Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Bats, beetles, wolves, butterflies, bulls, panthers, apes, leopards and spiders are among the countless creatures that crowd the pages of literature of the late nineteenth century. Whether in Gothic novels, science fiction, fantasy, fairy tales, journalism, political discourse, realism or naturalism, the line between the human and the animal becomes blurred. Beastly Journeys examines these bestial transformations across a range of well-known and less familiar texts and shows how they are provoked not only by the mutations of Darwinism but by social and economic shifts that have been lost in retellings and readings of them. The physical alterations described by George Gissing, George MacDonald, Arthur Machen, Arthur Morrison, W.T. Stead, Bram Stoker, H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, and many of their contemporaries, are responses to changes in the social body as Britain underwent a series of social and economic crises. Metaphors of travel – social, spatial, temporal, mythical and psychological – keep these stories on the move, confusing literary genres along with the indeterminacy of physical shape that they relate. Beastly Journeys will appeal to anyone interested in the relationship between nineteenth-century literature and its contexts and especially to those interested in the fin de siècle and in metaphors of travel, animals and shape-changing.Trade ReviewReviews 'A lively and energetic romp through a wide range of fin de siècle texts ... Youngs' readings are smart, and they take implicit aim at a kind of animal-recuperation tendency in the historiography that is most welcome as “post-human” analyses take root in literary studies.' Antoinette Burton, University of IllinoisTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: The unchaining of the beast 1. City creatures 2. The bat and the beetle 3. Morlocks, Martians and Beast-People 4. ‘Beast and man so mixty’: The Fairy Tales of George MacDonald 5. ‘an unclean beast’: Oscar Wilde Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEssays examining the poetry and leading poets of the Xhosa-speaking peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesThe Xhosa-speaking peoples who settled along the south-eastern seaboard of South Africa promoted traditions of praise poetry (izibongo), poetry produced orally by men and women, adults and children, about people, clans, ancestors and animals. Throughout the nineteenth century, authors who used the Xhosa language gradually developed the craft of composing poetry for publication in newspapers, and expanded this process in the twentieth century, when books containing secular literature appeared, but the practice of oral poetry persists, flourishing now as it did before the incursion of colonial settlers. The dominant poet in the community is the imbongi, who continues to produce poetry praising or criticising figures of authority on occasions of local and national significance.Xhosa Poets and Poetry (Iimbongi nezibongo) contains fourteen essays originally published between 1974 and 1996. Based on fieldwork conducted between 1969 and 1985, and on extensive archival research, the first six essays examine the social function of poetry in the community, the element of improvisation in the production of poetry, especially in the poetry of the imbongi, and the structural principles of his poetry. Individual poets are then presented, among them D.L.P. Yali-Manisi, Melikaya Mbutuma, Peter Mtuze and Nontsizi Mgqwetho, the first woman to produce a substantial body of poetry. The concluding four essays are thematic, treating issues introduced by the medium of print: the role of newspapers in fostering literature; censorship and control of the press; the damaging effects of changes in Xhosa spelling and the demand for books for school prescription; and, finally, the suspicion in which Xhosa poets held books and writing.This second edition updates the bibliographical references and amplifies some of the arguments. Xhosa Poets and Poetry offers a keen engagement with its subject, enlivened by extracts from conversations with poets and copious examples of their poetry in Xhosa and in English translation. It offers a cultural context for the volumes in this series.University of KwaZulu-Natal Press: Southern African Development Community

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Book SynopsisTracks the emergence and vicissitudes of attitudes to wrongdoing in Spain from the 19th century through the decades before the Civil War. The international contributors to this volume explore the rich diversity of cultures and representations of wrongdoing in Spain through the 19th century and the decades up to the Civil War. Their line of enquiry is predicated on the belief that cultural constructions of wrongdoing are far from simple reflections of historical or social realities, and that they reveal not a line of historical development, but rather variation and movement. Voices and discourses arise in response to the social phenomena associated with wrongdoing. They set out to persuade, to shock, to entice, and in so doing provide complex windows on to social aspiration and desire. The book's three sections (Realities, Representations, and Reactions) offer distinct points of focus, and move between areas where control is paramount and on the agenda from above and those where the subtleties of emotional response take pride of place. Alison Sinclair was Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge until retirement in 2014. Samuel Llano is a Lecturer in Spanish Cultural Studies at the Universityof Manchester.Trade ReviewA suggestive and brilliant take on the broad relations between literature, society and law. * FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction - Alison Sinclair and Samuel Llano The Lawyers' Reality: Wrongdoing in Spain in the Era of Codification - Matt Dyson and Aniceto Masferrer Murder in the Batey: Spanish Justice in the Atlantic Colony (1890-92) - Wadda C. Ríos-Font Crime, psychology, and 'being a medium' in Spain in the Early Twentieth Century - Belén Jiménez Alonso Brain States, Sanity, and Wrongdoing: The Neurophilosophy of Pedro Mata - Andrew Ginger Between the Lunatic Asylum and the Street: Illness, Crime and Dissidence in El caso clínico by Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent - Isabel Clúa Ginés Against Seemliness: Excess and Its Limitations in Popular Literature - Alison Sinclair Dubious identity: the Fontanellas Case (1861-1865) - Raquel Sánchez Mad, Bad or Typically Spanish? Don Benito: Chronotope of a Crime and Its Significance - Patricia McDermott Fantasies of Passing: The Bandit as Cultural Motif in Late 1920s and Early 1930s Spain - Jo Labanyi Sacrificial Performances: Confronting discourses on Prostitution in Dulce Dueño - Nuria Godón Street Music, Honour and Degeneration: The Case of Organilleros - Samuel Llano Fear in the City: Social Change and Moral Panic in Madrid in the Early Twentieth Century - Rubén Pallol Journeys to the Catacombs: Forbidden People and Spaces in Modern Madrid (1900-1936) - Fernando Vicente Albarrán Against the Death Penalty: a Campaign for Clemency in 1914 - Óscar Bascuñán Añover Index

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Book SynopsisA full exploration of Galdós's treatment of questions relating to the creation and distribution of wealth in the modern money-centred society of Restoration Spain. Winner of the 2017 Peter Bly Award of the Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas Rich and Poor follows Galdós's narrative of the ascent of the bourgeoisie in the speculative climate which resulted from the economic policies of the liberal State. The book also considers the way he portrays the consequences of these policies on the people left behind by the development of capitalism in Spain. Ridao Carlini brings recent scholarshipon nineteenth-century Spanish history together with a wealth of contemporary material--journalism, essays, pamphlets and costumbrista sketches of manner. In this way Galdós's novels are shown to participate in the varied currentsof critical thought - both conservative and socially radical--which questioned the theoretical basis of the Spanish liberal system from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. To this day no other critical work on Galdós has analysed the financial and economic aspects of Galdós's mature novels in the depth they deserve. Ridao Carlini shows that these aspects are central, both to the novels' narrative and to Galdós's understanding of Spanish society as the nineteenth century drew to a close. She also reveals Galdós's perception--one which he shares with other contemporary authors--that he was living through a time of unforeseeable social transformation. Galdós's work appears particularly relevant to us today, since we, like him, live in a time marked by a perception of social and economic uncertainty. Inma Ridao Carlini is a Teaching Fellow in Hispanic Studies, University of Leicester.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Changing Fortunes and the Financial World in Galdós's Lo prohibido From Usurer to Marqués: Lending and Social Advancement in the Torquemada Novels Revolution and the Politics of Religion in Ángel Guerra The cuestión social in Misericordia Afterword Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA lively and accessible introduction to Machado de Assis and his work Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is a world-class writer and arguably the greatest of Brazilian literature. Susan Sontag deemed him "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America," and Harold Bloom, "the supreme black literary artist to date." John Updike called him a "master," and Carlos Fuentes, a "miracle." This book guides the reader through Machado's biography, times, and critical reception and examines his various personas - the translator, poet, playwright, critic, cronista, short story writer, and novelist - paying particular attention to his fictional prose, which most clearly conveys his acerbic criticism of Brazilian society and his deft view of the human condition. The book closes with an updated list of Machado's works available in English translation and a selection of further critical studies.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations A Note on Translations Acknowledgments Chapter One: "Better than Borges" Chapter Two: Machado de Assis: Life and Ethos Chapter Three: Translation, Poetry, and Drama: The Quest for Greatness Chapter Four: Criticism and Crônica: The Quest for Greatness Continues Chapter Five: Short Stories: The Dialectical Other Chapter Six: Novels: Lights! Camera! Digression! Chapter Seven: The World Keeps Changing to Remain the Same Chapter Eight: The Machado Dictionary Appendix One: Machado de Assis in English Appendix Two: On Machado de Assis in English Bibliography

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Book SynopsisCombining a rich depiction of historical customs with genuine admiration for the Muslim legacy of Andalucia, El ferí de Benastepar is a previously unknown novel by Spanish writer José Miguel Hué y Camacho (1803-1841) that relates the doomed romance between Castilian lady Elvira de Castro and the eponymous ferí de Benastepar, Abenamet, a morisco chief.Trade ReviewThis previously unedited novel is a significant contribution to our knowledge of nineteenth-century writers like Miguel Hué y Camacho who opted to reimagine the relations between Christians and Moors during the Morisco rebellions following the fall of Granada. Luckily, El ferí de Benastepar has found itself in the capable hands of editors Javier Muñoz de Morales Galiana and Daniel Muñoz Sempere, who offer us a wide window into the originality and multiple sources of the novel. -- Lou Charnon-Deutsch * Emeritus Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University *Table of ContentsIntroducción Autoría de la novela: José Miguel Hué y Camacho, 'el Andaluz' (1803-1841) Fuentes de la novela: El orientalismo romántico y la segunda vida de la novela morisca Temas, estructura y personajes Amor romántico y literatura fronteriza Nota al texto El ferí de Benastepar, o los moros de Sierra Bermeja

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Book SynopsisMendele Mocher Sefarim's seven novels constitute the most important and influential body of work in modern Jewish prose fiction written prior to the First World War. These novels-five of which he wrote twice, once in Yiddish and once in Hebrew-are devastating satiric portraits of Jewish life in nineteenth-century Russia. They are permeated by Mendele's passion for social change, and an often equally passionate contempt for his own people for failing to achieve it. David Aberbach, exploring these passions in terms of the psychology of prejudice and self-hate, provides the first full-length analysis of the tension between realism and caricature in Mendele's descriptions of his fellow-Jew. At the same time, his analysis conveys Mendele's fascinating social and psychological insights into the forces which led to the mass emigration of Jews from Russia before the First World War, to the rise of Zionism, and to Jewish involvement in the socialist and revolutionary movements in Russia at the turn of the century. The picture is broadened through references to contemporary Russian literature so as to portray these forces in the context of Russian society at the time. Aberbach's skilful presentation allows the reader to gain access to Mendele's works through many tantalizing excerpts, with some of the key passages provided in Hebrew and Yiddish as well as in Aberbach's lively translation. He also makes available the considerable body of Mendele scholarship that has been published in Hebrew in recent years. From this fascinating and lucid work, scholars and general readers alike will gain a new understanding not only of the social realities of Jewish life in tsarist Russia but also of how the self-image of an ethnic minority may be affected and even determined by the character and social problems of the majority culture.Trade Review'A useful introduction ... Aberbach is rightly critical of, as well as enthusiastic about, his author. Transliterations of Hebrew and translations of Yiddish help the non-specialist.' Forum for Modern Language Studies 'There is much in this book on Mendele's confused psychological state of mind, even seeking to interpret the dreams described in his stories as indicative of that state ... This book will do much to take readers beyond the stereotypical image of Mendele as the amusing satirist of shtetl mores and provoke interest in him as a key figure in modern Jewish literature.' Barry Davis, Jewish Book News & Reviews 'Considerable achievement in making Mendele's writing more accessible to English readers.' Risa Domb, Jewish Chronicle 'Aberbach has now performed the difficult and vastly important feat of rendering a mass of remote material accessible to the general public, offering an account of the sources and their versions, summarizing their contents, and also making it available to the English-speaking reader. There are also very valuable extracts presented in the original languages, together with an account of the editions.' Leon I. Yudkin, Journal of Semitic StudiesTable of ContentsNote on transliteration Map: The World of Mendele Mocher Sefarim Introduction 1 The Five Twice-Told Novels 2 Mendele and Abramowitz: Anatomy of Self-Caricature 3 Antisemitism and Jewish Self-Hate in Mendele 4 Mendele's Realism and the Struggle for Change 5 Loss and Wandering in Mendele Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the theme of gambling in a wide range of nineteenth-century English novels. It examines the representation of gambling in the novels themselves and the role that gambling played in the lives of the individual novelists. It also considers the significance of gambling in the novels within the wider context of the development of Victorian society. Following an historical overview, the book comprises individual chapters on: Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope and George Moore. Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel not only provides fresh readings of established texts within a distinctive social and cultural context, but is also a comprehensive barometer of the social history of the time as attitudes towards leisure changed. It is essential reading for all those interested in the development of English society and culture in the Victorian era. Gambling occurred in all strata of society and was a national pastime. The pursuit of gambling took many forms: from after-dinner cards to pugilism, and indeed Stock Exchange transactions were considered by many to be gambling at its worst.

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Book SynopsisAunt Tula (La tia Tula), published in 1921, is one of the few novels written by Miguel de Unamuno to centre on a female protagonist. It is a vivid, nuanced portrait of the intelligent, wilful and yet vulnerable Tula. Despite having no biological children of her own, the unmarried Tula becomes the primary maternal figure for successive generations of children; some related to her, others not. Her chaste maternity is presented as a complex response to her long-held, self-sacrificing romantic love for her brother-in-law, her antipathy for the submissive role expected of bourgeois married women, and Tula's fear of her own physicality. Julia Biggane's translation captures the accessibility of style and richness of literary substance in the original, and the introduction equips the reader with an understanding of the text's wider material contexts and historical significance. Of special interest is the novel's representation of womanhood and maternity, itself inflected by wider social changes in countries across Western Europe and Russia during the first two decades of the 20th century.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Bibliographical Note Tia Tula / Aunt Tula Notes

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Book SynopsisAunt Tula (La tia Tula), published in 1921, is one of the few novels written by Miguel de Unamuno to centre on a female protagonist. It is a vivid, nuanced portrait of the intelligent, wilful and yet vulnerable Tula. Despite having no biological children of her own, the unmarried Tula becomes the primary maternal figure for successive generations of children; some related to her, others not. Her chaste maternity is presented as a complex response to her long-held, self-sacrificing romantic love for her brother-in-law, her antipathy for the submissive role expected of bourgeois married women, and Tula's fear of her own physicality. Julia Biggane's translation captures the accessibility of style and richness of literary substance in the original, and the introduction equips the reader with an understanding of the text's wider material contexts and historical significance. Of special interest is the novel's representation of womanhood and maternity, itself inflected by wider social changes in countries across Western Europe and Russia during the first two decades of the 20th century.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Bibliographical Note Tia Tula / Aunt Tula Notes

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Book SynopsisJane Austen is one of the most extensively read writers in English literature, renowned around the world for her much-loved romantic novels. Little is often known about this brilliant author, yet in this absorbing collection of stories and trivia readers will find answers to the amazing and extraordinary aspects of Austen’s life, work and legacy. From her development as a world-class author from unassuming origins and the secrets of her own life and loves, through insights into her novels and their characters along with the changing reception to them over the years, to intriguing stories behind the screen and stage adaptations of her works and her continued legacy, there is something for every enthusiast to relish. This authoritative and absorbing book is published to coincide with the 200th Anniversary of Austen’s death in 2017.Table of Contents1 Class act 10 2 'Bad reckoners' 12 3 112-year association 13 4 Happy home 15 5 Three grand houses 17 6 Second Farmer George 18 7 The Loiterer 20 8 Chosen as heir 22 9 Juvenile parody 25 10 Jane and Cassandra 27 11 Good friends 29 12 Leading lady 31 13 Death in the Caribbean 34 14 The Tom Lefroy affair 36 15 Novel beginnings 37 16 Wishful thinking? 39 17 Gold chains and topaz crosses 41 18 Strange scandal 43 19 'It's all settled!' 44 20 Affairs of the heart 47 21 Lure of Lyme 48 22 Sudden death 50 23 To the rescue 51 23 Opulent magnificence 53 24 Seaside interlude 55 25 Centre of creativity 57 26 Solitary sketch 59 27 First publication 59 28 'My own darling child' 63 29 Authorship revealed 65 30 Comic spirit 66 31 Universal truths 68 32 Mixed reactions 70 33 Delightful pilgrimage 72 34 'A rogue... but a civil one' 73 35 Scott's adulatory review 75 36 By royal permission 77 37 The duties of aunts 79 38 Cinderella revisited 82 39 In her sister's arms 84 40 Gothic parody 86 41 Literary genius ignored 88 42 Novel fragment 90 43 Early critics 91 44 'Highest esteem' 93 45 Facts of life 95 46 'Swell show' 96 47 Editor's hand 98 48 Cult status 100 49 White gowns and bonnets 101 50 Desert Island books 103 51 Darcymania 106 52 Zombie mash-up 107 53 Gripping continuation 108 54 Sparking a Twitterstorm 110 55 Social implications 112 56 Manly men 114 57 Spotlight on Cincinnati 116 58 Literary legacy 118 59 Screen legacy 120

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Book SynopsisIn 1857 the French poet Charles Baudelaire, who was fascinated by lesbianism, created a scandal with Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]. This collection was originally entitled "The Lesbians" and described women as "femmes damnees," with "disordered souls" suffering in a hypocritical world. Then twenty years later, lesbians in Paris dared to flaunt themselves in that extraordinarily creative period at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries which became known as the Belle Epoque. Lesbian Decadence, now available in English for the first time, provides a new analysis and synthesis of the depiction of lesbianism as a social phenomenon and a symptom of social malaise as well as a fantasy in that most vibrant place and period in history. In this newly translated work, praised by leading critics as "authoritative," "stunning," and "a marvel of elegance and erudition," Nicole G. Albert analyzes and synthesizes an engagingly rich sweep of historical representations of the lesbian mystique in art and literature. Albert contrasts these visions to moralists' abrupt condemnations of "the lesbian vice," as well as the newly emerging psychiatric establishment's medical fury and their obsession on cataloging and classifying symptoms of "inversion" or "perversion" in order to cure these "unbalanced creatures of love." Lesbian Decadence combines literary, artistic, and historical analysis of sources from the mainstream to the rare, from scholarly studies to popular culture. The English translation provides a core reference/text for those interested in the Decadent movement, in literary history, in French history and social history. It is well suited for courses in gender studies, women's studies, LGBT history, and lesbianism in literature, history, and art.Trade ReviewAn authoritative study that reveals how Sapphists were associated with the first expressions of a feminism that threw the popular imagination off balance and produced such inexhaustible fantasies. -- Marc Emile Baronheld Elle Belgique A marvel of elegance and erudition... Natalie Clifford Barney the Amazon, the tortured personalities of Renee Vivien and Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, the character of Claudine so smartly portrayed by Colette, Madame Adonis by Rachilde... Albert has brought these forgotten personages back to life with passion... The sterile and flamboyant lesbian with a mysterious and pernicious eroticism ended up embodying the spirit of the fin-de-siecle and by symbolizing to perfection the excesses of Decadence. -- S. M. Revue Inverses In Lesbian Decadence, Nicole G. Albert delves deeply into the history of lesbian representation and uses her finely sharpened pen to reveal to us the fascination which the descendants of Sappho exercised [on readers at the turn of the last century]... One of the greatest strengths of Albert's book is not to stop at the canonical works but to include hundreds of sources from scholarly philology to popular caricatures. -- Laure Murat Magazine Tetu This book presents a richly detailed portrait of 'the lesbian,' an image foregrounded in the world of arts and letters in the Belle Epoque. Fantasies connected to the kinds of 'deadly pleasures' that women enjoyed among themselves, often when they were intoxicated by opium, resulted in an enormous number of books, articles, and illustrations that the author has brought to light for us with stunning erudition. -- P. K. Le Monde At last Nicole Albert's landmark study of the place of 'the lesbian' in fin-de-siecle French culture is available in English! Exhaustively researched and newly updated, Albert's book draws on a wide variety of sources from literature, the arts, journalism, and the emerging field of sexology. Albert demonstrates how 'sapphism' was imagined and re-imagined by observers, and how the Belle Epoque vogue for lesbianism created a spectral figure both 'demonized and poeticized.' Situated at the intersection of history and literature, Lesbian Decadence should be of interest to everyone interested in a deeper understanding of how culture is shaped by notions of gender and sexuality. -- Michael Wilson, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, University of Texas By far the most authoritative book on how lesbianism, with its many distinct but related aspects, is depicted in decadent discourse of the French Fin de Siecle. The book is itself a jewel of decadent criticism: multi-faceted, studded with insights, and beautifully wrought. -- Melanie Hawthorne, Professor of French, Department of International Studies, Texas A&M University Albert's book is a treat for American LGBT Studies researchers. She provides us with a treasure trove of paintings, drawings, and cartoons... Lesbian Decadence will not only be cited heavily in future nineteenth century LGBT Studies research, but it brings the amazing scholarship of Erber and Peniston to light as well. Best of all, due to its multiple illustrations, it is a fun read for academic non-fiction, and will inspire us in English-speaking countries to learn more about our French cousins. -- Rachel Wexelbaum Lambda Literary Including an excellent bibliography, this book will interest students of fin-de-siecle France, LGBT history, and gender studies. CHOICE [Lesbian Decadence] brings together an astonishingly wide range of literary, artistic, medico-scientific, and historical sources to catalogue and trace the many ways in which lesbianism was anything but invisible at the fin-de-siecle. -- Annabel L. Kim H-France Review Remarkably learned. -- David Charles Rose Women's History ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsTranslators’ NoteProloguePart I. “At that time, Sappho was reborn in Paris”1. Sappho: The Resurrection of a Myth2. The Poets’ Muse3. Lesbos; or, The Topography of a VicePart II. “Her Traits, Her Vices, and Her Sexual Aberrations”4. The Birth of the Female Invert5. A Vice or an Illness?6. A Heroine at the Crossroads of Medicine and Literature7. When the Third Sex Comes Out8. Madame Don Juan, Arlequine, and OthersPart III. “Damned Women or Exquisite Creatures? ”9. Deadly Pleasures10. The Half-Women11. Female Narcissus12. Female Spaces, Male GazeNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisNeo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film is the first volume to focus solely on the replication, reconstruction, and re-presentation of Victorian things. It investigates the role of materiality in contemporary returns to the past as a means of assessing the function of things in remembering, revisioning, and/or reimagining the nineteenth century. Examining iterations of material culture in literature, film and popular television series, this volume offers a reconsideration of nineteenth-century things and the neo-Victorian cultural forms that they have inspired, animated, and even haunted. By turning to new and relatively underexplored strands of neo-Victorian materiality—including opium paraphernalia, slave ships, clothing, and biographical objects—and interrogating the critical role such objects play in reconstructing the past, this volume offers ways of thinking about how mis/apprehensions of material culture in the nineteenth century continue to shape our present understanding of things.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Stuff and Things: Introducing Neo-Victorian Materialities2. Objects and Memorabilia in Deborah Lutz’s The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects3. “Around the Mizzenpole”: Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage and African Americanizing the Neo-Victorian-at-sea4. Touching, Writing, Collecting: Opium Paraphernalia and Neo-Victorian Material Culture5. An Instrumental Thing: Pianos Extending and Becoming Postcolonial Bodies in Jane Campion’s The Piano and Daniel Mason’s The Piano Tuner6. “Wilful Phantoms”: Haunted Dress, Memory, and Agentic Materiality in Colm Tóibín’s The Master7. The Thing About Haunted Houses: In The Turn of the Screw, The Innocents and The Haunting of Hill House8. There’s Something in the Tea: Murder and Materiality in Dark Angel9. Criminal Things: Sherlock Holmes’ Details of Detection and Their Neo-Victorian Revisions10. The Sleight of Hand: Appearance and Disappearance of Things in Neo-Victorian Magic

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the figure and discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siècle New Woman, this book examines women writers who struggled with conservative, patriarchal ideologies of motherhood in novels, periodicals and life writings of the long modernist period. It shows how these writers challenged, resisted, adapted and negotiated traditional ideas with their own versions of new motherhood, with needs for identities and experiences beyond maternity. Tracing the period from the end of the nineteenth century through the twentieth, this study explores how some of the numerous elements and forces we identify with modernism are manifested in equally diverse and often competing representations of mothers, mothering and motherhood. It investigates how historical personages and fictional protagonists used and were constructed within textual spaces where they engaged critically with the maternal as institution, identity and practice, from perspectives informed by gender, sexuality, nationhood, race and class. The matrifocal literatures examined in this book exemplify how feminist motherhoods feature as a prominent thematic of the long modernist era and how rebellious New Woman mothers provocatively wrote maternity into text and history.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The “persistent rebels” of Maternal ModernismChapter: The New Woman, New Modernisms, and New MotherhoodsChapter 3: Mothers in New Woman Fiction: “the terra incognita of herself”Chapter 4: “The ‘momentousness’ of motherhood”: Maternal Ideologies, Discourses, and Debates in The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review and The Freewoman: A Weekly Humanist ReviewChapter 5: “The Title Role of ‘Mother’”: Silent-Film Stardom and Celebrity Maternity in Photoplay MagazineChapter 6: “Freedom and childbearing”: Prams, Politics, and Literary Life in NewWoman Autobiographies of the Interwar EraChapter 7: “A mother, a wife, a worker and a wonder-woman”: Matroethnography, Black Feminism, and Postcolonial New Womanhood in Buchi Emecheta’s London NarrativesChapter 8: Coda: New Womanism in the Twenty-First Century

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the life and work of Charlotte M. Yonge, a highly influential and popular nineteenth-century writer who is emerging from a long period of critical neglect. Its wide-ranging chapters capture the scope and quality of current work in Yonge studies, addressing the full range of her prolific literary output from her best-selling novels to her nature writing, biographies, and letters. Considering themes from gender, disability, and empire, to Tractarianism, secularism, and the idea of progress, these essays consider how Yonge reflected and shaped the tastes, ideas and anxieties of her readers and contemporaries. Exploring her key role in the Anglican revival, her importance as a test case in the development of feminist criticism, and her formal innovativeness as a novelist, this collection places Yonge centrally in the nineteenth-century literary landscape and demonstrates her ongoing relevance to scholars and students of the period.Table of Contents1. Charlotte M. Yonge and the Concept of Conservative Community - Rosemary Mitchell.- 2. A Woman’s Outlook: Charlotte Yonge’s Sense of Place - Julia Courtney.- 3. Charlotte M. Yonge, Empire and the Wider World - Terry Barringer.-4. Charlotte M. Yonge and the Long Victorian Family: Instructing the “Mother-Sister” - Tamara Wagner.- 5. Disability and Bioethics in Yonge’s Novels - Martha Stoddard Holmes.- 6. “What I can myself remember”: Charlotte M. Yonge’s Life Writing - Valerie Sanders.- 7. ‘Hard cash is a necessary consideration’: Money and Class in Charlotte M. Yonge’s Fictional Portrayals of Contemporary Family Life - Susan Walton.- 8. ‘A lady with a profession’: Governesses in the Novels of Charlotte M. Yonge - Clare Walker Gore.- 9. Providence and Progress: Science, Education and the Professions in Charlotte M. Yonge - Clemence Schultze.- 10. Charlotte M. Yonge and the Vocation of Childhood: Youth and Social Critique in Yonge’s novels - Gavin Budge.- 11. Changing Anglican Religious Practice, the Material Culture of Church Building, and the Novels of Charlotte M. Yonge (William Whyte).- 12. Yonge’s Missions: At Home and Abroad - Barbara Dennis.- 13. “I am too high church and too narrow”: Charlotte M. Yonge and Alexander Macmillan - Ellen Jordan.- 14. Charlotte Yonge and Feminist Criticism - Talia Schaffer.

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Book SynopsisThis book develops our understanding of the global literary field in the long nineteenth century by discussing nine different places outside the established metropoles. It shows how different economic, geographical and political factors combined to give each place its own distinctive literary culture and symbolic capital. Taking a geocritical approach, the book shows how its different case studies can be seen as ‘literary capitals’ in terms of their role within the wider nation, region or empire. The volume is divided into three parts. Part One discusses Kolkata, Hong Kong and Buenos Aires. Part Two considers ‘semi-peripheral’ European cities: Pest-Buda (Budapest), Helsinki and Dublin. Part Three focuses on cities within Italy: Trieste, Florence and Rome. Drawing on a wide range of literary texts and different genres, the book reads the nineteenth-century literary field as a constellation where different connections can be plotted across various points on the map at different times. Table of Contents1 Introduction: Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century—Spaces beyond the Centres Part I Beyond Europe2 Producing the Colonial Capital: Calcutta in Handbooks 3 World-Weaving in Nineteenth-Century East Asia: The Case of Hong Kong’s Earliest Chinese Newspaper, Gems from Near and Afar (Chinese Serial) 4 Turn-of-the-Century Buenos Aires: A Capital of Queer Spectacles Part II Redefining Peripheries 5 Bilingual Authors, Multilingual Printing Presses and‘Informal Capital’: Pest-Buda in the Early Nineteenth Century 6 Helsinki or Helsingfors? Jean Sibelius and the Stage 7 ‘A Place in Hungary’: The Phantasmal Dublin of Ulysses Part III Polycentric Italy 8 Trieste’s ‘Adventurers of Culture and Life’ 9 Untimely, Modern City: Literary Interventions on Florence as an Intellectual Capital at the Turn of the Century 10 From World Capital to National Capital: Literary Periodicals and the Construction of Modern Rome

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Book SynopsisExpanding Austenland: The Pride and Prejudice Fanfiction Archive explores Jane Austen’s reception in popular culture through an exploration of the ever-expanding terrain of online fanfiction, professionally published (profic) texts, and other intertextual reworkings inspired by the author’s most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice. The book argues that given its pervasiveness, Pride and Prejudice could be usefully considered not as a single novel, but as an entire ‘archive’ of interrelated texts, or as a portal that opens a ‘virtual world’ for readers to expand and explore. By examining the Pride and Prejudice archive of interrelated texts, this book analyses the process through which an individual novel can develop a virtual life, or afterlife. The evolving world that is opened by Pride and Prejudice, and extended and enriched through fanfiction, is conceptualised in the monograph as ‘Austenland’.Table of Contents Chapter 1 ‘She stimulates us to supply what is not there’: Expanding Austen’s world through fanfiction Chapter 2 ‘Light and bright and sparkling’ – Pride and Prejudice and fairy tales Chapter 3 ‘You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you’ – Darcymania takes over Chapter 4 ‘An arrival in Austenland’: The virtual world of Pride and Prejudice Chapter 5 ‘Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?’ – Zombies and vampires invade Pride and Prejudice Chapter 6 ‘How differently did everything now appear’ – The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and transmedia storytelling Chapter 7 ‘There’s no one to touch Jane when you’re in a tight place’: Pride and Prejudice and the pandemic

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Women's Writing of the 1880s.- Chapter 2: Edith Simcox on George Eliot: Transgendered Portraits in Episodes in the Lives of Men, Women, and Lovers.- Chapter 3: Domestic Metaphors and Scientific Illustration: Frances Power Cobbe and the Anti-Vivisection Movement in the 1880s.- Chapter 4: A ghost indeed': Spectralising the Female Householder in Margaret Oliphant's 1880s Fiction.- Chapter 5: Between the Aesthete and the Shopworker: Mind And Labour In Vernon Lee And Amy Levy.- Chapter 6: Writing for the Masses: Ouida and Newspaper Syndication.- Chapter 7: Adopting the Next Generation: Parenting in Women's Writing of the 1880s.- Chapter 8: Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves: Anna Kingsford's Dreams and Dream-Stories (1888).- Chapter 9: We are one': Fellowship Ideals and Social Transformation in Mona Caird's The Wing of Azrael.- Part II: Women's Writing of the 1890s.-

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Book Synopsis.- Chapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: Touch in the Egyptianised Gothic.- Chapter Three: Comparative Olfactory Encounters in Late Victorian Mummy Fiction.- Chapter Four: Gaze, The Mummified Body and The Iconography of Colonialism.- Chapter Five: Sound Imperialism in the Egyptianised Gothic.- Conclusion: Mummy Consumption, Tutmania and the End of the Egyptianised Gothic.

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Book SynopsisDas Handbuch gibt erstmals einen umfassenden Überblick über das Gesamtwerk Wilhelm Raabes (Erzähltexte, Lyrik, Zeichnungen) sowie seine literatur- und kulturgeschichtlichen Kontexte. Hinzu treten biografische, editorische, poetologische und rezeptionsgeschichtliche Grundlagen zum Verständnis von Raabes Leben und Werk. Als führender Autor des 19. Jahrhunderts war Raabe nicht nur Vertreter des Realismus, sondern stellte die ideologischen, erkenntnistheoretischen und ästhetischen Parameter realistischen Erzählens immer schärfer auf die Probe, um am Jahrhundertende an die Schwelle zur Moderne zu gelangen.Trade Review“... Insgesamt ist so ein Handbuch gelungen, das einen schnellen Zugriff auf eine Fülle von Informationen erlaubt, das die umfangreichen bestehenden Forschungsergebnisse einordnet sowie verdichtet und darüber hinaus frische Perspektiven eröffnet …” (Philipp Böttcher, in: Arbitrium, Jg. 36, Heft 2, 2018)“... Insgesamt haben die Herausgeber mit dem Raabe-Handbuch ein hervorragendes Werkzeug zur Erschließung und Vermessung der Raabe’schen Werke geschaffen. An vielen Stellen – insbesondere bei den weniger bekannten Texten aus Raabes mittlerer Periode – tragen die Autor*innen des Handbuchs Entscheidendes zur Erforschung bei, so dass sich im Handbuch nicht nur der Stand der Forschung ablesen lässt, sondern Forschungspositionen aktiv erarbeitet werden ...” (Cord-Friedrich Berghahn, in: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, Jg. 66, Heft 4, 2016)“... einen sehr substantiellen, perspektivenreichen und in einigen Punkten über das Bekannte hinausführenden, dabei aber gut lesbaren Band handelt, der in Zukunft für die Beschäftigung mit Raabe eine unverzichtbare Grundlage abgeben wird.” (Christian Begemann, in: Zeitschrift für Germanistik, Jg. 27, Heft 3, 2017)Table of ContentsGrundlagen.- Werke und Werkgruppen.- Kontexte, Themen und Diskurse.- Anhang

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Book SynopsisDieses Lehrbuch informiert umfassende über die Literatur der deutschen Romantik von der Frühromantik bis zu den Ausläufern der Spätromantik um 1830/40. Der Autor versteht die deutsche Romantik als eine literarische Revolution, von der entscheidende Impulse für eine literarische Moderne in ganz Europa ausgehen. Der Band skizziert die kultur- bzw. sozialgeschichtlichen sowie die philosophischen und wissenschaftlichen Kontexte der Romantik sowie die romantische Poetik und Ästhetik. Den Hauptteil bildet die ausführliche Darstellung zentraler Werke der verschiedenen Gattungen. Für die 4. Auflage wurde der Band durchgesehen und insbesondere bibliographisch aktualisiert.

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Book SynopsisEine „tägliche […] Buchführung mit sich selbst“ war für Goethe von großer Bedeutung, wie er 1827 gegenüber Kanzler Friedrich von Müller formulierte. Seine überlieferten Tagebücher machen rund zehn Prozent seines literarischen Nachlasses aus und erstrecken sich über einen Zeitraum von 57 Jahren. In der neuen historisch-kritischen Edition werden die Texte – im Unterschied zur Weimarer Ausgabe von Goethes Werken – ohne Eingriffe durch die Herausgeber nach den Handschriften wiedergegeben. Ein Apparat verzeichnet sämtliche zeitgenössischen Korrekturen und Ergänzungen sowie die Wechsel der Schreiber. Ein umfangreiches Register der direkt und indirekt im Tagebuch genannten Personen, Werke und Orte sowie ein Register zu Goethes Werken erschließen den Text. Ein ausführlicher Kommentar im zweiten Teilband erläutert und kontextualisiert die Notate und macht sie dadurch mit Gewinn lesbar.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Text.- Register

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Book SynopsisNur wenige deutsche Dichter erfahren eine ähnlich starke Aufmerksamkeit bis in die jüngste Gegenwart wie Friedrich Hölderlin. Das Handbuch, seit vielen Jahren das Standardwerk zur Hölderlin-Forschung, informiert in der Neuauflage detailliert über den aktuellen Forschungs- und Wissensstand. Es analysiert das gesamte Werk des Dichters und behandelt darüber hinaus die Biographie im Kontext der Epoche, die Voraussetzungen für das Werk, die Poetologie und schließlich die Rezeption Hölderlins. So werden verschiedene Zugangsweisen und die Vielfalt der Denkmotive Hölderlins transparent. In der zweiten Auflage wurden zahlreiche Artikel neu verfasst und ergänzt.Trade Review“... Studierende, die zum ersten Mal Hölderlins Werk begegnen und sich auf das mehr oder weniger unüberschaubare Gebiet der Hölderlin-Forschung wagen, wie auch Forscher:innen auf diesem inzwischen hyperspezialisierten Gebiet, die neue Bereiche erkunden möchten, finden im neuen Hölderlin-Handbuch einen Ausgangspunkt dafür.” (Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge, in: Hölderlin-Jahrbuch, Jg. 42, 2020-2021)Table of ContentsI Druckgeschichte.- II Zeit und Person.- III Voraussetzungen, Quellen, Kontext.- IV Poetologie.- V Werk.- VI Rezeption.- VII Nachwirkungen.​

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Book SynopsisDie Gesamtausgabe der Briefe an Goethe in Regestform erschließt mehr als 19.800 Briefe von etwa 3.500 Absendern. Die bisher erschienenen neun Bände umfassen den Zeitraum 1764 bis 1822 und präsentieren über 14.000 Briefregesten. Das mehrgliedrige Regest informiert über den Inhalt des Briefes und stellt ihn in den Zusammenhang von Goethes persönlichen Korrespondenzbeziehungen. Die Briefregesten werden durch Orts-, Personen- und Werkregister ergänzt. Band 10 dokumentiert Goethes persönliche Korrespondenz in den Jahren 1823 und 1824. Er umfasst die Regesten von fast 1.100 Briefen von 448 Absendern.Table of ContentsRegesten 1823-1824.- Personenregister.- Register der Entstehungsorte.- Goethe-Werkregister.- Allgemeines Werkregister.- Addenda.

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Book SynopsisIst musikalische Romantik eine Epoche, ein Stil oder bloß Kitsch? Wird sie von Literaten um 1800 erfunden? Ist Ludwig van Beethoven ein waschechter Romantiker oder doch erst Robert Schumann oder Richard Wagner? Irrt E.T.A. Hoffmann, wenn er schon Joseph Haydn und Wolfgang Amadé Mozart zu Romantikern erklärt? Und vor allem: Wann fängt die Romantik eigentlich an? - Das Buch begibt sich auf Spurensuche nach den Anfängen der Romantik, beobachtet einen Wandel im Nachdenken über Musik, zeigt Ästheten, Literaten und Musiker in ihren Debatten um moderne und experimentelle Konzepte des Komponierens und Schreibens. - Musik hat mehr als nur Teil am wirkmächtigen Ereignis der Romantik um 1800, das unsere Moderne geprägt hat wie wohl kaum eine andere Weltsicht der letzten Jahrhunderte. Sie sorgt für nachhaltige Hörerlebnisse der um 1770 geborenen Künstler, sie konfrontiert mit Neuem, Unerhörtem, sie entführt eine ganze Generation in Geisterreiche und Traumbilder. Sie ist nichts weniger als mitverantwortlich für die Anfänge der Romantik überhaupt. Das Buch begleitet diese Entwicklung bis zu Hoffmanns berühmter Rezension der 5. Sinfonie Beethovens aus dem Jahre 1810: als Ende des Anfangs.Table of Contents(Musikalische) Romantik: Was ist das?.- Literaten hören Musik.- Die Musik spricht, oder nicht?.- Neue Modelle: Reflexion und Kritik .- Neue Autorkonzepte .- Die Entdeckung des Hörers .- Alte Geschichte(n): Neue Inspiration.- Romantische Orte im Lyrischen und Idyllischen .- Relaunch: Fantasie, Arabeske und Nachtstück .- Neue Werkkonzepte: Offenheit und Fragmentarik .- Romantische Kippfiguren: Ironie und Ambiguität.- Mozart, ein Romantiker?.- Das Ende vom Anfang: Hoffmann rezensiert Beethoven.- Personen- und Werkregister

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Book SynopsisDas Kleist-Jahrbuch 2022 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2020 im November 2021 mit den Reden des Preisträgers Clemens J. Setz, der Vertrauensperson der Jury Daniela Strigl und des Präsidenten der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Günter Blamberger. Den Schwerpunkt bilden die von Andrea Allerkamp und Martin Roussel betreuten Beiträge der internationalen Jahrestagung der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft 2021 ›Um einen Kleist von außen bittend‹ (u.a. von László F. Földényi, Rüdiger Görner, Andrea Pagni, Paul Michael Lützeler und Carlotta von Maltzan). Abhandlungen zu Kleists Werken und Rezensionen wissenschaftlicher Neuerscheinungen zu Kleist sowie zu seinen historischen und systematischen Kontexten beschließen den Band.Table of ContentsVerleihung des Kleist-Preises 2020.- Internationale Jahrestagung der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft 2021 ›Um einen Kleist von außen bittend‹. Bestandsaufnahme – Über-Setzungen – Konstellationen – Fallgeschichten.- Abhandlungen.- Rezensionen.- Anhang.

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Book Synopsis2022 erscheint der 61. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs. Er enthält u. a. Untersuchungen zu zwei der berühmtesten lyrischen Werke Heines: eine narratologische Analyse der „Heimkehr“ und eine Quellenstudie zum „Sklavenschiff“. Neben Artikeln von Norbert Waszek über Heines Verhältnis zu dem französischen Philosophen Victor Cousin, Ernst-Ulrich Pinkert über Heine-Rezeption in Dänemark und von Inge Rippmann und Joseph A. Kruse über Literatur und Judenemanzipation im 19. Jahrhundert präsentiert er bisher unbekannte Briefe Heinrich Heines.Table of ContentsSiglen.- Aufsätze.- Heinrich-Heine-Institut. Sammlungen und Bestände aus der Arbeit des Hauses.- Buchbesprechungen.- Heine-Literatur 2021 mit Nachträgen.- Veranstaltungen des Heinrich-Heine-Instituts und der Heinrich-Heine-Gesellschaft e. V. Januar bis Dezember 2021.- Ankündigung: 26. Forum Junge Heine-Forschung, Heinrich-Heine-Institut, Düsseldorf, 9. Dezember 2023.- Abbildungsnachweise.- Hinweise für die Manuskriptgestaltung.- Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter des Heine-Jahrbuchs 2022.

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Book SynopsisAbbildungsverzeichnis.- Tabellenverzeichnis.- 1 Eine Poetik der Liebe in bedrohter Zeit.- 2 Vorbemerkungen zur Sprache.- 3 Forschungsstand.- 4 Eigener Forschungsansatz.- 5 Zur Methode.- 6 Der Weg aus der „Schwermuth“.- 7 Der Weg „zum Felde“.- 8 Die poetisierte Madonna.- 9 Die Madonna im Gedicht.- 10 Die Madonna als Beschützerin des Wegs.- 11 Die Madonna als Beschützerin der Zukunft.- 12 Die Madonna als Neuer Mythos.- 13 Die Madonna und die Liebe.- 14 Die Madonna im „Geist der Zeit“.- 15 Die Madonna und die schöne Sprache.- 16 Sprache und Allegorie.- 17 Sprache und „Wohlklang“.- 18 Zusammenfassung.- 19 Nachwort: Wozu Hölderlins Lyrik heute?.- Anhang.- Literaturverzeichnis.

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Book SynopsisWichtige Erschließungshilfe der Kommentarbände und Ergänzung des Registerbandes 10: In alphabetischer Ordnung werden zentrale Begriffe und Erläuterungen, alle in den Briefen berührten Sachverhalte und eigentümliche Wörter und Wendungen nachgewiesen. Außerdem werden zahlreiche Personen- und Ortsnamen aus den Briefen an Johann Gottfried und Karoline Herder, die im Kommentar enthalten sind, aufgeführt. Das Register enthält nicht nur Stichworte, die Probleme und Sachen bezeichnen, sondern unter sprachhistorischem Aspekt auch Wörter mit Bedeutungswandel, Fremdwörter und Dialektwörter.Table of ContentsVorbemerkung.- Errata.- Nachtrag zu Bd. VII.- Probleme, Sachen, Personen, Orte

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Table of ContentsFrontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. Collaboration, Affinity, and Original Creativity -- II. The Augsburg Years -- III. Learning from Kipling: The Lyrics -- IV. Exploiting Kipling's Prose -- V. Brecht's "Many Inventions" using Leopold Lindau's Translations -- VI. The Berlin Years -- VII. The World of "Man is Man" -- VIII. "Rudyard Brecht": The Late Twenties -- IX. Kipling in a Marxist World -- X. The Final Years -- XI. "Never the Twain shall meet"? - Conclusions -- Appendices -- Works consulted -- Index

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Book SynopsisThe first full-length autobiography in Bengali, Amar Jiban (My Life) was written in the early nineteenth century by an upper-caste rural housewife named Rashundari Debi. Published in 1868 when she was eighty-eight years old, the book is a fascinating snapshot of life for women in the nineteenth century. Debi, who gave birth to eleven children - her first was born when she was eighteen years old, the last when she was forty-one - ruminates on her very individual understanding of bhakti beliefs as well as the new times that were unfolding around her. Offering a translation of major sections of this remarkable autobiography, Words to Win is a portrait of a woman who wants to compose a life of her own, wishes to present it in the public sphere, and eventually accomplishes just that. The words, in the end, win out. First published in 1999, the book is a must-read for anyone interested in nineteenth-century Indian history. The classic text is reissued here in a new paperback format.Trade Review"Tanika Sarkar's dissection of the text-the autobiography of an upper-caste East Bengali widow from a family of landlords, who teaches herself to read and write in secrecy as it's a taboo to do so-yields a cracking yarn of social history." (Pothik Ghosh, Outlook)"

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Book SynopsisWhere does a literary reputation originate and why are so many writers'' reputations subject to the caprices of academic or critical fashion? Basing his arguments on the tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who has survived long periods in the literary wilderness to become one of America''s most important novelists, Brodhead investigates the question of how pasts get created and distributed, and what it means to live within or without the presence of such pasts.Trade Review`Brodhead's book is a very good addition to Hawthorne criticism as well as to the theory of how literary tradition is made and remade...will be a welcomed text in graduate and major university libraries.' Choice `Richard Brodhead...proves here once again that he is a brilliant reader and a brilliant writer. In fact, one is almost inclined to distrust a prose so consistently and simultaneously dense and lucid and so studded with witty and wise phrases and sentences...The School of Hawthorne is a joy to read. But what will make it an important and enduring contribution to the study of American literature and culture is the wisdom of its argument...Richard Brodhead will become (dare one say it?) a `classic' interpreter of American literature and of its complex history.' New England Quarterly

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Book SynopsisAlthough Jane Austen famously referred to Emma as a heroine whom no one but myself will much like, the irony of her remark has been obvious since the first appearance of her novel in December 1815. The central character may have attracted diverse reactions, but there can be no doubt about the endless enjoyment afforded to generations of readers. The essays in this collection demonstrate the varied delights of reading Emma. Most have been written in the last twenty years, but each draws on the cumulative body of scholarship and critical analysis that has built up since the novel was first published. The purpose of the collection is to introduce readers of Austen to new ways of interpreting her most substantial and rewarding novel. Each essay engages with Emma, but there is considerable dialogue taking place between the different approaches, which collectively contributes to the enriched readings of Austen''s work. The collection opens with an introduction encouraging readers to re-read Emma, and to find its pleasures magnified by the critical interpretations and scholarship represented in this casebook.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Fionna Stafford Acknowledgements 1: 'Opinions of Emma' collected by Jane Austen (1816) 2: Walter Scott, Unsigned review of Emma (1816) 3: Reginald Farrer, 'Jane Austen, ob. July 18, 1817' (1917) 4: Lionel Trilling, 'Emma and the Legend of Jane Austen' (1957) 5: Wayne C. Booth, 'Control of Distance in Jane Austen's Emma' (1961) 6: Claudia L. Johnson, 'Woman, lovely woman reigns alone' (1988) 7: Joseph Litvak, 'Reading Characters: Self, Society and Text in Emma' (1985) 8: John Dussinger, 'Desire: Emma in Love' (1990) 9: John Wiltshire, 'Emma: The Picture of Health' (1992) 10: Mary Waldron, 'Men of Sense and Silly Wives: The Confusion of Mr Knightley' (1999) 11: Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield, 'Filming Highbury: Reducing the Community in Emma to the Screen' (1999) 12: Gayle Wald, 'Clueless in the neo-colonial world order' (2000) 13: Brian Southam, 'Emma: England, Peace, and Patriotism' (2000) 14: Frances Ferguson, Jane Austen, Emma and the Impact of Form' (2000)

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Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive guide to the richness and diversity of the Romantic field. It includes 46 specially commissioned chapters by an international team of leading scholars and combines chapters offering background and contextual information with detailed readings of Romantic texts. The volume is divided into four parts - ''Romantic Orientations'', ''Reading Romanticism'', ''Romantic Forms'' and ''Romantic Afterlives''.Table of ContentsPART 1 ; ROMANTIC ORIENTATIONS ; 1. The Historical Context ; 2. The Literary Background ; 3. Classical Inheritances ; 4. Sensibility ; 5. The Visual Arts and Music ; 6. Print Culture ; 7. Romanticism and Science ; 8. Religion and Philosophy ; 9. England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland ; 10. Europe ; 11. Easts ; 12. Americas ; PART 2 ; READING ROMANTICISM ; 13. Historicist/Marxist Approaches ; 14. Feminist Approaches ; 15. Ecological Approaches ; 16. Psychoanalytic Approaches ; 17. Postcolonial Approaches ; 18. Formalist Approaches ; PART 3 ; ROMANTIC FORMS ; 19. Introduction to Romantic Forms ; 20. The Lyric ; 21. Epic ; 22. The Sonnet ; 23. Narrative Poetry ; 24. The Novel ; 25. Satire ; 26. Drama ; 27. Essays, Newspapers and Magazines ; 28. Biography and Autobiography ; 29. Romance ; 30. Gothic ; 31. Fragments ; 32. Forgeries ; 33. Non-Fictional Prose ; 34. Travel Writing ; 35. Letters, Diaries and Journals ; PART 4 ; ROMANTIC AFTERLIVES ; 36. Literary Criticism and Theory ; 37. The Poetic Tradition ; 38. The Novel ; 39. Film ; 40. Romantic Afterlives and Legacies in the Theatre ; 41. Idea of the Author ; 42. Modernism and Postmodernity ; 43. Politics ; 44. Science ; 45. Environmentalism ; 46. Romanticism in the Electronic Age

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Book SynopsisQuestions of survival were much discussed during the nineteenth-century, ranging from debates over the likelihood of a personal immortality, to anxieties over the more dispersed and unpredictable aftermath of particular acts and utterances. Some of these questions emerged in the intellectual and stylistic preoccupations of individual writers, such as Dickens, Tennyson, and FitzGerald. Others contributed towards the cultural atmosphere they shared, in which shifty and overlapping ideas of ''influence'' (from the seductive touch of the mesmerist to the contagious breath of the poor) became central to attempts to work out how far-reaching were the effects which people had on one another and themselves.Victorian Afterlives sets out to recover this atmosphere, and to explain why its pressures are still being exercised on and in our own ways of thinking. Moving freely between different fields of enquiry (including literary criticism, philosophy, and the history of science), and written in a lively and accessible style, this major new study redraws the map of nineteenth-century culture to show what the Victorians made of one another, and what they might still help us make of ourselves.Trade ReviewReview from hardback edition ... neatly phrased, incisive commentary is a precious feature of this book: its strength lies in such observations, in the author's highly-trained discrimination as a close reader of words. * Dickens Quarterly *Review from hardback edition It is perhaps the most remarkable achievement of Victorian Afterlives that this book, whose subject seems at first so uncertain, so forced, so peculiar to itself, should emerge as a significant combination of subjects previously known. * MODERNISM/modernity *Review from previous edition This book is one of the most impressive critical analyses of nineteenth-century literary culture that I have read in a long time. A closely written and argued discussion of theories of literary influence in a nineteenth-century context, it ranges widely and makes always interesting and sometimes brilliant connections . . . This is a major work of Victorian literary criticism, and a book to be read over and over again for its myriad insights and felicities. * Tennyson Research Bulletin *Close readings unravel the manner in which "dead" voices haunt Tennyson's poetry, and the author is uncommonly sharp-eared for nuance. * Scotland on Sunday *Ambitious, delightful, frustrating, wide-ranging, often beautifully written . . . Its sheer range sets it apart from the usual academic monograph . . . refreshingly free of jargon. * Angela Leighton, Times Literary Supplement *One of the enjoyable features of Douglas-Fairhurst's writing is its commitment to close reading. He can make a word or line come alive by a turn of phrase which resonantly prolongs its momentum. * Angela Leighton, Times Literary Supplement *'Douglas-Fairhurst's excellent ear for the influential voices in the Victorian air is . . extraordinarily impressive in its demonstration of an ambitiously capacious conception of influence . . . the range of reference and allusion in the book is dizzying, . . . and the evocation of these echoing voices provides an extraordinary resonance to his discussions, especially, of Dickens' Great Expectation, Tennyson's "sympathy", and Edward FitzGerald's nostalgic savouring of the afterlives of friends and texts in memory.' * Victorian Poetry *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ; Introduction ; 1. Forms of Survival ; 2. Voices in the Air ; 3. Tennyson's Sympathy ; 4. Edward FitzGerald: Under the Influence ; Afterword ; Bibliography ; Index

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