the twentieth century as the idea of culture. Yet culture, Christopher Herbert contends, is an idea laden from its inception with ambiguity and contradiction. In Culture and Anomie, Christopher Herbert conducts an inquiry into the historical emergence of the modern idea of culture that is at the same time an extended critical analysis of the perplexities and suppressed associations underlying our own exploitation of this term. Making wide reference to twentieth-century anthropologists from Malinowski and Benedict to Evans-Pritchard, Geertz, and Lévi-Strauss as well as to nineteenth-century social theorists like Tylor, Spencer, Mill, and Arnold, Herbert stresses the philosophically dubious, unstable character that has clung to the culture idea and embarrassed its exponents even as it was developing into a central principle of interpretation. In a series of detailed studies ranging from political economy to missionary ethnograp
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The University of Chicago Press Jane Austens Cults and Cultures
Book SynopsisJane Austen's lasting appeal to both popular and elite audiences has lifted her to legendary status. This title begins by exploring the most important monuments and portraits of Austen, considering how these artifacts point to an author who is invisible and yet whose image is inseparable from the characters and fictional worlds she created.Trade Review"Claudia L. Johnson does more than trace out Austen's legacy and rethink the way critics and fans alike have tried to hold on to this elusive writer-she displays the wealth of the novels themselves in new, surprising, and always intelligent ways. Packed with the fruits of Johnson's brilliant work in the archive, this book also creates a compelling narrative from the accounts of readers, worshippers, and critics alike, and fashions a very delicate path between the adoring and the critical. A monumental work by perhaps the premier scholar of Austen's work and legacy." -Mary Favret, Indiana University"
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University of Chicago Press Demons of the Night Tales of the Fantastic
Book SynopsisA compilation of 19th-century French haunting tales. Featuring such authors as Balzac, Merimee, Dumas, Verne, and Maupassant, this book offers readers some of the more memorable stories in the genre.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction by Joan C. Kessler Charles Nodier Smarra , or The Demons of the Night Honore de Balzac The Red Inn Prosper Merimee The Venus of Ille Theophile Gautier The Dead in Love Arria Marcella Alexandre Dumas The Slap of Charlotte Corday Gerard de Nerval Aurelia, or Dream and Life Jules Verne Master Zacharius Villiers de l'Isle-Adam The Sign Vera Guy de Maupassant The Horla Who Knows? Marcel Schwob The Veiled Man Notes
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The University of Chicago Press Whitmans Drama of Consensus
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The University of Chicago Press William Blake and the Impossible History of the
Book SynopsisTaking into account Blake's unique brand of literary and artistic production, Makdisi challenges the idea that to understand Blake one must assimilate him within the radical struggle against the order of the old regime.
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The University of Chicago Press Keatss Odes
Book SynopsisTimed for the 200th anniversary of John Keats's death, these intimate essays show why we love Keats still, and why his odes continue to speak powerfully to our own desires.Trade Review"This book claims to be 'about' Keats's odes. And it is. But it is also about beauty and sadness and love and revolution and how the odes can help us to better understand these things. It is nothing short of a perfect book, one that understands how poetry can transform one's life. Nersessian is on track to be the Harold Bloom of her generation, but a Bloom with politics."--Juliana Spahr "This is an intense, often dazzling, original, illuminating, idiosyncratic, but also welcoming and welcome book. Offering trenchant, astute, often polemical and sometimes breathtaking readings of Keats's Odes--and simultaneously of love, politics, worldmaking, and self--Nersessian has written a propelled, impelled, impassioned work, truly in Keats's spirit."--Maureen N. McLane "In a tour-de-force series of revisionary readings, Nersessian makes Keats's odes new in A Lover's Discourse; and by the end of this exhilarating book, a new poet emerges into historical and psychological focus as well, neither aesthete nor insurgent, but someone who discovers the radicalism immanent in literary style. On yet another level, Keats's Odes is a discourse on love as interpretive practice. Demanding, generous, precise, utopian, and unfailingly brilliant, Nersessian reinvents reading itself as a form of critical intimacy for our broken times. 'If love is anything not laid waste by this world it is free, ' writes this reader. 'Mine is.'"--Srikanth ReddyTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Ode to a Nightingale 2 Ode on a Grecian Urn 3 Ode on Indolence 4 Ode on Melancholy 5 Ode to Psyche 6 To Autumn Postscript: Sleep and Poetry Acknowledgments Index
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The University of Chicago Press A Probable State The Novel the Contract the
Book SynopsisThis work builds an argument about liberalism and the realist movement by shifting the focus from the rise of both in the 18th century, to their breakdown at the end of the 19th century. The decline of realism and the eroding logic of liberalism is related to the question of Jewish characters.
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The University of Chicago Press Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger
Book SynopsisIn our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger - the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor - carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are different has become strong. This title reveals the history of encounters with alien figures and our struggles with romantic concerns about the unknown.Trade Review"Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger is a wonderfully engaged and engaging book. Compelling and elegant at every turn, it is widely and deeply informed, addressing an enormous and varied Romantic archive while also demonstrating a masterful grasp of contemporary theoretical discussions about strangers and strangeness." (David Clark, McMaster University)"
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Conflict and Difference in NineteenthCentury
Book SynopsisHow should we understand Victorian conflict? The Victorians were divided between multiple views of the political, religious and social issues that motivated their changing aspirations. Such debates are a fundamental aspect of the literature of the period and these essays propose new ways of understanding their significance.Trade Review'The volume's strength lies in its breadth, which is reflected in the wealth of critical approaches.' - Andrew Cusack, Trinity College Dublin, The European LegacyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors Introduction; D.Birch & M.Llewellyn Argument as Conflict – Then and Now; H.Small Ever a Fighter: Browning's Struggle with Conflict; H.F.Tucker Conflict and Imperial Communication: Narrating the First Afghan War; M.O'Cinneide Off-White Indians; K.Flint The Interpretation of Daydreams: Reverie as Site of Conflict in Early Victorian Psychiatry; N.Ford 'If I am not grotesque I am nothing': Aubrey Beardsley and Disabled Identities in Conflict; A.Tankard Negotiating the Gentle-Man: Male Nursing and Class Conflict in the 'High' Victorian Period; H.Furneaux 'Resolved in defiance of fool and of knave'?: Chartism, Children and Conflict; M.Chase Conversing with Monstrosities: evolutionary theory and the contemporary response to Wilkie Collins; J.M.Allan Dickens and the Heritage Industry: or, Culture and the Commodity; J.John The King and Who? Dance, Difference, and Identity in Anna Leonowens and The King and I ; S.A.Weltman 'The Utmost Intricacies of the Soul's Pathways': The Significance of Syntax in George Eliot's Felix Holt, The Radical (1866); M.Raines Culture Wars? Arnold's Essays in Criticism and the Rise of Journalism 1864-1895; L.Brake Shrieking Sisters and Bawling Brothers: Sibling Rivalry in Sarah Grand and Mary Cholmondeley; G.Ofek After Eternal Punishment: 'Fin de Siècle' as Literary Eschatology; M.Bradley Selected Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Victorian Gothic
Book SynopsisTo what extent did the Gothic haunt the nineteenth century? Victorian Gothic seeks to answer this as it introduces the reader to a timely revision of notions of the Gothic in all its manifestations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Preface: 'I Could a Tale Unfold' or, the Promise of Gothic; R.Robbins & J.Wolfreys 'Designing Gourmet Children or, KIDS FOR DINNER!'; J.R.Kinkaid Resurrecting the Regency: Horror and Eighteenth-Century Comedy in Le Fanu's Fiction; V.Sage 'I Wants to Make your Flesh Creep': Notes toward a Reading of the Comic-Gothic in Dickens; J.Wolfreys Hopkins and the Gothic Body; R.J.C.Watt From King Arthur to Sidonia the Sorceress: The Dual Nature of Pre-Raphaelite Medievalism; J.-A.George Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Literary Influence, and Technologies of the Uncanny; A.Chapman The 'Anxious Dream': Julia Margaret Cameron's Gothic Perspective; M.Wynne-Davies Trance Gothic, 1882-1897; R.Luckhurst 'Withered, Wrinkled, and Loathsome of Visage': Reading the Ethics of the Souls and the Late-Victorian Gothic in The Picture of Dorian Gray; K.Womack Apparitions Can Be Deceptive: Vernon Lee's Androgynous Spectres; R.Robbins Gothic and Supernatural: Allegories at Work and Play in Kipling's Indian Fiction; P. Morey Archaeology and Gothic Desire: Vitality Beyond the Grave in H.Rider Haggard's Ancient Egypt; R.Pearson Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK A E Housman A Critical Biography
Book SynopsisHousman (1859-1936) was a poet of enormous popularity and widespread influence: a Latin scholar of the front rank, a superb prose stylist, a notable writer of comic verse and, thanks to the enormous success of A Shropshire Lad, one of the greatest and best-known poems in the English language, he became a legend in his own lifetime.Table of ContentsFrontispiece: A.E. Housman - List of Plates - Acknowledgements - Note on the Referencing System - Preface to the 1996 Reprint - Introduction: `All that need be known' - A Worcestershire Lad - Oxford - The Years of Penance - `Picked out of the gutter' - Cambridge I - Cambridge II - The Scholar - The Poet - Epilogue - Notes and References - Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK New Woman Fiction Women Writing Firstwave
Book SynopsisThe New Woman was the symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de siècle .Trade Review'Ann Heilmann's New Woman Fiction: Women Writing Feminism synthesies recent debates on the New Woman fiction, and makes its own distinctive contribution to the growing body of work on this fin de siecle phenomenon. It discusses a wider range of writers and texts than earlier studies of this body of writing, and locates both the writers and texts more clearly and more firmly in the context of late nineteenth 'feminism' than have earlier studies. It also seeks to draw parallels between this 'first wave' of feminism and the 'second wave' feminism of the latter part of the twentieth century. This has the effect of simultaneously broadening and narrowing the corpus of New Woman writing: more texts are put on display, but New Woman writers are more specifically (and perhaps more narrowly) defined as 'committed feminists with a vision of social regeneration through didactic literature [through which] they sought to reach and politicize a mass readership.' This lucid study offers an historically grounded and theoretically informed introduction to an important aspect of the history of women's writing.' - Lyn Pykett, Professor of English, University of Wales, AberystwythTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Regen(d)eration Contesting/Consuming Femininities Keynotes and Discords Marriage and Its Discontents The Crisis of Gender and Sexuality The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman Departures
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Empty Nurseries Queer Occupants Reproduction and the Future in Ibsens Late Plays Studies in Childhood 1700 to the Present
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Concordance to Conrads Almayers Folly 2 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Concordance to Conrads The Nigger of the Narcissus 8 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Art of Failure Conrads Fiction 20 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Concordance to Conrads Heart of Darkness 3 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Concordance to Conrads An Outcast of the Islands 14 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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WW Norton & Co Oliver Twist
Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition of a Dickens favorite reprints the 1846 text, the last edition of the novel substantially revised by Dickens and the one that most clearly reflects his authorial intentions.
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WW Norton & Co Aurora Leigh
Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s 1856 verse-novel is based on Margaret Reynolds’ variorum edition, which the British Academy awarded the 1993 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and which is reprinted here by special arrangement with the Ohio University Press.
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WW Norton & Co Little Women
Book SynopsisThis authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868–69) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations.
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WW Norton & Co North and South
Book SynopsisA revolutionary social and political commentary, North and South solidified Gaskell’s place in the company of Victorian England’s finest novelists.
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AMS Press Dickenss Dialogue Margins of Conversation AMS
Book SynopsisExplores the rhetoric of Dickens’s characters and its place in his work. Drawing on Victorian conversation manuals and more recent philosophical, sociological, and linguistic insights into the nature of conversations, Goodin describes three major character types whose rhetorical strategies exemplify the conflicting forces of cooperation and violation that shape many conversations.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Rise of the Gothic Novel
Book SynopsisOne of the central images conjured up by the gothic novel is that of a shadowy spectre slowly rising from a mysterious abyss. In The Rise of the Gothic Novel, Maggie Kilgour argues that the ghost of the gothic is now resurrected in the critical methodologies which investigate it for the revelation of buried cultural secrets. In this cogent analysis of the rise and fall of the gothic as a popular form, Kilgour juxtaposes the writings of William Godwin with Mary Wollstonecraft, and Ann Radcliffe with Matthew Lewis. She concludes with a close reading of the quintessential gothic novel, Mary Shelley''s Frankenstein. An impressive and highly original study, The Rise of the Gothic Novel is an invaluable contribution to the continuing literary debates which surround this influential genre.Trade Review'Comprehensive and thoughtful study of the life of the Gothic Novel.' - A Ballesteros Conzalez, Autonoma UnivTable of ContentsPart I; Chapter 1 The Nature of Gothic, Maggie Kilgour; Chapter 2 Past and Present, Maggie Kilgour; Chapter 3 The Sublime and the Odd, Maggie Kilgour; Chapter 4 Everything that Rises Must Converge, Maggie Kilgour; Part 102 Part II; Chapter 5 Godwin and the Gothic of Revolution, Maggie Kilgour; Chapter 6 The Reveries of a Solitary Woman, Maggie Kilgour; Chapter 7 The Chymicall Wedding and the Bourgeois Marriage, Maggie Kilgour; Part 103 Part III; Chapter 8 From Here to Here, Maggie Kilgour; Chapter 9 Lewis’s Gothic Revolution, Maggie Kilgour; Chapter 10 ‘A Way thus Dark and Circuitous’, Maggie Kilgour; Part 4 Part IV; Chapter 11 The Artist as Goth, Maggie Kilgour; Chapter 12 The Rise of Gothic Criticism, Maggie Kilgour;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Walter Scott
Book SynopsisThe Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer''s work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare''s plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen''s novels.The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author''s reputation.Each volume contains an introduction to the writer''s published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.
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Taylor & Francis Robert Browning The Critical Heritage Critical Heritage S
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Edgar Allen Poe Collected Critical Heritage II
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Taylor & Francis Herman Melville Critical Heritage S
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mark Twain Collected Critical Heritage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Stephen Crane Collected Critical Heritage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women Power and Subversion Routledge Revivals Social Strategies in British Fiction 17781860
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Blake and the New Age Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis The Language of Jane Austen Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Oscar Wilde Critical Heritage
Book SynopsisOscar Wilde (1854-1900). British dramatist whose works and wit often attracted scandalized protest. Writings include: The Happy Prince, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest.Table of ContentsGENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, Poems (1881) Vera; or the Nihilists (1883), The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) (first version), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) (second version), The Duchess of Padua (1891), Intentions (1891), Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (1891), A House of Pomegranates (1891), Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Salomé (1893), A Woman of No Importance (1893), The Sphinx (1894), An Ideal Husband (1895), The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), On the occasion of Wilde’s death (1900), De Profundis (1905), Collected Works (1908), BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX
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Taylor & Francis Romanticism and Visuality
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the productive crosscurrents between visual culture and literary texts in the Romantic period, focusing on the construction and manipulation of the visual, the impact of new visual media on the literary and historical imagination, and on fragments and ruins as occupying the shifting border between the visible and the invisible. It examines a broad selection of instances that reflect debates over how seeing should itself be viewed: instances, from Daguerre's Diorama, to the staging of Coleridge's play Remorse, to the figure of the Medusa in Shelley's poetry and at the Phantasmagoria, in which the very act of seeing is represented or dramatized. In reconsidering literary engagements with the expanding visual field, this study argues that the popular culture of Regency Britain reflected not just emergent and highly capitalized forms of mass entertainment, but also a lively interest in the aesthetic and conceptual dimensions of looking. What is commonly thought toTrade Review"Exploring the inter-relationship between literature and visual culture in the Romantic period, Thomas (humanities, U. of Sussex) looks at how seeing itself was viewed, both by people involved in creating visual spectacle and those who responded by writing in literature about the status of the visual. Her topics include the fragment in ruins, Romantic idealism and the interference of sight, and vision and revulsion in Shelley. Some of the chapters have been published as independent essays." -- Book News Inc., August 2008Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments List of Illustrations (Introduction) Regarding Visuality: From the Picturesque to the Panorama ‘Shadows of a Magnitude’: Keats, Fragments, and Vision The Fragment in Ruins Seeing Past Rome: Ruins, History, Museums Romantic Idealism and the Interference of Sight Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double, and the Gothic Subject Seeing Things ("as they are"): Coleridge, Schiller, and the Play of Semblance Vision and Revulsion: Shelley, Medusa, and the Phantasmagoria NotesBibliography Index
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University of California Press The Novel of August Strindberg
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Cambridge University Press The Drama of Revolt
Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of the art and thought of George Büchner.Trade Review'The determination and clearheadedness needed to escape from this uncritical state of mind, without abandoning the insights of deep affection, are the qualities of Maurice Benn's study of Büchner, The Drama of Revolt.' The Times Literary Supplement'Benn's success is due first of all, I believe, to a combination of sensitivity to language with a learning that is steeped in Büchner's texts, his intellectual and social milieu, and the past scholarship on him. Just as important, Benn is working within a critical tradition … the British 'empirical and-common-sense' tradition.' CriticismTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface to the paperback edition; 1. Introduction; 2. Political revolt; 3. Metaphysical revolt; 4. Aesthetic revolt; 5. 'Dantons Tod'; 6. 'Leonce und Lena'; 7. 'Lenz'; 8. 'Woyzeck'; 9. Conclusion; Notes; Chronological table; Bibliography; Index of names.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
Book SynopsisSince Tolkien, Pratchett, Rowling, Pullman and Meyer, fantasy literature has become one of the most popular genres in the English-speaking world. This book puts this publishing phenomenon in a historical context, suggests different ways of reading and appreciating this literature, and examines some of its varieties and subgenres.Trade Review'Given that genre is really a construction of critics, librarians and booksellers, designed to place books in a way that they can be more easily found by consumers, and that fantasy literature is less easy to define than, say, crime fiction, this companion has a large field to cover and does an admirable job of presenting a good overview of the many authors who fit into this [particular] niche.' Stuart Bentley, Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn; Part I. Histories: 1. Fantasy from Dryden to Dunsany Gary K. Wolfe; 2. Gothic and horror fiction Adam Roberts; 3. American fantasy, 1820–1950 Paul Kincaid; 4. The development of children's fantasy Maria Nikolajeva; 5. Tolkien, Lewis, and the explosion of genre fantasy Edward James; Part II. Ways of Reading: 6. Structuralism Brian Attebery; 7. Psychoanalysis Andrew M. Butler; 8. Political readings Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint; 9. Modernism and postmodernism Jim Casey; 10. Thematic criticism Farah Mendlesohn; 11. The languages of the fantastic Greer Gilman; 12. Reading the fantasy series Kari Maund; 13. Reading the slipstream Gregory Frost; Part III. Clusters: 14. Magical realism Sharon Sieber; 15. Writers of colour Nnedi Okorafor; 16. Quest fantasies W. A. Senior; 17. Urban fantasy Alexander C. Irvine; 18. Dark fantasy and paranormal romance Roz Kaveney; 19. Modern children's fantasy Catherine Butler; 20. Historical fantasy Veronica Schanoes; 21. Fantasies of history and religion Graham Sleight.
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