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Book SynopsisMenials argues that British writers of the long-eighteenth century projected their era’s economic and social anxieties onto domestic servants. Confronting the emergence of controversial principles like self-interest, emulation, and luxury, writers from Eliza Haywood, Daniel Defoe, and Samuel Richardson to Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, and William Thackeray used literary servants to critique what they saw as problematic economic and social practices. A cultural history of economic ideology as well as a literary history of domestic service, Menials traces the role of the domestic servant as a representation of the relationship between the master’s ideal self and the cultural forces that threaten it.Trade ReviewBooker condenses a wealth of knowledge into one slim volume, and the ambitious scope of the broad timespan announced in the title is fulfilled, resulting in a well-informed snapshot of textual representations two-hundred-year period. It is rare to find in a single book material that is useful for scholars of both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I came away from this text wanting to interrogate the ulterior motivations for the depiction of every servant in fiction (and drama), and this is something to be thankful for. * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Becoming Nothing: Writing the Domestic Servant Chapter 1: Literary Servants and the Trouble with Self-Interest, Part 1 Chapter 2: Literary Servants and the Trouble with Self-Interest, Part 2 Chapter 3: “Within Proper Bounds”: Domestic Servants and Emulation Anxiety Chapter 4: Domestic Idylls, Exotic Fruits: the Luxury of Foreign Servants Coda: Downstairs at Downton Abbey Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisBritish Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest explores the importance to Romantic literature of a concept of human interest. It examines a range of literary experiments to engage readers through subjects and styles that were at once "interesting" and that, in principle, were in their "interest." These experiments put in question relationships between poetry and prose; lyric and narrative; and literature and popular media. The book places literary works by a range of nineteenth-century writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary and Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and Matthew Arnold into dialogue with a variety of non-literary and paraliterary forms ranging from newspapers to footnotes. The book investigates the generic structures of Romantic literature and the negotiation of the status of literature in the period in relation to a new media landscape. It explores the self-theorization of Romantic literature and argues for its value to contemporary literary criticism.Trade ReviewImportant and novel ... British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest shows convincingly that the topic of human interest, while it frequently comprises the content and orientation of a given text, more often animates its paratextual apparatus (title, preface, footnotes, marginal comments, letters written during composition of the text). That is, the question of human interest … is for Romantic writers primarily a formal matter played out in paratextual discussions of how best to depict a “human” envisioned as strengthening our humanity. -- Julie A. Carlson, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1: Traces of Human Interest Chapter 2: Seaching Stories Chapter 3: Intimate Interests Chapter 4: Byron’s Interruption Chapter 5: Romantic Ends Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe question of an erotic readership has always vexed scholars. With little evidence of anyone's actually reading erotic material, scholars have had to make do with variations of an "ideal reader" approach. Insofar as it presupposes authorial intention and a stable meaning, this theoretical model proves unsatisfactory. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Carnal Reading: Early Modern Language and Bodies proposes a new theory of erotic reading that refigures bodily responses as constitutive of cognitive understanding. In its content and style, erotic writing was perceived to interact physically with the reader's body-or more specifically, the sensitive soul via the imagination. "Lively" descriptions infused desires that could permanently affect not only the entire "animal economy," or constitution, but also a person's reasoning faculties. All good writing was meant to move the passions, but there was no way to determine whether the "warmth" derived from reading was erotic or otherwise. Chapter 1, "'Thoughts Swelled with Carnosity': Imagination, Enthusiasm, and Love," briefly rehearses Adrian John's account of how religious reading can inspire enthusiasm in readers. This understanding of how religious reading inflames the imagination applies equally well to amorous discourses. "The Passions: Music, 'Infusion,' and Teen-Age Reading Habits" (chapter 2) examines early modern conduct books and discourses about music to illustrate the notion of the early modern body as "permeable" and, as such, impressionable to all forms of stimulating media. The chapter offers a close reading of Manley's New Atalantis to demonstrate how reading habits could transform a young person's constitution. Chapter 3, "The Physiological Aesthetics of Erotic Response: Intention, Style, Association," focuses on contemporary literary critiques that privilege "lively" depictions and the consequences that style has on authorial intention. The final chapter, "Sexy Rhetoric: Nice Figures, or Books that Do It 'the old Grammar rule

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Book SynopsisMatthew J. Babcock's Private Fire: Robert Francis's Ecopoetry and Prose is an examination of the life and work of one of America's most intriguing but tragically obscure writers. Babcock uses his own personal relationship Robert Francis's work, which emphasizes conservation and connectedness to our natural surroundings, to illuminate both overtones and nuances that are undoubtedly useful to those interested in poetry and ecology. Babcock begins with a brief biographical section intended to set the tone for readers previously unfamiliar with Robert Francis and then continues into an analysis of the influence of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost on Francis's work. Starting in Chapter Three, Private Fire shifts into the realm of literary analysis and discusses various angles of Francis's work, from representations of gender and sexual identity; prose contributions, both fiction and non-fiction; religion and politics; to themes of conservation, place-making, experimental poetic styles, and asceticism, finishing with a discussion of Francis's only long narrative poem, "Valhalla." This poem joins other prophetic works in musing upon environmental apocalypticism. Matthew J. Babcock finishes this detailed and thoughtful volume with concluding meditations that situate Robert Francis with his contemporaries, helping readers to locate him historically and contextually amongst other 20th century writers. By using biography and literary theory as the lens through which one interprets Francis's work, Private Fire: Robert Francis's Ecopoetry and Prose successfully navigates the literary and cultural environment surrounding a poet who himself was so connected with the world around him.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Chapter One: Introduction Chapter 4 Chapter Two: The Influence of Dickinson and Frost Chapter 5 Chapter Three: Sex, Gender, and the Rural Erotic Chapter 6 Chapter Four: Fiction and Non-Fiction Chapter 7 Chapter Five: Ecospirituality and Ecopolitics Chapter 8 Chapter Six: Economy, Place, and Space Chapter 9 Chapter Seven: The Experimental Environment Chapter 10 Chapter Eight: Valhalla Chapter 11 Chapter Nine: Conclusion Chapter 12 Notes Chapter 13 Bibliography Chapter 14 Index

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Book SynopsisMonstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Novels of Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Vladimir Nabokov investigates the connection between realist fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the psychoanalytic approach of John Bowlby's Attachment Theory. Attachment Theory arises from the guiding principles of realism and the veratist's devotion to long-term, direct observation of subject matter. Additionally, because Attachment Theory originated in the field of child psychoanalysis, this book highlights the detrimental effects of parental obsession and abandonment, industrialism, poverty, alcoholism, religious addiction, and physical, emotional, and sexual abuse on child characters. The subject of Monstrous Kinships is timely, as literary critics and theorists as well as creative writers continue to expand their range of inquiry to include the child as primary subject in various treatments of post-colonial and transnational culture.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Monstrous Kinships: Attachment and Loss in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Herman Melville's Pierre Chapter 3 Chapter 2: 'And their ways are filled with thorns': Obsessive Passion and the Despair of Innocence in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure Chapter 4 Chapter 3: 'Howls and Curses, Groans and Shrieks': Alcoholism and Life's Foreclosed Possibilities in Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Chapter 5 Chapter 4: 'Sorrow and the Weight of Sin': Religious Obsession in Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy Chapter 6 Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThis study revaluates the work of the scientist and radical, poet and dramatist and English exile in Germany Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849). While his writing has elicited high praise from poets ranging from Robert Browning through Ezra Pound to John Ashbery, scholars have frequently neglected it on grounds of its purportedly morbid and opaque eccentricity. Countering this scholarly perception, this book deftly relocates Beddoes’s poetry, drama and prose at the centre of Anglo-German debates on aesthetics and life science, politics and theatre in an early nineteenth-century European context. Aided by his letters from Germany, the book re-creates the intercultural discursive universe in which Beddoes easily moves from Shakespeare’s plays or the aesthetic experiments of Shelley and his circle to Goethe and to topics debated among Heinrich Heine and the Jungdeutschen, from the most advanced contemporary scientific research to the post-Napoleonic politics of the German radical students’ organisations, and from Byron, Baillie and London’s illegitimate theatre to Schiller’s and Tieck’s highly charged reflections on male-male friendship. The study combines historicist strategies with theories of performance, performativity, and visuality as it focuses, in particular, on Beddoes’s major and defining work, Death’s Jest-Book, first completed in 1829 and published posthumously after much revision in 1850. This study shows how Death’s Jest Book, as both drama and poetry, devises complex perspectives on scientifically inspired notions of ‘life’ and history, how it forges a radical vision for post-Napoleonic Europe and how it links this vision to a daring conception of desiring, gendered selves. The book pays close attention to the dialogue Beddoes’s writing maintains with Early Modern literature, and it highlights the proto-modernist features that link his work to that of Büchner, Grabbe and a European theatre avant-garde. This innovative study of Beddoes’s work, cutting across current investigations into politics, gender, and science in intercultural Romantic Studies should be of interest to scholars and students of British Romantic and Victorian studies as well as of German Vormärz studies, and to students and scholars of drama and theatre as well as Queer studies.Trade ReviewThomas Lovell Beddoes has been discussed more frequently in recent years, but books devoted to him are relatively rare. Ute Berns’s Science, Politics, and Friendship in the Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes will therefore be essential reading for Beddoes scholars. . . .This is a long, very full book. Berns takes every opportunity to fill in as much historical detail as she can. For this reason the book is very informative . . . It will . . . become a touchstone in Beddoes criticism for many years. * The Year's Work In English Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Discursive and Tropological Preliminaries 1. Discursive Horizons in Beddoes's Letters 2. Visual Figuration and Performativity in Death's Jest-Book Part 2: The Politics of Revolutionary Bonapartism 3. The Republican Promise of Revolutionary Bonapartism 4. Roman Ideals in "Unroman Times" 5. Caesarist Visions of History Part 3: The Radical Politics of Friendship 6. Friendship and Fraternity in Crisis 7. Friendship(-)Haunting Sovereignty 8. Re-signifying the Friend Part 4: History and the Sciences of Life 9. The Discourse of "Life" in "Squats on a Toad-Stool" 10. Life Science, Natural History and Politics in Death's Jest-Book Part 5: Towards a New Theater 11. Performing Genres and the Uses of Illegitimacy Bibliography

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Book SynopsisByron’s emotional and erotic life, which he indulged with an unstoppable energy, is a key element in understanding his powerful and passionate personality, as well as the society of his day, which was scandalised by his behaviour even while being conquered by his extraordinary charm. The Sour Fruit. Lord Byron, Love & Sex looks at the poet’s now generally acknowledged bisexuality in all its aspects, from his fleeting liaisons to his love-affairs, female (his half-sister Augusta, Caroline Lamb and Teresa Guiccioli) and male (John Edleston, Nicolo Giraud and Loukas Chalandritsanos). The book’s original approach provides unusual and fascinating insights, notably into Byron’s homosexuality, hitherto relatively unexplored, and reveals a more truthful picture of the poet. Byron was strongly attracted to boys, who are referred to in Don Juan as ‘sour fruit’. In his adolescence he had fallen for aristocratic contemporaries but would later be attracted to boys of a lower social station. He had several same-sex experiences in England, encouraged by the circle he frequented at Cambridge, particularly his friend Matthews, as well as during his Grand Tour, during which he was able to freely live out behaviours frowned on at home. In early 19th-century England, homosexuality was a criminal offence punished with the pillory or even hanging, and Byron preferred to keep his transgressive experiences to himself, or share them only with a restricted group of like-minded friends. There are numerous veiled references to the range of his tastes in his works and his letters, which adopt a code aimed at the initiated that we are today better able to decipher. Innuendos abound, pointing to aspects of his submerged life, to adultery, incest and, above all, homosexuality – and we can now more fully appreciate the wit and verve of his letters as well as a clutch of agonised love-poems. An appended chapter examines Don Leon, an anonymous work purporting to be by Byron himself and salaciously recounting his love-life, which was first published some forty years after his death and has been on more than one occasion banned for obscenity.Table of ContentsA Note on the Text Foreword Introduction 1. Geordie. Scotland & Newstead Abbey 2. Hobhouse, Davies & Matthews 3. The ‘bel tenebroso’ 4. Byron’s Bisexuality 5. The Women 6. Homosexuality. John & Robert 7. Heading South 8. Albania, Greece and the East. Nicolo 9. The Matthews Circle 10. Exile. Loukas 11. The Burning in Albemarle Street 12. The Byron Myth 13. Don Leon Chronology Lord Byron’s Works Sources Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisTeaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Belknap grew out of a conference in honor of Robert Belknap, an outstanding teacher and scholar. The collected essays present concrete strategies for teaching the works of some of Russia’s best-known writers: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. They address the teaching of these iconic works of Russian literature in different contexts and to different audiences, from undergraduate students reading Russian classics in the context of general education courses to graduate students exploring the larger context of Russian print culture. Most of the essays address teaching in English translation, a few in the original, but all offer useful strategies that can be adopted for teaching to any audience. Contributors include: Robert L. Belknap, Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour, Ksana Blank, Ellen Chances, Nicholas Dames, Andrew R. Durkin, Jefferson J.A. Gatrall, Svetlana Slavskaya Grenier, Robert Louis Jackson, Liza Knapp, Deborah A. Martinsen, Olga Meerson, Maude Meisel, Robin Feuer Miller, Marcia A. Morris, Gary Saul Morson, Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Cathy Popkin, Irina Reyfman, Rebecca Stanton, William Mills Todd III, and Nancy Workman.Trade Review“This volume celebrates the career of Columbia University Professor Robert L. Belknap (1929-2014), who trained a generation of teachers and scholars working across North America. The contribution to it by Belknap himself provides a fascinating history of pedagogical experimentation at Columbia during his time there. The twenty-one other contributors to the volume, drawn from his former students, colleagues, and admirers, practice what he preached. The mix of close-reading and contextualization that he and his colleagues promoted and delivered is an inspiration and a challenge for those of us who deal with shorter semesters, fewer teaching hours each week, and undergraduates who cannot read as many pages as he did. . . . In his own essay, Belknap describes his own life’s work as “studying and teaching.” It seems clear that he regards the two as linked, as indeed they are in all the contributions to this volume. Each essay can be profitably read as both scholarship and pedagogy.” -- Donna Orwin, University of Toronto * The Russian Review, October 2015, (Vol. 74, No. 4) *“This impressive volume on nineteenth-century literature with its twenty-two essays (on such classical Russian writers as Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Lev Tolstoy, and Anton Chekhov) authored by experienced scholars who regularly teach the great books attests to the notable influence of the late Robert L. Belknap (Columbia University) on the field of Russian Studies in the United States.” -- Elizabeth Blake, Saint Louis University * Slavic and East European Journal, 59.3 (Fall 2015) *

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Book SynopsisDostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky is a collection of essays with a broad interdisciplinary focus. It includes contributions by leading Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and philosophy. The volume considers aesthetics, philosophy, theology, and science of the 19th century Russia and the West that might have informed Dostoevsky's thought and art. Issues such as evolutionary theory and literature, science and society, scientific and theological components of comparative intellectual history, and aesthetic debates of the nineteenth century Russia form the core of the intellectual framework of this book. Dostoevsky's oeuvre with its wide-ranging interests and engagement with philosophical, religious, political, economic, and scientific discourses of his time emerges as a particularly important case for the study of cross-fertilization among disciplines. The individual chapters explore Dostoevsky's real or imaginative dialogues with aesthetic, philosophic, and scientific thought of his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors, revealing Dostoevsky's forward looking thought, as it finds its echoes in modern literary theory, philosophy, theology and science.Trade Review“This valuable book includes very well-researched articles written by the scholars of the field which examine the dialogues of Dostoevky’s personas from aesthetic, philosophical and religious viewpoints. It is a major contribution to the Russian literature associated with Dostoevky’s name and works.” —Ayse Dietrich, International Journal of Russian Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 -- Ayse Dietrich, Middle East Technical University, International Journal of Russian Studies Issue no. 6, Jan 2017 * International Journal of Russian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Fiction beyond Fiction: Dostoevsky’s Quest for Realism Vladimir Golstein and Svetlana Evdokimova I. Encounters with Science 1. Darwin, Dostoevsky, and Russia’s Radical Youth David Bethea and Victoria Thorstensson 2. Darwin’s Plots, Malthus’s Mighty Feast, Lamennais’s Motherless Fledglings, and Dostoevsky’s Lost Sheep Liza Knapp 3. “Viper will eat viper”: Dostoevsky, Darwin, and the Possibility of Brotherhood Anna A. Berman 4. Encounters with the Prophet: Ivan Pavlov, Serafima Karchevskaia, and “Our Dostoevsky” Daniel P. Todes II. Engagements with Philosophy 5. Dostoevsky and the Meaning of “the Meaning of Life” Steven Cassedy 6. Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: The Hazards of Writing Oneself into (or out of) Belief David S. Cunningham 7. Dostoevsky as Moral Philosopher Charles Larmore 8. “If there’s no immortality of the soul . . . everything is lawful”: On the Philosophical Basis of Ivan Karamazov’s Idea Sergei A. Kibalnik III. Questions of Aesthetics 9. Once Again about Dostoevsky’s Response to Hans Holbein the Younger’s Dead Body of Christ in the Tomb Robert L. Jackson 10. Prelude to a Collaboration: Dostoevsky’s Aesthetic Polemic with Mikhail Katkov Susanne Fusso 11. Dostoevsky’s Postmodernists and the Poetics of Incarnation Svetlana Evdokimova IV. The Self and the Other 12. What Is It Like to Be Bats? Paradoxes of The Double Gary Saul Morson 13. Interiority and Intersubjectivity in Dostoevsky: The Vasya Shumkov Paradigm Yuri Corrigan 14. Dostoevsky’s Angel—Still an Idiot, Still beyond the Story: The Case of Kalganov Michal Oklot 15. The Detective as Midwife in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment Vladimir Golstein 16. Metaphors for Solitary Confinement in Notes from Underground and Notes from the House of the Dead Carol Apollonio 17. Moral Emotions in Dostoevsky’s “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man” Deborah A. Martinsen 18. Like a Shepherd to His Flock: The Messianic Pedagogy of Fyodor Dostoevsky—Its Sources and Conceptual Echoes Inessa Medzhibovskaya V. Intercultural Connections 19. Achilles in Crime and Punishment Donna Orwin 20. Raskolnikov and the Aqedah (Isaac’s Binding) Olga Meerson 21. Prince Myshkin’s Night Journey: Chronotope as a Symptom Marina Kostalevsky

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Book SynopsisThe powerful, impassioned, and often frenetic prose of Fedor Dostoevsky continues to fascinate readers in the twenty-first century, even though we are far removed from Dostoevsky’s Russia. A Dostoevsky Companion: Texts and Contexts aims to help students and readers navigate the writer’s fiction and his world, to better understand the cultural and sociopolitical milieu in which Dostoevsky lived and wrote. Rather than offer a single definitive view of the author, the book contains a collection of documents from Dostoevsky’s own time (excerpts from his letters, his journalism, and what his contemporaries wrote about him), as well as extracts from the major critical studies of Dostoevsky from the contemporary academy. The volume equips readers with a deeper understanding of Dostoevsky’s world and his writing, offering new paths and directions for interpreting his writing.Trade Review“This fascinating and useful collection combines Dostoevsky’s own texts (fictional excerpts, letters, articles) with a number of illuminating essays to shed light on various aspects of the author’s life, work, and thought. Designed with undergraduate students in mind, the collection, edited by Katherine Bowers, Connor Doak, and Kate Holland, will be of great help to students and to those who teach them, capturing what professors talk about when they talk about Dostoevsky.” —Vladimir Golstein, Brown University, Russian Review Vol. 78, No. 2 -- Vladimir Golstein, Brown University * Russian Review *“I found this book both eminently readable and a comprehensive and invaluable re-source for Dostoevskii scholars, no matter at what level they research. The Anglo-Canadian editorial team of Katherine Bowers, Connor Doak and Kate Holland are to be congratulated on assembling a rich textual and contextual feast that repays detailed study.” —John Cook, University of Melbourne, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, Vol. 33“This extremely valuable addition to Academic Studies Press’s Cultural Syllabus Series is aimed primarily at undergraduate students, although it is sure to be of interest to scholars of Dostoevsky. It offers a comprehensive collection of excerpts from Dostoevsky’s literary works, nonfiction, letters, and notebooks, as well as selections from important critical articles about his life and works. … Each chapter ends with a welcome, selected bibliography of works on the subject of the chapter. Given the enormous number of works on Dostoevsky (‘Who has not written a book on Dostoevsky?’), this is very useful for future reference. … We are fortunate to have this new companion to studying Dostoevsky.” —Michael Katz, Middlebury College, Slavic and East European JournalTable of Contents Acknowledgments How to Use this Book Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Referencing Timeline of Dostoevsky’s Life and Works Biography and Context Chapter 1: The Early Dostoevsky Introduction “A Noble Vocation” (2012) by Robert Bird The Ribbon Theft Incident from Confessions(1789) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau A Son’s Revenge from The Robbers(1781) by Friedrich Schiller First Glimpse of Udolpho (1794) by Ann Radcliffe The House of Monsieur Grandet in Eugénie Grandet(1833) by Honoré de Balzac Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop(1841) by Charles Dickens The Overcoat (1842) by Nikolai Gogol′ Poor Folk(1846) by Fedor Dostoevsky First Night from “White Nights” (1848) by Fedor Dostoevsky Letter to Gogol′ (1847) by Vissarion Belinskii Three Documents from the Petrashevskii Trial (1849) The Mock Execution: Letter to Mikhail Dostoevsky, December 22, 1849 by Fedor Dostoevsky Chapter 2: Dostoevsky and His Contemporaries Introduction A Review of The Double(1846) by Vissarion Belinskii Thoughts on The Double(1847) by Valerian Maikov The Row with Turgenev: Letter to Apollon Maikov, August 16, 1867 by Fedor Dostoevsky The Caricature of Turgenev in Demons(1872) by Fedor Dostoevsky Reaction to Demons: Letter to Mariia Miliutina, December 3, 1872 by Ivan Turgenev “Landowners’ Literature”: Letter to Nikolai Strakhov, May 18, 1871 by Fedor Dostoevsky Thoughts on Anna Karenina(1877) by Fedor Dostoevsky Tiny Alterations of Consciousness (1890) by Lev Tolstoy From A Cruel Talent(1882) by Nikolai Mikhailovskii Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (1902) by Dmitrii Merezhkovskii The Root and the Flower: Dostoevsky and Turgenev (1993) by Robert Louis Jackson Poetics Chapter 3: Aesthetics Introduction Mr—bov and the Question of Art (1861) by Fedor Dostoevsky The Defense of the Ideal: Letter to Apollon Maikov, December 11, 1868 by Fedor Dostoevsky Apropos of the Exhibition (1873) by Fedor Dostoevsky Poet of the Underground (1875) by Fedor Dostoevsky Dmitrii Karamazov on Beauty (1878) by Fedor Dostoevsky Two Kinds of Beauty (1966) by Robert Louis Jackson Dostoevsky’s Fantastic Pages (2006) by Vladimir Zakharov Chapter 4: Characters Introduction Makar Devushkin (2009) by Carol Apollonio Underground Man (1963) by Mikhail Bakhtin Raskol′nikov (2002) by Konstantine Klioutchkine Myshkin (1998) by Liza Knapp Nastas′ia Filippovna (2004) by Sarah J Young Stavrogin (1969) by Joseph Frank Fedor Karamazov (2003) by Deborah A Martinsen Ivan Karamazov and Smerdiakov (1992) by Harriet Murav Alesha Karamazov (1977) by Valentina Vetlovskaia Chapter 5: The Novel Introduction A Novel of Disintegration from the Notebooks for The Adolescent(1874) by Fedor Dostoevsky An Exceptional Family from The Adolescent(1875) by Fedor Dostoevsky Remaking the Noble Family Novel (2013) by Kate Holland A New Kind of Hero (1963) by Mikhail Bakhtin “Chronicle Time” in Dostoevsky (1979) by Dmitrii Likhachev The Narrator of The Idiot(1981) by Robin Feuer Miller Sideshadowing in Dostoevsky’s Novels (1994) by Gary Saul Morson The Plot of Crime and Punishment(2016) by Robert L Belknap Chapter 6: From Journalism to Fiction Introduction Feuilleton, April 22, 1847 by Fedor Dostoevsky The Petersburg Feuilletons (1979) by Joseph Frank Dostoevsky’s “Vision on the Neva” (1979) by Joseph Frank Excerpts from the Notebooks forThe Idiot(1867) by Fedor Dostoevsky Nastas′ia Filippovna’s History from The Idiot(1869) by Fedor Dostoevsky Ol′ga Umetskaia and The Idiot(2017) by Katherine Bowers Two Suicides from A Writer’s Diary(1876) by Fedor Dostoevsky From “The Meek One: A Fantastic Story” (1876) by Fedor Dostoevsky A Case Study: October, November, December 1876 (2013) by Kate Holland A Writer’s Diary as a Historical Phenomenon (2004) by Igor′ Volgin A Writer’s Diary, April 1877 issue in full Themes Chapter 7: Captivity, Free Will, and Utopia Introduction Dostoevsky’s Prison Years (2013) by James P Scanlan Prison Life: Letter to Mikhail Dostoevsky, February 22, 1854 by Fedor Dostoevsky The Prison from Notes from the House of the Dead(1862) by Fedor Dostoevsky The Eagle from Notes from the House of the Dead(1862) by Fedor Dostoevsky Dostoevsky Responds to the Censorship Committee (1986) by Joseph Frank Vera Pavlovna’s Fourth Dream from What Is to Be Done?(1863) by Nikolai Chernyshevskii The Prison of Utopia (1986) by Joseph Frank The Crystal Palace from Notes from Underground(1864) by Fedor Dostoevsky Twice Two from Notes from Underground(1864) by Fedor Dostoevsky Philosophical Pro et Contra in Part I of Crime and Punishment(1981) by Robert Louis Jackson Meta-utopia (1981) by Gary Saul Morson A Note on His Wife’s Death (1864) by Fedor Dostoevsky The Speech at the Stone from Brothers Karamazov(1880) by Fedor Dostoevsky Ode to Joy (2004) by Robert Louis Jackson Chapter 8: Dostoevsky’s Others Introduction Portrait of Alei in Notes from the House of the Dead(1862) by Fedor Dostoevsky Portrait of Isai Fomich inNotes from the House of the Dead(1862) by Fedor Dostoevsky The Jewish Question (1877) by Fedor Dostoevsky Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Notes from the House of the Dead(2008) by Susan McReynolds From “A Few Words about George Sand” (1876) by Fedor Dostoevsky From “About Women Again” (1876) by Fedor Dostoevsky The Woman Question in Crime and Punishment(1994) by Nina Pelikan Straus The Mothers Karamazov (2009) by Carol Apollonio Chapter 9: Russia Introduction Fellow Convicts from Notes from the House of the Dead(1862) by Fedor Dostoevsky After the Emancipation (1860) by Fedor Dostoevsky Going Beyond Theory (1862) by Fedor Dostoevsky Dostoevsky and the Slavophiles (2003) by Sarah Hudspith The Coming Apocalypse from the Notebooks for Demons(1870) by Fedor Dostoevsky Peasant Marei (1876) by Fedor Dostoevsky Pushkin Speech (1880) by Fedor Dostoevsky Chapter 10: God Introduction A Confession of Faith: Letter to Natal′ia Fonvizina, early March 1854 by Fedor Dostoevsky Myshkin and Rogozhin Exchange Crosses in The Idiot(1869) by Fedor Dostoevsky Dostoevsky’s Religious Thought (1903) by Lev Shestov On the Grand Inquisitor (1921) by Nikolai Berdiaev Hagiography in Brothers Karamazov(1985) by Nina Perlina On the Koranic Motif in The Idiot and Demons(2012) by Diane Oenning Thompson From Dostoevsky’s Religion(2005) by Steven Cassedy Index

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Book SynopsisThe powerful, impassioned, and often frenetic prose of Fedor Dostoevsky continues to fascinate readers in the twenty-first century, even though we are far removed from Dostoevsky’s Russia. A Dostoevsky Companion: Texts and Contexts aims to help students and readers navigate the writer’s fiction and his world, to better understand the cultural and sociopolitical milieu in which Dostoevsky lived and wrote. Rather than offer a single definitive view of the author, the book contains a collection of documents from Dostoevsky’s own time (excerpts from his letters, his journalism, and what his contemporaries wrote about him), as well as extracts from the major critical studies of Dostoevsky from the contemporary academy. The volume equips readers with a deeper understanding of Dostoevsky’s world and his writing, offering new paths and directions for interpreting his writing.Trade Review“This fascinating and useful collection combines Dostoevsky’s own texts (fictional excerpts, letters, articles) with a number of illuminating essays to shed light on various aspects of the author’s life, work, and thought. Designed with undergraduate students in mind, the collection, edited by Katherine Bowers, Connor Doak, and Kate Holland, will be of great help to students and to those who teach them, capturing what professors talk about when they talk about Dostoevsky.” —Vladimir Golstein, Brown University, Russian Review Vol. 78, No. 2 -- Vladimir Golstein, Brown University * Russian Review *“I found this book both eminently readable and a comprehensive and invaluable re-source for Dostoevskii scholars, no matter at what level they research. The Anglo-Canadian editorial team of Katherine Bowers, Connor Doak and Kate Holland are to be congratulated on assembling a rich textual and contextual feast that repays detailed study.” —John Cook, University of Melbourne, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, Vol. 33“This extremely valuable addition to Academic Studies Press’s Cultural Syllabus Series is aimed primarily at undergraduate students, although it is sure to be of interest to scholars of Dostoevsky. It offers a comprehensive collection of excerpts from Dostoevsky’s literary works, nonfiction, letters, and notebooks, as well as selections from important critical articles about his life and works. … Each chapter ends with a welcome, selected bibliography of works on the subject of the chapter. Given the enormous number of works on Dostoevsky (‘Who has not written a book on Dostoevsky?’), this is very useful for future reference. … We are fortunate to have this new companion to studying Dostoevsky.” —Michael Katz, Middlebury College, Slavic and East European JournalTable of Contents Acknowledgments How to Use this Book Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Referencing Timeline of Dostoevsky’s Life and Works Biography and Context Chapter 1: The Early Dostoevsky Introduction “A Noble Vocation” (2012) by Robert Bird The Ribbon Theft Incident from Confessions(1789) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau A Son’s Revenge from The Robbers(1781) by Friedrich Schiller First Glimpse of Udolpho (1794) by Ann Radcliffe The House of Monsieur Grandet in Eugénie Grandet(1833) by Honoré de Balzac Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop(1841) by Charles Dickens The Overcoat (1842) by Nikolai Gogol′ Poor Folk(1846) by Fedor Dostoevsky First Night from “White Nights” (1848) by Fedor Dostoevsky Letter to Gogol′ (1847) by Vissarion Belinskii Three Documents from the Petrashevskii Trial (1849) The Mock Execution: Letter to Mikhail Dostoevsky, December 22, 1849 by Fedor Dostoevsky Chapter 2: Dostoevsky and His Contemporaries Introduction A Review of The Double(1846) by Vissarion Belinskii Thoughts on The Double(1847) by Valerian Maikov The Row with Turgenev: Letter to Apollon Maikov, August 16, 1867 by Fedor Dostoevsky The Caricature of Turgenev in Demons(1872) by Fedor Dostoevsky Reaction to Demons: Letter to Mariia Miliutina, December 3, 1872 by Ivan Turgenev “Landowners’ Literature”: Letter to Nikolai Strakhov, May 18, 1871 by Fedor Dostoevsky Thoughts on Anna Karenina(1877) by Fedor Dostoevsky Tiny Alterations of Consciousness (1890) by Lev Tolstoy From A Cruel Talent(1882) by Nikolai Mikhailovskii Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (1902) by Dmitrii Merezhkovskii The Root and the Flower: Dostoevsky and Turgenev (1993) by Robert Louis Jackson Poetics Chapter 3: Aesthetics Introduction Mr—bov and the Question of Art (1861) by Fedor Dostoevsky The Defense of the Ideal: Letter to Apollon Maikov, December 11, 1868 by Fedor Dostoevsky Apropos of the Exhibition (1873) by Fedor Dostoevsky Poet of the Underground (1875) by Fedor Dostoevsky Dmitrii Karamazov on Beauty (1878) by Fedor Dostoevsky Two Kinds of Beauty (1966) by Robert Louis Jackson Dostoevsky’s Fantastic Pages (2006) by Vladimir Zakharov Chapter 4: Characters Introduction Makar Devushkin (2009) by Carol Apollonio Underground Man (1963) by Mikhail Bakhtin Raskol′nikov (2002) by Konstantine Klioutchkine Myshkin (1998) by Liza Knapp Nastas′ia Filippovna (2004) by Sarah J Young Stavrogin (1969) by Joseph Frank Fedor Karamazov (2003) by Deborah A Martinsen Ivan Karamazov and Smerdiakov (1992) by Harriet Murav Alesha Karamazov (1977) by Valentina Vetlovskaia Chapter 5: The Novel Introduction A Novel of Disintegration from the Notebooks for The Adolescent(1874) by Fedor Dostoevsky An Exceptional Family from The Adolescent(1875) by Fedor Dostoevsky Remaking the Noble Family Novel (2013) by Kate Holland A New Kind of Hero (1963) by Mikhail Bakhtin “Chronicle Time” in Dostoevsky (1979) by Dmitrii Likhachev The Narrator of The Idiot(1981) by Robin Feuer Miller Sideshadowing in Dostoevsky’s Novels (1994) by Gary Saul Morson The Plot of Crime and Punishment(2016) by Robert L Belknap Chapter 6: From Journalism to Fiction Introduction Feuilleton, April 22, 1847 by Fedor Dostoevsky The Petersburg Feuilletons (1979) by Joseph Frank Dostoevsky’s “Vision on the Neva” (1979) by Joseph Frank Excerpts from the Notebooks forThe Idiot(1867) by Fedor Dostoevsky Nastas′ia Filippovna’s History from The Idiot(1869) by Fedor Dostoevsky Ol′ga Umetskaia and The Idiot(2017) by Katherine Bowers Two Suicides from A Writer’s Diary(1876) by Fedor Dostoevsky From “The Meek One: A Fantastic Story” (1876) by Fedor Dostoevsky A Case Study: October, November, December 1876 (2013) by Kate Holland A Writer’s Diary as a Historical Phenomenon (2004) by Igor′ Volgin A Writer’s Diary, April 1877 issue in full Themes Chapter 7: Captivity, Free Will, and Utopia Introduction Dostoevsky’s Prison Years (2013) by James P Scanlan Prison Life: Letter to Mikhail Dostoevsky, February 22, 1854 by Fedor Dostoevsky The Prison from Notes from the House of the Dead(1862) by Fedor Dostoevsky The Eagle from Notes from the House of the Dead(1862) by Fedor Dostoevsky Dostoevsky Responds to the Censorship Committee (1986) by Joseph Frank Vera Pavlovna’s Fourth Dream from What Is to Be Done?(1863) by Nikolai Chernyshevskii The Prison of Utopia (1986) by Joseph Frank The Crystal Palace from Notes from Underground(1864) by Fedor Dostoevsky Twice Two from Notes from Underground(1864) by Fedor Dostoevsky Philosophical Pro et Contra in Part I of Crime and Punishment(1981) by Robert Louis Jackson Meta-utopia (1981) by Gary Saul Morson A Note on His Wife’s Death (1864) by Fedor Dostoevsky The Speech at the Stone from Brothers Karamazov(1880) by Fedor Dostoevsky Ode to Joy (2004) by Robert Louis Jackson Chapter 8: Dostoevsky’s Others Introduction Portrait of Alei in Notes from the House of the Dead(1862) by Fedor Dostoevsky Portrait of Isai Fomich inNotes from the House of the Dead(1862) by Fedor Dostoevsky The Jewish Question (1877) by Fedor Dostoevsky Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Notes from the House of the Dead(2008) by Susan McReynolds From “A Few Words about George Sand” (1876) by Fedor Dostoevsky From “About Women Again” (1876) by Fedor Dostoevsky The Woman Question in Crime and Punishment(1994) by Nina Pelikan Straus The Mothers Karamazov (2009) by Carol Apollonio Chapter 9: Russia Introduction Fellow Convicts from Notes from the House of the Dead(1862) by Fedor Dostoevsky After the Emancipation (1860) by Fedor Dostoevsky Going Beyond Theory (1862) by Fedor Dostoevsky Dostoevsky and the Slavophiles (2003) by Sarah Hudspith The Coming Apocalypse from the Notebooks for Demons(1870) by Fedor Dostoevsky Peasant Marei (1876) by Fedor Dostoevsky Pushkin Speech (1880) by Fedor Dostoevsky Chapter 10: God Introduction A Confession of Faith: Letter to Natal′ia Fonvizina, early March 1854 by Fedor Dostoevsky Myshkin and Rogozhin Exchange Crosses in The Idiot(1869) by Fedor Dostoevsky Dostoevsky’s Religious Thought (1903) by Lev Shestov On the Grand Inquisitor (1921) by Nikolai Berdiaev Hagiography in Brothers Karamazov(1985) by Nina Perlina On the Koranic Motif in The Idiot and Demons(2012) by Diane Oenning Thompson From Dostoevsky’s Religion(2005) by Steven Cassedy Index

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Book SynopsisDostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and “A Gentle Creature.” Despite his clever attempts to call his readers’ attention to these introductions, they have been neglected as an object of study for over 150 years. That oversight is rectified in First Words, the first systematic study of Dostoevsky’s introductions. Using Genette’s typology of prefaces and Bakhtin’s notion of multiple voices, Lewis Bagby reveals just how important Dostoevsky’s first words are to his fiction. Dostoevsky’s ruses, verbal winks, and backward glances indicate a lively and imaginative author at earnest play in the field of literary discourse.Trade ReviewA uniquely refreshing study of Dostoevsky's complex and little understood introductions, Lewis Bagby’s First Words: On Dostoevsky's Introductions, is a groundbreaking new work. Through a close reading and utilizing Genette's typology, Bagby provides insights into narratology and authorial voice and discovers that Dostoevsky's fictional introductory commentaries create frames essential in understanding the multifacetedness of his novelistic characters and plots. A required reading for literary scholars which can be of a significant interest to all readers of Dostoevsky's fiction. -- Gene Fitzgerald, Emeritus Professor of Russian, University of Utah"Drawing attention to a surprisingly neglected aspect of Dostoevsky’s works, Lewis Bagby deftly reveals how Dostoevsky used introductions—or prologues or forewords or prefaces—to subtly indicate themes and structures of many of his most important writings, such as Notes from the Underground and The Brothers Karamazov. Taking that cue, Bagby offers rich and newly insightful interpretations of Dostoevsky’s works large and small, alerting readers how to read them from Dostoevsky’s point of view. Bagby’s reading of the introduction to “A Gentle Creature” is nothing short of a revelation. The book will likely surprise, and will indeed enlighten, many a reader." -- Elizabeth Cheresh Allen, Bryn Mawr CollegeTable of Contents Note on Transliteration Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Model Prefaces from Russian Literature Chapter 2: Dostoevsky’s Initial Post-Siberian Work Chapter 3: Playing with Authorial Identities Chapter 4: Monsters Roam the Text Chapter 5: Re-Contextualizing Introductions Chapter 6: Anxious to the End Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIs each moment in history unique, or do essential situations repeat themselves? The traumatic events associated with the man who reigned as Tsar Dmitry have haunted the Russian imagination for four hundred years. Was Dmitry legitimate, the last scion of the House of Rurik, or was he an upstart pretender? A harbinger of Russia’s doom or a herald of progress?Writing the Time of Troubles traces the proliferation of fictional representations of Dmitry in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia, showing how playwrights and novelists reshaped and appropriated his brief and equivocal career as a means of drawing attention to and negotiating the social anxieties of their own times.Trade Review“In this well-wrought book, Marcia Morris discusses the ways Russian writers have used the figure of False Dmitry to pose political, existential, and literary questions. … Morris argues that each writer’s approach to these questions expresses his relation to contemporaneous events as well as his view of the distant past. The argument is framed by narrative theory and trauma studies, and firmly grounded in studies of Russian history and literature—the footnotes alone provide a detailed map of the book’s argument. … We owe Marcia Morris a debt of gratitude for reading, contextualizing, and analyzing these works, including some that most of us would never encounter otherwise. This book is well worth reading.” —Sarah Pratt, University of Southern California, Russian Review Vol. 78, No. 2 -- Sarah Pratt * Russian Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Translation, Transliteration, Names, and Abbreviations Introduction: Recurrence, Transference, and Dmitry Chapter 1 Prelude Chapter 2 Two Visions of Tyranny: The Late Eighteenth Century Chapter 3 Verbal Self-Fashioning: The Early Nineteenth Century Chapter 4 Two Visions of Reform: 1866 Chapter 5 Contingent Self-Fashioning: The Fin de Siècle Dmitry: Re-resurrection and Conclusions Sources Cited

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection of essays examines Leo Tolstoy’s unorthodox and provocative approach to spirituality, as presented in his numerous literary and his philosophico-religious works. The collection includes twelve contributions, especially written for this collection, and its contributors are writers, philosophers, literary critics, and experts for Russian literature. Six of the essays examine Tolstoy’s literary works, while the other six scrutinize more closely his philosophical views. The two central foci of examinations of the included essays are The Kreutzer Sonata and The Kingdom of God is within You.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. But to Continue the Life—For What Purpose? Mikhail Shishkin 2. Tolstoy’s Fiction: Its Spiritual Legacy Rosamund Bartlett 3. What Is the Good According to Tolstoy, and How Good Can I Be? Donna Tussing Orwin 4. Tolstoy’s Unorthodox Catechesis: English Novels Liza Knapp 5. Tolstoy and Diderot on Women as “Dangerous Objects” Miran Bozovic 6. Tolstoy’s Divine Madness: An Analysis of The Kreutzer Sonata Predrag Cicovacki 7. The Kreutzer Sonata, Sexual Morality, and MusicAlexandra Smith 8. A Prophet of the Family: Vasily Rozanov Reads Tolstoy Diana Dukhanova 9. The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Death and Authentic Life Božidar Kante 10. Tolstoy’s Spiritual Nonviolence Robert L. Holmes 11. Three Attempts on Carthage: Tolstoy’s Designs of Nonviolent Destruction Inessa Medzhibovskaya 12. Tolstoy’s Philosophical Legacy An Interview with Abdusalam A. Guseynov Index

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Book SynopsisArthur Kinney has made so many contributions to the study of English literature, in so many different roles, that it can be difficult to reckon with the true sum of his achievement. . . . His curiosity encompasses an entire world and all the things in it, the very world that English Renaissance thinkers inhabited and approached with the same comprehensive spirit of inquiry. . . . Every topic to which he turns in these pages is pursued with impeccable scholarly rigor. . . . To pursue new approaches as Kinney has done year after year and decade after decade requires the nerve to risk failure, even repeated failure. It demands that the scholar constantly explore unfamiliar ground where the feet are still unsure and use analytical tools before they have grown familiar in the hand. It asks the thinker to move outside the security of expertise, the writer to advance arguments that may not succeed. . . . [Kinney] has provided us a wholly different model of a distinguished scholarly career, spending decades in pursuit of intellectual risk and adventure.”—James J. Marino, author of Owning William Shakespeare: The King’s Men and Their Intellectual Property Trade Review“Arthur Kinney has made so many contributions to the study of English literature, in so many different roles, that it can be difficult to reckon with the true sum of his achievement. . . . His curiosity encompasses an entire world and all the things in it, the very world that English Renaissance thinkers inhabited and approached with the same comprehensive spirit of inquiry. . . . Every topic to which he turns in these pages is pursued with impeccable scholarly rigor. . . .To pursue new approaches as Kinney has done year after year and decade after decade requires the nerve to risk failure, even repeated failure. It demands that the scholar constantly explore unfamiliar ground where the feet are still unsure and use analytical tools before they have grown familiar in the hand. It asks the thinker to move outside the security of expertise, the writer to advance arguments that may not succeed. . . . [Kinney] has provided us a wholly different model of a distinguished scholarly career, spending decades in pursuit of intellectual risk and adventure.” - James J. Marino, author of Owning William Shakespeare: The King’s Men and Their Intellectual Property

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Book SynopsisThe maritime world was central to nineteenth-century America, and ideas about the ocean, seafaring, and encounters with distant peoples and places suffused the cultural imagination. Women writers who were not mariners themselves incorporated oceanic representations and concerns into their work, often through genres that were generally not associated with the sea, such as children's fiction, diaries, and female coming-of-age stories. Melissa Gniadek explores the role of the ocean, with particular attention to the Pacific, in a diverse range of literary texts spanning the late 1820s through the mid-1860s from Lydia Maria Child, Caroline Kirkland, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Harriet Prescott Spofford. Oceans at Home shows that authors employed maritime plots and stories from distant locations to probe contemporary concerns facing the continental United States, ranging from issues of gender restrictions in the domestic sphere to the racial prejudices against indigenous peoples that lay at the heart of settler colonialism.

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Book SynopsisDuring the antebellum period, British publishers increasingly brought out their own authorized and unauthorized editions of American literary works as the popularity of print exploded and literacy rates grew. Playing a formative role in the shaping of American literature, the industry championed the work of U.S.-based writers, highlighted the cultural value of American literary works, and intervened in debates about the future of American literature, authorship, and print culture.The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature examines the British editions of American fiction, poetry, essays, and autobiographies from writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and Hannah Flagg Gould. Putting these publications into historical context, Katie McGettigan considers key issues of the day, including developments in copyright law, changing print technologies, and the financial considerations at play for authors and publishers. This innovative study also uncovers how the transatlantic circulation of these works exposed the racial violence and cultural nationalism at the heart of the American experiment, producing overlapping and competing visions of American nationhood in the process.Table of Contents >Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature CHAPTER 1 Illustration as Authorization in Longfellow’s Reprints CHAPTER 2 Authorized Editions and the Materials of American Authorship CHAPTER 3 The Transatlantic Architecture of the Publisher’s Series CHAPTER 4The Forget Me Not, the American Poetess, and Sentimental Nationalisms CHAPTER 5 “American” Magazines and the Failures of Transatlantic Reprinting CHAPTER 6 The Transatlantic Slave Narrative Trade CODAUncle Tom’s Cabin, Dred, and the End of American Literature’s Transatlantic Materials Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThroughout the Progressive Era, reform literature became a central feature of the American literary landscape. Works like Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper,” and Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives topped bestseller lists and jolted middle-class readers into action. While realism and social reform have a long-established relationship, prominent writers of the period such as Henry James, Edith Wharton, James Weldon Johnson, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Kate Chopin resisted explicit political rhetoric in their own works and critiqued reform aesthetics, which too often rang hollow. Arielle Zibrak reveals that while these writers were often seen as indifferent to the political currents of their time, they actively engaged in reform work in their private lives. Examining the critique of reform aesthetics within the tradition of American realist literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Writing against Reform promises to change the way we think about the fiction of this period and many of America’s leading writers.Trade ReviewWriting against Reform is an engagingly written and persuasively argued piece of scholarship that is a pleasure to read. This is the work of a scholar widely and comfortably knowledgeable in her field of study, and a model of how scholarship should be done: deeply researched, coherently reasoned, and always eloquent." - MarÍa Carla SÁnchez, author of Reforming the World: Social Activism and the Problem of Fiction in Nineteenth-Century America"An engrossing and compelling study, Writing against Reform uses an impressive range of references and thorough understanding of publishing and social contexts to offer a convincing argument that is as satisfying as it is provocative." - Keith Newlin, author of Hamlin Garland: A Life

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Book SynopsisCien años de identidad: Introducción a la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XX [One Hundred Years of Identity: Introduction to Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature] is an advanced Spanish textbook and Latin American literature anthology, guiding students through the critical analysis of fourteen literary and filmic texts published between 1889 and 1995, including works from Jorge Luis Borges, Isabel Allende, and Gabriel García Márquez that represent some of the seminal works of Latin America. The textbook is designed to introduce students to the richness of twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture while building their skills in textual analysis through an examination of the theme of identity. The featured texts examine the complex and multifaceted topic of identity as the authors and protagonists struggle to understand themselves, determine their relationship to the world and others, and give meaning and significance to their existence. The textbook guides students step-by-step through critical analysis by presenting a range of tools and progressing from simple to more complex exercises and activities throughout the book. It is divided into four units based on various types of identity formation: (1) racial, ethnic, gender, and class identity; (2) existential(ist) identity; (3) temporal and spatial identity; (4) political and sexual identity. Serving as both a Latin American literature anthology and an upper-level Spanish textbook, Cien años de identidad aims to hone reading and interpretive strategies while also improving Spanish vocabulary and comprehension, oral and written communication, and cultural competency. Features: •Complete unabridged works from the following authors: Isabel Allende, Jorge Luis Borges, Rosario Castellanos, Julio Cortázar, Rubén Darío, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, José Martí, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Sergio Vodanovic•Complete pedagogy included for the novel El beso de la mujer araña by Manuel Puig and the film Fresa y chocolate by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, although these two works are not anthologized in the textbook•Additional cultural contexts and author biographies for each text, as well as appropriate glosses and numbered lines for easy reference in class discussions•Four end-of-unit chapters focused on comparative literature strategies that are designed to coach students on how to compare authors and texts across common themes and further improve critical analysis strategies•Seventeen post-reading quizzes or homework assignments as well as a final examination, available to instructors only through the publisher's websiteTable of ContentsPrefacio: Instrucciones para profesores y alumnosAgradecimientos Unidad 1: Identidad de raza, etnicidad, género y claseCapítulo 1 "La muñeca negra" de José Martí (1889, Cuba)Capítulo 2 El delantal blanco de Sergio Vodanovic (1956, Chile) Capítulo 3 "Dos palabras" de Isabel Allende (1989, Chile) Capítulo 4 "La historia de mi cuerpo" de Judith Ortiz Cofer (1993, Puerto Rico y EE.UU.) Capítulo 5 Comparaciones finales de la Unidad 1 Unidad 2: Identidad existencial(ista) Capítulo 6 "Lo fatal" de Rubén Darío (1905, Nicaragua)Capítulo 7 "Las ruinas circulares" de Jorge Luis Borges (1940, Argentina) Capítulo 8 "Axolotl" de Julio Cortázar (1952, Argentina) Capítulo 9 "Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes" de Gabriel García Márquez (1968, Columbia)Capítulo 10 Comparaciones finales de la Unidad 2 Unidad 3: Identidad temporal y espacial Capítulo 11 "El Sur" de Jroge Luis Borges (1953, Argentina) Capítulo 12 "La noche boca arriba" de Julio Cortazar (1956, Argentina)Capítulo 13 Aura de Carlos Fuentes (1962, México) Capítulo 14 Comparaciones finales de la Unidad 3 Unidad 4: Identidad política y sexualCapítulo 15 "Kinsey report" de Rosario Castellanos (1972, México)Capítulo 16 El beso de la mujer araña de Manuel Puig (1976, Argentina) Capítulo 17 Fresa y chocolate de Tomás Gutiérrez Alea y Juan Carlos Tabío (1993, Cuba)Capítulo 18 Comparaciones finales de la Unidad 4 Obras citadasCréditos

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Book SynopsisTranslations in Travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia, gathered from archives and appearing in English for the first time, offer a fresh look at Dostoevsky's House of the Dead from the perspective of his fellow inmates and Siberians who were imprisoned, tortured, and exiled by the regime of Nicholas I. Drawing on archival resources and illustrations, introductory essays immerse the reader in the experience of the political prisoners who must navigate the criminal environment of verbal, physical, and sexual abuse by negotiating with inmates and authorities alike. These eyewitness accounts introduce the reader to Dostoevsky's unfortunates—condemned to share his experience of Russia's carceral system with its interrogations, denunciations, and hostile spaces—whose psychoses become the writer's obsession in his celebrated crime novels.Trade Review“In Travels from Dostoevsky’s Siberia, Elizabeth Blake performs the invaluable service of making available in English translation the fascinating memoirs of Jósef Bogusławski and Rufin Piotrowski, who were each sentenced for seditious activities to Siberian katorga and left accounts of their travels and travails. At the same time, Blake presents these memoirs as a supplement to ‘Dostoevsky’s impressions of the Dead House with diverse depictions of the penal system in the empire of Nicholas I and its myriad means of torment,’ but also valuable for their vivid descriptions of Western Siberia as seen through the ‘Western eyes’ of these Polish prisoners. … Taken together, the documents provide a wealth of detail and offer Anglophone readers invaluable insight into the Polish experience of exile and penal servitude in the Russian Empire.” —Lynn Ellen Patyk, Dartmouth College, Russian Review

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Book SynopsisTranslations in Travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia, gathered from archives and appearing in English for the first time, offer a fresh look at Dostoevsky's House of the Dead from the perspective of his fellow inmates and Siberians who were imprisoned, tortured, and exiled by the regime of Nicholas I. Drawing on archival resources and illustrations, introductory essays immerse the reader in the experience of the political prisoners who must navigate the criminal environment of verbal, physical, and sexual abuse by negotiating with inmates and authorities alike. These eyewitness accounts introduce the reader to Dostoevsky's unfortunates—condemned to share his experience of Russia's carceral system with its interrogations, denunciations, and hostile spaces—whose psychoses become the writer's obsession in his celebrated crime novels.Trade Review“In Travels from Dostoevsky’s Siberia, Elizabeth Blake performs the invaluable service of making available in English translation the fascinating memoirs of Jósef Bogusławski and Rufin Piotrowski, who were each sentenced for seditious activities to Siberian katorga and left accounts of their travels and travails. At the same time, Blake presents these memoirs as a supplement to ‘Dostoevsky’s impressions of the Dead House with diverse depictions of the penal system in the empire of Nicholas I and its myriad means of torment,’ but also valuable for their vivid descriptions of Western Siberia as seen through the ‘Western eyes’ of these Polish prisoners. … Taken together, the documents provide a wealth of detail and offer Anglophone readers invaluable insight into the Polish experience of exile and penal servitude in the Russian Empire.” —Lynn Ellen Patyk, Dartmouth College, Russian Review

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Book SynopsisBreaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. What contributes to creative death are not just crippling diseases that make man defenseless in the face of death, and not just the arguably universal fear of death but, equally important, the innumerable impositions on the part of various outsiders. Many conflicts in the lives of Rylkova's subjects arose not from their opposition to the existing political regimes but from their interactions with like-minded and supporting intellectuals, friends, and relatives. The book describes the lives and choices that concrete individuals and—by extrapolation—their literary characters must face in order to preserve their singularity and integrity while attempting to achieve fame, greatness, and success.Trade Review"Rylkova’s meticulous study is full of original insights and new interpretations of famous literary works, delivered in a lucid and accessible writing style, with numerous references to primary sources; it is a joy to read. Furthermore, she supplies her readers with a clear road map throughout the book, explaining her next steps and intentions at every turn." - Russian ReviewTable of Contents Acknowledgements Prologue: Breaking Free from Death Part One: Beginnings and Endings 1. Leo Tolstoy and the Privilege of Formidable Hypochondria 2. In Chertkov's Grip 3. Uncle Vanya: The Drama of Sustainability 4. "Homo Sachaliensis": Chekhov's "Character" as a Strategy 5. The Steppe as a Story of Humble and Spectacular Beginnings Part Two: Transcending Death 6. Reading Chekhov through Meyerhold's Eyes 7. Living with Tolstoy and Dying with Chekhov: Ivan Bunin's Liberation of Tolstoy (1937) and About Chekhov (1953) as Two Modes of Auto/Biographical Writing 8. "There is a way out": The Cherry Orchard in the Twenty-First Century 9. A Boring Story: Chekhov's Trip to Germany in 1904 Epilogue: Oyster Fever: Chekhov and Turgenev Index

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Book SynopsisEconomies of Feeling offers new explanations for the fantastical plots of mad or blocked ambition that set the nineteenth-century Russian prose tradition in motion. Jillian Porter compares the conceptual history of social ambition in post-Napoleonic France and post-Decembrist Russia and argues that the dissonance between foreign and domestic understandings of this economic passion shaped the literature of Nicholas I’s reign (1825 —1855). Porter shows how, for Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Faddei Bulgarin, ambition became a staging ground for experiments with transnational literary exchange. In its encounters with the celebrated Russian cultural value of hospitality and the age-old vice of miserliness, ambition appears both timely and anachronistic, suspiciously foreign and disturbingly Russian—it challenges readers to question the equivalence of local and imported words, feelings, and forms. Economies of Feeling examines founding texts of nineteenth-century Russian prose alongside nonliterary materials from which they drew energy—from French clinical diagnoses of “ambitious monomania” to the various types of currency that proliferated under Nicholas I. It thus contributes fresh and fascinating insights into Russian characters’ impulses to attain rank and to squander, counterfeit, and hoard. Porter’s interdisciplinary approach will appeal to scholars of comparative as well as Russian literature.

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Book SynopsisWhat were the consequences of Tolstoy's unusual reliance on members of his family as source material for War and Peace? Did affection for close relatives influence depictions of these real prototypes in his fictional characters? Tolstoy used these models to consider his origins, to ponder alternative family histories, and to critique himself. Comparison of the novel and its fascinating drafts with the writer's family history reveals increasing preferential treatment of those with greater relatedness to him: kin altruism, i.e., nepotism. This pattern helps explain many of Tolstoy's choices amongst plot variants he considered, as well as some of the curious devices he utilizes to get readers to share his biases, such as coincidences, notions of "fate," and aversion to incest.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Aesthetic Kin Altruism 1. Background and Overview 2. Family Structures 3. Kin Altruism 4. Names and Family Traditions 5. Writing the Novel with the Family 6. The Problem with Prototypes 7. Genetic Allies 8. Unrelated Family Associates 9. Distant Relatives 10. Tolstoy's Grandparents 11. Tolstoy's Parents 12. The Parents' Marriage 13. What about Sonya? 14. A Genetic Clash-and Inclusive Errors 15. Incest Avoidance A. Actual Brother-Sister/Parent-Child (50% Relatedness) B. Avuncular (25% Relatedness) C. Cousins (12.5% Relatedness) D. First Cousin Once Removed (6.25% Relatedness) E. Second Cousin (3.125% Relatedness) F. Affinity (0% Relatedness) G. The Westermarck Effect (0% Relatedness) 16. Self-Altruism 17. Kin Altruism Reconsidered Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis literary, cultural history examines imperial Russian tourism's entanglement in the vexed issue of cosmopolitanism understood as receptiveness to the foreign and pitted against provinciality and nationalist anxiety about the allure and the influence of Western Europe. The study maps the shift from Enlightenment cosmopolitanism to Byronic cosmopolitanism with special attention to the art pilgrimage abroad. For typically middle-class Russians daunted by the cultural riches of the West, vacationing in the North Caucasus, Georgia, and the Crimea afforded the compensatory opportunity to play colonizer kings and queens in "Asia." Drawing on Anna Karenina and other literary classics, travel writing, journalism, and guidebooks, the investigation engages with current debates in cosmopolitan studies, including the fuzzy paradigm of "colonial cosmopolitanism.Trade Review"[Layton’s] elucidation of the contexts and interrelationships of her chosen texts displays a remarkable command of detail that provides enriching new insights, even for readers well-versed in Russian literary history…Well written, meticulously edited, and provided with a delightfully detailed index, the book sheds new light on an under-studied topic: the development of a commercialized tourist-service sector in the late imperial Russian period."— Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (translated from German)“Susan Layton’s Contested Russian Tourism is a significant contribution to our knowledge about tourism’s role in Russian culture. Sweeping in scope, the book covers a range of genres (novels, stories, memoirs, travel notes, narrative poems, and personal letters); it analyzes texts fictional and non-fictional, familiar and obscure, high-brow and popular, serious and light-hearted. Proceeding in chronological order from the eighteenth century through the very end of the imperial period, Layton develops what might fairly be described as a comprehensive survey of Russian (pre-Soviet) primary texts about the experience and phenomenon of tourism. In doing so she is able to illuminate how these writings—so various in ideology, genre, and intended audience— serve as reflections on Russia’s own place in the world: it is abundantly clear that in writing about being in other places (whether those places were deemed more or less ‘civilized’ than Russia itself), tourists were always writing about their homeland…Contested Russian Tourism will be a resource for all scholars of the Russian nineteenth century, well beyond those with a particular interest in tourism.” — Anne Lounsbery, Slavic Review“One of the major contributions of this book lies in how Layton does not limit her subjects to their experiences in Western Europe, and by adding the empire’s exotic regions that beckoned to travellers, the Caucasus and Crimea, she adds to our knowledge of the multiple layers that constructed the imperial imagination. Readers already familiar with Alexander Pushkin’s and Mikhail Lermontov’s Romantic and Orientalist fascinations with the Caucasus will meet the antithesis of their Byronic heroes: Lidia Veselitskaia’s narcissistic, adulterous Mimi. . . Despite the Tolstoyan anathema to the sybaritic traveller who can only appreciate culture as a commodity fetish, Layton singles out three writers who best conform to her more expansive notion of a tourist as an agent of cultural reciprocity: Ivan Turgenev, Alexander Herzen, and Anton Chekhov.”— Louise McReynolds, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Journal of Tourism History“This very detailed account of tourist travelogues and works of literature featuring tourism creates a revealing continuum between now fairly obscure writers and extremely well-known ones. Susan Layton provides a synthesizing narrative about the course of the nineteenth century seen through the lens of travel. The practice of, and debate over, tourism sheds new light on major literary and cultural debates, particularly between conservatives and radicals. … The real payoff comes when canonical works are seen in a new context, particularly texts by Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and Tolstoy.”— Katya Hokanson, University of Oregon, Russian Review (October 2022: Vol. 81, No. 4)“Particulièrement intéressantes sont les pages où l’auteur met à nu les polémiques ouvertes et feutrées, parfois d’oeuvre littéraire à oeuvre littéraire, auxquelles se livrent, par exemple, les pourfendeurs du tourisme bourgeois consumériste et repu et les défenseurs romantiques ou postromantiques du tourisme culturel, censé élever la « spiritualité » (duhovnost´) des élites russes. Contrepoint de la vulgarité et de la recherche des plaisirs bas, l’art, notamment la peinture et par conséquent les musées européens, occupe une place de choix dans toute cette littérature…” — Wladimir Berelowitch, Cahiers du Monde Russe“Of special interest are sections where the author brings to light overt or muted polemics between literary texts devoted, for instance, to lambasting the consumerist, satiated bourgeois tourist, as opposed to the romantic or post-romantic defense of cultural tourism as a purported means of enriching the Russian elite’s inner life. In counterpoint to vulgarity and the quest for low-brow pleasures, art has a privileged place in this public discourse which foregrounds painting and, consequently, western Europe’s museums.”— Wladimir Berelowitch, Cahiers du Monde Russe (excerpt translated from the French)“Susan Layton plumbs travelogues, letters, novels, stories, humor, and commentaries to probe why and how nineteenth-century Russians traveled. Her rogue’s gallery of characters features the bookish and the boorish; cultural luminaries who opined on travel for the new middle classes, and tourists who simply dressed up and went. The book’s publication during our twenty-first century pandemic lockdown is timely—a reminder of the historical importance of expanded opportunities to travel and the imprint of travel on the Russian identity.”—Jeffrey Brooks, Johns Hopkins University, author of The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and BolsheviksTable of Contents Acknowledgements Illustrations Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Becoming Tourists 1. Russia's Enlightenment Travel Model: Karamzin, the English, and Italy 2. The Romantic Vacation Mentality 3. Nationalist Worries about Tourism: Pogodin, Belinsky, Zagoskin 4. Vacationing in the Caucasus: Authenticity and the Sophisticate/Provincial Divide Part Two: Shocks of Modernization 5. Inundating the West after the Crimean War 6. Tourist Angst: Aesthetics, Moral Imagination, and Politics in Tolstoy's Lucerne 7. Cosmopolitans, the Crowd, and Radical Killjoys: Turgenev, Other Writers, and the Critics 8. Dostoevsky's Anti-Cosmopolitan Animus toward Tourism Part Three: Embourgeoisement and Its Enemies 9. The Rising Tourist Tide: Foreign Travel from Winter Notes to Anna Karenina 10. Anna Karenina and the Tourist Passion for Italy 11. Tatars and the Tourist Boom in the Crimea: Markov's Sketches of the Crimea and Other Writings 12. Tourist Decadence at the Fin-de-Siècle: Chekhov, Veselitskaya, and Other Writers Concluding Observations Bibliography

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