Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

Book SynopsisAfter more than a century, the urgency with which the writing of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche speaks to us is undiminished. Nietzsche explicitly acknowledged Dostoevsky's relevance to his work, noting its affinities as well as itspoints of opposition. Both of them are credited with laying much of the foundation for what came to be called existentialist thought. The essays in this volume bring a fresh perspective to a relationship that illuminates a great deal of twentieth-centuryintellectual history. Among the questions taken up by contributors are the possibility of morality in a godless world, the function of philosophy if reason is not the highest expression of our humanity, the nature of tragedy when performed for a bourgeois audience, and the justification of suffering if it is not divinely sanctioned. Above all, these essays remind us of the supreme value of the questioning itself that pervades the work of Dostoevsky and Nietzsche.

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Book SynopsisEnlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery, showing how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperialistic and the colonized. In the context of the long-standing practice of gendering nations as female, the novels under discussion here can be understood as depicting international crises on the scale of the nuclear family.

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Book SynopsisOne Foot in the Finite inspires a radical shift in our view of Melville's project in Moby-Dick, for its guiding notion is that Melville uses his book to call into question the naturalism that distinguishes the early modern period in Europe. Naturalism is not only the idea that reality is exhausted by nature, or that there exists a domain of physical entities subject to autonomous laws and unaffected by human ingenuity; it also implies a counterpart, a world of pretense and deception, a domain of mental entities ontologically distinct from physical entities and therefore constituting a different realm. To naturalists, whales are part of the background of existing objects against which man assembles his various, subjective, rather arbitrary interpretations. But in Moby-Dick Melville casts upon the world a more ingenious eye, one free of the dualist veil. He confronts a basic misconception: that the contents of consciousness comprise a different order from physical life. He rubs out the dTrade Review"[F]or readers interested in either the connections between literature and philosophy or ordinary language philosophy, this is an important, even indispensable text." — ALH Online Review, XVIII

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Book SynopsisBrings together leading and emerging scholars from comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies to examine Melville's works in light of their ongoing afterlife and seemingly permanent contemporaneity.Table of Contents Introduction: Handsomely Done, Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz Part 1. Melville and the Limits of the Political 1. Moby-Dick and Perpetual War, Sorin Radu Cucu and Roland Végsö 2. Bartleby Politics, Emily Apter 3. Land and See: The Theatricality of the Political in Schmitt and Melville, Walter Johnston 4. The Coward’s Paradox: Pip’s Weak Resistance, Barbara Natalie Nagel 5. From Lima to Attica: Benito Cereno, the Nixon Recordings, and the 1971, Prison Uprising, Paul Downes Part 2. Audio-Visual Melville 6. “A Sound Not Easily to Be Verbally Rendered”: The Literary Acoustic of Billy Budd, David Copenhafer 7. Necrophilology: Still/Hearing Bartleby, Jacques Lezra 8. Whaling in the Abyss between Melville and Zeppelin: Alex Itin’s Orson Whales, John Hamilton 9. The Confidence-Image (Melville, Godard, Deleuze), Peter Szendy 10. Belle Trouvaille: Aesthetics and Philology in Billy Budd (after Beau Travail), Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz 11. A-religion, Jean-Luc Nancy

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates that the poetics of the Dada movement were profoundly influenced by the telegraph and the technological and social transformations that it brought about in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Trade ReviewWireless Dada offers a new and consistent reading of one of the most enigmatic movements of twentieth-century literature. It is an important, original, and far-reaching contribution not only to literary studies but also to the cultural and media history of the twentieth century." —Wolf Kittler, author of Die Geburt des Partisanen aus dem Geist der Poesie (The Birth of the Partisan out of the Spirit of Poetry)Table of Contents 1. Dada Dots and Dashes: Poetry in the Age of the Telegraph 2. Telegraphic Traditions: Telegrammstil and Télégraphie Sans Fil 3. Simultaneous Spirits: “L’amiral” and his Allies 4. Wireless Waves: Channeling “Karawane” 5. Ciphers and Codes: Raoul Hausmann’s Cryptopoetics 6. Dada Goes Global: Consequences and Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the fear of materiality in German-language realist and postrealist literature. The book argues that with German literature's turn in the mid-nineteenth century to the depiction of the profane, sensual world, anxiety emerged about the terms of that depiction.Trade ReviewAt the Limit of the Obscene is a masterful study of the concept of obscenity, in both its historical and theoretical permutations, as it played out in the tradition of nineteenth-century German realist literature and its afterlife in the early twentieth century. Weitzman moves with enviable grace through the German intellectual tradition from Kant forward, weaving in references to legal cases and contemporary critical interventions, and with great originality leads the discussion into the equally important tradition of French phenomenology." - Eric Downing, author of The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940"In her impeccably researched and elegantly written book, Weitzman uses the category of the obscene to unlock Poetic Realism's contradictions as well as its solutions. Mandatory reading for all those interested in 19th-century German prose and, more generally, in questions of materialism and literature." - Eva Geulen, author of The End of Art: Readings in a Rumor after HegelTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: 'Scenes that do not belong in the light of day' 1. Against Nature: Adalbert Stifter 2. Base Matter: Gustav Freytag 3. Iconoclasm and Iconolatry: Theodor Fontane 4. Presence as Profanation: Arno Holz 5. Dead Ends: Gottfried Benn 6. Filth: Franz Kafka Coda: "As if she were saying something shameless" Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisScholars have long been fascinated by the creative struggles with genre manifested throughout Dostoevsky's career. In The Novel in the Age of Disintegration, Kate Holland shows that Dostoevsky aimed to use the form of the novel as a means of depicting the disintegration caused by various crises in Russian society in the 1860s.

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Book SynopsisFocuses on Twain's artistry in stylistic matters, such as tone of voice, characterization, humor, plot, description, and imagery, using genetic criticism to reveal how the novel grew through creative revision. This title uses the evidence from the manuscript to explore thematic interpretations about the role of nobility and religion in the novel.

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Book SynopsisAn evocative retelling ot two sensational crimes that rocked Victorian London.Trade Review"Altick's book vividly preserves an important and fascinating element of daily Victorian life. As such, it is the best sort of historical scholarship: the kind that puts us in close touch with a lost world and with people very much like ourselves." * Smithsonian *"An engaging study in historical sociology." * Washington Post *

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Book SynopsisThe antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Meredith L. McGill argues, a mass market for books in this period was built and sustained through what we would call rampant literary piracy: a national literature developed not despite but because of the systematic copying of foreign works. Restoring a political dimension to accounts of the economic grounds of antebellum literature, McGill unfolds the legal arguments and political struggles that produced an American culture of reprinting and held it in place for two crucial decades.In this culture of reprinting, the circulation of print outstripped authorial and editorial control. McGill examines the workings of literary culture within this market, shifting her gaze from first and authorized editions to reprints and piracies, from the form of the book to the intersection of book and periodical publishing, and from a national literature to an internally divideTrade Review"McGill's book will have a major impact on history of the book scholarship as well as upon American literary and cultural studies more generally." * Janice Radway *"In meticulously researched and richly detailed readings, McGill . . . finds an exuberant reprint culture that is both regional and transatlantic." * American Literature *

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Book SynopsisIn the Shadow of the Gallows reveals how a sense of racialized culpability shaped Americans' understandings of personhood prior to the Civil War. Jeannine Marie DeLombard draws from legal, literary, and popular texts to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.Trade Review"This is a powerful book filled with important, paradigm-shifting ideas about the presentation of African Americans in print and the media. Though not suited to the casual reader, its contents are thought provoking and address contemporary race issues in ways that scholarship on the history of print and readership rarely does." * Journal of American History *"In this impressively researched and provocative study, Jeannine Marie DeLombard argues for an alternative literary and legal history of early black writing and, more broadly, nineteenth-century cultural formations of racial subjectivity." * New England Quarterly *"DeLombard's expertly researched book stands as a model of interdisciplinary scholarship, and her arguments on the foundational nexus of race, criminality, and citizenship offer scholars of English and history much to consider. In the Shadow of the Gallows, with DeLombard's deft analysis of early American literature, persuasively pushes back the plantation-to-prison narrative to the very founding of the nation, and demonstrates the importance of criminality in the development of early black subjectivity." * Law and History Review *"DeLombard ingeniously shows from deep research how much the creation of an African American 'voice' stemmed from ancient assumptions about race, criminality, and guilt. Her reading of Frederick Douglass's arrest and jailing as a young slave rebel is alone worth the price of this book, but she demands that we see race, literature, and citizenship in the age of the Civil War as a national crucible played out in courts, on gallows, in jails, and ultimately on the printed page." * David W. Blight, author of American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era *"In her exquisitely written In the Shadow of the Gallows, Jeannine DeLombard reads early American criminal law in conjunction with the idea of social contract to illustrate the intricacies of political belonging from the early Republic through the antebellum period. Through the double helix of print and legal history, she chronicles the metamorphic role of authorship in African Americans' bids for enfranchisement against the backdrop of a nation entangled in contradictory definitions of personhood and property and of criminality and civility. Exemplary of humanities scholarship at its best, the book establishes the connections between American literature and the African American struggle for civic inclusion." * Priscilla Wald, Duke University *"I have long thought that DeLombard is at the absolute top of the scholars working on law and literature in North America, and In the Shadow of the Gallows confirms her status." * Alfred Brophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *"The significance of DeLombard's project can be measured by the centrality of its claims to a wide variety of fields. The issues that DeLombard takes up here strike at the heart of the current disciplinary configurations defining not only American and African American literary studies but also American and African American history and critical race studies." * Lloyd Pratt, University of Oxford *Table of ContentsIntroduction: How a Slave Was Made a Man PART I Chapter 1. Contracting Guilt: Mixed Character, Civil Slavery, and the Social Compact Chapter 2. Black Catalogues: Crime, Print, and the Rise of the Black Self PART II Chapter 3. The Ignominious Cord: Crime, Counterfactuals, and the New Black Politics Chapter 4. The Work of Death: Time, Crime, and Personhood in Jacksonian America Chapter 5. How Freeman Was Made a Madman: Race, Capacity, and Citizenship Chapter 6. Who Aint a Slaver? Citizenship, Piracy, and Slaver Narratives Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisFrom her youth, Mary Shelley immersed herself in the social contract tradition, particularly the educational and political theories of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as the radical philosophies of her parents, the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the anarchist William Godwin. Against this background, Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818. In the two centuries since, her masterpiece has been celebrated as a Gothic classic and its symbolic resonance has driven the global success of its publication, translation, and adaptation in theater, film, art, and literature. However, in Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child, Eileen Hunt Botting argues that Frankenstein is more than an original and paradigmatic work of science fiction—it is a profound reflection on a radical moral and political question: do children have rights?Botting contends that Frankenstein invites its readers to reason throughTrade Review"Botting's intervention in Frankenstudies is an important one." * Times Literary Supplement *"Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child, in its passion and commitments, vividly illustrates Frankenstein's continuing power, two hundred years on, to comment on the pressing political issues of the day." * Modern Philology *""One sets a very high bar in claiming that a book on Frankenstein advances a new, important reading-especially one appearing in 2018, when worldwide commemorations of the bicentenary of the first edition are focusing unprecedented attention on Shelley's novel. But such a feat is ventured and gained by Eileen Hunt Botting's Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child"" * The Modern Language Review *"Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child shows that Botting’s measured, logical, stepwise scholarly approach has produced a truly revolutionary intervention in the understanding of, and potential responses to, posthuman justice, speciesism, and cosmopolitan belonging." * 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries of the Early Modern Era *"Treating the creature as an abandoned and abused child, Eileen Hunt Botting brilliantly uses the novel Frankenstein to mount a series of thought experiments that interrogate the enduring political questions of whether children have rights and, if so, which ones. Deftly summarizing the positions of such writers as Hobbes, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, and Onora O'Neill, Botting persuasively argues for a child's universal rights to care, identity, and love-rights that Botting here extends to disabled, stateless, and genetically modified children." * Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles *"While there has been a great deal written within literary theory and criticism on the novel Frankenstein, and there is a substantial, and growing, literature within moral and political philosophy on the rights of children and the obligations of parents, Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child is the first book to bring these two areas of inquiry together. Eileen Hunt Botting's fascinating analysis shows how literary texts, suitably reinterpreted, can make better sense of key philosophical claims." * David Archard, Queen's University Belfast *"Readers of Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child will never again be able to read Frankenstein simply as a work of Gothic fiction that questioned the counter-theology and scientific bravado of its day. Eileen Hunt Botting, more thoroughly than any previous commentator, has revealed the philosophical content of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and has firmly placed it in the context of modern political thought." * Gordon Schochet, Rutgers University *Table of ContentsPreface. Welcome to the Creature Double Feature Introduction. Frankenstein and the Question of Children's Rights Chapter 1. The Specter of the Stateless Orphan from Hobbes to Shelley Chapter 2. Wollstonecraft's Philosophy of Children's Rights Chapter 3. Shelley's Thought Experiments on the Rights of the Child Chapter 4. Three Applications of Shelley's Thought Experiments: The Rights of Disabled, Stateless, and Posthuman Children Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisReclaiming Authorship augments our knowledge of the female literary tradition and enriches our grasp of the process by which women authors sought public status in a publishing marketplace. It challenges basic tenets of the origins of realism and posits a definable historical transition from the romantic to the realist.-Cecelia TichiTrade Review"Reclaiming Authorship augments our knowledge of the female literary tradition and enriches our grasp of the process by which women authors sought public status in a literary publishing marketplace which was (and remains) customarily considered to be a masculine realm. It challenges, moreover, basic tenets of the origins of realism and does so by positing a definable historical transition from the romantic and sentimental to the realist." * Cecelia Tichi, Vanderbilt University *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. Defining Female Authorship Chapter 2. Writing in and out of the Home: Parlor Culture and Authorship Chapter 3. Authorizing Reception: Maria Cummins and The Lamplighter Chapter 4. Revising Romance: Louisa May Alcott, Hawthorne, and the Civil War Chapter 5. Contractual Authorship: Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Abigail Dodge Chapter 6. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Ethical Authorship Chapter 7. Epilogue: Amateurs and Professionals in Woolson and James Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisA brilliant study of legal events and of literary texts concerned with the Scottish Highlands in the late eighteenth to nineteenth century, which then provides a structure for exploring the decay of and nostalgia for experience in subsequent culture.-Tilottama Rajan, University of Western OntarioTrade Review"A brilliant study of legal events and of literary texts concerned with the Scottish Highlands in the late eighteenth to nineteenth century, which then provides a structure for exploring the decay of and nostalgia for experience in subsequent culture." * Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario *Table of ContentsPreface: Scottish Highland Romance: A Reappraisal Introduction: Experience and the Allure of the Improbable PART I. STRUCTURE Chapter 1. A Musket Shot and Its Echoes: The Romantick Origins of the Modern Witness Chapter 2. Aftershocks of the Appin Murder: Scott, Stevenson, and "Storytell[ing]" Chapter 3. Evidence and Equivalence: The Parallel Logics of Proof and Progress Chapter 4. Improvement and Apocalypse: Afterimages of the "Promised Land" of Modern Romance PART II. FEELING Chapter 5. The Compulsions of Immediacy: Macpherson, Wilkomirski, and Their Fragments Controversies Chapter 6. Of Mourning and Machinery: Contrasting Techniques of Highland Vision Chapter 7. Highland Romance in Late Modernity Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Book of God manages to be at once ambitious, deliberate, and nuanced in its interconnecting conceptions of philosophy and literary criticism.-Orrin Wang, University of MarylandTrade Review"An erudite, refreshing study of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century concept of intentional design that rethinks the equation of romanticism, modernity, and secularization underwriting romantic studies for the last fifty years. The Book of God manages to be at once ambitious, deliberate, and nuanced in its interconnecting conceptions of philosophy and literary criticism." * Orrin Wang, University of Maryland *"The claim that God's existence can be inferred from the order and intricacy of the world has an ancient lineage. The Book of God explores the literary, philosophical, and theological inflection of this avowal in the context of encroaching secularism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. . . . It is a timely work, for the historical survey bears also on contemporary discussion. Some recent commentators have made much of the alleged incompatibly between science and religion. Colin Jager's sensitivity to the complexity of 'secularization' serves to subvert this binary thinking." * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction. Nature is the Book of God Chapter 1. The Argument Against Design from Deism to Blake Chapter Two. Arbitrary Acts of Mind: Natural Theology in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Chapter Three. Theory, Practice, and Anna Barbauld Chapter Four. Natural Designs: William Paley, Immanuel Kant, and the Power of Analogy Chapter Five. Mansfield Park and the End of Natural Theology Chapter Six. Wordsworth: The Shape of Analogy Chapter Seven. Reading With a Worthy Eye: Secularization and Evil Chapter Eight. Religion Three Ways Afterword. Intelligent Design and Religious Ignoramuses; or, the Difference between Theory and Literature Endnotes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a rich archive of magazine fiction, verse satires, comic almanacs, false slave narratives, minstrel song-sheets, and early literary criticism, this book uncovers the controversies over literary fraudulence that plagued the antebellum period and shows how they at once made and unmade American literature.Trade Review"The Fabrication of American Literature is fresh and surprising in its arguments, and deeply learned in its scholarship. Antebellum American literature, we learn, was not just interested in the topic of fraudulence, it was itself fraudulent-and this is a good thing. I am confident that readers will be deeply interested and thoroughly impressed by Lara Langer Cohen's wonderful accomplishment." * Christopher Looby, University of California, Los Angeles *"Reader, this book is no fraud. In fact, Lara Langer Cohen's The Fabrication of American Literature not only carries its smart and consequential argument to very satisfyingly conclusive lengths but it also saves us many a yawn in doing so, with its showman's sense of pith and pace." * Nineteenth-Century Literature *Table of ContentsIntroduction: American Literary Fraudulence Chapter 1. "One Vast Perambulating Humbug": Literary Nationalism and the Rise of the Puffing System Chapter 2. Backwoods and Blackface: The Strange Careers of Davy Crockett and Jim Crow Chapter 3. "Slavery Never Can Be Represented": James Williams and the Racial Politics of Imposture Chapter 4. Mediums of Exchange: Fanny Fern's Unoriginality Conclusion: The Confidence Man on a Large Scale Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisFocusing on boarding schools established by New England missionaries, English Letters and Indian Literacies explores the ways Native students negotiated the variety of pedagogical practices and technologies of literacy and managed those technologies for their own ends.Trade Review"Wyss's emphasis on the material culture of native experience and the missionary schools is fresh and compelling; her analysis of the Wheelock-Occum letters is perhaps the best reading of them to date; and the book's highlighting of figures whom history has shuffled aside-such as the Cherokee David Brown-make this volume well worth the read." * Journal of American History *"Hillary Wyss's English Letters and Indian Literacies quite fruitfully revises and expands existing accounts of Native participation in networks of written English in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." * American Literature *"Wyss skillfully draws on the fascinating history of literacy and literacy instruction in early New England to show how the process of learning to read was taught separately from the ability to comprehend the meaning of written words and how the act of learning to write was taught separately from the skill of self-expression." * History: Reviews of New Books *"English Letters and Indian Literacies promises to advance our understanding of the encounter between American Indians and Protestant English missionaries significantly. It deserves much attention from scholars in religion, literature, and history focused on the colonial period, Native responses to contact, the history of education, and literacy studies." * Laura M. Stevens, University of Tulsa *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Technologies of Literacy Chapter 1. Narratives and Counternarratives: Producing Readerly Indians in Eighteenth-Century New England Chapter 2. The Writerly Worlds of Joseph Johnson Chapter 3. Brainerd's Missionary Legacy: Death and the Writing of Cherokee Salvation Chapter 4. The Foreign Mission School and the Writerly Indian After Words: Native Literacy and Autonomy Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisHow did this vagabond word, bohemia, migrate across national borderlines over the course of the nineteenth century, and what happened to it as it traveled? In International Bohemia, Daniel Cottom studies how various individuals and groups appropriated this word to serve the identities, passions, cultural forms, politics, and histories they sought to animate. Beginning with the invention of bohemianism''s modern sense in Paris during the 1830s and 1840s, Cottom traces the twists and turns of this phenomenon through the rest of the nineteenth century and into the early years of the twentieth century in the United States, England, Italy, Spain, and Germany.Even when they traveled under the banner of l''art pour l''art, the bohemians of this era generally saw little reason to observe borderlines between their lives and their art. On the contrary, they were eager to mix up the one with the other, despite the fact that their critics often reproached them on thisTrade Review"Polished, eloquent, and witty, International Bohemia is a spectacular achievement, a truly profound exploration of the mobile and ever shape-shifting phenomenon known as la vie bohème." * Joanna Levin, Chapman University *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. Bohemian Poseur Jew Chapter 2. Maggie, Not a Girl of the Streets Chapter 3. The Indignity of Labor Chapter 4. Unknowing Privat Chapter 5. America, the Birthplace of Bohemia Chapter 6. The Poverty of Nations Chapter 7. Sherlock Holmes Meets Dracula Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisGoethe's Allegories of Identity shows how Goethe's literary works, as the essential middle steps between Rousseau and Freud, lay the basis for modern depth psychology. Its illuminating scholarly yet accessible readings of five major works may also serve as an introduction to readers coming to Goethe for the first time.Trade Review"A marvel of a book. Rich and forcefully argued, Goethe's Allegories of Identity gives us a remarkably illuminating view of Goethe's oeuvre that is drawn in clear, sharp lines." * David E. Wellbery, University of Chicago *Table of ContentsPART I. THE PROBLEM Chapter 1. Representing Subjectivity Chapter 2. Goethe Contra Rousseau on Passion Chapter 3. Goethe Contra Rousseau on Social Responsibility PART II. EXPERIMENTS IN SUBJECTIVITY Chapter 4. The Theatrical Self Chapter 5. The Scientific Self: Identity in Faust Chapter 6. The Narrative Self PART III. THE LANGUAGE OF INTERIORITY Chapter 7. Goethe's Angst Chapter 8. "Es singen wohl die Nixen": Werther and the Romantic Tale Chapter 9. Goethe and the Uncanny Conclusion: Classicism and Goethe's Emotional Regime Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisFragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls investigates the creation of obscene writings and images as a category of print in nineteenth-century Germany. Sarah L. Leonard charts the process through which texts of many kinds—from popular medical works to stereoscope cards—were deemed dangerous to the intellectual and emotional lives of vulnerable consumers. She shows that these definitions often hinged as much on the content of texts as on their perceived capacity to distort the intellect and inflame the imagination.Leonard tracks the legal and mercantile channels through which sexually explicit material traveled as Prussian expansion opened new routes for the movement of culture and ideas. Official conceptions of obscenity were forged through a heterogeneous body of laws, police ordinances, and expert commentary. Many texts acquired the stigma of immorality because they served nonelite readers and passed through suspect spaces; books and pamphlets sold by peddlers oTrade Review"Sarah Leonard's approach to the topic of obscenity in the German states is fresh, innovative, and sophisticated. It offers an entirely new reading of the history, arguing for a paradigmatic shift in the early to mid-nineteenth century. Her synthesis of the cultural, intellectual, social, and political histories of censorship and obscenity law is unusual, cutting-edge, and impressive." * Ann Goldberg, University of California, Riverside *

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean for a child to be a reader and how did American culture come to place such a high value on this identity? Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring long-lived but now forgotten early children''s literature, discredited yet highly influential pedagogical practices, the property lessons inherent in children''s book ownership, and the emergence of childhood itself as a literary property.The nursery and schoolroom version of the social contract, Crain argues, underwrote children''s entry not only into reading and writing but also into a world of commodity and property relations. Increasingly positioned as an indispensable form of cultural capital by the end of the eighteenth century, literacy became both the means and the symbol of children''s newly recognized self-possession and autonomy. At the same time, as children''s legal and economic status was changing, childhood emerged Trade Review"Reading Children is capacious but rigorous, bringing entirely fresh ways of thinking about what may have seemed like well-trodden material. Crain's prose is precise, clear, and quite often entertaining, and her research is extraordinary." * Modern Philology *"The strengths of this lavishly illustrated study, which includes thirty-five color plates and forty-five black-and-white illustrations, are the evocative, perceptive, and compelling discussions of the relationship between children's reading and property. . . . Crain braids together close analyses of texts, artifacts, and significant contemporary ideas to provide a multidimensional historical account of children's reading that contextualizes the idealized representation that we have come to associate with childhood." * Children's Literature Association Quarterly *"Crain's study makes significant contributions to studies of childhood reading practices and spaces. Her examination of reading in controlled and regulated schoolroom environments as well as private, familial environments adds to current understandings of how public and private scenes of reading and the material culture of books and the spaces in which to read books shape and define childhood." * HIstory of Education Quarterly *"[A] fascinating, wide-ranging study of the ways in which the figure of the child reader-in particular, the image of a child reading his or her own book-has been intertwined in broader cultural narratives about selfhood, memory, commodity ownership, and economic and cultural capital." * Reception *"Patricia Crain has long been one of the handful of scholars whose work I have found truly transformative, changing my sense of the kinds of questions one could ask and of the strategies one might develop for answering them. Reading Children is capacious, precise, and at times breathtakingly original in its vision and methods." * Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Amherst College *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Children and Books Chapter 1. Literacy, Commodities, and Cultural Capital: The Case of Goody Two-Shoes Chapter 2. The Literary Property of Childhood: The Case of the "Babes in the Wood" Chapter 3. Colonizing Childhood, Placing Cherokee Children Chapter 4. "Selling a Boy": Race, Class, and the Literacy Economy of Childhood Chapter 5. Children in the Margins Chapter 6. Raising "Master James": The Medial Child and Phantasms of Reading Coda. Bedtime Stories Appendix. "The Children in the Wood" Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisAmerican literary studies has undergone a series of field redefinitions that have been described as turns, whether transnational, aesthetic, or affective. Turns of Event: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Motion argues that the propensity of the field to reinvent itself without dissolution is one of its greatest strengths.Trade Review"Turns of Event mounts a stupendously thoughtful engagement with the current state of American literary studies. The essays are individual gems-each one stands well on its own and plays nicely within the larger collection. Gathering scholars who are leaders in the field and who speak to their subjects in impressively clear prose, this volume will be of tremendous use to scholars and students." * Dana Nelson, Vanderbilt University *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Academic Positioning Systems —Hester Blum PART I. PROVOCATIONS Chapter 1. Turn It Up: Affects, Structures of Feeling, and Face-to-Face Education —Geoffrey Sanborn Chapter 2. Literary History, Book History, and Media Studies —Meredith L. McGill Chapter 3. The Cartographic Turn and American Literary Studies: Of Maps, Mappings, and the Limits of Metaphor —Martin Brückner Chapter 4. Twists and Turns —Christopher Castiglia PART II. TURN-BY-TURN DIRECTIONS: TRANSNATIONAL, HEMISPHERIC, OCEANIC Chapter 5. Of Turns and Paradigm Shifts: Humanities, Science, and Transnational American Studies —Ralph Bauer Chapter 6. The Geopolitics and Tropologies of the American Turn —Monique Allewaert Chapter 7. The Caribbean Turn in C19 American Literary Studies —Sean X. Goudie Chapter 8. Oceanic Turns and American Literary History in Global Context —Michelle Burnham Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisFrom her youth, Mary Shelley immersed herself in the social contract tradition, particularly the educational and political theories of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as the radical philosophies of her parents, the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the anarchist William Godwin. Against this background, Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818. In the two centuries since, her masterpiece has been celebrated as a Gothic classic and its symbolic resonance has driven the global success of its publication, translation, and adaptation in theater, film, art, and literature. However, in Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child, Eileen Hunt Botting argues that Frankenstein is more than an original and paradigmatic work of science fiction—it is a profound reflection on a radical moral and political question: do children have rights?Botting contends that Frankenstein invites its readers to reason throughTrade Review"Botting's intervention in Frankenstudies is an important one." * Times Literary Supplement *"Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child, in its passion and commitments, vividly illustrates Frankenstein's continuing power, two hundred years on, to comment on the pressing political issues of the day." * Modern Philology *""One sets a very high bar in claiming that a book on Frankenstein advances a new, important reading-especially one appearing in 2018, when worldwide commemorations of the bicentenary of the first edition are focusing unprecedented attention on Shelley's novel. But such a feat is ventured and gained by Eileen Hunt Botting's Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child"" * The Modern Language Review *"Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child shows that Botting’s measured, logical, stepwise scholarly approach has produced a truly revolutionary intervention in the understanding of, and potential responses to, posthuman justice, speciesism, and cosmopolitan belonging." * 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries of the Early Modern Era *"Treating the creature as an abandoned and abused child, Eileen Hunt Botting brilliantly uses the novel Frankenstein to mount a series of thought experiments that interrogate the enduring political questions of whether children have rights and, if so, which ones. Deftly summarizing the positions of such writers as Hobbes, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, and Onora O'Neill, Botting persuasively argues for a child's universal rights to care, identity, and love-rights that Botting here extends to disabled, stateless, and genetically modified children." * Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles *"While there has been a great deal written within literary theory and criticism on the novel Frankenstein, and there is a substantial, and growing, literature within moral and political philosophy on the rights of children and the obligations of parents, Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child is the first book to bring these two areas of inquiry together. Eileen Hunt Botting's fascinating analysis shows how literary texts, suitably reinterpreted, can make better sense of key philosophical claims." * David Archard, Queen's University Belfast *"Readers of Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child will never again be able to read Frankenstein simply as a work of Gothic fiction that questioned the counter-theology and scientific bravado of its day. Eileen Hunt Botting, more thoroughly than any previous commentator, has revealed the philosophical content of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and has firmly placed it in the context of modern political thought." * Gordon Schochet, Rutgers University *Table of ContentsPreface. Welcome to the Creature Double Feature Introduction. Frankenstein and the Question of Children's Rights Chapter 1. The Specter of the Stateless Orphan from Hobbes to Shelley Chapter 2. Wollstonecraft's Philosophy of Children's Rights Chapter 3. Shelley's Thought Experiments on the Rights of the Child Chapter 4. Three Applications of Shelley's Thought Experiments: The Rights of Disabled, Stateless, and Posthuman Children Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Revolution Chapter 2. Yellow Fever Chapter 3. Cholera Chapter 4. Difference Chapter 5. Anesthesia Conclusion. Humanistic Inquiry in Medicine, Then and Now Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIn Singing in a Foreign Land, Karen A. Weisman examines the uneasy literary inheritance of British cultural and poetic norms by early nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish authors. Focusing on a range of subgenres, from elegies to pastorals to psalm translations, Weisman shows how the writers she studies engaged with the symbolic resources of English poetry—such as the land of England itself—from which they had been historically alienated.Weisman looks at the self-conscious explorations of lyric form by Emma Lyon; the elegies for members of the British royal family penned by Hyman Hurwitz; the ironic reflections on hybrid identities written by sisters Celia and Marion Moss; and the poems of Grace Aguilar that explicitly join lyric effusion to Jewish historical concerns. These poets were well-versed in both Jewish texts and mainstream literary history, and Weisman argues that they model an extreme example of Romantic self-reflexivity: they implicitly lament their oTrade Review"Singing in Foreign Land has many strengths and will appeal to many kinds of readers, including those with interests in Coleridge and other Romantic poets’ intertextual connections with Jewish writers; those seeking a more diverse view of British Romanticism; those seeking deep and intricate analyses of the major Anglo-Jewish writers of the period; and those with particular interests in Jewish-Christian literary relations...[An] intricate, complex, and wonderfully researched volume." * The Coleridge Bulletin *"Ground-breaking and beautifully written, Singing in a Foreign Land is an extraordinary contribution to our knowledge of religious diversity during the Romantic era. Karen A. Weisman is better equipped than any critic today to give us a fine-tuned picture of Romantic Jewish cultural production, one that refuses to see it as either merely oppositional or conformist." * Mark Canuel, University of Illinois at Chicago *"I know of no other book that covers this ground of Anglo-Jewish Romantic poetry. With her meticulous scholarship and skillful readings, Karen A. Weisman shows how Anglo-Jewish Romantic poets engaged with the inherited traditions of pastoral, elegy, and lyric in a way that has earned them a place in that very tradition." * Judith W. Page, University of Florida *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Hath Not a Jew Chapter 1. Emma Lyon's Spacious Firmament Chapter 2. Mourning, Translation, Pastoral: Hyman Hurwitz Chapter 3. The Early Efforts of Celia and Marion Moss Chapter 4. Grace Aguilar and the Demands of Lyric Coda. Amy Levy's Impossible Modernity Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIn the long nineteenth century, the specter of lost manuscripts loomed in the imagination of antiquarians, historians, and writers. Whether by war, fire, neglect, or the ravages of time itself, the colonial history of the United States was perceived as a vanishing record, its archive a hoard of materially unsound, temporally fragmented, politically fraught, and endangered documents.Colonial Revivals traces the labors of a nineteenth-century cultural network of antiquarians, bibliophiles, amateur historians, and writers as they dug through the nation''s attics and private libraries to assemble early American archives. The collection of colonial materials they thought themselves to be rescuing from oblivion were often reprinted to stave off future loss and shore up a sense of national permanence. Yet this archive proved as disorderly and incongruous as the collection of young states themselves. Instead of revealing a shared origin story, historical reprints testified to tTrade Review"Perhaps the greatest of the many strengths of Lindsay DiCuirci’s excellent Colonial Revivals is how it expertly integrates strategies of book history with literary analysis to generate a reinterpretation of the development of American culture in the early decades of the nineteenth century…One of the lessons of DiCuirci’s book is that making sense of the past requires more than simply recovering and reprinting texts. The fantasy of transparency both activates the work of recovery and reprinting and haunts it…DiCuirci has done a marvelous job of showing us how those debates played out in key publication projects over the course of the nineteenth century that continue to shape our perception and understanding of American history today." * Textual Cultures *"Colonial Revivals pays close attention to the materiality of historical recovery and provides a discerning analysis of the ideological and methodological contents that attended it. It makes a significant contribution to our understanding of early American literature and culture." * Thomas Augst, New York University *"A compelling and original work that will be of great interest to those who study trans-Atlantic antiquarianism, the history of the book, and the history of American historical consciousness and practice." * Seth Cotlar, Willamette University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Lost and Found: Antiquarianism and the Fantasy of Preservation Chapter 2. Puritan Redux: John Winthrop and Cotton Mather in Nineteenth-Century New England Chapter 3. The South in Fragments: Printing Anachronisms in the Old Dominion Chapter 4. The Letter and the Spirit: Materializing Quaker History and Myth Chapter 5. Romance and Repulsion: The Imperial Archive and Washington Irving's Columbus Epilogue. (Re)Born Digital Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Battle Lines should be read by every scholar of nineteenth-century American literature and culture as well as by any interested reader who enjoys American poetry. The book packs a lot of information in relatively short compass and it is a jargon-free and non-technical joy to read. Richards has established a heretofore relatively neglected field in American literature that deserves further thoughtful and astute attention that she pioneers in her own work." * American Literary Realism *"Battle Lines is exciting and groundbreaking. Eliza Richards argues that the poetry of the Civil War was distinctive for its intimate relationship to new, and newly networked, forms of media. Her ingenious interpretations show how the war's mediated events fundamentally shaped both the form and content of its poems." * Elizabeth Young, Mount Holyoke College *"Eliza Richards has written a tight, elegant book that demonstrates how pervasively the poetry of the Civil War reflects on its technologically mediated conditions, composition, and circulation." * Mary Loeffelholz, Northeastern University *"A prolific essayist, Richards has honed her ability to connect poems and the circumstances framing their creation to good effect…Richards deserves praise for teasing out in elegant fashion the impacts of the Civil War on American poetry and its production and consumption." * American Nineteenth Century Histoy *Table of ContentsIntroduction. "How News Must Feel When Traveling" Chapter 1. "Strange Analogies": Weathering the War Chapter 2. The "Ghastly Harvest" Chapter 3. "To Signalize the Hour": Memorialization and the Massachusetts 54th Chapter 4. Poetry Under Siege: Charleston Harbor's Talking Guns Chapter 5. Poetry at Sea: Naval Ballads and the Battle of Mobile Bay Epilogue. Writing's Wars: Stephen Crane's Poetry and the Postbellum Turn to the Page Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThe later poetry of William Wordsworth, popular in his lifetime and influential on the Victorians, has, with a few exceptions, received little attention from contemporary literary critics. In Wordsworth''s Poetry, 1815-1845, Tim Fulford argues that the later work reveals a mature poet far more varied and surprising than is often acknowledged. Examining the most characteristic poems in their historical contexts, he shows Wordsworth probing the experiences and perspectives of later life and innovating formally and stylistically. He demonstrates how Wordsworth modified his writing in light of conversations with younger poets and learned to acknowledge his debt to women in ways he could not as a young man. The older Wordsworth emerges in Fulford''s depiction as a love poet of companionate tenderness rather than passionate lament. He also appears as a political poet—bitter at capitalist exploitation and at a society in which vanity is rewarded while poverty is blamed. Most notaTrade Review"The idea that we might be able to blow the dust of thirty years' worth of neglected Wordsworth poems and find them wonderful is deeply appealing, and Fulford's encouragement, along with his diligent readings of several little-known poems ('The Brownie' might be an example), is impressive in its endeavor." * The Times Literary Supplement *"Wordsworth's Poetry, 1815-1845 should be read as an important corrective to our ingrained prejudice against the later poetry. Through its deft combination of historicist critique and laser-sharp formal analysis, the book displays the richness of Wordsworth's oeuvre while highlighting the meagreness of thought that, all too often, has prevented readers from experiencing the full range of the poet's accomplishments.." * The Review of English Studies *"[R]evelatory . . . This is certainly the best book yet published on the late Wordsworth. It will be turned to gratefully by future students of Wordsworth's later work; it will also, I hope, attract a new generation of readers to this extraordinarily rich body of work." * European Romantic Review *"Fulford's sensitive attention helps us to see the verse of the late Wordsworth with fresh eyes . . . Wordsworth's Poetry, 1815-1845 is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the long arc of Wordsworth's career." * Modern Language Review *"Tim Fulford offers a richly textured account of thirty years of verse that fell out of favor with the elevation of the "Great Decade" in the 1960s and 1970s . . . the entire book, makes a convincing case for reading Wordsworth's poetry to the very end." * Modern Philology *"The best and most complete work on the later poetry of William Wordsworth. Tim Fulford's readings are thoughtful, frequently brilliant, and at times border on the luxurious in their willingness to unpack the pleasures of the verse." * Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania *"It is exciting to watch Tim Fulford's Wordsworth enter into dialogue with other poets, from the classics to his younger contemporaries, refiguring his own works from his evolving later perspectives, vital as opposed to fossilized, and so reshaping the conventional literary history of nineteenth-century British poetry. This is a field-altering book." * Peter J. Manning, Stony Brook University *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction PART I. PRODUCING A POET FOR THE PUBLIC Chapter 1. Learning to Be a Poet of Imagination: Wordsworth and the Ghost of Cowper Chapter 2. The Politics of Landscape and the Poetics of Patronage: Collecting Coleorton PART II. SPOTS OF SPACE: MATERIALIZING MEMORY Chapter 3. Memoirs of Scott-land, 1814-33 Chapter 4. Textual Strata and Geological Form: The Scriptorium and the Cave PART III. THE POLITICS OF DICTION Chapter 5. The Erotics of Influence: Wordsworth as Byron and Keats Chapter 6. Wordsworth and Ebenezer Elliott: Radicalism Renewed PART IV. LATE GENRES Chapter 7. Narrow Cells and Stone Circles: Sonnet Form and Spiritual History Chapter 8. Evanescence and After-Effect: The Evening Voluntaries Coda. Elegiac Musing and Generic Mixing Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisBetween 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, millions of nude photographs of the female form—artistic, pornographic, and everything in-between—were produced in France, the birthplace of photography. Drawing upon government records, legal decisions, newspaper accounts, and contemporary literature, Raisa Rexer recounts the history of these illicit and ubiquitous images and elucidates their immense cultural and artistic reach.Rexer focuses in particular on the ways that nude photographic imagery influenced some of the greatest authors of the period, including Charles Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, and Émile Zola, and sets their work against historical records and nonfiction print sources to tell the story of evolving perceptions of nude photography. In the period immediately after photography''s invention, nude photographs were vitally connected to the questions of art and artistry, particularly with regard to photography''s aspirations to high cultuTrade ReviewIllustrated with no fewer than eighty-seven remarkable images, The Fallen Veil could almost be marketed as a coffee-table book. But that would be a waste. As conversant in literary analysis as in art history and photography, Rexer has produced a superb piece of scholarship that deserves nothing less than a cover-to-cover reading. * Dalhousie French *Raisa Rexer makes a compelling case for the cultural significance of these peculiarly sensitive, occasionally troubling images. Sober and scholarly without ever being prudish or pious, she guides us with insight, good taste, and even humor, through a seedy world. * Andrew Counter, University of Oxford *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Putzi’sstudy is a remarkable intervention in the study of nineteenth-century US women writers—known and unknown, recovered and yet unrecovered—because it challenges the very concept of a nineteenth-century woman writer...Putzi’s model ofrelational poetics opens up compelling possibilities for the recovery of nineteenth-centurywomenwriters,aswellasnewwaysofunderstandinghow nineteenth-century US literature was read and created." -- Elissa Zellinger * American Literary History *"Putzi gives us an inspiring book, designed to persuade scholars of both traditional and critical literary analysis to join her in reading with respect and pleasure this body of antebellum American women’s poetry...Putzi’s work adds to helpful analyses of women’s eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry, especially studies of poetry’s contemporary rhetoric by Jane Donawerth, Winifred Bryan Horner, and Lynee Lewis Gaillet." * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *"Fair Copy expertly engages the composition, publication, and circulation of women’s printed poetry to produce a far-reaching theory and methodology of relational poetics as radical recovery. Moving with graceful nimbleness between this overarching framework and a precision born of copious archival work, Putzi offers a compelling narrative of women’s engagement with print and its various networks and relations—a story unknown in part because studies of nineteenth-century women’s authorship have primarily focused on prose and in part because of a scholarly emphasis on originality and individuality." * Early American Literature *"Jennifer Putzi offers five case studies of women poets' 'relational poetics' under conditions of authorship that depend on intersecting categories of race, class, and gender. She maps the significance of unremarkable or indistinguishable practices by unknown and in some way irrecoverable women poets in order to show that the very lack of distinction or originality, the impossibility of identifying a signature style, marks the poems as accomplishments that depend on the contexts of production, circulation, and reception." * Eliza Richards, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The American Hemans: Lydia Sigourney's Relational Poetics Chapter 2. "The Songs Which All Can Sing": Imitation and Working Women's Poetry in the Lowell Offering Chapter 3. "My Country": Communal Authorship and Citizenship in Sarah Louisa Forten's Liberator Poems Chapter 4. "What Is Poetry?": Class, Collaboration, and the Making of Wales, and Other Poems Chapter 5. "Some Queer Freak of Taste": Relational Poetics and Literary Proprietorship in the "Rock Me to Sleep" Controversy Conclusion. Recovering the Unremarkable Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCombining biographical material with theoretical readings of poems, Angela Leighton offers a reinterpretation not only of some original and intriguing literature, but also of the very canon of Victorian poetry. Impressive in scope and highly original in its aims, this study will serve as the main critical work in this area for many years to come.

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Book SynopsisThe letters in this volume show the woman Rossetti was at this time in her life. By 1874 she was an established poet with a literary reputation among her contemporaries. But her personal life was overshadowed by the deaths and illness of close friends, and her own affliction with Graves' disease. In the VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE series.

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Book SynopsisAn anthology of fiction by one of America's important feminist writers, the author of the ""Yellow Wallpaper"", in which a woman is driven mad by chauvinist psychiatry. Collected here, by Lane, are 18 stories and fragments, including a selection from ""Herland"", Gilman's feminist Utopia.

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Book SynopsisThe third volume of ""Letters..."" covers years in which Christina Rossetti lost several important family members, including her mother, her brother Dante, and a young nephew, Michael. In the face of her loss, she turned increasingly to religion and wrote works of devotional prose.

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Book SynopsisThe Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was a practitioner of strict asceticism, and his commentators have often approved or disapproved of his rigorous self-discipline. This study uses Lacanian theories of sublimation and courtly love to reconfigure this rift in the field of Hopkins criticism.

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Book SynopsisArguing that Rousseau and Goethe are the foremost practitioners of Romantic autobiography, this is a comparative study of these foundational figures. It shows how they fashioned a distinctive type of self-writing at the time when modern autobiography emerged in its identifiable form.

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Book SynopsisA study of post-slavery literatures in the Americas. Examining major novels from 1880 to the 1970s, the author shows how fiction from different nations shares what he calls textual simultaneity in revealing parallel narrative anxieties about genealogy, narrative authority and racial difference.

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Book SynopsisScholars have long recognized that narrative suspense dominates the formal dynamics of 19th-century British fiction. This study argues that various 19th-century thinkers - John Ruskin, Michael Faraday, Charlotte Bronte - saw suspense as a vehicle for a new approach to knowledge called ""realism"".

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Book SynopsisChristina Rossetti has come to be considered one of the major poets. ""The Letters of Christina Rossetti"" makes available all of her extant letters, almost two-thirds of which have never before been published. These letters come from over 100 private and institutional collections. The fourth and final volume covers the last eight years of her life.

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Book SynopsisChristina Rossetti: The Patience of Style analyses the strengths and failures of her poetry, its attention to rhythm and the shifts of diction, its momentum and reserve, and the rationale for its revision. It also explores Rossetti's poetry for children, her reconfiguration of religion and poetry and the influences of female precursors she admired.Trade ReviewThis much-needed book illuminates the pleasures and challenges of reading Rossetti's poetry. Constance Hassett's careful and caring attention to the stylistic modulations that Rossetti introduced at significant junctures in her poetic development is exemplary; for she instructs us in how to listen to a poet who was herself attentive both to the voices of others and to the tonal shifts of her own self-scrutinizing voice.-U. C. Knoepflmacher, Princeton University; ""Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style is an important and overdue contribution to Rossetti scholarship. Beautifully written and carefully argued, this study is unequaled in its consistent focus on Rossetti's exquisite poetic craftsmanship. Attentive to the textual and publication histories of Rossetti's works, as well as to recent scholarship on poetics, Hassett offers original and insightful close reading, acute analysis of the aural effects of Rossetti's verse, and fresh insight into Rossetti's response to poetic contemporaries and precursors."" -Mary Arseneau, Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, author of Recovering Christina Rossetti: Female Community and Incarnational Poetics

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Book SynopsisRooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. This book offers a critical study of this genre. Each chapter situates an individual author's journals amid contemporary discourses of natural history.

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Book SynopsisOffers a groundbreaking critical biography of the German-born British poet Mathilde Blind (1841-1896) - a freethinking radical feminist. As the first full-length biography of this trailblazing woman of letters, Mathilde Blind underscores the importance of her poetry and her critical writings.Trade Review“Mathilde Blind is a groundbreaking critical biography of the Germanborn British aesthete. An important, must-read book.” —Ana Parejo Vadillo, Birkbeck University of London"Diedrick's account builds a picture of an intelligent and passionate advocate of women's rights, a thoughtful writer who engaged deeply with the society in which she worked. Blind would likely have approved of this way of portraying her." - The TLS

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