Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
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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Duke University Press Useful Knowledge
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide array of literary, scientific, and popular works of the period, this book focuses on the importance of scientific knowledge and its impact on Victorian culture. It presents a social, cultural, and literary history of this knowledge industry and traces its relationships within nineteenth-century literature.Trade Review“Useful Knowledge can stand as a model of informed and scrupulous historicism. The breadth of Rauch’s acquaintance with subliterary and paraliterary texts is truly impressive as he clearly lays out what was at stake for nineteenth-century intellectuals and usefully relates their preoccupations with those that concern us now, as we experience another information revolution.”—Harriet Ritvo, author of The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination “A welcome addition to humanistic analyses of science-in-culture. Rauch deftly blends science, history, and literature—novels, speculative fiction, encyclopedias—to explore cultural attitudes to the challenges of new knowledge during the Information Age of the early nineteenth century.”—Ann B. Shteir, York UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Knowledge and the Novel 1. Food for Thought: The Dissemination of Knowledge in the Early Nineteenth Century 2. Science in the Popular Novel: Jane Webb Loudon’s The Mummy! 3. The Monstrous Body of Knowledge: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 4. Lessons Learned in Class: Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor 5. The Tailor Transformed: Charles Kingsley’s Alton Locke 6. Destiny as an Unmapped River: George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss Notes Bibliography Index
£80.10
University of Pittsburgh Press Managing Literacy Mothering America Womens Narratives On Reading And Writing Composition Literacy and Culture
Book SynopsisSarah Robbins identifies and defines a new genre in American letters—the domestic literacy narrative—and provides a cultural history of its development throughout the nineteenth century. Winner of an Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice Magazine (2006).
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Fordham University Press Mourning Philology
Book SynopsisThis book offers a monograph on the work of the Armenian poet Daniel Varuzhan (1884-1915), preceded by a general account of how Armenian national philology unfolded in the 19th century, under the influence of European orientalist philology and its two main inventions: the native and mythological religion.Trade Review"Marc Nichanian gives us the most extensive account of philology to date - by which I mean that he calls it to account as no one else has as of yet. He identifies philology as the foundational discourse that, hardly limited to the academy, instituted the "order of things" within which we live and think still. Philology's role was memorably traced by Foucault, while Edward Said crucially implicated it in the history of colonial rule. Nichanian expands on both, and he does so by restoring religion to its place. More important, whereas Foucault and Said saw literature as the site of a possible breach of philology's hold, Nichanian demonstrates the more complex, indeed, essential link between the aesthetic and the religious. Finally, by placing mourning at the center of these distinct discursive spheres, Nichanian brings together the emerging discourses and practices of "art, religion and philology," archaeology, ethnography and literature, nationalism and colonialism. He thereby recasts our entire understanding of modernity as the impossibility of mourning. This extraordinary book, subtly argued, wonderfully organized, and impeccably translated, will no doubt appeal to scholars of literature, philosophy and religion." -- -Gil Anidjar Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsA Note on Transliteration Introduction. Art, Religion, and Philology (Translated by G. M. Goshgarian) Part I. "The Seal of Silence" (Translated by G. M. Goshgarian) 1. Variants and Facets of the Literary erection 2. Abovean and the Birth of the Native 3. Orientalism and Neo-archeology Part II. Daniel Varuzhan: The End of Religion (Translated by Jeff Fort) 4. The Disaster of the Native 5. The Other Scene of Representation 6. Erection and Self-Sacrifice 7. The Mourning of Religion I 8. The Mourning of Religion II Epilogue. Nietzsche in Armenian Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Translated by G. M. Goshgarian) Appendices: Translations 1. Philology and Ethnography in the Nineteenth Century (Translated by G. M. Goshgarian) 2. Constant Zarian: Essays in Mehyan and Other Writings (Translated by G. M. Goshgarian) 3. Daniel Varuzhan: Poems and Prose (Translated by G. M. Goshgarian, Nanor Kebranian, and Lena Takvorian) Notes Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press Secular Lyric
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction. The Secularization of the Lyric: The End of Art, a Revolution in Poetic Language, and the Meaning of the Modern Crowd Part I: Edgar Allan Poe 1. Poe’s Post-Humanism 2. Poe and the Origins of Modern Poetry: Tropes of Comparison and the Knowledge of Loss Part II: Walt Whitman 3. Whitman’s Poetics: Metonymy and the Crowd 4. Whitman and Democracy: The “Withness of the World,” the Reader, and the Fakes of Death Part III: Emily Dickinson 5. Emily Dickinson: The Poet as Lyric Reader 6. Dickinson’s Dog and the Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Fordham University Press Secular Lyric
Book SynopsisSecular Lyric interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson transformed classical, romantic, and early modern forms of lyric expression to address the developing conditions of Western modernity, especially the heterogeneity of believers and beliefs in an increasingly secular society. Analyzing historically and formally how these poets inscribed the pressures of the modern crowd in the text of their poems, John Michael shows how the masses appear in these poets' work as potential readers to be courted and resisted, often at the same time. Unlike their more conventional contemporaries, Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson resist advising, sermonizing or consoling their audiences. They resist most familiar senses of meaning as well. For them, the processes of signification in print rather than the communication of truths become central to poetry, which in turn becomes a characteristic of modern verse in the Western world. Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson, in idiosyTable of ContentsIntroduction. The Secularization of the Lyric: The End of Art, a Revolution in Poetic Language, and the Meaning of the Modern Crowd Part I: Edgar Allan Poe 1. Poe’s Post-Humanism 2. Poe and the Origins of Modern Poetry: Tropes of Comparison and the Knowledge of Loss Part II: Walt Whitman 3. Whitman’s Poetics: Metonymy and the Crowd 4. Whitman and Democracy: The “Withness of the World,” the Reader, and the Fakes of Death Part III: Emily Dickinson 5. Emily Dickinson: The Poet as Lyric Reader 6. Dickinson’s Dog and the Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Fordham University Press Ecological Form System and Aesthetics in the Age
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Ecological Formalism; or, Love among the Ruins Nathan K. Hensley and Philip Steer, 1 Part I Method 1. Drama, Ecology, and the Ground of Empire: The Play of Indigo Sukanya Banerjee, 21 2. Mourning Species: In Memoriam in an Age of Extinction Jesse Oak Taylor, 42 3. Signatures of the Carboniferous: The Literary Forms of Coal Nathan K. Hensley and Philip Steer, 63 Part II Form 4. Fixed Capital and the Flow: Water Power, Steam Power, and The Mill on the Floss Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, 85 5. “Form Against Force”: Sustainability and Organicism in the Work of John Ruskin Deanna K. Kreisel, 101 6. Mapping the “Invisible Region, Far Away” in Dombey and Son Adam Grener, 121 Part III Scale 7. How We Might Live: Utopian Ecology in William Morris and Samuel Butler Benjamin Morgan, 139 8. From Specimen to System: Botanical Scale and the Environmental Sublime in Joseph Dalton Hooker’s Himalayas Lynn Voskuil, 161 9. “Infi nitesimal Lives”: Thomas Hardy’s Scale Effects Aaron Rosenberg, 182 Part IV Futures 10. Electric Dialectics: Delany’s Atlantic Materialism Monique Allewaert, 203 11. Satire’s Ecology Teresa Shewry, 223 Afterword: They Would Have Ended by Burning Their Own Globe Karen Pinkus, 241 Acknowledgments 249 List of Contributors 251 Index 253
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Fordham University Press A Desire Called America Biopolitics Utopia and
Book SynopsisPresents interpretations of American literature and politics, focusing on the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William S. Burroughs, and Thomas Pynchon. Analyzes how literary texts imagine America in utopian terms, contrasting American exceptionalism to non-capitalist visions of the American future.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Impossibly American | 1 1. A Revolutionary Haunt: Utopian Frontiers in William S. Burroughs’s Late Trilogy | 33 2. The People and the People: Democracy and Vitalism in Walt Whitman’s 1855 Leaves of Grass | 74 3. Nobody’s Wife: Affective Economies of Marriage in Emily Dickinson | 114 4. Idle Power: The Riot, the Commune, and Capitalist Time in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day | 157 Coda: Assembling the Future | 205 Acknowledgments | 209 Notes | 213 Index | 241
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Fordham University Press A Desire Called America
Book SynopsisPresents interpretations of American literature and politics, focusing on the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William S. Burroughs, and Thomas Pynchon. Analyzes how literary texts imagine America in utopian terms, contrasting American exceptionalism to non-capitalist visions of the American future.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Impossibly American | 1 1. A Revolutionary Haunt: Utopian Frontiers in William S. Burroughs’s Late Trilogy | 33 2. The People and the People: Democracy and Vitalism in Walt Whitman’s 1855 Leaves of Grass | 74 3. Nobody’s Wife: Affective Economies of Marriage in Emily Dickinson | 114 4. Idle Power: The Riot, the Commune, and Capitalist Time in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day | 157 Coda: Assembling the Future | 205 Acknowledgments | 209 Notes | 213 Index | 241
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University of Hawaii Press The Historical Fiction UNESCO Collection of Representative Works European
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University of Hawai'i Press Lost Leaves Women Writers of Meiji Japan
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University of Hawai'i Press Cosmopolitan Dreams
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University of Missouri Press The Ghost in the Little House Volume 1
Book SynopsisDrawing on letters and diaries, this biography details Rose Wilder Lane's life and highlights her troubled relationship with an apparently cold and manipulative mother. It throws light on the writing of the ""Little House"" books.
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University of Missouri Press Thomas Hardy and Paradoxes of Love
Book SynopsisThis text re-examines Hardy's novels, emphasizing the love triangles that populate his work. It argues that Hardy was actually sympathetic to his female characters, and refutes the generally accepted reason for Hardy's abandonment of fiction at the height of his success.
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University of Missouri Press Mark Twain and the American West Mark Twain His
Book SynopsisJoseph Coulombe maintains that for over 25 years, Mark Twain deliberately manipulated contemporary conceptions of the American West to create and then modify his public image. Coulombe analyses the stereotypes Twain uses and explores his struggle to find a new model of the West.
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University of Missouri Press Searching for Jim
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University of Missouri Press In Sciences Shadow Literary Constructions of Late Victorian Women
Book SynopsisExplores the tenuous interplay of gender and science to show how Victorian literature both challenged and reinforced a constrictive role for women. This book focuses on a specific body of literature involving women intensely associated with scientific pursuits, and examines selected noncanonical writings.Trade ReviewA subtle and illuminating study of the intersection of ideology and literature during the period of the New Woman and tumultuous changes in - and debates about - gender roles. - Tamar Heller, author of Dead Secrets: Wilkie Collins and the Female Gothic
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University of Missouri Press Mark Twain and Metaphor
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University of Missouri Press Mark Twain in Japan
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University of Missouri Press Rafts and Other Rivercraft
Book SynopsisThe raft that carries Huck and Jim down the Mississippi River is often seen as a symbol of adventure and freedom, but the physical specifics of the raft itself are rarely considered. Peter Beidler shows that understanding the material world of Huckleberry Finn, its limitations and possibilities, is vital to truly understanding Mark Twain's novel.Trade ReviewDr. Beidler’s critiques of inaccurate literary analyses and book illustrations will be of real value to historians and archaeologists with an interest in the navigation and trade on the western rivers, as well as to professionals in the field of American literature, and especially to all readers who want to know about the river world of Huck Finn."" - Kevin Crisman, author of The Eagle: An American Brig on Lake Champlain during the War of 1812Table of Contents Rafts and Other Rivercraft Acknowledgments Introduction “On such a craft as that”: Some Basic Questions 1. “A little section of a lumber raft”: A Rise, a Raft, a Crib 2. “Right in the middle of the wigwam”: Shelter, Oars, Smallpox 3. “Riding high like a duck”: Canoes, Boats, Ferries 4. “In amongst some bundles of shingles”: A Baby, a Barrel, a Home 5. “Generally known as a ‘sucker’”: A Boy, a Raft, a River Works Consulted Index
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University of Missouri Press Reconceiving Nature
Book SynopsisGlimmerings of ecofeminist theory that would emerge a century later can be detected in women's poetry of the later Victorian period. Patricia Murphy examines the work of six ""proto-ecofeminist"" poets who contested the exploitation of the natural world.
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University of Missouri Press The Life of Mark Twain
Book SynopsisThe last installment of Scharnhorst's three-volume biography chronicles the life of Samuel Clemens between his family's extended trip to Europe in 1891 and his death in 1910. During this period, Clemens grapples with bankruptcy, the lecture circuit, loses two daughters and his wife, and writes some of his darkest, most critical works.
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John Wiley & Sons Showing Our Colors
Book SynopsisAn English translation of the German book Farbe bekennen. A compilation of texts, testimonials and other secondary sources, the collection brings to life the stories of Black German women living amid racism, sexism and other institutional constraints in Germany.
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WW Norton & Co One Toss of the Dice
Book SynopsisIn the tradition of The Swerve, this thrilling, detective-like work of literary history reveals how a poem created the world we live in today.Trade Review"There is only one poet capable of capturing the infinite in such a small space, and, we can now add, only one critic capable of capturing the mind-altering qualities of Stephane Mallarme's 1897 poem, "One Toss of the Dice." That a family man, a high school English teacher, and a follower of fashion could have unleashed the potential of the World Wide Web over a century ago is among the many revelations in R. Howard Bloch's astonishing book." -- Alice Kaplan, author of Dreaming in French "A vivid evocation, at moments hilarious and at others poignant, of the astonishing world that gathered around the poet Stephane Mallarme...And at the center, gathering moment as the story unfolds, is Mallarme's creation of his supremely radical poem." -- Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve "This was the poem that, in the 1920s, long after Mallarme's apparently obscure death, compelled T. S. Eliot to recognize that 'every battle this French poet fought with syntax represents the effort to transmit lead into gold, ordinary language into poetry.' And the rest of Mr. Bloch's beautifully clear book explains How a Poem Made Us Modern." -- Richard Howard, author of A Progressive Education "A tour de force by a brilliant scholar dedicated to the most mysterious of poets." -- Arthur Goldhammer, translator of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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Cornell University Press Shelleys Satire
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Cornell University Press The Supernatural Sublime
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Cornell University Press Emerson and Power
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Cornell University Press Thackeray and Women
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Cornell University Press The New Woman of Color
Book SynopsisThe collected writings of lifelong African-American activist, Fannie Barrier Williams. She frankly denounces white men's sexual and economic victimization of black women and condemns the complicity of religious and political leaders in the immorality of segregation.Trade Review"A unique and important contribution to African American and women's history.... Highly recommended."—Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University "Deegan has provided a valuable service in collecting Williams's essays on race, gender, and civic engagement in Progressive America."—Journal of Illinois HistoryTable of ContentsTable of Contents Editor's Preface Introduction: "Fannie Barrier Williams and Her Life as a New Woman of Color, 1893-1918" by Mary Jo Deegan Part I: Autobiography 1. A Northern Negro's Autobiography Part II: African American Women 2. The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation 3. Club Movement among Negro Women 4. The Club Movement among the Colored Women 5. The Proglem of Employment for Negro Women 6. The Woman's Part in a Man's Business 7. The Colored Girl 8. Colored Women of Chicago Part III: African Americans 9. Religious Duty to the Negro 10. Industrial Education—Will It Solve the Negro Problem? 11. Do We Need Another Name? 12. The Negro and Public Opinion 13. The Smaller Economies 14. An Extension of the Conference Spirit 15. Vacation Values 16. Refining Influence of Art Part IV: Social Settlements 17. The Need of Social Settlement Work for the City Negro 18. The Frederick Douglass Centre: A Question of Social Betterment and Not of Social Equality 19. Social Bonds in the "Black Belt" of Chicago: Negro Organizations and the New Spirit Pervading Them 20. The Frederick Douglass Center[: The Institutional Foundation] 21. A New Method of Dealing with the Race Problem Part V: Eulogies 22. [In Memory of Philip D. Armour] 23. [Eulogoy of Susan B. Anthongy] 24. Report of Memorial Service for Rev. Celia Parker Woolley Notes References Index
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Cornell University Press Inscrutable Malice
Book SynopsisIn Inscrutable Malice, Jonathan A. Cook expertly illuminates Melville''s abiding preoccupation with the problem of evil and the dominant role of the Bible in shaping his best-known novel. Drawing on recent research in the fields of biblical studies, the history of religion, and comparative mythology, Cook provides a new interpretation of Moby-Dick that places Melville''s creative adaptation of the Bible at the center of the work.Cook identifies two ongoing concerns in the narrative in relation to their key biblical sources: the attempt to reconcile the goodness of God with the existence of evil, as dramatized in the book of Job; and the discourse of the Christian end-times involving the final destruction of evil, as found in the apocalyptic books and eschatological passages of the Old and New Testaments.With his detailed reading of Moby-Dick in relation to its most important source text, Cook greatly expands the reader''s understanding of the moralTrade ReviewThis book has an added advantage of serving as a reader's guide to the novel, one which will be indispensable to any serious reader of Moby-Dick, whether for the first or the twentieth time. * Sewanee Review *The best reading of this iconic novel in recent memory. Under Cook's expert eye, Moby-Dick divulges secrets of the Second Coming and Melville's conflicting religious inclinations. Cook's masterful and wide-ranging command of Melville's library makes Moby-Dick into a guided tour through the Western canon. * Religion & Literature *Of all books about Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (and there are many), Jonathan A. Cook's is one that needed to be written. Cook organizes this potentially unwieldy and unfathomable topic in a way that scholars will find useful as a reference for repeated consultation. * Nineteenth-Century Literature *
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Cornell University Press Noble Subjects The Russian Novel and the Gentry
Book SynopsisIn Noble Subjects, Bella Grigoryan examines the rise of the Russian novel in relation to the political, legal, and social definitions that accrued to the nobility as an estate, urging readers to rethink the cultural and political origins of the genre.Trade Review"In this highly original, well-researched study, Grigoryan explores the problematic status of the Russian nobility as citizens in an autocratic state as it was articulated in various journalistic, fictional, and nonfictional texts, while offering fresh interpretations of Russian literary works. This is a rare case of a truly balanced interdisciplinary work that makes an equal contribution to the fields of history and literary studies." --Valeria Sobol, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Noble Subjects makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the interplay between the rise of the nineteenth-century Russian novel and the formation of identity in Russian noble culture. Grigoryan is the first scholar to explore the relationship in Russia between the novelistic tradition and a rich but understudied body of prescriptive texts concerning agriculture. Her book makes a convincing case that the nobility used these overlapping discursive spaces to constitute a viable public sphere and give shape to their identity." --Thomas Newlin, author of The Voice in the Garden: Andrei Bolotov and the Anxieties of Russian Pastoral, 1738-1833
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University of Iowa Press Transatlantic Connections
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University of Iowa Press Alcott in Her Own Time
Book SynopsisCollected here are the reminiscences of people who knew Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) . Many of the printed recollections in this book appeared after Alcott became famous and showcase her as a literary lion, but others focus on her teen years, when she was living the life of Jo March.
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University of Iowa Press Kindred Hands
Book SynopsisPresenting a collection of letters by women writers, this book explores the act and art of writing from diverse perspectives and experiences. The letters illuminate such issues as authorship, aesthetics, collaboration, inspiration, and authorial intent; and also initiate discussions on race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Spirit of Australia The Crime Fiction of Arthur
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East European Monographs Conrad and Turgenev Towards the Real
Book SynopsisThe twentieth volume in the Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives series, Conrad and Turgenev: Towards the Real offers a comparative analysis of Joseph Conrad's and Ivan Turgenev's output and focuses on their outlooks and ideas concerning art, personality, and history. The analysis is based on Conrad's and Turgenev's major novels such as Lord Jim, Nostromo, Almayer's Folly, And Outcast of the Islands, The Return, Victory, The Secret Agent and Rudin, Home of the Gentry, One the Eve, Fathers and Sons, Smoke, as well as selected novellas, short stories, essays and letters. The affinities and differences between the two writers are discussed within the framework of realism and modernism. Main problems addressed are the relation between reality and representation in the two author's major works; the concept of the self and its duality, and the pessimistic vision of history devoid of purpose. The study is intended to highlight the affinities between Conrad and Turgenev, to acquaint the readers with those aspects of Turgenev's output that form the context for Conrad's oeuvre, to trace the echoes of Turgenev's aesthetics and worldview in Conrad's texts and to show how Conrad, a disciple of great realist masters, balanced his new modernist awareness against Turgenev who relies on the framework of realism.
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John Wiley & Sons Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Thomas Hardy
Book SynopsisA Companion to Thomas Hardy brings together new essays on all aspects of Thomas Hardy s work by thirty of the world s most distinguished Hardy scholars.Trade Review“Perhaps Hardy the poet needs a separate Companion. If it matched this one in the quality of writing and usefulness to the student, it would be a treasure.” (Victorian Studies, 1 October 2012)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii List of Abbreviations xiv Introduction 1 Keith Wilson Part I The Life 5 1 Hardy as Biographical Subject 7 Michael Millgate Part II The Intellectual Context 19 2 Hardy and Philosophy 21 Phillip Mallett 3 Hardy and Darwin: An Enchanting Hardy? 36 George Levine 4 Hardy and the Place of Culture 54 Angelique Richardson 5 “The Hard Case of the Would-be-Religious”: Hardy and the Church from Early Life to Later Years 71 Pamela Dalziel 6 Thomas Hardy’s Notebooks 86 William Greenslade 7 “Genres are not to be mixed. . . . I will not mix them”: Discourse, Ideology, and Generic Hybridity in Hardy’s Fiction 102 Richard Nemesvari 8 Hardy and his Critics: Gender in the Interstices 117 Margaret R. Higonnet Part III The Socio-Cultural Context 131 9 “His Country”: Hardy in the Rural 133 Ralph Pite 10 Thomas Hardy of London 146 Keith Wilson 11 “A Thickness of Wall”: Hardy and Class 162 Roger Ebbatson 12 Reading Hardy through Dress: The Case of Far From the Madding Crowd 178 Simon Gatrell 13 Hardy and Romantic Love 194 Michael Irwin 14 Hardy and the Visual Arts 210 J. B. Bullen 15 Hardy and Music: Uncanny Sounds 223 Claire Seymour Part IV The Works 239 16 The Darkening Pastoral: Under the Greenwood Tree and Far From the Madding Crowd 241 Stephen Regan 17 “Wild Regions of Obscurity”: Narrative in The Return of the Native 254 Penny Boumelha 18 Hardy’s “Novels of Ingenuity” Desperate Remedies, The Hand of Ethelberta, and A Laodicean: Rare Hands at Contrivances 267 Mary Rimmer 19 Hardy’s “Romances and Fantasies” A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Trumpet-Major, Two on a Tower, and The Well-Beloved: Experiments in Metafiction 281 Jane Thomas 20 The Haunted Structures of The Mayor of Casterbridge 299 Julian Wolfreys 21 Dethroning the High Priest of Nature in The Woodlanders 313 Andrew Radford 22 Melodrama, Vision, and Modernity: Tess of the d’Urbervilles 328 Tim Dolin 23 Jude the Obscure and English National Identity: The Religious Striations of Wessex 345 Dennis Taylor 24 “. . . into the hands of pure-minded English girls”: Hardy’s Short Stories and the Late Victorian Literary Marketplace 364 Peter Widdowson 25 Sequence and Series in Hardy’s Poetry 378 Tim Armstrong 26 Hardy’s Poems: The Scholarly Situation 395 William W. Morgan 27 That’s Show Business: Spectacle, Narration, and Laughter in The Dynasts 413 G. Glen Wickens Part V Hardy the Modern 431 28 Modernist Hardy: Hand-Writing in The Mayor of Casterbridge 433 J. Hillis Miller 29 Inhibiting the Voice: Thomas Hardy and Modern Poetics 450 Charles Lock 30 Hardy’s Heirs: D. H. Lawrence and John Cowper Powys 465 Terry R. Wright Index 479
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Romantic Poetry Handbook
Book SynopsisAn absorbing survey of poetry written in one of the most revolutionary eras in the history of British literature This comprehensive survey of British Romantic poetry explores the work of six poets whose names are most closely associated with the Romantic eraWordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Byron, and Shelleyas well as works by other significant but less widely studied poets such as Leigh Hunt, Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Along with its exceptional coverage, the volume is alert to relevant contexts, and opens up ways of understanding Romantic poetry. The Romantic Poetry Handbook encompasses the entire breadth of the Romantic Movement, beginning with Anna Laetitia Barbauld and running through to Thomas Lovell Beddoes and John Clare. In its central section Readings' it explores tensions, change, and continuity within the Romantic Movement, and examines a wide range of individual poems and poets through sensitive, attentive and accessible analyses.Trade Review“It is a beautifully written and well-organized textbook, which will be of great value to undergraduates in English departments around the world…O’Neill and Callaghan are to be commended for the deft way they combine close reading and scholarship in these delightful essays” -- The Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 98 (2019)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Part 1 Introduction 1 Part 2 Timeline of the Late Eighteenth Century and Romantic Period 21 Part 3 Biographies 47 Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) 49 Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) 51 William Blake (1757–1827) 54 Robert Burns (1759–1796) 57 Lord George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) 59 John Clare (1793–1864) 61 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) 63 Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) 66 (James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) 69 John Keats (1795–1821) 72 Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) 74 Thomas Moore (1779–1852) 77 Mary Robinson (1758–1800) 80 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) 82 Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) 85 Robert Southey (1774–1843) 87 William Wordsworth (1770–1850) 90 Ann Yearsley (1753–1806) 93 Part 4 Readings 95 First-Generation Romantic Poets 95 Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ‘Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade’; ‘The Rights of Woman’; Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem 97 Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets 101 Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head 107 Ann Yearsley, ‘Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-trade’; ‘Bristol Elegy’ 110 William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience 115 William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ; The Book of Urizen ; ‘The Mental Traveller’ 124 Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon 132 Robert Burns, Lyrics 137 William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads 144 William Wordsworth, ‘Resolution and Independence’; ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’; ‘Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont’; ‘Surprized by Joy’ 152 William Wordsworth, The Prelude 163 William Wordsworth, The Excursion 174 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Conversation Poems: ‘The Eolian Harp’, ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’, ‘Frost at Midnight’, and ‘Dejection: An Ode’ 179 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ; Kubla Khan; ‘The Pains of Sleep’; Christabel 187 Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer and The Curse of Kehama 196 Second-Generation Romantic Poets 203 Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies 205 Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini 211 Lord Byron, Lara ; ‘When We Two Parted’; ‘Stanzas to Augusta’; Manfred 215 Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 223 Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos 1–4 232 Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab ; Alastor; Laon and Cythna [The Revolt of Islam] 242 Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’; ‘Mont Blanc’; ‘Ozymandias’; ‘Ode to the West Wind’; the late poems to Jane Williams 251 Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound; Adonais; The Triumph of Life 260 John Keats, Endymion ; ‘Sleep and Poetry’; The Sonnets 268 John Keats, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion 277 John Keats, The 1820 Volume 284 Third-Generation Romantic Poets 295 John Clare: Lyrics 297 Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman: With Other Poems 304 Letitia Elizabeth Landon, ‘Love’s Last Lesson’; ‘Lines of Life’; ‘Lines Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love-Letter’; ‘Sappho’s Song’; ‘A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk. By Stewardson’ 311 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death’s Jest-Book and Lyrics 318 Part 5 Further Reading 325 General Critical Reading 327 Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) 328 Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) 328 William Blake (1757–1827) 329 Robert Burns (1759–1796) 329 Lord George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) 329 John Clare (1793–1864) 330 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) 330 Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) 331 (James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) 331 John Keats (1795–1821) 331 Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) 331 Thomas Moore (1779–1852) 332 Mary Robinson (1758–1800) 332 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) 332 Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) 333 Robert Southey (1774–1843) 333 William Wordsworth (1770–1850) 333 Ann Yearsley (1753–1806) 334 Index 335
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Emily Dickinson
Book SynopsisThis companion to America?s greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources xv Acknowledgments xvi Introduction 1Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz Part I: Biography – the Myth of “the Myth” 9 1 Architecture of the Unseen 11Aife Murray 2 Fracturing a Master Narrative, Reconstructing “Sister Sue” 37ngrid Satelmajer 3 Public, Private Spheres: What Reading Emily Dickinson’s Mail Taught me about Civil Wars 58Martha Nell Smith 4 “Pretty much all real life”: The Material World of the Dickinson Family 79Jane Wald Part II: The Civil War – Historical and Political Contexts 105 5 “Drums off the Phantom Battlements”: Dickinson’s War Poems in Discursive Context 107Faith Barrett 6 The Eagle’s Eye: Dickinson’s View of Battle 133Renée Bergland 7 “How News Must Feel When Traveling”: Dickinson and Civil War Media 157Eliza Richards Part III: Cultural Contexts – Literature, Philosophy, Theology, Science 181 8 Really Indigenous Productions: Emily Dickinson, Josiah Holland, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Verse 183Mary Loeffelholz 9 Thinking Dickinson Thinking Poetry 205Virginia Jackson 10 Dickinson and the Exception 222Max Cavitch 11 Dickinson’s Uses of Spiritualism: The “Nature” of Democratic Belief 235Paul Crumbley 12 “Forever – is Composed of Nows –”: Emily Dickinson’s Conception of Time 258Gudrun M. Grabher 13 God’s Place in Dickinson’s Ecology 269Nancy Mayer Part IV: Textual Conditions: Manuscripts, Printings, Digital Surrogates 279 14 Auntie Gus Felled It New 281Tim Morris 15 Reading Dickinson in Her Context: The Fascicles 288Eleanor Elson Heginbotham 16 The Poetics of Interruption: Dickinson, Death, and the Fascicles 309Alexandra Socarides 17 Climates of the Creative Process: Dickinson’s Epistolary Journal 334Connie Ann Kirk 18 Hearing the Visual Lines: How Manuscript Study Can Contribute to an Understanding of Dickinson’s Prosody 348Ellen Louise Hart, with Sandra Chung 19 “The Thews of Hymn”: Dickinson’s Metrical Grammar 368Michael L. Manson 20 Dickinson’s Structured Rhythms 391Cristanne Miller 21 A Digital Regiving: Editing the Sweetest Messages in the Dickinson Electronic Archives 415Tanya Clement 22 Editing Dickinson in an Electronic Environment 437Lara Vetter Part V: Poetry & Media – Dickinson’s Legacies 453 23 “Dare you see a soul at the White Heat?”: Thoughts on a “Little Home-keeping Person” 455Sandra M. Gilbert 24 Re-Playing the Bible: My Emily Dickinson 462Alicia Ostriker 25 “For Flash and Click and Suddenness–”: Emily Dickinson and the Photography-Effect 471Marta L. Werner 26 “Zero to the Bone”: Thelonious Monk, Emily Dickinson, and the Rhythms of Modernism 490Joshua Weiner Index of First Lines 496 Index of Letters of Emily Dickinson 500 Index 503
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reading Romantic Poetry
Book SynopsisReading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis.Trade Review“There are gems of insight on every page of this engaging and clarifying book, which opens up familiar and unfamiliar poems to considerations of verbal texture just as much as it reveals them in their cultural and political contexts. Stafford’s Reading Romantic Poetryteaches as much by example as by precept. This is how to read Romantic poetry and it is, as such, an ideal introduction to the period’s literary culture as a whole.” (The BARS Review, 1 October 2014) "These engagements with the nature of poetry are no mystical celebration of a mysterious power—on the contrary: by focusing on specific attempts Professor Stafford underlines the demystifying facet of these poems which lay bare their own artifice to their readers." (Cercles, 1 December 2012) "An excellent, well-written resource for those interested in Romantic poetry … Stafford brings a new sensibility and fresh eye to the subject ... Highly recommended." (Choice, 1 October 2012)Table of ContentsPreface vii 1 The Pleasures of Poetry 1 2 Solitude and Sociability 34 3 Common Concerns and Cultural Connections 65 4 Traditions and Transformations: Poets as Readers 95 5 Reading or Listening? Romantic Voices 132 6 Sweet Sounds 162 7 Poems on Pages 193 References 227 Index 230
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Herman Melville
Book Synopsis* * This comprehensive resource demonstrates the relevance of Melville s works in the twenty-first century. * Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville.Trade Review“As a guide to various perspectives on American literary studies at the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century, it has its value.”—(Reference Reviews, 1 December 2012)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Notes on Contributors xii Acknowledgments xx Texts and Abbreviations xxi Preface xxiiiWyn Kelley Part I Travels 1 1 A Traveling Life Laurie Robertson-Lorant 3 2 Cosmopolitanism and Traveling Culture Peter Gibian 19 3 Melville’s World Readers A. Robert Lee 35 4 Global Melville Paul Lyons 52 Part II Geographies 69 5 Science and the Earth Bruce A. Harvey 71 6 Ships, Whaling, and the Sea Mary K. Bercaw Edwards 83 7 Pacific Paradises Alex Calder 98 8 Atlantic Trade Hester Blum 113 9 Ancient Lands Basem L. Ra’ad 129 Part III Nations 147 10 Democracy and its Discontents Dennis Berthold 149 11 Urbanization, Class Struggle, and Reform Carol Colatrella 165 12 Wicked Books: Melville and Religion Hilton Obenzinger 181 13 Pierre’s Bad Associations: Public Life in the Institutional Nation Christopher Castiglia 197 14 Melville, Slavery, and the American Dilemma John Stauffer 214 15 Gender and Sexuality Leland S. Person 231 Part IV Libraries 247 16 The Legacy of Britain Robin Grey 249 17 Romantic Philosophy, Transcendentalism, and Nature Rachela Permenter 266 18 Literature of Exploration and the Sea R. D. Madison 282 19 Death and Literature: Melville and the Epitaph Edgar A. Dryden 299 20 The Company of Women Authors Charlene Avallone 313 21 Hawthorne and Race Ellen Weinauer 327 22 “Unlike Things Must Meet and Mate”: Melville and the Visual Arts Robert K. Wallace 342 Part V Texts 363 23 The Motive for Metaphor: Typee, Omoo, and Mardi Geoffrey Sanborn 365 24 Artist at Work: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, and Pierre Cindy Weinstein 378 25 The Language of Moby-Dick: “Read It If You Can” Maurice S. Lee 393 26 Threading the Labyrinth: Moby-Dick as Hybrid Epic Christopher Sten 408 27 The Female Subject in Pierre and The Piazza Tales Caroline Levander 423 28 Narrative Shock in “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,” and “Benito Cereno” Marvin Fisher 435 29 Fluid Identity in Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man Gale Temple 451 30 How Clarel Works Samuel Otter 467 31 Melville the Realist Poet Elizabeth Renker 482 32 Melville’s Transhistorical Voice: Billy Budd, Sailor and the Fragmentation of Forms John Wenke 497 Part VI Meanings 513 33 The Melville Revival Sanford E. Marovitz 515 34 Creating Icons: Melville in Visual Media and Popular Culture Elizabeth Schultz 532 35 The Melville Text John Bryant 553 Index 567
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to George Eliot
Book SynopsisThis collection offers students and scholars of Eliot s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism.Trade Review“A Companion to George Eliot is divided into four parts: Imaginative Form and Literary Context; Works; Life and Reception; Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts … [It] contains insights, on for instance, Eliot’s narratology … to on-going debates on evolution. There are fine essays on relatively neglected works such as Romola, Felix Holt, the Radical, and her poetry, as well as the hardy perennials … Recommended for general readers, graduate students, researchers and teachers.” Reference Reviews “Many of the literary-critical voices contributing essays … stand out, replete with critical insights on, for instance, Eliot’s narratology, use of form, critical reception, African American connections, awareness of the law, and her relevance today ... The collection offers a very helpful, detailed index. [A] most useful critical reference work … Recommended: Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.” CHOICETable of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction 1Amanda Anderson and Harry E. Shaw Part I: Imaginative Form and Literary Context 19 1 Eliot and Narrative 21Monika Fludernik 2 Metaphor and Masque 35Michael Wood 3 “It Is of Little Use for Me to Tell You”: George Eliot’s Narrative Refusals 46Robyn Warhol 4 Surprising Realism 62Caroline Levine 5 Two Flowers: George Eliot’s Diagrams and the Modern Novel 76John Plotz Part II: Works 91 6 Scenes of Clerical Life and Silas Marner: Moral Fables 93Stefanie Markovits 7 Adam Bede: History’s Maggots 105Rae Greiner 8 The Mill on the Floss and “The Lifted Veil”: Prediction, Prevention, Protection 117Adela Pinch 9 Romola: Historical Narration and the Communicative Dynamics of Modernity 129David Wayne Thomas 10 Felix Holt: Love in the Time of Politics 141David Kurnick 11 Middlemarch: January in Lowick 153Andrew H. Miller 12 Daniel Deronda: Late Form, or After Middlemarch 166Alex Woloch 13 Poetry: The Unappreciated Eliot 178Herbert F. Tucker 14 Essays: Essay v. Novel (Eliot, Aloof) 192Jeff Nunokawa 15 Impressions of Theophrastus Such: “Not a Story” 204James Buzard Part III: Life and Reception 217 16 The Reception of George Eliot 219James Eli Adams 17 George Eliot Among Her Contemporaries: A Life Apart 233Lynn Voskuil 18 Feminist George Eliot Comes from the United States 247Alison Booth 19 Transatlantic Eliot: African American Connections 262Daniel Hack Part IV: Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts 277 20 Sympathy and the Basis of Morality 279T. H. Irwin 21 George Eliot, Spinoza, and the Emotions 294Isobel Armstrong 22 George Eliot and the Law 309Jan-Melissa Schramm 23 George Eliot and Finance 323Nancy Henry 24 George Eliot and Politics 338Carolyn Lesjak 25 Imagining Locality and Affiliation: George Eliot’s Villages 353Josephine McDonagh 26 George Eliot’s Liberalism 370Daniel S. Malachuk 27 George Eliot: Gender and Sexuality 385Laura Green 28 The Cosmopolitan Eliot 400Bruce Robbins 29 The Continental Eliot 413Hina Nazar 30 George Eliot and Secularism 428Simon During 31 Living Theory: Personality and Doctrine in Eliot 442Amanda Anderson 32 George Eliot and the Sciences of Mind: The Silence that Lies on the Other Side of Roar 457Jill L. Matus 33 George Eliot and the Science of the Human 471Ian Duncan 34 Eliot, Evolution, and Aesthetics 486Jonathan Loesberg Index 500
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reading Victorian Poetry
Book SynopsisReading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a highly renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical and lesser known writers.Trade Review“Richard Cronin’s exceptionally fine book carries out just what its title promises – reading. The pleasure of his adroit, meticulously imaginative insights into verbal and metrical effects is constant … One of the best general readings of Victorian poetry in the last ten years.” Victorian Studies “Reading Victorian Poetry will make an excellent introduction to Victorian poetry and gives a good account of a number of key issues.” English Studies “[A] compelling new critical survey of the period’s poems … Cronin’s deft close readings enable … shifts and juxtapositions, and the assured breadth of his knowledge and reference … It is a definite strength of Cronin’s approach that his own book’s attempt to recover ways of appreciating and understanding Victorian poetry overlaps with the techniques Victorian poets themselves used to address and forestall their anxieties about the meaning and value of their work. [It] proves to be a good way of tuning in to the distinctive music of the Victorian poem.” The Tennyson SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1 Introduction: The Victorian Poetry Palace 1 2 The Divided Self and the Dramatic Monologue 27 3 Victorian Metrics 65 4 Short Poems, Long Poems and the Victorian Sonnet Sequence 89 5 Victorian Poetry and Translation 114 6 Victorian Poetry and Life 141 7 Poetry and Religion 174 8 Conclusion: The 1890s 196 Bibliography 220 Index 229
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Palgrave Macmillan The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll Anniversary
Book SynopsisThe Scotsman '...a magnificent collection of delightful and entertaining letters reflecting all that was embraced in that remarkable character...all his charm, inventive fun, wisdom, generosity, kindliness and inventive mind'.Trade Review"...each [letter] is a miniature Wonderland...They reveal a truly delightful man...the combination of intense goodness and unselfishness with a magic, nonsense wit is unique" The Scotsman "In the letters as in the 'Alice' stories Carroll drew from a bottomless well of humour and nonsense" Sunday Times "A glass key back into that wonderland to which he never lost the passport" Daily Mail "...a magnificent collection of delightful and entertaining letters reflecting all that was embraced in that remarkable character...all his charm, inventive fun, wisdom, generosity, kindliness and inventive mind" Oxford Times "Carroll's letters to children are often just as good as the Alice books precisely because they stick the knife in; as you read them you sense that he was imagining and enjoying what the parents might be thinking. Playfulness is shadowed by danger and perversion, which is one reason you might want to play." London Review of BooksTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition List of Illustrations Biographical Chronology The Dodgson Family Tree The Dodgson Family and Lewis Carroll's Youth Alice and Photography Home at Guildford and Holidays at the Seaside Curator of Senior Common Room, Christ Church Last Years Death Appendix: Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing Index of Recipients
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Palgrave Macmillan Keats and Romantic Celticism
Book SynopsisAcknowledgements The Evidence for Celticism in Keats Romantic Celticism in Context Keats as Bard The Native Muse Faery Lands Forlorn Privileging the Celtic Bibliography IndexTrade Review'Gallant's Keats and Romantic Celticism offers the first full-length study of the subject, investigating the poet's deep affinity with the Celtic world and pursuing his allusions to faerylore in key poems that mark the various stages of his career.' - Grant F. Scott, The Wordsworth Circle 'Her major achievement, however, lies in rereadings of the Hyperion poems within the context of the early Romantic recovery of the Celtic background that was to obsess Keats's later followers, and none more so than W.B. Yeats. As such, this is a valuable resource that pays further testament to this year's interest in matters of complex influence.' - The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements The Evidence for Celticism in Keats Romantic Celticism in Context Keats as Bard The Native Muse Faery Lands Forlorn Privileging the Celtic Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to American Fiction 1865 1914
Book SynopsisA Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers. An exceptionally broad-ranging and accessible Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century Brings together 29 essays by top scholars, each of which presents a synthesis of the best research and offers an original perspective Divided into sections on historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors Covers a mixture of canonical and the non-canonical themes, authors, literatures, and critical approaches Explores innovative topics, such as ecological literature and ecocriticism, children''s literature, and the influence of Darwin on fiction Trade Review"All praise to Lamb and Thompson … Comprehensive, well written and carefully edited ... Essential." Choice "The editors have intended the Companion to be an introduction to the field and a reference tool for 'advanced undergraduates, graduate students, faculty members and general intellectuals'. In this they have succeeded admirably." Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations x Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xviii Editors' Introduction 1 Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson PART I Historical Traditions and Genres 13 1 The Practice and Promotion of American Literary Realism 15 Nancy Glazener 2 Excitement and Consciousness in the Romance Tradition 35 William J. Scheick 3 The Sentimental and Domestic Traditions, 1865–1900 53 Gregg Camfield 4 Morality, Modernity, and "Malarial Restlessness": American Realism in its Anglo-European Contexts 77 Winfried Fluck 5 American Literary Naturalism 96 Christophe Den Tandt 6 American Regionalism: Local Color, National Literature, Global Circuits 119 June Howard 7 Women Authors and the Roots of American Modernism 140 Linda Wagner-Martin 8 The Short Story and the Short-Story Sequence, 1865–1914 149 J. Gerald Kennedy PART II Contexts and Themes 175 9 Ecological Narrative and Nature Writing 177 S. K. Robisch 10 "The Frontier Story": The Violence of Literary History 201 Christine Bold 11 Native American Narratives: Resistance and Survivance 222 Gerald Vizenor 12 Representing the Civil War and Reconstruction: From Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus 240 Kathleen Diffley 13 Engendering the Canon: Women's Narratives, 1865–1914 260 Grace Farrell 14 Confronting the Crisis: African American Narratives 279 Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. 15 Fiction's Many Cities 296 Sidney H. Bremer 16 Mapping the Culture of Abundance: Literary Narratives and Consumer Culture 318 Sarah Way Sherman 17 Secrets of the Master's Deed Box: Narrative and Class 340 Christopher P. Wilson 18 Ethnic Realism 356 Robert M. Dowling 19 Darwin, Science, and Narrative 377 Bert Bender 20 Writing in the "Vulgar Tongue": Law and American Narrative 395 William E. Moddelmog 21 Planning Utopia 411 Thomas Peyser 22 American Children's Narrative as Social Criticism, 1865–1914 428 Gwen Athene Tarbox PART III Major Authors 449 23 An Idea of Order at Concord: Soul and Society in the Mind of Louisa May Alcott 451 John Matteson 24 America Can Break Your Heart: On the Significance of Mark Twain 468 Robert Paul Lamb 25 William Dean Howells and the Bourgeois Quotidian: Affection, Skepticism, Disillusion 499 Michael Anesko 26 Henry James in a New Century 518 John Carlos Rowe 27 Toward a Modernist Aesthetic: The Literary Legacy of Edith Wharton 536 Candace Waid and Clare Colquitt 28 Sensations of Style: The Literary Realism of Stephen Crane 557 William E. Cain 29 Theodore Dreiser and the Force of the Personal 572 Clare Virginia Eby Index 587
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Concise Companion to the Victorian Novel
Book SynopsisThis volume presents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830-1900. Opens up for the reader the cultural world in which the Victorian novel was written and read. Crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. Provides fresh perspectives on how Victorian fiction relates to different contexts, such as class, sexuality, empire, psychology, law and biology. Trade Review"[T]his book succeeds in presenting a representative selection of historicist critical thinking on panorama of themes of the novel during the period of what was, arguably, this literary form's greatest achievement. It will be a stimulating introduction for the advanced undergraduate with an interest in the nineteenth century, and a useful lead for the postgraduate student working in the field of Victorian studies on any one of the numerous taught programmes currently on offer." Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Acknowledgements xii List of illustrations xiii Chronology xiv Introduction 1Francis O’Gorman 1 ‘The sun and moon were made to give them light’: Empire in the Victorian Novel 4Cannon Schmitt 2 ‘Seeing is believing?’: Visuality and Victorian Fiction 25Kate Flint 3 ‘The boundaries of social intercourse’: Class in the Victorian Novel 47James Eli Adams 4 Legal subjects, legal objects: The Law and Victorian Fiction 71Clare Pettitt 5 ‘The withering of the individual’: Psychology in the Victorian Novel 91Nicholas Dames 6 ‘Telling of my weekly doings’: The Material Culture of the Victorian Novel 113Mark W. Turner 7 ‘Farewell poetry and aerial flights’: The Function of the Author and Victorian Fiction 134Richard Salmon 8 Everywhere and nowhere: Sexuality in the Victorian Novel 156Carolyn Dever 9 ‘One of the larger lost continents’: Religion in the Victorian Novel 180Michael Wheeler 10 ‘The difference between human beings’: Biology in the Victorian Novel 202Angelique Richardson 11 ‘One great confederation?’: Europe in the Victorian Novel 232John Rignall 12 ‘A long deep sob of that mysterious wondrous happiness that is one with pain’: Emotion in the Victorian Novel 253Francis O’Gorman Index 271
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