Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
The University of Chicago Press Romantic Things
Book SynopsisOur thoughts are shaped as much by what things make of us as by what we make of them. The author explores the world of objects and phenomena in nature as expressed in romantic poetry alongside the theme of sentience and sensory deprivation in literature and art. She discusses about objects and attributes that test our perceptions.Trade Review"This richly wide-ranging meditation on the lyrical mode and its representation of things reflects on the relationship between sensate and insensate forms, the emotive and poetic, philosophy and poetry, and literature and visual culture....Poignantly reminds us of the importance of the poetic act in seeing things anew." (European Romantic Review)
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Seems Like Murder Here Southern Violence and the
Book SynopsisBlues recording artist and critic Adam Gussow begins his story in the 1890s, when the spectacle lynching of blacks became an insidious part of Southern life. Gussow identifies veiled references to real life incidents of these lynchings within the words of Blues songs and literature.Trade Review"Beneath the effusive and effervescent tone of Mister Satan's Apprentice lie gnawing questions of race and identity, of cultural imperialism and human connection. And precisely because Gussow stays close to his story, with all its eccentricity and youthful abandon, he arrives at a kind of profundity that eludes [most] commentators." - Samuel G. Freedman, Washington Post Book World
£30.40
University of Chicago Press Billy Budd Sailor
Book SynopsisThis is an accurate version of Melville's final novel. Based on a close analysis of the manuscript, thoroughly annotated and packaged with history of the text and perspectives for its criticism.
£16.72
The University of Chicago Press Victorian Relativity Radical Thought and
Book SynopsisThis text challenges the assumptions that the theory of relativity in physics sprang in its essence from the genius of Albert Einstein, and that scientific relativity is unconnected to ethical, cultural or epistemological relativisms.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Culture and Anomie Ethnographic Imagination in
Book SynopsisFew ideas are as important and pervasive in the discourse of the twentieth century as the idea of culture. Yet culture, Christopher Herbert contends, is an idea laden from its inception with ambiguity and contradiction. In Culture and Anomie, Christopher Herbert conducts an inquiry into the historical emergence of the modern idea of culture that is at the same time an extended critical analysis of the perplexities and suppressed associations underlying our own exploitation of this term. Making wide reference to twentieth-century anthropologists from Malinowski and Benedict to Evans-Pritchard, Geertz, and Lévi-Strauss as well as to nineteenth-century social theorists like Tylor, Spencer, Mill, and Arnold, Herbert stresses the philosophically dubious, unstable character that has clung to the culture idea and embarrassed its exponents even as it was developing into a central principle of interpretation. In a series of detailed studies ranging from political economy to missionary ethnograp
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The University of Chicago Press Royal Representations Queen Victoria British
Book SynopsisExamining Queen Victoria's own contributions to Victorian writing and art, this text looks at the cultural mechanisms through which her influence was felt. It explores the variability of Victoria's agency and of its representations using a wide array of literary, historical and visual sources.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Jane Austen Women Politics and the Novel
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The University of Chicago Press Equivocal Beings Politics Gender and
Book SynopsisFocusing on the work of Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney and Jane Austen, this book examines the relationships between politics, gender and feeling. It treats the qualities that were once seen to mar their work as strategies of representation during a time of political change.
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The University of Chicago Press The Social Construction of American Realism
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The University of Chicago Press Demons of the Night Tales of the Fantastic
Book SynopsisA compilation of 19th-century French haunting tales. Featuring such authors as Balzac, Merimee, Dumas, Verne, and Maupassant, this book offers readers some of the more memorable stories in the genre.
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press The Burdens of Intimacy Psychoanalysis and
Book SynopsisShowing why Victorian fiction conveys both the pleasure and anguish of intimacy, this text examines works by Bulwer-Lytton, Swinburne, Schreiner, Hardy, James, Santayana, and Forster, he argues that these writers struggled with aspects of psychology that undermined the utilitarian ethos of the age.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press The PreRaphaelites and Their Circle Phoenix Book
Book SynopsisThis useful volume presents the major works of the five leading Pre-Raphaelite poets. Foremost in the collection, and included in their entirety are D. G. Rossetti's The House of Life, C. G. Rossetti's Monna Innominata, William Morris's Defence of Guenevere, Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon, and Meredith's Modern Love. Complementing these major poems is a fine, generous selection of the poets' shorter pieces that are typical of their work as a whole. For this second edition, Cecil Lang has substituted two early Swinburne poems, The Leper and Anactoria, for Fitzgerald's The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. These poems, which the editor describes as shocking, show a new aspect of Swinburne not discussed previously. Lang's Introduction describes briefly the founding of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, discusses each of the Pre-Raphaelite poets, both individually and in relation to the others, and grapples with the questions of definition of Pre-Raphaelitism and the similarities between its paintin
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The University of Chicago Press Into the Light of Things The Art of the
Book SynopsisThis revision of avant-garde history traces a direct line back from John Cage, pop and conceptual art to the work of Whitman, Emerson, Ruskin, Carlyle and Wordsworth, showing how the art of everyday objects, often thought to be a contemporary phenomenon, actually began as far back as 1800.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments I: The End of Art? II: The Status of the Art Object Relative to Mere Real Things Before 1800 III: Confronting the Art Object: The Simple Produce of the Common Day A: William Wordsworth: The Simple Produce of the Common Day B: Thomas Carlyle: Natural Supernaturalism C: John Ruskin IV: Leaving the Raft Behind: John Cage A: Recontextualizing Cage: Industrial Supernaturalism, Suzukian Zen, and the Buddha's Raft B: The Simple Produce Changes: The Industrial Revolution and the Crisis of Natural Supernaturalism C: On the Buddha's Raft D: The Ultimate Object E: Ecology: 24'00" Epilogue Notes Index
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press The Realistic Imagination English Fiction from
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The University of Chicago Press Darwin and the Novelists Patterns of Science in
Book SynopsisLevine shows how Darwin's ideas affected nineteenth-century novelists from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad. "Levine stands in our day as the premier critic and commentator on Victorian prose." Frank M. Turner, "Nineteenth-Century Literature." "Magnificently written, with a care and delicacy worthy of its subject." Nina Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania"
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The University of Chicago Press Stendhal Fiction and the Themes of Freedom
Book SynopsisVictor Brombert is a lion in the study of French literature, and in this classic of literary criticism, he turns his clear and perspicacious gaze on the works of one of its greatest authors Stendhal. Best remembered for his novels The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal is a writer of extraordinary insight into psychology and the many shades of individual and political liberty. Brombert has spent a lifetime reading and teaching Stendhal and here, by focusing on the seemingly contradictory themes of inner freedom and outer constraint within Stendhal's writings, he offers a revealing analysis of both his work and his life. For Brombert, Stendhal's work is deeply personal; elsewhere, he has written about the myriad connections between Stendhal's ironic inquiries into identity and his own boyhood in France on the brink of World War II. Proceeding via careful and nuanced readings of passages from Stendhal's fiction and autobiography, Brombert pays particular attention
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The University of Chicago Press Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Book SynopsisElizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) was the first major woman poet in the English literary tradition. Her significance has been obscured in this century by her erasure from most literary histories and her exclusion from academic anthologies. Dorothy Mermin's critical and biographical study argues for Barrett Browning's originative role in both the Victorian poetic tradition and the development of women's literature. Barrett Browning's place at the wellhead of a new female tradition remains the single most important fact about her in terms of literary history, and it was central to her self-consciousness as a poet. Mermin's study shows that Barrett Browning's anomalous situation was constantly present to her imagination and that questions of gender shaped almost everything she wrote. Mermin argues that Barrett Browning's poetry covertly inspects and dismantles the barriers set in her path by gender and that in her major worksSonnets from the Portuguese, Aurora Leigh, her best political
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The University of Chicago Press The Romantic Ideology A Critical Investigation
Book SynopsisClaiming that the scholarship and criticism of Romanticism and its works have for too long been dominated by a Romantic ideologyby an uncritical absorption in Romanticism's own self-representationsJerome J. McGann presents a new, critical view of the subject that calls for a radically revisionary reading of Romanticism. In the course of his study, McGann analyzes both the predominant theories of Romanticism (those deriving from Coleridge, Hegel, and Heine) and the products of its major English practitioners. Words worth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Byron are considered in greatest depth, but the entire movement is subjected to a searching critique. Arguing that poetry is produced and reproduced within concrete historical contexts and that criticism must take these contexts into account, McGann shows how the ideologies embodied in Romantic poetry and theory have shaped and distorted contemporary critical activities.
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The University of Chicago Press Alive in the Writing Crafting Ethnography in the
Book SynopsisAnton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer - but he wrote more than just plays and stories. This title introduces readers to some other sides of Chekhov: his pithy, witty observations on the writing process; and, his life as a writer through accounts by his friends, family, and lovers.Trade Review"Balm for the loneliness and torment of the ethnographic writer, this manual by one of the most distinguished offers the user a personal writer's workshop, at once charming, therapeutic, and practical. The author's mother, her most astute reader, asks: 'A lot of people have no problem writing. The bigger thing I'd like to know is, do you have any thoughts on how to put all the different little bits together?' With the help of Anton Chekhov, her muse and obsession, Narayan does." (George Marcus, University of California, Irvine)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Manly Love Romantic Friendship in American
Book SynopsisExamining the novels and short stories of Victorian America, this book uncovers the widely overlooked phenomenon of passionate friendships between men. It offers a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century America's attitudes toward love, friendship, marriage, and sex.Trade Review"Nissen has trumped nearly every other scholar in recapturing and elucidating some fundamental patterns of American Victorian culture. His engaging, even suspenseful, book transported me into those times more fully than anything I know from outside the period itself, such that his insights attain an emotional as well as intellectual force." - John W. Crowley, University of Alabama"
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The University of Chicago Press Some Words of Jane Austen
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The University of Chicago Press Wordsworths Fun
Book SynopsisThe next day Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at Coleridge's cottage.... He answered in some degree to his friend's description of him, but was more quaint and Don Quixote-like. These words from William Hazlitt present a Wordsworth who differs from the one we know--and as Matthew Bevis argues in his radical new reading of the poet, a Wordsworth who owed his quixotic creativity to a profound feeling for comedy. Wordsworth's Fun takes us on a journey through the poet's debts to the ludic and the ludicrous in classical tradition; his reading and reworking of Ariosto, Erasmus, and Cervantes; his engagement with forms of English poetic humor; and his love of comic prose. Bevis travels many untrodden ways, examining the relationship between Wordsworth's metrical practice and his interest in laughing gas, his fascination with pantomime, his investment in the figure of the fool, and his response to discussions about the value of play. Intrepid, immersive, and entertaining, Wordsworth'sFun no
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The University of Chicago Press The Daily Sherlock Holmes
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The University of Chicago Press Dreaming in Books The Making of the
Book SynopsisExamining novels, critical editions, gift books, translations, and illustrated books, as well as the communities who made them, this book tells a wide-ranging story of the book's identity at the turn of the nineteenth century. It shows how many pressing modern communicative concerns are not unique to the digital age.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Music and Trance A Theory of the Relations
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The University of Chicago Press Precarious Partners
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The University of Chicago Press Precarious Partners Horses and Their Humans in
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£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Poetry of Mourning The Modern Elegy from Hardy
Book SynopsisThrough readings of elegies, self-elegies, war poems and the blues, this book covers a wide range of poets, including Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. It is grounded in genre theory and in the psychoanalysis of mourning.
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The University of Chicago Press Poetry and the Fate of the Senses
Book SynopsisWhat is the role of the senses in the creation and reception of poetry? This work traces the path of the aesthetic in search of an explanation for the role of poetry in culture. It draws on readings from the ancient Greeks to the postmoderns to explain how poetry creates meaning between persons.
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The University of Chicago Press Networks of Improvement
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Richly archival and powerful in its conceptions, Mee’s Networks of Improvement boldly goes where few literary historians have been before, into the heartlands of industrializing Britain for a magisterially orchestrated and methodologically groundbreaking study. Mee has given us a picture of British intellectual and social relationships that will stand unmatched for a long time to come.” * Jon Klancher, Carnegie Mellon University *“Mee offers a sophisticated account of reading as a social practice central to the circulation of knowledge, both grand and granular, responsive to large questions with local particularities. Networks of Improvement is comprehensive, clearly written, and carefully organized.” * Jonathan Sachs, Concordia University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Networks and Institutions 1 Power, Knowledge, and Literature 2 The Collision of Mind with Mind: Manchester and Newcastle, 1781–1823 3 Improvement Redux: Liverpool, Leeds, and Sheffield, 1812–32 Part Two: Bodies and Machines 4 Three Physicians around Manchester 5 Hannah Greg’s Domestic Mission 6 An Inventive Age 7 Lives, Damned Lives, and Statistics Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
£84.00
The University of Chicago Press Realism After the Individual
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£87.40
The University of Chicago Press One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine A
Book SynopsisProvides a representation of French poet Paul Verlaine's oeuvre. This selection includes a number of Verlaine's early works; poems from his middle period, which reflect his on-again, off-again conversion to Catholicism; and poems from his late period, when he fell prey to poverty and disease.
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press Tolstoys Major Fiction
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The University of Chicago Press Secret Leaves The Novels of Walter Scott Chicago
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The University of Chicago Press Bleak Liberalism
Book SynopsisWhy is liberalism so often dismissed by thinkers from both the left and the right? To those calling for wholesale transformation or claiming a monopoly on realistic conceptions of humanity, liberalism's assured progressivism can seem hard to swallow. Bleak Liberalism makes the case for a renewed understanding of the liberal tradition, showing that it is much more attuned to the complexity of political life than conventional accounts have acknowledged. Anderson examines canonical works of high realism, political novels from England and the United States, and modernist works to argue that liberalism has engaged sober and even stark views of historical development, political dynamics, and human and social psychology. From Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Hard Times to E. M. Forster's Howards End to Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, this literature demonstrates that liberalism has inventive ways of balancing sociological critique and moral aspiration. A deft blend of intellectual histo
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The University of Chicago Press Dark Voices W. E. B. Du Bois and American Thought
Book SynopsisThis is an examination of the intellectual formation of W.E.B. Du Bois, tracing the scholar and civil rights leader's thought from his undergraduate days in the 1880s to the 1903 publication of The Souls of Black Folk. It offers a reading of his work from this period.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1: Race and Multiplicity: An Introduction Pt. I: From the South to the Seventh Ward 2: "Great Men," "Great Laws," and the "Fourth Dimension": The Crisis of Hero, System, and Nation Bismarck in Tennessee: Traveling in Time Pluralism as Mind-Cure: The Accommodation of William James "Fourth Dimension" and "Great Laws": Satire and Historicism Jefferson Davis at Harvard: Representing Civilization 3: Local Knowledge in the Shadow of Liberty: Science, Society, and Legitimacy Toward Science: Will and Law Revisited The Riddle of the American Sphinx: History, Sociology, and Exceptionalism The Claims of "Thought and Feeling": Science, Literature, and Understanding Pt. II: The Souls of Black Folk 4: "Double-Consciousness": Locating the Self United Selves and United States: Hegel in America "The Contradiction of Double Aims" and "The Talented Tenth" The Unlocated Self: James, Santayana, Emerson 5: A "Prosody of Those Dark Voices": The Transformation of Consciousness The Sorrow Songs: Using an Unusable Past Voices from the Caverns and the Guardians of the Folk Thoughtful Deed: The Senses of Prophetic Imagination Missing the End: Toward Revolution 6: Conclusion Appendix: W. E. B. Du Bois's "A Vacation Unique" Notes Bibliography Index
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McGill-Queen's University Press Blowing up the Skirt of History Recovered and
Book SynopsisReviving a dramatic past in which women playwrights used theatre to empower their culture and themselves.Trade Review“Kym Bird’s Blowing up the Skirt of History is a dynamic and compelling anthology [that] collects some of the earliest English plays from different regions in Canada. With verve and humour, Bird uses public theory and feminism to analyze the plays’ constrained performance of nationalism and racial privilege. Bird’s energetic writing style will certainly appeal to undergraduate students and help make early Canadian theatre more accessible. Blowing up the Skirt of History is an important work for anyone interested in early Canadian drama and feminist literature.” Canadian Literature
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John Wiley & Sons Canada to Ireland
Book SynopsisCanada to Ireland explores the poetry and prose of twelve Irish writers and nationalists in Canada between 1788 and 1900. The book demonstrates that Canadian cultural nationalism left its mark on both countries. Contemporary decolonization movements in Canada and cultural exchanges between Ireland and Indigenous peoples make this a timely study.Trade Review“With exemplary scholarship, [Michele Holmgren] provides a highly informed analysis of the kinds of engaging materials that the likes of Thomas D’Arcy McGee recommended to Canadian writers as the fittest subjects for the inspiration of Canadian readers. After reading Holmgren’s extensive survey and study of our Irish-Canadian heritage, one would not be amiss in viewing Canada articulating its nascent national self in the titular terms of Norman Levine’s memoir: [Ireland] Made Me. This reviewer is convinced of Holmgren’s thesis by the evidence marshalled and by her painstaking argument.” Gerald Lynch, University of Toronto Quarterly
£98.60
McGill-Queen's University Press A. Mary F. Robinson Victorian Poet and Modern
Book SynopsisThis critical biography of A. Mary F. Robinson traces her unorthodox journey through the literary circles of London and Paris as a writer of poetry and prose, a leading member of the Anglo-French community, and a significant contributor to the cultural and literary shift from nineteenth-century Victorianism to twentieth-century modernism.Trade Review"This book offers an organic approach to A. Mary F. Robinson, which is a major achievement in itself, given the considerable complexities of her life and work. Patricia Rigg's capacious and fascinating account will place Robinson prominently in late Victorian and early twentieth-century literary studies." Alison Chapman, University of Victoria and author of Networking the Nation: British and American Women's Poetry and Italy, 1840–1870"This is the most comprehensive study to date on A. Mary F. Robinson. Patricia Rigg should be congratulated for her painstaking, thorough research, which gathers previously unavailable archival material. Rigg gives attention to Robinson's complete oeuvre in both English and French, offering much new material on her work in French especially, for a richer sense of Robinson's full career." Emily Harrington, University of Colorado, Boulder, and author of Second Person Singular: Late Victorian Women Poets and the Bonds of Verse
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Columbia University Press Commissioned Spirits
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Columbia University Press Scenes of Seduction
Book SynopsisThis study demonstrates that three subjects traditionally discussed separately - prostitution, hysteria and the popular novel - share a discourse of marginality and of female marginality in particular, central to the 19th-century experience in France.
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Columbia University Press Old Taoist The Life Art and Poetry of Kodôjin
Book SynopsisIn the literary and artistic milieu of early modern Japan the Chinese and Japanese arts flourished side by side. Kodojin, the Old Taoist (1865-1944), was the last of these great poet-painters in Japan. This book brings together 150 of Kodojin's Chinese poems (introduced and translated by Jonathan Chaves).Trade Review"The story of Addiss's patient unearthing of this unusual life and work, very nearly lost to history, itself makes a gripping narrative, and is a triumph of modern scholarship." - David Pollack, University of Rochester "This richly informative volume bring the reclusive painter-poet to life." - Karen M. Gerhart, Northern Arizona UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1. Kodojin's Life and Art 2. Kodojin's Japanese Poetry 3. Kodojin and the T'ao Ch'ien Tradition in Kanshi Poetry, by Jonathan Chaves 4. Kodojin's Chinese Poetry, translated by Jonathan Chaves 5. A Note on Kodojin and the Art and Literature of His Period, by J. Thomas Rimer Epilogue Notes Index
£28.80
Columbia University Press Burnin Down the House
Book SynopsisHome is a powerful metaphor guiding the literature of African Americans throughout the twentieth century.Trade ReviewThis is fertile and exciting theoretical ground... We'll hear from Prince again, and will be dazzled and provoked. -- Adam Gussow Southern RegisterTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A House Is Not a Home 1. Living (Just Enough) for the City: Native Son 2. Keep on Moving Don't Stop: Invisible Man 3. Get in the Kitchen and Rattle Them Pots and Pans: The Bluest Eye 4. She's a Brick House: Corregidora 5. God Bless the Child That's Got His Own: Song of Solomon Index
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Columbia University Press Sirens of the Western Shore
Book SynopsisIntroduces the "Westernesque femme fatale," an alluring figure who is ethnically Japanese but evokes the West in her physical appearance, lifestyle, behavior, and, most important, her use of language.Trade Review[An] insightful, carefully researched study... Highly recommended. Choice Richly textured... cogently argued, lucidly written, and offers the reader insights on both theoretical and biographical levels. -- Nanette Gottlieb Monumenta Nipponica Sirens of the Western Shore takes a fresh and detailed look at the topic of vernacular style in Meiji literature. -- Sarah Frederick Journal of Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One Foreign Letters, the Vernacular, and Meiji Schoolgirls 1. Translation as Origin and the Originality of Translation 2. Meiji Schoolgirls in and as Language Part Two Tayama Katai and the Siren of Vernacular Letters 3. Portrait of the Naturalist as a Young Exote 4. Literary Desire and the Exotic Language of Love: From "Shoshijin" to Jokyoshi 5. Haunting the Laboratory of Vernacular Style: The Sirens of "Shojobyo" and Futon Part Three Staging the New Woman: The Spectacular Embodiment of "Nature" in Translation 6. Setting the Stage for Translation 7. Gender Drag, Culture Drag, and Female Interiority Final Reflections: Gender, Cultural Hierarchy, and Literary Style Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Sirens of the Western Shore
Book SynopsisTrade Review[An] insightful, carefully researched study... Highly recommended. Choice Richly textured... cogently argued, lucidly written, and offers the reader insights on both theoretical and biographical levels. -- Nanette Gottlieb Monumenta Nipponica Sirens of the Western Shore takes a fresh and detailed look at the topic of vernacular style in Meiji literature. -- Sarah Frederick Journal of Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One Foreign Letters, the Vernacular, and Meiji Schoolgirls 1. Translation as Origin and the Originality of Translation 2. Meiji Schoolgirls in and as Language Part Two Tayama Katai and the Siren of Vernacular Letters 3. Portrait of the Naturalist as a Young Exote 4. Literary Desire and the Exotic Language of Love: From "Shoshijin" to Jokyoshi 5. Haunting the Laboratory of Vernacular Style: The Sirens of "Shojobyo" and Futon Part Three Staging the New Woman: The Spectacular Embodiment of "Nature" in Translation 6. Setting the Stage for Translation 7. Gender Drag, Culture Drag, and Female Interiority Final Reflections: Gender, Cultural Hierarchy, and Literary Style Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Why Jane Austen
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBrownstein has written a delectable hybrid of biographical and cultural criticism, struck with brilliant splashes of memoir. On reading, you feel as if you just finished Pride and Prejudice, you Skype a brainy friend who knows Austen inside out-the conversation is so delicious, you'll whip through Persuasion just so you can talk to her tomorrow! Why Jane Austen? Why the movies, miniseries, museums, sequels, novelizations, prequels, criticisms and zombies? Read this book and you'll know. Then put it on the shelf next to those six novels, even richer now for this lady's attentions. -- Honor Moore, author of The Bishop's Daughter This vital handbook for Janeites is both a store house of diverting facts and a history of literary obsession, gracefully steering the reader through a maelstrom of conflicting views on Jane Austen's life and times. A fascinating account of how Austen has been glorified yet exploited by film and television over the decades--so Mr. Darcy lives forever to woo Elizabeth, whether wearing the face of yesterday's Laurence Olivier or today's Colin Firth. -- Fay Weldon, author of Chalcot Present Why Jane Austen? is a warmhearted, personal, and humane meditation on Austen and Austenolatry. It is also, in the tradition of Becoming a Heroine, smart, witty, eloquent, and joyfully wide-ranging, a mixture of anecdote, cultural criticism, biography, literary history, and close reading. By bringing serious literary thought to a wider audience, this book is accessible to anyone acquainted with Austen's novels. It performs one of the most important services of humanistic scholarship. -- William Deresiewicz, author of A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter Rachel M. Brownstein's smart and often charming book reengages and reinvigorates Lionel Trilling's question, 'why we read Jane Austen'--a matter that Austen scholars know is of cultural as well as personal import. Brownstein writes with the assurance and comfort of a senior scholar surveying the terrain. She is opinionated in the best sense, but she also writes from a place of considerable and valuable self-consciousness. Parts of her book serve as memoir: of her life as a teacher, as a scholar asked in public and private social encounters to serve as representative and explainer of Austen the cultural icon, as a reader whose contexts for Austen have changed with changing geography and social meanings. It is one of Brownstein's contentions that, reading Austen and seeking her, we find ourselves. -- Mary Ann O'Farrell, Texas A&M University, author of Telling Complexions: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush This book will delight devoted readers and students of Jane Austen and may inspire readers who have disliked Austen in the past. Library Journal Along the way, the reader, too, may discover in Brownstein's book what the author discovers in Austen: a means of transporting ourselves to a more gracious and better-ordered world. -- Melinda Bargreen Seattle Times An intriguing discussion of one of history's literary giantesses. The Midwest Book Review ...her brilliant critical insights and comprehensive survey of Austen studies - including its excesses - merit a wide readership. -- Elsa Solender JASNA News ...the hours spent reading this book are as enjoyable as conversing with a perceptive and sympathetic friend, and as a rewarding as being guided by a superb teacher. JASNA News (second review by Maggie Lane)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Why We Read Jane Austen 2. Looking for Jane 3. Neighbors 4. Authors 5. Why We Reread Jane Austen Afterwords Notes Index
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. First Experiments Fiction Mori Ogai "The Dancing Girl" Poetry Ochiai Naobumi "Song of the Faithful Daughter Shiragiku" Shimazaki Toson "The Fox's Trick" "First Love" Takeshima Hagoromo "The Maiden Called Love" 2. Beginnings Fiction Izumi Kyoka "The Holy Man of Mount Koya" Kunikida Doppo "Meat and Potatoes" Masamune Hakucho "The Clay Doll" Nagai Kafu "The Mediterranean in Twilight" Ozaki Koyo The Gold Demon Poetry in the International Style Kodama Kagai "The Suicide of an Unemployed Person" Ishikawa Takuboku "Better than Crying" "Do Not Get Up" "A Spoonful of Cocoa" "After Endless Discussions" Kitahara Hakushu "Anesthesia of Red Flowers" "Spider Lilies" "Kiss" Takamura Kotaro "Bear Fur" "A Steak Platter" Kinoshita Mokutaro "Nagasaki Style" "Gold Leaf Brandy" Yosano Akiko "Beloved, You Must Not Die" "In the First Person" "A Certain Country" "From Paris on a Postcard" "The Heart of a Thirtyish Woman" Poetry in Traditional Forms Kanshi Tanka and Haiku Ishikawa Takuboku Masaoka Shiki Tanka Haiku Yosano Akiko "The Dancing Girl" "Spring Thaw" Essays Natsume Soseki "The Civilization of Modern- Day Japan" "My Individualism" 3. The Interwar Years Fiction Akutagawa Ryunosuke "The Nose" "The Christ of Nanking" Edogawa Ranpo "The Human Chair" Hori Tatsuo The Wind Has Risen Inagaki Taruho One-Thousand-and-One-Second Stories Kawabata Yasunari "The Dancing Girl of Izu" Page of Madness Kuroshima Denji "A Flock of Circling Crows" Origuchi Shinobu Writings from the Dead Shiga Naoya "The Paper Door" Tanizaki Jun'ichiro "The Two Acolytes" Uchida Hyakken "Realm of the Dead" "Triumphant March into Port Arthur" Poetry in the International Style Takamura Kotaro "Cathedral in the Thrashing Rain" Hagiwara Sakutaro "On a Trip" "Bamboo" "Sickly Face at the Bottom of the Ground" "The One Who's in Love with Love" "The Army" "The Corpse of a Cat" Miyazawa Kenji "Spring & Asura" "November 3rd" Nishiwaki Junzaburo Seven Poems from Ambarvalia No Traveler Returns Kitasono Katsue "Collection of White Poems" "Vin du masque" "Words" Two Poems "Almost Midwinter" Kitasono's First Letter to Ezra Pound Nakano Shigeharu "Imperial Hotel" "Song" "Paul Claudel" "Train" "The Rate of Exchange" Poetry in Traditional Forms Kitahara Hakushu Okamoto Kanoko Saito Mokichi Sugita Hisajo Taneda Santoka Drama Kishida Kunio The Swing Essay Kobayashi Hideo "Literature of the Lost Home" 4. The War Years Fiction Dazai Osamu "December 8th" Ishikawa Tatsuzo Soldiers Alive Ooka Shohei Taken Captive Poetry in the International Style Takamura Kotaro "The Elephant's Piggy Bank" "The Final Battle for the Ryukyu Islands" Kusano Shinpei "Mount Fuji" Oguma Hideo "Long, Long Autumn Nights" Poetry in Traditional Forms Toki Zenmaro "Evidence" Essays Kobayashi Hideo "On Impermanence" Sakaguchi Ango "A Personal View of Japa nese Culture" 5. Early Postwar Literature, 1945 to 1970 Fiction Abe Kobo "The Red Cocoon" Ariyoshi Sawako "The Village of Eguchi" Enchi Fumiko "Skeletons of Men" Endo Shusaku "Mothers" Hayashi Fumiko "Blindfold Phoenix" Hirabayashi Taiko "Demon Goddess" Hotta Yoshie "The Old Man" Ibuse Masuji "Old Ushitora" Inoue Yasushi "The Rhododendrons of Hira" Kanai Mieko "Homecoming" Kojima Nobuo "The Smile" Kono Taeko "Final Moments" Mishima Yukio "Patriotism" Noma Hiroshi "A Red Moon in Her Face" Takeda Taijun "The Misshapen Ones" Yasuoka Shotaro "Prized Possessions" Poetry in the International Style Ayukawa Nobuo "In Saigon" "The End of the Night" "War time Buddy" Ishigaki Rin "Roof" "Shijimi Clams" "Life" Katagiri Yuzuru "Christmas, 1960, Japan" "Why Security Treaty?" "Turn Back the Clock" Shiraishi Kazuko "The Phallus" Takamura Kotaro "End of the War" "My Poetry" Tanikawa Shuntaro "Growth" "Drizzle" Tomioka Taeko "between-" "Still Life" Yoshioka Minoru "Still Life" "The Past" Poetry in Traditional Forms Baba Akiko Kaneko Tota Nakajo Fumiko Drama Betsuyaku Minoru The Little Match Girl Kinoshita Junji Twilight Crane Essay Kawabata Yasunari "Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself" 6. Toward a Contemporary Literature, 1971 to the Present Fiction Furui Yoshikichi "Ravine" Hirano Keiichiro "Clear Water" Hoshi Shin'ichi "He-y, Come on Ou-t!" Kaiko Takeshi "The Crushed Pellet" Murakami Haruki "Firefly" Nakagami Kenji "The Wind and the Light" Ogawa Yoko "The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in the Rain" Shima Tsuyoshi "Bones" Shimizu Yoshinori "Jack and Betty Forever" Takahashi Takako "Invalid" Tawada Yoko "Where Eu rope Begins" Tsushima Yuko "That One Glimmering Point of Light" Yoshimoto Banana "Newlywed" Poetry in the International Style Ito Hiromi "Underground" "Glen Gould Goldberg" "Sexual Life of Savages" Shinkawa Kazue "The Door" "When the water called me..." Poetry in Traditional Forms Tawara Machi Drama Inoue Hisashi Makeup Kara Juro The 24:53 Train Bound for "Tower" Is Waiting in Front of That Doughnut Shop in Takebaya Essay Oe Kenzaburo "Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself" Bibliography
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Columbia University Press The Winter Sun Shines In
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this new biography of Masaoka Shiki, Donald Keene tells Shiki's story with a wonderful blend of brio and depth. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the work delves into hitherto slighted aspects of Shiki's oeuvre and personality. Readers of Japanese and world literature will welcome this book for its rich portrait of one of modern Japan's most important writers. -- Janine Beichman, author of Masaoka Shiki: His Life and Works This biography excels. Japan TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Early Years 2. Student Days 3. The Song of the Hototogisu 4. Shiki the Novelist 5. Cathay and the Way Thither 6. Sketches from Life 7. Hototogisu 8. Shiki and the Tanka 9. Shintaishi and Kanshi 10. Random Essays (Zuihitsu), 1 11. Random Essays, 2 12. The Last Days Notes Bibliography Index
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