Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
Princeton University Press Shelleys Major Poetry
Book SynopsisProfessor Baker is concerned primarily with Shelley's development ns a philosophical and psychological poet, and it is precisely in this that the great achievement of the book lies Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the diTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFATORY NOTE, pg. ix*CONTENTS, pg. xi*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*1. NECESSITY, pg. 19*2. THE PROBLEM OF EVIL, pg. 87*3. THE SPIRIT'S SPLENDOR, pg. 191*APPENDICES, pg. 277*SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 292*INDEX, pg. 297
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Princeton University Press The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume 13
Trade Review"Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers"
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Voltaire Foundation Correspondance générale de La Beaumelle 1754
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Liverpool University Press Ma238tres de leurs ouvrages l233dition 224
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReviews'This is a thorough and carefully-constructed book, and it makes significant contributions to our understanding of publishing practices and the myriad issues relating to changing conceptions of literary property. It will probably remain the definitive treatment of self-publishing and of the population of self-publishing authors in late eighteenth-century Paris for a long time.’H-France Review‘Felton’s study is tremendously informative, and her case for the significance of self-publishing in the last decades of the Old Regime in an inarguably strong and important one.’Journal of Modern History‘Marie-Claude Felton s’attaque à un véritable serpent de mer, une question souvent évoquée mais rarement étudiée à fond par les historiens du livre, celle de l’édition “à compte d’auteur’ […] Son étude apporte sur cet épisode particulier de l’histoire de l’édition française un éclairage neuf et suggestif.'Bulletin du bibliophile‘L’ouvrage de Marie-Claude Felton est une étude minutieuse et solidement documentée d’un phénomène toujours peu connu touchant l’édition et le marché du livre en France au XVIIIe siècle […] Il paraît particulièrement actuel pour notre ère du numérique où tout un chacun peut devenir auteur grâce aux maisons d’édition dites “alternatives”.’Studi francesiTable of ContentsListe des illustrations et tableauxPréface de Roger ChartierRemerciementsListe des abréviationsIntroduction1. L’édition à compte d’auteur: vers une nouvelle pratique auctoriale autonome et modernei. L’auteur, l’argent et la propriété littéraire: l’évolution des discours aux XVIIe et XVIIIe sièclesii. Luneau de Boisjermain contre les libraires de Parisiii. Les arrêts de 1777-1778 et l’autonomie auctorialeiv. L’édition à compte d’auteur: du discours à la pratique2. L’auteur-éditeur et ses livres: un portraiti. Les ouvrages édités à compte d’auteurii. Les auteurs-éditeurs: un portraitiii. Les auteurs et les institutions du ‘champ littéraire’Conclusion3. D’auteur à éditeuri. Les permissions et privilèges: un long parcoursii. Le choix de l’imprimeuriii. La souscriptioniv. Les ententes avec l’imprimeurv. L’auteur en contrôle de l’éditionConclusion4. L’auteur-éditeur et le livre-objeti. Matérialité et souscriptionii. La collecte des données bibliographiquesiii. La valeur des livresiv. Les paraphes: outils pour déjouer la contrefaçonConclusion5. Les stratégies publicitairesi. La publicité aux XVIIe et XVIIIe sièclesii. Le Catalogue hebdomadaireiii. Les stratégies promotionnellesiv. Le choix du publicConclusion6. D’auteur à marchand de livresi. La vente par l’auteurii. Les associésiii. Vendre à compte d’auteur chez le libraireiv. La rentabilité de l’édition à compte d’auteurConclusionConclusionAnnexe. Liste des auteurs et de leurs ouvrages édités ‘A Paris, chez l’auteur’, entre 1750 et 1791BibliographieIndex
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Liverpool University Press Une Carri232re de g233ographe au si232cle des
Book SynopsisFocuses on the cartographer Jean-Baptiste d'Anville, exploring how he succeeded in mapping the New World, his contemporary reception in the French press, in Britain and abroad and his legacy and posterity.Trade ReviewReviews'Readers are encouraged to immerse themselves in Lucile Haguet’s and Catherine Hofmann’s masterfully organized, well-illustrated collection. Rediscovering d’Anville, his biography, methodology and impact is an intellectual journey that is sure to enchant both experienced map historians and the larger public.' Imago MundiTable of ContentsLaurence Engel, PréfaceChristian Jacob, Avant-proposLucile Haguet et Catherine Hofmann, Introduction généraleI. Faire carrière au dix-huitième siècle1. Participer à l’éducation des princes: d’Anville et son élève Louis XV (1718-1730), Pascale Mormiche2. Elargir ses réseaux, diversifier ses commandes: les travaux de d’Anville pour la couronne portugaise, Júnia Ferreira Furtado3. Convaincre ses mécènes: un plan d’affaire prévisionnel pour faire commerce de cartes, Mary Sponberg PedleyII. Dessiner le monde depuis sa chambre1. La bibliothèque cartographique, outil de travail du géographe de cabinet, Lucile Haguet2. Une ‘science de pure érudition’, la géographie critique et comparée selon Jean-Baptiste d’Anville, Georges Tolias3. L’utilisation des sources orientales par Jean-Baptiste d’Anville, Jean-Charles Ducène4. Jean-Baptiste d’Anville et la cartographie de l’Amérique du Nord, Jean-François PalominoIII. La réception de l’œuvre de d’Anville1. Entre publicité, débat scientifique et vulgarisation: Jean-Baptiste d’Anville dans les journaux, Nicolas Verdier2. D’Anville, Gibbon et l’espace des empires: la réception britannique du géographe français à travers l’exemple de l’historien anglais, Robert Mankin3. L’appropriation des cartes de d’Anville dans le monde luso-brésilien: mémoire toponymique et stratégie diplomatique dans la région amazonienne, 1798 et 1904, Iris KantorIV. La réception institutionnelle, patrimoniale et symbolique d’un ‘grand homme’1. Splendeur et décadence d’un ‘grand homme’: réception et postérité de d’Anville et son œuvre, Lucile Haguet2. La ‘collection d’Anville’ au ministère des Affaires étrangères (1772-1828): modalités et enjeux d’une appropriation, Catherine Hofmann3. D’Anville et la Bibliothèque royale/nationale: forces et ambiguïtés d’un héritage, Catherine HofmannConclusion: célèbre et méconnu – un géographe réévalué, Jean-Marc BesseAnnexesBibliographieIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Night in French libertine fiction 2018 201806
Book SynopsisExplores why and how the nocturnal and the erotic came to be so intrinsically connected in French eighteenth century fiction between the start of a rakish Regence (1715-1723) and 1789.Trade Review'With an engaging narrative arc, Night in French Libertine Fiction shows how the playful dichotomy between celebrating the limits imposed by the night and using the night to transgress social or moral limits (as detailed in chapters two through six) is destroyed by the Sadean extension of the logic of libertinism.' Craig Koslofsky, H-FranceTable of ContentsIntroductioni. Libertine fiction: a nocturnal genre?ii. Libertine nocturnesiii. The ‘Nocturnal Order’ of libertine nightsiv. The eroticisation of the nocturnalv. The nocturnalisation of eroticismvi. Chapter outline1. Enlightening the night: a cultural and historical perspective on eighteenth-century nightsi. Intellectual enlightenmentii. Material enlightenment2. The nocturnal aesthetics of libertine fictioni. Libertine writing, pornography and obscurityii. The embellishing obscurity of Crébillon’s oriental talesiii. The eroticism of demi-jours in Le Souper des petits-maîtres and Les Soupers de Daphnéiv. Voluptuous shadows in Thémidorev. Félicia and sublime obscurity3. Night as a hiding spacei. Night as a private space within communal living in Le Portier des chartreux and Mémoires de Suzonii. Night as an indulgent architectural space in La Petite Maisoniii. Night as an intimate body part in La Nuit merveilleuse4. Nocturnal illusions: dreams of sylph-like loversi. The dream: the sleep of reason produces sylphs in Le Sylpheii. The mistake: the genie Makis, or the mistaken lover in Angolaiii. The lie: Clitandre, or a sylph of no consequence in La Nuit et le momentiv. The illusion: Mirbelle, or the fleshless sylph in Les Malheurs de l’inconstance5. Nocturnal revelationsi. Damon’s Nyctelian initiation in Point de lendemainii. Laure’s nocturnal education in Le Rideau levéiii. Cécile’s nightly enlightenment in Les Liaisons dangereuses6. Queens of the night: women and their nocturnal mystery in Les Liaisons dangereusesi. The marquise de Merteuil’s nights, or the masquerade of femininityii. The présidente de Tourvel’s shadow, or the female mystery7. The end of libertine nights: Les Cent Vingt Journées de Sodomei. Sade’s Gothic and sublime nocturnes: within the dark night of the soulii. The Sadean nocturnal fortressiii. Sade versus the libertine clair-obscurEpilogue: beyond libertine nights – mornings and morrowsi. Morningsii. MorrowsBibliographyIndex
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Pluto Press William Godwin
Book SynopsisA new biography of the infamous early anarchist whose life and work was at the heart of British Radicalism. Thomas reads Godwin afresh, addressing the souring of his critical reputation since his death and the unsympathetic twentieth-century scholarship, now drawing extensively on newly published letters and journals.Trade Review'This is a crisp, insightful and absorbing overview of William Godwin's life, work and networks. A book that will make Godwin more accessible within the classroom and the wider world has been needed for some time. Richard Gough Thomas does an excellent job of providing it' -- Sophie Coulombeau, Cardiff University 'Richard Thomas has produced a warm and accessible study of Godwin. His book covers the full breadth of Godwin's work and recognises his achievements as an inventive, progressive, challenging and anti-systems philosopher' -- Ruth Kinna, Loughborough University '"William Godwin: A Political Life" is an impressive achievement. Thomas provides a highly readable, thoughtful, and informative assessment of the works and life of the founder of philosophical anarchism. A first-rate introduction to a thinker who contributed a unique perspective of continuing relevance to British moral and political thought' -- Mark Philp, University of WarwickTable of Contents1. The Anarchist 2. The Minister: 1756-1793 3. The Philosopher: 1793 4. The Activist: 1794-1795 5. The Husband: 1796-1799 6. The Educator: 1800-1809 7. The Father: 1810-1819 8. The Pensioner: 1819-1836 9. The Legacy Abbreviations
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Pluto Press William Godwin
Book SynopsisA new biography of the infamous early anarchist whose life and work was at the heart of British Radicalism. Thomas reads Godwin afresh, addressing the souring of his critical reputation since his death and the unsympathetic twentieth-century scholarship, now drawing extensively on newly published letters and journals.Trade Review'This is a crisp, insightful and absorbing overview of William Godwin's life, work and networks. A book that will make Godwin more accessible within the classroom and the wider world has been needed for some time. Richard Gough Thomas does an excellent job of providing it' -- Sophie Coulombeau, Cardiff University 'Richard Thomas has produced a warm and accessible study of Godwin. His book covers the full breadth of Godwin's work and recognises his achievements as an inventive, progressive, challenging and anti-systems philosopher' -- Ruth Kinna, Loughborough University '"William Godwin: A Political Life" is an impressive achievement. Thomas provides a highly readable, thoughtful, and informative assessment of the works and life of the founder of philosophical anarchism. A first-rate introduction to a thinker who contributed a unique perspective of continuing relevance to British moral and political thought' -- Mark Philp, University of WarwickTable of Contents1. The Anarchist 2. The Minister: 1756-1793 3. The Philosopher: 1793 4. The Activist: 1794-1795 5. The Husband: 1796-1799 6. The Educator: 1800-1809 7. The Father: 1810-1819 8. The Pensioner: 1819-1836 9. The Legacy Abbreviations
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Liverpool University Press John Clare
Book SynopsisJohn Lucas’s unique volume reveals a knowing and articulate poet writing as an essentially oral artist.
£18.69
Liverpool University Press Joseph Conrad
Book SynopsisProfessor Watts’s study examines the main phase in Joseph Conrad’s literary development.
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Liverpool University Press William Hazlitt
Book SynopsisThis study presents William Hazlitt as a brilliant and perceptive essayist and critic whose critical impressions of his contemporaries and their work gave a sense of an age and the leading figures who populated it in a particularly vivid way.
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Liverpool University Press Charlotte Yonge
Book SynopsisAlethea Hayter’s book appraises Charlotte Yonge as a writer, not simply as a symptom of her times, surveying her non-fictional studies in history, onomastics and wild-life as well as her family chronicles, historical novels and children’s books.
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Liverpool University Press PreRaphaelitism Poetry and Painting
Book SynopsisPre-Raphaelitism: Poetry & Painting offers an in-depth analysis of the impact of Pre-Raphaelitism on the arts.
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Liverpool University Press Percy Bysshe Shelley
Book SynopsisThis book is both a general introduction to and a particular interpretation of Shelley’s thought and major writings.
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Liverpool University Press Anthony Trollope
Book SynopsisThis study of Anthony Trollope looks particularly at the nature and quality of his political intelligence and at his grasp of processes of manipulation, personal interaction, media/press exploitation and the integration of the private and the public, whilst also assessing Trollope’s continuing popularity as a writer.
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Liverpool University Press Jane Austen
Book SynopsisIn this study, Robert Miles argues that many of the reasons for Austen’s construction as an English Cultural icon are to be found in the works’ formal qualities, and often in her most innovative techniques.
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Liverpool University Press Victorian Quest Romance Stevenson Haggard
Book SynopsisThis book views the Victorian quest romance genre in the light of debates within the then nascent sciences of Anthropology and Archaeology.
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Liverpool University Press Alfred Tennyson
Book SynopsisThis title is a study of Tennyson's lyrical imagination, describing its complex fascinations with recurrence, progress, narrative, and loss, and its doubts about its own artfulness.
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Liverpool University Press Anne Bronte
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Liverpool University Press Swinburne
Book SynopsisThis book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections - Poems and Ballads 1 (1866), Songs before Sunrise (1871) and Poems and Ballads 2 (1878), as well as a number of his most influential essays.
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Liverpool University Press Women Poets of the 19th Century
Book SynopsisThis study explores the inter-relationship between emotion and religion in women's poetry of the Romantic and Victorian eras.
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Liverpool University Press Swinburne
Book SynopsisThis book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections - Poems and Ballads 1 (1866), Songs before Sunrise (1871) and Poems and Ballads 2 (1878), as well as a number of his most influential essays.
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Liverpool University Press Women Poets of the 19th Century
Book SynopsisThis study explores the inter-relationship between emotion and religion in women's poetry of the Romantic and Victorian eras.
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Liverpool University Press Arthur Hugh Clough
Book Synopsis'The excellent explanatory notes extend the book's audience to non-specialists.Recommended.'T. Hoagwood, Choice
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Liverpool University Press Edward Lear
Book SynopsisJames Williams’s account, the first book-length critical study of the poet since the 1980s, sets out to re-introduce Lear and to accord him his proper place: as a major Victorian figure of continuing appeal and relevance, and especially as a poet of beauty, comedy, and profound ingenuity.Trade Review'A treat – scholarly, incisive and moving, with brilliantly surprising readings of Lear's work'. Jenny Uglow, author of Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense'A wonderfully engaging and revealing book, one that talks a great deal of sense about nonsense (without talking too much sense). The imaginative incisiveness of Williams's reading – and the deftness of his writing – make this the best study of Lear's poetry we have.' Matthew Bevis, University of Oxford'This is a study whose significance for the field belies its physical size, standing not only as the best account of Lear’s poetry yet published, but as a work which ought to reorient our sense of Lear’s place in the history of nineteenth-century poetry. […] Williams’s patient explication of the truth it speaks about both sense and nonsense should be regarded as a foundational articulation of Lear’s poetic achievement.'Benjamin Westwood, The Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Biographical Outline Abbreviations and References List of Illustrations Introduction 1: Beginnings This Mystery of Eggs Little Folks Merry The Pobble who has no Toes 2: Odd Beasts Amiable Frogs Virulent Bulls, Triumphant Chimpanzees The Owl and the Pussy-cat 3: The Scroobious Traveller Agonies of Packing Gooseberries and Gringhegi The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò 4: The Morbids Never . . . again Full of Despair Worse Things The Dong with a Luminous Nose Coda Notes Select Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Edward Lear
Book SynopsisJames Williams’s account, the first book-length critical study of the poet since the 1980s, sets out to re-introduce Lear and to accord him his proper place: as a major Victorian figure of continuing appeal and relevance, and especially as a poet of beauty, comedy, and profound ingenuity.Trade Review'A treat – scholarly, incisive and moving, with brilliantly surprising readings of Lear's work'. Jenny Uglow, author of Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense'A wonderfully engaging and revealing book, one that talks a great deal of sense about nonsense (without talking too much sense). The imaginative incisiveness of Williams's reading – and the deftness of his writing – make this the best study of Lear's poetry we have.' Matthew Bevis, University of Oxford'This is a study whose significance for the field belies its physical size, standing not only as the best account of Lear’s poetry yet published, but as a work which ought to reorient our sense of Lear’s place in the history of nineteenth-century poetry. […] Williams’s patient explication of the truth it speaks about both sense and nonsense should be regarded as a foundational articulation of Lear’s poetic achievement.'Benjamin Westwood, The Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Biographical Outline Abbreviations and References List of Illustrations Introduction 1: Beginnings This Mystery of Eggs Little Folks Merry The Pobble who has no Toes 2: Odd Beasts Amiable Frogs Virulent Bulls, Triumphant Chimpanzees The Owl and the Pussy-cat 3: The Scroobious Traveller Agonies of Packing Gooseberries and Gringhegi The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò 4: The Morbids Never . . . again Full of Despair Worse Things The Dong with a Luminous Nose Coda Notes Select Bibliography Index
£23.74
Liverpool University Press W. B. Yeats
Book SynopsisThis study shows how Yeats moved from passionate identification with the idea of Ireland in his early work, through a period in which he re-emphasizes his Anglo-Irish inheritance and its difference from that of Catholics, to a new sense of unity in his later work, founded on the belief that the Gaelic and the Anglo-Irish aristocracies were fundamentally alike.Trade ReviewLarrissy's readings of the poems are illuminating - ' Irish Studies Review
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MobyDick Herman Melville
Book SynopsisHerman Melville was already considered to be a successful author when he wrote ""Moby-Dick"" in just under two years. This book offers commentary on the canvas of symbols, themes, and subjects presented in this novel, as well as an introduction, a chronology, a bibliography, and an index.
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MB - Cornell University Press Rule of Darkness British Literature and Imperialism 18301914
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MB - Cornell University Press The Power of Lies Transgression Class and Gender
Book SynopsisAlthough moral earnestness has long been considered characteristic of the Victorians, Kucich maintains that English fiction in the nineteenth century was as interested in lies as in honesty. In this important book, Kucich explores the fascination with...Trade ReviewThis critic offers a meticulously constructed argument that intertwines contemporary linquistic, psychological, and social theories with scrupulous analyses of the literary works themselves. It is a rare thing for an academic study of the appropriations of the language of class and gender to engage its readers so thoroughly... Gossip and lies might be subversive, might be defiant, might even be downright nasty, but never have they seemed so appealing. * The Wordsworth Circle *
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Cornell University Press Dandies and Desert Saints Styles of Victorian
Book SynopsisWhile drawing on work in feminism, queer theory, and cultural history, Dandies and Desert Saints challenges scholars to rethink simplistic notions of Victorian manhood.Trade ReviewOffers a rich and complex argument.... Builds on important work by Victorianists such as Linda Dowling, Norma Clarke, and Herbert Sussman, and is as much at home with Walter Houghton as with Michel Foucault. By foregrounding issues of gender and placing these ideas in a more precise social and historical context than is usual, Dandies and Desert Saints deepens and expands the discussion of masculinities in the Victorian period. -- Joseph H. O'Mealy, Department of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa * Journal of the History of Sexuality *
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Cornell University Press Phantom Formations
Book SynopsisMarc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He combines a wide-ranging account of the history and theory of aesthetics with close readings of novels by Goethe, George Eliot, and Gustave Flaubert. For...Trade ReviewA thoughtful, complex book that integrates aesthetic philosophy, close textual readings, and literary theories, all of which eventually make a leap to talk about what we mean by culture, history, and humanity, what we do when we read or teach literature, and why the twentieth-century institutionalization of literature has generated the curious phenomenon of ‘literary theory'. -- Lorely French * European Romantic Review *
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Cornell University Press Sexual Encounters
Book SynopsisEuropean literary, artistic, and anthropological representation has long viewed the Pacific as the site of heterosexual pleasures. The received wisdom of these accounts is based on the idea of female bodies unrestrained by civilization. In a...Trade ReviewFocuses on expressions of male homoerotic fantasy in the Western literature and art of South Sea exploration. * Chronicle of Higher Education *Sexual Encounters bursts with absorbing information about sexuality and the South Pacific.... The overall thesis of the work, however, is absolutely compelling: heterosexist assumptions have blinkered both Western fantasies about Polynesia and critiques of those fantasies. -- Robert Deam Tobin, Whitman College * H-Net Reviews *In Sexual Encounters: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities, Lee Wallace proposes a new understanding of the erotics and ambivalences of encounters between Euro-Americans and Polynesians.... Wallace argues that contact placed at issue not—as he has been widely assumed—degrees of heterosexual freedom, but rather the cultural permutations of male relationships. The book reveals its brilliance at the level of close reading. It proceeds through a series of beguiling exegeses that cumulatively expose some of the blind spots in recent reappraisals of Pacific encounters.... Her approach to the alternately prurient, fascinated or studiously silent documents of early contact is a mode of interstitial analysis, always necessitated in reading archives of encounters between oral and literate cultures, and acquiring an added imperative for Wallace by the absence of explicit referencing of homosexuality in her chosen texts. She theorizes the challenge to speak for her subject skillfully and directly, never resorting to the knee-jerk double-entendre of vulgar Freudianism. -- Vanessa Smith, University of Sydney * Journal of Polynesian Society *Table of ContentsPacific texts, modern sexualities; Sexual encounter in Hawaii on Cook's third voyage; Marquesan encounter and male visibility; Sexual difference and the expulsion of William Yate; Gauguin's Manao Tupapau and sodomitical invitation; Fa'afafine, queens of Samoa and sexual elision.
£81.00
Cornell University Press Fictions Overcoat Russian Literary Culture and
Book SynopsisIf Dostoevsky claimed that all Russian writers of his day "came out from Gogol's 'Overcoat,'" then Edith W. Clowes boldly expands his dramatic image to describe the emergence of Russian philosophy out from under the "overcoat" of Russian literature...Trade ReviewEdith Clowe's fine book is an impassioned argument for the distinctiveness and legitimacy of Russian philosophy in relation to its western counterpart.... The immense virtue of Clowe's book is to emphasize the formal richness and radically of Russian philosophy as an innovatively impure discourse unto itself, thereby preparing the necessary basis to pose this very contemporary question of authority anew and, thus, to assess whether Russian philosophy truly deals with the problems the German tradition sought to resolve. This further project of questioning, an extremely important and relevant one, belongs to studies that can build on what Clowe's book has first made visible—here new territory has been ventured upon in the most productive way. -- Jeff Love, Clemson University * Slavic and East European Journal *In Fiction's Overcoat Edith Clowes offers a stimulating survey of the development of philosophical thought in Russia from the early nineteenth century to the first decade of the Soviet regime.... Edith Clowes has done a fine job in guiding the reader through the complex maze of Russian speculative thought.... Edith Clowe's book makes an original and valuable contribution to the study of the Russian philosophical tradition. It should engage the attention of those interested in Russian intellectual history, Russian literature, and, of course, the rich tradition of Russian speculative philosophy. -- Julian W. Connolly, University of Virginia, Charlottesville * Partial Answers *The book title refers to Dostoevsky's observation that Russian writers of his generation emerged out of Gogol's famous short story The Overcoat. The author expands on this idea and argues that while Russia did not have a strong academic philosophical tradition during the nineteenth century, a vibrant philosophical culture did emerge then from the 'overcoat' of a well-established Russian literary tradition, rather than from the Western philosophical tradition. Russian philosophy developed in the context of an ongoing conversation with literature, radical social writing, and theology. The result was a... tradition that passionately debated a wide range of issues, including metaphysical, aesthetic, and ethical questions. * Choice *Those interested in the historical dynamics of the dialogue between literature and philosophy in modern Russia have often tended to view literature as a successful substitute for an absent tradition of (western) philosophizing. In her book, Fiction's Overcoat, Edith Clowes has chosen a different, methodologically more sophisticated approach. She steers away from the notion of literature as a mere replacement or reflection of philosophy; instead, she endeavors to show that Russian philosophy grew from the tissue of literature and preserved these birth marks all along, thus assuming an identity of its own, different from mainstream western philosophy but no less valuable for that.... Clowes has written a thoughtful book that will be of great interest to scholars and graduate students in Russian literature and intellectual history. Her exposition, sensitive to detail and at the same time secure in outlining the wider picture, adds to our perception of the interaction between literature and philosophy in Russia over the last two centuries. -- Galin Tihanov, Lancaster University * Slavic Review *
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Cornell University Press Seeing Chekhov
Book Synopsis"Chekhov's keen powers of observation have been remarked by both memoirists who knew him well and scholars who approach him only through the written record and across the distance of many decades. To apprehend Chekhov means seeing how Chekhov sees...Trade Review"Chekhov was a master at deflecting critical attention away from his own personality, both in his writing and in his private life. But he reckoned without the supreme forensic skills of a scholar such as Michael C. Finke, who seeks to probe beneath the layers of dusty cliché that have accumulated during the past century. In his incisive new book, Finke lays Chekhov bare by marshaling an impressive arsenal of analytical tools and by playing the writer at his own game, using X-ray vision to penetrate the unexpected points of contact between the life and the creative work. It is exhilarating to see Chekhov through Finke's eyes." -- Rosamund Bartlett, author of Chekhov: Scenes from a Life"In Seeing Chekhov, Michael C. Finke succeeds in integrating Chekhov's life and work, his art and his science, his role as a physician and as a patient, as a dramatist and a prose writer, the personal and the professional, the pseudonyms that efface his identity and those that all but proclaim it. Chekhov's preference for not being seen, as it turns out, demands that we examine his strategies of hiding rather than obligingly averting our eyes. The payoff in terms of insight into Chekhov's poetics is enormous." -- Cathy Popkin, Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University"Michael C. Finke has written an outstanding and innovative piece of work: a psychobiography of Chekhov the man and writer based on deep and sensitive readings of the Russian author's prose, plays, and letters, and of extensive biographical writings and materials. Thoroughly informed, Finke does not merely talk 'about' Chekhov or rehash general ideas, but opens up an unknown Chekhov, or, in any case, aspects of the man that the writer, Chekhov, rigorously guarded, and that have hitherto been seen or described mostly from the outside, and apart from Chekhov's writing and poetics. 'Seeing, being seen, hiding and showing,' in Finke's words, are signal concepts for exploring Chekhov the man and the writer. Here is a book that will interest both a wide range of specialists and the interested general reader." -- Robert Louis Jackson, B. E. Bensinger Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
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Cornell University Press The Word Made Self
Book SynopsisWhen Osip Mandelstam wrote that the Russian word was "sentient and breathing flesh," he voiced one of the most powerful themes in his culture. In The Word Made Self, Thomas Seifrid explores this Russian fascination with the power of the word as...Trade Review"For the last two centuries, serious Russian thought about language has been nourished by sources alien to the current conventions of scholarly Anglophone discourse. In place of the snappy pragmatic essay or the empirical argument based on clinical evidence, we find Neoplatonism, the theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church, and German Romantic philosophy. Thomas Seifrid's patient, lucid treatment of this difficult and vital material will matter to anyone interested in literature, philosophy of language, speculative theology, sociology, and political rhetoric in Russia." -- Caryl Emerson, Princeton University"The Word Made Self is a fascinating study of the intersection of philosophy, linguistics and theology in the age of Russian Modernism. Thomas Seifrid provides a compelling introduction to and analysis of the works of Sergei Bulgakov, Pavel Florenskii, Aleksei Losev, Aleksandr Potebnia, and Gustav Shpet. He shows how the idea of language as a carrier of subjectivity was central to all these thinkers. He is particularly sensitive to the way they wove together philosophical strands from German Romanticism, the Orthodox tradition, and phenomenology. The arguments here will be of major interest to historians of the Soviet period, particularly those working with notions of Soviet subjectivity and contemporary concepts of ideology. The Word Made Self is also an invaluable resource for all scholars whose work deals with the Symbolist and Formalist movements." -- Eric Naiman, University of California, Berkeley"The Word Made Self is the first comprehensive examination in English of the rich and multifarious body of discourses on language produced in Russia over a period of some seventy years, from the abolition of serfdom to the rise of Stalinism. Wide-ranging and sensitive to a variety of disciplines and writing practices from theology and philosophy to literary criticism, fiction, and psychology, Thomas Seifrid's book will become an important reference point in the field." -- Galin Tihanov, Lancaster University
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Cornell University Press The Novel of Purpose
Book SynopsisIn the nineteenth century, Great Britain and the United States shared a single literary marketplace that linked the reform movements, as well as the literatures, of the two nations. The writings of transatlantic reformers—antislavery, temperance, and...Trade ReviewIn a work of impressive range and depth, Amanda Claybaugh focuses on the exchanges and reciprocal influences of American and English novelists of the nineteenth century. Several concentric arguments thread through Claybaugh's book, but the most foundational is the contention that English-language print culture in the nineteenth century was above all transnational, bound together by transatlantic reprinting, circulation, and mutual influence. And of all these connective links, social reform, Claybaugh argues, was particularly potent in binding together the two nations and their literatures, functioning as a 'central conduit for these exchanges'.... The Novel of Purpose is densely packed with finely honed arguments and observations, but a few points merit mention. First, Claybaugh's discussion of realism is a refreshing and important contribution to a well-worked-over field. With admirable poise, she offers a precise and clear definition of realism, distinguishes Anglo-American from continental realism, and charts the complicated history of realist criticism over the last several decades.... The Novel of Purpose is well written, impressively researched, and wide ranging. Claybaugh offers an important and long overdue analysis of this novelistic genre, and her book deserves to rank among the finest recent contributions to transnational literary history. * H-SHGAPE, H-Net Reviews *The Novel of Purpose is a major contribution to the study of nineteenth-century literature on both sides of the Atlantic—one, moreover, that provides innovative and timely insight into the complex relationship between aesthetic production and political engagement. * Novel: A Forum on Fiction *
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Cornell University Press Who What Am I
Book SynopsisGod only knows how many diverse, captivating impressions and thoughts evoked by these impressions... pass in a single day. If it were only possible to render them in such a way that I could easily read myself and that others could read me as I do... Such was the desire of the young Tolstoy. Although he knew that this narrative utopiaturning the totality of his life into a bookwould remain unfulfilled, Tolstoy would spend the rest of his life attempting to achieve it. Who, What Am I? is an account of Tolstoy''s lifelong attempt to find adequate ways to represent the self, to probe its limits and, ultimately, to arrive at an identity not based on the bodily self and its accumulated life experience.This book guides readers through the voluminous, highly personal nonfiction writings that Tolstoy produced from the 1850s until his death in 1910. The variety of these texts is enormous, including diaries, religious tracts, personal confessions, letters, autobiographical fragments, anTrade ReviewOffers a rare exploration into the internal world of Tolstoy by examining his nonfictional, first-person writings, including diaries, letters, reminiscences, autobiographical and confessional statements, and essays.... Paperno makes an invaluable contribution to Tolstoy scholarship. -- R. A. Erb * CHOICE *Paperno reads all his [Tolstoy’s] writings in relation to the central project of his life: the transformation of his life into a book that would teach others how to live.... ‘Who, What Am I?’ is an important book that will become a standard source for students, general readers and scholars alike. * SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW *Paperno deftly shows how Tolstoi's attempt to write an autobiography failed, but his perceived failure at capturing the moral, philosophical, and technical issues accurately becomes a testament to his literary honesty (102). "Who, What Am I?" is highly important for any Tolstoi researcher, as it brings together the whole of his writings dealing with the exploration of the self. -- Radha Balasubramanian * Slavic Review *This is a relatively short book, yet it is rich in content, taking on some of the most important and challenging problems Tolstoy faced as a writer and thinker. [Irina Paperno] draws on a full range of Tolstoy's nonfiction writings from the 1850s until his death in 1910: diaries, letters, reminiscences, autobiographical and confessional statements, essays, and religious tracts. In addition, her book is informed by vast reading in other sources, primary and secondary. -- Randall A. Poole * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. "So That I Could Easily Read Myself": Tolstoy's Early DiariesTolstoy Starts a Diary—The Moral Vision of Self and the Temporal Order of Narrative—What Is Time? Cultural Precedents—“A History of Yesterday”— Time and Narrative—The Dream: The Hidden Recesses of Time—What Am I? The Young Tolstoy Defines Himself—What Am I? Cultural PrecedentsInterlude: Between Personal Documents and FictionFrom Diaries to Childhood: Tolstoy Becomes a Writer (1852)—“I Think I Will Never Write Again”: Tolstoy Attempts to Renounce Literature (1859)—“I . . . Don’t Even Think about the Accursed Lit-t-terature and Lit-t-terateurs”: Tolstoy Renounces Literature Again (1870); and Again (1874–75)Chapter 2. “To Tell One’s Faith Is Impossible. . . . How to Tell That Which I Live By. I’ll Tell You, All the Same. . . .” Tolstoy in His Correspondence“What Is My Life? What Am I?”: Tolstoy’s Philosophical Dialogue with Nikolai Strakhov—“I Wish that You, Instead of Reading Anna Kar [ enina ], Would Finish It. . . .”—“In the Form of Catechism,” “In the Form of a Dialogue”—To Tell One’s Life—Rousseau and His Profession/Confession—The Parting of Ways: Tolstoy Writes His Confession, and Strakhov Continues to Confess in His Letters to TolstoyChapter 3. Tolstoy’s Confession : What Am I?Tolstoy Publishes his Confession—The Conversion Narrative: Excursus on the Genre—Tolstoy’s Confession : Step by Step—Tolstoy’s Confession Related to Rousseau’s and Augustine’s—After Confession: “Presenting Christ’s Teaching as Something New after 1,800 Years of Christianity”—Coda: Tolstoy’s InfluenceChapter 4. “To Write My Life ”: Tolstoy Tries, and Fails, to Produce a Memoir or AutobiographyThe Author Biography—“My Life”: “On the Basis of My Own Memories”—“Reminiscences”: “More Useful Than All That Artistic Prattle with Which the Twelve Volumes of My Works Are Filled”—“Reminiscences”: “I Cannot Provide a Coherent Description of Events and States of Mind”—“The Green Stick”: “Où Suis-Je? Pourquoi Suis-Je? Que Suis-Je?”—Tolstoy and the Autobiographical TraditionChapter 5. “What Should We Do Then?”: Tolstoy on Self and Other“Why Have You, a Man from a Different World, Stopped near Us? Who Are You?”—Master and Slave: Tolstoy Rewrites Hegel—Tolstoy and the Washerwoman—The Order of Things: The Church, the State, the Arts and Sciences—“Master and Man”—Coda: Nonparticipation in EvilChapter 6. “I Felt a Completely New Liberation from Personality”: Tolstoy’s Late DiariesTolstoy Resumes his Diary—The Temporal Order of Narrative: The Last Day—“On Life and Death ”—The Diary as a Spiritual Exercise—“I, the Body, Is Such a Disgusting Chamber Pot”—“I Am Conscious of Myself Being Conscious of Myself Being Conscious of Myself. . . .”—“I Have Lost the Memory of Everything, Almost Everything. . . . How Can One Not Rejoice at the Loss of Memory?”—Sleeping, Dreaming, and Awakening—Tolstoy’s Dreams—Dreams: The World beyond Time and Representation—The Book of life: “It Is Written on Time”—The Circle of Reading: “To Replace the Consciousness of Leo Tolstoy with the Consciousness of All Humankind”—“The Death of Socrates”—Tolstoy’s DeathAppendix: Russian QuotationsNotesIndex
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Cornell University Press Metropolis on the Styx
Book SynopsisIn Metropolis on the Styx, David L. Pike considers how underground spaces and their many myths have organized ways of seeing, thinking about, and living in the modern city. Expanding on the cultural history of underground construction in his acclaimed...Trade ReviewPike has a collector's passion for viaducts, arches, quarries, tunnels, sewers, and arcades, and for the many and varied things that nineteenth-century observers had to say about them. His enthusiasm is especially contagious in an era when long-term government neglect of infrastructure has filled the news with breached levees, collapsing bridges, neighborhoods falling off the power grid, and other end-of-the-world style disasters.... Following the lead of Walter Benjamin, Pike reflects brilliantly on the devil in Baudelaire, while he also uncovers plausible devil surrogates in Eugene Sue's Les Mysteres de Paris, in the Gothic genre (relocated from the country to the city), in detective stories (the detective as another limping devil, taking off the housetops to reveal the hidden world of connections), in film noir and neo-noir. -- Bruce Robbins * Minnesota Review *Pike's book presents us with both a new of of spatializing capitalist modernity and a truly impressive archive of texts about the city and its underground spaces. The carefully chosen epigraphs dotted throughout each chapter speak volumes on their own, and the astonishing range of works and phenomenon analyzed within each chapter (from journalism to panoramas to the trench cities of World War I) are illustrated by many rare and wonderful images (110 in total).... Metropolis on the Styx's ambitious purview makes the density of material it analyzes necessary, for its arguments reach across space (from London to Paris) and time (spanning two full centuries).... All this breadth and depth makes for a work that is profoundly interdisciplinary, bringing together the interests of urban studies, English and comparative literature, history, art history, architecture, and geography as if to propose a new field—subterranean studies—and provide enough material to keep it going for some time. -- Tanya Agathocleous * Victorian Studies *This is an engaging and erudite volume throughout. Pike avoids becoming overly mired in a quagmire of theoretical considerations, and his arguments are firmly grounded in the urban landscapes that are the subject of his analysis. His work is a welcome addition to a long line of literature critically concerned with the rise of the modern industrial metropolis.... It is recommended for any scholar interested in the form of the urban world as a product of technology and the evolution of our attitudes about it. I expect that it will find wide use in upper division courses in American studies, geography, and urban studies. -- John P. McCarthy * Technology and Culture *
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Cornell University Press Transcendental Utopias
Book SynopsisNew England Transcendentalism was a vibrant and many-sided movement whose members are probably best remembered for their utopian experiments, their attempts to reconcile the contingent world of history with what they perceived as the stable and...Trade ReviewFrancis does historians an important service by suggesting that they should move beyond such artificial dichotomies as individual versus community in their attempt to understand the complexities of transcendentalism. * Journal of American History *The book's argument is persuasive.... Its research base in both manuscript and printed sources is impressive. Communal studies scholars will find the work of value for its important analysis and reflection.... Utopianists will find this a good theoretical work in their field.... Communal and utopian scholars will also value Francis's excellent exposition of Fourierism.... Religion... does not occupy center stage except in chapter 4, where Francis provides an intriguing exposition of religiosity and spirituality at Brook Farm, a subject too little plumbed in other works on the famous community. * Journal of Religion *Early in his imaginative study, Francis mentions a central paradox—how to reconcile a sense of community with the exaltation of the individual as championed in Emerson's 'Self-Reliance.' Each of the three transcendental utopias was within a day's drive of Concord.... For all their fame, they were short-lived experiments and none solved the individual-versus-community puzzle. * Publishers Weekly *Francis provides a solid analysis of performance and entertainment at Brook Farm, and in doing so makes a most convincing argument regarding the early days of the Brook Farm experience. * H-Net Reviews *Francis provides a sprightly, well-researched, sanely argued, and lucidly written account of three variously famous and controversial Massachusetts utopian projects conducted in the Jacksonian 1840s. -- Robert DeMott, Ohio University * American Literature *Francis's reading of Transcendentalism is penetrating, ingenious, and potentially very rewarding.... This volume represents an innovative approach to Transcendental thought. * American Historical Review *
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Cornell University Press Feminist Conversations
Book SynopsisIn a new account of the relationship between Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Christina Zwarg recreates a feminist conversation that has gone unheard. In Zwarg''s view, the intimate, yet restrained, letters between the two writers are most significant in confronting the challenges posed by gender and desire. Focusing on their exploration of Charles Fourier''s utopianism and particularly his concept of passionate attraction, Zwarg offers the only detailed reading of Emerson''s letters to Fuller.Trade ReviewThis theoretically dense, well-researched book focuses on the relationship between two great 19th-century intellectuals: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller.... Because of its originality and excellent research, this book will be mandatory reading for Fuller and Emerson scholars and those interested in the development of 19th-century women's writing. * Choice *
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MB - Cornell University Press Dandies and Desert Saints
Book SynopsisWhile drawing on work in feminism, queer theory, and cultural history, Dandies and Desert Saints challenges scholars to rethink simplistic notions of Victorian manhood.Trade ReviewOffers a rich and complex argument.... Builds on important work by Victorianists such as Linda Dowling, Norma Clarke, and Herbert Sussman, and is as much at home with Walter Houghton as with Michel Foucault. By foregrounding issues of gender and placing these ideas in a more precise social and historical context than is usual, Dandies and Desert Saints deepens and expands the discussion of masculinities in the Victorian period. -- Joseph H. O'Mealy, Department of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa * Journal of the History of Sexuality *
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Cornell University Press Sexual Encounters
Book SynopsisEuropean literary, artistic, and anthropological representation has long viewed the Pacific as the site of heterosexual pleasures. The received wisdom of these accounts is based on the idea of female bodies unrestrained by civilization. In a...Trade ReviewFocuses on expressions of male homoerotic fantasy in the Western literature and art of South Sea exploration. * Chronicle of Higher Education *Sexual Encounters bursts with absorbing information about sexuality and the South Pacific.... The overall thesis of the work, however, is absolutely compelling: heterosexist assumptions have blinkered both Western fantasies about Polynesia and critiques of those fantasies. -- Robert Deam Tobin, Whitman College * H-Net Reviews *In Sexual Encounters: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities, Lee Wallace proposes a new understanding of the erotics and ambivalences of encounters between Euro-Americans and Polynesians.... Wallace argues that contact placed at issue not—as he has been widely assumed—degrees of heterosexual freedom, but rather the cultural permutations of male relationships. The book reveals its brilliance at the level of close reading. It proceeds through a series of beguiling exegeses that cumulatively expose some of the blind spots in recent reappraisals of Pacific encounters.... Her approach to the alternately prurient, fascinated or studiously silent documents of early contact is a mode of interstitial analysis, always necessitated in reading archives of encounters between oral and literate cultures, and acquiring an added imperative for Wallace by the absence of explicit referencing of homosexuality in her chosen texts. She theorizes the challenge to speak for her subject skillfully and directly, never resorting to the knee-jerk double-entendre of vulgar Freudianism. -- Vanessa Smith, University of Sydney * Journal of Polynesian Society *Table of ContentsPacific texts, modern sexualities; Sexual encounter in Hawaii on Cook's third voyage; Marquesan encounter and male visibility; Sexual difference and the expulsion of William Yate; Gauguin's Manao Tupapau and sodomitical invitation; Fa'afafine, queens of Samoa and sexual elision.
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Cornell University Press Gothic Reflections Narrative Force in
Book SynopsisThe Gothic has long been seen as offering a subversive challenge to the norms of realism. Locating both Gothic and mainstream Victorian fiction in a larger literary and cultural field, Peter K. Garrett argues that the oppositions usually posed between...Trade ReviewApproaching literary gothicism with an emphasis on its reflexivity, Garrett offers interesting interpretations of old warhorse fictions by writers from Horace Walpole through Henry James.... Overall, Garrett highlights the psychological plausibilities inherent in gothicism, which bear out Poe's dictum that terror emanates from the soul rather than from sleazy gimmicks to enthrall imperceptive readers. Summing Up: All collections supporting serious study of literary Gothicism, upper-division undergraduates and above. * Choice *Gothic Reflections demonstrates the interplay of Gothic and realistic elements from Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764) to James's The Ambassadors. Everyone who studies nineteenth-century fiction as well as recent theories of narrative will find it helpful, at times provocative (forceful but not forced), and always engaging. -- Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University * Victorian Studies *
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Cornell University Press Narrating Reality Austen Scott Eliot
Book SynopsisNarrating Reality offers a provocative and original critique of nineteenth-century British realist fiction and our ways of understanding it. Paying close attention to the role of the narrator, Harry E. Shaw challenges the denigration of realism that...Trade ReviewThis is a powerfully integrative book.... Narrating Reality is... as much a dramatic exercise in critical self-scrutiny as it is an analysis of a literary tradition... A remarkable, often moving book. -- Andrew H. Miller, Indiana University * Victorian Studies *This work is a classic example of statement and amplification: the notion of realism is the focus, the examination of the works of Austen, Scott, and Eliot the demonstration of that idea. The book is judicious, balanced, tightly structured, and tremendously informed.... With a sharply defined focus and a lucid, close-to-informal style, Shaw adeptly leads his reader through what can easily be a bewildering and overlapping maze of narratological theories.... A significant and original analysis. * Choice *
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Cornell University Press Monomania
Book Synopsis"This book is about the obsessive strategies people use to keep the arbitrary out of their lives; it is about the fanaticism and intolerance linked to their ideas of perfection and permanence.... Those readers who have brushed against the dangers...Trade Review"As we turn these learned pages on modernist fanaticism, obsession, compulsion, and idées fixes, we come to recognize the figure in the mirror: the monomaniac is us. Marina van Zuylen's gentle irony and dry wit make this richly written book a delight to read." -- Janet Beizer, Harvard University"In the same way as Rene Girard analyzed the structure of mimetic desire in his groundbreaking Deceit, Desire and the Novel of 1965, Marina van Zuylen constructs the history of what seems at first an obsolete psychological affliction by ordering a series of case studies into a teleological march through time—from Flaubert's to ours. She reactivates notions that had fallen into oblivion and in so doing proposes an entirely new reading of monomania as a symptom, or rather a coherent set of symptoms, of modern life." -- Yve-Alain Bois, Harvard University"Monomania is a rich and compelling study of an often misunderstood condition.... Marina van Zuylen's interest lies in analyzing monomania as an all-too-common yearning for absolutes that transcends the nineteenth century and permeates literature, art, and life even today. Her book offers a fascinating philosophical and psychological consideration of the desire to organize one's existence around a stable ideal, and the corresponding anxiety that life is otherwise meaningless or empty. Drawing on various sources—case studies, letters, and biographies in addition to fiction, philosophy, and art—van Zuylen illuminates monomania's role in a range of practices and predilections. Myriad idées fixes coalesce around the drive to establish the coherence that life lived freely fails to provide. The desire unites the artist fleeing reality for abstraction, the nineteenth-century housewife seeking a master in her mate, the hypochondriac focusing ever inward on his or her body, and even the academic obsessed with productivity." -- Laura Spagnoli, French Forum, Fall 2007"Monomania is highly original, deeply learned, intelligent, and thoughtful. It is also engagingly and agreeably written. Marina van Zuylen fruitfully combines psychological and literary issues, achieving a balance between attention to specific authors and a strong central argument. She successfully brings together the inner problematics of literature-the act of writing, the choice of the writing life, the investment in form and style-and the literary imagination of the psychology of human thought and behavior." -- William Paulson, author of Literary Culture in a World Transformed: A Future for the Humanities"This intriguing book is finally about our relationship to time—plain time that is at once too dull and too rich for us to bear—and how it invests modern art with esthetic urgency. Marina van Zuylen's case studies of notable modernist monomaniacs are poignant in their precise appreciation of the risks and riches of the idée fixe. We come to feel we understand these characters all too well! A dim but haunting awareness of one's own susceptibility to the 'fear of everyday life' grows in the reader, engendering a kind of double reading that performs the very ambiguity of monomania so precisely revealed by van Zuylen's analysis. I read this beautifully written book monomaniacally." -- Suzanne Guerlac, University of California, Berkeley"This is an enthralling book—I found myself monomaniacally lecturing anyone who came near about its ideas. Marina van Zuylen revives a concept of obsession broader than that currently used in psychiatry, and in doing so makes it easier to see what the urge to create literature can have in common with such states as obsessive grief, hypochondriasis, and perfectionism. Monomania is not only a theory-rich delight for students of literature and culture, it has practical implications for clinicians—and for any general reader who has felt the seductive tug of being a jealous lover, a tchotchke collector, or a workaholic." -- Alice Flaherty MD, PhD, Director, Movement Disorders Fellowship, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and author of The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
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Cornell University Press Penelope Voyages Women and Travel in the British
Book SynopsisLooking at travel writing by British women from the seventeenth century on, Karen R. Lawrence asks an intriguing question: What happens when, instead of waiting patiently for Odysseus, Penelope voyages and records her journey...Trade ReviewLawrence provides an important interrogation of travel writing as a genre and travel as a formative concept in women's identity. Women's narrative wandering is, according to Lawrence, a 'risky' and 'rewardingly excessive' phenomenon (240), of which Penelope Voyages is both an analysis and an example. * Novel *
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Johns Hopkins University Press Sex Politics and Science in the NineteenthCentury
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis collection is... a lesson to editors about how different types of subjects may profitably be brought together in one volume. And though the feminist orientation is provocative, there is a complete absence of any tone of vindictiveness, and an obvious determination to get at the truth. -- Eugene Kraft English Literature in Translation
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