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University of Queensland Press Bibliography of Australian Literature The PZ 4
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British Library Publishing Holmes Watson
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Art of Alibi
Book SynopsisThe author reconstructs the relation of the novel to 19th-century law courts. He argues that the courts, newly fashioned as a site in which to orchestrate voices and reconstruct stories, arose as a cultural presence influencing the shape of the English novel.Trade ReviewAmong those texts that attend both to historical environment and formal or generic pressures, Jonathan H. Grossman's The Art of Alibi stands out. -- Andrew H. Miller Studies in English Literature 2003 [An] absorbing study of the cultural influence of the law courts on the Victorian novel... Grossman's refusal to simply draw an analogy between trials and novels distinguishes his argument from others working in the crossover territory between legal studies and literary criticism. -- David McAllister Times Literary Supplement 2003 Grossman's innovative study is a provocative reconsideration of the early nineteenth-century novel and should stimulate further exploration of the generative intersection of law and literature. -- Gareth Cordery Dickens Quarterly 2004Table of ContentsContents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction ONE: From Scaffold to Law Court, from Criminal Broadsheet and Biography to Newspaper Novel TWO: Caleb Williams and the Novel's Forensic Form THREE: Mary Shelley's Legal Frankenstein FOUR: Victorian Courthouse Structures FIVE: Mary Barton's Telltale Evidence SIX: The Newgate Novel and Advent of Detective Fiction Conclusion Notes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Imagining Inclusive Society in NineteenthCentury
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide range of literary, cultural, and historical thinkers-Jurgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, Benedict Anderson, Mary Poovey, and Charles Tilly-Morris makes an original and highly sophisticated contribution to our understanding of the complex and always contested processes of imagining social inclusiveness.Trade ReviewA must read for Victorianists interested in politics, the novel, and cultural studies in general. Choice 2005 Morris's forays into imagining cultural and literary constructions of inclusive society in Victorian England are both informed and informative. Dickens Quarterly 2005 A well-researched study. -- Gerardo Del Guercio Cercles 2005 Morris tells with rigor and intelligence an important story. -- Ivan Kreilkamp Modern Philology 2006Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPart I: Introduction Chapter 1. Imagining Inclusive Society, 1846–1867: Theoretical Perspectives Chapter 2. Producing Inclusive Society, 1846–1867: Empirical Histories Part II: Inclusive Leadership: Heroes of DomesticityChapter 3. Shirley: Charisma or Sincerity?Chapter 4. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: The Hero as Sincere ManPart III: The Constitution of the PublicChapter 5. Bleak House: Interested Knowledge and Imaginary PowerChapter 6. North and South: From Public Sphere to Manipulative PublicityPart IV: Embodying Mass CultureChapter 7. Romola: The Politics of DisinterestednessChapter 8. Our Mutual Friend: Visualizing DistinctionConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Neural Sublime Cognitive Theories and
Book SynopsisThe Neural Sublime features an array of cognitive and neuroscientific approaches, providing an engaging and readable introduction to the emergent field of cognitive literary studies.Trade ReviewThis exemplary book may prove one of the most influential books on Romantic literature for decades to come... Essential. Choice 2011 A work of considerable variety and ambition, engagingly written, refreshingly undogmatic in its methods and generous in acknowledging related work in the field, The Neural Sublime will be essential reading for those interested in romanticism's relationship with the human sciences; it is also highly recommended for anyone in the field of romantic studies partial to interdisciplinary conversations. -- Tim Milnes Review of English Studies 2011Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction: Cognitive Historicism2. The Neural Sublime3. The Romantic Image, the Mind's Eye, and the History of the Senses4. Romantic Apostrophe: Everyday Discourse, Overhearing, and Poetic Address5. Reading Minds—and Bodies—in Emma6. Romantic Incest: Literary Representation and the Biology of Mind7. Language Strange: Motherese, the Semiotic, and Romantic PoetryNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Reading Fiction in Antebellum America
Book SynopsisIn so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors' conceptions of their own readership.Trade Review"An important book that fills significant gaps in literary and historical scholarship on the reading, reception, publishing, and interpretation of antebellum fiction." (Barbara Hochman, Ben Gurion University)"Table of ContentsPrefacePart I: Reading Reading Historically1. Historical Hermeneutics, Reception Theory, and the Social Conditions of Reading in Antebellum America2. Interpretive Strategies and Informed Reading in the Antebellum Public SpherePart II: Contextual Receptions, Reading Experiences, and Patterns of Response: Four Case Studies3. "These Days of Double Dealing": Informed Response, Reader Appropriation, and the Tales of Poe4. Multiple Audiences and Melville's Fiction: Receptions, Recoveries, and Regressions5. Response as (Re)Construction: The Reception of Catharine Sedgwick's Novels6. Mercurial Readings: The Making and Unmaking of Caroline Chesebro'Conclusion: American Literary History and the Historical Study of Interpretive PracticesNotesIndex
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Schocken Books The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem The Remarkable Life
Book SynopsisPart of the Jewish Encounters seriesThe first comprehensive biography of one of the most beloved authors of all time: the creator of Tevye the Dairyman, the collection of stories that inspired Fiddler on the Roof. Novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist, and editor, Sholem Aleichem was one of the founding giants of modern Yiddish literature. The creator of a pantheon of characters who have been immortalized in books and plays, he provided readers throughout the world with a fascinating window into the world of Eastern European Jews as they began to confront the forces of cultural, political, and religious modernity that tore through the Russian Empire in the final decades of the nineteenth century. But just as compelling as the fictional lives of Tevye, Golde, Menakhem-Mendl, and Motl was Sholem Aleichem’s own life story. Born Sholem Rabinovich in Ukraine in 1859, he endured an impoverished childhood, married into fabul
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Northwestern University Press MESaltykovShchedrins The Golovlyovs A Critical
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Northwestern University Press Dimitrys Shade
Book SynopsisThis work reads ""Boris Godunov"" as the expression of Alexander Pushkin's thinking about the Russian state, especially the Russian state of his own time (some 200 years distant from the events of the play), and even his own place within that state.
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Northwestern University Press The Stony Dance Gesture and Unity in Andrei Belys
Book Synopsis'The Stony Dance' offers readers a study of Andrei Bely's 'Petersburg' - a critical study that is at the same time a meditation on the nature of literary art. Guided by Bely's notions of art and philosophy, this analyses the novel as embodying intentions and essences, as a pattern of events, and as a coordination of author, novel and reader.
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Northwestern University Press About Chekhov The Unfinished Symphony Studies in
Book SynopsisDraws on the author's knowledge of Chekhov to depict the writer at work, in love, and in relation with such writers as Tolstoy and Gorky. Through anecdotes and observations, spirited exchanges and reflections, this memoir draws a portrait that examines the depths and complexities of two of Russia's greatest writers.
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Northwestern University Press Through the Poets Eye The Travels of Zagajewski
Book SynopsisThough best known as poets, Zbigniew Herbert, Joseph Brodsky, and Adam Zagajewski also wrote some original prose. This book explores the connections between the sensory experience of travel of these East European poets, who journeyed to the West under different circumstances, and the perception of the visual arts found in their writings.
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Northwestern University Press The Novel Map Space and Subjectivity in
Book SynopsisFocusing on Stendhal, Gérard de Nerval, George Sand, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust, this explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the relationship between the self and the world as a function of space in a novel turned map.Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Illustrations 3 Acknowledgments 5 Introduction – Here and There: The Subject in Space and Text 8 Section I. Stendhal’s Privilege 28 Chapter 1 – The Life and Death of Henry Brulard 34 Chapter 2 – The Ghost in the Map 56 Section II. Nerval Beyond Narrative 82 Chapter 3 – Orientations: Writing the Self in Nerval’s Voyage en Orient 85 Chapter 4 – Unfolding Nerval 110 Section III. Sand’s Utopian Subjects 139 Chapter 5 – Drowning in the Text: Space and Indiana 143 Chapter 6 – Carte blanche: Charting Utopia in Sand’s Nanon 166 Section IV. Branching Off: Genealogy and Map in the Rougon-Macquart 189 Chapter 7 – Zola and the Contradictory Origins of the Novel 193 Chapter 8 – Mapping Creative Destruction in Zola 216 Section V. Proust’s Double Text 239 Chapter 9 – The Law of the Land 242 Chapter 10 – Creating a Space for Time 270 Conclusion – Now and Then: Virtual Spaces and Real Subjects in the 21st-Century 290 Works Cited 293 End Notes 304 Index 340
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Northwestern University Press Prosaic Conditions Heinrich Heine and the Spaces
Book SynopsisIn her penetrating new study, Na'ama Rokem observes that prose writingmore than poetry, drama, or other genrescame to signify a historic rift that resulted in loss and disenchantment. In Prosaic Conditions, Rokem treats prose as a signifying practicethat is, a practice that creates meaning. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, prose emerges in competition with other existing practices, specifically, the practice of performance. Using Zionist literature as a test case, Rokem examines the ways in which Zionist authors put prose to use, both as a concept and as a literary mode. Writing prose enables these authors to grapple with historical, political, and spatial transformations and to understand the interrelatedness of all of these changes.Table of ContentsPreface One: Prose Regnant: World, State and Subject in Hegel’s Lectures on Aesthetics Two: Heinrich Heine, Explorer of the Current Prosaic Condition Three: Meditated Situatedness in the Reception of Heinrich Heine Four: Theodor Herzl’s Technocratic World-Making in Prose Five: Haim Nahman Bialik’s Icy River of Prose Six: Heine and the Israeli Novel Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography
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Northwestern University Press Fugitive Objects Sculpture and Literature in the
Book SynopsisIn Fugitive Objects, Catriona MacLeod examines the question of why sculpture is both intensively discussed and yet rendered immaterial in German literature. She focuses on three forms of disappearance: sculpture's vanishing as a legitimate art form at the beginning of the nineteenth century in German aesthetics, statues' migration from the domain of high art into mass reproduction and popular culture, and sculpture's dislodging and relocation into literary discourse. Through original readings of Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim, Adalbert Stifter, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and others, MacLeod reveals that if sculpture has disappeared from much of nineteenth-century German literature and aesthetics, it is a vanishing act that paradoxically relocates the statue back onto another cultural pedestal, attesting to the powerful force of the medium.
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Northwestern University Press Sacred Uncertainty Religious Difference and the
Book SynopsisHerman Melville's oeuvre sustains a fundamental tension among self, society, and others. Sacred Uncertainty explores religious difference that arises from these many voices, both within American culture and around the world. Melville's work is notably shot through with allusions to other writers and thinkers, whom he regarded as his truest interlocutorsthe figures of genius from whom he received, as he eloquently stated it in Hawthorne and His Mosses, a shock of recognition. There is almost certainly no more concrete or reliable way to get at Melville's affirmations of (and arguments with) these interlocutors than in the markings and annotations that appear in his copies of many of their works, so Yothers examines Melville's marginalia for clues to Melville's thinking about self, others, and difference. His interrogations yield a richer understanding of one of the more vexing aspects of the great American novelist's work.
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Northwestern University Press George Eliots Religious Imagination
Book SynopsisAddresses the much-discussed question of Eliot's relation to Christianity in the wake of the sociocultural revolution triggered by the spread of theories of evolution. The standard view is that Eliot lost her faith at this time of religious crisis. Orr argues for a more nuanced understanding of the continuity of Eliot's work, as one not shattered by science, but shaped by its influence.
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Northwestern University Press On Weight and the Will
Book SynopsisCharts a modern history of form as emergent from force. Offering a provocative alternative to the imagery of crisis and estrangement that has preoccupied scholarship on modernism, Malika Maskarinec shows that German modernism conceives of human bodies and aesthetic objects as shaped by a contest of conflicting and reciprocally-intensifying forces.
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Northwestern University Press Handsomely Done
Book SynopsisBrings together leading and emerging scholars from comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies to examine Melville's works in light of their ongoing afterlife and seemingly permanent contemporaneity.Table of Contents Introduction: Handsomely Done, Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz Part 1. Melville and the Limits of the Political 1. Moby-Dick and Perpetual War, Sorin Radu Cucu and Roland Végsö 2. Bartleby Politics, Emily Apter 3. Land and See: The Theatricality of the Political in Schmitt and Melville, Walter Johnston 4. The Coward’s Paradox: Pip’s Weak Resistance, Barbara Natalie Nagel 5. From Lima to Attica: Benito Cereno, the Nixon Recordings, and the 1971, Prison Uprising, Paul Downes Part 2. Audio-Visual Melville 6. “A Sound Not Easily to Be Verbally Rendered”: The Literary Acoustic of Billy Budd, David Copenhafer 7. Necrophilology: Still/Hearing Bartleby, Jacques Lezra 8. Whaling in the Abyss between Melville and Zeppelin: Alex Itin’s Orson Whales, John Hamilton 9. The Confidence-Image (Melville, Godard, Deleuze), Peter Szendy 10. Belle Trouvaille: Aesthetics and Philology in Billy Budd (after Beau Travail), Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz 11. A-religion, Jean-Luc Nancy
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Northwestern University Press Discovering Sexuality in Dostoevsky Studies in
Book SynopsisMost discussions of sexuality in the work of Dostoevsky have been framed in Freudian terms. But Dostoevsky himself wrote from a decidedly pre-Freudian perspective. This book looks at the views of human sexual development that were available in Dostoevsky's time.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Ubu Roi
Book SynopsisA stunning, controversial work that immediately outraged audiences with its scatological references during the 1896 premiere, Ubu Roi satirizes the tendency of the successful bourgeois to abuse his authority and become irresponsibly complacent.Trade Review"What more is possible? After us, the Savage God." -- W.B. Yeats
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Life of Monsieur de Molière
Book SynopsisThis portrait of Molière, by Mikhail Bulgakov, goes far beyond mere biography. The Russian master brings a kindred spirit vividly to life in this novelistic story of art and the struggle it demands.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Well to the Woods No More Novel 0682 New
Book SynopsisTrade Review"When we read this type of novel we accomplish something we can never do in our daily lives. We actually succeed in penetrating into the consciousness of another and sometimes into the inner worlds of several persons. " -- Leon Edel
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The University Press of Kentucky Salvator Rosa in French Literature From the
Book SynopsisArranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa's life and work in the world of French letters.Trade ReviewImpeccable scholarship...this will be the definitive study of Rosa in France. - Allan PascoTable of ContentsFishing for the [Mediating] Self: Identity and Storytelling in Big Fish Catwoman: Constructions of Identity and Power in Tim Burton's Batman Returns The Consolations and Dangers of Fantasy: Burton, Poe, and Vincent Johnny Depp is a Big Baby!: The Philosophical Significance of Tim Burton's Preoccupation with Childhood Consciousness in Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood Mars Attacks!: Burton, Tocqueville, and the Self-Organizing Power of the American People "Pinioned by a Chain of Reasoning"?: Anti-Intellectualism and Models of Rationality in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow Culture, Hermeneutics, and the Batman Burtonology: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Essences, Christmas, & Vincent Price A Symphony of Horror: the Sublime Synaesthesia of Sweeney Todd Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and the Fantastic It's Uncanny: Death in Tim Burton's Corpus Affect without Illusion: The Films of Edward D. Wood, Jr. after Ed Wood Little Burton Blue: Tim Burton and the Product(ion) of Color in the Fairy Tale Films The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride
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The University Press of Kentucky Benjamin Franklins Humor
Book SynopsisHumor is sometimes a serious business, especially the humor of Benjamin Franklin, a master at revealing the human condition through comedy. Dedicated to the uniquely appealing and enduring humor of Benjamin Franklin, Zall lovingly samples Franklin's apologues on the necessity of living reasonably even when life's circumstances may seem absurd.Trade ReviewThe growth in Franklin's control of his comic sense is gradually revealed as Zall traces his wit from his youth to his old age. - ROBERT MIDDLEKAUFF, AUTHOR OF The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution 1763-1789
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The University Press of Kentucky A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau
Book SynopsisWith a resurgence of interest in recent years, A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau is the first volume focused exclusively on Thoreau's ethical and political thought.Jack Turner illuminates the unexamined aspects of Thoreau's political life and writings.
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Rutgers University Press The Physiology of New York BoardingHouses
Book SynopsisThe American boardinghouse once provided basic domestic shelter and constituted a uniquely modern world view for the first true generation of U.S. city-dwellers. Thomas Butler Gunn's classic 1857 account of urban habitation, The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses, explores the process by which boardinghouse life was translated into a lively urban vernacular.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction A Note on the Text The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses Explanatory Notes Further Reading About the Editor
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Ohio State University Press Letters 181343 v 15 Vol XV the Letters 18131843
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Ohio State University Press Letters 184353 v 16 Vol XVI the Letters 18431853
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The University of Alabama Press Defining Jamaican Fiction Marronage and the
Book SynopsisMaroons - slaves who escaped servitude to establish their own hegemonies - are central characters in Jamaican heritage, even influencing literary character types in Jamaican fiction. This work focuses on the place of Jamaican fiction in the larger regional literature.
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The University of Alabama Press Dream Revisionaries Gender and Genre in Womens
Book SynopsisCharts the evolution of women's Utopian writings in Britain and the United States between 1869 and 1920. The period saw the emergence of a new kind of Utopian text, one that redefined women's roles in society and questioned the foundations of the social order on both sides of the Atlantic.
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The University of Alabama Press Conscience and Purpose Fiction and Social
Book SynopsisIn a series of influential essays that appeared in Harper's, WD Howells argued for literature as a vehicle for social change. The author explores the legacy of Howells's beliefs as they manifest themselves in Howell's fiction and in the works of three major American writers - Charles W Chesnutt, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Willa Cather.
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The University of Alabama Press Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White
Book SynopsisIn Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White, Sarah Gilbreath Ford explores how both black and white southern writers such as Joel Chandler Harris, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Ellen Douglas, and Ernest Gaines have employed oral storytelling in literature. Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White is a study of the historical use of oral storytelling by southern writers in written works. In each chapter, Sarah Gilbreath Ford pairs a white and an African American writer to highlight points of confluence in black and white southern oral traditions. She argues that the connections between white and African American southern writers run deeper than critics have yet explored, and she uses textual comparisons to examine the racial mixing of oral culture. On porches, in kitchens, and on the pages of their work, black and white southerners exchanged not just stories but strategies for telling stories. As a boy, Joel Chan
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The University of Alabama Press Continuing Bonds with the Dead Parental Grief and
Book SynopsisExamines the profound transfiguration that the death of a child wrought on the literary work of nineteenth-century American writers. Taking as his subjects Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and W.E.B. Du Bois, Bush demonstrates how the death of a child became the defining “before-and-after moment” in their lives as adults and as artists.
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University of Alabama Press Gears and God
Book SynopsisProvides a revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith. In Gears and God, Nathaniel Williams analyses the genre of technology-themed exploration novels - dime novel adventure stories featuring steam-powered and electrified robots, airships, and submersibles.Trade ReviewGears and God is a clearly written, persuasive book which brings fresh insights to bear on the rich literature of dime novels, science fiction, and technocratic exploration narratives at the turn of the twentieth century."" - Gregory M. Pfitzer, author of History Repeating Itself: The Republican Phenomenon in Children's Historical Literatureand the Christian Right and Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840–1920
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Ohio University Press Hidden Hands
Book SynopsisTracing the Victorian crisis over the representation of working-class women to the 1842 Parliamentary bluebook on mines, with its controversial images of women at work, Hidden Hands argues that the female industrial worker became even more dangerous to represent than the prostitute or the male radical because she exposed crucial contradictions between the class and gender ideologies of the period and its economic realities.Drawing on the recent work of feminist historians, Patricia Johnson lays the groundwork for a reinterpretation of Victorian social-problem fiction that highlights its treatment of issues that particularly affected working-class women: sexual harassment; the interconnections between domestic ideology and domestic violence; their relationships to male-dominated working-class movements such as Luddism, Chartism, and unionism; and their troubled connection to middle-class feminism.Uncovering a series of images in Victorian fiction ranging from hot-tempered
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Ohio University Press Graham R.
Book SynopsisRosamund Marriott Watson was a gifted poet, an erudite literary and art critic, and a daring beauty whose life illuminates fin-de-siècle London. In Graham R., Linda K. Hughes traces the poet’s development from accomplished ballads and sonnets, to avant-garde urban impressionism and New Woman poetry, to her anticipation of literary modernism.Trade Review“The life Linda Hughes narrates in this critical biography is a fascinating one.... All three life stories are beautifully told within a four-part structure that marks Rosamund’s changing identities from Rose Ball, to Mrs. G. F. Armytage, to Graham R. Tomson, to Rosamund Marriott Watson.” * Victorian Periodicals Review *"Anyone interested in the New Woman, Victorian literature and culture, or the fin de siècle literature will profit from reading Graham R.” * The Latchkey: Journal of New Woman Studies *“Graham R. provides not only an interesting account of one woman writer, but also a broad spectrum of resources for students and scholars engaged in studying literature and culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.”“A compelling biography of a truly remarkable and unconventional woman writer until recently ignored and then forgotten.” * Victorians Institute Journal *“Hughes’s biography deftly recovers the fascinating history and poetry of this important fin-de-siècle figure.” * English Literature in Transition *
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Ohio University Press Melodramatic Imperial Writing
Book SynopsisMelodrama is often seen as a blunt aesthetic tool tainted by its reliance on improbable situations, moral binaries, and overwhelming emotion, features that made it a likely ingredient of British imperial propaganda during the late nineteenth century. Yet, through its impact on many late-Victorian genres outside of the theater, melodrama developed a complicated relationship with British imperial discourse.Melodramatic Imperial Writing positions melodrama as a vital aspect of works that underscored the contradictions and injustices of British imperialism. Beyond proving useful for authors constructing imperialist fantasies or supporting unjust policies, the melodramatic mode enabled writers to upset narratives of British imperial destiny and racial superiority.Neil Hultgren explores a range of texts, from Dickens’s writing about the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion to W. E. Henley’s imperialist poetry and Olive Schreiner’s experimental fiction, in order to traTrade Review“This book has obvious value for studies in imperialism, but because it looks at melodrama beyond plays, including novels, romances, poems, short stories, and journalism, it also has much to add to the conversation about melodrama as a Victorian mode.” * The Year’s Work in English Studies *“Neil Hultgren has produced a persuasive and accessible text focusing on two significant leitmotifs. First, he widens our understanding of the range of melodramatic writing, both temporally and spatially, by arguing for its broader literary and historical significance. Second, he focuses on melodrama’s relationship with British imperial writing of the late nineteenth century in a bid to resurrect it from its reputation as merely a conveyor of violent and jingoistic propaganda. Emphasizing three common themes in the melodramatic mode…and by moving beyond the early stage to include novels, short stories, and poems, he makes a persuasive case for its diversity and significance.” * Modern Language Review *“Hultgren’s documentation of the grafting of an antiquated stage-acting method onto disorienting historical events to produce enduring narratives of imperialism and colonialism will inform and captivate scholars of Victorian literature and world history.” * Victoriographies *“Innovative and thoughtfully formulated … The study is divided into sections de- fined by particular modal factors that helped make ‘the British Empire understandable’—its plotting, its emotionality, and its notion of community. Hultgren has selected these three elements not for their influence, but because their textual manifestations provide particularly insightful examples of the ways in which Victorians imagined their imperialist activities through and as melodrama.” * English Literature in Translation *“Written with clarity and force, Melodramatic Imperial Writing recuperates the complex representational strategies of the melodramatic mode and convincingly shows how these strategies were deployed in a range of literary works to imagine the consequences and moral contours of the British Empire.” * Literature and History *“Captivating and illuminating, Hultgren’s discussion of the impact of the Sepoy Rebellion on British consciousness and on writers such as Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins is particularly worthwhile. And those who deprive themselves of Hultgren's observations about Marie Corelli (one of Victoria's favorites)—whose Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self (‘a Christian dream vision in a pre-Babylonian civilization’) opposes Kipling‘s depiction of the ‘harsh material realities of the British Empire’—will miss an informative, comprehensive, and invigorating account indeed.” * CHOICE *“Neil Hultgren calls our attention to a conjunction that is, paradoxically, at once familiar and unnoticed: the conjunction of melodrama and representations of empire in the Victorian period. While much recent work has looked at the proliferation of imperial fiction over the last half of the nineteenth century, none has revealed what Melodramatic Imperial Writing shows us so clearly—that such fictions draw their energy and effectiveness from the conventions of melodrama. More than that: they owe much of their complexity as well as their continuing relevance for later readers to this same source.”Table of Contents* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Part One: Melodrama as Plot * One: Imperial Melodrama after the Sepoy Rebellion * Two: Romance; or, Melodrama and the Adventure of History * Part Two: Melodrama as Aestheticized Feeling * Three: Imperialist Poetry, Aestheticism, and Melodrama's Man of Action * Four: Stevenson's Melodramatic Anthropology * Part Three: Melodrama as Distant Homeland * Five: Olive Schreiner and the Melodrama of the Karoo * Conclusion: Pirates and Spies * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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University of Missouri Press The Jester and the Sages
Book SynopsisBy focusing on the deeper aspects of Twain’s intellectual makeup, Robinson, Brahm, and Cartstroem supplement the traditional appreciation of the forces that drove Twain’s creativity and the dynamics of his humour.
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University of Missouri Press The Life of Mark Twain
Book SynopsisThe second volume of this critically acclaimed autobiography chronicles events in Samuel Langhorne Clemens's life between his departure with his family from Buffalo for Elmira and Hartford in spring 1871 and his departure with his family from Hartford for Europe in mid-1891.
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University of Exeter Press El Ritmo Exeter Hispanic Texts LIII
Book SynopsisEl ritmo is a collection of letters from Salvador Rueda to the Catalonian critic Jose Yxart, first published in Madrid in 1894. El ritmo sets out, in a sometimes ironical tone, a panorama of the state of poetry in Spanish at the end of the nineteenth century.Trade Review Table of ContentsINTRODUCCION, v; 1. El ritmo en el contexto de la renovacion poetica de Salvador Rueda, vi; 2. El ritmo y su relacion con la teoria poetica espanola del ultimo tercio del siglo XIX, xiv; 3. Analisis de El ritmo, xxi; La edicion, xxxv; NOTAS, xxxvii; BIBLIOGRAFIA CITADA, xlv; EL RITMO, 1; NOTAS, 47.
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University of Exeter Press Histoire dEleonore de Parme Exeter French Texts
Book SynopsisIn 1810, Stendhal read the sentimental novella Histoire d'Eleonore de Parme, whose anonymous author was certainly a woman. This text poses the question: can it be asserted that Stendhal took inspiration from this novella when he wrote La Chartreuse de Parme, and not from real life?Trade Review Table of ContentsFrontispice: Portrait de femme (Gravure anglaise anonyme 1810), ii; Introduction, vii; Le Texte, xxxiii; Bibliographie, xxxiv; HISTOIRE D'ELEONORE DE PARME; Resume de l'episode qui precede l'Histoire d'Eleonore, 2; Le Recit d'Eleonore, 5.
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University of Exeter Press Sick Heroes French Society and Literature in the
Book SynopsisSick Heroes examines the cultural practices that created those remarkably offensive, though strangely appealing, romantic heroes that appeared in European and especially in French literature in the latter half of the eighteenth century.Trade Review “Meticulously documented, written in a clear and witty manner, Sick Heroes is ambitious in the scope of literature it examines and audacious in its application of modern studies in the behavioural sciences to fiction. It is a valuable addition to the criticism of the Romantic novel because of the fresh insights it brings to well-known works and for the wealth of information it provides on lesser-known literature. Its most significant contribution to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French studies, however, is the coherent and convincing psychological portrait it paints of an age so obviously afflicated with many of the problems of the twentieth century. Pasco succeeds admirably in accounting for the appeal of his unusual heroes and heroines, characters who expressed a popular mentality to a much greater degree than historians and literary scholars have previously recognized.” (Philosophy and Literature, April 1998) “Pasco does not preach, does not try to make literary works into the heroes or accessory villains of a political struggle in which he feels invested. Instead, they are symptoms of a sociopathology that one could readily corroborate with examples of abused and neglected children in the fictions of Hugo or Dickens. Pasco offers an impressive, harmonious blend of "hard scholarship" (investigation of original sources) and imaginative synthesis. One can anticipate that this study, like his important overview that opens Allusion (Toronto UP, 1994), will become widely influential.” (Nineteenth Century French Studies, Vol. 27, Nos. 1 and 2) “This attractively-written and thoroughly researched and documented study redefines Romanticism as primarily a cultural phenomenon and paints a sweeping portrait of the French people’s collective mentality during the period extending from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, a time-frame which encompasses the most profound social, political, and aesthetic changes. . . This is a remarkably rich, informative, and in many ways innovative examination of a crucial period in French literary and cultural history.” (French Review, March 1999) Table of Contents
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University of Exeter Press Translating Rimbauds Illuminations
Book SynopsisTranslating Rimbaud's Illuminations is a critique of the assumptions which currently underlie our thinking on literary translation. It offers an alternative vision; extending the parameters of literary translation by showing that such translation is itself a form of experimental creative writing.Trade Review ‘…this bold and highly stimulating exploration of the limits of translation activity…’ ‘His passion and enthusiasm for an experimental translation which defamiliarises and destabilises make this an exciting tour de force and a significant contribution to the field of translation studies.’ (Forum for Modern Language Studies, 43, 3 July 2007) ‘…highly stimulating and challenging work…’ ‘…one enjoys and applauds this adventurous attempt to release the source text from the obsession with understanding and to prevent the traduttore of Rimbaud’s prose poems from becoming a traditore.’ (MLR, 102.4, 2007) ‘Clive Scott’s highly original study forges innovative lines of inquiry, while being a pleasure to read thanks to its fluid prose, thorough research and clear presentation of the translation techniques.’(Denise Merkle, Target, 21:1, 2009) Table of Contents
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Verso Books Late Imperial Romance Haymarket
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Michigan State University Press Emigration Nation Vocation The Literature of
Book SynopsisAround 1825, the point at which emigration to Canada began to be seen as a cure for poverty and joblessness in England, certain English writers began arguing that the vocation of middle-class emigrants was to recreate the English class system in Canada. This title explores how and why this ideology gained currency.
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