Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
Edinburgh University Press The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry
Book SynopsisVictorian poets remixed and remastered signature tropes from 1790s Gothic novels, establishing canonical nineteenth-century poetic forms.
£22.49
Edinburgh University Press The Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in
Book SynopsisExamines the bicycle as a literary device and a cultural phenomenon at the turn of the century in Britain and France.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Carlyle Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of
Book SynopsisAnalyses Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson against the background of Anglo-American print culture and oral performance.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Carlyle Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of
Book SynopsisExamining the transatlantic writings and professional careers of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, this book explores the impact of literary, cultural, political and legal manifestations of authority on nineteenth-century British and American writing, publishing and lecturing. Drawing on primary texts in conjunction with a rich body of archival sources, this study retraces Romantic debates about race and nationhood, analyses the relationship between cultural nationalism and literary historiography and sheds light on Carlyle?s and Emerson?s professional identities as publishing authors and lecturing celebrities on both sides of the Atlantic.Trade Review"Emerson and Carlyle were an odd couple and a transatlantic cultural powerhouse. Their decades-long exchange electrified literary circuits and jolted thinking about historiography, race, nationhood, copyright and lecturing, as Tim Sommer shows. This shrewd study of the nineteenth century's alternating currents of cultural authority snaps and crackles with insights." -Mich le Mendelssohn, Oxford University
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Robert Louis Stevenson and NineteenthCentury
Book SynopsisA comparative literary history that explores Robert Louis Stevenson and French literature.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Remediating the 1820s
Book SynopsisReconsiders the 1820s, an unjustly neglected, highly self-conscious decade defined by massive and anxiety-inducing cultural transformationsTrade Review"A splendidly multifaceted volume, Remediating the 1820s maps a darkly self-conscious yet exuberant decade full of newly developing media visual, theatrical, periodical, musical, literary that would produce far-reaching cultural and political change. The contributors, both leading and emerging scholars, make this collection powerful in content and truly innovative in form." -Jon Klancher, Carnegie Mellon University
£106.01
Edinburgh University Press Remediating the 1820s
Book SynopsisThe 1820s has commonly been overlooked in literary and cultural studies, seen as a barren interregnum between the achievements of Romanticism and the Victorian era proper, or, at best, as a time of transition bridging two major periods of cultural production. This volume contends that the innovations, fears and experiments of the 1820s are both of considerable interest in themselves and vital for comprehending how Victorian and Romantic culture wrote and visioned one another into being. Remediating the 1820s explores the decade?s own sense of itself as a period of expansion in terms of the projection of British power and knowledge, but also its tremendous uncertainty about where this left traditional identities and moral values. In doing so, the collection articulates how specific novelties, transformations and anxieties of the time remediated and remade culture and society in manners that continue powerfully to resonate.
£22.49
Edinburgh University Press WomenS Literary Education c. 1690 1850
Book SynopsisStudies how women writers shaped long-eighteenth-century educational discourse through literatureTrade Review"This rich collection charts the creative mixture of experimentalism and tenderness that informed the growing field of educational literature authored by women 1690-1850. Education in and through literary print forms promoted imaginative collaboration between adults and children. Where women were made responsible for education or claimed it, they also complicated the femininity that was learned. A dazzling variety of genres and voices are brought to new prominence." -Ros Ballaster, University of Oxford, Mansfield College
£110.31
Edinburgh University Press Assessing Intelligence
Book SynopsisExamines how novelists engaged with the emergence of the IQ concept of intelligence and the meritocratic ideal
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Assessing Intelligence
Book SynopsisExamines how novelists engaged with the emergence of the IQ concept of intelligence and the meritocratic ideal
£22.49
Edinburgh University Press WomenS Activism in the Transatlantic Consumers
Book SynopsisUncovers the central and leading roles of women in the development of organised consumer activism in the UK and the USA between 1885 and 1920
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press Womens Activism in the Transatlantic Consumers
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Edinburgh University Press British Romanticism and Denmark
Book SynopsisTraces a multifaceted discourse about Denmark in British eighteenth-century and Romantic-period culture.
£99.62
Edinburgh University Press R. B. Cunninghame Graham and Scotland
Book SynopsisExplores the complex life of this controversial and enigmatic Scot, and his contribution to Scottish life and letters
£90.00
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish
Book SynopsisComprehensively sets out the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain and IrelandTrade Review"This is an indispensable collection, which skilfully maps the territory of news in early modern Britain, explores the central issues involved, and surveys a burgeoning historiography. At the same time, it also presents a wealth of striking evidence drawn from cutting-edge research, and highlights numerous avenues for further investigation. Essential reading." -Jason Peacey, UCL
£175.50
Edinburgh University Press Key Concepts in Victorian Studies
Book SynopsisProvides a uniquely detailed and accessible insight into the terminology and culture of the Victorian periodTrade Review"Key Concepts in Victorian Studies is a landmark reference work for any scholar working on the period. All the major issues and innovations are outlined, from Anarchism to Zoetrope. The excellent overview of parliamentary legislation provides an invaluable account of social and economic change. Scholarly and accessible, this is an essential guide to the period." -Andrew Smith, University of Sheffield
£98.87
Edinburgh University Press Key Concepts in Victorian Studies
Book SynopsisProvides a uniquely detailed and accessible insight into the terminology and culture of the Victorian periodTrade Review"Key Concepts in Victorian Studies is a landmark reference work for any scholar working on the period. All the major issues and innovations are outlined, from Anarchism to Zoetrope. The excellent overview of parliamentary legislation provides an invaluable account of social and economic change. Scholarly and accessible, this is an essential guide to the period." -Andrew Smith, University of Sheffield
£14.24
Orion Publishing Co William Blake Now
Book Synopsis''If a thing loves, it is infinite'' William BlakeA short, impassioned argument for why the visionary artist William Blake is important in the twenty-first centuryThe visionary poet and painter William Blake is a constant presence throughout contemporary culture - from videogames to novels, from sporting events to political rallies and from horror films to designer fashion. Although he died nearly 200 years ago, something about his work continues to haunt the twenty-first century. What is it about Blake that has so endured? In this illuminating essay, John Higgs takes us on a whirlwind tour to prove that far from being the mere New Age counterculture figure that many assume him to be, Blake is now more relevant than ever.
£7.99
McFarland & Co Inc The Byronic Hero and the Rhetoric of Masculinity
Book Synopsis From action movies to video games to sports culture, modern masculinity is intrinsically associated with violent competition. This legacy has its roots in the 19th-century Romantic figure of the Byronic hero--the ideal Victorian male: devoted husband, sexual revolutionary and weaponized servant of the state. His silhouette can be traced through the works of authors like Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde. More than a literary genealogy, this history of the Byronic hero and his heirs follows the changes that masculinity has undergone in response to industrial upheaval, the rise of the middle class and the demands of global competition, from the Victorian period through the early 20th century.
£27.54
McFarland & Co Inc Winifred BlackAnnie Laurie and the Making of
Book Synopsis Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie. Her work appeared in the Hearst papers--especially the San Francisco Examiner--and in fifty additional newspapers weekly through syndication. Black wrote 10,000 short pieces, as well as three books, a nonfiction oeuvre that combined quasi-autobiographical details with characters and scenes to provide cultural analysis for a nationwide audience. She wrote about the realities facing modern women--their work, their marriages and divorces, the violence they endured, their need for independence. Contemporary praise for Black named her the world''s most famous feature writer and one of the world''s most successful reporters, while her critics affixed the pejorative labels stunt girl and sob sister. This study covers her influential career and gives the first serious attention to her journalism and nonfiction.
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McFarland & Co Inc Who Wrote The Night Before Christmas
Book Synopsis Published anonymously in 1823, The Night Before Christmas has traditionally been attributed to Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863), who included it in his Poems (1844). But descendants of Henry Livingston (1748-1828) claim that he read it to his children as his own creation long before Moore is alleged to have composed it. This book evaluates the opposing arguments and for the first time uses the author-attribution techniques of modern computational stylistics to settle the long-standing dispute. Both writers left substantial bodies of verse, which have been computer analyzed for distinguishing characteristics. Employing a range of tests and introducing a new one--statistical analysis of phonemes--this study identifies the true author and makes a significant contribution to the growing field of attribution studies.Trade ReviewThe book is diligent, precise and unapologetically academic" - Times Literary Supplement, 23rd & 30th December 2016
£20.89
McFarland & Co Inc The Victorian Bookshelf
Book Synopsis This introductory guide to the canon of Victorian literature covers 61 novels by authors from Jane Austen to Emile Zola. Brief critical essays describe what each book is about and argue for its cultural, historical and literary importance. Literary canons remain a subject of debate but critics, readers and students continue to find them useful as overviews--and examinations--of the great works within a given period or culture. The Victorian canon is particularly rich with splendid novels that educate, enlighten and entertain. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
£20.89
McFarland & Co Inc The Fabulous Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio
Book Synopsis Lewis Carroll''s Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) and Carlo Collodi''s Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1883) are among the most influential classics of children''s literature. Firmly rooted in their respective British and Italian national cultures, the Alice and Pinocchio stories connected to a worldwide audience almost like folktales and fairy tales and have become fixtures of postmodernism. Although they come from radically different political and social backgrounds, the texts share surprising similarities. This comparative reading explores their imagery and history, and discusses them in the broader context of British and Italian children''s stories.
£27.54
McFarland & Co Inc Reading Henry James
Book Synopsis Henry James (1843-1916) has been championed as an historian of social conscience and attacked as a spokesman for social privilege. His Americanness has been questioned by nativists and defended by Brahmins. Critics took issue with his lucidly complex style. It''s not that he bites off more than he can chew, but that he chews more than he bites off, a contemporary complained. Although he was an acknowledged master in his final years, James'' narrow readership has dwindled in the century since his death. This book examines allusions, sources and affinities in James'' vast body of work to interpret his literary intentions. Chapters provide close analysis of Daisy Miller, The American, The Beast in the Jungle and The Wings of the Dove. His fascination with poet Robert Browning is discussed, along with his complicated relationship with Marian Clover Adams and her husband, Henry, who was the author of The Education of Henry Adams. Instructors cons
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McFarland & Co Inc Towards Sherlock Holmes
Book Synopsis Crime fiction--a product of the burgeoning metropolis of the 19th century--features specialists who identify criminals to protect an anxious citizenry. Before detectives came to play the central role, the protagonists tended to be lawyers or other professionals. Major English writers like Gaskell, Dickens and Collins contributed to the genre--Fergus Hume''s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab was a best-seller in 1887--and American and French authors created new forms. This book explores thematic aspects of 19th century crime fiction''s complex history, including various social and gender roles between different time periods and settings, and the imperial elements that made Sherlock Holmes seem dynamically contemporary.
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McFarland & Co Inc The Essential Elements of the Detective Story
Book Synopsis Until recently, only a privileged few could read the rare, early writings that formed the basis of detective fiction in America and made it one of the most popular literary genres of the 19th century. Drawing on the unprecedented access provided by digital collections of period newspapers and magazines, this book examines detective fiction during its formative years, focusing on such crucial elements as setting, lawyers and the law, physicians and forensics, women as victims and heroes, crime and criminals, and police and detectives.Trade Reviewone of the most readable, prolific, and perceptive academic scholars of mystery fiction"" - Mystery Scene.
£27.54
McFarland & Co Inc Gothic Stories Within Stories
Book Synopsis Frame narratives--stories within stories--are featured in nearly every canonical Gothic novel. Sometimes dismissed as a shopworn convention of the genre, frame narratives in fact function as a dynamic basis for imaginative variation and are vital to evaluating the diverse Gothic tradition. The juxtaposition between the everyday frame world of the story and the disturbing embedded narrative allows the monstrous to escape textual confines, forcing the reader to experience the reassurance of the ordinary alongside the horror of the uncanny.
£42.29
McFarland & Co Inc Mark Twain and the Brazen Serpent
Book Synopsis Focusing on the overarching theme of religious satire in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, this study reveals the novel''s hidden motive, moral and plot. The author considers generations of criticism spanning the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, along with new textual evidence showing how Twain''s richly evocative style dissects Huck''s conscience to propose humane amorality as a corrective to moral absolutes. Jim and Huck emerge as archetypal twins--biracial brothers who prefigure America''s color-blind ideals.
£27.54
McFarland & Co Inc Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction
Book Synopsis This companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market. Biographical sketches cover the writers and their publishers, the topics that concerned them and the genres they helped to establish or refine. Entries introduce readers to long-overlooked authors who were widely read in their time, with suggestions for further reading and emerging resources for the study of popular fiction.
£27.54
McFarland & Co Inc The Age of Dimes and Pulps
Book Synopsis From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to modern paperbacks, lurid fiction has provided thrilling escapism for the masses. Cranking out formulaic stories of melodrama, crime and mild erotica--often by uncredited authors focused more on volume than quality--publishers realized high profits playing to low tastes. Estimates put pulp magazine circulation in the 1930s at 30 million monthly. This vast body of disposable literature has received little critical attention, in large part because much of it has been lost--the cheaply made books were either discarded after reading or soon disintegrated. Covering the history of pulp literature from 1850 through 1960, the author describes how sensational tales filled a public need and flowered during the evolving social conditions of the Industrial Revolution.
£27.54
McFarland & Co Inc Count Dracula Goes to the Movies
Book Synopsis First published in 1897, Bram Stoker''s Dracula has never been out of print. Yet most people are familiar with the title character from the movies. Count Dracula is one of the most-filmed literary characters in history--but has he (or Stoker''s novel) ever been filmed accurately? In its third edition, this study focuses on 18 adaptations of Dracula from 1922 to 2012, comparing them to the novel and to each other. Fidelity to the novel does not always guarantee a good movie, while some of the better films are among the more freely adapted. The Universal and Hammer sequels are searched for traces of Stoker, along with several other films that borrow from the novel. The author concludes with a brief look at four latter-day projects that are best dismissed or viewed for ironic laughs.
£27.54
McFarland & Co Inc Themes in Dickens
Book Synopsis The Victorian age is often portrayed as an era of repressive social mores. Yet this simplified view ignores the context of Great Britain''s profound shift, through rapid industrialization, from rural to metropolitan life during this time. Throughout his career, Charles Dickens addressed the numerous changes occurring in Victorian society. His portrayals of organized religion, class distinction, worker''s rights, prison reform and rampant poverty resonated with readers experiencing social upheaval. Focusing on his novels, nonfiction writing, speeches and personal correspondence, this book explores Dickens''s use of these themes as both literary devices and as a means to effect social progress.
£27.54
McFarland & Co Inc Alfred Tennyson
Book Synopsis Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a thousand works in virtually every poetic genre. Considered by his Victorian contemporaries the pre-eminent poet of the age, he has become a canonical figure who is widely read and studied today. Consequently, his poems appear on the syllabi of both survey courses in Victorian literature as well as upper-division and graduate-level topics courses that cover Victorian studies or address subjects such as environmental studies, religion, elegiac poetry, and Arthurian literature. This companion makes Tennyson''s poetry accessible to contemporary readers by identifying some of the formal elements of the poems, highlighting their relevance to Tennyson''s Victorian contemporaries, and explaining their enduring appeal and value. Entries in the companion, organized alphabetically, provide essential details about Tennyson''s most anthologized poems, offer suggestions for reading and interpretation, and elucidate unfamiliarTable of Contents Acknowledgments vi Preface 1 Abbreviations 3 Introduction: Tennyson, Preeminent Victorian Poet and Innovator 4 Alfred Tennyson: A Brief Biography 9 Chronological List of Tennyson's Major Publications 13 Alfred Tennyson: A Companion 15 Appendix: Selected Bibliography of Criticism 223 Works Cited 227 Index 235
£34.19
McFarland & Co Inc Thomas Hardy
Book Synopsis Thomas Hardy enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a novelist before devoting his talents to writing poetry for the remainder of his life. This book focuses on Hardy''s remarkable achievements as a novelist. Although Victorian readers considered some of his works controversial, his novels remained highly regarded. His novels still appear in the syllabi of courses in Victorian literature and the British novel, as well as courses in feminist/gender studies, environmental studies, and other topics. For scholars, students, and the general reader, this companion helps to makes Hardy''s novels accessible by providing a detailed biography of Hardy, plot summaries of each novel, and analyses of the critical contexts surrounding them. Entries focus on the people, cultural forces, literary forms, and movements that influenced Hardy''s novels. The companion also suggests approaches for original interpretations and suggestions for further study.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vAbbreviations ixPreface 1Introduction: Thomas Hardy's Significance to Literature 5Biography of Thomas Hardy 11Chronological Listing of Hardy's Major Published Works 17The Companion 19Works Cited 247Index 251
£34.19
McFarland & Co Inc Jane Austen
Book Synopsis Written for readers at all levels, this book situates Jane Austen in her time, and for all times. It provides a biography; locates her work in the context of literary history and criticism; explores her fiction; and features an encyclopedic, readable resource on the people, places and things of relevance to Austen the person and writer. Details on family members, beaux, friends, national affairs, church and state politics, themes, tropes, and literary devices ground the reader in Austen''s world. Appendices offer resources for further reading and consider the massive modern industry that has grown up around Austen and her works.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viiiPreface 1Abbreviations 3Introduction 5A Brief Biography: Who Was Jane Austen, the Human Being? 15Chronological List of Jane Austen's Prose Fiction 21Jane Austen: A Companion 23Appendix A: Editions and Important Recent Reference Books 209Appendix B: Adaptations, Sequels, Prequels, and Ephemera:The Jane-Austen Military-Industrial Complex 214Appendix C: Most of Jane Austen for Film, Television, and the Internet as of 2020 228Works Cited 231Index 237
£48.74
McFarland & Co Inc Dracula as Absolute Other
Book Synopsis Dark, dangerous and transgressive, Bram Stoker''s Dracula is often read as Victorian society''s absolute Other--an outsider who troubles and distracts those around him, one who represents the fears and anxieties of the age. This book is a study of Dracula''s role of absolute Other as it appears on screen, and an investigation of popular culture''s continued fascination with vampires. Drawing on vampire films spanning from the early 20th century to 2017, the author examines how different generations construct Otherness and how this is reflected in vampire media.Trade ReviewAn intelligent and thought provoking book." - Steve Earles, Hellbound
£20.89
McFarland & Co Inc Herman Melville
Book Synopsis This reference work covers both Herman Melville''s life and writings. It includes a biography and detailed information on his works, on the important themes contained therein, and on the significant people and places in his life. The appendices include suggestions for further reading of both literary and cultural criticism, an essay on Melville''s lasting cultural influence, and information on both the fictional ships in his works and the real-life ones on which he sailed.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viPreface 1Introduction 5Herman Melville: A Biography 13Herman Melville: The Companion 21Appendix A: Selected Bibliography of Melville Scholarship and Criticism 203Appendix B: 1891 and Beyond—Herman Melville's Enduring Legacy 206Appendix C: Melville's Ships 216Bibliography 229Index 233
£34.19
McFarland & Co Inc Walt Whitman
Book Synopsis Walt Whitman created, in various editions of Leaves of Grass, what is arguably the most influential book of poems anywhere in the past 200 years. Whitman absorbed the world, transmuting it into poems that address a spectrum of topics--from democracy and religion to sexuality, gender, class, and identity. He exuberantly incarnated his epoch at the same time as he invoked you-- readers and poets to come--to join in a poetry of the future. The first A to Z Whitman reference to incorporate 21st century scholarship, this work is ideal for readers who want a concise introduction to the major poems and prose and to the people, places, and topics central to his life. Each of the book''s 142 entries is followed by cross-references to related entries and suggestions for further reading. Also included are a brief biography, a chronology of Whitman''s life and major works, and a bibliography of some 300 primary and secondary sources on this most timeless and contemporary ofTable of Contents Table of Contents Acknowledgments vi Preface 1 Abbreviations 4 Introduction: Whitman's Poetry of the Future 5 A Brief Biography 9 Chronology: Whitman's Life and Major Works 15 Walt Whitman: A Companion 19 Appendix A: In Whitman's Shoes: Ideas for Writing 241 Bibliography 247 Index 255
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McFarland & Co Inc Morality and the Law in British Detective and Spy
Book Synopsis Who decides what is right or wrong, ethical or immoral, just or unjust? In the world of crime and spy fiction between 1880 and 1920, the boundaries of the law were blurred and justice called into question humanity''s moral code. As fictional detectives mutated into spies near the turn of the century, the waning influence of morality on decision-making signaled a shift in behavior from idealistic principles towards a pragmatic outlook taken in the national interest. Taking a fresh approach to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle''s popular protagonist, Sherlock Holmes, this book examines how Holmes and his rival maverick literary detectives and spies manipulated the law to deliver a fairer form of justice than that ordained by parliament. Multidisciplinary, this work views detective fiction through the lenses of law, moral philosophy, and history, and incorporates issues of gender, equality, and race. By studying popular publications of the time, it provides a glimpse into public attitTable of Contents Abbreviations Preface Introduction 1. Justice According to Holmes: Conan Doyle's Amateur Detective 2. Professional Detectives: Morrison and Muddock's Unofficial Justice 3. The Female Gaze: Marsh, Hume and Pirkis's Unsuitable Women 4. From Detective to Spy: Justice for the Greater Good 5. Spying and Lying: Childers and Buchan's Accidental Spies Epilogue: The Vigilantes Conclusion Appendix: Table of Statutes Bibliography Index
£35.99
McFarland & Co Inc Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book Synopsis In his 1837 speech The American Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, life is our dictionary, encapsulating a body of work that reached well beyond the American 19th century. This comprehensive study explores Emerson as a preacher, poet, philosopher, lecturer, essayist and editor. There are nearly 100 entries on individual texts and their personal, historical and literary contexts. Emerson''s work is placed within his relationships with family members, fellow Transcendentalists and transatlantic friends, and his commitment to ethics, self-culture and social change. This book provides the fullest possible exploration of Emerson''s writing and philosophy. Far ahead of his own time, the man enthusiastically questioned institutions, communities, friendships, history, individuality and contemporaneous approaches to environmental stewardship.Table of Contents Table of Contents Acknowledgments vi Preface 1 Abbreviations 4 Introduction 5 Emerson: A Brief Biography 13 Chronology of Emerson's Major Book Publications 23 Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Companion 25 Appendix: Writing and Research Topics 273 Works Cited 277 Index 289
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McFarland & Co Inc Anthony Trollope
Book Synopsis Anthony Trollope''s novels and stories entertain while vividly bringing the Victorian era to life. His deep empathy for the underdog led him to subvert conventions, exploring the lives of women, as well as men, and choosing as heroes and heroines outsiders who would be viewed with suspicion by his readers. Trollope''s profound insight to human nature made him the first novelist in English to develop three dimensional characters and to create the novel sequence. This literary companion introduces readers to his life and work. A-to-Z entries explore Trollope''s short story collections, and nonfiction contributions, as well as important themes in the works. This companion also includes fresh voices of contributors that bring in their contemporary insights to bear on Trollope''s achievements, facilitating the understanding of Trollope''s perspectives in relation to feminism, queer studies, and transnationalism.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Abbreviations Introduction Anthony Trollope: A Brief Biography Chronological List of Trollope's Major Publications Anthony Trollope: A Companion Appendix: General Secondary Bibliography of Anthony Trollope Works Cited Index
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McFarland & Co Inc Mark Twain at the Gallows
Book Synopsis This book is a literary exploration of Mark Twain''s writings on crime in the American West and its intersection with morality, gender and justice. Writing from his office at the Enterprise newspaper in the Nevada Territory, Twain employed a distinct style of crime writing--one that sensationalized facts and included Twain''s personal philosophies and observations. Covering Twain''s journalism, fictional works and his own personal letters, this book contextualizes the writer''s coverage of crime through his anxieties about westward expansion and the promise of a utopian West. Twain''s observations on the West often reflected common perceptions of the day, positioning him as a voice of the people on issues like crime, punishment and gender.
£30.39
McFarland & Co Inc Victorian Nonfiction Prose
Book Synopsis The Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology. Millions of texts emerged from a complex network of writers, editors, publishers and reviewers, to shape and be shaped by the dynamics of a rapidly industrializing society. Many of these works offer fundamental, often surprising insights into Victorian society. Why, for example, did the innocuously titled Essays and Reviews (1860) trigger public outrage? How did Eliza Lynn Linton become the first salaried woman journalist in England? What is table-talk? Critical approaches to Victorian prose have long focused on a few canonical writers. Recent scholarship has recognized a wide diversity of practitioners, forms and modes of dissemination. Presented in accessible A-Z format, this literary companion reinstates nonfiction as a principal vehicle of knowledge and debate in Victorian Britain.Trade Review“A brilliant companion, not only to Victorian non-fiction prose, but to the Victorian Age itself. Rees combines scholarly erudition with vivid life-drawing, so that each subject seems to leap off the page to escort the reader into their particular region of Victorian life. Although it is designed as a work of reference, to be ‘dipped into’, I found it almost impossible to put down. The entry on Charles Spurgeon (‘the most published English-speaking Christian of all time’) led me to W.T. Stead then to Robert Louis Stevenson and on to John Addington Symonds and I emerged with a much richer sense of the texture of life of a period I thought I already knew well. This is a tour de force of scholarship which should become indispensable, not only to the 19C scholar, but to anyone needing a deeper understanding of the Victorian Age.” —Valerie Purton, emeritus professor of Victorian literature, Anglia Ruskin University, CambridgeTable of Contents Table of Contents Acknowledgments delete Preface delete Textual Notes delete Abbreviations delete Introduction delete Alphabetical List of Works Discussed delete Victorian Nonfiction Prose: A Companion delete Appendix A: Timeline of Prose Texts and Historical Events delete Appendix B: Glossary delete Works Cited delete Index
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McFarland & Co Inc James Fenimore Cooper
Book Synopsis Although often overlooked today, James Fenimore Cooper''s novels represent the very beginnings of American literature. Singlehandedly, the gentleman farmer from upstate New York created the American historical, spy, sea, frontier, science fiction, and courtroom novels. His books became both national and international bestsellers, were quickly translated into other languages, and impacted the development of the American publishing industry. This literary companion is a useful resource covering the major themes, characters, settings and more found in Cooper''s works. It includes an overview of his fiction; a brief biography; a chronological list of his major publications; and topics for discussion, research, and study.
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McFarland & Co Inc The Rail the Body and the Pen
Book Synopsis Many of the best-known British authors of the 1800s were fascinated by the science and technology of their era. Dickens included spontaneous human combustion and mesmerism (hyptnotism) in his plots. Mary Shelley created the immortal Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his creature. H.G. Wells imagined the Time Machine, the Invisible Man, and invaders from Mars. Percy Shelley was as infamous at Oxford for his smelly experiments and for his atheism. This book of essays explores representations of technology in the work of various nineteenth-century British authors. Essays cluster around two important areas of innovation-- transportation and medicine. Each essay contributor accessibly maps out the places where art and science meet, detailing how these authors both affected and reflected the technological revolutions of their time.Table of ContentsIntroductionBrian Cowlishaw 1Part 1: Trains and TravelTrains and Brains: Splitting the Self in Sensation FictionRichard Leahy 6A Technological View of Nineteenth Century Imperialism and Globalization in Science Fiction and Global HistorySobia Kiran 23The Shock of Modernity: Traveling the Railways and Reading the First Female Detective(s)Chandrama Basu 46Strains, Gains and Remains: Railway Development and Victorian Women in Middlemarch, North and South and Tess of the D'UrbervillesZoë Perot 69Part 2: Medicine and the BodyFactory Time: Mechanization and Monotony in the Victorian ImaginationSusan Johnston 92H.G. Wells and the Machinery of the Brain: Cognition Beyond Skull and Skin in The Time Machine and The War of the WorldsO.R. Teregulova 109The Mechanics of Being Human: Technology and Posthumanism in Mary Shelley's FrankensteinUrshela Wiggins Atkins 124Reanimation Through Electro-Stimulation: Frankenstein and Electrical ScienceVittoria S. Rubino 135Lubing the Speculum: Carmilla and the Gradual Introduction of Diagnostic Technology to Victorian MedicineElizabeth Hornsey 156"Stiff Limbed" and "Doubly Souled": The Queer Anatomy of Thomas Lovell Beddoes's Death's Jest-BookShelley Rees 174"The Intolerable Kodak": Ouida on Victorian Celebrity CultureLorraine Dubuisson 188About the Contributors 205Index 207
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McFarland & Co Inc Screening Charles Dickens
Book Synopsis Among professional storytellers whose works have been adapted for cinematic dramatization, mid-19th century English novelist Charles Dickens stands in a class of his own. In addition to his most well-known works such as A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist, which are unrivaled for their sheer number of film adaptations, each of Dickens'' other major works have been adapted for the screen multiple times, and many remain accessible for viewing on a variety of platforms. This survey highlights the most popular adaptations of each Dickens book, spanning from the films of the silent era through the 21st century. The survey also includes a critical examination that compares the adaptations to the original texts. An analysis outlines the many connections between the fictional narratives and the novelist''s own frequently misunderstood biography.Table of Contents Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Pickwick Papers (1836–1837) 2. Oliver Twist (1837–1838) 3. Nicholas Nickleby (1838–1839) 4. The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–1841) 5. Barnaby Rudge (1840–1841) 6. A Christmas Carol (1843) 7. Martin Chuzzlewit (1842–1844) 8. Other Christmas Novellas (1844–1848) 9. Dombey and Son (1846–1848) 10. David Copperfield (1849–1850) 11. Bleak House (1852–1853) 12. Hard Times (1854) 13. Little Dorrit (1855–1857) 14. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) 15. Travelogues (1842–1863) 16. Great Expectations (1860–1861) 17. Our Mutual Friend (1864–1865) 18. Later Short Stories (1859–1866) 19. The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) 20. Biographical and Apocryphal Summary Filmography Chapter Notes Select Bibliography Index
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McFarland & Co Inc The New Man of the House
Book Synopsis The modern-day suburb began, and began booming, in 19th-century Britain. As suburbia spread, the New Woman arose and fin-de-siecle concerns grew, suburban men felt more besieged. Anxieties about hygiene, pollution, purity, the home, class, gender roles, patrilineal power and the state of the Empire rippled through British fiction. The new man of the house was trying, often desperately, to hold onto the old order, changing even more rapidly as the 20th century and modernist fiction arrived. This study traces suburban masculinities in popular genres--speculative fiction, comic fiction and detective fiction--and in literary works from the late-Victorian era to the start of the First World War.Table of Contents Acknowledgments viii Preface Introduction: The Victorian Suburbs' (Un)making of Masculinity Chapter 1. As Pure as the Driven Fog: William Delisle Hay's The Doom of the Great City (1880) and Grant Allen's The British Barbarians (1895) Chapter 2. Pootering Him Back in His Rightful Place: George and Weedon Grossmith's The Diary of a Nobody (1892) Chapter 3. Unsurelocked Homes: Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Yellow Face" (1893) and "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" (1908) Coda: The Remaking of Suburban Masculinities in Early Twentieth-Century British Fiction List of Works Locations of Works in Suburban London Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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McFarland & Co Inc Social Identity and Literary Form in the
Book Synopsis Enormous social changes during the Victorian era inspired some of the finest novels in the English language. In the final decades of the century, rigid application of gender rules and class hierarchies began to relax. Consciousness of the injustice of class- and gender-based discrimination was growing. Meanwhile, bias against nonwhite peoples was worsening. The British used scientific racism to justify their relentless expansion in Africa and Asia. Viewing Victorian literature through the lens of these social changes gives the modern reader a fresh way to interpret the novels and to appreciate their relevance to contemporary issues. Nineteenth-century novelists deployed realism, satire, and the bildungsroman to resist or support leading ideologies of their time, including the separate spheres doctrine and British supremacism. Each chapter is an elaboration of the author''s university lectures about Victorian classics. The tone is scholarly yet conversational, directed to
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