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Book SynopsisExamining political performances' spatial arrangements, casting of roles, authorization of speech, oratorical techniques, styles of movement, behavioral conventions, and audience reactions, this book shows how nineteenth-century activists innovatively connected performative forms to critical content in order to make their activism more effective.Trade Review'With her distinctive form of precision historiography, Tracy Davis has given us a vital and necessary addendum to the long history and ongoing project of abolitionism. Focusing primarily on the lives and work of three Victorians, Davis elaborates a theory of performance that situates seemingly minor forms of activism - hosting dinners and attending meetings, letter-writing campaigns, journalistic reportage, and speechifying - as fundamental to the cultivation of solidarity and to the momentum of political engagement. This is a wonderful book: meticulously researched, compellingly argued, and beautifully narrated.' Patrick Anderson, University of California, San Diego'How was the work of social and political reform performed? And how did performance change the means and outcomes of that activism? In this remarkable, carefully-wrought book, Tracy Davis turns our attention to the importance of dramaturgy to the work of nineteenth-century reform movements, illuminating how one scholar can find performance in everything from petitioning to letter-writing and parades. A terrific feat of scholarship.' Carolyn Eastman, Virginia Commonwealth University'In her compelling new study, Tracy Davis challenges preconceptions about how early activists developed and shared their strategies, revealing networks of association and exchange that traversed the globe. This book invites readers to rethink what kinds of performances constitute activism and how historians can recover traces of those spectacles in even the most unlikely places.' Heather Nathans, Tufts University'Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires explores the formation of the modern, liberal society through a broad variety of performative interactions. Political rhetoric, sermons, social conversations, and theatre are the foundation for this, made visible through Frederick Chesson's meticulously written diaries. Following the traces of women's and men's private lives and commitments to form public, political personae, Tracy C. Davis unfolds a broad and colourful panorama of the emergence of activism based in England but with connections to the United States, India under British rule, and a global network. Davis sets a new, inspiring standard in thinking about political performance.' Peter W. Marx, Institut für Medienkultur und Theater'Tracy Davis' timely and urgent study of the history of liberal campaigning in the Nineteenth Century insists on returning the question of performance to the history of activism. Drawing on the performance frames of mises en scene, repertoire and dramaturgy, Davis's excellent book reveals the performance tactics that activists deployed to make their case. This is Performance Studies at its best, revealing the theatre as a vital resource for the campaigning tactics underpinning Victorian repertoires of protest and persuasion that are still being used by activists today.' Aoife Monks, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction: History as Performance History; 1. Forms and Increments of Performance; 2. Change Making: Incrementalism; 3. Bildung: Leveraging Critique to Propel the Precarious into Political Life; 4. Combative Pens; 5. Experiments in Becoming.

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Book SynopsisThis collection reappraises and retheorizes Marie Corelli’s diverse fictional writings and locates them in their contemporary literary and social context.Marie Corelli (1855-1924) was a fabulously popular novelist in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Yet, in her day, critics railed against her taste for sentimentality, melodrama, supernatural worlds, and overt didacticism. Many critics are still ambivalent about her writing. However, in their reappraisal, the contributors to this volume largely circumvent the earlier critics and engage afresh with Corelli’s writing strategies; genre choices; representations of social issues; and ideas about science, metaphysics, and morality. Moving beyond the now outdated project of recovery, the volume also discusses Corelli’s literary market place, analysing both her publishing successes and her decline in popularity. An important theme throughout is Corelli’s troubled relTable of Contents1. Introduction – Marie Corelli: A Critical Reappraisal 2. Moral Uncertainty and the Afterlife: Explaining the Popularity of Marie Corelli’s Early Novels 3. The Corellian Romance contra Modernity: The Treasure of Heaven and Innocent 4. ‘‘Je t’aime . . . moi non plus’’: Deconstructing Love in Open Confession to a Man from a Woman 5. The Genius in Ardath: The Story of A Dead Self 6. Marie Corelli’s Best-selling Electric Creed 7. Morals and Metaphysics: Marie Corelli, Religion and the Gothic 8. Marie Corelli’s Barabbas, The Sorrows of Satan and Generic Transition

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Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Widely considered James's first great work of fiction and highly innovative in its narrative techniques, The Portrait of a Lady follows the story of an ardent, idealistic American heroine, Isabel Archer, in a cosmopolitan Europe. It explores individual freedom amidst confining circumstance, romantic choice, and the consequences of disillusionment and betrayal. This edition, based on the most reliable of the work's first book appearances (Macmillan, 1882), provides an authoritative text of one of James's finest long novels, with extensive annotations, a detailed textual history and an analysis of the reasons for its long-held popular appeal. It will be of particular interest not only to James scholars, but also book historians and students of nineteenth-century Anglo-American literature and culture.Trade Review'It is extraordinary how little attention has been given to James's texts, other than by James himself, and this is what the thirty-four volumes of CFHJ [The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James] set out to correct.' Frances Wilson, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsGeneral editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Portrait of a Lady; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; List of emendations; Appendices.

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Book SynopsisClaire Connolly offers a cultural history of the Irish novel in the period between the radical decade of the 1790s and the gaining of Catholic Emancipation in 1829. These decades saw the emergence of a group of talented Irish writers who developed and advanced such innovative forms as the national tale and the historical novel: fictions that took Ireland as their topic and setting and which often imagined its history via domestic plots that addressed wider issues of dispossession and inheritance. Their openness to contemporary politics, as well as to recent historiography, antiquarian scholarship, poetry, song, plays and memoirs, produced a series of notable fictions; marked most of all by their ability to fashion from these resources a new vocabulary of cultural identity. This book extends and enriches the current understanding of Irish Romanticism, blending sympathetic textual analysis of the fiction with careful historical contextualization.Trade Review'… quietly provocative … the book makes an important foundational contribution to the field of Irish Gothic as well as Romantic studies … an exemplary study for scholars working in any language and national tradition.' Fiona Stafford, European Romantic Review'Everywhere in this book we see lines for exciting new developments in Irish literary history … The book will no doubt become a critical touchstone and will helpfully reshape the study of the Irish novel for a long time to come.' Robert Brazeau, Irish Studies Review'Connolly convincingly demonstrates the complexities of Irish Romantic novels in their engagements with Ireland's political union with Britain, and she uses various strategies to exemplify the dynamics between discourses of union and division in these texts … Connolly's work is highly commendable for the wide scope of texts that she incorporates into her argument, her revisionist reading of key works, and her reconsideration of prevalent assumptions about Irish Romantic novelists and their writings.' Marguerite Corporaal, Nineteenth-Century ContextsTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction: fact and fiction; 2. Landscape and map; 3. Love and marriage; 4. Catholics and Protestants; 5. Dead and alive.

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Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Published in three volumes in 1886, The Princess Casamassima follows Hyacinth Robinson, a young London craftsman who carries the stigma of his illegitimate birth, and his French mother''s murder of his patrician English father. Deeply impressed by the poverty around him, he is driven to association with political dissidents and anarchists including the charismatic Princess Casamassima - who embodies the problems of personal and political loyalty by which Hyacinth is progressively torn apart. This edition is the first to provide a full account of the context in which the book was composed and received. Extensive explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand its nuanced historical, cultural and literary references, and its complex textual history.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; General editors' preface; General chronology of James's life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Princess Casamassima; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations; Appendix: preface to the New York Edition.

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Book SynopsisKonstantin Stanislavsky (18631938) was one of the most innovative and influential directors of modern theatre and his system and related practices continue to be studied and used by actors, directors and students. Maria Shevtsova sheds new light on the extraordinary life of Stanislavsky, uncovering and translating Russian archival sources, rehearsal transcripts, production scores and plans. This comprehensive study rediscovers little-known areas of Stanislavsky''s new type of theatre and its immersion in the visual arts, dance and opera. It demonstrates the fundamental importance of his Russian Orthodoxy to the worldview that underpinned his integrated System and his goals for the six laboratory research studios that he established or mentored. Stanislavsky''s massive achievements are explored in the intricate and historically intertwined political, cultural and theatre contexts of Tsarist Russia, the 1917 Revolution, the volatile 1920s, and Stalin''s 1930s. Rediscovering Stanislavksy Trade Review'Rediscovering Stanislavsky is more than a step back in history. It offers a fresh new look at one of the key masters of modern theatre, and it makes him relatable to those of us who create and study theatre today. This book is written by a scholar who is uniquely familiar with the key contemporary theatre practitioners, and their work, and who can relate history to today's theatre practices - both in the academia and at the premier international venues. Maria Shevtsova uncovers the secret behind Stanislavsky's unmatched influence by stressing his unparallelled versatility as actor, director, theatre manager and entrepreneur, musicologist, designer, technician, researcher, pedagogue, experimentalist, scholar and author. Stanislavsky, as depicted by Shevtsova, lived and breathed theatre, just as today he symbolizes it. Everyone who wants to fathom the meaning behind Stanislavsky's greatness must read this book!' Andrei Malaev-Babel, Florida State University and Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training'Maria Shevtsova's book is astonishing. Her views on Russian theatre and on European theatre in general, and on Stanislavsky in particular, are always fascinating. But in her latest book she has surpassed herself. Professor Shevtsova gives a breathtaking account and elucidations of so many aspects of Stanislavsky's work, which are so often imprisoned in theories caged in other theories, or are simply not understood. Others are just not known. To hear about the transgressive aspects of his philosophy is invigorating. Professor Shevtsova's comprehensive coverage of his work manages both to locate him in the context of his times while also liberating his spirit so that he can be appreciated in his epic universality. A tour de force.' Declan Donnellan'Rediscovering Stanislavsky is a magisterial event in the theatre world. It is a unique attempt in international theatre studies to revisit the theory, experience and legacy of Stanislavsky, not only in the context of Russian thought but also of thought universally shared within the context of theatre practice. The author brings essential clarity to Stanislavsky's terms and ideas based on her exploration of their semantics and origins, without which it is impossible to grasp the very core of Stanislavsky's system and its method. This book gives an enormous intellectual and creative impulse to all those who are searching for new forms in contemporary theatre - actors, directors, theoreticians. Maria Shevtsova's book is superbly written, full of discoveries, insights and genuine inspiration.' Alexander Chepurov, Russian State Institute of Scenic Arts, St Petersburg'… the book is an impressive, comprehensive, and significant contribution to our understanding of the greatest acting teacher the world has ever known.' David Krasner, Theatre Topics'This book is an outstanding contribution to this rethinking and is essential reading for theatre and performer-training scholars, practitioners, and students.' Rose Whyman, NTQ Book Reviews'This is a brilliant, inspiring and stimulating book … It will be of use to scholars and teachers everywhere but, more important, it is an enlightening, encouraging, and hugely valuable resource for all who are attempting to practise the theatre arts, particularly of acting and directing, in similar times of adversity.' John Gillett, Stanislavski Studies'… excellent …' Laurence Senelick, TDR Reviews'… this is a most useful book showing that Stanislavsky was himself even more complicated than we previously have been led to believe. Shevstova suggests we oversimplify him at our intellectual peril, and this book provides genuine context for that view, contexts that continually reward the reader. In Shevstova's hands, we are introduced to a full human being, one we will want to re-visit often.' Nathan Thomas, Critical Stages'… a most useful book.' The IATC journal'Maria Shevtsova, an indefatigable polymath of current Western theater practice, is perhaps the world's foremost chronicler of contemporary avant- garde stage directors … Maria Shevtsova's extraordinary Rediscovering Stanislavsky has come along at the right time.' David Chambers, TheaterTable of Contents1. Context I; 2. Context II; 3. Actor; 4. Studio; 5. Director; Epilogue: legacy.

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Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Theninetales in this volume,published between 1884 and 1888, include ''The Aspern Papers'', set in Venice and featuring a devious scholar attempting to steal the letters of an American poet from his former lover, and ''The Liar,'' on the world of painters and their models. These tales exemplify James''s continuing interest in the art of short fiction during a period which saw him responding to the stimulations of French naturalism and successfully reworking the international theme that had made him famous at the end of the 1870s. Extensive explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand the tales'' historical, cultural and literary references.Trade Review'This exemplary edition of Henry James's writing reminds us how modern he was - how alive to paradox and uncertainty, how awake to nuance and, for someone so committed to the art of fiction, how sceptical, finally, of his own processes.' Elizabeth Lowry, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; General Editor's Preface; General Chronology of James's Life and Writings; Introduction; Textual Introduction; Chronology of Composition and Production; Bibliography; The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884-188; Glossary of Foreign Words and Phrases; Notes; Textual Variants; Emendations; Appendix A. Extracts from James's Notebooks; Appendix B. Prefaces to the New York Edition.

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Book SynopsisThomas Love Peacock (1785â1866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic period. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock offers the first complete text of his novels to appear for more than half a century. Nightmare Abbey (1818), Peacock's third novel, is a spirited satire that shows Peacock to be a perceptive observer and engaged critic of the literary and political preoccupations of his time. While the novel has often been characterized in popular culture either as a burlesque of the Gothic novel or a mere spoof of Romantic gloom and doom, this edition recognizes it as a purposeful critique of Romanticism. Explanatory notes illustrate the ways in which several characters are caricatures of prominent Romantic writers, including Peacock's close friend Shelley as well as Coleridge and Byron, and also identify the various sources, some previously unsuspected, from which Peacock created their dialogue.Trade Review'The idiosyncratic joy of Thomas Love Peacock's works is highlighted within wonderfully readable scholarly introductions from Nicholas A. Joukovsky who edits Nightmare Abbey, and Freya Johnston and Matthew Bevis in their edition of Crotchet Castle. … the first thoroughly edited and annotated imprints of Peacock since the Halliford Edition of the Works, edited between 1924 and 1934 …' John Gardner, Notes and Queries'Readers are provided with all the information they need to understand and evaluate both the texts and the purposes underlying them … the editors have interpreted their brief generously. They have done an excellent job in identifying many 'out-of-the-way sources and analogues', as well as in positioning the texts accurately at a particular nineteenth-century cultural moment … this is likely to become the edition of choice for scholars and enthusiasts of Peacock's novels, and for economists, historians, philosophers and other students of the changing currents of nineteenth-century intellectual culture. The volumes are beautifully produced.' Pamela Clemit, Times Literary Supplement'… the first two volumes of the Cambridge Edition should become the new standard for editors of the Romantic novel. They not only perform the scholarly work of informing the reader of dates, circumstances, and variants, but they do what the best textual editing can: hugely enrich the experience of reading Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle, and consequently enhance our sense of Peacock's vigour, complexity, and wit.' William Bowers, Keats-Shelley Journal'… [a] meticulous edition …' Thomas Keymer, London Review of Books'Nightmare Abbey excels in tracking the composition through Spring 1818 … A variety of sources, including anecdotal evidence, are similarly used to recreate the immediate critical response … offering valuable commentary on prototypes of the novel's satiric figures, generic and personal … In a final section on 'Afterlife', the editor convincingly attributes a shift in fortunes in the popularity of this title to the growth of English literature as an academic subject … a remarkable achievement in elucidating Peacock's 'fine wit' for present and future readers.' Peter Garside, Peacock editionTable of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Chronology; Introduction; Nightmare Abbey; Appendix A. Peacock's Preface of 1837; Appendix B. An Essay on Fashionable Literature (1818); Appendix C. The Four Ages of Poetry (1820); Note on the text; List of emendations and variants; Ambiguous line-end hyphenations; Explanatory notes; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisHardy''s first published novel, Desperate Remedies (1871), a piece of sensation fiction that encompasses illegitimacy, murder, blackmail, impersonation, and bigamy, was originally published anonymously. Written while, in Hardy''s own words, he was ''feeling his way to a method'', it nonetheless contains early examples of the kinds of extreme situations and emotions that continued to play a significant role in his later plots. As part of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides an authoritative text; full scholarly apparatus that allows the reader to trace Hardy''s creative process; an introductory essay discussing the work''s composition, publication, and critical reception; and comprehensive explanatory notes.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; Desperate Remedies; Editorial emendations; List of variants - accidentals; End-of-line word division; Appendix A. Hardy's prefatory notes; Appendix B. Frontispieces; Appendix C. Description of principal texts; Explanatory notes.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first complete scholarly edition of one of Hardy''s greatest novels. The Return of the Native engages ambitiously with contemporary ideas and problems of existence, and would go on to become one of the major ''Wessex novels''. When composed in 1878, however, Hardy''s Wessex did not yet exist, and this edition, which is based on meticulous analysis of Hardy''s holograph manuscript and every significant print edition of the novel to appear in his lifetime, situates The Return of the Native within the historical context of its first publication, encouraging readers to trace its evolution over the following four decades. Tim Dolin provides a wealth of supporting materials, including an original, authoritative text, comprehensive annotation, commentary and glossary, and illustrated appendices of both Arthur Hopkins''s illustrations and the topography of Egdon Heath, thus creating an invaluable tool for students and scholars of Hardy and nineteenth-century literature alike.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations of Texts of The Return of the Native; Introduction; The Return of the Native; Apparatus; Variations in Punctuation and Styling; End-of-Line Word Division; Editorial Emendations; Appendices: Appendix 1. Hardy's Preface to the Novel; Appendix 2. Description of the Manuscript; Appendix 3. Description of Substantive Editions; Appendix 4. Dialect Glossary and Table of Changes to Standard and Non-standard Speech; Appendix 5. A Note on Hardy's Note to VI.iii; Appendix 6. Egdon Heath and the Dorset Heathlands; Appendix 7. Illustrations to the Belgravia Serial Edition; Notes; Works Cited in the Notes; Textual Notes; Explanatory Notes.

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Book SynopsisThe Woodlanders (1887) was Thomas Hardy''s elventh published novel and the one he claimed to like ''as a story, the best of all''. It is a story of wide appeal, having much to say on themes such as marriage and social class, and with a background revealing its author''s profound knowledge and appreciation of many matters, particularly nature and country life. As part of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides an authoritative and accurate text which aims to reflect Hardy''s original artistic intention and represent the novel as it would have been read by his Victorian readers. The novel is supported by a comprehensive introduction, chronology and accompanying textual apparatus which allows the modern reader to trace the novel''s evolution from composition to first publication and through several stages of revision in succeeding editions in the quarter of a century following its first publication.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Woodlanders; Editorial emendations; Textual notes; Record of variants – accidentals; End-of-line word division; Appendix A: the title-page verse; Appendix B: Hardy's prefaces; Appendix C: illustrations; Appendix D: description of substantive editions; Appendix E: compositorial stints for Macmillan's Magazine; Appendix F: 'pin-holes' in the manuscript of The Woodlanders; Appendix G: compositorial stints for the 1912 Wessex edition; Explanatory notes; Glossary of dialect terms; Map of Wessex.

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Book SynopsisThe Cambridge History of Asian American Literature presents a comprehensive history of the field, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of Asian American writing that help readers to understand how authors have sought to make their experiences meaningful. Covering subjects from autobiography and Japanese American internment literature to contemporary drama and social protest performance, this History traces the development of a literary tradition while remaining grounded in current scholarship. It also presents new critical approaches to Asian American literature that will serve the needs of students and specialists alike. Written by leading scholars in the field, The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature will not only engage readers in contemporary debates but also serve as a definitive reference for years to come.Table of Contents1. The origins of Chinese American autobiography Floyd Cheung; 2. Stage orientalism and Asian American performance from the 19th into the 20th century Josephine Lee; 3. 'I seek out poems now incomplete': writings from the Angel Island immigration station Sunn Shelley Wong; 4. The Eaton sisters and the figure of the Eurasian Jinhua Emma Teng; 5. Indian diasporic autobiography: new nations and new selves Sandhya Shukla; 6. Koreans in exile: Younghill Kang and Richard E. Kim Joseph Jeon; 7. Filipino and Filipina voices Denise Cruz; 8. Chinatown life as contested terrain: H. T. Chiang, Jade Snow Wong, and C. Y. Lee Patricia Chu; 9. Coded critique: Japanese American internment literature Traise Yamamoto; 10. Asian American short fiction and the contingencies of form, 1930s–1960s Jinqi Ling; 11. The Chicago School and the sociological imagination Cynthia Tolentino; 12. Documenting the third world student strike, the anti-war movement, and the emergence of second-wave feminism from Asian American perspectives Daryl Joji Maeda; 13. The art of the Asian American movement's social protest performance Lucy Burns; 14. Inventing identity: the manifestos of pioneering Asian American literature anthologies Donald Goellnicht; 15. Maxine Hong Kingston, feminism, and postmodern literature Stella Bolaki; 16. The emergence of Asian American literature as an academic field Viet Thanh Nguyen; 17. Theresa Hak-Kyung Cha and the impact of theory Timothy Yu; 18. Heterogeneity to multiplicity: building Asian American literary critique Anita Mannur and Allan Punzalan Isaac; 19. Whose Asias? Samir Dayal; 20. The South Asian American challenge Asha Nadkarni; 21. Contemporary Filipino American writers and the legacy of imperialism Eleanor Ty; 22. Beyond solitary confinement: rethinking the socio-political context of local literature in Hawai'i Seri Luangphinith; 23. Contemporary Asian American drama Esther Kim Lee; 24. 'More than you ever knew you knew': the rising prestige of fiction Tina Chen; 25. Asian American poetry and the politics of form Dorothy Wang; 26. The forgotten war in Korea Josephine Park; 27. The American war in Vietnam and its diasporas Anh Thang Dao-Shah and Isabelle Thuy Pelaud; 28. Refugee aesthetics: Cambodia, Laos, and the Hmong Cathy Schlund-Vials; 29. The 9/11 of our imagination: Islam, the figure of the Muslim, and the failed liberalism of the racial present Junaid Rana; 30. Narrating war: Arab and Muslim American aesthetics Samina Najmi; 31. Thick time and space: Karen Tei Yamashita's aesthetics Kandice Chuh; 32. New media Konrad Ng; 33. Beyond national literatures: empire and Amitav Ghosh Ruth Maxey.

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Book SynopsisThis is an illustrated cultural history of the emergence of modern literature in China from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Chinese Republic, the 1930s and the war period, ending in 1949. Wu Fuhui takes an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, drawing in book production, translation, popular and elite texts, international influences and political history. Presented here in English translation for the first time, Wu argues that this was a transformative period in Chinese literature informed both by developments in China''s domestic history and the dynamics of global circulation and encounter.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; List of maps; List of tables; Introduction to the English edition David Der-wei Wang; Preface; Part I. Promise of New Opportunities: 1. Wangping Street – Fuzhou Road: change of the scene of Chinese literature; 2. Vernacular newspapers and transformation of the written language of literature; 3. Earliest intellectuals with global outlook; 4. The 'new literary style' movement, a political motion in origin; 5. Chronicle of literary events in the year 1903 (an era of literary accumulation); 6. The rising of urban popular novels in an emerging international trading centre; 7. Emerging elites of the south society; 8. From Suzhou and Yangzhou to Shanghai: literature of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly Literary School; Part II. The May Fourth Enlightenment Movement: 9. Introduction of spoken drama into China: the earliest theatre performances; 10. Building a bridge to world literature; 11. Incubation of a literary revolution home and abroad; 12. Rise of radicals from the New Youth and Peking University and Conservatives' Counter Claims; 13. Chronicle of literary events in the year 1921 (an era of literary enlightenment); 14. A literary niche created by newspapers, magazines and publishing houses of Beijing and Shanghai; 15. Leading breakthroughs in modern vernacular poetry and short stories; 16. A history of the dissemination and acceptance of 'The True Story of Ah Q'; 17. 'Yu Si', 'casual talks' and vernacular prose style; 18. Discovery of peasants and local colours by earlier native-soil literature; 19. Literary solace for urban citizens; Part III. The Coexistence of Diverse Types of Literature: 20. To the South: the return of literary centre; 21. Popularity, deepening and disputes of the left-wing literature; 22. Novels strongly characteristic of the era; 23. The successive boom of era-specific and individualized literary writings; 24. The graceful beauties of Belles-lettres by Beijing School Authors; 25. The new sensations of Shanghai School in the modern metropolis; 26. The literary horizon of two types of civilian society; 27. The professional theatre spoken drama in its mature stage; 28. Chronicle of literary events in the year 1936 (an era of diversification); 29. Interactions between cinematographic art and literature; 30. Timely and overall embrace of world literature; Part IV. Under the Clouds of War: 31. Forming of multiple literary centres under the clouds of war; 32. Intellectuals' economic conditions and their writing lifestyle; 33. Chongqing: national salvation literature, from boom to split; 34. Yan'an: from the wartime art and literature for the masses to the guiding principle of art and literature for workers, peasants and soldiers; 35. Guilin: the upsurge of theatre and publishing phenomenon of the wartime 'cultural city'; 36. Kunming: reflections on personal experience of the era; 37. Shanghai and others: the pain of homelessness and the roundabout development of urban popular literature; 38. Hong Kong and Taiwan: separation, autonomy and growth of new literature; 39. From peasants to urban citizens: new momentum for the development of popular literature; 40. Chronicle of literary events in the year 1948 (an era of transition); Select bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisJohn Keats (17951821) continues to delight and challenge readers both within and beyond the academic community through his poems and letters. This volume provides frameworks for enhanced analysis and appreciation of Keats and his work, with each chapter supplying a succinct, informed, and accessible account of a particular topic. Leading scholars examine the life and work of Keats against the backdrop of his influences, contemporaries, and reception, and explore the interaction of poet and world. The essays consider his enduring but ever-altering appeal, engage with critical discussion and debate, and offer revisionary close reading of the poems and letters. Students and specialists will find their knowledge of Keats''s life and work enriched by chapters that survey subjects ranging from education, relationships, and religion to art, genre, and film.Trade Review'For new readers of Keats, the problem is staying abreast of 200 fertile years of reviews, criticism and biographies. John Keats in Context works as a curative. The final four essays on reception and Keats scholarship from 1821 to the present (by Kelvin Everest, Francis O'Gorman, Matthew Scott and Richard Marggraf Turley) are essential reading … In O'Neill's volume, Keats is prevented from settling into a single mode - medical student, cultural observer, reader, philosopher, liberal, friend, nurse, lover - but rather given space to exhibit these fluctuations. The strongest essays follow Keats through critical dicta into less settled territory.' Christy Edwall, The Times Literary Supplement'Michael O'Neill's edited collection of essays presents very succinct statements on different aspects of Keats's life and writings … The need for brevity enforces on the writers a compressed succinctness, and the length of each essay is perfect for reading on a half-hour bus journey (I speak from experience). … The diversity and depth of Keats's involvement in the many contexts represented in O'Neill's excellent collection stimulate reflections on the multi-faceted poet's other interests and influences … Michael O'Neill and his team in this handsome and well-conceived volume … have done Keats proud by giving him the contexts which well and truly position him where he wished to be, 'among the English Poets'.' R. S. White, European Romantic Review'This collection of scholarly reassessments in the interests of 'a full-scale reconsideration of Keats's achievement and its enabling contexts' … comprises thirty-four short chapters of around ten pages each, organized into six parts: 'Life, Letters, Texts'; 'Cultural Contexts'; 'Ideas and Poetics'; 'Poetic Contexts'; 'Influence'; and 'Critical Reception'.' William Christie, The Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsPart I. Life, Letters, Texts: 1. Biographies and film Sarah Wootton; 2. Formative years and medical training Nicholas Roe and Hrileena Ghosh; 3. Surgery, science and suffering Nicholas Roe; 4. Fanny Brawne and other women Heidi Thomson; 5. Mortality Shahidha Bari; 6. Travel Jeffrey C. Robinson; 7. Letters Madeleine Callaghan; 8. Manuscripts and publishing history John Barnard; Part II. Cultural Contexts: 9. The Hunt circle and the Cockney School Gregory Leadbetter; 10. London Timothy Webb; 11. Politics Richard Cronin; 12. Sociability Grant F. Scott; 13. The visual and plastic arts Nancy Moore Goslee; 14. Religion and myth Anthony John Harding; Part III. Ideas and Poetics: 15. The Enlightenment and history Porscha Fermanis; 16. Keats and Hazlitt Duncan Wu; 17. Imagination, beauty and truth Charles W. Mahoney; 18. The poetical character Seamus Perry; 19. The senses and sensation Stacey McDowell; 20. Prosody and versification in the Odes Michael O'Neill; Part IV. Poetic Contexts: 21. Poetic precursors (1): Dante and Shakespeare Chris Murray; 22. Poetic precursors (2): Spenser, Milton, Dryden, Pope Beth Lau; 23. Contemporaries (1) (and immediate predecessors): Tighe, Radcliffe, Southey, Burns, Chatterton, Hunt, Wordsworth Michael O'Neill; 24. Contemporaries (2): Coleridge, Byron, Shelley Jane Stabler; 25. Ballad, romance and narrative Andrew Bennett; 26. Epic and tragedy Susan J. Wolfson; 27. Lyrical genres Christopher R. Miller; Part V. Influence: 28. Tennyson to Wilde Herbert F. Tucker; 29. Hardy, Edward Thomas, Stevens, Bishop, Heaney Michael O'Neill; 30. American writing Mark Sandy; Part VI. Critical Reception: 31. Contemporary reviews Kelvin Everest; 32 Critical reception, 1821–1900 Francis O'Gorman; 33. Keats criticism, 1900–63 Matthew Scott; 34. Keats criticism, post-1963 Richard Marggraf Turley.

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Book SynopsisThrough close readings of major poems, this book examines why the second-generation Romantic poets - Byron, Shelley, and Keats - stage so much of their poetry in Eastern or Orientalized settings. It argues that they do so not only to interrogate their own imaginations, but also as a way of criticizing Europe's growing imperialism. For them the Orient is a projection of Europe's own fears and desires. It is therefore a charged setting in which to explore and contest the limits of the age's aesthetics, politics and culture. Being nearly always self-conscious and ironic, the poets' treatment of the Orient becomes itself a twinned criticism of 'Romantic' egotism and the Orientalism practised by earlier generations. The book goes further to claim that poems like Shelley's Revolt of Islam, Byron's 'Eastern' Tales, or even Keats's Lamia anticipate key issues at stake in postcolonial studies more generally.Trade Review'… this book is a compelling critical achievement in part because it is finely wrought, but also because in it Andrew Warren raises questions about the poetry of the second generation that are very much worth raising and discussing … Warren's study offers us real insight and sustained critical pleasures.' Theresa M. Kelley, Studies in RomanticismTable of ContentsIntroduction: from solipsism to Orientalism; 1. 'The Book of Fate' and 'The Vice of the East': Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer (1801) and High Romantic Orientalism; Interchapter I. Montesquieu: nature and the Oriental despot; 2. Byron's Lament: Lara (1814) and the specter of Orientalism; 3. The spirit of Oriental solitude: Shelley's Alastor (1816) and Epipsychidion (1821); Interchapter II. Rousseau's foreigners; 4. 'The Great Sandy Desert of Politics': the Orient and solitude in The Revolt of Islam (1818); 5. 'Unperplexing Bliss': the Orient in Keats's Poetics; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisHardy''s second published novel, Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), the first of his great series of Wessex novels, was originally published anonymously. As part of the Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides readers with an authoritative and accurate text of the novel; moreover it gives access to every revision that Hardy made, and to notations of all the errors introduced by printers'' compositors. The annotated text is surrounded by an introduction that gives a very full account of the genesis, the writing and the publishing history of the novel. A range of appendices and comprehensive explanatory notes explore significant aspects of the composition, production and marketing of the novel, touched on in the introduction, to provide a full understanding of the nature and life of this classic work.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; Under the Greenwood Tree; Variants in punctuation and styling; End-of-line hyphenation; Editorial emendations; Appendix A. Hardy's preface to the Wessex Edition; Appendix B. Under the Greenwood Tree and The Poor Man and the Lady; Appendix C. Detailed analysis of the manuscript; Appendix D. Chapter-division in the manuscript; Appendix E. Watermarks in the manuscript; Appendix F. The compositors of the first edition; Appendix G. Robson's compositors in A Pair of Blue Eyes; Appendix H. Differences between the first and second editions; Appendix I. Printing orders for Under the Greenwood Tree Published by Chatto and Windus and Macmillan; Appendix J. Frontispieces; Appendix K. Description of substantive editions; Explanatory notes.

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Book SynopsisModernism and the Materiality of Texts argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises. Physical features of texts that interest modernist writers, such as sound patterns and anagrams, cannot be dissociated from abstraction or made a refuge from social crisis; instead, they reflect colonial and racial anxieties of the period. Rudyard Kipling's fear that he is indistinguishable from empire subjects, J. M. Barrie's object-relations theater of infantile separation, and Virginia Woolf's dismembered anagram self are performed by the physical text and produce a new understanding of textuality. In readings that also include diverse works by Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas, P. G. Wodehouse and Conan Doyle, J. M. Barrie, George Herriman, and Sigmund Freud, this study produces a new reading of modernism's psychological text and of literary constructions of materiality in the period.Table of Contents1. Nonsense and motivation; 2. VSW - anagram body; 3. The erasure of Alice Toklas and Gertrude Stein; 4. Barrie's object relations; 5. Late English Empire nonsense; 6. Herriman's black sentence; 7. Afterword - indifference in Freud.

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Book SynopsisIn this revisionary study, Will Tattersdill argues against the reductive 'two cultures' model of intellectual discourse by exploring the cultural interactions between literature and science embodied in late nineteenth-century periodical literature, tracing the emergence of the new genre that would become known as 'science fiction'. He examines a range of fictional and non-fictional fin-de-siÃcle writing around distinct scientific themes: Martian communication, future prediction, X-rays, and polar exploration. Every chapter explores a major work of H. G. Wells, but also presents a wealth of exciting new material drawn from a variety of late Victorian periodicals. Arguing that the publications in which they appeared, as well as the stories themselves, played a crucial part in the development of science fiction, Tattersdill uses the form of the general interest magazine as a way of understanding the relationship between the arts and the sciences, and the creation of a new literary genre.Trade Review'… engaging and convincing … Tattersdill demonstrates that the cultural voices of literature and science are not necessarily opposites and that the juxtaposition of the two provided fertile ground for the growth of science fiction as a genre, particularly in the area of popular literature.' Katherine Ford, British Society for Literature and Science Reviews(www.bsls.ac.uk)'Tattersdill writes shrewdly … Throughout he insists in a most amiable way that literature and science are intersecting continuums, that building generic or disciplinary walls is as unproductive as the political kind.' Laurence Davies, Review 19 (www.nbol-19.org)'… an exciting and thought-provoking study that speaks not only to fans of science fiction but also to scholars of literature and science. Its scholarly and yet accessible style is an important part of its achievement. Much of the material discussed is new and the extensive annotations identify valuable sources of further reading.' Jane M. Ekstam, English Studies'This book is full of fascinating material …' Patrick Parrinder, The Wellsian'Tattersdill highlights the diversity, inclusivity and popularity of such hybrid publications and explores a fascinating mixture of texts-from stories to non-fiction articles, as well as advertisements and interview pieces.' Rachel Crossland, MetascienceTable of ContentsIntroduction: material entanglements; 1. Intrinsic intelligibility; 2. Distance over time; 3. New photography; 4. Further northward; Conclusion: bad science and the study of English; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisHerman Melville in Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of Herman Melville, a towering figure in nineteenth-century American and world literature. The book grounds the study of Herman Melville''s writings to the world that influenced their composition, publication and recognition, making it a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, students and general readers. Bringing together contributions covering a wide range of topics, the collection of essays covers the geographical, social, cultural and literary contexts of Melville''s life and works, as well as its literary reception. Herman Melville in Context will enable readers to approach Melville''s writings with fuller insight, and to read and understand them in a way that approximates the way they were read and understood in his time.Trade Review'This Melville companion is neither an essay collection nor a reference book but rather a series of 34 sprightly, cogent treatments illuminating and contextualizing aspects of Melville. Recommended.' Choice'Happily, the significant strengths of this collection and the models they provide for sound scholarship and interpretation offer, at least, a partial solution.' Steven Olsen-Smith, LeviathanTable of ContentsPart I. Geographical Contexts: 1. New York Kevin J. Hayes; 2. The Berkshires Peter Bergman; 3. The American West Nathaniel Lewis; 4. The Pacific Alex Calder; 5. London Jonathan A. Cook; 6. Europe David Watson; 7. The Holy Land Brian Yothers; Part II. Social Contexts: 8. Men and women and men David Greven; 9. Islanders and missionaries Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon; 10. Literary circles David O. Dowling; 11. Slaves, masters, and abolitionists Susan M. Ryan; 12. Dons and Cholos Rodrigo Lazo; 13. Bachelors and gentlemen Maura M. D'Amore; 14. Officers and men Martin Griffin; Part III. Cultural Contexts: 15. Opera Kevin J. Hayes; 16. Panoramas Susan Tenneriello; 17. Natural history Jennifer Schell; 18. Technology Klaus Benesch; 19. The lyceum movement Tom F. Wright; 20. Painting and prints Colin Dewey; Part IV. Literary Contexts: 21. The Bible Dawn Coleman; 22. Seventeenth-century English prose Robin Grey; 23. The picaresque novel Kelly Richardson; 24. Travel writing Tim Youngs; 25. German metaphysics Kim C. Sturgess; 26. Gothicism Jonathan Crimmins; 27. British romanticism Shawn Thomson; Part V. The Contexts of Literary Reception: 28. Make-or-break reviews Hershel Parker; 29. The Melville revival Eric Aronoff; 30. Modernism David M. Ball; 31. Postmodernism Timothy Parrish; 32. Translations Rute Beirante; 33. Biographies Ian Maloney; 34. The cinema John Parris Springer.

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Book SynopsisThe New Edith Wharton Studies uncovers new evidence and presents new ideas that invite us to reconsider our understanding of one of America''s most highly acclaimed, versatile, and prolific writers. The volume addresses themes that have previously been missed or underdeveloped, and examines areas where previous scholarship does not take account of key, contemporary issues: Wharton and ecocriticism, Wharton and queer studies, Wharton and animal studies, Wharton and whiteness, and Wharton and contemporary psychology. Essays explore Wharton''s treatment of the poor in her emerging career, the ways in which French thinkers helped her envision community, the importance of Greece to Wharton, her transnationalism, the ongoing revelations of the author''s archives, and new perspectives on her agency in the literary marketplace. It addresses key themes and examines contemporary issues, while reassessing Edith Wharton''s life and career.Trade Review'… the best of these essays point toward a rejuvenation of the old in ways that allow Wharton fans to gain a deeper understanding of this complex and often misunderstood woman and artist.' S. Batcos, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Introduction Jennifer Haytock and Laura Rattray; Part I. Self and Composition: 2. Creative process and literary form in Edith Wharton's archive Paul Ohler; 3. Wharton's letters: glimpses of the whole Edith Wharton Julie Olin-Ammentorp; 4. Edith Wharton and the business of the magazine short story Sarah Whitehead; Part II. International Wharton: 5. Edith Wharton's odyssey Myrto Drizou; 6. Edith Wharton's French engagement Virginia Ricard; 7. Edith Wharton and transnationalism Donna Campbell; Part III. Wharton on the Margins: 8. Edith Wharton's unprivileged lives Laura Rattray; 9. Wharton, insurance culture, and pain management Jennifer Travis; 10. Edith Wharton's humanimal pity Shannon Brennan; 11. Edith Wharton and the writing of whiteness Jennifer Haytock; Part IV. Sex and Gender Revisited: 12. Women, art, and the natural world in Edith Wharton's works Gary Totten; 13. Wharton and the romance plot Linda Wagner-Martin; 14. Masculine modernity: fathers, sons, and generational absolution in Wharton's fiction Melanie Dawson; 15. Wharton's wayward girls Meredith Goldsmith.

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Book SynopsisDecadence, that flowering of a mannered literary style in France during the Second Empire, and in the last two decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, holds an endless fascination. Yet the ambiguity of the term ''decadence'' and the challenges of identifying its practitioners make grasping its contours difficult. From the obsession with classical cultures, to the responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, this book offers one of the most comprehensive histories of literary Decadence. The essays here interrogate and expand the formal, geographical, and temporal frameworks for understanding Decadent literature, while offering a renewed focus on the role played by women writers. Featuring essays by leading scholars on sexuality, politics, science, translation, the New Woman, Russian and Spanish American Decadence, the influence of cinema on Decadence, and much more, it is essential reading for all those interested in the literature of the 1890s and Oscar Wilde.Trade Review'This is necessarily a specialist volume but one which eschews jargon. Recommended for students and scholars of the Aesthetic and Decadent Movements and late Victorian culture.' Alexander Adams, alexanderadamsart.wordpress.comTable of Contents1. Nineteenth-Century Decadence and Neoclassical Aesthetics: Androgyny and Collecting Culture Daniel Orrells; 2. British Decadence and Renaissance Italy Hilary Fraser; 3. 'Rather a Delicate Subject': Verlaine, France and British Decadence Matthew Creasy; 4. Fighting Like Cats and Dogs: Decadence and Print Media Nick Freeman; 5. Varieties of Decadent Religion Mark Knight; 6. The New Woman and Decadent Gender Politics Sarah Parker; 7. Decadence, Darwinism, Science and Technological Modernity Will Abberley; 8. Decadence and Politics Matthew Potolsky; 9. Seeds of Discord: Decadent Sexuality and Dissipating Species Dennis Denisoff; 10. Decadent Poetics After Swinburne Catherine Maxwell; 11. Theatre and Decadence Sos Eltis; 12. 'Restless Mystical Ardours': Decadence and Music Emma Sutton; 13. Decadence in Painting Richard A. Kaye; 14. Decadent Poetry and Translation: The Suffusive and the Prosodic Clive Scott; 15. Spanish American Literature and the Transatlantic Dimensions of Decadence María del Pilar Blanco; 16. Decadent America 1890-1930 Kirsten MacLeod; 17. Russian and Czech Decadence: The Fall of Rome and the Destruction of Sodom Kirsten Lodge; 18. A Politics of Modernism in the Poetics of Decadence Vincent Sherry; 19. Camp Modernism and Decadence Kristin Mahoney; 20. Making Decadence New: Carl Van Vechten's Cinematic Fiction Kate Hext; 21. Writing Decadent Lives and Letters Ellen Crowell and Alex Murray; 22. Decadence in the Time of AIDS Allan Kilner-Johnson.

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

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers the most nuanced treatment available of Black engagement with print in the transitional years after the Civil War. It locates and studies materials that many literary historians leave out of narratives of American culture. But as important as such recovery work is, African American Literature in Transition, 18651880 also emphasizes innovative approaches, recognizing that such recovery inherently challenges methods dominant in American literary study. At the book''s core is the recognition that many period texts - by writers from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and William Wells Brown to Mattie Jackson and William Steward - are not only aesthetically striking but also central to understanding key socio-historical and cultural trends in the nineteenth century. Chapters by leading scholars are grouped in three sections - ''Citizenships, Textualities, and Domesticities'', ''Persons and Bodies'', and ''Memories, Materialities, and Locations'' - and focus on debates over raceTable of ContentsBlack Reconstructions: Introduction Eric Gardner; Part I. Citizenships, Textualities, and Domesticities: 1. Sketching Black Citizenship on Installment after the 15th Amendment Derrick R. Spires; 2. Stories of Citizenship: The Rise of Narrative Black Poetry During Reconstruction Stephanie Farrar; 3. National Housekeeping: (Re)dressing the Politics of Whiteness in Nineteenth-Century African American Literary History Rynetta Davis; 4. Reconstructing the Rhetoric of AME Ministry Eric Gardner; Part II. Persons and Bodies: 5. Black Reform, Writing, and Resistance: Textual Politics in the Post-War Era Kathy L. Glass; 6. Post-Civil War Black Childhoods Nazera Sadiq Wright; 7. Disabling Freedom: Bloody Shirt Rhetoric in Postbellum Slave Narratives Keith Michael Green; 8. Radical Respectability and African American Women's Reconstruction Fiction Brigitte Fielder; Part III. Memories, Materialities, and Locations: 9. The Civil War in African American Memory Cody Marrs; 10. African American Literature of the West and the Landscape of Opportunity Janet Neary; 11. Reconstructions of the South in African American Literature Sherita L. Johnson; 12. 'This Is Especially Our Crop': Blackness, Value, and the Reconstruction of Cotton Katherine Adams.

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Book SynopsisThe period of 1850-1865 consisted of violent struggle and crisis as the United States underwent the prodigious transition from slaveholding to ostensibly ''free'' nation. This volume reframes mid-century African American literature and challenges our current understandings of both African American and American literature. It presents a fluid tradition that includes history, science, politics, economics, space and movement, the visual, and the sonic. Black writing was highly conscious of transnational and international politics, textual circulation, and revolutionary imaginaries. Chapters explore how Black literature was being produced and circulated; how and why it marked its relation to other literary and expressive traditions; what geopolitical imaginaries it facilitated through representation; and what technologies, including print, enabled African Americans to pursue such a complex and ongoing aesthetic and political project.Table of ContentsTimeline; Volume 4: 1850-1865, Introduction, Teresa Zackodnik; Part 1. Black personhood and citizenship in transition: Section introduction, Teresa Zackodnik; 1. Freedom's accounts—the semi-citizenship narrative, Stephen Knadler; 2. Conduct discourse, slave narratives, and Black male self-fashioning on the eve of the Civil war, Erica L. Ball; 3. Picturing Blackness with and against Stowe's lens, Michael A. Chaney; 4. African American periodicals and the transition to visual intercourse, Autumn Womack; Part 2. Generic transitions and textual circulation: Section introduction, Teresa Zackodnik; 5. Overhearing the African American novel, 1850-1865, Hollis Robbins and Mark Sussman; 6. Black romanticism and the lyric as the medium of the conspiracy, Matt Sandler; 7. Black newspapers, novels and the racial geographies of transnationalism, Ben Fagan; 8. Creoles of color, poetry and the periodic press in union occupied New Orleans, Jennifer Gipson; 9. The Haitian and American revolutions and Black historical writing at mid-century, Stephen Gilroy Hall; Part 3. Black geographies in transition: Section introduction, Teresa Zackodnik; 10. Freedom to move, Janaka Bowman-Lewis; 11. Black activism, print culture and literature in Canada 1850-1865, Winfried Siemerling; 12. Antislavery activist networks and transatlantic texts, Barbara McCaskill; 13. Haiti as diasporic crossroads in transnational African American writing, Marlene L. Daut; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisAfrican American literature in the years between 1800 and 1830 emerged from significant transitions in the cultural, technological, and political circulation of ideas. Transformations included increased numbers of Black organizations, shifts in the physical mobility of Black peoples, expanded circulation of abolitionist and Black newsprint as well as greater production of Black authored texts and images. The perpetuation of slavery in the early American republic meant that many people of African descent conveyed experiences of bondage or promoted abolition in complex ways, relying on a diverse array of print and illustrative forms. Accordingly, this volume takes a thematic approach to African American literature from 1800 to 1830, exploring Black organizational life before 1830, movement and mobility in African American literature, and print culture in circulation, illustration, and the narrative form.Trade Review'… AALT is a welcome addition to the bookshelves of scholars of nineteenth-century African American literature specifically, or for scholars of nineteenth-century American literature generally; it will also be of great interest to scholars who specialize in histories of organizational, print, and visual culture of the period.' Dana Murphy, Early American LiteratureTable of ContentsIntroduction Jasmine Nichole Cobb; Part I. Black Organizational Life before 1830: 1. Race, writing, and eschatological hope, 1800-1830 Maurice Wallace; 2. Daniel Coker, David Walker, and the politics of dialogue with whites in early nineteenth-century African American literature William L. Andrews; 3. Black entrepreneurship, economic self-determination and early print in Antebellum Brooklyn Prithi Kanakamedala; Part II. Movement and Mobility in African American Literature: 4. Early African American literature and the British Empire, 1808-1835 Joseph Rezek; 5. Robert Roberts's The House Servant's Directory and the Performance of Stability in African American Print, 1800–1830 Britt Rusert; 6. Dream visions in early Black autobiography; or, why Frederick Douglass doesn't dream Bryan Sinche; Part III. Print Culture in Circulation: 7. Reading, Black feminism, and the press around 1827 Teresa Zackodnik; 8. Theresa and the early transatlantic mixed-race heroine: Black solidarity in Freedom's Journal Brigitte Fielder; 9. Redemption, the historical imagination, and early Black biographical writing Stefan Wheelock; Part IV. Illustration and the Narrative Form: 10. Theorizing vision and selfhood in early Black writing and art Sarah Blackwood; 11. Embodying activism, bearing witness: the portraits of early African American ministers in Philadelphia Aston Gonzalez; 12. Visual insubordination within early African American portraiture and illustrated books Martha J. Cutter.

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Book SynopsisMark Twain In Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of one of the most celebrated American writers. It is a collection of short, lively contributions covering a wide range of topics on Twain''s life and works. Twain lived during a time of great change, upheaval, progress, and challenge. He rose from obscurity to become what some have called ''the most recognizable person on the planet''. Beyond his contributions to literature, which were hugely important and influential, he was a businessman, an inventor, an advocate for social and political change, and ultimately a cultural icon. Placing his life and work in the context of his age reveals much about both Mark Twain and America in the last half of the nineteenth century, the twentieth century, and the first decades of the twenty-first century.Trade Review'Mark Twain in Context is a treasure trove of information … It is an ideal collection for undergraduates and readers new to Twain, but those with more experience are also likely to find it of much use … all the chapters are excellent, well-researched introductions to the various ways Twain was a man of his time and remains relevant in the present time.' J. W. Miller, ChoiceTable of ContentsPart I. Life: 1. Life Gary Scharnhorst; 2. Reading Alan Gribben; 3. Autobiography John Bird; 4. Biographies Kevin Mac Donnell; Part II. Literary Contexts: 5. Southwestern humor Henry B. Wonham; 6. Literary comedians David E. E. Sloane; 7. Local color and regionalism Joseph A. Alvarez; 8. Early periodical writing James Caron; 9. Travel writing Jeffrey Melton; 10. Short fiction Peter Messent; 11. Publishing Bruce Michelson; 12. Lectures and speeches Tracy Wuster; 13. Contemporary writers Kelly Richardson; 14. Realism and naturalism Chad Rohman; Part III. Historical and Cultural Contexts: 15. Politics James S. Leonard; 16. Business and economics Lawrence Howe; 17. Religion Harold K. Bush; 18. Science and technology Nathaniel Williams; 19. Race and ethnicity: African Americans Shelley Fisher Fishkin; 20. Race and ethnicity: native Americans Kerry Driscoll; 21. Race and ethnicity: Chinese Hsuan L. Hsu; 22. Cosmopolitanism Ann M. Ryan; 23. Gender issues: women and domesticity Laura Skandera-Trombley; 24. Gender issues: sexuality Linda A. Morris; 25. History Gregg Camfield; 26. Animals and animal rights Emily VanDette; 27. Nationalism and anti-Imperialism Susan K. Harris; 28. Philosophy James Wharton Leonard; Part IV. Reception and Criticism: 29. Contemporary and early reception and criticism (to 1960) Joe B. Fulton; 30. Reception and criticism (1960-present) Joseph Csicsila; 31. Translation and international reception Selina Lai-Henderson; Part V. Historical, Creative, and Cultural Legacies: 32. Film, television, and theater adaptations R. Kent Rasmussen; 33. Copyright, trademark, and brand Judith Yaross Lee; 34. Mark Twain sites Hillary Iris Lowe.

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Book SynopsisHerodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century traces the impact of Herodotus'' Histories during a momentous period in world history - an era of heightened social mobility, religious controversy, scientific discovery and colonial expansion. Contributions by an international team of specialists in Greek historiography, classical archaeology, receptions, and nineteenth-century intellectual history shed new light on how the Histories were read, remembered, and re-imagined in historical writing and in an exciting array of real-world contexts: from the classrooms of English public schools and universities to the music hall, museum, or gallery; from the news-stand to the nursery; and from the banks of the Nile to the mountains of the Hindu Kush. They reveal not only how engagement with Herodotus'' work permeated nationalist discourses of the period, but also the extent to which these national and disciplinary contexts helped shape the way both Herodotus and the ancient past have been understood anTable of ContentsIntroduction Thomas Harrison and Joseph Skinner; 1. From ethnography to history: Herodotean and Thucydidean traditions in the development of Greek historiography Tim Rood; 2. 'Romantic poet-sage of history': Herodotus and his Arion in the long nineteenth century Edith Hall; 3. Herodotus as anti-classical toolbox Suzanne Marchand; 4. George Grote and the 'open-hearted Herodotus' Mark Molesky; 5. Imagining empire through Herodotus Joseph Skinner; 6. Two Victorian Egypts of Herodotus David Gange; 7. Of Europe Phiroze Vasunia; 8. From Scythian ethnography to Aryan christianity: Herodotean revolutions on the eve of the Russian Revolution Caspar Meyer; 9. Herodotus and the 1919–22 Greco-Turkish War Naoíse Mac Sweeney; 10. Herodotus's travels in Britain and beyond: prose composition and pseudo-ethnography Thomas Harrison.

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Book SynopsisIreland''s experience in the nineteenth century was quite different from that of Victorian Britain. Its fictions were written in differing forms like the gothic or historical novel and its poetry and drama were populated with ballad and song. Its writers were by turns nationalist or unionist, anglophile or de-anglicising. If the effects of famine and emigration were catastrophic for mid-nineteenth-century Irish culture, they initiated a literary story that spread across the diaspora. Despite the decline of spoken Irish, literature continued to be published, while scholarly endeavours such as translation or the Ordnance Survey preserved much from the Gaelic past. This rich volume examines the many forms of new writing that thrived throughout this period. Utilizing a thematic and historical approach, it addresses a broad anglophone readership in Victorian literature. Essays consider the Irish authors in America and India, women''s writing, and the resilience of Irish literature before Trade Review'… a remarkably ambitious project, taking the temperature of Irish literature from 1730 to the present in approximately 2,400 pages.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times'… show[s] how an attention to Irish writing can transform how we understand key concepts like romanticism; literary genres like realism, the gothic, ballads; political formations like empire and the transatlantic slave trade; and periodical culture. I highly recommend these books to scholars interested in learning more about Ireland as well as to established scholars of Irish literature.' Mary L. Mullen, Nineteenth-Century ContextsTable of ContentsPart I. Contexts and Contents: Politics and Periodicals: 1. Victorian Ireland, 1830–1880: a transition state Matthew Campbell; 2. Satire, fiction and innovation between Dublin, Edinburgh and London Jim Kelly; 3. Young Irelanders, Fenians, Land Leaguers: Young Ireland and beyond Melissa Fegan; Part II. Ireland and the Liberal Arts and Sciences: 4. Naming the place: the Ordnance Survey and its afterlives Cóilín Parsons; 5. Political economy? The economics and sociology of famine Marguerite Corporaal; 6. Newman's Irish University Colin Barr; 7. The charms of Ireland: travel writing and tourism Glenn Hooper; Part III. From the Four Nations to the Globalising Irish: 8. England and Ireland, Tory and Whig: Thackeray, Trollope, Arnold John McCourt; 9. The Irish in the Empire: Moore, Lever, Duffy Jim Shanahan; 10. An exiled history: Mitchel to O'Leary James Quinn; 11. The writing of Irish-America Peter D. O'Neill; Part IV. The Languages of Literature: 12. Antiquarians and authentics: survival and revival in Gaelic writing Nicholas Wolf; 13. Poetry and its audiences: club, street, ballad Norman Vance; 14. Gothic, allegory, realism: the Irish 'Victorian' novel Raphael Ingelbien; 15. The rise of the woman writer Anna Pilz; 16. Dion Boucicault and the globalized Irish stage Shaun Richards; 17. The popular prints Stephanie Rains.

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Book SynopsisAn invaluable resource for students of nineteenth-century writing and of Hardy in particular, this edition presents a text which closely reflects Hardy's original intentions. All his revisions are clearly shown, enabling readers to trace his creative process. An introductory essay outlines the stories' composition, publishing history and reception.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Life's Little Ironies: The Son's Veto; For Conscience' Sake; A Tragedy of Two Ambitions; On the Western Circuit; To Please his Wife; The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion; The Fiddler of the Reels; A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four; A Few Crusted Characters; Apparatus; Editorial Emendations; Textual Notes; Record of Variants – Accidentals; End-of-line Word Division; Appendices; Explanatory Notes; Glossary of Dialect Terms.

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Book SynopsisA History of the Literature of the U.S. South provides scholars with a dynamic and heterogeneous examination of southern writing from John Smith to Natasha Trethewey. Eschewing a master narrative limited to predictable authors and titles, the anthology adopts a variegated approach that emphasizes the cultural and political tensions crucial to the making of this regional literature. Certain chapters focus on major white writers (e.g., Thomas Jefferson, William Faulkner, the Agrarians, Cormac McCarthy), but a substantial portion of the work foregrounds the achievements of African American writers like Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Sarah Wright to address the multiracial and transnational dimensions of this literary formation. Theoretically informed and historically aware, the volume''s contributors collectively demonstrate how southern literature constitutes an aesthetic, cultural and political field that richly repays examination from a variety of critical perspectives.Trade Review'Recommended.' M. L. Robertson, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsIntroduction. Reconstructing literary history Harilaos Stecopoulos; 1. Fictions of the native south Melanie Benson Taylor; 2. John Smith and the English origins of southern exceptionalism Rob McLoone; 3. Plantation and enlightenment Jennifer Greeson; 4. Geoconfederacy; or, Bartram's Southern archipelago Monique Allewaert; 5. In the shadow of his office: architectures of affect in Jefferson's notes on the State of Virginia Laura Rigal; 6. Shadows of Haiti: racing gender, violence and sentiment in Victor Séjour, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, and Charles Chesnutt Susan Castillo Street; 7. 'Midnight bakings' amid starvation: food and aesthetics in the slave narrative Stephanie Tsank; 8. A calculated fiction: antebellum plantation romances Katharine Burnett; 9. Maroons and marronage in antebellum African American literature Sean Gerrity; 10. Everyday literary culture in the nineteenth century Christopher Hager and Beth Barton Schweiger; 11.'Fables of the Bloody Shirt': reconstruction and the problem of national violence Scott Romine; 12. A heritage unique in the ages: the politics of black southern womanhood in Anna Julia Cooper's a voice from the south by a black woman from the south Joanna Davis-McElligatt; 13. Moonlight and magnolias no more: the new plantation tradition and its respondents Justin Mellette; 14. Women writers and the southern renaissance; or, the work of gender in literary periodization Jay Watson; 15. Southern geographies and new Negro modernism Thadious Davis; 16. 'A fine loud grabble and snatch of AAA and WPA': Faulkner, Hurston, Wright, Bontemps and the depression south Martyn Bone; 17. Provincialism as a positive good: agrarianism and its afterlives Jon Smith; 18. Faulkner's untimely fictions John Matthews; 19. Reconsidering Du Bois's 'Central Text': W. E. B. Du Bois, Sarah Wright, and the problem of the 'Black Worker' Konstantina Karageorgos; 20. Cultural activism and theater of the Civil Rights Movement Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder; 21. Till the hurt becomes music: gnosticism and improvisation in the poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa Herman Beavers; 22. Undead sound; or, why southern poetry is not dead: the undying work of fathers in Natasha Trethewey, Adam Vines, and Cormac McCarthy Daniel Turner; 23. There is no south: the weird Plantationocene of Jeff VanderMeer's southern reach trilogy Amy Clukey; 24. Hurricane Alley: literature of the coastal south in a time of climate change Valerie Loichot.

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Book SynopsisThis book re-assesses Dickinson''s manuscripts, style, and statements to arrive at a historically appropriate conception of poetics. It compares her composition practices, such as variant generation and writing on already-marked scraps, with those of her peers in nineteenth-century American popular manuscript culture, tracing them to the pervasive influence of Scottish Common Sense philosophy, Hume''s scepticism, and associationism in philosophy of mind and early neuroscience. The argument consults the archives and considers Dickinson''s reading, in and out of school, in philosophy, rhetoric, and semiotic theory, as well as her training in inductive science and her familiarity with ideas about electricity, evolution, emotion, sympathy, and the brain. Combining close readings of poems with contextualizing information about contemporary conflicts in intellectual history, the book contends that Dickinson takes the making of poems to be her philosophical praxis. It depicts a Dickinson commTrade Review'This slim volume is packed with energy and ideas … offers many clear and concise explanations to assist newcomers. This volume belongs on the shelf of any serious reader of Dickinson.' J. W. Miller, ChoiceTable of Contents1. The manuscript variants: semiotic theories in conflict; 2. Dwelling in the sign: associationist accounts of perception; 3. Lightning in the mind: Dickinson's sympathetic poetics; 4. 'Elate philosopher': thinking in the body; 5. The 'relict of a friend' and associative inscription.

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Book SynopsisDuring the 1820s, British society saw transformations in technology, mobility, and consumerism that accelerated the spread of information. This timely study reveals how bestselling literature, popular theatre, and periodical journalism self-consciously experimented with new media. It presents an age preoccupied with improvisation and speculation a mode of behaviour that dominated financial and literary markets, generating reflections on risk, agency, and the importance of public opinion. Print and Performance in the 1820s interprets a rich constellation of fictional texts and theatrical productions that gained popularity among middle-class metropolitan audiences through experiments with intersecting fantasy worlds and acutely described real worlds. Providing new contexts for figures such as Byron and Scott, and recovering the work of lesser-known contemporaries including Charles Mathews'' character impersonations and the performances of celebrity improvvisatore Tommaso Sgricci, Angela Esterhammer explores the era''s influential representations of the way identity is constructed, performed, and perceived.Trade Review'In pondering the performativity of language and literature, no surer and more capable guide can be found than Angela Esterhammer.' Frederick Burwick, The BARS Review'Esterhammer's ability to make the history feel modern throughout will appeal to scholars of theater, literature, and history.' J. Rodzvilla, Choice'The richness of … [this book's] collection-point to the exciting possibilities materialist reading continues to offer scholars of British Romanticism.' Kristin Flieger Samuelian, European Romantic Review'Angela Esterhammer's latest monograph presents a vividly detailed, panoramic view of a decade that was long disregarded as a disappointing lull between the heights of Romanticism and Victoria's ascension … The study's greatest contribution to literary studies may be to foster many such additional readings with its fresh understanding of the 1820s as an exuberant era of risk-taking experimentation in performance and print. Reading it is an immersive experience that provides a clear and convincing take on a fascinating decade.' Sarah Zimmerman, The Wordsworth CircleTable of ContentsList of illustrations; 1. Introduction: being there, circa 1824; 2. Periodical performances: Blackwood's, Knight's, and The Bachelor's Wife; 3. Mediating improvisation and improvising mediation: Tommaso Sgricci and periodical culture; 4. Personal identity, impersonation, and Charles Mathews: who is he when he's at home?; 5. Theodore Hook's Sayings and Doings on the page and the stage: 'a curious matter of speculation'; 6. Speculating on property: to and from the village with Galt, Mitford, and Scott; 7. Scottish fictions of 1824: permutations of identity; Bibliography; Index.

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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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Book SynopsisThe years between 1850 and 1930 witnessed the first large-scale migration of peoples from East Asia and South Asia to North America and the emergence of the US as an imperial power in the Pacific. This period also produced the first instances of Asian North American writing, theater, and film. This exciting collection examines how the many literary and cultural works from this period approached questions of migration, exclusion, and identity. Covering an extensive ranges of topics including anticolonialist writing, the erotics of queer modernist poetry, interracial desire, and the racial gaze in silent film, the book shows the diverse and multi-ethnic nature of literary and cultural production at a crucial period in modern formations of race as well as literary and cultural aesthetics.Table of ContentsI. Empire and Resistance: 1. Reframing Colonial Fantasy and Benevolent Violence: Marriage, Family, and 'Global' Racial Consciousness in Edith Eaton's Caribbean Stories Yu-Fang Cho; 2. Uncollected: Remapping Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton Hsuan Hsu and Edlie Wong; 3. South Asian American Anticolonial Writings: Critical Reflections on Race, Empire, and Immigration in North America Seema Sohi; 4. Challenging Enactments of Power: Remembering the Komagata Maru Incident in Drama and Performance Nandi Bhatia; 5. Saum Song Bo on the Statue of Liberty: A Protest Against U.S. Chinese Exclusion and French Imperialism Cynthia Wu; 6. Island in Between: The Politics of Place in the Poetry of Angel Island Julia H. Lee; II. Bodies at Work and Play: 7. Objects of an Orientalist Gaze: Chinese Immigrants in American Silent Film Philippa Gates; 8. Labor, Freedom, and Typicality in Chinese Canadian Railroad Fiction Christopher Lee; 9. Bret Harte's 'Heathen Chinee' in US Literature after Slavery Caroline Yang; 10. On the Genealogy of Asian American Drama Sean Metzger; 11. Decorative Orientalism Josephine Lee; III. Crossings: 12. Affect and Form in the Writings of the Eaton Sisters Dominika Ferens; 13. Osato-san's Hands: Untimely Tales Gesture to Humanity's Horizons Andrew Leong; 14. Revolutionary Formalisms Audrey Wu Clark; 15. Slave to Love: Racial Form in Early Asian American Miscegenation Plots Jolie Sheffer; 16. Anna May Wong's Greetings to the World Yiman Wang.

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Book SynopsisSeamus Deane was one of the most vital and versatile authors of our time. Small World presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing, and of writing about Irish issues, from 1798 to the present day. Elegant, polemical, and incisive, it addresses the political, aesthetic, and cultural dimensions of several notable literary and historical moments, and monuments, from the island''s past and present. The style of Swift; the continuing influence of Edmund Burke''s political thought in the USA; the echoing debates about national character; aspects of Joyce''s and of Elizabeth Bowen''s relation to modernism; memories of Seamus Heaney; analysis of the representation of Northern Ireland in Anna Burns''s fiction these topics constitute only a partial list of the themes addressed by a volume that should be mandatory reading for all those who care about Ireland and its history. The writings included here, from one of Irish literature''s most renowned critics, have individually had a piercing impact, but they are now collectively amplified by being gathered together here for the first time between one set of covers. Small World: Ireland, 17982018 is an indispensable collection from one of the most important voices in Irish literature and culture.Trade Review'Seamus Deane was one of our greatest critics, sharp of mind and fearless in opinion. As this superb collection demonstrates, he had the large world of literature, and of Irish and Anglo-Irish literature in particular, secure within his frame of reference - there was no finer master of the art of close reading. Nothing small here, only the broadest view and the deepest insight. Ave magister.' John Banville'Over several decades Seamus Deane revolutionized the study of Irish literature and culture, and his critical innovations also helped to shape the fields of postcolonial and transnational studies. Combining theoretical brio with a scrupulous historical sense and dazzling breadth of learning, his distinctive voice - suave, wry, sinuous, incisive - made his pioneering insights unforgettable. Small World brings together some of Deane's most influential essays and adds exciting new work, especially on Irish women writers.' Maud Ellmann, University of Chicago'He was a product of a grand European tradition, now disappearing from the scene, in which the critic might at the same time be an intellectual. The combination in Deane's case has leant a seriousness to his work that is unmatched among the burgeoning commentariat. Small World offers a panoramic overview of his development, exhibiting his sympathies and accomplishments. The book contains a compelling blend of history and criticism, marshalling Deane's finespun amalgamation of disinterestedness and passion.' Richard Bourke, Dublin Review of Books'The energy and intellectual fireworks peristed all his life, as this magnificent volume fully attests.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times'Many moments in this collection convey the unique power of his voice; one hears as much as reads.' Margaret Kelleher, Sunday Independent'Irish writing, in Deane's hands, becomes the lens through which matters of worldly import can be examined: in the wake of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, the project of modernity in its various inflections (empire, capital, historicism, nationalism, the state of exception) is illuminated in the optic of Irish experience … His book is titled Small World, yet Deane was the most cosmopolitan of Irish critics. No other Irish critical voice would or could so suavely discuss Joyce in comparison with Broch or Gide or Mann. Deane had a unique power to read the world through the culture of a small marginal European island … But Small World is not a gloomy book. Refusing the foolish wisdom of resignation, it stands as a splendid testament to critique and to the intellectual vocation. With Seamus Deane's death we have lost the critic, but his cogent thinking can and will be thought elsewhere, by others.' Conor McCarthy, Los Angeles Review of Books'… densely rewarding …' Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal'It is impossible not to revere this anthology even without opening it.' Josephine Fenton, Irish Examiner'This beautifully produced volume shows Deane at his most acute: an insightful and politically committed thinker.' James Moran, The Tablet'Those in search of literary/historical/cultural nourishment could spend at least a year ingesting the compressed nourishment of Small World: Ireland 1798–2018 ...' Jude Collins, An Irish Quarterly Review'The chronological range of engagement is impressive, from the late eighteenth century to the present day, each essay displaying a depth of scholarly knowledge that brings weight to the unfolding arguments … Deane's insightful commentaries opened Irish literature up to the rigour of theory.' Derek Hand, English Studies'This essay collection has many virtues it is well-written, jargonfree, ingeniously organised and packed with interesting content. It is also … a book that has arrived at the right moment.' Carlo Gébler, SocietyTable of ContentsForeword, Joe Cleary; 1. Swift as Classic; 2. Burke in the USA; 3. Tone: The Great Nation and the Evil Empire; 4. Imperialism and Nationalism; 5. Irish National Character 1790–1900; 6. Civilians and Barbarians; 7. Heroic Styles: The Tradition of an Idea; 8. Ulysses: The Exhaustion of Literature and the Literature of Exhaustion; 9. Dead Ends: Joyce's Finest Moments; 10. Elizabeth Bowen: Sentenced to Death: The House in Paris; 11. Elizabeth Bowen: Two Stories in One; 12. Mary Lavin: Celibates; 13. Emergency Aesthetics; 14. Wherever Green is Read; 15. The Famous Seamus; 16. The End of the World.

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Book SynopsisAs useful and informative to scholars and advanced students in the field as to relative newcomers, this collection demonstrates how the 1890s continue to be an area of perennial interest and relevance even while our understanding of the period changes with our own era's shifting cultural and political concerns.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The 1890s: Decade of a Thousand Movements Dustin Friedman and Kristin Mahoney; 1. Race and Empire in the 1890s Zarena Aslami; 2. Island Dandies, Transpacific Decadence, and the Politics of Style Lindsay Wilhelm; 3. The 1890s and East Asia: Towards a Critical Cosmopolitanism Stefano Evangelista; 4. Indulekha; or The Many Lives of Realism at the Fin De Siècle Sukanya Banerjee; 5. Reading World Religions in the 1890s Sebastian Lecourt; 6. Night Lights: The 1890s Nocturne Emily Harrington; 7. The Green 1890s: World Ecology in Women's Poetry Ana Parejo Vadillo; 8. 'Only Nature is a Thing Unreal': The Anthropocene 1890s Elizabeth Carolyn Miller; 9. Weird Ecologies and the Limits of Environmentalism Dennis Denisoff; 10. Queer Theories of the 1890s Simon Joyce; 11. Eugenics and Degeneration in Socialist-Feminist Novels of the Mid-1890s Diana Maltz; 12. The Conservative and Patriotic 1890s Alex Murray; 13. Decadence and the Antitheatrical Prejudice Adam Alston; 14. Religion and Science in the 1890s Anne Stiles; 15. Little Magazines and/in Media History Lorraine Janzen Kooistra; 16. Fin-de-Siècle Visuality (and Textuality) and the Digital Sphere Rebecca N. Mitchell.

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Book SynopsisRobert Louis Stevenson is the author of many classic novels. He was also prolific letter writer. The letters in volumes I and II, cover the years 1868 through 1894. Volume I begins with his student days at Edinburgh and contains letters to all kinds of people from towns like Paris, San Francisco, Marseilles and Bournemouth. Volume II starts in Bournemouth in 1886 and ends with the four years he spent in Samoa. The letters make fascinating reading, not only for those interested in Stevenson''s life but also for anyone interested in nineteenth-century literature.

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Book SynopsisRobert Louis Stevenson is the author of many classic novels. He was also prolific letter writer. The letters in volumes I and II, cover the years 1868 through 1894. Volume I begins with his student days at Edinburgh and contains letters to all kinds of people from towns like Paris, San Francisco, Marseilles and Bournemouth. Volume II starts in Bournemouth in 1886 and ends with the four years he spent in Samoa. The letters make fascinating reading, not only for those interested in Stevenson's life but also for anyone interested in nineteenth-century literature.Table of ContentsFor more information, please visit our website at:https://novapublishers.com/shop/the-letters-of-robert-louis-stevenson-volume-ii/

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Book SynopsisBeset by jealousy over an admirer of his wife's, Lord Lodore has come with his daughter Ethel to the American wilderness; his wife Cornelia, meanwhile, has remained with her controlling mother in England. When he finally brings himself to attempt a return, Lodore is killed en route in a duel. Ethel does return to England, and the rest of the book tells the story of her marriage to the troubled and impoverished Villiers (whom she stands by through a variety of tribulations) and her long journey to a reconciliation with her mother.Lodore's scope of character and of idea is matched by its narrative range and variety of setting; the novel's highly dramatic story-line moves at different points to Italy, to Illinois, and to Niagara Falls. And in this edition, which includes a wealth of documents from the period, the reader is provided with a sense of the full context out of which Shelley's achievement emerged.Trade Review“Not the one book author that Frankenstein sometimes make her seem, Mary Shelley was a complex and committed social thinker whose novels reveal her deep concern with the impact of the emerging Victorian social dynamic upon the lives of women. While Lodore reflects Shelley's conviction of the importance to the new bourgeois family model of the ‘genuine affections of the human heart,' it shows us too, in the person of the remarkable Fanny Derham, the consequences for a free-thinking and independent woman who has learned ‘to be afraid of nothing.' Vargo's splendid edition resituates Shelley within the 1830s milieu of successful literary women like Landon and Hemans who understood their readers and their marked, and within a culture that was moving rapidly away from the exuberant Romanticism of only two decades earlier. With its illuminating critical introduction, and its extensive contextualizing appendices, this exceptional edition will alert readers anew to the complexity and sophistication of Shelley's mind and art.” - Stephen C. Behrendt, University of Nebraska"This volume marks yet another excellent addition to Broadview's expanding list of literary writings that have long been out of print." - Nineteenth-Century Literature"Vargo has provided a much-needed, comprehensive edition of the text." - University of Toronto QuarterlyTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionA Note on the TextMary Shelley: A Brief ChronologyLodoreAppendix A: Mary Shelley—Woman of Letters “The Bride of Modern Italy” (1824) From Review of The Loves of the Poets (1829) From Review of Cloudesley; A Tale (1830) From “Ugo Foscolo,” Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal (1837) Appendix B: Some Literary Contexts George Gordon, Lord Byron, from Lara (1814) The Tempest and Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Female Reader (1797) Thomas Campbell, from Gertrude of Wyoming (1809) Edward John Trelawny from Adventures of a Younger Son (1831) Appendix C: Illinois and Duelling Morris Birkbeck, from Letters from Illinois (1818) William Cobbett, from A Year’s Residence in America (1818-19) Frances Wright, from Views of Society and Manners in America (1821) William Godwin, from Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Third Edition (1798) James Fenimore Cooper, from Notions of the Americans (1828) Appendix D: Domesticity and Women’s Education Mary Wollstonecraft, from Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787) Mary Wollstonecraft, from Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) William Godwin, from The Enquirer (1797) Anna Jameson, from Characteristics of Women (1832) Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England (1839) Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews of Lodore From The Athenæum From The Examiner From Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country From Leigh Hunt’s London Journal From The Literary Gazette From New Monthly Magazine From The Sun Select Bibliography

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