Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

Book SynopsisA revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel.Trade Review"...he [Gorra] has written the kind of patient, sensitive, acute study that gifted teachers should write but rarely do." -- London Review of Books"Michael Gorra...has pulled off an astounding feat...in this impressive study...Gorra goes anywhere that strikes his fancy, and the result is splendid: a book to reread in years to come, a model for what criticism can do when happily married to biography." -- Literary Review

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Book SynopsisHebrew literature, from the second half of the 19th century to well into the 20th, was unmistakably influenced in style and substance by Russian prose and poetry. Rina Lapidus systematically identifies those Hebrew authors and poets upon whom Russian influence is most striking and upon whom it seems to have exerted the greatest power.

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Book SynopsisAnalyses the elitist view of some of the most highly respected literary icons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This devastating attack on the intellectuals exposes the loathing which the mass of humanity ignited in many of the virtual founders of modern culture: Pound, Joyce, Forster, Woolf, Eliot and others. Professor Carey compares their detestation of common humanity to Nietzche, whose philosophy helped to create the atmosphere leading to the rise of Adolph Hitler.

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Book SynopsisIn 1822, after having been discharged from the British navy, deserted by his wife, and as good as disowned by his father, the thirty-two year old Edward John Trelawny set off for Italy to make the acquaintance of his hero, Lord Byron. 'I have met today the personification of my Corsair,' Byron wrote in a letter. 'He sleeps with the poem under his pillow, and all his past adventures and present manners aim at this personification.' But though Byron enjoyed the company of his admirer, and was eventually to embark with him on his ill-fated final expedition to aid in the War of Greek Independence, he had grown guarded and ironical with age, and the perfect meeting of minds that Trelawny had envisioned was not to be. Shelley, however, enchanted him. In the months before his death at sea, he and Trelawny were frequent companions, and the young poet emerges from these pages in all his splendid carelessness and otherworldly concentration.

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Book SynopsisOne day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- 'a masterpiece'-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten creator. The Quest for Corvo is a hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of the strange Frederick Rolfe, self-appointed Baron Corvo, an artist, writer, and frustrated aspirant to the priesthood with a bottomless talent for self-destruction. But this singular work, subtitled 'an experiment in biography,' is also a remarkable self-portrait, a study of the obsession and sympathy that inspires the biographer's art.

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Book SynopsisCollected in this Library of America volume are no fewer than six of the works of Edith Wharton: novels, novellas, and her renowned autobiography, A Backward Glance. Together they represent nearly a quarter century in the productive life of one of the most accomplished and admired of American writers.Madame de Treymes (1907) is set in fashionable Paris society, where a once free-spirited American woman is trying to extricate herself, with the help of a fellow countryman, from her marriage to an aristocratic Frenchman. Such a village is the scene of Ethan Frome (1911), a tale of marital entrapment even more relentless. Ethan’s unhappy marriage and his desperate love for his wife’s cousin Mattie drive him to an act of shattering violence. The magnificent coda is a classic of American realistic fiction.Set in the same region of the Berkshires, Wharton called Summer (1917) “the Hot Etha

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Book SynopsisAn absorbing survey of poetry written in one of the most revolutionary eras in the history of British literature This comprehensive survey of British Romantic poetry explores the work of six poets whose names are most closely associated with the Romantic eraWordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Byron, and Shelleyas well as works by other significant but less widely studied poets such as Leigh Hunt, Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Along with its exceptional coverage, the volume is alert to relevant contexts, and opens up ways of understanding Romantic poetry. The Romantic Poetry Handbook encompasses the entire breadth of the Romantic Movement, beginning with Anna Laetitia Barbauld and running through to Thomas Lovell Beddoes and John Clare. In its central section Readings' it explores tensions, change, and continuity within the Romantic Movement, and examines a wide range of individual poems and poets through sensitive, attentive and accessible analyses.Trade Review“It is a beautifully written and well-organized textbook, which will be of great value to undergraduates in English departments around the world…O’Neill and Callaghan are to be commended for the deft way they combine close reading and scholarship in these delightful essays” -- The Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 98 (2019)Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements viii Part 1 Introduction 1 Part 2 Timeline of the Late Eighteenth Century and Romantic Period 21 Part 3 Biographies 47 Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) 49 Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) 51 William Blake (1757–1827) 54 Robert Burns (1759–1796) 57 Lord George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) 59 John Clare (1793–1864) 61 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) 63 Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) 66 (James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) 69 John Keats (1795–1821) 72 Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) 74 Thomas Moore (1779–1852) 77 Mary Robinson (1758–1800) 80 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) 82 Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) 85 Robert Southey (1774–1843) 87 William Wordsworth (1770–1850) 90 Ann Yearsley (1753–1806) 93 Part 4 Readings 95 First]Generation Romantic Poets 95 Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ‘Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for ­Abolishing the Slave Trade’; ‘The Rights of Woman’; Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem 97 Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets 101 Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head 107 Ann Yearsley, ‘Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave]trade’; ‘Bristol Elegy’ 110 William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience 115 William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ; The Book of Urizen ; ‘The Mental Traveller’ 124 Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon 132 Robert Burns, Lyrics 137 William Wordsworth and S. 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Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads 144 William Wordsworth, ‘Resolution and Independence’; ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’; ‘Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont’; ‘Surprized by Joy’ 152 William Wordsworth, The Prelude 163 William Wordsworth, The Excursion 174 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Conversation Poems: ‘The Eolian Harp’, ‘This Lime]Tree Bower My Prison’, ‘Frost at ­Midnight’, and ‘Dejection: An Ode’ 179 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ; Kubla Khan; ‘The Pains of Sleep’; Christabel 187 Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer and The Curse of Kehama 196 Second]Generation Romantic Poets 203 Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies 205 Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini 211 Lord Byron, Lara ; ‘When We Two Parted’; ‘Stanzas to Augusta’; Manfred 215 Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 223 Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos 1–4 232 Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab ; Alastor; Laon and Cythna [The Revolt of Islam] 242 Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’; ‘Mont Blanc’; ‘Ozymandias’; ‘Ode to the West Wind’; the late poems to Jane Williams 251 Percy Bysshe Shelley, ­Prometheus Unbound; Adonais; The Triumph of Life 260 John Keats, Endymion ; ‘Sleep and Poetry’; The Sonnets 268 John Keats, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion 277 John Keats, The 1820 Volume 284 Third]Generation Romantic Poets 295 John Clare: Lyrics 297 Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman: With Other Poems 304 Letitia Elizabeth Landon, ‘Love’s Last Lesson’; ‘Lines of Life’; ‘Lines Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love]Letter’; ‘Sappho’s Song’; ‘A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk. By Stewardson’ 311 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death’s Jest]Book and Lyrics 318 Part 5 Further Reading 325 General Critical Reading 327 Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) 328 Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) 328 William Blake (1757–1827) 329 Robert Burns (1759–1796) 329 Lord George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) 329 John Clare (1793–1864) 330 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) 330 Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) 331 (James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) 331 John Keats (1795–1821) 331 Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) 331 Thomas Moore (1779–1852) 332 Mary Robinson (1758–1800) 332 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) 332 Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) 333 Robert Southey (1774–1843) 333 William Wordsworth (1770–1850) 333 Ann Yearsley (1753–1806) 334 Index

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Book SynopsisWritten by some of the best-known and distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative text provides the most up-to-date scholarship on his writings available today. Read together, the chapters of this Companion map the direction of contemporary James studies.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 Greg W. Zacharias Chronology of Henry James’s Life and Work 4 Jennifer Eimers Part I Fiction and Non-Fiction 15 1 Bad Years in the Matrimonial Market: James’s Shorter Fiction, 1865–1878 17 Clair Hughes 2 What Daisy Knew: Reading Against Type in Daisy Miller: A Study 32 Sarah Wadsworth 3 Growing Up Absurd: The Search for Self in Henry James’s The American 51 Wendy Graham 4 Vital Illusions in The Portrait of a Lady 70 Peter Rawlings 5 The Bostonians and the Crisis of Vocation 88 Sarah Daugherty 6 “The Abysses of Silence” in The Turn of the Screw 100 Kimberly C. Reed 7 On Maisie’s Knowing Her Own Mind 121 Robert B. Pippin 8 “What woman was ever safe?” Dangerous Constructions of Womanhood in The Ambassadors 139 Anna Despotopoulou 9 Unwrapping the Ghost: The Design Behind Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove 156 Evelyne Ender 10 Truth, Knowledge, and Magic in The Golden Bowl 176 Sigi Jöttkandt 11 Henry James and the (Un)Canny American Scene 193 Gert Buelens 12 Revisitings and Revisions in the New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James 208 Philip Horne 13 What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Love: Henry James’s Last Words 231 Michael Anesko 14 Henry James, Cultural Critic 249 Pierre A. Walker 15 Timeliness and Henry James’s Letters 261 Greg W. Zacharias Part II Contexts for Reading Henry James 275 16 A Brief Biography of Henry James 277 Jennifer Eimers 17 Jamesian Matter 292 Bill Brown 18 Henry James and the Sexuality of Literature: Before and Beyond Queer Theory 309 Natasha Hurley 19 Exuberance and the Spaces of Inept Instruction: Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys and Henry James’s The Art of the Novel 324 Denis Flannery 20 Nothing Personal: Women Characters, Gender Ideology, and Literary Representation 343 Donatella Izzo 21 The Others: Henry James’s Family 360 Linda Simon 22 Beyond the Rim: Camp Henry James 374 Jonathan Warren 23 Henry James and the United States 390 John Carlos Rowe 24 Henry James and Britain 400 Nicola Bradbury 25 Henry James in France 416 Julie Wolkenstein 26 Henry James and Italy 434 Rosella Mamoli Zorzi 27 Henry James in the Public Sphere 456 Richard Salmon 28 James and Film 472 Susan M. Griffin Index 490

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Book SynopsisThis broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history. One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent years.Trade Review"The editors have done an exemplary job in maintaining a very high level of scholarly excellence in almost all these contributions. On a vast range of subjects there is a plenitude here of scholarly research and insight, some of it at least exploring new ground … and much of it proving illuminating and challenging." (Notes and Queries, June 2009) "Highly recommended for the reference shelves of libraries collecting work on American literature and culture." (Reference Reviews)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors x Note on Referencing xvii Acknowledgments xix PART I The Cultural Context 1 1 Mark Twain and Nation 3Randall Knoper 2 Mark Twain and Human Nature 21Tom Quirk 3 Mark Twain and America's Christian Mission Abroad 38Susan K. Harris 4 Mark Twain and Whiteness 53Richard S. Lowry 5 Mark Twain and Gender 66Peter Stoneley 6 Twain and Modernity 78T. J. Lustig 7 Mark Twain and Politics 94James S. Leonard 8 "The State, it is I": Mark Twain, Imperialism, and the New Americanists 109Scott Michaelsen PART II Mark Twain and Others 123 9 Twain, Language, and the Southern Humorists 125Gavin Jones 10 The "American Dickens": Mark Twain and Charles Dickens 141Christopher Gair 11 Nevada Influences on Mark Twain 157Lawrence I. Berkove 12 The Twain-Cable Combination 172Stephen Railton 13 Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Realism 186Peter Messent PART III Mark Twain: Publishing and Performing 209 14 "I don't know A from B" Mark Twain and Orality 211Thomas D. Zlatic 15 Mark Twain and the Profession of Writing 228Leland Krauth 16 Mark Twain and the Promise and Problems of Magazines 243Martin T. Buinicki 17 Mark Twain and the Stage 259Shelley Fisher Fishkin 18 Mark Twain on the Screen 274R. Kent Rasmussen and Mark Dawidziak PART IV Mark Twain and Travel 291 19 Twain and the Mississippi 293Andrew Dix 20 Mark Twain and the Literary Construction of the American West 309Gary Scharnhorst 21 Mark Twain and Continental Europe 324Holger Kersten 22 Mark Twain and Travel Writing 338Jeffrey Alan Melton PART V Mark Twain' Fiction 355 23 Mark Twain's Short Fiction 357Henry B. Wonham 24 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Prince and the Pauper as Juvenile Literature 371Linda A. Morris 25 Plotting and Narrating "Huck" 387Victor Doyno 26 Going to Tom's Hell in Huckleberry Finn 401Hilton Obenzinger 27 History, "Civilization," and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 416Sam Halliday 28 Mark Twain's Dialects 431David Lionel Smith 29 Killing Half A Dog, Half A Novel: The Trouble With The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins 441John Bird 30 Dreaming Better Dreams: The Late Writing of Mark Twain 449Forrest G. Robinson PART VI Mark Twain's Humor 467 31 Mark Twain's Visual Humor 469Louis J. Budd 32 Mark Twain and Post-Civil War Humor 485Cameron C. Nickels 33 Mark Twain and Amiable Humor 500Gregg Camfield 34 Mark Twain and the Enigmas of Wit 513Bruce Michelson PART VII A Retrospective 531 35 The State of Mark Twain Studies 533Alan Gribben Index 555

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Book SynopsisReading Eighteenth-Century Poetry recaptures for modern readers the urgency, distinctiveness and rewarding nature of this challenging and powerful body of poetry. An essential guide to reading eighteenth-century poetry, written by world-renowned critic, Patricia Meyer Spacks Exposes the multiplicity of forms, tones, and topics engaged by poets during this period Provides in-depth analysis of poems by established figures such as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, as well as work by less familiar figures, including Anne Finch and Mary Leapor A broadly chronological structure incorporates close reading alongside insightful contextual and historical detail Captures the power and uniqueness of eighteenth-century poetry, creating an ideal guide for those returning to this period, or delving into it for the first time Trade Review"Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry, a book designated for the specialist and general reader alike." (Studies in English Literature, Summer 2010) "The readings that Spacks provides are nuanced and stimulating. Each of the chapters is organized around the detailed close reading of three to four poems which are related to each other in order to exemplify the range of possible responses to phenomena such as emotion, reflection or description. Spacks's guidance introduces the student reader to the generic and thematic fluidity of eighteenth-century poetry but also offers stimulating readings to the experienced scholar." (English Studies, August 2010) "Spacks is an impressive close reader, and her lively, persuasive analyses offer exemplary models to students coming to this method or subject for the first time." (CHOICE, August 2009)Table of ContentsPreamble. 1 How to Live: The Moral and the Social. 2 Matters of Feeling: Poetry of Emotion. 3 The Power of Detail: Description in Verse. 4 High Language and Low: The Diction of Poetry. 5 Alexander Pope and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. 6 How to Live: The Place of Work. 7 Matters of Feeling: Forms of the Personal. 8 Structures of Energy, Structures of Leisure: Ode and Blank Verse. 9 Old Poetry, Old Language: Imitation and Fraud. 10 Outliers: Mary Leapor and Christopher Smart. 11 How to Live: Poetry and Politics. 12 Matters of Feeling: Emotion Celebrated. 13 Narrative and Reflection. 14 Poetic Languages: Diction Old and New. 15 Mary Robinson and William Cowper. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisNovel Characters offers a fascinating and in-depth history of the novelistic character from the birth of the novel in Don Quixote, through the great canonical works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the most influential international novels of the present day An original study which offers a unique approach to thinking about and discussing character Makes extensive reference to both traditional and more recent and specialized academic studies of the novel Provides a critical vocabulary for understanding how the novelistic conception of character has changed over time. Examines a broad range of novels, cultures, and periods Promotes discussion of how different cultures and times think about human identity, and how the concept of what a character is has changed over time Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. 1 Introduction: Novel Characters. Where Do the Novel's Characters Come From? Surprising Characters. Novel Types. I Wholes. 2 Originals. Quixote: Or the Originality of Imitators. Original Claims and Final Reckonings. The English Original. Conversations with an Original. And Now for Our Heroines. 3 Individuals. Persuasions. Women of Character. Aristocrats and Commoners. The Incomparables. II Fractions. 4 Selves/Identities. Me and Mine. Visualizing the Self. All in All. The Final Me. Identities. III Compounds. 5 Native Cosmopolitans. Native Cosmopolitans. Stereotypes and Mimic Men. The New Man and the Native Cosmopolitan. Index.

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Book SynopsisReading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a highly renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical and lesser known writers.Trade Review“Richard Cronin’s exceptionally fine book carries out just what its title promises—reading. The pleasure of his adroit, meticulously imaginative insights into verbal and metrical effects is constant… [O]ne of the best general readings of Victorian poetry in the last ten years.” (Victorian Studies, 1 April 2013) “It is a definite strength of Cronin’s approach that his own book’s attempt to recover ways of appreciating and understanding Victorian poetry overlaps with the techniques Victorian poets themselves used to address and forestall their anxieties about the meaning and value of their work . . . . To repeat the question, however, proves to be a good way of tuning in to the distinctive music of the Victorian poetry.” (The Tennyson Society, 1 December 2012)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1 Introduction: The Victorian Poetry Palace 1 2 The Divided Self and the Dramatic Monologue 27 3 Victorian Metrics 65 4 Short Poems, Long Poems and the Victorian Sonnet Sequence 89 5 Victorian Poetry and Translation 114 6 Victorian Poetry and Life 141 7 Poetry and Religion 174 8 Conclusion: The 1890s 196 Bibliography 220 Index 229

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Book SynopsisRich in cultural and literary analysis, Anderson's argument will be of interest to students and scholars of the eighteenth century, religious studies, theater, and the history of gender.Trade ReviewThe fruit of wide and perceptive reading, Imagining Methodism is not only forensically incisive, but (as one might expect from a Professor of English) written in a readable and pithy style with some nice turns of phrase. She has tapped and mastered a considerable range of relevant literature, historic and contemporary... Imagining Methodism brings refreshing and challenging insights to the area. -- Peter S. Forsaith Wesley and Methodist Studies Anderson's prose is witty, and she brings welcome rigor to a collection of squibs, rants, and sermons too often dismissed as incapable of sustaining serious thought. This is an important intervention- Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain will need to be reckoned with by all students of 'spirituality', enthusiasm', and 'secularity' in the long eighteenth century. -- Jasper Cragwall BARS Bulletin and Review ...[T]he range of sources Ms. Anderson brings to her study is impressive, as is her ability to navigate between the anti-Methodist literature and the philosophical discussions during the period. -- Brett C. McInelly The Scriblerian This is both a thoughtful and thought-provoking exploration, scrutinizing the ways in which perceptions of Methodism 'worked' in the British imagination... -- Jeremy Gregory Modern Literary Review Perhaps the highest praise I have for Anderson's worthy volume is that it prompts reflection on not just eighteenth- but also twenty-first-century strategies for performing secular statehood. Eighteenth-Century LifeTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Longing to Believe: Methodism and Modernity1. Historicizing Methodism2. The New Man: Desire, Transformation, and the Methodist Body3. Words Made Flesh: Fanny Hill and the Language of Passion4. Actors and Ghosts: Methodism in the Theater of the Real5. "My Lord, My Love": The Performance of Public Intimacy and the Methodist Hymn6. A Usable Past: Reconciliation in Humphry Clinker and The Spiritual QuixoteAfterword: 1778 and BeyondNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisShe explores the work of sentimentalist philosophers David Hume, Adam Smith, and Jeremy Bentham and realist novelists Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and Henry James.Trade ReviewLike the characters in the realist novels she analyses, Sympathetic Realism encourages us to think along with it. -- Stephanie Insley Hershinow Victoriographies The clarity of Greiner's models of both sympathy and realism is one of the most remarkable features Sympathetic Realism, but it is often through her excellent close readings that these models came alive. -- Maia McAleavey Wordsworth Circle Among a spate of recent books on the topic, Rae Greiner's Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction distinguishes itself through its sustained focus on sympathy as a form rather than a feeling... It is not merely fitting, but exciting, to discover that a work dedicated to theorizing relations should itself pose a new relation between critical debates enjoying simultaneous, but heretofore separate, revivals of critical interest. -- Jesse Cordes Selbin Qui Parle Rae Greiner's Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction is an ambitious, clever, and beautifully written study that promises to reorient our understanding of Victorian sympathy and the works of those who wrote about it and tried to trigger it... Greiner makes an excellent case for a reappraisal of the aims and accomplishments of realism... Her book is a welcome and erudite addition to a growing list of critical works on sympathy that defy the obviousness of the phenomenon they study and thus refresh our ability to consider what it is, was, and does. -- Carolyn Betensky Nineteenth-Century Contexts Greiner's readings are consistently smart and insightful. -- Rebecca N. Mitchell Studies in the Novel Sympathetic Realism is a rewarding, continually interesting book. It casts new light on major nineteenth-century realist novelists, while demonstrating that the realist frame of mind can be found in other kinds of writing as well. It contributes to the growing stream of criticism concerned with the ways in which narratives can help to create and strengthen our sense of self... Those who go along with Greiner will find the journey worthwhile. -- Harry E. Shaw Victorian Studies Sympathetic Realism is a rewarding, continually interesting book. -- Harry E. Shaw Victorian Studies In this invigorating book, Rae Greiner takes a familiar topic -- the workings of sympathy in nineteenth-century fiction -- and shows us how to think about it in new and highly productive ways... Building on a solid foundation provided by prior critics, Greiner makes a persuasive case for thinking anew about sympathy: what it is, how it works, and why it proved so vital to the development of novelistic realism. -- Stephen Arata Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Thinking of Me Thinking of You: Sympathetic Realism1. Going Along with Others: Adam Smith and the RealistsPart 1: Smith's Sympathetic ProtocolsPart 2: Sympathetic Form2. The Art of Knowing Your Own Nothingness: Bentham, Austen, and th eRealist CasePart 1: Sympathy and the Case for RealismPart 2: Persuasion and the Sympathetic Case3. Dickensian Sympathy: Translation in Proper PitchPart 1: Harmonizign in Other WordsPart 2: Form's Proper Pitch4. Not Getting to Know You: Sympathetic DetachmentPart 1: Sympathetic DetachmentPart 2: Groupthink in Conrad and JamesCoda: Sympathy versus Empathy: The Ends of Sympathy at Century's EndNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe book will appeal to readers interested in the vital connection between literature and moral philosophy.Trade ReviewThis elegantly written book amounts to a defense of poetry... It is required reading in any case. Choice Generous, probing, and comprehensive. Wordsworth Circle Wordsworth's Ethics is a nuanced and carefully argued book that will command attention and respect from all romanticists... It is a great virtue of Potkay's book that without excessive reliance on the intentional fallacy, and with compelling new insights about important passages we thought we knew, its author is able to outline a system of thought that Wordsworth would almost certainly have endorsed. Modern Philology It is both a fine exposition of the workings of Wordsworth's verse, and a stirring defense of poetry, in an age in which the value of the humanities themselves is constantly being challenged. CerclesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Audition and Attachment2. Close Encounters I3. Close Encounters II4. The Ethics of Things5. Music versus Conscience6. Captivation and Liberty in Poems on Music7. The Moral Sublime8. Independence and Interdependence9. Surviving Death10. The Poetics of LifeEnvoyNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisHow practices from the digital analysis of texts both simplify and enhance traditional literary criticism. Honorable Mention, NAVSA Best Book of the Year by the North American Victorian Studies AssociationWhat is to be gained by reading George Eliot's Middlemarch from an Excel spreadsheet, or the novels of Charles Dickens through a few hundred dialogue tagsthose he said/she saids that bring his characters to life? Sarah Danielle Allison's Reductive Reading argues that the greatest gift the computational analysis of texts has given to traditional criticism is not computational at all. Rather, one of the most powerful ways to generate subtle reading is to be reductive; that is, to approach literary works with specific questions and a clear roadmap of how to look for the answers. Allison examines how patterns that form little part of our conscious experience of reading nevertheless structure our experience of books. Exploring Victorian moralizing at the level of the grammatical clause, Trade ReviewOne of the great pleasures of Allison's book is that it not only offers persuasive readings of familiar texts, but suggests new ways of reading them that others will want to try. Rereading novels by Dickens and Eliot afterwards, I could not help but see their syntax with a new awareness and appreciation . . . the reductive reading Allison describes and demonstrates in this book greatly expands our critical understanding.—Natalie M. Houston, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Review of English StudiesReductive Reading is sure to appeal to scholars interested in theory after 'distant reading.'—Kate Holterhoff, Collations Book Forum, V21 CollectiveAllison's book opens the door to some fascinating questions about contemporary critical practice.—Sheila Liming, Collations Book Forum, V21 CollectiveA masterful integration of digital humanistic approaches and more traditional close-reading methods, Reductive Reading makes a compelling, persuasive case for the way that the style of Victorian literature shaped morality.—Victorian Studies for the 21st CenturyReductive Reading is a lucid, original, and persuasive study of the ways in which ethical ideas take shape in the form of the sentence, the turn from clause to clause, the rapid, vertiginous descent from one poetic line to the next, or the ironic turn of the speech tag. Anyone interested in ethics and style will find a wealth of new knowledge and exciting insights in its pages.—Daniel Wright, University of Toronto, Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsList of ImagesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. In Defense of Reading Reductively2. The Shockingly Subtle Criticism of The London Quarterly Review, 1855-18613. Relative Clauses and the Narrative Present Tense in George Eliot4. Generalization and Declamation5. A Moral TechnologyConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSometimes a book just bowls you over with how good it is. For instance, I can remember starting my review of A. S. Byatt's Possession with the sentence 'Sometimes a critic just wants to say Wow.' Still, I never expected to feel anything approaching Nabokovian bliss when reading five lengthy biographical essays about figures and incidents from 19th-century British history. But Kathryn Hughes's Victorians Undone is just amazing, and her 'Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum' are so various, so imaginatively structured, so delicately salacious and so deliciously written that I sighed with pleasure as I turned the pages and even felt those tiny prickles along the neck that A. E. Housman once claimed were the sign of true poetry . . . This is popularized history done right, done with panache. Hughes has infused new life into dry-as-dust facts to produce a learned work that is brazenly, impudently vivacious.—Michael Dirda, Washington PostThe average biographer peers into a Great Man's mind. Kathryn Hughes's Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum, in contrast, narrates the lives of five body parts.—New York TimesThe tales are entertaining, but Hughes's real achievement is historical—amounting to a new understanding of, as she puts it, 'what it meant to be a human animal in the nineteenth century.'—The New YorkerLively, iconoclastic and consistently riveting, this is popular history in the best sense.—The Wall Street JournalThe body parts in these Tales of the Flesh . . . illuminate the wider cultural world in which their owners participated.—New York Review of BooksVictorians Undone is excellent at providing a sniff of the 19th century that other forms of life writing have discreetly ignored.—Public BooksIntriguing, gleefully contentious and—appropriately enough—fizzing with life, Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while.—The Daily MailA page-turner . . . brilliant all the way through. One of the best books I’ve read in ages.—Sunday ExpressThis lively study goes behind the frills and furbelows to explore aspects of the Victorians’ notoriously strange attitude to the body.—The GuardianElegantly sidestepping the usual clichés of Victorian history, from foggy streets to whimpering urchins, each page becomes a window on to a world that is far stranger than we might expect. It is writing that takes the raw materials of everyday life, starting with the body’s ‘bulges, dips, hollows, oozes and itches,’ and makes them live again. A dazzling experiment in life writing . . . Every page fizzes with the excitement of fresh discoveries.—The GuardianIt is rich and scholarly, something fascinating to be discovered on every page . . . Hughes is a thoroughly engaging writer: serious-minded but lively, careful yet passionate . . . Some of the encounters in its pages, whiffy and indelible, will stay with me for ever.—The ObserverVictorians Undone is a work of formidable scholarship, but Hughes has a fluid, jaunty style that propels the reader from idea to idea. Reading it is like unraveling the bandages on a mummy to find the face of the past staring back in all its terrible and poignant humanity.—Financial TimesHistory so alive you can smell its reek . . . With her love of bodily detail, Hughes does indeed put the carnal back into biography.—The TelegraphNo one remotely interested in books should miss it.—The Sunday TimesI can’t think of a recent social history I’ve enjoyed more.—The Big IssueBeautifully constructed, narrated not only with wit and gusto, but a clear sense of purpose.—Mail on SundaySex certainly rears its many heads, but so does every other aspect of Victorian life, from farming techniques to court etiquette, dentistry to oil painting.—The TimesHughes regularly surprises us by showing just how much her subjects’ physical selves impinged on their contributions to our culture, and sometimes on the very course of history.—The Times Literary SupplementDeeply researched and wonderfully entertaining . . . Hughes undoes conventional representations of the Victorians and connects us with them anew, alert to the pastness of the past, but also to its continuities with the present.—Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Lady Flora's Belly2. Charles Darwin's Beard3. George Eliot's Hand4. Fanny Cornforth's Mouth5. Sweet Fanny AdamsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSometimes a book just bowls you over with how good it is. For instance, I can remember starting my review of A. S. Byatt's Possession with the sentence 'Sometimes a critic just wants to say Wow.' Still, I never expected to feel anything approaching Nabokovian bliss when reading five lengthy biographical essays about figures and incidents from 19th-century British history. But Kathryn Hughes's Victorians Undone is just amazing, and her 'Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum' are so various, so imaginatively structured, so delicately salacious and so deliciously written that I sighed with pleasure as I turned the pages and even felt those tiny prickles along the neck that A. E. Housman once claimed were the sign of true poetry . . . This is popularized history done right, done with panache. Hughes has infused new life into dry-as-dust facts to produce a learned work that is brazenly, impudently vivacious.—Michael Dirda, Washington PostThe average biographer peers into a Great Man's mind. Kathryn Hughes's Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum, in contrast, narrates the lives of five body parts.—New York TimesThe tales are entertaining, but Hughes's real achievement is historical—amounting to a new understanding of, as she puts it, 'what it meant to be a human animal in the nineteenth century.'—The New YorkerLively, iconoclastic and consistently riveting, this is popular history in the best sense.—The Wall Street JournalThe body parts in these Tales of the Flesh . . . illuminate the wider cultural world in which their owners participated.—New York Review of BooksVictorians Undone is excellent at providing a sniff of the 19th century that other forms of life writing have discreetly ignored.—Public BooksIntriguing, gleefully contentious and—appropriately enough—fizzing with life, Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while.—The Daily MailA page-turner . . . brilliant all the way through. One of the best books I’ve read in ages.—Sunday ExpressThis lively study goes behind the frills and furbelows to explore aspects of the Victorians’ notoriously strange attitude to the body.—The GuardianElegantly sidestepping the usual clichés of Victorian history, from foggy streets to whimpering urchins, each page becomes a window on to a world that is far stranger than we might expect. It is writing that takes the raw materials of everyday life, starting with the body’s ‘bulges, dips, hollows, oozes and itches,’ and makes them live again. A dazzling experiment in life writing . . . Every page fizzes with the excitement of fresh discoveries.—The GuardianIt is rich and scholarly, something fascinating to be discovered on every page . . . Hughes is a thoroughly engaging writer: serious-minded but lively, careful yet passionate . . . Some of the encounters in its pages, whiffy and indelible, will stay with me for ever.—The ObserverVictorians Undone is a work of formidable scholarship, but Hughes has a fluid, jaunty style that propels the reader from idea to idea. Reading it is like unraveling the bandages on a mummy to find the face of the past staring back in all its terrible and poignant humanity.—Financial TimesHistory so alive you can smell its reek . . . With her love of bodily detail, Hughes does indeed put the carnal back into biography.—The TelegraphNo one remotely interested in books should miss it.—The Sunday TimesI can’t think of a recent social history I’ve enjoyed more.—The Big IssueBeautifully constructed, narrated not only with wit and gusto, but a clear sense of purpose.—Mail on SundaySex certainly rears its many heads, but so does every other aspect of Victorian life, from farming techniques to court etiquette, dentistry to oil painting.—The TimesHughes regularly surprises us by showing just how much her subjects’ physical selves impinged on their contributions to our culture, and sometimes on the very course of history.—The Times Literary SupplementDeeply researched and wonderfully entertaining . . . Hughes undoes conventional representations of the Victorians and connects us with them anew, alert to the pastness of the past, but also to its continuities with the present.—Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Lady Flora's Belly2. Charles Darwin's Beard3. George Eliot's Hand4. Fanny Cornforth's Mouth5. Sweet Fanny AdamsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFriedman meticulously delineates a queer aestheticist tradition distinct from earlier queer theory and anticipates what may become the aesthetic turn of queer theory.—Tara Thomas, Papers on Language and LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. Homoerotic Subjectivity in Walter Pater's Early Essays 2. Styles of Survival in Pater's Later Writings 3. Oscar Wilde's Lyric Performativity 4. Vernon Lee and the Specter of Lesbian History 5. Queering Indifference in Michael Field's Ekphrastic Poetry Coda Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook to Romanticism Studies is an accessible and indispensible resource providing students and scholars with a rich array of historical and up-to-date critical and theoretical contexts for the study of Romanticism.Trade Review“A Handbook of Romanticism Studiesis an engaging and exciting collection of essays edited by Joel Faflak and Julia M. Wright. Organised around a set of key terms – including ‘imagination’, and ‘poetics’, as well as ‘race’, ‘gender’, ‘drama’, ‘satire’, and ‘science’, – the volume charts the ‘sea changes’ that Romanticism studies has undergone during the last thirty years (p.6). . . In its declared endeavour ‘to help the reader through this renovated and diverse field’ (p.6), A Handbook is unquestionably successful.” (Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 25 November 2015) Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Joel Faflak and Julia M. Wright Part 1: Aesthetics and Media 17 1 Imagination 19 Richard C. Sha 2 Sensibility 37 Julie Ellison 3 Sublime 55 Anne Janowitz 4 Periodicals 69 Kristin Flieger Samuelian and Mark Schoenfield 5 Visual Culture 87 Sophie Thomas Part 2: Theories of Literature 105 6 Author 107 Elizabeth A. Fay 7 Reader 125 Stephen C. Behrendt 8 Poetics 143 Jacqueline Labbe 9 Narrative 159 Jillian Heydt-Stevenson 10 Drama 177 David Worrall 11 Gothic 195 Jerrold E. Hogle 12 Satire 213 Steven E. Jones Part 3: Ideologies and Institutions 225 13 Historiography 227 Ted Underwood 14 Ideology 245 Orrin N. C. Wang 15 Nation and Empire 259 Julia M. Wright 16 Class 277 Michael Scrivener 17 Race 289 Peter J. Kitson 18 Gender and Sexuality 307 Kari Lokke Part 4: Disciplinary Intersections 325 19 Philosophy 327 Marc Redfield 20 Religion 339 Michael Tomko 21 Science 357 Theresa M. Kelley 22 Medicine 375 James Robert Allard 23 Psychology 391 Joel Faflak Index 409

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Book SynopsisJane Austen and Comedy takes for granted two related notions. First, Jane Austen’s books are funny; they induce laughter, and that laughter is worth attending to for a variety of reasons. Second, Jane Austen’s books are comedies, understandable both through the generic form that ends in marriage after the potential hilarity of romantic adversity and through a more general promise of wish fulfillment. In bringing together Austen and comedy, which are both often dismissed as superfluous or irrelevant to a contemporary world, this collection of essays directs attention to the ways we laugh, the ways that Austen may make us do so, and the ways that our laughter is conditioned by the form in which Austen writes: comedy. Jane Austen and Comedy invites reflection not only on her inclusion of laughter and humor, the comic, jokes, wit, and all the other topics that can so readily be grouped under the broad umbrella that is comedy, but also on the idea or form of comedy itself, and on the way that this form may govern our thinking about many things outside the realm of Austen’s work. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Jane Austen and Comedy represents a long-overdue recognition of the sheer importance of Jane Austen's humor to critique her own society––and ours. Contributors to Erin M. Goss's essay collection navigate the tricky terrain of Austen's laughter, inviting readers to take seriously things not always taken seriously. In their nuanced and often sophisticated readings, they argue that her comedy, far from distracting from political reality or promoting insular nostalgia, signals resistance and even survival, for where tragedy forecloses possibility, comedy asserts a future." -- Jocelyn Harris * author of Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen *"Jane Austen and Comedy takes a fresh and capacious approach to its subject. These engaging contributions range from Eric Lindstrom’s reading of Austen as a philosophical humorist to Misty Krueger’s discussion of Austen’s fandom and contemporary “mashups.” Contributions by Erin Goss, Sean Dempsey, Michael Kramp and David Sigler and others bring together the generic history of comedy, elements of Freudian psychoanalysis, and nuanced readings of Austen’s texts to broaden our understanding of what comedy means in Austen and why it matters today." -- Toby Benis * author of Romantic Diasporas *"An impressive compilation of erudite, thoughtful and thought-provoking essays, Jane Austen and Comedy is a seminal work of extraordinary scholarship -- and one that is unreservedly recommended for community and academic library literary collections in general, and Jane Austen supplemental curriculum studies lists in particular." * Midwest Book Review *"Recommended." * Choice *"Jane Austen and Comedy, a collection of essays edited by Erin M. Goss, encourages us to look at Austen’s comedy, not as relief, but rather as a way of focusing on the serious issues from which we may turn to her fiction for relief." * SEL: Studies in English Literature *"Jane Austen and Comedy represents a long-overdue recognition of the sheer importance of Jane Austen's humor to critique her own society––and ours. Contributors to Erin M. Goss's essay collection navigate the tricky terrain of Austen's laughter, inviting readers to take seriously things not always taken seriously. In their nuanced and often sophisticated readings, they argue that her comedy, far from distracting from political reality or promoting insular nostalgia, signals resistance and even survival, for where tragedy forecloses possibility, comedy asserts a future." -- Jocelyn Harris * author of Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen *"Jane Austen and Comedy takes a fresh and capacious approach to its subject. These engaging contributions range from Eric Lindstrom’s reading of Austen as a philosophical humorist to Misty Krueger’s discussion of Austen’s fandom and contemporary “mashups.” Contributions by Erin Goss, Sean Dempsey, Michael Kramp and David Sigler and others bring together the generic history of comedy, elements of Freudian psychoanalysis, and nuanced readings of Austen’s texts to broaden our understanding of what comedy means in Austen and why it matters today." -- Toby Benis * author of Romantic Diasporas *"An impressive compilation of erudite, thoughtful and thought-provoking essays, Jane Austen and Comedy is a seminal work of extraordinary scholarship -- and one that is unreservedly recommended for community and academic library literary collections in general, and Jane Austen supplemental curriculum studies lists in particular." * Midwest Book Review *"Recommended." * Choice *"Jane Austen and Comedy, a collection of essays edited by Erin M. Goss, encourages us to look at Austen’s comedy, not as relief, but rather as a way of focusing on the serious issues from which we may turn to her fiction for relief." * SEL: Studies in English Literature *Table of ContentsIllustrations ... v Abbreviations ... vi Introduction: Austen and Comedy ... 1 Erin M. GossPart I. Comic Energy and Explosive Humor ... 27 One - Austen, Philosophy, and Comic Stylistics ... 28 Eric Lindstrom Two - Jane Austen: Comedy Against Happiness ... 62 David Sigler Three - “Open-Hearted”: Persuasion and the Cultivation of Good Humor ... 95 Sean DempseyPart II. (Emma’s) Laughter with a Purpose ... 121 Four - After the Laughter: Seeking Perfect Happiness in Emma ... 122 Soha Chung Five - The Comic Visions of Emma Woodhouse ... 148 Timothy ErwinPart III. Comedic Form, Comedic Effect ... 186 Six - On Austen, Comedy, and Future Possibility ... 187 Erin M. Goss Seven - Lost in the Comedy: Austen’s Paternalistic Men and the Problem of Accountability ...218 Michael Kramp Eight - Sense, Sensibility, Sea Monsters, and Carnivalesque Caricature ... 248 Misty Krueger Acknowledgments ... 272 Bibliography ... 273 Index ... 301 About the Contributors ... 302

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Book SynopsisFor most of the eighteenth century, automata were deemed a celebration of human ingenuity, feats of science and reason. Among the Romantics, however, they prompted a contradictory apprehension about mechanization and contrivance: such science and engineering threatened the spiritual nature of life, the source of compassion in human society. A deep dread of puppets and the machinery that propels them consequently surfaced in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature. Romantic Automata is a collection of essays examining the rise of this cultural suspicion of mechanical imitations of life. Recent scholarship in post-humanism, post-colonialism, disability studies, post-modern feminism, eco-criticism, and radical Orientalism has significantly affected the critical discourse on this topic. In engaging with the work and thought of Coleridge, Poe, Hoffmann, Mary Shelley, and other Romantic luminaries, the contributors to this collection open new methodological approaches to understanding human interaction with technology that strives to simulate, supplement, or supplant organic life. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Trade Review"Romantic Automata is fascinating if idiosyncratic, and I enjoyed reading the essays immensely. Exploring literary representations of the relationship between the mechanical and the human or organic, this well-researched collection brings a range of theoretical approaches and primary sources to bear on an otherwise largely canonical debate. The readings are insightful and original, the arguments compelling and clear." -- Ghislaine McDayter * author of Byromania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture *"Romantic Automata is a strong collection of essays that engages a broad spectrum of European Romanticism. It fills a real need in the current scholarship of Romanticism as it connects the literary fascination with automata, dolls, and machines of the early nineteenth century with contemporary theoretical concerns with gender representation and the posthuman." -- William Davis * author of Romanticism, Hellenism, and the Philosophy of Nature *"Romantic Automata is fascinating if idiosyncratic, and I enjoyed reading the essays immensely. Exploring literary representations of the relationship between the mechanical and the human or organic, this well-researched collection brings a range of theoretical approaches and primary sources to bear on an otherwise largely canonical debate. The readings are insightful and original, the arguments compelling and clear." -- Ghislaine McDayter * author of Byromania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture *"Romantic Automata is a strong collection of essays that engages a broad spectrum of European Romanticism. It fills a real need in the current scholarship of Romanticism as it connects the literary fascination with automata, dolls, and machines of the early nineteenth century with contemporary theoretical concerns with gender representation and the posthuman." -- William Davis * author of Romanticism, Hellenism, and the Philosophy of Nature *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors and Co-editors Introduction Michael Demson and Christopher R. Clason Chapters: Section I: Exhibitions 1. The Uncanny Valley: E. T. A. Hoffmann, Sigmund Freud, Masahiro Mori Frederick Burwick 2. The (Re-)Winding of Hoffmann’s Automata: from Offenbach’s 1881 Opera to Powell and Pressburger’s 1951 Film Ashley Shams 3. Wounded Bodies in the Lithographs of Théodore Géricault, 1818-1820 Peter Erickson Section II: Figures 4. Romantic Tales of Pseudo Automata: The Chess-Playing Turk in Hoffmann, Poe, and Benjamin Wendy Nielsen 5. On Toys, Violence, and Automated Gender Erin Goss 6. Automatic for All: Mary Shelley’s Posthuman Passion Kate Singer 7. “A little earthly idol to contract your ideas”: Global Hermeneutics in Phebe Gibbes’s Zoriada, or, Village Annals (1786) Kathryn Freeman Section III: Organisms 8. Schelling’s Uncanny Organism Stefani Engelstein 9. “it […] lives by dying”: S. T. Coleridge’s Mechanical Life and Colonial Necropolitics Lenora Hanson 10. The Metaphysical Machinery of Mining in Novalis’s Works Christina M. Weiler Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Best International Book Award from the Mormon History Association In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels, cartoons, and works of art focused on Mormons. Unlike American authors who portrayed Mormons as malevolent “others,” however, French dramatists used Mormonism to point out hypocrisy in their own culture. Aren't Mormon women, because of their numbers in a household, more liberated than French women who can't divorce? What is polygamy but another name for multiple mistresses? This new critical edition presents translations of four musical comedies staged or published in France in the late 1800s: Mormons in Paris (1874), Berthelier Meets the Mormons (1875), Japheth’s Twelve Wives (1890), and Stephana’s Jewel (1892). Each is accompanied by a short contextualizing introduction with details about the music, playwrights, and staging. Humorous and largely unknown, these plays use Mormonism to explore and mock changing French mentalities during the Third Republic, lampooning shifting attitudes and evolving laws about marriage, divorce, and gender roles. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Mormons in Paris is as erudite as it is enchanting. In their introduction, Corry Cropper and Christopher Flood show exceptional depth and breadth of knowledge about French theater, opera, and light opera and their place in late nineteenth-century French culture. The language of the translations is natural and readable, and the little songs in verse are especially delightful." -- Susan McCready * author of Staging France between the World Wars *"This well-introduced collection of little-known musical comedies featuring French characterizations of Mormonism is a welcome contribution to nineteenth-century French cultural studies. The translations themselves are excellent . . . the authors’ choices of idiomatic expressions capture just the right tone, neither anachronistically modern nor too archaic to retain their impact." -- Andrea Goulet * co-editor of Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics *"Mormons in Paris is as erudite as it is enchanting. In their introduction, Corry Cropper and Christopher Flood show exceptional depth and breadth of knowledge about French theater, opera, and light opera and their place in late nineteenth-century French culture. The language of the translations is natural and readable, and the little songs in verse are especially delightful." -- Susan McCready * author of Staging France between the World Wars *"This well-introduced collection of little-known musical comedies featuring French characterizations of Mormonism is a welcome contribution to nineteenth-century French cultural studies. The translations themselves are excellent . . . the authors’ choices of idiomatic expressions capture just the right tone, neither anachronistically modern nor too archaic to retain their impact." -- Andrea Goulet * co-editor of Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1: Mormons in Paris Louis Leroy and Alfred Delacour Chapter 2: Berthelier Meets the Mormons Chapter 3: Japheth’s Twelve Wives Antony Mars and Maurice Desvallières Chapter 4: Stephana’s Jewel Arthur Bernède and Albert Dubarry Acknowledgements Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1899, The Symbolist Movement in Literature was a highly influential work of criticism, and served to introduce the French Symbolists to an Anglophone readership. Symons' interest in writers such as Paul Verlaine and Stephane Mallarme puts him at the heart of contemporary debates about Decadence and Symbolism in fin-de-siecle literature; but his work was also a formative influence on modernist writers such as Joyce, Eliot, Pound and Yeats, helping to shape the role of the Image in modernist writing. This new critical edition makes available a key text that has been out of print for over 50 years, and includes the essays that Symons added to the expanded edition of his book in 1919. It also includes an introduction, chronology and notes, together with appendices presenting the full text of Symons' essay 'The Decadent Movement in Literature' and a selection of his translations of poems by Verlaine and Mallarme.

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Book SynopsisThis text gathers together all of John Clare's autobiographical writing. The book extends, corrects and replaces the "Autobiographical Writings of John Clare", edited by Eric Robinson (Oxford, 1983). Clare's "Journal" is set beside "Sketches" and "Autobiographical Fragments", as well as his "Journey Out of Essex". Extracts from his asylum letters are included, his will, and two maps of Clare's countryside and his "Journey".

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Book SynopsisA unique opportunity to examine the apprenticeship of a great writer, this selection of poems composed between 1785 and 1790 reveals a precocious and remarkably accomplished early talent and shows that even in his earliest work, Wordsworth was already preoccupied with the themes that would later be explored fully in "The Prelude,"

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