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Austin Macauley Publishers Investigating Sherlock Holmes
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Austin Macauley Publishers Investigating Sherlock Holmes
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Cambridge University Press Journalism and the Periodical Press in NineteenthCentury Britain
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Cambridge University Press Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century 78 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 78
Book SynopsisIn the 1860s and 1870s, leading neurologists used animal experimentation to establish that discrete sections of the brain regulate specific mental and physical functions. These discoveries had immediate medical benefits: David Ferrier's detailed cortical maps, for example, saved lives by helping surgeons locate brain tumors and haemorrhages without first opening up the skull. These experiments both incited controversy and stimulated creative thought, because they challenged the possibility of an extra-corporeal soul. This book examines the cultural impact of neurological experiments on late-Victorian Gothic romances by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells and others. Novels like Dracula and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde expressed the deep-seated fears and visionary possibilities suggested by cerebral localization research, and offered a corrective to the linearity and objectivity of late Victorian neurology.Trade Review"Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century establishes the genre of the gothic romance as a vital component of Victorian scienti*c culture, indisputably demonstrates the importance of literary products as primary sources for interpreting the history of neurology, and sets an impeccably high standard for scholarship in both literary studies and the history of science, medicine, and technology." -Stephen Casper, Project MuseTable of ContentsIntroduction: cerebral localization and the late Victorian Gothic romance; Part I. Reactionaries: 1. Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde and the double brain; 2. Bram Stoker's Dracula and cerebral automatism; Part II. Materialists: 3. Photographic memory in the works of Grant Allen; Part III. Visionaries: 4. H. G. Wells and the evolution of the mad scientist; 5. Marie Corelli and the neuron; Epilogue; Looking forward.
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Cambridge University Press The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination
Book SynopsisThe hands of colonized subjects were vital sites of fascination and interpretation in late-Victorian imperial narratives. The book considers accounts of fingerprinting, amputation, disease, manual labor, and mummification as central examples of the racial significance assigned to hands around the fin de siècle.Trade Review'The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination is an essential read for Victorian, Modernist, and even Postmodern and Contemporary scholars. Briefel's excellent book contributes to the fields of hand, literary rape, feminist, postcolonial, and posthuman studies, demanding that we explore the ethical implications of reading the hand in the Victorian imagination as a signifier of either individual or collective identity by contending with questions of race all too often overlooked.' Kimberly Cox, The British Society for Literature and Science Reviews'… rich, cogent, and eminently readable … Briefel's book is an indispensable part of an emerging area of focus in nineteenth-century studies … Marshaling a rich array of historical, scientific, popular, and literary texts with a deft and restrained critical touch, Briefel has offered the reader a gift - one dropped gently into our hands.' Daniel A. Novak, Novel: A Forum on FictionTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The case of the blank hand: race and manual legibility; 2. Potters and prosthetics: putting Indian hands to work; 3. The mummy's hand: art and evolution; 4. A hand for a hand: punishment, responsibility, and imperial desire; 5. Crimes of the hand: manual violence and the Congo; Coda; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Balzac
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Cambridge University Press Some Reminiscences
Book SynopsisIn this two-volume memoir of 1906, William Michael Rossetti (18291919) provides an unparalleled glimpse into the dynamics of the Rossetti family, dealing with his own childhood and that of his siblings, the genesis of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and friendships with many outstanding cultural figures of the Victorian age.Table of Contents19. My literary work, 1858 to 1867; 20. Charles Cayley and Christina Rossetti; 21. The Cheyne Walk circle of friends; 22. Some foreign trips, etc.; 23. Editing Shelley, etc.; Trelawney; 24. Other editorial work; 25. The Inland Revenue and some of its officials; 26. My marriage and married life; 27. Our children; 28. Literary and lecturing work, 1874 to 1893; 29. Family intimates in our married life; 30. Other acquaintances, 1874 to 1893; 31. Deaths in the family; 32. My works from 1894 onwards; 33. Concluding words; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Walt Whitman in Context
Book SynopsisDesigned for students and scholars, Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural and political - in which to engage Whitman's life and work.Table of ContentsPart I. Locations: 1. Long Island William T. Walter; 2. Brooklyn and Manhattan Karen Karbiener; 3. Camden and Philadelphia William Pannapacker; 4. Washington, DC Kenneth M. Price; 5. The American South Matt Cohen; Part II. Literary and Artistic Contexts: 6. Verse forms Michael C. Cohen; 7. Periodical poetry Ingrid I. Satelmajer; 8. Periodical fiction Stephanie Blalock; 9. Journalism Jason Stacy; 10. Oratory Leslie Eckel; 11. Opera Carmen Trammell Skaggs; 12. Performance and celebrity David Haven Blake; 13. Visual arts and photography Ruth Bohan; 14. Erotica Paul Erickson; 15. Notebooks and manuscripts Matt Miller; 16. Bookmaking Nicole Gray; 17. The literary marketplace David Dowling; 18. Transatlantic book distribution Jessica DeSpain; Part III. Cultural and Political Contexts: 19. Transcendentalism Regina Schober; 20. Philosophy Stephen John Mack; 21. Bohemianism Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley; 22. Gender Maire Mullins; 23. Sexuality Jay Grossman; 24. Politics Kerry Larson; 25. Imperialism and globalization Walter Grünzweig; 26. Nineteenth-century religion Brian Yothers; 27. Civil War Peter Coviello; 28. Reconstruction Martin Buinicki; 29. Death and mourning Adam Bradford; 30. Slavery and abolition Ivy G. Wilson; 31. Native American and immigrant cultures Rachel Rubinstein; 32. The rank and file Jerome Loving; 33. Romanticism Edward S. Cutler; 34. The natural world Christine Gerhardt; 35. Science and medicine Lindsay Tuggle; Part IV. Reception and Legacy: 36. Disciples Michael Robertson; 37. Influence in the United States Sascha Pöhlmann; 38. Impact on the World Ed Folsom.
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Cambridge University Press Aging Duration and the English Novel
Book SynopsisThe rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a descriptive moment, writing the passage of years on the body all at once. Aging, Duration, and the English Novelargues that the formal disappearance of aging from the novel parallels the ideological pressure to identify as being young by repressing the process of growing old. The construction of aging as a shameful event that should be hidden - to improve one''s chances on the job market or secure a successful marriage - corresponds to the rise of the long novel, which draws upon the temporality of the body to map progress and decline onto the plots of nineteenth-century British modernity.Trade Review'Jacob Jewusiak's Aging, Duration, and the English Novel is a welcome contribution to the burgeoning critical interest in age that the humanities is currently experiencing … Aging, Duration, and the English Novel successfully demonstrates that scholarly engagement with the category of age can generate interesting new interpretations of well-known works … [it] makes a valuable contribution not just to literary age studies, but also to ongoing debates within the humanities about the value of recognising age as a master identity on par with gender, race, and class.' Caitlin Doley, BAVS Newsletter'… Jewusiak's book is essential reading for scholars of narrative time, as it establishes provocative discursive ties with some of the best writing on time and the novel in the past twenty years.' Leslie S. Simon, Dickens QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Aging theory; 2. No plots for old men; 3. Life after the marriage plot; 4. A wrinkle in time; 5. The technology age; 6. Gray modernism.
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Cambridge University Press Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English
Book SynopsisThis first collected discussion of Pater's significance for English literary criticism reveals his importance in shaping the principles of Modernist criticism and comprehensively contextualises his work. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction: Pater and english literature Charles Martindale and Elizabeth Prettejohn; Introduction to Part I: Part I. General: 1. 'Of the true family of Montaigne': appreciations and the essay tradition in english literature Kenneth Daley; 2. Unravelling Pater's english poet: the imaginary portrait as criticism Lene Østermark-Johansen; 3. Pater's Montaigne and the selfish reader Fergus McGhee; 4. Studies in European literature: Pater's cosmopolitan criticism Stefano Evangelista; 5. The 'Postscript' Ross Wilson; 6. Form, matter, and metaphysics in Walter Pater's essay on 'Style' Michael D. Hurley; 7. Walter Pater, second-hand stylist Scarlett Baron; Introduction to Part II: Part II. Individual authors: early moderns, romantics, contemporaries: 8. Pater's Shakespeare Alex Wong; 9. Pater and the quaintness of seventeenth-century english prose Kathryn Murphy; 10. 'Spiritual Form': Walter Pater's encounters with William Blake Luisa Calè; 11. Pater on Coleridge and Wordsworth Charles W. Mahoney; 12. Walter Pater, Charles Lamb and 'the value of reserve' Stacey McDowell; 13. Poetry in dilution: Pater, Morris and the future of english Marcus Waithe;14. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his school Elizabeth Prettejohn; Postscript Stephen Bann; Walter Pater and english studies: a select bibliography; Index.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Bram Stoker Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage
Book SynopsisBram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage re-appraises Stoker's key fictions in relation to his working life. It takes Stoker's work from the margins to centre stage, exploring how Victorian theatre's melodramatic and Gothic productions influenced his writing and thinking.Trade Review"Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage does an admirable job of placing Dracula in conversation with the literary Gothic, supernatural Gothic, and melodramatic drama on offer at Irving's Lyceum Royal Theatre. It also situates the novel in relation to the function of science, literature, and the theatre in "legitimixing brutality" towards women as a means of rehabilitating them." - Victorian Periodicals Review, 2015Table of ContentsIntroduction: Setting the Scene 1. Stoker, Melodrama and the Gothic 2. Irving's Tempters and Stoker's Vanishing Ladies: Supernatural Production, Mesmeric Influence and Magical Illusion 3. Ellen Terry and the 'Bloofer Lady': Femininity and Fallenness 4. Gothic Weddings and Performing Vampires: Geneviève Ward and The Lady of the Shroud 5. The Lyceum's Macbeth and Stoker's Dracula Conclusion
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Other British Voices Women Poetry and Religion
Book SynopsisThis volume discusses the lives and writings of five nonconformist women who comprised the heart of a vibrant literary circle in England between 1760 and 1840. Whelan shows these women's keen awareness and often radical viewpoints on contemporary issues connected to politics, religion, gender, and the Romantic sensibility.Trade Review“Timothy Whelan brings to this volume a formidable reputation as editor and interpreter of English female authors of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, having presided over the eight-volume edition of Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720–1840 … . we have cause to thank Professor Whelan for bringing to the attention of historians a wider range of primary sources, including many still in manuscript, for the religious nonconformity of this period than was previously available.” (G. M. Ditchfield, The Journal of the Historical Association, October, 2016)Table of ContentsPreface 1. A Nonconformist Women's Literary Tradition 2. Mary Steele (1753-1813) and a West Country Tradition of Dissenting Women's Poetry 3. Mary Steele as the 'Rustic Maid' 4. Mary Scott (1751-1793) 5. Jane Attwater (1753-1843) 6. Elizabeth Coltman (1761-1838)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis New Woman Fiction 18811899 Part II vol 6
Book SynopsisCovers four texts from the 1890s that helped to crystallize the idea of the 'New Woman' during a period where the role of women was increasingly debated and challenged, not least due to the growth of the suffrage movement.Table of ContentsI: Nobody’s Fault; 1: Chapter I; 2: Chapter II; 3: Chapter III; 4: Chapter IV; 5: Chapter V; 6: Chapter VI; 7: Chapter VII; II: Part II; 8: Chapter VIII; 9: Chapter IX; 10: Chapter X; 11: Chapter XI; 12: Chapter XII; 13: Chapter XIII; 14: Chapter XIV; 15: Chapter XV; 16: Chapter XVI; III: Netta Syrett; 17: School; 18: The C.T.C.; 19: A Visit; 20: The Swansea High School; 21: London; 22: Friends – and Marriages; 23: Friends – and Parties; 24: An Unorthodox School; 25: The ‘Playgoers’ Play’; 26: Still Theatrical; 27: Italy And The Riviera; 28: Enter ‘Peter’ By Way of The Dream Garden; 29: Paris; 30: The Thorps and ‘The Decoy’; 31: Jack; 32: Chapter XVI Thomas Hardy – The Pen CluB; 33: The Pre-War Russian Ballet: Plays and Pageants; 34: Soho Square; 35: Chapter XIX The Children’s Theatre; 36: The Outbreak of War; 37: Hamilton Terrace; 38: Italy Again; 39: Ebury Street; 40: ‘Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On’
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Womens Travel Writings in India 17771854
Book SynopsisThe memsahibs' of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film. In recent years, they have also become the focus of extensive scholarship. Less familiar to both academics and the general public, however, are the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century precursors to the memsahibs of the Victorian and Edwardian era. Yet British women also visited and resided in India in this earlier period, witnessing first-hand the tumultuous, expansionist decades in which the East India Company established British control over the subcontinent. Some of these travellers produced highly regarded accounts of their experiences, thereby inaugurating a rich tradition of women's travel writing about India. In the process, they not only reported events and developments in the subcontinent, they also contributed to them, helping to shape opinion and policy on issues such as colonial rule, religion, and social reform.This new set in the Chawton HouTable of ContentsIntroductionAnn Deane, A Tour Through the Upper Provinces of Hindostan (1823)Julia Maitland, Letters from Madras (1846)Editorial Notes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Tolstoys What is Art
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Tolstoy An Approach bound with Dostoevsky A Study
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dostoevsky Portrayed by His Wife
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Tolstoi The Teacher
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Tolstoy The Comprehensive Vision
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Cambridge University Press The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean
Book SynopsisThrough extensive Romance Languages archival and field research, this book challenges eurocentric notions of World Literature to create a 'Latin-African' literary history that interweaves the influential voices of African, Caribbean, and Latinx/Chicanx authors. This book bridges the long-neglected distance between hemispheric and African studies.Trade Review'By rehabilitating and privileging the African archive in her account of Latinx/Caribbean relations, Sarah Quesada's book provides a fresh and very welcome instalment to debates about Pan-Africanism. But here, Pan-Africanism is more than just an aspirational political project, long distracted by the cynical pragmatism of political leaders. Rather, it is a work of re-animation that will redefine African and African diasporic relations through a well-grounded and nuanced humanities perspective. This book is a magnificent gift offering.' Ato Quayson, Stanford University'Beautifully written, well researched and bold in its formulations, The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature is an important intervention in the reading of Latinx and Latin American literature, widely defined. The brilliance of the book is manifest in the analysis, in which the Sarah Quesada unearths discreet connections to Africa and unfolds them into an ambitious and successful re-cartography of the Atlantic through a Latin America-Africa axis that is very persuasive and unique.' Ignacio Sanchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis'Sarah Quesada has written a BIG book, both in its scholarly import and geographic scope. Quesada finally centers Africa in study of the Black Atlantic. She also redresses its exclusion of Latin America - a region that received three-quarters of enslaved Africans during the colonial period - while making plain why Latinx literature has always been a world literature. Reading comparatively and with laser focus across four languages, dozens of colonial archives, and three continents, Quesada traces the textual memory and political internationalism that has thrived for over eighty years among authors and political actors from the US Southwest, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Colombia, and Benin, Nigeria, Senegal, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Quesada presents the reader with the beating nexus of cultural, political, and aesthetic Latin-Africa, in vivid and engaging prose, such as only a generational thinker can accomplish. Afrolatinidad is redefined in her capable hands.' María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, New York University'Quesada's The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature transforms Paul Gilroy's notion of The Black Atlantic into an Afro-Latino Atlantic…Quesada is able to make a hopeful argument for the possibility of fiction - whether traditional print novels or heritage site oral storytelling - to helpfully respond to and potentially transform the path wrought by this real and symbolic violence.' Tom McEnaney, University of California, BerkeleyTable of Contents1. Fear: Junot Díaz's zombies and les contorsions extraordinaires in 'Monstro'; 2. Commodification: Badagry and the African safari of Achy Obejas's Ruins; 3. Obliteration: Gabriel García Márquez and his Angolan chronicles of a 'Latin-African' death foretold; 4. Archival distortion: The Chicano-Congo Relación of Tomás Rivera and Rudolfo Anaya.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Dracula
Book SynopsisBram Stoker''sDraculais the most famous vampire in literature and film. This new collection of sixteen essays brings together a range of internationally renowned scholars to provide a series of pathways through this celebrated Gothic novel and its innumerable adaptations and translations. The volume illuminates the novel''s various pre-histories, critical contexts and subsequent cultural transformations. Chapters explore literary history, Gothic revival scholarship, folklore, anthropology, psychology, sexology, philosophy, occultism, cultural history, critical race theory, theatre and film history, and the place of the vampire in Europe and beyond. These studies provide an accessible guide of cutting-edge scholarship to one of the most celebrated modern Gothic horror stories. ThisCompanionwill serve as a key resource for scholars, teachers and students interested in the enduring force of Dracula and the seemingly inexhaustible range of the contexts it requires and readings it might genTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors; Note on the Text; Chronology; Introduction Roger Luckhurst; Part I. Dracula in the Gothic Tradition: 1. Dracula's Pre-History: The Advent of the Vampire Nick Groom; 2. Dracula's Debts to the Gothic Romance William Hughes; 3. Dracula and the Late Victorian Gothic Revival Alex Warwick; Part II. Contexts: 4. Dracula and the Occult Christine Ferguson; 5. Dracula and Psychology Roger Luckhurst; 6. Dracula and Sexology Heike Bauer; 7. Dracula in the Age of Mass Migration David Glover; 8. Dracula and the East Matthew Gibson; 9. Dracula's Blood Anthony Bale; 10. Dracula and Women Carol Senf; Part III. New Directions: 11. Dracula Queered Xavier Aldana Reyes; 12. Dracula and New Horror Theory Mark Blacklock; 13. Transnational Draculas Ken Gelder; Part IV. Adaptations: 14. Dracula on Stage Catherine Wynne; 15. Dracula on Film 1931-1959 Alison Peirse; 16. Dracula on Film and TV, 1960 to present Stacey Abbott; Guide to Further Reading; Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Sensation and Sublimation in Charles Dickens
Book SynopsisThis book explores three crucial stages in Dickens'' on-going voyage of discovery into what has been called the ''hidden springs'' of his fiction; arguing that in three of Dickens best known novels, we witness Dickens responding to some identifiable force represented as coming from underneath the ground plan of the book in question.Trade Review"The reader of this excellent study of Dickens's Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, and Bleak House quickly becomes enmeshed in Gordon's impassioned inquiries. Exhilarating reads, these serious novels provide inexhaustible material for critical analyses. Drawing on the work of such scholars as J. Hillis Miller, Terry Castle, and Michel Slater (author of the magisterial Charles Dickens, CH, Apr'10, 47-4288), Gordon (Connecticut College) sheds light on Dickens's magical force. Among the topics he examines are pedophilia, anti-Semitism, industrialism, capitalism, and liminal experiences. Dickens's complex narrative style includes a variety of tropes - melodrama, fairy tale, the gothic. The three novels depict child sacrifice, corrupt patriarchs, and social disharmony. Oliver Twist is preoccupied by sadism and infanticide, horrors Dickens buffers with Oliver's good fortune and hypnagogic trances. Dombey and Bleak House move beyond that fairy-tale world, dealing with contemporaneous social institutions and issues (railroads, capitalism, social leadership). In the complex Bleak House, women's trials constitute a special subset of issues as women seek satisfaction in an elusive motherhood; the narrative intertwines a retrospective, wounded female voice with a dominating masculine presence. Thus the reader of the novelist's "psychological pleasure palace" is challenged by alternative perceptions. Gordon's discussion of all this makes for an excellent book." - Choice "With the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth imminent, we can expect a flood of books on Charles Dickens. I suspect, however, that few of them will display as much critical intelligence as Sensation and Sublimation in Charles Dickens, and I doubt that any will match the positively Dickensian energy, wit, and gusto that Gordon brings to his subject." - Austin Briggs, Tompkins Professor of English Emeritus, Hamilton College "This astonishingly alert reading explores the tension between surface narrative and covert allusion. Its many new insights strengthen our sense ofDickens's creative brilliance anddeepenourunderstanding of three of his novels." - Robert Lapides, Professor of English, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsWhat Right Have They to Butcher Me?' 'Thankee, Mum,' said Toodle, 'Since You Are Suppressing' 'In a Thick Crowd of Sounds, but Still Intelligibly Enough to be Understood' 'Is Esther Pretty?' and Nine Other Questions About Bleak House
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Palgrave Macmillan Hardy the Physician
Book SynopsisWas Thomas Hardy clinically depressed or just syphilitic? Was Egdon Heath imbued with melancholic vapours? And does this explain why many of his characters suffered from depression, took their own lives or developed homicidal tendencies? This book by a rural GP explores these and many other medical issues in Hardy''s life and works.Trade Review'...a fascinating book...Hardy the Physician is an original and detailed analysis of illness and disease in Thomas Hardy's life and works, interpreted from both the physical and psychological perspectives.' - Ruth Meech, DorchesterLife 'Fincham's critique displays a wide and deep knowledge about medical practices...This type of inter-disciplinary approach, particularly integrating literature and the sciences, is a worthwhile addition to Hardy studies.' - JoAnna Stephens Mink, The Hardy AssociationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Obstextrics Hardyan Illness Endgames General Practice Psychosomatic Illness& Death The Fitzpierston Syndrome The Mind Diseased Afterwords Glossary Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan The Music of Verse
Book SynopsisThrough its recovery of the metrical principles underlying the work of some of the century''s major poets, this study highlights the intricacy of the relation between the ''music'' of verse and its meaning, and helping us to understand the way in which the ferment of metrical experiment eventually led to the emergence of free verse.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Note on Terminology and Metrical Marks Music and Metre 'Empty Times' and 'Double Accents': The English Hexameter in Theory and Practice Native Traditions: Anglo-Saxon and Alliterative Verse 'The Accent of Feeling': Towards Free Verse Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan FrancoBritish Cultural Exchanges 18801940
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on the literary connotations of the ''Channel Packet'' and sets forth lively dialogues between French and British culture at a key period of artistic innovation and exchange between ''high'' and popular art forms.Trade Review'With its wide range of insightful essays on both French- and English-language texts, Radford and Reid's book has much to contribute to our understanding both of Modernism as a transnational phenomenon and, more specifically, of the rich and peculiar cultural history of the Channel and its coasts.' - Dominic Rainsford, Professor of Literatures in English, Aarhus University; author of Literature, Identity and the English ChannelTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Channel Vision; A.Radford & V.Reid Sea Change: English Responses to French Poetry between Decadence and Modernism; J.Higgins Entente asymétrique? Franco-British Literary Exchanges in 1908; R.Hibbitt Misfits in France: Wild(e) about Dieppe; J.Barnes & H.Lee Transposing Wilde's Salomé: The French Operas by Strauss and Mariotte; E.Eells Valery Larbaud, Thomas Hardy and The Dynasts, with two letters from Larbaud to Hardy; D.Roe Exploring English Realist Fiction: André Gide and his Correspondents; P.Pollard Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes, the Nouvelle Revue Française and the English Adventure Novel; D.Steel Marcel Schwob and Robert Louis Stevenson: Encounters in Death and Letters; V.Reid Croisset-London and Back, or, Flaubert's Anglo-Saxon Ghosts; C.Patey The Imagination of Space: Ford Madox Ford and France; L.Colombino An Atlas of Unknown Worlds: Charting Interwar Paris in the Short Stories of Mary Butts; A.Radford Index
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Palgrave Macmillan The Other East and NineteenthCentury British Literature
Book SynopsisThe Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture. This book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to nineteenth-century British literature, offering new readings of Blake''s Europe , Byron''s Mazeppa , and Eliot''s Middlemarch , and recovering influential works by Thomas Campbell and Jane Porter.Trade Review"Turning to the profound but largely overlooked impact of Eastern Europe and Northern Asia on British literature and culture of the nineteenth century, The Other East compels us to consider another imaginative locus of the Empire on which the sun never set. The book's sensitive treatment of Poland and Russia as they are imagined and used in well-known and understudied works by the likes of Blake, Byron, Campbell, Coleridge, Conrad, Eliot, and Wollstonecraft will have scholars and students rethinking what we thought we knew about the global perspectives and reach of this era's literature. Thomas McLean's impeccably researched, highly persuasive, and original book is at once a formidable contribution to our scholarship and a delight to read." - Devoney Looser, Professor of English, University of Missouri Columbia, USA "Thomas McLean's The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire is another contribution to postcolonial studies that addresses an often-overlooked strand of British imperial discourse its representation of Eastern Europe. McLean examines the 'evolving image of the Polish exile' (p. 2) in relation to the Russian Empire in works by such Romantic and Victorian writers as Blake, Coleridge, Byron, Mary Shelley, Alfred Tennyson, George Eliot, and Conrad." - Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 "...a valuable introduction to this under-researched area of nineteenth-century literary history." - Jan J?drzejewski, New Zealand Slavonic JournalTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Other East 'That Woman, Lovely Woman! May have Dominion': Catherine the Great and Poland 'A Patriot's Furrow'd Cheek': British Responses to the 1794 Kosciuszko Uprising Hero Between Genres: Jane Porter's Thaddeus of Warsaw 'Transformed, not only altered': The Resurrection of Kosciuszko and the Arrival of Mazeppa Climate Change: Britain and Poland 1830-1849 Arms and the Circassian Woman Picturing Will: Middlemarch and the Victorian Genealogy of the Polish Hero Afterword: Conrad's Poles Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Necromanticism
Book SynopsisNecromanticism is a study of literary pilgrimage: readers'' compulsion to visit literary homes, landscapes, and (especially) graves during the long Romantic period. The book draws on the histories of tourism and literary genres to highlight Romanticism''s recourse to the dead in its reading, writing, and canon-making practices.Trade Review"Necromanticism is a critically reflective, thoroughly researched, and unexpectedly upbeat study of literary necro-tourism in Britain, associated Anglo-American discourses and cultural practises, and the implications for modern scholarly interpretations of Romantic historiography, reading and canon-making." - Samantha Matthews, University of Bristol, UK ''Westover's book, then, invites a critical reflection on our understanding of 'Romanticism' itself through his thoughtful analysis of the ways in which living authors writing about dead authors are engaged in defining (even as they hope, in turn, to become defined by) the commemorative narraties that go into creating a shared literary heritage.'' - Byron Journal ''Westover intelligently synthesises perspectives from different disciplines and critical approaches to produce a distinctive reading of the cultural ramifications of trying to commune with authors' spirits in close proximity to their bodies.'' - Samantha Matthews, Uniersity of Bristol, UK "A crucial development in the field of literary tourism... Westover's book is particularly insightful in providing literary touristic practices with a theoretical underpinning... Even when Westover is stepping on trodden critical ground, he provides a fresh perspective through subtle analysis... valuable reading for nineteenth-century scholars across the disciplines of the humanities." Rebecca Butler, The BARS ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction - Traveling to Meet the Dead On Ideal Presence The Origins of Literary Tourism William Godwin, Necro-Tourism, and the Empirical Afterlife of the Dead Imaginary Pilgrimages: Felicia Hemans, Dead Poets, and Romantic Historiography Interlude: Necromanticism and Romantic Authorship The Transatlantic Invention of 'English' Literary Heritage Illustration, Historicism, and Travel: The Legacy of Sir Walter Scott Notes Works Consulted Index
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Palgrave Macmillan The Postcolonial and Imperial Experience in American Transcendentalism
Book SynopsisAnalyses literary representations of the American experience in selected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. Reveals the ambivalence that underlay the cultural and political development of the United States as a former colony.Trade Review'This deeply-informed study of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman in historical-ideological context offers the most persuasive assessment to date of the tangled symbiosis between the 'postcolonial' and 'imperial' dimensions of US Euro-settler literature during its formative period. Paryz demonstrates at once the pervasiveness of their respective preoccupations with issues of national destiny, their hesitancies concerning it, and the intellectual fertility of imagination arising from the unstable, inchoate admixture of aesthetic and sociocultural interests that competed with it. This achievement provides fresh confirmation, if further confirmation be needed, of the increasing percentage of innovative work in American Studies by scholars trained or working outside the United States.' - Lawrence Buell, Harvard University 'Paryz reads critically the close relationship between postcolonial dependence and imperial ambition in the new US nation. His focus on Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman shows how liberal transcendentalism built its key ideas in response to powerful English influences and in support of US expansionist policies. This study of nineteenth-century US transnationalism by an important Polish scholar is further evidence of the value of internationalizing American Studies.' - John Carlos Rowe, USC Associates' Professor of the Humanities, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Mapping the Field PART I: RALPH WALDO EMERSON: THE DOUBLE FIGURATION Figures of Dependence: Exploring the Postcolonial in Emerson's Selected Texts Beyond the Traveler's Testimony: English Traits and the Construction of Postcolonial Counter-Discourse Emerson, New England, and the Rhetoric of Expansion PART II: HENRY DAVID THOREAU: THE IMPERIAL IMAGINARY Thoreau's Imperial Fantasy: Walden versus Robinson Crusoe The Politics of the Genre: Exploration and Ethnography in The Maine Woods PART III: WALT WHITMAN: THE NATIONAL TRAJECTORY Postcolonial Whitman: The Poet and the Nation in the 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass Passage to (More Than) India: The Poetics and Politics of Whitman's Textualization of the Orient Conclusion: Representative Men
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Palgrave Macmillan The Regions of Sara Coleridges Thought
Book SynopsisThis book explores Sara Coleridge''s critical intelligence and theoretical reach. It shows her in various critical guises: editing works by her father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, commenting on her own poetry and prose, and writing diversely brilliant criticism of classical and English literature.Trade Review"The Regions of Sara Coleridge's Thought, which begins with Swaab's tidy introduction, and which has been put together mostly using Sara's private correspondence, is a treat. Swaab shows the life of one of the richest literary minds of the nineteenth century from the inside out, as it were." - European Romantic Review "In his judicious selection, astute introduction and supporting materials, Peter Swaab is Sara Coleridge's exemplary editor. The Regions of Sara Coleridge's Thought shows us a woman of genius commanding an extraordinary age and making it her own. Now all readers can discover in this enthralling selection of her writings exactly how she did so." - Nicholas Roe, Professor of English Literature, University of St. Andrews "Swaab's selection is carefully chosen and excellently arranged, and his introduction and notes provide expert guidance and further suggestions. Sara Coleridge who stands at a crossroads where so many Victorian interests intersect and who evokes particular interest at the present time has found the editor she richly deserves." - J. C. C. Mays, Professor Emeritus, University College DublinTable of ContentsSara Coleridge on Sara Coleridge Sara Coleridge on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and on Editing Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sara Coleridge in Editions of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sara Coleridge on William Wordsworth Sara Coleridge Writing for the Quarterly Review Sara Coleridge on the Literature of Earlier Times Sara Coleridge on her Contemporaries
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture
Book SynopsisThis highly original study opens up a new dimension to Joseph Conrad by revealing his lifelong fascination with the popular culture of his day.Trade Review'Donovan is to be praised both for the care and detail of his excavation of popular culture in Conrad's oeuvre and for the lucidity with which he presents his results...Not only does this volume provoke renewed interest in its subject matter, but it also stands as a paradigm in its meticulous research, so that the combination provides that novel and most welcome thing - a riveting new work of Conrad scholarship.' - The Conradian 'What strikes the reader in this volume is Donovan's appreciation of Conrad's life and works, and his ability to bind together Conrad's innumerable subtle reflections on the emerging dominance of popular culture. This work is one of the most readable and informative studies of Conrad to appear in many years, an example of what rigorous scholarship and fine writing can achieve.' - English Literature in Transition 'Donovan's rewarding new study .... successfully demonstrates how thoroughly Conrad's fiction is permeated by the material traces of popular culture. ... Each of its extended readings and biographical anecdotes serves both to consolidate and to invite reconsideration of the new face of Conrad that has emerged in Victorian and modernist studies over the past few decades. The aura of this new face deserves many more such studies.'- Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Visual Entertainment Tourism Advertising Magazine Fiction Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK British Romanticism and Continental Influences
Book SynopsisDuring the 1790s and 1800s, cultural critics became convinced that Britain was being 'inundated' by pernicious literary translations imported from the European Continent.Trade Review'This book will make an important contribution to the new wave of Romantic studies currently broadening the worldly contexts of Romanticism away from a narrowly conceived English nativism.' - Saree Makdisi, Professor of English, University of CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: 'Sickly and Stupid German Tragedies' 'We Know that the Enemy Is Working among Us': The Rhetoric of Romantic Europhobia 'Dethroning German Sublimity': Outrageous Stimulation in Romantic Ballad-Writing 'Il Est Devenue Classique en Angleterre': Some Versions of Romantic (Anti-)Pastoral 'Partizans of the German Theatre': The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Dramatic Translation 'The Descent of Odin': Romantic Writers among the Norsemen Notes Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Social Transformations in Hardys Tragic Novels
Book SynopsisDrawing on the theoretical work of Deleuze and Guattari and that of Jean Laplanche - particularly his major and as yet still relatively unfamiliar notion of the phantasme - Social Formation in Hardy''s Major Novels is an original and groundbreaking rereading of Hardy''s four major tragic novels. The readings are sophisticated and yet accessible. The theoretical work is complemented by the use of new and hitherto unregarded major empirical findings that reveal the very heart of Hardy''s creative universe.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction The Interrupted Return The Exploding Body in The Mayor of Casterbridge Tess of the D'Urbervilles : 'a becoming woman' Tess : The phantasmatic capture Retranslating Jude the Obscure I Traversing The Well-Beloved Retranslating Jude the Obscure II Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Blake and Modern Literature
Book SynopsisWilliam Blake is one of the most important influences on twentieth-century literature. This study will ask why he is a figure central to the Modernist re-definition of past art. He also appears to be an acceptable sage for postmodernists, he can be associated with an opposition to authority without imposing one version of his own mythology.Trade Review'this first full-length study of Blake's influence on twentieth-century literature is fascinating in it's range of reference.' - The Use of English '...the most consistent and comprehensive text yet on Blake's literary influence.' - Jason Whittaker, Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Blake, Between Romanticism, Modernism and Postmodernism Zoas and Moods: Myth and Aspects of the Mind in Blake and Yeats Eliot between Blake and Yeats Blake and Oppositional Identity in Yeats, Auden and Dylan Thomas Blake and Joyce Deposits and Rehearsals: Repetition and Redemption in The Anathémata of David Jones: A Comparison and Contrast with Blake Blake, Postmodernity and Postmodernism Joyce Carey: Getting It From the Horse's Mouth Two American Disciples of Blake: Robert Duncan and Allen Ginsberg Postmodern Myths and Lies: Iain Sinclair and Angela Carter Salman Rushdie, Myth and Postcolonial Romanticism Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Visionary Materialism in the Early Works of William Blake
Book SynopsisIncorporating the most recent discoveries concerning Blake's heritage and cultural context, Visionary Materialism in the Early Works of William Blake: The Intersection of Enthusiasm and Empiricism proposes a radical new reading of his early works, that sees them taking enlightenment ideas to heights never dreamed of by Locke and Priestley.Trade Review'This work can serve as an excellent resource for scholars interested in Blake's materialism, and it also demonstrates the necessity of value of conjectural leaps in humanities research.' - Marcel O'Gorman, RomanticismTable of ContentsAcknowledgements- A Note on Texts and Illustrations Introduction: Blake and his Traditions PART 1: EXPERIENCES OF EMPIRICISM Blake and Locke: Friendship and Enmity Closet and Cavern Priestley and the Material Soul PART 2: THE TREE OF MYSTERY Obscurity and the Sublime Infinity: Causes and Consequences The Corporealisation of Thought 'Surgeing Sulphureous Fluid': The Case of Urizen PART 3: RIGHT REASON AND 'SENSE SUPERNATURAL' 'Where Else is Heaven': The Ranting Impulse and Inner Light The Spiritual Substance The Abyssal Eye PART 4: THE OPENING EYE 'He Conversed with Angels' Divine Vision as Political Force PART 5: THE ARK OF GOD 'What is Man!' The First Principle Perception, Liberty and Organic Light The Bounding Line Outlining the Vessels of Eternity PART 6: THE SUBLIME ACT Incarnations and Inheritance Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Tennyson
Book SynopsisTennyson is the most important English poet of the Victorian age. He knew its key figures and was deeply involved in its science, religion, philosophy and politics. The Palgrave Literary Dictionary for the first time gives easily accessible information, under more than 400 headings, on his poetry, his circle, the period and its contexts.Trade Review'This dictionary, as wide as an encyclopedia, is sure to be often consulted as a reliable and enjoyable source of information.' - Reference Reviews Journal 'This very useful book gives a near complete account of all Tennyson's works and all the people he knew...Much industry, knowledge and research has gone into the making of the excellent dictionary.' - Lincolnshire History and Archaeology '...it is certainly the case that, with this dictionary, the editors' encyclopaedic knowledge has placed all Tennysonians in their debt and provided a work of reference to which we shall all have profitable recourse for the forseeable future.' - The Tennyson SocietyTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Foreword Acknowledgements Preface Entries A-Z Bibliography
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Palgrave Macmillan British Women Writers and Race 17881818
Book SynopsisThis book presents a unique sociological examination of British raciology, focusing on women''s literary works of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and drawing from a range of academic disciplines, particularly literature, history and cultural studies. Wright traces the emergence of British modernity through the writings of a select group of women writers (including Jane Austen, Hannah More, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Maria Edgeworth) of diverse political and philosophical affiliations, and fills a gap in scholarship on feminist accounts of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women''s writing.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Epigraphs Introduction PART 1: THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, RACE AND ENLIGHTENED FEMINISM Race and the Late Eighteenth Century Feminism and the Late Eighteenth Century Literature and Social Theory PART 2: POLITICS OF POPULATION: EMPIRE, SLAVERY AND RACE Empire and Slavery Jane Austen and Empire Poverty, Welfare and Crime Racialized Compassion Sex, Race and Civilization PART 3: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND BRITISH RACIOLOGY Political Imagination and the French Revolution Patriotism Nationalism and War Raciology of Belonging Representation Othering Slavery and Civilization PART 4: MORAL ECONOMIES OF NATURE, RELIGION AND SCIENCE Nature, God and Women Rationality and Human Nature Enlightenment, Romanticism and Racial Subjectivities Romantic Genealogy of Culture Islam Enlightenment and the Raciology of Civilization Christianity and Slavery Catholicism and the Other Education and Patriarchal Relations Women and Science Science and Race Notes and References Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Beyond Arthurian Romances
Book SynopsisLeaving the traditional focus on Arthurian romance and Gothic tales, the essays in this collection address how the Victorians looked back to the Middle Ages to create a sense of authority for their own ideas in areas such as art, religion, gender expectations, and social services.Trade Review'Comprehensive in scope and specific in detail, there is much to interest scholar and lay reader, specialist and generalist, in the themes and subjects covered by this book.' - The Journal of William Morris StudiesTable of ContentsPART ONE: THE NEW/OLD FRAMEWORK FOR FEMAL VOCATION Where Medieval Romance Meets Victorian Reality: The "Woman Question" in William Morris's "The Wood Beyond the World"; L.Campbell Lessons from the Medieval Convent: Adelaide Proctor's "A Legend of Provence"; C.A.Colón PART TWO: COMMUNITY: DEVELOPMENT AND RESPONSIBILITY Norse Fatalism and Victorian Mourning in Matthew Arnold's "Balder Dead"; E.Hu & K.Zarins Designing Spaces of Inclusion: Victorian Medievalism and the Creation of Community; C.Wagner PART THREE: THE ROLE OF THE ARTIST "The Worship of Courage": William Morris's "Sigurd and Volsung" and Victorian Medievalism; R.Frith What's Wrong with Raphael? The Pre-Raphaelite Critique of High Renaissance Painting and Affirmation of Medieval Painting; I.Smithson PART FOUR: MODELS FOR FAITH AND AUTHORITY Counter-Medievalism: Or Protestants Rewrite the Middle Ages; M.E.Burstein PART FIVE: VICTORIAN POPULAR CULTURE Charlotte Yonge's Victorian Normans in The Little Duke; S.Wakefield Victorian Medieval Performance; B.Bell Deconstructing the Knight in Shining Armor: The Disillusionment of the Turn of the Century; S.M.Schwab
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Palgrave Macmillan Importing Madame Bovary
Book SynopsisAfter its succès de scandale in France in 1856, Flaubert''s Madame Bovary was widely adapted, sometimes so closely they were dismissed as plagiarism yet they achieved canonical status in their national traditions. This study traces Madame Bovary''s journey abroad and asks why the novel was given such import in foreign literatures.Trade Review'A strikingly brilliant approach to influence and intertextuality, Importing Madame Bovary sheds new light on erotic play and its potential for socio-political upheaval in major French, Spanish and Portuguese novels from the nineteenth century. A remarkably sharp, exacting and insightful book.' - Francisco Caudet, Catedrático, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 'Amann's Importing Madame Bovary is a finely crafted and clearly written comparative analysis of three major nineteenth-century novels of adultery: Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Eça de Queirós's O primo Basilio and Leopoldo Alas's (Clarín) La Regenta. Through masterly readings of these texts she intelligently argues and, moreover, convinces - that O primo Basilio and La Regenta rather than being imitations of Flaubert's masterpiece are deliberate acts of appropriation by the Iberian authors. A groundbreaking study, Importing Madame Bovary brilliantly explores the textual dialogues among these three novels in order to reveal the historical context in which Flaubert, Eça de Queirós and Clarín inscribed in their novels. This book should be required reading for students of the nineteenth-century European realist novel in that it proves that a comparative cultural, historical, and textual reading is essential to understanding the dialogic nature of the adultery novel in France, Portugal and Spain.' - Alda Blanco, Professor of Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Amann argues that some of the most important 19th-century French, Spanish, and Portuguese adultery novels make allegorical references to the revolutionary struggles of 1848, to the breakdown of the alliance between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, and to the rise of the French Second Empire. The contrast between the sentimentality of a tear-jerking narrative genre and its hidden political message is entirely unexpected. A smart, seductive book." - Thomas Pavel, Gordon J. Laird Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago "This is a major accomplishment, a book so full of original insights and intelligent analysis that it will leap to the top of the pile of criticism on the nineteenth-century European novel. Amann has done a spectacular job of coaxing out of four major novels fresh ideas and smart commentary, and she provokes serious thinking on the part of her readers. While the main focus of the book is the reception/adaptation/'importation' of Flaubert's Madame Bovary into the Iberian Peninsula in the form of Eça de Queirós's O primo Basílio and Leopoldo (Clarín) Alas's La regenta, Amann also weaves into her discussion another text, Dumas's La dame aux camélias, which serves as a kind of ur-text to the discussion she lays out in dazzling detail." - David T. Gies, Commonwealth Professor of Spanish, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsExhuming Marguerite Gautier An Unbridled Bride A Marriage Sans-culotte On Tour Grafting
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Whiteness Otherness and the Individualism Paradox from Huck to Punk
Book SynopsisTraber reexamines the practice of self-marginalization in Euro-American literature and popular culture that depict whites adopting varied markers of otherness to disengage from the dominant culture.Trade Review"How does the marginalized individual become the national type? Through a series of nuanced readings of key American texts, Daniel Traber expertly traces the ambiguous cultural politics where outlaws confirm mainstream culture, and otherness is re-appropriated and reconfigured as the heart of the national project. A deft and discerning application of recent cultural theory - itself implicated in the romanticization and neutralization of otherness - this book has telling consequences for American and literary studies, as well as for the fields of cultural studies and whiteness studies." - Nick Mansfield, Macquarie University; Author of Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to Haraway 'This book makes a very clear, and even relentless, argument about the long history of literatures which present instances of White characters 'evading whiteness' and seeking common ground elsewhere (amongst Native Americans, African Americans, the rural and urban poor, etc.). Not only are some of the largest theoretical names of the last thirty years front and center, but Traber has successfully understood these works to the point where he can offer critiques and new insights of them. I love the reach of this book: each and every chapter has been carefully researched on its own, and made to fit within the parameters of the broader idea. It is as if a hidden America has been revealed in these pages.' - Scott Michaelsen, Michigan State University; Author of The Limits of Multiculturalism: Interrogating the Origins of American Anthropology 'Through trenchant readings of celebrated American narratives from Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to Alex Cox's Repo Man, Traber traces the paradoxical power of liberal individualism, an ideology that celebrates autonomy and individuality even as it serves as the grounds for conformity. Traber shows how writers and thinkers who attempt to dramatize alternatives to individualist ideology often find the ground of resistance shifted out from under them by US culture's uncanny ability to incorporate otherness and marginality. Traber's study offers a cautionary tale to those critics and theorists who would celebrate the power of hybridity and marginality without sufficiently acknowledging the continuing cultural efficacy of individualist modes of thought and representation." - Cyrus R. K. Patell, New York University; Author of Negative Liberties: Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal IdeologyTable of ContentsThey're After Us!': Criminality and Hegemony in Huckleberry Finn Stephen Crane and Maggie's White Other One of None: Quasi-Hybridity in The Sun Also Rises Back to the Future: Suttree (and The Pioneers) L.A. Punk's Sub-Urbanism Repo Man, Ambivalence, and the Generic Mediation Whither Agency?
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Palgrave Macmillan Sexuality and the Culture of Sensibility in the British Romantic Era
Book SynopsisThis is the first study to fully trace the influence of Sensibility on British Romanticism. Sensibility continually found new forms of expression in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century. Nagle explores how it coexisted and intermingled with Romanticism and revises the traditional narratives of literary periodization of this era.Trade Review"This is an ambitious study that argues for the continuance of Sensibility within Romanticism, embedded within texts by writers who ostensibly rejected its excesses in favor of more directed models of psychological development, and seeking social cohesion in other modes. A strength of the study is, thus, one of range: not many studies move with equal surefootedness from Lawrence Sterne to Tennyson, and across genres from fiction to poetry." - Peter Manning, SUNY-Stony Brook University "This book opens the door to the Romantic closet at last. Besides dealing with issues of gender and sexuality as they have rarely been addressed, Nagle exposes romanticism's deep debt to the culture of sensibility and all the complexity of deep personal response that culture implies. This remarkable study deals with the major poets, women writers of both poetry and prose, and it demonstrates the ways in which Romantic writers are in active dialogue with predecessors of Sensibility. It opens the Romantic era to so much of the politics of pleasure that were seething within it all along." - George E. Haggerty, University of California, Riverside "This elegant study, with its creative synthesis of historicism, gender studies, and queer theory and its superlative close readings, provides exciting new analyses of classic works by Austen, Wordsworth, Shelley, and others. Arguing for a politics of pleasure that can be traced to the enduring influence of Sterne, Nagle offers a bold and stimulating assessment of the persistent role of sensibility through the Romantic period and well into the Victorian era. Nagle s original juxtaposition of canonical and non-canonical works yields a study that convinces readers of overlooked connections and under-appreciated continuities. This book is bound to alter irrevocably our understanding of literary culture at the turn of the nineteenth century." - Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsThe Pleasures of Proximity 'The Heart's Best Blood': Sterne and the Promiscuous Life of Sensibility From Trembling to Tranquility: Women Writers and Wordsworth's Pleasure Principle Epistemologies of the Romantic Closet: Shakespeare, Sexuality, and the Myth of Genius The Social Work of Persuasion: Austen and the New Sensorium Prometheus vs. the Man of Feeling: Frankenstein, Sensibility, and the Uncertain Future of Romanticism (An Allegory for Literary History) Sentimental Journeys: The Afterlife of Feeling in Landon and Tennyson
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging and convincingly argued study looks at the issues of and attitudes towards slavery in Jane Austen's later novels and culture, and argues against Edward Said's critique of Jane Austen as a supporter of colonialism and slavery.Trade Review' Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition is a wide-ranging, nearly exhaustive study of attitudes toward slavery in Austen's late novels. Arguing against Edward Said and others who have seen Austen as upholding colonialism and slavery, Gabrielle White shows, through provocative, convincing readings of Mansfield Park , Emma , and Persuasion , the subtle and direct ways that Austen's fiction instead supports abolition. White's fascinating study addresses one of today's most heated debates over this much beloved author. This book may permanently change the ways in which we read Austen.' - Devoney Looser, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA 'Gabrielle White has written an almost marvellous book...for those who would like a better understanding of the influences on Jane Austen's writing at this troubled time of Britain's history or for those who would like to understand more broadly the debates of the period, this is one for the bookshelves.' - Penny Nash, Sensibilities (The Jane Austen Society of Australia)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface 'We Have No Slaves at Home- Then Why Abroad?' PART ONE: THE CHAWTON NOVELS Mansfield Park : Absenteeism, Autonomy and the Slave Trade Emma : Autonomy and Abolition Persuasion : Radical Change and the Royal Navy PART TWO: THE CONTEXT IN WHICH JANE AUSTEN WROTE THE CHAWTON NOVELS Some Philosophers on Race and Slavery: Opposing Viewpoints Abolitionist Influences on Jane Austen: Some Possibilities Conclusion Appendix 1: On Colonisation: Samuel Johnson The Idler, 1759 Appendix 2: Argument against Slavery: Samuel Johnson, 1777 Appendix 3: William Cowper's 1785 The Task : Extract quoted by Thomas Clarkson, 1807 Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Romanticism and Form
Book SynopsisThis book offers new analyzes of canonical texts, contextualizations of Romantic forms in relation to war, nationalism and empire, reassessments of neglected and marginalized writers and explorations of the relationship between form and reader. It showcases a range of new approaches that are informed by deconstruction, theology and new technology.Trade Review'The critics assembled here are close readers, attentive to metre, stanza form, figures of speech, but they are not nostalgic for the New Criticism of the 1950s and 1960s. If they are formalists, they are formalists of a new kind, less likely to celebrate the unifying power of art than the fragmented and the multitudinous, more likely to acknowledge Byron than Wordsworth, but just as ready to study a satiric print, or a poem by Ann Cristall. This volume sets a challenging new agenda for Romantic Studies.' - Richard Cronin, Professor of English Literature, University of Glasgow, UKTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction; A.Rawes Romantic Indirection; P.Curtis "Conscript Fathers and Shuffling Recruits": Formal Self-Awareness in Romantic Poetry; M.O'Neill Romantic Invocation: a Form of Impossibility; G.Hopps "Ruinous Perfection": Reading Authors and Writing Readers in the Romantic Fragment Poem; M.Sandy Combinatoric Form in Nineteenth-Century Satiric Prints; S.E.Jones Romantic Form and New Historicism: Wordsworth's "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey"; A.Rawes Southey's Forms of Experiment; N.Trott Believing in Form and Forms of Belief: the Case of Robert Southey; B.Beatty Seductions of Form in the Poetry of Ann Cristall and Charlotte Smith; J.Labbe "Seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely": Byron's Poetry, Austen's Prose and Forms of Narrative Irony; C.Franklin "What Constitutes a Reader?": Don Juan and the Changing Reception of Romantic Form; J.Stabler, A.Roberts, M.N.Carminati & M.H.Fischer Afterword; S.J.Wolfson Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK A Wilkie Collins Chronology
Book SynopsisThis book builds on a critical and scholarly revival of interest in Collins. Baker draws upon biographical revelations and the recent publication of Collins's letters to provide a unique insight into both the man and the writer. The volume will appeal to all students of Collins and those with an interest in the life of Nineteenth-century England.Trade Review'...this Chronology is an indispensable work of reference for readers not only interested in Wilkie Collins but also in his contemporaries in the worlds of literature, theatre and art. It is systematically and comprehensively complied and is enhanced by its wide-ranging references.' Donald Hawes, Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsGeneral Editor's Preface Introduction and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Chronology Principal Sources Consulted Index of Works by Wilkie Collins Index of People Index of Places
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Beckett Literature and the Ethics of Alterity
Book SynopsisIn Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity Weller argues through an analysis of the interrelated topics of translation, comedy, and gender that to read Beckett in this way is to miss the strangely 'anethical' nature of his work, as opposed to the notion that the literary event constitutes the affirmation of an alterity.Trade Review'The book offers a challenge to the deconstructive readings of Benjaminian translation, an exhaustive account of the ethics of comedy, and an insightful survey and analysis of 'feminine alterities', with useful readings of Irigaray, Cixous, and Kristeva. Weller's performance of the anethical throughout the text produces an argument that will come as a surprise to many Beckett critics - a surprise because it maintains a critical reading that is neatly positioned 'between' the conventional approaches to Beckett and ethics. I strongly recommend this book.' - Professor Richard J. Lane, Malaspina University-College, Canada 'This is an extremely well-researched and thought-out work of Beckett criticism. The chapter organization in which each of the three chosen themes is treated first from a theoretical perspective, followed by specific examples taken from Beckett, is limpid and the argument always clearly signposted. This makes the book accessible even to the reader unfamiliar with the vast array of Western thought Shane Weller summons effortlessly.' - Helen Penet-Astbury, Études irlandaisesTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Literature and Alterity PART I: IN OTHER WORDS - ON THE ETHICS OF TRANSLATION Translation and Difference: Dispatching Benjamin Translation and Negation: Beckett and the Bilingual Oeuvre PART II: THE LAUGH OF THE OTHER - ON THE ETHICS OF COMEDY Pratfalls into Alterity: Laughter from Baudelaire to Freud and Beyond Last Laughs: Beckett and the ' risus purus ' PART III: THE DIFFERENCE A WOMAN MAKES - ON THE ETHICS OF GENDER Feminine Alterities: From Psychoanalysis to Gender Studies 'As If the Sex Mattered': Beckett's Degenderations Conclusion: Beckett and the Anethical Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism
Book SynopsisThis new book asks a key question- what did it mean to have a Victorian feminist write for an established newspaper or periodical? Using the example of Frances Power Cobbe, it focuses on Victorian feminism and its political workings, and urges us to reconsider what feminism looked like in the nineteenth-century.Trade Review"Hamilton's is a highly readable, focused monograph that illuminats the history and metahistory of feminism, the active presence (rather than lurking marginality) of feminist discourse in the mainstream press, and Cobbe's verve, skill, and power as a writer." - Linda K. Hughes, Texas Christian UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Victorian Feminism and the Periodical Press 'She and I have Lived Together': Women's Celibacy and Signature in Cobbe's Early Writing The 'Force' of Sentiment: Married Women's Property and the Idea of Marriage in Fraser's Magazine 'Speaking in Fleet Street': The Feminist Politics of the Editorial in the London Echo , 1868-1875 Making History with France Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminism, Domestic Violence and the Language of Imperialism 'A Crisis in Woman's History': Duties of Women and the Practice of Everyday Feminism Notes to Chapters Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend The Quest for Knowledge
Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. Arthuriana for the 'Fair Sex': Gender politics and the reception of romance.- 3. Haunting Beginnings: Women's Gothic Verse and King Arthur.- 4. Next Steps: Exploring the Arthurian Past in Women's Travel and Topographical Writing.- 5. The Rise of the Female Arthurianist: Satire and Scholarship.- 6. A Fashionable Fantasy: Arthur in the Annuals.- 7. Afterword.Trade Review“Katie Garner’s Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend is to experience a shift in scale. Garner’s work is on a niche topic, and the question arises as to how broad a readership it can attract. … scholars interested in Romantic medievalism or Romantic Arthurianism more specifically may want to follow up some of the paths Garner opens, and they will undoubtedly find this monograph a useful source book.” (Geraldine S. Friedman, European Romantic Review, Vol. 30 (4), 2019)“Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend wears its intellectual rigour with elegance and manages to be fluent and readable while demonstrably being the product of erudite and incisive research. … Garner’s book will be of enormous benefit to scholars of nineteenth-century Arthurania and medievalism, as well as to scholars researching nineteenth-century women’s reading practices and negotiations with the literary marketplace more generally.” (Clare Broome Saunders, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 38 (1), 2019)“Engagingly written and painstakingly researched, this book provides an insightful and multifaceted view of Romantic women writers’ relationship with Arthurian legend.” (Lisa Plummer Crafton, Medievally Speaking, medievallyspeaking.blogspot.com, August, 2018)Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Arthuriana for the 'Fair Sex': Gender politics and the reception of romance.- 3. Haunting Beginnings: Women's Gothic Verse and King Arthur.- 4. Next Steps: Exploring the Arthurian Past in Women's Travel and Topographical Writing.- 5. The Rise of the Female Arthurianist: Satire and Scholarship.- 6. A Fashionable Fantasy: Arthur in the Annuals.- 7. Afterword.
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