Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

Book SynopsisTracing the evolution of sense work in literary texts, the visual arts, periodical culture, and history, this paradigm-shifting book explores how embodied cognition helps define democratic practice and rebellion, cultural crisis, and social change.Trade ReviewAn extraordinary book…Masiello's book is a beautiful exploration of the long history of [the mighty power of managing one's own senses] in Latin America. * Iberoamericana *Masiello's work is undoubtedly persuasive and engaging throughout, offering a refreshing method to pursue studies of politics and emotion. * Bulletin of Hispanic Studies *[Masiello's] local scenes of sense work successfully make the case for a new approach to Latin American literature, art, and culture grounded in the aesthetics and politics of sense perception. They also serve as anchor points for one of Masiello’s subsidiary claims: that the work of the senses in culture is best understood when one turns way from universalist generalizations to focus on localized regimes of perception. In this way, The Senses of Democracy extends an invitation to other theorists and scholars to continue mining the local and regional specificity of sense perception in Latin America, in contexts and time periods that are not covered in this book. * Revista de Esudios Hispánicos *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Sensing the Early Republic Chapter 2. Troubled by Gender: Technology and Perception in the Women’s Nineteenth Century Chapter 3. Collective Synesthesia: The 1920s Avant-Garde Chapter 4. A Politics of Perception against the State Chapter 5. By Way of a Conclusion: A Sense of the “Now” Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisHester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of printed ephemera created by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century polar explorers, showing how ship newspapers and other writing shows how explores wrestled with questions of time, space, and community while providing them with habits to survive the extreme polar climate.Trade Review"The News at the Ends of the Earth is a fine-grained register of the ebb and flow of a printophilic century, from Ross to Shackleton. While mindful of the minor variations over the decades, Blum marvelously conveys that fantastic, phantasmatically preserved shipbound conversation, a dilated and heterogeneous house party." -- John Plotz * Public Books *"An intricately layered, richly illustrated examination of shipboard newspapers (printed and handwritten), playbills, and other media produced by expeditions to the Antarctic and Arctic regions between 1818 and 1914. . . . The book speaks to the human imperative to communicate, even under extremely hostile conditions. . . . Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- J. Bekken * Choice *"Superb. . . . As the Anthropocene continues to develop, Blum’s concern with the media and narratives we might use to represent the planet’s predicament is of interest not only to scholars of printing and the polar regions, but also to a general reader." -- Nancy Campbell * TLS *"Blum’s book is a lively and enjoyable account of a fascinating historical period and its practices—but it is also vitally relevant for our current moment." -- Carie Lyn Schneider * Edge Effects *"[Blum] offers a fascinating history of onboard polar publication and provides a detailed analysis of the various textual materials produced during voyages of Arctic and Antarctic exploration. It also strives to unpick the intriguing motivations that lay behind their production. ... An invaluable contribution to several branches of scholarship, and readers interested in polar exploration, literary studies, and histories of printing culture will gain much from reading this interesting and insightful book." -- Peter R. Martin * Nineteenth Century Studies *"The News at the Ends of the Earth makes a significant contribution to the growing push to incorporate the polar regions into world histories. It would be of immense value to historians with an interest in oceanic spaces, the polar regions, histories of printed media, or histories of ephemera, and would be a useful starting point for scholars looking to think about how the Arctic and Antarctic fit into the scope of world history." -- Rohan Howitt * Journal of World History *"The News at the Ends of the Earth is exciting, both for what it definitively argues and for the questions it incites." -- Devin M. Garofalo * Journal of American Studies *"The News at the Ends of the Earth offers a fascinating, finely textured portrait of life aboard ship in the most extreme environments of the world." -- Michael Robinson * Journal of American History *“The News at the Ends of the Earth succeeds in its assertion that the practices of historical polar expeditions are important in comprehending the current climate crisis. The reader is left with an overwhelming sense of how crucial the enterprise of creating these collective outlets of communication was, and still is, in understanding one’s place in the environment and the necessity of self-expression in climatic extremes.” -- Eavan O’Dochartaigh * Journal for Maritime Research *“Hester Blum’s The News at the Ends of the Earth is deeply detailed and richly illustrated in order to create a book that is at once informative and culturally important.” -- Emily Ennis * Victoriographies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Chronology xi Preface: Books on Ice xv Acknowledgments xxi Introduction. Polar Ecomedia 1 1. Extreme Printing 43 2. Arctic News 91 3. Antarctic Imprints 138 4. Dead Letter Reckoning 177 5. Inuit Knowledge and Charles Francis Hall 209 Conclusion. Matters of Life and Death 231 Notes 237 Bibliography 273 Index 291

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Book SynopsisHester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of printed ephemera created by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century polar explorers, showing how ship newspapers and other writing shows how explores wrestled with questions of time, space, and community while providing them with habits to survive the extreme polar climate.Trade Review"The News at the Ends of the Earth is a fine-grained register of the ebb and flow of a printophilic century, from Ross to Shackleton. While mindful of the minor variations over the decades, Blum marvelously conveys that fantastic, phantasmatically preserved shipbound conversation, a dilated and heterogeneous house party." -- John Plotz * Public Books *"An intricately layered, richly illustrated examination of shipboard newspapers (printed and handwritten), playbills, and other media produced by expeditions to the Antarctic and Arctic regions between 1818 and 1914. . . . The book speaks to the human imperative to communicate, even under extremely hostile conditions. . . . Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- J. Bekken * Choice *"Superb. . . . As the Anthropocene continues to develop, Blum’s concern with the media and narratives we might use to represent the planet’s predicament is of interest not only to scholars of printing and the polar regions, but also to a general reader." -- Nancy Campbell * TLS *"Blum’s book is a lively and enjoyable account of a fascinating historical period and its practices—but it is also vitally relevant for our current moment." -- Carie Lyn Schneider * Edge Effects *"[Blum] offers a fascinating history of onboard polar publication and provides a detailed analysis of the various textual materials produced during voyages of Arctic and Antarctic exploration. It also strives to unpick the intriguing motivations that lay behind their production. ... An invaluable contribution to several branches of scholarship, and readers interested in polar exploration, literary studies, and histories of printing culture will gain much from reading this interesting and insightful book." -- Peter R. Martin * Nineteenth Century Studies *"The News at the Ends of the Earth makes a significant contribution to the growing push to incorporate the polar regions into world histories. It would be of immense value to historians with an interest in oceanic spaces, the polar regions, histories of printed media, or histories of ephemera, and would be a useful starting point for scholars looking to think about how the Arctic and Antarctic fit into the scope of world history." -- Rohan Howitt * Journal of World History *"The News at the Ends of the Earth is exciting, both for what it definitively argues and for the questions it incites." -- Devin M. Garofalo * Journal of American Studies *"The News at the Ends of the Earth offers a fascinating, finely textured portrait of life aboard ship in the most extreme environments of the world." -- Michael Robinson * Journal of American History *“The News at the Ends of the Earth succeeds in its assertion that the practices of historical polar expeditions are important in comprehending the current climate crisis. The reader is left with an overwhelming sense of how crucial the enterprise of creating these collective outlets of communication was, and still is, in understanding one’s place in the environment and the necessity of self-expression in climatic extremes.” -- Eavan O’Dochartaigh * Journal for Maritime Research *“Hester Blum’s The News at the Ends of the Earth is deeply detailed and richly illustrated in order to create a book that is at once informative and culturally important.” -- Emily Ennis * Victoriographies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Chronology xi Preface: Books on Ice xv Acknowledgments xxi Introduction. Polar Ecomedia 1 1. Extreme Printing 43 2. Arctic News 91 3. Antarctic Imprints 138 4. Dead Letter Reckoning 177 5. Inuit Knowledge and Charles Francis Hall 209 Conclusion. Matters of Life and Death 231 Notes 237 Bibliography 273 Index 291

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Book SynopsisElizabeth Freeman expands bipolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century and showing how time became a social and sensory means by which people resisted disciplinary regimes and assembled into groups in ways that created new forms of sociality.Trade Review“Beside You in Time is a singularly powerful meditation on the biopoliticized timing of bodies but also upon the carnal body as an instrument of sociability, a tool for fugitive world-making. Elizabeth Freeman takes discourses and scenes we thought we knew and, by locating them in a context so fresh in conception, brings them to a new dynamic life. Americanists, queer theorists, anybody interested in the state of critical theory after New Historicism: all will be eager to get hold of this field-shifting and necessary book.” -- Peter Coviello, author of * Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism *“Elizabeth Freeman's fierce femme provocation expands contemporary critical thinking about biopower, leading queer Americanist scholarship toward an exploration of the rich potentialities buried within the history of sexuality.” -- Dana Luciano, author of * Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America *"This book makes an important contribution to queer theory as well as to American literary and cultural studies in the long nineteenth century, as Elizabeth Freeman frames the field." -- Daniel T. O'Hara * Review 19 *"What I like most about Freeman’s Beside You in Time is its capacious sense of reading, along with the queer possibilities that inhere, for her, in all social encounters and interactions. The book is filled with insights on Freeman’s practice as a teacher and scholar. . . . Her close readings invite an intimate, associative interpretation that refreshes and surprises with its insights." -- Ben Bascom * American Literary History *“Freeman’s analytical imagination is on full display…. Beside You in Time helps us think differently about how bodies connect through time, through desire, through narrative (itself a chronological technology), and, most importantly, through contact with each other. She helps us reconsider our present moment as we are physically distanced but temporally together: on our computer screens and on the streets.” -- Sarah E. Chinn * Studies in the Novel *“Freeman is productively in conversation with cultural theorists of the last forty years, and she argues generously and generatively, adding nuance and worthy provocations.” -- Stephanie P. Browner * Modern Philology *“Beside You in Time . . . remind[s] us of the robust synergies between religious and queer studies, while suggesting how we might better understand the field’s long-standing emphasis on nonnormativity within rather than against histories of racist and colonial exclusions.” -- Travis M. Foster * GLQ *“When readers get into the close readings that make up the bulk of Freeman’s discussion, they will find that she is a lucid and illuminating literary interpreter.” -- Thomas Allen * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Shake it Off: The Physiopolitics of Shaker Dance, 1774–1856 27 2. The Gift of Constant Escape: Playing Dead in African American Literature, 1849–1900 52 3. Feeling Historicisms: Libidinal History in Twain and Hopkins 87 4. The Sense of Unending: Defective Chronicity in "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and "Melanctha" 124 5. Sacra/Mentality in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood 158 Coda. Rhythm Travel 187 Notes 191 References 199 Index 219

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Book SynopsisThis special issue interrogates the plantation as a form, logic, and technology that continues to produce inequalities. Attending to the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States, contributors follow the evolution of plantation slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through its subsequent iterations in the Jim Crow and civil rights eras, and into the neoliberal present, where the carceral state props up fantasies of postracialism. The contributors rethink the necro- and biopolitics of plantation slavery, uncovering laborers' strategies of self-determination, affiliation, and communication in spite of the plantation's mechanisms of control. Essay topics include the circulation of a weekly newspaper published by black tenant farmers in the 1920s, a nineteenth-century trial of an enslaved woman, and the fetish-making of Haitian revolutionary François Makandal. Reconsidering the time and space of the plantation, contributors analyze Western processes of racialization a

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Book SynopsisElizabeth Freeman expands bipolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century and showing how time became a social and sensory means by which people resisted disciplinary regimes and assembled into groups in ways that created new forms of sociality.Trade Review“Beside You in Time is a singularly powerful meditation on the biopoliticized timing of bodies but also upon the carnal body as an instrument of sociability, a tool for fugitive world-making. Elizabeth Freeman takes discourses and scenes we thought we knew and, by locating them in a context so fresh in conception, brings them to a new dynamic life. Americanists, queer theorists, anybody interested in the state of critical theory after New Historicism: all will be eager to get hold of this field-shifting and necessary book.” -- Peter Coviello, author of * Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism *“Elizabeth Freeman's fierce femme provocation expands contemporary critical thinking about biopower, leading queer Americanist scholarship toward an exploration of the rich potentialities buried within the history of sexuality.” -- Dana Luciano, author of * Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America *"This book makes an important contribution to queer theory as well as to American literary and cultural studies in the long nineteenth century, as Elizabeth Freeman frames the field." -- Daniel T. O'Hara * Review 19 *"What I like most about Freeman’s Beside You in Time is its capacious sense of reading, along with the queer possibilities that inhere, for her, in all social encounters and interactions. The book is filled with insights on Freeman’s practice as a teacher and scholar. . . . Her close readings invite an intimate, associative interpretation that refreshes and surprises with its insights." -- Ben Bascom * American Literary History *“Freeman’s analytical imagination is on full display…. Beside You in Time helps us think differently about how bodies connect through time, through desire, through narrative (itself a chronological technology), and, most importantly, through contact with each other. She helps us reconsider our present moment as we are physically distanced but temporally together: on our computer screens and on the streets.” -- Sarah E. Chinn * Studies in the Novel *“Freeman is productively in conversation with cultural theorists of the last forty years, and she argues generously and generatively, adding nuance and worthy provocations.” -- Stephanie P. Browner * Modern Philology *“Beside You in Time . . . remind[s] us of the robust synergies between religious and queer studies, while suggesting how we might better understand the field’s long-standing emphasis on nonnormativity within rather than against histories of racist and colonial exclusions.” -- Travis M. Foster * GLQ *“When readers get into the close readings that make up the bulk of Freeman’s discussion, they will find that she is a lucid and illuminating literary interpreter.” -- Thomas Allen * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Shake it Off: The Physiopolitics of Shaker Dance, 1774–1856 27 2. The Gift of Constant Escape: Playing Dead in African American Literature, 1849–1900 52 3. Feeling Historicisms: Libidinal History in Twain and Hopkins 87 4. The Sense of Unending: Defective Chronicity in "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and "Melanctha" 124 5. Sacra/Mentality in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood 158 Coda. Rhythm Travel 187 Notes 191 References 199 Index 219

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Book SynopsisNahum Dimitri Chandler offers a philosophical interpretation of W. E. B. Du Bois's 1897 American Negro Academy address, The Conservation of Races, proposing both a close reading of Du Bois's engagement of the concept of race and a meditation on Du Bois's conceptualization of historicity.Trade Review"A complex and detailed philosophical analysis of W.E.B. Du Bois’ early thought. ... Chandler’s a sophisticated thinker and crafty wordsmith with broad knowledge, a vast vocabulary, and a writing style ripe with complex analytic musing and artistic stylization." -- Sean Elias * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xv Note on Citations xvii Part I. On Paragraph Four of “The Conservation of Races” 1 Part II. On the Question of the Illimitable in the Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois 81 Afterthought 145 Notes 147 References 161 Index 173

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Book SynopsisIn the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be made and unmade. Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both contested and controlled.Examining scientific and literary narratives, Nihad M. Farooq's Undisciplined encourages an alternative consideration of personhood, one that emerges from evolutionary and ethnographic discourse. Moving chronologically from 1830 to 1940, Farooq explores the scientific and cultural entanglements of Atlantic travelers in and beyond the Darwin era, and invites us to attend more closely to the consequences of mobility and contact on disciplines and persons. Bringing together an innovative group of readingsfrom field journals, diaries, letters, and testimonies to novels, stage plays, and audio recordingsFarooq advocates for a reconsideration of science, personhood, and the prioTrade ReviewPersuasive and thought-provoking,Undisciplinedargues against overly simplistic accounts of the work of modern science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With dazzling archival work, Nihad M. Farooq examines the sometimes-playful and often-sobering negotiations of those who were being studied as they returned the gaze ofand spoke backtotheir Western observers. Engaging with histories of slavery, colonialism, and diaspora, Farooq makes a compelling case for the centrality of race within the emergent sciences of evolutionary biology and anthropology. -- Jane Thrailkill,author of Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary RealismThis work would serve as a worthwhile addition to courses or reading lists on the history of science, anthropology, literature, and citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. * Civil War Book Review *

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Book SynopsisPerhaps the most popular of all canonicalAmerican authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirizeAmerican formations of race and empire. While many scholars have exploredTwain's work in African Americanist contexts, his writing on Asia and AsianAmericans remains largely in the shadows. In Sitting in Darkness, Hsuan Hsuexamines Twain's career-long archive of writings about United States relationswith China and the Philippines. Comparing Twain's early writings about Chineseimmigrants in California and Nevada with his later fictions of slavery andanti-imperialist essays, he demonstrates that Twain's ideas about race were notlimited to white and black, but profoundly comparative as he carefully craftedassessments of racialization that drew connections between groups, includingAfrican Americans, Chinese immigrants, and a range of colonial populations.Drawing on recent legal scholarshiTrade ReviewA brilliant book that will add immeasurably to Mark Twain studies, American literary studies, and the field of comparative studies of race and ethnicity. Exciting, well-written, and filled with surprising, unexpected connections,Sitting in Darknesscontributes to our understanding of the history of comparative racialization in America while deftly placing literature in legal and social contexts that are truly illuminating. -- Shelley Fisher Fishkin,Professor of English and Director of American Studies, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: "Coolies" and Comparative Racialization 1 in the Global West 1. "A Witness More Powerful than Himself ": Race, Testimony, 27 and Twain's Courtroom Farces 2. Vagrancy and Comparative Racialization in Huckleberry 53 Finn and "Three Vagabonds of Trinidad" 3. "Coolies" and Corporate Personhood in Those 83 Extraordinary Twins 4. A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of Wu Chih Tien: 109 Imperial Romance and Chinese Modernization 5. Body Counts and Comparative Anti-imperialism 139 Conclusion: Post-racial Twain? 167 Notes 171 Works Cited 209 Index 229 About the Author 244

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Book SynopsisHow worldwide plant circulation and new botanical ideas enabled Americans to radically re-envision politics and societyThe Garden Politic argues that botanical practices and discourses helped nineteenth-century Americans engage pressing questions of race, gender, settler colonialism, and liberal subjectivity. In the early republic, ideas of biotic distinctiveness helped fuel narratives of American exceptionalism. By the nineteenth century, however, these ideas and narratives were unsettled by the unprecedented scale at which the United States and European empires prospected for valuable plants and exchanged them across the globe. Drawing on ecocriticism, New Materialism, environmental history, and the history of scienceand crossing disciplinary and national boundariesThe Garden Politic shows how new ideas about cultivation and plant life could be mobilized to divergent political and social ends. Reading the work of influential nineteenth-century authTrade ReviewA superb contribution to American studies and more importantly, significantly advances and historicizes the material turn in the environmental humanities. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, The Garden Politic offers and indispensable genealogy of race, settler colonialism, and the materiality of an always-contested vision of nature. * Stephanie Foote, West Virginia University *Presents an original and carefully historicized account of influential nineteenth-century authors’ generative engagements with the transnational circulation of plants, from seed exchanges and horticultural periodicals to botanical textbooks. Kuhn makes a compelling case for rethinking familiar forms like sentimentalism, domestic fiction, and abolitionist literature through the interpretive frameworks of botanical science and critical plant studies. * Hsuan Hsu, author of The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics *Kuhn's elegantly crafted arguments represent a valuable addition to the burgeoning discipline of environmental humanities and aligns with the field of ecocriticism. It also reminds readers of the importance of imagination—works crafted within the humanities, and not just science or politics—to tackle the myriad global environmental challenges we face today. * E. G. Harrington, Universities at Shady Grove *

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Book SynopsisHow worldwide plant circulation and new botanical ideas enabled Americans to radically re-envision politics and societyThe Garden Politic argues that botanical practices and discourses helped nineteenth-century Americans engage pressing questions of race, gender, settler colonialism, and liberal subjectivity. In the early republic, ideas of biotic distinctiveness helped fuel narratives of American exceptionalism. By the nineteenth century, however, these ideas and narratives were unsettled by the unprecedented scale at which the United States and European empires prospected for valuable plants and exchanged them across the globe. Drawing on ecocriticism, New Materialism, environmental history, and the history of scienceand crossing disciplinary and national boundariesThe Garden Politic shows how new ideas about cultivation and plant life could be mobilized to divergent political and social ends. Reading the work of influential nineteenth-century authTrade ReviewA superb contribution to American studies and more importantly, significantly advances and historicizes the material turn in the environmental humanities. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, The Garden Politic offers and indispensable genealogy of race, settler colonialism, and the materiality of an always-contested vision of nature. * Stephanie Foote, West Virginia University *Presents an original and carefully historicized account of influential nineteenth-century authors’ generative engagements with the transnational circulation of plants, from seed exchanges and horticultural periodicals to botanical textbooks. Kuhn makes a compelling case for rethinking familiar forms like sentimentalism, domestic fiction, and abolitionist literature through the interpretive frameworks of botanical science and critical plant studies. * Hsuan Hsu, author of The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics *Kuhn's elegantly crafted arguments represent a valuable addition to the burgeoning discipline of environmental humanities and aligns with the field of ecocriticism. It also reminds readers of the importance of imagination—works crafted within the humanities, and not just science or politics—to tackle the myriad global environmental challenges we face today. * E. G. Harrington, Universities at Shady Grove *

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Book SynopsisA retelling of U.S., Latin American, and Latino/a literary history through writing by Latinos/as who lived in the United States during the long nineteenth centuryWritten by both established and emerging scholars, the essays in The Latino Nineteenth Century engage materials in Spanish and English and genres ranging from the newspaper to the novel, delving into new texts and areas of research as they shed light on well-known writers. This volume situates nineteenth-century Latino intellectuals and writers within crucial national, hemispheric, and regional debates. The Latino Nineteenth Century offers a long-overdue corrective to the Anglophone and nation-based emphasis of American literary history. Contributors track Latino/a lives and writing through routes that span Philadelphia to San Francisco and roots that extend deeply into Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South Americas, and Spain. Readers will find in the rich heterogeneity of texts and authorTrade ReviewThe collections expansion of American literary history is also evident in the inclusion of Central American textualities, which have been overlooked in most fields of study. In sum, the 15 essays Lazo and Aleman bring together offer new frameworks to better understand and examine 19th-century Latina/o hemispheric movements. * Choice *The Latino Nineteenth Century builds on the past two decades of Latina/o scholarship that focuses on historicizing the place of Latina/os in the United States. The book thus excavates the history of Latina/os in seemingly unlikely regions such as New England and cities such as Philadelphia. Further, it illuminates the need to examine Spanish language texts rather than relying on works in English. Expanding the corpus of materials in this way also sheds light on the longer literary histories of Latina/o literature rather than relying on periodizations that ground Latina/o literature in the social movements of the mid-twentieth century. As The Latino Nineteenth Century reminds us, Latina/os existed in the United States well before the Chicano Movement. Further, to fully grasp the range of Latina/o experiences in the United States, several essays in this collection point to the necessity of examining US-Latin American relations. An impressive anthology that demonstrates the diversity and vitality of this period, The Latino Nineteenth Century makes necessary interventions into nineteenth-century American Studies, Latina/o Studies, and Latin American Studies. * MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States *The nineteenth-century in the context of the extraordinary triangle presented here of Latina and Latino writers and intellectuals in the United States, Latin America, and the transatlantic may come to us in fragments, but what a marvel it is to bring together this dazzling constellation of scholars who highlight the historical dimensions of 'the Latino/a' and speak to the concurrent traditions, canons, moments, and tensions that have long been neglected and overlooked. Excitement for The Latino Nineteenth Century will have no bounds: this is sure to become a treasured volume. -- Claudia Milian, author of Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a StudiesThe Latino Nineteenth Century is expressive of the new directions in Latinx studies, and demonstrates the capaciousness of this field in accommodating nineteenth-century literary studies, and not the other way around. Indeed, the collection as a whole demonstrates that the Latinx nineteenth century is not a smaller, narrow subfield of this period, but rather constitutive of and formative to the field of nineteenth-century US literary studies. The editors of this volume challenge us to rethink our own orientations in C19 so as to think and teach in this field more expansively. * American Literary History *

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Book SynopsisIn Unsettled States, Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson present some of the most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the long nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field. The volume considers these recent challenges to be aftershocks of earlier revolutions in content and method, and it seeks ways of inhabiting and amplifying the ongoing unsettledness of the field.Written by scholars primarily working in the minor fields of critical race and ethnic studies, feminist and gender studies, labor studies, and queer/sexuality studies, the essays share a minoritarian critical orientation. Minoritarian criticism, as an aesthetic, political, and ethical project, is dedicated to finding new connections and possibilities within extant frameworks. Unsettled Trade ReviewInnovative and thought-provoking, this collection will be of broad interest, opening up discussions on an array of texts, critical approaches, and developing conversations in the study of of nineteenth-century literature. With essays that are accessible, lucid, and utterly fascinating,Unsettled Statesoffers arresting analyses andmakes a real contributionto the field. -- Dana Nelson,author of Bad for DemocracyUnsettled Statessheds light on the papers long swept under the rug ranging from early Hispanic literature to polar periodicals. More importantly, the authors of the articles conscientiously build up their discussions in relation to contemporary literature and critical theory, which makes the collection even more distinguishing and valuable for the twenty-first century reader. * American Studies Journal *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: On Moving Ground 1 Dana Luciano Part I: Archives Unbound 1. Confederates in the Hispanic Attic: The Archive against Itself 31 Rodrigo Lazo 2. Historical Totality and the African American Archive 55 Lloyd Pratt 3. Race, Reenactment, and the "Natural-Born Citizen" 76 Tavia Nyong'o 4. Doing Justice to the Archive: Beyond Literature 103 Shelley Streeby Part II: States of Exception 5. Unsettled Life: Early Liberia's Epistolary Equivocations 119 David Kazanjian 6. The News at the Ends of the Earth: Polar Periodicals 158 Hester Blum 7. Feeling Like a State: Writing the 1863 New York City Draft Riots 189 Glenn Hendler 8. Impersonating the State of Exception 232 Jonathan Elmer Part III: Speculative Sexualities 9. Eat, Sex, Race 245 Kyla Wazana Tompkins 10. Connecticut Yankings: Mark Twain and the Masturbating Dude 275 Elizabeth Freeman 11. What Came Before 298 Peter Coviello P.S.: A Coda 307 Ivy G. Wilson About the Contributors 315 Index 317

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Book SynopsisReimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and timeEmergent Worlds re-locates nineteenth-century America from the land to the oceans and seas that surrounded it. Edward Sugden argues that these ocean spaces existed in a unique historical fold between the transformations that inaugurated the modern eracolonialism to nationalism, mercantilism to capitalism, slavery to freedom, and deferent subject to free citizen. As travellers, workers, and writers journeyed across the Pacific, Atlantic, and Caribbean Sea, they had to adapt their political expectations to the interstitial social realities that they saw before them while also feeling their very consciousness, particularly their perception of time, mutate. These four domainsoceanic geography, historical folds, emergent politics, and dissonant timesin turn, provided the conditions for the development of three previously unnamed genres of the 1850s: the Pacific elegy, tTrade ReviewAn astute, surprising, and inventive study of the experiential and aesthetic possibilities that became imaginable during moments of historical and geographical irresolution in the & long nineteenth century, as older world-systems receded before new ones cohered. In those liminal & folds, Sugden remaps oceanic geoculture through a series of richly illuminating and refreshingly original interpretations of a host of texts, canonical and understudied. Emergent Worlds is, like the worlds it examines, full of possibilities and pleasures. -- Christopher Castiglia, author of Practices of Hope (NYU Press, 2017)Sugden has the rare gift of being able to synthesize complex conversations and formulations and then to intervene within them generously and wisely. His archive of texts is rich, bringing together an unusual grouping of authors ranging from Melville to the first Haitian novelist, Émeric Bergeaud. Emergent Worlds considers these texts as a collective & archival form that does more than merely preserve the interstitial states of emergent political thought that existed precariously in the time of their original production; it also protects a kind of seedbed for unknown futures: emergent forms of political imagining that might one day be called upon to remake a precarious world. -- Anna Brickhouse, University of VirginiaEmergent Worlds is an aspirational and counterfactual history of what might have been—and might yet emerge—within the archives of nineteenth-century American literacy and cultural study. * Early American Literature *You feel you are reading the work of a trailblazer. * Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies *In a book that makes forceful yet elegant interventions into conversations about the timelines of American studies and oceanic forms of relation, Sugden shows a remarkable ability to zoom among various temporal and literary scales, from the quirkily local to the global, from the canonical to the surprisingly marginalized. * Early American Literature *

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Book SynopsisIn Unsettled States, Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson present some of the most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the long nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field. The volume considers these recent challenges to be aftershocks of earlier revolutions in content and method, and it seeks ways of inhabiting and amplifying the ongoing unsettledness of the field.Written by scholars primarily working in the minor fields of critical race and ethnic studies, feminist and gender studies, labor studies, and queer/sexuality studies, the essays share a minoritarian critical orientation. Minoritarian criticism, as an aesthetic, political, and ethical project, is dedicated to finding new connections and possibilities within extant frameworks. Unsettled Trade ReviewInnovative and thought-provoking, this collection will be of broad interest, opening up discussions on an array of texts, critical approaches, and developing conversations in the study of of nineteenth-century literature. With essays that are accessible, lucid, and utterly fascinating,Unsettled Statesoffers arresting analyses andmakes a real contributionto the field. -- Dana Nelson,author of Bad for DemocracyUnsettled Statessheds light on the papers long swept under the rug ranging from early Hispanic literature to polar periodicals. More importantly, the authors of the articles conscientiously build up their discussions in relation to contemporary literature and critical theory, which makes the collection even more distinguishing and valuable for the twenty-first century reader. * American Studies Journal *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: On Moving Ground 1 Dana Luciano Part I: Archives Unbound 1. Confederates in the Hispanic Attic: The Archive against Itself 31 Rodrigo Lazo 2. Historical Totality and the African American Archive 55 Lloyd Pratt 3. Race, Reenactment, and the "Natural-Born Citizen" 76 Tavia Nyong'o 4. Doing Justice to the Archive: Beyond Literature 103 Shelley Streeby Part II: States of Exception 5. Unsettled Life: Early Liberia's Epistolary Equivocations 119 David Kazanjian 6. The News at the Ends of the Earth: Polar Periodicals 158 Hester Blum 7. Feeling Like a State: Writing the 1863 New York City Draft Riots 189 Glenn Hendler 8. Impersonating the State of Exception 232 Jonathan Elmer Part III: Speculative Sexualities 9. Eat, Sex, Race 245 Kyla Wazana Tompkins 10. Connecticut Yankings: Mark Twain and the Masturbating Dude 275 Elizabeth Freeman 11. What Came Before 298 Peter Coviello P.S.: A Coda 307 Ivy G. Wilson About the Contributors 315 Index 317

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Book SynopsisThe unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see difference. At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American ideologies of white supremacy are just as dependent on what we hearvoices, musical taste, volumeas they are on skin color or hair texture. Reinforcing compelling new ideas about the relationship between race and sound with meticulous historical research, Jennifer Lynn Stoever helps us to better understand how sound and listening not only register the racial politics of our world, but actively produce them. Through analysis of the historical traces of sounds of African American performers, Stoever reveals a host of racialized aural representations operating at the level of the unseenthe sonic color lineand exposes the racialized listening practices she figures as the listening ear. UsiTrade ReviewThe Sonic Color Linewill open up new vistas for thinking about sound, race, and identity, and for understanding how racism is enforced through both sounding and listening. Painstakingly researched and written with verve, Stoevers book will shape the way scholars of American and African American culture and history think about sound, even when our primary texts, like photographs and literary works, are seemingly silent. -- Gayle Wald,author of It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power TelevisionA gripping read and a rousing call to political attunement by way of sound, The Sonic Color Line investigates scenes of racialized audition from Civil War times to the Civil Rights era. This theoretically rich and passionately argued book made me wiser about the social relations that define sound, the resonant events that suggest how the ear is disciplined, the racial politics of listening that extend into every corner of the republic. -- Eric Lott,City University of New York Graduate CenterThat the critical intertexts for this book are not only scholarly works but also the Black Lives Matter movement and the many other political movements dedicated to racial justice is a key element in its timeliness and appeal. Engaged scholarship dedicated to an ethics of equality, community, and demystification is a powerful necessity in these times of increasing uncertainty about what 'America' is and how it came to be. -- John Melillo * American Literary History Online *

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Book SynopsisA retelling of U.S., Latin American, and Latino/a literary history through writing by Latinos/as who lived in the United States during the long nineteenth centuryWritten by both established and emerging scholars, the essays in The Latino Nineteenth Century engage materials in Spanish and English and genres ranging from the newspaper to the novel, delving into new texts and areas of research as they shed light on well-known writers. This volume situates nineteenth-century Latino intellectuals and writers within crucial national, hemispheric, and regional debates. The Latino Nineteenth Century offers a long-overdue corrective to the Anglophone and nation-based emphasis of American literary history. Contributors track Latino/a lives and writing through routes that span Philadelphia to San Francisco and roots that extend deeply into Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South Americas, and Spain. Readers will find in the rich heterogeneity of texts and authorTrade ReviewThe collections expansion of American literary history is also evident in the inclusion of Central American textualities, which have been overlooked in most fields of study. In sum, the 15 essays Lazo and Aleman bring together offer new frameworks to better understand and examine 19th-century Latina/o hemispheric movements. * Choice *The Latino Nineteenth Century builds on the past two decades of Latina/o scholarship that focuses on historicizing the place of Latina/os in the United States. The book thus excavates the history of Latina/os in seemingly unlikely regions such as New England and cities such as Philadelphia. Further, it illuminates the need to examine Spanish language texts rather than relying on works in English. Expanding the corpus of materials in this way also sheds light on the longer literary histories of Latina/o literature rather than relying on periodizations that ground Latina/o literature in the social movements of the mid-twentieth century. As The Latino Nineteenth Century reminds us, Latina/os existed in the United States well before the Chicano Movement. Further, to fully grasp the range of Latina/o experiences in the United States, several essays in this collection point to the necessity of examining US-Latin American relations. An impressive anthology that demonstrates the diversity and vitality of this period, The Latino Nineteenth Century makes necessary interventions into nineteenth-century American Studies, Latina/o Studies, and Latin American Studies. * MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States *The nineteenth-century in the context of the extraordinary triangle presented here of Latina and Latino writers and intellectuals in the United States, Latin America, and the transatlantic may come to us in fragments, but what a marvel it is to bring together this dazzling constellation of scholars who highlight the historical dimensions of 'the Latino/a' and speak to the concurrent traditions, canons, moments, and tensions that have long been neglected and overlooked. Excitement for The Latino Nineteenth Century will have no bounds: this is sure to become a treasured volume. -- Claudia Milian, author of Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a StudiesThe Latino Nineteenth Century is expressive of the new directions in Latinx studies, and demonstrates the capaciousness of this field in accommodating nineteenth-century literary studies, and not the other way around. Indeed, the collection as a whole demonstrates that the Latinx nineteenth century is not a smaller, narrow subfield of this period, but rather constitutive of and formative to the field of nineteenth-century US literary studies. The editors of this volume challenge us to rethink our own orientations in C19 so as to think and teach in this field more expansively. * American Literary History *

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Book SynopsisReimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and timeEmergent Worlds re-locates nineteenth-century America from the land to the oceans and seas that surrounded it. Edward Sugden argues that these ocean spaces existed in a unique historical fold between the transformations that inaugurated the modern eracolonialism to nationalism, mercantilism to capitalism, slavery to freedom, and deferent subject to free citizen. As travellers, workers, and writers journeyed across the Pacific, Atlantic, and Caribbean Sea, they had to adapt their political expectations to the interstitial social realities that they saw before them while also feeling their very consciousness, particularly their perception of time, mutate. These four domainsoceanic geography, historical folds, emergent politics, and dissonant timesin turn, provided the conditions for the development of three previously unnamed genres of the 1850s: the Pacific elegy, tTrade ReviewAn astute, surprising, and inventive study of the experiential and aesthetic possibilities that became imaginable during moments of historical and geographical irresolution in the & long nineteenth century, as older world-systems receded before new ones cohered. In those liminal & folds, Sugden remaps oceanic geoculture through a series of richly illuminating and refreshingly original interpretations of a host of texts, canonical and understudied. Emergent Worlds is, like the worlds it examines, full of possibilities and pleasures. -- Christopher Castiglia, author of Practices of Hope (NYU Press, 2017)Sugden has the rare gift of being able to synthesize complex conversations and formulations and then to intervene within them generously and wisely. His archive of texts is rich, bringing together an unusual grouping of authors ranging from Melville to the first Haitian novelist, Émeric Bergeaud. Emergent Worlds considers these texts as a collective & archival form that does more than merely preserve the interstitial states of emergent political thought that existed precariously in the time of their original production; it also protects a kind of seedbed for unknown futures: emergent forms of political imagining that might one day be called upon to remake a precarious world. -- Anna Brickhouse, University of VirginiaEmergent Worlds is an aspirational and counterfactual history of what might have been—and might yet emerge—within the archives of nineteenth-century American literacy and cultural study. * Early American Literature *You feel you are reading the work of a trailblazer. * Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies *In a book that makes forceful yet elegant interventions into conversations about the timelines of American studies and oceanic forms of relation, Sugden shows a remarkable ability to zoom among various temporal and literary scales, from the quirkily local to the global, from the canonical to the surprisingly marginalized. * Early American Literature *

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Book SynopsisPenetrating Critiques pairs Victorian literary texts set in Africa with archival texts in order to explore the fraught problem of British masculinity and its construction.Trade Review"In an analysis that straddles [...] the binary critical history of Heart of Darkness, Allin evokes the complexity and complicity of Conrad’s narrative. An epilogue on representations of empire after 9/11 brings the argument into the 21st century." -- N. Birns, New York University * CHOICE *"In her well-researched and well-written study, Leslie Allin traces signs of anxiety in a range of texts about Africa from the last quarter of the nineteenth century, including archival documents, newspaper reports, and popular fiction." -- Jochen Petzold, University of Regensburg * Victorian Periodicals Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Ruptures in Adventure Romance 1. Permeable Boundaries: Violence and Fantasy in Zululand 2. H. Rider Haggard’s Inversions: Vulnerability and the Narrative Volatility of Imperial Romance Part II: Gothic Penetrations 3. Transgression and Loss: General Gordon and Gothic Imagination 4. Marsh’s Perforations: Desire, Imperial Decay, and the Narrative Instability of The Beetle Part III: Modernist Dissolutions 5. Bodily Disintegrations: Forensic Exposure and the Human Leopard Society in Sierra Leone 6. Getting to the Hearts of Darkness Works Cited

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Book SynopsisRecalling Recitation in the Americas focuses on the unexplored relationship between education history and literary form and establishes the far-reaching effects of poetry memorization and recitation on the development of modern performance poetry in North America.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) and Her "Dear Dead Longfellow" Chapter 2 Langston Hughes’s Rhythmic Literacy Chapter 3 Miss Lou Pedagogy and Mimic Women Chapter 4 Recitation Legacies in Dub and Indigenous Poetics Notes Permissions Works Cited

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Book SynopsisConsidering Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector’s literature as a case study and a source of theory, Writing by Ear presents an aural theory of the novel based on readings of Near to the Wild Heart (1943), The Besieged City (1949), The Passion According to G.H. (1964), Agua Viva (1973), The Hour of the Star (1977), and A Breath of Life (1978). What is the specific aesthetic for which listening-in-writing calls? What is the relation that listening-in-writing establishes with silence, echo, and the sounds of the world? How are we to understand authorship when writers present themselves as objects of reception rather than subjects of production? In which ways does the robust oral and aural culture of Brazil shape literary genres and forms? In addressing these questions, Writing by Ear works in dialogue with philosophy, psychoanalysis, and sound studies to contemplate the relationship between orality and writing. CiTable of Contents1. Introduction: A Certain Intimate Sense 2. Writing by Ear 3. The Aural Novel 4. Hearing the Wild Heart 5. Loud Object 6. The Echopoetics of G.H. 7. Coda: Hearing Horses

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Book SynopsisExamining various aesthetics of suspension in the works of nineteenth-century poets such as Coleridge, Shelley, Tennyson, and Christina Rossetti, Anne C. McCarthy shares important insights into the cultural fascination with the sublime.Trade Review"By carefully analyzing suspension, with its ‘constellation of meanings and images that gradually – if only through insistent repetition – take on increasingly general force' in the Romantic and early Victorian eras’, McCarthy considerably contributes to the overwhelming body of secondary scholarship on Romantic and Victorian literature." -- Sasha Tamar Strelitz * New Books on English and American Literature of the Nineteenth-Century *"Awful Parenthesis is both ambitious and promising. It focuses and allows us to take a step forward in writing the history of an aesthetic that numerous studies see as pushing toward the future, something that reveals in the Romantics the seeds of the post-modern, perhaps the post-human." -- Deborah Weiss, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa * European Romantic Review *"An outstanding book that hospitably accommodates the reader in its complexity and nuance even as it entertains with its elegant, shrewd, and frequently quick-witted exegeses of form." -- Emma Mason, University of Warwick * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *"Awful Parenthesis presents a convincing case for re-theorizing the sublime by recognizing suspension as its condition of possibility." -- Kimberly Rodda, University of Toronto * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *"Awful Parenthesis provides beautiful close readings of a range of poems, including an extended reading of Shelley’s Mont Blanc (1816). But this book’s most important contribution is not its treatment of particular poems or poets, but rather its moving […] consideration of the way life is lived in the face of contingency, and of the leap of faith such living requires." -- Casie LeGette, University of Georgia * Victorian Studies *Table of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction - The Aesthetics of Suspension Chapter 1 - Coleridge, Suspension, and the Sublime Chapter 2 - Semblances of Truth in "Christabel" and Aids to Reflection Chapter 3 - The Aesthetics of Contingency in Shelley’s "Universe of Things" Chapter 4 - Tennyson and the Rhetoric of Suspended Animation Chapter 5 - Christina Rossetti’s Poetic Faith Bibliography

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Book SynopsisProviding the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey’s Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature. Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Structure of the Bibliographical Entries Bibliography: Sources of Information Consulted Abbreviations: Sources of Bibliographical Information Translations from Italian, 1929–2016 1929–1939 1940–1949 1950–1959 1960–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2016 Author Index Title Index Translator Index Editor Index Artist and Illustrator Index Publisher Index Periodical Index Series Index

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Book SynopsisScholarship on Italian emigration has generally omitted the Julian-Dalmatians, a group of Italians from Istria and Dalmatia, two regions that, in the wake of World War Two, were ceded by Italy to Yugoslavia as part of its war reparations to that country. Though Italians by  language culture, and  traditions, it seems that this group has been conveniently excised from history. And yet, Julian-Dalmatians constitute an important element in twentieth-century Italian history and represent a unique aspect of both Italian culture and emigration. This ground-breaking collection of articles from an international team of scholars opens the discussion on these forgotten Italians by briefly reviewing the history of their diaspora and then by examining the literary and artistic works they produced as immigrants to Canada. Forgotten Italians offers new insights into such celebrated authors as Diego Bastianutti, Mario Duliani, Caterina Edwards, and Gianni Angelo Grohovaz,Trade Review"An important scholarly contribution to both Canadian and Italian Canadian studies." -- Cristina Caracchini, Western University * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *"To date, it’s simply the best, most absorbing work about Italians in Canada, about the varied local narratives their presence can give rise to, as well as about the broader intellectual and cultural reflections that presence can foster." -- Francesco Loriggio, Carleton University * Italian Canadiana *Table of ContentsThe Julian-Dalmatian Tessera in Canada: An Introduction Konrad Eisenbichler 1. Esuli and Rimasti: Two Sides of a Coin Rosanna Turcinovich Giuricin 2. Parola di donna: A Feminist Reading of Julian-Dalmatian Periodicals in Canada Benedetta Lamanna 3. Two Images of Internment: Mario Duliani and Vincenzo Poggi Elisabetta Carraro 4. Fiume and Canada: The Two Worlds of Gianni Angelo Grohovaz” Gianna Mazzieri Sanković 5. La Terza Forza: Gianni Angelo Grohovaz and the Rise of Italian-Canadian Culture, 1971 to 1975 Paul Baxa 6. Rimestando tra le acque del passato: Gianni Angelo Grohovaz’s Address to the Italian Club of Erindale College, 1984 Robert Buranello 7. Land, Sea, and the Search for Oneself in the Poetry of Diego Bastianutti Corinna Gerbaz Giuliano 8. The Poetry of Exile. An Interview with Diego Bastianutti Henry Veggian 9. Quarnerine Identity: The Hybrid Self in Caterina Edwards’ Island of the Nightingales Ida Vodarich Marinzoli 10. Protagonist, Chronicler, Historian: Three Voices of Representation in Rosanna Turcinovich Giuricin’s Maddalena ha gli occhi viola Gabriella Colussi Arthur 11. Vittorio Fiorucci: A Portrait of the Artist Guita Lamsechi 12. Dalmatian Stone: A Conversation with Silvia Pecota on Her Life and Art Paolo Frascà

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Book SynopsisThe blending of people and living machines is a central element in the futurist reconstruction of the universe. However, prior to the futurist break, a group of early-twentieth-century poets, later dubbed crepuscolari (crepusculars), had already begun an attack against the dominant cultural system, using their poetry as the locus in which useless little objects clashed with the traditional poetry of human greatness and stylistic perfection. The Quiet Avant-Garde draws from a number of twenty-first-century theories vital materialism, object-oriented ontology, and environmental humanities as well as Bruno Latour’s criticism of modernity to illustrate how the crepuscular movement sabotaged the modern mindset and launched the counter-discourse of the Italian avant-garde by blurring the line dividing people from things. This liminal poetics, at the crossroad of tradition, modernism, and the avant-garde, acted as the initiator of the ethical and environmentalTable of ContentsIntroduction - Poetry at the Twilight 1. A Matter of Things: Modernity, Modernism, Avant-Garde 2. The Avant-Garde is Made of Useless Objects 3. Being a Living Thing: Toward a New Notion of Body 4. Love and the Grand Solidarity of Sound 5. The Avant-Garde Immersive Onto-Cognition

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Book SynopsisThis book collects a sample of fifty poems by L.M. Montgomery originally published in periodicals across a quarter of a century. It discusses this work in the context of early Canadian poetry and North American periodical culture of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.Trade Review"The collection of fifty poems published over a twenty-five-year period, beginning in 1894 with the first, is not only the second volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library but a step in a major reconsideration of her poetry." -- Anne Burke * Prairie Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on the Author Abbreviations Preface Overture The Gable Window Prelude The Poet’s Thought Songs of Place In Lovers’ Lane The Fir Lane In an Old Garden The Old Home Calls The Exile The Summons Songs of Memory Three Days Companioned Do You Remember? Memory Pictures Interlude The Singer Songs of Lamentation Irrevocable I Would Be Well Night Watches If I Had Known The Book Longing The Mother Songs of War The Last Prayer The Three Songs We Who Wait Our Women Interlude One of the Shepherds Songs of Land and Sea When the Fishing Boats Go Out When the Fishing Boats Come In Rain in the Woods My Pictures The Wind in the Poplars The Sea-Shell Before Storm A Shore Picture The Sea to the Shore Songs of Death Too Late I Have Buried My Dead Omega An Old Man’s Grave The Treasures Songs of Love If Love Should Come Assurance The Gray Silk Gown On the Bridge Gratitude With Tears They Buried You To-day Forever To One Hated The Lover’s Catechism Postlude The Poet Coda What I Would Ask of Life Afterword Notes Bibliography Index by Title Index by Date Index by First Line

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Book SynopsisCelebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, L.M. Montgomery (18741942) is far less known for also writing and publishing hundreds of poems over a period of half a century.Although this output included a chapbook and a full-length collection in which she presented herself primarily as a nature poet, most of her poems appeared in periodicals, including women’s magazines, farm papers, faith-based periodicals, daily and weekly newspapers, and magazines for children. As a shrewd businesswoman, she learned to find the balance between literary quality and commercial saleability and continued to publish poetry even though it paid less than short fiction. A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 18941921, the second volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library, gathers a selection of fifty poems originally published across a twenty-five-year period. Benjamin Lefebvre organizes this work within the context of Montgomery’Trade Review"The collection of fifty poems published over a twenty-five-year period, beginning in 1894 with the first, is not only the second volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library but a step in a major reconsideration of her poetry." -- Anne Burke * Prairie Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on the Author Abbreviations Preface Overture The Gable Window Prelude The Poet’s Thought Songs of Place In Lovers’ Lane The Fir Lane In an Old Garden The Old Home Calls The Exile The Summons Songs of Memory Three Days Companioned Do You Remember? Memory Pictures Interlude The Singer Songs of Lamentation Irrevocable I Would Be Well Night Watches If I Had Known The Book Longing The Mother Songs of War The Last Prayer The Three Songs We Who Wait Our Women Interlude One of the Shepherds Songs of Land and Sea When the Fishing Boats Go Out When the Fishing Boats Come In Rain in the Woods My Pictures The Wind in the Poplars The Sea-Shell Before Storm A Shore Picture The Sea to the Shore Songs of Death Too Late I Have Buried My Dead Omega An Old Man’s Grave The Treasures Songs of Love If Love Should Come Assurance The Gray Silk Gown On the Bridge Gratitude With Tears They Buried You To-day Forever To One Hated The Lover’s Catechism Postlude The Poet Coda What I Would Ask of Life Afterword Notes Bibliography Index by Title Index by Date Index by First Line

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Book SynopsisHow do we perceive evil? How do we represent evil? In Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil, Taran Kang examines the entanglements of aesthetics and morality. Investigating conceptions and images of evil, Kang identifies a fateful moment of transformation in the eighteenth century that continues to reverberate to the present day. Transgression, once allocated the central place in the constitution of evil, undergoes a startling revaluation in the Enlightenment and its aftermath, one that needs to be understood in relation to emergent ideas in the arts. Taran Kang engages with the writings of Edmund Burke, the Marquis de Sade, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Hannah Arendt, among others, as he questions recent calls to de-aestheticize evil and insists on a historically informed appreciation of evil’s aesthetic dimensions. Chapters consider the figure of the evil genius, the paradoxical appeal of the grotesque and the disgusting, and the moral status of spectators who bTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Genius and the Spirit of Transgression I. Rule-breakers II. The Poet and the Devil 2. Symbols of the Morally Bad I. Grotesque Subversions II. The Dialectic of Disgust 3. Evil and the Sublime I. Between Elevation and Terror II. Representing Radical Evil 4. Wicked Spectators I. The Mirth of Tragedy II. Crime and the Connoisseur Epilogue Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn 1826 Angela Veronese, a gardener’s daughter, wrote and published the first modern autobiography by an Italian woman. Veronese’s account focuses on her unique experience as a peasant girl who came of age among the Venetian elite, and details how she attained a certain renown in and out of Italy by improvising, writing, and publishing her own lyrics. Courting Celebrity is a bilingual annotated edition of Veronese’s autobiography. To better elucidate Veronese’s thinking, the book includes the autobiographical writing of another contemporary Italian poet, Teresa Bandettini, a well-known Tuscan poet-improviser. The book offers a substantial sample of Veronese’s poems, translated and in the original. These compositions, together with detailed bibliographical documentation, point to the success of Veronese’s autobiographical enterprise and offer an unparalleled view of both high society and popular culture at the time. Courting Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword 1. Angela Veronese Notizie sulla vita di Aglaja Anassillide scritte da lei medesima Information on the Life of Aglaja Anassillide, Written by Herself Selected Poems by Angela Veronese Biography of Angela Veronese Bio-Bibliography for Angela Veronese 2. Teresa Bandettini “Autobiografia” “Autobiography” Biography of Teresa Bandettini 3. Contexts and Conclusions 4. Poem by Luigi Carrer Dedicated to Angela Veronese Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThe central importance of naturalistic vision – of a sense of man’s life as part of nature – is emphasized in this study of the poetry of Tennyson and Swinburne. In tracing this vision, Professor McSweeney makes a series of qualitative distinctions leading to a revaluation of the achievements of both poets. McSweeney begins with an examination of Swinburne’s critical and creative response to Tennyson, revealing Swinburne’s perception of the effect that Tennyson’s suppression of naturalistic vision and his consequent overemphasis on morality and metaphysical speculation had on his poetry. A brief discussion of Tennyson’s response to Swinburne is followed by an analysis of the literary climate of the 1820s and 1830s, necessary for an understanding of the central feature of Tennyson’s artistic development: the complex mutation which transformed him from a wholly Romantic poet into a largely Victorian one.Tracing the

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Book SynopsisThomas Hood, 1799-1845, is one of the most notable minor authors of the late Romantic and early Victorian period. He began life as an engraver, and went on to write poetry and prose and to edit comic periodicals and annuals including Hood’s Magazine and New Monthly Magazine. His friends included Charles Lamb, Charles Wentworth Dilke, and Charles Dickens; his concerns, the provision of adequate copyright legislation and the plight of the downtrodden. Plagued by ill health and heavy debts, Hood managed to maintain his sense of humour and an affectionate warmth in his personal relations. Between 1835 and 1840 he lived in Koblenz and Ostende in an attempt to save money to pay his creditors in England. The letters he wrote at that time to his friends in London and to his family paint a vivid picture of the life of the English émigré. This is the only edition of Hood’s letters; it is definitive and thoroughly annotated. It presents more basic biographical information than t

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Book SynopsisA five-act tragedy in blank verse. The play is founded upon the old problem of an unnatural and ill-omened union between youth and age.

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Book SynopsisCharles Heavysege's chief and best-known work, the long-verse drama and tragedy Saul, was published in Montreal in 1857. Coventry Patmore, reviewing Saul in the North British Review, ranked it as the greatest English poem published outside Great Britain. Hawthorne, Emerson, and Longfellow were all enthusiastic in their praise, and the play went into three editions.Saul is a drama of 135 scenes containing the remarkable character of the fallen angel Malzah, who has been compared by critics to Shakespeare’s Caliban. Itis a powerful presentation of the tormented soul caught in a world of order and universal degree. Its main interest is to be found in the psychological frankness - Saul's recognition of his demon resonates with the deeper implication of the recognition of the döppelgänger - and in passages of sinewy verse written with a directness that anticipates E.J. Pratt.

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Book SynopsisIn his philosophic verse, Woodsworth identifies the history of poetry and geometrical thought as the two chief treasures of the mind and as main sources of his poetic inspiration. He assigns transcendental value to geometry and indicates that he attempts to apply its proportions to the laws of nature. In this book, Professor Johnson demonstrates how Wordsworth also employed geometrical patterns in the metrical construction of his verse and how the character of those patterns can be related to the poet's major philosophical values.Johnson shows how Wordsworth, when writing about the nature and significance of geometrical thought in The Prelude and The Excursion, designs his verse paragraphs in accordance with simple geometrical proportions which are thereby associated with the metaphysical value he attributes to geometry. Wordsworth finds geometrical forms to be hidden in the natural landscape and inherent in the structures of perception itself.This bo

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Book SynopsisEver since the word romantic and its many cognates in European languages began to be used as technical terms towards the end of the eighteenth century, the quest for a satisfactory definition of their meanings has continued unabated. This collection of essays traces the history of the word in the major European languages, showing how romantic and its cognates were first introduced, how their usage spread and their connotations proliferated, and how their present usage became established.This book opens with an introduction by the editor, followed by an essay in which Professor Raymond Immerwaher, Chairman of the Department of German, University of Western Ontario, shows how romantic and its cognates became fashionable in England, France and Germany, and traces the extension of the meanings of these words up to 1790. The story is then taken up in individual essays on the history of the word and its cognates in the major European countries: in Germany, by the editor; in England

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Book SynopsisExamines the origins of modern mass-media culture through developments in the new literary marketplace of nineteenth-century France and how literature itself reveals the broader social and material conditions in which it is produced. Through new literary readings and original archival research, Anne O'Neil-Henry revises existing understandings of the development of industrialized culture.Trade Review"Anne O'Neil-Henry's new book draws on an extraordinarily diverse corpus of novels, catalogues, newspapers, advertisements, reviews, and correspondence from the early to mid-nineteenth century to illustrate the influences on, and responses to, the changing literary market. . . . In writing about her authors' mastery of the marketplace, O'Neil-Henry in turn demonstrates her own mastery of detail, distilling material from a variety of sources and marshaling it into the service of her focused argument with admirable lucidity."—Adam Cutchin, Nineteenth-Century French Studies"In Mastering the Marketplace: Popular Literature in Nineteenth-Century France, Anne O'Neil-Henry delivers a clear and nuanced reading of the literary field during the July Monarchy and of the most popular novelists who operated within it, successfully showing how the boundaries of high and low on which the notion of popular literature depends were never as fixed as they seemed to critics, either then or today. . . . Mastering the Marketplace goes a long way toward helping readers navigate the ambiguities and contradictions that make the nineteenth century's many different forms of popular literature so compelling."—Bettina Lerner, H-France"This book is a welcome addition to a number of studies that provide new insights into the July Monarchy as a site of modernity."—Whitney Walton, H-France"The depth of O'Neil-Henry's analyses and her consideration of cultural capital vs. commercial capital gives the reader a new perspective on the literature of all levels produced at this time."—Sharon L. Fairchild, French Review“A model of interdisciplinary research, presented with gratifying clarity. Mastering the Marketplace makes original contributions to the cultural study of early to mid-nineteenth-century France on a number of fronts.”—Andrea Goulet, professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France “Unique in the way that it examines the paradoxes of what we now consider ‘low’ and ‘high’ literature against a social framework remarkably like our own. . . . Eminently readable.”—Elizabeth Emery, professor of French at Montclair State University and author of Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum (1881–1914): Privacy, Publicity, and PersonalityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Popular Panoramas 2. The de Kock Paradox 3. The Adaptable Eugène Sue 4. Balzac, High and Low Conclusion Source Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Dancing on the Color Line is a significant contribution to nineteenth-century American literary and cultural studies. Original, illuminating, and meticulously researched, Martin’s book examines texts of John Pendleton Kennedy, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, Joel Chandler Harris, and Mark Twain, showing how these writers assimilated and employed black aesthetic strategies of ‘signifying’ and ‘double voice’ associated with the trickster figure. Martin lays the groundwork for further scholarly inquiry, particularly regarding possible lines of influence of minority American writers on modern and postmodern canonical authors and their works.” —Ed Piacentino, emeritus professor of English at High Point University and editor of Southern Frontier Humor: New Approaches (University Press of Mississippi)|“Dancing on the Color Line explores the familiar world of nineteenth-century US writing about race to defamiliarize it by suggesting its hybrid nature. Through Martin’s careful readings, well-known figures emerge as deeply influenced by the aesthetics and techniques of African American storytelling, and their literature reveals multiple trickster figures who turn a critical eye on the white power that frames them. Martin’s readers encounter the fiction she discusses differently and with more attention to the complexity of the historical and literary context in which it was created.” —Kathryn McKee, McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies and English at the University of Mississippi and coeditor of American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary|“Martin has proven to be one of our most important scholars in American humor and culture. Wherever she focuses her attention, and brings to bear her critical intelligence, new insights and useful ideas emerge. Dancing on the Color Line is a thoughtful and enlightening study of the African American trickster figure. The result is a solid contribution to both African American studies and our understanding of the continuously complex nature of American humor.” —M. Thomas Inge, Blackwell Professor of Humanities at Randolph-Macon College and author of many works on American humor, southern culture, comic art, and William Faulkner

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Book SynopsisIn the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including the Choking Doberman, the Eaten Ticket, and the Vanishing Hitchhiker. But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. In The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends, Simon Young fills this gap for British folklore (and for the wider English-speaking world) of the 1800s. Young introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from Beetle Eyes to the Shoplifter''s Dilemma and from Hands in the Muff to the Suicide Club. While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and they have certainly never received scholarly treatment. Young begins the volume with a lengthy introduction assessing nineteenth-century media

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