Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
Penn State University Religion Around Mary Shelley 5
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Yale University Press The Infection of Thomas De Quincey
Book SynopsisThomas de Quincey, best known for "Confessions of an Opium Eater", was a journalist and propagandist of Empire, of oriental aggression and of racial paranoia. This account of De Quincey's fears of all things oriental is also an analysis of the psychopathology of mid-Victorian imperialist culture.Table of ContentsHydrocephalus - the death of Elizabeth; nympholepsy - phantoms of delight; tigridiasis - Tipu's revenge; hydrophobia - out in the midday sun; the king's evil - the house of De Quincey; diplopia - two girls for every boy; the plague of Cairo and the death of a theory; homocidal mania - tales of massacre and vengeance; yellow fever - the opium wars; leontiasis - the Kandyan wars and the leprosy of cowardice; phallalgia - India in 1857.
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Yale University Press Ariadnes Thread Story Lines Paper
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the intricacies of narrative theory. Considering a range of texts from Western literature over the past two centuries, Miller explores the way rhetorical devices and figurative language interrupt, break into, delay and expand storytelling.
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Yale University Press Chekhovs Plays
Book SynopsisExamining each of his full-length plays, this text explores the reasons behind the enduring power of Chekov's words. It shows how the plays relate to one another, Chekov's short stories and his life, and places them in the context of Russian and European drama and the larger culture of the period.
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Yale University Press Yale French Studies Number 125126
Book SynopsisDevoted to the work of Baudelaire, who, more than any other poet, inaugurated the era of modernity, this title features contributors who consider in various terms what time means in Baudelaire's work and what time can do, exploring the relationship between his writings and the moment in which they were composed.
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Yale University Press Life
Trade Review"The idea of the organic has troubled critics from Coleridge through Walter Pater on to their modern scholars. Denise Gigante's Life brings extraordinary clarity and renewed force to this traditional perplexity."—Harold Bloom "Life develops an important subject with much persuasive force, making use of extensive and careful research. It demonstrates that concepts of 18th-century vitalistic biology are essential to understanding the forms of major Romantic poems."—Karl Kroeber, Columbia University "Moving gracefully from Smart's animals to Keats' magnetic monsters, this brilliant book asks what the Romantic poets—or anyone—might mean by the deep and easy word 'life.'"—Michael Wood, Princeton University
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Yale University Press Svengalis Web
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Wordsworths Biblical Ghosts
Book SynopsisThe Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres.Trade Review'...a rich and rewarding study of Wordworth's art, carefully situated within established scholarship...' - Laura Dabundo, The Wordsworth CircleTable of ContentsIntroduction: Poet in a Destitute Time The Word as Borderer: Incarnational Poetics: the Theory The Word as Borderer: Of Clothing and Body: the Practice How Awesome is This Place: Poems on the Naming of Places Wordsworth's Prodigal Son: 'Michael' as Parable and as Metaparable Wordsworth's Song of Songs: 'Nutting' as Mystical Allegory Wordsworthian Apocalyptics: Definitions and Biblical Intertexts Wordsworthian Apocalyptics in Which Nothing is Revealed
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ABC-CLIO Deprivation and Power
Book SynopsisLooking at the sociohistorical and sociocultural context, this study investigates examples of anorexia nervosa, a highly symbolic form of nonverbal discourse, in a selection of French novels spanning the period 1835-1889.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Eve's Curse A Woman's Place: "Much Ado About Nothing" Lenten Ladies: "Tis a Consummation Devoutly to Be Wished" Worth Her Weight: Embonpoint and la Femme-Homme The Cult of Fragility: How Enfeeblement Leads to Empowerment Conclusion Bibliography
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ABC-CLIO An Ambrose Bierce Companion
Book SynopsisThe bulk of the Companion comprises alphabetically arranged entries on Bierce's major works and characters and on historical persons and writers who figured prominently in his life and career.Table of ContentsPreface The Encyclopedia General Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park Casebooks Series
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Jane Austen A Literary Life Literary Lives
Book SynopsisPrevious biographies have set Jane Austen within her social context. This biography places her firmly within her professional context as one of an increasing number of women who published novels between 1790 and 1820. Being a professional writer was, apart from her family, more important to Austen than anything else in her life.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements - Conditions of Authorship, 1775-1817 - Background and Literary Apprenticeship, 1775-1793 - The Idea of Authorship, 1794-1800 - The Unpublished Author, 1801-1809 - The Professional Writer, 1809-1817
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Double in NineteenthCentury Fiction Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society
Book SynopsisDuality and the divided mind have been a source of perennial fascination for literary artists and especially for novelists, and this is particularly true of the Romantic generation and their later nineteenth-century heirs.Table of ContentsPreface - The Psychological and Theological Background - The Emergence and Development of the Double Theme - Terror, Pursuit and Shadows - E.T.A. Hoffmann - James Hogg - Edgar Allan Poe - The Russian Double - The Double in Decline - Into Psychology - Notes - Selected Bibliography - Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Emma New Casebooks
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Frankenstein New Casebooks
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Anthony Trollope and his Contemporaries A Study in the Theory and Conventions of MidVictorian Fiction
Book SynopsisAcknowledgements - Notes on References - Preface to the Second Edition - Introduction - The Establishment of Trollope's Reputation - Critical Concerns of the Sixties: Tragedy and Imagination - The Morality of Fiction and the Deception of Vice - Moral and Social Acceptability - Richard Holt Hutton and Trollope's Characterisation - Trollope's Theory and Practice of Novel-Writing - Appendix I: Notes on Some Uses of the Word `Realism' in Mid-Victorian Criticism of the Novel - Bibliography - IndexTable of ContentsAcknowledgements - Notes on References - Preface to the Second Edition - Introduction - The Establishment of Trollope's Reputation - Critical Concerns of the Sixties: Tragedy and Imagination - The Morality of Fiction and the Deception of Vice - Moral and Social Acceptability - Richard Holt Hutton and Trollope's Characterisation - Trollope's Theory and Practice of Novel-Writing - Appendix I: Notes on Some Uses of the Word `Realism' in Mid-Victorian Criticism of the Novel - Bibliography - Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti
Book SynopsisDespite new historical study of her contexts, Christina Rossetti continues to haunt the reader as a displaced subjectivity emptied of history.Trade Review'The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti is a stunning piece of work, which merges biography, literary criticism and feminist theory in an innovative and exciting conjunction...Alison Chapman, in this theoretically informed and sophisticated study, examines Rossetti in the light of what is now acknowledged as a complex and often uneasy relationship between literature and history...Chapman is a brilliant scholar and a perceptive and original critic. Her study goes to the heart of the problems that confront all readers of nineteenth-century literature.' - Judy Simons, Professor of English and Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, De Montfort University Chapman's study of Christina Rossetti, based in Kristevan models of reading women's texts and their authors as subjects-in-process, presents the most exciting and original approach to Rossetti - and by extension to other nineteenth-century women writers - that has emerged in the last two decades. It is wonderfully lucid, a critical and theoretical tour de force. It's critique of the new historicism is compelling.' - Antony H. Harrison, North Carolina State University '...exposes reductive readings of Goblin Market, describes biographical constructions of the trope Christina Rossetti, and gives a careful account of Dante Gabriel's revisions of his sister's work before publication.' - Matthew Reynolds, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations List of Plates Introduction: The Haunting of Christina Rossetti 'A Bizarre Medium': The Return of the Dead and New Historicism Speaking with the Dead: Recovering Lost Voices Christina Rossetti in Effect: Reading Biographies Defining the Feminine Subject: Fraternal Revisions I Spectres and Spectators: Fraternal Revisions II Father's Place, Mother's Space: Italy and the Paradisal The Afterlife of Poetry: 'Goblin Market' Bibliography Index
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WW Norton & Co In the Shade of Spring Leaves The Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyo a Woman of Letters in Meiji Japan The Life of Higuchi Ichiyo with Nine of Her Best Stories
Book SynopsisHiguchi Ichiyo, Japan's first woman writer of stature in modern times, wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multi-volumed diary. This book is made up of a critical biography, interlaced with extracts from the diary, and Robert Danly's translations of nine representative stories.
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WW Norton & Co Charlotte Bronte A Passionate Life
Book SynopsisThis highly acclaimed biography looks beyond the insistent image of the modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones. Instead we see a strong, fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art. Lyndall Gordon looks at the shared gifts and class ambitions of the Bronte family, and also at significant people-the active feminist Mary Taylor, the demanding mentor Constantin Heger, the rising publisher George Smith-whom Charlotte strove to possess in life and fiction. Drawing on unpublished letters, the Roe Head Journal, early stories, the manuscript of Villette, and her last, unfinished novel, Lyndall Gordon explores the gaps in Charlotte Bronte's life. How did she arrive at her understanding of passion from a woman's point of view? Could she resolve the testing conflict between a writer's life and a seemingly incongruous marriage to the devoted curate Arthur Bell Nicholls? Looking into the shadow between the facts, Gordon takes biography into that uns
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Figures of Finance Capitalism
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Taylor & Francis Dickenss Secular Gospel
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iUniverse The Fall of the House of Poe and Other Essays
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Victor, Broadstreet & Johnson Publishing CS Lewis Called Him Master
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Dunwich House Greek and Roman Ghost Stories
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Pluto Press Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet and Revolutionary
Book SynopsisA biography of one of England's greatest poets, uncovering his radical, political influence.Trade Review'Humankind needed Shelley back then, and this book reminds us of how much we need him now. It is an honest look at a truly revolutionary life' -- Benjamin Zephaniah'I love reading. I'm about to start Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen' -- Jeremy Corbyn'A compelling and eye-opening study. Reminds us of Shelley's robust socio-political vision, that remains as relevant and vital for our own volatile times' -- Stephen C. Behrendt; George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English, University of Nebraska'Fresh, clear and compelling, this is the best compact account of Percy Bysshe Shelley's revolutionary life currently available' -- Nicholas Roe, Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews'Highly readable, this is an absorbing study of Shelley's life, thought, and writing. Jacqueline Mulhallen has written a valuable book' -- Michael O’Neill, Professor of English, Durham University'A fresh and impassioned account of the significance of Shelley's radical life and writings. A fine and highly readable achievement' -- Michael Rossington, Professor of Romantic Literature, Newcastle University'An excellent biographical account of Shelley's political radicalism ... that brings a contemporary radical sensibility into bracing conjunction with nineteenth-century history' -- Philip Connell, Romantic Circles'Lively, well-paced and highly readable ... packed with fascinating insights into Shelley's times' -- Counterfire'Enjoyable' -- Peace News'Illuminating ... [a] stimulating introduction to Shelley's life and radical politics' -- Romantic CirclesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Prologue 1. Shelley’s Family Background and Education: 1792-1811 2. The Lake District, Ireland and Devon: 1811-13 3. Tremadog, Queen Mab and the ‘Hermit of Marlow’: 1813-18 4. Italy and Shelley’s Annus Mirabilis: 1818-19 5. Satire and Drama: 1819-22 Notes Index
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Liverpool University Press Vernon Lee
Book SynopsisThis book explores Vernon Lee's ground-breaking literary work in light of the turbulent friendships that she had with figures such as Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells and Virginia Woolf.
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Liverpool University Press The Nineteenth Century Sensation Novel
Book SynopsisThis study responds to developments of the sensation novel within literature, television and popular culture, and takes into account recent studies of the genre.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Female Voices and Egyptian Independence
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Johns Hopkins University Press What Does a Woman Want
Book Synopsis"What does a woman want?" is a male question, originally posed by Freud. This book explores whether this question can engender a woman's voice as its speaking subject. It examines autobiographical texts by Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir and Adrienne Rich, as well as psychoanalytic works.Trade ReviewFelman pries open, radically displaces, and reengenders this question, through literature... psychoanalysis... and women's autobiographical writing. -- Frances L. Restuccia NovelTable of ContentsChapter 1. What Does a Women Want? The Question of Autobiography and the Bond of ReadingChapter 2. Women and Madness: The Critical PhallacyChapter 3. Textuality and the Riddle of BisexualityChapter 4. Competing Pregnancies: The Dream from which Psychoanalysis ProceedsChapter 5. With Whom Do You Believe Your Lot is Cast? Woolfe, de Beauvoir, Rich and the Struggle for AutobiographyNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Romantic Interactions
Book SynopsisThis fresh, informative account of key writers, important texts, and complex cultural currents promises keen interest for students and scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians.Trade ReviewSusan Wolfson is not afraid to profess the study of literature. Her impressive body of work has reasserted the claims of close reading and formal literary values in the face (or the wake) of New Historical and other forms of social, materialist criticism which have tended to reduce poetic texts to the socio-political arguments that can be based on-or against-them. Yet she does this not in simple reaction to what has become a very prevailing trend in the field of Romantic criticism, but with a keen alertness to the moral issues raised in Romantic poetry, especially when they involve the status of women, and particularly women writers, then and now. The present book takes a further step in this direction by investigating poetic language and feminist issues, including the possibly 'feminine' valences of poetry itself. Its procedure is highly intertextual, reading texts back and forth, for and against, each other. New Books on Literature 19 2010 Wolfson employs historicizing criticism to study the relationship between Romantic authors' subjective agency and social connections. Choice 2011Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsNote on TextsIntroduction: "The will of a social being"I. Two Women & Poetic Tradition1. Charlotte Smith's Emigrants and the Politics of Allusion2. Mary Wollstonecraft: Re:Reading the Poets3. The Poets' "Wollstonecraft"II. Gender Interactions, Generative Interactions: Two Wordsworths4. Lyrical Ballads and the Pregnant Words of Men's Passions5. William's Sister: Alternatives of Alter Ego6. Dorothy's Conversation with WilliamIII. A Public Attraction7. Gazing on "Byron": Separation and Fascination8. Byron and the Muse of Female PoetryNotesWorks CitedIndex
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Child the State and the Victorian Novel
Book SynopsisTraces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as “childhood” became a distinct category, Laura C. Berry contends, stories of children in danger were circulated as part of larger debates about child welfare and the role of the family in society.
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Ohio State University Press Sex Celibacy and Deviance
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Ohio State University Press Dysfluent in Fiction
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Ohio State University Press Radical Science
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Ohio State University Press Narrative Bonds
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Ohio State University Press Twisted Words
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Ohio State University Press The Necromantics
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Ohio State University Press The Feeling of Letting Die
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Wayne State University Press After Images
Book SynopsisExplores the intersections of photography, archaeology, and psychoanalysis and their effect on conceptions of the subject and his formation or Bildung in the literature and theory of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This title examines works from Thomas Mann, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Hawthorne and Melville Writing a Relationship
Book SynopsisA collection of twelve essays that focus on a number of provocative personal, professional, and literary ambiguities existing between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. It also covers topics such as professional competitiveness; Melville's search for a father figure; and, masculine ambivalence in the marketplace.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Emily Bronte and Beethoven Romantic Equilibrium in Fiction and Music
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Hyperion and Selected Poems Friedrich Hderlin V 22 German Library S
Table of ContentsChronology Introduction: Reading Hölderlin in the Age of Difference: Eric L. Santner HYPERION, OR THE HERMITT IN GREECE Translated by Willard R. Trask Adapted by David Schwarz POEMS Da ich ein Knabe war.../When I was a boy... (C. Middleton) Empedokles/Empedocles (M. Hamburger) Sophokles/Sophocles (M. Hamburger) Wurzel alles Übels/The Root of All Evil (M. Hamburger) Mein Eigentum/My Possessions (M. Hamburger) Heidelberg/Heidelberg (C. Middleton) Lebenslauf/The Course of Life (M. Hamburger) Der Abschied (Zweite Fassung)/The Farewell (Second Version) (M. Hamburger) Natur und Kunst oder Saturn und Jupiter/Nature and Art or Saturn and Jupiter (M. Hamburger) Dichterberuf/The Poet's Vocation (C. Middleton) Stimme des Volks (Zweite Fassung)/Voice of the People (Second Version) (M. Hamburger) Chiron/Chiron (M. Hamburger) Blödigkeit/Timidness (M. Hamburger) Ganymed/Ganymede (C. Middleton) Menons Klagen um Diotima/Menon's Lament for Diotima (M. Hamburger) Brod und Wein/Bread and Wine (M. Hamburger) Hälfte des Lebens/Half of Life (R. Sieburth) Der Winkel von Hahrdt/The Shelter at Hahrdt (R. Sieburth) Lebensalter/Ages of Life (R. Sieburth) Wie wenn am Feiertage.../As on a holiday... (M. Hamburger) Am Quell der Donau/At the Source of the Danube (M. Hamburger) Die Wanderung/The Migration (R. Sieburth) Germanien/Germania (M. Hamburger) Der Rhein/The Rhine (C. Middleton) Friedensfeier/Celebration of Peace (M. Hamburger) Der Einzige (Erste Fassung)/The Only One (First Version) (R. Sieburth) Patmos (Dem Landgrafen von Homburg)/Patmos (For the Landgrave of Homburg) (M. Hamburger) Patmos (Bruchstücke der späteren Fassung)/Patmos (Fragments of the Later Version) (M. Hamburger) Andenken/Remembrance (R. Sieburth) Der Ister/The Ister (M. Hamburger) Mnemosyne/Mnemosyne (R. Sieburth) Reif sind.../The fruits are ripe... (R. Sieburth) Wenn nemlich der Rebe Saft/When the sap... (R. Sieburth) Meinest du es solle gehen.../Do you think... (R. Sieburth) Vom Abgrund nemlich.../We set out from the abyss... (R. Sieburth) Griechenland (Dritte Fassung)/Greece (Third Version) (M. Hamburger) Der Frühling/Spring (M. Hamburger) Endnotes Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Academic Keynotes and Discords Late Victorian and Early Modernist Women Writers
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Shelleys Frankenstein Readers Guides
Book SynopsisA guide to Mary Shelley's gothic novel, "Frankenstein" - a key text for introductory literature courses at undergraduate level. It is helpful for reading and studying the novel, setting it in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, and offering analyses of its themes, style and structure.Table of Contents1. Contexts; 2. Language, Style and Form; 3. Reading Frankenstein; 4. Critical Reception and Publishing History; 5. Adaptation, interpretation and influence; 6. Guide to Further Reading; Index.
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Vanderbilt University Press Specters Monsters and the Damned
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Vanderbilt University Press Specters Monsters and the Damned
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Vanderbilt University Press Rebecca Harding Davis
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Vanderbilt University Press Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity
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