Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
Oxford University Press Inc Bohemians A Very Short Introduction VERY SHORT
Book SynopsisThe Romantic myth of Bohemia originated in the early nineteenth century as a way of describing the new conditions faced by artists and writers when the previous system of aristocratic patronage collapsed in the wake of the Age of Revolution. Without the patron system, the artist was free to move around, to seek an audience wherever fortune beckoned. This marketing model likening the artist''s vagabond career to the gypsy life helps to explain part of the bohemian myth, but not all of it. Most bohemians have scant interest in commercial gain and are not so itinerant after all, confining their movements to down-market urban neighbourhoods where the rent is cheap and the morals are loose.This Very Short Introduction traces the myth of Bohemia through its various fictional manifestations, from Henry Murger''s novel Scenes of Bohemian Life (1851) and Giacomo Puccini''s opera La Bohème (1896) to Aki Kaurismäki''s film La vie de Bohème (1992), and Jonathan Larson''s musical Rent (1996). It goes on to examine the history of different bohemian communities, including those in the Latin Quarter of Paris, the Schwabing section of Munich, and the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York. David Weir also considers the politics of Bohemia and traces the careers of the artists Gustave Courbet and Pablo Picasso and the great chanteuses Yvette Guilbert, Fréhel, and Edith Piaf in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris, where a rich tradition of popular culture indebted to Bohemia also developed. Weir concludes with a discussion of the legacy of Bohemia today as something outworn and dying, an exhausted tradition that somehow continues.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1: Fictional Bohemias Chapter 2: Historical Bohemias Chapter 3: Political Bohemias Chapter 4: Artistic Bohemias Conclusion References Further reading Index
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Oxford University Press Oxford Student Texts The Importance of Being
Book SynopsisOxford Student Texts offer an accessible route into the study of texts for A Level including line-by-line notes, and detailed sections covering key themes, issues and contexts. This edition focuses on The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
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Oxford University Press The Victorians
Book SynopsisVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world. Contemporary Britain is still in large part Victorian in its transport networks, sewage systems, streets, and houses. Victorian cultural legacies, especially in art, science, and literature, are still celebrated. The first to have to grapple with many of the challenges of modern urban society, we continue to look to the Victorians for inspiration and solace. And we are increasingly aware of the ways their global actions shaped, often for ill, the world around us. Much mythologised, inexhaustibly controversial, the Victorians are an inescapable reference point for understanding the modern histories not just of Britain and its empire, but of the world.In The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction Martin Hewitt offers a guide through the thickets of judgement and debate which have grown arounTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1: The Victorians in retrospect 2: The Victorian as period 3: Victorianism 4: Victorian configurations 5: Eminent Victorians 6: The Victorian world Further Reading References
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Oxford University Press Doctor Thorne TV TieIn with a foreword by Julian
Book SynopsisNow adapted for ITV by Julian Fellowes, Doctor Thorne is the compelling story in which rank, wealth, and personal feeling are pitted against one another. The squire of Greshamsbury has fallen on hard times, and it is incumbent on his son Frank to make a good marriage. But Frank loves the doctor''s niece, Mary Thorne, a girl with no money and mysterious parentage. He faces a terrible dilemma: should he save the estate, or marry the girl he loves? Mary, too, has to battle her feelings, knowing that marrying Frank would ruin his family and fly in the face of his mother''s opposition. Her pride is matched by that of her uncle, Dr Thorne, who has to decide whether to reveal a secret that would resolve Frank''s difficulty, or to uphold the innate merits of his own family heritage.The character of Dr Thorne reflects Trollope''s own contradictory feelings about the value of tradition and the need for change. His subtle portrayal, and the comic skill and gentle satire with which the story is developed, are among the many pleasures of this delightful novel.Trade ReviewReading it made me laugh out loud and admire Trollope's wit, literary wizardry and hilarious digs at the debt-riden gentry's snobbish obsession with pedigree, money and the marriage market. * Val Hennessy, Daily Mail *I read it over Easter & was glued to my chair for hours at a time. * Lyn Baines, I Prefer Reading *Within this descriptive and compelling tale we encounter envy, avarice, brutality and arrogance, but essentially, Doctor Thorne is a beautifully written, nineteenth century tale of loyal, unfailing love. Excellent stuff; I just loved it! * Carrie King, The Writer's Drawer *There is wonderful comedy in Doctor Thorne...The book is a testament to Trollope's belief in decency as a guide to living, and I think we are made all the better for it. * Julian Fellowes, from his Foreword to the Oxford World's Classics edition. *
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Oxford University Press The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature
Book SynopsisThe Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature offers a fresh new look at the origins of literary modernism in Ireland, tracing a history of Irish writing through James Clarence Mangan, J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. Beginning with the archives of the Ordnance Survey, which mapped Ireland between 1824 and 1846, the book argues that one of the sources of Irish modernism lies in the attempt by the Survey to produce a comprehensive archive of a land emerging rapidly into modernity. The Ordnance Survey instituted a practice of depicting the country as modern, fragmented, alienated, and troubled, both diagnosing and representing a landscape burdened with the paradoxes of colonial modernity. Subsequent literature returns in varying ways, both imitative and combative, to the complex representational challenge that the Survey confronts and seeks to surmount. From a colonial mapping project to an engine of nationalist imagining, and finally a framework by which to evade the claims of the postcolonial nation, the Ordnance Survey was a central imaginative source of what makes Irish modernist writing both formally innovative and politically challenging. Drawing on literary theory, studies of space, the history of cartography, postcolonial theory, archive theory, and the field Irish Studies, The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature paints a picture of Irish writing deeply engaged in the representation of a multi-layered landscape.Trade Reviewan important new study ... startlingly original schema * Sinéad Sturgeon, Times Literary Supplement *... convincingly describes a uniquely Irish modernist aesthetic which is grounded in one of the islands most intense moments of cultural and material cartography, and should prove useful for a wide range of scholars interested in the intersections of history, geography, and literature. * Sinéad Sturgeon, Stephen O'Neill, Irish Studies Review *The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature opens fertile new ground and will surely encourage scholars with nicely polished looking glasses to further scrutinize the relationship between the British Empire's cartographic project and Ireland's modernist literary projects. * Vivian Valvano Lynch, Léirmheasanna: Reviews *The Survey, for Parsons, is one of the "many possible and actual starting points of a history of Irish modernity and modernism," and what emerges in the book is a brilliant and fresh analysis of the ways in which James Clarence Mangan, John Millington Synge, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett engage with such a cartographical heritage and postcolonial imperative. * Malcolm Sen, Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Maps, Modernity, Modernism I. Archives 1: Archive: The Ordnance Survey Letters 2: Anarchive: James Clarence Mangan among the Ruins II. Scales 3: The Scales of Modernity I: The Aran Islands 4: The Scales of Modernity II: Ulysses' Encyclopedic Narrative Epilogue 5: "Accursed Progenitor!": Beckett's Abstract Landscapes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of W.B. Yeats Oxford
Book SynopsisThe forty-two chapters in this book consider Yeats''s early toil, his practical and esoteric concerns as his career developed, his friends and enemies, and how he was and is understood. This Handbook brings together critics and writers who have considered what Yeats wrote and how he wrote, moving between texts and their contexts in ways that will lead the reader through Yeats''s multiple selves as poet, playwright, public figure, and mystic. It assembles a variety of views and adds to a sense of dialogue, the antinomian or deliberately-divided way of thinking that Yeats relished and encouraged. This volume puts that sense of a living dialogue in tune both with the history of criticism on Yeats and also with contemporary critical and ethical debates, not shirking the complexities of Yeats''s more uncomfortable political positions or personal life. It provides one basis from which future Yeats scholarship can continue to participate in the fascination of all the contributors here in the satisfying difficulty of this great writer.Table of ContentsPreface Part 1. Such Friends: Predecessors and Collaborators 1: Claire Lynch: Self-Making 2: Seán Hewitt: Fairy and Folk Tales of Bedford Park 3: Peter McDonald: 'Never to leave that valley': Sligo 4: Francis O'Gorman: Among the Victorians 5: Nicholas Grene: Lady Gregory: Patronage, Collaboration, Mythopoeia 6: Joseph Hassett: John Quinn and the Literary Marketplace 7: Margaret Mills Harper: George Yeats 8: Nicholas Allen: The Writings of Jack Yeats Part 2. In and Through History 9: Geraldine Parsons: Ancient Ireland 10: R.F. Foster: The Ghost of Parnell 11: Edna Longley: Renaissance Italy: 'courtly images' 12: Hugh Haughton: Tradition and Phantasmagoria: Dante and Shakespeare 13: Geraldine Higgins: Talking back to history: From 'September 1913' to 'Easter, 1916' 14: Fran Brearton: 'Knights of the Air': Flight and Modernity 15: David Dwan: Revolution and Counter-Revolution 16: Lauren Arrington: Fascist Italy 17: Alan Gillis: The Thirties: 'The day brings round the night' 18: Adam Hanna: The Senate and the Stage 19: Adam Piette: 'Cast a cold eye': Death in Wartime Part 3. From the Global to the Interplanetary 20: Justin Quinn: Tagore, Pound and World English 21: Nathan Suhr-Sytsma: Africa 22: Jahan Ramazani: Asias 23: Katherine Ebury: 'The Scientific Revolution' 24: Cóilín Parsons: Planets 25: Neil Mann: Visionary Poetics Part 4. Genres and Medias 26: Charles Armstrong: Romanticism and Aestheticism 27: Claire Nally: Rites and Rhymes 28: Tom Walker: The most characteristic poet of modern Europe': Modernist Accommodations 29: Jack Quin: Illustrating 30: Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux: Family Business at Dun Emer and Cuala: Collaboration, Contention, and Creativity 31: Emilie Morin: In the Media Part 5. Playing Yeats 32: Susan Cannon Harris: Yeats's Early Plays: Gender, Genre, and Queer Collaboration 33: Akiko Manabe: 'A Country Over Wave': Japan, Noh, Kiogen 34: Zsuzsanna Balázs: Reading the Late Plays: Sexual Unorthodoxies 35: Patrick Lonergan: Playing in Ireland 36: Susan Jones: Dance Part 6. Reading Yeats 37: Stephanie Burt: Imperfect Forms 38: Matthew Campbell: Visionary Comedy 39: Lucy McDiarmid: Masculinities 40: Wayne K. Chapman: Late Style: Art v. Life 41: Warwick Gould: Editing Postscript 42: Vona Groarke: Yeats and Contemporary Poetry: Twelve Speculative Takes
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Oxford University Press Whitman in Washington Becoming the National Poet
Book SynopsisThis book analyses Whitman's integrated life, writings, and government work in his urban context to reevaluate the writer and the nation's capital in a time of transformation.Trade ReviewThe virtue of Whitman in Washington is that it keeps tensions in place, and plumbs paradox, palpably wrestling with the legacy of Whitman in the moment and calling us to our own reckoning of him and his work for the future. * Tyler Hoffman, American Literary History *Price works to untangle Whitman's complex, often contradictory, racial attitudes, showing through close readings and rich culture and aesthetic contextualization how his views of African Americans during slavery changed once emancipation occurred... The virtue of Whitman in Washington is that it keeps tensions in place, and plumbs paradox, palpably wrestling with the legacy of Whitman in the moment and calling us to our own reckoning with him and his work for the future. * Tyler Hoffman, American Literary History *No other book has done so much to trace the contradictions inherent in the poet's work for the government and analyze the role it may have played in his poetry and politics. * Martin T. Buinicki, Valparaiso University *Written with clarity and impressively researched, this study offers a remarkable picture of a key period in Whitman's life. * J. W. Miller, CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface 1: Whitman, Washington, and the Convulsiveness of Civil War 2: Whitman as a Paradoxical 'Missionary to the Wounded' 3: Strayed Cattle: Anti-Pastoralism in Whitman's War Writings 4: Social Calamity, Personal Perturbations, and Office Decorum: How Leaves of Grass Grew Pensive 5: Multi-racial Democracy and Black Democratic Vistas Works Cited
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Oxford University Press Past and Present Oxford Worlds Classics
Book SynopsisA book of social commentary informed by the history of England. It forms an analysis of the problems of newly industrialized England both by invoking historical events and by dissecting contemporary issues.Trade ReviewIt is delightful to come across a polished textbook such as this one that invites scholars to use its resources, and then guides them towards further research. * Anna Faktorovich, Pennsylvania Literary Journal *Students and teachers of this book will find this to very beneficial...it is delightful to come across a polished textbook such as this one that invites scholars to use its resources, and then guides them towards further research. It is absolutely necessary for all types of international libraries to include this edition of this socially-impactful classic. * Pennsylvania Literary Journa *Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle Context and Chronology of Chronica Jocelini de Brakelond PAST AND PRESENT Explanatory Notes Index
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Oxford University Press Mary Shelley A Very Short Introduction Very Short
Book SynopsisVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In 1816, when eighteen-year old Mary Godwin began writing Frankenstein, the idea that a woman could dream up such a tale was as far-fetched as raising a being from the dead. But Mary wasn''t just any woman. The daughter of two notorious radicals, Mary had become an outcast from English society when she was only sixteen. A lifelong advocate for the rights of women, she refused to be governed by social conventions, running away with a married man, having children out of wedlock, and authoring books, stories, and essays that broke literary conventions. This Very Short Introduction explores the context, background, and important themes contained in Shelley''s most famous novel, Frankenstein, as well as demonstrating the importance of her work after Frankenstein. Over the course of her long career, Shelley developed a distinctive voice, and a political and philosophical stance. Exploring key themes throughout Shelley''s work, Charlotte Gordon shows how she devoted herself to the propositions her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, outlined in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: that women are equal to men; that all people deserve the same rights; that human reason and the capacity for love can reform the world; and that every person is entitled to justice and freedom. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewWhether it is the casual reader looking for background information on their favorite mystery, or the dedicated scholar tracking down elusive new angles in the life and literature of Agatha Christie, this comprehensive compendium about her work will provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date information yet available. * Chris Patsilelis, Midwest Book Review *Table of Contents1: Legacies 2: Gothic rebellion 3: Frankenstein 4: Early female narrators in A History of a Six Weeks Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, and Holland and Mathilda (1817-1821) 5: Valperga, The Last Man, and Perkin Warbeck 6: The final work, 1835-1844 Further Reading Index
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Oxford University Press Oscar Wildes Oxford Notebooks
Book SynopsisOscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks, which was originally published in 1989, was the first publication of Oscar Wilde's Notebook on History and Philosophy and his Commonplace Book, which he began to keep while a student at Oxford between 1874 and 1879, will forever alter critical perceptions of Wilde's intentions and achievements.
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Oxford University Press Utopia
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Oxford University Press A Guide to Byrons Verse in Fifty Poems
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Oxford University Press In Quest of a Cure
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Oxford University Press The Charterhouse of Parma
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA fine translation. * Duncan Wu, The Independent *
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The University of Chicago Press Alive in the Writing Crafting Ethnography in the
Book SynopsisAnton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer. This title introduces readers to some other sides of Chekhov: his pithy, witty observations on the writing process; his life as a writer through accounts by his friends, family, and lovers; and his venture into nonfiction through his book "Sakhalin Island".Trade Review"Balm for the loneliness and torment of the ethnographic writer, this manual by one of the most distinguished offers the user a personal writer's workshop, at once charming, therapeutic, and practical. The author's mother, her most astute reader, asks: 'A lot of people have no problem writing. The bigger thing I'd like to know is, do you have any thoughts on how to put all the different little bits together?' With the help of Anton Chekhov, her muse and obsession, Narayan does." (George Marcus, University of California, Irvine)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Daily Jane Austen
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Columbia University Press Writing Women in Modern China
Book SynopsisSpanning the first three decades of this century to the Sino-Japanese War, these twenty-two works of fiction, drama, autobiography, essays, and poetry, each newly translated and prefaced by the author's photograph and a short biographical sketch, introduce women whose literary careers coincided with an era of tremendous social, political, and cultural turbulence.Trade ReviewTheWriting Women in Modern China anthology draws together some of the most exciting writing that had a formative role in bringing to the surface a female consciousness in China which challenged many perceived standards of the day. -- Olivier Bruckhardt Contemporary Review The best anthology to date of feminist Chinese women's creative writing from the period 1905 to 1937... Given the importance of literature in Chinese culture, this may be the first book any college or public library should buy on the subject of modern Chinese feminism. Choice A major contribution to research and teaching in modern Chinese literature... [that] is also a great read for general readers. -- Lingzhen Wang, Brown University The China Journal
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Yale University Press The Lives and Times of Ebenezer Scrooge
Book SynopsisBah! Humbug! and God bless us, every one! are phrases that have resounded through the years, instantly recognizable as exclamations from Scrooge and Tiny Tim in Charles Dickens's beloved Christmas Carol. Told and retold to generations of children and adults, A Christmas Carol has been adapted, revised, condensed, added to, and modernized more than any other work in English literature. In this engaging and delightfully illustrated book, Paul Davis explores the various British and American versions of this work--on stage, film, radio, and television and in literature, cartoons, and comic books--showing how these interpretations have reflected the changing cultural perspectives of successive eras.According to Davis, six periods have shaped this cultural history, each contributing to the evolving culture-text of A Christmas Carol that is what we remember of all its parodies, piracies, and retellings. Dickens's original story, written in 1843, provided proof that urbanization had not destro
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Yale University Press J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys The Real Story
Book SynopsisDrawing on a range of material by and about J.M. Barrie, this is a biography of the novelist, playwright, and author of "Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up". It includes material from recorded interviews with the Llewelyn Davies family and is reissued to mark the centenary of "Peter Pan".Trade Review"Mr. Birkin writes that he has tried to create ‘a documentary account,’ not an interpretive biography. He offers such a wealth of firsthand information that the book holds up 25 years after it was first published (it was reissued last year) and becomes a rich complement to the film. Beautifully designed, the book reproduces letters and diary entries from Barrie and his circle, as well as dozens of photographs."—Caryn James, New York Times"His most acute biographer, Andrew Birkin, whose, J. M. Barrie and the Lost Boys, has been granted a timely reissue. [It] digs up some astounding entries from Barrie’s private notebooks. Some are composed in the third person, as jottings toward a possible novel."—Anthony Lane, New Yorker"A psychological thriller . . . one of the year’s most complex and absorbing biographies."—Gerald Clarke, Time"A terrible and fascinating story."—Eve Auchincloss, Washington Post"It’s a brave biographer that takes on James Barrie…because Andrew Birkin’s extraordinary book about Barrie’s relationship with the Llewelyn Davies family, J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys, though more than a quarter-of-a-century old, continues to stick as firmly to Barrie’s identity as the shadow that Wendy sews back onto Peter." —Mark Bostridge, Independent on Sunday
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Palgrave Macmillan Thomas Hardy The Complete Poems
Book SynopsisWhere much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of disability studies, this book seeks to broaden the conversation through a wider range of critical perspectives and with attention to underrepresented aspects of Mairs''s oeuvre. With particular attention to the ways Mairs shapes her essays around a variety of unspeakables-such as depression, female sexuality and infidelity, mortality and death, or the struggle for faith in a postmodern world-this collection demonstrates Mairs''s provocative combination of bold ethics and subtle aesthetics.Trade Review'When the paperback of Gibson's Complete Poems is in stock, why buy anything else?' - Professor Dennis Taylor, University of Boston 'Don't order a selection at all if you can get the Complete Poems.' - Professor William Morgan, State University of IllinoisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction; J.Gibson Domicilium Wessex Poems and Other Verses Poems of the Past and the Present Poems of Pilgrimage Miscellaneous Poems Imitations, etc. Retrospect Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses More Love Lyrics A Set of Country Songs Pieces Occasional and Various Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries Poems of 1912-13 Miscellaneous Pieces Satires of Circumstance Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses Poems of War and Patriotism Finale Late Lyrics and Earlier Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres Previous Uncollected Poems Notes Index of Titles Index of First Lines
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Introduction to the American Ghost
Book SynopsisThis book traces the historical development of the American ghost story from its Indigenous, Puritan, and Enlightenment origins to its heyday in the nineteenth century and continued vibrancy in modern literary and visual culture. It explores the main tropes, thematic preoccupations, principal settings, and stylistic innovations of literary ghost stories in the United States, and the ghost story's rich afterlife in cinema, television, and digital culture. Throughout, the role played by ghost stories in nation-building, and the questions these tales raise about race, class, sexuality, religion, and science, will be examined. The book examines major practitioners in the field, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Shirley Jackson, Henry James, Stephen King, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, and Edith Wharton, alongside prominent ghost narratives in cinematic, televisual, and online form, including podcasts, gaming, and ghost-hunting apps. This study also gives a new prominenc
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WW Norton & Co Bleak House
Book SynopsisThis authoritative text of Bleak House was the first to be established by a comparative study of all the surviving versions of Dickens’ novel, incorporating evidence from the original manuscript and corrected proofs.
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WW Norton & Co Emma
Book SynopsisJane Austen’s beloved comedic novel is now available in a revised and updated Norton Critical Edition.
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WW Norton & Co The Portrait of a Lady
Book SynopsisHenry James’s most famous novel edited by the critically acclaimed author of Portrait of a Novel.
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WW Norton & Co Great Expectations
Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition, edited by the pioneer of Great Expectations scholarship, presents the most thorough textual edition of the novel (1861) available.
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WW Norton & Co Vanity Fair
Book SynopsisThe text of this Norton Critical Edition of Thackeray's acclaimed 1848 novel is based on the Garland edition, the text approved by the Modern Language Association. The text is fully annotated and is accompanied by all of the author's original illustrations as well as a textual appendix.
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WW Norton & Co Anna Karenina
Book SynopsisThe text of this revised edition of Tolstoy's novel is based upon the 1939 translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude. The editor has made several textual changes and has revised and added to the footnotes. New critical material has been added to this edition, reflecting current ideas.
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WW Norton & Co War and Peace A Norton Critical Edition
Book SynopsisThis "Critical Edition" is based on the Maude translation. The text includes three maps of Napoleon's campaigns and battles in Russia, the publication history of "War and Peace", selections from Tolstoy's letters and diaries, three drafts of his introduction to the novel, and 20 critical essays.
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WW Norton & Co Melvilles Short Novels
Book SynopsisCollected in this volume are Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd—presented in the best texts available, those published during Melville's lifetime and corrected by the author.
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Heinemann Educational Books Spring Awakening
Book SynopsisWedekind's play about adolescent sexuality is as disturbing today as when it was first produced
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Taylor & Francis Ltd John Clare
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lord Alfred Tennyson The Critical Heritage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Arthur Hugh Clough
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gerard Manley Hopkins The Critical Heritage Critical Heritage S
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Major Victorian Poets Reconsiderations Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Against The Age Routledge Revivals An Introduction to William Morris
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Bront Novels Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Gothic
Book SynopsisThis enduringly popular book has become a classic in the expanding and increasingly popular field of Gothic Studies. This long awaited new edition contains a new chapter on Contemporary Gothic', an expanded section on American Gothic and more discussion of the gothic in women's film and writing throughout the book. It is also updated in relation to media and technology with further discussion of stage sensations and photography as well as engaging with all major texts and criticism since initial publication in 1995. With the added benefit of series features such as a glossary and annotated further reading section, this remains the ideal guide to the Gothic.Trade ReviewPraise for first edition:'Elegant and streamlined, a miracle of compression.' - Gothic Studies'An accessible and affordable book that will undoubtedly prove an indispensable addition to both Romantic and Victorian reading lists.' - TLS'A welcome addition to new historicist theory.' - Essays in Criticism'The returns on reading this book are enormous.' - In-between: Essays and Studies in Literary CriticismTable of Contents1. Introduction: Gothic Excess and Transgression 2. Gothic Origins 3. Gothic Forms 4. Gothic Writing in the 1790s 5. Gothic Transformations 6. Homely Gothic 7. Gothic Returns in the 1890s 8. Twentieth-Century Gothic Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Elizabeth Gaskell and the English Provincial Novel Routledge Revivals
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The University of Michigan Press Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature
Book SynopsisAn anthology of translated Japanese literature about men behaving lovingly, erotically, and intimately with other men. Covering more than 125 years of modern and contemporary Japanese history, this book introduces a diverse array of authors to an English-speaking audience and provide further context for their works.Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: “A Portrait of Young Sangorō” [Shōnen sugata] by Yamada Bimyō (1886) - translated by Nick Albertson Chapter 2: “The Little Historian” [Shō rekishika] by Nishimura Suimu (1907) - translated by Kristin Sivak and Chelsea Bernard Chapter 3: “Is This Love?” [Ai ka] by Yi Kwangsu (1909) - translated by Janet Poole Chapter 4: “Whistle” [Kuchibue], by Orikuchi Shinobu (1914) - translated by Joseph Boxman Chapter 5: Three Stories by Inagaki Taruho - translated by Jeffrey Angles "Karl and the White Lamp" [Kāru to shiroi dentō] [1924, revised 1954] "Pince-Nez Glasses" [Hana megane] [1924, revised 1969] "The False Mustache" [Tsukihige] [1924, revised 1969] Chapter 6: Two essays by Hamao Shirō (1930) - translated by Steve Dodd “Thoughts on Homosexuality” [Dōseiai kō] “More Thoughts on Homosexuality” [Futatabi dōseiai ni tsuite] Chapter 7: “Squalid Alleyways” [Rōkō] by Kataoka Teppei (1934) - translated by Mio Akasako and Amanda Seaman Chapter 8: Selected Tanka from Haku'u and Tomo no sho by Kasugai Ken (1960) - translated by Scott Mehl Chapter 9: “Worse for Love” [Ai no shōkei], by “Sakakiyama Tamotsu” (Mishima Yukio) (1960) - translated by Sam Bett Chapter 10: “I Am Not Going on Sunday” [Nichiyōbi ni wa boku wa ikanai] by Mori Mari (1961) - translated by Bob Tierney Chapter 11: “Sacred Headland” from Sacred Triangle (Seisan kakukei) by Takahashi Mutsuo (1972) - translated by Paul McCarthy Chapter 12: “Red Palm Leaves” [Ai no yashi no ha], by Medoruma Shun (1992) - translated by Davinder Bhowmik Chapter 13: Selections from Gay Poems [Gei poemuzu] by Tanaka Atsusuke (2014) - translated by Jeffrey Angles Chapter 14: “The Story of a Strange Belly” [Kifukutan] by Fukushima Jirō (2005) - translated by Bruce Suttmeier Chapter 15: “Time Differences” [Jisa] by Tawada Yōko (2006) - translated by Jeffrey Angles Chapter 16: “The Playroom” [Mikkusu rūmu], by Morii Ryō (2014) - translated by Stephen D. Miller Acknowledgements List of Contributors
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Gill Pocket Book of WB Yeats
Book SynopsisWilliam Butler Yeats ranks among the greatest literary talents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though best-known as the author of poems as timeless and delicately crafted as The Lake Isle of Innisfree and for his unrequited love of Maud Gonne, he exerted a remarkable influence in many other aspects of Irish life: a brother to the artist Jack B. Yeats, he was also a leading light of the Irish Literary Revival, founder of the Abbey Theatre and two-term senator. This volume forms a compact introduction to his life and the events shaped his work.
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James Clarke & Co Ltd The The Intelligible Ode
Book SynopsisFrom its first publication, what is now known as the Immortality Ode has been praised for the magnificence of its verse and disparaged for its paucity of meaning - the ''immortality'' of the subtitle unsubstantiated, and the ''recollections'' insubstantial. Yet Wordsworth''s idea of immortality has clear precedents in the seventeenth century, and recollections of childhood are Traherne''s starting point for the recovery of a lost vision comparable to Wordsworth''s. Via the power of the imagination, or reason, they believed they could experience a renewed vision that both termed variously Paradise, or infinity, or immortality. Graham Davidson traces the origins of Wordsworth''s poetic impetus to his resistance to the Cartesian division between mind and nature, first adumbrated by the Cambridge Platonists. If reunited, Paradise was regained, but this personal trajectory was tempered by a deep sympathy for the woes of mortal life. Davidson explores the consequent dialogue through some of Trade Review{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang2057{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Verdana;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;} \viewkind4\uc1\pard\hyphpar0\sb283\sl288\slmult1\qj\cf1\f0\fs20 "Many attempts have been made to fit Wordsworth\rquote s thought to the various templates of Anglicanism, Methodism, Pantheism, or to the very different philosophies of Locke, Berkeley or Kant. But, bar that of Plato, he avowed no \lquote ism\rquote . Davidson demonstrates that the framework of Wordsworth\rquote s thinking closely matches, and might be derived from, that of the very undogmatic Cambridge Platonists." Douglas Hedley, Professor of the Philosophy of Religion, University of Cambridge\par "A thorough investigation of the merits of Wordsworth\rquote s Intimations Ode from which any reader will learn. Freshly conceived, meticulously worked through, probing, respectful, exciting: a book to send readers back to the poem enlivened." James C.C. Mays, Emeritus Professor of Modern English and American poetry, University College Dublin\par "The fruit of a lifetime\rquote s engagement with Wordsworth, this is a deeply pondered, questioning study, full of insight into the poet\rquote s endless struggle to shape his thoughts. Of particular interest is how Davidson tackles Wordsworth\rquote s enigmatic \lquote life of things\rquote and its relationship to the thing itself. Uniquely, his study of Traherne illustrates how the progress of the Ode follows the pattern of Traherne\rquote s thought." David Fairer, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Leeds\par "In this strikingly original discussion of Wordsworth\rquote s major poems, free of theoretical obfuscation, Graham Davidson persuasively demonstrates that the poet\rquote s refusal to publish his work in chronological order, and The Prelude in his lifetime, resulted in the failure of the Victorians and the Modernists, especially Eliot, to understand fully what he had done." Stephen Gill, Supernumerary Fellow, Lincoln College Oxford\par Stimulating, stylish and meticulously researched, Graham Davidson\rquote s latest book offers new ways of reading William Wordsworth\rquote s Immortality Ode, a poem central to his poetic oeuvre, but often wildly misread or simply misunderstood.\par Jayne Thomas, Time Literary Review, October, 20, 2023 - Online\par \par \pard\cf0\par } For Davidson, Eliot's poetry points the reader to a gesture of salvation beyond this world, whereas Wordsworth and Coleridge felt it incarnated before them and passed on their experience of its power to others. By drawing on the Cambridge Platonists, as well as Douglas Hedley's discerning work on them, Davidson brings into focus a Wordsworth for whom paradise was regained through an intellectual acuity inseparable from sympathy, compassion, and faith. Emma Mason, University of Warnick, In The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Wintr 2023, New Series No. 178, pp87-88. Davidson's readings are admirably dedicated to preserving and explicating the terms of Wordsworth's writings, not only in the poetry, but in the prose and letters; he immerses his readers in generous quotations selected from throughout Wordsworth's body of work; and he is confident that Wordsworth speaks to any who will hear. Owen Boynton In A Tremble Ever Since In Essays In Criticism, Vol 73, Issue 4, October 2023, pages 460-467.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Acknowledgements Preface Part I: Patterns 1 A Philosophical Framework: Understanding the Intelligible 2 Expostulation and Reply: The Tables Turned 3 Tintern Abbey: His First and Happiest Ode 4 Geometry, Poetry and the Sublime of Man Part II: Principles 5 Intimations 6 Recollections Part III: A Crisis: The Poems of 1802 7 Several Kinds of Poem 8 Heaven and Earth Part IV: Reading the Ode 9 Origins 10 Verse, Grammar and Imagery 11 Competing Forces 12 Stanzas I-IV: The Statement of Loss 13 Stanzas V-VIII: The Analysis of Loss 14 Stanzas IX-X: Recovery 15 Stanza XI: Resolution Part V: Looking Forward into History 16 Poems Published and Unpublished 17 What if? A Counterfactual Reading Bibliography Index
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Manchester University Press The gothic novel in Ireland c. 17601829
Book Synopsis'An important and authoritative book, in which Christina Morin steps outside established definitions of ‘Irish Gothic’ in order to make a fluent and convincing case for a wider, deeper and longer history of Irish fiction. The gothic novel in Ireland not only offers a bracing challenge to existing theories of Irish Gothic, it also reshapes our understanding of the history of the novel in Britain and Ireland while redrawing the map of Irish romanticism.'Claire Connolly, Professor of Modern English, University College Cork 'The gothic novel in Ireland is a very welcome mapping of an almost completely unknown body of fiction – the early Irish Gothic novel. Morin not only brings to an end the literary historical amnesia which allowed so much interesting, important and often compelling fiction to be forgotten, but effectively rescues these novels from what Franco Moretti calls the 'slaughterhouse of liteTrade Review‘Christina Morin’s The gothic novel in Ireland c. 1760–1829 is a significant intervention in the study of Anglo-Irish literature and the gothic tradition. Combining a masterful overview of Romantic era print culture with close readings of hitherto under examined novels, this book suggestively explores the generic interconnectedness between gothic fiction, the national tale and the historical novel. In doing so, it brings to light a much earlier tradition of fiction that emerged from Ireland in the mid-eighteenth century and had a clear impact on the British novelists who followed. As such, The gothic novel in Ireland confidently dispatches long-held views of Irish gothic as a belated phenomenon that emerged in the later nineteenth century. At the same time, Morin delineates acutely the specific conventions and tropes that characterised a distinctively Irish variant of the gothic. Marshalling an impressive range of literary sources, bibliographical evidence and statistical data, Morin provocatively disrupts long-held assumptions about the formative role played by Irish writers at a crucial moment in the history of the novel, making a compelling case for a more nuanced and accurate understanding of the literary relationship between Britain and Ireland during the Romantic century.’Anthony Mandal, Professor of Print and Digital Cultures, Cardiff University'In its strikingly original overall approach as well as its illuminating discussions of forgotten or neglected early Irish gothic fictions, The Gothic Novel in Ireland, c. 1760–1829 greatly broadens and deepens our knowledge of an important but little-known corpus of literature.'European Romantic Review‘When does the gothic novel begin and end? What are its characteristics? And where does Ireland fit in the literary terrain marked out by modern critics? In this valuable exploration, Christina Morin remaps time, place, and content. She argues that by giving sustained attention to Irish gothic literature we can (and should) widen, deepen, and redefine a field whose formal and generic properties have been at once slippery and overly restrictive… Morin carefully dismantles stereotypes and brings fresh eyes to established conventions. She asks probing questions about why some writers fall into neglect—what Franco Moretti dubbed the slaughterhouse of literature—and looks anew at those judged worthy of the attentions of posterity. For students of the period, this will be an essential text: meticulously researched and attractively written.’Eighteenth-Century Fiction -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: locating the Irish gothic novel1. Gothic temporalities: ‘Gothicism’, ‘historicism’, and the overlap of fictional modes from Thomas Leland to Walter Scott2. Gothic genres: romances, novels, and the classifications of Irish Romantic fiction 3. Gothic geographies: the cartographic consciousness of Irish gothicfiction4. Gothic materialities: Regina Maria Roche, the Minerva Press, and the bibliographic spread of Irish gothic fiction Conclusion Appendix 1: A working bibliography of Irish gothic fiction, c. 1760–1829Select bibliographyIndex
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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Fiona Robertson (Birmingham City University); 1. Scott's Authorship and Book Culture, Ina Ferris (University of Ottawa); 2. Ballads and Borders, Kenneth McNeil (Eastern Connecticut State University); 3. The Narrative Poems, Alison Lumsden (University of Aberdeen) and Ainsley McIntosh (University of Aberdeen); 4. Scott's Jacobitical Plots, Caroline McCracken-Flesher (University of Wyoming); 5. History and Historiography, Catherine Jones (University of Aberdeen); 6. Scott's Worlds of War, Samuel Baker (University of Texas, Austin); 7. Scott and the Reformation of Religion, George Marshall (independent scholar); 8. Romancing and Romanticism; Fiona Robertson (Birmingham City University); 9. Monarchy and the Middle-Period Novels, Tara Ghoshal Wallace (George Washington University); 10. Scott and Political Economy, Alexander Dick (University of British Columbia); 11. Late Scott, Ian Duncan (University of California, Berkeley); 12. Afterlives and Artefacts, Nicola J. Watson (Open University).
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Revivals Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian 1979
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The Swedenborg Society Imaginal Landscapes Reflections on the Mystical
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