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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Race Citizenship and Law in American Literature 128 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 128
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
Book SynopsisScience fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from these different angles. After an introduction to the nature of science fiction, historical chapters trace science fiction from Thomas More to more recent years, including a chapter on film and television. The second section introduces four important critical approaches to science fiction drawing their theoretical inspiration from Marxism, postmodernism, feminism and queer theory. The final and largest section of the book looks at various themes and sub-genres of science fiction. A number of well-known science fiction writers contribute to this volume, including Gwyneth Jones, Ken MacLeod, Brian Stableford Andy Duncan, James Gunn, Joan Slonczewski, and Damien Broderick.Trade Review'Overall, the volume is a major achievement. There's no other book like it on the market, and it will surely become the first point of reference for students coming to the study of SF. The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction is highly recommended.' Alien Online'The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction … appears to be structured as an undergraduate teaching resource, although one accessible to both the interested lay reader and to readers and fans with more than a basic knowledge of sf. This, in itself, is something of a feat, and that the Companion pulls it off admirably is a credit to its editors and contributors.' Vector'This is a solid, intelligent, sophisticated scholarly assessment from a major academic publisher. Every bit the intellectual equal of other titles in the Cambridge series, it will likely become one of the most referenced secondary works in the study of sf, especially in pedagogical contexts.' Science Fiction Studies'… an ideal introductory companion for the uninitiated … a range of interesting themes … This book is thought provoking, informative and intelligent. It successfully reveals the critical intricacy of this much-maligned genre … This is an excellent addition to any collection supporting the study of modern English literature and a superb source book for librarians seeking to develop the definitive science fiction collection.' Reference Reviews'… this is a coherent, well-edited collection, which covers all of the bases and is more than fit for purpose. The production of the book alone, given its scope, must have been a mammoth task and the fact that the whole comes together so well does real credit to its editors.' Foundation'A thoughtful compilation of ideas about the genre, a bit of history, some politics and good guides make The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (Cambridge, £24.99) worth the read.' New Scientist'… this is one of the best literary companions I have discovered … a comprehensive and clearly accessible guide to current sf writing … Science fiction does what so few of such reader's guides manage. it coveys both rigorous academic erudition and a genuine love and interest in the subject … will do much for the academic study of science fiction in future years.' English'… it does an excellent job cataloguing and condensing in a mere 300 pagesthe basics as well as some current trends in Science Fiction (Studies). … the book suceeds in offering a comprehensive and inspiring introduction to Science Fiction (Studies). Next to the many brilliant essays it collects it's greatest strength lies in the rich topical surveys of sf literature each contribution supplies, whetting the reader's appetite for these novels which might otherwise slip her/his attention.' Anglia'… a comprehensive analysis of a literary genre which stands at the intersection of numerous fields. … it retains coherence in style and purpose throughout …' Revue d'études anglophonesTable of ContentsList of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction: reading science fiction Farah Mendlesohn; Part I. The History: 1. Science fiction before the genre Brian Stableford; 2. The magazine era: 1926–1960 Brian Attebery; 3. New wave and backwash: 1960–1980 Damien Broderick; 4. Science fiction from 1980 to the present John Clute; 5. Film and television Mark Bould; 6. Science fiction and its editors Gary K. Wolfe; Part II. Critical Approaches: 7. Marxist theory and science fiction Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr; 8. Feminist theory and science fiction Veronica Hollinger; 9. Postmodernism and science fiction Andrew M. Butler; 10. Science fiction and queer theory Wendy Pearson; Part III. Sub-Genres and Themes: 11. The icons of science fiction Gwyneth Jones; 12. Science fiction and the life sciences Joan Slonczewski and Michael Levy; 13. Hard science fiction Kathryn Cramer; 14. Space opera Gary Westfahl; 15. Alternate history Andy Duncan; 16. Utopias and anti-utopias Edward James; 17. Politics and science fiction Ken MacLeod; 18. Gender in science fiction Helen Merrick; 19. Race and ethnicity in science fiction Elisabeth Anne Leonard; 20. Religion and science fiction Farah Mendlesohn; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Tennyson and the Text
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Cambridge University Press Rereading Walter Pater
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Cambridge University Press Rousseau Robespierre and English Romanticism
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Cambridge University Press John Clare in Context
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Cambridge University Press Modern Romance the Transformation The Gothic Scott Dickens
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Cambridge University Press Representing the South Pacific
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Cambridge University Press Dickens and the Politics of the Family
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Cambridge University Press Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel
Book SynopsisMonica F. Cohen offers new readings of fictional narratives, to show how domestic work gained social credibility through the vocabulary of nineteenth-century professionalism. Her study questions the stereotypes of Victorian domesticity, and revises our understanding of nineteenth-century domestic ideology.Trade Review"A book for large collections serving upper-division undergraduates through faculty." Choice"In The Victorian Governess, Kathryn Hughes presents a comprehensive examination of the state of the profession at mid-century for those employed spinsters." Laurie Kaplan, JASNA News"marvelous" Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Persuading the navy home: Austen and professional domesticism; 2. Homesick: the domestic interiors of Villette; 3. Dickens I: Great Expectations and vocational domesticity; 4. Dickens II: Little Dorrit in a home and the institutionalisation of form; 5. Professing renunciation: domesticity in Felix Holt; 6. A prejudice for milk: professionalism, nationalism and domesticism in Daniel Deronda; Afterword.
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Cambridge University Press A Question of Syllables
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Cambridge University Press Dostoyevsky After Bakhtin
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Cambridge University Press Origins of Narrative
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Cambridge University Press Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century
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Cambridge University Press Victorian Renovations of the Novel Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation 15 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 15
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Cambridge University Press Religion Toleration and British Writing 1790 1830
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Cambridge University Press The Ethics of Romanticism
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Cambridge University Press German Romantic Literary Theory
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Cambridge University Press Disease Desire in Victorian Novels 11 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 11
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Cambridge University Press Dostoyevsky and the Process of Literary Creation
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Cambridge University Press Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition
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Cambridge University Press Literary Culture and the Pacific
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Cambridge University Press Ancestry and Narrative in NineteenthCentury British Literature
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Cambridge University Press Wordsworths Pope A Study in Literary Historiography 17 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 17
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Cambridge University Press Romantic Verse Narrative The History of a Genre European Studies in English Literature
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Cambridge University Press George Eliot and the Conflict of Interpretations
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Cambridge University Press Keats Narrative and Audience The Posthumous Life of Writing 6 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 6
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Cambridge University Press Womens Writing in 19C France 65 Cambridge Studies in French Series Number 65
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Cambridge University Press Shelley and the Revolution in Taste The Body and the Natural World SHELLEY AND THE REVOLUTION IN TASTE THE BODY AND THE NATURAL WORLD BY Morton Timothy Author on Mar162006 Paperback
Book SynopsisThis book brings together the themes of diet, consumption, the body, and human relationships with the natural world, in a highly original study of Shelley. A campaigning vegetarian and proto-ecological thinker, Shelley may seem to us curiously modern, but Morton offers an illuminatingly broad context for Shelley's views in eighteenth-century social and political thought concerning the relationships between humanity and nature. The book is at once grounded in the revolutionary history of the period 1790â1820, and informed by current theoretical issues and anthropological and sociological approaches to literature. Morton provides challenging new readings of much-debated poems, plays, and novels by both Percy and Mary Shelley, as well as the first sustained interpretation of Shelley's prose on diet. With its stimulating literary-historical reassessment of questions about nature and culture, this study will provoke fresh discussion about Shelley, Romanticism, and modernity.Trade Review'… a subtle, thought-provoking and ambitious analysis of the opposed ways of the lives of the rich and the poor, the hungry and the surfeited, as exposed in Shelley's thinking. Nobody interested either in Shelley's poetics or the body's politics will be able to ignore.' The Times Higher Education Supplement'Timothy Morton … is the first critic to take Shelley's vegetarianism seriously … The results prove to be revolutionary in themselves … his readings are … attuned to the complexities of Shelleyan figurality … this is a book of very real importance.' Shelley Journal'The book is a kind of belated yet updated 'Renaissance self-fashioning' for Romantic studies. This is an exciting and genuinely original book which offers much to Shelley studies and to the wider current debate about the 'greening' of Romanticism.' Keats Shelley Review'Morton takes us beyond Shelley (or the Shelleys) and toward the broader cultural and intellectual sphere of Romanticism generally, where we may usefully apply to other authors, other works, the lessons that Morton teaches so compellingly in his fine study.' The Journal of English and Germanic Philology'Wide-ranging both in its historical research and its ingenious applications of theory, this book … will be savoured by those who have an interest in the literary figuration of diet and consumption in all periods as well as the Romantic.' Notes and QueriesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: prescriptions; 1. The rights of brutes; 2. The purer nutriment: diet and Shelley's biographies; 3. In the face: the poetics of the natural diet; 4. Apollo in the jungle: healthy morals and the body beautiful; 5. Intemperate figures: refining culture; 6. Sustaining natures: Shelley and ecocriticism; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press janeaustenandthetheatre
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Cambridge University Press Aestheticsm Sexual Parody 18401940 31 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 31
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Cambridge University Press Jane Austen and the Body
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Cambridge University Press Realism Represen Arts in 19C Lit 12 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 12
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Cambridge University Press Women the Novel and the German Nation 1771 1871
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Cambridge University Press Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust
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Cambridge University Press Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body
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Cambridge University Press Baudelaire
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Cambridge University Press Baudelaire and Intertextuality Poetry at the Crossroads 38 Cambridge Studies in French Series Number 38
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Cambridge University Press Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law Literature and Theology
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Cambridge University Press The Poetics of Spice
Book SynopsisThis 2000 book focuses on the significance of spice, and the spice trade, in Romantic literature, shedding light on the impact of the growing consumerism and capitalist ideology. Timothy Morton surveys literary, political, medical, travel, trade and philosophical literature, offering new readings of Keats, Shelley and Southey among many others.Trade Review'Only one word describes Timothy Morton's The Poetics of Spice: Spicy. Like an exotic dish this book is both enticing and overwhelming.' BARS BulletinTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The confection of spice: historical and theoretical considerations; 2. Trade winds; 3. Place settings; 4. Blood sugar; 5. Sound and scents: further investigations of space; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Family in Crisis in Late NineteenthCentury French Fiction
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Cambridge University Press Ruskins God 24 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 24
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Cambridge University Press Ideology and Utopia in the Poetry of William Blake
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Cambridge University Press Romantic Atheism
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Cambridge University Press Dickens Novel Reading and the Victorian Popular Theatre
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Cambridge University Press Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity
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