Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
Penguin Books Ltd A Tramp Abroad Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisTwain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical tidbits, and historical anecdotes in a consistently entertaining narrative. Cast in the form of a walking tour through Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy, A TRAMP ABROAD includes among its adventures a voyage by raft down the Neckar and an ascent of Mount Blanc by telescope, as well as the author's attempts to study art - a wholly imagined activity Twain 'authenticated' with his own wonderfully primitive pictures included in this volume.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series Trade Review“[A Tramp Abroad] is delicious, whether you open it at the sojourn in Heidelberg, or the voyage down the Neckar on a raft, or mountaineering in Switzerland, or the excursion beyond the Alps into Italy.” —William Dean Howells
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Penguin Books Ltd Records of Shelley Byron and the Author
Book SynopsisEdward John Trelawny (1792-1881) was one of the most curious figures of the English Romantic Movement, and spent his long life travelling extensively as a naval officer, biographer and adventurer. After a brief education, Trelawny was assigned as a volunteer in the Royal Navy by the age of thirteen, and led an unaccomplished naval career until his resignation at nineteen. He met Shelley and Byron in Italy in 1822, where he became fascinated, almost hypnotized, by the two poets. His Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author, written after both their deaths, is the end-product of this strange obsession. An incorrigible romancer, Trelawny had three marriages - the second of which was to Tersitza, sister of the Greek warlord Odysseus Androutsos, whose cause he had joined and whose mountain fortress he looked after when Odysseus was arrested. He died after a fall at the age of eighty-eight, in England, and his ashes were buried in Rome in a plot adjacent to Shelley's grave.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Portable NineteenthCentury African American
Book SynopsisA landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil War. Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections of memoir, poetry, and essays on feminism, education, and the legacy of African American women writers. Many of these pieces engage with social movements like abolition, women’s suffrage, temperance, and civil rights, but the thematic center is the intellect and personal ambition of African American women. The diverse selection includes well-known writers like Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts,Trade Review“An extraordinary historical record.”—The New York Times Book Review“A rewarding history, and a reminder that the past is never a single narrative. It's a conversation with itself and with the present, well worth having.”—NPR
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Penguin Books Ltd Minor Notes Volume 1 Poems by a Slave Visions of
Book SynopsisThe first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by Tracy K. SmithA Penguin ClassicJoshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy repeatedly found themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they came across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten journals whose work has been neglected or entirely ignored, even by scholars of Black poetry. Minor Notes is an excavation initiative that recovers and curates archival materials from these understudied, though supremely gifted, African American poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and aims to bridge scholarly interest with the growing general audience who reads, writes, and circulates poetry within that tradition. As Minor Notes clarifies, the work of contemporary Black poets is perhaps best understood through the lens of a long-standing tradTrade Review“You feel you’re meeting them on a human level. The book is slim and portable, as the best poetry books are (…) Bennett and McCarthy, in their introduction, set out their criteria for inclusion in ‘Minor Notes.’ They list things like ‘minimal appearance’ in anthologies and ‘very little, if anything, in the way of secondary literature focusing on their work.’ But it becomes plain that they chose these poets because they still speak across generations. This is a passion project.(…) This is a reclamation project that goes through you like a spear.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times “Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy, both scholars of African American literature, aim to widen the canon of Black poetry by spotlighting poets who have been overlooked (…) giving readers an understanding of their unique voice and poetic concerns. (…) David Wadsworth Cannon Jr., Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Anne Spencer, and other poets interrogate everything from labor politics to friendship in finely wrought lyrics that delight and surprise, prompting the reader to wonder how these geniuses could have been sidelined for so long.” —Poets & Writers“The first in a series recovering the out-of-print words of Black poets whose work shaped the 19th and 20th centuries, Minor Notes, Volume 1 draws a bright line between the creations of the past and those of today’s bards. Curated by Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy, while featuring a foreword from former poet laureate Tracy K. Smith, the book centers clear, resonant voices—like that of Angelina Weld Grimké’s, who ruminates joyfully on the beauty of living in a Black body.”—Essence
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Oxford University Press The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Book SynopsisOne of America''s most celebrated poets, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her lifetime. When a slim volume of her poems emerged on the American scene in 1890, her work created shockwaves that have not subsided yet. Famously precise and sparse, Emily Dickinson''s poetry is often described as philosophical, both because her poetry grapples with philosophical topics like death, spirituality, and the darkening operations of the mind, and because she approaches those topics in a characteristically philosophical manner: analyzing and extrapolating from close observation, exploring alternatives, and connecting thoughts into cumulative demonstrations. But unlike Lucretius or Pope, she cannot be accused of producing versified treatises. Many of her poems are unsettling in their lack of conclusion; their disparate insights often stand in conflict; and her logic turns crucially on imagery, juxtaposition, assonance, slant rhyme, and punctuation. The six chapters of this volume collectiTable of ContentsEditor's Introduction: Emily Dickinson's Epistemic Ambitions for Poetry Chapter 1: Forms of Emotional Knowing and Unknowing: Skepticism and Belief in Dickinson's Poetry, Rick Anthony Furtak Chapter 2: Interiority and Expression in Dickinson's Lyrics, Magdalena Ostas Chapter 3: How to Know Everything, Oren Izenberg Chapter 4: Form and Content in Emily Dickinson's Poetry, Antony Aumann Chapter 5: The Uses of Obstruction, David Hills Chapter 6: Dickinson and Pivoting Thought, Eileen John
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Oxford University Press Praeterita
Book Synopsis''For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I had thought.''John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the Italian Middle Ages; a social critic whose aspiration for, and disappointment in, the future of Great Britain was expressed in some of the most vibrant prose in the language. Ruskin''s incomplete autobiography was written between periods of serious mental illness at the end of his career, and is an eloquent analysis of the guiding powers of his life, both public and private. An elegy for lost places and people, Praeterita recounts Ruskin''s intense childhood, his time as an undergraduate at Oxford, and, most of all, his journeys across France, the Alps, and northern Italy. Attentive to the human or divine meaning of everything around him, Praeterita is an astonishing account of revelation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s ClassicsTrade Reviewa valuable addition to Ruskin studies ... Francis O'Gorman is a sensitive, intelligent and eloquent guide to Praeterita ... detailed and helpful endnotes. * The Companion *The editing and annotation are exemplary * Jan Marsh, Times Literary Supplement *Thanks to O'Gorman, the experience of reading Praeterita has achieved luminous transparency, and it is to be hoped that his new, very finely edited edition finds its way on to book shelves and into syllabuses ... O'Gorman's introduction deserves special praise ... The explanatory notes provide essential guidance and clarification, especially for the neophyte reader of Ruskin. * Carlyle Studies Annual *
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Oxford University Press William Blake
Book SynopsisThis volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of William Blake (1757-1827). The edition features a selection of Blake's poetry, illuminated poetry, and prose, and includes an Introduction, Chronology, and full commentary notes.Trade ReviewThe latest edition of Blakes selected works rich with both textual and explanatory annotations and 120 black-and-white images. * Wayne C. Ripley, An Illustrated Quarterly *Peter Otto's William Blake (Oxford, 2018) presents the latest edition of Blake's selected works. Part of the 21st-Centu-ry Oxford Authors series, the book runs over 800 pages, and is rich with both textual and explanatory annotations and 120 black-and-white images. The works are arranged chronologically rather than generically, even to the point of offering Songs of Innocence alone and again with Songs of Experience. * Wayne C. Ripley, Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chronology From Poetical Sketches (1783) [An Island in the Moon] (c.1785) From Annotations to Lavater's Aphorisms on Man (1788) All Religions Are One (1788) There Is No Natural Religion (1788) From Annotations to Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell (1784; notes c.1789) Songs of Innocence (1789) The Book of Thel (1789) From Annotations to Swedenborg's Divine Love and Divine Wisdom (1788; notes c.1790) From Annotations to Swedenborg's Divine Providence (1790; notes c.1790) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790) From The Notebook (c.1791-93) Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) America a Prophecy (1793) To the Public [Prospectus] (1793) From The Notebook (c.1793) For Children: The Gates of Paradise (1793) Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) Europe a Prophecy (1794) The First Book of Urizen (1794) The Song of Los (1795) The Book of Ahania (1795) The Book of Los (1795) From Vala or The Four Zoas (1797-c.1807) From The Notebook (c.1797-99) From Annotations to Watson's An Apology for the Bible (1797; notes 1798) From Annotations to Bacon's Essays (1798; notes c.1798) From Annotations to The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1798; notes c.1798-1809) Letters [1799-1800] From Annotations to Boyd's Translation of the Inferno (1785; notes c.1800) Letters [1802-3] Memorandum in Refutation of the . . . Complaint of John Scolfield (August 1803] Letters [1803-4] From The Notebook (c.1803-04) Milton a Poem (c.1804-1811) [The Pickering Manuscript] (c.1805-07) From The Notebook (c.1807-09) Blake's Exhibition (1809) From Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (1804-c.1820) From [A Vision of the Last Judgment] (1810) From [A Public Address to the Chalcographic Society] (c.1810) Europe, Title page (late revisions, c.1815-20) From Annotations to Spurzheim's Observations (1817; notes c.1818) Letters [1818] The Everlasting Gospel (c.1818) For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise (1820) Annotations to Berkeley's Siris (1744; notes c.1820) From Annotations to Wordsworth's Preface to The Excursion (1814; notes 1826) From Annotations to Wordsworth's Poems (1815; notes 1826) From Annotations to Thornton's The Lord's Prayer (1827) Letter [1827] On Homers Poetry and On Virgil (c.1820) The Ghost of Abel (1822) [Jehovah]& his two Sons Satan & Adam [The Laocoön] (c.1826-27) List of Abbreviations Notes Index of Titles and First Lines
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Oxford University Press American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon
Book SynopsisWhat if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their polity and society. While some informed their thinking with reference to classical texts, which comprehensively consider tyranny''s dangers, most drew on a more contemporary source--Napoleon Bonaparte, the century''s most famous man and its most notorious tyrant. Because Napoleon defined tyranny around the nineteenth-century Atlantic world--its features and emergence, its relationship to democratic institutions, its effects on persons and peoples--he provides a way for nineteenth-century Americans to explore the parameters of tyranny and their complicity in its cruelties. Napoleon helps us see the decidedly plural forms of tyranny in the US, bringing their fictions into focus. At the same time, however, there are distinctly American modes of tyranny. From the tyrannical style of the American imagination to the usurping potential of American individualism, Elizabeth Duquette shows that tyranny is as American as democracy.Trade ReviewElizabeth Duquette has written an ambitious, monumental book that proposes a fundamental reframing of the nineteenth century as the long age of Napoleon. Dislodging "democracy" as the nation's mythic political basis and putting "tyranny" in its place, Duquette amasses a substantial archive of America's obsession with Napoleon Bonaparte to develop a thoroughly convincing account of the multiple tyrannies that stand at the foundation of US political culture-from the actual oppression of slavery to those purported incursions on the liberty of aggrieved elites that form the "tyrannical style" of nineteenth-century political discourse. * Jennifer Greiman, Wake Forest University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Dispatches Introduction: Seeing Tyranny 1: Tyranny in America, or David Walker 2: The Tyrannical Style of American Politics 3: Raking Imperial Muck 4: The Bedazzler 5: Napoleonic Codes 6: Séjour's Spectacles 7: Young Men From the Provinces Coda: Napoleon Complex, or Mad About Napoleon Bibliography Notes Index
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Oxford University Press Charles Dickens
Book SynopsisCharles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world''s best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Even before reading the works of Dickens many people have met him already in some form or another. His characters have such vitality that they have leapt from his pages to enjoy flourishing lives of their own: The Artful Dodger, Miss Havisham, Scrooge, Fagin, Mr Micawber, and many many more. His portrait has been in our pockets, on our ten-pound notes; he is a national icon, indeed himself a generator of what Englishness signifies. In this Very Short Introduction Jenny Hartley explores the key themes running through Dickens''s corpus of works, and considers how they reflect his attitudes towards the harsh realities of nineteenth century society and its institutions, such as the workhouses and prisons. Running alonside this is Dickens''s relish of the carnivalesque; if there is a prison in almost every novel, there is also a theatre. She considers Dickens''s multiple lives and careers: as magazine editor for two thirds of his working life, as travel writer and journalist, and his work on behalf of social causes including ragged schools and fallen women. She also shows how his public readings enthralled the readers he wanted to reach but also helped to kill him. Finally, Hartley considers what we mean when we use the term ''Dickensian'' today, and how Dickens''s enduring legacy marks him out as as a novelist different in kind from others. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable. This book was previously published in hardback as Charles Dickens: An IntroductionTrade ReviewA fair, entertaining and careful chronicler of Dickens's life, and an illuminating and inspiring reader of his works. For those unfamiliar with his writing, Charles Dickens: An introduction offers the best brief guide now available. For those of us who know it well, it encourages us to return to Dickens with renewed enthusiasm and an enlarged heart. * Times Literary Supplement *Jenny Hartley [...] has achieved a miracle of compression in this charmingly packaged book ... the success of this pocket guide, however, lies in her clever selection of themes and emphases, and in her ability to relate all things Dickensian to the way we live now. * Michael Wheeler, Church Times Summer Books Supplement *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Note on editions used 1: More 2: Public and private 3: Character and plot 4: City laureate 5: Radical Dickens 6: Dickensian Timeline Further reading Index
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Oxford University Press Frankenstein
Book SynopsisThe most celebrated horror story ever written. The dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs and animates a creature from dead body parts - with catastrophic results.Trade Reviewprobably the most brilliantly comprehensive introduction to Frankenstein that I have ever read. Even if you've read the book ... ou have to buy this finely produced OUP annotated edition to enjoy Nick Grooms distillation of Frankenstein's ideas and challenges: especially so as this is the first raw 1818 edition." * Magonia Review *wonderful * Oliver Tearle, Interesting Literature *a quality edition ... it uses the original 1818 text and ... it tells us so much about the author and her history; it is both a novel and a very useful reference book. And what is more, it both looks and feels good - well worthy of a place on your shelves. * Peter Tyers, Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation *
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Oxford University Press William Wordsworth
Book SynopsisIn this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill draws on knowledge of the poet''s creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat the poet''s later years as of little interest, this biography presents a narrative of the whole of Wordsworth''s long life--1770 to 1850--tracing the development from the adventurous youth who alone of the great Romantic poets saw life in revolutionary France to the old man who became Queen Victoria''s Poet Laureate. The various phases of Wordsworth''s life are explored with a not uncritical sympathy; the narrative brings out the courage he and his wife and family were called upon to show as they crafted the life they wanted to lead. While the emphasis is on Wordsworth the writer, the personal relationships that nourished his creativity are fully treated, as are the historical circumstances that affected the production of his poetry. Wordsworth, it is widely believed, valued poetic spontaneity. He did, but he also took pains over every detail of the process of publication. The foundation of this second edition of the biography remains, as it was of the first, a conviction that Wordsworth''s poetry, which has given pleasure and comfort to generations of readers in the past, will continue to do so in the years to come.Trade ReviewThose who do not own the first edition should acquire this one...Essential. * T. Ware, Queen's University at Kingston, CHOICE *One of the many enjoyments of Stephen Gill's William Wordsworth: A Life is the quiet pride it communicates in a job well done. Wordsworth emerges from this comprehensive and absorbing study as a man whose sense of purpose and duty steadily grew from youth to old age. * Freya Johnston, The Guardian *[William Wordsworth: A Life] is judicious, fair-minded, panoptic. * Brad Leithauser, The Wall Street Journal *The richly revised second edition of Gill's biography (the first appeared in 1990), refuses the usual trajectory and instead celebrates 'a multifaceted, highly creative life of eighty years'. * Thomas Keymer, London Review of Books *A magnificent second edition, which displays the same qualities of quiet authority, tact and resistance to speculation, and thus merits consideration as a work in its own right. * Pamela Clemit, Times Literary Supplement *Reading Gill's work is a reminder of the pleasures and advantages of whole life biography. * Kathryn Hughes, New York Review of Books *Gill gives us the Wordsworth who bore life's tribulations as a philosopher, the Wordsworth renowned as a poet, but also the deeply human portrait of Wordsworth the man. * Chris Townsend, The Wordsworth Trust *Gill is the leading authority on the poet and writes in great detail about his life and work; an essential book for all students. * Robert Tanitch, The Mature Times *An essential companion to students of Wordsworth with much to offer the general reader. * Will Smith, Cumbria Life *This biography not only presents Wordsworth in the round, but also grants us a peep into his very soul. * Steve Craggs, Northern Echo *Stephen Gill's masterly and immensely readable "William Wordsworth: A Life". * Michael Dirda, The Washington Post *Review from previous edition The most scholarly and up-to-date book on Wordsworth... His judgement and interests are eminently sensible and show a full picture of Wordsworth. * Nikolai Tolstoy, Daily Mail *Impressive new Clarendon biography ...William Wordsworth: A Life is every inch the new definitive work. Gill has taken full account of Wordsworth studies in the past 30 years, blended the new materials with the old, and come out with a book that is scholarly, readable, likely to last. * Jonathan Wordsworth, Sunday Times *excellent biography of Wordsworth ... Gill is master of the very extensive primary and secondary sources, and a particular expert on the manuscripts, which the poet subjected to constant revision. * William Scammell, The Listener *not least among the virtues of this excellent biography is the way in which Stephen Gill balances the inner against the external man ... This is the kind of biography which any writer would be delighted to inspire, let alone deserve ... it is a measure of the significance of this biography that its seriousness matches that of Wordsworth itself. * Peter Ackroyd, The Times *all stolid good sense * Blake Morrison, The Bookseller *thorough, scholarly biography * Anthony Powell, Weekend Telegraph *Stephen Gill's new biography ... is enormously well-informed and avoids extravagant speculation, ... It provides an entertaining, shrewd, and manageably-sized narrative of Wordsworth's life * Peter Swaab, Sunday Telegraph *Stephen Gill's admirable biography ... it succeeds, where such biographies often fail, in transforming the life into the work by actively exploring, not avoiding, the complex problems that Wordsworth's self-account presents to his biographer. * London Review of Books *lively, painstaking book * Archie Hind, Glasgow Herald *Gill has already proved himself as an editor of Wordsworth's manuscripts and now turns that research to elegant profit. * Anthony Lane, Independent *It is difficult to see how a biography of Wordsworth could be enthralling, but Stephen Gill has made his so. This densely particularised and humane biography returns us anew to the poet's questions with an inwardness and sympathy few previous writers have displayed. * Isobel Armstrong, Southampton University, TES *the first comprehensive biography of Wordsworth since Mary Moorman's 30 years ago. * Blake Morrison, Observer *not many biographies are so admirably devoid of pretentiousness, silliness, and banality. * Chloe Chard, Weekend Financial Times *in Stephen Gill's monumental work, exacting, controlled, measured and profound, we have a moving portrait of a great poet the confirming of whose reputation has been substantially advanced by Gill's scholarship and judgment. * Bruce Arnold, Irish Independent *Gill is an immensely learned, scrupulous and judicious guide ... It is a mark of a good biography that the peripheral figures - the friends and acquaintances - are brought to life by a few swift, bold strokes ... A new biography of Wordsworth was certainly needed, and this one will be an indispensable companion for Lake Poet enthusiasts. Its insights are astute and its choice of quotation excellent; it could not have condensed more information into a single volume, yet it never becomes a mere procession of facts ... this volume is fluent and comprehensive. * Jonathan Bate, Country Life *a large, very readable study by Oxford scholar Stephen Gill who makes use of much fresh material. * Michael Field, The Star *thorough and scholarly biography ... Many books have been on Wordsworth, but this one takes a fresh look at contemporary records and the mass of material which has been unearthed since the last serious biography, a quarter-of-a-century ago. * John Hurst, Cumberland & Westmorland Herald *What Gill has done, very well, is to match the poetry to the poet's development. Gill, with his illuminating extracts, saves us from our own ignorance. * Anthony Hern, London Evening Standard *this biography clears new and central ground for future academic revaluations of the poet and his work ... It renders Wordsworth newly accessible and calls attention to his reciprocal relation to, and profound effects on, the national life. * New York Times Book Review *a lovingly told story * Christopher Hall, The Countryman *a thorough and detailed study of Wordsworth's life in relation to the poetry ... Gill is a thoughtful critic as well as a careful biographer ... sympathetic study. * J. B. Pick, The Scotsman *When dealing with politics or family matters Gill can be very shrewd, and especially so in his subtle account of the growing strains between Wordsworth and Coleridge after 1800. And on textual matters Gill writes with an authority well beyond that of any previous biographer. Many of his poetry discussions are first rate, sensitive and illuminating. * Norman Fruman, Times Literary Supplement *an eminently accessible as well as definitive study of the poet's life. * Sunday Times *not a general biography of the Great Lakes poet, nor is it merely a critique of his work ... It is an authoritative and readable study ... of Wordsworth's writing in an effort to lay bare the poet's life as a writer of poetry "full of human understanding and experience." ... a fascinating and enlightening study ... few will deny it's value in bringing the man and his work into fresh perspective. * Evelyn Holtzhausen, Cape Times *This isn't a critical book ... and discussion of the poetry is carefully fused with Wordsworth's self-discussion. ... this biography is good value ... Always well-written, it wears its substantial scholarship lightly * Simon Petch, Sydney Morning Herald *Stephen Gill ... has written what must now be the definitive biography ... a multitudinous life about which, even after reading this thorough and admirable biography we still wish we knew more. * David Parkin, Yorkshire Post *a model literary biography * Bernard Bergonzi, The Tablet *compendious new biography of William Wordsworth ... solidly constructed * Chicago Tribune *the biography is both scholarly and readable ... If William Wordsworth: A Life brings new readers to the poems or old readers back it will have succeeded admirably in its aim. * Peter Dyson, University of Toronto, The Globe and Mail *Gill has performed a remarkable act of revisionary scholarship by shifting the bulk of the story to the years at Rydal Mount ... this is a distinguished work of literary biography ... The biographer's wide-ranging knowledge of the period adds immensely to the success of this study. It will be many years before another biography of Wordsworth is required. * Jay Parini, USA Today *He offers a more factually meticulous version of the poet's early years to stand beside the mythopoeic self-presentation of the poetry. He understands the importance of Wordsworth's inner life. Gill's biography quietly but memorably reveals the drama of Wordsworth's life. * Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor *fine new biography ... Mr Gill's biography is up-to-date in its scholarship ... It neither sentimentalizes nor oversimplifies. * Richard Locke, Columbia University, Wall Street Journal *all stolid good sense * John Linklater, The Bookseller *this biography contains much to interest scholars * Henry Bartlett, The Courier-Mail *it is robust and intelligent on his marvellous body of poetry * Observer *Gill's narrative is well-paced and well-written. Gill's account is comprehensive and engaging, and skilful in its corporation of biographical detail. The Wordsworth specialist, as well as the general reader, will come away from it refreshed and inspired. * Charles Rzepka, Boston University, Essays in Criticism *eloquent and straight-forward retelling of Wordsworth's life * J.D. Gutteridge, Notes and Queries *triumphantly reconciles a vast amount of material to produce a life of Wordsworth that is sensitive to modern scholarship and faithful to the age in which the poet himself lived ... Stephen Gill has written a biography of Wordsworth for our times, and it will remain the standard life of the poet for many years to come. * Nicholas Roe, University of St Andrews, Review of English Studies, Vol. XLI, No. 164, Nov '90 *An assured blend of old and recently-researched material which combines fluently into a vibrant study of the poet. Mr Gill avoids wild speculation and brings us the essence of the man thankfully devoid of spurious conjecture. * Tony Firth, Yorkshire Post *a unique look at this Romantic poet * Windsor Star *Table of ContentsPart I: BEGININGS 1: 1770-1787 2: 1787-1792 3: 1793-1795 4: 1795-1797 5: 1797-1798 6: 1798-1799 Part II: MIDDLE YEARS 7: 1800-1802 8: 1803-1805 9: 1806-1810 10: 1810-1815 11: 1816-1820 Part III: LATER YEARS 12: 1820-1822 13: 1822-1832 14: 1833-1839 15: 1840-1850
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Companion to the Brontës
Book SynopsisThis Companion brings together a wealth of information about the perennially fascinating lives and writings of the Brontë sisters. In addition, wide-ranging articles enable the reader to see them in their literary and social context, and to trace their enduring influence on the work of other writers.Trade ReviewThe anniversary edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës is a carefully compiled, extended reissue of the comprehensive volume of scholarship first published in 2003. Its timely publication contributes to the exciting increase in scholarship on the Brontë siblings to commemorate the bicentenaries of their births. * Tamara S. Wagner, 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries of the Early Modern Era *Brontë scholars will be pleased to see Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith's magisterial The Oxford Companion to the Brontës: Anniversary edn., with A-Z entries for almost anything, as well as a chronology, maps and longer entries for broader topics. * Pamela K. Gilbert, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *I have spent many happy hours dipping in and out and reading it over the last few months wondering where to start to extoll is virtues and joys This really is a glorious book, it is a treasure trove of information and a must have for all Bronte lovers. * Random Jottings *Wonderfully detailed * Christopher Hirst and Christina Patterson, Independent *This book is a must...A treasure trove of a book * Brian Maye, Irish Times *impressively academic and comprehensive * Times Literary Supplement *It's as authoritative as you'd expect, with more than 2,000 entries ... Even if you are not an academic seeking facts, you could browse absorbingly for hours. * Harry Mead, The Northern Echo *Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceEditors and ContributorsClassified Contents ListAbbreviationsChronologyMapsNote to the ReaderTHE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE BRONTËS: A-ZDialect and Obsolete WordsBibliography
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Oxford University Press A Christmas Carol
Book SynopsisA Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe or plum pudding. This edition reprints the story alongside Dickens's four other Christmas Books: The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man.Trade ReviewAnother brilliant edition of the timeless classic. * Paul Norman, Books Monthly *A lovely new hardback edition from Oxford World's Classics. It's beautifully produced, with some of the original illustrations for each story, and is one of those volumes that is a physical pleasure to read... Id say it is perfect Christmas gift material for any Dickens fan, except Id never be willing to give my copy away! * Leah Galbraith, Goodreads *Table of ContentsA Christmas CarolThe ChimesThe Cricket on the HearthThe Battle of LifeThe Haunted Man
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Oxford University Press Poetry and Radical Politics in Fin de Siecle France
Book SynopsisPoetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France explores the relations between poetry and politics in France in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The period covers the most important developments in modern French poetry: from the post-Commune climate that spawned the ''decadent'' movement, through to the (allegedly) ivory-towered aestheticism of Mallarmé and the Symbolists. In terms of French politics, history, and culture, the period was no less dramatic, with the legacy of the Commune, the political and financial instability that followed, the anarchist campaigns, the Dreyfus affair, and the growth of Action française. This study demonstrates the connections between the anti-Symbolist reaction of the école romane of 1891 (in which Charles Maurras first made his name) and the far-right cultural politics of Action française in the early twentieth century. It also redefines many of the debates about late nineteenth-century French poetry by complicating the political engagemTrade ReviewCombining close reading with broad theoretical questions, Patrick McGuinness's latest book is a thorough, lively, and multidimensional study of the relation, or rather relations, between poetry and radical politics ... scholars interested in fin-de-siècle poetry and politics and non-specialists interested in a context-based theoretical articulation of the relations between poetry and politics will find much to provoke further question and analysis. * Cory Browning, Nineteenth-Century French Studies *Perhaps the greatest of the many strengths of this book is its author's clear exposition of the complicated nature of the poetic, cultural, and political scene of the fin de siècle. The style is lively, witty, and engaging - the novelist's hand is in evidence - but also accessible to those who are not specialists of poetry. Professor McGuinness's book thus makes an important contribution to the field and should be of great interest not only to literary specialists of French poetry and modernism, but also to historians who explore the intersection of culture and politics at the fin de siècle. * Modernist Cultures *He [McGuinness] shows us how poets at the time grappled with these issues. Most failed to grasp them, Mallarmé being a major exception. One of the revelations of the book is Pierre Quillard, who appears in this account to be the most lucid contemporary analyst of relations between Symbolism and politics. McGuinness emerges as a very worthy successor to Mallarmé and Quillard in his unfolding of such relations. Like them, through analyses that somehow seem to go to the heart of what poetry is, he shows us how and why poetry and politics draw on each other, but resist being mapped on to each other. * Forum of Modern Language Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Poetry, Politics, and the Legacies of Romanticism 1: The Language of Politics in Symbolist and Decadent Polemic 2: Symbolism and Literary Anarchism 3: Symbolists and Anarchists 4: The École romane: An arrière-garde within the avant-garde 5: Reactionary Poetics: Maurras and the École romane Afterword Selective Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press By Accident or Design
Book Synopsis''Ohe banks of the Thames it is a tremendous chapter of accidents''. As Henry James surveys London in 1888, he sums up what had fascinated urban observers for a century: the random and even accidental development of this unprecedented form of human settlement, the modern metropolis. By Accident or Design: Writing the Victorian Metropolis takes James at his word, arguing that accident was both a powerful metaphor and material context through which the Victorians arrested the paradoxes of metropolitan modernity and reconfigured understandings of form and change. Paul Fyfe shows how the material conditions of urban accidents offer new and compelling modes of analysis for intellectual and literary history. Through extensive archival study and interdisciplinary analysis of urban-industrial accidents, risk management, and civic improvements, By Accident or Design reclaims the metropolis as ground zero for some of the most important thinking about causation in the nineteenth century. It demonstrates the centrality of interdependent concepts of design and accident not only to metropolitan discourse, but also to current critical discourse about the formal and circulatory dynamics of Victorian metropolitan writing. Thus, this book offers a new vocabulary for the dialectics of the modern city and the signature forms of writing about it, including the newspaper, the illustrated periodical, the industrial novel, and urban broadsheets.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition The material here is fascinating ... [Fyfe] has provided readers with stimulating new ways of looking at a broad literary spectrum and that is a considerable achievement. * Jacqueline Banerjee, The Times Literary Supplement *an absorbing and complex piece of work ... There is a critical self-awareness throughout; the book is engaging and methodologically alert ... Fyfe's ability to bring together concerns of urban and intellectual history, literary criticism, archival theory, and more, certainly makes this a stimulating read. * Anna Feintuck, Reviews in History *By Accident or Design constitutes a thoughtful and richly dense literary-historical study of chance, risk and accident in the Victorian city, and one that is alert to the many debates with which it engages. * Ben Moore, Dickens Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Accidents in the News 2: Dickens and the Traffic of Accidents 3: Industrial Accidents and Novel Insurances 4: Street Literature and the Remediation of Accident 5: Chaos and Connections on the Victorian Railway Afterword: An Accidental Excursion
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Oxford University Press The Authors Effects On Writers House Museums
Book SynopsisThe Author''s Effects: On the Writer''s House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer''s house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been mythologised through the conventions of the writer''s house museum, The Author''s Effects anatomises the how and why of the emergence, establishment, and endurance of popular notions of authorship in relation to creativity.It traces how and why the writer''s bodily remains, possessions, and spaces came to be treasured in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as a prelude to the appearance of formal writer''s house museums. It ransacks more than 100 museums and archives to tell the stories of celebrated and paradigmatic relicsBurns'' skull, Keats'' hair, Petrarch''s cat, Poe''s raven, Brontë''s bonnet, Dickinson''s dress, Shakespeare''s chair, Austen''s desk, Woolf''s spectacles, Hawthorne''s window, Freud''s mirror, Johnson''s coffee-pot and Bulgakov''s stove, amongst many others. It investigates houses within which nineteenth-century writers mythologised themselves and their workThoreau''s cabin and Dumas'' tower, Scott''s Abbotsford and Irving''s Sunnyside. And it tracks literary tourists of the past to such long-celebrated literary homes as Petrarch''s Arquà, Rousseau''s Ile St Pierre, and Shakespeare''s Stratford to find out what they thought and felt and did, discovering deep continuities with the redevelopment of Shakespeare''s New Place for 2016.Trade ReviewThis smart, well-written book will attract a wide audience through its seamless grafting of literary history, material culture, and museum studies. Highly recommended. All readers. * M. Frank, University of Massachusetts Lowell, CHOICE *...an engaging journey through Authorland in nine chapters... her [Watson's] writing has the capacity to make us think on more detailed ways about the institutions of literary tourism * Bill Bell, Literary Review *Watson is an assured and intuitive guide to the perhaps slightly introspective world of the writer's house museum. She knows the literature well (there are 92 pages of notes and bibliography to 231 pages of text) and her awareness of critical theory does not come at the cost of clarity of expression. It is a broad-ranging, thoughtful and informative book. * Stephen Clarke, The Johnsonian News Letter *The Author's Effects engagingly insists that we attend to the presence and particularity of its examples, that we share Watson's fascination with the ability of each to "effect" the author it evokes. * LuAnn McCracken Fletcher, Cedar Crest College , Review 19 *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Remains: Burns' skull and Keats' hair 2: Bodies: Petrarch's cat and Poe's Raven 3: Clothing: Brontë's bonnet and Dickinson's dress 4: Furniture: Shakespeare's chair and Austen's desk 5: Household Effects: Johnson's coffee-pot and Twain's effigy 6: Glass: Woolf's spectacles and Freud's mirror 7: Outhouses: Thoreau's cabin and Dumas' prison 8: Enchanted Ground: Scott's Abbotsford, Irving's Sunnyside, Shakespeare's New Place 9: Exit through the Gift-shop
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Oxford University Press Translating Early Modern China Illegible Cities
Book SynopsisA volume on translation and language in China from the fifteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. It uses fictional narrative to discuss translators who worked between Chinese and (mostly) non-European languages and studies dictionaries, language primers, grammars, poetry collections, and conversation manuals.Trade ReviewIllegible Cities is an important work of history, arguing against the temptation in Sinology to reduce pre-twentieth-century China to what occurred in one language alone * Lucas Klein, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *This reading exemplifies the most admirable characteristics of Nappi's book: its richness, interdisciplinarity, and postmodern spirit. Translating Early Modern China is not a strictly academic book that only scholars could read and appreciate. * Elisa Frei, Catholic Theology and Church History, Goethe-Universität Frankfurtam Main, Comitatus *This book highlights the strategic linguistic tactics Chinese rulers continue to employ to control a nation of diverse religions and cultures. Unique but difficult to categorize, this book is a welcome addition to scholarship on not only Chinese history but also the art of linguistics and translation theory. * K. Liu, CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface: On History and Its Opposites Introduction: On Cities and Their Opposites Gathering 1: Glossary (1578) 2: Documents (1389/1608) 3: Grammar (1678) 4: Primer (1730) 5: Poems (1848) Dispersal Bibliography
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Oxford University Press The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
Book SynopsisThe nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography, these letters give us unique insights into his life, and are essential reading for Dickens fans everywhere. Whether you dip in or read straight through, this selection of his letters creates afresh the brilliance of being Dickens, and the sheer pleasure of being in his company.Trade ReviewIn short, the whole book bursts with the author's energy, and you will love him and know him better after reading even a few of these letters. If you don't buy it now, or put it on your Christmas list, it can only be because you already have a copy. * Guardian, Nicholas Lezard *This is Dickens by Dickens. Do not miss it. * Sunday Times Magazine, John Carey *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; Note on the Text ; Select Bibliography ; A Chronology of Charles Dickens ; Abbreviations and Symbols ; SELECTED LETTERS ; Index
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The University of Chicago Press Choosing not Choosing
Book SynopsisAlthough Emily Dickinson copied and bound her poems into manuscript notebooks, in the century since her death her poems have been read as single lyrics with little or no regard for the context she created for them in her fascicles. Choosing Not Choosing is the first book-length consideration of the poems in their manuscript context. Sharon Cameron demonstrates that to read the poems with attention to their placement in the fascicles is to observe scenes and subjects unfolding between and among poems rather than to think of them as isolated riddles, enigmatic in both syntax and reference. Thus Choosing Not Choosing illustrates that the contextual sense of Dickinson is not the canonical sense of Dickinson. Considering the poems in the context of the fascicles, Cameron argues that an essential refusal of choice pervades all aspects of Dickinson's poetry. Because Dickinson never chose whether she wanted her poems read as single lyrics or in sequence (nor is it clear where any fascicle text
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The University of Chicago Press England in 1819
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The University of Chicago Press Closet WritingGay Reading Paper The Case of
Book SynopsisArguing in favour of a retrieval of a repressed, closeted gay literary heritage, Creech shows how a literary critic can be receptive to implicit and closeted sexual content, and analyzes what he considers the exemplary novel of the 19th-century closet, Melville's Pierre; or, The Ambiguities.
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The University of Chicago Press Catos Tears the Making of AngloAmerican Emotion
Book SynopsisHow did the public expression of feeling become central to political culture in England and the United States? This revisionist account of a much expanded Age of Sensibility traces the evolution of the politics of emotion on both sides of the Atlantic, from the late-17th to early-19th century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Someday Bridges May Have Feelings Too Chapter 1: Conspiracy, Sensibility, and the Stoic Chapter 2: Cato's Tears Chapter 3: The Deathbed of the Just Chapter 4: Female Authorship, Public Fancy Chapter 5: Vagrant Races Chapter 6: Walkers, Stalkers, Captives, Slaves Conclusion: Liberal Guilt and Libertarian Revival Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press One of Us The Mastery of Joseph Conrad
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The University of Chicago Press Culture Anomie Ethnographic Imagination in the
Book SynopsisFew ideas are as important and pervasive in the discourse of the twentieth century as the idea of culture. Yet culture, Christopher Herbert contends, is an idea laden from its inception with ambiguity and contradiction. In Culture and Anomie, Christopher Herbert conducts an inquiry into the historical emergence of the modern idea of culture that is at the same time an extended critical analysis of the perplexities and suppressed associations underlying our own exploitation of this term. Making wide reference to twentieth-century anthropologists from Malinowski and Benedict to Evans-Pritchard, Geertz, and Lévi-Strauss as well as to nineteenth-century social theorists like Tylor, Spencer, Mill, and Arnold, Herbert stresses the philosophically dubious, unstable character that has clung to the culture idea and embarrassed its exponents even as it was developing into a central principle of interpretation. In a series of detailed studies ranging from political economy to missionary ethnograp
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The University of Chicago Press Jane Austens Cults and Cultures
Book SynopsisJane Austen's lasting appeal to both popular and elite audiences has lifted her to legendary status. This title begins by exploring the most important monuments and portraits of Austen, considering how these artifacts point to an author who is invisible and yet whose image is inseparable from the characters and fictional worlds she created.Trade Review"Claudia L. Johnson does more than trace out Austen's legacy and rethink the way critics and fans alike have tried to hold on to this elusive writer-she displays the wealth of the novels themselves in new, surprising, and always intelligent ways. Packed with the fruits of Johnson's brilliant work in the archive, this book also creates a compelling narrative from the accounts of readers, worshippers, and critics alike, and fashions a very delicate path between the adoring and the critical. A monumental work by perhaps the premier scholar of Austen's work and legacy." -Mary Favret, Indiana University"
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University of Chicago Press Demons of the Night Tales of the Fantastic
Book SynopsisA compilation of 19th-century French haunting tales. Featuring such authors as Balzac, Merimee, Dumas, Verne, and Maupassant, this book offers readers some of the more memorable stories in the genre.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction by Joan C. Kessler Charles Nodier Smarra , or The Demons of the Night Honore de Balzac The Red Inn Prosper Merimee The Venus of Ille Theophile Gautier The Dead in Love Arria Marcella Alexandre Dumas The Slap of Charlotte Corday Gerard de Nerval Aurelia, or Dream and Life Jules Verne Master Zacharius Villiers de l'Isle-Adam The Sign Vera Guy de Maupassant The Horla Who Knows? Marcel Schwob The Veiled Man Notes
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The University of Chicago Press Whitmans Drama of Consensus
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The University of Chicago Press William Blake and the Impossible History of the
Book SynopsisTaking into account Blake's unique brand of literary and artistic production, Makdisi challenges the idea that to understand Blake one must assimilate him within the radical struggle against the order of the old regime.
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The University of Chicago Press Keatss Odes
Book SynopsisTimed for the 200th anniversary of John Keats's death, these intimate essays show why we love Keats still, and why his odes continue to speak powerfully to our own desires.Trade Review"This book claims to be 'about' Keats's odes. And it is. But it is also about beauty and sadness and love and revolution and how the odes can help us to better understand these things. It is nothing short of a perfect book, one that understands how poetry can transform one's life. Nersessian is on track to be the Harold Bloom of her generation, but a Bloom with politics."--Juliana Spahr "This is an intense, often dazzling, original, illuminating, idiosyncratic, but also welcoming and welcome book. Offering trenchant, astute, often polemical and sometimes breathtaking readings of Keats's Odes--and simultaneously of love, politics, worldmaking, and self--Nersessian has written a propelled, impelled, impassioned work, truly in Keats's spirit."--Maureen N. McLane "In a tour-de-force series of revisionary readings, Nersessian makes Keats's odes new in A Lover's Discourse; and by the end of this exhilarating book, a new poet emerges into historical and psychological focus as well, neither aesthete nor insurgent, but someone who discovers the radicalism immanent in literary style. On yet another level, Keats's Odes is a discourse on love as interpretive practice. Demanding, generous, precise, utopian, and unfailingly brilliant, Nersessian reinvents reading itself as a form of critical intimacy for our broken times. 'If love is anything not laid waste by this world it is free, ' writes this reader. 'Mine is.'"--Srikanth ReddyTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Ode to a Nightingale 2 Ode on a Grecian Urn 3 Ode on Indolence 4 Ode on Melancholy 5 Ode to Psyche 6 To Autumn Postscript: Sleep and Poetry Acknowledgments Index
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The University of Chicago Press A Probable State The Novel the Contract the
Book SynopsisThis work builds an argument about liberalism and the realist movement by shifting the focus from the rise of both in the 18th century, to their breakdown at the end of the 19th century. The decline of realism and the eroding logic of liberalism is related to the question of Jewish characters.
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The University of Chicago Press Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger
Book SynopsisIn our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger - the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor - carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are different has become strong. This title reveals the history of encounters with alien figures and our struggles with romantic concerns about the unknown.Trade Review"Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger is a wonderfully engaged and engaging book. Compelling and elegant at every turn, it is widely and deeply informed, addressing an enormous and varied Romantic archive while also demonstrating a masterful grasp of contemporary theoretical discussions about strangers and strangeness." (David Clark, McMaster University)"
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Conflict and Difference in NineteenthCentury
Book SynopsisHow should we understand Victorian conflict? The Victorians were divided between multiple views of the political, religious and social issues that motivated their changing aspirations. Such debates are a fundamental aspect of the literature of the period and these essays propose new ways of understanding their significance.Trade Review'The volume's strength lies in its breadth, which is reflected in the wealth of critical approaches.' - Andrew Cusack, Trinity College Dublin, The European LegacyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors Introduction; D.Birch & M.Llewellyn Argument as Conflict – Then and Now; H.Small Ever a Fighter: Browning's Struggle with Conflict; H.F.Tucker Conflict and Imperial Communication: Narrating the First Afghan War; M.O'Cinneide Off-White Indians; K.Flint The Interpretation of Daydreams: Reverie as Site of Conflict in Early Victorian Psychiatry; N.Ford 'If I am not grotesque I am nothing': Aubrey Beardsley and Disabled Identities in Conflict; A.Tankard Negotiating the Gentle-Man: Male Nursing and Class Conflict in the 'High' Victorian Period; H.Furneaux 'Resolved in defiance of fool and of knave'?: Chartism, Children and Conflict; M.Chase Conversing with Monstrosities: evolutionary theory and the contemporary response to Wilkie Collins; J.M.Allan Dickens and the Heritage Industry: or, Culture and the Commodity; J.John The King and Who? Dance, Difference, and Identity in Anna Leonowens and The King and I ; S.A.Weltman 'The Utmost Intricacies of the Soul's Pathways': The Significance of Syntax in George Eliot's Felix Holt, The Radical (1866); M.Raines Culture Wars? Arnold's Essays in Criticism and the Rise of Journalism 1864-1895; L.Brake Shrieking Sisters and Bawling Brothers: Sibling Rivalry in Sarah Grand and Mary Cholmondeley; G.Ofek After Eternal Punishment: 'Fin de Siècle' as Literary Eschatology; M.Bradley Selected Bibliography Index
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Penguin Books Ltd The Anna Karenina Fix
Book Synopsis''Wonderfully entertaining, hilarious. Contains the distilled wisdom of some of the greatest writers who ever lived'' Allison Pearson, Sunday TelegraphWhat should I do with my life? What if my love is not returned? Why do bad things happen? The answers to some of life''s biggest questions are found not in trite self-help manuals but in the tough-love lessons explored in Russian literature. Here, Viv Groskop delves into the novels of history''s deepest thinkers to discover enduring truths about how we should live.Whether you''re new to the Russian classics or returning to old favourites, The Anna Karenina Fix will help salve your heartache by exploring the torments of a host of famous and infamous literary heroes and heroines. Think of it like this: they have suffered so that you don''t have to . . .''Enchanting. Groskop falls in love with the literature, her impressive knowledge of which she conveTrade ReviewWonderfully entertaining, hilarious. Contains the distilled wisdom of some of the greatest writers who ever lived. Explored with dancing wit, affection and brilliance, this is a passionate, hilarious, joyful love letter to Russian literature. * Allison Pearson, Sunday Telegraph *Enchanting. Groskop falls in love with the literature, her impressive knowledge of which she conveys with a charmingly breezy tone * Observer *A beguiling tasting menu of some of the finest reading experiences of my life. Witty, likeable, and lighthearted, Viv Groskop invites us to embrace the work of these august Russian dead souls as belonging to us all * Lionel Shriver *Groskop has a knack of giving you just enough biography of the author, just enough tantalising kiss-and-tell detail from the works . . . A delightful primer and companion to all the authors you are ashamed to admit you haven't read * The Times *What does Tolstoy have in common with Oprah Winfrey? What can Chekhov teach us about body image? In The Anna Karenina Fix, comedian Viv Groskop shows us how to use Russian literature as self-help, with hilarious and eye-opening results * Good Housekeeping *A wry literary memoir examining what we can learn from the great Russian novelists * Stylist *Funny and only second best to reading the stuff itself * Sara Wheeler, The Spectator *A highly knowledgeable jaunt through 150 years of literature * Observer *
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Victorian Gothic
Book SynopsisTo what extent did the Gothic haunt the nineteenth century? Victorian Gothic seeks to answer this as it introduces the reader to a timely revision of notions of the Gothic in all its manifestations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Preface: 'I Could a Tale Unfold' or, the Promise of Gothic; R.Robbins & J.Wolfreys 'Designing Gourmet Children or, KIDS FOR DINNER!'; J.R.Kinkaid Resurrecting the Regency: Horror and Eighteenth-Century Comedy in Le Fanu's Fiction; V.Sage 'I Wants to Make your Flesh Creep': Notes toward a Reading of the Comic-Gothic in Dickens; J.Wolfreys Hopkins and the Gothic Body; R.J.C.Watt From King Arthur to Sidonia the Sorceress: The Dual Nature of Pre-Raphaelite Medievalism; J.-A.George Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Literary Influence, and Technologies of the Uncanny; A.Chapman The 'Anxious Dream': Julia Margaret Cameron's Gothic Perspective; M.Wynne-Davies Trance Gothic, 1882-1897; R.Luckhurst 'Withered, Wrinkled, and Loathsome of Visage': Reading the Ethics of the Souls and the Late-Victorian Gothic in The Picture of Dorian Gray; K.Womack Apparitions Can Be Deceptive: Vernon Lee's Androgynous Spectres; R.Robbins Gothic and Supernatural: Allegories at Work and Play in Kipling's Indian Fiction; P. Morey Archaeology and Gothic Desire: Vitality Beyond the Grave in H.Rider Haggard's Ancient Egypt; R.Pearson Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Jane Austen Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
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Palgrave MacMillan UK A E Housman A Critical Biography
Book SynopsisHousman (1859-1936) was a poet of enormous popularity and widespread influence: a Latin scholar of the front rank, a superb prose stylist, a notable writer of comic verse and, thanks to the enormous success of A Shropshire Lad, one of the greatest and best-known poems in the English language, he became a legend in his own lifetime.Table of ContentsFrontispiece: A.E. Housman - List of Plates - Acknowledgements - Note on the Referencing System - Preface to the 1996 Reprint - Introduction: `All that need be known' - A Worcestershire Lad - Oxford - The Years of Penance - `Picked out of the gutter' - Cambridge I - Cambridge II - The Scholar - The Poet - Epilogue - Notes and References - Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK New Woman Fiction Women Writing Firstwave
Book SynopsisThe New Woman was the symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de siècle .Trade Review'Ann Heilmann's New Woman Fiction: Women Writing Feminism synthesies recent debates on the New Woman fiction, and makes its own distinctive contribution to the growing body of work on this fin de siecle phenomenon. It discusses a wider range of writers and texts than earlier studies of this body of writing, and locates both the writers and texts more clearly and more firmly in the context of late nineteenth 'feminism' than have earlier studies. It also seeks to draw parallels between this 'first wave' of feminism and the 'second wave' feminism of the latter part of the twentieth century. This has the effect of simultaneously broadening and narrowing the corpus of New Woman writing: more texts are put on display, but New Woman writers are more specifically (and perhaps more narrowly) defined as 'committed feminists with a vision of social regeneration through didactic literature [through which] they sought to reach and politicize a mass readership.' This lucid study offers an historically grounded and theoretically informed introduction to an important aspect of the history of women's writing.' - Lyn Pykett, Professor of English, University of Wales, AberystwythTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Regen(d)eration Contesting/Consuming Femininities Keynotes and Discords Marriage and Its Discontents The Crisis of Gender and Sexuality The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman Departures
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Empty Nurseries Queer Occupants Reproduction and the Future in Ibsens Late Plays Studies in Childhood 1700 to the Present
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Concordance to Conrads Almayers Folly 2 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Concordance to Conrads The Nigger of the Narcissus 8 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Art of Failure Conrads Fiction 20 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Concordance to Conrads Heart of Darkness 3 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Concordance to Conrads An Outcast of the Islands 14 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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WW Norton & Co Oliver Twist
Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition of a Dickens favorite reprints the 1846 text, the last edition of the novel substantially revised by Dickens and the one that most clearly reflects his authorial intentions.
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WW Norton & Co Aurora Leigh
Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s 1856 verse-novel is based on Margaret Reynolds’ variorum edition, which the British Academy awarded the 1993 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and which is reprinted here by special arrangement with the Ohio University Press.
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WW Norton & Co Little Women
Book SynopsisThis authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868–69) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations.
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WW Norton & Co North and South
Book SynopsisA revolutionary social and political commentary, North and South solidified Gaskell’s place in the company of Victorian England’s finest novelists.
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AMS Press Dickenss Dialogue Margins of Conversation AMS
Book SynopsisExplores the rhetoric of Dickens’s characters and its place in his work. Drawing on Victorian conversation manuals and more recent philosophical, sociological, and linguistic insights into the nature of conversations, Goodin describes three major character types whose rhetorical strategies exemplify the conflicting forces of cooperation and violation that shape many conversations.
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