Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
Johns Hopkins University Press The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe
Book SynopsisRenza, Shawn Rosenheim, and Laura Saltz.Trade Review"Avoiding the mere Frenchification of Poe that was dominant in the eighties, on the one hand, but, on the other, steadfastly refusing to return to the traditional formalist and thematic style which never really accounted for the French Poe, these essays make a wonderful case for a vitally social Poe--returning him home again, but with a difference that makes all the difference. They do so because their authors are at once theoretically current and widely experienced with the American canon. And they do so, even more, because they are quality essays, valuable individually as well as collectively."--Kenneth Dauber, State University of New York, Buffalo
£23.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Civil Wars
Book SynopsisAbove all, Goodman shows that novels of manners are central to American literature, and that these novels speak in a large cultural way about who and what composes America.Trade ReviewGoodman aims to show the many ways in which American novelists have scrutinized the norms of everyday life for clues about character, history, morality, social change, and national identity... Her discussions of William Dean Howells, Ellen Glasgow, and Jessie Fauset are particularly cogent. -- Merle Rubin Washington Times Foregrounding questions of taste and manners leads Goodman to a number of new perspectives on the literary production of her subjects. -- Alex Feerst American Literature 2004 Goodman presents an original and compelling argument that forces readers to acknowledge that the novel of manners-which typically focused on attitudes toward race, class, and national identity-did in fact play a central role in American literary and cultural history. This book is notable for its insight and originality. Choice 2003Table of ContentsContents: Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: American Novelists and Manners 1 William Dean Howells: The Lessons of a Master 2 Henry James: The Final Paradox of Manners 3 Edith Wharton: A Backward Glance 4 Willa Cather: "After 1922 or Thereabout" 5 Ellen Glasgow: A Social History of America 6 Jessie Fauset: The Etiquette of Passing Conclusion: Excursives Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£38.70
Johns Hopkins University Press Romantic Interactions
Book SynopsisThis fresh, informative account of key writers, important texts, and complex cultural currents promises keen interest for students and scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians.Trade ReviewSusan Wolfson is not afraid to profess the study of literature. Her impressive body of work has reasserted the claims of close reading and formal literary values in the face (or the wake) of New Historical and other forms of social, materialist criticism which have tended to reduce poetic texts to the socio-political arguments that can be based on-or against-them. Yet she does this not in simple reaction to what has become a very prevailing trend in the field of Romantic criticism, but with a keen alertness to the moral issues raised in Romantic poetry, especially when they involve the status of women, and particularly women writers, then and now. The present book takes a further step in this direction by investigating poetic language and feminist issues, including the possibly 'feminine' valences of poetry itself. Its procedure is highly intertextual, reading texts back and forth, for and against, each other. New Books on Literature 19 2010 Wolfson employs historicizing criticism to study the relationship between Romantic authors' subjective agency and social connections. Choice 2011Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsNote on TextsIntroduction: "The will of a social being"I. Two Women & Poetic Tradition1. Charlotte Smith's Emigrants and the Politics of Allusion2. Mary Wollstonecraft: Re:Reading the Poets3. The Poets' "Wollstonecraft"II. Gender Interactions, Generative Interactions: Two Wordsworths4. Lyrical Ballads and the Pregnant Words of Men's Passions5. William's Sister: Alternatives of Alter Ego6. Dorothy's Conversation with WilliamIII. A Public Attraction7. Gazing on "Byron": Separation and Fascination8. Byron and the Muse of Female PoetryNotesWorks CitedIndex
£54.45
Johns Hopkins University Press romanticnarrative
Book SynopsisEffective, articulate, and readable, Romantic Narrative will appeal to scholars in both nineteenth-century studies and narrative theory.Trade ReviewWith philosophical sophistication and extraordinary critical intelligence, Rajan also presents complex and original readings. Choice 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionList of Abbreviations1. The Trauma of Lyric: Shelley's Missed Encounter with Poetry in Alastos2. Shelley's Promethean Narratives: Gothic Anamorphoses in Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne, and Prometheus Unbound3. Unbinding the Personal: Autonarration, Epistolarity, and Genotext in Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma Courtney4. The Scene of Judgment: Trial and Confession in Godwin's Caleb Williams and Other Fiction5. Gambling, Alchemy, Speculation: Godwin's Critique of Pure Reason in St. Leon6. Whose Text? Godwin's Editing of Mary Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of WomanNotesWorks CitedIndex
£52.20
Johns Hopkins University Press All a Novelist Needs Colm Tibn on Henry James
Book SynopsisToibin's remarkable insights provide scholars, students, and general readers a fresh encounter with James's well-known texts.Trade ReviewThe book does not disappoint. The essays may be incidental-reviews, introductions, lectures-but each conveys a sense of Toibin's deep engagement with his subject and his writer's way with words. Irish Times 2010 Anyone interested in Toibin's process of transforming the life of James into a novel of immense subtlety should look carefully at a recent volume of essays. -- Jay Parini Chronicle of Higher EducationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Susan M. GriffinChapter 1. Henry James in Ireland: A FootnoteChapter 2. The Haunting of Lamb HouseChapter 3. A More Elaborate Web: Becoming Henry JamesChapter 4. Pure Evil: "The Turn of the Screw"Chapter 5. The Lessons of the MasterChapter 6. Henry James's New YorkChapter 7. A Death, a Book, an Apartment: The Portrait of a LadyChapter 8. Reflective BiographyChapter 9. A Bundle of LettersChapter 10. All a Novelist NeedsChapter 11. The Later JamesesAfterword: SilenceIndex
£45.00
University of Toronto Press Constance Lindsay Skinner
Book SynopsisBorn in 1877 on the British Columbia frontier, Constance Lindsay Skinner died in New York City in 1939, a successful and prolific writer. In contrast to her reputation in the United States, she remains virtually unknown in the country of her birth.
£49.50
University of Toronto Press Fitting Sentences Identity in Nineteenth and
Book SynopsisBy analysing the works of specific prison writers but not being limited to a single locale or narrow time span, Fitting Sentences offers a significant historical and global overview of a unique genre in literature.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Opening Statements Part One: The Carceral Society *'They locked the door on my meditations': Thoreau, Society, and the Prison House of Identity *'Cast of Characters': Problems of Identity and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Part Two: Writing Wrongs *'To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law': The Paradox of the Individual in De Profundis * Positioning Discourse: Martin Luther King Jr's 'Letter from Birmingham City Jail' Part Three: Prisons, Privilege, and Complicity * Being Jane Warton: Lady Constance Lytton and the Disruption of Privilege * Frustrating Complicity in Breyten Breytenbach's The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist Closing Statements / Opening Arguments Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Toronto Press The First Falls on Monday
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University of Toronto Press Thackeray
Book SynopsisAlthough few critics deny Thackeray’s position as a major novelist, he has had comparatively little of the kind of critical attention that has been devoted to Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, or Henry James in the last thirty years. His curious combinations of satire and sentiment, geniality and deviousness, snobbery and anti-snobbery, and his habits of retreating from one disguise to another, have made him difficult to deal with, and his practice of exposing his stories as fictions has evoked hostility in many critics who are none the less fascinated by him.In this original and revealing study of the major novels, Juliet McMaster contends that Thackery is a consummate artist and a highly sophisticated ironist, exploiting to the full the potential of the various personae he adopts, and introducing ambiguity deliberately, to sharpen the reader’s moral perceptions and to evoke the complexity of experience itself.
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University of Toronto Press Hopkins the Self and God
Book SynopsisGeneral Manley Hopkins was not alone among Victorians in his attention to the human self and to the particularities of things in the world around him, where he savoured the ‘selving or ‘inscape’ of each individual existent. But the intensity of his interest in the self, as a focus of exuberant joy as well as sometimes of anguish, both in his poetry and his prose, marks him out as unique even among his contemporaries. In these studies Professor Ong explores some previously unexamined reasons for Hopkins’ uniqueness, including unsuspected connections between nineteenth-century sensibility and certain substructures of Christian belief.Hopkins was less interested in self-discovery or self-concept than in what might be called the confrontational or obtrusive self – the ‘I,’ ultimately nameless, that each person wakes up to in the morning to find simply there, directly or indirectly present in every moment of consciousness. Hop
£23.39
University of Toronto Press The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold Or The Modern Oedipus
Book SynopsisIn 1816, John William Polidori travelled to Geneva as Byron’s personal physician; there he met Mary and Percy Shelley and took part in the most famous house party in literary history. To pass the time in ‘a wet, ungenial summer,’ the travellers took to writing ghost stories. Byron wrote his Faustian drama Manfred (1817); Mary Shelley wrote her masterpiece, Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818). Polidori appropriated an unfished story by Byron and turned it into the The Vampyre (1819). Polidori’s tale, with its nightmarish atmosphere and seductive, aristocratic villain, was a scandalous success; the fact that it was originally published, without Polidori’s knowledge, under Byron’s name, didn’t hurt. All the most famous vampires of popular culture, from Stoker’s Dracular to Anne Rice’s Lestat, descend from Polidori’s Byronic prototype.Polidori also contributed an original novel to
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MY - University of Toronto Press Ghostly Paradoxes
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University of Nebraska Press Winter Wheat
Book SynopsisIntroduces Ellen Webb, who lives in the dryland wheat country of central Montana during the early 1940s. This title is about growing up, becoming a woman, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and within the space of a year and a half.
£16.14
Stanford University Press The Consolations of Space
Book SynopsisThis text examines the concept of the mental landscape in American romantic literature. It contends that this landscape creates a space in the imagination that helps to form a writer's perspective. The book also explores the function of literary allusion in 19th-century American romance.Trade Review'A book of the first importance. I take particular delight in its moral intelligence, its deep aesthetic insight, and its ability to sketch a powerful and suggestive theory of American romanticism in a few strokes ... What this book is finally about is not only what an American romance is, but also how to specify the conditions under which imagination imagines and the logic of its action ... It also enters with beautiful precision and accessibility into the deep and primary questions of what art is supposed to be about and for.' John Burt, Brandeis UniversityTable of ContentsA note on sources; Introduction; Part I. Hawthorne: Re-placing Romance: 1. Prefatory remarks; 2. A wonder book; 3. The marble faun; Part II. Melville and James: The far-Hidden Places: 4. Melville: inland voyages; 5. James: 'the science of my response'; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
£52.20
Stanford University Press The Poetics of the Occasion
Book SynopsisA Stanford University Press classic.
£56.10
Stanford University Press Standard Deviations
Book SynopsisOffering a new approach to narrative theory by arguing that chance is the unrepresentable Other of narrative, this book traces the theme of chance in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Joseph Conrad's Chance, and James Joyce's Ulysses, and relates the novelistic treatment of chance to philosophical and scientific thinking.
£49.30
Stanford University Press Loves Litany Writing of Modern Homoerotics The
Book SynopsisThis analysis of the relation of erotic philosophy to homosexuality in the modern period focuses on homoerotic (mis)appropriations and subversions of homoerotic conceptions of romantic love in texts by authors including Oscar Wilde, Andre Gide, Ronald Firbank, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein.Trade Review"At once invitingly stylish and excitingly lucid, Love's Litany disentangles a rich, distinct tradition of philosophizing homoerotic love that looks back to Romanticism and urges forward toward modernism—toward the passionate merging, crystallization, camaraderie, experimentation, and mortal loss that mark our own fin de siècle." -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick * Duke University *"Everywhere tenderly epigrammatic, Kevin Kopelson's voice—moving with a litigator's clean, panoptic brio—demonstrates that critique can be a form of courtship, even a form of love." -- Wayne Koestenbaum * Yale University *Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Wilde's love deaths; 2. Pederastic trappings: Gide and Firbank; 3. Another other: Woolf and Stein; 4. Friends and lovers: Yourcenar and Renault; 5. Barthes's love-tricks; Notes; Index.
£18.99
Stanford University Press Writing in Parts
Book SynopsisProposing a new interpretation of literature and mass culture in nineteenth-century Europe, this book focuses on works by Marx, Balzac, Dickens, Adorno, and Benjamin to explore in them a complex "mimetic" disposition toward commodification in the realm of culture.
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Stanford University Press Alcibiades at the Door
Book SynopsisFocusing on works by Rene Crevel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, and Herve Guibert, this book studies how the figures of homosexuality function at the limits of narrative, as part of the deep structure of narrative, and at the border between public and private discourse.Trade Review“This fascinating book operates on the simple, fundamental premise that homosexuality inhabits a social place between public and private, and that, consequently, it serves as a sort of deep structure of knowledge, narrative, and identity. In five compelling and provocative chapters, Schehr works through the ramifications of his theory, uncovering unexpected alliances between and among his subjects, in the process giving us original, challenging, and potentially polemical insights.”—Thomas DiPiero, University of RochesterTable of ContentsAbbreviations; Introduction; Heterosexual surrealism and the problem of Rene Crevel; Sartre as midwife; On vacation with Gide and Barthes; Cippus: Guibert; Index.
£49.30
Stanford University Press Studies in Poetic Discourse
Book SynopsisThis study of four major poets--Mallarme, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Holderlin--examines the self-reflexivity of modern poetry, exploring questions concerning what it means for a poem to be about its own process of saying.Trade Review“This is an exceptional and important volume in which close readings of four major European writers daringly eradicate the border between commentary and literature. In precise analyses of particular texts, Frey works through and elucidates the various theories of writing, reading, representation, and memory. The complex line of argumentation is rendered with remarkable clarity, and one learns a great deal not only about the texts studied but also about literary theory in general.”—Carol Jacobs, State University of New York, BuffaloTable of ContentsForeword; 1. Mallarme; 2. Baudelaire: imagination and memory; a renunciation of understanding; 3. Rimbaud; 4. Holderlin: Holderlin and Rousseau: the sacred and the word; A note on translations in the English edition; Works cited.
£56.10
Stanford University Press Emerson and the Climates of History
Book SynopsisThis book brings together a wide range of materials from history, religion, philosophy, horticulture, and meteorology to argue that Emerson articulates his conception of history through the language of the weather.Trade Review“Beautifully written and brilliantly conceived and organized, this is the most illuminating and original work on Emerson that I have read. Cadava works to historicize Emerson by tracing the thematic and rhetorical connections between his writing and the literary, theological, and political texts of his period, and, in so doing, hopes to establish a model for reading the relation between literature and history. In my opinion, he is completely successful.”—Edgar A. Dryden, University of ArizonaTable of ContentsContents Preface Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three
£22.79
Stanford University Press FindeSiècle Splendor
Book SynopsisChallenging the reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature, this book argues that signs of reform and innovation can be discerned long before May Fourth.Trade Review'The outstanding merit of David Wang's Fin-de-siècle Splendor is bestcharacterized by quoting the concluding sentence of this impressive study oflate Qing fiction However preliminary, I hope this study has conveyed the sense of wonder and pleasure that any reader must feel when suddenly aware thata literature is on the verge of recovering itself, of letting all its voicesspeak as if the departing century had at least learned from its painful experiments and was ready to begin again - without the illusion of a wholly new beginning. ... Wang possesses a capacity that is sometimes deplorably rare among scholars: to demonstrate a genuine enthusiasm for his field of study and to transfer this enthusiasm to his readers.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic SocietyTable of ContentsContents 1 2 3 4 5 6
£62.90
Stanford University Press Between Race and Culture Representations of the
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays examines various representations of "the Jew" in British and American literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyzes in detail the literary racism and antisemitism of some of the most important and influential writers of this period.Trade Review“In cutting-edge critiques of race and gender, each as a value of ‘otherness,’ the contributors bring to light refreshingly new and insightful understandings of familiar works. As a result, readers may not read any of these works the same way again. Even the canonically enforced distinction between the two national literatures begins to break down in the face of these contributors’ exciting new work.”—James E. Young, University of MassachusettsTable of ContentsContributors; 1. Introduction: unanswered questions Bryan Cheyette; 2. Romanticism and/or antisemitism William Galperin; 3. Mark Twain and the diseases of the Jews Sander K. Gilman; 4. Seeing double: Jews in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and George Eliot Murray Baumgarten; 5. Henry James and the discourses of antisemitism Jonathan Freedman; 6. The imaginary Jew; T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound Maud Ellmann; 7. A nightmare of history: Ireland's Jews and Joyce's Ulysses Marilyn Reizbaum; 8. Dorothy Richardson and the Jew Jacqueline Rose; 9. The milk of our mother's kindness has ceased to flow: Virginia Woolf, Stevie Smith and the representation of the Jew Phyllis Lassner; 10. The protection of masculinity: Jews as projective pawns in the texts of William Gerhardi and George Orwell Andrea Freud Loewenstein; 11. Some uses for Jewish ambivalence: Abraham Cahan and Michael Gold Eric Homberger; Notes; Index.
£19.79
Stanford University Press Changing Stories in the Chinese World
Book SynopsisThis is an imaginative evocation and analysis—through the medium of translations (the author's own) of once popular but now forgotten literature—of the variety of "stories" in terms of which the Chinese have interpreted their lives since the early years of the 19th century.Table of ContentsContents 1. Ruzhen Li 2. Yingchang Zhang 3. Jinya Ping 4. Ran Hao 5. Zhongyuan Sima 6. Ze'nan Yuan
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Stanford University Press Closet Performances
Book SynopsisDisplaced to Italy by their politics and morals, Byron and Shelley wrote, between 1816 and 1823, a series of closet dramas that the author reveals as being deeply embedded in contemporary radical culture. Why did they write dramas in Italy that were to be published in England but not to be produced theatrically? Why do these dramas invoke and apparently oppose textual and theatrical versions of themselves? In answering these questions, this book addresses other questions about the historical invention of English literature, the relation between literature and drama, and the relation between literature and political culture.The plays are shown to acquiesce in, and yet also resist, subvert, and ironize by means of a parodic self-censorship, the political, theatrical, and ecclesiastical censorship of the post-Waterloo period. The author argues that they not only explore questions of political action in their plots but also reconstruct, by reconvening, a radical audience that hadTrade Review"Its impressively learned contentions from topics of historical fact are framed in a thoughtful context of literary-theoretical debate. . . . The scholarship and the critical perspicuity of Closet Performances make this book one of the best on its topic and one that is likely to be valuable as a resource and as a locus for contention for a long time to come."—Studies in RomanticismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: 1. The theoretical management of theatrical spectacle; 2. The politics of language and the language of politics; Part II. 3. The matter of political drama; 4. The economic comedy of (self)censorship; Part III: 5. Secrets of the closet: the private mind and public body; Envoi: across the stage of Europe; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.
£71.10
Stanford University Press Relays Literature as an Epoch of the Postal
Book SynopsisThis book examines how one aspect of the social and technological situation of literature-namely, the postal system as a mode of transmission-determined how literature was produced and what was produced within literature.Trade Review"This will be important reading for anyone interested in the enormous influence of communication systems on literature and philosophy."—ChoiceTable of ContentsList of tables and figures Introduction 1. An epoch of the postal system Part I. The Logistics of the Poet's Dream: 2. On time (registered letterI) 3. Gellert's coup: folding the private letter 4. Post day in Wahlheim 5. Set the controls for the heart of the night 6. Postage 7. Goethe's postal empire 8. The timbre of a calling (attunement) 9. The logistics of the poet's dream: kleist Part II. On The Way To New Empires 1840-1900: 10. System time (registered letter II) 11. Postage one penny: Rowland Hill's post office reform 12. The standards of writing 13. Hill/Babbage/Bentham: the mechanical alliance of 1827 14. Mail in 1855: a misuse of love letters 15. The worl postal system, or the end of the world 16. The postcard 17. The telegraph: land and sea 18. The virgin machine Part III. Mail Beyond Human Communication: 19. Typewriter and carbon paper 20. The poet's matter in extremis 21. Mail, or the impossibility of writting letters 22. In the presence of noise Notes Bibliography.
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Stanford University Press The Leisure Ethic Work and Play in American
Book SynopsisThis literary and cultural history of the rise of modern leisure shows how American writers from Henry David Thoreau to Zora Neale Hurston both responded to and helped shape19th- and early-20th-century ideas of work and play.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Escape, Evasion, Ambivalence: 1. Re-creating Walden: Thoureau's economy of work and play; 2. Old ways, new ways: anxiety and identity in Roughing It and Life on the Missisippi; Part II. Alternative Articulations: 3. Frontier Fairy Tales: Cahan, Rolvaag, and the resistance to play progressivism; 4. 'Find their Place and Fall in Line': the revisioning of women's work in Herland and Emma McChesney & Co.; Part III. Whose Golden Age?: 5. 'An ideal body to be lived up to': play, display, and the self in The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man and The Great Gatsby; 6. Public space, private lives: recreation and re-creation in An American Tragedy and Native Son; 7. Southern Counterpoint: bodily control and the 'problem' of leisure in Sanctuary and Their Eyes Were Watching God; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Stanford University Press Commemorating Pushkin
Book SynopsisCommemorating Pushkin is a study of the fascination with Pushkin that has helped Russian culture define itself, as seen in poems, stories, essays, memoirs, films, museums, and commemorative celebrations.Trade Review"Stephanie Sandler's long-awaited book, Commemorating Pushkin: Russia's Myth of a National Poet, offers us a thorough and erudite look at the Pushkin phenomenon in Russia....Her comments and discussions are at all times perceptive and immensely well-informed, and her readings are nuanced and imaginative."--Slavic and East European Journal"This book will be of interest to a wide range of Russian cultural scholars, offering both a valuable introduction to the subject of Pushkin's legacy and also detailed insights in specific areas, particularly with regard to visual culture." -- Modern Language Review
£66.60
Stanford University Press Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century Performing
Book SynopsisA study of the reflexive relationship between music and language in the 19th century, this book maintains a discrete historical focus while drawing on an aesthetic going back to problems of epic delivery in ancient Greece. Franz Liszt is the organizing figure in this detailed study of music in Heine and Baudelaire.Trade Review"Bernstein revitalizes the nineteenth century with her cogent examination of different discourses, genres and media. Her observations about the interwoven nature of music and literature are lucid and always to the point. This thoughtfully prepared study is a wonderful resource for dix-neuviémistes."—Susan Crampton-Frenchik, University of North CarolinaTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Virtuosity and journalism; 2. Instruments of virtuosity; 3. Virtuosity; 4. Virtuosity, rhapsody, and Romantic philology; 5. Liszt's bad style; 6. Poetic originality and musical debt: paradoxes of translation; 7. Rivalry among the arts and professional limitations; 8. Music, painting, and writing in Baudelaire's Petits poemes en prose; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Stanford University Press Formal Charges The Shaping of Poetry in British
Book SynopsisWhy care about poetic form and its intricacies, other than in nostalgia for a bygone era of criticism? The purpose of this book is to refresh today this care for criticism, applying a historically aware formalist reading to poetic form in Romanticism and showing how in theory and practice Romantic writers addressed, debated, tested, and contested fundamental questions about what is at stake in the poetic forming of language. In the process, it suggests the importance of these conflicted inquiries for contemporary critical discussion and demonstrates the pleasures of attending to the complex changes of form in poetic writing.After an introductory chapter on the controversies about poetic form and formalism from the Romantic era to our own, succeeding chapters consider particular instances in Romantic poetry in which experimental agendas or unsettled traditions promote an awareness of new textual possibilities. The author shows how Blake''s Poetical Sketches predicts manTrade Review"This book is the real thing: learned, patient, thoroughly researched, fresh, corrective, and expertly written. It confronts the chill that has descended on the major poetic texts of Romantic studies from the anti-formalist animus of certain latter-day practitioners with a cool authority all its own. This is counter-critique at its very best."—Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa"A fine book that consciously flies in the face of prevailing critical currents through its detailed emphasis on poetic form in the big six Romantic poets. . . . This is a first-rate book—persuasive, well written, and with the interpretive radar on high."—European Romantic Review"An important study by an important critic."—Studies in English Literature"Wolfson's strengths are comprehensiveness and attention to process; her book includes and excellent introductory chapter on the history of formalism that reviews critical debates that have erupted over how poetry reforms traditional practice."—Choice"The publication of Susan Wolfson's ...book Formal Charges is a terribly important event, not only in the history of Romantic Studies, but in the history of the theoretical discourses currently questioning whether the study of literature should become Cultural Studies, and asking to what extent the practice of aesthetic appreciation should be abandoned for political criticism."—Romanticism on the NetTable of ContentsAbbreviations 1. Formal intelligence: formalism, romanticism, and formalist criticism 2. Sketching verbal form: Blake's Political Sketches 3. The formings of simile: Coleridge's 'comparing power' 4. Revision as form: Wordsworth's drowned man 5. Heroic form: couplets, 'self', and Byron's Corsair 6. Teasing form: the crisis of Keats's last lyrics 7. Social form: Shelley and the determination of reading Notes Index.
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Stanford University Press Silent Urns Romanticism Hellenism Modernity
Book SynopsisThe study of Greece as an icon of culture appears to be as old as Greece itself, as if its cultural significance had attained full maturity at birth. In Silent Urns, the author reveals how Greece attained such significance as the result of the attempt to reconcile individuality, freedom, history, and modernity in 18th-century aesthetics.Trade Review"This is a truly remarkable volume, remarkable for its originality, for the driving coherence of its complex subject matter, for its bringing together a number of fields of study in a manner that forces us into new realizations about their interrelationships. This book is-there is no way to overemphasize this-an exceedingly important meditation not only on Romanticism, eighteenth-century studies, and the ways we interpret art, history, and Hellenism; it is beyond all that a superb and daring commentary on cultural studies and historicism in their relationship to theories of criticism and language." -Carol Jacobs,State University of New York, BuffaloTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Greece and the invention of culture: Winckelmann; 2. The silence of Greece: Keats; 3. The choice of tragedy: from Keats to Schelling; 4. The history of freedom: from Aeschylus to Shelley; 5. The time of judgment: Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; 6. The recall of thought: Holderlin; Notes; Index.
£20.89
Stanford University Press The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the
Book SynopsisThe emergence of the fantastic tale in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reflects a growing fascination with the supernatural, the marvelous, and the occult as the site for literary innovation. Taking Jacques Cazotte''s prototypical The Devil in Love as a starting point, this book examines the genre''s early development in the fantastic tales of the German romantics Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, and E. T. A. Hoffmann; the subsequent French rediscovery of the genre in works by Théophile Gautier and Prosper Mérimée; and Edgar Allan Poe''s contributions to the new literary form.The literary innovation of the fantastic tale contributed to the production of a mode of subjectivity intrinsic to the history of sexuality. It arose at a moment in the history of communication when similarity and perfect openness were no longer considered the unquestioned basis of friendship or love, when the other''s potentially dark secrets became seductive and fascinating. Trade Review"The brilliance of The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale is its intellectual courage and sure footedness in contextualizing complexity of subjectivity in the nineteenth century when the many ways of knowing the world were implicated in a competition for political dominance that insisted on the exclusion of any alternatives...[T]he book's virtues in exposing the intellectual dynamic of the beginning of the modern age make it valuable even for those not intimately engaged in literary study." -- Leonardo Reviews
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Stanford University Press The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the
Book SynopsisThe emergence of the fantastic tale in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reflects a growing fascination with the supernatural, the marvelous, and the occult as the site for literary innovation. Taking Jacques Cazotte''s prototypical The Devil in Love as a starting point, this book examines the genre''s early development in the fantastic tales of the German romantics Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, and E. T. A. Hoffmann; the subsequent French rediscovery of the genre in works by Théophile Gautier and Prosper Mérimée; and Edgar Allan Poe''s contributions to the new literary form.The literary innovation of the fantastic tale contributed to the production of a mode of subjectivity intrinsic to the history of sexuality. It arose at a moment in the history of communication when similarity and perfect openness were no longer considered the unquestioned basis of friendship or love, when the other''s potentially dark secrets became seductive and fascinating. Trade Review"The brilliance of The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale is its intellectual courage and sure footedness in contextualizing complexity of subjectivity in the nineteenth century when the many ways of knowing the world were implicated in a competition for political dominance that insisted on the exclusion of any alternatives...[T]he book's virtues in exposing the intellectual dynamic of the beginning of the modern age make it valuable even for those not intimately engaged in literary study." -- Leonardo Reviews
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Stanford University Press Poetrys Appeal
Book SynopsisSocrates banished poetry from the ideal republic, adopting the philosophical position that poetic language operates outside the conventions of public discourse and is private in expression. But what does the banished language of poetry say about its relation to public space? Is it possible to draw a line severing the language of beauty from the language of truth? Derrida asks whether the line ought rather to pass between Western metaphysics, with its logic of polar opposites, and another way that does not organize everything in oppositional terms. The verbal economy organized around the poem as inscription, for instance, fits awkwardly with a division between a public discourse under the aegis of truth and a private one regulated by aesthetic pleasure.Poetry''s Appeal takes the reemergence of a viable poetry in the politicized culture of revolutionary and post-revolutionary France as a signal that poetry''s sentence of exile from the public arena is unresolved. It findTrade Review"Poetry's Appeal situates itself in what might be considered the single most significant critical debate in Romanticism over the last two or so decades. Its principal concern being the relation between (poetic) language and history, it reconsiders what has been characterized as the retreat of literature, and in particular the lyric, from politics. . . . Burt's readings follow in the line of important critics such as Paul de Man, Barbara Johnson, and Kevin Newmark, who have brought the most finely tuned rhetorical readings to nineteenth-century French literature." -- European Romantic ReviewTable of ContentsPart I. On Shifting Ground: Poetry's Orders: 1. (Dis)arming Minerva: of performatives and prosthetics in Chenier's 'La Jeune captive'; 2. Mallarmes 'bound action': the orders of the garter; Part II. Memories of the Poem: Histories, Chances: 3. Cracking the code: the poetical and political legacy of Chenier's 'antique verse'; 4. Hallucinatory history: Hugo's Revolution; 5. 'An immoderate taste for truth': censoring history in Baudelaire's 'les bijoux'; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Stanford University Press Emersons Transcendental Etudes
Book SynopsisThis book is Stanley Cavell's definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic and provocative philosophical critic of Emerson that America has yet known. The sustained effort of that labor is drawn together here for the first time into a single volume, which also contains two previously unpublished essays and an introduction by Cavell that reflects on this book and the history of its emergence.Students and scholars working in philosophy, literature, American studies, history, film studies, and political theory can now more easily access Cavell's luminous and enduring work on Emerson. Such engagement should be further complemented by extensive indices and annotations. If we are still in doubt whether America has expressed itself philosophically, there is perhaps no better space for inquiry than reading Cavell reading Emerson.Trade Review"[A] challenging but endlessly and unpredictably rewarding book."—The Times Literary SupplementTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Author's Acknowledgements i Editor's Preface ii Author's Introduction ii @toc2:1 Thinking of Emerson 0 2 An Emerson Mood 00 3 The Philosopher in American Life (Toward Thoreau and Emerson) 00 4 Emerson, Coleridge, and Kant (Terms as Conditions) 00 5 Being Odd, Getting Even (Descartes, Emerson, Poe) 000 6 Finding as Founding: Taking Steps in Emerson's "Experience" 000 7 Staying the Course 000 8 Aversive Thinking: Emersonian Representations in Heidegger and Nietzsche 000 9 Epilogue 000 10 Hope Against Hope 000 11 A Cover Letter 000 12 What is the Emersonian Event? A Comment on Kateb's Emerson 000 13 Emerson's Constitutional Amending: Reading "Fate" 000 14 What's the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist? 000 15 Henry James Reading Emerson Reading Shakespeare 000 16 Old and New in Emerson and Nietzsche 000 @toc4:Index of Emerson Citations 000 Endnotes 000 Works Cited 000 Selected Works by Stanley Cavell 000 Selected Secondary Bibliography 000 Name and Concept Index 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Criticism and interpretation, Transcendentalism (New England)Philosophy in literature
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Stanford University Press Failure Nationalism and Literature
Book SynopsisAgainst prevailing views on what it means to enjoy power as individuals, cultures, or nations, this book looks at the making of cultural and national identities in modern China as building success from failure.Trade Review"Tsu's findings are compelling. She argues that in the wake of repeated military humiliations and the Western discourse on Chinese racial deficiency or inferiority, the formation of modern Chinese national identity was fueled by a self-perception as humiliated and deficient in a way the typically assumed patriotic pride and desire for sovereignty could never have done." -- Nations and Nationalism"This is an important book. . . offering suggestive new insights through a genre-bending analysis that owes much to intellectual history and literary analysis but is beholden to neither. . . . Using foundational texts of Chinese modernity along with some texts scarcely noticed before, Tsu has defamiliarized China." -- Academia Sinica, Taiwan"...a bold and useful book." -- Etudes Chinoises"Failure, Nationalism, and Literature achieves two important features of excellent scholarship—it helps makes sense of the past in new and challenging ways and in so doing provides numerous new points of departure for future scholarly work. Moreover, it stands as an excellent example of the unique contribution first-rate literary analysis can make to enhancing our understanding of the complexity of China's path through the twentieth century. This is a seriously good read." -- The China Journal"Tsu's book shows that China's national identity is premised upon a narrative of victimhood, and that this victimhood has become a rationale permitting all kinds of retaliatory action—avenging the injustices of the past becomes a nationalist project encased in a conception of a national identity of group humiliation. Tsu Jing's thesis about the widespread belief that 'the victim has a moral right to seek revenge' provides a rather unsettling contrast to the repeated government protestations about China's desires for a 'peaceful rise'." -- Journal of Contemporary HistoryTable of ContentsContents Illustrations xxx Acknowledgments xxx Chapter 1: Failure and National Identity 1 Chapter 2: The Yellow Race 000 Chapter 3: The Menace of Race 000 Chapter 4: Loving the Nation, Preserving the Race 000 Chapter 5: The Quest for Beauty and Notions of Femininity 000 Chapter 6: Community of Expiation: Confessions, Masculinity, and Masochism 000 Chapter 7: Kumen, Cultural Suffering 000 Conclusion: The Emergence of Culture in Failure 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Character List 000 Index 000
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Stanford University Press Sing Stranger
Book SynopsisSing, Stranger is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into English for the first time. This anthology reveals both an amazing achievement of Jewish creative work and an important body of American poetry.Trade Review"This latest work of Benjamin and Barbara Harshav, truly the doyens of the field of Yiddish poetry in translation, is an important achievement. Many anthologies have tended to give relatively furtive glimpses of a poet's creation, or suggestive hints of the flavours of his or her poetry. Both the impressive, but not cumbersome, size of this anthology and its historical and geographic focus allow for making more than such fleeting acquaintances. The strength of the work, the thing that makes it of such moment, is the heterogeneous and fluid notion of Americanness which is at the heart of the project."—Modern Language Review"This anthology consists of excellent English translations of the Yiddish poetry of major American Yiddish writers... highly recommended reading for all."—Association of Jewish Libraries NewsletterTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:A Note on Transcriptions iii Preface iii @toc1:Prelude 000 @toc1:Part One: Proletarian Poets 000 @toc2: Morris Rosenfeld(18621923) 000 Dovid Edelshtat(18661892) 000 Yoysef Bovshover(18731915) 000 @toc1:Part Two: The Lyrical Turn 000 @toc2: Yehoash (18721927) 000 Mani Leyb (18831953) 000 Y. Rolnik (18791955) 000 Ruven Ayzland (18841955) 000 B. Vladek (18861938) 000 Zisho Landoy (18891937) 000 Avrom Reyzen (18761953) 000 @toc1:Part Three: Symbolism and Expressionism 000 @toc2: H. Leyvik (18881962) 000 Moyshe-Layb Halpern (18861932) 000 Berish Vaynshteyn (19051967) 000 @toc1:Part Four: Introspectivism 000 @toc2:A. L'yeles (18891966) 000 Jacob Glatshteyn (18961971) 000 J. L. Teller (19121972) 000 Ruven Ludvig (18951926) 000 B. Alquit (n.d.) 000 @toc1:Part Five: On the Left 000 @toc2:Moyshe Nadir (18851943) 000 Menke Katz (19061991) 000 @toc1:Part Six: Narrative Poetry 000 @toc2: I. Y. Shvarts (18851971) 000 @toc1:Part Seven: Women Poets 000 @toc2:Anna Margolin (18871952) 000 Tsilya Drapkin (18881956) 000 Malka Heifetz-Tussman (18961987) 000 @toc1:Songs by Yiddish Poets 000 @toc4:Glossary 000
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Stanford University Press The Marriage of Minds
Book SynopsisThe Marriage of Minds examines the implications of the common Victorian claim that novel reading can achieve the psychic, ethical, and affective benefits also commonly associated with sympathy in married life.Trade Review"Well anchored in secondary material, Ablow's historically premised, nuanced mode of reading generates new perspectives on well-known Victorian novels." -- CHOICE"Ablow's sophisticated, theoretically expansive treatment of sympathy-as-relation is timely, robust, and altogether welcome." -- Victorian Studies"In The Marriage of Minds, Rachel Ablow offers a new perspective on the relationship between reading, one of the favorite activities of the Victorians, and the institution of marriage, and how society viewed that relationship The Marriage of Minds deservingly ranks as one of the more cogently argued and readable literary criticisms of Victorian literature of recent time." * H-Net *"...Rachel Ablow deftly incorporates primary historical sources in her analysis of marital and readerly sympathy....Ablow's ability to locate her literary analysis within various Victorian discourses makes The Marriage of Minds indispensible for anyone seeking a general overview of Victorian perceptions of the relationships among marriage, sympathy, and reading." -- Clio"This authoritative and innovative book on sympathy and the novel is a must-read for any student of Victorian fiction. It participates energetically in the major arguments about Victorian fiction that have been made in the last two decades. A significant achievement that fills a surprising void in the field." -- Christopher Rovee * Stanford University *"The Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot is a richly incisive exploration of the Victorian novel, which offers stunningly fresh and perceptive readings of major works alongside a suggestive account of novel reading itself. Going beyond the familiar insistence that novels interpellate readers into a social order not of their making, The Marriage of Minds discovers in the representation of sympathy a newly exacting understanding of how this might take place, and what the consequences of the process—political, ethical, and psychic—might be. The result is a major contribution to the study of Victorian fiction." -- James Eli Adams * ornell University *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Reading Sympathy 000 1. Labors of Love: The Sympathetic Subjects of David Copperfield 000 2. The "Failure" of Wuthering Heights 000 3. George Eliot's Art of Pain 000 4. Good Vibrations: The Sensationalization of Masculinity in The Woman in White 000 5. Anthony Trollope and the Pleasures of Alienation 000 Notes 000 Works Cited 000 Index 000
£48.60
Stanford University Press Consequences of Consciousness
Book SynopsisConsequences of Consciousness shows how great Russian authors conversed with each other through their fictions as they explored both the limits and the autonomy of subjective consciousness.Trade Review"Consequences of Consciousness is an estimable scholarly endeavor, expertly researched, frequently thought-provoking, and blessedly free of jargon. Shedding new light and revealing light on the interrelationships among the three literary giants of nineteenth-century Russia, it will make its readers far more conscious of the workings of consciousness in both Russian and western literature." -- Slavic Review"Consequences of Consciousness offers a particularly rich sense of the interactions among these three writers (and some others, like Herzen) as, in overt and implicit reference to each other, they debated and redebated ethics, meaning, and selfhood...I hope I do not exaggerate, but it seems to me that Orwin has put her finger on the pulse of Russian realism and reminded us why it matters." -- Russian Review"The great Russian Realists were also great lay psychologists. In a century bewitched by norms and the pursuit of scientific truths, they set out to defend the absolute reality of each person's subjectivity. Orwin's wonderful study helps us to see, once again, how subtle are the narrative techniques that transmit ordinary irreducible life and why the quest to legitimize individualized experience results paradoxically in a Russian novel where each reader (from a vast variety of eras, cultures, languages) feels uniquely 'at home.'" -- Caryl Emerson * Princeton University *Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Note on Documentation iii @toc2:Introduction 1 1. The Origins of Self-Consciousness as a National Trait of the Russian Literary Tradition 000 2. Turgenev: Subjectivity in the Shadows 000 3. Dostoevsky's Hidden Author 000 4. Taming the Author: The Platonic and the Turgenevian Moments in Tolstoy's Fiction 000 5. Romantic Longing in Turgenev 000 6. Dostoevsky's Critique of Turgenev 000 7. Reflection as a Tool for Understanding in Russian Psychological Prose 000 8. Childhood in Dickens, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy 000 9. The Psychology of Evil in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky 000 Conclusion 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Selected Bibliography 000 Index 000
£48.60
Stanford University Press Bohemia in America 18581920
Book SynopsisAmerican Bohemias explores the construction and emergence of "Bohemia" in American literature and culture.Trade Review"Because of Levin's depth of research and polished prose, Bohemia in America offers readers an incredibly rich look at a fertile period in American arts . . . As long as discontented souls seek la vie bohème, Levin's book should stand as a cornerstone of counterculture criticism." -- Brett C. Sigurdson * Western American Literature *"Joanna Levin's Bohemia in America, 1858-1920 promises to fill a niche in the history of American literature and culture by providing a timely and comprehensive account of 'the textual and geographic spaces in which Bohemia was conjured'." -- Wendy Graham * Vassar College *"Joanna Levin's exhaustively researched and cogently argued survey, Bohemia in America, examines quite another slice of late-nineteenth-century cultural politics. . . The standout chapters of this book examine the domestication and merchandising of 'bohemia' as a concept and a brand." -- Kevin R. McNamara * American Literature *"The research contained in Bohemia in America is impeccable, indeed, extraordinary. It will make an important contribution to late nineteenth and early twentieth-century US literary studies. The arguments the book offers are smart, and make us look at familiar questions—the relation between bohemian and bourgeois, the consolidation and reticulation of middle-class culture, and many more—in a new and more complex light." -- Jonathan Freedman * University of Michigan *"[Bohemia in America] offers a carefully argued and supported thesis, and provides cultural historians and literary scholars with fresh insights into cultural resistance and accommodation." -- Thomas Lawrence Long * Canadian Journal of History *"Bohemia in America is revisionist history in the best sense. Not only does it overturn received wisdom but it also reveals, on a vast canvas long assumed to be more or less blank, a vivid collage of scenes and portraits, rich in both concrete details and meaningful abstractions. . . Whether critiquing bohemia from an ideological distance or singing its praises, the dozens of contemporary voices that Levin captures make for a highly textured, engaging account. Bohemia in America is an important and authoritative book with remarkable reach." -- Sarah Wadsworth * Journal of American History *"Levin's distinctions among various regional bohemias lends a sound organizational structure to her book, and Harte is but one of an impressive assembly of writers who undergo fresh assessment . . . This well-researched and sharply written study will serve to introduce a novel subject to some readers and provide a solid foundation for subsequent scholars interested in exploring a compelling and colorful chapter in American literature and culture." -- Kent P. Ljungquist * Resources for American Literary Study *"Exhaustively researched and dynamically interdisciplinary, Levin persuasively challenges the widely held assumption that American Bohemianism was a 'feeble imitation' of its European counterpart. Instead, her text demonstrates the vitality of this American expression." -- Forum for Modern Language Studies"Readers will find much to admire in this history of Bohemianism in America. Levin's dynamic historical narrative, her impeccable research, and her ever-changing cast of literary and cultural figures make for an engaging and rewarding survey of an often-neglected movement . . . Highly recommended." -- Choice"In a thorough and insightful study of Bohemianism in the United States, Joanna Levin documents the significance of the term, 'part literary trope, part cultural nexus, and part socioeconomic landscape,' and traces its wavering course as the sign of cultural dissent, and of dissent emulated and commodified." -- David M. Robinson * American Literary Realism *"[T]he book treats Bohemia as a cultural identity that draws on even while confounding our current categories: it is ethnic, racial, gendered, local, national, transnational, geographic, utopian, historical, ahistorical—all and none of these. Perhaps the profoundest challenge and intervention that this book produces lies in its ability to confound the taxonomies on which Americanists rely in their engagement with nineteenth century culture. While much scholarship over the past decades has challenged our cultural epistemologies in productive ways, this book shows how messy the historical past is, and thus unsettles our habit of taxonimizing its conflicting strands." -- Colleen Glenney Boggs * New Books on Line 19 *
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Stanford University Press Monopolizing the Master
Book SynopsisAnesko reveals the remarkable social, political, and sexual intrigue that inspired-and influenced-the deliberate construction of the Legend of Henry James.Trade Review"This remarkable tale of scholarly intrigue, censorship, and family anxiety shows enormous damage done—some of it permanent—to our study of Henry James's life and works."—James Emmett Ryan, Journal of American Studies of Turkey"In this eminently entertaining history of Henry James's reception, Michael Anesko shows in meticulously researched detail that the truism is right . . . Although this book is full of juicy bits of gossip and intrigue, it also offers a long view of how an author is constructed and reconstructed through his (or her) reception."—Paul Armstrong, Common Knowledge"Monopolizing the Master is exemplary: smoothly written, impeccably researched, and thoroughly knowledgeable. It will certainly become a basic resource for [Henry James] scholars at all levels."—Nina Baym, RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY"Michael Anesko's book is a remarkable and closely reason exhumation of the efforts of Henry James, his wider family, and several generations of scholars to define his cultural patrimony and his personal and literary reputation. The story Professor Anesko tells with its twists, turns, and revealed intrigue is worthy of a novella by James himself. It is an important contribution to James studies, with its detailed depiction of efforts to control the study of James's papers . . . Meticulously researched and documented, wittily written with an eye to the ironic, Michael Anesko's book is one that every James scholar, literary executor, and archivist should read."—David J. Supino, The Book Collector"Anesko's lucid, jargon-free prose in Monopolizing the Master is a pleasure to read. . . [T]he study is informed by the author's ground breaking work on James and the literary marketplace as well as a wealth of more recent findings. The engaging yet incisive handling of this material makes this a book that will be read for years to come."—Miranda El-Rayess, Times Literary Supplement"Anesko's archival work, and the sense he makes of it, is every bit as impressive here as we have seen in his earlier books . . . This revealing book will fascinate and appall anyone who thought the writing was the hardest part of literary scholarship."—Kristin Boudreau, Review of English Studies"Michael Anesko's book addresses the urbanely industrious ways in which writers, critics, and family members have monopolised the terms by which we consider James and his writings . . . [O]f great interest and value for its contribution to literary history."—Matthew Peters, Essays in Criticism"Oh, I am going to [expletive deleted] like this book."—Jessa Crispin, Bookslut.com"Michael Anesko's important, fiercely witty book on the mediation—manipulation—of James's works and reputation by his heirs and successive scholars is hard to put down. Not only Jamesians but lovers of literary gossip will relish his treasure trove of archival revelations about the keepers of the Jamesian flame, from Percy Lubbock to Leon Edel. This inside study of the politics of literary institutions is certain to become a classic, of a very remarkable kind."—Philip Horne, University College London"Michael Anesko combines scholarship with the writer's craft to engage both the seasoned Jamesian and the educated general reader. The story he tells is significant and compelling: it promises to change once again the way that we understand Henry James, all while opening a window onto academe's seamier side."—Greg Zacharias, Creighton University"For Jamesians, this is a page-turner, a must-have. It will also absorb the general reader in a compelling narrative that has everything: the fall and rise of a major literary figure; complicated money-making deals, sexual secrets, family dynamics, contention over intellectual property rights, self-protecting Boston/Harvard hierarchies, conspiracies and cover-ups, and power-grabs by an accomplished villain."—Martha Banta, University of California, Los Angeles"As this extraordinary work of scholarship shows, it would be family, friends, publishers, biographers, and critics who strove to perpetuate one or another 'Henry James' in accordance with their view of the dead author. Anesko gives a vivid presence to these secondary actors like the novelist's nephew, Percy Lubbock (the first editor of James's letters), and Leon Edel, whose successful campaign to obtain and retain exclusive rights to publish James's letters and biography is a scandal of modern scholarship only now being exposed in detail."—Millicent Bell, Emerita, Boston University
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Stanford University Press NineteenthCentury Jewish Literature
Book SynopsisRecent scholarship has brought to light the existence of a dynamic world of specifically Jewish forms of literature in the nineteenth centuryfiction by Jews, about Jews, and often designed largely for Jews. This volume makes this material accessible to English speakers for the first time, offering a selection of Jewish fiction from France, Great Britain, and the German-speaking world. The stories are remarkably varied, ranging from historical fiction to sentimental romance, to social satire, but they all engage with key dilemmas including assimilation, national allegiance, and the position of women. Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars.Trade Review"Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature is very readable, provoking Jewish introspection about all aspects of Jewish life in all times and all locations. It is a worthwhile compendium to Nineteenth-Century literature in general."—Nira Wolfe, Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) Newsletter"The editors selected short stories and novellas that navigate four issues with particular relevance to nineteenth-century Jewish audiences modernization, assimilation, national allegiance, and the status of women . . . The stories do not articulate a singular vision for reconciling Jewish tradition with the rapid modernization of the non-Jewish world; rather each author engages the aforementioned themes differently, highlighting the interdisciplinarity of the collection. Moreover, the authors profiled here emulate and adapt literary styles popular with the majority cultures, justifying their place alongside canonical European authors . . . Perhaps the most innovative aspect of the collection is that, although the stories are placed into specific contexts, the stories reach across these boundaries, and the reader will find that the texts intersect thematically and structurally in almost limitless ways."— Lindsay Dearinger, Women in Judaism: A Multidiciplinary Journal"As a compendium of previously unavailable material, Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature gives us a glimpse into a forgotten world. By presenting the literature itself, this book opens rather than closes the question of what this body of literature means, allowing readers to see it for themselves and engage with it in new ways. The editors' earlier works are well known for their top-notch interpretations of 19th century Jewish literature in national contexts, and this book reflects their deep understanding of not only the literature but also its social and cultural functions in nineteenth-century Western Europe."—Lisa Moses Leff, American University"Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature is an unparalleled collection in contemporary literary studies: an anthology that recovers the earliest popular narratives that translated the Jewish experience into English, French, and German—and in the process taught the Jews reading them how to think of themselves as modern, European citizens. The challenges posed by how to negotiate Jewish traditions with modern culture(s) remain relevant today, and the subjects of such dilemmas—all of us—would learn much by considering these first responses."—Marc Caplan, Johns Hopkins University
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LSU Press Grand Emporium Mercantile Monster
Book SynopsisFocusing on the crucial period of 1820 to 1860, this volume examines the strong economic bonds between the antebellum plantation South and the burgeoning city of New York that resulted from the highly lucrative trade in cotton.
£35.06
Northwestern University Press Stein Reader
Book SynopsisThis important collection presents Gertrude Stein for the first time in her brilliant modernity. Ulla E. Dydo's textual scholarship demonstrates Stein's constant questioning of convention, and A Stein Reader changes the balance of work in print, concentrating on Stein's experimental work and including many key works that are virtually unknown or unavailable.
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Northwestern University Press A Writers Diary Volume 1 18731876 Writers Diary 18731876
Book SynopsisThe essential entries from Dostoevsky's complete Diary, called his boldest experiment in literary form, are now available in this abridged edition; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. A Writer's Diary began as a column in a literary journal, but by 1876 Dostoevsky was able to bring it out as a complete monthly publication with himself as an editor, publisher, and sole contributor, suspending work on The Brothers Karamazov to do so. The Diary's radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. In a single frame it incorporated an astonishing variety of material: short stories; humorous sketches; reports on sensational crimes; historical predictions; portraits of famous people; autobiographical pieces; and plans for stories, some of which were never written while others appeared later in the Diary itself. A range of authorial and narrative voices and stances and an elaborate scheme of allusions and cross-references preserve and pres
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Northwestern University Press When Russia Learned to Read Literacy and Popular
Book SynopsisLate Imperial Russia's revolution in literacy touched nearly every aspect of daily life and culture, from social mobility and national identity to the sensibilities and projects of the country's writers. This title tells the story of this profound transformation of culture, custom and belief.Table of ContentsUses of Literacy; Primary Schooling; The Literature of the Lubok; Periodicals, Installment Adventures and Potboilers; Bandits - Ideas of Freedom and Order; Nationalism and National Identity; Science and Superstition; Success; The Educated Response - Literature for the People.
£22.36
Northwestern University Press Under the Sky of My Africa Alexander Pus
Book SynopsisAround 1705, an African boy from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was taken to Russia as a gift to Peter the Great. He was to become the great-grandfather of the poet, Alexander Pushkin. It is the contention of the editors that Pushkin's African ancestry has played the role of a wild card as a formative element in Russian cultural mythology.
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Northwestern University Press Thinking with Tolstoy and Wittgenstein Expression
Book SynopsisIn this highly original interdisciplinary study incorporating close readings of literary texts and philosophical argumentation, Henry W. Pickford develops a theory of meaning and expression in art intended to counter the meaning skepticism most commonly associated with the theories of Jacques Derrida. Pickford arrives at his theory by drawing on the writings of Wittgenstein to develop and modify the insights of Tolstoy's philosophy of art. Pickford shows how Tolstoy's encounter with Schopenhauer's thought on the one hand provided support for his ethical views but on the other hand presented a problem, exemplified in the case of music, for his aesthetic theory, a problem that Tolstoy could not successfully resolve. Wittgenstein's critical appreciation of Tolstoy's thinking, however, not only recovers its viability but also constructs a formidable position within contemporary debates concerning theories of emotion, ethics, and aesthetic expression.
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