Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Selected Short Stories
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Nose
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Gogol: Government Inspector
Book SynopsisGogol's "The Government Inspector" must be one of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted plays in the history of drama. This work shows the wisdom, humour and subtlety that is missing in many English translations. The work is part of a series aimed at school and university students.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Diary of a Madman
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1835, this is one of two works by Gogol dealing with the "little man" (the other is "The Overcoat"). Of over 150 examples of this genre, these two stories are often considered the most complex, both linguistically and psychologically. Poprischin is not at the bottom of the social ladder; he is a middle-aged, grade nine civil servant, with at least ten minions under him. Nevertheless he is painfully aware of the social gap between himself and his Director and, even more so, between himself and Sophie, the Director's daughter. Poprischin's frustrated love for Sophie drives him into madness, the stages of which are catalogued in diary form. These stages include imagined conversations between dogs and hallucinations set in a Spanish madhouse. This edition is based on the latest critical edition of the text to be published in Russia and follows the 1835 version of the text.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
Book SynopsisOne of Pushkin's most famous works, "Eugene Onegin" has been called an "enclyclopaedia of Russian life", a definition which suggests the mass of ideas, impressions, thoughts and possibilities to be found in the story of the doomed love of two members of Russian high society in the 1830s. This study aims to offer an up-to-date guide to the text and to the critical debate, as well as providing easy-to-follow "readings". It takes a fresh look at its themes, ideas and intricacies, and suggests how scholars and non-specialists alike may gain greater understanding of Pushkin's work.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bronze Horseman
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Crescent Moon Publishing Sexing Hardy: Thomas Hardy and Feminism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-century French Literature
Book SynopsisIn the 19th century, literature shared with the medical and psychological sciences a strategy of examining the most extreme manifestations of human desire. While fetishism, sadism and masochism still resonate as concepts with critical currency, necrophilia has received little attention. In this groundbreaking study, Lisa Downing rescues necrophilia from the margins of sexual desire, relocating it as a symptom and a pervasive fantasy of modern subjectivity. Drawing case material from the 19th century French canon, the author brings works by Baudelaire and Rachilde into dialogue with foundational European texts of sexology and Psychoanalysis. She reads against the grain of traditional Freudian theories of sexuality, the conventions of 19th century literary scholarship, and feminist critiques of the 'masculine' morbid aesthetic in order to bring to light a model of desire whose problematic nature afflicts existing discourses about sexuality and gender in 19th century France and beyond.
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Critical, Cultural and Communications Press Art for Life's Sake: Essays on D.H. Lawrence
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Ubiquity Press Ltd Studies in Strindberg
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P-Wave Press Headlong Hall Nightmare Abbey
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Palgrave Advances in John Clare Studies
Book SynopsisThis collection gathers together an exciting new series of critical essays on the Romantic- and Victorian-period poet John Clare, which each take a rigorous approach to both persistent and emergent themes in his life and work. Designed to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Clare’s first volume of poetry, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, the scholarship collected here both affirms Clare’s importance as a major nineteenth-century poet and reveals how his verse continually provokes fresh areas of enquiry. Offering new archival, theoretical, and sometimes corrective insights into Clare’s world and work, the essays in this volume cover a multitude of topics, including Clare’s immersion in song and print culture, his formal ingenuity, his environmental and ecological imagination, his mental and physical health, and his experience of asylums. This book gives students a range of imaginative avenues into Clare’s work, and offers both new readers and experienced Clare scholars a vital set of contributions to ongoing critical debates.Table of Contents1. Introduction; Simon Kövesi and Erin Lafford.- 2. Poetry’s Variety: John Clare and the Poetic Scene in the 1820s and 1830; David Stewart.- 3. ‘Sweet the Merry Bells Ring Round’: John Clare’s songs for the drawing room; Kirsteen McCue.- 4.‘Sea Songs Love Ballads &c &c’: John Clare and Vernacular Song; Stephanie Kuduk Weiner.- 5. John Clare’s Landforms; Sara Lodge.- 6. John Clare’s Ear: Metres and Rhythms; Andrew Hodgson.- 7. The Shepherd’s Calendar and Forms of Repetition; Sarah Houghton-Walker.- 8. John Clare’s Dynamic Animals; James Castell.- 9. Multispecies Work in John Clare’s ‘Bird Nesting’ Poems; Katey Castellano.- 10. Biosemiosis and Posthumanism in John Clare’s Multi-Centered Environments; Scott Hess.- 11. Common Distress: John Clare’s Poetic Strain; Michael Nicholson.- 12. ‘fancys or feelings’: John Clare’s Hypochondriac Poetics; Erin Lafford.- 13. ‘A song in the night’: reconsidering John Clare’s later asylum poetry; James Whitehead.- Index.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays explores the remarkable range and cultural significance of the engagement with ‘infancy’ during the Romantic period. Taking its point of departure in the commonplace claim that the Romantics invented childhood, the book traces that engagement across national boundaries, in the visual arts, in works of educational theory and natural philosophy, and in both fiction and non-fiction written for children. Essays authored by scholars from a range of national and disciplinary backgrounds reveal how Romantic-period representations of and for children constitute sites of complex discursive interaction, where ostensibly unrelated areas of enquiry are brought together through common tropes and topoi associated with infancy. Broadly new-historicist in approach, but drawing also on influential theoretical descriptions of genre, discipline, mediation, cultural exchange, and comparative methodologies, the collection also seeks to rethink the idea of a clear-cut dichotomy between Enlightenment and Romantic conceptions of infancy.Table of ContentsIntroduction: the Romantic cultures of infancy 1. ‘A detached peninsula’: infancy in the work of Thomas De Quincey. Martina Domines Veliki and Cian Duffy 2. William Blake’s Infant Joy. Robert Rix 3. The infant, the mother, and the breast in the paintings of Marguerite Gérard. Loren Lerner 4. Mother at the source: romanticism and infant education. Robert A. Davis 5. Coleridge, the ridiculous child, and the limits of Romanticism. Andrew McInnes 6. Educational experiments: childhood sympathy, regulation and object relations in Maria Edgeworth’s writing about education. Charles Armstrong 7. ‘Advice [...] by one as insignificant as a MOUSE’: human and non-human infancy in eighteenth-century moral animal tales. Anja Höing 8. William Godwin, Romantic-era historiography and the political cultures of infancy. John-Erik Hansson 9. Experimenting with children: infants in the scientific imagination. Lisa Ann Robertson 10. ‘A wretch so sad, so lorn’: the feral child and the Romantic cultures of infancy. Rolf Lessenich
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Palgrave Macmillan Ruskin After 200
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- SECTION ONE. RUSKIN’S PROJECTS AT 200.- 1. Ruskin’s Guild of St George, Yesterday and To-Day.- 2. The Brantwood Parables.- SECTION TWO. RUSKIN’S REACH.- 3. Ruskin, Wordsworth, Stevens, and the Pathetic Fallacy.- 4. “Him that shoots at beauty”: Thoreau on the Wings of Ruskin.- 5. Ruskin for Whitechapel.- SECTION THREE. RUSKIN AND THE ART OF TECHNOLOGY.- 6. Art and Industry: John Ruskin, George Lance, and Still-Life Painting.- 7. “Science Mixed with Feeling”: Ruskin and the Observation and Representation of the Natural World.- 8. Ruskin’s Media: Technologies of the Gothic.- 9. Ruskin’s Rubbish.- SECTION FOUR. RUSKIN, PROPHET OF THE ANTHROPOCENE.- 10. Thinking Ecologically with Ruskin and Dickens.- 11. Ruskin, Slavery, and Zombie History.- 12. Are Carbon Taxes Impious?.- 13. Ruskin in the Age of COVID-19.
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Palgrave Macmillan Sacred Geographies in Victorian Literature
Book SynopsisChapter 1; Introduction: Sacred Geographies.- Chapter 2: Carlyle's Exodus to Houndsditch.- Chapter 3: Ruskin's Holy Lands.- Chapter 4: Diasporas of the Book.- Chapter 5: Newman's Territory of the Intellect.- Chapter 6: Victorian Catholic Poets in No Strange Land.- Chapter 7: Hopkins and the Ecology of Grace.
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Palgrave Macmillan Hairwork in Victorian Literature and Culture
Book Synopsis.- 1 Introduction: Working with Hair.- 2 A History of British Hairwork: Desire.- 3 A History of British Hairwork: Anxiety.- 4 Matter: Hairwork, Touch, and Connection in Charlotte Brontë's Villette and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.- 5 Form: Hairwork, Identity, and Relationships in Wilkie Collins's Hide and Seek.- 6 Craft: Hairwork, Time, and Affect in Margaret Oliphant's Phoebe, Junior and Kirsteen.- 7 Conclusion: Hairwork's Afterlives.
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Palgrave Macmillan The British Adventure Hero
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Palgrave Macmillan Poe Spaces
Book Synopsis1. Introduction: Poe's Spaces and Poetic Places.- Part 1: Temporal and Atemporal Spaces.- 2. Pathoregimes: Poe, Pestilence, Space and Time.- 3. The Spaces of Temporal Deviance in Poe's Fiction.- 4. Etna's Observatory: Poe's Eureka and Spaces of Literary and Scientific Recombination.- 5. When Worlds Collide: The Convergence of Science and Faith in Eureka.- Part 2: Social and Political Spaces.- 6. Poe's Two Tales of Bostonian Transcendentalism.- 7. Helen of Boston: Frogpondian Shadows in the Romance of Edgar A. Poe and Sarah Helen Whitman.- 8. Spaces of Courtship: Poe's Love Poems and the Language of Flowers.- 9. The Menace of the Mob: Poe and Jacksonian Populism.- 10. Purloined Voices, Paranoid Spaces: Poe, de Man, and Nixon.- Part 3: Imaginative and Psychological Spaces.- 11. Apocalypses of the Mind: De Quinceyan Models, Altered Consciousness, and Imagined Spaces in Poe's Poems (1831).- 12. Acoustic Effects in the Mesmeric Space of Poe's "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar".- 13. Poe's Arabesque Manner; Making Space for Satirical Reflection.- 14. Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" as Prison of the Mind: A Claustrophobic Space Imagined by Illustrators.- Part 4: Transnational and Translated Spaces.- 15. Poe, Benson, and the Development of New Aesthetic Space in Post-Bellum America.- 16. "Indestructible Fragments": Reevaluating Borges's Thoughts on Poe's Poetry.- 17. Placing J. de Granada's Neglected Translation of Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".- 18. Poe Among the Spanish Fascist Writers: An Intellectual Space.- 19. From "Out of Space" to the Expanded Page: Poe and Brazilian Concrete Poetry.
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De Gruyter Juana Borrero
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De Gruyter Marriage Discourses: Historical and Literary
Book SynopsisMarriage was historically not only a romantic ideal, but a tool of exploitation of women in many regards. Women were often considered commodities and marriage was far away from the romantic stereotypes people relate to it today. While marriages served as diplomatic tools or means of political legitimization in the past, the discourses about marital relationships changed and women expressed their demands more openly. Discourses about marriage in history and literature naturally became more and more heated, especially during the "long" 19th century, when marriages were contested by social reformers or political radicals, male and female alike. The present volume provides a discussion of the role of marriage and the discourses about in different chronological and geographical contexts and shows which arguments played an important role for the demand for more equality in martial relationships. It focuses on marriage discourses, may they have been legal or rather socio-political ones. In addition, the disputes about marriage in literary works of the 19th and 20th centuries are presented to complement the historical debates.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Goethes späte Lyrik: Band I: Krise und
Book SynopsisBand I von Reiner Wilds Gesamtdarstellung der Alterslyrik Goethes behandelt die Zeitspanne zwischen dem Todesjahr Schillers 1805 und 1813/14, dem Ende der napoleonischen Ära. Der Autor zeigt, dass sich Goethes Dichtungsverständnis nach 1805 grundlegend ändert, von der Lyrik des subjektiven Ausdrucks hin zum Gedicht als Medium der Kommunikation. Die Mehrzahl der ca. 150 Gedichte dieser Zeit sind Gelegenheitsgedichte, vor allem Gedichte an Personen, und Lieder zu geselligen Anlässen. Hinzu kommt eine Reihe von Balladen, in denen sich Goethe mit den Zeittendenzen auseinandersetzt. Zu den Neuerungen dieser Jahre gehört Goethes Interesse an Spruchdichtung, deren Produktion vor allem nach 1810 stetig zunimmt. Mit der Analyse der Gedichte und ihrer Entstehungs- und Verwendungszusammenhänge entsteht ein neues, differenzierteres Bild von Goethes lyrischem Alterswerk.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- 1. Das Ende der Klassik.- 2. Sonette.- 3. Gelegenheit.- 4. Selbstvergewisserung.- 5. Liebeslyrik.- 6. Die neue Werkausgabe.
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J.B. Metzler Sich kreuzende Stimmen
Book SynopsisVorwort.- Autor*innenverzeichnis.- Brief. Symorganisation u. Symevolution im frühromantischen Briefwechsel zwischen Friedrich von Hardenberg und Friedrich Schlegel.- Republik. Kosmopolitische Spekulationen der Frühromantik.- Religion. Apotheosen des Individuellen im Briefwechsel zwischen Friedrich Schlegel und Friedrich von Hardenberg.- Fragment. Zur Programmatik und Praxis frühromantischer Theorie- und Arbeitsform.- Idylle. Transformationen der Gattung und romantische Landschaftsökologie bei Friedrich Schlegel und Friedrich von Hardenberg.- Natur. Spielarten romantischer Ökologien bei Friedrich von Hardenberg, Friedrich Schlegel und Karoline von Günderrode.- Mathematik. Von Zauberformeln, sinnlicher Logik und echter Wissenschaft bei Friedrich Schlegel, Friedrich von Hardenberg und Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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J.B. Metzler Wasserlandschaften
Book SynopsisLandschaftsästhetik, Fluidität, Ökologie. Eine Einführung zu den Wasserlandschaften um 1800.- Wasserkünste Formspiel, Lebendigkeit, Wechselwirkungen.- Wasser als morphologische Kraft.- Das Flüssige als Werkstoff des Lebendigen. Franz von Baaders naturphilosophische Erkundungen des Fluiden.- Wasserdichtungen Politik, Ästhetik, Akustik.- Sinnerschließung durch Vertonung? Ökomusikologische Überlegungen zur wasserevokativen Klavierbegleitung (ökokritischer) Kunstlieder Franz Schuberts.- Onto-ökologische Milieus. Hölderlins ecopoetry des Stroms.- Die Regierungskunst der Ströme. Modellierungen fließender Gewässer in Gedichten von Klopstock, Goethe und Hölderlin.- Wasser zwischen Landschaft und Element. Wasserlandschaften in gartenkundlichen und literarischen Diskursen um 1800.- Fluides Erzählen Poetik, Wissen, Medialität.- Zwischen Natur und Geschichte. Wasserlandschaften in François de Chateaubriands Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem.- Figurationen des Amphibischen als poetologische Reflexionsinstanzen und kulturelle Archivare bei Ludwig Tieck (Das Donauweib, Der Wassermensch).- Die Geister im Wasser. Interdependenzen von Wasser, Wahrnehmung und Spuk bei Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.- Und schreibt, so wie die Wellen auf die Sandflächen schreiben,/ Der Wind auf die Lagune, die Sonne auf den Nebel. Verflechtungen zwischen lyrischer Stimme, mehr-als-menschlicher Welt und Poetik in Rosalía de Castros Lyrikband An den Ufern des Sar.- Fließende Grenzen Ambiguität, Transgression, Risiko.-Von Wassertropfen bis Wattenmeer. Hans Christian Andersen.- Dispersion, Austausch, Konzentration. Narrative Figurationen von Ozean und Atmosphäre in Victor Hugos Les Travailleurs de la mer.- A Shepherd on the stormy seas: Wasser, Landschaft und Ökologie in William Wordsworths The Brothers.- Magnificent, yet most dreadful objects of nature. Sir Walter Scotts gefährliche Küsten.
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J.B. Metzler The Reader the Body and the Book
Book SynopsisIntroduction to the Reader, the Body, and the Book.- Theoretical Foundations of Visceral Reading Experiences.- Tactility, Creative Traces, and Transformative Reading in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.- Restless Bodies, Rekindled Memories, and Somatic Encounters in Villette.- Multisensory Mosaic, Lively Motion, and Ghostly Grief in The Portrait of a Lady.- Shared Experiences of Strolling, Sounds, and Sorrows in Tess of the d’Urbervilles.- Living Literature: Recent Refigurations of Visceral Reading Experiences.- Conclusion: Changes and Continuities of Visceral Reading Experiences.
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Prodinnova La Mort de Balzac
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Brill Balzac et consorts: Scénographies familiales des conflits historiques dans le roman du XIXe siècle
Book SynopsisBalzac et consorts. Scénographies familiales des conflits historiques dans le roman du XIXe siècle analyse la façon dont le microcosme familial tel que le roman du XIXe siècle le met en scène reflète les principaux conflits historiques de l’époque. Balzac et consorts. Scénographies familiales des conflits historiques dans le roman du XIXe siècle offers an account of the way in which novels show the impact of historical events on the private sphere of intimacy through specific « scenographies ».Table of ContentsPascale Auraix-Jonchière : Avant-propos Introduction Jean-Philippe Luis : La famille comme objet historique en histoire moderne et contemporaine I. Quand il est question du père Marion Mas : Le père et l’héritière dans le roman balzacien Mireille Labouret : Bi-polarité des figures parentales dans La Comédie humaine Suzel Esquier : La relation au père dans le roman stendhalien Anne Rouhette : « El Desdichado » : pouvoir patriarcal, patrimoine et identité dans The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830), de Mary Shelley Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar : La France révolutionnaire, théâtre de l’intime : Un conte de deux villes de Charles Dickens (1859) Thierry Poyet : Les pères chez Maupassant : du parricide symbolique à une modernité de l’impossible dépassée II. L’impossible filiation, entre interruption et compensation François Kerlouégan : D’un château l’autre : famille et idéologie dans Mauprat de George Sand Céline Bricault : La circularité du récit : auto-transmission de l’Histoire dans Le Chevalier Des Touches de Barbey d’Aurevilly Pascale Auraix-Jonchière : L’Ensorcelée de Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly : une histoire de sang ou l’impossible filiation Jean-Christophe Valtat : Le rêve des ancêtres : Aurélia et Peter Ibbetson III. Déchéances et discordances Alex Lascar : Conflit de générations, entre tradition et modernité, autour de la mésalliance dans le roman français (1825-1850) Fabienne Bercegol : La destruction de l’idylle familiale dans les fictions de Chateaubriand Claude Schopp : Les familles dans Le Drame de la France d’Alexandre Dumas Maria Makropoulou : Une vie ou le destin tragique d’une famille et d’une classe sociale Éléonore Reverzy : Dynasties naturalistes. Zola historien de la longue durée Claudie Bernard : Fin de race, fin de siècle : Le Crépuscule des dieux d’Élémir Bourges Épilogue Roland Le Huenen : Pérégrinations d’une paria de Flora Tristan : entre déshérence et légitimité
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Brill Stepbrothers: Southern Dutch Literature and Nation-Building under Willem I, 1814-1834
Book SynopsisThe United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815-1830) was a creation of the Congress of Vienna, where the map of Europe was redrawn following Napoleon’s defeat. Dutch language and literature were considered the essential tools to smoothly fuse the North and South – today, the Netherlands and Belgium respectively. King Willem I tried a variety of measures to stimulate and control literary life in the South, in an effort to encourage unity throughout his kingdom. Janneke Weijermars describes the driving force of this policy and especially its impact in the South. For some authors, Northern Dutch literature represented the standard to which they aspired. For others, unification triggered a desire to assert their own cultural identity. The quarrels, mutual misunderstandings and subsequent polemics were closely intertwined with political issues of the day. Stepbrothers views the history of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands through a literary lens.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... ix List of Illustrations ... xi Introduction ... 1 Part 1: ‘Released from the French Yoke’, 1814–1819 1 The Language and the Literature ... 21 The Language Resolution of 1814 ... 21 Criticism of the Language Resolution ... 27 The Language Resolution in Literature ... 30 2 The Myth of Waterloo ... 40 3 The Book Publishing Industry ... 50 Press Freedom ... 50 Copyright ... 59 The Reprint ... 62 Attempts to Collaborate ... 67 4 The World of Literary Societies ... 70 In Defence of the Rhetorical Tradition ... 70 Chambers of Rhetoric under the Flag of Holland ... 72 Antwerp: Tot Nut der Jeugd ... 76 5 Aen de Belgen (1818) ... 81 ‘An Undefended Case’ ... 81 United in History and Freedom ... 84 Willems’ Family ... 88 6 Epilogue ... 93 Part 2: ‘The Dawn of Freedom, Civilisation and Prosperity’, 1819–1825 7 Education and Literature ... 101 The Situation in Education ... 101 Main Points of Education Policy ... 103 Appointments ... 105 Prejudices, Misfortunes and Abuses ... 108 Successes and Failures ... 112 The Significance of Anthologies, Handbooks and Histories of Literature ... 114 8 The World of Literary Societies ... 121 The Literary Societies ... 121 The Chambers of Rhetoric ... 138 Society for the Benefit of All ... 142 9 The Book Publishing Industry ... 155 Trade in ‘Dutch Books’ ... 155 Attempts to Collaborate ... 157 French Translations ... 159 The Reprint and the Association ... 163 10 Epilogue ... 166 Part 3: The Parting of Minds, 1825–1830 11 Religion and Literature ... 173 A Problematic Royal Decree ... 173 Willems’ ‘Moderate Catholicism’ ... 175 ‘A Hundred Eyes and Still Blind’: The Journal De Argus ... 177 12 The World of Literary Societies ... 183 ‘Institutions of the Devil’ ... 183 New Societies in Lier and Eeklo ... 187 13 Literature ... 194 The Belgische Muzen-Almanak (1826–1830) ... 194 The Almanak voor Blijgeestigen (1826–1831) ... 203 De Argus (1825–1826) ... 206 14 The Book Publishing Industry ... 212 Laurens Janszoon Coster as a Divisive Element ... 212 Attempts to Collaborate ... 216 15 Epilogue .... 224 Epilogue, 1830–1834 16 The Belgian Revolution and Literature ... 237 The South ... 237 The North ... 244 The Belgian Revolution in Literature ... 246 17 Commentary ... 250 Notes to Literature References ... 253 Bibliography ... 290 Index ... 310
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Brill Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965)
Book SynopsisAnti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) is a study of a-physiognomic descriptions of the face. It demonstrates that writers such as George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allan Poe, Nicolay Gogol, Virginia Woolf and Witold Gombrowicz vigorously resisted the belief that facial features reflect character. While other studies tend to focus on descriptions which affirm physiognomy, this book examines portraits which question popular face-reading systems and contravene their common premise – the surface-depth principle. Such portraits reveal that physiognomic formula is a cultural construct, invented to abridge, organise and regulate legibility of the human face. Most importantly, strange and ‘unreadable’ fictional faces frequently expose the connection between physiognomic judgement and stereotyping, prejudice and racism.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I. GEORGE ELIOT AND TOLSTOY: THE HUMAN FACE – SUBSTANCE OR SPIRIT? CHAPTER II. POE AND GOGOL: THE FACE AS PRINCIPLE OF ORDER CHAPTER III. GOMBROWICZ AND WOOLF: THE FACE AS CULTURE CONCLUSION WORKS CITED
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Brill Sound Effects: The Object Voice in Fiction
Book SynopsisSound Effects combines literary criticism and psychoanalytic theory in eleven original articles which explore the potential of the object voice as an analytic tool to approach fiction. Alongside the gaze, the voice is Jacques Lacan’s original addition to the set of partial objects of classical psychoanalysis, and has only recently been theorised by Mladen Dolar in A Voice and Nothing More (2006). With notable exceptions like Garrett Stewart’s Reading Voices (1990), the sonorous element in fiction has received little scholarly attention in comparison with poetry and drama. Sound Effects is a contribution to the burgeoning field of sound studies, and sets out to fill this gap through selective readings of English and American fiction of the last two hundred years. Contributors: Fred Botting, Natalja Chestopalova, Mladen Dolar, Matt Foley, Alex Hope, Phillip Mahoney, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Marcin Stawiarski, Garrett Stewart, Peter Weise, and Bruce Wyse.Trade Review“The editors succeeded in selecting and organizing a number of high quality contributions by some of the most prominent names in the field in a book which definitely fulfils its aims. Sound Effects can at times make a demanding reading but it is also a much needed one for academics interested on the ways literary criticism intersects with psychoanalytic theory and sound studies. By triangulating these fields, the volume does not only contribute to fill a critical vacuum, but it also paves the way to further research on the vocal effects of texts and the intriguing notion of the “object voice” in fiction.”- María Casado Villanueva, University College of Southeast Norway, in Nexus, Vol. 2 2017 pp. 54-59Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface: Is There a Voice in the Text? Mladen Dolar Revoicing Writing: An Introduction to Theorizing Vocality Jorge Sacido-Romero and Sylvia Mieszkowski ‘Secondary Vocality’ and the Sound Defect Garrett Stewart Section I: The Nineteenth Century The Object Voice in Romantic Irish Novels Peter Weise Poe, Voice and the Origin of Horror Fiction Fred Botting Double Voice and Extimate Singing in Trilby Bruce Wyse Section II: The Twentieth Century Bloom’s Neume: The Object Voice in the “Sirens” Episode in Joyce’s Ulysses Phillip Mahoney Fantasizing Agency and Otherness through Voice and Voicelessness in Ellison’s Invisible Man Natalja Chestopalova The Voice in Twentieth-Century English Short Fiction: E.M. Forster, V.S. Pritchett and Muriel Spark Jorge Sacido-Romero Section III: The Twenty-First Century Voices of Terror and Horror: Towards an Acoustics of Modern Gothic Matt Foley “That which cannot be said”: Voice, Desire and the Uncanny in Armistead Maupin’s The Night Listener Sylvia Mieszkowski “It’s only combinations of letters, after all, isn’t it”: The “Voice” and Spirit Mediums in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day (2006) Alexander Hope ‘Voice-Trace’ in James Chapman’s How Is This Going to Continue? (2007) Marcin Stawiarski Notes on Contributors
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Brill The Woman Question in Nineteenth-Century English, German and Russian Literature: (En)gendering Barriers
Book SynopsisKathryn Ambrose offers a new approach to the Woman Question in mid- to late-nineteenth-century English, German and Russian literature. Using a methodological framework based on feminist theory and post-structuralism, she provides a re-vision of canonical texts (such as Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, Effi Briest, Fathers and Children and Anna Karenina) alongside lesser-known works by Emily and Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy. Her exploration of the semiotics of barriers – as opposed to the established approach of the semiotics of space – makes for a rewarding reading of this period of literature and establishes new cross-cultural and literary connections between the three countries.Table of ContentsContents Introduction Chapter 1: Brontë or Bell? Identity as Barrier in the Works of Charlotte and Emily Brontë Chapter 2: George Eliot and the “Superfluous Woman”: A Subtle Means of Protest? Chapter 3: Women in Theodor Storm: The Opposition of Conformity and Otherness Chapter 4: From Sleeping Beauty to Career Woman: The Development of Women’s Roles in Theodor Fontane Chapter 5: Turgenev and the Woman Question: Layering Barriers Chapter 6: Tolstoy, Women and Barriers: Inflexible Closedness Conclusion Bibliography
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Brill The Revolting Body of Poetry
Book SynopsisIf the transgressions of modern French poetry have been amply noted at thematic and formal levels, they remain largely unremarked at the most visceral level of reading. Indebted to, while problematizing the Kristevan concept of sémiotique, Scott Shinabargar’s The Revolting Body of Poetry reveals how the very “matter” of key works forces us to enact these transgressions, when articulating textures of offensive lexica and imagery. While certain phonemes provide access to previously untapped forces, first apparent in Baudelaire and Lautréamont, compulsive repetitions produce expressive inflation, diffusing any initial impact. Césaire and Char, however, demonstrate an acquired control of these forces, intensity contained. Shinabargar concludes with a survey of contemporary poets, inviting readers to consider the legacy of revolting poetics.Table of ContentsOverview Introduction Part I: Revolutions 1 La diction du mal: Baudelaire 2 An Exaggerated Scale of Evil: Lautréamont Part II: Revolitions 3 Grounding Force: Césaire 4 In the Wind’s Gold: Char Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Brill Dostoevsky’s Legal and Moral Philosophy: The Trial of Dmitri Karamazov
Book SynopsisThe trial of Dmitri Karamazov embodies Dostoevsky’s general legal and moral philosophy. This book explains and critically analyses such notions as the rule of law, the adversary system of adjudication, the principle of universal moral responsibility, the plausibility of unconditional love, and the contours of human nature. The ballast for conclusions about all these ideas is an understanding of the relationship between individuals and their communities.
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Brill Neo-Victorian Humour: Comic Subversions and Unlaughter in Contemporary Historical Re-Visions
Book SynopsisThis volume highlights humour’s crucial role in shaping historical re-visions of the long nineteenth century, through modes ranging from subtle irony, camp excess, ribald farce, and aesthetic parody to blackly comic narrative games. It analyses neo-Victorian humour’s politicisation, its ideological functions and ethical implications across varied media, including fiction, drama, film, webcomics, and fashion. Contemporary humour maps the assumed distance between postmodernity and its targeted nineteenth-century referents only to repeatedly collapse the same in a seemingly self-defeating nihilistic project. This collection explores how neo-Victorian humour generates empathy and effective socio-political critique, dispensing symbolic justice, but also risks recycling the past’s invidious ideologies under the politically correct guise of comic debunking, even to the point of negating laughter itself. "This rich and innovative collection invites us to reflect on the complex and various deployments of humour in neo-Victorian texts, where its consumers may wish at times that they could swallow back the laughter a scene or event provokes. It covers a range of approaches to humour utilised by neo-Victorian writers, dramatists, graphic novelists and filmmakers – including the deliberately and pompously unfunny, the traumatic, the absurd, the ribald, and the frankly distasteful – producing a richly satisfying anthology of innovative readings of ‘canonical’ neo-Victorian texts as well as those which are potential generic outliers. The collection explores what is funny in the neo-Victorian and who we are laughing at – the Victorians, as we like to imagine them, or ourselves, in ways we rarely acknowledge? This is a celebration of the parodic playfulness of a wide range of texts, from fiction to fashion, whilst offering a trenchant critique of the politics of postmodern laughter that will appeal to those working in adaptation studies, gender and queer studies, as well as literary and cultural studies more generally." - Prof. Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, AustraliaTrade Review"This rich and innovative collection invites us to reflect on the complex and various deployments of humour in neo-Victorian texts, where its consumers may wish at times that they could swallow back the laughter a scene or event provokes. It covers a range of approaches to humour utilised by neo-Victorian writers, dramatists, graphic novelists and filmmakers – including the deliberately and pompously unfunny, the traumatic, the absurd, the ribald, and the frankly distasteful – producing a richly satisfying anthology of innovative readings of ‘canonical’ neo-Victorian texts as well as those which are potential generic outliers. The collection explores what is funny in the neo-Victorian and who we are laughing at – the Victorians, as we like to imagine them, or ourselves, in ways we rarely acknowledge? This is a celebration of the parodic playfulness of a wide range of texts, from fiction to fashion, whilst offering a trenchant critique of the politics of postmodern laughter that will appeal to those working in adaptation studies, gender and queer studies, as well as literary and cultural studies more generally." – Prof. Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, Australia “Kohlke & Gutleben’s collection of essays is a valuable addition to the existing research on neo-Victorian fiction and culture, particularly as it is the first work dealing with irony, humour and comedy in neo-Victorianism. Moreover, most chapters included in the book offer interpretations of neo-Victorian cultural texts that have so far enjoyed little scholarly attention. The introduction authored by the editors is especially significant, as it provides an overview of the ideological tensions inherent to neo-Victorian fiction and the role humour plays in this genre, which is innovative in the field of neo-Victorian studies. Its fresh perspective on the ideological agendas and incongruities of neo-Victorian fiction is particularly inspiring for further research in neo-Victorianism and postmodernism.” -Barbara Braid, Institute of English, Szczecin University, in European Journal of Humour Research Vol.6, No. 3, pp.113-118 (2018)Table of ContentsWhat’s So Funny about the Nineteenth Century? Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben PART I Humour and Metanarratives 1. Parody after Providence: Christianity, Secularism, and the Form of Neo-Victorian Fiction Miriam Elizabeth Burstein 2. Neo-Victorian Killing Humour: Laughing at Death in the Opium Wars Marie-Luise Kohlke 3. ‘Bleak Hilarity’ in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty Dana Shiller 4. Drainage in a Time of Cholera: History and Humour in Matthew Kneale’s Sweet Thames Michael L. Ross PART II Humour and Gender 5. Looking at Victorian Fashion: Not a Laughing Matter Margaret D. Stetz 6. Neo-Victorian Feminist History and the Political Potential of Humour Tara MacDonald 7. Good Vibrations: Hysteria, Female Orgasm and Medical Humour in Neo-Victorianism Monika Pietrzak-Franger and Eckart Voigts 8. “People keep giving me rings, but I think a small death ray might be more practical”: Women and Mad Science in Steampunk Comics Dru Pagliassotti PART III Humour and Postmodernism: 9. “Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!”: The Neo-Victorian Novel-as-Mashup and the Limits of Postmodern Irony Megen de Bruin-Molé 10. Camp Heritage: Ken Russell’s The Lair of the White Worm as Neo-Victorian Heritage Spectacle Christophe Van Eecke 11. Laughing (at) Freaks: “Bending the tune to her will” in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus and Rosie Garland’s The Palace of Curiosities Saverio Tomaiuolo 12. The Dog Days of Empire: Black Humour and the Bestial in J.G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur Ryan D. Fong Contributors Index
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Brill Scott's Novels and the Counter-Revolutionary Politics of Place
Book SynopsisCounter-revolutionary or wary progressive? Critical apologist for the Stuart and Hanoverian dynasties? What are the political and cultural significances of place when Scott represents the instabilities generated by the Union? Scott's Novels and the Counter-Revolutionary Politics of Place analyses Scott’s sophisticated, counter-revolutionary interpretation of Britain's past and present in relation to those questions. Exploring the diversity within Scott’s life and writings, as historian and political commentator, conservative committed to progress, Scotsman and Briton, lawyer and philosopher, this monograph focuses on how Scott portrays and analyses the evolution of the state through notions of place and landscape. It especially considers Scott’s response to revolution and rebellion, and his geopolitical perspective on the transition from Stuart to Hanoverian sovereignty.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Compromised Authority and Confinement in The Fortunes of Nigel and Woodstock The Otherness of Scotland in The Fortunes of Nigel The Political Significance of Locale and Language in Woodstock 2 Governance and Agency in Woodstock and Peveril of the Peak A Geo-political Mapping of Woodstock The Centrality of Martindale Placing Legal and Judicial Sovereignty in Woodstock and Peveril of the Peak 3 Oppression, Justice and Monarchy in Peveril of the Peak and The Heart of Mid-Lothian Marginalization, Exploitation and Powerlessness in Peveril of the Peak Cultural Imperialism, Violence and Distance in The Heart of Mid-Lothian 4 Landscaping Justice, Rebellion and Dynastic Failure in The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Waverley and Redgauntlet A Just Landscape in The Heart of Mid-Lothian Place and Rebellion in Waverley Locale and Dynastic Failure in Redgauntlet Marginalized Sovereignty in Waverley and Redgauntlet 5 The Royal Presence as Locale: Rehabilitating the Stuart and Hanoverian Monarchies Charles i and Charles ii Charles Edward Stuart, George ii and George iii Conclusion: Homecoming, Return and Journey’s End Appendix: Sources for Scott’s Characterization of James i Select Bibliography Index
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Brill Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present: Fields of Action, Fields of Vision
Book SynopsisRepresenting Wars from 1860 to the Present examines representations of war in literature, film, photography, memorials, and the popular press. The volume breaks new ground in cutting across disciplinary boundaries and offering case studies on a wide variety of fields of vision and action, and types of conflict: from civil wars in the USA, Spain, Russia and the Congo to recent western interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the case of World War Two, Representing Wars emphasises idiosyncratic and non-western perspectives – specifically those of Japanese writers Hayashi and Ooka. A central concern of the thirteen contributors has been to investigate the ethical and ideological implications of specific representational choices. Contributors are: Claire Bowen, Catherine Ann Collins, Marie-France Courriol, Éliane Elmaleh, Teresa Gibert, William Gleeson, Catherine Hoffmann, Sandrine Lascaux, Christopher Lloyd, Monica Michlin, Guillaume Muller, Misako Nemoto, Clément Sigalas.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction Part 1: The Spectacle of War 1 Deconstructing the Spectacle of War? Brian de Palma’s Redacted, Nick Broomfield’s Battle for Haditha, Paul Haggis’s In the Valley of Elah and the Iraq War Monica Michlin 2 The War in Images: The Poetics of Plasticity in Juan Benet’s Herrumbrosas lanzas Sandrine Lascaux and Trans. Claire Bowen 3 The Second World War Seen from the Balcony: Representations of the Spectacle of War in the French Post-War Novel Clément Sigalas Part 2: At a Distance from War 4 The “Comic Opera” of the Allied Intervention in Russia: Off-Staging War in William Gerhardie’s Early Novels Catherine Hoffmann 5 Margaret Atwood’s Representation of Modern and Imaginary Warfare Teresa Gibert 6 Memory Keeping and Visual Narratives of Commemoration: Representing Interned Japanese Americans during World War ii Catherine Collins Part 3: Bringing the War Home 7 Martha Rosler, an American Artist at War with War Éliane Elmaleh 8 Conflicting Documentary Strategies and Italian Counter-propaganda in the Spanish Civil War Marie-France Courriol 9 Revisiting the Congo’s Forgotten Wars: Jean Lartéguy’s Les Chimères noires and the Secession of Katanga Christopher Lloyd 10 “A Boy and His Dog…”: The War in Afghanistan and Storytelling Claire Bowen Part 4: Experiencing War and Bearing Witness 11 Aphonic Images: Aurality and Silence in Civil War Photography William Gleeson 12 Profiles of War by Hayashi Fusao: A Writer’s Approach to War Guillaume Muller 13 Ōoka Shōhei’s Democratization of the Self Misako Nemoto Conclusion Select Bibliography Index
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Brill Oscar Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the Audience
Book SynopsisOscar Wilde in Vienna is the first book-length study in English of the reception of Oscar Wilde’s works in the German-speaking world. Charting the plays’ history on Viennese stages between 1903 and 2013, it casts a spotlight on the international reputation of one of the most popular English-language writers while contributing to Austrian cultural history in the long twentieth century. Drawing on extensive archival material, the book examines the appropriation of Wilde's plays against the background of political crises and social transformations. It unravels the mechanisms of cultural transfer and canonisation within an environment positioned — like Wilde himself — at the crossroads of centre and periphery, tradition and modernity.Trade Review"This is not only a fascinating and lucid study suitable for those interested in Wilde’s plays on the stage and in theatre history more generally, but is also ideal for those with an interest in the narratives of appropriation of literature across times and cultures." -Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 55, Issue 3, July 2019, Pages 355–356, 17 July 2019.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Oscar Wilde and the Art of Creating a Great Sensation The Stage as Meeting Place of the Arts: Charting Theoretical and Methodological Territory 1 An Artefact of Commodified Culture: Trading Wilde in the Literary Marketplace A ‘First- Rate Theatrical Fashion Item’: Wilde En vogue in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna More Conformist than Rebel? Wilde in the Context of Late- Nineteenth- Century Literary Culture Writing to be Popular: Wilde as a Professional Playwright Pleasing and Teasing the Audience: Wilde’s Society Comedies as Artistic Compromise? 2 Curtain Up: Wilde Enters the Viennese Stage Literary Cosmopolitanism: Wilde and Fin- de- Siècle Viennese Artistic Networks Agents of Mediation: Examples of Wilde’s Early Viennese Popularisation 3 Forging the Construct: Wilde the Playwright in Early-Twentieth-Century Vienna “Midway between Fact and Legend”: Converging Images of Wilde’s Life and Work Visions of Salome, Visions of Wilde: Biographical Readings of Wilde’s ‘Symbolist Relic’ on Viennese Stages Intellectual Elegance – Elegant Intellectuality: The Early Viennese Reception of Wilde’s Society Comedies Like a Parody Parodied: The Importance of Being Earnest in Early- Twentieth- Century Vienna 4 Consolidating the Construct: The Canonisation of Wildean Drama on Viennese Stages before 1938 A Triumph of ‘Old Theatre’: Wilde’s ‘Phosphorescent Salon Philosophy’ in the Contexts of Critical Reception and Audience Success Viennese Theatre as Actors’ Theatre: Transforming Lady Bracknell into a ‘Woman of Some Importance’ A ‘Paradoxical Englishman’ in Vienna: Wilde Reception and National Identity London Dandy Meets Viennese Bonvivant: The Cultural ‘Other’ in Wilde’s Comedies on Pre- World War II Viennese Stages 5 Modifying vs Preserving the Construct: The Viennese Wilde Revival after 1945 A Case of ‘Historico- Cultural Reminiscence’: Wildean Drama and Patterns of Continuity in Postwar Austrian Theatre Practice and Criticism Classic or Déclassé: Wildean Comedy in Defence of its Canonicity Noblesse, Nostalgia, and Viennese Bonhomie: Wilde’s Comedies at the Theater in der Josefstadt 6 Remodelling the Construct: Wildean Drama and the Politics of Disambiguation at the Turn of the Twenty- First Century ‘Comedy Exorcism’ between ‘Punchline Pornography’ and ‘Popmodern Parody’: Elfriede Jelinek Goes Wilde A Wild(e) Treatment: The ‘Jelinekisation’ of The Importance of Being Earnest Viennese Travesties of Wilde: Gender Deconstruction and Neoliberal Criticism in Commercial and Fringe Wilde Productions Conclusion: Literary Reputation(s) and the Promise of Canonical Survival, or In Pursuit of the ‘Real’ Wilde Appendix: Viennese Productions of Oscar Wilde’s Works, 1903–2013 Bibliography Index
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Brill Biological Time, Historical Time: Transfers and Transformations in 19th Century Literature
Book SynopsisBiological Time, Historical Time presents a new approach to 19th century thought and literature: by focussing on the subject of time, it offers a new perspective on the exchanges between French and German literary texts on the one hand and scientific disciplines on the other. Hence, the rivalling influences of the historical sciences and of the life sciences on literary texts are explored, texts from various scientific domains – medicine, natural history, biology, history, and multiple forms of vulgarisation – are investigated. Literary texts are analysed in their participation in and transformation of the scientific imagination. Special attention is accorded to the temporal dimension: this allows for an innovative account of key concepts of 19th century culture.Table of ContentsThe Authors Introduction Niklas Bender and Gisèle Séginger Part 1: Rethinking the Order of Time From Biblical Time to Darwinian Time: Discourses on the Living World in the 18th and 19th Centuries Pascal Duris Memory Strata, Geology and Change of Historical Paradigm in France around 1830 Paule Petitier Devilish Words: Pierre Boitard, “maître Georges” and the Advance of Nature Claude Blanckaert From Biological Time to Historical Time: the Category of “Development” (Entwicklung) in the Historical Thought of Herder, Kant, Hegel, and Marx Christophe Bouton “O man! wilt thou never conceive that thou art but an ephemeron?”: the Reception of Geological Deep Time in the Late 18th Century David Schulz Part 2: Atavism and Heredity The Law of Progress, Atavism, and Prehistory in the Belle Époque Arnaud Hurel Nietzsche, or Culture Put to the Test at the Timescale of Heredity Emmanuel Salanskis Zola, Hereditability of Character and Hereditability of Deviation: After a Remark by Bergson in L’Évolution Créatrice Arnaud François Life, Sex and Temporality in Zola’s La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret Rudolf Behrens Part 3: Nature and Culture Time of History and Time of Nature in the Historical Novels of Victor Hugo Niklas Bender Historical Time, Cultural Time, and Biological Time in Baudelaire Thomas Klinkert Evolution and Time in the Chants de Maldoror Frank Jäger Memory of the Body in Proust: Historical Time and Biological Time Edward Bizub Part 4: Poetics of Time The Poetics of Restored Time: Balzac, His Age and the Figure of Cuvier Hugues Marchal The Evolution of Social Species in Balzac’s Comédie humaine Sandra Collet Time as Imagined in the Evolutionary Epic Nicolas Wanlin Evolutionism and Successivity in Antediluviana, Poème géologique by Ernest Cotty (1876) Yohann Ringuedé End of the World, End of Time: the Theory of Evolution and Its Fate in the Novel of Anticipation Claire Barel-Moisan A Biologist Literary History: August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Franco-German Natural Sciences Stefan Knödler Part 5: Biology and Ideology Evolutionary Time and Revolutionary Time (Michelet, Flaubert, Zola) Juliette Azoulai Michelet and La Mer: Biology and the Philosophy of History Gisèle Séginger “Il faut manger et être mangé pour que le monde vive”: the Zolian Belly amidst Evolution, Revolution, and Convolutions Carine Goutaland Gobineau’s Heroes Are Ageless Pierre-Louis Rey Darwinus anarchistus explodens: Science and the Legend of the Struggle for Life (Louise Michel) Claude Rétat Index
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Brill Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China
Book SynopsisLiterary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China contributes to the “literary turn” in the study of Chinese Christianity by foregrounding the importance of literary texts, including the major genres of Chinese Christian literature (novels, drama and poetry) of the late Qing and Republican periods. These multifarious types of texts demonstrated the multiple representations and dynamic scenes of Christianity, where Christian imageries and symbolism were transformed by linguistic manipulation into new contextualized forms which nurtured distinctive new fruits of literature and modernized the literary landscape of Chinese literature. The study of the composition and poetics of Chinese Christian literary works helps us rediscover the concerns, priorities, textual strategies of the Christian writers, the cross-cultural challenges involved, and the reception of the Bible.Trade Review"The book’s greatest asset is its ability to draw on multiple fields to show the migration, translation, and reinterpretation of stories and images between China and the West. Lai’s deep knowledge of several fields, including biblical exegesis and interpretation, translation studies, Chinese folk religion, and more, are reflected in his analyses. (...) This is a valuable contribution to the field, both summarizing and enhancing the ongoing “literary turn” in the study of Christianity in modern China. The various chapters serve as compact case studies in translation and crosscultural interaction and are useful for both research and teaching purposes." Steven Pieragastini, Loyola Marymount University, Journal of Jesuit Studies 6 (2019).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations 1 Introduction: Literary Turn in the Study of Chinese Christianitybr/> 2 Empire Re-mapped: Image of Britain in Karl Gützlaff’s Novels 1 Westerners/British not “Barbarians” 2 Trading, not “tribute paying” 3 Britain: The “Supreme Nation” 4 Britain upholding the orthodoxy 5 Factors behind Gützlaff’s constructed British image 3 Bible in Fiction: Chinese Protestant Novels of the Late Nineteenth Century 1 Fictional Transformation of Biblical Biographies: Yuese jilüe (Brief Biography of Joseph, 1852) 2 Harmonization and Contextualisation of Gospel Accounts: Zhengdao qimeng (Enlightening the Right Way, 1864) 3 Displacement of Biblical Mythology: Qu mo zhuan (Story of Demon Banishing, 1895) 4 Bible on Stage: Chinese Catholic Dramas of the Republican Period 1 Moralistic and Religious Agenda of Chinese Catholic Literature 2 Dramatizing the Biblical Narratives 3 Edifying and Entertaining Dimensions of Two Joseph Dramas 4 Drama Performance and Communal Transformation 5 Saints Re-membered: Chinese Dramatization of Martyrdom 1 Dramatizing the Martyrdom Stories 2 Martyrdom Narratives of the Maccabees 3 Resolving the Moral Conflict of Martyrdom 6 Popular Reception: Chinese Folk Imagination of Christianity 1 Heavenly Family in Hong Xiuquan’s Dream Vision 2 Image of Jesus in Anti-Christian Pamphlets 3 Journey to Hell in Chinese Catholic Novel 4 Afterlife in Chinese Spiritual Songs 5 Revelation of Jesus in Daoist Planchette Writings 7 Poetic Inspiration: Biblical Imageries in Modern Chinese Poetry 1 The Bible as Devotional Inspiration for Bing Xin 2 The Bible as Ideological Inspiration for Zhou Zuoren 3 The Bible as Archetypal Inspiration for Mu Dan 8 Pilgrims Re-progressed: Christian Interpretation of The Journey to the West 1 Mahayana Christianity and Buddhist Trinity 1.1 Julai as Christ, the Incarnate God 1.2 Kwanyin as the Holy Spirit 2 Huen Chwang as Apostle Paul 3 The Pilgrim’s Progress of Nestorianism 4 “Multi-religious” Kingdom of God 9 Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Brill Chateaubriand: Une identité trinitaire
Book SynopsisPar sa situation historique, par la variété des expériences qu'il a vécues, Chateaubriand dans les Mémoires d'Outre-tombe semble parfois être pris de vertige : comment affirmer qu'il est bien le même ? La défense de la liberté lui semble être une constante de son identité. Mais ce combat suffit-il à gommer ses contradictions ? N'y a-t-il pas des failles dans le portrait qu'il entend donner de lui-même ? Faut-il les camoufler, ou permettent-elles, au contraire, d'explorer la richesse d'un (ou plusieurs) moi virtuel qui sous-tendrait toute son existence et que cet « autre moi » de l’écrivain ne parvient pas non plus à épuiser complètement ?Table of ContentsTable des matières Abréviations : œuvres de Chateaubriand Le moi trinitaire 1 Le voyageur 1 Navires 2 Jardins 3 Lettres d’un Voyageur 2 Le romancier 1 Ambiguïtés romanesques 2 Nostalgie du romanesque et hésitations génériques 3 Hommage à la nouvelle génération 3 L’homme politique 1 Regard sur l’Ancien Régime et la Révolution 2 Les Discours 4 Œuvres complètes et identité 1 Editer des Œuvres complètes ? 2 L’édition Ladvocat 3 L’édition Sainte-Beuve. Génétique et polémique 4 L’édition Champion Liste des ouvrages cités Index
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Brill Emblematic Strategies in Pre-Raphaelite Literature
Book SynopsisIn this book, Heather McAlpine argues that emblematic strategies play a more central role in Pre-Raphaelite poetics than has been acknowledged, and that reading Pre-Raphaelite works with an awareness of these strategies permits a new understanding of the movement’s engagements with ontology, religion, representation, and politics. The emblem is a discursive practice that promises to stabilize language in the face of doubt, making it especially interesting as a site of conflicting responses to Victorian crises of representation. Through analyses of works by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A.C. Swinburne, and William Morris, Emblematic Strategies examines the Pre-Raphaelite movement’s common goal of conveying “truth” while highlighting differences in its adherents’ approaches to that task.Trade Review“Heather McAlpine has […] managed to show the pivotal role emblems played in the development and emancipation of these artists’ aesthetics. For this reason, her book will be of great interest to scholars and students alike who want to have a different take on the Victorian aesthetics and a fresh insight in the literary analysis of Pre-Raphaelite illustrated and unillustrated works.” - Cezara Bobeica, University of Strasbourg, France in Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, Vol. 61 2020 pp. 345-349Table of ContentsIllustrations 1 The Emblem and Its Victorian Contexts 1 What Is an Emblem? 2 The Development of Emblem Studies 3 The History of the Genre 4 Rhetorical and Devotional Emblems 5 The Emblem and Meditation 6 Natural and Conventional Theories of Language 7 The Cupid and Anima and Schola Cordis Traditions 8 The Victorian Context 2 “Thoughts towards Nature”: Pre-Raphaelite Emblematics in The Germ 1 Pre-Raphaelite Beginnings 2 “The Child Jesus”: Normative Emblematics 3 Unillustrated Emblems 4 Floriography 5 D.G. Rossetti’s Ambivalence and Aestheticism 6 The Problems of Publication 3 “Wise upbraidings”: Christina Rossetti’s Devotional Emblematics 1 Background 2 Naked Emblems in the Goblin Market and Prince’s Progress Volumes 3 Emblematic Devotional Prose: Called to Be Saints and Time Flies 4 “How meet beauty?”: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Emblem 1 Early Sacramentalism 2 Pre-Raphaelite Connections 3 Emblematic Language: Onomatopoetics 4 God’s Language: Hieroglyphics and the Emblem 5 “The Wreck of the Deutschland” 5 “Devious symbols”: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Unorthodox Emblematics 1 Background 2 Embracing Emblematics: The PRB Period 3 “Positive Agnosticism” and Revised Works 4 Religious Doubt, Emblematic Continuities: The Later Works 6 “All are types unmeet”: Swinburne and the Limits of the Emblem 1 The Emblem: Admiration and Ambivalence 2 Emblems in Swinburne’s Art Criticism 3 Questioning Devotional Emblematics 4 Political Poetry and Rhetorical Emblematics 5 Emblematic Failure and the Sublime 7 Conclusion: What about William? 1 The Work Yet to Be Done
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Brill Imperial Middlebrow
Book SynopsisThe collection Imperial Middlebrow, edited by Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch, takes middlebrow studies further in two ways. First, it focuses on the role middlebrow writing played in the popularisation and dissemination of imperial ideology. It combines the interest in the wider function of literature for a colonial society with close scrutiny of the ideological and socio-economic contexts of writers and readers. The essays cover the Girl’s Own Paper, fiction about colonial India including its appearance in Scottish writing, the West Indies, the South Pacific, as well as illustrations of Haggard’s South African imperial romances. Second, the volume proposes using the concept of the middlebrow as an analytical tool to read recent Black and Asian British as well as Nigerian fiction.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Cross-colonial Encounters and Expressions of Power in Middlebrow Literature and Culture, 1890–1940 and the Present Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch A Girl’s Own Empire? Imperialism and the Girl’s Own Paper, 1880 to 1903 Jochen Petzold Picturing Africa: Illustration in the Allan Quatermain Adventure Fictions of H. Rider Haggard Kate Holterhoff “Cramful of snakes and ghosts”: B.M. Croker’s Anglo-Indian Ghost Stories Christoph Singer “An artificial little community which has climbed eight thousand feet out of the world to be cool”: Sara Jeanette Duncan, Simla, and Middlebrow Aesthetics Samuel Caddick Imagining the British West Indies in Middlebrow Fiction Jana Gohrisch “Intimacies of complicity and critique”: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Victoria Cross’s Imperial Fiction Cornelia Wächter Cross-colonial Encounters and Cultural Contestation in Somerset Maugham’s “Rain” Victoria Kuttainen Revising the Romance: Depictions of Biracial Women and Mixed Marriage in Anglo-Indian Popular Fiction Melissa Edmundson “A small seasoning of curry-powder” in A.J. Cronin’s Hatter’s Castle Robert Wirth Sidelining Racism and Discrimination – Recent British Black and Asian Fiction Gesa Stedman Middlebrow 2.0: The Digital Affect and the New Nigerian Novel Hannah Pardey Index
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Brill Women Writing on the French Riviera: Travellers and Trendsetters, 1870-1970
Book SynopsisDestination for artists and convalescents, playground of the rich, site of foreign allure, the French Riviera has long attracted visitors to its shores. Ranging through the late nineteenth century, the Belle Epoque, the ‘roaring twenties’, and the emancipatory post-war years, Rosemary Lancaster highlights the contributions of nine remarkable women to the cultural identity of the Riviera in its seminal rise to fame. Embracing an array of genres, she gives new focus to feminine writings never previously brought together, nor as richly critically explored. Fiction, memoir, diary, letters, even cookbooks and choreographies provide compelling evidence of the innovativeness of women who seized the challenges and opportunities of their travels in a century of radical social and artistic change.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Part 1: Art and Illness 1 Marie Bashkirtseff’s Quest for Glory: the Nice Years and After Epilogue 2 ‘Ordered South’: Katherine Mansfield in Menton Epilogue Part 2: High Life on the Riviera 3 Fact and Fiction: Alice Williamson’s Monte Carlo Epilogue 4 Bronislava Nijinska: The Ballets Russes Years Epilogue 5 The Riviera and the Rich: Rebecca West’s The Thinking Reed (1936) Epilogue Part 3: The Mediterranean Idyll 6 Rebirth in Saint-Tropez: Colette’s Break of Day Epilogue 7 An Invented Childhood: Honoria Murphy in Antibes Epilogue 8 Flavours of the South: the Culinary Revolutions of Elizabeth David and Julia Child Epilogue Selective Bibliography Index
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Brill Romanciers fin-de-siècle
Book SynopsisL’ouvrage propose de réfléchir sur la richesse de la création romanesque de l’époque crépusculaire en réunissant quatorze contributions consacrées aussi bien aux classiques qu’aux auteurs rarement étudiés. Nous y (re)découvrons Casanova, Darien, d’Herdy, Tinan, Bloy, Céard, Mirbeau, Lorrain, Louÿs, Vivien, Rachilde, Mendès, Huysmans, Fleischmann. The work offers a reflection on the richness of the novels created in the fin-de-siècle period by bringing together fourteen contributions devoted both to the classics and to the rarely studied authors (Casanova, Darien, d'Herdy, Tinan, Bloy, Céard, Mirbeau, Lorrain, Louÿs, Vivien, Rachilde, Mendès, Huysmans, Fleischmann).Trade Review"Naturalistes, décadents, anarchistes ou symbolistes, les romanciers fin-de-siècle se livrent à une quête du rare et de l’étrange, luttent contre les angoisses et les chimères, cherchent à briser, voire dépasser les limites du roman. Ce bel opuscule propose de réfléchir à la richesse de la création romanesque de l’époque crépusculaire en compilant quatorze contributions consacrées aussi bien aux classiques qu’aux auteurs rarement étudiés, voire méconnus." - Cahiers Octave Mirbeau, n° 28, 2021, p. 344-345. "À travers diverses approches et sous l’égide de deux animateurs incontournables du domaine comme Marie-France de Palacio (« Nonce Casanova : les Faces (désespérées) de l’Être ») et Jean de Palacio (« Le somptuarisme de la décrépitude : sur un roman d’Hector Fleischmann »), dont les études encadrent l’ouvrage, les articles rassemblés illustrent la variété et l’ampleur d’un corpus – les romans fin-de-siècle – qui a encore bien des secrets à dévoiler." - Giovanna Devincenzo, Studi di letteratura francese, 2021.Table of ContentsAvant-propos Notes sur les contributeurs 1 Nonce Casanova : les Faces (désespérées) de l’Être Marie-France de Palacio 2 Georges Darien : un anarchiste sous le signe de la décadence Aurélien Lorig 3 Un mystère emblématique : le cas Luis d’Herdy (1875-1902) Manon Raffard 4 Jean de Tinan écrivain « nègre » à l’ombre de Willy Fabrizio Impellizzeri 5 Léon Bloy et l’envers de la sécularisation Yoann Chaumeil 6 Variations sur le thème de la déconstruction dans l’œuvre romanesque d’Henry Céard Federica D’Ascenzo 7 Octave Mirbeau romancier : les paradoxes d’une écriture entre deux siècles Marie-Bernard Bat 8 La Maison Philibert de Jean Lorrain : entre réalisme et décadence Noëlle Benhamou 9 Artistes de la vie : les femmes créatrices chez Rachilde Anita Staroń 10 Une femme m’apparut de Renée Vivien : paroxysme ou parodie fin-de-siècle ? Camille Islert 11 Poétique d’une passion fin-de-siècle : l’eros marmoréen dans Aphrodite de Pierre Louÿs Julie Moucheron 12 Dédoublement, séduction et idéal chez Catulle Mendès Warren Johnson 13 Le dandy fin-de-siècle en proie à la névrose : les (més)aventures de Jean des Esseintes dans À rebours de Joris-Karl Huysmans Edyta Kociubińska 14 Le somptuarisme de la décrépitude : sur un roman d’Hector Fleischmann Jean de Palacio Index
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Brill Black Neo-Victoriana
Book SynopsisBlack Neo-Victoriana is the first book-length study on contemporary re-imaginations of Blackness in the long nineteenth century. Located at the intersections of postcolonial studies, Black studies, and neo-Victorian criticism, this interdisciplinary collection engages with the global trend to reimagine and rewrite Black Victorian subjectivities that have been continually marginalised in both historical and cultural discourses. Contributions cover a range of media, from novels and drama to film, television and material culture, and draw upon cultural formations such as Black fandom, Black dandyism, or steamfunk. The book evidences how neo-Victorian studies benefits from reading re-imaginations of the long nineteenth century vis-à-vis Black epistemologies, which unhinge neo-Victorianism’s dominant spatial and temporal axes and reroute them to conceive of the (neo-)Victorian through Blackness.
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Brill Women Writing Intimate Spaces: The Long Nineteenth Century at the Fringes of Europe
Book SynopsisThe messy and multi-layered issue of intimacy in connection with transnationality and spatiality is the topic of this volume on women’s writing in the long nineteenth century. A series of intimacies are dealt with through case studies from a wide range of countries situated on the European fringes. Within the field of feminist literary studies, the volume thus differs from other publications with a narrower scope, such as Western Europe or specific regions. More broadly, the chapters in this volume offer a variety of approaches to intimacy and generous bibliographical references for researchers in humanities and cultural studies.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Biographical Notes on the Authors Introduction Birgitta Lindh Estelle, Viola Parente-Čapková, Carmen Beatrice Duţu Part 1 Intimacies in Transnational Women’s Writing 1 Women, Writing, and the Cultural Politics of Intimacy in Modern Romania Carmen Beatrice Duţu 2 Freedom as a “Promised Land” Marie Linder’s En qvinna af vår tid Arja Rosenholm, Kati Launis, Viola Parente-Čapková, Natalia Mihailova 3 Stifling Intimacies Middle-Class Marriage in the Short Stories of Four Central European Women Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Katja Mihurko Poniž Part 2 Intimacies in Fictive European Spaces at the Fin-de-Siècle 4 Melodramatic Spaces Intimacy and Emancipation in Swedish Women’s Playwriting Birgitta Lindh Estelle 5 Feminism, Intimacy and Darwinian Time The New Women of Elin Wägner Cecilia Annell 6 Failing Intimacy in Saimi Öhrlund’s 1910s’ Novels Elsi Hyttinen 7 Intimacy and Spatiality in Three Novels by Regina di Luanto Ulla Åkerström 8 Intimate Spaces and Sexual Violence in Two Novels by Carmen de Burgos Elena Lindholm Part 3 Intimate Authorship in Space and Time 9 A Collective Sense of Intimacy Carmen Sylva’s Postures Roxana Patraș and Lucreţia Pascariu 10 Discovering Intimacy in Impressionist Poetry The Voice of Slovene Vida Jeraj Alenka Jensterle Doležal 11 Intimacy and Influence between Women Authors The Case of Isabelle de Charrière Suzan van Dijk, collaborating with Josephine Rombouts Index
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