Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
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 Mark Twain Among the Indians and Other Indigenous
Book SynopsisMark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study of the writer's evolving views regarding the aboriginal inhabitants of North America and the Southern Hemisphere, and his deeply conflicted representations of them in fiction, newspaper sketches, and speeches. Using a wide range of archival materialsincluding previously unexamined marginalia in books from Clemens's personal libraryDriscoll charts the development of the writer's ethnocentric attitudes about Indians and savagery in relation to the various geographic and social milieus of communities he inhabited at key periods in his life, from antebellum Hannibal, Missouri, and the Sierra Nevada mining camps of the 1860s to the progressive urban enclave of Hartford's Nook Farm. The book also examines the impact of Clemens's 189596 world lecture tour, when he traveled to Australia and New Zealand and learned firsthand about the dispossession and mistreatment of native peoples under British colonial rTrade Review“[a] ground-breaking new study.... Readers of this book will be disturbed, provoked, and disheartened, but not disappointed. They will find the excellent illustrations, bibliography, and index subentries extremely helpful and suggestive of further readings and research. Honest scholarly enquiry often leads to more questions than answers, and if there are unanswered questions at the end of Driscoll's superb enquiry, it is not the fault of the enquirer, but Mark Twain himself, who left us no clear answers on this subject—not because he knew the answers and chose to withhold them, but because he simply did not know himself.” * Mark Twain Forum *"Driscoll’s book offers a comprehensive examination of Twain’s attitudes about 'Indians' and the results are arguably more dismal, and even damning, than one might expect." * American Literary Realism *"Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous People will be the definitive resource for those seeking to track Twain’s attitudes toward Indigenous peoples." * Great Plains Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 1. The Romance and Terror of Indians 14 2. Blind in Nevada: Early Perceptions of Indians in the West 53 3. Indians Imagined, 1862–72 93 4. The Roots of Racial Animus in “The Noble Red Man” 144 5. “How Much Higher and Finer Is The Indian’s God” 185 6. The Curious Tale of the Connecticut Indian Association 228 7. Indigenes Abroad: The Unseen Aboriginals of Australia 268 8. The Maori: “A Superior Breed of Savages” 309 Conclusion 349 Notes 371 Bibliography 405
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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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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to Emerson's work. The tradition of American literature and philosophy as we know it at the end of the twentieth century was largely shaped by Emerson's example and practice.Table of ContentsIntroduction: representing America - the Emerson legacy Joel Porte; 1. Transcendentalism and its times David Robinson; 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson in his family Phyllis Cole; 3. The Radical Emerson? Robert Milder; 4. Emerson as lecturer: man thinking, man saying R. Jackson Wilson; 5. Emerson and nature Robert D. Richardson Jr; 6. Essays: first series (1841) Albert J. von Frank; 7. Transcendental friendship Jeffrey Steele; 8. Terms for Emerson: essays, Second Series Julie Ellison; 9. 'The Remembering Wine': Emerson's influence on Whitman and Dickinson Catherine Tufariello; 10. Post-colonial Emerson and the erasure of Europe Robert Weisbuch; 11. Metre-making arguments: Emerson's poems Saundra Morris; 12. The conduct of life: Emerson's anatomy of power Michael Lopez.
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Cambridge University Press Henry James in Context Literature in Context
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Keats Cambridge
Book SynopsisIn The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats's work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats's life in London's intellectual, aesthetic and literary culture; the relation of his poetry to the visual arts; the critical traditions and theoretical contexts within which Keats's life and achievements have been assessed. These specially commissioned essays examine Keats's specific poetic endeavours, his striking way with language, and his lively letters as well as his engagement with contemporary cultures and literary traditions, his place in criticism, from his day to ours, including the challenge he poses to gender criticism. The contributions are sophisticated but accessible, challenging but lucid, and are complemented by an introduction to Keats's life, a chronology, a descriptive list of contemporary people and periodicals, a source-reference for famous phrases and ideas articulated in Keats's letters, a glossary of literary teTrade Review"the volume provides a reasonably wide-ranging view of current issues in studying Keats and British Romanticism...belongs in all libraries where Keats is studied studies beyond the introductory level." CHOICE Nov 2001Table of ContentsNotes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Texts and abbreviations; Glossary; A biographical note; Chronology; People and publications; Where did Keats say that?; 1. The politics of Keats's early poetry John Kandl; 2. Endymion's beautiful dreamers Karen Swan; 3. Keats and the 'Cockney school' Duncan Wu; 4. Lamia, Isabella and The Eve of St. Agnes Jeffrey N. Cox; 5. Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion and Keats's epic ambitions Vincent Newey; 6. Keats and the ode Paul D. Sheats; 7. Late lyrics Susan J. Wolfson; 8. Keats's letters John Barnard; 9. Keats and language Garrett Stewart; 10. Keats's sources, Keats's allusions Christopher Ricks; 11. Keats and 'ekphrasis' Theresa M. Kelley; 12. Keats and English poetry Greg Kucich; 13. Byron reads Keats William C. Keach; 14. Keats and the complexities of gender Anne K. Mellor; 15. Keats and Romantic science Alan Richardson; 16. The 'story' of Keats Jack Stillinger; 17. Bibliography and further reading Susan J. Wolfson; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers, as well as fresh insights, informed by recent critical theory, that will be of interest to scholars and teachers of the novels.Trade Review'No doubting its success.' The Times Literary Supplement'Strikes an excellent balance between scholarship and accessibility, and between the biographical and the critical.' The Book and Magazine CollectorTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Chronology; List of abbreviations and texts; Preface John O. Jordan; 1. The life and times of Charles Dickens Grahame Smith; 2. From Sketches to Nickleby Robert L. Patten; 3. The middle novels: Chuzzlewit, Dombey, and Copperfield Kate Flint; 4. Moments of decision in Bleak House J. Hillis Miller; 5. Novels of the 1850s: Hard Times, Little Dorrit, and A Tale of Two Cities Hilary Schor; 6. The late novels: Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend Brian Cheadle; 7. Fictions of childhood Robert Newsom; 8. Fictions of the city Murray Baumgarten; 9. Gender, family, and domestic ideology Catherine Waters; 10. Dickens and language Garrett Stewart; 11. Dickens and the form of the novel Nicola Bradbury; 12. Dickens and illustrations Richard Stein; 13. Dickens and theatre John Glavin; 14. Dickens and film Joss Marsh; Selected bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Jane Austen In Context
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays covering many aspects of Austen's life, works and historical context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the life and times of Jane Austen. Jane Austen in Context is a generously illustrated collection of short, lively contributions arranged alphabetically, and covering topics from biography to portraits and agriculture to transport. An essay on the reception of Austen's work is also included, showing how criticism of Austen has responded to literary movements and fashions. The volume emphasises the subtle interactions between Austen's life and times and her novels. This is a work of reference that readers and scholars of Austen will turn to again and again.Trade Review"Jane Austen deserves, and here gets, the reward of other people's skillful work on her little bit of ivory, two inches wide.... The Cambridge Edition justifies its claim to the 'the first ever scholarly edition of the works of Jane Austen', and is a fine tribute to her for the twenty-first century." -Jane Austen Society NewsletterTable of ContentsPreface Janet Todd; Chronology Deirdre Le Faye; Part I. Life and Works: 1. Biography Jan Fergus; 2. Composition and publication Kathryn Sutherland; 3. Language Anthony Mandal; 4. Letters Deirdre Le Faye; 5. Literary influences Jane Stabler; 6. Memoirs and biographies Deirdre Le Faye; 7. Poetry David Selwyn; 8. Portraits Margaret Kirkham; Part II. Critical Fortunes: 9. Critical responses, early Mary Waldron; 10. Critical responses, 1830–1970 Nicola Trott; 11. Critical responses, recent Rajeswari Sunder Rajan; 12. Cult of Jane Austen Deidre Lynch; 13. Publishing history David Gilson; 14. Sequels Deidre Lynch; 15. Translations Valerie Cossy and Diego Saglia; Part III. Historical and Cultural Context: 16. Agriculture Robert Clark and Gerry Dutton; 17. Book production James Raven; 18. Cities Jane Stabler; 19. Consumer goods David Selwyn; 20. Domestic spaces Claire Lamont; 21. Dress Antje Blank; 22. Education and accomplishments Gary Kelly; 23. Food Maggie Lane; 24. Landownership Chris Jones; 25. Landscape Alistair M. Duckworth; 26. Literary scene Richard Cronin; 27. Manners Paula Byrne; 28. Medical theories John Wiltshire; 29. Money Edward Copeland; 30. Nationalism and empire Warren Roberts; 31. Pastimes Penny Gay; 32. Philosophy Peter Knox-Shaw; 33. Politics Nicholas Roe; 34. Professions Brian Southam; 35. Psychology John Mullan; 36. Rank Tom Keymer; 37. Reading practices Alan Richardson; 38. Religion Michael Wheeler; 39. Trade Markman Ellis; 40. Transport Pat Rogers; Select bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the PreRaphaelites
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to provide a general introduction to the Pre-Raphaelite movement that integrates its literary and visual art forms and explains what made the Pre-Raphaelite style unique in painting, poetry, drawing and prose.Trade Review'Ambitious and challenging, The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites achieves the impossible task of a somewhat comprehensive view of Pre-Raphaelite poetry and painting, thus making a solid contribution to Pre-Raphaelite studies and art history.' Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies'… offers eighteen distinct chapters and an introduction by major scholars in the field, the variety of authorship allowing for an unusually full treatment of individual issues and artists. In the case of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, there is one chapter on the verse and another on the plastic arts. What emerges is an unusually textured account of a movement and its sources and ramifications.' Jonah Siegal, Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsChronology Louise Hughes; Introduction Elizabeth Prettejohn; Part I. Pre-Raphaelitism: 1. The Pre-Raphaelites and literature Isobel Armstrong; 2. Artistic inspirations Jenny Graham; 3. Pre-Raphaelite drawing Colin Cruise; 4. The religious and intellectual background Michaela Giebelhausen; 5. The Germ Andrew M. Stauffer; Part II. Pre-Raphaelites: 6. The poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–82) Jerome McGann; 7. The painting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Elizabeth Prettejohn; 8. William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) Carol Jacobi; 9. John Everett Millais (1829–96) Paul Barlow; 10. Ford Madox Brown (1821–93) Tim Barringer; 11. Christina Rossetti (1830–94) Lorraine Janzen Kooistra; 12. Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall (1829–62) Deborah Cherry; 13. The writings of William Morris (1834–96) Jeffrey Skoblow; 14. The designs of William Morris Imogen Hart; 15. Edward Burne-Jones (1833–98) Caroline Arscott; 16. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) Catherine Maxwell; 17. William Michael Rossetti (1829–1919) Angela Thirlwell; 18. Envoi Elizabeth Prettejohn; Appendix 1. The contents of The Germ; Appendix 2. The Pre-Raphaelite 'list of Immortals'; Guide to further reading and looking; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
Book SynopsisFantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).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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Pearson Education Persuasion York Notes Advanced everything you
Book Synopsis'York Notes Advanced' offer an accessible approach to English Literature. This series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.Table of Contents Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The Text Part 3: Critical Approaches Part 4: Critical History Part 5: Background Further Reading Literacy Terms
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Harvard University Press Dickinson
Book SynopsisThe unrivaled doyenne of close reading offers an interpretive introduction to Emily Dickinson's brilliant, enigmatic verse. In commentaries accompanying 150 selected poems, Helen Vendler explores Dickinson's major thematic preoccupations while highlighting the poet's startling imagination and the ingenuity of her linguistic invention.Trade ReviewThe best close reader of poems to be found on the literary pages. -- Seamus HeaneyThere is just no way of summarizing a critic as subtle and meticulous as [Vendler]. -- Marilyn ButlerEmily Dickinson is certainly never going to be an easy poet to understand, but her dense, poignant lyrics are now a lot more accessible to ordinary readers thanks to Vendler's unravelings. If you're going to read Dickinson, this "selected poems and commentary" is the place to start. -- Michael Dirda * Washington Post *Emily Dickinson is the sorcerer's stone. Her poetry contains, no, is, the most essential, passionate use of English and the most essential, passionate connection between the English language and nature (our nature, birds and bees nature, God's nature)...Dickinson's spare use of words are just the tip of her iceberg; the waters below contain so many secrets that it truly helps to have a guide to the meter, the myth, the thread of dreams. [And] if you're going to hire a guide, you may as well have the best, and Vendler is the best. -- Susan Salter Reynolds * Los Angeles Times *This book takes 150 of [Emily Dickinson's] poems and devotes a two- or three-page chapter to each. If you have a favorite poem, you look it up and Vendler will walk you through it as if you've never read it before. It's like reading the poem in italics. -- Billy Collins * New York Post *Both casual readers and scholars of Dickinson alike will want to purchase it. -- Stacy Russo * Library Journal *If it's been a while since you last sat down with Dickinson, now is a great time: Helen Vendler's new book, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries, is both an anthology (it contains 150 of Dickinson's nearly 1,800 poems) and an interpretive introduction, with a short essay following and explaining each poem. Vendler is almost certainly the best poetry critic in America, and she's hit upon a great way of writing about poetry. Reading each poem, followed by Vendler's commentary, it feels like you're in your own private poetry class. -- Josh Rothman * Boston Globe *[A] superb and invigorating new selection of 150 poems and probing commentaries...The poet that Vendler finds in these poems is an ambitious and sometimes magisterial artist of extraordinary range and verbal control. Vendler's comprehensive reassessment of Dickinson's achievement seems to me the most challenging new reading of Dickinson since the poet Adrienne Rich's remarkable essay "Vesuvius at Home" (1975)...What Vendler, perhaps the most skilled and accomplished close reader of lyric poetry of her generation, adds to this picture is a renewed attention to Dickinson's deliberate and consummate artistry, along with a fresh way to read cryptic poems that may seem, superficially, to have little to do with the "maelstrom" of human emotions. -- Christopher Benfey * New York Review of Books *The reigning doyenne of American poetry criticism is a close reader par excellence. [Vendler] loves her favorite poets unstintingly. She seems to think and feel in their language--to think and feel through their work, as through a membrane. Her Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries plays exactly to her strengths, as did her 1997 edition of Shakespeare's sonnets...What I like best about Vendler's Dickinson is its can-do attitude. Yes, it assures the reader, the poem says what you think it says: trust your own eyes, experience, and heart...She doesn't try to quash the mystery of the poems; she notes their ambiguities but by and large leaves those to do their work--and leaves us closer to a canonical poet whom we are still only coming to know. -- Lorin Stein * Harper's *Dickinson continues to entertain and enlighten me. Vendler manages to clarify and illuminate Dickinson's poetry without oversimplifying the work of a complex mind. Her succinct but astute readings of Emily Dickinson's poetry are little kernels of insight into a wickedly keen poetic mind. -- Hillary Kelly * New Republic *This year Helen Vendler published her own selection of Dickinson's verse along with astute commentary. After reading Dickinson's fifty or seventy-five best poems you realize that few poets have written this many poems of this much merit. Dickinson's manuscripts show that she left behind multiple variations on words and phrases, sometimes as many as a dozen, without favoring a particular one. Vendler points out moments when Dickinson wrote one word, only to bracket it and replace it with another. Not since Vendler's meticulous commentary on Shakespeare's sonnets has a finer book of close-readings been published. -- Jeannie Vanasco * Lapham's Quarterly *What Vendler did for Shakespeare's sonnets, she has done again for Dickinson's poems, demonstrating her refined skill and rare gift for loving attentiveness. When our age of hurry and perspiration threatens close reading, Vendler helps us slow down--way down until meter, word choice, punctuation, metaphors, tone, and allusion matter. She deftly reveals that form is as much a carrier of meaning as content. -- Christopher Benson * First Things *These commentaries on a selection of Dickinson's poems are best summed up in one word: brilliant. Skeptics who might be inclined to question whether anyone has anything new to say about Dickinson's oeuvre nearly 125 years after her death will find that the answer to that question is a resounding yes. Vendler manages to offer original, insightful observations about Dickinson's humor, her pain, her metaphysical abstractions, and her syntactical inversions. -- D. D. Knight * Choice *Vendler's commentaries are enlightening and enjoyable revelations of Dickinson's often elusive meanings; she is also a master of the technical and devotes consistent attention to the poet's metrical skills and innovations. -- Maurice Earls * Dublin Review of Books *This new book is as meticulous as Vendler's commentary on Shakespeare's Sonnets (1997). As well as their mysterious inner lives, these are poets who share an ability to compress the maximum force into the fewest words. In Dickinson's case, her manuscripts show that she left behind multiple variations on words and phrases, sometimes as many as a dozen, without any indication of favoring one over the others. She claimed that her closest companion was her lexicon. -- Jeannie Vanasco * Times Literary Supplement *Helen Vendler provides clear commentary, uncluttered by fashionable and hyphenated literary theory, on 150 poems by one of the most enigmatic American poets. -- Elizabeth Hoover * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Saint Joan
Book SynopsisThe Editor, Jean Chothia, is a Fellow of Selwyn College and Reader in Drama and Theatre in the University of Cambridge. Her books include Forging a Language: A Study of the Plays of Eugene O'Neill; English Drama of the Early Modern Period, 1890-1940, and, as editor, The New Woman' and Other Emancipated Woman Plays.
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Manchester University Press Harriet Martineau
Book SynopsisHarriet Martineau: Authorship, Society and Empire is a new book of essays by distinguished US and UK scholars on this most influential and prolific of Victorian writers and thinkers. -- .Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionI. Authorship and Identity1. Harriet Martineau, Woman of Letters2. Harriet Martineau’s ‘Intellectual Nobility’: Gender, Genius, and Disability3. ‘(Entre nous, please!)’: Harriet Martineau’s Correspondence4. Self-presentation and Instability in Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography5. ‘Socinian and Political-Economy Formulas’: Martineau the Unitarian6. Provocative Agendas: Martineau’s Translation of ComteII. Political Economy, Technology and Society7. Domesticating Political Economy: Language, Gender, and Economics in the Illustrations of Political Economy8. Feminism, Speculation and Agency in Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy9. ‘Secret Organisation of Trades’: Harriet Martineau and ‘Free Labour’ in Victorian Britain10. Spending Sprees and Machine Accidents: Martineau and the Mystery of ImprovidenceII. Empire, Race, Nation11. ‘With the Practised Eye of a Deaf Person’: Martineau’s Travel Writing and the Construction of the Disabled Traveller12. Slavery, Race, History: Harriet Martineau’s Ethnographic Imagination13. Imperial Woman: Harriet Martineau, Geopolitics and the Romance of Improvement14.Harriet Martineau and India: On Not Writing Accusatory History15. Writing a History, Writing a Nation: Harriet Martineau’s History of the PeaceRecommended Reading
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Manchester University Press Lesbian Inscriptions in Francophone Society and
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive collection of essays in English dedicated entirely to the study of lesbian inscriptions in francophone society and culture. -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction- Renate Güntner and Wendy MichallatBaudelaire, lesbian poet? - David EvansThe lesbian as ‘femme- écran’? - Owen HeathcoteLesbian desire in recent French and francophone cinema- Lucille CairnsFemale friendships in contemporary popular films by French women directors- Sophie BélotIn the margins and off-centre- Brigitte RolletViolette Leduc écrivaine et lesbienne- Mireille BrioudeThe lesbian body in motion- Stephanie SchechnerFemale masculinities and Simone de Beauvoir- Ursula TiddOutings on the inside- Amanda Crawley JacksonThe pleasures of discovery- Frances E. HutchinsElsie de Wolfe, Natalie Clifford Barney and the lure of Versailles- Sheila CraneNotes on contributors
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Liverpool University Press Byron
Book SynopsisHe argues that for all its contradictoriness Byron’s poetic mind develops organically, and that the scintillating technique of the late works grow out of the profoundly modern world-view, relativistic and secular, which had developed through his early years.
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Edinburgh University Press The Talisman
Book SynopsisA new edition of The Talisman, the second of Tales of the Crusaders, which is set in Palestine during the Third Crusade (1189-92)
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Introductions and Notes from the Magnum Opus
Book SynopsisThis is the first of the 2-volume introduction and notes which Scott wrote to accompany the first complete edition of his fiction. His notes explain both use of language and incidents in his novels. The Edinburgh Edition includes a scholarly introduction, full addenda, corrigenda and explanatory notes.
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Edinburgh University Press The Victorian Gothic
Book SynopsisSuitable for students and scholars working on the Gothic, Victorian literature and culture and critical theory, this title offers insight into the complex and various Gothic forms of the 19th century. Each chapter is written by an acknowledged expert in their field on a specific topic within the Victorian writing, including science, and gender.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Locating the Victorian Gothic - Andrew Smith and William Hughes; Realism and the Victorian Gothic: Objects of Terror Transformed - Martin Willis, University of Glamorgan; Sensation Fiction: A Peep Behind the Veil - Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, University of Toulouse; Victorian Gothic Pulp Fiction - Jarlath Killeen, Trinity College Dublin; Victorian Gothic Drama - Diane Long Hoeveler, University of Marquette; Victorian Gothic poetry: The Corpse's Text - Caroline Franklin and Michael Franklin, Swansea University; The Victorian Ghost Story - Nick Freeman, Loughborough University; Victorian Gothic and National Identity- Avril Horner, Kingston University; The Victorian Gothic and Gender - Carol Margaret Davison, University of Windsor; Queer Victorian Gothic - Ardel Thomas, San Francisco College; Victorian Gothic Death - Andrew Smith; Science and the Gothic - Kelly Hurley, University of Colorado at Boulder; Victorian Medicine and the Gothic - William Hughes; Imperial Gothic - Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University; Fin de Siecle Gothic - Vicky Margree, and Bryony Randall, University of Glasgow; Index.
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McFarland & Company Zola and Film Essays in the Art of Adaptation
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays, contributed by scholars of French literature and film, explores the dynamic relationship between Zola's fiction and its film adaptations, examining critically significant cinematic adaptations of Zola's novels from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives.
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Northwestern University Press On Weight and the Will
Book SynopsisCharts a modern history of form as emergent from force. Offering a provocative alternative to the imagery of crisis and estrangement that has preoccupied scholarship on modernism, Malika Maskarinec shows that German modernism conceives of human bodies and aesthetic objects as shaped by a contest of conflicting and reciprocally-intensifying forces.
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Northwestern University Press The Price of Literature
Book SynopsisExamines the presence of theory in the nineteenth-century French novel. Emerging after the French Revolution, what we call literature was conceived as an art liberated from representational constraints. Patrick Bray shows how literature's freedom to represent anything has meant, paradoxically, that it cannot articulate a coherent theory of itself.Trade ReviewThis book offers an original, sound and clever approach to literary works, as a profound and better understanding of theoretical importance of Literature in the creative nature of thought over the mechanical habits of our reading, and of the ‘a-disciplinarity' of literature."" - Jacques Neefs, James M. Beall Professor of French Literature at Johns Hopkins University
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Northwestern University Press The Fourth Estate at the Fourth Wall Newspapers
Book SynopsisNew media are often greeted with suspicion by older media. The Fourth Estate at the Fourth Wall explores how, when the commercial press arrived in France in 1836, popular theatre critiqued its corruption, its diluted politics, and its tendency to orient its content toward the lowest common denominator.
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Ohio State University Press Narrative Bonds
Book SynopsisWhile narrative fracturing, multiplicity, and experimentalism are commonly associated with modernist and postmodern texts, they have largely been understudied in Victorian literature. Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel focuses on the centrality of these elements and address the proliferation of multiple narrators in Victorian novels. In Narrative Bonds, Alexandra Valint explores the ways in which the Victorian multi-narrator form moves toward the unity of vision across characters and provides inclusivity in an era of expanding democratic rights and a growing middle class. Integrating narrative theory, gothic theory, and disability studies with analyses of works by Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins, Emily Brontë, and Bram Stoker, this comprehensive and illuminating study illustrates the significance and impact of the multi-narrator structure in Victorian novels.
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Ohio State University Press Walker Percy Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Search for
Book SynopsisAlthough Walker Percy named many influences on his work and critics have zeroed in on Kierkegaard in particular, no one has considered his intentional influence: the nineteenth-century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. In a study that revives and complicates notions of adaptation and influence, Jessica Hooten Wilson details the long career of Walker Percy. Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence demonstrates-through close reading of both writers'' works, examination of archival materials, and biographical criticism-not only how pervasive and inescapable Dostoevsky''s influence was but also how necessary it was to the distinctive strengths of Percy''s fiction. From Dostoevsky, Percy learned how to captivate his non-Christian readership with fiction saturated by a Christian vision of reality. Not only was his method of imitation in line with this Christian faith but also the aesthetic mode and very content of his narrat
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The University of Alabama Press Schooling Readers Reading Common Schools in
Book SynopsisInvestigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common school narrative, an immensely popular genre of fiction set in the rural one-room school in the nineteenth century, though often now forgotten.
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University of Exeter Camus The Challenge of Dostoevsky Literary Theory
Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length study in English of Camus''s life-long fascination with the works of the Russian writer Feodor Dostoevsky. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate the ways in which Dostoevsky''s thought and fiction served to stimulate and crystallize Camus''s own thinking.Trade Review 'Scholarly and thoughtfully written . . . Davison's book, which also includes a comprehensive bibliography and index, amounts to an invaluable and interesting contribution to Camus studies.' (French Studies, LIV.I, 2000) 'Ray Davison has . . . Produced an important and thought-provoking book. It would be helpful to compare it with P. Dunwoodie's Une histoire ambivalente: le dialogue Camus-Dostoïevski (Nizet, 1996) as Davison himself suggests. The widening and deepening of the notion of influence which both books are concerned with is a very worthwhile development.' (New Zealand Journal of French Studies, Volume 20, Number 2 1999) 'Davison's contextual approach is consistently rich and his ideas are elegantly and powerfully expressed. He engages with other major critics (notably Peter Dunwoodie) and establishes important links between texts.By quoting lavishly from the full range of the author's works, including speeches, letters and diaries (French translations of the original Russian texts are used), Davison allows the reader to follow at close hand the internal dynamics of the relationship…Davison's study…offers the most complete account yet of the Camus-Dostoevsky relationship.' (Journal of European Studies Vol XXVIII 1998) 'Complementing Peter Dunwoodie's recent study, Ray Davison's engaging account of Camus and Dostoevsky constitutes another invaluable contribution to Camus scholarship.' (Modern and Contemporary France, Volume 6, No 4, 1998) 'Through detailed and lucid analysis of Camus's texts, Davison traces the impact that the Russian works had on Camus's intellectual development and highlights his attempts at forging a counter-discourse. . . Readers will welcome the clarity of analysis and exposition of complex ideas in the 'world of ideas and politics' and the flexible chronology which shows Camus engaging with Dostoevsky at different stages as novelist/philosopher of the absurd, as Christian humanist and, finally, as prophet of twentieth-century political nihilism and totalitarianism. Even more welcome, perhaps, is his ability to uncover something of the complex dynamism, the excitement and the frustration in that relation. . . Camus himself claimed that one cannot understand twentieth-century French literature without reference to Dostoevsky, and in tracing the way Camus wrestled with him intellectually, Davison has, perhaps, put in place the final piece of a jigsaw which has exercised critics for fifty years.' (Times Literary Supplement, 10 April 1998) Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Camus and Dostoevsky: an Encounter in Profile 2. Dostoevsky and the Absurd Novel 3. Suicide and Logic: Camus's use of Dostoevsky's 'Judgement' and 'Moralite un peu tardive' in Le Mythe de Sisyphe. 4. Camus and Dostoevsky's Revels 5. Freedom and the Man-God: Camus and Kirilov in Le Mythe de Sisyphe 6. Two Tzars of the Absurd: Stavroguine and Ivan in Le Mythe de Sisyphe 7. Ivan and Metaphysical Revolt: the Shadow of the Grand Inquisitor 8. Camus and Les Possedes: Nihilism and Historical Revolt 9. From the Last to the First Man: The Challenge of The Underground Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Cambridge University Press Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany
Book SynopsisShedding new light on the alternative, emancipatory Germany discovered and written about by progressive women writers during the long nineteenth century, this illuminating study uncovers a country that offered a degree of freedom and intellectual agency unheard of in England. Opening with the striking account of Anna Jameson and her friendship with Ottilie von Goethe, Linda K. Hughes shows how cultural differences spurred ten writers'' advocacy of progressive ideas and provided fresh materials for publishing careers. Alongside well-known writers ? Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Michael Field, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Vernon Lee ? this study sheds light on the lesser-known writers Mary and Anna Mary Howitt, Jessie Fothergill, and the important Anglo-Jewish lesbian writer Amy Levy. Armed with their knowledge of the German language, each of these women championed an extraordinarily productive openness to cultural exchange and, by approaching Germany through a female lens, imported an alternative, ''other'' Germany into English letters.
£21.84
Cambridge University Press Dickens and the Gothic
Book SynopsisDickens and the Gothic provides a critical focus on representations of social and psychological entrapment which demonstrates how Dickens employs the Gothic to evaluate how institutions and formations of history impinge on the individual. An analysis of these forms of Gothic entrapment reveals how these institutions and representations of public and personal history function Gothically in Dickens, because they hold back other, putatively reformist, ambitions. To be trapped in an institution such as a prison, or by the machinations of a law court, or haunted by history, or to be haunted by ghosts, represent forms of Gothic entrapment which this study examines both psychologically and sociologically.
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Cambridge University Press Northanger Abbey
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Knightly Memories
Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length study of the legacy and memory of the main military orders in Britain, the Templars and Knights of St. John. It provides a survey from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries using hitherto neglected sources and identifies areas for further research and analysis.The volume first examines the historiography of the Orders, delving past the standard histories to examine their authors, readership, accessibility, advertisements. and reviews. It then discusses the material memory of the Orders, from the Temple Church in London and St. John's Gate at Clerkenwell to archaeological discoveries and romanticised stained-glass depictions. Turning next to the revival and reinvention of the Order of St John after the loss of Malta in 1798 and the foundation of the British Order based at Clerkenwell, it unravels fact from fiction in the claims of continuity with the medieval knights made by the Masonic Knights Templars. For many, memory was shaped by popularTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Knightly Reading: Historiography, reading and reception 2. Material memory: Churches and memorials 3.. Reinventing knights 4. Literary knights 5. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultures and Literatures in Dialogue
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the narrative construction of Russian cultural memory in the work of Julian Barnes. It investigates how Barnes''s texts tend to display a memory process as a transcultural mode of the creation of English and Russian national identities. Examining a need to revisit Russian canonical works, the detailed discursive analysis of the selected English texts exposes an intertextual remembering by duplication, thus contributing to the prevention of forgetting through the recuperation of still misrecollected cultural meanings. By creatively incorporating Russian intertextual elements into his work as a novelist, the author seems to insist on sweeping across and beyond national boundaries, revealing how frail the invention of tradition is when leading to the illusion of a solid collective memory and its political legitimation. The book considers not only a constructive dialogue between Barnes's fiction and Russian classical literature, but also this writer's interpretative,Table of ContentsIntroduction: Rethinking literature through memoryChapter 1: Cultural dimension of literary memoryChapter 2: Narrative and memory in Julian Barnes Chapter 3: Patterning transcultural readings of memory Conclusion: Narrative irresolvability of memory
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Taylor & Francis Dual Narrative Dynamics
Book SynopsisCombining narratological and stylistic methods, this book theorizes dual narrative dynamics consisting of plot development and covert progression and demonstrates the consequences for the interpretation of literary works.In narratives with such dynamics, writers work simultaneously with overt and covert trajectories of signification, establishing a range of relationships between them. The two parallel narrative movements may complement, contradict or even subvert each other, and these relationships significantly influence readersâ understanding not just of events but also of characters, themes, and aesthetic values. The book provides a systematic theoretical account of such previously neglected dual narrative dynamics, substantiated and enriched by the textual analysis of works by Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Franz Kafka, and Katherine Mansfield. The study explores the many ways that these authors have used dual dynamics to increase the power of their narratives. In addition, th
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Taylor & Francis Jane Austens Anglicanism
Book SynopsisIn her re-examination of Jane Austen's Anglicanism, Laura Mooneyham White suggests that engaging with Austen's world in all its strangeness and remoteness reveals the novelist's intensely different presumptions about the cosmos and human nature. While Austen's readers often project postmodern and secular perspectives onto an Austen who reflects their own times and values, White argues that viewing Austen's Anglicanism through the lens of primary sources of the period, including the complex history of the Georgian church to which Austen was intimately connected all her life, provides a context for understanding the central conflict between Austen's malicious wit and her family's testimony to her Christian piety and kindness. White draws connections between Austen's experiences with the clergy, liturgy, doctrine, and religious readings and their fictional parallels in the novels; shows how orthodox Anglican concepts such as natural law and the Great Chain of Being resonate in Austen's wo
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