Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Questioning Nature
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Limited Access Transport Metaphors and Realism
Book SynopsisDraws on media studies and the history of books and reading to bring to life a history of realism concerned with the inclusivity of readers. Kyoko Takanashi shows how novelists employed metaphors of transport to constantly reassess what readers could and could not access.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Limited Access
Book SynopsisDraws on media studies and the history of books and reading to bring to life a history of realism concerned with the inclusivity of readers. Kyoko Takanashi shows how novelists employed metaphors of transport to constantly reassess what readers could and could not access.
£999.99
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Regenerating Romanticism
Book SynopsisWith this groundbreaking study, Melissa Bailes renovates understandings of sensibility and its importance to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century movement of scientific literature within genres such as poetry, novels, travel writing, children’s literature that obviously and technically engage with the natural sciences.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Revealing the Strawman; or, the Historical Hoodwinking of Romanticism 1. Botany's Seasonal Disorder: Thomson's Progressive Time, Conjectural Histories, and the Backwardness of Spring 2. Linnaeus's Botanical Clocks: Chronobiological Mechanisms in the Scientific Poetry of Erasmus Darwin, Charlotte Smith, and Felicia Hemans 3. Transformations of Gender, Race, and Poetic Sensibility: Maria Riddell's Transatlantic Botany and Biopolitics 4. Cultivated for Consumption: Botany, Colonial Cannibalism, and National/Natural History in Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl 5. "On the green margin": Place, Sensibility, and Originality in Charlotte Smith's "Flora" 6. Botany and Madness: Anna Seward, Sensibility, and the Floral Insanities of Darwin, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Clare Conclusion: De Quincey, Hazlitt, Wordsworth, and the Critical Fate of Romanticism and Scientific Literature Notes Bibliography
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Regenerating Romanticism
Book SynopsisWith this groundbreaking study, Melissa Bailes renovates understandings of sensibility and its importance to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century movement of scientific literature within genres such as poetry, novels, travel writing, children’s literature that obviously and technically engage with the natural sciences.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Revealing the Strawman; or, the Historical Hoodwinking of Romanticism 1. Botany's Seasonal Disorder: Thomson's Progressive Time, Conjectural Histories, and the Backwardness of Spring 2. Linnaeus's Botanical Clocks: Chronobiological Mechanisms in the Scientific Poetry of Erasmus Darwin, Charlotte Smith, and Felicia Hemans 3. Transformations of Gender, Race, and Poetic Sensibility: Maria Riddell's Transatlantic Botany and Biopolitics 4. Cultivated for Consumption: Botany, Colonial Cannibalism, and National/Natural History in Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl 5. "On the green margin": Place, Sensibility, and Originality in Charlotte Smith's "Flora" 6. Botany and Madness: Anna Seward, Sensibility, and the Floral Insanities of Darwin, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Clare Conclusion: De Quincey, Hazlitt, Wordsworth, and the Critical Fate of Romanticism and Scientific Literature Notes Bibliography
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Wayne State University Press The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer
Book SynopsisBetween 1830 and 1880, the Jewish community flourished in England. During this time, known as the Anglo-Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish women in England became the first Jewish women anywhere to publish novels, histories, periodicals, theological tracts, and conduct manuals. This book analyses this critical but forgotten period in the development of Jewish women's writing.
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Wayne State University Press Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales
Book SynopsisJack Zipes has selected the tales in Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales from five different books and has arranged them thematically. What distinguishes Leland from the major folklorists of the nineteenth century is his literary embellishment to represent his particular regard for their poetry, purity, and history.
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New York University Press Leg over Leg
Book SynopsisFinalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators'' AssociationThe life, birth, and early years of ''the Fariyaq''the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-ShidyaqLeg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of the Fariyaq,' alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he moves from his native Lebanon to Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England and France, provide the author with grist for wide-ranging discussions of the intellectual and social issues of his time, including the ignorance and corruption of the Lebanese religious and secular establishments, freedom of conscience, women's rights, sexual relationships between men and women, the manners and customs of Europeans and Middle Easterners, and the differences between contemporary European anTrade Review...Leg over Leg by the Lebanese intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, [has] long been held to be untranslatable and so [is] appearing, in [its] entirety, in English for the first time. -- Lydia Wilson * Times Literary Supplement *Leg over Leg will eventually be acknowledged as one of the most important translations of the twenty-first century... Humphrey Davies's virtuosic work (which he compared to climbing Mount Everest) gives English readers access at last to a quintessential novel of the era of Arabic literature's Nahda, or reawakening, and to one of the most profoundly humanist voices in literature. -- Patricia Storace * Times Literary Supplement *Humphrey Davies's translation, published in four dual-language volumes, is a triumph. He skillfully renders punning, rhyming prose without breaking the spell. Leg over Leg stands out for both its stylistic brazenness and the excellence of the translation. With this bilingual edition, the Library of Arabic Literature helps fill a large cultural gap and alters our view of Arabic literature and the formal trajectory of the novel outside the West. Any reader for whom the term 'world literature' is more than an empty platitude must read Humphrey Davies's translation. -- John Yargo * Los Angeles Review of Books *We're having a particularly good season for literary discoveries from the past, with recent publications of Volumes 1 and 2 of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq's 'Leg over Leg' (1855)… -- Martin Riker * New York Times Book Review *With this impressive edition and translation, Humphrey Davies has rendered one of the most challenging texts of Arabic literature, al-Shidyaq's al-Saq 'ala l-saq, accessible to a wide range of readers for the first time... The reader is plunged into al-Shidyaq's critical, humorous, uninhibited, sometimes bitter but profoundly humane, and utterly original masterpiece. -- Hilary Kilpatrick * Journal of the American Oriental Society *Al-Shidyaq, born in Lebanon in the early years of the nineteenth century, was a Zelig of the Arabic literary world, and his Leg over Leg is a bawdy, hilarious, epically word-obsessed, and unclassifiable book, which has never been translated into English before. -- Sal Robinson * Moby Lives *It is not too early to state that the publication of this work, in this edition, is a game-changer. This is a foundational work of modern Arabic literature and its publication in English is long overdue but given how it is presented here, it was perhaps worth the wait. This edition, with helpful endnotes, the original Arabic text, and in a translation that both reads well and appears to closely mirror the original, seems, in almost every way, ideal. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that this is the most important literary publication of a translation into English, in terms of literary history and our understanding of it, in years. * The Complete Review *Humphrey Davies's masterful translation makes accessible this unique and fascinating work, deserving of wider recognition and study... The translation adroitly and sympathetically captures the linguistic exuberance and literary inventiveness of the original. * Banipal Magazine *The heroic achievement of award-winning translator Humphrey Davies marks the first ever English translation of this pivotal work... An accessible, informative, and highly entertaining read. * Banipal Magazine *Its contemporaneity is astonishing... It would be doing Leg over Leg a massive disservice to not make it clear how funny it is. This is a book that for all its challenges, all its insight into humanity, all its place in history, had me regularly laughing out loud. * Music and Literature *Table of ContentsForeword ixA Note on the Text xxxiThe Dedication of This Elegantly Eloquent Book 6Author's Notice 8An Introduction by the Publisher of This Book 16Proem 20Raising a Storm 36A Bruising Fall and a Protecting Shawl 64Various Amusing Anecdotes 72Troubles and a Tambour 84A Priest and a Pursie, Dragging Pockets and Dry Grazing 92Food and Feeding Frenzies 108A Donkey that Brayed, a Journey Made, a Hope Delayed 116Bodega, Brethren, and Board 124Unseemly Conversations and Crooked Contestations 134Angering Women Who Dart Sideways Looks, and Clawslike Hooks 148That Which Is Long and Broad 162A Dish and an Itch 174A Maqamah, or, a Maqamah on "Chapter 13" 190A Sacrament 202The Priest's Tale 212The Priest's Tale Continued 222Snow 244Bad Luck 254Emotion and Motion 282The Difference between Market-men and Bag-men 312Notes 321Glossary 351Index 355About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute 366About the Typefaces 367About the Editor-Translator 368
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New York University Press TheCollected Writings of Walt Whitman The
Book SynopsisDiscussing letter-writing, this collection of nearly 3,000 letters written over a half century reveals Whitman. It contains an insert featuring sketches and facsimile pages from the letters.Trade ReviewPraise for the original edition: "These letters ... are indispensable for the serious student of American literature.#8221; -Library Journal
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New York University Press The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman Specimen
Book SynopsisA two-volume set which aims to prove that Whitman's prose has a quality no less original and distinctive than his poetry.Trade ReviewPraise for the original edition: "Indispensable for the serious student of American literature, these volumes should be purchased by every college, university, and large public library." -Library Journal
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New York University Press The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman Volume II
Book SynopsisA collection that outlines the events of the Whitman's life which gave rise to his many letters and literary reminiscences. It records the poet's daily activities.Trade ReviewPraise for the original edition: "These are important books for serious study of Whitman's life and work and need to be present in every graduate and research library." -Choice
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New York University Press The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman Daybooks
Book SynopsisA collection that outlines the events of the Whitman's life which gave rise to his many letters and literary reminiscences. It records the poet's daily activities.Trade ReviewPraise for the original edition: "These are important books for serious study of Whitman's life and work and need to be present in every graduate and research library." -Choice
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New York University Press Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
Book SynopsisGathers Whitman's autobiographical notes, his views on contemporary politics, and the writings he made as he educated himself in ancient history, religion and mythology, health (including phrenology), and word-study.Trade ReviewPraise for the original edition: "Every teacher of graduate students in Whitman and American literature in general will wish to have this edition in his university and perhaps home library." -American Literature
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New York University Press Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
Book SynopsisGathers Whitman's autobiographical notes, his views on contemporary politics, and the writings he made as he educated himself in ancient history, religion and mythology, health (including phrenology), and word-study.Trade ReviewPraise for the original edition: "Every teacher of graduate students in Whitman and American literature in general will wish to have this edition in his university and perhaps home library." -American Literature
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New York University Press Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
Book SynopsisGathers Whitman's autobiographical notes, his views on contemporary politics, and the writings he made as he educated himself in ancient history, religion and mythology, health (including phrenology), and word-study.Trade ReviewPraise for the original edition: "Every teacher of graduate students in Whitman and American literature in general will wish to have this edition in his university and perhaps home library." -American Literature
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New York University Press Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
Book SynopsisGathers Whitman's autobiographical notes, his views on contemporary politics, and the writings he made as he educated himself in ancient history, religion and mythology, health (including phrenology), and word-study.Trade ReviewPraise for the original edition: "Every teacher of graduate students in Whitman and American literature in general will wish to have this edition in his university and perhaps home library.&8221; -American Literature
£27.54
New York University Press Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
Book SynopsisGathers Whitman's autobiographical notes, his views on contemporary politics, and the writings he made as he educated himself in ancient history, religion and mythology, health (including phrenology), and word-study.Trade ReviewPraise for the original edition: "Every teacher of graduate students in Whitman and American literature in general will wish to have this edition in his university and perhaps home library." -American Literature
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P A Traveler Disguised The Rise of Modern Yiddish
Book SynopsisIn an exposition of writer S.Y. Abramovitsh, this work shows the symbolic importance of his central character, Mendele the Bookseller, and explores the history of Yiddish fiction in Russia during the 19th century.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P A Yeats Dictionary Persons and Places in the
Book SynopsisThis reference guide to Yeats' work, uses Yeats' non-poetic writing, the principle Yeats criticism and the writings of his friends and critics to reveal the depth of his meanings. It identifies geographical, historical and literary references from classical antiquity to Irish culture.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Stephen Cranes Literary Family A Garland of
Book SynopsisStephen Crane was a prodigious American author whose bohemian ways seemed to contradict his conscientious upbringing. Drawing on documents by Crane's father, mother and sister, this text shows how their vitality and versatility galvanized Crane's imagination and spurred his literary career.
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John Wiley & Sons The Irish Revival A Complex Vision
Book SynopsisThe Irish Revival has inspired a richly diverse and illuminating body of scholarship that has enlarged our understanding of the movement and its influence. Here, the contributors seeks to reimagine the field by interpreting the Revival through the concept of ‘complexity’, a theory recently developed in the information and biological sciences.
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John Wiley & Sons The Irish Revival
Book SynopsisThe Irish Revival has inspired a richly diverse and illuminating body of scholarship that has enlarged our understanding of the movement and its influence. Here, the contributors seeks to reimagine the field by interpreting the Revival through the concept of ‘complexity’, a theory recently developed in the information and biological sciences.
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Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson
Book SynopsisPresents the life and works of Emily Dickinson, one of the most famous and widely studied American poets of the 19th century. This book contains close readings and critical analyses of more than 150 of Dickinson's best-known poems. It discusses the different aspects of Dickinson's life that influenced her work - family, friends, and many others.
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The University of Alabama Press The Productive Tension of Hawthornes Art
Book SynopsisA solid,... well-written contribution to Hawthorne criticism... The author is thoroughly in control of what has been written about Hawthorne and skillfully places her own work in the context of this scholarship and criticism. So far as I know, she is the first critic to consider the probable influence of the perfectionists' on Hawthorne's art. - Roy R. Male, University of Oklahoma
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The University of Alabama Press St Elmo Or Saved at Last Library of Alabama
Book SynopsisSt. Elmo was the most famed and beloved novel by Augusta Jane Evans. First published in 1866, Evans's rich tale of the relationship between the dashing and worldly St. Elmo and Edna Earl, an exemplar of virtuous Southern womanhood, sold over a million copies in four months and became one of the nineteenth century's most influential novels.
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The University of Alabama Press Poetic Voices Discourse Linguistics and the Poetic Text
Book SynopsisRecent developments in linguistic theory offer scholars new tools for understanding poems. This text reviews poetic texts which respond well to analysis from a particular stylistic perspective. Works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Frost, Shelley and Tennyson are among those analysed.
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The University of Alabama Press Border Crossings Irish Women Writers and National
Book SynopsisRanging from consideration of early writers such as Maria Edgeworth and Sydney Owenson to recent feminist pamphlet wars, this text explores the connections between personal and national identities, politics and literary style, and gender and artistic vocation.
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The University of Alabama Press Playing House in the American West
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The University of Alabama Press The Unwritten War American Writers and the Civil
Book SynopsisExamines the literary output of American writers - major and minor - who treated the Civil War in their works. The author seeks to understand why this devastating and defining military conflict has failed to produce more literature of a notably high and lasting order.
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The University of Alabama Press Our Sisters Keepers Nineteenthcentury Benevolence Literature by American Women Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
Book SynopsisContains essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty relief. This book talks about: images of the sentimental seamstress figure in women's fiction; Rebecca Harding Davis's rewriting of the industrial novel; the philanthropic work and writings of Hull House founder, Jane Addams; and more.
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The University of Alabama Press A Question of Character Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction 18921912 Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
Trade Review[The] discussions of Twain, Howells, Chesnutt, and Johnson... lucidly illustrate the ways that four of our major writers struggled to create literary forms enabling them not only to reflect but also to intervene in contemporary racial debates, and in the process to begin shifting the generic boundaries of American literature. - American Literary Realism ""[A Question of Character] fills in significant gaps in the critical discourse about genre, race, and science at the turn of the century.... [The] introduction and first chapter are extremely useful for explicating how racial discourse in realism and sentimentalism helps determine genre.... [This book] should be required reading for scholars interested in early theories about scientific racism."" - Choice ""Richly informed and theoretically astute."" - American Quarterly
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The University of Alabama Press Winds of Will Emily Dickinson and the Sovereignty
Book SynopsisAn innovative exploration of Emily Dickinson as a political poet. In this study, Paul Crumbley asserts that, contrary to popular opinion, Emily Dickinson consistently communicated political views through her poetry. Dickinsonâs life of self-isolation - today her most notable personal characteristic - by no means extended into the political sphere, he argues. While she rarely addressed political issues directly and was curiously disengaged from the liberal causes and female reform movements of her time, Dickinsonâs poems are deeply rooted both in matters of personal sovereignty and reader choice. The significant choices Dickinson extends to the reader underscore the democratic dimensions of reading her work, and of reading itself as a political act. Crumbley employs close readings of Dickinsonâs poems and letters, highlighting the many changing - and often contradictory - voices in her work, both throughout her oeuvre and in individual poems themselves. In Dickinsonâs letters Crumbl
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The University of Alabama Press The Stuff of Our Forebears Willa Cathers Southern
Book SynopsisBeginning with an examination of Willa Cather's Virginia childhood and the southern influences that continued to mold her during the Nebraska years, Joyce McDonald traces the effects of those influences in Cather's novels.Trade ReviewIn associating Cather with the past grandeur and defeat of the South and detecting in her fiction an undertone of historical irony, McDonald successfully places Cather in a larger world than the pioneering American one with which she has been identified."" - John J. Murphy, Brigham Young University""McDonald succeeds in establishing both the importance and the relevance of those formative years before the Nebraska experience that scholars have so emphasized for several decades. . . . The Stuff of Our Forebears is a readable, insightful addition to Cather scholarship."" - Bruce P. Baker II, University of NebraskaTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Cather's Southern Heritage and Pastoral Origins 2. Cather's New World Pastorals 3. The Pangs of Disillusionment: Cather's Antipastoral Subtext 4. For Their Own Good: Cather's Pastoral Histories 5. History and Memory: Cather's Garden of the Chattel Notes Bibliography Index
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Melvilles Art of Democracy
Book SynopsisThis study examines Herman Mellville's search for literary strategies compatible with egalitarian, democratic and multicultural values.
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Ohio University Press Our Lady of Victorian Feminism
Book SynopsisOur Lady of Victorian Feminism is about three nineteenth-century women (Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot), Protestants by background and feminists by conviction, who are curiously and crucially linked by their extensive use of the Madonna in arguments designed to empower women.Trade Review“Adams’s pioneering work in nineteenth-century feminist theology puts her at the forefront of an expanding new field of scholarship.”
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Ohio University Press Hidden Hands
Book SynopsisTracing the Victorian crisis over the representation of working-class women to the 1842 Parliamentary bluebook on mines, with its controversial images of women at work, Hidden Hands argues that the female industrial worker became even more dangerous to represent than the prostitute or the male radical because she exposed crucial contradictions between the class and gender ideologies of the period and its economic realities.Drawing on the recent work of feminist historians, Patricia Johnson lays the groundwork for a reinterpretation of Victorian social-problem fiction that highlights its treatment of issues that particularly affected working-class women: sexual harassment; the interconnections between domestic ideology and domestic violence; their relationships to male-dominated working-class movements such as Luddism, Chartism, and unionism; and their troubled connection to middle-class feminism.Uncovering a series of images in Victorian fiction ranging from hot-tempered
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Ohio University Press Educating Women
Book SynopsisIn 1837, when Queen Victoria came to the throne, no institution of higher education in Britain was open to women. By the end of the century, a quiet revolution had occurred: women had penetrated even the venerable walls of Oxford and Cambridge and could earn degrees at the many new universities founded during Victoria's reign.Trade ReviewLaura Green's generous intelligence and literary sensibility mark every turn taken by these alert readings. Tracing the lines of stress shot through women's educational reform by both domestic ideology and liberal individualism, this study of Victorian fiction is itself an education. * editor of Victorian Studies *Educating Women offers insights into gender ideologies in Victorian England and into the specific ways they play out in important Victorian novels. Every page of this study offers something new to think about, and the study as a whole provides a new lens through which to view Victorian literature. * author of Dangerous by Degrees and The Diva's Mouth: Body, Voice, and Prima Donna Politics *
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Ohio University Press Amy Levy
Book SynopsisAmy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation.Trade Review“This is a collection that will vastly enhance our understanding of Victorian culture, the nuances of Anglo-Jewish identity, the struggles of Victorian feminism, and the singular achievement of a writer whose complexity is finally coming into focus.”“This splendid collection of essays will contribute to the ongoing reassessment of Amy Levy as a complex and challenging writer…. (A) rich and complex portrait of a writer who … might just be representative rather than marginal, and who certainly complicated her own meditation on what it means to be a minor writer.” * Victorian Studies *“Thoughtful in selection and rigorous in scholarship, this volume introduces new readers to Levy’s life and works, refines and expands on the major themes of extant criticism, and considers entirely new ways of analyzing Levy’s work…. Amy Levy: Critical Essays is a powerful argument for the value of Amy Levy to our understanding of late Victorian literature.” * Nineteenth Century Gender Studies *“Collectively, these essays demonstrate that Levy was fully engaged in dominant discourses around politics, feminism, aesthetics and Jewish identity of her day. For undergraduates and advanced scholars of Levy's work and historical moment, therefore, this volume will prove an invaluable resource.” * New Books on Literature 19 *“Eschewing tragic readings of Levy’s life—she committed suicide at 28—these uniformly strong essays locate Levy in such contexts as late-Victorian feminism, discourses of female professionalism, and evengelicalism. The essays cover the full range of Levy’s work…. Highly recommended.” * Choice *“A great strength of this volume, and the reason why it deserves to find an audience beyond scholars who specialize in Levy’s work, is the care the contributors take to bring the broader historical context into their discussion.” * Shofar Book Reviews *
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Ohio University Press Indian Angles
Book SynopsisA new historical approach to Indian English literature Mary Ellis Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and that poetry written in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about figuration, multilingual literacies, and histories of nationalism than novels can. Gibson re-creates the historical webs of affiliation and resistance that were experienced by writers in colonial Indiawriters of British, Indian, and mixed ethnicities.Advancing new theoretical and historical paradigms for reading colonial literatures, Indian Angles makes accessible many writers heretofore neglected or virtually unknown. Gibson recovers texts by British women, by nonelite British men, and by persons who would, in the nineteenth century, have been called Eurasian. Her work traces the mutually constitutive history of English-language poets from Sir William Jones to Toru Dutt and Rabindranath Tagore. Drawing onTrade Review“This is genuinely groundbreaking work: ambitiously conceived, suggestively presented, and potentially paradigm-shifting.” -- Tricia Lootens, author of Lost Saints: Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization“Indian Angles showcases and reflects the vibrant poetry culture of India in the nineteenth century and therein lies its contribution to the scholarship of that period.” * Victorian Studies *“Both of Gibson’s books (Indian Angles and Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India) stand as shining examples of the strategic comparativist work needed to assess the full array of literary voices in/on India during the long nineteenth century.” * English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 *“In this thoroughly researched, well-theorized study, Gibson traces the rise of English-language poetics in India from the late 18th century to the early 20th. She acknowledges the complex, changing identity politics informing colonial affiliation, showing how poets of British, Indian, or mixed origin and affiliation were involved in the complementary project of establishing Anglo-Indian poetics…. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” * Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries *”Asserting that poetry—rather than prose fiction—dominated English-language writing in India for most of the nineteenth century, Indian Angles examines ‘the rise and expansion of English language poetics in India,‘….” * Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 *
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Ohio University Press Poetry Pictures and Popular Publishing
Book SynopsisIn Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing eminent Rossetti scholar Lorraine Janzen Kooistra demonstrates the cultural centrality of a neglected artifact: the Victorian illustrated gift book. Turning a critical lens on drawing-room books as both material objects and historical events, Kooistra reveals how the gift book's visual/verbal form mediated high and popular art as well as book and periodical publication.A composite text produced by many makers, the poetic gift book was designed for domestic space and a female audience; its mode of publication marks a significant moment in the history of authorship, reading, and publishing. With rigorous attention to the gift book's aesthetic and ideological features, Kooistra analyzes the contributions of poets, artists, engravers, publishers, and readers and shows how its material form moved poetry into popular culture. Drawing on archival and periodical research, she offers new readings of Eliza Cook, Adelaide Procter, and Jean IngeTrade Review“Janzen Kooistra makes a superb contribution to the literature on the history of the book…. This volume itself is a beautiful artifact, generously illustrated with examples of gift-book engravings, often displaying the entire printed page in order to display the interplay between text and illustration. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” * Choice *“Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing is an important book that identifies a fertile area for future study. Kooistra provides consistently acute analysis on the commodification of poetry, the impact that this had on author-publisher relationships, and the interaction between material and literary culture. This is a mature piece of scholarship that shows a profound grasp of the subject and the related methodological and theoretical implications.” * Tennyson Research Bulletin *“A model of lucid analysis and a valuable addition to the understanding of nineteenth-century book production and consumer culture.” * Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 *“Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing is the third and perhaps the best in a series of monographs in which Lorraine Janzen Kooistra has explored the ways in which the material forms of Victorian illustrated books produced meanings and audiences…. Her new book amounts to nothing less than a critical inquiry into the place of poetry in the modern world.” * Victorian Studies *“Kooistra persuasively argues that in the 1860s, the illustrated book of poetry became one of the most important literary commodities of the third quarter of the nineteenth century. With great clarity and depth, she articulates the central relevance of ornamental, illustrated poetic gift books to literary culture, British identity, and the place of poetry in histories of authorship, reading, and publishing…. There is nothing stale about her contribution to book history studies.” * Review 19 *“[A]n important contribution to Victorian studies, as well as to the fields of visual and material culture, popular literacy, and book history … confirming [Lorraine Janzen Kooistra] as the leading authority on Victorian illustrated books of poetry.” * The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies *“Janzen Kooistra writes with formidable insight into the vast, intermingled range of…influences—artists, engravers, businessmen, and consumers—upon 1860s gift-book production…. Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing does much to recapture the dual importance of the gift book as commercial and cultural object.” * Victorian Periodicals Review *“Thoroughly researched and lucidly argued, Kooistra’s study makes a convincing case for the centrality of the gift book to understanding Victorian poetry, illustration, book production, and consumer culture.” * author of Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle *“Over five lavishly illustrated chapters…Kooistra presents case studies of individual texts, including many examples from Tennyson, and illuminates different phases of production, from commissioning and marketing to illustrating and to facsimile engraving.” * Victorian Poetry *
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Ohio University Press The Plot Thickens
Book SynopsisIn the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image as partners in meaning-making.These illustrated serial novels offered Victorians a reading experience that was both verbal and visual, based on complex effects of flash-forward and flashback as the placement of illustrations revealed or recalled significant story elements. Victorians' experience of what are now canonical novels thus differed markedly from that of modern readers, who are accustomed to reading single volumes with minimal illustration. Even if modern editions do reproduce illustrations, these do not appear as originally laid out. Modern readers therefore lose a crucial aspect of how Victorians understood plotas a story delivered in both words and images, over time, and Trade Review“Leighton and Surridge do a magnificent job of illuminating the surprisingly important role of illustrations in serial fiction and challenging some of the assumptions that have dominated scholarly understanding of the serial novel. Building on a rich and growing body of scholarship on serial fiction, The Plot Thickens shows that attending to illustrations has the potential to transform our understanding of how Victorian readers consumed novels in parts.”“This impressive study will undoubtedly shape the way Victorian studies scholars frame the topic of reading practices going forward, whether approaching it from the perspective of book history, art history, or literary studies.” * Victorian Periodicals Review *
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Ohio University Press Transported to Botany Bay
Book SynopsisIn analyzing depictions of Australian convicts in novels, broadsides, and first-person accounts, Dorice Williams Elliott demonstrates how Britain linked class, race, and national identity at a key historical moment when it was still negotiating its relationship with its empire.Trade Review“In this nuanced study of literature by and about convicts in the nineteenth century, Dorice Williams Elliott makes a major contribution to the fields of Victorian studies and Australian literature. She paints a vivid and fascinating picture of convict life and how it was perceived in Australia and Britain that will be useful to academics, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduates.”“By bringing Australian and British literary treatments of convict transportation into one frame, Transported to Botany Bay invigorates the burgeoning scholarship on the transnational dimensions of Victorian literature. Elliott ranges far beyond the usual texts that dominate the discussion of Australia in Victorian studies, most notably in juxtaposing novelistic treatments with the corpus of transportation broadsides, thus helpfully broadening our critical horizons.”
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Ohio University Press Collaborative Dickens
Book SynopsisIn Collaborative Dickens, Melisa Klimaszewski undertakes the first comprehensive study of Dickens’s Christmas numbers. She argues for a revised understanding of Dickens as an editor who, rather than ceaselessly bullying his contributors, sometimes accommodated contrary views and depended upon multivocal narratives for his own success.Trade Review“This is a mature and original piece of scholarship that adds substantially to the critical understanding of Dickens and is the first comprehensive overview of his Christmas numbers. Considering each number as its own aesthetic unit, Klimaszewski convincingly argues for a different and more flexible understanding of authorship (and of “Dickens”) as polyvocal, often contradictory, and conversational in nature. Her discussion of Dickens’s collaborations with Wilkie Collins is particularly strong.”“Collaborative Dickens is a new and distinct contribution that will be of substantial interest to Dickens scholars, to those working more broadly on Victorian studies, to researchers focused on the periodical press, and to scholars examining models of collaborative authorship.”“Melisa Klimaszewski masterfully guides the reader through the Christmas numbers Charles Dickens edited for Household Words and All the Year Round—eighteen in total from 1850 to 1867, with forty writers represented—making a compelling case for a re-evaluation of collaborative writing and academic approaches to it, whether in the case of Dickens, the Victorians, or more broadly.” * British Association for Victorian Studies Newsletter 22.2 (Summer 2022) *
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Duke University Press On Howells
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The journal American Literature was founded in 1929 and since that time has regularly published important articles on the study of literature in the United States. Many of the articles that appeared in the journal have, in fact, become the ‘standard view’ or ‘the final word’ on a particular literary subject. . . . The series will be an important acquisition for every college library." - ChoiceTable of ContentsSeries Introduction vii The Literary Background of Howells's Social Criticism (1942) / George Arms 1 A Note on Howells and "The Smiling Aspects of Life" (1945) / Edwin H. Cady 18 Materials and Form in Howells's First Novels (1947) / William M. Gibson 21 The Equalitarian Principle in the Fiction of William Dean Howells (1952) / William F. Ekstrom 30 Howells, The Atlantic Monthly, and Republicanism (1952) / Louis J. Budd 41 William Dean Howells, Ed Howe, and The Story of a Country Town (1958) / James B. Stronks 59 The Ethical Unity of The Rise of Silas Lapham (1960) / Donald Pizer 65 Point of View in Howells's The Landlord at Lion's Head (1962) / William McMurray 71 Marcia Gaylord's Electra Complex: A Footnote to Sex in Howells (1962) / Kermit Vanderbilt 79 The Function of Setting in Howells's The Landlord at Lion's Head (1963) / Mary S. Sulivan 89 The Architecture of The Rise of Silas Lapham (1966) / G. Thomas Tanselle 104 Howells and Ade (1966) / Jack Brenner 132 The Dark Side of Their Wedding Journey (1969) / Marion W. Cumpiano 142 William Dean Howells. George William Curtis, and the "Haymarker Affair" (1969) / Clara and Rudolf Kirk 157 Savagery and Civilization: The Moral Dimensions of Howells's A Boy's Town (1969) / Tom H. Towers 169 Transformations: The Blithedale Romance to Howells and James (1976) / Robert Emmet Long 180 The Wilderness Within: Howells's A Boy's Town (1976) / Thomas Cooley 200 Invalids and Actresses: Howells's Duplex Imagery for American Women (1976) / Sidney H. Bremer 216 William Dean Howells and Charles W. Chestnut: Criticism and Race Fiction in the Age of Booker T. Washington (1976) / William L. Andrews 232 Howells's Oresteia: The Union of Theme and Structure in The Shadow of a Dream (1977) / Barbara L. Parker 245 An Interoceanic Episode: THe Lady of thte Aroostook (1977) / John W. Crowley 258 Index 270
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Duke University Press Borders of Chinese Civilization
Book SynopsisD. R. Howland explores China’s representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural and social borders between the two neighbors. Looking at Chinese accounts of Japan written during the 1870s and 1880s, he undertakes an unprecedented analysis of the main genres the Chinese used to portray Japan—the travel diary, poetry, and the geographical treatise. In his discussion of the practice of “brushtalk,” in which Chinese scholars communicated with the Japanese by exchanging ideographs, Howland further shows how the Chinese viewed the communication of their language and its dominant modes—history and poetry—as the textual and cultural basis of a shared civilization between the two societies. With Japan’s decision in the 1870s to modernize and westernize, China’s relationship with Japan underwent a crucial change—one that resulted in its decisive separation from ChinTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Note ix Introduction 1 I. Encountering Japan 9 1. Civilization from the Center: The Geomoral Context of Tributary Expectations 11 Civilization and Proximity 13 The Bounds of Diplomatic Protocol 15 Japan in the Qing Record 18 An Aside: The Aborted Legacy of the Ming 26 The Matter of International Treaties 28 The Decision to Grant Japan a Treaty (1870) 31 Japanese Incident/Dwarf Intrusion (1874) 35 2. Civilization as Universal Practice: The Context of Writing and Poetry 43 Brushtalking 43 The Written Code: Hanwen/Kanbun 45 The Play of the Code 48 Tong Wen: Shared Writing/Shared Civilization 54 Playing the Code: Occasional Poetry 57 Celebrating Tong Wen: Poetry and History 62 The Value of Civilization in Japan 65 II. Representing Japan 69 Prologue: Geographical Knowledge 71 3. Journeys to the East: The Geography of Historical Sites and Self in the Travelogue 80 Images of the East 81 Recovering History through Geographical Sites 86 Travel Accounts 92 4. The Historiographical Use of Poetry 108 The Poems on Divers Japanese Affairs 110 The Epistemological Basis of the Poetry-History Homology 119 Poetry and Geography 129 Evidential Research 135 5. The Utility of Objectification in the Geographic Treatise 157 The Decade of Geographic Treatises on Japan 158 The Local Treatise as a Model 164 Utility as Means and End 173 Strategies of Objectification 176 III. Representing Japan's Westernization 195 6. Negotiating Civilization and Westernization 197 Analogy and Containment 200 The Precedence of Learning before Action 201 Western Learning and Western Ways 203 Alternative Approaches to World Order 222 Afterword 242 Notes 251 Bibliography 303 Glossary 323 Index 333
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Duke University Press EnGendering India
Book SynopsisOffers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. This book examines representations of "native" Indian women and shows how these representations were deployed to advance notions of Indian self-rule as well as to defend British imperialism.Trade Review“En-Gendering India is a lucid and intelligent study of the play of gender and sexuality in Indian nationalism. Sangeeta Ray cautions against the perception that Hindu nationalism is no longer relevant in an era of globalization and migration, arguing that it has simply entered a more expansive phase. This is an important and timely book.”—Jennifer Sharpe, University of California, Los Angeles"A significant contribution to postcolonial and feminist studies. Ray’s scholarship is rigorous and persuasive, combining theoretical depth and erudition with original and nuanced textual analysis and interpretation."—Rajagopolan Radhakrishnan, University of MassachusettsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Gender and Nation: Woman Warriors in Chatterjee’s Devi Chaudhurani and Anandamath 2. Woman as “Suttee”: The Construction of India in Three Victorian Narratives 3. Woman as Nation and a Nation of Women: Tagore’s The Home and the World and Hosain’s Sultana’s Dream 4. New Woman, New Nations: Writing the Partition in Desai’s Clear Light of Day and Sidhwa’s Cracking India Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index
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Duke University Press Raw Material
Book SynopsisAnalyses how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrialising England's relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, the author explores the industrial logic of disease.Trade Review“Raw Material adds much to the existing literature on the Victorians. With its enlightening case studies and its author’s solid understanding of the state of medical art in the latter half of the nineteenth century, this is a first-rate piece of work.”—Sander L. Gilman, author of Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery“Industry makes it possible to understand the Victorian body, according to Erin O'Connor, as so much raw material. O'Connor's mind is a pleasure to watch at work and Raw Material will make a significant contribution to Victorian studies, to work on the body, and to cultural studies.”—Mary Ann O'Farrell, author of Telling Complexions: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush“The body in distress and deformation—black from cholera, excrescent from breast cancer, monstrous, and repaired through prosthesis—offers a prism through which O’Connor refracts the crisis of the self in the world’s first industrial society. This is a complex, empirically rich, reflective and vigorously argued book that will be welcomed by literary critics, by historians of the body and of the nineteenth century, and by anyone engaged with cultural theory.”—Thomas Laqueur, author of Making Sex : Body and Gender from the Greeks to FreudTable of ContentsList of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 ONE/ Asiatic Cholera and the Raw Material of Race 21 TWO/ Breast Reductions 60 THREE/ Fractions of Men: Engendering Amputation 102 FOUR/ Monsters. Materials, Methods 148 AFTERWORD/ The Promises of Monsters, or, A Manifesto for Academic Futures 209 Notes 219 Works Cited 251 Index 267
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Duke University Press Sapphic Slashers
Book SynopsisIn 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly. Local, national, and international newspapers, medical and scientific publications, and popular fiction writers all clamoured to cover the ensuing "girl lovers" murder trial.Trade Review“A book to die for! Theoretically sophisticated, yet written with clarity and elegance, Sapphic Slashers opens whole new worlds of understanding about sexuality, gender norms, racial injustice, violence, and the complex ways they are connected. Full of passion and intelligence, it made me think in fresh new ways about issues of great importance. Duggan’s is an amazing intellect.”—John D’Emilio, coauthor of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America“Duggan seamlessly combines cultural theory with analyses of material conditions and demonstrates a breathtaking command of American cultural institutions—the mass press, the judicial systems, the medical literature. The book is not only smart about the interconnections between gender, sex, race, class, and nation, but is also lucid, making a good read.”—Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, author of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community“In this stunningly coherent and compelling account of the development of ‘American modernity,’ Duggan captures our interest with the sensational tale of lesbian love murder but then insists that we read this tale through turn-of-the-century debates over racial violence and against the backdrop of the medicalization of homosexuality. Sapphic Slashers has ‘classic’ written all over it.”—Judith Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity“What Duggan does in this original and moving book is take a murder case from 1890’s Memphis and make of it a prism through which to illuminate American modernity. Her method depends less on an account of the murder or of the judicial procedure that followed it than on an analysis of the many narratives—of lesbian love and sex and madness—that the case occasioned. Juxtaposing these narratives to narratives of lynching, Duggan produces a tour-de-force of historical understanding.”—Henry Abelove, Wesleyan UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I Murder in Memphis 1. Girl Slays Girl 9 2. A Feast of Sensation 32 3. Habeas Corpus 61 4. Inquisition of Lunacy 87 Part II Making Meanings 5. Violent Passions 123 6. Doctors of Desire 156 7. A Thousand Stories 180 More Than Love: An Epilogue 193 Appendix A: Hypothetical Case 201 Appendix B: Letters 213 Notes 233 Bibliography 281 Index 299
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