Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

Book SynopsisSatoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater and its representations of medieval Japanese tales and tradition, reframing Edo kabuki as a key player in the formation of an early modern urban identity. Challenging the common understanding of kabuki as subversive, Shimazaki argues that kabuki instilled a sense of shared history.Trade ReviewA sophisticated, entertaining, and well-written contribution to nineteenth-century kabuki studies that both challenges the conventional wisdom of early modern theater scholarship and illuminates the splendid, ghastly world of Japanese horror. -- Keller Kimbrough, author of Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater Satoko Shimazaki's fascinating study of early modern kabuki performance reveals a new kabuki theater to us, not a cultural practice with a relatively stable body of texts at its center but a major site of social and cultural negotiation whose central feature and strength lies in its remarkable variety and adaptability. -- Marvin Carlson, author of The Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine Edo Kabuki in Transition is an extraordinary contribution to the field of kabuki studies, in both the West and Japan. Its unconventional yet comprehensive view of Edo kabuki's evolution, especially its playwriting practices, filtered through the lens of Tsuruya Nanboku IV's 1825 coproduction of his revolutionary ghost play Yotsuya kaidan and the popular history play Chushingura, is original and searching. Satoko Shimazaki's highly readable, marvelously researched study gives us both a penetrating understanding of the fluidity of Edo dramaturgy and an exceptionally thorough examination of the ghost play genre. -- Samuel L. Leiter, author of The Art of Kabuki: Five Famous Plays This fascinating book is a bold revisioning of the development of kabuki theater in Edo (present-day Tokyo)... Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note to the Reader Introduction Part I. The Birth of Edo Kabuki 1. Presenting the Past: Edo Kabuki and the Creation of Community Part II. The Beginning of the End of Edo Kabuki: Yotsuya kaidan in 1825 2. Overturning the World: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers and Yotsuya kaidan 3. Shades of Jealousy: The Body of the Female Ghost 4. The End of the World: Figures of the Ubume and the Breakdown of Theater Tradition Part III: The Modern Rebirth of Kabuki 5. Another History: Yotsuya kaidan on Stage and Page Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLiterary narrative enchants us through its development of plot, but plot tells its own story about the making of narrative. Through readings of King Lear and Crime and Punishment, Robert L. Belknap explores the spatial, chronological, and causal aspects of plot, arguing that plots teach us novelistic rather than poetic justice.Trade ReviewPlots is an almost perfect book by one of this country's great scholar-teachers on why the literary art of arranging episodes matters to us. Not only luminously smart but also perfectly plotted (Robert L. Belknap's model plot-mongers are Shakespeare and Dostoevsky), each detail of the book's structure, chronological argument, and diction conspire to create that rare work of criticism: a story we cannot put down. -- Caryl Emerson, Princeton University Plots is a brilliant piece of work, well-written, and insightful-a sheer pleasure to follow. Belknap's definitions of the terms of Russian formalism are clearer than anyone else's, and his sense of what they suggest is richer. -- Gary Morson, Northwestern University Plots has an adamantine quality, as if decades of thought and teaching were being crystallized and enormously compressed... Plots reveals that with Belknap's death, we lost a critic and literary historian of great power and considerable ingenuity. -- Scott McLemee Inside Higher Ed You may never look at a story the same way again after reading Robert Belknap's incisively clear and illuminating book, titled simply, Plots. The Fictional 100 A valuable addition to the scholarship on plot and narration ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface Introduction, by Robin Feuer Miller Part I. Literary Plots Deserve Still More Study 1. Plots Arrange Literary Experience 2. Plot Summaries Need More Serious Study 3. The Fabula Arranges the Events in the World the Characters Inhabit; the Siuzhet Arranges the Events in the World the Reader Encounters in the Text 4. Authors Can Relate One Incident to Another Only Chronologically, Spatially, Causally, Associatively, or Narratively 5. Plots are Fractal, Formed from Incidents That Are Formed from Smaller, Similarly Shaped Incidents 6. The Best Authorities Consider Plots and Incidents to Be Tripartite, with a Situation, a Need, and an Action 7. But Siuzhets and the Incidents That Form Them Have Two Parts: An Expectation and Its Fulfillment or Frustration Part II. The Plot of King Lear Operates Purposefully But Also Reflects the Creative Process 8. For Integrity of Impact, Stages, Actors, and the Audience Need a Unity of Action 9. Shakespeare Replaced the Greek Unity of Action with a New Thematic Unity Based on Parallelism 10. Shakespeare Uses Conflict, the Righting of Wrongs, the Healing of an Inruption or Disruption, and Other Standard Plotting Devices, But His Recognition Scenes Move Us Most 11. Shakespeare Prepares for His Recognition Scenes with Elaborate Lies 12. In King Lear, Shakespeare Uses Elaborated Lies to Psychologize the Gloucester Subplot 13. Tolstoy and Tate Preferred the Comforting Plots of Lear's Sources to Shakespeare's, But Shakespeare Had Considered That Variant and Rejected It Part III. The Plot of Crime and Punishment Draws Rhetorical and Moral Power from the Nature of Novel Plots and from the European and Russian Tradition Dostoevsky Inherited and Developed 14. European Novelists Elaborated or Assembled Incidents into Plots Long Before Critics Recognized the Sophistication of the New Genre in Plotting Such Subgenres as the Letter Novel and the Detective Novel 15. Dostoevsky Shaped and Was Shaped by the Russian Version of the Nineteenth-Century Novel 16. In Reinventing the Psychological Plot, Dostoevsky Challenged the Current Literary Leaders 17. The Siuzhet of Part 1 of Crime and Punishment Programs the Reader to Read the Rest and to Participate Actively in a Vicious Murder 18. The One-Sidedness of Desire and Violence in Crime and Punishment Is More Peculiar to Dostoevsky's Plotting Than Dostoevshchina 19. Critics Often Attack Crime and Punishment for a Rhetoric That Exploits Causality in Ways They Misunderstand 20. The Epilogue of Crime and Punishment Crystallizes Its Ideological Plot 21. The Plots of Novels Teach Novelistic Justice, Not Poetic Justice Bibliography Index Works by Robert Belknap

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Book SynopsisWendy Graham traces the critical discourses that shaped the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s reception and continues to inform responses to them. She explains the mechanics of fame and the politics of scandal contributing to the rise of aestheticism, providing a new interpretation of the place of aesthetic counterculture in Victorian England.Trade ReviewThis is a useful survey of high Victorian critical values, and it helps prepare the way for a deeper understanding of Henry James and Oscar Wilde. * Choice *Graham’s strengths are in her meticulous historical illustrations of her theoretical claims. -- Erica Haugtvedt, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota * Clio *The book makes a helpful addition to the growing scholarship on avant-garde celebrities, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the eighteenth century to Gertrude Stein, Truman Capote, and Andy Warhol in the twentieth. -- Sharon Marcus * Victorian Studies *Graham’s is a book for which to feel grateful . . . Her determination to write both the homosociality and the (often denied) homoeroticism of the PRB men back into their story, and thus into cultural history, is an admirable animating purpose. That she does this, too, by means of such energetic, idiosyncratic, passionately engagé prose makes her study a most welcome one. -- MARGARET D. STETZ, University of Delaware * English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 *This book should be welcomed by scholars working in Queer and Gender studies, whom it most directly addresses. Victorianists interested in the figure of the celebrity and the role played by periodicals will also value its detailed reception history. Scholars of Pre-Raphaelite art (and to a lesser extent, literature) will find some interesting and provocative claims to ponder. -- Elizabeth Helsinger * Cercles *Wendy Graham writes with engaging clarity and rigor about the curious homoeroticism of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the volatile sexual politics surrounding the careers of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Simeon Solomon in particular. With her subtle eye for the odd erotic enthusiasm, the conflicted allegiance, and the panicky equivocation, she takes a fresh and judicious look at the abundant mythmaking, journalistic backstabbing, and personal betrayals that attended the myriad Pre-Raphaelite challenges to Victorian conventions. -- Ellis Hanson, Cornell UniversityCritics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity is chock full of insight. Graham wants us to think of Pre-Raphaelitism as not just a, but the crucial movement in the making of modern ideas of celebrity. Her concern is at once with the Pre-Raphaelites, and with the assortments of critical discourse that greeted their onset, shaped their contemporary reception, and continued to guide critical responses to them well after their supersession. She argues that there exists both within the PRB and its reception a persistent homosocial and often homoerotic dynamic, which shapes the ways we think about art movements and their possibilities. This is a distinguished and fascinating work. -- Jonathan Freedman, University of MichiganTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Pre-Raphaelite Vanguard2. Puff, Slash, Burn: Literary Celebrity3. Fortune’s Weal4. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Aesthetic Celebrity5. Anonymous Journalism: The Fleshly School Controversy6. Henry James and British AestheticismAfterwordNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisAndrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to a Soviet labor camp. His irreverent portrait outraged émigrés and Soviet scholars alike, yet was meant only to rescue Pushkin. Anglophone readers who question the longstanding adoration for Pushkin will enjoy tagging along on Sinyavsky's strolls with the great poet.Trade ReviewIn the guise of a spirited, iconoclastic study of the presiding deity of Russian literature, the great Andrei Sinyavsky (writing as his bolder alter ego, Abram Tertz) has composed an ardent and fastidious attack on philistinism in all its forms: literary, psychological, and political. -- Susan Sontag In his alter ego as Tertz, Sinyavsky was the David to every institutional Goliath, picking off the monumental cult of the national poet of the Stalin period and the sentimentalized icon of Russia Abroad. His shock tactics were Pushkinian: irreverent wit, conversational tone, thinking outside the box. And guess what? Pushkin was no saint, but his genius is supremely alive and human in this brilliant appreciation. All readers should find in this spirited classic of literary and cultural criticism, vibrantly translated, expertly introduced and annotated, license to our own individual musings with two great writers and writing. -- Andrew Kahn, University of Oxford This translation of Sinyavsky's subversive text achieves the impossible, shocking, entertaining, and beguiling us into a freer, more lively appreciation of the liberating power of language. -- Cathy Porter, Independent Given its title, Sinyavsky's work is appropriately rambling and easygoing, but also brilliantly iconoclastic about this most iconic of Russian writers. -- Michael Dirda Washington Post Enhancing this accessible translation of a subtle and complex text, Catharine Nepomnyashchy has written a fine introduction to summarize Pushkin's life, works and subsequent cult status. -- Phoebe Taplin Russia Beyond the Headlines A playful appreciation of Pushkin's playfulness. -- Gary Saul Morson New York Review of Books Andrei Sinyavsky/Abram Tertz was one of the most gifted Russian writers of the postwar era. Most of his work is now in print in Russia, but most of the English translations seem to have gone out of print. It will be an excellent thing if Strolls with Pushkin leads us back to him. We need his free and welcoming spirit more than ever. -- Richard Pevear The Hudson ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Strolls with Pushkin A Journey to the River Black Remembering Cathy Nepomnyaschchy and Slava Yastremski Notes Notes on the Text

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Book SynopsisAndrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to a Soviet labor camp. His irreverent portrait outraged émigrés and Soviet scholars alike, yet was meant only to rescue Pushkin. Anglophone readers who question the longstanding adoration for Pushkin will enjoy tagging along on Sinyavsky's strolls with the great poet.Trade ReviewIn the guise of a spirited, iconoclastic study of the presiding deity of Russian literature, the great Andrei Sinyavsky (writing as his bolder alter ego, Abram Tertz) has composed an ardent and fastidious attack on philistinism in all its forms: literary, psychological, and political. -- Susan Sontag In his alter ego as Tertz, Sinyavsky was the David to every institutional Goliath, picking off the monumental cult of the national poet of the Stalin period and the sentimentalized icon of Russia Abroad. His shock tactics were Pushkinian: irreverent wit, conversational tone, thinking outside the box. And guess what? Pushkin was no saint, but his genius is supremely alive and human in this brilliant appreciation. All readers should find in this spirited classic of literary and cultural criticism, vibrantly translated, expertly introduced and annotated, license to our own individual musings with two great writers and writing. -- Andrew Kahn, University of Oxford This translation of Sinyavsky's subversive text achieves the impossible, shocking, entertaining, and beguiling us into a freer, more lively appreciation of the liberating power of language. -- Cathy Porter, Independent Given its title, Sinyavsky's work is appropriately rambling and easygoing, but also brilliantly iconoclastic about this most iconic of Russian writers. -- Michael Dirda Washington PostTable of ContentsIntroduction Strolls with Pushkin A Journey to the River Black Remembering Cathy Nepomnyaschchy and Slava Yastremski Notes Notes on the Text

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Book SynopsisNan Z. Da offers an in-depth study of nineteenth-century Sino-U.S. literary interactions that highlights their lack of transpacific interpollination. Intransitive Encounter is an unconventional and theoretically rich reflection on global meetings and imaginings that do not fit the patterns proclaimed by postcolonial and literary studies.Trade ReviewIn this bracingly intelligent and impressively researched study of nineteenth-century Sino-U.S. encounters, Nan Z. Da focuses on transnational exchanges in which not much of anything is exchanged and worlds are not transformed. The result is a transformative book that challenges assumptions about transnationalism and maps out productive new ways of exploring the limits of cultural exchange. -- Robert S. Levine, author of Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary StudiesNan Z. Da has written the first great book on nineteenth-century Sino-U.S. literary relations and a truly great book on the current state of comparative literature. Da's beautiful readings of what she calls the many 'intransitive encounters' between Chinese and American literature demonstrate the ways in which the idea of a global, East-West world literature is a fantasy that obscures the much more interesting differences, failures, and untranslatable moments that have generated a long history of literary criticism. This book should be required reading for students and scholars of American and comparative literature. -- Virginia Jackson, University of California, IrvineIntransitive Encounter offers nothing less than a complete reimagining of the literary encounter. With acuity, archival sensitivity, and analytic insight, Nan Z. Da argues that previous assumptions about transnational literary contact have perpetuated a hermeneutic that crosses out as much as it crosses over—and that what gets crossed out is precisely an opportunity to see the literary as a different kind of encounter. -- R. John Williams, author of The Buddha in the Machine: Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and WestDa makes a unique contribution to transpacific literary studies and suggests a new approach to transnationalism that is theoretically sophisticated, historically revisionist, and potentially paradigm changing. Intransitive Encounter is a work of great originality, imagination, and erudition. -- Yunte Huang, University of California, Santa BarbaraHighly recommended. * Choice *Intransitive Encounter’s methodological and theoretical contributions will resonate far beyond its field. At the heart of the book and the Sino-U.S. encounters it elucidates are a set of concerns—about the purpose of translation, the limits of cross-cultural communication, the dynamics of literary influence, the materiality and occasionality of literary objects, and what literature can make thinkable or actionable in the world—that are at the center of conversations in modernist studies, comparative literature, cross-cultural communications, and transnational literary studies. * Modernism/modernity *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Intransitivity1. Indifference in the Open: Squandering Washington Irving2. Extreme Reformality: Burning Bridges with Ralph Waldo Emerson3. Incommunicative Exchange: Yung Wing’s Impersonal Schemes4. The Things Things Do Not Have to Say: Longfellow to Dong Xun5. Open Books: Qiu Jin’s Feminist Reading Time6. Harmless Exaggeration: Edith Eaton’s Tweaks and GlitchesEpilogue: Untracking EncounterAppendix 1. A Note on Chinese Language Appearances in the BookAppendix 2. LexiconAppendix 3. Historical Movements, Treaties, Organizations, InstitutionsAppendix 4. List of Chinese Primary SourcesAppendix 5. List of Chinese NamesNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisNineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjō—literally “human emotion,” but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desire. In Licentious Fictions, Daniel Poch investigates the significance of ninjō in defining the literary modernity of nineteenth-century Japan.Trade Review[A] bold, ambitious, and deeply researched monograph. -- Timothy J. Van Compernolle, Amherst College * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *An invaluable resource for anyone wishing to better understand the discursive backdrop that shaped how major workswere conceptualized and received across this period through the lens of ninjo. * Journal of Japanese Studies *In Licentious Fictions, Daniel Poch identifies the emergence of a distinctive literary modernity in nineteenth-century Japan based on the idea that human emotion was politically disruptive and morally dubious. Breaking new ground with his analysis of narrative practices surrounding love and desire, Poch truly shines when he anchors his examination of the Japanese novel in a global history of modernity. -- Paul Schalow, Rutgers UniversityLicentious Fictions is an important work that resituates our perception of Japan’s literary modernity. With a broad sweep that moves from Edo to Meiji and from Chinese antecedents to Western influences, Daniel Poch challenges the long-standing but artificial divide between historical eras and provides a new integrative framework for our understanding of the modern novel in Japan. -- Rebecca Copeland, Washington University in St. LouisLicentious Fictions provides the most compelling account to date of the nineteenth-century Japanese novel as exhibiting a coherent discursive economy that spans the Edo/Meiji divide. It stands out for both the sophistication of its analysis and the impressive scope of primary source material that it covers. It is a groundbreaking work that is sure to make a major impact on the field. -- Peter Flueckiger, Pomona CollegeThe novel has always been about love—its dangerous and disruptive power. Daniel Poch's wide-ranging book explores how Japanese writers and translators attempted to contain, explain, and exploit the problematic power of love in their fiction. -- Gaye Rowley, Waseda UniversityLicentious Fictions presents the most sustained and penetrating exploration of the Japanese novel’s ambitious and problematic engagement with dangerous emotions and desires. Tracing the pervasive anxiety over the social potency of the mass-produced novel, Poch impressively delineates a new genealogy of the modern novel in nineteenth-century Japan. A truly path-breaking book. -- Tomi Suzuki, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Ninjō and the Early-Modern Novel1. From Ninjō to the Ninjōbon: Toward the Licentious Novel2. Questioning the Idealist Novel: Virtue and Desire in Nansō Satomi hakkendenPart II: The Age of Literary Reform3. Translating Love in the Early-Meiji Novel: Ninjōbon and Yomihon in the Age of Enlightenment4. Historicizing Literary Reform: Shōsetsu shinzui, Translation, and the Civilizational Politics of Ninjō5. The Novel’s Failure: Shōyō and the Aporia of Realism and IdealismPart III: Late-Meiji Questionings6. Ninjō and the Late-Meiji Novel: Recontextualizing Sōseki’s Literary ProjectEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisNathan Shockey examines the emergence of new forms of reading, writing, and thinking in Japan from the last years of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth. The Typographic Imagination presents a multivalent vision of the rise of mass print media and the transformation of modern Japanese literature, language, and culture.Trade ReviewNathan Shockey’s study of the typographic imagination in modern Japan reorganizes our sensibilities by seamlessly integrating media studies with modern Japanese literary history and criticism. Its fresh perspective is sure to change the conceptual landscape of Japan specialists, and its rich account of the particularities of modern Japanese print culture will command the attention of media studies scholars as well. -- Indra Levy, Stanford UniversityShockey does an amazing job of chronicling a transformative moment in the history of Japanese literature. Canons were transformed, new classes of readers emerged, and vivacious debates about the meaning and diversity of literature's materiality were produced. This book offers an important addition to the global history of print. -- Andrew Piper, McGill UniversityRich in detail and vast in scope, The Typographic Imagination deftly charts a course through the roiling complexity of print media that collectively generated a typographic effect in the early twentieth century. But the stroke of genius lies in how the perspective of print allows Shockey to overturn our understanding of modernization, highlighting a pulse of nonlinear difference coursing through print media, resurfacing intensified in strange new characters and movements. -- Thomas Lamarre, Duke UniversityShockey’s engaging and erudite study lays out beautifully the complex and changing technological, social, and intellectual landscape that informed Japan’s early modern and modern book worlds. This meticulously researched study expands our understanding of the literary field by interrogating the intersections of script reform, the transition from xylographic to industrial printing, new modes of book classification, and the crucial contributions of leftist movements to literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. -- Ann Sherif, Oberlin College and ConservatoryThe Typographic Imagination is an innovative study whose strengths include scrupulous scholarship, clear prose, and lucid analysis. The book makes a substantial contribution to the field of modern Japanese literary and cultural studies. I recommend it with enthusiasm! -- Seiji Lippit, University of California, Los AngelesWell-researched, subtle, and important. * Journal of Asian Studies *In his fascinating and stimulating book, Nathan Shockey takes us back to the world of late Meiji and Taisho Japan, when the market was awash with new magazines. . . . This is a richly detailed, resourcefully argued, and astonishingly wide-ranging book. * Journal of Japanese Studies *A meticulous work of scholarship, brimming with a wealth of analytical and anecdotal perspectives. * Monumenta Nipponica *Typographic Imagination presents familiar concepts in the information profession alongside new lenses in an intense look into Japan’s history surrounding typography in the late 19th and early 20th century. * RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Romanization and TranslationIntroduction: The World Made TypePart I: The Making of a Modern Media Ecology1. Pictures and Voices from a Paper Empire2. Iwanami Shoten and the Enterprise of Eternity3. The Topography of Typography: Bibliophiles and Used Books in the Print CityPart II: Prose, Language, and Politics in the Type Era4. New Age Sensations: Yokomitsu Riichi and the Contours of Literary Discourse5. Brave New Words: Orthographic Reform, Romanization, and Esperantism6. The Medium Is the Masses: Print Capitalism and the Prewar Leftist MovementConclusion: Ends, Echoes, and InversionsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisElena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how writers including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov responded to medical and public health prescriptions, arguing that they provide alternative ways of thinking about the limits and possibilities of human agency and free will.Trade ReviewA significant contribution to the growing field of medical humanities and its applications to Russian literary and cultural studies, Fratto’s book makes striking connections between narratives written a century ago and the most pressing concerns in today’s medical ethics. Engaging, informative, and inspired. -- Julia Vaingurt, coeditor of The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in RussiaMoving fluidly between modern medicine and Russian literature, Fratto explores a vital question: Who authors medical narratives? Focused on questions of plot and agency, her subtle analyses reveal how physicians develop their ideas about disease, entrepreneurs market meanings of health, and patients assert their voices to narrate their own medical storylines. -- David S. Jones, author of Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac CareThis elegant book stages nothing less than a Slavic studies intervention in medical humanities—and vice versa. In the process, Fratto draws myriad revelatory connections between the writings of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Bulgakov, among others, and such present-day concerns as medical ethics, disability, posthumanism, and the Covid-19 pandemic. In short, Medical Storyworlds is a triumph. -- José Alaniz, author of Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and BeyondAn original and thought-provoking study . . . Fratto’s lively book provides compelling new interpretations of canonical works of Russian literature, and it manages to put the discipline of Slavic Studies into a productive dialogue with contemporary Medical Humanities. * Journal of Medical Humanities *[A] fascinating, very well-written, and timely book. * Modern Language Review *[A] nuanced and richly interdisciplinary study. * The Russian Review *Fratto’s expansive source base, including Russian, French, and Italian texts, along with her command of the theoretical literature, gives us a new platform from which the medical humanities can continue to develop. * Modern Language Quarterly *Fratto’s absorbing, timely study will be invaluable for scholars, the general reader, and anyone who is interested not only in Russian and European literatures, but also, in the nuanced ways medical narratives shape human lives, and vice versa. * Slavic Review *This book will be useful to anyone interested in medical discourse, as well as to students of the medical humanities, a field that reaffirms the need to pay attention to patient narratives, as well as to sickness-related fiction as a whole. * H-Sci-Med-Tech *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Grand Finale: Death as the Revelatory Ending2. End of Story: Temporality and the Prospect of the Ending in Ivan Ilych, Anna Karenina, and (Potential) Cancer Patients3. Medical Enlightenment in the Early 1920s: Rhetoric and Diffused Authorship in Jules Romains’s Knock and Soviet Public-Health Campaigns4. Time, Agency, and Bodily Glands: Metabolic Storytelling in Italo Svevo and Mikhail BulgakovAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth century, a young Italian aristocrat made an astonishing confession: In a series of revealing letters, he frankly described his sexual experiences with other men. This is the first complete, unexpurgated version in English of this remarkable queer autobiography.Trade ReviewA brilliant archival discovery, a triumph of careful scholarship, an unsuspected episode in modern literature, a moving testimony about sex and love, and a fascinating, previously censored chapter in the history of sexuality. Rosenfeld masterfully restores the context in which conscious writing about homosexuality emerged in Europe during the last decades of the nineteenth century. -- David Halperin, W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor, University of MichiganThe contributors to this brilliantly edited and translated text make the queer past come alive. Readers will not only recognize a young man’s struggle with his gender and sexual identities, but also the difficulty he had in telling his own story in a homophobic society. -- Andrew Israel Ross, author of Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century ParisWhether you persist in reading it as a proto-naturalist novel (despite the opinions of the editors of this volume) or treat it as a sociological document, The Italian Invert is a classic text of nineteenth-century sexology the interest of which is by no means limited to French (or Italian) studies. Richly enhanced here with critical notes, this volume makes a revised and expanded version of the primary documents available in English and also adds important essays that situate and enlarge their scope. The text reflects the latest archival discoveries, which include manuscripts and illustrations, as well as new information about the mysterious "Dr. Laupts." Whether one is interested in the history of (homo)sexuality or in literary questions (such as the "queerness" of Zola), this is an indispensable tool that belongs on every researcher's shelf. -- Melanie Hawthorne, Texas A&M UniversityThe 'Italian invert’s confessions' have long been known to historians of sexuality, yet this new edition lends them an authenticity never before enjoyed....The editors have included everything scholars might want to know: abundant annotations, prefaces, commentaries on each recension, and a full index. * European Legacy *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrologue, by Cyrille Zola-PlaceForeword to the French Edition, by Alain PagèsForeword to the American Edition, by Vernon A. RosarioIntroduction: The Ménage-à-Trois of Zola, Saint-Paul, and the Italian “Invert,” by Michael Rosenfeld with Nancy ErberPart I: The Confessions of a Homosexual to Émile ZolaPreface by Émile ZolaThe Novel of an InvertThe Sequel to the Novel of an InvertOther ParticularitiesThe Italian Man’s Family Tree, by Michael RosenfeldPart II: Selected Works by Dr. Georges Saint-PaulDr. Georges Saint-Paul, Man of Science, by Clive ThomsonFirst Edition (1896)In Memoriam: Émile ZolaSecond Edition (1910)Third Edition (1930)AcknowledgmentsBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisJulia Kristeva has been both attracted and repelled by Dostoyevsky since her youth. In this extraordinary book, by turns poetic and intensely personal, she brings her unique critical sensibility to bear on the tormented and visionary Russian author.Trade ReviewPoetic, stunning, fascinating, and deeply insightful, Kristeva’s readings of Dostoyevsky are as much about us and our time as they are about him and his works. This book is a celebration of literature and language as an antidote to the extremes of nihilism and fundamentalism that still threaten us today. -- Kelly Oliver, philosopher, novelist, and professor emerita, Vanderbilt UniversityThe full force of Julia Kristeva’s lifetime of (psycho)analyzing revolutionary writers and speaking beings come together in this masterful analysis of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s life and work. Dostoyevsky’s polyphonic novels, as Kristeva brilliantly shows, exemplify the human capacity for sublimation. Decades before Freud’s discovery of the unconscious and its primary processes, Dostoyevsky was very deliberately wielding the sting of the negative, turning demons into words, new meanings, and art. -- Noëlle McAfee, author of Fear of Breakdown: Politics and PsychoanalysisTable of ContentsPrefacePart I: The Flood of Language1. The Condemned Man, the Sacred Malady, and the Sun2. Dostoyevsky, “Author of My Life”3. In the Steps of the Liberated Convict4. Beyond Neurosis5. The God-Man, the Man-God6. The Purloined Letter7. Everything Is PermittedPart II: A Carnivalesque Theologian8. The Russian Virus9. Christocentrism10. The Pleasures of Evil and Misfortune11. The National Christ12. Catholicism, Atheism, Nihilism13. The Nihilist Seeking God14. Laughter, Spokesperson for the Obscene15. “The Novel Is a Poem”NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisKawai Koume (1804–1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking samurai family in a provincial castle town. Through her eyes and words, Simon Partner opens a window on social, economic, and cultural life amid some of the most dramatic periods of Japan’s transformative nineteenth century.Trade ReviewSimon Partner’s latest biography offers a fresh look at nineteenth-century Japan through the diary of a Wakayama artist. In elegant prose, Koume’s World reconstructs how this prolific painter gained the respect of her castle-town community and helped steer her family’s fortunes through tumultuous times. A valuable addition to the slim shelf of English-language volumes on Tokugawa women's lives. -- Kären Wigen, Stanford UniversitySimon Partner’s Koume’s World is a tremendously interesting account of the daily life of a samurai woman based on her detailed diary about how she took care of her household, engaged in painting and poetry, and observed her world. Partner employs many other sources to present an uncommonly sensitive view of regional urban society, in this case the understudied and fascinating city of Wakayama, which he reveals in its normal rhythms and the riveting drama pervading the collapse of the Tokugawa regime and the dynamic society of the early Meiji era. -- Luke Roberts, University of California, Santa BarbaraSimon Partner’s wonderfully engaging Koume’s World is chockablock with surprising details about the uncertain fortunes of a poor but respectable samurai family during a time of unprecedented change. Based on the matriarch’s diary, this book opens a window onto the travails of samurai in real life in mid-nineteenth-century Japan. -- David L. Howell, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsKawai Family TreeMonetary ValuesChronologyIntroduction1. Growing Up in Kishū Domain2. A Year of Calamities3. In the Shadow of the Black Ships4. Work and Family5. War and Revolution6. The Artist’s Life7. Across the DivideConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisKawai Koume (1804–1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking samurai family in a provincial castle town. Through her eyes and words, Simon Partner opens a window on social, economic, and cultural life amid some of the most dramatic periods of Japan’s transformative nineteenth century.Trade ReviewSimon Partner’s latest biography offers a fresh look at nineteenth-century Japan through the diary of a Wakayama artist. In elegant prose, Koume’s World reconstructs how this prolific painter gained the respect of her castle-town community and helped steer her family’s fortunes through tumultuous times. A valuable addition to the slim shelf of English-language volumes on Tokugawa women's lives. -- Kären Wigen, Stanford UniversitySimon Partner’s Koume’s World is a tremendously interesting account of the daily life of a samurai woman based on her detailed diary about how she took care of her household, engaged in painting and poetry, and observed her world. Partner employs many other sources to present an uncommonly sensitive view of regional urban society, in this case the understudied and fascinating city of Wakayama, which he reveals in its normal rhythms and the riveting drama pervading the collapse of the Tokugawa regime and the dynamic society of the early Meiji era. -- Luke Roberts, University of California, Santa BarbaraSimon Partner’s wonderfully engaging Koume’s World is chockablock with surprising details about the uncertain fortunes of a poor but respectable samurai family during a time of unprecedented change. Based on the matriarch’s diary, this book opens a window onto the travails of samurai in real life in mid-nineteenth-century Japan. -- David L. Howell, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsKawai Family TreeMonetary ValuesChronologyIntroduction1. Growing Up in Kishū Domain2. A Year of Calamities3. In the Shadow of the Black Ships4. Work and Family5. War and Revolution6. The Artist’s Life7. Across the DivideConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Accessible, timely, and practical." --Legacy"Relevant not only to practitioners and theorists of digital humanities but also to students and scholars of 19th-century American literature. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice"In this compelling collection of essays, Travis and DeSpain explore the many ways in which digital humanities scholarship is remaking the pedagogy of nineteenth-century American literature. Teaching with Digital Humanities highlights the virtues of estrangement--how we can better see books, manuscripts, and newspapers once they've been tagged, aggregated, or otherwise reconfigured. Both the material forms of texts and the contents they convey are ripe for fresh analysis in a digital environment. This book is an invaluable guide to teaching within a new horizon of possibility introduced by digital methods."--Kenneth M. Price, coeditor of The Walt Whitman Archive

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Accessible, timely, and practical." --Legacy "Relevant not only to practitioners and theorists of digital humanities but also to students and scholars of 19th-century American literature. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice "In this compelling collection of essays, Travis and DeSpain explore the many ways in which digital humanities scholarship is remaking the pedagogy of nineteenth-century American literature. Teaching with Digital Humanities highlights the virtues of estrangement--how we can better see books, manuscripts, and newspapers once they've been tagged, aggregated, or otherwise reconfigured. Both the material forms of texts and the contents they convey are ripe for fresh analysis in a digital environment. This book is an invaluable guide to teaching within a new horizon of possibility introduced by digital methods."--Kenneth M. Price, coeditor of The Walt Whitman ArchiveTable of ContentsCoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Digital Humanities and the Nineteenth-Century American Literature ClassroomAdditional TagsPART ONE. MAKE1. Kaleidoscopic Pedagogy in the Classroom Laboratory2. The Trials and Errors of Building Prudence Person’s Scrapbook: An Annotated Digital Editio3. Nineteenth-Century Literary History in a Web 2.0 WorldPART TWO. READ4. Melville by Design5. Data Approaches to Emily Dickinson and Eliza R. Snow6. Reading Macro and Micro Trends in Nineteenth-Century Theater HistoryPART THREE. RECOVER7. What We’ve Learned (about Recovery) through the Just Teach One Project8. The Just Teach One: Early African American Print Project9. Teaching the Politics and Practice of Textual Recovery with DIY Critical EditionsPART FOUR. ARCHIVE10. Putting Students “In Whitman’s Hand”11. Making Digital Humanities Tools More Culturally Specific and More Culturally Sensitive12. Teaching Bioregionalism in a Digital AgePART FIVE. ACT13. DH and the American Literature Canon in Pedagogical Practice14. Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Archives of Injustice15. Merging Print and Digital Literacies in the African American Literature ClassroomAbout the ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis rich collection of essays develops our understanding of the Anglo-American philanthropic discourse in multiple directions. . . . It will be warmly appreciated by literary scholars and historians alike. * British Assn for Victorian Studies Newsletter *Philanthropic Discourse offers the nineteenth-century literary historian a clearer insight into the scope and function of philanthropy in political and private life and the impacts that women writers and activists had in directing the action and debate. * Edith Wharton Review *Table of ContentsPreface, Telescopic Philanthropy Redeemed / Frank Q. Christianson and Leslee Thorne-MurphyAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, Writing Philanthropy in the United States and Britain / Frank Q. Christianson and Leslee Thorne-Murphy1. The Poverty of Sympathy / Lori Merish2. Self-Undermining Philanthropic Impulses: Philanthropy in the Mirror of Narrative / Daniel Bivona3. Education as Violation and Benefit: Doctrinal Debate and the Contest for India's Girls / Suzanne Daly4. Urban Reform and the Plight of the Poor in Women's Journalistic Writing / Monica Elbert5. Lady Bountiful for the Empire: Upper-class Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society / Dorice Williams Elliott6. Patrons, Philanthropists, and Professionals: Henry James's Roderick Hudson / Francesca Sawaya7. "Witnessing them day after day": Ethical Spectatorship and Liberal Reform in Walter Besant's Children of Gibeon / Tanushree Ghosh8. "The Orthodox Creed of the Business World"? Philanthropy and Liberal Individualism in Edith Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree / Emily Coit9. Sustaining Gendered Philanthropy through Transatlantic Friendship: Jane Addams, Henrietta Barnett and Writing for Reciprocal Mentoring / Sarah Robbins Conclusion / Frank Q. Christianson and Leslee Thorne-Murphy Afterword, Follow the Money / Kathleen D. McCarthy

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis rich collection of essays develops our understanding of the Anglo-American philanthropic discourse in multiple directions. . . . It will be warmly appreciated by literary scholars and historians alike. * British Assn for Victorian Studies Newsletter *Philanthropic Discourse offers the nineteenth-century literary historian a clearer insight into the scope and function of philanthropy in political and private life and the impacts that women writers and activists had in directing the action and debate. * Edith Wharton Review *Table of ContentsPreface, Telescopic Philanthropy Redeemed / Frank Q. Christianson and Leslee Thorne-MurphyAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, Writing Philanthropy in the United States and Britain / Frank Q. Christianson and Leslee Thorne-Murphy1. The Poverty of Sympathy / Lori Merish2. Self-Undermining Philanthropic Impulses: Philanthropy in the Mirror of Narrative / Daniel Bivona3. Education as Violation and Benefit: Doctrinal Debate and the Contest for India's Girls / Suzanne Daly4. Urban Reform and the Plight of the Poor in Women's Journalistic Writing / Monica Elbert5. Lady Bountiful for the Empire: Upper-class Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society / Dorice Williams Elliott6. Patrons, Philanthropists, and Professionals: Henry James's Roderick Hudson / Francesca Sawaya7. "Witnessing them day after day": Ethical Spectatorship and Liberal Reform in Walter Besant's Children of Gibeon / Tanushree Ghosh8. "The Orthodox Creed of the Business World"? Philanthropy and Liberal Individualism in Edith Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree / Emily Coit9. Sustaining Gendered Philanthropy through Transatlantic Friendship: Jane Addams, Henrietta Barnett and Writing for Reciprocal Mentoring / Sarah Robbins Conclusion / Frank Q. Christianson and Leslee Thorne-Murphy Afterword, Follow the Money / Kathleen D. McCarthy

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Book SynopsisAlyssa Quint explores the early years of the modern Yiddish theater, from roughly 1876 to 1883, through the works of one of its best-known and most colorful figures, Avrom Goldfaden.Trade ReviewThis is the final word on the subject; the sources are in Yiddish, Russian, Hebrew, French, and German. If the adjective definitive holds any meaning in literary history, it can be applied to this volume, yet the prose is transparent and comfortable for any reader. * Choice *Finalist, 2019 Jewish Book Awards, ScholarshipThis is a major contribution that fills longstanding scholarly gaps, both in our understanding of Goldfaden as a historical figure and in our understanding of how modern Yiddish theater first developed. -- Debra Caplan * In Geveb A Journal of Yiddish Studies *Quint sucessfully outlines the interconnections between theatre producers, audience, actors, and theatre critics as well as Yiddish critics. * The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationThe Social Life of Jewish Theater in the Russian Empire: An Introduction1. Goldfaden, Elite (1876–1883)2. The Rise of the Yiddish Actor 3. The Rise of the Jewish Audience 4. The Rise of the Jewish Playwright5. The Rise of the Female Yiddish Actor 6. The Ban, Cultural Momentum, and the Modern Yiddish TheaterAfterword: The Fall and Rise of Avrom GoldfadenAppendix I: Synopses of Goldfaden's OperettasAppendix II: The SorceressAppendix III: Excerpt from the memoirs of Avrom FishzonBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword: Cavendish's Daughters: Speculative Fiction and Women's History by Jonathan KearnsStitched and Bound by Love and Fear: Books, Monsters, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Rebecca BaumannCase 1: Mary Shelley and the Birth of FrankensteinCase 2: Mary and PercyCase 3: Mary Beyond FrankensteinCase 4: Mary's Father, William GodwinCase 5: Mary's Mother, Mary WollstonecraftCase 6: Mad ScienceCase 7: The GothicCase 8: The Monster's BooksCase 9: Victor Frankenstein's BooksCase 10: Frankenstein in Popular CultureCase 11: The UndeadCase 12: Artificial LifeCase 13: Adapting FrankensteinCase 14: Illustrating FrankensteinCase 15: Outsiders and OthersCase 16: More MonstersCase 17 and Case 18: Weird WomenBibliography

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKrutikov's book is the most definitive and accessible work in English to date on Der Nister and his monumental novel The Family Mashber. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *I think that Der Nister would have really liked Krutikov's book. It gives justice to Der Nister without making him into a saint, villain, or a misguided idealist, but instead sees him as a writer searching for his path... -- Anna Shternshis * AJS REVIEW *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. 1929: The Year of the Great Turn and the End of Symbolism2. From Symbolism to Reality: Space, Politics and Self in Hoyptshtet3. The 1930s in Children's Poetry4. The Generation of 1905 5. Text and Context of The Family Mashber6. The Last Decade, 1939–1949: Revealing "The Hidden"EpilogueBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKrutikov's book is the most definitive and accessible work in English to date on Der Nister and his monumental novel The Family Mashber. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *I think that Der Nister would have really liked Krutikov's book. It gives justice to Der Nister without making him into a saint, villain, or a misguided idealist, but instead sees him as a writer searching for his path... -- Anna Shternshis * AJS REVIEW *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. 1929: The Year of the Great Turn and the End of Symbolism2. From Symbolism to Reality: Space, Politics and Self in Hoyptshtet3. The 1930s in Children's Poetry4. The Generation of 1905 5. Text and Context of The Family Mashber6. The Last Decade, 1939–1949: Revealing "The Hidden"EpilogueBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAdam R. Ochonicky gives a critical overview of the Midwest's symbolic and often contradictory meanings in film and literature. Starting with the frontier writings of Frederick Jackson Turner, this book examines Midwestern film and literary texts stretching from the late-19th century through the beginning of the 21st century.Trade Review"This is a page-turner in the best sense of the word, for each new page reveals some fresh insight about the period that simply hasn't been examined before."—Wheeler Winston Dixon, author of Synthetic Cinema: The 21st Century Movie Machine"Adam Ochonicky presents an important reading of how nostalgia shapes the Midwest in the American imagination as a place of identity and violence. Past and present slip in this compelling and well researched approach to the workings of contemporary culture."—Vera Dika, author of Recycled Culture: The Uses of Nostalgia in Contemporary Art and Film"By centering the concept of region, Adam Ochonicky provides an insightful and refreshing reading of American popular culture. In texts ranging from Richard Wright's Native Son to John Carpenter's Halloween, Ochonicky demonstrates the complex terrain of the Midwest in our cultural imaginary and the diverse memories and meanings we project upon it."—Kendall R. Phillips, author of A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema, Syracuse University"Describing the Midwest as a 'nostalgia museum,' Ochonicky approaches it as a container or showcase for aspects of the nation's self-fashioning (88). As this book thoughtfully shows, certain foundational texts have clearly enabled the forgetting of inconvenient facts and the imposition of more romantic myths. Ochonicky's book reminds us how powerful – and seductive – such regional place stories can be."—Brigid Magner, RMIT University, Literary GeographiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Nostalgia and RegionalismPART 1: Twentieth-Century Narratives of Nostalgia and the Midwest1. Nostalgic Spatiality2. Spatial Constriction, Race, and Midwestern Stagnation3. Nostalgic Violence, Nebulous Spaces, and Blank IdentitiesPART 2: The Millennial Midwest on Film4. Masculinity, Race, and Violence5. Locating Sincerity, Disillusionment, and Paranoia6. Nostalgic AtonementConclusion: Nostalgic FrontiersAfterword: Regionalism and Politics

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Book SynopsisAdam R. Ochonicky gives a critical overview of the Midwest's symbolic and often contradictory meanings in film and literature. Starting with the frontier writings of Frederick Jackson Turner, this book examines Midwestern film and literary texts stretching from the late-19th century through the beginning of the 21st century.Trade Review"This is a page-turner in the best sense of the word, for each new page reveals some fresh insight about the period that simply hasn't been examined before."—Wheeler Winston Dixon, author of Synthetic Cinema: The 21st Century Movie Machine"Adam Ochonicky presents an important reading of how nostalgia shapes the Midwest in the American imagination as a place of identity and violence. Past and present slip in this compelling and well researched approach to the workings of contemporary culture."—Vera Dika, author of Recycled Culture: The Uses of Nostalgia in Contemporary Art and Film"By centering the concept of region, Adam Ochonicky provides an insightful and refreshing reading of American popular culture. In texts ranging from Richard Wright's Native Son to John Carpenter's Halloween, Ochonicky demonstrates the complex terrain of the Midwest in our cultural imaginary and the diverse memories and meanings we project upon it."—Kendall R. Phillips, author of A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema, Syracuse University"Describing the Midwest as a 'nostalgia museum,' Ochonicky approaches it as a container or showcase for aspects of the nation's self-fashioning (88). As this book thoughtfully shows, certain foundational texts have clearly enabled the forgetting of inconvenient facts and the imposition of more romantic myths. Ochonicky's book reminds us how powerful – and seductive – such regional place stories can be."—Brigid Magner, RMIT University, Literary GeographiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Nostalgia and RegionalismPART 1: Twentieth-Century Narratives of Nostalgia and the Midwest1. Nostalgic Spatiality2. Spatial Constriction, Race, and Midwestern Stagnation3. Nostalgic Violence, Nebulous Spaces, and Blank IdentitiesPART 2: The Millennial Midwest on Film4. Masculinity, Race, and Violence5. Locating Sincerity, Disillusionment, and Paranoia6. Nostalgic AtonementConclusion: Nostalgic FrontiersAfterword: Regionalism and Politics

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Book SynopsisContests the notion that women occupied a separate private sphere in England during the Romantic Era. This title demonstrates the various ways in which they attempted to shape British public policy and cultural behaviour in the areas of religious and governmental reform, education, philanthropy, and patterns of consumption.Trade ReviewIntellectual and social historians (and not just feminists) have long believed that the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Britain saw an increasing separation of the male (public) and female (domestic) realms, with the result that the public sphere theorized by Jurgen Habermas and others to have emerged in the Enlightenment almost entirely excluded women. With energy, wit, and admirable command of her sources, Mellor (UCLA), author of distinguished books on Romanticism (English Romantic Irony, CH, Feb'81, and Romanticism and Gender, CH, Jul'93, to name just two), demonstrates that just the opposite was true: in the years around 1800, women became the primary producers and consumers of writing in Britain and vitally participated in the discursive public sphere—many arguing in their different ways for what Hannah More (the most popular author of the period) called a moral revolution in the national manners and principles. Though Mellor's splendid survey of women novelists, poets, critics, playwrights, and social theorists would profit from a surer grasp of these writers' Augustan forebears and the author probably goes too far in positing a distinctive female epistemology for them, this bracing and important work of revision deserves a place in serious academic libraries serving both undergraduates and advanced scholars. -- D. L. Patey * Choice *. . . this bracing and important work of revision deserves a place in serious academic libraries serving both undergraduates and advanced scholars.December 2002 * Choice *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Women and the Public Sphere in England, 1780-18301. Hannah More, Revolutionary Reformer2. Theatre as the School of Virtue3. Women's Political Poetry4. Literary Criticism, Cultural Authority, and The Rise of the Novel5. The Politics of Fiction Desmond PersuasionPostscript: The Politics of ModernityNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Yeats and Afterwords, contributors articulate W. B. Yeats''s powerful, multilayered sense of belatedness as part of his complex literary method. They explore how Yeats deliberately positioned himself at various historical endpointsof Romanticism, of the Irish colonial experience, of the Ascendancy, of civilization itselfand, in doing so, created a distinctively modernist poetics of iteration capable of registering the experience of finality and loss. While the crafting of such a poetics remained a constant throughout Yeats''s career, the particular shape it took varied over time, depending on which lost object Yeats was contemplating. By tracking these vicissitudes, the volume offers new ways of thinking about the overarching trajectory of Yeats''s poetic engagements.Yeats and Afterwords proceeds in three stages, involving past-pastness, present-pastness, and future-pastness. The first, The Last Romantics, examines how Yeats repeats classic motifs and verbal Trade Review"This ground-breaking collection of essays examines Yeats's sense of historical belatedness as theme, as trope, in formal embodiments such as the afterword, and in his strong critical shaping of literary history. In doing so, it historicizes Yeats's own sense of history with unparalleled depth, while seriously acting on the acceptance that form is itself historical. In showing how Yeats's moulding of the past was also the creation of a future, it offers a range of productive new starting-points for the study of this great poet." —Edward Larrissy, emeritus, Queen's University, Belfast"Although Yeats and Afterwords focuses broadly on questions of inheritance and legacy, it marks a new departure because it re-conceptualizes belatedness in a more complex and more theoretically useful manner than prior studies. What impressed me most about the collection is that the theoretical paradigms introduced at the outset are at once defining and fluid. The editors conceptualize belatedness in such a way that this insight gives structure to the volume, even as it allows for a multiplicity of readings. This volume will have a major impact on Yeats studies and will be useful for scholars working more broadly in Irish and modernist studies." —Rob Doggett, SUNY Geneseo"The book offers a dialectical Yeats, and indeed that word recurs throughout, as critical assumptions are trumped by the unresolved dialogue carried in his oeuvre. A stellar cast of latter-day Yeatsians strengthens the case for the resurgence of close reading in Yeats studies." —Times Literary Supplement "This impressive collection of essays is organized around the theme of 'Yeats's sense of cultural belatedness,' his tendency to place himself 'at the end' of Romanticism, of the Protestant ascendancy, of a particular cycle of civilization. . . . Several essays offer provocative and competing readings of Yeats's late play Purgatory, and these alone make the volume worth reading." —Choice"While each of the essays in this volume examine Yeats's belatedness in diverse and unique ways, they share a common, unifying theme that provides the book with a clear sense of purpose and order. One of the most valuable things about this book is its inclusivity, suggesting that it will appeal to a variety of Yeats scholars in addition to those working within the broader field of Irish studies." —James Joyce Literary Supplement“This is a superb collection of essays, only one of which, Ronald Schuchard’s on Yeats’s influence in contemporary Irish poetry, is previously published. The editors’ helpful introduction defines the perspective that frames the volume, Yeats’s deliberate belatedness.” —Irish Literary Supplement“Marjorie Howes and Joseph Valente’s critically important introduction not only suggests that a ‘powerful, multilayered sense of cultural belatedness’ is key to Yeats’ complex literary method, but also teases out the larger significance of this volume, which indeed makes many revealing interventions not only in Yeats studies but also in studies of the Irish Revival, Irish modernism, and contemporary Irish poetry. . . Taking the theme of ‘belatedness’. . . what this important volume achieves is to reveal new ways of seeing ‘belatedness’, revision, temporality and legacy as being central, underpinning factors in Yeats’s poetic structures throughout his career.” —Irish Studies Review“Overall, Yeats and Afterwords is a focused look at the most prevalent aspect of Yeats’ work and offers new connections—and sometimes surprising conclusions—with respect to the way the poet may have understood his own project. The editors thoroughly account for every facet of Yeats’ belatedness and the structure of the work crystalizes the interplay across the element of time.” —Symploke“In Yeats and Afterwords, editors Marjorie Howes and Joseph Valente have collected a compelling selection of essays by twelve of the leading scholars in Irish studies around the concept of ‘belatedness’ in the work of W.B. Yeats. Although ‘afterwords’ and ‘belatedness’ may seem like conveniently vague rubrics to connect dissimilar essays, Yeats’ ‘intricate nexus of temporal vectors’ is consistently and impressively central to each peace.” —James Joyce Quarterly

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Book SynopsisIn Deep-Rooted Things, Rob Doggett examines Yeats''s shifting relationship with the warring discourses of British cultural imperialism and Irish nationalism during Ireland''s transition from colony to partially independent nation. By focusing on key historical events that Yeats witnessed and on the nationalist movements he both embraced and resisted, Doggett identifies the core features of Yeats''s aesthetic program through new readings of central poems and plays in the Yeats canon.Doggett presents Yeatsian nationalism as a fluid category, a series of masks that Yeats adopted, rejected, and re-created throughout his life. He casts Yeats''s continual artistic reinventionhis privileging of contradiction over resolutionas repeated attempts to provide in art some foundations for national unity. He reveals Yeats''s deep and often conflicted response to issues of identity, history, and nationhoodissues always central to discourses of colonization, colonial resistance, and poTrade Review“According to Doggett, Yeats' nationalism reflects an imagined nation in which all 'accept a common design' without demanding a specific vision. Focusing on the first decade of the 20th century and on 1919-28, Doggett reads drama and poetry as dialectical, moving between unity and disunity, reinventing the present in light of the past. . . Doggett shows Yeats' movement from imagined exile to poems of engagement to poems informed by his visionary system. This cycle provides a space where the Irish nation can be contemplated and imagined anew." —Choice"Rob Doggett's Deep-Rooted Things is a wonderfully nuanced, deeply thoughtful study which should have a lasting place in Yeats studies. Richly responsive to the twists and turns of Yeats's thinking, profoundly revealing of the currents and crosscurrents in his magnificent oeuvre, this is a major contribution." —Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia"Doggett defines Yeats's nationalism in a particularly effective, original, and compelling way. Yeats's nationalism is not a new topic, but many scholars have tended to see it as something that is intellectually simple, divorced from the complexities of Yeats's thought. Of those who acknowledge its complexity, few actually demonstrate this complexity at length, which is what Doggett has done." —Marjorie Howes, Associate Professor of English, Boston College and author of Yeats's Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness

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Book SynopsisThis eagerly awaited study brings to completion Louis Dupré''s planned trilogy on European culture during the modern epoch. Demonstrating remarkable erudition and sweeping breadth, The Quest of the Absolute analyzes Romanticism as a unique cultural phenomenon and a spiritual revolution. Dupré philosophically reflects on its attempts to recapture the past and transform the present in a movement that is partly a return to premodern culture and partly a violent protest against it. Following an introduction on the historical origins of the Romantic Movement, Dupré examines the principal Romantic poets of England (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats), Germany (Goethe, Schiller, Novalis, Hölderlin), and France (Lamartine, de Vigny, Hugo), all of whom, from different perspectives, pursued an absolute ideal. In the chapters of the second part, he concentrates on the critical principles of Romantic aesthetics, the Romantic image of the person as reflected in the novel, and RoTrade Review"The Quest of the Absolute is the third volume in Louis Dupré's trilogy dealing with the origins and development of modernity and the major cultural currents defining its history. It follows Passage to Modernity (1993) and The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture (2004). This third volume deals with the Romantic movement. Dupré's impressive account is concerned to restore something of the full dimensionalities to Romanticism as a whole, to acknowledge something of the immense intellectual, political, and spiritual ambitions at work in it, without reneging on a reflective critical relation to it." —William Desmond, author of The Intimate Strangeness of Being: Metaphysics after Dialectic“Louis Dupré’s fascinating portrayal of the Romantic soul urges us to look afresh at this crucial ‘third wave’ of modernity. His thorough insight, astonishing erudition, mild judgment, and unparalleled perspicacity bring to life the works and ideas of many whimsical personalities. He convincingly demonstrates that their restless search for existential depth and authenticity reveals layers of truth and meaning that can function as a mirror for our times.” —Joris Geldhof, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium"In this extraordinarily comprehensive and penetrating study, the capstone to a great scholarly career, Louis Dupré undertakes nothing less than a grand synthesis of Romantic thought; yet the book is beautifully written and a joy to read. Discussions of English, French, and German poetry and fiction are seamlessly linked to systematic analyses of Romantic aesthetics, psychology, and ethics, as well as such other aspects of Romantic thought as the new religious and historical conceptions that emerge in the period. The Quest of the Absolute is a brilliant, indeed indispensable, book, one that demonstrates, more clearly than any previous study, why Romanticism is still relevant to the struggles that confront us in the twenty-first century." —Henry Weinfield, University of Notre Dame"With this volume, Dupré completes a trilogy that began with Passage to Modernity (1993) and proceeded with The Enlightenment and Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture. . . . In spite of its subtitle, this volume is more than an intellectual history; it is a new synthesis of a diverse complement of beliefs and works. Dupré's vision affirms the coherence of romanticism by emphasizing its persistent quest for an unrealizable ideal. . . . The book is breathtaking in its erudition and thoughtful in its assertions." —Choice"Dupré delivers a lifetime of mature erudition attentive at once to a dizzying array of specific thinkers and a general theme that coalesces them. Reminiscent of Hegel, Heidegger, and Cassirer, Dupré refreshingly affirms against contemporary reductive models of reason that historically developing culture bears permanent intelligence. . . . More specialized studies of many sources exist, notably the literary ones, but the commentary on aesthetics, ethics, and philosophy emerges as nonpareil." —Theological Studies"The first and greatest merit of this particular study is its organization. It differs from the numerous other studies of Romanticism by its stratification. The first section is devoted to poetry. There follows a somewhat more hybrid section which includes psychology, ethics, fictional typologies, aesthetic and political theories, and finally, at the top of the pyramid an examination of Romantic theories of history, philosophical systems, and incursions in the romantic understanding or religion. . . . Perhaps the most important contribution of Dupré is the way in which he suggests delicately the continuing impact of Romanticism." —The Review of Metaphysics"The Quest of the Absolute describes the Romantic spirit as an attempt to break through the limits of finitude toward an all-inclusive absolute, a search expressed in poetry, art, and philosophy, and also in political theory, and in new modes of religious symbolization. . . . Dupré brings to life the personalities of the players, both the well-known and the obscure, and situates them in the larger events of the historical period between the revolutions of 1789 and 1848." —Catholic Library World". . . this valuable book is an introduction of great scholarly rigour, and it is therefore much more than a textbook or introduction. It should be used in any upper level course on modernity and Romantic literature and is able to shed light on the various cultural streams within the movement (German, English, and French). As the concluding volume of a trilogy, The Quest of the Absolute should be read in tandem with the first two installments, and all three together constitute an illuminating picture of the evolution of modernity before the twentieth century." —Reviews in Religion and Theology“Dupré’s sympathetic sketches of figures and themes reflect a deep knowledge of classical and early modern literature and a practitioner’s grasp of Christian theology. . . . Dupré knows the game well, and his analyses of many of his subjects give a subtle advantage to explanations that keep something like monotheistic longings consciously of unconsciously in play within their reflections.” —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Book SynopsisThe Portrait of Beatrice examines both Dante''s and D. G. Rossetti''s intellectual experiences in the light of a common concern about visuality. Both render, in different times and contexts, something that resists clear representation, be it the divine beauty of the angel-women or the depiction of the painter''s own interiority in a secularized age. By analyzing Dante''s Vita Nova alongside Rossetti''s Hand and Soul and St. Agnes of Intercession, which inaugurates the Victorian genre of ''imaginary portrait'' tales, this book examines how Dante and Rossetti explore the tension between word and image by creating ''imaginary portraits.'' The imaginary portraitDante''s sketched angel appearing in the Vita Nova or the paintings evoked in Rossetti''s narrativesis not (only) a non-existent artwork: it is an artwork whose existence lies elsewhere, in the words alluding to its inexpressible quality. At the same time, thinking of Beatrice as an ''imaginary Trade Review"This monograph is interdisciplinary in character, being primarily a study of the imaginary image of Beatrice and other muse/soul figures in the nineteenth-century poet-painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti's work and the impossibility of such representation. This subtle, rich, and impressive study makes a substantial and original contribution to Rossetti studies." —Alison Milbank, University of Nottingham"Elegantly written, carefully researched, and beautifully erudite, The Portrait of Beatrice offers an original and compelling interpretation of Dante’s Vita Nova and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s post-enlightenment reappropriations through the concept of metamorphosis. Combining a profound knowledge of Dante’s and Rossetti’s oeuvre with psychoanalysis and a critical line of thought that from Warburg arrives at Agamben and Didi-Huberman, Camilletti challenges the distinction between original and copy and between image and writing and not only offers unexpected and thought-provoking analyses but also helps the readers to reconsider their methodological assumptions and to embrace an intellectual journey into uncharted territories that is both unsettling and tremendously rewarding." —Manuele Gragnolati, Sorbonne Université and ICI Berlin"Fabio Camilletti takes a wholly original approach to understanding these works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He relies on literary theory, philosophy, and psychoanalytic theory, but also touches on art historical scholarship. His approach to understanding Rossetti, who was both a poet and an artist, is unique and makes for fascinating reading." —Aida Audeh, Hamline University"Fabio Camilletti offers a fascinating insight into the mystical and dreamlike imagery inspired by themes in Dante, through a composite 'portrait of Beatrice.'" —Speculum“Fabio Camilletti’s The Portrait of Beatrice, with its highly intriguing, penetrating, and sophisticated perspective, is an important contribution in both Dante and Rossetti scholarship.” —Journal of Dante Studies

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Book Synopsis A compelling selection of essays by twelve of the leading scholars in Irish studies around the concept of "belatedness" in the work of W.B. Yeats.Trade Review"This ground-breaking collection of essays examines Yeats's sense of historical belatedness as theme, as trope, in formal embodiments such as the afterword, and in his strong critical shaping of literary history. In doing so, it historicizes Yeats's own sense of history with unparalleled depth, while seriously acting on the acceptance that form is itself historical. In showing how Yeats's moulding of the past was also the creation of a future, it offers a range of productive new starting-points for the study of this great poet." —Edward Larrissy, emeritus, Queen's University, Belfast"Although Yeats and Afterwords focuses broadly on questions of inheritance and legacy, it marks a new departure because it re-conceptualizes belatedness in a more complex and more theoretically useful manner than prior studies. What impressed me most about the collection is that the theoretical paradigms introduced at the outset are at once defining and fluid. The editors conceptualize belatedness in such a way that this insight gives structure to the volume, even as it allows for a multiplicity of readings. This volume will have a major impact on Yeats studies and will be useful for scholars working more broadly in Irish and modernist studies." —Rob Doggett, SUNY Geneseo"The book offers a dialectical Yeats, and indeed that word recurs throughout, as critical assumptions are trumped by the unresolved dialogue carried in his oeuvre. A stellar cast of latter-day Yeatsians strengthens the case for the resurgence of close reading in Yeats studies." —Times Literary Supplement "This impressive collection of essays is organized around the theme of 'Yeats's sense of cultural belatedness,' his tendency to place himself 'at the end' of Romanticism, of the Protestant ascendancy, of a particular cycle of civilization. . . . Several essays offer provocative and competing readings of Yeats's late play Purgatory, and these alone make the volume worth reading." —Choice"While each of the essays in this volume examine Yeats's belatedness in diverse and unique ways, they share a common, unifying theme that provides the book with a clear sense of purpose and order. One of the most valuable things about this book is its inclusivity, suggesting that it will appeal to a variety of Yeats scholars in addition to those working within the broader field of Irish studies." —James Joyce Literary Supplement“This is a superb collection of essays, only one of which, Ronald Schuchard’s on Yeats’s influence in contemporary Irish poetry, is previously published. The editors’ helpful introduction defines the perspective that frames the volume, Yeats’s deliberate belatedness.” —Irish Literary Supplement“Marjorie Howes and Joseph Valente’s critically important introduction not only suggests that a ‘powerful, multilayered sense of cultural belatedness’ is key to Yeats’ complex literary method, but also teases out the larger significance of this volume, which indeed makes many revealing interventions not only in Yeats studies but also in studies of the Irish Revival, Irish modernism, and contemporary Irish poetry. . . Taking the theme of ‘belatedness’. . . what this important volume achieves is to reveal new ways of seeing ‘belatedness’, revision, temporality and legacy as being central, underpinning factors in Yeats’s poetic structures throughout his career.” —Irish Studies Review“Overall, Yeats and Afterwords is a focused look at the most prevalent aspect of Yeats’ work and offers new connections—and sometimes surprising conclusions—with respect to the way the poet may have understood his own project. The editors thoroughly account for every facet of Yeats’ belatedness and the structure of the work crystalizes the interplay across the element of time.” —Symploke“In Yeats and Afterwords, editors Marjorie Howes and Joseph Valente have collected a compelling selection of essays by twelve of the leading scholars in Irish studies around the concept of ‘belatedness’ in the work of W.B. Yeats. Although ‘afterwords’ and ‘belatedness’ may seem like conveniently vague rubrics to connect dissimilar essays, Yeats’ ‘intricate nexus of temporal vectors’ is consistently and impressively central to each peace.” —James Joyce Quarterly

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes the reception of nineteenth-century French women poets, including Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Amable Tastu, Élisa Mercœur, Mélanie Waldor, Louise Colet, Anaïs Ségalas, Malvina Blanchecotte, Louise Ackermann, and Marie Krysinska, to recover the diversity of women’s voices. Places their contributions within the medical and literary debate about the sex of genius.Trade Review“This is a valuable book that will become a significant point of reference. Along with studies like Margaret Cohen’s Sentimental Education of the Novel, it makes a major contribution to our understanding of the cultural context in which women were writing. . . . Paliyenko has opened up new horizons, and this book will certainly invite, provoke, and make possible further work in an important field.”—Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe H-France“Adrianna Paliyenko brings to her work on French women’s poetry an already most impressive background, and she writes with authority and solid, yet graceful, erudition. Genius Envy will attract and inform many readers, male and female—especially at a time when nouns like auteur(e) and écrivain(e) are asserting their presence in the language—and will undoubtedly become a long-lasting milestone in the burgeoning study of French women poets.”—Norman R. Shapiro,editor and translator of French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff and the Pen“Adrianna Paliyenko’s major new assessment of poetry composed or theorized by women, Genius Envy, is long overdue in professional nineteenth-century French studies circles. Her incisive reexamination of this undervalued literary corpus and recent scholarship about it puts to rest for good the myth that female poets—contemporaries of Lamartine, Hugo, Gautier, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé—were somehow less aesthetically significant than more widely celebrated male writers.”—Stamos Metzidakis,author of Difference Unbound: The Rise of Pluralism in Literature and Criticism“The fruit of more than a decade of research, Genius Envy radically upends current thinking about women poets, their reception, and their engagement with the allegedly male-dominated world of nineteenth-century French literature. Evoking a multiplicity of female voices and touching on colonial history, social class, philosophy, science, and aesthetics, Adrianna Paliyenko’s remarkable new book is required reading for those interested in genius, the history of canon formation, and literary and social equity.”—Elizabeth Emery,author of Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum (1881–1914): Privacy, Publicity, and Personality“Genius Envy makes a major contribution to studies of nineteenth-century French poetry. Adrianna Paliyenko’s treatment of women writers who challenge the previously male-defined notion of genius reframes much more than the study of these five writers; it cuts through stale definitions of writers as masculine or feminine and argues convincingly for a new way of considering genius, creativity, and the poetic. As a result, it raises important questions about women’s place in discourse, important today as it was then.”—Seth Whidden,author of Authority in Crisis in French Literature, 1850–1880“After centuries during which genius was defined as exclusively male, Adrianna Paliyenko provides a brilliant, learned, and highly readable account of the extremes to which men went in order to deny genius to women. With equal brilliance she restores several pages excised from nineteenth-century literary history by this gendering, and she gives voice to French women poets as they challenge their exclusion. Thanks to Paliyenko’s groundbreaking book, the sexing of genius has lost its self-evidence, and the nineteenth century has gained five major poets.”—Ann Jefferson,author of Genius in France: An Idea and Its UsesTable of ContentsContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgments Introduction Part One: Reception Matters1. Un/sexing Genius 2. Literary Reception and its Discontents 3. The Other History of French Poetry, 1801-1900Part Two: Women Thinking Through Poetry and Beyond4. Anais Ségalas on Race, Gender, and “la mission civilisatrice” 5. Work, Genius, and the In-Between in Malvina Blanchecotte 6. The Poetic Edges of Dualism in Louisa Siefert7. Louise Ackermann’s Turn to Science 8. Marie Krysinska on Eve, Evolution and the Property of Genius Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe text of The Brothers Karamazov is removed from English-speaking readers not only by time but also by linguistic and cultural boundaries. Victor Terras's companion work offers readers an understanding of the Dostoevsky novel as the expression of a philosophy and a work of art.

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Book SynopsisThis work explores the art and development of Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949), the poet and theorist who articulated a highly influential concept of Symbolism. The German writers Goethe and Novalis also played a central part in his vision, being precursors in the proto-Symbolist pantheon.

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Book SynopsisExamines the rise of the Russian empire as a literary theme simultaneous with the evolution of Russian poetry between the 1730s and 1840 - the century during which poets defined the main questions facing Russian literature and society. This work shows how imperial ideology became implicated in a range of issues.Trade ReviewAn original and persuasive illumination of the history of Russian poetry. - William Mills Todd III, Harvard University ""An excellent knowledge of specifically Russian and general European contexts, incisive textual analyses, and a very fine aesthetic sensibility make Ram's book an outstanding achievement."" - Boris Gasparov, Columbia University ""Given its broad perspective and eloquent argument, Ram's study of the confluent rise of the imperial sublime and the modern Russian poetic language should prove a vital resource for scholars of Russian history and poetics.... Ram breaks new ground in forging a synthesis of historical concern and poetic tradition. Essential."" - N. Tittler, Choice

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Book SynopsisA study of Jane Austen's life and writings, this work surveys two centuries of editing, censorship, and fiction that created a pious, wistful, romantically pining, and frustrated Austen. It serves up an antidote to that icon - a dynamic, brave, and buoyant writer - by examining subtle self-portraits in the author's works.Trade Review[Auerbach's] detailed knowledge of Austen's sources [gives] us a more complete impression of Austen's wide and eclectic interests. - New York Review of Books ""The Austen sketched here is an ambitious novelist, confident in her superior talent, with a subversive and biting sense of humor.... Readers who enjoyed the novel The Jane Austen Book Club will find similar pleasures here."" - Publishers Weekly ""Emily Auerbach's approach to Jane Austen is lively, engaging, and thoroughly modern. Like Austen, Auerbach wears her wide learning lightly and imparts a great deal of information in a most enjoyable manner. A witty, approachable introduction to Jane Austen for today's readers, using modern analytical techniques to reveal new aspects of a great writer."" - Margaret Drabble, editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature ""This 'search' for Jane Austen finds the playfulness and irreverence of her early writings present, to varying degrees, in all of the novels, but also finds a daring and powerful artist polishing her craft. Novel by novel, Auerbach overturns patronizing concepts about Austen's tiny canvas and limited view."" - Booklist

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Book SynopsisRobert Louis Stevenson was the author of ""Treasure Island"". This work looks, with varied critical approaches, at his literary production and unites to confer scholarly legitimacy on this writer. It says that Stevenson reinvented the ""personal essay"" and the ""walking tour essay,"" in texts of ironic stylistic brilliance.Trade ReviewThe pick of the papers delivered at an international conference on Robert Louis Stevenson. - Dick Ringler, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Book SynopsisAims to reveal how the novels of Jane Austen illuminate English history in the quarter century between 1792 and 1817. The book builds a picture of Austen's life and personality and of the social and political world she inhabited in the period during and immediately after the Napoleonic Wars.Table of ContentsIntroduction: History and Fiction I Parentage and Sisterhood: Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion. 2 growing up: Northanger Abbey and Juvenalia. 3 religion: Mansfield Park. 4 income: Sense and Sensibility. 5 social traffic: Emma. 6 the female economy: Lady Susan and the Waltons. 7 the epoch: Sandition.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"His essays are like Thoreau's sauntering, invitations to follow an acute and learned scholar to places you had not visited with such a guide. What this collection 'adds up' to, then, is forty-five years worth of rumination on two of this country's finest minds by someone eminently suited to investigate them in all their varied complexity."—Philip F. Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"Porte's concentration on Emerson as writer is not so common an approach as it may seem; balanced against the way in which Emerson is conventionally considered—as philosopher, as aphorist, as cultural icon—Porte's keen attention to the quality of the prose itself and the artfulness of an essay's organization yields rewarding and highly readable results."—Larzer Ziff, Johns Hopkins University

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Book SynopsisStarting with a comparison of Queens Elizabeth I and Victoria, this title examines works by poets and painters, essayists and dramatists, architects and musicians. It explores the literary nature of Victorian history writing, and author reveals the degree to which painters were indebted to written records both fictional and factual.Trade Review“Andrew Sanders’s book. . .as well as calling up a host of images from the Victoria era, challenges our own way of viewing, changing, cleansing and rose-tinting the past. It is an example of Yale University Press at its lavish best with superb colour illustrations”—A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement -- A. N. Wilson * TLS *“Sanders explores the ways in which retro styles and subject were used to highlight the Victorian progress. . . This beautifully illustrated book focuses on both literary reception of literary forebears and on Victorian paintings of historical and literary subjects.“—Adela Pink, SEL -- Adela Pinch * Studies in English Literature *

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Book SynopsisA window onto the lives of the Romantic poets through the re-creation of one legendary night in 1817.Trade Review"Engrossing account..." -- The Bookseller

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Book SynopsisFourteen conjure tales by one of America's most influential African American fiction writers.Table of ContentsIntroduction A Note on the Texts THE TEXTS OF THE CONJURE STORIES The Goophered Grapevine Po' Sandy The Conjurer's Revenge Dave's Neckliss A Deep Sleeper Lonesome Ben The Dumb Witness A Victim of Heredity; or, Why the Darkey Loves Chicken The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt Mars Jeems's Nightmare Sis' Becky's Pickaninny Tobe's Tribulations Hot-Foot Hannibal The Marked Tree CONTEXTS Sarah Ingle • The Terrain of Chesnutt's Conjure Tales Charles W. Chesnutt • From His Journal, Spring 1880 [Why could not a colored man . . . write a far better book about the South?] [I think I must write a book] William Wells Brown • [Voudooism in Missouri] Joel Chandler Harris • The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox Ovid • The Transformation of Daphne into a Laurel Charles W. Chesnutt • Letters to Albion W. Tourgée and George Washington Cable To Tourgée, Sept. 26, 1889 To Cable, March 29, 1890 To Cable, June 13, 1890 Paul Laurence Dunbar • The Deserted Plantation Charles W. Chesnutt • Superstitions and Folk-lore of the South The Free Colored People of North Carolina Adaptation of "The Dumb Witness" The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed? Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem CRITICISM EARLY CRITICISM Critical Notices of The Conjure Woman William Dean Howells • Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories Benjamin Brawley • [Fiction with a Firm Sense of Art] Helen M. Chesnutt • Chesnutt and Walter Hines Page MODERN CRITICISM Robert Hemenway • [Black Magic, Audience, and Belief] William L. Andrews • [A Critique of the Plantation Legend] Robert B. Stepto • [The Cycle of the First Four Stories] John Edgar Wideman • [Julius's Ex-Slave Narrative] Werner Sollors • [Reason, Property, and Modern Metamorphoses] Houston A. Baker Jr. • [The Sound of the Conjure Stories] Eric J. Sundquist • [Chesnutt's Revision of Uncle Remus] Richard H. Brodhead • [Chesnutt's Negotiation with the Dominant Literary Culture] Candace J. Waid • Conjuring the Conjugal: Chesnutt's Scenes from a Marriage Glenda Carpio • [Black Humor in the Conjure Stories] Charles W. Chesnutt: A Chronology Selected Bibliography

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