Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books

Book SynopsisCormac McCarthy is a writer informed by an intense curiosity. His interests range from the natural world, to philosophy and religion, to history and culture. Cormac McCarthy in Context offers readers the opportunity to understand how various influences inform his rich body of work. The collection explores the relationship McCarthy has with his favourite authors, writers such as Herman Melville, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway. Other contexts are tremendously informative, including the American Romance tradition of the nineteenth century as well as modernity and the modernist literary movement. Influence and context are of absolute importance in understanding McCarthy, who is now being understood as one of the most significant authors of the contemporary period.Trade Review'This wide-ranging volume is a fitting response to McCarthy's corpus. And, like McCarthy's own works, it will provoke substantive discussions across a remarkable array of academic disciplines.' J. Bilbro, ChoiceTable of ContentsPart I. Environments: 1. Life and career Steven Frye; 2. The South Scott Yarbrough; 3. The Southwest Lydia Cooper; 4. The Santa Fe Institute Ciaran Dowd; Part II. Literary Contexts: Sources, Influences, Allusions: 5. William Faulkner Jay Watson; 6. Ernest Hemingway Olivia Carr Edenfield; 7. Herman Melville and the American Romance tradition G. R. Thompson; 8. Romanticism Dustin Anderson; 9. Naturalism Adam H. Wood; 10. The Bible Alan Noble; 11. Allusion and allegory Bill Hardwig; Part III. Intellectual Contexts: 12. The Judeo-Christian tradition James Dorson; 13. Gnosticism Benjamin West; 14. Classical and pre-classical philosophy David Williams; 15. Nineteenth and twentieth-century philosophy Julius Greve; 16. Formal aesthetic choices Bryan Vescio; 17. Science and technology Jay Ellis; Part IV. Social and Cultural Contexts: 18. American politics David Holloway; 19. Race and cultural difference John Dudley; 20. Ecology Susan Kollin; 21. Modernity Nicholas Monk; 22. A visual artist on McCarthy Peter Josyph; 23. Cinematic adaptations Lee Clark Mitchell; 24. Cinematic influences Petra Mundik; Part V. Archives, Critical History, Translation: 25. The archives and the Tennessee years, I: The Orchard Keeper and Outer Dark Dianne C. Luce; 26. The archives and the Tennessee years, II: Child of God, The Gardener's Son, and Suttree Dianne C. Luce; 27. The San Marcos archives: Blood Meridian and the West Michael Lynn Crews; 28. Letters and correspondence Katie Salzmann; 29. Critical history Stacey Peebles; 30. Translation and international reception, I Beatrice Trotignon; 31. Translation and international reception, II Beatrice Trotignon.

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Book SynopsisWritten by leading scholars on Philip Roth from around the globe, this book offers new insight into the various contexts that inform his body of work. Itopens with an overview of Roth''s life and literary influences, before turning to important critical, geographical, theoretical, cultural, and historical contexts. It closes with focused meditations on the various iterations of Roth''s legacy, from the screen to international translations of his work to his signature stylistic imprint on American letters. Together, all of these chapters reveal Roth''s range as a writer, as he interrogates American national identity and history, and explores the dimensions of the individual self.Trade Review'… a reasonable starting point for anyone seeking a complete picture of how Roth is viewed within the context of academic literary criticism … Recommended.' S. Gittleman, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors; Introduction Maggie McKinley; Part I. Life and Literary Contexts: 1. Life Matthew Shipe; 2. Literary Influences Rachael McLennan; 3. Literary Conversations Dan A. O'Brien; 4. Roth's Comic Seriousness Paule Lévy; 5. Writing about Writing James D. Bloom; Part II. Critical Contexts: 6. The Early Years Ira Nadel; 7. Portnoy and its Aftermath Pia Masiero; 8. The Zuckerman Books David Hadar; 9. The Kepesh Books Mike Witcombe; 10. The 'Philip Roth' books Gurumurthy Neelakantan; 11. The Late Novellas Victoria Aarons; Part III. Geographical Contexts: 12. Newark Jessica Lang; 13. The Berkshires Daniel Anderson; 14. Prague Claudia Franziska Brühwiler; 15. Israel Leona Toker; Part IV. Theoretical Contexts: 16. Psychoanalysis Maren Scheurer; 17. Postmodernism Michael Kalisch; 18. Trauma Theory Aimee Pozorski; 19. Narrative Medicine Miriam Jaffe; Part V. Jewish American Identity: 20. Roth as 'Jewish American Writer' Jennifer Glaser; 21. The Holocaust in Roth's Work Hilene Flanzbaum; 22. Judaism and Secularism Jacques Berlinerblau; 23. Antisemitism Gustavo Sánchez Canales; 24. The Black-Jewish Matrix Brett Ashley Kaplan and Naomi Taub; Part VI. Gender & Sexuality: 25. Roth and Women Debra Shostak; 26. Masculinity Maggie McKinley; 27. Sexuality David Brauner; Part VII. Political Contexts: 28. Political Satire David Gooblar; 29. Class Politics Andy Connolly; 30. American Individualism Brittany Hirth; 31. The War on Terror Margaret Scanlan; Part VIII. Roth's Legacy: 32. Roth in Adaptation Gerard O'Donoghue; 33. Roth in Translation Velichka Ivanova; 34. Philip Roth on Philip Roth James Schiff; 35. Roth in Retirement Timothy Parrish; Primary Bibliography; Selected Secondary Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisA History of the Literature of the U.S. South provides scholars with a dynamic and heterogeneous examination of southern writing from John Smith to Natasha Trethewey. Eschewing a master narrative limited to predictable authors and titles, the anthology adopts a variegated approach that emphasizes the cultural and political tensions crucial to the making of this regional literature. Certain chapters focus on major white writers (e.g., Thomas Jefferson, William Faulkner, the Agrarians, Cormac McCarthy), but a substantial portion of the work foregrounds the achievements of African American writers like Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Sarah Wright to address the multiracial and transnational dimensions of this literary formation. Theoretically informed and historically aware, the volume''s contributors collectively demonstrate how southern literature constitutes an aesthetic, cultural and political field that richly repays examination from a variety of critical perspectives.Trade Review'Recommended.' M. L. Robertson, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsIntroduction. Reconstructing literary history Harilaos Stecopoulos; 1. Fictions of the native south Melanie Benson Taylor; 2. John Smith and the English origins of southern exceptionalism Rob McLoone; 3. Plantation and enlightenment Jennifer Greeson; 4. Geoconfederacy; or, Bartram's Southern archipelago Monique Allewaert; 5. In the shadow of his office: architectures of affect in Jefferson's notes on the State of Virginia Laura Rigal; 6. Shadows of Haiti: racing gender, violence and sentiment in Victor Séjour, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, and Charles Chesnutt Susan Castillo Street; 7. 'Midnight bakings' amid starvation: food and aesthetics in the slave narrative Stephanie Tsank; 8. A calculated fiction: antebellum plantation romances Katharine Burnett; 9. Maroons and marronage in antebellum African American literature Sean Gerrity; 10. Everyday literary culture in the nineteenth century Christopher Hager and Beth Barton Schweiger; 11.'Fables of the Bloody Shirt': reconstruction and the problem of national violence Scott Romine; 12. A heritage unique in the ages: the politics of black southern womanhood in Anna Julia Cooper's a voice from the south by a black woman from the south Joanna Davis-McElligatt; 13. Moonlight and magnolias no more: the new plantation tradition and its respondents Justin Mellette; 14. Women writers and the southern renaissance; or, the work of gender in literary periodization Jay Watson; 15. Southern geographies and new Negro modernism Thadious Davis; 16. 'A fine loud grabble and snatch of AAA and WPA': Faulkner, Hurston, Wright, Bontemps and the depression south Martyn Bone; 17. Provincialism as a positive good: agrarianism and its afterlives Jon Smith; 18. Faulkner's untimely fictions John Matthews; 19. Reconsidering Du Bois's 'Central Text': W. E. B. Du Bois, Sarah Wright, and the problem of the 'Black Worker' Konstantina Karageorgos; 20. Cultural activism and theater of the Civil Rights Movement Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder; 21. Till the hurt becomes music: gnosticism and improvisation in the poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa Herman Beavers; 22. Undead sound; or, why southern poetry is not dead: the undying work of fathers in Natasha Trethewey, Adam Vines, and Cormac McCarthy Daniel Turner; 23. There is no south: the weird Plantationocene of Jeff VanderMeer's southern reach trilogy Amy Clukey; 24. Hurricane Alley: literature of the coastal south in a time of climate change Valerie Loichot.

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Book SynopsisDuring the first two decades of the twentieth century, Britain''s imperial power and influence was at its height. These were years of daring, when adventurers sounded the mysteries of the deep sea and the distant poles, aviators sped through the skies, and new media technologies transformed communication. They were years of social upheaval, during which long-suppressed voices particularly those of women, of the labouring classes, and of colonial subjects grew louder and demanded to be heard. They were years of violence, of insurrection and political agitation, and of imperial conflicts that would encompass continents. By subjecting specific developments in literature and related culture to a fine-grained and historically-informed analysis, British Literature in Transition, 19001920: A New Age? explores the writing of this extraordinary period in all its complexity and vibrancy.Table of ContentsIntroduction James Purdon; Part I. Nation and Empire: 1. Aliens Robbie Moore; 2. Oceanic States: Modernism, Imperialism, and the Sea Matthew P. M. Kerr; 3. Passage Work: The Rise of 'English'? Helen Thaventhiran; 4. Anglo-Irish Transitions Andrew Murphy; 5. British War Writing: Empire, Mass Warfare, and Mass Culture Andrew Frayn; 6. Capturing Home: British First World War Poetry Guy Cuthbertson; Part II. Media: 7. Literature and Wartime Propaganda James Purdon; 8. Black, White, and Read All Over: Mines, Mountains, and the Paysage Moralisé of the British Press Abbie Garrington; 9. Notable Trials and Literary Realism Rex Ferguson; 10. Literature and Telecommunication Richard Menke; 11. Literature and Film Laura Marcus; Part III. Aesthetics: 12. Transitions, Turns: Centuries, Decadents, Modernists Vincent Sherry; 13. Poetry and Transition Sean Pryor; 14. Realism and Mass Politics Andrew Shail; 15. Short Fiction David Trotter; 16. Ideals of a Picture Gallery Claudia Tobin; Part IV. Society: 17. Pseudo-cities: Exhibitionary, Military, Cinematic George Potts; 18. Ecological Points of View Andrew Kalaidjian; 19. Gender, Biopolitics, Bildungsroman Charlotte Jones; 20. Freudian Fiction or Wild Psycho-analysis?: Modernism, Psychoanalysis, and Popular Fiction Helen Tyson; 21. The Economics of Generosity in Ford, Conrad, and Keynes Beci Carver.

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Book SynopsisProvides a new perspective on Wallace Stevens' poetry and the significant notion of modernist autonomy. Appeals not only to experts and junior scholars who want to gain a deeper understanding of Stevens' work, but also to those interested in new critical interventions in modernist studies, American literature, and aesthetic theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The politics of aesthetic separation: no private paradise; 2. Spaces of autonomy: relational place-making; 3. Community and autonomy: 'the mode of common dreams'; 4. Autonomy and philosophy: 'reason's constant ruin'; Coda.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores for the first time the literature of absolute war in connection to World War II. From a transnational and comparative standpoint, it addresses a set of theoretical, historical, and literary questions, shedding new light on the nature of absolute war, the literature on the world war of 193945, and modern war writing in general. It determines the main features of the language of absolute war, and how it gravitates around fundamental semantic clusters, such as the horror, terror, and the specter. The Literature of Absolute War studies the variegated responses given by literary authors to the extreme and seemingly unsolvable challenges posed by absolute war to epistemology, ethics, and language. It also delves into the different poetics that articulate the writing on absolute war, placing special emphasis on four literary practices: traditional realism, traumatic realism, the fantastic, and catastrophic modernism.Trade Review'The Literature of Absolute War is an original and ambitious work that tells us a great deal about the extent to which writing in the wake of war changes the way we see the world … Santiáñez has formalised an approach to the literature of the Second World War that should prove a cornerstone of future research.' Kieran J. H. Shackleton, Textual Practice'Santiáñez-Tió (St. Louis Univ.) offers a dense, informed, and informative book packed with analyses of texts ... Required reading for advanced scholars but accessible to nonspecialists ... Recommended.' K. Tölölyan, Choice Magazine'… an impressive academic feat … the breadth and scope of the book itself seem appropriate, given the immensity of the event itself as well as the wide array of literary responses to it and the overall lack of academic studies focused on the literature of the Second World War … It is a book and study without which any study of the literatures of the twentieth century and more precisely of the history and literatures of war would be woefully incomplete.' Ron Ben-Tovim, Poetics TodayTable of ContentsPreface. Targets; Introduction. Concepts; 1. The horror; 2. Terror; 3. Specters; Coda. Remains.

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Book SynopsisAppealing to research students and specialist scholars, this book brings fresh perspectives to many of Surrealism's enduring critical concepts and experimental practices by placing them within an expanded historical and geographical framework. The book's interdisciplinary focus makes it relevant for a range of arts and humanities disciplines.Trade Review'An excellent volume … Highly recommended.' J. E. Housefield, ChoiceTable of ContentsPart I. Origins Ideas/Concepts/Interventions: 1. The surrealist world Effie Rentzou; 2. Psychoanalysis Klem James; 3. Surrealism and the demand of politics Raymond Spiter; 4. Modern science Gavin Parkinson; 5. Surrealism and dreams Natalya Lusty; 6. Surrealism and Eros Alyce Mahon; Part II. Developments Practices/Cultures/Material Forms: 7. Surrealist collections in Paris and Sussex Katharine Conley; 8. Surrealist objects Christina Rudosky; 9. Collage Elza Adamowicz; 10. Film Kristoffer Noheden; 11. Photography in surrealism David Bate; 12. Surrealist fashion Ilya Parkins; 13. Surrealist display practices: repositories outside reason Adam Jolles; Part III. Applications Heterodoxies and New Worlds: 14. Surrealism and schizoanalysis Gregory Minissale; 15. The surrealist bestiary and animal philosophyWalter Kalaidjian; 16. Picasso's habits: André Breton on art, nature and reflexivity Joyce S. Cheng; 17. Surrealism and mass observation Tyrus Miller; 18. Pacific surrealism Paul Giles; 19. Decolonial surrealism Jonathan P. Eburne; 20. Surrealism and écriture feminine Anna Watz; 21. Subcultural receptions of surrealism in the 1960s international underground press Abigail Susik.

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Book SynopsisHow to write the history of a cultural mode that, for all its abiding fascination with the past, has challenged and complicated received notions of history from the very start? The Cambridge History of the Gothic rises to this challenge, charting the history of the Gothic even as it reflects continuously upon the mode's tendency to question, subvert and render incomplete all linear historical narratives. Taken together, the three chronologically sequenced volumes in the series provide a rigorous account of the origins, efflorescence and proliferation of the Gothic imagination, from its earliest manifestations in European history through to the present day. Written by an international cast of contributors, the chapters bring fresh scholarly attention to bear upon established Gothic themes while also drawing attention to new critical concerns. As such, they are of relevance to the general reader, the student and the established scholar alike.

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Book SynopsisThis Companion showcases the best scholarship on Ian McEwan''s work, and offers a comprehensive demonstration of his importance in the canon of international contemporary fiction. The whole career is covered, and the connections as well as the developments across the oeuvre are considered. The essays offer both an assessment of McEwan''s technical accomplishments and a sense of the contextual factors that have provided him with inspiration. This volume has been structured to highlight the points of intersection between literary questions and evaluations, and the treatment of contemporary socio-cultural issues and topics. For the more complex novels - such as Atonement - this book offers complementary perspectives. In this respect, The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan serves as a prism of interpretation, revealing the various interpretive emphases each of McEwan''s more complex works invite, and to show how his various recurring preoccupations run through his career.Table of ContentsChronology; Introduction Dominic Head; 1. 'Shock lit': the early fiction Eluned Summers-Bremner; 2. Moral dilemmas Lynn Wells; 3. Science and climate crisis Astrid Bracke; 4. The novel of ideas Michael Lemahieu; 5. Cold War fictions Richard Brown; 6. The construction of childhood Peter Childs; 7. The public and the private David Malcolm; 8. Masculinities Ben Knights; 9. The novellas Dominic Head; 10. Realist legacies Judith Seaboyer; 11. Limited modernism Thom Dancer; 12. Narrative artifice David James; Further reading.

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Book SynopsisThe years between 1850 and 1930 witnessed the first large-scale migration of peoples from East Asia and South Asia to North America and the emergence of the US as an imperial power in the Pacific. This period also produced the first instances of Asian North American writing, theater, and film. This exciting collection examines how the many literary and cultural works from this period approached questions of migration, exclusion, and identity. Covering an extensive ranges of topics including anticolonialist writing, the erotics of queer modernist poetry, interracial desire, and the racial gaze in silent film, the book shows the diverse and multi-ethnic nature of literary and cultural production at a crucial period in modern formations of race as well as literary and cultural aesthetics.Table of ContentsI. Empire and Resistance: 1. Reframing Colonial Fantasy and Benevolent Violence: Marriage, Family, and 'Global' Racial Consciousness in Edith Eaton's Caribbean Stories Yu-Fang Cho; 2. Uncollected: Remapping Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton Hsuan Hsu and Edlie Wong; 3. South Asian American Anticolonial Writings: Critical Reflections on Race, Empire, and Immigration in North America Seema Sohi; 4. Challenging Enactments of Power: Remembering the Komagata Maru Incident in Drama and Performance Nandi Bhatia; 5. Saum Song Bo on the Statue of Liberty: A Protest Against U.S. Chinese Exclusion and French Imperialism Cynthia Wu; 6. Island in Between: The Politics of Place in the Poetry of Angel Island Julia H. Lee; II. Bodies at Work and Play: 7. Objects of an Orientalist Gaze: Chinese Immigrants in American Silent Film Philippa Gates; 8. Labor, Freedom, and Typicality in Chinese Canadian Railroad Fiction Christopher Lee; 9. Bret Harte's 'Heathen Chinee' in US Literature after Slavery Caroline Yang; 10. On the Genealogy of Asian American Drama Sean Metzger; 11. Decorative Orientalism Josephine Lee; III. Crossings: 12. Affect and Form in the Writings of the Eaton Sisters Dominika Ferens; 13. Osato-san's Hands: Untimely Tales Gesture to Humanity's Horizons Andrew Leong; 14. Revolutionary Formalisms Audrey Wu Clark; 15. Slave to Love: Racial Form in Early Asian American Miscegenation Plots Jolie Sheffer; 16. Anna May Wong's Greetings to the World Yiman Wang.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is devoted to Asian American Literature between 1930 to 1965, a period of immense social, historical, and cultural transformations that continue to shape the conditions of our world. From the Great Depression to the Second World War to the Civil Rights Movement to landmark immigrations reforms, Asian American literature provides unique and insightful perspectives on these historical developments, all while creatively engaging with globally-dispersed decolonization movements. Each chapter, written a by leading figures in their fields, demonstrates how Asian American writing affectingly reveals our complex world and its contested pasts. Case studies of major authors of this era show this as a time when the figure of the Asian American author became newly significant. This volume provides historical grounding, theoretical interventions, and nuanced textual analysis of Asian American literature in this period.Trade Review'This ambitious series covers more than a century of Asian American literature in four volumes organized by years: 1850–1930, 1930–65, 1965–96, and 1996–2020. Each volume is ordered thematically within those time frames … The breadth of the literary forms discussed and the comprehensive time period, particularly the analysis of works from the 19th century, make this work a required resource for understanding Asian American literary history … Essential.' M. Oh, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsEditors' introduction; Part I. Transitions Approached through Concepts and History: 1. The popular front and Asiatic modes of cultural production Steven Lee; 2. Asian American realism Arnold Pan; 3. On modernism, decolonization, and Asian American literature in transition Victor Bascara; 4. The cultures of Japanese internment: a short history of 'funny' turns Caroline Chung Simpson; 5. The 1947 partition, war, and internment: hidden histories of migration and displacement in transnational Asia Kavita Daiya; 6. Cold War fiction: the flower drum song's political education Josephine Nock-Hee Park; 7. Desert, island, ocean, swamp: Cold War ecologies and the Asian American environment Erin Suzuki; Part II. Transitions Approached through Authors, Texts, Concepts, and History: 8. Lin Yutang and the invention of Asian America, 1949 Richard Jean So; 9. H. T. Tsiang against the world Hua Hsu; 10. 'A congressman from India': Dalip Singh Saund in Cold War America Manan Desai; 11. Younghill Kang, transpacific agent David Roh; 12. Transition and obliteration: Jose Garcia Villa in the United States Jonathan Chua; 13. America is in the heart as postcolonial pastoral: an ecocritical case study of Carlos Bulosan Sarah D. Wald; 14. Bienvenido Santos: writing the interstitial spaces of Asian American literature Cynthia Tolentino; 15. Women writing war in Asia/America Sze Wei Ang; 16. Japanese incarceration, settler colonialism Sarah Dowling; 17. Jade Snow Wong and the making of model minority democracy Cindy I-Fen Cheng; 18. A little bit of form goes a long way: no-no boy and the ruse of empire Elda Tsou; 19. Richard Eun-kook Kim James Kyung-Jin Lee.

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Book SynopsisReading lists, course syllabi, and prizes include the phrase ''21st-century American literature,'' but no critical consensus exists regarding when the period began, which works typify it, how to conceptualize its aesthetic priorities, and where its geographical boundaries lie. Considerable criticism has been published on this extraordinary era, but little programmatic analysis has assessed comprehensively the literary and critical/theoretical output to help readers navigate the labyrinth of critical pathways. In addition to ensuring broad coverage of many essential texts, The Cambridge Companion to 21st Century American Fiction offers state-of-the field analyses of contemporary narrative studies that set the terms of current and future research and teaching. Individual chapters illuminate critical engagements with emergent genres and concepts, including flash fiction, speculative fiction, digital fiction, alternative temporalities, Afro-futurism, ecocriticism, transgender/queer studiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Joshua L. Miller; Part I. Forms: 1. Short Fiction, Flash Fiction, Microfiction Angela Naimou; 2. Experimental Fiction David James; 3. Speculative Fiction Mark Bould; 4. Graphic Fiction Katalin Orbán; 5. Digital Fiction Scott Rettberg; Part II. Approaches: 6. Afro-Futurism/Afro-Pessimism Candice M. Jenkins; 7. Transpacific Diasporas Julia H. Lee; 8. Hemispheric Routes Mary Pat Brady; 9. Transgender and Transgenre Writing Trish Salah; 10. Climate Fiction Heather Houser; Part III. Themes: 11. Convergence Mark Goble; 12. Dissolution Crystal Parikh; 13. Immobilit Dennis Childs; 14. Insecurity Hamilton Carroll; Further Reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisAsian American Literature in Transition Volume Three: 19651996 offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the political and aesthetic stakes of what is now recognizable as an Asian American literary canon. It takes as its central focus the connections among literature, history, and migration, exploring how the formation of Asian American literary studies is necessarily inflected by demographic changes, student activism, the institutionalization of Asian American studies within the U.S. academy, U.S foreign policy (specifically the Cold War and conflicts in Southeast Asia), and the emergence of ''diaspora'' and ''transnationalism'' as important critical frames. Moving through sections that consider migration and identity, aesthetics and politics, canon formation, and transnationalism and diaspora, this volume tracks predominant themes within Asian American literature to interrogate an ever-evolving field. It features nineteen original essays by leading scholars, and is accessible to beginners in the field and more advanced researchers alike.Table of ContentsPart I. Immigration, Migration and Movement: 1. Scrutinizing Impossible Subjects Monica Chiu; 2. The Model Minority and Debt Erin Khuê Ninh; 3. Displaced Subjects and Refugee Literature Timothy August; 4. 1.5 Generation Literature as Asian Americanist Critique Marguerite Nguyen; Part II. Politics, Art and Activism: 5. Furious Dialectics: Diasporic Anger in the Poetry of Li-Young Lee James Kim; 6. Asian American Literature and the Vietnam War Catherine Fung; 7. Cross-Racial Solidarities and Asian American Literature Jeehyun Lim; 8. Re/Collecting Asian American Performance Christine Mok; 9. Multiculturalism and its Discontents Lynn Itagaki; Part III. Institutionalization and Canon Formation: 10. On Recovering Early Asian American Literature Floyd Cheung; 11. Asian American Poetics Warren Liu; 12. Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: A Milestone in Asian American Literature Lan Dong; 13. Making a Necessity of Extravagance: Work and Play in the Asian American (ist) Economy Chris A. Eng; 14. Marking the Difference made by 'Heterogeneity, Hybridity and Multiplicity': Lisa Lowe's Impact on Asian American Studies Melissa Phruksachart; Part IV. Diaspora and the Transnational Turn: 15. Rethinking Nationalistic Attachments through Narratives of Return, 1965–1995 Patricia Chu; 16. Diasporic Longings Bakirathi Mani; 17. Transnational Sexualities Patrick S. Lawrence; 18. Intimacy, Imperialism and America: Revisiting Post-47 Postcolonial and Asian American Writing Kavita Daiya; 19. Hemispheric Imaginings and Global Transitions: The Geopolitics of Asian American Literature in the Americas Crystal Parikh.

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Book SynopsisHow to Use This BookIntroduction1. Background2. Medieval Literature3. Thematic and Technical Parallels4. The Editions5. The TextsBibliographyIndexTrade ReviewPraise for the previous edition: "[The Keys of Middle-earth] provides a wide range of texts with insightful introductions and commentary on each of the texts that have been chosen for elucidation." Professor Shaun F.D. Hughes, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, Purdue University, USA "The Keys of Middle-earth is a much-needed book... The texts, in Old English, Old Norse, and Middle English, are faithfully presented... textual notes are remarkably thorough." John R. Holmes, Notes and Queries Summary "Either as a student's text or as an instructor's resource, The Keys of Middle-earth provides an excellent introduction to a number of important medieval texts complete with a judicious, but not overwhelming, awareness of recent scholarship within a compelling context of a modern literary phenomenon - the imaginative world of J. R. R. Tolkien." Miranda Wilcox, The Medieval Review "'As an anthology of medieval texts it is first rate. The texts, in Old English, Old Norse, and Middle English, are faithfully presented and despite the authors' modest disclaimer that their book cannot accommodate a "full discussion of textual issues" (55), textual notes are remarkably thorough. With equal modesty they call their textual notes "highly selective," but their selection is impeccable. Commentary is just as painstaking: major critical controversies are fully represented. And as an encouragement to further study in three medieval languages, which the authors identify as its main purpose (19), the book is eminently successful." John R Holmes, Tolkien StudiesTable of ContentsHow to Use This BookIntroduction1. Background2. Medieval Literature3. Thematic and Technical Parallels4. The Editions5. The TextsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisJournalist Tom Roston’s The Writer’s Crusade is the story of Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five, an enduring masterpiece on trauma and memory.“A book about time; or, put another way, a book about how Pilgrim (and Vonnegut) became unstuck in time and how this ‘unsticking’ created Slaughterhouse-Five . . . Roston [casts] himself as part literary scholar and part psychoanalytic sleuth.” —Washington Post Kurt Vonnegut was 20 years old when he enlisted in the United States Army. Less than two years later, he was captured by the Germans in the single deadliest US engagement of the war, the Battle of the Bulge. He was taken to a POW camp, then transferred to a work camp near Dresden, and held in a slaughterhouse called Schlachthof Fünf where he survived the horrific firebombing that killed thousands and destroyed the city. To the millions of fans of Vonnegut&rsquTrade Review“A book about time; or, put another way, a book about how Pilgrim (and Vonnegut) became unstuck in time and how this 'unsticking' created ‘Slaughterhouse-Five'... Roston [casts] himself as part literary scholar and part psychoanalytic sleuth.” * The Washington Post *“A fresh look at Kurt Vonnegut’s classic 1969 novel through the lens of PTSD...[Roston] successfully reenergizes a major work from a writer whose star has faded somewhat. New wars, and more recent fiction about them, may have overshadowed Slaughterhouse-Five, but Roston persuasively shows how the novel speaks both to Vonnegut’s moment and to our own.” * Kirkus Reviews *“Part biography, part literary interpretation, and part fan notes, The Writer's Crusade is a spellbinding reexamination of both Slaughterhouse-Five and its author, Kurt Vonnegut. Although the emphasis of this marvelous book is on PTSD, Tom Roston never loses sight of the intuitive, imaginative genius of a boldly original prose stylist. Any Vonnegut enthusiast, and anyone interested in the sources of fine literature, will find pleasure in these pages.” -- Tim O’Brien“[An] engrossing tale...an absorbing biographical study...Roston [makes] a strong case that the roots of the novel—and its ultimate message—stem from Vonnegut’s attempts to process all he had witnessed in the war.” * Bookpage *“[Roston’s] passion for Vonnegut’s writing is contagious. … a fresh take on a classic.” * Publishers Weekly *“The Writer's Crusade is a multifaceted look at one of the great modern novels. It’s part history of how the book came to be, part Vonnegut biography, and a thoughtful consideration of the book’s impact on America’s post-WWII combat vets...The Writer’s Crusade is an important consideration of Kurt Vonnegut and the legacy of Slaughterhouse-Five. Even better, Roston’s work will send readers back to the original novel, and with fresh new insights on Vonnegut’s complex masterpiece.” * New York Journal of Books *“Mr. Roston gives the reader a book that encompasses many things — simultaneously biography, literary analysis, an inquiry into the creative process, and a concise history of the perception and recognition of war trauma and the development of the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder. He writes with informed insight as well as wit, and his tone is light and engaging despite the seriousness of the subject.... ‘The Writer's Crusade’ provides a thoughtful head start for a renewed appreciation of the author and his best-known work.” * East Hampton Star *A stark reminder of Vonnegut’s uneasy position with contemporary liberalism * The American Conservative Magazine *“Kurt Vonnegut’s dogged pursuit of the truth about his war experiences in writing what would become Slaughterhouse-Five is fully rendered in Tom Roston’s perfectly titled The Writer’s Crusade. In readable and probing prose, Roston illuminates Vonnegut as a veteran, writer, and human being, and investigates haunting questions about war and human nature. For anyone touched by war, Slaughterhouse-Five, or intrigued by the intersection of creativity with trauma and recovery, this superb book is for you.” -- Suzanne McConnell, coauthor, with Kurt Vonnegut, of Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style"I read Slaughterhouse-Five when I had just returned from my war in Vietnam. I didn't understand it until I read The Writer's Crusade. Tom Roston's insightful exploration of Vonnegut's struggle to write the novel, and its significant place in our ongoing task of better understanding and treating the trauma of war should be read by all fans of Vonnegut, and all who suffer from trauma, no matter what the source.” -- Karl Marlantes“I absolutely loved The Writer’s Crusade. As soon as I finished it, I picked up Slaughterhouse-Fiveagain. Tom Roston’s excellent book has given me the great gift of getting to read Vonnegut’s masterpiece as though it were my first time.” -- Kevin Powers“The best thing that Roston does...is to give context to the question of whether Slaughterhouse-Five is an autobiographical portrait of Vonnegut’s own war trauma. Roston writes in depth about the novel itself and how it came to be written... Roston also provides a history of war trauma and how our understanding of it has evolved over the years.” * The Millions *

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Book SynopsisNostromo, first published in 1904, is arguably Conrad’s greatest and most complex novel. A compelling adventure story, it is also a novel of profound psychological insight and of powerful political implications. It tells the story of a Central American state whose silver mine serves both literally and metaphorically as the source of the country‘s value. Written at the time of the development of the Panama Canal, Nostromo is set in the imaginary province of Sulaco, which secedes from the federation of Costaguana in order to protect its natural resource, the silver mine. The parallels with the ‘revolution’ fomented in Panama by the United States in 1903 are striking; just as Panama seceded from Columbia to satisfy the material interests of the canal builders, so the secession of Sulaco serves the material interests of ‘the Gould concession.’ In this edition a variety of documents from the period (including material concerning American involvement in Central America in the early twentieth century, early critical notices, and family letters of Conrad’s) help to set the text in context.Trade Review“Ruth Nadelhaft’s new edition of Nostromo is a timely addition to the Broadview Editions series. Without neglecting the traditional critical and biographical approaches, the supplementary materials and lucid introduction place Conrad’s difficult masterpiece fully and clearly within its contemporary contexts (especially the events surrounding the Panama Canal project), and in relation to our own debates about imperialism, colonials, and alleged racism in Conrad’s work. Broadview’s Nostromo, like its companion volumes, is truly a text for the way we teach now.” — David Latané Jr., Virginia Commonwealth University“Nadelhaft negotiates the impasse between existential and political responses to the book. In reaffirming that the personal is the political, she demonstrates how Nostromo represents the process whereby ‘imperialism transmits the virus of alienation.’ Joined with the historical apparatus so characteristic of Broadview Editions, such theorizing genuinely reopens a book that hasn’t yet received its due.” — Michael Coyle, Colgate UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionA Note on the TextJoseph Conrad: A Brief ChronologyAuthor’s NoteNostromoAppendix A: Selected Reviews Letters of Arnold Bennett (25 November 1912) Unsigned review, The Times Literary Supplement (21 October 1904) Unsigned notice, Review of Reviews (1 November 1904) Unsigned notice, Black and White (5 November 1904) Unsigned review, Daily Telegraph (9 November 1904) C.D.O. Barrie, British Weekly (10 November 1904) Unsigned review, Manchester Guardian (2 November 1904) Edward Garnett, Speaker (12 November 1904) John Buchan, Spectator (19 November 1904) Unsigned notice, Illustrated London News (26 November 1904) Appendix B: Selected LettersAppendix C: Documents relating to the Panama Canal Treaty of 1903Appendix D: “Autocracy and War”Works CitedRecommended Reading

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Book SynopsisIn The Pool in the Desert, first published in 1903, Sara Jeannette Duncan explores the impact of isolation on the small British communities of Victorian India. In the four stories collected here—“The Pool in the Desert,” “A Mother in India,” “An Impossible Ideal,” and “The Hesitation of Miss Anderson”—Duncan's women have certain freedoms living amidst the reaches of Empire, but they also must negotiate their way through a landscape dominated by the constraints of small military societies. The stories that result combine a delicacy of manners and movement that recalls Henry James, with a wit and sharp eye for small town foibles that bring Stephen Leacock to mind.Trade Review“Readers who enjoy Sara Jeannette Duncan’s artful insights into the manners, coterie culture, and presumptuous biases of Anglo-India will delight in the ironies of these stories. Duncan’s ‘English,’ wrapped up in their institutions and their pride, consider themselves above the ordinary here; while her watchful narrators think they can stand apart from the social emptiness and moral failings they observe, they discover, to their discomfort, that they are part of what they see—as eager for happiness, as susceptible to humiliation, as open to both judgment and understanding” — W.H. New, University of British Columbia“The Pool in the Desert represents the climate of desire that defined the New Woman, and that animated Sara Jeannette Duncan in her striving for personal and professional achievement. This new edition includes valuable background information which situates the book within the discourses of imperial-colonial politics and of feminist resistance, and as part of the vibrant international context of Canadian writing at the turn of the century.” — Misao Dean, University of VictoriaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction (by Rosemary Sullivan)Sara Jeannette Duncan: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Pool in the DesertThe Pool in the DesertA Mother in IndiaAn Impossible IdealThe Hesitation of Miss AndersonAppendix A: Excerpts from A Social DepartureAppendix B: Excerpts from The Crow’s NestAppendix C: “The Flippancy of Anglo-India”Appendix D: Contemporary Reviews Times Literary Supplement (October 2, 1903) The Spectator (October 31, 1903) The Critic The Athenceum (November 7, 1903) New York Times (October 31,1903) The Academy and Literature (October 3, 1903) Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisFrancis Marion Beynon’s autobiographical novel Aleta Dey is increasingly recognised as a small classic of early twentieth-century fiction. Beynon was a journalist and feminist much involved in public affairs in early twentieth-century Manitoba. In 1917, aged 33, she was forced to leave her job as a result of her open pacifism, and she soon moved to New York where she dropped out of the public eye.Aleta Dey, first published in 1919, tells in plain and affecting prose the story of a girl growing up in Manitoba, becoming politically conscious, and falling in love with McNair, a man of much more conventional views. The First World War brings a crisis for them both after McNair enlists as a soldier. Though Beynon was a Canadian, her spare, emotionally open prose may have less in common with that of other Canadian writers of the time than it does with the style of contemporaneous western American women writers such as Willa Cather and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Like Cather’s My Antonia, Beynon’s Aleta Dey resonates with prairie simplicity, passion, and strength.Table of Contents A COWARD BABY BROTHER GOD IN THE STORM LIGHTNING SCHOOL IN TOWN PUNISHMENT THE SPIRITUAL X-RAY NED IS EXPELLED THE STORM WIND AGAIN AGNOSTICISM McNAIR A TILT ABOUT SOCIALISM A VISITOR NED AGAIN COLIN REFUSES TO COME WOOING COLIN THE QUARREL A DISCOVERY A POOR FIGHTER PAULINE INTERVENES THE CHURCH THE BROKEN SPELL McNAIR’S STORY WAR THEN IT CAME HOME NED IN DIFFICULTIES COLIN IN A FURY FAREWELL WAR PROFITEERS AND SOLDIERS SOCIALISM OR CHRISTIANITY McNAIR’S LETTERS TWO TELEGRAMS THE STRUGGLE GETHSEMANE OUT OF JAIL AFTER AN INTERLUDE McNAIR GIVES WAY THE FUNERAL McNAIR PASSES ON

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Book SynopsisSet in the fictional Ontario town of Elgin at the beginning of the twentieth century, this 1904 novel was in its own time addressed largely to British readers. It has since become a Canadian classic, beloved for its ironic and dryly humorous portrait of small-town life. But The Imperialist is also a fascinating representation of race, gender, and nationalism in Britain's "settler colonies."This Broadview Edition provides a wealth of contextual material invaluable to understanding the novel's historical context, and particularly the debate, central to the story, over Edwardian Canada's role in the British Empire. This edition includes a critical introduction and, in the appendices, excerpts from Sara Jeannette Duncan's journalism and autobiographical sketches (including an essay on "North American Indians"), speeches by Canadian and British politicians, political cartoons, and recipes for the dishes served at the novel’s social gatherings. Contemporary reviews of the novel from British, Canadian, and American periodicals are also included.Trade Review“Despite its literary excellence, The Imperialist can be a challenging book. The thoughtful notation and well-chosen appendices of this edition do much to overcome the distance created by the passage of a century that saw dramatic changes in ideas and social expectations. Misao Dean enables us to appreciate Sara Jeannette Duncan as a sophisticated woman who adhered to some values of her day and contested others, and to admire her courage in writing a realistic novel about highly-charged political issues whose legacy affects us today.” — Carole Gerson, Simon Fraser UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionSara Jeannette Duncan: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe ImperialistAppendix A: Personal and Domestic Contexts Sara Jeannette Duncan, “[North American Indians].” The Globe (29 July 1885) Sara Jeannette Duncan, “[The Old-Time Heroine].” The Week (28 October 1886) A Selection of Duncan’s Letters concerning The Imperialist From Sara Jeannette Duncan, “[Growing Golden-rod in Simla].” The Crow’s Nest (1901) Recipes from The Canadian Home Cook Book (1887) Twenty-fourth of May Celebration. The Brantford Expositor (22 May 1884) Appendix B: Imperialism and the Tariff Question “A Pertinent Question.” Diogenes (19 June 1869) “The Effect of the National Policy” (c. 1891) Sara Jeannette Duncan, “Imperial Sentiment in Canada.” Indian Daily News (7 October 1896) From Goldwin Smith, “Commercial Union.” Canada and the Canadian Question (1891) From Joseph Chamberlain, “Trade and The Empire.” Imperial Union and Tariff Reform: Speeches Delivered from May 15th to Nov. 4 1903 (1903) “Hon. Geo. E. Foster Answers Sir Wilfrid Laurier” (1904) Appendix C: Selected Reviews Unsigned. “Canada and Imperial Policy.” New York Times (5 March 1904) Unsigned. Times Literary Supplement (22 April 1904) Unsigned. The Spectator (23 April 1904) Mary K. Ford, “The Novel of the Month: Mrs. Cotes’ The Imperialist.” Current Literature (April 1904) J[ean] G[raham], Saturday Night (4 June 1904) Unsigned. Daily News [Toronto] (4 June 1904) E. Hoyt, The Lamp (July 1904) Unsigned. Canadian Magazine (July 1904) Unsigned. The Globe [Toronto] (13 August 1904) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIt wasn’t so long ago that the fairy tale was comfortably settled as an established and respectable part of children’s literature. Since the fairy tale has always been a mirror of its times, however, we should not be surprised that in the latter part of the twentieth century it turned dark and ambiguous; its categorical distinction between good and evil was increasingly at odds with the times. Yet whatever changes the fairy tale may have undergone, its cultural popularity has never been greater.Fairy Tales in Popular Culture sets out to show how the tale has been adapted to meet the needs of the contemporary world; how writers, film-makers, artists, and other communicators have found in its universality an ideal vehicle for speaking to the here-and-now; and how social media have created a participatory culture that has re-invented the fairy tale. A selection of recent retellings show how the tale is being recalibrated for the contemporary world, first through the word and then through the image.In addition to the introductions that precede each section, the anthology provides a selection of critical pieces that offer lively insight into various aspects of the fairy tale as popular culture.Trade Review“The Big Bad Wolf in comics. Red Riding Hood selling lipstick. Voluptuous Goldilocks as psychopath. Think you know fairy tales? Fairy Tales in Popular Culture examines the modern metamorphosis of fairy tales by looking at them through the colourful lens of popular culture. This is a text not to be missed for those keen on understanding just how steeped today’s society is in fairy tale mystique.” — Erin Robb, Langara College“Martin Hallett and Barbara Karasek provide an exciting and timely look at the fairy tale’s triumphant return and at its ability to remain provocative among adult audiences in the digital age. Accessible, insightful, and entertaining, Hallett and Karasek’s volume highlights the subversive cultural work of timeless stories that continue to enchant us.” — Rebecca Lush, California State University San Marcos“Hallett and Karasek clearly have their finger on the pulse of contemporary fairy-tale retellings.” — Kirsten Møllegaard, FolkloreTable of Contents Introduction: The Fairy Tale and Popular Culture The Art of Retelling Prose 1. Gregory Maguire, "The Three Little Penguins and the Big Bad Walrus" 2. Adam Gidwitz, Introduction to A Tale Dark and Grimm 3. Robin McKinley, "The Princess and the Frog" 4. Garth Nix, "Hansel's Eyes" 5. Neil Gaiman, "Snow, Glass, Apples" 6. Kim Addonizio, "Ever After" 7. James Finn Garner, "Jack and the Beanstalk" Poetry and Lyrics 1. Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs" 2. Shel Silverstein, "Mirror, Mirror" 3. Tim Seibles, "What Bugs Bunny Said To Red Riding Hood" 4. Katharyn Howd Machan, "Hazel tells Laverne" 5. Anita Baker, "Fairy Tales" 6. Sara Bareilles, "Fairytale" The Comic Book and the Graphic Novel 1. Will Eisner, from The Princess and the Frog 2. Bill Willingham, from Fables 3. Tyler & Tedesco, from Grimm Fairy Tales 4. Jonathan Vankin (ed.), from The Big Book of Grimm 5. Sean Dietrich, from Hansel and Gretel 6. Shannon and Dean Hale, from Rapunzel's Revenge Illustration and Art 1. Gustave Doré, from ""Little Thumb"" 2. Arthur Rackham, from ""The Frog Prince"" 3. Michael Foreman, from "Briar-Rose or, The Sleeping Beauty" 4. Sarah Moon, from Little Red Riding Hood 5. Szieszka and Lane Smith, from The Stinky Cheese Man 6. Camille Rose Garcia, from Snow White 7. Kiki Smith, "Born" 8. Paula Rego, "Snow White" 9. Marlene Dumas, "Snow White and the Broken Arm" The Stage The Movies Television Advertising 1. Amnesty International, "Little Red Riding Hood" 2. Burger King, "Little Red Riding Hood" 3. "Snow White" Anthropologie catalogue cover 4. Ajuda de Mae, "Snow White" 5. Melissa, "Rapunzel" 6. Pantene, "Rapunzel" 7. Brain Candy Toys, "Cinderella" Participatory Culture Epilogue: The Fairy-Tale Wedding Criticism 1. Sarah Bonner, "Visualising Little Red Riding Hood" 2. Maria Tatar, "Fairy Tales in the Age of Terror" 3. Henry A. Giroux & Grace Pollock, "Disney and the Politics of Public Culture" 4. Gail de Vos, "Storytelling, Folktales and the Comic-Book Format" 5. Catherine Orenstein, "Red Hot Riding Hood: A Babe in the Woods" 6. Graeme McMillan, "Another Bite of the Poisoned Apple" 7. Emily Rome, "'Once Upon a Time' Team: We Show Women Who Aren't Afraid of Power" 8. Alex Fury, "The Fairest of Them All" 9. Jessica Tiffin, "Magical Illusion: Fairy-Tale Film" Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Grand Babylon Hotel opens with New York millionaire Theodore Racksole's demand for an ""Angel Kiss"" - an American concoction the Grand Babylon does not serve. Racksole and his daughter Nella are on vacation, but quickly find themselves running the hotel, after Theodore's impulsive purchase of the establishment from founder and owner Felix Babylon. Soon the Racksoles are rushing to solve the mystery that threatens the reigning Prince of Posen - and Nella's future. The hotel itself opens possibilities for adventure, discovery, and wonder that the Racksoles had never anticipated.The novel, out of print for decades, raises serious questions about the possibilities for a truly cosmopolitan world, offering a dazzling picture of what this would look like. The historical appendices to this edition include extensive photographs and documents from the history of the Savoy Hotel (the model for the Grand Babylon) and material on the film version.Trade Review“Randi Saloman’s editing makes The Grand Babylon Hotel even grander, adding layers of historical, culinary, linguistic, and geographical detail to this fascinating and revelatory fiction. A lucid introduction and magnificent footnotes help to bring Bennett back to life—a resuscitation he surely deserves! This edition is wonderful for teaching—the contextual material is wisely selected and helps to put Bennett into his proper milieu and to bring him—thanks to Saloman’s scholarly vitality and conviction—into ours.”— Elaine Freedgood, New York University“For too long Arnold Bennett’s posthumous reputation has been overshadowed by his public disagreements with Virginia Woolf: he decried her cleverness, ‘the lowest of artistic qualities’; while she considered him a ‘workman,’ a ‘materialist,’ the representative of an outmoded generation. But the range and vitality of his works give the lie to Woolf’s assessment, and in The Grand Babylon Hotel we encounter a young and ambitious Bennett, a writer exploring the spaces, identities, and anxieties of urban modernity. Through her careful notes, contextual appendices, and illuminating introduction, Randi Saloman welcomes us to the Babylon Hotel, where anonymity and aporia, the ‘community and connection’ of its rooms and corridors, seem to embody the paradoxes of modern life. Much overdue, this new edition will introduce Bennett’s strange and enthralling ‘fantasia’ to a whole new generation of readers.”— Amber Regis, University of Sheffield“The modern hotel is a locus for all the fluidities, anxieties, and opportunities for self-invention that define modernity itself, as Arnold Bennett recognized in his delightful, genre-confounding novel The Grand Babylon Hotel, a mystery-farce accented by sharp observations on the nature of modern identity. Randi Salomon’s fine edition of the novel situates it equally well in the contexts of Bennett’s career, of Edwardian and modernist literary history, and of the dynamic first years of the turbulent twentieth century. Her illuminating introduction is equally well-attuned to its playful and thoughtful sides, and demonstrates why, even when he is having fun, Arnold Bennett is worth serious reading.” — Robert Squillace, New York University“Appendices include Bennett’s views on [Grand Babylon Hotel] from his ‘Journal’ and Letters; quotations relevant to GBH from other writings by Bennett; photographs and images of Bennett; contemporary reviews of GBH; quotations from different histories of the Savoy Hotel including photographs, highly relevant as the Grand Babylon is based on the Savoy as indeed is Bennett’s last completed novel ‘Imperial Palace’ (1930); and details of the ‘lost’ 1916 film of the novel … With all the extras this edition provides outstanding ‘value added’ and is a significant contribution to the 150th celebration of Bennett’s birth in 2017.” — Martin Laux, archivist of the Arnold Bennett Society“The Grand Babylon Hotel is a ripping good yarn, and Randi Saloman’s new edition for Broadview truly does it justice … Saloman matches the exuberance and vivacity—and the rich detail— of her subject in the first-rate and well-written scholarly apparatus she provides as part of this new edition. Like other Broadview editions, this one comes complete with an extensive and illuminating introduction, appendices providing important background and context on author and work, and detailed explanatory footnotes” — Janine Utell, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Arnold Bennett: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text The Grand Babylon HotelAppendix A: Bennett's Journal and Letters From The Journal of Arnold Bennett 1896-1928 (1933) From Letters of Arnold Bennett (1966-86) Appendix B: Other Works by Bennett From The Author's Craft and other Critical Writings (1914) From The Truth About an Author (1903) From Imperial Palace (1930) Appendix C: Photographs and Caricatures of Arnold Bennett Appendix D: Contemporary Reviews of The Grand Babylon Hotel Academy (18 January 1902) Times Literary Supplement (24 January 1902) From Spectator (25 January 1902) Appendix E: The Savoy Hotel: Historical Accounts, Photographs, and Related Images From the Savoy Hotel Website From Compton Mackenzie, The Savoy of London (1953) From Stanley Jackson, The Savoy: A Century of Taste (1989) Photographs from the Savoy Hotel Archives and Related Images Appendix F: From Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) Appendix G: Film Versions of The Grand Babylon Hotel Advertisements for the Lost Grand Babylon Hotel Film (1916) Excerpts from the Draft Screenplay of the Unmade Gavin Lambert/Lindsay Anderson Grand Babylon Hotel Film (1970s) Correspondence Related to the Film Project Works Cited and Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Great Gatsby is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of American fiction. It tells of the mysterious Jay Gatsby's grand effort to win the love of Daisy Buchanan, the rich girl who embodies for him the promise of the American dream. Deeply romantic in its concern with self-making, ideal love, and the power of illusion, it draws on modernist techniques to capture the spirit of the materialistic, morally adrift, post-war era Fitzgerald dubbed "the jazz age." Gatsby's aspirations remain inseparable from the rhythms and possibilities suggested by modern consumer culture, popular song, the movies; his obstacles inseparable from contemporary American anxieties about social mobility, racial mongrelization, and the fate of Western civilization.This Broadview edition sets the novel in context by providing readers with a critical introduction and crucial background material about the consumer culture in which Fitzgerald was immersed; about the spirit of the jazz age; and about racial discourse in the 1920s.Trade Review"If The Great Gatsby is, at first glance, an alluring but relatively simple tale, it eventually settles on our consciousness as an almost miraculous dramatization of the essence of the American experience. No major American theme—be it the role of money, art, the quest for social justice, race, or our sense of our national destiny—escapes Fitzgerald's prophetic gaze. This edition, strategically organized and invaluable from start to finish, is the virtually perfect guide to the depth and significance of his masterpiece." - Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University “Michael Nowlin’s edition of The Great Gatsby is educational and elegant. The generous footnotes are detailed yet unobtrusive, and the supplementary materials provide excellent context for what many consider The Great American Novel. The novel, and the world of the novel, are both available to you here, as inseparable as they were while Fitzgerald found inspiration and wrote.” — Anne Margaret Daniel, The New School “Readers are indeed fortunate to have Michael Nowlin’s extremely useful edition of The Great Gatsby. Nowlin provides a wealth of ancillary materials that enhance our understanding and appreciation of Fitzgerald’s masterpiece. Throughout, Nowlin’s emphasis is on the quality, not quantity, of these materials; the result is a book that will be indispensable to students, teachers, and the casual reader alike.” — Jackson R. Bryer, University of MarylandTable of Contents Appendix A: Fitzgerald's Correspondence about The Great Gatsby (1922-25) Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews 1. Isabel Patterson, New York Herald Tribune Books (19 April 1925) 2. H.L. Mencken, Baltimore Evening Sun (2 May 1925) 3. William Rose Benét, Saturday Review of Literature (9 May 1925) 4. William Curtis, Town & Country (15 May 1925) 5. Carl Van Vechten, The Nation (20 May 1925) 6. Burton Rascoe, Arts & Decoration (June 1925) 5. Gilbert Seldes, The Dial (August 1925) Appendix C: Consumption, Class, and Economy 1. From Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home (1922) 2. Eight Contemporary Advertisements 3. From F. Scott Fitzgerald, "How to Live on $36,000 a Year" (1924) 4. From Samuel Crowther & Jacob Raskob, "Everybody Ought to be Rich" (1929) Appendix D: The Irreverent Spirit of the Jazz Age 1. From F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Echoes of the Jazz Age" (1931) 2. Duncan M. Poole, "The Great Jazz Trial" (1922) 3. F. A. Austin, "The Bootlegger Speaks" (1922) 3. From H.L. Mencken, ["Five Years of Prohibition"] (1924) 4. Zelda Fitzgerald, "What Became of the Flappers?" (1925) 5. From Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals (1929) Appendix E: Race and the National Culture, 1920-25 1. From Lothrop Stoddard, The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920) 2. From Henry Ford, Jewish Influences in American Life (1921) 3. From Frederick C. Howe, "The Alien" (1922) 4. From Anzia Yezierska, Bread Givers (1925) 5. From Alain Locke, "The New Negro" (1925) 6. From J. A. Rogers, "Jazz at Home" (1925) 7. Miguel Covurrubias and Eric Walrond, "The Sheik of Dahomey" (illustration, 1924)

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Book SynopsisThe Afrofuturist plot of Pauline E. Hopkins's Of One Blood (1902-03) weaves together a lost African city, bigamy, incest, murder, ancient prophecies, a thwarted leopard attack, racial passing, baby switching, mesmerism, and hauntings—both literal ghost hauntings and metaphoric hauntings from the sins of slavery. The Broadview Edition offers for the first time annotations and appendices that contextualize the novel in relation to magazines, Black feminism, travels to Africa, racial discourses, scientific and medical debates, and musical culture. The edition's introduction surveys current debates about Hopkins's textual borrowings of from other contemporary writings, and the appendices provide extensive materials on the novel's cultural, musical, and political contexts.Trade Review“Broadview’s edition of Pauline E. Hopkins’s Of One Blood identifies and contextualizes Hopkins’s wide-ranging and varied inspirations, sources, and allusions in a manner that helps readers trace and understand how she employed her craft to perform ‘historical recovery in the service of racial justice.’ Eurie Dahn and Brian Sweeney’s brilliant introduction and meticulously researched notes bring Hopkins’s voice to life and illuminate her position as one of the foremost African American intellectuals of the early twentieth century. The breadth and depth of primary contemporaneous sources that Dahn and Sweeney have assembled raise the bar for scholarly editions.” — Alisha Knight, Washington College“Dahn and Sweeney’s edition of Hopkins’s Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Self strongly grounds the novel in the context of its publication in the Colored American Magazine and of relevant contemporaneous texts and ideas. Its wealth of background and archival material and meticulous elucidation of many of Hopkins’s textual ‘borrowings’ provide multiple inroads for the study of the novel and a tremendous resource for students, instructors, and scholars.” — Julie Fiorelli, Loyola University ChicagoTable of ContentsAppendix A: Pauline Hopkins and the Colored American Magazine 1. From “Rise of the Black Republic: Miss Pauline E. Hopkins Lectures at Tremont Temple,” Boston Post (18 Oct 1889) 2. “Pauline E. Hopkins,” Colored American Magazine (January 1901) 3. From Pauline E. Hopkins, Dedication and Preface to Contending Forces (1900) 4. From “Editorial and Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (May 1900) 5. From R. S. Elliott, “The Story of Our Magazine,” Colored American Magazine (May 1901) 6. “Powerful Serial Stories,” from “Announcement for 1902,” Colored American Magazine (November 1901) 7. Cover, Colored American Magazine (March 1903) 8. “An Interesting Publication,” Colored American newspaper (4 April 1903) 9. Synopsis of Chapters I to XXIII of Of One Blood, Colored American Magazine (November 1903) 10. Crane and Co. Cosmetics Advertisement, Colored American Magazine (March 1903) 11. From “Editorial and Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (October 1903) 12. From “Editorial and Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (March 1903) 13. “Editorial and Publisher’s Announcements,” Colored American Magazine, (May-June 1903) 14. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “How a New York Newspaper Man Entertained a Number of Colored Ladies and Gentlemen at Dinner in the Revere House, Boston, and How the Colored American League was Started,” Colored American Magazine (March 1904) 15. From Pauline E. Hopkins, Letter to William Monroe Trotter (16 April 1905) 16. From “Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (November 1904) 17. From “The Colored Magazine in America,” Crisis (November 1912) Appendix B: Black Feminist Activism 1. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Famous Women of the Negro Race: IV. Some Literary Workers,” Colored American Magazine (March 1902) 2. From Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, “Address of Josephine St. P. Ruffin, President of Conference” (1902) 3. From Victoria Earle Matthews, “The Value of Race Literature” (1895) 4. From Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892) 5. From Anna Julia Cooper, “The Status of Woman in America” (1892) Appendix C: “Of One Blood” 1. From Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 2. Acts of the Apostles 17.16-33 (King James Bible) 3. From Frederick Douglass, “The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered” (1854) 4. From Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861) 5. From W.E.B. Du Bois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” The Souls of Black Folk (1903) 6. From Francis Marion Crawford, Casa Braccio (1894) 7. From Pauline E. Hopkins (as J. Shirley Shadrach), “Furnace Blasts: II. Black or White?—Which Should Be the Young Afro-American’s Choice in Marriage?” Colored American Magazine (March 1903) Appendix D: Hopkins’s Africa 1. From John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book Four (1667, 1674) 2. From John Hartley Coombs, editor, Dr. Livingstone’s 17 Years’ Explorations and Adventures in the Wilds of Africa (1857) 3. From A.F. Jacassy, “African Studies: I. Tripoli of Barbary,” Scribner’s Magazine (January 1890) 4. From Noel Ruthven, “In the Claws,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly (January 1884) 5. From N. Robinson, “The Colossal Statues of Egypt and Asia,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly (January 1884) 6. From G.A. Hoskins, Travels in Ethiopia, Above the Second Cataract of the Nile(1835) 7. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Famous Women of the Negro Race. VII. Educators (Continued),” Colored American Magazine (June 1902) 8. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “Ethiopia” (1854) 9. From H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (1886-87) 10. Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, “The Black Princess” (1872) 11. From W.E.B. Du Bois, “To the Nations of the World” (25 July 1900) 12. From Pauline E. Hopkins, A Primer of Facts Pertaining to the Early Greatness of the African Race and the Possibility of Restoration by its Descendants—with Epilogue (1905) Appendix E: Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and Professional Medicine 1. From William James, “The Hidden Self,” Scribner’s Magazine (March 1890) 2. Pauline E. Hopkins, “The Mystery Within Us,” Colored American Magazine (May 1900) 3. From Emma Hardinge Britten, “The Improvvisatore, or Torn Leaves from Life History” (1861) 4. From “The Haunted Voice,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly (December 1884) 5. From J.P.F. Deleuze, Practical Instruction in Animal Magnetism (1837) 6. From The History and Philosophy of Animal Magnetism, with Practical Instructions for the Exercise of This Power, by a Practical Magnetizer (1843) 7. “Discovers the Secret of Life: Indiana Physician Asserts It Is Volatile Magnetism, Which Exists in the Air,” Boston Daily Globe (29 September 1902) 8. From W. E. B. Du Bois, editor, The College-Bred Negro: Report of a Social Study Made Under the Direction of Atlanta University (1900) 9. Abraham Flexner, “The Medical Education of the Negro” (1910) Appendix F: Musical Culture 1. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Famous Women of the Negro Race: I. Phenomenal Vocalists,” Colored American Magazine (November 1901) 2. From Theodore Drury, “The Negro in Classic Music; or, Leading Opera, Oratorio and Concert Singers,” Colored American Magazine (September 1902) 3. Advertisement for Theodore Drury Opera Company’s Aida, Colored American Magazine (March 1903) 4. Poster for Fisk University Jubilee Singers Concert (c. 1885) 5. “Go Down, Moses,” from The Story of the Jubilee Singers; with Their Songs, 5th edition (1876) 6. From Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845) 7. From W.E.B. Du Bois, “Of the Sorrow Songs,” The Souls of Black Folk (1903) 8. From James Weldon Johnson, “Preface,” The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922)

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Book SynopsisThis is the first collection in print of the letters of Australian colonial poet Charles Harpur (1813-68) and his circle. Supported by extensive annotation newly prepared for this edition, the 200 letters and life -- documents open up successive phases of colonial culture from the 1830s to the 1860s in a newly focused way. Harpur's two-way correspondence with poet Henry Kendall, and with poet and future premier of NSW Henry Parkes, is especially impressive.The letters selected for this edition document Harpur's life in a previously unavailable way. They reveal the intriguing struggle of a high-minded young man to pursue a serious vocation as a poet amidst the unpromising contours of colonial New South Wales society. Despite bearing the taint of a convict family background, Harpur took his vocation with utmost seriousness and had much to endure before he would find recognition as a poet, mainly in colonial newspapers where his poems made over 900 appearances.This edition captures the process in detail, as well as the production in 1883 of his Poems in book form. Even though editorially mangled, Poems confirmed his reputation and led to his presence in dozens of anthologies down to the present day.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Chronology Abbreviations Note on equivalences Introduction Editorial approach Note on the texts THE LETTERSMaps Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound—the founders of vorticism—undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence of vorticism on Marshall McLuhan and Canadian Modernism. Building on the initial accomplishment of the magazine Blast, McLuhan’s subsequent Counterblast, and the network of artistic and intellectual relationships that flourished in Canadian vorticism, the contributors offer groundbreaking examinations of postwar Canadian literary culture, particularly the legacies of Sheila and Wilfred Watson. Intended primarily for scholars of literature and communications, Counterblasting Canada explores a crucial and long-overlooked strand in Canadian cultural and literary history. Contributors: Gregory Betts, Adam Hammond, Paul Hjartarson, Dean Irvine, Elena Lamberti, Philip Monk, Linda M. Morra, Kristine Smitka, Leon Surette, Paul Tiessen, Adam Welch, Darren Wershler.Trade Review"Reading Counterblasting Canada one has the impression that this quartet—Lewis, McLuhan, and Wilfred and Sheila Watson—and their thinking about culture touched just about every discipline and genre available in the mid to late twentieth century…. Finally, then, these collections not only open up new critical conversations about Watson and others, they remind us that our provocative predecessors are also mentors who might help us reimagine the liberal arts in the neo-liberal university." [Full review at http://www.thebullcalfreview.ca/sheilawatson.htm] -- Kait Pinter * The Bull Calf, 6.2 *"[The essays] coincide and illuminate a narrative attentive to modernist and postmodernist discourses, patterns of influence, media theory, and the future of the humanities more generally.... While every essay is rich in theory and critical reflection, it is witnessing career- and life-altering conversations unfold on every page of this book that is sometimes most engrossing. Those conversations are made all the more impressive by the archival research peppered throughout.... The model of influence presented in Counterblasting Canada is compelling because it is partly a site of conflict.... Counterblasting Canada will have obvious appeal to communications, media studies, or Canadian literature scholars (especially those interested in the recent conversationsabout later modernism, intermodernism, and the like..." Canadian Literature 232 (Spring 2017) [Full review at http://canlit.ca/article/collaborations-and-collisions-in-the-canadian-vortex] -- Jeffrey Aaron WeingartenTable of ContentsXI Acknowledgements XIII Introduction // Gregory Betts, Paul Hjartarson, and Kristine Smitka Analepsis 1 Remembering McLuhan // Leon Surette The Art of Being Read 2 The New Canadian Vortex: Marshall McLuhan and the Avant-Garde Function of Counter-Environments // Gregory Betts 3 Watson, McLuhan (& Lewis): Conscious (Modernist) Solitudes, Challenging Canadians // Elena Lamberti 4 Excellent Internationalists: How Sheila Watson and Marshall McLuhan Made Wyndham Lewis Influential // Adam Hammond II The Antennae of the Race 5 Dispatches from the DEW Line: McLuhan, Anti-Environments, and Visual Art across the Canada–US Border, 1966–1973 // Adam Welch 6 Wilfred Watson, Playwright: Writing (to) McLuhan // Paul Tiessen 7 Marshall McLuhan, General Idea, and Me! // Philip Monk III Art and Anti-Environment 8 Sheila Watson, Wyndham Lewis, and Men without Art // Dean Irvine 9 “His Name Is Felix”: Artist as Catalytic Agent and the Counter-Environment in Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook // Linda M. Morra 10 Magic, Monstrosity, and “the Mechanization of Death”: Sheila Watson and Marshall McLuhan’s Dialogue on Photography // Kristine Smitka Prolepsis 11 Marshall McLuhan as Vanishing Mediator // Darren Wershler 277 Works Cited 293 Contributors 295 Index

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Book SynopsisFlora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22 years in India, mainly in the Punjab. This collection is the first to focus entirely on this “unconventional memsahib” and her contribution to turn-of-the-century Anglo-Indian literature. The eight essays draw attention to Steel’s multifaceted work—ranging from fiction to journalism to letter writing, from housekeeping manuals to philanthropic activities. These essays, by recognized experts on her life and work, will appeal to interdisciplinary scholars and readers in the fields of British India and Women’s Studies. Contributors: Amrita Banerjee, Helen Pike Bauer, Ralph Crane, Gráinne Goodwin, Alan Johnson, Anna Johnston, Danielle Nielsen, LeeAnne M. Richardson, Susmita RoyeTrade Review"[The editor] gathers essays on the writer contemporaries called 'the female Rudyard Kipling' (p. xii). The wife of a Civil Service officer who lived in India for twenty-two years, Steel learned some of the local languages and improved the lives of Indian women by providing medical aid and establishing girls’ schools. The essays in this volume treat topics ranging from Steel’s rewriting of women’s role in the maintenance of British power to her sympathetic representation of the wit and creativity of Indian girls. The essays also reveal the generic range of Steel’s writing, from her letters to newspapers to intervene in social policy to her use of cookbook writing to suggest analogies between domestic and colonial management." -- Andrea Henderson * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (Autumn 58, 4) *"There are eight essays by different hands on Steel (1847–1929), whom her contemporaries regarded as highly as Kipling but who subsequently faded into obscurity due to ‘the gender-biased politics of canonization’.... Each essay in this fascinating collection, which concludes with a useful index (pp. 211–24), is followed by notes and an alphabetically arranged enumerative listing of ‘Works Cited’: there are black and white illustrative figures scattered throughout the text." -- William Baker * The Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 98, Issue 1 *"Going beyond Steel’s most famous and widely discussed work, On the Face of the Waters, this excellent volume strives to shed light on her less well-known novels, such as The Potter’s Thumb and Voices in the Night: A Chromatic Fantasia, as well as her short fiction and other genres of her writing that have not received much attention from literary critics, including housekeeping advice, journalism, and letters to editors." -- Ira Raja * Oxford University Press Journals,Volume 98, Issue 1 *“The volume consists of individually strong essays that shed new light on undiscovered aspects of Steel as a writer, covering the entire gamut of her writing life…. [It] exemplifies the value of microstudy with attention on the particular, helping to raise important, larger points about the general. This volume is essential reading for scholars of gender, literature, cultural studies, South Asian studies and imperial histories, and is highly recommended for anthropologists, scholars of British history and those interested in the intersections of race, class and gender.” [Full review at DOI: 10.1177/0262728020944769] -- Radha Kapuria * South Asia Research Vol. 40(3) *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction / Susmita Roye 1 | Women Who Serve in Times of Need Recreating an Uprising in Flora Annie Steel’s Voices in the Night DANIELLE NIELSEN 2 | The Other Voice Agency of the Fallen Women in Flora Annie Steel’s Novels AMRITA BANERJEE 3 | Narrative Strategy as Hermeneutic Reading In the Permanent Way as Colonial Theory LEEANNE M. RICHARDSON 4 | Flora Annie Steel and Indian Girlhood HELEN PIKE BAUER 5 | The Transgressing Purdahnashin and Violated Purdah Space Kipling’s “Beyond the Pale” and Steel’s “Faizullah” SUSMITA ROYE 6 | “Going Jungli” Flora Annie Steel’s Wild Civility ALAN JOHNSON 7 | How to Dine in India Flora Annie Steel’s The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook and the Anglo-Indian Imagination RALPH CRANE AND ANNA JOHNSTON 8 | “Yours truly, Flora Annie Steel” Gender, Empire, and Indian Pressure Politics in the Times’s Correspondence Columns, 1897–1910 GRÁINNE GOODWIN Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisRobert A. Heinlein began publishing in the 1940s at the dawn of the Golden Age of science fiction, and today he is considered one of the genre's 'big three' alongside Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov. His short stories were instrumental in developing its structure and rhetoric, while novels such as Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers demonstrated that such writing could be a vehicle for political argument.Heinlein’s influence remains strong, but his legacy is fiercely contested. His vision of the future was sometimes radical, sometimes deeply conservative, and arguments have flared up recently about which faction has the most significant claim on his ideas.In this major critical study, Hugo Award-winner Farah Mendlesohn carries out a close reading of Heinlein’s work, including unpublished stories, essays, and speeches. It sets out not to interpret a single book, but to think through the arguments Heinlein made over a lifetime about the nature of science fiction, about American politics, and about himself.Trade Review'The kind of book that a writer of [Heinlein's] stature deserves... Remarkable. It makes Heinlein seem like the most interesting science fiction author around, not just of his era, but of ours.' Locus magazine'An insightful addition to the academic study and appreciation of Heinlein’s body of work... does a fantastic job of looking at the major themes of Heinlein’s career. 9*' Starburst magazine

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Book SynopsisBefore she published her distinguished novels, Muriel Spark first made her name as a critic and poet. Her discerning study of the poet and novelist John Masfield will therefore be doubly welcome, as an example of her earlier work, and as one of the best introductions to Masefield. With characteristic insight, Spark shows Masfield's development as a storyteller, through his early lyrics to his long narrative poems and finally his prose, together with his gift for observation of the life around him. John Masefield (1878-1967) lived a life as varied as his work. At the age of fifteen he went to sea as an apprentice in a windjammer and made the voyage round Cape Horn. The next three years he spent in New York, in a bakery, a livery stable, a saloon and a carpet factory. Back in England, he wrote for the Guardian and in the First World War served with the Red Cross. Throughout these years he had been writing poetry, and when in 1923 his Collected Poems appeared they sold over 200,000 copies. In 1930 he succeeded Robert Bridges as Poet Laureate.He was a prodigious novelist, essayist and poet; among his best known works are The Everlasting Mercy, Dauber, Reynard the Fox, Sard Marker and The Midnight Folk. 'I feel a large amount of my writing on him can be applied generally', wrote Spark in 1992: 'It is in many ways a statement of my position as a literary critic and I hope some readers will recognise it as such.'Trade Review'Spark shows herself to be as fearless and original a biographer as she was a novelist.' - Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length study of the life and work of novelist Gerald O’Donovan (1871–1942), a Catholic priest and social and cultural activist who, having abandoned the priesthood, became a writer and publisher. As a priest in Loughrea, Co. Galway, he was a very public figure in Irish life in several different areas. He was friendly with W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and George Moore and actively promoted the ‘Celtic Revival’. He was also a friend of Douglas Hyde and Sir Horace Plunkett and, for a number of years, he was a national figure in their respective organizations, the Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement. After his marriage to Beryl Verschoyle, he moved to England and subsequently published six novels, the best-known and most controversial of which was Father Ralph (1913), a portrait of the artist as a priest. He also spent time working in the British Department of Propaganda under Lord Northcliffe, where H.G. Wells was one of his colleagues. This biography of an important and strangely neglected figure allows us new insights into a whole range of interesting cultural moments in twentieth-century Irish life, including the beginnings of literary modernism, the flourishing of the Irish literary revival and the emergence of a dissident strand within the Catholic clergy. Based on a rich and previously untapped array of archival material in Ireland, Britain and the US, the book provides both a much-needed reassessment of O'Donovan's work and also a history of Irish writing during those early decades of the twentieth century that saw the development of a new and powerful national literature.Trade Review‘[A] judicious, factual narrative of a fascinatingly original life… this will be the standard book on Gerald O’Donovan… a thing of wonder.’ Adrian Frazier, Irish TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Early Life and Progress through the Priesthood2. Cooperative Campaigns, the Gaelic League and the Irish Literary Revival3. Irish Art Revivalist4. Conflict with the Church Intensifies5. A New Life6. Life as a Novelist7. Wartime Service8. Publisher9. Return to Wartime Service and Rose Macaulay10. The Later Novels11. A Fractured Life12. The Declining YearsEpilogue

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Book SynopsisFranz Xaver Kappus, an aspiring poet, wrote to Rainer Maria Rilke for advice in 1903, but could not have expected such a voluminous response from the acclaimed German writer. Through this correspondence, Augustus Young weaves a patchwork portrait of the enigmatic poet and his intimates.

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Book Synopsis'Author of paradoxes as clear as water and, as water, dizzying ...mysterious man who does not cultivate mystery, mysterious as the mid-day moon, taciturn phantom of the Portuguese mid-day - who is Pessoa?' asks Octavio Paz. This collection of the work of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) answers that question. It is an essential introduction to the work of one of the most original European poets of the twentieth century. It includes translations of a broad selection of his poems and his extraordinary prose, and some of his original English writings. A major introductory essay by Octavio Paz, a critical anthology, two posthumous 'interviews' and illustrations from the Pessoa archive are also included, to reveal the world of Pessoa in all its richness.Trade Review`Pessoa's amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output. We cannot learn too much about him.' - William Boyd.

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Book SynopsisDonald Davie's first two prose books (1952, 1955), available now in one volume with a new foreword, set the agenda for 'The Movement' and shaped the critical approach of two generations of readers and teachers of poetry. They have also proven of value to poets finding their way. Intended as 'two stages in one investigation', they provide a brilliantly detailed analysis of the workings of English poetry and remain, with books such as I.A. Richards's "Practical Criticism" and William Empson's "Seven Types of Ambiguity", primary critical texts, reviving attention to poetry at a technical level and, in the process, stirring awake for many readers major (and minor) writers of the late eighteenth century who require special qualities of attention. Davie remains a particularist, proving in insight after insight the deep rewards of close attention. For him poetry is a responsible art; it is not an end in itself but must always 'reek of the human'.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores contemporary ways of reading some important New Zealand literary works, all produced between 1910 and 1940. Interpretations of these texts have had a significant impact on New Zealanders'' ideas of themselves. The author argues that interpretation is a process which can never be completed, although at any one time there will be readings that are more significant than others. To illustrate her argument, Mary Paul discusses key works by two authors: Katherine Mansfield''s ''Bliss'' and ''Prelude'', Jane Mander''s The Story of a New Zealand River , and the work of Robin Hyde, poet, novelist and journalist. She opens up ways of reading these and other writers, using a variety of approaches and encouraging a greater self-awareness in the interpretation of New Zealand literature and culture.

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Book SynopsisA critical scrapbook collected from fifteen years of writing. Contains essays, reviews, interviews, journals, notes, and poetic improvisations on contemporary poetry and identity.

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Book SynopsisPacific Rim Letters is a never-before-seen collection of letters Roy Kiyooka wrote between 1975 and 1985. It presents a fascinating and highly valuable picture of the artistic and literary communities Kiyooka was actively involved with, as well as Kiyooka as a man with an extraordinary intellect and passion for life and the arts. Kiyooka takes the epistolary form into new and radical directions. At once tenderly estranged and confessional, attentive as much to the minutiae of daily life as to the complexities of artistic and literary creation, and embedded in the politics of culture-making and those of racialized identities, these letters are a literary achievement in their own right.

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Book SynopsisWere the Bees is an innovative collection of poetry from a fresh Canadian voice. In it, Andy Weaver explores the boundaries of the poetic form to create a playful yet sincere examination of that language means to us.

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Book SynopsisThis collection travels many paths and by-ways, beside some of which lie burning cars, or a young man speechless on a forest floor, or girls lost far from home. And there is a lighthouse...Travellers pass along these ways, in the darkness, in transit, hoping for safe passage through unknown territory. All are imagined with what Sean O'Brien describes as Draycott's 'quizzical, exultant, exact music'. The Night Tree is Jane Draycott's second book of poems, following Prince Rupert's Drop, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation short listed for the Forward Prize in 1999, and two smaller collections, Tideway (Two Rivers Press, 2002, illustrated by Peter Hay) and No Theatre (Smith/Doorstop) short listed for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 1997.

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Book SynopsisThe three Lebanese writers discussed in this volume -- Kahlil Gibran, Ameen Rihani and Mikhail Naimy -- all emigrated to the USA early in life. There, in the first decades of the twentieth century, together with other Syrian and Lebanese émigrés, they were spurred into writing and setting up all Arabic-language press. The result was what became known as the Syro-American School, a fusion of Eastern sentiment with Western forms and, beyond this, a cultural cross-fertilisation in both directions. All three authors wrote in English as -,yell as Arabic, while Mikhail Naimy also wrote in Russian. Many of their works were directed at specifically Arab affairs, and they also wrote much that was of deliberately universal appeal, including a re-interpretation of traditional Arab spirituality. The best-known example of this was Kahlil Gibran's best-seller "The Prophet". A century on, their words on the need for East and West to come to one another's aid are as salutary as ever. This important book by Professor Aida Imangulieva, an Azeri specialist on Arabic literature, was originally published in Russian during the final years of the Soviet Union. It examines the influences of foreign literary movements, such as Romanticism and Realism, upon the three authors: Gibran and Rihani in the light of English poets like Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley and American writers such as Emerson and Whitman; Naimy through the lens of the Russian Realist tradition, drawing parallels specifically with the work of Belinsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev and the Chekhovian tradition. The book provides an unusual window onto the Arab world's cultural interaction with Europe, America and Russia in the early twentieth century. It also reaches beyond its academic scope and reveals, from the pages of the three authors, universal elements that speak to all people and go beyond cultural frameworks altogether.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Arab émigré literature in the USA: origins & influences; Kahlil Gibran: the development of the Romantic method; Ameen Rihani & his role in the formation of Arab Romanticism; Mikhail Naimy & nineteenth-century Russian literature; Conclusion; Index.

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Book SynopsisWar correspondents are prominent actors in the media world. They took hold in the cultural imaginary soon after their profession had been created in the mid-19th century. With a particular focus on Britain, this study investigates the representation of war correspondents from Victorian times to the present, in memoirs, novels and films. Such representations react to prevailing notions that exist about war reporters and participate in their further construction. With its cultural approach, this book complements studies of war correspondents in media and communication studies, history and ethnology.

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Book SynopsisPopular archaeology is a heterogeneous phenomenon: Focusing on the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, Egyptian mummies, and the ruin complex Great Zimbabwe in fictional and factual texts, Susanne Duesterberg analyses the popular reception of archaeology in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. She offers an interdisciplinary and comparative view on the reception of the different archaeologies, reflecting contemporary sociocultural concerns in connection with identity formation. With its focus on popular culture as well as identity and memory studies, the book appeals to both a general public and experts from various disciplines.

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Book Synopsis"After the Storm" traces the cultural and political responses to Hurricane Katrina. Ever since Katrina hit the Gulf coast in 2005, its devastating consequences for the region, for New Orleans, and the United States have been negotiated in a growing number of cultural productions - among them Spike Lee's documentary film "When the Levees Broke", David Simon and Eric Overmyer's TV series "Treme", or Natasha Trethewey's poetry collection "Beyond Katrina". This book provides interdisciplinary perspectives on these and other approaches to Hurricane Katrina and puts special emphasis on the intersections of the categories race and class.

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Book Synopsisandererseits is a collaborative project undertaken by students and faculties of universities in the USA (Duke and the University of Notre Dame), in Luxembourg (University of Luxembourg), and in Germany (University of Duisburg-Essen). It provides a forum for research and reflection on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. Works presented in the publication come from a wide variety of genres including book reviews, poetry, essays, editorials, forum discussions, academic notes, lectures, as well as traditional peer-reviewed academic articles. By publishing such a diverse array of material, we hope to demonstrate the extraordinary value of the humanities in general, and German Studies in particular, on a variety of intellectual and cultural levels. This edition features special sections on the writers Reinhard Jirgl and Barbara Honigmann as well as - for example - essays on Beethoven's 'Heroic New Path', 'Antisemitism in Germany (1890-1933)', the reception of German literature in Great Britain, and a study of post-Wall East German melodrama.

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