Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

Book Synopsis No doubt, the feminist movement has come a long way, even though many of its aims have not been realized or, in fact, are still debated by its supporters and critics. It is sobering andinstructive to look back and examine the aspirations, achievements and failures of women of earlier generations, especially in the nineteenth century, on which subsequent generations of women have built. Although Germany has produced some famous and influential women writers and thinkers, no recent study exists that analyzes their work in a systematic way. This book fills the gap by discussing some of the major writers in the nineteenth century, beginning with late-Romantic writers, such as Bettina von Arnim and Johanna Schopenhauer, and goes on to discuss writers who were active in the 1848 Revolution such as Malwida von Meysenbug and Johanna Kinkel. With regard to the idea of emancipation the attitudes of mainstream writers examined range from lukewarm, such as the enormously popular Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Gabriele Reuter, to downright hostile, such as Lou Andreas-Salomé and Franziska zu Reventlow. The heart of the book is devoted to the leading proponents of emancipation, HedwigDohm, Helene Böhlau, and the prolific Louise Otto-Peters.Trade Review "... a long-overdue book ... offers an interesting introduction that will be useful for students as well as for academics ... demonstrates the richness and diversity of women's nineteenth century, its ambiguities and conflicts." · Modern Language Review "... a useful handbook for a field very much in need of attention." · Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society "... a useful resource of factual information for future researchers in the field of women's writing." · Ten Years Work in Modern Language Studies "... nothing critical can be said about this delightful collection [of portraits]." · Women in GermanTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. The Romantic Legacy Henriette Herz Rahel von Varnhagen Caroline de la Motte Fouqué Bettina von Arnim Chapter 2. Weimar Connections Johanna Schopenhauer Adele Schopenhauer Ottilie von Goethe Annette von Droste-Hülshoff Chapter 3. The 1848ers Fanny Lewald Johanna Kinkel Malwida von Meysenbug Chapter 4. Popular Literature Ida von Hahn-Hahn Eugenie Marlitt Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Chapter 5. The Woman Question Louise Otto-Peters Hedwig Dohm Helene Böhlau Chapter 6. In Nietzsche’s Shadow Gabriele Reuter Lou Andreas-Salomé Franziska zu Reventlow Epilogue Indicative Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis Between the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, poverty reached new extremes in Germany, as in other European countries, and gave rise to a class of disaffected poor, leading to the widespread expectation of a social revolution. Whether welcomed or feared, it dominated private and public debate to a larger extent than is generally assumed as is shown in this study on the reflections in literature of what was called the "Social Question." Examining works by Heine, Eichendorff, Nestroy, Büchner, Grillparzer, and Theodor Storm, the author reveals an acute awareness of political issues in an era in literature which is often seen as tending to quiescence and withdrawal from public preoccupations.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Folk Revival and Revolutionary Realities Chapter 1. Heine and the Revolutionary Volk Chapter 2. Towards a New Cultural Life. Buchner and the Volk Chapter 3. The Fear of the Volk. Conservative Literature of the Social Question: Eichendorff and Gotthelf Chapter 4. Nestroy, the Rabble and the Revolution Chapter 5. The Popular Nationalism of Henie's Deutschland, Ein Wintermarchen Chapter 6. Revolution and Desire. Grillparzer and Stifter's Bunte Steine Chapter 7. Morike's Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag, the French Revolution and 1848 Chapter 8. Heimatlos. Theodor Storm, the Volk and the Aftermath of 1848 Conclusion

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Book Synopsis"The Torn Book: UnReading William Blake's Marginalia" argues for the connection between British poet and painter William Blake's marginalia and the role that often multivalent symbols like pens, writers, readers, and books played in his art. Blake was by no means a copious annotator, but the extant volumes reflect the poet's engagement not only with ideas but also with the materiality through which those ideas are communicated. "The Torn Book" shows that the marginalia represent important evidence of Blake-as-reader experiencing the typographical features of books printed using the conventional, moveable-type methods of the day. The annotated volumes are thus key to understanding Blake both as a poet and as a bookmaker himself. Jason Snart is an Assistant Professor of English at the College of DuPage.

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Book SynopsisThis study takes as its subject the mutilated and fragmented body that appears in United States literature in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an attempt to assuage the horror associated with disintegrating exterior and interior identities, authors turned medical practice into metaphor in order to explore precisely what had become of corporeal and metaphysical identity. They include detailed and often gruesome portrayals of the mutilated body, a trope that emerges from three particular agents: the horrific United States Civil War and World War I that both produced remarkable numbers of anatomically fragmented men; the very same machines that enabled mass quantities and efficient work; and social institutions such as politics, economics, and medical practices.The mutilated body, at the heart of these modern texts, is far more than a harbinger of a loss of identity to come: these corporeal forms, themselves unrecognizable, embody the unknown and unknowable self. Laura L. Behling teaches American literature and culture at Gustavus Adolphus College.

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Book SynopsisThe original and insightful collection that combines Mark Twain's journal writings with his rarely seen sketches and doodles. Fascinating and often hilarious, this is a complete record of the thoughts, ideas, and observations of the father of American literature.

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Book SynopsisInterpretive and biographical essays by a major authority on Bach and Mozart probe for clues to the driving forces and experiences that shaped the character and the extraordinary artistic achievements of these iconic composers. 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award Winner The essays in this volume, by one of America's leading authorities on Bach and Mozart, serve a single objective: to promote a deeper understanding of those two great composers both as supremely gifted creators and as human beings. Author Robert L. Marshall draws on a diverse range of interpretive strategies including both textual and musical criticism. Life and work are treated together, just as they were intermingled for the composers. After a preliminary historiographical contemplation of the "Century of Bach and Mozart," fifteen numbered chapters follow in roughly chronological succession. Among the issues addressed: the artistic consequences of Bach's orphanhood, his relationship to Martin Luther, his attitude toward Jews, his relationship to his sons, the stages of his stylistic development, and his position in the history of music; and, moving to Mozart, the composer's portrayal in Amadeus, his wit, his indebtedness to J. S. Bach, and aspects of his compositional process. The volume concludes with a factually informed speculation about what Mozart is likely to have done and to have composed, had he lived on for another decade or more. ROBERT L. MARSHALL is Sachar Professor of Music emeritus, Brandeis University.Trade ReviewOne finds throughout the book many.quotable aperçus [such as this:]. 'In the uncompromising, intricate stylistic and expressive musical idiom of Bach, Mozart . . . had come to recognize a hitherto largely unacknowledged and undeveloped part of his own musical personality.' Marshall helps us understand both. -- Kenneth Slowik * EARLY MUSIC AMERICA *Wonderful subject[s], which Marshall handles with characteristic mastery . . . Marshall speculates, not implausibly, that Mozart at some point would have come to the New World -- to America. I think he would have loved it, and it him. This is fun stuff. And Professor Marshall throughout his book is learned, meticulous, and deep. -- Jay Nordlinger * NEW CRITERION *Robert Marshall's Bach and Mozart is the summation of a life spent in the service of these two giants of 18th century music. Prof. Marshall blends scrupulous scholarship with a keen sense of aesthetics, shedding light on myriad aspects of both composers. Readers seeking enlightenment in hitherto unexplored directions will find this essential work stimulating and enlightening. -- Robert Levin, Professor Emeritus, Harvard UniversityWhat is a genius? What makes a composer great? In this captivating and erudite collection of essays, Robert Marshall approaches some of the biggest questions about the two greatest composers of the eighteenth century, Bach and Mozart. In a fascinating polyphony of methodological approaches, from biography to style criticism to cultural studies, Marshall paints a new, sometimes provocative image of the two composers and their works. The book provides a fresh perspective for musicologists and performers and for admirers of Bach and Mozart. -- Markus Rathey, Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Music History, Yale UniversityWhat a delightful, stimulating, brilliant collection of essays! Sometimes playful and humorous, often profound, always intelligent, with many surprising insights into the personalities of two great composers and wonderfully evocative descriptions of some of their finest music. Robert Marshall writes beautifully, with crystal-clear, jargon-free prose throughout. -- John A. Rice, independent scholar and member of the Akademie für Mozart-Forschung in SalzburgMarshall, who knows everything about Bach . . . , synthesizes and pursues his earlier studies that show Bach, and now Mozart, as synthesizers of genius-composers with a talent for synthesis, genial synthesizers-in their own right. The always limited biographical evidence, scrutinized minutely, yields a convincing picture of choices and likely motivations. The mix of infinite information and suggestive conclusion could not be more ideal. Short of conclusiveness also means long on stimulation. I found the Mozart essays particularly rewarding in that respect. A public readership...unquestionably benefits from the kind of thoughtful, inquisitive, suggestive mind that Marshall always brings to bear and that is the guiding spirit of the majority of these essays. Would that more of us had such a gift. -- Marshall Brown * BACH: JOURNAL OF THE RIEMENSCHNEIDER BACH INSTITUTE *Marshall seeks to get into the minds of composers to understand both their compositional processes and what motivated them to create. His characteristically clear writing...breaks away from nineteenth-century hagiography . . . [and] sits side by side with close analytical readings of musical works and of the autograph scores. Marshall is willing to speculate boldly when evidence runs out. The essays in this collection offer a refreshing boldness in the way Marshall presents his ideas and his ability to champion Bach and Mozart even as he urges a more human view of them and their flaws. This adds up to a new way of thinking about "genius." -- Daniel R. Melamed * MOZART SOCIETY OF AMERICA NEWSLETTER *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Century of Bach and Mozart as a Music-Historical Epoch: A Different Argument for the Proposition Young Man Bach: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Bach Biography The Notebooks for Wilhelm Friedemann and Anna Magdalena Bach: Some Biographical Lessons Bach and Luther Redeeming the St. John Passion--and J. S. Bach Bach's Keyboard Music The Minimalist and Traditionalist Approaches to Performing Bach's Choral Music: Some Further Thoughts Truth and Beauty: J. S. Bach at the Crossroads of Cultural History Bach at Mid-Life: The Christmas Oratorio and the Search for New Paths Bach at the Boundaries of Music History: Preliminary Reflections on the B-Minor Mass and the Late-Style Paradigm Father and Sons: Confronting a Uniquely Daunting Paternal Legacy Johann Christian Bach and Eros Bach and Mozart: Styles of Musical Genius Mozart and Amadeus Bach and Mozart's Artistic Maturity Mozart's Unfinished: Some Lessons of the Fragments Epilogue (ossia Postmortem). Had Mozart Lived Longer: Some Cautious (and Incautious) Speculations Bibliography Notes

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Book SynopsisDiscover How Hopkins's Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own "Poetry and art and music seize upon the human experience in ways that reveal new possibilities of intimacy with the Divine. In the way they reach out and grab us by the heart at unexpected times, they reaffirm that the Holy will meet us when it chooses.…" —from the Preface by Rev. Thomas Ryan, CSP Gerard Manley Hopkins, Christian mystical poet, is beloved for his use of fresh language and startling metaphors to describe the world around him. Beneath the surface of this lovely verse lies a searching soul, wrestling with and yearning for God. Hopkins writes from a Christian background, and yet his themes speak to people of all faiths who seek a deeper understanding of the presence of God in all of life. This beautiful sampling of Hopkins's poetry offers a glimpse into his unique spiritual vision that continues to inspire readers throughout the world. The poems unite his two devotions, presenting mystical images of Christ in the natural world, which serve as a window through which you might also begin to see the Divine Presence in the world around you.Table of ContentsPreface by Rev. Thomas Ryan, CSP Who Is Gerard Manley Hopkins? A Short Introduction to Hopkins's Mysticism Excerpts from His Sermons A Short Introduction to the Poems Excerpts from Hopkins’s Writings about Poetry From Robert Bridges’s Preface to the 1918 Edition The Poems Notes Index of Poems (by title) Index of First Lines Other Books in The Mystic Poets Series

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Book SynopsisJumping frogs, high society, San Francisco’s Emperor Norton and the stray dogs that followed on his heels—nothing escaped Mark Twain’s scrutiny or his acerbic wit. Bernard Taper has gathered together a heady selection of newspaper articles, correspondence, poetry, and short stories that are humorous—sometimes exasperating and controversial—but always engaging. Edward Jump, a contemporary of Twain’s, offers through his lively illustrations a visual drum roll to Twain’s cantankerous prose. From earthquakes, scandals, and tantalizing bonanzas to elegant ladies blowing their noses in “exquisitely modulated tones,” Mark Twain has left us a vision of San Francisco that is at once fascinating and hilariously familiar.

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Book SynopsisJane Austen is a favorite with many students, whether they've read her novels or viewed popular film adaptations. But Persuasion (1817), completed at the end of her life, can be challenging for students to approach. They are surprised to meet a heroine so subdued and self-sacrificing, and the novel's setting during the Napoleonic Wars may be unfamiliar. This volume provides teachers with avenues to explore the depths and richness of the novel with both Austen fans and newcomers.Part 1, "Materials," suggests editions for classroom use, criticism, and multimedia resources. Part 2, "Approaches," presents strategies for teaching the literary, contextual, and philosophical dimensions of the novel. Essays address topics such as free indirect discourse and other narrative techniques; social class in Austen's England; the role of the navy during war and peacetime; key locations in the novel, including Lyme Regis and Bath; and health, illness, and the ethics of care.Trade ReviewThe volume makes a valuable addition to Austen scholarship, and its pedagogical approaches are both thorough and innovative." - Laura White University of Nebraska, Lincoln "The purpose of this volume is to help instructors teach Persuasion in many different classroom contexts, and it succeeds marvelously. I am eager to try out the ideas gathered here!" - Claudia L. Johnson, Princeton University

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Book SynopsisRecent poems and fictions set in the early Americas are typically read as affirmations of cultural norms, as evidence of the impossibility of genuine engagement with the historical past, or as contentious repudiations of received histories. Inspired particularly by Mihai Spariosu’s arguments regarding literary playfulness as an opening to peace, Rewriting Early America: The Prenational Past in Postmodern Literature adopts a different perspective, with the goal of demonstrating that many recent literary texts undertake more constructive and hopeful projects with regard to the American past than critics usually recognize. While honoring writers' pervasive critiques of hegemony, this volume trades a preoccupation with antagonism for an interest in restoration and recuperation. It describes how texts by John Barth, John Berryman, Susan Howe, Toni Morrison, Paul Muldoon, Thomas Pynchon, and William T. Vollmann harness the ambiguities of the colonial past to find sociocultural possibilities that operate beyond the workings of power and outside the politics of difference. Throughout, this book remains devoted to uncovering the moments at which contemporary writers proffer visions of American communities defined not by marginalization and oppression, but by responsive understanding and inclusion.Trade ReviewThis is a brilliant book, whose scope ranges beyond literary criticism, even as it excels at it. Coffman combines luminous close-reading with well-digested, comprehensive theoretical background to analyze the way very different writers address the colonial past and pre-conquest history, questioning the often unacknowledged preconceptions that still underlie our contemporary views. . . . This critical reprise of how writers revise their mythologized, national, transnational or adopted past makes for a refreshing read. It is no small prowess to have written a page-turner of such intellectual scope. -- Françoise Palleau-Papin, Professor of American Literature at the University of Paris XIIITable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Contemporary American Literature and Early America Chapter 1: Berryman’s Bradstreet and the End(s) of New Criticism Chapter 2: John Barth’s Metanarrative Critique, or, History as Literature as Reenactment Chapter 3: Tradition and Critique in Paul Muldoon’s “Madoc: A Mystery” Chapter 4: Material Values in Pynchon and Vollmann Chapter 5: The New World(s) of Thomas Pynchon Chapter 6: Silence and Places beyond Power in the Poetry of Susan Howe Conclusion: The Problem of American Origins, Freedom from Power, and Toni Morrison’s A Mercy Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisRecent poems and fictions set in the early Americas are typically read as affirmations of cultural norms, as evidence of the impossibility of genuine engagement with the historical past, or as contentious repudiations of received histories. Inspired particularly by Mihai Spariosu’s arguments regarding literary playfulness as an opening to peace, Rewriting Early America: The Prenational Past in Postmodern Literature adopts a different perspective, with the goal of demonstrating that many recent literary texts undertake more constructive and hopeful projects with regard to the American past than critics usually recognize. While honoring writers' pervasive critiques of hegemony, this volume trades a preoccupation with antagonism for an interest in restoration and recuperation. It describes how texts by John Barth, John Berryman, Susan Howe, Toni Morrison, Paul Muldoon, Thomas Pynchon, and William T. Vollmann harness the ambiguities of the colonial past to find sociocultural possibilities that operate beyond the workings of power and outside the politics of difference. Throughout, this book remains devoted to uncovering the moments at which contemporary writers proffer visions of American communities defined not by marginalization and oppression, but by responsive understanding and inclusion.Trade ReviewPostmodernist literature has typically been viewed as lacking the ability to engage productively with the past. Theorists, Fredric Jameson among them, have seen postmodernist literature as nostalgic and marked by pastiche. Now Coffman argues for a revised understanding of the postmodernist project, an understanding of it as presenting a 'more reparative' historical interaction that accounts for previous blind spots with regard to American literary historiography. Coffman shows how selected authors—John Berryman, John Barth, Paul Muldoon, Thomas Pynchon, William T. Vollmann, Susan Howe, Toni Morrison—look back to early American history to address contemporary concerns. Throughout, Coffman makes his case with erudition and sensitivity to ongoing debates in the field about inclusivity in the cultural life of the US. One of the nice surprises for this reviewer was finding an Irish writer studied alongside American contemporaries, an inclusion that provides a unique perspective. . . . [A] welcome addition to the literature. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * CHOICE *This is a brilliant book, whose scope ranges beyond literary criticism, even as it excels at it. Coffman combines luminous close-reading with well-digested, comprehensive theoretical background to analyze the way very different writers address the colonial past and pre-conquest history, questioning the often unacknowledged preconceptions that still underlie our contemporary views. . . . This critical reprise of how writers revise their mythologized, national, transnational or adopted past makes for a refreshing read. It is no small prowess to have written a page-turner of such intellectual scope. -- Françoise Palleau-Papin, Professor of American Literature at the University of Paris XIIIAcross the six chapters of this insightful – and surprisingly provocative – monograph, Christopher K. Coffman builds a case for seeing our contemporary moment as being uniquely suited to the composition of works engaged with the colonial era. Alongside the critical theory, there is some wonderful writing to be found in this book. * American Book Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Contemporary American Literature and Early AmericaChapter 1: Berryman’s Bradstreet and the End(s) of New CriticismChapter 2: John Barth’s Metanarrative Critique, or, History as Literature as ReenactmentChapter 3: Tradition and Critique in Paul Muldoon’s “Madoc: A Mystery”Chapter 4: Material Values in Pynchon and VollmannChapter 5: The New World(s) of Thomas PynchonChapter 6: Silence and Places beyond Power in the Poetry of Susan HoweConclusion: The Problem of American Origins, Freedom from Power, and Toni Morrison’s A MercyBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisEdgar Allan Poe wields more influence in the spheres of literature and popular culture on a world scale than any other US author. This influence, however, does not rely on the quality of Poe’s texts alone nor on the compellingly tragic nature of his biography; his reputation and his ubiquitous presence owe much of their longevity to the ways Poe has been interpreted and portrayed by his advocates—other writers, translators, literary critics, literary historians, illustrators, film makers, musicians—and packaged by various mediators in the literary field, especially editors and anthologizers. As this study demonstrates, the division between Poe’s advocates and the mediators who organize his work for consumption by the reading public can be very porous since many of Poe’s most adamant proponents—Charles Baudelaire and Julio Cortázar, for example—also anthologized, edited, and/or translated his works. Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and (Trans)national Canons focuses on the works produced by Poe’s anthologizers and editors, both the famous and the lesser-known, whose labor often takes place behind the scenes. Poe’s editors and anthologizers exercise real power, and over the last 170 years, they have crafted and framed the various Poes we recognize, revere, cherish, and critique today.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Types of Anthologies and Types of PoeMargarida Vale de Gato and Emron Esplin Part 1: Deciding Who Belongs and Where They Fit: (Proto)Anthologies of the 1840s1. Anthology, Relational Aesthetics, and the (Dis)unity of Affect: Poe Collects People and Griswold Frames PoeJana L. Argersinger2. Poe as Anthologizer of Himself Harry Lee Poe3. The “Flower-gemmed” Story: Gift Book Tradition and Poe’s “Eleonora”Alexandra Urakova Part 2: Assembling Poe in English: Editors, Editions, and the College Anthology4. Selecting for Posterity: Poe’s Early Editors and the Battle for a Definitive CollectionJeffrey A. Savoye5. The Scholars’ Poe(s): Landmark Editions of the Twentieth CenturyTravis Montgomery6. Poe Anthologies and Editions in Britain: 1852-1914Bonnie Shannon McMullen7. Repatriating Poe: Revising the Penguin PortableJ. Gerald Kennedy 8. Textbook Poe: College American Literature AnthologiesScott Peeples Part 3: Setting Tones and Moods: Genre Anthologies and Audiobooks9. Usher II: Poe, Anthologies, and the Rise of Science FictionStephen Rachman 10. Edgar Allan Poe and the Codifying and Anthologizing of Detective FictionJohn Gruesser11. “‘I have spoken both of ‘sound’ and of ‘voice’’’: An Analysis of Doug Bradley’s Spinechillers Audio Anthology and the Works of Edgar Allan PoeMichelle Kay Hansen12. Poe’s Poetry AnthologizedPhilip Edward Phillips Part 4: Wor(l)ding Poe Abroad: Anthologizers, Editors, Illustrators, and Translators13. Startling Restitutions, Significant Partialities: The French Come to the Rescue of Edgar Allan PoeMargarida Vale de Gato14. Popular Poe Anthologies in the UK and FranceChristopher Rollason15. Under the Spanish Eye: Illustrated Poe Editions in SpainFernando González-Moreno and Margarita Rigal-Aragón 16. A Century of Terror, Ratiocination, and the Supernatural: Poe’s Fiction in Argentina from Carlos Olivera to Julio CortázarEmron Esplin17. Editing and Anthologizing Poe in JapanTakayuki TatsumiIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis collection explores how anthologizers and editors of Edgar Allan Poe play an integral role in shaping our conceptions of Poe as the author we have come to recognize, revere, and critique today. In the spheres of literature and popular culture, Poe wields more global influence than any other U.S. author. This influence, however, cannot be attributed solely to the quality of Poe’s texts or to his compellingly tragic biography. Rather, his continued prominence as a writer owes much to the ways that Poe has been interpreted, portrayed, and packaged by an extensive group of mediators ranging from anthologizers, editors, translators, and fellow writers to literary critics, filmmakers, musicians, and illustrators. In this volume, the work of presenting Poe’s texts for public consumption becomes a fascinating object of study in its own right, one that highlights the powerful and often overlooked influence of those who have edited, anthologized, translated, and adapted the author’s writing over the past 170 years.Trade ReviewExactly how anthologies, in all their different forms, can shape our perception of an author is a fascinating topic. Edgar Allan Poe—one of the world’s most important and popular writers—is the ideal focus for such a study. This groundbreaking book promises to transform our understanding of how Poe is read, today as well as in the past, not only in the United States but throughout the world. -- Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, Monsignor Murray Professor in Arts and Humanities and past president of the Poe Studies AssociationThis excellent and innovative study updates the appeal of Poe’s work by researching translations and anthologies that bring his creativity to readers in many languages and cultures. -- Lois Vines, professor of French, distinguished professor of humanities, Ohio UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Types of Anthologies and Types of PoeMargarida Vale de Gato and Emron Esplin Part 1: Deciding Who Belongs and Where They Fit: (Proto)Anthologies of the 1840s1. Anthology, Relational Aesthetics, and the (Dis)unity of Affect: Poe Collects People and Griswold Frames PoeJana L. Argersinger2. Poe as Anthologizer of Himself Harry Lee Poe3. The “Flower-gemmed” Story: Gift Book Tradition and Poe’s “Eleonora”Alexandra Urakova Part 2: Assembling Poe in English: Editors, Editions, and the College Anthology4. Selecting for Posterity: Poe’s Early Editors and the Battle for a Definitive CollectionJeffrey A. Savoye5. The Scholars’ Poe(s): Landmark Editions of the Twentieth CenturyTravis Montgomery6. Poe Anthologies and Editions in Britain: 1852-1914Bonnie Shannon McMullen7. Repatriating Poe: Revising the Penguin PortableJ. Gerald Kennedy 8. Textbook Poe: College American Literature AnthologiesScott Peeples Part 3: Setting Tones and Moods: Genre Anthologies and Audiobooks9. Usher II: Poe, Anthologies, and the Rise of Science FictionStephen Rachman 10. Edgar Allan Poe and the Codifying and Anthologizing of Detective FictionJohn Gruesser11. “‘I have spoken both of ‘sound’ and of ‘voice’’’: An Analysis of Doug Bradley’s Spinechillers Audio Anthology and the Works of Edgar Allan PoeMichelle Kay Hansen12. Poe’s Poetry AnthologizedPhilip Edward Phillips Part 4: Wor(l)ding Poe Abroad: Anthologizers, Editors, Illustrators, and Translators13. Startling Restitutions, Significant Partialities: The French Come to the Rescue of Edgar Allan PoeMargarida Vale de Gato14. Popular Poe Anthologies in the UK and FranceChristopher Rollason15. Under the Spanish Eye: Illustrated Poe Editions in SpainFernando González-Moreno and Margarita Rigal-Aragón 16. A Century of Terror, Ratiocination, and the Supernatural: Poe’s Fiction in Argentina from Carlos Olivera to Julio CortázarEmron Esplin17. Editing and Anthologizing Poe in JapanTakayuki TatsumiIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors

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Book SynopsisEdgar Allan Poe notoriously identified “the death . . . of a beautiful woman” as “the most poetical topic in the world.” Despite that cringeworthy claim, Poe drew creative inspiration from female authors, and women figure prominently among the artists and critics fascinated by the writer’s creative legacy. A book-length work about the various ways in which women—Poe’s female contemporaries, scholars, writers and artists, as well as women characters in Poe adaptations—have influenced perceptions of Poe is long overdue. Covering a time frame that extends from the mid-nineteenth century to the twenty-first, this collection features essays about all of these subjects. One goal of this book is recognizing how women have helped establish Poe’s reputation in the U.S. and abroad. The other is drawing attention to ways that constructions of womanhood accepted by Poe are revised in popular culture, a sphere where artists—in film, fiction, and comics—build on the subversive potential of Poe’s work while exposing its ideological limitations. Poe and Women will appeal not only to Poe specialists but also to anyone interested in his ongoing relevance to gender discussions inside and outside the academy.Table of ContentsIntroductionAmy Branam Armiento and Travis MontgomeryPart I: Recognition “The Vast Pantheon of Speculation”: Edgar Allan Poe and His Women Biographers Sandra Tomc Spiritual Dialogues: Lydia Maria Child, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Politics of Unity Adam BradfordFifty Years of Women’s Scholarship on PoeAmy Branam ArmientoTransnational Poe: Women Scholars AbroadClara PetinoPart II: Revision“Can You See Me?”: Poe’s Female Characters and the Struggle for Self-Definition on FilmAlexandra Reuber“And She Grew Strangely”: Poe, Women, and ComicsJohn Edward Martin“Sort of E. A. Poeish”: Edgar Allan Poe and Female Pulp WritersKevin KnottTraces of Poe’s House of Usher in the Work of Contemporary Women Horror WritersMelanie R. AndersonAfterword: Maureen Cobb Mabbott and The Collected Works of Edgar Allan PoeTravis Montgomery

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Book SynopsisThe Christian Goddess: Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald, examines this British Victorian writer's employment of female figures to represent Deity. Such symbolism is extremely unusual for a Christian author of this period and anticipates the efforts of many modern theologians to develop an image of God as Mother. Bonnie Gaarden reads the goddess-figures in MacDonald's fantasies as both archetypes of the collective unconscious and as emblems articulating MacDonald's unique Christian theology, which is Trinitarian, Neo-Platonic, mystical and universalist. The goddesses become the central figures around which the author develops her interpretations of MacDonald's adult fantasy-novels, his children's books and some of his fairy tales. These readings discover MacDonald's ideas about God and the nature of good and evil, models of spiritual and psychological development that foreshadow the theories of Carl Jung and Eric Neumann, and acerbic commentary on the values and customs of Victorian society and religion. According to The Christian Goddess, MacDonald's Romantic belief in God's self-revelation in Nature led him to create Nature-mothers (such as the Green Lady in 'The Golden Key' and Lilith's Eve) which evoke both the Great Mother archetype described by Eric Neumann, and the modern neopagan Great Mother as developed in the works of James Frazer, Robert Graves, and Marija Gimutas. MacDonald dramatized his view of evil and its cure in the title character of Lilith, a Terrible Mother archetype historically embodied in the Hindu goddess Kali. MacDonald's notion of the world as Keat's 'vale of Soulmaking,' also elaborated by religious philosopher John Hick, is conveyed by Magic Cauldron archetypes in The Wise Woman, 'The Gray Wolf,' and Lilith. Muse-figures in Phantastes and At the Back of the North Wind express MacDonald's conviction that a 'right imagination' is the voice of God, while Divine Children in The Wise Woman and 'The Golden Key' communicate his belief that 'true childhood' is the Divine nature. The great-grandmother in the Princess books, a personification of the multi-dimensional activity of Divine Wisdom, springs from the Judeo-Christian Sophia and the classical Athena, while Kore figures in The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, and Phantastes re-present the transforming descents of Persephone and Christ. This book shows MacDonald's fantasies as a chronological bridge, anchored in the traditions of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, incorporating the teachings of Christian mysticism and theistic Romanticism, and linking to the contemporary concerns in Western society that have given birth to the New Age. The Christian goddess portrayed in these fantasies may strike the reader as a Deity whose time has come.Trade ReviewBy exploring these supernatural figures in MacDonald's stories through the lenses of Jungian psychology, Hindu religion, Biblical Sophia literature, and Greek myth, Gaarden does something more than just impart to her readers a deeper understanding of the centrality of these figures in MacDonald's mythopoeia. She also gestures toward something transcendent that a life of its own beyond these texts. Thus there is something in this book to interest literary critics as well as theologians. ... It seems clear to me that this book -- thoroughly researched, elegantly argued, and engagingly written -- should be essential reading not only for MacDonald scholars, but also for historians of Victorian religion and those interested in feminine spirituality more generally. * Mythlore *The Christian Goddess will surely interest students of MacDonald’s theology and mythopoesis, as well as those interested in archetypal and gender studies approaches to fantasy. Gaarden explains complex ideas with enviable clarity and ease, making this book accessible to the scholar and the lay reader alike. It is a significant addition to MacDonald scholarship, and one that deserves distinction. * Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter *Gaarden guides the reader in a biblical and mythological exegesis of the way in which each of MacDonald's goddesses educates protagonists through struggles of ignorance and pain in the dark valleys of the human condition. ... For scholars of MacDonald, Victorian fantasy, Christian theology, and Jungian psychology, Gaarden's study will prove engaging. * Victorian Studies *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Why Goddess? Chapter 2 The Great Mother Chapter 3 The Terrible Mother Chapter 4 The Magic Cauldron Chapter 5 The Muse and the Divine Child Chapter 6 The Great Goddess Chapter 7 Biblical Sophia Chapter 8 Patroness of Heroes Chapter 9 The Kore Chapter 10 Conclusion: Withces and the God of Love

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Book SynopsisModernity's Metonyms considers the representation of temporal frameworks in stories by the nineteenth-century Spanish authors, Leopoldo Alas and Antonio Ros de Olano. Adopting a metonymic approach—exploring the reiteration of specific associations across a range of disciplines, from literature, philosophy, historiography, to natural history—Modernity's Metonyms moves beyond the consideration of nineteenth-century Spanish literary modernity in terms of the problem of representation. Through an exploration of the associations prompted by three themes, the railway, food, and suicide, it argues that literary modernity can be considered as the expression of the perception that a linear model of time bringing together the past, the present and the future, was fragmenting into a proliferation of simultaneous moments. It draws French, German, American and British writers into discussion of stories by the canonical author Alas, and Ros de Olano, an author who is receiving increasing attention from scholars of nineteenth-century Spanish literature. Recent scholarship in the field of nineteenth-century Spanish literature and culture has challenged the thesis of "retraso," the thesis that Spain lagged far behind its European neighbors. Building on this scholarship, this monograph incorporates shorter works of experimental prose fiction into discussions of nineteenth-century literary modernity in Spain. It further expands the field by combining analysis of the writing of the canonical author, Leopoldo Alas with stories by Antonio Ros de Olano, whose work has been receiving increasing attention from scholars in the field. Rather than thinking of these works in terms of the ways they conform to established models provided by either contemporaneous French and British works, or by fin de siglo and early twentieth-century Spanish literature, Modernity's Metonyms works inductively.Table of Contents1 Acknowledgments 2 Introduction 3 1. "Le Grande Courant De La Civilisation Moderne": The Railway Metonym 4 2. "Der Mensch Ist, Was Er Isst": The Food Metonym 5 3. Back from the Future: The Suicide Metonym 6 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisBrown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century proceeds from the conviction that it is high time for the academy in general and scholars of European Romanticism to acknowledge the extensive international impact of Romantic poetry. Chander demonstrates the importance of Romantic notions of authorship to such poets as Henry Derozio (India), Egbert Martin (Guyana), and Henry Lawson (Australia), using the work of these poets, each prominent in the national cultural of his own country, to explain the crucial role that the Romantic myth of the poet qua legislator plays in the development of nationalist movements across the globe. The first study of its kind, Brown Romantics examines how each of these authors develop poetic means of negotiating such key issues as colonialism, immigration, race, and ethnicity.Trade ReviewManu Samriti Chander’s Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century is the kind of book that Romantic literary studies has needed for a very long time. Brown Romantics examines how and why poets from India, Guyana, and Australia placed themselves into conversation with authors now commonly associated with British Romanticism. The book significantly expands our understanding of canonical Romanticism’s transnational reach and revises critical commonplaces that have defined Romantic aesthetics since the nineteenth century. * Papers on Language and Literature *This book has already provided a focal point for a new direction in Romantic studies, as emerging research clusters around its central claims. There’s no doubt that it will be looked back upon as a landmark work in Romantic studies. * Romantic Circles *In calling for more sustained attention to precisely the kinds of “marginal” writers that Brown Romantics takes the time to read with care and sophistication, Chander points scholars of nineteenth-century literature toward a road less traveled, one that he shows by example—including an unusually personal “Afterword”—is worth traversing even, or perhaps especially, if we don’t know in advance where it leads. * Nineteenth-Century Literature *In aspiring for “a more global Romanticism . . . that looks beyond the Anglophone world,” Brown Romantics challenges readers to rethink the play of race, religion, class, and nation across the nineteenth-century globe. * Victorian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: World Literature and World Legislation Chapter 1: Henry Derozio and the Beginnings of Indian Romanticism Chapter 2: Christian Romanticism in British Guiana: The Case of Egbert Martin Chapter 3: Henry Lawson and the Legacy of Romantic Sympathy Chapter 4: Conclusion: Brown Keats Afterword Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection reflect two of Martí’s key observations during his time in the United States: first, how did he, an exile living in New York, view and read his North American neighbors from a sociocultural, political and literary perspective? Second, how did his perception of the modern nation impact his own concepts of race, capital punishment, poetics, and nation building for Cuba? The overarching endeavor of this project is to view and read Martí with the same critical or modern eye with which he viewed and read Spain, Cuba, Latin America and the United States. This volume, combining many of the most relevant experts in the field of Martí studies, attempts to answer those questions. It hopes to broaden the understanding and extend the influence of one of Americas’ (speaking of the collective Americas) most prolific and important writers, particularly within the very nation where his chronicles, poetry, and journalism were written. In spite of the political differences still separating Cuba and the United States, understanding Martí's relevancy is crucial to bridging the gap between these nations.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part One: Reading the Other America: History, Translation, and Political Landscapes 1.Enrico Mario Santí: “Nuestra América” and the Crisis of Latin Americanism 2.Esther Allen: “He has not made himself known to me”: José Martí, U.S. History, and the Question of Translation 3.Ivan Schulman: Social and Cultural Textualizations of the Modern Martí Project: The North American Chronicles 4.Anne Fountain: Emerson and Martí: Close Readings, Context and Translation 5.Georg Schwarzmann: Creating “Superman:” Martí, Nietzsche, and Whitman 6.Ariela Schnirmajer: Politics, Justice, and Style: José Martí Reads Mark Twain 7.Rafael Rojas Gutiérrez: Bancroft, Motley, Martí and American Renaissance Historiography Part Two: Defining and Building the Modern Nation: Race, Punishment, and Poetics 8.Laura Lomas: The City Unmakes Empires: José Martí’s Latina/o Urbanism 9.Jorge Camacho: Fear and Gratitude: Martí’s Chronicles in Patria 10.Oleski Miranda Navarro: José Martí: A Rendering of Black Issues in the United States 11.Reinaldo Suárez: José Martí, our Revolutionary Victor Hugo? 12.Francisco Morán: Vile Brothers: Exclusion in José Martí’s Republican Dream 13.Ryan Anthony Spangler: Modern Tensions in the Poetics of José Martí 14.Roberto González Echevarría: Martí and his “Amor de Ciudad Grande”: Notes on the Poetics of Versos libres 15.David P. Laraway: José Martí and the Call of Technology in “Amor de ciudad grande Bibliography Index About the Contributors

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