Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
Oxford University Press Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy
Book SynopsisWritten by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on the work of this great classical playwright and on how our understanding of tragedy has been shaped by our literary past. Simon Goldhill sheds new light on Sophocles'' distinctive brilliance as a dramatist, illuminating such aspects of his work as his manipulation of irony, his construction of dialogue, and his deployment of the actors and the chorus. Goldhill also investigates how nineteenth-century critics like Hegel, Nietzsche, and Wagner developed a specific understanding of tragedy, one that has shaped our current approach to the genre. Finally, Goldhill addresses one of the foundational questions of literary criticism: how historically self-conscious should a reading of Greek tragedy be? The result is an invigorating and exciting new interpretation of the most canonical of Western authors.Trade ReviewMr. Goldhill joins the crowded field, but his work should stand out. * San Francisco Book Review *Goldhill's critical discussion of the historical and philosophical origin of several key concepts of Sophoclean tragedy is of great interest * rogueclassicism.com *A brilliant balancing act: Simon Goldhill combines close readings of Sophocles' plays with penetrating chapters on the language of tragic criticism since the nineteenth century. There is something for everyone in this exhilarating and adventurous book. * Pat Easterling, University of Cambridge *Following up on his landmark studies of Aeschylus and his influential Reading Greek Tragedy, Goldhill offers now a full-length look at Sophocles. With his customary versatility as critic and cultural historian, he offers a Janus-faced volume that looks in two directions. In the first instance, there are exemplary close readings with insistence on the rhetoric, politics, and history of 5th century Athens as essential background for articulating how the poet develops his own particular engagement with the language of tragedy. In the second, Goldhill spreads a wider net to expose the often unrecognized historicity of our own understanding of the tragic, established especially by 19th century German thinkers, for whom Sophocles represented the perfect paradigm. Like all his work, Goldhill challenges us to rethink inherited ideas and deepens our understanding at every turn of the fabled author of Oedipus the King and those who have cherished him. * Froma Zeitlin, Princeton University *With this latest book, Simon Goldhill brings his customary acumen and verve to reading the 'language' of Sophoclean tragedy from two very different perspectives. ... By placing between the same covers 'profoundly conservative' and 'rashly revolutionary' critical perspectives (3), Goldhill instills in the reader a new awareness of the interpretive practices that have sustained tragedy scholarship for centuries at the same time that he defamiliarizes them. His eye for telling detail, moreover, combined with his panoramic sweep of intellectual history, is...enthralling. * New England Classical Journal *Mr. Goldhill joins the crowded field, but his work should stand out. * San Francisco Book Review *Goldhill's critical discussion of the historical and philosophical origin of several key concepts of Sophoclean tragedy is of great interest. * rogueclassicism.com *A brilliant balancing act: Simon Goldhill combines close readings of Sophocles' plays with penetrating chapters on the language of tragic criticism since the nineteenth century. There is something for everyone in this exhilarating and adventurous book. * Pat Easterling, University of Cambridge *Following up on his landmark studies of Aeschylus and his influential Reading Greek Tragedy, Goldhill offers now a full-length look at Sophocles. With his customary versatility as critic and cultural historian, he offers a Janus-faced volume that looks in two directions. In the first instance, there are exemplary close readings with insistence on the rhetoric, politics, and history of 5th century Athens as essential background for articulating how the poet develops his own particular engagement with the language of tragedy. In the second, Goldhill spreads a wider net to expose the often unrecognized historicity of our own understanding of the tragic, established especially by 19th century German thinkers, for whom Sophocles represented the perfect paradigm. Like all his work, Goldhill challenges us to rethink inherited ideas and deepens our understanding at every turn of the fabled author of Oedipus the King and those who have cherished him. * Froma Zeitlin, Princeton University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Entrances and Exits ; Section 1: Tragic Language ; 1: Undoing: Lusis and the Analysis of Irony ; 2: The Audience on Stage: Rhetoric, Emotion and Judgment ; 3: Line for Line ; 4: Choreography: The Lyric Voice of Tragedy ; 5: The Chorus in Action ; Section 2: The Language of Tragedy ; 6: Generalizing about Tragedy ; 7: Generalizing about the Chorus ; 8: The Language of Tragedy and Modernity: How Electra Lost her Piety ; 9: Antigone and the Politics of Sisterhood: The Tragic Language of Sharing ; Coda: Reading With or Without Hegel: From Text to Script ; Glossary ; Bibliography
£32.77
Oxford University Press Desire and Domestic Fiction
Book SynopsisIn this strikingly original treatment of the rise of the novel, Nancy Armstrong argues that the novels and non- fiction written by and for women in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England paved the way for the rise of the modern English middle class. Most critical studies of the novel mistakenly locate political power exclusively in the official institutions of state, ignoring the political domain over which women hold authority, which includes courtship practices, family relations, and the use of leisure time. To remedy this, Armstrong provides a dual analysis, tracing both the rise of the novel and the evolution of female authority as part of one phenomenon.Trade Review`The provocative thesis Armstrong....develops challenges traditional descriptions of the rise of the novel...The result is a genuine contribution to the growing shelf of feminist criticism.' Choice `Armstrong offers a complicated scholarly feminist view of literary history just when you thought this burgeoning academic industry was running out of steam.' Library Journal
£43.69
Oxford University Press The Slaves Narrative
Book SynopsisThis textbook has been designed to confront a central issue in the study of 19th-century Afro-American literature - the question of how to analyse and evaluate the autobiographical tradition of ex-slaves.Trade Review`An imnpressive collection.' New York Times Book Review`This important collection of essays provides the most complete and cogent analysis of the slave narratives to date, and it demonstrates, again, that the narratives had and continue to have many uses ... The essays make a strong case for opening the historical and literary canon to include the slave narratives and testify to their enduring significance.' Library Journal`The Slave's Narrative is the most sophisticated and comprehensive book we have yet on the central issue facing students of 19th Century Afro-American literature: the question of how to analyse and evaluate the autobiographical tradition of ex-slaves. ...it is unlikely that any single collection of essays could do greater justice than The Slave's Tale has to the breadth, vitality, and untapped potential of this topic and the discourse it has generated.'William L. Andrews, University of Wisconsin, (BALF Spring/Summer 1986)Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Language of Slavery, xi 1. Written by Themselves, Views and Reviews, 1750-1861 The Life of Job Ben Solomon, 4 - Anonymous The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African; Written by Himself, 5 The Life and Adventures of a Fugitive Slave, 6 - Anonymous Narrative of James Williams, 8 - Anonymous The Narrative of Juan Manzano, 15 - Anonymous Narratives of Fugitive Slaves, 19 - Ephraim Peabody Life of Henry Bibb, 28 - Anonymous The Life and Bondage of Frederick Douglass, 30 - Anonymous Kidnapped and Ransomed, 31 - - Anonymous Linda: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, 32 - Anonymous 2. The Slave Narratives as History On Dialect Usage, 37 - Sterling A. Brown The Art and Science of Reading WPA Slave Narratives, 40 - Paul D. Escott History from Slave Sources, 48 - C. Vann Woodward Charles Chesnutt and the WPA Narratives: The Oral and the Literate Roots of Afro-American Literature, 59 - John Edgar Wideman Using the Testimony of Ex-Slaves: Approaches and Problems, 78 - John W. Blassingame Plantation Factories and the Slave Work Ethic, 98 - Gerald Jaynes The Making of a Fugitive Slave Narrative: Josiah Henson and Uncle Tom -- A Case Study, 112 - Robin W. Winks 3. The Slave Narratives as Literature "I Was Born": Slave Narratives, Their Status as Autobiography and as Literature, 148 - James Olney Three West African Writers of the 1870s, 175 - Paul Edwards Crushed Geraniums: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Language of Slavery, 199 - Susan Willis I Rose and Found My Voice: Narration, Authentication, and Authorial Control in Four Slave Narratives, 225 - Robert Burns Stepto Autobiographical Acts and the Voice of the Southern Slave, 242 - Houston A. Baker, Jr. Text and Contexts of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, 262 - Jean Fagan Yellin The Slave Narrators and the Picaresque Mode: Archetypes for Modern Black Personae, 283 - Charles H. Nichols Singing Swords: The Literary Legacy of Slavery, 298 - Melvin Dixon Bibliography, 319 Index, 331
£37.04
Oxford University Press Female Quixotism Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon Early American Women Writers
Trade Review"Splendid edition."--D. Van Leer, University of California, Davis "Very useful to have this text available and so intelligently edited."--E.N. Feltskog, University of Wisconsin "This series is quickly becoming indispensable to teachers and scholars of earlier American literature. Female Quixotism is not only a worthy book in its own right, but a marvelous tool for debunking commonly held assumptions about the limits of women's voices and literary visions in the eighteenth-and early nineteenth centuries. This book is a multi-layered treasure!"--Liahna Babener, Montana State Univ. "It is good to see an edition of this significant text in print. I intend to use it in both undergraduate and graduate courses this Fall semester."--John Samson, Texas Tech University "Invaluable for getting early American literature into focus."--Paul Kane, Vasser College "The book has merit as an intriguing early example of American comic writers dealing with sentimentality in a realistic world. Students of American humor will wish to read this book and its brief but informative introduction."--To Wit, James Madison University "A wonderful book . . . can be used well in a variety of English courses."--Dr. Marion Perry, Erie Community College-South "I used this last year in my early American lit. course and I will use it again next quarter. The students loved it. It really works well in dialogue with Franklin and Brown, as well as other women novelists from this era. I'm glad this text is available."--David W. Newton, West Georgia College
£34.19
Oxford University Press Harriet Beecher Stowe
Book SynopsisThis is the first full-scale biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe in over fifty years. Joan Hedrick takes the reader into the multi-layered world of nineteenth-century morals and mores in this absorbing story of a gifted and complex writer whose place in the canon is still contended.Trade Reviewlong overdue ... a fascinating and unfamiliar view of nineteenth-century American society. * Literary Review *
£22.49
Oxford University Press Inc Ambrose Bierce
Book SynopsisA lively and compelling portrait of one of the most acerbic and distinctive voices in American literature, Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company is a clear-eyed but sympathetic account of a complex individual at odds with his country, his family, his times, and himself.The only American writer of any stature to fight in and survive the Civil War, Bierce discovered in the conflict a bitter confirmation of his darkest assumptions about man and his nature. Profoundly disillusioned, Bierce spent the next fifty years struggling to disabuse his fellow Americans of their own cherished ideals -- be they romantic, religious, or political. His groundbreaking short stories of the war, including his most famous work, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, have had a lasting influence on every subsequent American author dealing with war. And the heartless, hilarious aphorisms in his caustic lexicon The Devil''s Dictionary have entered, often uncredited, our national consciousness.In this insightful, criTrade ReviewRay Morris Jr. has written a rousingly good life of a lesser but still captivating American figure. * Washington Post Book World *[Morris] resists oversimplified or fashionable answers to complex questions posed by Bierce's life, but always entertains the reader with his own forceful and precise writing...likely to rank among the notable biographies of the year. * Atlanta Journal Constitution *
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Oxford University Press, USA Exiled Royalties Melville and the Life We Imagine
Book SynopsisExiled Royalties is a literary-biographical study of the course of Melville''s career from his experience in Polynesia through his retirement from the New York Custom House and his composition of three late volumes of poetry and Billy Budd, Sailor. Conceived separately but narratively and thematically intertwined, the ten essays in the book are rooted in a belief that Melville''s work, as Charles Olson said, must be left in his own ''life,'' which for Milder means primarily his spiritual, psychological, and vocational life. Four of the ten essays deal with Melville''s life and work after his novelistic career ended with the The Confidence-Man in 1857. The range of issues addressed in the essays includes Melville''s attitudes toward society, history, and politics, from broad ideas about democracy and the course of Western civilization to responses to particular events like the Astor Place Riots and the Civil War; his feeling about sexuality and, throughout the book, about religion; his relationship to past and present writers, especially to the phases of Euro-American Romanticism, post-Romanticism, and nascent Modernism; his relationship to his wife, Lizzie, to Hawthorne, and to his father, all of whom figured in the crisis that made for Pierre. The title essay, Exiled Royalties, takes its origin from Ishmael''s account of the larger, darker, deeper part of Ahab--Melville''s mythic projection of a larger, darker, deeper part of himself. How to live nobly in spiritual exile--to be godlike in the perceptible absence of God--was a lifelong preoccupation for Melville, who, in lieu of positive belief, transposed the drama of his spiritual life to literature. The ways in which this impulse expressed itself through Melville''s forty-five year career, interweaving itself with his personal life and the life of the nation and shaping both the matter and manner of his work, is the unifying subject of Exiled Royalties.Trade ReviewA magisterial work from one of our very best readers of Melville. Robert Milder's beautifully written essays illuminate Melville's views on history, politics, sexuality and religion. But most importantly, they illuminate the grand reach of Melville's tragic art. * Robert Levine, University of Maryland *
£76.00
Oxford University Press Strange Secret Peoples
Book SynopsisTeeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era. Examining the period of 1798 to 1923, Strange and Secret Peoples focuses not only on such popular literary figures as Charles Dickens and William Butler Yeats, but on writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charlotte Mew; on artists as varied as mad Richard Dadd, Aubrey Beardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases. Silver demonstratesTrade Review"While Silver presents a mainly academic approach, it is highly readable and fascinating material to anyone who loves this literary period."--Michigan Alumnus Magazine"[A] fascinating account...Silver, a literature professor, provides a generally valuable service in integrating anthropological, linguistic, and folkloric materials into her discussion of Victorian conceptions of alternative worlds of existence. Recommended especially for Victorian specialists and sophisticated readers of fairy tales."--Choice"This is an entertaining and informative study of Victorian culture....Provides some of the most original reading on the subject we have."--The New York Times Book Review"Highly accessible....This is essential for academic libraries, and highly recommended for public libraries as well."--Library Journal"[Features] the choicest discoveries...Silver has culled from her vast reading in fairy lore and the Victorian folklorists....Handsomely illustrated."--Studies in English Literature"Silver's superb study of the Victorian fascination with fairylore and folklore reveals how pervasive and significant the belief in fairies was and still may be in British culture. Silver traces the evolution of fairy images throughout the nineteenth century and convincingly demonstrates how they provide important commentary on changing tastes and attitudes of the British, who took the fairies very seriously. Her book is filled with fascinating case studies of changelings, fairy brides, goblins, and banshei, transformed into representative figures of Victorian beliefs in discourses about utilitarianism, race, gender, and industrialism. Not only does she deal with the intertextuality of fairylore in society and literature, but she also discusses painting, music, ballet, theater, and folklore. This book is required reading--and delightful reading--for anyone interested in the 'secret people' who captivated the Victorians throughout the nineteenth century."--Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota"Strange and Secret Peoples is concerned not with eminent Victorians, but with the 'little people'--fairies, elves, mermaids and the like--in whom those eminent Victorians believed. With cogency, clarity, and learning, Carole Silver maps the intricacies of nineteenth-century faith in fairy lore, a faith perhaps more vital in British life than official, organized religion. [This book] is a scintillating work that will appeal to everyone interested in nineteenth-century England, in odd gods and folk beliefs, and, of course, to all readers who believe in fairies."--Nina Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania
£40.37
Oxford University Press Walt Whitman
Book SynopsisFrom the great events of the day to the patient workings of a spider, few poets responded to the life around them as powerfully as Walt Whitman. Now, in this brief but bountiful volume, David S. Reynolds offers a wealth of insight into the life and work of Whitman, examining the author through the lens of nineteenth-century America. Reynolds shows how Whitman responded to contemporary theater, music, painting, photography, science, religion, and sex. But perhaps nothing influenced Whitman more than the political events of his lifetime, as the struggle over slavery threatened to rip apart the national fabric. America, he believed, desperately needed a poet to hold together a society that was on the verge of unraveling. He created his powerful, all-absorbing poetic I to heal a fragmented nation that, he hoped, would find in his poetry new possibilities for inspiration and togetherness. Reynolds also examines the influence of theater, describing how Whitman''s favorite actor, the tragediaTrade Review"Walt Whitman found countless sources for his poetry in the astonishingly vigorous culture--high, middle, and low--of his day. No other living scholar is better equipped than David S. Reynolds to illuminate this rich web of connections. In this book, Reynolds takes the reader on a lightning tour of Whitman's world, from grand opera, phrenology, and political oratory to Bowery Boy fashions and the free love movement." --Michael Moon, Johns Hopkins University, author of Disseminating Whitman"This highly readable introduction to America's greatest poet by one of his most knowledgeable and insightful biographers is a useful point of entry into Walt Whitman's work and the world that shaped it such important ways." --Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University, author of From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America"In Walt Whitman, David Reynolds has distilled the key findings of his encyclopedic Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography and now makes Whitman's cultural life--and his transformation of that life into art--accessible to readers at all levels. Every page contains suggestions, discoveries, and insights that will send students back to Whitman's poetry with renewed enthusiasm. This is an innovative and illuminating introduction to Whitman and his work." --Ed Folsom, Editor, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
£15.41
Oxford University Press Anandamath or the Sacred Brotherhood
Book SynopsisThis is a translation of a historically important Bengali novel. Published in 1882, Chatterji''s Anandamath helped create the atmosphere and the symbolism for the nationalist movement leading to Indian independence in 1947. It contain the famous hymn Vande Mataram (I revere the Mother), which has become India''s official National Song. Set in Bengal at the time of the famine of 1770, the novel reflect tensions and oppositions within Indian culture between Hindus and Muslims, ruler and ruled, indigenous people and foreign overlords, jungle and town, Aryan and non-Aryan, celibacy and sexuality. It is both a political and a religious work. By recreating the past of Bengal, Chatterji hoped to create a new present that involved a new interpretation of the past. Julius Lipner not only provides the first complete and satisfactory English translation of this important work, but supplies an extensive Introduction contextualizing the novel and its cultural and political history. Also included arTrade ReviewHis translation is competent, and his introduction and critical apparatus informative, objective and unpedantic. Not only is he an impressive scholar, he draws effectively on Bengali artistic, linguistic and literary sources, as well as historical and political sources. * Times Higher Education Supplement *
£52.25
Oxford University Press The Curse of Caste Or the Slave Bride
Book SynopsisThe Curse of Caste is the earliest published novel by an African American woman yet to be discovered.Trade Review"The groundbreaking research and expert criticism conducted by Andrews and Kachun is re-shaping scholarly discussion of The Curse of Caste itself and early African American literature in general."- Willie J. Harrell Jr., Southern Quaterly "This text enlightens today's reader in matters of representations of race, African American women's authorial venues, and the readership of newspapers during Reconstruction. The editing is careful and clear. Essential."--F. Martin, Choice "This text enlightens today's reader in matters of representations of race, African American women's authorial venues, and the readership of newspapers during Reconstruction. The editing is careful and clear. Essential."--F. Martin, Choice "The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, is believed by some scholars to be the first novel ever published by an African-American woman. Whatever the case, "The Curse of Caste" provides insights into contemporary attitudes about black women's sexuality and miscegenation."--Dinitia Smith, The New York Times "This republication of Julia C. Collins' Civil-War era novel represents a remarkable act of literary recovery. Collins' work and the invaluable supporting material accompanying it here deeply enrich our understanding of American life during her turbulent times."--Dickson D. Bruce, Jr., University of California, Irvine, author of The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865 "Following the precedent set by Harriet Wilson's Our Nig, Julia Collins' The Curse of Caste is a compelling, imaginative rendering of the intersections of race and class at the close of the Civil War. William Andrews is the leading scholar of 19th century African American literature, and the work of Andrews and Mitch Kachun on The Curse of Caste is a model of judicious and sensitive editing."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsForward by Frances Smith Foster Editors' Introduction Notes to Introduction Editorial Note by Anne Bruder The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, 1865 Two Alternate Conclusions to The Curse of Caste The Essays of Julia C. Collins, 1864-1865 Reading Group Guide Notes Acknowledgments
£14.99
Oxford University Press Memoranda During the War
Book SynopsisIn December of 1862, having read his brother''s name in a casualty list, Walt Whitman rushed from Brooklyn to the war front, where he found his brother wounded but recovering. But Whitman also found there a new world, a world dense with horror and revelation. Memoranda During the War is Whitman''s testament to the anguish, heroism, and terror of the Civil War. The book consists of journal entries extending from Whitman''s arrival on the front in 1862 through to the war''s conclusion in 1865. Whitman details his encounters with soldiers and doctors, meditates on particular battles and on the meanings of the war for the nation, and recounts his wordless though peculiarly intimate public exchanges with President Lincoln, a man Whitman saw often on the streets of Washington and by whom he was deeply fascinated. The book offers an astounding amalgam of death portraits, anecdotes of battle, last words, messages to distant loved ones, and remarkably restrained and muted descriptions of pain,Trade ReviewCoviello has done an excellent job here: the text itself, and the wonderfully argued and informative introduction to it, will, without doubt, help redirect studies of Whitman by throwing his post-Civil War writings into clearer contexts and a much sharper focus. * Nick Selby, Modern Languages Review, vol 102, part 1 *
£18.99
Oxford University Press As If Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality
Book SynopsisA history of imaginary worlds from the late nineteenth century to the present, from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to the virtual worlds of computer games.Trade Reviewan engaging and adventurous literary history ... [a] lively and intelligent work * Patrick Curry, Times Literary Supplement *Brilliant... As If reminds us that, through real play in imaginary gardens, we can enhance the lives we lead in this alienated modern world. * Michael Dirda, The Washington Post *Mr. Saler counterpunches vigorously against the whole edifice of literary snobbery... His book should be essential reading in every graduate school of the humanities. But it's much more fun than that recommendation suggests. * Tom Shippey, The Wall Street Journal *Riveting stuff...Open[s] up a new vision not just of the literature of the fantastic, but of us as well. * Rick Kleffel, Bookotron.com *This is the best cultural study of fantasy I have ever read. A powerful, liberating argument, woven together from an impressive array of sources, all treated well and fairly. Saler routs the assumption that enchantment and reason oppose one another. * Edward Castronova, author of Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games *If modernity can be called an 'iron cage,' as it was by Max Weber, the para-modernity explored by Michael Saler is an Escher staircase. Composed of oxymoronic juxtapositions-animistic reason, detached immersion, ironic faith, and enchanted disenchantment-it transports us nowhere, but the journey is filled with such wonders that we keep moving along. As If is itself a triumph of imagination and wit, as well as an exemplary exercise in cultural history. * Martin Jay, author of Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme *Michael Saler's dazzling book adds a new historical dimension to our understanding of imaginary worlds and literature; through As If a surprising illumination of our modernity becomes possible. * Simon During, author of Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic *Saler's book uncovers and identifies precursors to the shared imaginary worlds of our time. His argument is clear, his examples entertaining; the cumulative effect is startling and ultimately very useful, in that we are given a new and positive way to understand not only several currently emerging art forms, but also our entire cultural moment. I now see my kids' activities in a new light; it even seems as if our future could be good. * Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Galileo's Dream *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; Part One: Contexts ; Chapter One: Living In the Imagination ; Chapter Two: Delight without Delusion: The New Romance, Spectacular Texts, and Public Spheres ; Part Two: Cases ; Chapter Three: Clap If You Believe in Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle and Animistic Reason ; Chapter Four: From "Virtual Unreality" to Virtual Reality: H.P. Lovecraft and Public Spheres of the Imagination ; Chapter Five: The Middle Positions of Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and Fictionalism ; Envoi ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde Volume II De Profundis Epistola In Carcere et Vinculis
Book SynopsisPresents the textual history of one of the most famous love letters ever written, "De Profundis." This work argues that Wilde's prison document may be seen not just as the basis of a letter, but also as an unfinished literary work which he intended for public consumption at some future date.Trade ReviewIts place in the Iomplete WorksR^ is totally deserved, and its editorial treatment is exemplary. * Peter Hollindale, The Review of English Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; A Note on the Texts and the Textual Collation ; Abbreviations ; EPISTOLA: IN CARCERE ET VINCULIS ; A Note on the Commentary to 'Epistola: In Carcere et Vinculis' ; Commentary to 'Epistola: In Carcere et Vinculis' ; DE PROFUNDIS ; A Note on the Commentary to 'De Profundis' ; Commentary to 'De Profundis'
£275.00
Clarendon Press Jane Austen and the War of Ideas
Book SynopsisInterest in Jane Austen has never been greater, but it is revitalized by the advent of feminist literary history. In a substantial new introduction Marilyn Butler places this book, which was first published in 1975, within the larger tradition of post-war criticism, from the generation of Edmund Wilson, Lionel Trilling, and F.R. Leavis to that of the now-dominant feminist critics. Professor Butler argues that Austen herself lived in contentious times. Like Wordsworth and Coleridge, she served her literary apprenticeship in the 1790s, the decade of the Terror and the Napoleonic Wars, an era in England of polemic and hysteria. Political partisanship shaped the novel of her youth, in content, form, and style. In this book, she now examines the very different schools of writing about Austen, and finds in them some unexpected continuities, such as a willingness to recruit her to modern aims, but a reluctance to engage with her own history.When the book first came out it attracted attention Trade Review`There can be no doubt of the immense value for the critical reader of this impressive exposition of conflicting views concerning the individual and society at the end of the 18th century.' The Review of English Studies.'the most accomplished 'close reading' to date of Jane Austen's dialogue, and the most stylish book written on Austen since Mary Lascelles's Jane Austen and her Art.' Marilyn Butler The London Review of Books'Readers of Jane Austen will welcome the return of Marilyn Butler's learned and controversial book on Jane Austen, reprinted with a new and extensive survey of recent scholarship. ... this book will be a valuable addition to a scholar's library. Butler's thesis casts light on Austen's fiction and her style emulates Austen'sw crisp clarity. ... Butler writes informatively about her subject, rather than about the need for the method. ' Eighteenth Century Fiction
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Clarendon Press An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature
Book SynopsisThis is a fully revised edition of Roger Beaton''s 1994 introduction to the poetry and fiction published in Greek since national independence in 1821. It is the first full-length study to be devoted to the literature of this period, seen as a whole, and including developments up until the present day. The book highlights those writers and works which have enjoyed critical or popular acclaim, and emphasizes the relationships which link one work with another and with its historical context. It moves from the varying responses to European Romanticism which defined Greek literature in the nineteenth century, culminating in the work of Palamas and Cavafy in the first decades of this century, to the Modernist influenced work of the years from the 1920s to 1945. A post-war reaction against Modernism was followed by growing experimentation, and the book deals in detail with this most productive of periods in modern Greek literature. No knowledge of Greek is assumed, and all quotations are givTrade ReviewA must for all Modern Greek collections of academic and general libraries. * Choice *Table of ContentsHow to Use this Book ; Introduction ; 1. Literature for a New Nation: 1821-1881 ; 2. National Expansion and its Limits: From 'Great Idea' to Aftermath of Disaster: 1881-1928 ; 3. In Search of a New National Identity: 1929-1949 ; 4. The Aftermath of War and Civil War: 1949-1967 ; 5. From Military Dictatorship towards International Integration: 1967-1992 ; 6. Literature and Language: The 'Language Question' ; Guide to Bibliography in English ; Guide to Translations ; References ; Index of Greek Titles ; General Index
£110.00
Oxford University Press Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing Cesaire Glissant Conde
Book SynopsisThis book is the first major study of French Caribbean literature in light of the concept of postcoloniality. Postcolonial theory debates have developed in the anglophone domain, and have not as yet referred prominently to francophone literature. Jeannie Suk investigates how the literature of Martinique and Guadeloupe provides a kaleidescopic view of the paradoxes at the heart of postcoloniality. Through subtle and provocative readings of Aimé Césaire, Edouard Glissant, Maryse Condé, Baudelaire, Freud, and others, she illuminates how the development of French Caribbean literature and debates about négritude, antillanité, and creolité contribute to theories of in-betweenness and incompleteness central to postcolonial modes. In each chapter, lively and detailed analyses of literary and critical texts reveal connections between key thematic, conceptual, rhetorical, and psychic issues that form the interface of Caribbean and postcolonial concerns. The first part paves theoretical ground, fTrade Review... engages adroitly with the relations between theory, fiction and politics, showing how they have taken quite a distinctive shape in Caribbean culture. * Journal of Romance Studies *... offers an important and original contribution to the study of French Antillean literature ... Thoroughly researched, clearly written, and compellingly argued, it places this literature within the context of deconstructive, poststructuralist thought with ease and sophistication, while offering substantive close-readings of canonical texts that markedly extend our awareness of the subtle workings of these materials. * Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East *This book is an important addition to the growing field of Caribbean studies, and underlines the truth that much of the most impressive work in this domain is being done in English. * Modern Language Review *Postcolonial Paradoxes should be welcomed as an important contemporary assessment of key figures within Antillean writing. * Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings *Table of ContentsPOSTCOLONIALITY, ALLEGORY, AND THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN ; EPILOGUE ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX
£175.00
Clarendon Press Byrons Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend
Book SynopsisPrevious interpretations of Byron's epic poem Don Juan have almost unanimously neglected the context of the Don Juan legend in European literature and culture. This book argues that the Don Juan legend is a vital context for understanding the poems cultural and sexual politics. The argument focuses on such issues as seduction, class sexualities, and popular theatrical forms.Trade ReviewRecently won the British Academy Rose Crawshay prize of £500Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; 1. The Legend of Don Juan ; 2. Byron's Don Juan ; 3. The Political Implications of a Don Juan ; 4. Don Juan and the Female Reader ; 5. The Seduction of Don Juan ; 6. Epilogue: Contemporary Seductions ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde Volume III The Picture of Dorian Gray The 1890 and 1891 Texts
Book SynopsisReprints the thirteen-chapter and twenty-chapter versions of the famous story, "The Picture of Dorian Gray", as separate works. This volume provides readers with a detailed account of the considerable changes that Wilde made to a controversial narrative that appeared in two, very different editions in 1890 and 1891 respectively.Trade Review...its editorial treatment is exemplary * Peter Hollindale, The Review of English Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Editorial Introduction ; Bibliographical Description ; Abbreviations and Symbols ; THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1890) ; Textual Notes (1890 Edition) ; THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1891) ; Textual Notes (1890 Edition) ; Commentary
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Clarendon Press Willing and Nothingness Schopenhauer as Nietzsches Educator
Book SynopsisThis text illuminates Nietzsche's philosophy by examining his relationship with Schopenhauer. The eight essays examine Nietzsche's changing conceptions in response to the work of the thinker he called his "great teacher". Also provided is a critical piece Nietzsche wrote about Schopenhauer in 1868.Trade Review...this book teaches us that there is still much more to discover about Nietzsche...and provides new perspectives on his work. * Ruth Abbey, New Nietzsche Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Schopenhauer as Nietzsche's Educator ; 2. On Knowledge, Truth, and Value: Nietzsche's Debt to Schopenhauer and the Development of his Empiricism ; 3. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on the Redemption of Life through Art ; 4. Nietzsche's Use and Abuse of Schopenhauer's Moral Philosophy for Life ; 5. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Temperament and Temporality ; 6. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Honest Atheism, Dishonest Pessimism ; 7. Self and Morality in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche ; 8. The Paradox of Fatalism and Self-Creation in Nietzsche ; Appendix 1: Friedrich Nietzsche 'On Schopenhauer' ; Appendix 2: Nietzsche's References to Schopenhauer ; Notes on the Contributors ; Bibliography ; Index
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Clarendon Press A Short History of Modern Arabic Literature
Book SynopsisA survey of Arabic literature since the mid-19th century, examining the attempts made by Arab authors to define their cultural identity and meet the needs of the modern world by adapting the imported forms of the novel, short story, and drama, as well as their indigenous poetic and prose tradition.Trade ReviewBadawi's work is a good proof that modern Arabic literature has come into its own, and that it is now making a contribution to world literature. Times Higher Education Supplement'A History of Modern Arabic Literature ... breaks new ground and fills a real need. It is organized in a very clear and systematic fashion.' Issa Peters, World Literature Today, Winter 1994 Issue'this relatively compact edition would be ideal for a student home for the holidays' Brian Fannin, The Washington TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction: a new conception of Arabic literature. Part 1 Poetry: Neoclassical and Romantic; the modernists. Part 2 The novel and the short story: the pioneers; Naguib Mahfouz and other Egyptians; other Arab writers and further developments in the short story. Part 3 Drama: early developments; the period of maturity.
£195.00
Oxford University Press Coleridges Notebooks
Book SynopsisSamuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the Romantic Age''s most enigmatic figures, a genius of astonishing diversity; author of some of the most famous poems in the English language, and co-author, with Wordsworth, of Lyrical Ballads; one of England''s greatest critics and theorists of literature and imagination; as well as autobiographer, nature-writer, philosopher, theologian, psychologist and distinguished speaker. Throughout his life, he confided his thoughts and emotions to his notebooks, where we can still see his speculations and observations taking shape. This edition presents a selection from this unique work, newly presented, with notes and commentary, for the student as well as the general reader.Trade ReviewEvery single page of this precious book yields up riches. No one interested in human thought and feeling should be without it. * Stephen Romer, Guardian Review *fhese impassioned little jottings and snippets reveal the philosopher in the poet more clearly than any of his more ponderous works, and they are lovely to dip into. * Daily Telegraph, 23 November 2002 *A marvellously judged and varied selection. * P J Kavanagh, Spectator, 14 September 2002 *An invaluable aid for all those interested in this fertile writer's private life. * Contemporary Review *Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction ; Abbreviations ; Textual Note ; Census of Manuscripts ; I. THE WEST COUNTRY 1794-1798 ; II. GERMANY, LONDON, THE LAKES 1798-1804 ; III. LONDON, MALTA, ITALY 1804-1806 ; IV. THE LAKES, LONDON 1806-1810 ; V. LONDON, WILTSHIRE 1810-1816 ; CODA: HIGHGATE 1816-1820 ; Commentary ; Index
£40.84
OUP Oxford The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry
Book Synopsis''I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts'', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read appreciation of the vibrancy and variety of Victorian poetic forms, and attends to poems as both shaped and shaping forces. The volume is divided into four main sections. The first section on ''Form'' looks at a few central innovations and engagements--''Rhythm'', ''Beat'', ''Address'', ''Rhyme'', ''Diction'', ''Syntax'', and ''Story''. The second section, ''Literary Landscapes'', examines the traditions and writers (from classical times to the present day) that influence and take their bearings from Victorian poets. The third section provides ''Readings'' of twenty-three poets by concentrating on particular poems or collections of poems, offering focused, nuanced engagements with the pleasures and challenges offered by particular styles of thinking and writing. The final section, ''The PlaceTrade ReviewAn astounding volume ... a blessing ... deeply thoughtful but eminently approachable essays ... including Bevis's concise but masterful introduction ... The Oxford Handbook should, indisputably, find its way to the shelves of every university library ... it will no doubt be a source of rich reflective scholarship for generations of researchers. * The Year's Work in English Studies *Impressive ... a substantial volume ... essays in Matthew Bevis's The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry may be regarded as marking something of a breakthrough. * Victorian Poetry *All of the essays are well informed, wisely crafted, and meticulously edited. * Choice *Bevis's editorial work combines rigour with play ... [he] gives us a book which is united by its refusal to conform to any one pattern or mould ... The essays [on form] ... are full of flair and reflexive comedy ... The section on 'Literary Landscapes' impresses with its originality and strength ... Bevis's volume is particularly strong for the way in which it unsettles chronological and generic boundaries ... The final section on 'The Place of Poetry' offers intriguing collisions ... Perhaps the greatest pleasure of this book is the editor's resistance to simplification ... The Handbook can act as a useful scholarly touchstone, but it is much more than this. * Sophie Ratcliffe, Tennyson Research Bulletin *Table of ContentsFORM; LITERARY LANDSCAPES; READINGS; THE PLACE OF POETRY
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Oxford University Press, USA Historical Novel 19th Century Europe P
Book SynopsisBrian Hamnett examines key historical novels by Scott, Balzac, Manzoni, Dickens, Eliot, Flaubert, Fontane, Galdós, and Tolstoy, revealing the contradictions inherent in this form of fiction and exploring the challenges writers encountered in attempting to represent a reality that linked past and present.Table of ContentsPART ONE THE HISTORICAL NOVEL AS GENRE AND PROBLEM: AN ANALYTICAL AND CRITICAL EXAMINATION; PART TWO INTERNAL CONTRADICTIONS AND UNSTABLE FORM: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE HISTORICAL NOVEL'S DILEMMA; FICTITIOUS HISTORIES; SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Oxford University Press John Keats
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Oxford University Press Unseasonable Youth
Book SynopsisUnseasonable Youth examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or endless adolescence. Novels of youth by Oscar Wilde, Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and Elizabeth Bowen disrupt the inherited conventions of the bildungsroman in order to criticize bourgeois values and to reinvent the biographical plot, but also to explore the contradictions inherent in mainstream developmental discourses of self, nation, and empire. The intertwined tropes of frozen youth and uneven development, as motifs of failed progress, play a crucial role in the emergence of dilatory modernist style and in the reimagination of colonial space at the fin-de-siècle. The genre-bending logic of uneven development - never wholly absent from the coming-of-age novel -- takes on a new and more intense form in modernism as it fixes its broken allegory to the problem of colonial develoTrade ReviewThe power of Esty's text to rewire one's thinking is most evident in the fact that such quibbles arise only once one has accepted his ambitious reframing of the late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century novelistic tradition. ... This is a major rereading of the modernist novel. Its analysis will be unavoidable for future critics of the period. * Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History Esty's extensive secondary references, awareness of critical trends, and what the series editors right call his 'admirable stylistic panache' are all impressive. Recommended.?CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents ; Series Editors' Foreword ; Chapter one: Introduction ; Scattered Souls: The Bildungsroman and Colonial Modernity ; After the Novel of Progress ; Kipling's Imperial Time ; Genre, History, and the Trope of Youth ; Modernist Subjectivity and the World-System ; Chapter two ; "National-Historical Time" from Goethe to George Eliot ; Infinite Development vs. National Form ; Nationhood and Adulthood in The Mill on the Floss ; After Eliot: Aging Forms and Globalized Provinces ; Chapter three ; Youth/Death: Schreiner and Conrad in the Contact Zone ; Outpost Without Progress: Schreiner's Story of An African Farm ; "A free and wandering tale": Conrad's Lord Jim ; Chapter four ; Souls of Men under Capitalism: Wilde, Wells, and the Anti-Novel ; "Unripe Time": Dorian Gray and Metropolitan Youth ; Commerce and Decay in Tono-Bungay ; Chapter five ; Tropics of Youth in Woolf and Joyce ; The "weight of the world": Woolf's Colonial Adolescence ; "Elfin Preludes": Joyce's Adolescent Colony ; Chapter six ; Virgins of Empire: The Antidevelopmental Plot in Rhys and Bowen ; Gender and Colonialism in the Modernist Semi-Periphery ; Endlessly Devolving: Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark ; Querying Innocence: Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September ; Chapter seven: Conclusion ; Alternative Modernity and Autonomous Youth After 1945 ; Works Cited ; Index
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Oxford University Press Novel Craft
Book SynopsisNovel Craft explores an intriguing and under-studied aspect of cultural life in Victorian England: domestic handicrafts, the decorative pursuit that predated the Arts and Crafts movement. Talia Schaffer argues that the handicraft movement served as a way to critique the modern mass-produced commodity and the rapidly emerging industrial capitalism of the nineteenth century. Her argument is illustrated with the four pivotal novels that form her study''s core-Gaskell''s Cranford, Yonge''s The Daisy Chain, Dickens''s Our Mutual Friend, and Oliphant''s Phoebe Junior. Each features various handicrafts that subtly aim to subvert the socioeconomic changes being wrought by industrialization. Schaffer goes beyond straightforward textual analysis by shaping each chapter around the individual craft at the center of each novel (paper for Cranford, flowers and related arts in The Daisy Chain, rubbish and salvage in Our Mutual Friend, and the contrasting ethos of arts and crafts connoisseurship in PhTrade ReviewSchaffer has revolutionized the study of Victorian aesthetics. * Choice *Table of ContentsTable of Contents ; Introduction: "How to Read Wax Coral, and Why" ; Chapter 1. "Women's Work: The History of the Victorian Domestic Handicraft" ; Chapter 2. "Ephemerality: The Cranford Papers" ; Chapter 3. "Preservation: The Daisy and the Chain" ; Chapter 4. "Salvage: Betty as the Mutual Friend" ; Chapter 5: "Connoisseurship: Giving Credit to Phoebe Junior" ; Postscript ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Joseph Severn A Life
Book SynopsisThis biography of Joseph Severn (1793-1879), the best known but most controversial of Keats''s friends, is based on a mass of newly discovered information, much of it still in private hands. Severn accompanied the dying Keats to Italy, nursed him in Rome and reported on his last weeks there in a famous series of moving letters. After Keats''s death in relative obscurity, Severn pressed hard for an early biography and a more fitting memorial in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.In the nineteenth century Severn''s friendship with Keats was seen as a model of devoted masculine companionship and he was reburied by popular acclaim next to Keats in 1882. In the twentieth century, by contrast, he was denigrated as an unreliable, self-promoting witness. Sue Brown''s book fills a major gap in studies of Keats and his circle. It reassesses Severn''s character, friendship with Keats, and influence on the posthumous development of the poet''s fame and provides new information on Keats''s death.The sTrade Reviewambitiously researched and richly detailed... [a] fine study * Robert Ryan, Keats Shelley Review *Sue Brown's lively new biography of Severn will be an invaluable contribution to Romantic scholarship * Keats-Shelley Journal *Crisply written and clear-sighted biography...in Sue Brown's hands he [Joseph Severn] becomes a cockney chancer, a charming maverick, a spinner of yarns whose name will never be writ in water. * Frances Wilson, Times Literary Supplement *Sue Brown's is as full, fine and sensitive an account of his life as could be wished for * Ann Wroe, The Tablet *a full-length, extremely readable, exquisitely documented biography * Jack Stillinger, Studies in Romanticism *Careful, thorough, authoritative and scholarly, Brown's book can justly claim to be the first full - cradle to grave - biography * Bill St Clair, The Literary Review *full of new material and insight... [Severn's] exchanges with an exasperated Foreign Office are worthy of a comic novel... Sue Brown's judicious biography, while giving Severn back his own Life, also sheds new light on Keats's 'Posthumous Life' * Pamela Neville-Sington, Romanticism *This is an enjoyable biography which probes a fascinating character and provides a sound historical and cultural background * Leonee Ormond, The Burlington Magazine *A balance portrait of Severn... This accessible book will interest Keats fans and scholars, and it will also attract readers interested in 19th-century British communities in Italy or in the sometimes-nasty British artistic community... Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. A Hazardous Childhood ; 2. The Royal Academy Student ; 3. Painter and Poet ; 4. The Warm South ; 5. Piazza di Spagna ; 6. 'Thanks Joe' ; 7. 'The Most Striking Year of My Life' ; 8. The RA Pensioner ; 9. 'Searching for Fame and Fortune' ; 10. Love, Marriage, and Persecution ; 11. 'Everybody's Man and a Very Obliging Creature': Severn in his Roman Prime ; 12. Going Home ; 13. The Passion for Fresco ; 14. The Friend of Keats ; 15. An Interlude in Pimlico ; 16. British Consul ; 17. The New Rome ; 18. Keeper of the Flame ; 19. A Fitting Place
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Oxford University Press Self Impression
Book SynopsisI am aware that, once my pen intervenes, I can make whatever I like out of what I was.'' Paul Valéry, Moi.Modernism is often characterized as a movement of impersonality; a rejection of auto/biography. But most of the major works of European modernism and postmodernism engage in very profound and central ways with questions about life-writing. Max Saunders explores the ways in which modern writers from the 1870s to the 1930s experimented with forms of life-writing - biography, autobiography, memoir, diary, journal - increasingly for the purposes of fiction. He identifies a wave of new hybrid forms from the late nineteenth century and uses the term ''autobiografiction'' - discovered in a surprisingly early essay of 1906 - to provide a fresh perspective on turn-of-the-century literature, and to propose a radically new literary history of Modernism. Saunders offers a taxonomy of the extraordinary variety of experiments with life-writing, demonstrating how they arose in the nineteenth century as the pressures of secularization and psychological theory disturbed the categories of biography and autobiography, in works by authors such as Pater, Ruskin, Proust, ''Mark Rutherford'', George Gissing, and A. C. Benson. He goes on to look at writers experimenting further with autobiografiction as Impressionism turns into Modernism, juxtaposing detailed and vivacious readings of key Modernist texts by Joyce, Stein, Pound, and Woolf, with explorations of the work of other authors - including H. G. Wells, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and Wyndham Lewis - whose experiments with life-writing forms are no less striking. The book concludes with a consideration of the afterlife of these fascinating experiments in the postmodern literature of Nabokov, Lessing, and Byatt.Self Impression sheds light on a number of significant but under-theorized issues; the meanings of ''autobiographical'', the generic implications of literary autobiography, and the intriguing relation between autobiography and fiction in the period.Trade Reviewvery wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating ... Conspicuous in its originality ... an outstanding contribution * The Pater Newsletter *Saunders's account ... is the most important recent contribution to the genealogy of modern literature ... The paradoxy of autobiografiction never disorients him; rather, it inspires plentiful pithy wisdom in a book that seems to end every paragraph aphoristically. Theory and history, history and form get their due recognition, and the book as a whole is an apt and exciting tribute to its subject, capable of everything necessary to prove that life-writing has meant everything to literary modernity. * Jesse Matz, Modern Language Quarterly *fascinating study * William Baker, Years Work in English Studies *Overall, this is a hugely impressive enterprise, in which Saunders wears his formidable erudition and theoretical expertise gracefully and wittily. * Andrew Radford, Years Work in English Studies *It is likely to become a major critical resource, not just for research on early twentieth-century life-writing, but also as part of the ongoing revision of the whole century's literary history. * Bharat Tandon, Times Literary Supplement *a remarkable book, in its length, its historical range (Pater to Byatt) and its fluid genre crossings... Saunders explores the relationship of autobiography to fiction in general, the relationship of the synthetic category 'autobiografiction' to modernism, and by so doing gives us an unusually unified account of modernism... The sheer weight of research and knowledge is astonishing and lightly, even conversationally, worn; Saunders seems to have read every fiction, auto-fiction and pseudo-fiction from the last 150 years... Too many excellent features of this magisterial book can be mentioned only in passing * Review of English Studies *Saunders can rearrange the familiar landmarks of modernist prehistory to fit an entire tradition of imaginary autobiography that has been occluded or marginalised by the grand narrative of modernisms impersonality... its new readings of well-known authors and works are dazzling; its new scholarship on unknown or little-known authors and works is fascinating. It revitalises the old literary-historical category of the transition (that is, from Victorian to modern, 1880-1920) * Australian Book Review *Saunders' mode of presentation is very precise and sharp... a very important book for the discussion of the relationship between Modernism and Life-Writing. * Yata Keiji, Virginia Woolf Review *A breathtakingly comprehensive study... Self Impression is an important book that will inspire further work on life-writing in the modern period... Recent publications provide other examples of books that call out for the application of Saunders's approach. The first volume of the complete and authoritative edition of the Autobiography of Mark Twain has just been published... Once again, we are in the realm of autobiografiction that Saunders has so brilliantly mapped out. * English Literature in Transition *compendious in the best sense of the term... Saunders's knowledge of, and ability to critique with extraordinary critical sensitivity, the wide swathes of European literature is remarkable. Even more impressive is his handling of the intricate filaments which bind these texts together, which make them constantly mutually allusive. This makes for a constant fascination... It is a measure of the depth of thinking in this book that the complexities of autobiographical modes and the relevance of the category of impressionism, while compelling in themselves, tend to recede and to be replaced by larger questions. Who am I when I write? Who am I when I read? What is it like to be 'carried away' by a book?... These are questions which, as Saunders delicately puts it, have been raised in one form or another by de Man, Hartman, Derrida; but here they receive a rare depth and range of articulation which puts flesh on the bones of abstract argument * David Punter, Modern Language Review *Self Impression remains a remarkable achievement, laying the foundation for future studies of life-writing genres and their relationship to fiction; it provides us with the critical tools and methodologies that will diversify our understanding of life-writing genres and their evolving place in literary history.' * Journal of Victorian Culture *wide-ranging and consequential new account of British literature from 1870 to 1930 ... In modernism, as Saunders demonstrates in impressive detail, we may find an astonishing variety of experimental interactions between biography, autobiography, fiction, and criticism ... With this vast body of evidence, quoted generously and treated expertly, Saunders makes a compelling case for reading modernism as a discourse of im/personality. [One of] two exceedingly good books - stimulating in their arguments, rich in attention to literary and scholarly detail, and engagingly written. * Adam Parkes, Modern Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsPART I: MODERN IRONISATIONS OF AUTO/BIOGRAPHY AND THE EMERGENCE OF AUTOBIOGRAFICTION: VICTORIAN AND FIN-DE-SIECLE PRECURSORS; PART II: MODERNIST AUTO/BIOGRAFICTION; CONCLUSION
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Oxford University Press Self Impression
Book SynopsisI am aware that, once my pen intervenes, I can make whatever I like out of what I was.'' Paul Valéry, Moi.Modernism is often characterized as a movement of impersonality; a rejection of auto/biography. But most of the major works of European modernism and postmodernism engage in very profound and central ways with questions about life-writing. Max Saunders explores the ways in which modern writers from the 1870s to the 1930s experimented with forms of life-writing - biography, autobiography, memoir, diary, journal - increasingly for the purposes of fiction. He identifies a wave of new hybrid forms from the late nineteenth century and uses the term ''autobiografiction'' - discovered in a surprisingly early essay of 1906 - to provide a fresh perspective on turn-of-the-century literature, and to propose a radically new literary history of Modernism. Saunders offers a taxonomy of the extraordinary variety of experiments with life-writing, demonstrating how they arose in the nineteenth centTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Saunders's account ... is the most important recent contribution to the genealogy of modern literature ... The paradoxy of autobiografiction never disorients him; rather, it inspires plentiful pithy wisdom in a book that seems to end every paragraph aphoristically. Theory and history, history and form get their due recognition, and the book as a whole is an apt and exciting tribute to its subject, capable of everything necessary to prove that life-writing has meant everything to literary modernity. * Jesse Matz, Modern Language Quarterly *Review from previous edition It is likely to become a major critical resource, not just for research on early twentieth-century life-writing, but also as part of the ongoing revision of the whole century's literary history. * Bharat Tandon, Times Literary Supplement *very wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating ... Conspicuous in its originality ... an outstanding contribution * The Pater Newsletter *a remarkable book, in its length, its historical range (Pater to Byatt) and its fluid genre crossings... Saunders explores the relationship of autobiography to fiction in general, the relationship of the synthetic category 'autobiografiction' to modernism, and by so doing gives us an unusually unified account of modernism... The sheer weight of research and knowledge is astonishing and lightly, even conversationally, worn; Saunders seems to have read every fiction, auto-fiction and pseudo-fiction from the last 150 years... Too many excellent features of this magisterial book can be mentioned only in passing * Review of English Studies *Saunders can rearrange the familiar landmarks of modernist prehistory to fit an entire tradition of imaginary autobiography that has been occluded or marginalised by the grand narrative of modernisms impersonality... its new readings of well-known authors and works are dazzling; its new scholarship on unknown or little-known authors and works is fascinating. It revitalises the old literary-historical category of the transition (that is, from Victorian to modern, 1880-1920) * Australian Book Review *Saunders' mode of presentation is very precise and sharp... a very important book for the discussion of the relationship between Modernism and Life-Writing. * Yata Keiji, Virginia Woolf Review *A breathtakingly comprehensive study... Self Impression is an important book that will inspire further work on life-writing in the modern period... Recent publications provide other examples of books that call out for the application of Saunders's approach. The first volume of the complete and authoritative edition of the Autobiography of Mark Twain has just been published... Once again, we are in the realm of autobiografiction that Saunders has so brilliantly mapped out. * English Literature in Transition *compendious in the best sense of the term... Saunders's knowledge of, and ability to critique with extraordinary critical sensitivity, the wide swathes of European literature is remarkable. Even more impressive is his handling of the intricate filaments which bind these texts together, which make them constantly mutually allusive. This makes for a constant fascination... It is a measure of the depth of thinking in this book that the complexities of autobiographical modes and the relevance of the category of impressionism, while compelling in themselves, tend to recede and to be replaced by larger questions. Who am I when I write? Who am I when I read? What is it like to be 'carried away' by a book?... These are questions which, as Saunders delicately puts it, have been raised in one form or another by de Man, Hartman, Derrida; but here they receive a rare depth and range of articulation which puts flesh on the bones of abstract argument * David Punter, Modern *wide-ranging and consequential new account of British literature from 1870 to 1930 ... In modernism, as Saunders demonstrates in impressive detail, we may find an astonishing variety of experimental interactions between biography, autobiography, fiction, and criticism ... With this vast body of evidence, quoted generously and treated expertly, Saunders makes a compelling case for reading modernism as a discourse of im/personality. [One of] two exceedingly good books - stimulating in their arguments, rich in attention to literary and scholarly detail, and engagingly written. * Adam Parkes, Modern Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsPART I: MODERN IRONISATIONS OF AUTO/BIOGRAPHY AND THE EMERGENCE OF AUTOBIOGRAFICTION: VICTORIAN AND FIN-DE-SIECLE PRECURSORS; PART II: MODERNIST AUTO/BIOGRAFICTION; CONCLUSION
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Oxford University Press, USA Russia in Britain 18801940
Book SynopsisRussia in Britain offers the first comprehensive account of the breadth and depth of the British fascination with Russian and Soviet culture, tracing its transformative effect on British intellectual life from the 1880s, the decade which saw the first sustained interest in Russian literature, to 1940, the eve of the Soviet Union''s entry into the Second World War. By focusing on the role played by institutions, disciplines and groups, libraries, periodicals, government agencies, concert halls, publishing houses, theatres, and film societies, this collection marks an important departure from standard literary critical narratives, which have tended to highlight the role of a small number of individuals, notably Sergei Diaghilev, Constance Garnett, Theodore Komisarjevsky, Katherine Mansfield, George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf. Drawing on recent research and newly available archives, Russia in Britain shifts attention from individual figures to the networks within which they operated,Table of ContentsIntroduction ; "For God, for Tsar, and for Fatherland!" Russians on the British Stage from Napoleon to the Great War ; Oscar Wilde's Vera; or The Nihilists ; Britain and the International Tolstoyan Movement ; The Free Russian Library in London, 1898-1917 ; 'Avert Your Eyes and Hold Your Noses': Non-Chekhovian Russian and Soviet Drama on the British Stage, 1900-1940 ; Tsar's Hall: Russian Music in London, 1895-1926 ; Le Sacre du printemps in London: The Politics of Embodied Freedom in Early Modern Dance and Suffragette Protest ; Russian Aesthetics in Britain: Kandinsky, Sadleir, and Rhythm' ; Reading Russian: Russian Studies and the Literary Canon ; The Translation of Soviet Literature: John Rodker and PresLit ; Russia and the British Intellectuals: The Significance of the Stalin-Wells Talk ; British Film Culture and Soviet Cinema ; Soviet Films and British intelligence in the 1930s: The Case of Kino Films and MI5 ; Afterword: A Time and a Place for Everything: On Russia, Britain, and Being Modern
£109.25
Oxford University Press William Wordsworth
Book SynopsisThe Wordsworth volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series is the most comprehensive selection currently available of the poetry and prose of one of the finest poets in the English language. The familiar poems from Wordsworth''s ''Great Decade'' are all included, but they are complemented by a more than usually generous selection of the best poems from his later years. The extracts from the Guide to the Lakes will be a revelation to many readers, as will the political prose of the Convention of Cintra. All of the material is presented in chronological sequence, so that the reader can see how Wordsworth''s changing concerns were expressed in prose as well as poetry. Work which Wordsworth published is separated from that which he did not reveal, which will enable the reader to trace through successive published volumes the development of Wordsworth''s public poetic self, while also being able to follow the growth of the body of poetry which, for whatever reason, Wordsworth did not cTrade ReviewIn all ways, the edition is a credit both to Oxford University Press and to this fine scholar to whom Wordsworthians owe much. * Paul F. Betz, Notes and Queries *Rereading Wordsworth is particularly rewarding and fitting since he is himself the great revisitor and rewriter. This generous selection of his work offers the perfect occasion to do so. * Paul Batchelor, The Guardian *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ; Introduction ; Chronology ; A Note on the Selection and Its Ordering ; FROM LYRICAL BALLADS (1798) ; FROM LYRICAL BALLADS (1800) ; OTHER POEMS 1798-1800 ; FROM POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES (1807) ; OTHER POEMS 1800-1808 ; THE PRELUDE (1805) ; FROM THE CONVENTIONS OF CINTRA (1809) ; FROM ESSAYS UPON EPITAPHS (1810) ; FROM THE EXCURSION (1814) ; FROM POEMS (1815) ; FROM A LETTER TO A FRIEND OF ROBERT BURNS (1816) ; FROM THE RIVER DUDDON (1820) ; FROM TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY OF THE LAKES (1820) ; OTHER POEMS 1815-1846 ; Appendix: Wordsworth before Lyrical Ballads ; Notes ; Further Reading ; Index of Titles and First Lines
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Oxford University Press The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel
Book SynopsisConceived as a literary form to aggressively publicize the abolitionist cause in the United States, the African American slave narrative remains a powerful and illuminating demonstration of America''s dark history. Yet the genre''s impact extended far beyond the borders of the U.S. The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel investigates the shaping influence of writings by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and other former slaves on British fiction in the years between the Abolition Act and the Emancipation Proclamation. Julia Sun-Joo Lee argues that novelists such as Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charles Dickens integrated into their works generic elements of the slave narrative-from the emphasis on literacy as a tool of liberation, to the teleological journey from slavery to freedom, to the ethics of resistance over submission. It contends that Victorian novelists used these tropes in an attempt to access the slave narrative''s paradigm of resistance, illuminatTrade ReviewLee's book is valuable not only for demonstrating how much Victorian novels have in common with American slave narratives, but for beginning to address the questions this kinship raises...This book breaks new ground, and later critics will build upon it to deepen our understanding of the relationship between the slave narrative and the Victorian novel. * Victorian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel ; Chapter One. The Slave Narrative of Jane Eyre ; Chapter Two. Slaves and Brothers in Pendennis ; Chapter Three. Female Slave Narratives: "The Grey Woman" and My Lady Ludlow ; Chapter Four. The Return of the "Unnative": North and South ; Chapter Five. Fugitive Plots in Great Expectations ; Epilogue. The Plot Against England: The Dynamiter ; Works Cited
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Gothic Horror A Guide for Students and Readers
Book SynopsisCLIVE BLOOM is Emeritus Professor, Middlesex University, UK. He is the author and editor of many works on popular culture, cultural history and literary criticism.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge Jude the Obscure Readers Guides to Essential Criticism
Book SynopsisSIMON AVERY is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Westminster, UK. He is co-author (with Rebecca Stott) of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2003), editor of Lives of Victorian Literary Figures II: The Brownings (2004).
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Media and Social Justice
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary study explores how book culture functioned in the life and milieu of one of the nineteenth century's most complex figures. Spanning the statesman's long life, it presents key case studies illuminating the constant and fundamental interplay between reading, life and politics which characterised Gladstone's world.Trade Review'Reading Gladstone is a sophisticated study, written in a remarkably mature and accessible style...Windscheffel is not only good at reading Gladstone: she also has much to tell us about the Victorian Age and its Church.' - Professor Wheeler, The Church Times 'A splendid study...' - telegraph.co.uk 'Dr Windscheffel deserves to be congratulated on producing one of the most original and thought-provoking books to have appeared on this subject...In this superbly researched book...she has produced a perceptive, sympathetic and brilliant reconstruction of an intimately and yet publicly important dimension of the personality and career of one of the greatest Liberal leaders of all times.' Eugenio Biagini, Journal of Liberal History 'Historians and other scholars of Victorian culture are privileged to be able to benefit from Ruth Clayton Windscheffel's exploration of Gladstone's reading and the world that he created through that reading.' Reviews in HistoryTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: READING THE READER Sacred Dramas: the history of a collection, 1815-1896 Rhythms of Reading PART II: MAKING THE READER The Gentleman's Inheritance, 1809-1836 A Place of Deceptive Tranquillity: Gladstone's Temple of Peace PART III: ST DEINIOL'S Humanity: Libraries, Literature, and Liberalism Divinity: Gladstone, Oxford, and Lux Mundi PART IV: TRANSFORMING THE READER Political Lotus Eater to Grand Old Bookman: re-presenting Gladstone the reader Conclusion References Bibliography
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination Nineteenth Century Major Lives and Letters
Book SynopsisThrough politics, religion and his relationship with Wordsworth, the book builds to a new interpretation of the poems where Coleridge's daemonic imagination produces its myths: The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel .Trade Review***Winner of the CCUE Book Prize 2012!*** 'Leadbetter's method is to probe ideas and explore their resonance: a kind of ultrasound imaging that traces currents of emotion, thought, and morality moving within the whole span of Coleridge's writing. His new book draws on resources that have recently entered the public domain with sympathy and intelligence, and sets out clearly what so many of us have either not been able to see or not quite able to say before. He brings fresh insight to age-old questions and familiar poems, resulting in a clarified sense of the contradictions that moved a great creative mind. This is an exciting book and necessary not only for readers of Coleridge and Wordsworth but also for anyone interested in how poetry is made.' J. C. C. Mays, University College, Dublin 'This is a subtle and erudite meditation on Coleridge's poetry, making frequently brilliant connections with his notebooks, essays, and letters. The theme of the 'transnatural' running throughout Coleridge's work (what we might also call the pagan, the transgressive, or the subversive erotic) is explored with zest and confidence, most particularly so in the ballads. Altogether this is an excellent academic study, fully alive to previous Coleridge criticism, but not afraid to strike out on its own, and even to adventure into mysterious and forbidden territory, the 'far countree' of Coleridge's imagination.' Richard Holmes, biographer of Coleridge and author of The Age of Wonder "Leadbetter's book offers us a new way into Coleridge, presenting a writer and thinker who repeatedly found his truest genius in the experiences that made him most uneasy. It is a compelling and encompassing account of a powerfully heterodoxical mind. Leadbetter has penetrating things to say across the whole range of the great career.' Seamus Perry, Balliol College, OxfordTable of ContentsThe Willing Daemon: Coleridge and the Transnatural * 'Pagan Philosophy' and the 'Pride of Speculation': Spiritual Politics and the Metaphysical Imagination, 1795-1797 * 'Not a Man, But a Monster': Organicism, Becoming and the Daemonic Imago * Transnatural Language: The 'Library-Cormorant' in the 'Vernal Wood' * 'The Dark Green Adder's Tongue': Osorio and the 'Poetry of Nature' * 'A Distinct Current of My Own': Poetry and the Uses of the Supernatural * 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' * 'Kubla Khan' * 'Christabel'
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Mary Shelley Frankenstein Analysing Texts
Book SynopsisNICHOLAS MARSH formerly taught English at Francis Holland School, Regent's Park, London. He is author of the popular How to Begin Studying English Literature and many titles in the Analysing Texts series, of which he is the general editor.
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Palgrave Macmillan The Literary Tourist
Book SynopsisList of Illustrations Introduction: Readers and Places PART I: PLACING THE AUTHOR An Anthology of Corpses Cradles of Genius Homes and Haunts PART II: LOCATING THE FICTIVE Ladies and Lakes Literary Geographies Epilogue: Enchanted Places and Never-Never Lands IndexTrade Review'absorbing, well-researched and informative' - The Yorkshire Post 'pioneering work...an exceptionally accessible and entertaining work of scholarship' - Samantha Matthews, TLS 'Watson has produced a book likely to interest readers in both the literary and tourist domains, and a study worth putting on the shelves of academic and public libraries.' - Stuart Hannabuss, Library Review 'She [Watson] writes from an agreeably personal standpoint, having undertaken a good deal of such touring on her own account.' - Michael Irwin, The Thomas Hardy Journal 'Combining exemplary historical scholarship with considerable critical and theoretical sophistication, she [Watson] offers sensitive readings on the one hand of the texts and literary careers that have brought about significant forms of literary tourism, and on the other, of the literary-touristic experience itself...this is an impressive study that will prove useful not just to specialists in tourism and travel writing, but to all scholars of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture.' Carl Thompson, British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin& ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Readers and Places PART I: PLACING THE AUTHOR An Anthology of Corpses Cradles of Genius Homes and Haunts PART II: LOCATING THE FICTIVE Ladies and Lakes Literary Geographies Epilogue: Enchanted Places and Never-Never Lands Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Thomas Hardy The Poems 23 Analysing Texts
Book SynopsisGillian Steinberg is Associate Professor of English at Yeshiva College, New York, USA.Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's Preface Acknowledgements A Note on the Text Introduction PART I: ANALYSING THOMAS HARDY'S POETRY 1. Poet as Storyteller 2. Ghosts 3. God, Man and the Natural World 4. War and Its Casualties 5. The Self and Time PART II: THE CONTEXT AND THE CRITICS 6. Thomas Hardy's Life and Works 7. Critical Views Notes Further Reading List of Works Cited Index.
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Victorian Christmas in Print Nineteenth Century Major Lives and Letters
Book SynopsisAlthough people may not realize it, the modern Christmas book market carries on a Victorian legacy. An explosion of Christmas print matter reinvigorated and regularized the holiday during the mid-Victorian period, infusing Christmas with emotionally-charged expectations of reading.Trade Review"Moore has usefully demarcated the terrain and tropes of a seasonal literature central to Victorian cultural experience. Of particular interest to students of the periodical press and nineteenth-century cultural studies, Moore's study demonstrates the very material connections between Christmas past and Christmas present, while setting the stage for Christmas studies yet to come." - Victorian Studies "Through thoughtful incursions into the print culture of the nineteenth century, Stern revises mistaken assumptions about the Victorian Christmas. Her probing analysis of Victorian writing and reading explodes the myths of an exclusively Dickensian Christmas while at the same time acknowledging the ghost of Charles Dickens in Christmases past and present. Here is a fine read for any student of Christmas culture." - Barbara T. Gates, Alumni Distinguished Professor of English and Women s Studies, University of DelawareTable of ContentsIntroduction Books for Christmas, 1822-1860 How Victorians Read Christmas How Mr. Punch Stole Christmas: The Evolution of the Holiday in Periodicals Ghost Stories at Christmas The Expansion of Christmas Consumerism: Gifts and Commodities The Poetry of Christmas Modern Marketing of the Victorian Christmas
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Penguin Random House LLC Alfred Jarry
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University of Notre Dame Press The Catholic Revival in English Literature 18451961
Book SynopsisThis text presents a discussion of the six principal writers of the Catholic revival in English literature - Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene and Waugh. Ian Ker's reading of these six major writers should appeal to anyone with an interest in 19th- and 20th-century English literature.Trade Review“In England, the period between John Henry Newman’s conversion in 1845 and the beginning of Vatican II in 1962 was a golden age for Catholic writing. A good introduction to the central figures in this story is provided by Ian Ker in The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961: Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene, Waugh. ...[E]ven readers who are already very familiar with the work of the six writers will find this book highly rewarding.” —National Review"It was because of the general ostracism of Catholics that the great convert, John Henry Newman, could see no prospect for a Catholic body of literature in a culture so overwhelmingly Protestant. The Reverend Ian Ker, the author of this series of essays and presently a member of the theological faculty at Oxford, describes Newman's contention as happily lacking in prescience. Rather, he argues, the six authors with whom he deals produced a substantial body of literature written by Catholics who wrote as Catholics. And he acknowledges that he could have selected many other English Catholic writers for the same reason. ...Ian Ker has done all those who have an interest in nineteenth- and twentieth-century English literature a service by his compelling and intelligent reading of these six authors." —The Antioch Review"…sprightly and readable…." —North Dakota Quarterly"...this study is a pleasure to read for its strong argument, bold analyses of Roman Catholic and Anglo-Catholic religions, and close readings of texts." —The Journal of Religion"Ker's book is well written, well informed and… interesting…." —Theologie“Any future studies taking up the intersection of Catholicism (indeed, of religion) and literature will be indebted to this book.” —Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies“The Catholic Revival in English Literature is a useful addition to the study of the six writers it covers. All of it is elegantly written and... carefully argued.” —First Things“... well-written essays on Catholic writers from John Henry Newman to Graham Greene. Each of the essays (chapters) contains sensitive insights into the variety of the Catholic experience in the 20th century.” —Choice“...first-rate....” —The New York Sun“This is a fine, very enjoyable book, and deserves to be in all academic libraries and in the hands of all who appreciate English literature.” —Catholic Library World“... Ker has made a significant contribution to understanding modern Catholic literature.” —Crisis Magazine"What is most fascinating about this book for Victorianists is that it reveals a Newman scholar who wants to show that what Newman sought was in fact achieved. Ker's study is really an account of the afterlife of Newman. . . This work is worth reading not just for the questions it raises, but for its open acknowledgement of the ongoing influence of Newman, or the idea of Newman, in the author's work." —Victorian Studies“Ker's study is an engaging work. It serves well as an introductory book for those interested in the Catholic literary revival, and offers the scholar an insightful reading of these authors and their texts by a fine theologian and literary critic.” —Comparative Literature Studies
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Pennsylvania State University Press Gothic FictionGothic Form
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Penn State University Rewriting Womanhood Feminism Subjectivity and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel 18871903
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Penn State University Rewriting Womanhood Feminism Subjectivity and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel 18871903 6 Penn State Romance Studies
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