Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Ecogothic Werewolf in Literature
Book SynopsisKaja Franck is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She is the co-organiser of the 'Macabre Danse' research project, which is dedicated to exploring the intersection of dance and the gothic. Her research interests centre on the ecogothic particularly monsters and monstrous animals, weird pedagogy, and she has previously published on the depiction of werewolves in Dracula (1897), the Canadian gothic and YA fiction, and organised international conferences on werewolves, vampires and faeries in literature and popular culture. More recently her publications include chapters in Religious Horror and the Ecogothic (2024, ed Kathleen Hudson and Mary Going) and The Legacy of John William Polidori (2024, ed Sam George and Bill Hughes).
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Bloomsbury Academic An AZ of Beatrix Potter
Book SynopsisPenny Bradshaw is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cumbria, UK where she is Programme Leader for MA Literature, Romanticism, and the English Lake District. She is also the theme lead for Cultural Landscapes within the University's research Centre for National Parks and Protected Areas, and the author of two critical editions, as well as several book chapters and journal articles, relating to the literary contexts of the Lake District.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Gullivers Afterlives
Book SynopsisDaniel Cook is Daniel Cook is Associate Dean and Reader in English Literature at the University of Dundee, UK. He is the author of Walter Scott and Short Fiction (2021), Reading Swift's Poetry (2020), and Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760-1830 (2013). His most recent books include The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels, with Nicholas Seager (2023), Gulliver's Travels: The Norton Library (2023), Scottish Poetry, 1730-1830 (2023), and Austen After 200: New Reading Spaces, with Annika Bautz and Kerry Sinanan (2022).
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Bloomsbury Academic The American Sentence
Book SynopsisIra Nadel is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a UBC Distinguished University Scholar and a winner of the Medal for Canadian Biography. Based at the University of British Columbia, he has lectured throughout Europe, North America and Asia. His works include Love and Russian Literature: From Benjamin to Woolf (2024), Philip Roth: A Counterlife (2021), Virginia Woolf (Critical Lives) (2016), Double Act: A Life of Tom Stoppard (2002), and Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen (1996).
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Blakes Night Thoughts
Book SynopsisBlake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the eighteenth-century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and Blanchot's writings in the twentieth.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: 'The Sun is Gone Down' 'In the Silent of the Night' Young, and 'Weary Night' Night Dreams: The Four Zoas 'I see London, Blind...' 'Forests of the Night': Blake and Madness Dante's 'Deep and Woody Way' Notes Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Screen Adaptations Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice The Relationship Between Text and Film
Book SynopsisDr Deborah Cartmell is Reader in English and Head of the Graduate Centre in the Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University. She is currently co-editing the international journal Adaptation and has completed several books on Literature on Screen. She is a general editor of the Screen Adaptations series, and a founding member of the Association of Literature on Screen.Trade Review[The Screen Adaptations series] offers some meaty ideas to film studies students. -- Susan Elkin * The Stage *
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Vulgar Question of Money
Book SynopsisMichie's fresh reading of the marriage plot, and the choice between two women at its heart, shows it to be as much about politics and economics as it is about personal choice.Trade ReviewA seminal body of outstanding scholarship and a very highly recommended addition to academic library English Literature reference collections and supplemental reading lists. Midwest Book Review An indispensable survey of the figure of the rich woman in the novel of manners from Austen to James... Michie's writing is clear, precise, and lucid. An important work. Essential. Choice Bold, engaging, and richly complicated... It is immensely valuable in calling our attention to the relationship between nineteenth-century marriage plots and the discourses of political economy generally and to the maligned but ubiquitous figure of the heiress in particular, challenging critics today to overcome their own sense of money as a vulgar question. -- Nancy Henry Review of English Studies Michie's book opens up new angles from which to think about the relations between money and marrying in nineteenth-century fiction. -- Rachel Bowlby Times Literary Supplement One of the most valuable pieces of criticism this year. The emphasis and clarity of its writing is a delight in itself. -- Talia Schaffer Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies The mixture of laughter, guilt, and envy that characterizes our culture's response to the unattractive rich woman is fully explored and exorcized in this closely argued study. -- Valerie Sanders Nineteenth-Century Literature This is a valuable study that will be useful to anyone interested in gender and economics in the nineteenth century. -- Patricia Zakreski Modern Language Review The rich development of its themes, no less than its local insights, should place this book high on Victorianists' reading lists. -- Jill Rappoport Victorian Studies This is a sophisticated and thought-provoking study. The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsPreface: Vulgarity, Wealth, and GenderAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Rich Woman / Poor Woman: An Anthropology of the Nineteenth-Century Marriage Plot1. Social Distinction in Jane Austen2. Frances Trollope and the Problem of Appetite3. Anthony Trollope's "Subtle Materialism"4. Margaret Oliphant and the Professional Ideal5. Henry James and the End(s) of the Marriage PlotAfterword From Pemberley to ManderleyNotesBibliographyIndex
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Christina Rossettis Gothic
Book SynopsisThe poetry of Christina Rossetti is often described as gothic'' and yet this term has rarely been examined in the specific case of Rossetti''s work. Based on new readings of the full range of her writings, from Goblin Market'' to the devotional poems and prose works, this book explores Rossetti''s use of Gothic forms and images to consider her as a Gothic writer. Christina Rossetti''s Gothic analyses the poet''s use of the grotesque and the spectral and the Christian roots and Pre-Raphaelite influences of Rossetti''s deployment of Gothic tropes.Trade Review[Trowbridge] resists the tendency to read Rossetti through a biographical lens, or to reclaim her to a feminist poetics that requires the omission of her devotional works. Instead, gothic becomes a framework for understanding Rossetti's poetry, in the context of her literary influences and Tractarian faith ... [an] insightful monograph. -- Susan Civale * Times Literary Supplement *This monograph succeeds in offering a genuinely fresh perspective on Christina Rossetti's work, making a persuasive case for viewing her as a Gothic writer . . . through a mix of careful close reading and wide-ranging contextual and theoretical research. -- Gregory Tate, University of Surrey * The Pre-Raphaelite Society *Trowbridge’s book adds a tremendous amount simply in opening up the Gothic as an area of study for Rossetti. The connections she draws are persuasively established, clearly elaborated, and reframe not only Rossetti’s works but their religious heritage. Built on excellent research into Rossetti’s reading habits and inclinations from youth to maturity, as well as the aesthetic theories and critical attitudes that are likely to have influenced her writing, this study offers serious and fruitful engagements with a number of important works and figures from Rossetti’s time to the present. -- Heather McAlpine, University of the Fraser Valley * Journal of Victorian Culture *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Spectrality of Rossettian Gothic 2. Early Influences: Rossetti and the Gothic of Maturin 3. ‘Goblin Market' and Gothic 4. Rossetti, Ruskin and the Moral Grotesque 5. Shadows of Heaven: Rossetti's Prose Works Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Hedda Gabler
Book SynopsisHedda is an intelligent and ambitious woman, trapped in the stifling environment of a bourgeois 19th-century marriage. When writer Eilert Loevborg, an old flame returns to Hedda's life with a masterpiece that might threaten her husband's career, Hedda decides to take drastic and fatal action.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Baudelaires Media Aesthetics
Book SynopsisMarit Grøtta is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo, Norway.Trade ReviewGrøtta is as comfortable dissecting four lines of a Baudelaire prose poem as she is discerning broad shifts in critical approaches to media. … The book offers unfailingly interesting micro-histories of the various dispositives under scrutiny, and the debate that emerges is always inclusive and informed. … [T]he contention that Baudelaire’s writings often paraphrased the conventions of new media is defended with an agility and intellectual vigor that prove, in the end, difficult to resist. * Times Literary Supplement *Although Baudelaire in 1859 famously denounced photography as sterile technology aiming to reproduce reality at the expense of artistic beauty, his writing was in fact framed, fashioned, and mediated through the new visual media of the period. In this rich multidisciplinary study, Grøtta argues that Baudelaire’s poetic sensibility can be fully understood only in the context of the media-saturated environment in which it took shape … Drawing on careful analysis of Baudelaire’s prose poems and theories of writers as different as Marx, Freud, Benjamin, and Agamben, Grøtta skillfully brings to light Baudelaire’s complex relationship with the rapidly developing text and image-based media of the 19th century … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers. -- C. B. Kerr, Vassar College * CHOICE *Grøtta offers a thorough examination of the poet’s art as the aesthetics of Paris’s flâneur par excellence. ... A time museum of sorts, this book can be conceived as a stroll through galleries devoted to the new media available in Baudelaire’s society. The role of newspapers, photographs, precinematic devices, toys, and corporeality in Baudelaire’s works is substantiated by remarkable analyses of his Petits Poèmes en Prose. Grøtta skilfully masters the delicate art of lively description. .... All in all, Marit Grøtta’s monograph is a delightful and perfectly documented work that certainly deserves to be read by comparative literature scholars. As an original effort to bridge the gap between too often separated though arguably related disciplines, this book definitely offers new avenues through which to explore the link between literary analysis and visual (or other) mediation. ... [Readers] will surely appreciate the opportunity of going back in time offered by Grotta’s remarkable scholarly work. * Recherche littéraire/Literary Research *[Grøtta] has provided the context—prior and contemporary—to Baudelaire’s writings in a large number of areas: fascinating glimpses of public amusements, optical toys, slang expressions, as well as explanations, market considerations, and interpretations. This wealth of information makes her arguments—clearly restated at chapter’s end—easy to accept. ... What Grøtta does is essential to a deeper understanding of Baudelaire: despite Baudelaire’s aversion to photography, she detects in it a cult of the image and a concept of identity that would only become widespread with the advent of the twentieth century and its use of identity cards. ... Grøtta traces Baudelaire’s debts, and these debts are not to the usual authors and creditors, but to fields, devices, and practices that the poet explicitly disdained: the press, and its use of commonplaces; photography, and its appeal to the masses and their uncritical acceptance of its ‘truth’; toys, and their vulgarity. * Nineteenth-Century French Studies *This assured study looks at the wide aesthetic implications of Baudelaire’s engagement with new and emerging media technologies. With chapters on newspapers, photographs, and pre-cinematic devices such as the kaleidoscope, Marit Grøtta’s book challenges narrow Benjaminian-inflected readings of Baudelaire by offering fresh analyses of familiar prose poems that showcase Baudelaire’s awareness of new ways of experiencing the world … This book is suitable for readers both familiar with and new to Baudelaire. Grøtta’s strength lies in the limpidity of her writing, which clearly condenses Baudelaire’s aesthetic thought in relation to different media forms. * French Studies *Grøtta clearly knows Baudelaire’s personal and literary writings very well and skilfully reads the interactions between media and literature ... Baudelaire’s Media Aesthetics will be of particular value for anyone who is interested in Baudelaire as a writer and also, perhaps not that surprisingly, for those interested in Walter Benjamin. * The British Society for Literature and Science *Grøtta’s Baudelaire’s Media Aesthetics is a highly topical, trans-disciplinary exploration of Baudelaire’s writings in the wider context of the evolution of text- and image-based media, from newspapers to photography and pre-cinematic technologies, in nineteenth-century France. Innovatively bringing together literary and visual culture studies, and drawing on theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben, Grøtta’s discussion sheds new light not only on Baudelaire’s writings, but also on the figure of the flâneur, mediated viewing and mobile perception, among other topics in media and cultural studies. * Kathrin Yacavone, Assistant Professor of French, University of Nottingham, UK *By reading Baudelaire’s relation to various 19th century media, including newspapers, painting, photography, and optical toys such as kaleidoscopes, Baudelaire's Media Aesthetics offers a compelling alternative to Walter Benjamin’s influential account of his poetry and aesthetics and advances our understanding of the emergence of a new media world out of its 19th century beginnings. * Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cornell University, USA *Marit Grøtta’s book brings a renewed view to the prose poetry of Baudelaire by exploring his immersion in the new print and visual media environment of his time. Balancing a literary approach to prose poetry with a conceptualization of media as living environment and technical forms of mediation, Baudelaire's Media Aesthetics sheds new light on the modern “optical unconscious”and develops an original interpretive frame to read Walter Benjamin via Baudelaire, rather than the other way around. With astute links between the works of Marx, Freud, and Benjamin, Grøtta offers a fresh portrait of the flâneur, which she also enriches with her analyses of the divergent views on modern media by Giorgio Agamben and Bruno Latour. * Catherine Nesci, Chair of Comparative Literature, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA, and author of Le Flâneur et les flâneuses (2007) *Baudelaire’s Media Aesthetics invites us to look back at Charles Baudelaire’s writings through the specificity and historicity of new technologies of vision rather than with the naked eye alone. … The book analyses a thought-provoking combination of media…to study similarities between Baudelaire’s encounters with different media and assess how media played a role in shaping his idea of modernity. … The entire book is clearly argued and logically presented. … Grøtta’s book therefore makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Baudelaire, “a lyric poet in the age of new media” (6) as read by Benjamin, but also of Benjamin’s writings on visual technologies as they relate to Baudelaire by way of Agamben’s readings of both Baudelaire and Benjamin. The book’s appeal is indeed that it can make such complex connections among poems and media in an engaging, coherent, and lucid analysis. * French Forum *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Newspapers 3. Photographs 4. Pre-cinematic Devices 5. Corporeality 6. Toys 7. Media Imagery and Modernity Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Novel in NineteenthCentury Bengal
Book SynopsisHow does a reader learn to read an unfamiliar genre? The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal answers this question by looking at the readers of some of the first Bengali novelists, including Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Mir Mosharraf Hossain. Moving from the world of novels, periodicals, letters, and reviews to that of colonial educational policies, this book provides a rich literary history of the reading lives of some of the earliest novel readers in colonial India. Sunayani Bhattacharya studies the ways in which Bengalis thought about reading; how they approached the thorny question of influence; and uncovers that they relied on classical Sanskrit and Perso-Arabic literary and aesthetic models, whose attendant traditions formed not a distant past, but coexisted, albeit contentiously, with the everyday present. Challenging dominant postcolonial scholarship, The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal engages with the lived experience of colonial modernity as it
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Romantic Literature in Light of Bakhtin
Book SynopsisLiterature and literary criticism throughout the twentieth century are famous for their proclamations of the death of the author, the eclipse of character and the "nothingness of personality," as Borges put it. Walter Reed investigates the ideas of personhood developed by one of the most influential literary theorists of the last century: Mikhail Bakhtin. He finds in Bakhtin a personalism based on the idea of an ongoing dialogue between authors and their heroes in imaginative literature. Such a model of inter-personality, Reed argues, allows us to appreciate the rich possibilities of personhood set forth in the earlier nineteenth-century period of Romanticism. Elaborating a new general theory and providing close readings of classic works of Romantic poetry and fiction, Romantic Literature in Light of Bakhtin offers a better understanding of the preoccupation with the individual, creative self that lay at the heart of this revolutionary literature that still speaks to readers today.Trade ReviewThis book is full of deep paradoxes that radically refresh our perception of both Mikhail Bakhtin's theories and Romantic aesthetics in their mutual refractions. Bakhtinian approach to English Romanticism allows us to penetrate more deeply into the latter's personalistic and dialogical tenets. Furthermore, Walter Reed prompts us to see Mikhail Bakhtin himself as a disguised Romantic of the third generation whose critique is addressed primarily to traditional adversaries of Romanticism (such as Rationalists and Neoclassicists), but also to the Romantics of the first (early 19 c.) and second (decadents and symbolists of the turn of the 20 c.) generations. Bakhtin's critique of Romanticism is internal critique: of the less radical otherness from the standpoint of the more radical otherness. This book is a must read for all lovers of Romantic poetry and aesthetics. -- Mikhail Epstein, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature, Emory University, USA, and Professor of Russian and Cultural Theory, Director of the Center for Humanities Innovation, Durham University, UKReaders will come away from this book with a better grasp of Bakhtin's ideas and a pocketful of new perceptions about well-known Romantic poems. More than that, by putting Bakhtin into fruitful dialogue with it, Walter Reed has lit up the whole terrain of English and German Romanticism, not to mention literary theory. And beyond even that, his welcome departure from the prevailing "hermeneutic of suspicion," his generous and assimilative stance, his "poetics of trust," confirms what many of us still believe: that Romanticism was not just an ideological or "aesthetic" delusion but a worldview full of durable insights. -- Michael K. Ferber, Professor of English, University of New Hampshire, USADistracted by carnival and forever allowed a second chance by dialogue, it is easy to forget that those concepts were preceded by an ethical architectonics. Bakhtin’s cosmos is founded on the notion that dialogic knowledge is dependent on interactive personalism, Creator-creature relations, and the virtues of trust. In his new book, Walter Reed develops these early Bakhtinian ideas into nothing less than an architectonics of Romanticism: muscular, full of particulars, in which Bakhtin’s passion for the fragment is harnessed to a case for Otherness and literary genre becomes the universal binder for creativity. In the early 1920s, while his colleagues in Leningrad were talking Marxism, Bakhtin was holding seminars on his life-long hero, Friedrich Schelling. Reed suggests illuminating reasons why this was so. Both Bakhtin and Romanticism gain in potency and relevance. -- Caryl Emerson, A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, USAThe real treasures of Heffernan's book lie in the extraordinary series of readings and close analyses each of its chapters has to offer... For on the whole, this book stands as a great success, and should go a long way in establishing the importance of hospitality within the field of literary studies. -- Peter Melville * Review 19 *Can one Russian philosopher of communication help us to explain Romantic literature?...Fortunately for this book, Bakhtin is one of the great original thinkers of the past century, and Reed’s ambition to coordinate a theorist and a whole period is matched by his caution. Having taught Romantic writers in a comparative context for four decades, and having produced studies of the novel and of Bakhtin, Reed offers a grand scholarly synthesis in a relatively short study. * Review 19 *In the past half-century Mikhail Bakhtin has been read in many ways, but he has yet to be widely accepted as a Romantic or a Romanticist, or at any rate a critic whom one can use to read Romanticism … Walter L. Reed’s remarkable new book, Romantic Literature in Light of Bakhtin, prompts us to reconsider this view, and in typically Bakhtinian fashion does so from a position of outsidedness … it firmly establishes the relevance of Bakhtin to discussions of Romanticism and perhaps suggests ways of reading Bakhtin himself in the proper critical spirit, Romantic Literature in Light of Bakhtin should be necessary reading for the respectful and suspicious alike. -- Matthew Walker, Stanford University * Slavic and East European Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword:Romanticism in Light of Bakhtin Chapter One: Architectonics: Articulating a Period Imagination Chapter Two: Personalism: Reckoning Voices Chapter Three: Chronotopes: Coordinating Representative Genres Afterword: Bakhtin in Light of Romanticism Appendix: Diagrams Index
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Dexterity Study Guide to Germinal by Emile Zola
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Lexington Books Womens Literary Portraits in the Victorian and
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Lexington Books Inheritance and Speculation in Victorian Fiction:
Book SynopsisInheritance and Speculation in Victorian Fiction: Finance, Family, and the Law investigates how Victorian fiction reconfigures the narrative and social conventions of inheritance. While recent criticism has concentrated on this fiction’s engagement with newer financial forms, this book contends that Victorian novels both attest to the persistence of inheritance and reveal its unsettling affinities with speculative forms. Focusing on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend (1864-65), Wilkie Collins’s Armadale¬ (1866), and George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871-72), each chapter explores a recurring pattern of contrast and conflation between inheritance and financial speculation. Taking an interdisciplinary historical and formal approach, Reich shows how this pattern gives narrative shape to concerns that were also emerging in contemporary political and legal debates around succession, bequest, landed estates, and conceptions of the family. Attending to the novels’ concrete and figurative allusions to these forms as well as their tentative alternatives, Reich also illustrates how the novels’ self-reflexive subversion of both characters and readers’ expectations based on inheritance conventions challenge our modes of reading. Inheritance and Speculation thus not only illuminates the integral role played by inheritance in Victorian fiction’s mediation of the credit economy, but also offers a new understanding of the complex role of convention in this fiction.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Speculating on Inheritance in Victorian FictionChapter One: “That Popular Character ... Call[ed] Another”: Relational Speculation in Our Mutual FriendChapter Two: “Houseless-ness” and the “Dead Pledge” in Wuthering HeightsChapter Three: Seeing “No Guiltless Minds”: Inheritance and Liability in Collins’s ArmadaleChapter Four: “Like the Inheritance of a Fortune”: “Speckilation” and Mortmain in Middlemarch Conclusion: Will-dangling and Sphex Wasps: Towards an Afterlife of Victorian Inheritance Bibliography About the Author
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Lexington Books Romance in the Time of Modernism
Book SynopsisRomance in the Time of Modernism: A Literature of Silence reasserts the theme of love in an age of anguish. Modernism has been and still is studied and interpreted under multiple perspectives. However, there is a lacuna in the corpus of scholarship: the theme of love has been ignored. Being modernism iconoclastic and obscure in its premises, but also dark in its conclusion, how do modernist characters love? This book emphasizes the persistence of romance in an age of dissolution. In spite of the homologation process that the industrial revolution has started, modernist characters are still individuals of passion but it is a passion they are incapable of telling. Love is a romance that is blended with everything modernism is synonymous with: alienation, nihilism, fragmentation, the terror of those who live in a universe meant to be silent.
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Academica Press Death in Herman Melville’s Fiction: Melville’s
Book SynopsisLiterary critics have aptly noted that death is arguably the most frequent topic, theme, or occurrence in all of American literature. Naturally, the works of such authors as Charles Brockden Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Shirley Jackson, and Stephen King, among countless others, go to great lengths to support this observation; however, the renowned nineteenth-century American literary giant Herman Melville, most famous as the author of Moby Dick, has been frequently overlooked. In this book, seasoned literary scholar Corey Evan Thompson seeks to remedy this oversight.Death in Herman Melville’s Fiction: Melville’s “Memento Mori” is the first full-length study to examine the ubiquity and implications of death in Melville’s prose fiction. As Thompson shows, death occurs in all of Melville’s novels and much of his shorter fiction by various means. Not only is death a frequent occurrence in Melville’s fiction, but his characters die regardless of age, health, social status, or moral character. Drawing from his father’s death, Melville’s fiction provides his readers with the difficult realization that it is the inevitable destination for everyone who is on this journey called life.
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Northcote House Publishers Ltd Thomas Hardy
Book SynopsisWidely popular throughout the world, Hardy still seems to speak to us, in fiction and in poetry, as our contemporary. In this new edition of his popular study, Peter Widdowson identifies the elements in his work which enable Hardy to be read in this way: the focus on unstable class and sexual relations in a society undergoing rapid change; the highly-charged and contradictory representations of women at the heart of this dangerously ‘metamorphic’ social process; the self-reflexive artifice of the writing itself as an aspect of Hardy’s ‘satiric’ worldview; his ironic humanism in the ‘new Dark Age’ of the modern world. Drawing on contemporary approaches to literary study in an accessible way, the author shows where this radical and destabilizing Hardy is to be located in the texts; and similarly seeks to recast our conception of Hardy the Poet by showing how preconceived and selective it is. For this edition, Professor Widdowson has updated the Select Bibliography and has also included a ‘Postscript’ on film and TV adaptation of Hardy’s fiction, since many newcomers to Hardy may these days experience his work for the first time in this medium. This lucid and engaging study offers a comprehensive guide to reading Hardy anew as a writer who continues to challenge our assumptions about art and life.
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MX Publishing No Better Place: Arthur Conan Doyle, Windlesham and Communication with the Other Side
Book SynopsisFollowing his second marriage in 1907 Arthur Conan Doyle was looking to the future. The years ahead would see the birth of three children, fresh literary success and the discovery of his new faith. Those same years would also see the First World War, the final adventures of Sherlock Holmes and ridicule from the religious and scientific communities for his beliefs.
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Global East-West (London) Balzacs Human Comedy
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The Choir Press Neuroliterature 3 Biography Semiology Miscellany
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Materialist Romanticism
Book SynopsisDewey W. Hall is Professor of English at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
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Lexington Books American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education
Book SynopsisAmerican Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education focuses on three Romantic educational genres and their institutional and media contexts: the conversation, literary journalism, and the public lecture. The genres discussed in this book illustrate the ways in which the Transcendentalists engaged nineteenthcentury media and educational institutions in order to fully realize their projects. The book also charts the development from the semi-public conversational platforms such as Alcott?s Temple School and Fuller?s conversations for women in the 1830s to the increasingly public periodical culture and lecture platforms of the 1840s and the early 1850s. This expansion caused a reconsideration of the meaning and function of Romanticism.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Iqbal
Book SynopsisHere is a highly informative yet accessibly-written introduction to the life and works of the writer and political thinker Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), who as President of the Muslim League played a vital role in the birth of Pakistan, and is revered today as its spiritual founder. In discussing Iqbal's thought, and analysing his poetry and prose at some length, Mir suggests that Iqbal represents a paragon for modern Muslims, caught as they are between tradition and modernity. Iqbal's attempt to integrate Islamic and Western elements in his intellectual, artistic and political lives makes him a figure that Muslims may respect and emulate, since he declared his passionate loyalty to the religion of Islam while at the same time differentiating between the eternal, or essential, and the historical, or incidental, in the Islamic tradition.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe
Book SynopsisThe Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe offers a full historical survey of Dickens's reception in all the major European countries and many of the smaller ones, filling a major gap in Dickens scholarship, which has by and large neglected Dickens's fortunes in Europe, and his impact on major European authors and movements. Essays by leading international critics and translators give full attention to cultural changes and fashions, such as the decline of Dickens's fortunes at the end of the nineteenth century in the period of Naturalism and Aestheticism, and the subsequent upswing in the period of Modernism, in part as a consequence of the rise of film in the era of Chaplin and Eisenstein. It will also offer accounts of Dickens's reception in periods of political upheaval and revolution such as during the communist era in Eastern Europe or under fascism in Germany and Italy in particular.Trade ReviewAs Hollington reveals in his introduction, this monumental work (part of Bloomsbury’s ‘Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe’ series) grew out of Ada Nisbet’s uncompleted ‘International Guide to the Study of Dickens,’ which was itself an outgrowth of her essay in Victorian Fiction: A Guide to Research, ed. By Lionel Stevenson (CH, Jan’65). The 40 essays – on translation, cricital commentary, literary influence, and adaptations – provide fascinating reading as the contributors (each an expert in the field) trace the ups and downs of the novelists reputation, reflecting the changing tastes in literature. The geographic areas included are Germany, Russia, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, the Slavonic countries, the Baltic, the Balkans, and Hungary. There is also a chapter on film and television. A time line shows the dates of first translations of works into various languages. A 79-page bibliography provides a wealth of sources for further research. Though even the casual student is aware of Dickens’s taking the English-speaking world by storm, this valuable study gives good insight into his international popularity and brings the reader to realize that Dickens was and is a writer of global significance. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. -- J. D. Vann, University of North Texas * CHOICE *[An] outstanding new collection of essays … Michael Hollington’s collection is a major contribution to the field, offering a definitive account of the great novelist’s standing in both the academy and popular culture. -- Grace Moore * Times Literary Supplement *One of the most significant contributions to Dickens studies in recent years, Michael Hollington’s The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe (2013) examines Dickens’s influence across Europe in a two-volume study that is remarkable in the depth and breadth its coverage achieves ... This is, however, a slight omission in a work that is otherwise so comprehensive in its undertaking; The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe marks an important advancement in the internationalism of Dickens studies, establishing a wealth of new directions for understanding Dickens’s lasting legacy across Europe and in turn, it is hoped, beyond. -- Charlotte Mathieson, University of Warwick, UK * Victoriographies *…superb, and much needed, collection of essays. -- Nirshan Perera * Dickens Quarterly *It’s hard to know where to begin with this extraordinary two-volume collection that charts the reception of Charles Dickens in Europe. Its innocent-sounding title covers a huge array of material, including not just translations and criticism of Dickens but also theater, film, and television adaptations. … This study makes the range of reference of much contemporary Dickens studies (and literary debate more generally) look alarmingly provincial in its timespan and shamelessly monoglot. … Much praise is due then to the general editor Michael Hollington who has recruited and marshalled a large team of national specialists who between them cover all of Europe outside of Great Britain and Ireland. The result of their labors in an indispensable reference book, which both records and analyzes – often for the first time – Dickens’s part in the fast-moving, multilingual print culture of modern Europe. … Hollington and his team have thus opened up a great quarry of material for future work, particularly in possible comparisons between and across national traditions. Every chapter, almost every page, opens up a number of such potential research projects. -- John Bowen * Victorian Studies *Table of ContentsVolume I Series Editor's Preface: Elinor Shaffer Timeline: Anthony Cummins and Michael Hollington Introduction: Michael Hollington Part 1: The Reception of Dickens in Germany 1 'Dickens in Germany: The Nineteenth Century': Antje Anderson 2 'The Reception of Dickens in Germany, 1900-1945': Norbert Lennartz 3 'Dickens’s Reception in Germany after 1945': Stefan Welz 4 'German Illustrations': Joachim Möller Part 2: The Reception of Dickens in Russia 5 'Dickens in Russia: A Survey': Nina Diakonova 6 'Dickens in Leo Tolstoy’s Universe': Galina Alekseeva 7 'The Underground Passage: Dickens and Dostoevsky': Michael Hollington 8 'Dickens in Twentieth-Century Russia': Emily Finer Part 3: The Reception of Dickens in France 9 'A Historical Survey of French Criticism and Scholarship on Dickens': Nathalie Vanfasse 10 'Dickens in France: Major Writers': Christine Huguet 11 'Dickens’s Illustrations: France and Other Countries': Gilles Soubigou Part 4: The Reception of Dickens in Spain and Portugal 12 'The Spanish Dickens: Under Cervantes’s Inevitable Shadow': Fernando Galván and Paul Vita 13 'Dickens in Catalan Literature': Sílvia Coll-Vinent and Marcel Ortín 14 'Dickens and Galdós': Jeremy Tambling 15 'Dickens in Portugal': Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa Part 5: The Recpetion of Dickens in Italy 16 'Dickens’s Reception in Italy: Criticism': Clotilde de Stasio 17 'The Making of a Classic: A Survey of Italian Translations': Alessandro Vescovi 18 'Magic Lantern, Magic Realism: Italian Writers and Dickens from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the 1980s': Francesca Orestano Part 6: Other German- and French-speaking National Traditions 19 'Dickens in Austria and German-speaking Switzerland': Herbert Foltinek 20 'Boz as Tutor: The Reception of Dickens in Francophone Belgium': Carlene A. Adamson 21 'Dickens in French-speaking Switzerland': Neil Forsyth and Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère Part 8: Dutch-speaking National Traditions 22 'Dickens’s Reception in the Netherlands': Odin Dekkers 23 'Dickens’s Reception in Flanders': Walter Verschueren Bilbiography Volume II Part 9: Scandinavian National Traditions 24 'The Reception of Charles Dickens in Denmark from the 1830s to the Present': Dominic Rainsford 25 'Dickens’s Reception in Finland': H. K. 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