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Association for Scottish Literary Studies James Hoggs Private Memoirs and Confessions of a
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Carcanet Press Ltd Collected Poems 18861944 Memento 2
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Cambridge University Press Honor Romanticism and the Hidden Value of
Book SynopsisThis book reveals the development of a progressive sense of honor and dignity against its usual counterpoint, freedom within nineteenth-century British poetry, prose, and abolitionist media. For readers of literature, sociology, politics, and economics, it offers a rich cultural history of a value long viewed as reactionary and regressive.
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Cambridge University Press Childhood Writings
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Cambridge University Press Pride and Prejudice
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Cambridge University Press Mansfield Park
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Cambridge University Press Emma
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Cambridge University Press Persuasion
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Cambridge University Press Later Manuscripts
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Cambridge University Press The Outcry
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Cambridge University Press Washington Square
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Cambridge University Press The Aspern Papers and Other Tales 18841888
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Space of Their Own
Book SynopsisThis collection explores how nineteenth and twentieth-century women writers incorporated the idea of place' into their writing. Whether writing from a specific location or focusing upon a particular geographical or imaginary place, women writers working between 1850 and 1950 valued a space of their own' in which to work. The period on which this collection focuses straddles two main areas of study, nineteenth century writing and early twentieth century/modernist writing, so it enables discussion of how ideas of space progressed alongside changes in styles of writing. It looks to the many ways women writers explored concepts of space and place and how they expressed these through their writings, for example how they interpreted both urban and rural landscapes and how they presented domestic spaces. A Space of Their Own will be of interest to those studying Victorian literature and modernist works as it covers a period of immense change for women's rights in society. ITable of ContentsIntroduction – Dr. Katie Baker and Dr. Naomi WalkerPart 1 – Women Writing the Domestic SpaceChapter 1 – ‘It is home, and I can’t put its charm into words’ (Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South): Radically Extending Domesticity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and SouthDr. Katie BakerChapter 2 – ‘The Room I sit in’: Women’s Refashioning of the Drawing-Room in Fin-de-Siècle and Modernist WritingDr. Emma LigginsChapter 3 – ‘Fleece in the hedge’: Domesticity and Depiction among Women Writers of the Interwar YearsDr. Geraldine PerriamPart 2 – Women Writing the Rural SpaceChapter 4 – Mountains, Therapy and the Peripatetic Writing Space: Elizabeth le Blond in France and Switzerland in the 1880sDr. Kathryn WalchesterChapter 5 – Walking and Writing the Rural: Mary Webb and the Shropshire LandscapeDr. Naomi WalkerChapter 6 – Spangin’ and Stravaiging: Scottish Women Writers and the Nature of Rural ModernityHelena DuncanPart 3 – Women Writing the Public SpaceChapter 7 – ‘There’s London!’: Spatial affects and urban environments in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern WomanCigdem TaluChapter 8 – Utopian spaces, public places: considering the perils and pleasures of crossing domestic thresholds in The Woman’s Side and The More I See of MenDr. Louise McDonaldPart 4 – Women Writing New Interpretations of SpaceChapter 9 – ‘Solitude in any wide scene impressed her with an undefined feeling of immeasurable existence aloof from her’ (George Eliot, Daniel Deronda): Lyric Space in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing.Professor Josie BillingtonChapter 10 – R. A. Kartini and the Many Faces of Colonial Female Subject: Domestic Cosmopolitanism in Colonial IndonesiaDr. Silvia Mayasari-HoffertChapter 11 – Spatial and Sensory Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928)Annie StrausaConclusion – Dr. Katie Baker and Dr. Naomi Walker
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Introduction to Victorian Canadian Literature
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Taylor & Francis Reading Oscar Wilde
Book SynopsisReading Oscar Wilde is a comprehensive interpretive guide designed for students and readers who come to Wildeâs writings for the first time, delivering a fuller understanding of the works and the background from which the canon has emerged. This ready-at-hand compendium details the scholarly perspectives of Wildeâs vast literary output. Meticulously arranged, this accessible volume includes freestanding discussions of individual works, including clarification of Wildeâs pioneering contextual examinations and his innovative and influential stylistic achievements. Readers will find a solid foundation for understanding his works and will benefit from new insights into the impact of his writing on subsequent authors. Additionally, the surveys of the interpretive approaches offered by contemporary literary theories will highlight for readers a range of research possibilities. This book also includes lists of selected websites and artistic adaptations of Wildeâs works, a chronology
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Taylor & Francis The Global Distribution of Popular Narrative in
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin
Book SynopsisIn this introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin, Ken Hirschkop presents a compact, readable, detailed, and sophisticated exposition of all of Bakhtin''s important works. Using the most up-to-date sources and the new, scholarly editions of Bakhtin''s texts, Hirschkop explains Bakhtin''s influential ideas, demonstrates their relevance and usefulness for literary and cultural analysis, and sets them in their historical context. In clear and concise language, Hirschkop shows how Bakhtin''s ideas have changed the way we understand language and literary texts. Authoritative and accessible, this Cambridge Introduction is the most comprehensive and reliable account of Bakhtin and his work yet available.Trade Review'Hirschkop's volume follows the spirit of its subject: providing its readers with an overview of Bakhtin's life, context, and thought, it feeds our desire to turn to Bakhtin himself and propels it into the future.' Alexander Spektor, Slavic ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Life; 3. Context; 4. Works; 5. Reception; 6. A Brief Conclusion; Further Reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Canadian Fiction
Book SynopsisA History of Canadian Fiction is the first one-volume history to chart its development from earliest times to the present day. Recounting the struggles and the glories of this burgeoning area of investigation, it explains Canada''s literary growth alongside its remarkable history. Highlighting the people who have shaped and are shaping Canadian literary culture, the book examines such major figures as Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and Thomas King, concluding with young authors of today whose major successes reflect their indebtedness to their Canadian forbearers.Trade Review'Reading this book is every bit as enjoyable as reading one of the hundreds of novels which Staines cites in this first comprehensive history of Canadian fiction in English from its beginnings to the present day. Atwood, Munro, and Ondaatje are global literary celebrities, but nothing comes out of the blue, and Staines provides an indispensable historical and cultural frame for understanding their significance in the evolution of the exceptionally diverse Canadian literary tradition. This book transforms our thinking about Canadian fiction.' Coral Ann Howells, University of London'In this first sustained history of anglophone fiction in Canada, distinguished scholar David Staines follows the careers of scores of writers – among them Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Leacock, Alistair MacLeod, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Thomas King, Yann Martel, and Madeleine Thien, all celebrated around the world. Staines further demonstrates the relevance of place and community to what they have written, and he deftly chronicles the important roles of teachers, editors, letter-writers, and agents in helping to shape this historical record. Spanning more than two hundred years, this book celebrates the emergence of a narrative tradition that voices the culture of Canada itself, that of a 'nation beyond nationalism' in the 21st century.' W. H. New, University of British Columbia'These days Canadians take for granted our world-class literature. Alice Munro wins a Nobel, Margaret Atwood another Booker, and a stunning young talent like Esi Edugyan emerges out of nowhere with a pair of international hits. Ho hum. But it wasn't always this good. For most of our history, writers in Canada identified more with English and American literary traditions than anything in their own land, not least because they could only get published in London or New York. It took a strange amalgam of individual talent, collective will, commercial enterprise, and public support to make CanLit happen, and David Staines has the whole story. Quite simply, this book is a masterpiece, an epic account of the long struggle and spectacular rise of one of the world's great literatures, and it is sure to be the definitive account for generations to come.' Kenneth Whyte, Author of The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst and Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times'.'… Staines's work is a masterpiece … gives a splendid, very dense and admirably knowledgeable survey of fiction writing in anglophone Canada from colonial times to the present … It belongs in (academic) libraries and should be made available for students of Canada and her literature.' Wolfgang, Klooß, Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien'Staines's enthusiasm is supported by his vast reading, making this book the most comprehensive on the subject … Highly recommended.' T. Ware, Choice Connect'… this volume should be read by anyone with an interest in not only Canadian literature, but Canadian history, as many of the stories our greatest authors are stories of our land and its people at a particular time.' Paul Tuns, The InterimTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The beginnings; 2. From romance towards realism; 3. Emerging into realism; 4. The foundational fifties; 5. The second feminist wave; 6. The flourishing of the wests; 7. The second century; 8. Indigenous voices; 9. Naturalized Canadian writers; 10. The twenty-first century; Afterword; Endnotes; Acknowledgements.
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Cambridge University Press Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature
Book SynopsisHow did the emigration of nineteenth-century Britons to colonies of settlement shape Victorian literature? Philip Steer uncovers productive networks of writers and texts spanning Britain, Australia, and New Zealand to argue that the novel and political economy found common colonial ground over questions of British identity. Each chapter highlights the conceptual challenges to the nature of ''Britishness'' posed by colonial events, from the gold rushes to invasion scares, and traces the literary aftershocks in familiar genres such as the bildungsroman and the utopia. Alongside lesser-known colonial writers such as Catherine Spence and Julius Vogel, British novelists from Dickens to Trollope are also put in a new light by this fresh approach that places Victorian studies in a colonial perspective. Bringing together literary formalism and British World history, Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature describes how what it meant to be ''British'' was re-imagined in an increasingly globTrade Review'This book consistently inspires deep thinking, offering new perspectives on materials our field would benefit from knowing better. The methodological innovations are an especially significant contribution that I trust will provoke future work.' Jason Rudy, Victorian Studies'... Steer demonstrates in this book a tough-minded, materialist analysis of form that draws its evidence from works of political economy as well as literature. The result is a deeply compelling argument that charts the 'reverse migration' (187) of economic and cultural forms from the settler colonies to metropolitan markets, both financial and literary ... Perhaps most compelling in larger conceptual terms, however, are his ruptures of the settled borders that govern many assumptions about our objects of study: borders of identity and character, of nation and empire, and especially of form and literature.' Lynn Voskuil, Nineteenth-Century Contexts'One of the real pleasures of Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature is its attentiveness to landscape and the complicated aesthetic relationship that many migrants experienced with their new environments … Folding historians, artists and political economists into his incisive discussion to create a vivid sense of the cultural landscape and how it inflected the generic properties of both colonial literature and the English novel ... Steer adeptly weaves sociological, literary and economic theory throughout his analysis, tracking the entanglement of intellectual, literary and commodity culture to offer a rich and nuanced account of circulating influence, via a “network of mobile writers”. Importantly, he reminds his readers in his sensitive and self-reflexive conclusion that the issues he raises cannot simply be consigned to the field of Victorian studies. Rather, they leave legacies which continue to shape life in Australia and New Zealand today, and with which we must all engage. This is a superbly intelligent and wonderfully researched book, showcasing the intricacy of colonial connectedness.' Grace Moore, Journal of New Zealand Studies'Steer's book is deeply researched and densely argued, but very readable.' Dominic Rainsford, Dickens QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction: settler colonialism and metropolitan culture; 1. The transportable pip: liberal character, territory, and the settled subject; 2. Gold and greater Britain: the Australian gold rushes, unsettled desire, and the Global British subject; 3. Speculative utopianism: colonial progress, debt, and Greater Britain; 4. Manning the imperial outpost: the invasion novel, geopolitics, and the borders of Britishness; Conclusion.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Hazlitt the Dissenter Religion Philosophy and
Book SynopsisHazlitt the Dissenter is unique in providing the first book-length account of Hazlitt's early life as a dissenter. As the first multi-disciplinary account of Hazlitt's early literary career, it provides a new insight into the literary, intellectual, political and religious culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.Trade Review“While drawing on the recent rich body of writing about Hazlitt, Burley differentiates his own approach from accounts that have emphasized Hazlitt’s role in the creation of English Romanticism and a recognisably modern form of criticism. ... This is an important contribution to Hazlitt studies, written with great clarity and founded on rigorous scholarship.” (James Grande, The BARS Review, Issue 47, Spring, 2016)“Stephen Burley’s insightful and sensitive book covers what is perhaps the happiest, but least critically explored, part of William Hazlitt’s life. … This inspiring book is a wonderful addition to critical studies of the period and must help generate more research into Hazlitt’s early works and into the history of British Dissent.” (John Gardner, Notes and Queries, Vol. 63 (2), June, 2016)“Stephen Burley’s slender but impressive volume makes a valuable addition to the recent growth of academic interest in the life and work of William Hazlitt. … Dr Burley’s book will be of considerable interest to historians of this period.” (G. M. Ditchfield, History Reviews, April, 2016)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. William Hazlitt (1737-1820) and the Unitarian Controversy 2. 'A Slaughter-House of Christianity': New College Hackney (1786-96) 3. 'A New System of Metaphysics' 4. Retrospective Radicalism: Pitt, Patriotism, and Population Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Frankenstein Notebooks
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Frankenstein Notebooks
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Spectrum of Decadence Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Madame Bovary Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dickens and the Grotesque Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Critical Reception of Charles Dickens 18331841 Routledge Revivals
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC An AZ of Jane Austen
Book SynopsisJane Austen''s richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer''s way with words. Using a lively A-Z structure, Greaney provides fresh angles on familiar Austen themes (D is for dance; M is for matchmaking), casts light on under-examined corners of her imagination (R is for risk; S is for servant), and shows how current social and cultural concerns are re-shaping our understanding of her work (Q is for queer; W is for West Indies). Through this approach, we learn how attention to the tiniest linguistic detail in Austen''s work can yield rewarding new perspectives on the achievements of one of our most celebrated authors.Sharply focused on textual detail but broad in scope it broaches questions that, like Austen''s work, will intrigue, delight and inspire: Why are children so marginal in her storylinTrade ReviewThe 26 pint-sized essays comprising A Jane Austen A-Z are stuffed full of insights. Each is a masterpiece in miniature. Learned yet playful, Michael Greaney teaches readers new things about the forms and preoccupations of Austen’s fiction. * Deidre Lynch, Professor of Literature, Harvard University, USA *A unique guide to the life and career of a much-loved author. … It sheds new light on key images, ideas, objects, people and places in Jane Austen’s writings. … This neatly organised book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer’s way with words. * Lancashire Life *Michael Greaney’s Jane Austen A to Z is a perfectly judicious and highly entertaining atlas of the great novelist’s life and writings. Each short chapter is an informative delight, from A for Accident to Z for Zig-Zag, in a book cleverly written both for those in want of an engaging first primer, as well as those who already know Austen down to a T. * Devoney Looser, Regents Professor of English and Global Sport Scholar, Arizona State University, USA *Table of ContentsTexts and abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction A is for Accident B is for Bath C is for Children D is for Dance E is for Eye F is for Friend G is for Gift H is for Horse I is for Ill J is for Jane K is for Kindness L is for Letter M is for Matchmaking N is for No O is for Obstacle P is for Poor Q is for Queer R is for Risk S is for Servant T is for Theatre U is for Unexpected V is for Visit W is for West Indies X is for Xis Y is for Young Z is for Zigzag Works cited
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Philosophy of Mario Perniola
Book SynopsisEnea Bianchi provides the first in-depth introduction to the pioneering thought of 20th-century Italian philosopher, Mario Perniola. Examining Perniola's entire oeuvre, this book also pushes his philosophy into new directions by investigating the connection between his aesthetics and the philosophical underpinnings of dandyism. Rich in influences, from ancient Stoicism to Roman ritualism, Baroque literature and avant-garde revolutionary movements, Perniola's philosophy is wide-ranging. This book highlights and explores numerous notions pivotal to understanding Perniola's thought, including: the sex appeal of the inorganic, the enigma, strategic beauty and the artistic shadow. Combining these concepts with three exemplar dandies George Brummell, Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde Bianchi demonstrates not only the close relationship between their principles and Perniola's aesthetics, but their shared, and timely, opposition to the status quo. A dandy philosophy emerges, which chaTrade ReviewThe Philosophy of Mario Perniola is a long overdue, conceptually rich and insightful introduction into the protean work of Mario Perniola, one of the most significant and distinctive voices in contemporary Italian philosophical and aesthetic thought. * Erik Vogt, Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College, USA *Work on Mario Perniola is especially timely and this book does a lot more than merely fill a gap. This is a monograph with a difference as novel comparisons with phenomena not directly related to Perniola’s canon of reference drive multiple transversal resonances with Continental Philosophy, Cultural Studies, New Materialism and Ecocriticism. A deeply fascinating book. * Federica G. Pedriali, Professor of Literary, Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations of Perniola’s Works Introduction Part 1 1. The Suicide of Literature 2. To Love or Smash Images? The Dimension of the Simulacrum 3. Action at the End of Action: Rituals without Myths 4. George Bryan Brummell: The Ritual Clothing Part 2 5. What Is It Like to Be a Thing? 6. A Queering Agency: Perniola’s The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic 7. Beauty is Like a Blade: Towards a Strategic Theory of Aesthetics 8. Charles Baudelaire: Greatness without Convictions Part 3 9. The Artistic Alienation and the Situationist International 10. A Shadow and Its Art 11. Oscar Wilde: the In-Between Dandy Conclusion Notes References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards
Book SynopsisIn Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her best-selling fiction and by the wider public for her witty, thought-provoking travel writing. In later life, she became a celebrated historian, bringing fresh understanding of the world of Ancient Egypt to a fascinated public and founding the Egyptian Exploration Fund (Society). This new biography uses previously overlooked sources to tell the story of her fascinating and unconventional life - her travels, travails and feminist activism - as well as touching on her occasionally problematic views on race. In appreciation of a figure ahead of her time, it examines her involvement in suffrage and animal rights societies as well as revealing new insights into Edwards' loving same-sex relationships with Ellen Rice Byrne and Lucy Renshaw. In doing so, it reveals a versatile, creative, witty, independent woman, and a true pioneer of her time.Trade ReviewMargaret C. Jones is a writer of feminist biographies, and her enthusiastic engagement with her remarkable subject shines through every page ... Jones is entirely successful in revivifying the “complex, enigmatic, multitalented woman” that was Amelia Edwards. * Victorian Popular Fictions Journal *Margaret Jones has admirably brought together the remarkable and varied threads of Amelia B Edwards’ life in this greatly updated and carefully researched biography, a must-read for anyone interested in in this novelist, travel writer, and pioneer of British Egyptology! * Carl Graves, Director of the Egypt Exploration Society *‘A beautifully written, well-researched, and an important recuperation of the fascinating life and work of the well-known Victorian explorer, novelist, and trailblazing queer writer, Amelia B. Edwards. You must get this book if you want to learn more about women’s writing and travel.’ * Mona Narain, Texas Christian University, USA. *Table of ContentsChapter 1. Young Amelia Chapter 2. Love – and The Dolomites Chapter 3. The Nile Chapter 4. Inventing Egypt Chapter 5. Founding the Fund Chapter 6. A Very Private Life Chapter 7. Novelist Chapter 8. America Chapter 9. A Quiet Activist Chapter 10. Reputation Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Gullivers Afterlives
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Bloomsbury Academic The American Sentence
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Edinburgh University Press Philanthropy in Childrens Periodicals 18401930
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Edinburgh University Press Queer Books of Late Victorian Print Culture
Book SynopsisBrings together queer theory and textual studies to revise our understanding of nineteenth-century print culture
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Rise of the Detective in Early NineteenthCentury Popular Fiction Crime Files
Book SynopsisDetection existed in fiction long before Poe and Doyle. In this revealing book, Heather Worthington combines scholarly and archival study with theoretically informed analysis to unearth the foundations of detective fiction.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: CRIMINAL NARRATIVES: TEXTUALISING CRIME Commodified Crime: Murder for the Masses Murderous Illegalities: Legalised Murder Murder for the Literary Classes Connoisseur of Crime: De Quincey's Defence of the 'Murd'rous Art' Sensational Literature and Literal Sensation: Blackwood's Tales of Terror PART TWO: MAKING THE CASE FOR THE PROFESSIONALS Literary Professional: Professional Literature Preventive Medicine: 'Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician' Legal Treatments: Evidence of Necessity Legal Treatments: Proving the Case Agent of the Law: A Gent of the Law Accessory after the Fact PART THREE: A CONSPICUOUS CONSTABULARY: OR, WHY POLICEMEN WEAR TALL HELMETS Police in Literature: Literary Police Transitional Text, Textual Transition: From Delinquency to Detection A Life, Partly Regular, Partly Adventurous The New Police: Perception and Reception Preventive Police or Personal Threat? An Orderly Body of Men A Common Sight: A Site of Commonality The Discipline of Ideology The Profession of Policing A Rich Inheritance Dickens's Detective Police Conclusion: A Rich Inheritance Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Spring Awakening
Book SynopsisA Student Edition of Wedekind''s classic 1891 expressionist play about adolescent sexuality.Wedekind''s notorious play Spring Awakening influenced a whole trend of modern drama and remains relevant to today''s society, exploring the oppression and rebellion of adolescents among draconian parents and morals. This seminal work looks at the conflict between repressive adulthood and teenage sexual longings in a provincial German town.Highly controversial and with themes of sexuality, social attitudes and adolescence, the play is a popular and provocative text for study, especially at undergraduate level.This translation by Edward Bond first brought the play to English audiences when it premiered at the National Theatre in 1974. Receiving high praise (''scrupulously faithful both to Wedekind''s irony and his poetry.'' The Times), this version is now considered to be the definitive English translation.This Student Edition features expert and helpful annotation, including a scen
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Amberley Publishing Oscars Ghost
Book SynopsisThe dramatic story of the legal and emotional battle that raged between two of Oscar Wilde's closest friends â both former lovers â following the playwright's deathTrade Review‘A fascinating account’ -- COLM TÓIBÍN
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Edinburgh University Press Migrating Texts
Book SynopsisProvides nine detailed case studies of translation between and among European and Middle-Eastern languages and between genres.
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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and
Book SynopsisRe-examines Charles Dickens's under-recognised importance to nineteenth-century and contemporary understandings of the arts
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Edinburgh University Press Remapping Persian Literary History 17001900
Book SynopsisIntegrating forgotten tales of literary communities across Iran, Afghanistan and South Asia at a time when Islamic empires were fracturing and new state formations were emerging this book offers a more global understanding of Persian literary culture in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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New York University Press The Sonic Color Line
Book SynopsisThe unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see difference. At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American ideologies of white supremacy are just as dependent on what we hearvoices, musical taste, volumeas they are on skin color or hair texture. Reinforcing compelling new ideas about the relationship between race and sound with meticulous historical research, Jennifer Lynn Stoever helps us to better understand how sound and listening not only register the racial politics of our world, but actively produce them. Through analysis of the historical traces of sounds of African American performers, Stoever reveals a host of racialized aural representations operating at the level of the unseenthe sonic color lineand exposes the racialized listening practices she figures as the listening ear. UsiTrade ReviewThe Sonic Color Linewill open up new vistas for thinking about sound, race, and identity, and for understanding how racism is enforced through both sounding and listening. Painstakingly researched and written with verve, Stoevers book will shape the way scholars of American and African American culture and history think about sound, even when our primary texts, like photographs and literary works, are seemingly silent. -- Gayle Wald,author of It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power TelevisionA gripping read and a rousing call to political attunement by way of sound, The Sonic Color Line investigates scenes of racialized audition from Civil War times to the Civil Rights era. This theoretically rich and passionately argued book made me wiser about the social relations that define sound, the resonant events that suggest how the ear is disciplined, the racial politics of listening that extend into every corner of the republic. -- Eric Lott,City University of New York Graduate CenterThat the critical intertexts for this book are not only scholarly works but also the Black Lives Matter movement and the many other political movements dedicated to racial justice is a key element in its timeliness and appeal. Engaged scholarship dedicated to an ethics of equality, community, and demystification is a powerful necessity in these times of increasing uncertainty about what 'America' is and how it came to be. -- John Melillo * American Literary History Online *
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Manchester University Press William Blake's Gothic Imagination: Bodies of
Book SynopsisScholars of the Gothic have long recognised Blake’s affinity with the genre. Yet, to date, no major scholarly study focused on Blake’s intersection with the Gothic exists. William Blake’s gothic imagination seeks to redress this disconnect. The papers here do not simply identify Blake’s Gothic conventions but, thanks to recent scholarship on affect, psychology, and embodiment in Gothic studies, reach deeper into the tissue of anxieties that take confused form through this notoriously nebulous historical, aesthetic, and narrative mode. The collection opens with papers touching on literary form, history, lineation, and narrative in Blake’s work, establishing contact with major topics in Gothic studies. Then refines its focus to Blake’s bloody, nervous bodies, through which he explores various kinds of Gothic horror related to reproduction, anatomy, sexuality, affect, and materiality. Rather than transcendent images, this collection attends to Blake’s ‘dark visions of torment’.Trade Review‘These essays investigate how Blake’s major texts—e.g., Jerusalem, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The [First] Book of Urizen, and Visions of the Daughters of Albion—arose in conjunction with the Gothic novel in English literature. Addressing a little-recognized facet of Blake studies, the collection examines Blake’s works from aesthetic, architectural, and political Gothic perspectives. A lucid and accessible introduction precedes the essays, which will stretch nonspecialist readers. Several essays focus on Blake’s visual content: David Baulch’s entry reads Gothic iconography in the illustrations of Blake’s Jerusalem, and Jason Whittaker analyzes Blakean references in films by Ridley Scott, with an emphasis on Prometheus. Peter Otto finds the political and social upheavals of Gothic novels to be similarly contained in Blake’s monstrous present with horrified reactions to the alien bodies in The Book of Urizen. Other essays address philosophical readings of Blake’s Deleuzian multiplicity and his counter-Kantian sublime with sophisticated subtlety. This collection is not for the fainthearted, but neither is Blake. Psychological, mythological, and sociological, this collection will draw the reader into the many layers of Blake’s verbal and visual media.’C. L. Bandish, Bluffton University‘William Blake’s Gothic Imagination is more than it promises to be – a ‘major scholarly study focused on Blake’s intersections with the Gothic’ – it is a landmark in Blake scholarship. While many of us may be familiar with Blake’s popular reception, reading Blake’s art through the lens of the Gothic is a relatively new and rewarding critical undertaking.’ Sibylle Erle Bishop Grosseteste University, British Association of Romantic Studies‘An ambitious and expansive volume, Bundock and Effinger have opened a new field of enquiry relevant to Blake studies, gothic scholarship, and the broader field of aesthetic theory, particularly as it relates to political power and sexuality. It is to be hoped that their call for further scholarship into the intersection of Blakean verse and gothic horror will not go unanswered.’Eighteenth-Century Fiction'Such uncanny moments of uncomfortable intimacy occur throughout Bundock and Effinger’s collection and point to a fascinating, if sometimes unconscious, self-reflexivity that is not often found in many historicist analyses of Blake’s work.’European Romantic Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction – Chris Bundock and Elizabeth Effinger Part I: The bounding line of Blake’s Gothic: forms, genres, and contexts1. ‘Living Form’: William Blake’s Gothic relations – David Baulch2. The horror of Rahab: towards an aesthetic context for William Blake’s ‘Gothic’ form – Kiel Shaub3. The Gothic sublime – Claire ColebrookPart II: The misbegotten 4. Dark angels: Blake, Milton, and Lovecraft in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus – Jason Whittaker5. William Blake’s monstrous progeny: anatomy and the birth of horror in The [First] Book of Urizen – Lucy Cogan6. Blake’s Gothic humour: the spectacle of dissection – Stephanie CodsiPart III: Female space and the image7. The horrors of creation: globes, englobing powers, and Blake’s archaeologies of the present – Peter Otto8. Female spaces and the Gothic imagination in The Book of Thel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion – Ana Elena González-TreviñoPart IV: Sex, desire, perversion 9. The horrors of subjectivity/the jouissance of immanence – Mark Lussier10. ‘Terrible Thunders’ and ‘Enormous Joys’: potency and degeneracy in Blake's Visions and James Graham's celestial bed – Tristanne ConnollyBibliography Index
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Manchester University Press Marie Duval: Maverick Victorian Cartoonist
Book SynopsisMarie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Émilie de Tessier, 1847–1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century.It discusses key themes and practices of Duval’s vision and production, relative to the wider historic social, cultural and economic environments in which her work was made, distributed and read, identifing Duval as an exemplary radical practitioner.The book interrogates the relationships between the practices and the forms of print, story-telling, drawing and stage performance.It focuses on the creation of new types of cultural work by women and highlights the style of Duval’s drawings relative to both the visual conventions of theatre production and the significance of the visualisation of amateurism and vulgarity.Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist establishes Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.Trade Review'The multiple authors work together to recover and document Duval’s complex creative life... Together they bring more to their subject than the traditional English literature, art history, and history disciplines that inform most scholarly work on periodicals.'Victorian Periodicals Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction - Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin, Julian WaitePart I: Work1 Finding a voice at Judy - Roger Sabin2 Marie Duval and the woman employee - Simon Grennan3 Marie Duval’s theatre career and its impact on her drawings - Julian Waite4 The children’s book author: Queens & Kings and Other Things - Roger Sabin5 Marie Duval and the technologies of periodical publishing - Simon GrennanPart II: Depicting and performing6 The significance of Marie Duval’s drawing style - Simon Grennan7 The relationship between performance and drawing: suggestive synaesthesia in Marie Duval’s work - Julian Waite8 The role of spectacle in Marie Duval’s work - Julian Waite9 A women’s cartoonist? - Roger SabinAppendix 1 Questions of attribution Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin, Julian WaiteAppendix 2 Questions of terminology and historicisation Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin, Julian WaiteBibliographyIndex
£72.25
Manchester University Press Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth: A Curious
Book SynopsisCharles Dickens called his sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth his ‘best and truest friend’. Georgina saw Dickens as much more than a friend. They lived together for twenty-eight years, during which time their relationship constantly changed. The sister of his wife Catherine, the sharp and witty Georgina moved into the Dickens home aged fifteen. What began as a father–daughter relationship blossomed into a genuine rapport, but their easy relations were fractured when Dickens had a mid-life crisis and determined to rid himself of Catherine. Georgina’s refusal to leave Dickens and his desire for her to remain in his household led to rumours of an affair and even illegitimate children. He left her the equivalent of almost £1 million and all his personal papers in his will. Georgina’s commitment to Dickens was unwavering but it is far from clear what he did to deserve such loyalty. There were several occasions when he misused her in order to protect his public reputation.Why did Georgina betray her once much-loved sister? Why did she fall out with her family and risk her reputation in order to stay with Dickens? And why did the Dickenses’ daughter Katey say it was ‘the greatest mistake ever’ to invite a sister-in-law to live with a family?Trade Review'Essential for anyone interested in Charles Dickens’s personal life. Christine Skelton’s thoroughly researched and brilliantly written book fills in a missing piece of the jigsaw. It makes for enthralling reading.' Jenny Hartley, author of Charles Dickens and the house of fallen women and Charles Dickens: A very short introduction'Georgina Hogarth has been given a voice at last! Christine Skelton has done an admirable job of bringing ‘aunty Georgy” out of the shadow of her celebrity brother-in-law. This is an engaging biography that takes the reader into the heart of one of Victorian Britain’s most famous homes.' Lucinda Hawksley, author, biographer, and great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens'A major, and much-needed, contribution to our knowledge and understanding of both the private and the professional life of our greatest novelist.' Professor Michael Slater, author of The Great Charles Dickens Scandal and Dickens and Women -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Hogarths and Dickens become in-laws 2 Friends and flirting (1836–42)3 Dickens and his ‘little Pet’ (1842–7)4 A ‘lively young damsel’ (1848–51)5 Dickens’s mid-life crisis (1852–7) 6 Loyalty and disloyalty (1857–8)7 ‘Poor Miss Hogarth’ (1858–63)8 ‘His own decision will be the best’ (1864–70)9 ‘A hard, hard trial’ (1870–1917) 10 AftermathIndex
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Manchester University Press William Blake's Gothic Imagination: Bodies of
Book SynopsisScholars of the Gothic have long recognised Blake’s affinity with the genre. Yet, to date, no major scholarly study focused on Blake’s intersection with the Gothic exists. William Blake’s gothic imagination seeks to redress this disconnect. The papers here do not simply identify Blake’s Gothic conventions but, thanks to recent scholarship on affect, psychology, and embodiment in Gothic studies, reach deeper into the tissue of anxieties that take confused form through this notoriously nebulous historical, aesthetic, and narrative mode. The collection opens with papers touching on literary form, history, lineation, and narrative in Blake’s work, establishing contact with major topics in Gothic studies. Then refines its focus to Blake’s bloody, nervous bodies, through which he explores various kinds of Gothic horror related to reproduction, anatomy, sexuality, affect, and materiality. Rather than transcendent images, this collection attends to Blake’s ‘dark visions of torment’.Trade Review‘These essays investigate how Blake’s major texts—e.g., Jerusalem, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The [First] Book of Urizen, and Visions of the Daughters of Albion—arose in conjunction with the Gothic novel in English literature. Addressing a little-recognized facet of Blake studies, the collection examines Blake’s works from aesthetic, architectural, and political Gothic perspectives. A lucid and accessible introduction precedes the essays, which will stretch nonspecialist readers. Several essays focus on Blake’s visual content: David Baulch’s entry reads Gothic iconography in the illustrations of Blake’s Jerusalem, and Jason Whittaker analyzes Blakean references in films by Ridley Scott, with an emphasis on Prometheus. Peter Otto finds the political and social upheavals of Gothic novels to be similarly contained in Blake’s monstrous present with horrified reactions to the alien bodies in The Book of Urizen. Other essays address philosophical readings of Blake’s Deleuzian multiplicity and his counter-Kantian sublime with sophisticated subtlety. This collection is not for the fainthearted, but neither is Blake. Psychological, mythological, and sociological, this collection will draw the reader into the many layers of Blake’s verbal and visual media.’C. L. Bandish, Bluffton University‘William Blake’s Gothic Imagination is more than it promises to be – a ‘major scholarly study focused on Blake’s intersections with the Gothic’ – it is a landmark in Blake scholarship. While many of us may be familiar with Blake’s popular reception, reading Blake’s art through the lens of the Gothic is a relatively new and rewarding critical undertaking.’ Sibylle Erle Bishop Grosseteste University, British Association of Romantic Studies‘An ambitious and expansive volume, Bundock and Effinger have opened a new field of enquiry relevant to Blake studies, gothic scholarship, and the broader field of aesthetic theory, particularly as it relates to political power and sexuality. It is to be hoped that their call for further scholarship into the intersection of Blakean verse and gothic horror will not go unanswered.’Eighteenth-Century Fiction'Such uncanny moments of uncomfortable intimacy occur throughout Bundock and Effinger’s collection and point to a fascinating, if sometimes unconscious, self-reflexivity that is not often found in many historicist analyses of Blake’s work.’European Romantic Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction – Chris Bundock and Elizabeth Effinger Part I: The bounding line of Blake’s Gothic: forms, genres, and contexts1. ‘Living Form’: William Blake’s Gothic relations – David Baulch2. The horror of Rahab: towards an aesthetic context for William Blake’s ‘Gothic’ form – Kiel Shaub3. The Gothic sublime – Claire ColebrookPart II: The misbegotten 4. Dark angels: Blake, Milton, and Lovecraft in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus – Jason Whittaker5. William Blake’s monstrous progeny: anatomy and the birth of horror in The [First] Book of Urizen – Lucy Cogan6. Blake’s Gothic humour: the spectacle of dissection – Stephanie CodsiPart III: Female space and the image7. The horrors of creation: globes, englobing powers, and Blake’s archaeologies of the present – Peter Otto8. Female spaces and the Gothic imagination in The Book of Thel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion – Ana Elena González-TreviñoPart IV: Sex, desire, perversion 9. The horrors of subjectivity/the jouissance of immanence – Mark Lussier10. ‘Terrible Thunders’ and ‘Enormous Joys’: potency and degeneracy in Blake's Visions and James Graham's celestial bed – Tristanne ConnollyBibliography Index
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Manchester University Press Spectral Dickens: The Uncanny Forms of Novelistic
Book SynopsisDrawing on the recent ontological turn in critical theory, Spectral Dickens explores an aspect of literary character that is neither real nor fictional, but spectral. This work thus provides an in-depth study of the inimitable characters populating Dickens’ illustrated novels using three hauntological concepts: the Freudian uncanny, Derridean spectrality, and the Lacanian real. Thus, while the current discourse on character studies, which revolves around values like realism, depth, and lifelikeness, tends to see characters as mimetic of persons, this book invents new critical concepts to account for non-mimetic forms of characterization. These spectral forms bring to light the important influence of developments in nineteenth-century visual culture, such as the lithography and caricature of Daumier and J.J. Grandville. The spectrality of novelistic characters developed here paves the way for a new understanding of fictional characters in general.Trade Review'Drawing on graphic traditions of the era, the author describes how Dickens developed objects like dolls and effigies to reinforce meanings beyond the literal. Bove is interested in visual and narrative techniques that move beyond the limits of mimesis.'CHOICE(Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association.)Spectral Dickens will be of immense interest to those seeking to understand Dickens's enduring appeal for readers and critics alike, especially those with an interest in psychoanalysis and the literary critical paradigms it can enable.' The Dickensian'Bove has produced both a work that expands the ways we think about character, and a sustained demonstration of the continuing value of Lacanian thought for literary analysis.'BAVS newsletterThis is an exciting read for those of us long troubled by the old adage that Dickens is a “failed realist” who does not create convincing characters... a creative and original set of readings of how Dickens’s charactersare so powerful.'Dickens Quarterly -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: An uncanny ontology of characterisationPart I Spectral mimesis: portraits, caricature, and character1 Mimesis’s ghosts: caricature and anamorphosis2 Spectral character: dreams, distortion, and the (cut of the) realPart II “Moor eeffocish things”: effigy and the bourgeoisie3 Where “the specular becomes the spectral” in The Old Curiosity Shop and Dombey and Son4 Imagos, dolls, and other gazing effigies in Bleak HousePart III Beyond the realism principle: spectral materiality5 Dream as spectral form in Bleak House and the comic surplus of Micawber in David Copperfield6 The “As if” hauntology of Little Dorrit and the uncanny dream of the three fathersBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Dante Beyond Influence
Book SynopsisUnearthing previously unseen manuscript and print evidence, the book redefines the notion of Dante's reception by conducting the first material and book-historical inquiry into the formation and popularisation of the the critical and scholarly discourse on Dante in Victorian culture. -- .
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Modern Language Association of America Approaches to Teaching Dostoevsky's Crime and
Book SynopsisRecounting the murder of an elderly woman by a student expelled from university, Crime and Punishment is a psychological and political novel that portrays the strains on Russian society in the middle of the nineteenth century. Its protagonist, Raskolnikov, moves in a world of dire poverty, disillusionment, radicalism, and nihilism interwoven with religious faith and utopianism. In Dostoevsky's innovative style, which he called fantastic realism, the narrator frequently reports from within the protagonist's mind. The depiction of the desperate lives of tradespeople, students, alcoholics, prostitutes, and criminals gives readers insight into the urban society of St. Petersburg at the time.The first part of this book offers instructors guidance on Russian editions and English translations, a map of St. Petersburg showing locations mentioned in the novel, a list of characters and an explanation of the Russian naming system, analysis of key scenes, and selected critical works on the novel. In the second part, essays address many of Dostoevsky's themes and consider the role of ethics, gender, money, Orthodox Christianity, and social justice in the narrative. The volume concludes with essays on digital media and film adaptations.
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