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Taylor & Francis Ltd Charles Dickenss Our Mutual Friend A Publishing
Book SynopsisEven within the context of Charles Dickens''s history as a publishing innovator, Our Mutual Friend is notable for what it reveals about Dickens as an author and about Victorian publishing. Marking Dickens''s return to the monthly number format after nearly a decade of writing fiction designed for weekly publication in All the Year Round, Our Mutual Friend emerged against the backdrop of his failing health, troubled relationship with Ellen Ternan, and declining reputation among contemporary critics. In his subtly argued publishing history, Sean Grass shows how these difficulties combined to make Our Mutual Friend an extraordinarily odd novel, no less in its contents and unusually heavy revisions than in its marketing by Chapman and Hall, its transformation from a serial into British and U.S. book editions, its contemporary reception by readers and reviewers, and its delightfully uneven reputation among critics in the 150 years since Dickens's death. Enhanced by four appendices that offTrade Review'Grass looks at how Our Mutual Friend came to be during a critical time in Dickens's life: his marriage had ended, his health was deteriorating, and he was returning to the monthly (rather than weekly) serial format after a decade's absence. ...This work is required reading for serious Dickens scholars. ...Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.'Choice 'This book represents an impressive scholarly achievement and will be the authoritative critical work on the novel for years to come. The background, reception, textual history and afterlives of this most sophisticated of Dickens novels are analyzed with both rigor and gusto. An appendix reprinting all known reviews of the text is indispensable. Our Mutual Friend and its fortunes are brought alive in these pages with devotion and detail; Grass has done a great service to Dickens's last finished novel and to Dickens studies more generally.’ - Juliet John, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK and author of Dickens and Mass Culture 'I found this book to be both interesting and very readable, to the point that I will now re-read Our Mutual Friend with a better and different frame of mind, now having an appreciation of the circumstances under which it was written.’ - NSW Dickens Society 'Grass's book provides a useful, all-in-one resource for understanding the publishing history and larger context of Our Mutual Friend. It is a scholarly book written with flashes of Dickensian humor. ... I would have gladly welcomed a book like this several years back ... ' - New Books on Literature 19 (NBOL 19) ’... clearly written and well researched... This volume, handsomely illustrated, will be of greatest use for students wishing to understand the place of Our Mutual Friend in critical history. Sean Grass has done well at contextualizing the creation and publication of this novel, and at reflecting changing critical attitudes toward Dickens’s last completed novel.’ - Dickens Quarterly "By opening with the scornful critique of one who would go on to become another literary great, Grass sets the stakes high for his own efforts: he is out to prove Henry James wrong. With this book, the results of rigorous and probing research recounted in energetic prose and with captivating storytelling, Grass fully succeeds… By illuminating the context around the writing, publishing, and reception of this novel, Grass succeeds in providing a rich resource towards the growing scholarship on Dickens’s final work, and more than drowns out the harsh words of a young American critic that have too often dwarfed the book itself."- Pamela Casey, McGill University, School of Information Studies, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Our Mutual Friend: ’the poorest of Mr Dickens’s works’; The man from somewhere: Ellen Ternan, Staplehurst, and the remaking of Charles Dickens; The cup and the lip: writing Our Mutual Friend; Putting a price upon a man’s mind: Our Mutual Friend in the marketplace; A dismal swamp? Our Mutual Friend and Victorian critics; The voice of society: Our Mutual Friend since 1870; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reimagining the Transatlantic 17801890 Ashgate Series in NineteenthCentury Transatlantic Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition 17801860 The Legacy of Charlotte Smith
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Taylor & Francis A.C. Swinburne and the Singing Word
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Everyone and Everything in George Eliot v. 1 The Complete Fiction Prose and Poetry v. 2 Complete Nonfiction the Taxonomy and the Topicon
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Slavery War and a New Birth of Freedom 1840s1877 History Through Literature
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Slavery War and a New Birth of Freedom 1840s1877 Sharpe Insights
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Gilded Age and Dawn of the Modern
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Taylor & Francis The New Nineteenth Century Feminist Readings of Underread Victorian Fiction Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory Literary History and Culture
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Taylor & Francis Pinocchio Goes Postmodern
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Taylor & Francis The Boundaries of the Literary Archive Reclamation and Representation
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Taylor & Francis Branding Oscar Wilde Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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Taylor & Francis Jane Austens Geographies Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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Taylor & Francis Writing Place
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Taylor & Francis New Essays on Maria Edgeworth
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 18001930 A Bibliographical Study
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Vampire in NineteenthCentury Literature
Book SynopsisAgainst the social and economic upheavals that characterized the nineteenth century, the border-bending nosferatu embodied the period's fears as well as its forbidden desires. This volume looks at both the range among and legacy of vampires in the nineteenth century, including race, culture, social upheaval, gender and sexuality, new knowledge and technology. The figure increased in popularity throughout the century and reached its climax in Dracula (1897), the most famous story of bloodsuckers. This book includes chapters on Bram Stoker's iconic novel, as well as touchstone texts like John William Polidori's The Vampyre (1819) and Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla (1872), but it also focuses on the many Other vampire stories of the period. Topics discussed include: the long-war veteran and aristocratic vampire in Varney; the vampire as addict in fiction by George MacDonald; time discipline in Eric Stenbock's Studies of Death; fragile female vampires in Table of ContentsIntroductionBrooke Cameron and Lara Karpenko1. Black Female Vampires in Nineteenth-Century Writing and FolkloreGiselle Liza Anatol2. Sicker Ever After: The Invalid as Vampire in Fiction by Arabella Kenealy and Mary E. Wilkins FreemanBrenda Mann Hammack3. "The Dropping of Blood from the Clouds": Imperial Vampirism in Richard Burton’s Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu DevilryArdele Haefele-Thomas4. Curating the Vampire: Queer (Un)Natural Histories in Carmilla Lin Young5. The Addict as VampireRebecca McLean6. "What a vampire!": Gender and the Modern Sexual Contract in Braddon’s "Good Lady Ducayne"Brooke Cameron7. The Vampire’s Touch in "Olalla" and The Blood of the VampireKimberly Cox8. "Keep[ing] Time at Arm’s-Length": Vampire and Veterans in VarneyRebecca Nesvet9. "A Financial Vampire": The Aesthetics of Repetition in Eric Stenbock’s Studies of DeathLara Karpenko, Lauren Brandmeier, Alexa Larson, Lora Leach, Murphy McCoy, Gabriel Mundo, and Natasha Pellegrini10. The Vampire as Byron: Polidori’s story adapted to the French and British StageMatthew Gibson11. America’s First Vampire Novel and the Supernatural as ArtificeGary D. Rhodes and John Edgar Browning12. Queerly (Re)Vamped: Women, Men and Neo-Victorian Dracula(s)Sarah E. Maier
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reading the Victorian Novel
Book SynopsisReading the Victorian Novel is a clear and engaging introduction to Victorian fiction. In this book, Annette Federico invites readers to turn their attention to the bursting imaginations and formal inventiveness of Victorian novelists themselves. Five conventions prevailed in the building of a Victorian novel: serialisation, narration, plotting, description, and characterization. Each chapter is rich in examples of these practices and attentive to the historical and cultural contexts that shaped them, as well as to the responses and judgments of Victorian readers and contemporary scholars. Federico keeps the focus on the writer's choices and the reader's experienceon the meeting of minds and imaginations against the backdrop of history.Reading the Victorian Novel is an appreciative and discerning guide for anyone with an interest in the resonant and vibrant worlds of nineteenth-century fiction.Table of Contents1. Seriality 2. Plots 3. Picturing 4. People 5. The Storytellers
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Taylor & Francis The Life and Works of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
Book SynopsisOver the course of her 57-year career, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson published nine best-selling novels, but her significant contributions to American literature have until recently gone largely unrecognized. Brenda Ayres, in her long overdue critical biography of the novelist once referred to as the ''first Southern woman to enter the field of American letters,'' credits the importance of Wilson''s novels for their portrait of nineteenth-century America. As Ayres reminds us, the nineteenth-century American book market was dominated by women writers and women readers, a fact still to some extent obscured by the make-up of the literary canon. In placing Wilson''s novels firmly within their historical context, Ayres commemorates Wilson as both a storyteller and maker of American history. Proceeding chronologically, Ayres devotes a chapter to each of Wilson''s novels, showing how her views on Catholicism, the South, the Civil War, male authority, domesticity, Reconstruction, and race were botTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction: the scented camellia: Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909); 'A tale of the Alamo': Augusta Jane Evans (1835-1849) and Inez; From Marah to Beulah: Augusta Jane Evans (1850-1859) and Beulah; 'Niobe of nations': Augusta Jane Evans (1860-1863) and Macaria; St Edna: Augusta Jane Evans (1864-1866) and St Elmo; 'Until death us do part': Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1867-1869) and Vashti; 'The barter of tears and smiles' Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1870-1875) and Infelice; The 'brooding silence': Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1876-1887) and At the Mercy of Tiberius; 'Venus in blue stockings: Augusta Jane Evans Wilson and intellectualism; Sheredity: Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1888-1902) and A Speckled Bird; 'J'y suis, j'y reste' Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1903-1909) and Devota; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The William Makepeace Thackeray Library
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This first volume contains extracts of William Makepeace Thackeray's early fiction and journalism in the 1830s and 1840s. In his early career, Thackeray worked as an editor, sub-editor, writer, reviewer, foreign journalist, illustrator, versifier, and hack reporter, and by 1847 had managed to maintain an unbroken and multi-faceted literary output through magazines, journals and newspapers for fourteen years. With an introduction by Richard Pearson, this book reveals some of Thackeray's early and lesser-known work. This book will be of interest to those studying Thackeray and nineteenth-century literature. Table of ContentsIntroduction Richard Pearson; ‘Half-a-Crown’s Worth of Cheap Knowledge’, Fraser’s Magazine, March 1838; ‘Horae Catnachianae’, Fraser’s Magazine, April 1839; ‘Catherine: A Story’, Works, vol. 20 and Fraser’s Magazine, February 1840; ‘The Ravenswing’, Works, vol. 20; ‘May Gambols; or, Titmarsh in the Picture Galleries’, Works, vol. 25; ‘The Fat Contributor Papers’, Works, vol. 26; ‘The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche’, Works, vol. 15
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The William Makepeace Thackeray Library
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This third volume contains Anthony Trollope's volume on Thackeray from John Morley's series entitled The English Men of Letters. The work signifies Thackeray's move to perceived respectability, placing him as part of the literary establishment, alongside writers such as Spenser, Johnson, Milton, Chaucer, Pope and Wordsworth. The introduction by Richard Pearson outlines the context in which the volume was written and received, including Trollope and Thackeray's relationship and the book's critical reception.This book will be of interest to those studying Thackeray and nineteenth-century literature. Table of ContentsIntroduction Richard Pearson; Thackeray Anthony Trollope
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The William Makepeace Thackeray Library
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This third volume contains Anthony Trollope's volume on Thackeray from John Morley's series entitled The English Men of Letters. The work signifies Thackeray's move to perceived respectability, placing him as part of the literary establishment, alongside writers such as Spenser, Johnson, Milton, Chaucer, Pope and Wordsworth. The introduction by Richard Pearson outlines the context in which the volume was written and received, including Trollope and Thackeray's relationship and the book's critical reception.This book will be of interest to those studying Thackeray and nineteenth-century literature. Table of ContentsIntroduction Richard Pearson; Thackeray Anthony Trollope
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The William Makepeace Thackeray Library
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This fourth volume contains Charles Plumptre Johnson's The Early Writings of William Makepeace Thackeray and Adolphus Alfred Jack's Thackeray: A Study. While Johnson's work signifies a landmark in Thackeray scholarship, recognizing his lesser-known work for magazines and newspapers, A. A. Jack's text marks a major reassessment of Thackeray's work in light of the debate on the moral intentionality of fiction. Richard Pearson's introduction guides the reader through the context of each publication, providing a helpful explanation of how and why these works were written. This book will be of interest to those studying Thackeray and nineteenth-century literature.Table of ContentsIntroduction Richard Pearson; The Early Writings of William Makepeace Thackeray Charles Plumptre Johnson; Thackeray: A Study Adolphus Alfred Jack.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The William Makepeace Thackeray Library
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This fourth volume contains Charles Plumptre Johnson's The Early Writings of William Makepeace Thackeray and Adolphus Alfred Jack's Thackeray: A Study. While Johnson's work signifies a landmark in Thackeray scholarship, recognizing his lesser-known work for magazines and newspapers, A. A. Jack's text marks a major reassessment of Thackeray's work in light of the debate on the moral intentionality of fiction. Richard Pearson's introduction guides the reader through the context of each publication, providing a helpful explanation of how and why these works were written. This book will be of interest to those studying Thackeray and nineteenth-century literature.Table of ContentsIntroduction Richard Pearson; The Early Writings of William Makepeace Thackeray Charles Plumptre Johnson; Thackeray: A Study Adolphus Alfred Jack.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The William Makepeace Thackeray Library
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This sixth volume contains the work of Lewis Melville, one of the most productive biographers and critics of Thackeray at the turn of the 20th century. Richard Pearson's helpful introduction not only provides additional information on the biographer himself, but also analyses the text and tracks its development over time. This book will be of interest to those studying Thackeray and nineteenth-century literature. Table of ContentsIntroduction Richard Pearson; The Life of William Makepeace Thackeray Lewis Melville
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Anthology of British Women
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Anthology of British Women Playwrights, 1777-1843 brings together ten eclectic plays by female dramatists and writers, to stimulate a rich discussion of women, writing, and theatre history. Ranging through tragedy, comedy, musical theatre and mixed-genre texts, this volume celebrates the breadth and experimental spirit of women''s eighteenth- and nineteenth-century dramatic writing. Each play is accompanied by an introductory essay that addresses its sociopolitical and theatrical contexts, and outlines its performance and reception history. The selections included here invite teachers and their students to study particular works by authors of note, but also to consider the differences between works written for page and stage. While many of the plays are recognizable as published dramas, they have been placed alongside textual artifacts that suggest plays or theatrical events of which no definitive record exists, as well as supplementary mTable of ContentsList of contributorsAcknowledgementsGeneral editors’ introduction1 Hannah More, Percy2 Amelia Alderson Opie, Adelaide3 Hannah Brand, Huniades; or, The Siege of Belgrade4 Hannah Cowley, A Day in Turkey; or, The Russian Slaves5 Frances Burney, Edwy and Elgiva6 Elizabeth Inchbald, Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are7 Joanna Baillie, The Election8 An Evening with Jane Scott9 Mary Russell Mitford, Rienzi10 Catherine Gore, Quid Pro Quo; or, The Day of the Dupes Suggested readingIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Clinical Lessons on Life and Madness
Book SynopsisThe author of Clinical Lessons on Life and Madness: Dostoevsky's Characters draws on Dostoevsky''s universe to illuminate psychoanalytic theory and practice. Using Dostoevsky's characters as case studies, the author discusses the various psychoanalytic concepts they embody, and shows how these insights can be applied to therapeutic understanding. By considering the people who populate Dostoevsky's world as personifying a whole spectrum of human possibilities and modes of relation, Heitor O''Dwyer de Macedo's discussion of the characters including those from Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov allows him to explore fundamental issues constitutive of clinical practice, such as trauma, fantasy, perversion and madness. Clinical Lessons on Life and Madness will provide an important resource for psychoanalysts with an interest in literature, as well as students of literature seeking a psycTrade ReviewLocated in the space between the raw reality of treating psychosis and Dostoevsky’s powerful work, this book takes us to the intersection of unnamable anguish where the characters encounter the unconscious. Determined to delve into the spheres that Freud, focused on neurosis, left unexplored - trauma and madness - Heitor O’Dwyer de Macedo, with his love of literature and the acute perception of an exceptional clinician, takes us across zones filled with the cumbersome hatred of the dead, to show us that these zones can open unto love and desire. This book is essential for clinical practice, and will delight all those who find the unconscious endlessly fascinating. Anna Angelopoulos, psychoanalyst, anthropologist, President of the Fédération des Ateliers de Psychanalyse (Federation of Psychoanalytic Workshops), Paris; renowned researcher in the oral tradition of storytelling. In this book, psychoanalyst Heitor O’Dwyer de Macedo shows us that Dostoevsky, the brilliant clinician, describes psychic processes that Freud would only formulate decades later. In simple language, de Macedo also points out that Dostoevsky’s novels deal essentially with the desire to establish vibrant relationships with others, without letting ideology replace lost religion. Michel Eltchaninoff, philosopher, editor in chief of Philosophie MagazineWith his considerable clinical experience and vast knowledge of literature, the author ponders the mysteries of the human soul as they are revealed by Dostoevsky. Psychoanalysis and literature are both enriched as a result. We have here what Sartre would call the work of a master. Ronaldo Lima Lins, writer, professor emeritus of literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Table of ContentsTable of ContentsPreambleChapter 1 Notes from UndergroundChapter 2 Crime and PunishmentChapter 3 The DoubleChapter 4 The IdiotChapter 5 DemonsChapter 6 The Brothers Karamazov Chapter 7 Women in Dostoyevsky’s FictionChapter 8 The Grand InquisitorReferences
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The William Makepeace Thackeray Library
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This first volume contains extracts of William Makepeace Thackeray's early fiction and journalism in the 1830s and 1840s. In his early career, Thackeray worked as an editor, sub-editor, writer, reviewer, foreign journalist, illustrator, versifier, and hack reporter, and by 1847 had managed to maintain an unbroken and multi-faceted literary output through magazines, journals and newspapers for fourteen years. With an introduction by Richard Pearson, this book reveals some of Thackeray's early and lesser-known work. This book will be of interest to those studying Thackeray and nineteenth-century literature. Table of ContentsIntroduction Richard Pearson; ‘Half-a-Crown’s Worth of Cheap Knowledge’, Fraser’s Magazine, March 1838; ‘Horae Catnachianae’, Fraser’s Magazine, April 1839; ‘Catherine: A Story’, Works, vol. 20 and Fraser’s Magazine, February 1840; ‘The Ravenswing’, Works, vol. 20; ‘May Gambols; or, Titmarsh in the Picture Galleries’, Works, vol. 25; ‘The Fat Contributor Papers’, Works, vol. 26; ‘The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche’, Works, vol. 15
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Stylistic Development of Keats
Book SynopsisThis study, first published in 1945, gives a precise description of the unfolding of a great poet's craftsmanship and suggests alignments of the technical progression with the changes of the mind.Metrical analysis is given in order to throw light on Keats' general stylistic development using the simplest terminology and in a traditional manner. Earlier English prosodic writings are referred to throughout in order to place the style and development in the context of the period. Arranged chronologically, each chapter looks at a particular work or group of works drawing together evidence about Keats' poetic direction.This classic work from a well-known Keats scholar is an important enlightening contribution within the extensive study of Keats' poetry and letters.Table of ContentsPart 1: The Apprenticeship 1. The Early Sonnets 2. The Early Couplets 3. Isabella Part 2: Intensity and Restraint 1. A "Principle of Melody in Verse" 2. Hyperion 3. The Eve of St Agnes 4. The Later Sonnets 5. The Odes of May, 1819 Part 3: An Uncompleted Transition 1. Lamia 2. The Fall of Hyperion 3. To Autumn. Appendices
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Peter Pans Shadows in the Literary Imagination
Book SynopsisThis book is a literary analysis of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in all its different versions -- key rewritings, dramatisations, prequels, and sequels -- and includes a synthesis of the main critical interpretations of the text over its history. A comprehensive and intelligent study of the Peter Pan phenomenon, this study discusses the book's complicated textual history, exploring its origins in the Harlequinade theatrical tradition and British pantomime in the nineteenth century. Stirling investigates potential textual and extra-textual sources for Peter Pan, the critical tendency to seek sources in Barrie's own biography, and the proliferation of prequels and sequels aiming to explain, contextualize, or close off, Barrie's exploration of the imagination. The sources considered include Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's Starcatchers trilogy, Régis Loisel's six-part Peter Pan graphic novel in French (1990-2004), Andrew Birkin's The Lost Boys serTrade Review'This excellent book is an important contribution to the documentation and critical interpretation of a literary myth, text and character that has transcended its authorial and textual origins and, as the author states, 'taken on a life of its own'.- Scottish Literary Review"Her analysis is compelling... [An] interesting and highly readable text." - Kayla McKinney Wiggins, Mythlore"Stirling's bibliography is a model of thorough research and her analysis offers fresh ideas for Peter Pan Studies." - Children's Literature Assocation Quarterly.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations and References Introduction: The Shadow of Peter Pan 1. Origins and Storytelling 2. Peter and Pantomime 3. Wendy and Peter 4. Before Peter Pan: Loisel 5. Imagining Barrie 6. Ending Peter Pan 7. Sequels Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Sublime
Book SynopsisRelated to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. In this thoroughly updated edition, Philip Shaw looks at: Early modern and post-Romantic conceptions of the sublime in two brand new chapters The legacy of the earliest classical theories, through those of the long eighteenth century to modernist, postmodernist and avant-garde conceptions of the sublime Critical Introductions to major theorists of the sublime such as Longinus, Burke, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Derrida, Lyotard, Lacan and Žižek The significance of the concept through a range of literary readings, including the Old and New Testaments, Homer, Milton and writing from the Romantic period to the present daTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Before (and After) Longinus 2. Sublimity in the Eighteenth Century 3. Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry 4. Kant: The Analytic of the Sublime 5. The Romantic Sublime 6. Modernism and the Sublime 7. The Sublime is Now (and Again) Afterword Glossary Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Transatlantic Literary Exchanges 17901870
Book SynopsisExploring the ways in which transatlantic relationships functioned in the nineteenth century to unsettle hierarchical models of gender, race, and national and cultural differences, this collection demonstrates the generative potential of transatlantic studies to loosen demographic frames and challenge conveniently linear histories. The contributors take up a rich and varied range of topics, including Charlotte Smith''s novelistic treatment of the American Revolution, The Old Manor House; Anna Jameson''s counter-discursive constructions of gender in a travelogue; Felicia Hemans, Herman Melville, and the ''Queer Atlantic''; representations of indigenous religion and shamanism in British Romantic literary discourse; the mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic abolitionist movement; the transatlantic adventure novel; the exchanges of transatlantic print culture facilitated by the Minerva Press; British and Anglo-American representations of Niagara Falls; and Charles Brockden Brown''s intervenTrade Review'The essays in Transatlantic Literary Exchanges examine spaces where national attachments are mixed, multiple, and/or ambiguous. In focusing on such liminal spaces in an impressive range of works and authors, the collection offers many important new insights into the construction of-and contestation over-key conceptual categories, such as sexuality, nature, and genre. These insights pose profound questions about the way we approach particular authors, how we think of American and British literature in general from the late eighteenth through mid-nineteenth centuries, and, ultimately, about the stories we tell about this period in literary history.' Jim Egan, Brown University '[This book] is interdisciplinary and consistently thorough in its analyses, being concerned with transatlantic culture in all its many facets - historical, political, philosophical and theological - and the combined effect is to read the nineteenth-century Atlantic world as an imaginative space where social, economic and political exchange occurs in frequently surprising, and often destabilising, cultural forms.' Literature and History '[This book] brings together a range of topics and methodologies relevant to transatlantic studies, providing a current introduction to the field by describing ongoing trends and highlighting particular researches.' RomanticismTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: mobilizing gender, race, and nation, Kevin Hutchings and Julia M. Wright; Part 1 Transatlantic Mobility: Gender and Sexuality: Charlotte Smith and the spectre of America, Jared Richman; Romantic aesthetics, gender, and transatlantic travel in Anna Brownwell Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, Charity Matthews; Felicia Hemans, Herman Melville and the queer Atlantic, Daniel Hannah. Part 2 Reconfiguring Race: Prophets of resistance: Native American shamans and anglophone writers, Tim Fulford; Frederick Douglass and transatlantic echoes of 'the color line', Bridget Bennett; Pirates and patriots: citizenship, race and the transatlantic adventure novel, Sarah H. Ficke. Part 3 Cultural Exchanges: Print, Tourism, and Politics: Charles Brockden Brown and England: of genres, the Minerva Press, and the early republican reprint trade, Eve Tavor Bannet; Romantic Niagara: environmental aesthetics, indigenous culture, and transatlantic tourism, 1794-1850, Kevin Hutchings; Beyond the American empire: Charles Brockden Brown and the making of a new global economic order, Wil Verhoeven; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Writing Wales from the Renaissance to Romanticism
Book SynopsisWriting Wales explores representations of Wales in English and Welsh literatures written across a broad sweep of history, from the union of Wales with England in 1536 to the beginnings of its industrialization at the turn of the nineteenth century. The collection offers a timely contribution to the current devolutionary energies that are transforming the study of British literatures today, and it builds on recent work on Wales in Renaissance, eighteenth-century, and Romantic literary studies. What is unique about Writing Wales is that it cuts across these period divisions to enable readers for the first time to chart the development of literary treatments of Wales across three of the most tumultuous centuries in the history of British state-formation. Writing Wales explores how these period divisions have helped shape scholarly treatments of Wales, and it asks if we should continue to reinforce such period divisions, or else reconfigure our approach to Wales'' literary past. The essayTrade Review'Prefaced by a boundary-marking introduction by the two editors, this well-produced collection of articles, featuring leading experts, a wide range of subject material, and a comprehensive bibliography, is essential reading for scholars and students of the making of early modern Britain.' Eighteenth Century FictionTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Stewart Mottram and Sarah Prescott; Part 1 Renaissance to 17th Century: Early modern Welsh nationalism and the British history, Grace Jones; Writing on borderlines: Anglo-Welsh relations in Thomas Churchyard’s The Worthines of Wales, Liz Oakley-Brown; Green tights and swordfights: Edward I and the making of memories, Alex May; ’Prince of Wales by Cambria’s full consent’?: the Princedom of Wales and the early modern stage, Marisa R. Cull; William Browne and the writing of early Stuart Wales, Stewart Mottram. Part 2 17th Century to Romanticism: Morgan Llwyd and the foundations of the ’nonconformist nation’, M. Wynn Thomas; ’If there be Helicon in Wales it is’: writing Wales in 17th- and 18th-century poetry, Sarah Prescott; ’No rebellious jarring noise’: expressions of loyalty to the British state in 18th-century Welsh writing, Bethan Jenkins; ’Walking conundrums’: masquerades, riddles and national identity in late 18th-century Wales, Mary Chadwick; Haunted by history: Welsh Gothic 1780-1800, Jane Aaron; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Research Companion to
Book SynopsisTracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In intellectual, material and social terms, the transformation undergone by Western culture over the period was unprecedented. Many of these changes were grounded in the growth of science. Yet science was not a cultural monolith then any more than it is now, and its development was shaped by competing world views. To cover the full range of literary engagements with science in the nineteenth century, this companion consists of twenty-seven chapters by experts in the field, which explore crucial social and intellectual contexts for the interactions between literature and science, how science affected different genres of writing, and the importance of individual scientific disciplines and concepts within literary culture. Each chapterTable of ContentsContentsNotes on contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: literature and science in the nineteenth centuryJohn Holmes and Sharon RustonI Contexts1) Science, empire and globalization in the nineteenth centurySadiah Qureshi2) Scientific cultures and institutions Martin Willis3) Science and religion Paul White4) Women and science Michelle BoswellII Genres5) The novel as observation and experiment Charlotte Sleigh6) From Gothic to science fiction Adam Roberts7) Poetry and science Gregory Tate8) Scientific literary criticism Peter Garratt9) Writing the scientist: biography and autobiography David Amigoni10) Writing science: scientific prose Jonathan Smith11) Science for the general reader Ralph O’Connor12) Science in the periodical press Gowan Dawson13) Science for children Debbie Bark14) Staging science Iwan MorusIII Mathematical and physical sciences15) Mathematics Alice Jenkins16) Astronomy Pamela Gossin17) Geology Adelene Buckland18) Chemistry Sharon Ruston19) Thermodynamics Barri Gold20) Electricity Stella Pratt-Smith21) Technology Meegan KennedyIV Biological and human sciences22) Natural history, evolution and ecology: the biological sciences John Holmes23) Archaeology and anthropology Julia Reid24) Medical research Andrew Mangham25) Sciences of the mind Suzy Anger26) Sexology Anna Katharina Schaffner27) Occult sciences Christine Ferguson Afterword Bernard LightmanIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mary Robinson and the Genesis of Romanticism: Literary Dialogues and Debts, 1784–1821
Book SynopsisFirst coming to prominence as an actress and scandalous celebrity, Mary Robinson created an identity for herself as a Romantic poet and novelist in the 1790s. Through a series of literary dialogues with established writers, Robinson put herself at the center of Romantic literary culture as observer, participant, and creator. Cross argues that Robinson’s dialogues shaped the nature of Romantic writing both in content and form and influenced second-generation Romantics. These dialogues further establish the idea of Romantic discourse as essentially interactive and conversational, not the work of original geniuses working in isolation, and positions Robinson as a central player in its genesis. Trade Review"This book offers an exciting thesis that deeply enriches our understanding of how deliberately Mary Robinson constructed her authorial identity and how that self-construction helped to share Romanticism." - Harriet Kramer Linkin, New Mexico State University "This book will be an essential read not only for those researching and teaching Mary Robinson but also for those seeking to understand the inter-subjective, intertextual, and interactive elements of early Romanticism."- Susan Civale, Canterbury Christ Church University, Tulas Studies in Women's LiteratureTable of ContentsIntroduction: Robinson’s Romantic Dialogues Prelude: "Sweet Converse": Della Cruscan Dialogues 1. Harping on Lyrical Exchange: Samuel Coleridge 2. Illegitimate Influences: Charlotte Smith 3. The Morning Post Aesthetic: Robert Southey 4. Walsingham, Caleb Williams and Queer Panic: William Godwin 5. Vindicating the Writing Woman: Mary Wollstonecraft 6. From Lyrical Ballads to Lyrical Tales: William Wordsworth 7. Resurrecting Robinson: Charlotte 8. "Sick of the same bruise": John Keats
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Romantic Women Writers Reviewed Part I
Book SynopsisThis multi-volume reset collection will addresses significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Romantic Women Writers Reviewed Part II
Book SynopsisThis multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Romantic Women Writers Reviewed Part III
Book SynopsisThis multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant Part V
Book SynopsisMargaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd New Woman Fiction 18811899 Part III set
Book SynopsisThe late nineteenth century saw the emergence of New Woman fiction, a genre of writing which sought to challenge traditional Victorian conceptions of the role of women and promote their independence, education and political participation. This collection brings together important examples of New Woman fiction, each of which helped to crystallise the idea of the New Woman as an educated, politically aware and independent individual - during the early years of the suffragette movement. The book will be of interest to students of the suffragette movement, as well as to those interested in the history of feminism more generally.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Newgate Narratives
Book SynopsisPresents a representative body of Romantic and early Victorian crime literature. This work contains ephemeral material ranging from gallows broadsides to reports into prison conditions. It is suitable for those studying Literature, Romantic and Victorian popular culture, Dickens Studies and the History of Criminology.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lives of Victorian Literary Figures Part IV
Book SynopsisPart of the Lives of Victorian Literary Figures series, this set collects contemporary memoirs, biographies and ephemera relating to Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Edith Wharton. Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, headnotes, endnotes and a general index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Oscar Wilde and the Simulacrum: The Truth of
Book SynopsisThis book presents a philosophical context to show how Oscar Wilde broke from idealism, and challenges recent neo-historicist readings of Wilde which seem content to limit his irruptive power. It reads Wilde through Deleuze and postmodern philosophical commentary on the simulacrum.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Event Named Wilde, or, Wilde with Deleuze 2. Intentions 3. Intensities 4. Proper Names 5. Doubles 6. Commodities 7. Bodies 8. Women 9. Styles 10. Conclusion: Wilde’s Ethics of Joy
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Cambridge University Press Dickens on Screen
Book SynopsisDickens on Screen is a broad ranging investigation of over a century of film adaptations of Dickens's works. It is an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike. It provides an exhaustive filmography and is well illustrated.Trade Review"Raises a number of issues that are pertinent to the many debates that center around the translation of nineteenth-century fiction into film more generally..." Kate Flint, Studies in English Literature"For such a reader, this book offers a fresh and, at times, irreverent perspective on the complex interactions between film and literature...Glavin's collection lays a strong foundation upon which to build." Dickens Quarterly, Cara Lane, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Notes on the contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction John Glavin; Part I: 1. Dickens, psychoanalysis and film: a roundtable Gerhard Joseph; Part II: 2. David Copperfield's home movies John Bowen; 3. David Lean's Great Expectations Regina Barreca; 4. Great Expectations on Australian television John O. Jordan; 5. Dickens 'The Signalman' and Rubini's La Stazione Alessandro Vescovi; 6. Bill Murray's Christmas Carols Murray Baumgarten; 7. Screen memories in Dickens and Woody Allen Robert M. Polhemus; Part III: 8. Writing after Dickens: the television writer's art John Romano; 9. Directing Dickens: Alfonso Cuaron's 1998 Pam Katz; 10. Playing Dickens: an interview with Miriam Margolyes; Part IV: 11. Cinematic Dickens and uncinematic words Kamilla Elliott; 12. Dickens, Eisenstein, film Garrett Stewart; 13. Orson Welles and Charles Dickens 1938–41 Marguerite Rippy; 14. David Copperfield (1935) and the US curriculum Steve J. Wurzler; 15. Dickens, Selznick, and Southpark Jeffrey Sconce; 16. Tiny Tim on screen: a disabilities perspective Martin F. Norden; Part V: Dickens composed: film and television adaptation 1897–2001 Kate Charnell Watt and Kate Lonsdale; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Recreating Jane Austen
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Cambridge University Press Jane Austen Fiction of her Time
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Cambridge University Press Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination 56 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 56
Book SynopsisIn the two centuries since Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), she has become an icon of modern feminism: a stature that has paradoxically obscured her real historic significance. In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Wollstonecraft's feminist aspirations, Taylor shows, were part of a revolutionary programme for universal equality and moral perfection that reached its zenith during the political upheavals of the 1790s but had its roots in the radical-Protestant Enlightenment. Drawing on all of Wollstonecraft's works, and locating them in a vividly detailed account of her intellectual world and troubled personal history, Taylor provides a compelling portrait of this fascinating and profoundly influential thinker.Trade Review'This book will be essential reading for many years to come, not merely as a groundbreaking monograph on Wollstonecraft, but for demonstrating the centrality of feminist philosophy to the development of the Romantic imagination.' The Times Literary Supplement'Read every word of this excellent book. Never before has the true genius of Mary Wollstonecraft been so indelibly portrayed. Several other expert hands have offered their various portrayals but Barbara Taylor presents the most properly designed picture of the revolutionary age in which she lived and to which she made such an original contribution.' Michael Foot, Tribune'… outstanding … the product of many years' engagement with Wollstonecraft, Taylor's study of her works in her time - and in ours - discerns numerous contradictions and paradoxes in them, in her life and in the reception of them.' The Guardian'… a thoughtful, wide-ranging and important examination of Wollstonecraft's thought … Wollstonecraft is skilfully considered in terms of radical Enlightenment thought, and the links between this and feminism are probed in a treatment that is alive to the diversity of this radicalism.' The Times Higher Education Supplement'This book is an important addition to the now quite extensive literature on Mary Wollstonecraft … a careful and nuanced account of the changing political and intellectual circumstances in which Wollstonecraft lived. the discussion of the 1790s, of the rapid shifts in outlook in Britain that followed the French Revolution, and their impact on the ways in which Wollstonecraft was read and understood is particularly insightful.' Radical Philosophy'What Taylor gives us is not only a highly insightful reading of Wollstonecraft, but also an exemplary piece of feminist scholarship.' H-Net Book Review'The polyvalent senses of Barbara Taylor's title, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination, convey both the scope and sublety of this important monograph.' History'… Taylor marvelously delineates Wollstonecraft's life and entire corpus within a historical context, by way of her original and unique access: the combination of psychoanalytic approach and historical study … I found Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination thrilling and illuminating. Taylor's perspective is surprisingly original, but at the same time, built up on the past scholarship on Wollstonecraft … I am deeply impressed with Taylor's distinguished talent and long-year perseverance 'for the love of Wollstonecraft.' I believe Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination will make a great contribution and open new prospects for future scholarship on Mary Wollstonecraft, a fascinating and profoundly influential thinker.' Studies in English Literature'… compelling and ground-breaking'. European Romantic Review'Taylor is a sharp and generous reader of Wollstonecraft's character, of her writings, and of her times. This magisterial study is the carefully crafted result of two decades of work; it demonstrates an excellent command of Wollstonecraft's oeuvre, and it is formidably informed about competing intellectual and ideological systems in the eighteenth century.' MLR'… for anyone familiar with her work and the ideas of the Enlightenment, this is an interesting and thought-provoking read.' International SocialismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction: Mary Wollstonecraft and the paradoxes of feminism; Part I. Imagining Women: 1. The female philosopher; 2. The chimera of womanhood; 3. For the love of God; Part II. Feminism and Revolution: 4. Wollstonecraft and British radicalism; 5. Perfecting civilization; 6. Gallic philosophesses; 7. Women vs. the polity; 8. The female citizen; 9. Jemima and the beginnings of modern feminism; Epilogue: the fantasy of Mary Wollstonecraft; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Byron and Romanticism 50 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 50
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