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Liverpool University Press Science-Fiction Rebels: The Story of the
Book SynopsisMike Ashley's acclaimed history of science-fiction magazines comes to the 1980s with Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990. This volume charts a significant revolution throughout science fiction, much of which was driven by the alternative press, and by new editors at the leading magazines. The period saw the emergence of the cyberpunk movement, and the drive for what David Hartwell called 'The Hard SF Renaissance', which was driven from within Britain. Ashley plots the rise of many new authors in both strands: William Gibson, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, John Kessel, Pat Cadigan and Rudy Rucker in cyberpunk, and Stephen Baxter, Alistair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton, Neal Asher and Robert Reed in hard sf. He also shows how the alternative magazines looked to support each other through alliances, which allowed them to share and develop ideas as science fiction evolved.Trade Review'The information Mike Ashley has put together is really astonishing: researchers of the field, and anyone who’s interested in popular fiction of the period are going to find this book an immense help.' Andy Sawyer'Ashley has a skilled historian’s sense of proportion... he picks up on the rise of various themes in science fiction and notes the importance of the blurring of the lines between genres… his work focuses on some of the most well-known aspects of science fiction literature.' Gary K. Wolfe, Locus'Ashley writes with skill, passion and insight. The excitement he feels for the genre is apparent on every page. The depth and breadth of the research is stunning, covering countries as diverse as Uruguay, Croatia, Finland – and even Mongolia, which had a pocketbook sf magazine between 1976 and 1990.' Mark Greener, Fortean Times‘Taken as a whole, Ashley’s ongoing history of the SF magazine is an astonishing achievement. This is vital work in uncovering and making available elements in the publishing history of SF that would otherwise be easily forgotten or neglected.’ Derek Johnston, Fantastika Journal 'Science Fiction Rebels fills a niche but tremendous void in SF scholarship of 80s literary magazines and history [...] Ashley gives other scholars of SF magazines valuable insight to the world of editing SF in one of the world’s most eclectic decades. Ashley makes Science Fiction Rebels a scholarly must-have for research and editorial history within 80s SF.'B.L. King, SFRA Review '[Science Fiction Rebels] is essential reading for anyone needing to make sense of a decade of competing obsessions and styles, complex emergent technologies and mounting financial pressures on publishers. Ashley has produced a fascinating chronicle, a piece of thorough and dazzling scholarship and an invaluable work of reference.' Andy Hedgecock, Foundation‘This fourth volume in Mike Ashley’s comprehensive chronology of the SF magazines offers more of what came before it: a breath-taking depth and breadth of SF knowledge written in clear, comprehensible prose by an experienced and capable writer of encyclopaedias and anthologies… these books represent a supreme effort of scholarship and history-making, and they will be an invaluable tool to academics and fans alike.’ John McLoughlin, FafnirTable of ContentsList of TablesPrefaceNote on TerminologyAcknowledgementsChronologyChapter 1: Before the Revolution: Bastion of ExcellenceChapter 2: The First Revolution: Cyberpunk Days The McCarthy Years The Impact of Omni Cyberpunk Daze The Analog Dimension Dozois in Charge Amazing RebirthChapter 3: The First Interlude: The Dark Corners Twilight Zone Horror StruckChapter 4: The Second Revolution: The British Hard-SF Renaissance Out of the Wilderness Interzone Beyond InterzoneChapter 5: The Second Interlude: Other Worlds Éire Canada Australia Far CornersChapter 6: The Third Rebellion: The SF Underground SF Renegades Dangerous PulphouseChapter 7: Postlude: Back to Basics Stuck on the Launch Pad Shared Worlds Small-Press Endeavours Magazine with a Mission A Qualified Success A Problem Shared … Chapter 8: EpilogueAppendix 1: Non-English-Language Science-Fiction MagazinesAppendix 2: Checklist of English-Language Science-Fiction MagazinesAppendix 3: Directory of Magazine Editors and PublishersAppendix 4: Directory of Magazine Cover ArtistsAppendix 5: Schedule of Magazine Circulation FiguresSelect BibliographyAddenda and CorrigendaIndex
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Liverpool University Press Science Fiction and Climate Change: A
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Best Non-Fiction Award 2020Shortlisted for the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Non-Fiction Award 2021An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Despite the occasional upsurge of climate change scepticism amongst Anglophone conservative politicians and journalists, there is still a near-consensus amongst climate scientists that current levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas are sufficient to alter global weather patterns to disastrous effect. The resultant climate crisis is simultaneously both a natural and a socio-cultural phenomenon and in this book Milner and Burgmann argue that science fiction occupies a critical location within this nature/culture nexus. Science Fiction and Climate Change takes as its subject matter what Daniel Bloom famously dubbed ‘cli-fi’. It does not, however, attempt to impose a prescriptively environmentalist aesthetic on this sub-genre. Rather, it seeks to explain how a genre defined in relation to science finds itself obliged to produce fictional responses to the problems actually thrown up by contemporary scientific research. Milner and Burgmann adopt a historically and geographically comparatist framework, analysing print and audio-visual texts drawn from a number of different contexts, especially Australia, Britain, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan and the United States. Inspired by Williams's cultural materialism, Bourdieu's sociology of culture and Moretti's version of world systems theory, the book builds on Milner’s own Locating Science Fiction to produce a powerfully persuasive study in the sociology of literature. Trade Review'[This] volume offers an interesting introductory overview covering a variety of climate fictions... The clear, easily accessible writing style and overall useful introductory nature of the material would definitely recommend the volume as a text for undergraduates studying climate fictions as part of a literary studies or cultural studies curriculum.'Anya Heise-von der Lippe, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts'Andrew Milner and J.R. Burgmann’s Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach adds some vitally needed critical rigor to the burgeoning subgenre of SF literature and media Daniel Bloom has labelled “cli-fi,” that is, climate fiction.'Jerome Winter, SFRA Review'Science Fiction and Climate Change is a comprehensive examination of the current state of CF [climate fiction]. It is pleasingly open to genre and form, and Milner and Burgmann's accessible style results in a book that is at once objective sociological-literary commentary and personal reflection on the practice of CF research.' Jasmin Kirkbride, Green LettersTable of Contents1. Ice, Fire and Flood: A Short Pre-History of Climate Fiction 2. A Theoretical Interlude 3. Climate Fiction and the World Literary System 4. The Classical Dystopia in Climate Fiction 5. The Critical Dystopia in Climate Fiction 6. The Problem of Fatalism in Dystopian Climate Fiction 7. Base Reality Texts and Eutopias 8. Cli-Fi in Other Media 9. Changing the Climate: Some Provisional Conclusions
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Liverpool University Press The Culture of The Culture : Utopian Processes
Book SynopsisIn a career that spanned over thirty years, Iain M. Banks became one of the best-loved and most prolific writers in Britain, with his space opera series concerned with the pan-galactic utopian civilisation known as "the Culture" widely regarded as his most significant contribution to science fiction. The Culture of "The Culture" focuses solely on this series, providing a comprehensive, thematic analysis of Banks’s Culture stories from Consider Phlebas to The Hydrogen Sonata. It explores the development of Banks’s political, philosophical and literary thought, arguing that the Culture offers both an image of a harmonious civilisation modelled on an alternative socialist form of globalisation and a critique of our neo-liberal present. As Joseph Norman explains, the Culture is the result of an ongoing utopian process, attempting through the application of technoscience to move beyond obstacles to progress such as imperialism, capitalism, the human condition, religious dogma, patriarchy and crises in artistic representation. The Culture of "The Culture" defines Banks’s creation as culture: a utopian way of doing, of being, of seeing: an approach, an attitude and a lifestyle that has enabled, and is evolving alongside, utopia, rather than an image of a static end-state.Trade Review'[The Culture of "The Culture"] stands as an invaluable contribution to the study of Banks’s CULTURE series, in particular its relation to the space opera subgenre and the history of utopian thinking.' Chad Andrews, Science Fiction Studies‘Norman provides a deep, thorough overview of the complex world of the Culture and the ways in which it both fulfills and belies our assumptions about a utopian society… optimism drives Banks’ work, and it goes far in explaining why the Culture sequence remains not only eminently and beautifully readable but an emotional necessity for this historical moment.’ Jeremy Brett, SFRA ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Interventions, Imperialism, the Technologiade2. Thinking the Break: The Culture as Postscarcity Utopia3. Senescence, Rejuvanessence, and (Im)mortality: The Culture and the Posthuman4. Feminist Space Opera and the Handy Man5. Secularism, Humanism and the Quasi-religious Culture 6. Art in Utopia and Utopian Art: the Culture of 'the Culture'Conclusion
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Liverpool University Press Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles: Contesting
Book SynopsisGiven the extensive influence of the 'transport revolution' on the past two centuries (a time when trains, trams, omnibuses, bicycles, cars, airplanes, and so forth were invented), and given science fiction’s overall obsession with machines and technologies of all kinds, it is surprising that scholars have not paid more attention to transportation in this increasingly popular genre. Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles is the first book to examine the history of representations of road transport machines in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century American science fiction. The focus of this study is on two machines of the road that have been locked in a constant, often bitter, struggle with one another: the automobile and the bicycle. With chapters ranging from the early science fiction of the pulp magazine era in the 1920s and 1930s, to the postcyberpunk of the 1990s and more recent media of the 2000s such as web television, zines, and comics, this book argues that science fiction by and large perceives the car as anything but a marvelous invention of modernity. Rather, the genre often scorns and ridicules the automobile and instead promotes more sustainable, more benign, more restrained technologies of movement such as the bicycle.Trade Review‘With its broad historic reach, its synthesis of a variety of disparate types of research from a variety of scholarly disciplines, its lucid prose, and its welcome readability, Withers' Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles offers a significant contribution to both ecocritical discourse and the study of science fiction as a genre.’- Lisa Swanstrom, University of UtahTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Perfectibility and Techno-Optimism in the Pulp Era2. Murderous Cars, Space Bikes, and Alien Bicycles in the Golden Age3. Electric Cars, Auto-Dueling, and Bike Shares in the New Wave4. Messenger Skateboards and Messenger Bikes in Postcyberpunk5. Staying Mobile in the Post-Apocalyptic World6. Kids on Bikes in 1980s Nostalgia TextsConclusion
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Liverpool University Press Twenty-First-Century Readings of E. M. Forster's
Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length study of Forster’s posthumously-published novel. Nine essays focus exclusively on Maurice and its dynamic afterlives in literature, film and new media during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Begun in 1913 and revised over almost fifty years, Maurice became a defining text in Forster’s work and a canonical example of queer fiction. Yet the critical tendency to read Maurice primarily as a ‘revelation’ of Forster’s homosexuality has obscured important biographical, political and aesthetic contexts for this novel. This collection places Maurice among early twentieth-century debates about politics, philosophy, religion, gender, Aestheticism and allegory. Essays explore how the novel interacts with literary predecessors and contemporaries including John Bunyan, Oscar Wilde, Havelock Ellis and Edward Carpenter, and how it was shaped by personal relationships such as Forster’s friendship with Florence Barger. They close-read the textual variants of Forster’s manuscripts and examine the novel’s genesis and revisions. They consider the volatility of its reception, analysing how it galvanizes subsequent generations of writers and artists including Christopher Isherwood, Alan Hollinghurst, Damon Galgut, James Ivory and twenty-first-century online fanfiction writers. What emerges from the volume is the complexity of the novel, as a text and as a cultural phenomenon.Trade ReviewReviews'Twenty-First-Century Readings of E.M. Forster's Maurice is a smart and wide-ranging collection of essays on a critically neglected novel whose time is very much now. Exploring the novel’s queer politics, historical contexts, and aesthetic afterlives, the contributors elevate it in the Forster canon and establish its vital relevance to contemporary LGBT life.'Benjamin Bateman, University of Edinburgh'I would absolutely recommend the book. Twenty-First-Century Readings not only encapsulates and expands the present state of research concerning Maurice but above all, it invites and creates space for further Maurice related discussions... A real treat for the fans of Maurice and its author.'Anna Kwiatkowska, Polish Journal of English Studies'The scholarly ambition and intellectual range of the essays collected in Emma Sutton and Tsung-Han Tsai’s new volume suggest that scholarly work on E.M. Forster retains a pleasing energy and vibrancy in the author’s anniversary year... a deeply satisfying collection... It will undoubtedly send readers to the greenwood afresh, copies of Maurice in hand.'Fraser Riddell, Language and Literary Studies of WarsawTable of ContentsIntroduction: Maurice Through TimeEmma Sutton and Tsung-Han TsaiPart I. Forebears and Friends1. ‘An unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort’: E. M. Forster, Maurice, and the Legacy of AestheticismJoseph Bristow2. Women In and Out: Forster, Social Purity, and Florence BargerGemma Moss3. The Master and the Pupil: E. M. Forster, Christopher Isherwood, and the Forging of a Queer AestheticCharlotte CharterisPart II. Contemporary Contexts4. ‘Flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design’: Women and Narrative Exclusion in E. M. Forster’s Maurice Anna Watson5. Maurice: Beyond Body and SoulFinn Fordham6. Maurice and ReligionKrzysztof FordońskiPart III. Afterlives7. ‘A man embedded in society’: Homosexuality and the ‘Social Fabric’ in Maurice and Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool LibraryDavid Medalie8. Sexuality, Allegory, and Interpretation: E. M. Forster’s Maurice and Damon Galgut’s Arctic SummerHoward J. Booth9. Maurice without Ending, from Forster’s Palimpsest to Fan-TextClaire Monk
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Liverpool University Press The Literary Afterlives of Roger Casement,
Book SynopsisThis book explores the literary afterlives of one of Ireland’s most enigmatic, shape-shifting and controversial sons, Roger Casement. A seminal human rights activist, a key figure in the struggle for Irish independence, a traitor to British imperialism and an enthusiastic recorder of a sexual life lived in the shadows: through Casement, writers have been able to commune and negotiate with a difficult past. Casement can be found in the most curious of places: from the imperial horrors of Heart of Darkness (1899) to the gay club culture of 1980s London in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library (1998); from George Bernard Shaw’s play Saint Joan (1923) to a love affair between spies in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day (1948); from the post-Easter Rising elegies of Eva Gore-Booth and Alice Milligan to the beguiling, opaque poetry of Medbh McGuckian. Drawing upon a variety of literary and cultural texts, alongside significant archival research, this book establishes dialogues between modernist and contemporary works to argue that Casement’s ghost opens a fault line in our uneasy engagement with the cross-currents between history and memory, reality and fiction. It positions Casement as a vital and fascinating figure in the compromised and contradictory terrain of Anglo-Irish history.Trade Review'This is a welcome study, learned, wide-ranging and on a fascinating and timely topic.'Professor Matthew Campbell, University of York'As with all queer pasts the archive remains somewhat out of reach, incomplete, hidden, silenced and disputed; Casement will, as Garden rightfully notes, "continue to haunt us", but this work makes his haunting less of a ghostly white on white text, and is a worthy addition to Casement studies.' Mary McAuliffe, Irish Historical Studies'Garden writes an admirably nuanced and elaborately and systematically interwoven text […] This study adds much to the fields of memory studies, to gender studies, to the nationalist histories of Ireland and Britain, and to literary studies.' Frances Devlin-Glass, Australasian Journal of Irish Studies'Garden embraces all that is "complex, contradictory and messy" in Casement’s legacy: unrestricted by text or canon, she ... demonstrates how the "queer archival trail" of Roger Casement continues to disturb neat narratives of history.' Galen D. Bunting, Modernism/Modernity'This is a courageous, profoundly researched and theoretically challenging work that synthesizes the expanding Queer archive of Casement material and builds on the pioneering work by the American literary historian, Lucy McDiarmid. Garden’s opening chapter on Conrad and Sebald must rank as one of the most stimulating interventions on the "archival, textual and historical dialogue" between Heart of Darkness and The Rings of Saturn.' Angus Mitchell, Review of Irish Studies in EuropeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Casement's Queer GhostI. 'He could tell you things! Things I've tried to forget, things I never did know': Conrad, Sebald and Spectres of ImperialismII. The Black Diaries: Sex, Race and Empire in The Swimming-Pool Library and The Lost WorldIII. Queer Nationalism and Colonial Ireland: Ulysses and At Swim Two BoysIV. Saint Casement: The 'National Political Trial', Partition and the Dramatic Troubles of Sir RogerV. The Traitor and the Hero: War, Betrayal and EspionageVI. 'The Ghost of Roger Casement': Poetic Afterlives
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Liverpool University Press British Women's Writing, 1930 to 1960: Between
Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.This volume contributes to the vibrant, ongoing recuperative work on women’s writing by shedding new light on a group of authors commonly dismissed as middlebrow in their concerns and conservative in their styles and politics. The neologism ‘interfeminism’ – coined to partner Kristin Bluemel’s ‘intermodernism’ – locates this group chronologically and ideologically between two ‘waves’ of feminism, whilst also forging connections between the political and cultural monoliths that have traditionally overshadowed them. Drawing attention to the strengths of this ‘out-of-category’ writing in its own right, this volume also highlights how intersecting discourses of gender, class and society in the interwar and postwar periods pave the way for the bold reassessments of female subjectivity that characterise second and third wave feminism.The essays showcase the stylistic, cultural and political vitality of a substantial group of women authors of fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry and journalism including Vera Brittain, Storm Jameson, Nancy Mitford, Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Rumer Godden, Attia Hosain, Doris Lessing, Kamala Markandaya, Susan Ertz, Marghanita Laski, Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Pargeter, Eileen Bigland, Nancy Spain, Vera Laughton Matthews, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Dorothy Whipple, Elizabeth Taylor, Daphne du Maurier, Barbara Comyns, Shelagh Delaney, Stevie Smith and Penelope Mortimer. Additional exploration of the popular magazines Woman’s Weekly and Good Housekeeping and new material from the Vera Brittain archive add an innovative dimension to original readings of the literature of a transformative period of British social and cultural history.List of contributors: Natasha Periyan, Eleanor Reed, Maroula Joannou , Lola Serraf, Sue Kennedy, Ana Ashraf, Chris Hopkins, Gill Plain, Lucy Hall, Katherine Cooper, Nick Turner, Maria Elena Capitani, James Underwood, and Jane Thomas.Trade Review'This new collection of essays is a welcome addition to scholarship on twentieth-century women’s writing. [...] This is a recuperative project that insists on a dismissal of middlebrow from our critical lexicon in favour of an appreciation of ‘interfeminism’. Latent throughout are attempts to answer unspoken questions: did this period produce women’s writing that merits critical attention? And just how innovative was it? Where was its energy? Its revolt? Its exigency? Everywhere, this collection asserts, we just have to read it.'Lydia Fellgett, Women: A Cultural ReviewTable of ContentsIntroductionSue Kennedy and Jane ThomasPart I: Women Within and Beyond: Visions of ‘This Island’ 1930-19601. 'Pacifism , Fascism and The Crisis of Civilization’: Vera Brittain, Storm Jameson and Nancy Mitford in the 1930sNatasha Periyan2. Lower-Middle-Class Domestic Leisure in Woman’s Weekly, 1930 Eleanor Reed3. ‘Unsettled’ and ‘Unsettling’ Women: Migrant Voices After the WarMaroula Joannou Part II: Women Bearing Witness: The Temperature of War4. Supporting and Resisting the Myth of the Blitz: Ambiguity in Susan Ertz's Anger in the Sky (1943)Lola Serraf5. ‘The Lure of Pleasure’: Sex and the Married Girl in Marghanita Laski’s To Bed with Grand Music (1946)Sue Kennedy6. The Ambivalence of Testimony in The Heat of the Day (1949), Elizabeth BowenAna Ashraf7. Re-presenting Wrens: Nancy Spain's Thank you Nelson (1945), Eileen Bigland's The Story of the WRNS (1946), Vera Laughton Matthews' Blue Tapestry (1948) and Edith Pargeter's She Goes to War (1942) Chris HopkinsPart III: Women Writing Men: Interwar, War and Aftermath8. ‘We must feed the men’: Pamela Hansford Johnson’s Maternal Plotting. Too Dear For My Possessing (1940), An Avenue of Stone (1947) and A Summer to Decide (1948)Gill Plain9. Men of the House: Oppressive Husbands and Displaced Wives in Second World War and Post-War Literature (Dorothy Whipple, Elizabeth Taylor, Daphne du Maurier)Lucy Hall 10. British Women Writing War: The Case of Storm Jameson Katherine CooperPart IV: New Realities for Women: A Forward Glance11. Barbara Comyns and New Directions in Women’s WritingNick Turner12. A New Reality: Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey (1958)Maria Elena Capitani13. Stevie Smith: Poetry and PersonalityJames Underwood14. ‘Whoever She Was’: Penelope Mortimer, Beyond the Feminine MystiqueJane Thomas
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Liverpool University Press Remaking the Voyage: New Essays on Malcolm Lowry
Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. ‘Who ever thought they would one day be able to read Malcolm Lowry’s fabled novel of the 1930s and 40s, In Ballast to the White Sea? Lord knows, I didn’t’ – Michael Hofmann, TLS This book breaks new ground in studies of the British novelist Malcolm Lowry (1909–57), as the first collection of new essays produced in response to the publication in 2014 of a scholarly edition of Lowry’s ‘lost’ novel, In Ballast to the White Sea. In their introduction, editors Helen Tookey and Bryan Biggs show how the publication of In Ballast sheds new light on Lowry as both a highly political writer and one deeply influenced by his native Merseyside, as his protagonist Sigbjørn Hansen-Tarnmoor walks the streets of Liverpool, wrestling with his own conscience and with pressing questions of class, identity and social reform. In the chapters that follow, renowned Lowry scholars and newer voices explore key aspects of the novel and its relation to the wider contexts of Lowry’s work. These include his complex relation to socialism and communism, the symbolic value of Norway, and the significance of tropes of loss, hauntings and doublings. The book draws on the unexpected opportunity offered by the rediscovery of In Ballast to look afresh at Lowry’s oeuvre, to ‘remake the voyage’. Trade Review‘Remaking the Voyage makes a major contribution to Lowry studies, perhaps unsurprisingly given the strength of the academic contributors. It genuinely advances humanistic knowledge of Lowry’s In Ballast, additionally offering an intriguing identity politics argument or interpretive nexus, comprising cultural and geographical location, class and political awareness/affiliation.’- Professor Richard J. Lane, Vancouver Island UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionHelen Tookey and Bryan BiggsHaunted by Books: Malcolm Lowry’s Ultramarine and In Ballast to the White SeaPatrick A. McCarthy‘We’ve got a bastard duke on board’: Class, Fantasy and Politics in Malcolm LowryBen ClarkeMalcolm Lowry and the End of CommunismMark CrawfordIn Ballast to the White Sea: The Springboard for Russian Influences on Malcolm Lowry’s Visionary Intellect Nigel H. FoxcroftIn Ballast to the White Sea: A Plunge into the MatrixAnnick Drösdal-LevillainWalking with Shadows: Index, Inscription and Event in Malcolm Lowry’s In Ballast to the White SeaCian Quayle‘Hva vet vi?’: In Ballast to the White Sea and the Weighting of EvidenceChris Ackerley Identity and Doubles: Being and Writing in Malcolm Lowry’s In Ballast to the White SeaPierre SchaefferThe Lost Other: Malcolm Lowry’s Creative ProcessCatherine Delesalle-NanceyInfernal Discourse: Narrative Poetics among the Ashes of In Ballast to the White Sea and Under the VolcanoChristopher Madden‘Leaning forward eagerly’: Malcolm Lowry’s Moviegoers and In Ballast to the White Sea Miguel Mota and Paul TiessenFrom In Ballast to the White Sea to Rumbo al Mar Blanco: The Spanish Reception of Malcolm Lowry’s Unfinished NovelAlberto Lena‘Glimpses of Immortality’: Our Voyages with Vik DoyenSherrill Grace
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Liverpool University Press Pacifist Invasions: Arabic, Translation & the
Book SynopsisPacifist Invasions is about what happens to the francophone lyric in the translingual Franco-Arabic context. Drawing on lyric theory, comparative poetics, and linguistics, it demonstrates how Arabic literature and Islamic scripture pacifically invade French in the poetry of Habib Tengour (Algeria), Edmond Jabès (Egypt), Salah Stétié (Lebanon), Abdelwahab Meddeb (Tunisia), and Ryoko Sekiguchi (Japan). Pacifist Invasions deploys side-by-side comparisons of classical Arabic literature, Islamic scripture, and the Arabic commentary traditions in the original language against the landscapes of modern and contemporary French and francophone literature, poetry, and poetics. Detailed close readings reveal three generic modes of translating Arabic poetics into the French lyric, and the mechanisms by which poets foreignize French, as they engage in a translational and intertextual relationship with the history and world of Arabic literature.Through fine-grained analyses of poetry, translations, commentaries, chapbooks, art books, and essays, Pacifist Invasions proposes a cross-cultural history and rereading of French and francophone literatures in relation to the transversal translations and transmissions of classical Arabic poetics. It offers a translingual, comparative repositioning of the field of francophone postcolonial studies along a fluid, translational Franco-Arabic axis. The vision of the postfrancophone succeeds the point of exhaustion within the French poetic sociolect, with wide-ranging and surprising implications for the study of French and francophone poetry.Trade ReviewReviews 'Pacifist Invasions will be of major importance to scholars of postcolonial francophone literature and intervenes in important ways in ongoing debates on world literature.'Olivia Harrison, University of Southern California'Elegant, textured, and richly insightful, yasser elhariry’s book nimbly explores Franco-Arab writers who infuse French poetry with Arabic cultural traditions. Helpfully delineating major Arabic forms that go back many centuries, Elhariry examines how contemporary poets intertextually and interlingually intertwine them with French. They remake the landscape of French poetry, unleashing new possibilities by their reverse colonization of French with the idioms, forms, and spirituality of Muslim Arab lands. An important study of a fascinatingly translingual and intercultural body of work.'Jahan Ramazani, editor ofThe Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial PoetryTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on TranslationsPreface // Ends of FrenchIntroduction // Word Over WordPart One // Odists 1 Translating Translating Tengour 2 Sky-Birds & Dead Trees: On Two Images in Edmond JabèsPart Two // Sufis 3 Wine Song: Salah Stétié & ʿOmar ibn al-Fārid 4 Sufis in Mecca: Abdelwahab Meddeb, Ibn ʿArabī, & the New LyricPart Three // Andalusians 5 Heliotropic Exit: Ryoko Sekiguchi’s MuwashshahConclusion // PostfrancophoneNotesBibliographyIndex
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Liverpool University Press Forms of Late Modernist Lyric
Book SynopsisWhat do we mean when call something a lyric poem? How many kinds of lyric are there? Are there fewer now than there were in 1920 or 1820 or 1620? The purpose of Forms of Late Modernist Lyric is to show that our oldest styles of poetic articulation – the elegy, the ode, the hymn – have figured all too briefly in modern genealogies of lyric, and that they have proved especially seductive, curiously enough, to avant-garde practitioners in the Anglophone tradition. The poets in question – Jorie Graham, Frank O’Hara, Michael Haslam, J. H. Prynne, Claudia Rankine, and others – have thickened the texture of lyric practice at a time when the growing tendency in critical circles has been to dissolve points of difference within the genre itself. The broader aim of this volume is to demonstrate that experimental poets since 1945 have not always been rebarbative and anti-traditional, but rather that their recourse to familiar forms and shapes of thought should prompt us to reconsider late modernism as a crucial phase in the evolving history of lyric.CONTRIBUTORS: Ruth Abbott, Edward Allen, Gareth Farmer, Fiona Green, Drew Milne, Jeremy Noel-Tod, Sophie Read, Matthew Sperling, Esther Osorio Whewell, John WilkinsonTable of ContentsIntroductionEdward Allen1. Aubade: Jorie Graham and “the pitch of the dawn”Fiona Green2. Hymnody: From Lowell to Riley in Common MeasureMatthew Sperling3. Pastoral: “Language-Landscape Linkage” in Michael Haslam’s VerseSophie Read4. Elegy: Surreptitious and Prospective, from W. S. Graham to Margaret RossJohn Wilkinson5. Interpellation: Addressing Ideology in Claudia Rankine’s American LyricDrew Milne6. Ode: Veronica Forrest-Thomson and the Artifice of ResuscitationGareth Farmer7. Souvenir: Lucie Brock-Broido’s True KitschEsther Osorio Whewell8. Song: Denise Riley in PartsRuth Abbott9. Dramatic Monologue: R. F. Langley and the Poem of “Anyone in Particular”Jeremy Noel-Tod10. Nocturne: J. H. Prynne Among the StarsEdward Allen
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Liverpool University Press Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers'
Book SynopsisAs publishers in private printing presses, as writers of dissident texts and as political campaigners against censorship and for intellectual freedom, a radical group of twentieth-century Irish women formed a female-only coterie to foster women’s writing and maintain a public space for professional writers. This book documents the activities of the Women Writers’ Club (1933–1958), exploring its ethos, social and political struggles, and the body of works created and celebrated by its members. Examining the period through a history of the book approach, it covers social events, reading committees, literary prizes, publishing histories, modernist printing presses, book fairs, reading practices, and the various political philosophies shared by members of the Club. It reveals how professional women writers deployed their networks and influence to carve out a space for their writing in the cultural marketplace, collaborating with other artistic groups to fight for creative freedoms and the right to earn a living by the pen. The book paints a vivid portrait of the Women Writers’ Club, showcasing their achievements and challenging existing orthodoxy on the role of women in Irish literary life.Trade Review‘The book is a triumph of archival detective work… Brady’s history chronicles a space laboriously carved out by twenty-five years of wit, courage and cunning… It is a finely drawn, rich and illuminating history, and offers significant insights into the relationship between women’s social networks, cultural activism, and sexual dissidence with implications far beyond mid-twentieth century Ireland.’ Gerardine Meaney, Irish University ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Intellectual Fraternities? Dublin United Arts Club, the Irish Academy of Letters, and the Irish PEN 2. Coterie Culture and the Women Writers’ Club, 1933-1958 3. ‘A Wild Field to a Later Generation’: The ‘Book of the Year’ Award 4. Women Writers in Irish Print Culture, 1930-1960 5. Coterie Culture and Modernist Presses: The Gayfield Press Conclusion
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Liverpool University Press The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill,
Book SynopsisThis book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as Philip Larkin, a generation who would, in the words of the introduction to A. Alvarez’s classic anthology The New Poetry, take poetry ‘Beyond the Gentility Principle’. This was the generation of Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter. William Wootten explores what these five poets shared in common, their connections, critical reception, rivalries and differences, and locates what was new and valuable in their work. The Alvarez Generation is an important re-evaluation of a time when contemporary poetry and its criticism had a cultural weight it has now lost and when a ‘new seriousness’ was to become closely linked to questions of violence, psychic unbalance and, most controversially of all, suicide. A new Afterword contains important biographical information on Sylvia Plath and reflects on its implications both for the discussions contained in the book and for the study of Plath’s work more generally.Trade Review'A well-researched, gracefully-written and important book about a formative period in British and Irish poetry. Wootten has established himself as a fine critic.' Patrick McGuinness'The Alvarez Generation is an illuminating, provocative and important book... Though briefer, it is as significant as Blake Morrison’s The Movement.' Sean O'Brien'Wootten's account of the emergence and persistence of these tastes allows us to understand much of what happened in British poetry in the post-war era.'Justin Quinn, Times Literary Supplement'[As] "the serious gives way to ludic scepticism" in more and more contemporary poetry, it is good to be reminded of a time when much more seemed at stake.'Michael Daniels, PN ReviewTable of Contents Preface Part I 1. Beginnings: Oxford and Cambridge Poetry in the early 1950s 2. ‘A Violent Time’: Anti-Movement Poetry in the mid to late 1950s 3. In Opposite Directions: A. Alvarez and Thom Gunn 4. Against Gentility 5. On Being Serious 6. Anthology Making 7. First Reactions: 'The Review' Debate and the Initial Response to 'The New Poetry' Part II 8. Sylvia Plath Part III 9. Going to Extremes 10. ‘A Study of Suicide’ Part IV 11. ‘Against Extremism’ 12. Costing Seriousness 13. ‘I Don’t Like Dramatising Myself’: anti-confessionalism in the later poetry of Thom Gunn 14. 'Birthday Letters' 15. Geoffrey Hill’s New Poetry 16. Children of 'The New Poetry' Index
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Liverpool University Press Philip Larkin: Subversive Writer
Book SynopsisOverturning many of the established perspectives on Larkin's poetry and prose, Cooper's book presents new evidence from a range of previously unpublished sources, and is the first full-length critical work to analyse Larkin's early fiction, as well as advancing new readings of The Less Deceived', The Whitsun Weddings' and High Windows'. Critics have tended to label Larkin's poetry as sexist, racist and reactionary. However, this volume demonstrates that Larkin's artistic impulse throughout his career was to challenge orthodox models of social and sexual politics. Focusing on the Brunette Coleman novellas and the unfinished novels, a structural blueprint is identified as prefiguring the later poems' commentary on sexual and social conduct. Further unpublished material includes correspondence, workbook drafts, dream records, and a playscript, depicting, alternately, hostility to wartime heroics, revulsion from capitalism, unease with traditional gender roles and an interest in psychoanalysis. This study makes available to scholars paintings by Larkin's friend, James Sutton, which illuminate the writer's concern with social oppression, especially the predicament of women in the 1940s. This is a fresh and revealing study on Larkin's artistic subversion; stylistic and thematic, it reveals the underlying themes of Larkin's entire oeuvre.Trade Review"Stephen Cooper's book sets a new standard in Larkin criticism. A comprehensive study of all of Larkin's writings, including juvenilia, fiction, poetry, drama and letters, it is also the most challenging and provocative account of his fiction to date. With impressive subtlety and skill, Cooper overturns the commonly held view of Larkin as a jaundiced conservative and reveals how his writing often emerges from surprisingly progressive and unorthodox views on gender, nation and social class. The book is full of unusual insights and thoughtful reflections on post-war British culture. Larkin's poetry and fiction are given a new and lasting significance in the light of this radical reappraisal." -- Stephen Regan, Professor of English, University of Durham."Larkin's worldview, as revealed in Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-1985, ed. by Anthony Thwaite (1992), became increasingly sexist, racist, and socially conservative over time. This contrasts sharply with the wry, sometimes jaundiced, usually humane persona revealed in Larkin's poems. Presently, much Larkin criticism focuses on the darker aspects of his thought as revealed in the letters, consequently neglecting the excellences of his work. Cooper redresses this trend by considering the poet's neglected juvenilia and early fiction alongside the widely appreciated later poetry and nonfiction. In the early works, Cooper locates the germs of dominant themes in Larkin's canon - - for example, gender, class, and identity - - and he provides excellent close, parallel readings of these texts and later poems to show how these themes changed and grew over time. Cooper cites unpublished correspondence (letters to and reminiscences from friends and colleagues) that underscores the idea that Larkin was more artistically experimental and subversive than the current critical portrait of him suggests, especially regarding the social reinforcement of gender roles. Summing Up: Highly recommended." -- Choice.Larkins poetry and fiction are given a new and lasting significance in the light of this radical reappraisal. -- Stephen Regan, Professor of English, University of DurhamCooper cites unpublished correspondence that under-scores the idea that Larkin was more artistically experimental and subversive than the current critical portrait of him suggests, especially regarding the social reinforcement of gender roles. Highly recommended. -- ChoiceThe way [Cooper] points out the coexistence of a realist and a modernist paradigm in A Girl in Winter is a contribution not only to Larkin studies, but also to the literary history of the 20th century. -- Professor Istvan Racz, Hungarian Journal of English and American StudiesTable of ContentsPastoralism & the Changing Climate in the Arid Northern Kenya; New Generation of Dietary Supplements with Microelements for Livestock -- Possibilities & Prospects; Soy Protein Products: Anti-Nutritional Factors, Classification, Processing, Quality Assessment, Nutritional value & Application in Animal Feed; Bangladesh Poultry Sector: Growth, Competitiveness & Future Potential; Parasitic Diseases in Livestock under Different Farming Practices: Possibilities for their Control; Animal Trypanosomosis: An Important Constraint for Livestock in Tropical & Sub-Tropical Regions; Surveillance & Management of Trypanosomiasis in Cattle Herds in Kauru Area, Kaduna State, Nigeria; Anthelmintic Resistance: A Giant Obstacle for Livestock Worm Control in Current Era -- A Challenge; Salmonella & Salmonellosis in Animals & Humans: Epidemiology, Pathogenicity, Clinical Presentation & Treatment; Bovine Tuberculosis at the Human-Animal Interface, Situation & Possible Risk Factors of Disease in Animals in Pakistan, Future of Disease & Action Plan; Paratuberculosis (Johne's Disease): Clinical Signs, Diagnosis, Lesions, Prophylaxis/Treatment/Control & Zoonotic Potential; Changes in Consumers' Food Purchases Due to New Legislation on Food Labeling May Affect Livestock Production Practices in the United States; Index.
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Liverpool University Press After Human: A Critical History of the Human in
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the British Fantasy Awards (Non-Fiction) 2022Shortlisted for the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Non-Fiction Award 2022SF has long been understood as a literature of radical potential, capable of imagining entirely new worlds and ways of being. Yet SF has been slow to embrace posthumanist ideas about the human subject. The human of the SF tradition is instead a liminal being, caught somewhere between the transcendent ‘Man’ of classical humanism and the subversive ‘cyborg’ of posthumanist thought. This study offers a critical history of the 'human' in SF. By examining a range of SF works from 1818 to the 1970s, it seeks to answer some key questions: What role does technology play in defining what it means to be—or not to be—human? How do these writers understand the relationship between humanity and the rest of nature? And how can we use SF to re-examine our ethical position towards the non-human world and move to more egalitarian understandings of the human subject?Trade Review'This wide-ranging and original study convincingly shows how science fiction has (almost) always been posthuman. Thomas Connolly’s critical and cultural history of “the human” in Anglo-American sf ranges from the nineteenth century through the 1970s, constructing an expansive pre-history of the posthuman before the cyberpunk explosion of the 1980s. This is an exciting new story about the history of science fiction.' Veronica Hollinger, co-editor of Science Fiction Studies"This monograph gives a valuable starting point for considering the developments of human figures in science fiction before posthumanism had been articulated and it contributes productively to current conversations about reading such texts retroactively as engagements with the posthuman and posthumanism."Anna McFarlane, Science Fiction Studies'For those scholars interested to treat posthumanism not as a given of the 21st century, but as a development of the humanism and anti-humanism that came before, Connolly’s book is a valuable resource explaining the lines of thought in sf that have led up to, for example, the cyberpunk multiplication of posthumanism. After Human will help ground current work in contemporary posthumanist criticism by providing a historical perspective.' Lars Schmeink, SFRA ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: 'Beyond the common range of men': H.G. Wells, the OncoMouse, and the Human in Anglo-American SF1. Worlds Lost and Gained: Evolution, Primitivism, and the Pre-Human in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World and Jack London's The Iron Heel2. Soma and Skylarks: Technocracy, Agency and the Trans-Human in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and E.E. 'Doc' Smith's Skylark Series3. Homo Gestalt: Atomics, Empire, and the Supra-Human in Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars4. Disaster and Redemption: Utopia, Nature, and the Post-Human in J.G. Ballard's The Crystal World and Ursula K. Le Guin's The DispossessedConclusion: Bio/Techno/Homo: The Future of the Human in SF
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Liverpool University Press Remaking the Voyage: New Essays on Malcolm Lowry
Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. ‘Who ever thought they would one day be able to read Malcolm Lowry’s fabled novel of the 1930s and 40s, In Ballast to the White Sea? Lord knows, I didn’t’ – Michael Hofmann, TLS This book breaks new ground in studies of the British novelist Malcolm Lowry (1909–57), as the first collection of new essays produced in response to the publication in 2014 of a scholarly edition of Lowry’s ‘lost’ novel, In Ballast to the White Sea. In their introduction, editors Helen Tookey and Bryan Biggs show how the publication of In Ballast sheds new light on Lowry as both a highly political writer and one deeply influenced by his native Merseyside, as his protagonist Sigbjørn Hansen-Tarnmoor walks the streets of Liverpool, wrestling with his own conscience and with pressing questions of class, identity and social reform. In the chapters that follow, renowned Lowry scholars and newer voices explore key aspects of the novel and its relation to the wider contexts of Lowry’s work. These include his complex relation to socialism and communism, the symbolic value of Norway, and the significance of tropes of loss, hauntings and doublings. The book draws on the unexpected opportunity offered by the rediscovery of In Ballast to look afresh at Lowry’s oeuvre, to ‘remake the voyage’. Trade Review‘Remaking the Voyage makes a major contribution to Lowry studies, perhaps unsurprisingly given the strength of the academic contributors. It genuinely advances humanistic knowledge of Lowry’s In Ballast, additionally offering an intriguing identity politics argument or interpretive nexus, comprising cultural and geographical location, class and political awareness/affiliation.’- Professor Richard J. Lane, Vancouver Island UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionHelen Tookey and Bryan BiggsHaunted by Books: Malcolm Lowry’s Ultramarine and In Ballast to the White SeaPatrick A. McCarthy‘We’ve got a bastard duke on board’: Class, Fantasy and Politics in Malcolm LowryBen ClarkeMalcolm Lowry and the End of CommunismMark CrawfordIn Ballast to the White Sea: The Springboard for Russian Influences on Malcolm Lowry’s Visionary Intellect Nigel H. FoxcroftIn Ballast to the White Sea: A Plunge into the MatrixAnnick Drösdal-LevillainWalking with Shadows: Index, Inscription and Event in Malcolm Lowry’s In Ballast to the White SeaCian Quayle‘Hva vet vi?’: In Ballast to the White Sea and the Weighting of EvidenceChris Ackerley Identity and Doubles: Being and Writing in Malcolm Lowry’s In Ballast to the White SeaPierre SchaefferThe Lost Other: Malcolm Lowry’s Creative ProcessCatherine Delesalle-NanceyInfernal Discourse: Narrative Poetics among the Ashes of In Ballast to the White Sea and Under the VolcanoChristopher Madden‘Leaning forward eagerly’: Malcolm Lowry’s Moviegoers and In Ballast to the White Sea Miguel Mota and Paul TiessenFrom In Ballast to the White Sea to Rumbo al Mar Blanco: The Spanish Reception of Malcolm Lowry’s Unfinished NovelAlberto Lena‘Glimpses of Immortality’: Our Voyages with Vik DoyenSherrill Grace
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Liverpool University Press Europeanising Spaces in Paris
Book SynopsisIn the wake of the Second World War, ideas of Europe abounded. What did Europe mean as a concept, and what did it mean to be European? Europeanising Spaces in Paris, c. 1947-1962 makes the case that Paris was both a leading and distinctive forum for the expression of these ideas in the post-war period. It examines spaces in the French capital in which ideas about Europe were formulated, articulated, exchanged, circulated, and contested during this post-war period, roughly between the escalation of the Cold War and the end of France's war of decolonisation in Algeria.Such processes of making sense of Europe are elucidated in urban, political and cultural spaces in the French capital. Specifically, the Parisian café, home and street are each examined in terms of how they were implicated in ideas about Europe. Then, the Paris-based Mouvement socialiste des états unis d'Europe (The Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe) and the far-right wing Fédération des étudiants nationalistes (The Federation of Nationalist Students) are examined as examples of political movements that mobilised around – very different – concepts of Europe. The final section on cultural Europeanising spaces draws attention to the specificities of the Europeanism of exiles from Franco's Spain in Paris; the work of the great scholar of the Arab world, Jacques Berque, in the context of his understanding of the Mediterranean world and his understanding of faith; and finally, the work of the legendary photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, by looking at the capacities and limitations of the photographic medium for the representation of Europe, and how these corresponded with Cartier-Bresson’s political, social, and aesthetic commitments.Trade ReviewReviews 'An original, penetrating and unusually wide-ranging text, that has much to say about a variety of debates both on, and well beyond, the ostensible focus on the idea of Europe.'Dr Daniel Alexander Gordon, Edge Hill University'As someone who teaches a course on the idea of Europe, I appreciate how the author chronicles the formulation and contestation of ideas about identity and place with well-researched concrete examples. I look forward to adding the book to the required reading for the course. The vignettes are intriguing: the story of exiles from Franco’s Spain in Paris; the work of the scholar of the Arab world Jacques Berques; and the work of photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose photos of Paris are iconic. Each vignette clearly shows how cultural spaces in Paris were implicated in aspects of Europeanism and raised issues about who constituted an insider and outsider.'Kolleen M. Guy, University of Texas at San Antonio, H-FranceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: Europeanising Spaces in Paris, ca. 1947-1962 Section 1. Paris as a Europeanising Space Chapter 1. The Paris Café as a Europeanising Space Chapter 2. The Paris Home as a Europeanising Space Chapter 3. The Paris Street as a Europeanising Space Section 2. Political Europeanising Spaces in Paris Chapter 4. Europeanising Spaces and the Mouvement socialiste des états-unis d’Europe, ca. 1947-1954 Chapter 5. Europeanising Spaces and the Fédération des étudiants nationalistes 1960-1963 Section 3. Cultural Europeanising Spaces in Paris Chapter 6. Cultural Europeanising Spaces of Spanish Exiles in Paris Chapter 7. Europeanising Spaces in the Work of Jacques Berque Chapter 8. Europeanising Spaces in the Work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1948-1955 Conclusion Bibliography
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Liverpool University Press Sons and Lovers: The Biography of a Novel
Book SynopsisLawrence's autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers was written in four drafts between August 1910 and November 1912. During that period Lawrence's mother died, he broke for the final time with Jessie Chambers, the original of Miriam, had an affair with Alice Dax, the main model for Clara, had a year-long engagement to Louie Burrows, nearly died of pneumonia, gave up teaching, met Frieda Weekley who was to be his wife and life-companion, and lived abroad with her in Germany and Italy. When he began Sons and Lovers he was a schoolteacher in Croydon, South London. Writing after work in the evenings; when he completed it he was a full-time professional writer living with Frieda on the shores of Lake Garda. The writing of the novel and the life on which it was based were closely intertwined. Moreover, Frieda and Jessie crucially influenced the writing of the book. In Jessie's case she wrote sections of it herself as well as well as encouraging Lawrence to make it more directly autobiographical. In many ways the book is the result of dialogues with Jessie and Frieda. Jessie was devastated by the outcome, which she considered a slander and a betrayal. But Lawrence incorporated her answering voice, as well as Frieda’s, in the text. This book combines biography and textual scholarship to bring to life the dramatic story of the writing of Sons and Lovers.Trade ReviewReviews 'Roberts’s fine-tuned critical savvy will delight both the lay reader and the D.H. Lawrence specialist as it strikes a fine balance between readability and archival examination of sources.'Erik Martiny, The London MagazineTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationsList of FiguresIntroduction1. Bert and Jessie, 1901–19092. ‘The Saga of Siegmund’ and the Test on Lawrence, 1909–19103. ‘Paul Morel I’ and the Death of Lydia Lawrence, August–December 19104. Betrothal and ‘Paul Morel II’, January–October 19115. Re-enter Jessie, 1911–19126. ‘The death-blow to our friendship’, ‘Paul Morel III’, February–June 19127. From ‘Paul Morel’ to Sons and Lovers, July–November 19128. Epilogue, 1912–1913BibliographyEndnotesIndex
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Liverpool University Press Useless Activity: Work, Leisure and British
Book SynopsisUsing a broad range of archival material from Washington University, St. Louis, the University of Glasgow, and the British Library, Useless Activity: Work, Leisure and British Avant-Garde Fiction, 1960-1975 is the first study to ask why the experimental writing of the 1960s and 1970s appears so fraught with anxiety about its own uselessness, before suggesting that this very anxiety was symptomatic of a unique period in British literary history when traditional notions about literary work – and what 'worked' in terms of literature – were being radically scrutinised and reassessed. The study is divided into five chapters with three of those dedicated to the close analysis of work produced by three writers representative of the 1960s British avant-garde: Eva Figes (1932–2012), B.S. Johnson (1933–1973), and Alexander Trocchi (1925–1984). The book argues that these writers’ preoccupations with concepts related to work, such as leisure, debt, and various forms of neglected labour like housework, allow us to rethink the British avant-garde's relation to realism while posing broader questions about the production and value of post-war literary avant-gardism more generally. Useless Activity proposes that only with an understanding of the British avant-garde’s engagement with the idea of work and its various corollaries can we appreciate these writers' move away from certain forms of literary realism and their contribution to the development of the modern British novel during the mid-twentieth century.Table of ContentsIntroductionI. Alexander Trocchi: Man at LeisureII. B.S. Johnson: The Professional ViewpointIII. Eva Figes: Splitting the SelfConclusion
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Liverpool University Press Un-American Dreams: Apocalyptic Science Fiction,
Book SynopsisAfter the end, the world will be un-American. This speculation forms the nucleus of Un-American Dreams, a study of US apocalyptic science fiction and the cultural politics of disimagined community in the short century of American superpower, 1945–2001. Between the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which helped to transform the United States into a superpower and initiated the Cold War, and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, which spelled the Cold War’s second death and inaugurated the War on Terror, apocalyptic science fiction returned again and again to the scene of America’s negation. During the American Century, to imagine yourself as American and as a participant in a shared national culture meant disimagining the most powerful nation on the planet. Un-American Dreams illuminates how George R. Stewart, Philip K. Dick, George A. Romero, Octavia Butler, and Roland Emmerich represented the impossibility of reforming American society and used figures of the end of the world as speculative pretexts to imagine the utopian possibilities of an un-American world. The American Century was simultaneously a closure of the path to utopia and an escape route into apocalyptic science fiction, the underground into which figures of an alternative future could be smuggled.Trade Review‘The tone throughout ties together the impressive mix of genre theory, cultural interpretation, political commentary, intellectual history, and biography. It balances critical theory with interpretation and argument in the exegesis of its five central texts/ideological formations. It is a pleasure to think with and a delight to read. Un-American Dreams is worth reading for those interested in the complex workings of hope for and deferral of radical alternatives to the present state of things. It is a coherent and cohesive project that presents deep research on its material from solid footing in a critical tradition. For these reasons and more, it is worth thinking with Ramírez about how to resuscitate hope the hard way, through an immanent critique of hope’s shadowy form in apocalyptic sf of the American century.’ Brent Ryan Bellamy, Science Fiction StudiesTable of ContentsPrefaceThe Dreams in Which I’m DyingIntroductionThe Uses of Pseudo-ApocalypseChapter 1The Last American: Earth Abides, Speculative Anthropology, and Settler UtopianismChapter 2The Revelation of Philip K. DickChapter 3National Insecurity in Night of the Living DeadChapter 4How to Bring Your Kids Up Alien: Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis TrilogyChapter 5Waiting for the Martians: Independence Day and the Second American CenturyConclusionPseudo-Apocalypse after the American Century
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Liverpool University Press Mutopia: Science Fiction and Fantastic Knowledge
Book SynopsisThe Enlightenment’s project of establishing scientific proof for the unity of the universe led instead to the fragmentation of knowledge. The culture of certainty mutated into a culture of conjecture and speculative supplements as the image of a unified cosmos mutated into a patchwork totality. In the process, the pursuit of knowledge developed a symbiotic association with science fiction. While sf has often provided concrete ideas adopted by the knowledge faculties, equally important is the way science-fictional counterfactual world building – science fiction’s “fantastic knowledge” – has intersected with rational speculation in all fields of knowledge. As a result, the dream of a completed, rationally engineered utopia has evolved into the image of “mutopia,” in which the objects of knowledge, the process of knowing, and the science-fictional imagination itself are expected to undergo constant transformation. The essays in Mutopia address the science-fictional imagination’s relevance for scientific modeling, critical theory, the deconstruction of the future, the future of religion, the future of nations, the imagination of empire, the construction of aliens, the future of science fiction itself, and the transformation of utopia into mutopia. Written over many years by a leading scholar of science fiction, the essays are revised and expanded for republication in this collection, alongside new commentary that places them in an updated context.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Fantastic KnowledgeThe Poetics of Modeling: Duhem, Harré, Lem (1990)Postscript to “The Poetics of Modeling: Duhem, Harré, Lem”The SF of Theory: Baudrillard and Haraway (1991)Postscript to “The SF of Theory"Futuristic Flu, or The Revenge of the Future (1992)Postscript to “Futuristic Flu, or The Revenge of the Future”Living in Downtime: Speculations on Virtual Reality and the Future of Religion (1996)Postscript to “Living in Downtime”Notes on Mutopia (1997)Dis-Imagined Communities: Science Fiction and the Future of Nations (2002)Postscript to “Dis-Imagined Communities”Science Fiction and Empire (2003)Appendix 1: Cyberpunk and Empire (2003)Postscript to “Science Fiction and Empire”Some Things We Know About Aliens (2007)Postscript to “Some Things we Know About Aliens”What Do We Mean When We Say “Global Science Fiction?”: Reflections on a New Nexus (2012)Postscript to “What Do We Mean When We Say ‘Global Science Fiction?’”
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Liverpool University Press Ireland, Migration and Return Migration: The
Book SynopsisDrawing on historical, literary and cultural studies perspectives, this book examines the phenomenon of the “Returned Yank” in the cultural imagination, taking as its point of departure the most exhaustively discussed Returned Yank narrative, The Quiet Man (dir. John Ford, 1952). Often dismissed as a figure that embodies the sentimentality and nostalgia of Irish America writ large, this study argues that the Returned Yank’s role in the Irish cultural imagination is much more varied and complex than this simplistic construction allows. Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, s/he has been widely discussed in broadcast and print media, and depicted in plays, novels, short stories and films. The imagined figure of the Returned Yank has been the driving impetus behind some of Ireland's most well-known touristic endeavours and festivals. In the form of U.S. Presidential visits, s/he has repeatedly been the catalyst for questions surrounding Irish identity. Most significantly, s/he has been mobilised as an arbiter in one of the most important debates in post-Independence Ireland: should Ireland remain a "traditional" society or should it seek to modernise? His/her repeated appearances in Irish literature and culture after 1952 – in remarkably heterogeneous, often very sophisticated ways – refute claims of the “aesthetic caution” of Irish writers, dramatists and filmmakers responding to the tradition/modernity debate.Trade Review'An incisive and impressively contextualized study of the trope of "the Returned Yank" in Irish culture. This fascinating and outstanding book will make an invaluable and timely contribution to Irish and American Studies, as well as to diaspora studies more widely.'Dr Tony Murray, Director of the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan University'Extremely commendable in its scope and ambition, this book offers a valuable contribution to Irish cultural studies, in particular to research on the complex relationship between "tradition" and "modernity" in Irish culture. It fills a genuine gap in existing scholarship, and its sustained analysis across several decades and multiple forms of representation is especially impressive, as it allows the reader to track a complex and historically-informed narrative arc for the "Returned Yank" figure.'Dr Stephanie Rains, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media Studies, Maynooth UniversityReviews 'Sinéad Moynihan’s Ireland, Migration and Return Migration is an impressively wide-ranging and insightful study of migration to and from the United States in Irish literature, film, and culture. This book pushes beyond simplistic models of deracination, exile or the émigré, to think about the recurring nature of migration and return migration, and raises questions about decolonization, neo-colonialism, and the nature of “modern” Ireland both before and after the Celtic Tiger. Moynihan's work interrogates gendered mythologies about maternity and return, and similarly reworks notions of return in relation to literary forebears and genres. She combines an impressive range of cultural sources with nuanced close readings in an important and timely contribution to Irish Studies.' 2019 ACIS Michael J. Durkan PrizeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction - “The Meanest Form of Animal”?: The Returned Yank in the Cultural ImaginationChapter 1. “Quiet Men”: Film and Filmmaking in Returned Yank Fictions of the TroublesChapter 2. “Mother Macree ad nauseam”: Maternity, Modernity and the Female Returned Yank Chapter 3. Erin’s Acres: The Returned Yank, Property Disputes and the Rise and Fall of the Irish EconomyChapter 4. “The Secret Dotted Line”: Return, Roots Journeys and Irish Literary GenealogiesCoda - “We are where we are”: Mythologies of Return and the Post-Celtic Tiger MomentWorks CitedIndex
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Liverpool University Press The Page is Printed: Ted Hughes's Creative
Book SynopsisDoes it matter when and where a poem was written? Or on what kind of paper? How do the author’s ideas about inspiration or how a poem should be written precondition the moment of putting pen to paper? This monograph explores these questions in offering the first full-length study of Ted Hughes’s poetic process. Hughes’s extensive archives held in the UK and US form the basis of the book’s unique exploration of his writing process. It analyses Hughes’s techniques throughout his career, arguing that his self-conscious experimentation with the processes by which he wrote profoundly affected both the style and subject matter of his work. The book considers Hughes’s changing ideas about how poetry ‘ought’ to be written, discussing how these affect his creative process. It presents a fresh exploration of Hughes’s major collections across the span of his career to build a detailed illustration of how his writing methods altered. The book thus restores the materiality of paper and ink to Hughes’s poems, reading their histories, the stories they tell of their composition, and of the intellectual and creative environments in which they were gestated, born and matured. In the process, it offers a template for new approaches in authorship studies, reframing one of the twentieth century’s most iconic literary figures through the unseen histories of his creative process.Trade Review'The Page is Printed is the first book-length examination of Hughes to pay due attention to the poet’s complex and shifting attitudes towards composition, revision and creative collaboration. Drawing on authorship studies, archival methodologies and genetic criticism, and grounded in extensive research in Hughes’s papers, Smith provides the most detailed account to date of the workshop in which the poetry was forged. The result is a study rich in fresh and exciting insights into both individual poems and the oeuvre as a whole.'Alex Davis, University College Cork'An engaging and rigorous book that makes an important contribution to Ted Hughes studies. The Page is Printed will be enjoyed by scholars, students, and poets alike.’ Yvonne Reddick, University of Central LancashireTable of ContentsIntroduction: ‘transparent exposure of the poetic operations’ 1. The Professional Poet: The Transition from the Drafts of The Hawk in the Rain to the Process of Lupercal2. The Evolution of ‘Skylarks’ 3. ‘They wrote themselves’: The ‘Shock’ Composition of Ted Hughes’s Crow Poems4. Collaborative Composition: Negotiating Word and Image in the Drafts of Cave Birds and Remains of Elmet5. Writing Truth and the Truth of Writing: The Spontaneous Composition of Moortown Diary6. Birthday Letters: An Archive of Writing
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Liverpool University Press Reimagining Masculinity and Violence in 'Game of
Book SynopsisIn this examination of violence and masculinity in George R. R. Martin’s fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire and its television adaptation Game of Thrones, Tobi Evans offers a queer reading that revises the idea that the texts glorify violence. Moving from monstrous men characters and sovereigns to female, disabled, and genderqueer masculinities, Violent Fantasies understands the novels and television series to offer a complex and ambiguous negotiation of different types of violence. Deploying queer feminist poststructuralist and psychoanalytic approaches to the acts of violence that masculine characters use, Evans views hegemonic violence as part of a destructive cycle wherein characters use violence to dominate others but have their violence turned against them in such a way that their bodies become disgusting and they are unable to enter into systems of patriarchal reproduction. The only characters who succeed in proliferating their values and knowledges are those who use violence to care for others. These characters are also threatened with a bodily undoing when they use violence, but their bodily borders are secured because of their connections to others and their queer kinship bonds. Violence transforms the body, Evans argues, in ways that are both circular and ideologically ambivalent. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Some Knights are Dark and Full of Terror 2. Undoing Sovereign Violence 3. Vile, Scheming, Evil Bitches? 4. Disabled Masculinities and the Potential and Limits of Queered Masculine Violence 5. Queer Magical Violence and Gender Fluidity
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Liverpool University Press Speculative Epistemologies: An Eccentric Account
Book SynopsisSpeculative Epistemologies is about truth effects in sf, which stands for both science fiction and speculative fiction. It examines six narratives, one from each decade from the 1960s to the 2010s, that challenge dominant assumptions about the normal, the possible, and the real. It asks what the patterns of overlap and interference generated by texts located in border territories that make their identification as sf problematic, and sometimes controversial, can reveal about the dynamics of sf’s multiple subcultures (e.g. professionals, academics, and fans); the complexity of the genre’s communities of practice and their routes of production, distribution, and reception; and the genre’s shifting position within a broadly conceived field of literary and cultural production. The “speculative epistemologies” in these stories are counter-hegemonic ways of knowing, ways of imagining knowing differently, and the focus of this study is their effect on the formation of identities and communities. Combining the methods of genre theory, reception theory, and the sociology of cultural production, the readings of these six narratives trace a history of sf’s increasingly feminist, racially and ethnically diverse, philosophically ambitious, and politically engaged character from the 1960s to the present.Trade Review“A new book by John Rieder is an event, and Speculative Epistemologies delivers. It is, exactly as its title promises, ‘eccentric,’ in the best possible sense – reorienting science fiction studies to unconventional vistas, alternate possibilities, and roads not taken. It’s not to be missed.”Gerry Canavan, Marquette University‘In Speculative Epistemologies… [Rieder] displays his uncanny knack for spotting those things bobbing and flickering in the corner of sf studies’ eye, of gathering them together and placing them center stage, and of saying things about sf that immediately strike you as obvious and true—but only after he has said them.’ Mark Bould, Science Fiction Studies'Speculative Epistemologies is a reminder of Rieder's expertise and a concerted investigation into the grand narrative of sf via some of its minor literature… More of us should be producing "eccentric" scholarship of this nature in an effort to spark new coversations about sf from voices that can get lost in the shadow of history.' D. Harlan Wilson"Rieder’s reputation as a wide and generous reader precedes him, and the chapters devoted to each work in this book are testament to a body of knowledge and experience that puts my own to shame. What I can say with certainty is that he provides ample reason to seek out the stories I haven’t read, and to return to those I have.' Paul Graham Raven, SFRA Review "Table of Contents1. SF, Disciplinary Knowledge, and Mass Culture 2. The Canonical Marginality of Pamela Zoline’s “The Heat Death of the Universe”3. How Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony Became SF4. Power and the Proper Fiction in Samuel R. Delany’s “The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals”5. Theodore Roszak’s The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein and the Feminist Critique of Science6. Albert Wendt’s Postcolonial Wonderwork: The Adventures of Vela7. What Kind of Genre Fiction Is This? Donna Haraway’s “The Camille Stories”8. Conclusion: Truth and SF in 2020
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Liverpool University Press Shakespeare and Science Fiction: 2021
Book SynopsisIn Shakespeare and Science Fiction Sarah Annes Brown investigates why so many science fiction writers have turned to Shakespeare when imagining humanity’s future. He and his works become a kind of touchstone for the species in much science fiction, both transcending and exemplifying what it means to be human. Writers have used Shakespeare in a range of often contradictory ways. He is associated with freedom and with tyranny, with optimistic visions of space exploration and with the complete destruction of the human race. His works have been invoked to justify the existence of humanity, but have also frequently been coopted for their own purposes by alien life forms or artificial intelligences.Shakespeare and Science Fiction is the first extended study of Shakespeare’s influence on the genre. It draws on over a hundred works across different science fiction media, identifying recurring patterns – and telling contradictions – in the way science fiction engages with Shakespeare. It includes discussions of time travel, alternate history, dystopias, space opera, posthuman identity and post-apocalyptic fiction.Trade Review‘In Shakespeare and Science Fiction, Sarah Annes Brown offers a comprehensive analysis of Shakespeare’s presence in SF to date. The greatest strength of Brown’s investigation lies in its evidential data, focusing on explicit references to Shakespeare in SF. Without attempting to locate him as the origin of SF, Brown offers an overview of Shakespearean allusions as proof of Shakespeare’s ability to be paradoxically both more and less than other authors… this book is an invaluable resource for scholars looking to think through the ways in which Shakespeare has inspired SF writers.’ Noah Slowik, Fafnir‘In this ambitious, erudite monograph, Brown demonstrates just how much the sf genre has invested in “Shakespeareanness”… Her research, aptitude, and acuity shine through on every page.’ D. Harlan Wilson, Extrapolation‘Despite Brown’s scholarly rigor, this book is written in a clear and accessible style, and with no small degree of wit. While noting the difficulty SF authors face in trying to create a plausible voice for Shakespeare when they try to depict him, Brown herself demonstrates an admirable facility with language. While the book’s primary audience is academic, this book would be accessible to undergraduate students and probably advanced high school students, so it could serve as a useful recommended reading text for such audiences.’ Dominick Grace, SFRA ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Shakespeare and Time Travel 2. Alternative Shakespeares 3. Dystopian Shakespeares 4. New Worlds and Alien Species 5. Prospero’s Magic and Science Fiction 6. Shakespeare and Posthuman Identity 7. Shakespeare and Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction
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Liverpool University Press Between the Bocas: A Literary Geography of
Book SynopsisSituated opposite the mouth of the Orinoco River, western Trinidad has long been considered an entrepôt to mainland South America. Trinidad’s geographic position—seen as strategic by various imperial governments—led to many heterogeneous peoples from across the region and globe settling or being relocated there. The calm waters around the Gulf of Paria on the western fringes of Trinidad induced settlers to construct a harbour, Port of Spain, around which the modern capital has been formed. From its colonial roots into the postcolonial era, western Trinidad therefore has played an especial part in the shaping of the island’s literature. Viewed from one perspective, western Trinidad might be deemed as narrating the heart of the modern state’s national literature. Alternatively, the political threats posed around San Fernando in Trinidad’s southwest in the 1930s and from within the capital in the 1970s present a different picture of western Trinidad—one in which the fractures of Trinidad and Tobago’s projected nationalism are prevalent.While sugar remains a dominant narrative in Caribbean literary studies, this book offers a unique literary perspective on matters too often perceived as the sole preserve of sociological, anthropological or geographical studies. The legacy of the oil industry and the development of the suburban commuter belt of East-West Corridor, therefore, form considerable discursive nodes, alongside other key Trinidadian sites, such as Woodford Square, colonial houses and the urban yards of Port of Spain. This study places works by well-known authors such as V. S. Naipaul and Samuel Selvon, alongside writing by Michel Maxwell Philip, Marcella Fanny Wilkins, E. L. Joseph, Earl Lovelace, Ismith Khan, Monique Roffey, Arthur Calder-Marshall and the largely neglected novelist, Yseult Bridges, who is almost entirely forgotten today. Using fiction, calypso, history, memoir, legal accounts, poetry, essays and journalism, this study opens with an analysis of Trinidad’s nineteenth century literature and offers twentieth century and more contemporary readings of the island in successive chapters. Chapters are roughly arranged in chronological order around particular sites and topoi, while literature from a variety of authors of British, Caribbean, Irish and Jewish descent is represented.Table of ContentsIntroductionA Geographic Reading of Trinidad’s WestTracing a Caribbean Literary Past and the Role of the LocalDecoupling the Literary Map from the Modern StateBeyond Sugar: Remapping Trinidad’s Literary HistoryChapter 1 Traversing Trinidad’s Wild West (1783-1907)Charting the Terrain: Three MapsMapping the Conquest and the Myth of Terra CognitaUncultivated Lands and Wild FrontiersConquistadors of Sense and SensibilitiesThe Wandering, Innocent Eye/I in the Tropical PicturesquePirates, Revolution and Creole ConsciousnessChapter 2 Peeping Through the Partition (1927-1936)Modernist Visions, Porous Barrack-Yard BoundariesPrivacy, Private Property and RentThe Gynocentric YardDangerous TransgressionsResisting Patriarchy and ColonialismChapter 3 Dark Thresholds in the Colonial House (1934)Setting Boundaries, Crossing BordersPolicing the PerimeterPlaying House in the CommunityChapter 4 Challenge from the South (1935-45)Oil, Possession, Labour and the Yankee DollarOilPossessionLabourThe Yankee DollarChapter 5 The Sub-Urban Expansion (1940s-50s)Views of the Port, City and CountryWaterside Relations: the Port, Saga and SteelbandMyths of City and CountryChapter 6 From the Grassroots to Woodford Square (1962-2010)Community, Nationhood and the Politics of the LocationFrom the University of Woodfood Square to the People’s ParliamentConclusionBibliography
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Liverpool University Press Joseph Zobel: Négritude and the Novel
Book SynopsisJoseph Zobel (1915-2006) is one of the best-known Francophone Caribbean authors, and is internationally recognised for his novel La Rue Cases-Nègres (1950). Yet very little is known about his other novels, and most readings of La Rue Cases-Nègres consider the text in isolation. Through a series of close readings of the author’s six published novels, with supporting references drawn from his published short stories, poetry and diaries, Joseph Zobel: Négritude and the Novel generates new insights into Zobel’s highly original decision to develop Négritude’s project of affirming pride in black identity through the novel and social realism. The study establishes how, influenced by the American Harlem Renaissance movement, Zobel expands the scope of Négritude by introducing new themes and stylistic innovations which herald a new kind of social realist French Caribbean literature. These discoveries in turn challenge and alter the current understanding of Francophone Caribbean literature during the Négritude period, in addition to contributing to changes in the current understanding of Caribbean and American literature more broadly understood.Trade Review'Louise Hardwick's Joseph Zobel: Negritude and the Novel is a remarkable and timely examination one of the key authors of francophone postcolonial writing. With exacting scholarship and empassioned prose, Hardwick reveals the full complexity of Zobel's extensive novelistic enterprise, including the many twists and turns of the rewritings of his earlier works. [...] Hardwick's groundbreaking research reveals long-forgotten texts, biographical intricacies, and political and aesthetic debates to finally and rightfully accord Zobel recognition as one of the central and most original figures of Négritude.'Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University'Through settings, characterizations, and themes, Zobel's work confronts France's political and cultural grip in Martinique, giving voice to destitute blacks. Benefiting from Hardwick's translations, this is a valuable addition to the literature on postcolonialism.' D. M. Jarrett, Choice'It is one of the many strengths of this study that it situates that novel in its rightful relationship with the rest of Zobel’s work, which includes journalism, short stories, poetry, spoken word, radio, sculpture, and painting. This meticulously researched book persuasively makes the case for Zobel as a key and necessary figure in any understanding of the evolution of Francophone Caribbean literature and culture in the twentieth century.' Martin Munro, H-France'This monograph, which will prove to be a catalyst for further research into postcolonial literature, should be required reading by both academics and students, and is a valuable and original contribution to the field of Caribbean studies.'Maeva McComb, French StudiesTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Zobel, Négritude and the NovelChapter 2: Earth, Ecocriticism and Economics: Diab’-làChapter 3: Nothing Happens, Twice: Les Jours immobiles becomes Les Mains pleines d’oiseauxChapter 4: Re-reading La Rue Cases-NègresChapter 5: Cultural Capital in the French Capital: Quand la neige aura fonduAfterwordBibliography
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Liverpool University Press Apocalypse in Crisis: Fiction from 'The War of
Book SynopsisApocalypse is traditional and familiar, and it is an actual threat; it is feared, desired, and banal. Apocalypse in Crisis discusses fictions from the 1940s to the present, examining shifts in the imagination of apocalypse from the postwar British disaster novels, through novels of the countercultural sixties, feminist interventions, and recent revisions and critiques. As empire fades, ideas of sexuality shift, and attitudes to nature and to the city change, so apocalyptic fictions change. The individual subject is asserted, immolated, transcended, abandoned; individual deaths are substituted for mass death; death is faked or erased. The subjects and survivors of catastrophe set about re-establishing civilization, or they abandon it, finding new ways of being and of dying; they respond to it when it comes from outside, as an invasion, or they are immersed in it, as it shifts from being an event to being a condition. They flee the city for the country, or accept that they must draw on the energies of the world city in order to survive. The book includes detailed discussion of novels by H. G. Wells, George M. Stewart, Nevil Shute, John Wyndham, Arthur C. Clarke, J. G. Ballard, Brian Aldiss, Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Anna Kavan, Arno Schmidt, Anthony Burgess, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tom Perrotta, Douglas Coupland, Don DeLillo, China Miéville, Jeff VanderMeer, and Kim Stanley Robinson. Trade Review“The individual readings in the book are often illuminating, particularly in the discussion of points of style, an issue that is often overlooked in discussion of sf texts.” Connor Pitetti, Science Fiction StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Apocalypse Now and ThenPart 1: The Nineteenth Century to the Postwar Disaster Novels1. Modern Apocalypses and Modernism: Enter Science Fiction2. The Postwar Disaster Novels: Apocalypse ContainedPart 2: Post-Imperial Subjects3. Style and Immolation: J. G. Ballard 4. Apocalypse in 1969: Brian Aldiss and Angela Carter5. Darker Imaginations, Harder Lessons: Anna Kavan, Doris Lessing Part 3: Resistance and Revision6. Apocalypse, Comedy, Multiplicity: Arno Schmidt, Anthony Burgess, Ursula K. Le Guin7. Apocalypse and Everyday Life: Tom Perrotta, Douglas Coupland8. Apocalypse in the Contemporary World City: Don DeLillo, China Miéville9. Beyond Apocalypse: Two Paths: Jeff VanderMeer, Kim Stanley Robinson
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Liverpool University Press A Stage of Emancipation: Change and Progress at
Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. As the prominence of the recent #WakingTheFeminists movement illustrates, the Irish theatre world is highly conscious of the ways in which theatre can foster social emancipation. This volume of essays uncovers a wide range of marginalised histories by reflecting on the emancipatory role that the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) has played in Irish culture and society, both historically and in more recent times. The Gate’s founders, Hilton Edwards and Michéal mac Liammóir, promoted the work of many female playwrights and created an explicitly cosmopolitan stage on which repressive ideas about gender, sexuality, class and language were questioned. During Selina Cartmell’s current tenure as director, cultural diversity and social emancipation have also featured prominently on the Gate’s agenda, with various productions exploring issues of ethnicity in contemporary Ireland. The Gate thus offers a unique model for studying the ways in which cosmopolitan theatres, as cultural institutions, give expression to and engage with the complexities of identity and diversity in changing, globalised societies. CONTRIBUTORS: David Clare, Marguérite Corporaal, Mark Fitzgerald, Barry Houlihan, Radvan Markus, Deirdre McFeely, Justine Nakase, Siobhan O'Gorman, Mary Trotter, Grace Vroomen, Ian R. Walsh, Feargal WhelanTrade ReviewReviews‘The excellent essays in this collection add significantly to our knowledge of the Gate Theatre and its social and cultural practices and their contexts.’ Professor José Lanters, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee‘This rich stimulating collection revisions the work of Dublin’s Gate Theatre and celebrates how it posed radical challenges to Irish society’s social and cultural sore points and no-go-areas. Through a dazzling diversity of case studies in production, performance and theatrical practices the essays argue convincingly for the role of the Gate in confronting audiences with images and impacts that countered attitudes and assumptions about sexuality, gender, class divisions, racialization and Irish (including language) identity. While the Gate’s acknowledged theatrical aesthetics are not neglected, the book stresses the Gate Theatre’s achievement in juggling localism and cosmopolitanism with invigorating and engaging tension.’Dr Cathy Leeney, University College Dublin'A Stage of Emancipation is full of outstanding theatre scholarship from emerging and established voices. It provides fascinating insight into the role that the Dublin Gate Theatre has played in promoting social, economic, and cultural change within Irish society since the late 1920s. Most notably, it highlights the valiant efforts by key figures in the theatre’s history to bring marginalised stories and progressive attitudes to the Irish stage. This is an enormously valuable book for students, academics, and practitioners alike.'Dr Fiona McDonagh, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick'This collection makes room to breathe in Irish theatre – allowing us to inhale the extraordinary diversity of identities and artistry which were embodied on the Gate stage. Our eyes are opened once again to these forgotten legacies which challenge singular concepts of nation and society, transforming not only our understanding of the past but liberating our approach to theatre now.'- Dr Melissa Sihra, Trinity College DublinTable of Contents1. IntroductionMarguérite Corporaal and Ruud van den BeukenI: Liberating Bodies2. Queering the Irish Actress: The Gate Theatre Production of Children in Uniform (1934)Mary Trotter3. Maura Laverty at the Gate: Theatre as Social Commentary in 1950s IrelandDeirdre McFeelyII: Emancipating Communities4. ‘Let’s Be Gay, While We May’: Artistic Platforms and the Construction of Queer Communities in Mary Manning’s Youth’s the Season–?Grace Vroomen5. Images and Imperatives: Robert Collis’s Marrowbone Lane (1939) at the Gate as Theatre for Social ChangeIan R. WalshIII: Staging Minority Languages 6. Authenticity and Social Change on the Gate Stage in the 1970s: ‘Communicating with the People’Barry Houlihan7. Micheál mac Liammóir, the Irish Language and the Idea of FreedomRadvan MarkusIV: Deconstructing Aesthetics8. The Use of Minority Languages at Dublin’s Gate Theatre and Barcelona’s TeatreLliureFeargal Whelan and David Clare9. Mogu and the Unicorn: Frederick May’s Music for the Gate TheatreMark Fitzgerald10. Tartan Transpositions: Materialising Europe, Ireland and Scotland in the Designs of Molly MacEwenSiobhán O’GormanV: Contesting Traditions in Contemporary Theatre11. From White Othello to Black Hamlet: A History of Race and Representation at the Gate TheatreJustine Nakase12. Bending the Plots: Selina Cartmell’s Gate and Politics of Gender InclusionMarguérite Corporaal
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Liverpool University Press Decolonising the Conrad Canon
Book SynopsisWith the pressing work of decolonising our reading lists gaining traction in UK higher educational contexts, Decolonising the Conrad Canon shows how those author-Gods most associated with the colonial literary canon can also be retooled through decolonial, queer, feminist readings. This book finds pockets of powerful anti-colonial resistance and queer dissonance in Joseph Conrad’s lesser-known works – breathing spaces from the colonial rhetoric that dominates his novels – and traces the female characters who voice them off the page and into their transmedia (digital/illustrative/cinematic) afterlives. From Immada and Edith’s queer gaze in The Rescue and the periodical illustrations that accompanied its initial serialization, to Aïssa’s sustained critique of imperialism in An Outcast of the Islands and her portrayal on mass-market paperback book covers, to the structural female bonds of Almayer’s Folly and Nina’s embodiment in Chantal Akerman’s adaptation La Folie Almayer, this book centres Conrad’s female characters as viable, meaning-making citizens of the canon. Through this intervention, Decolonising the Conrad Canon proposes an innovative model for teaching, reading and studying not just Joseph Conrad’s work but the colonial literary canon more broadly.Trade Review'New books on Conrad appear with such regularity that one wonders if there is anything new to say on the author, but in Decolonising the Conrad Canon, Alice M. Kelly proves that original approaches are by no means exhausted. This volume offers refreshing and challenging new readings of Conrad’s Malay fiction within a stimulating and compelling re-evaluation of women and gender in these novels.'- Linda Dryden, Professor of English Literature, Edinburgh Napier UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Dead White ManPart 1: The Rescue1. Female Homoeroticism and The Rescue’s ‘Lesbian Context’2. The ‘Invisible Lesbian’ in the Land and Water Illustrations of The RescuePart 2: An Outcast of the Islands3. Aïssa: Agency, Race and the Articulation of Desire in An Outcast of the Islands4. Trash Conrad: Pulps, Paratexts and ProtagonistsPart 3: Almayer’s Folly5. ... and Nina and Taminah and Mrs Almayer6. ‘Full-Bodied’: Embodiment in Chantal Akerman’s La Folie AlmayerConclusion: Breathing Spaces and Afterlives
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Liverpool University Press The Rise of the Cyberzines: The Story of the
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Non-Fiction Award 2023 The Rise of the Cyberzines concludes Mike Ashley's five-volume series, which has tracked the evolution of the science-fiction magazine from its earliest days in the 1920s to its current explosion via the internet. This series has traced the ways in which the science-fiction magazine has reacted to the times and often led the way in breaking down barriers, for example in encouraging a greater contribution by women writers and stimulating science fiction globally. Magazines have continued to build upon past revolutions such as the 'new wave' and 'cyberpunk', producing a blend of high-tech science fiction and expansive speculative fiction that has broadened the understanding of science and its impact on society. This final volume, which covers the years 1991-2020, shows how the online magazine has superseded the print magazine and has continued to break down barriers, especially for the LGBTQ community and for writers of colour. Trade Review'I enjoyed how much Ashley focused on the very small press, while doing his homework with a high degree of accuracy with the large commercial publishers... This is exhaustive work, so much credit goes to Ashley for this gargantuan task.' Andy Andrews, True Review‘Mike Ashley’s dedicated, thoroughly researched history of the SF magazines during this specific time period is testament to his love of the genre. It is a remarkable book and a must have for serious collectors and those interested in the history of the SF magazine field.’ Dave Truesdale, TangentTable of Contents1. Before the WebBase CampAsimov’s RulesInterzone and AnalogF&SF—The Rusch YearsPulphouse ExpandsTomorrow ComesGoing SlickScience Fiction AgeSlipstreamingWorlds BeyondThe Small-Press LabyrinthD.N.A. Sequence2. Into the WebDigital DustThe Omni ExperienceGalaxy TransformsThrough the Cyber ForestBeyond the Event Horizon3. The ChallengeBusiness Almost as UsualThe Small-Press SurvivorsThe British AlternativesAdvance of the Cyberzines4. Taking StockAppendix 1. Checklist of English-Language Science Fiction MagazinesAppendix 2. Schedule of Magazine Circulation Figures
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Liverpool University Press Poetry & Commons: Postwar and Romantic Lyric in
Book SynopsisWinner of the ASLE-UKI Book Prize 2023. The commons and enclosure are among the most vital ways of thinking about poetry today, posing urgent ecological and political questions about land and resource ownership and use. Poetry & Commons is the first study to read postwar and contemporary poetry through this lens, by putting it in dialogue with the Romantic experience of agrarian dispossession. Employing an innovative transhistorical structure, the book demonstrates how radical Anglophone poetries since 1960 have returned to the 'enclosure of the commons' in response to political and ecological crises. It identifies a 'commons turn' in contemporary lyric that contests the new enclosures of globalized capital and resource extraction. In lucid close readings of a rich field of experimental poetries associated with the 'British Poetry Revival', as well as from Canada and the United States, it analyses a landscape poetics of enclosure in relationship with Romantic verse. Canonical Romantic poetry by Wordsworth and Clare is understood through the fine-grain textures of the period’s vernacular and radical verse and discourse around enclosure, which the book demonstrates contain the seeds of neoliberal political economy. Engaging with the work of Anne-Lise François and Anna Tsing, Poetry & Commons theorizes commoning as marking out subsistence 'rhythms of resource', which articulate plural, irregular, and tentative relations between human and nonhuman lifeworlds.Trade Review'This is an excellent, highly original, and necessary study of poetry and radical thought. In tracing both the persistence (and permutations) of the concept of the commons alongside a probing reading of lyric poetry in the Romantic and British and North American postwar periods, Poetry & Commons makes anew the case for thinking about lyric in the neoliberal era.'- David Farrier, Professor of Literature and the Environment, University of Edinburgh'Daniel Eltringham’s brilliant Poetry & Commons traces the transhistorical relationship between a poetry of the common word and the continuing resistance to ongoing practices of enclosure, dispossession, and extraction. Few critics have so precisely articulated the conceptual range with which the commons is necessarily entangled: from a romantic-era politics of enclosure to contemporary ecopoetics; from land rights and the right to roam to the interdependencies of "earth’s human and nonhuman tenants"; and, ultimately, from the origins to the outputs of the Anthropocene. Throughout, Eltringham has his finger on the pulse of the poet’s temporally open practice of "commoning historical languages of resistance". Poetry & Commons constitutes a major expansion of our understanding of the literary commons.'- Stephen Collis, Professor of English, Simon Fraser University‘Through meticulous, expansive research and illuminating close readings… Eltringham’s negotiation of entangled Romantic and contemporary forms of enclosure and commoning offers an abundantly original, thorough and politically sharp analysis of both the cultural history of the commons and the kinds of conceptual work the commons perform in mapping the historically inflected relationship between human and more-than-human worlds.’ Mandy Bloomfield, Review of English Studies‘[O]riginal and discerning… Eltringham marshals an eloquent and superbly researched argument, covering the literary and social implications of the issues and controversies involved in land use, and this study makes a genuinely significant intervention in current debates.’ Roger Ebbatson, Green Letters‘Original, rigorous and timely, this book puts Romantic-era poetry into fruitful dialogue with post-war and contemporary British avant-garde poetry. In doing so, Eltringham reveals why the figure of the commons might matter now more than ever, in the face of market-driven, neoliberal forms of enclosure, entwined with ecological crisis. Eltringham compellingly demonstrates how we can use historical knowledge in the contemporary moment by tracing the ways in which recent poets revisit, revise and revivify ideas of the commons and practices of commoning. The book’s materialist approach offers an inventive take on some well-known poems by canonical Romantic writers, as well as introducing readers to a wealth of new poetic and contextual materials. The judges especially valued its meticulous research, astute in-depth analysis and illuminating discussions of both poetry and politics. But there are moments of humour and hope too. As Eltringham wryly points out, “sheep and poetry are uneasy companions;” yet his book amply reveals how such unlikely alliances might model productive forms of collectivity and resistance.’ Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (UK and Ireland) Book PrizeTable of Contents
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Liverpool University Press Reading F. T. Prince
Book SynopsisF.T. Prince (1912-2003) is now emerging as one of the most distinctive voices of twentieth-century Anglophone poetry. Born in South Africa, he came to England in the 1930s, where he studied alongside Stephen Spender and W.H. Auden. First published by T.S. Eliot, and celebrated in his day by poets as various as Siegfried Sassoon and John Ashbery, his poems have long intrigued readers with their formal experiments, Baroque influences, and intellectual puzzles. During his own lifetime, he found fame with the war poem ‘Soldiers Bathing’ (1942), and was known chiefly as a Milton scholar. However, this collection of specially commissioned essays sheds new light on his achievements and reveals his central place in the story of modern poetry. Enthralled by the canon, yet embraced by the avant-garde, he has influenced poets from Geoffrey Hill to Susan Howe, a unique conduit between modernism and the Movement, British regionalism and American cosmopolitanism. Yet his poetry is not merely of interest for its continuing influence on wider tradition. Subtle, original, and various, F.T. Prince’s poetry asks important questions about power, responsibility, and collective memory.Trade ReviewReviews 'Reading F. T. Prince, the first book-length collection of critical responses, emerging from a centenary conference at Southampton University, offers a welcome opportunity for reassessment and celebration [of Prince].' Tim Dooley, Times Literary Supplement'Reading F. T.Prince develops something of a consensus about which poems matter most. A good many works are discussed, but only a few recur repeatedly. This is an impressive collection, which helps to make further work possible.' Sean Pryor, The Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsChronologyIntroduction Will MayPart One: Styling Prince1. F.T. Prince’s Syllabics Derek Attridge2. The Intaglio Element in Prince’s Verse Gareth Farmer3. F.T. Prince: Truth in Style Peter RobinsonPart Two: Debts and Legacies4. Learned Poetry: F.T. Prince, Milton and the Scholar-Poet Michael Molan5. ‘We see all things as they might be’: F.T. Prince and John Ashbery Oli Hazzard6. F.T. Prince’s Overlooked Lustre of Rhetorical Language Todd SwiftPart Three: Bodies of Knowledge7. ‘My soldiers’: F.T. Prince and the Sweetness of Command Adam Piette8. ‘The completed story incomplete’: F.T. Prince and the Portrayal of National Bodies David Kennedy9. Fugitive Pieces: F.T. Prince and Sculpture Natalie PollardSelected BibliographyIndex
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Liverpool University Press Touchstones: John McGahern’s Classical Style
Book SynopsisTouchstones examines the ways in which John McGahern became a writer through his reading. This reading, it is shown, was both extensive and intensive, and tended towards immersion in the classics. As such, new insights are provided into McGahern’s admiration and use of writers as diverse as Dante Alighieri, William Blake, James Joyce, Albert Camus and several others. Evidence for these claims is found both through close reading of McGahern’s published texts as well as unprecedented sleuthing in his extensive archive of papers held at the National University of Ireland, Galway. The ultimate intention of the book is to draw attention to the very literary and writerly nature of McGahern as an artist, and to place him, not just as a great Irish writer, but as part of a long and venerable European tradition.Trade ReviewReviews 'Well-organized, well-written, passionate when needed, and intensely readable... I was thrilled to find so much that is new in Shovlin’s study.' Eamonn Wall, Smurfit-Stone Professor of Irish Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis'Frank Shovlin elegantly and insightfully weaves a tapestry of allusions and linkages around [McGahern's] work.'Ruth Gilligan, Times Literary Supplement'This is a smart, convincing, and approachable study. ... Frank Shovlin’s Touchstones gives abundant insights into how this art came about and as such makes for an ideal introduction to the various influences and precedents at play in John McGahern’s impressive fictional world.'Gerald Dawe, Irish University ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Touching Stones: Matthew Arnold and the Canon 1 We Other Clerks: James Joyce and the Classical Temper 2 A Walking Mirror: Stendhal, Horace, Nietzsche 3 One lone paperback: Tolstoy and Religious Sensibility 4 Magic: The Centrality of W. B. Yeats 5 Instinct: Douglas Stewart and Sex 6 The fume of muscatel: Yeats's Ghosts 7 Bohemian Rhapsody: Patrick Kavanagh and Generation X 8 Absurdity: Camus comes to Clones 9 Aristocracy: Andrew Marvell, W. B. Yeats and the Curse of Cromwell 10 The Consolations of Nothingness: William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Prayer 11 Deliberate Happiness: W. B. Yeats and the Inner Life 12 Stranger in Paradise: Dante and Epic Style Conclusion: What Then? Bibliography
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Liverpool University Press Poetry & Barthes: Anglophone Responses 1970–2000
Book SynopsisWhat kinds of pleasure do we take from writing and reading? What authority has the writer over a text? What are the limits of language’s ability to communicate ideas and emotions? Moreover, what are the political limitations of these questions? The work of the French cultural critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915–80) poses these questions, and has become influential in doing so, but the precise nature of that influence is often taken for granted. This is nowhere more true than in poetry, where Barthes’ concerns about pleasure and origin are assumed to be relevant, but this has seldom been closely examined. This innovative study traces the engagement with Barthes by poets writing in English, beginning in the early 1970s with one of Barthes’ earliest Anglophone poet readers, Scottish poet-theorist Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947–75). It goes on to examine the American poets who published in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E and other small but influential journals of the period, and other writers who engaged with Barthes later, considering his writings’ relevance to love and grief and their treatment in poetry. Finally, it surveys those writers who rejected Barthes’ theory, and explores why this was. The first study to bring Barthes and poetry into such close contact, this important book illuminates both subjects with a deep contemplation of Barthes’ work and a range of experimental poetries.Trade ReviewReviews 'Roland Barthes had little interest in poetry, but, surprisingly, his occasional remarks on the subject and thoughts about literature in general played a provocative role, Callie Gardner shows, for poets in the UK and especially the US and contributed especially to arguments about L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing. Gardner’s lucid and wide-ranging discussion shrewdly illuminates the odd fortunes of literary ideas.' Professor Jonathan Culler, Cornell University'Callie Gardner's subtle and shifting account of how the work of Roland Barthes has been read and re-used by English-speaking poets since the 1970s is a tour de force that will long resonate with poetry specialists and literary theorists alike.' Dr Andy Stafford, Leeds UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: A Great Indelicacy • ‘Insular and Pragmatical Minds’: Barthes’ First Readers in English • Barthes and the Poets 1. Barthes and Forrest-Thomson • ‘S/Z’ • ‘Drinks with a Mythologue’ • ‘L’effet du réel’ • Poems with Footnotes • ‘After Intelligibility’ • Poetic Artifice • Conclusion2. Barthes in America • Robert Duncan’s ‘Kopóltuš’ • Ron Silliman’s Nine Poets • Bernadette Mayer’s Experiments • Lyn Hejinian’s Erotics of Materials • Conclusion3. Barthes in Journals • Approaching Poetry Journal Culture • Poetics and Art Journalism: New York and Paris • Barthes in the ‘Language-Centred’ Poetics Journals • Wch Way • Michael Palmer’s Barthes • L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E’s Barthes • ‘Code Words’ • Open Letter • Barthes in Poetics Journal • UK Poetics • Barthes and Oulipo • Conclusion 4. Barthes and Love • Reading A Lover’s Discourse • ‘Lonely Girl Phenomenology’ • Anne Carson: Nuance and Eros • Deborah Levy: The Suburbs of Hell • Kristjana Gunnars: Roland Barthes in Winnipeg • Gunnars’ Transition: Longing to Zero • Conclusion5. Rejections of Barthes • Rejection and/as Influence • The Signifier as Fetish • Barthes and Race • John Yau and ‘The Death of the Author’ • Queer Barthes • New Narrative Writing and Queer Subjecthood • Acker, Barthes, Bataille • Conclusion Conclusion: Nothing Better Than A Theory BibliographyIndex
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Liverpool University Press A Stage of Emancipation: Change and Progress at
Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. As the prominence of the recent #WakingTheFeminists movement illustrates, the Irish theatre world is highly conscious of the ways in which theatre can foster social emancipation. This volume of essays uncovers a wide range of marginalised histories by reflecting on the emancipatory role that the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) has played in Irish culture and society, both historically and in more recent times. The Gate’s founders, Hilton Edwards and Michéal mac Liammóir, promoted the work of many female playwrights and created an explicitly cosmopolitan stage on which repressive ideas about gender, sexuality, class and language were questioned. During Selina Cartmell’s current tenure as director, cultural diversity and social emancipation have also featured prominently on the Gate’s agenda, with various productions exploring issues of ethnicity in contemporary Ireland. The Gate thus offers a unique model for studying the ways in which cosmopolitan theatres, as cultural institutions, give expression to and engage with the complexities of identity and diversity in changing, globalised societies. CONTRIBUTORS: David Clare, Marguérite Corporaal, Mark Fitzgerald, Barry Houlihan, Radvan Markus, Deirdre McFeely, Justine Nakase, Siobhan O'Gorman, Mary Trotter, Grace Vroomen, Ian R. Walsh, Feargal WhelanTrade ReviewReviews‘The excellent essays in this collection add significantly to our knowledge of the Gate Theatre and its social and cultural practices and their contexts.’ Professor José Lanters, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee‘This rich stimulating collection revisions the work of Dublin’s Gate Theatre and celebrates how it posed radical challenges to Irish society’s social and cultural sore points and no-go-areas. Through a dazzling diversity of case studies in production, performance and theatrical practices the essays argue convincingly for the role of the Gate in confronting audiences with images and impacts that countered attitudes and assumptions about sexuality, gender, class divisions, racialization and Irish (including language) identity. While the Gate’s acknowledged theatrical aesthetics are not neglected, the book stresses the Gate Theatre’s achievement in juggling localism and cosmopolitanism with invigorating and engaging tension.’Dr Cathy Leeney, University College Dublin'A Stage of Emancipation is full of outstanding theatre scholarship from emerging and established voices. It provides fascinating insight into the role that the Dublin Gate Theatre has played in promoting social, economic, and cultural change within Irish society since the late 1920s. Most notably, it highlights the valiant efforts by key figures in the theatre’s history to bring marginalised stories and progressive attitudes to the Irish stage. This is an enormously valuable book for students, academics, and practitioners alike.'Dr Fiona McDonagh, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick'This collection makes room to breathe in Irish theatre – allowing us to inhale the extraordinary diversity of identities and artistry which were embodied on the Gate stage. Our eyes are opened once again to these forgotten legacies which challenge singular concepts of nation and society, transforming not only our understanding of the past but liberating our approach to theatre now.'- Dr Melissa Sihra, Trinity College DublinTable of Contents1. IntroductionMarguérite Corporaal and Ruud van den BeukenI: Liberating Bodies2. Queering the Irish Actress: The Gate Theatre Production of Children in Uniform (1934)Mary Trotter3. Maura Laverty at the Gate: Theatre as Social Commentary in 1950s IrelandDeirdre McFeelyII: Emancipating Communities4. ‘Let’s Be Gay, While We May’: Artistic Platforms and the Construction of Queer Communities in Mary Manning’s Youth’s the Season–?Grace Vroomen5. Images and Imperatives: Robert Collis’s Marrowbone Lane (1939) at the Gate as Theatre for Social ChangeIan R. WalshIII: Staging Minority Languages 6. Authenticity and Social Change on the Gate Stage in the 1970s: ‘Communicating with the People’Barry Houlihan7. Micheál mac Liammóir, the Irish Language and the Idea of FreedomRadvan MarkusIV: Deconstructing Aesthetics8. The Use of Minority Languages at Dublin’s Gate Theatre and Barcelona’s TeatreLliureFeargal Whelan and David Clare9. Mogu and the Unicorn: Frederick May’s Music for the Gate TheatreMark Fitzgerald10. Tartan Transpositions: Materialising Europe, Ireland and Scotland in the Designs of Molly MacEwenSiobhán O’GormanV: Contesting Traditions in Contemporary Theatre11. From White Othello to Black Hamlet: A History of Race and Representation at the Gate TheatreJustine Nakase12. Bending the Plots: Selina Cartmell’s Gate and Politics of Gender InclusionMarguérite Corporaal
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Liverpool University Press Melville's Intervisionary Network: Balzac,
Book SynopsisThe romances of Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick and Billy Budd, Sailor, are usually examined from some setting almost exclusively American. European or other planetary contexts are subordinated to local considerations. But while this isolated approach plays well in an arena constructed on American exclusiveness, it does not express the reality of the literary processes swirling around Melville in the middle of the nineteenth century. A series of expanding literary and technological networks was active that made his writing part of a global complex. Honoré de Balzac, popular French writer and creator of realism in the novel, was also in the web of these same networks, both preceding and at the height of Melville’s creativity. Because they engaged in similar intentions, there developed an almost inevitable attraction that brought their works together. Until recently, however, Balzac has not been recognized as a significant influence on Melville during his most creative period. Over the last decade, scholars began to explore literary networks by new methodologies, and the criticism developed out of these strategies pertains usually to modernist, postcolonial, contemporary situations. Remarkably, however, the intertextuality of Melville with Balzac is quite exactly a casebook study in transcultural comparativism. Looking at Melville’s innovative environment reveals meaningful results where the networks take on significant roles equivalent to what have been traditionally classed as genetic contacts. Intervisionary Network explores a range of these connections and reveals that Melville was dependent on Balzac and his universal vision in much of his prose writing. Trade ReviewReviews ‘The traditional narrative is that Shakespeare’s works inspired innovations in Melville’s writing style, yielding Moby-Dick (1851). Haydock rescues an orphan strand, arguing that Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine (1842–55) inspired Melville’s conception of plot, characterization, and psychological analysis.’ American LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Debt to Honoré de BalzacChapter One: Networked MelvilleChapter Two: International BalzacChapter Three: M. de l’AubépineChapter Four: Hawthorne’s Secret?Chapter Five: Transvisionary TranslatingChapter Six: Balzac’s Types at SeaChapter Seven: Physiology of ThinkingChapter Eight: American ComédieChapter Nine: Toward the Bouddha chrétienChapter Ten: The Clue in the LabyrinthEndnotesIndex
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Liverpool University Press The Dinner at Gonfarone’s: Salomón de la Selva
Book SynopsisThe Dinner at Gonfarone’s is organised as a partial biography, covering five years in the life of the young Nicaraguan poet, Salomón de la Selva, but it also offers a literary geography of Hispanic New York (Nueva York) in the turbulent years around the First World War. De la Selva is of interest because he stands as the largely unacknowledged precursor of Latino writers like Junot Díaz and Julia Álvarez, writing the first book of poetry in English by an Hispanic author. In addition, through what he called his pan-American project, de la Selva brought together in New York writers from all over the American continent. He put the idea of trans-American literature into practice long before the concept was articulated.De la Selva’s range of contacts was enormous, and this book has been made possible through discovery of caches of letters that he wrote to famous writers of the day, such as Edwin Markham and Amy Lowell, and especially Edna St Vincent Millay. Alongside de la Selva’s own poetry – his book Tropical Town (1918) and a previously unknown 1916 manuscript collection – The Dinner at Gonfarone’s highlights other Hispanic writing about New York in these years by poets such as Rubén Darío, José Santos Chocano, and Juan Ramón Jiménez, all of whom were part of de la Selva’s extensive network.Trade Review'Peter Hulme’s The Dinner at Gonfarone’s is a masterful, well-written literary history of the origins of modern literary pan-Americanism that offers the first in-depth biography in English of the early life and work of its seminal figure, Salomón de la Selva.' Jonathan Cohen, author of A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee'The Dinner at Gonfarone’s is a brilliant pioneering study of the transcultural origins of literary Nueva York. Hulme is able to recreate and delineate an important community of American writers in the continental sense of the word, thereby illuminating a relatively unknown aspect of New York’s cultural history.' Steven F. White, Professor of Hispanic Studies, St. Lawrence UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Setting the Scene: New York in 1914The Hispanic PresenceThe Poetic WatersModernity and Modernism2. American Geopolitics in the New Century (1898-1914)The Famous StatesPan-AmericanismRoosevelt’s VisionThe Shakespearean Allegory3. The Changing of the Poetic Guard (1915)Growing up in New York!Rubén Darío in HospitalBefriending Pedro, Loving EdnaThe First Dinner4. New York through Spanish Eyes (1916)Courting ArcherThe Recently Married PoetEdwin Markham on Staten IslandWilson’s Crime in Santo DomingoA Tale from Faerieland5. Goading the Bull Moose (1917)Confronting RooseveltMamita SchaufflerChicago!Introducing Edna6. The Pan-American Dream (1918)Is America Honest?Translating PoetryTropical TownFalling in Love AgainFighting for England7. The Last Dinner (1919)Nueva York!A Soldier ReturnsThe Dinner at Gonfarone’sThe Gulf of MisunderstandingNicaragua Has MeAftermathLeaving New YorkIn MexicoLater lifeTaking accountBiographiesAcknowledgementsSelect BibliographyIndex
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Liverpool University Press John Dos Passos and Cinema
Book SynopsisThe book features previously unpublished manuscripts and correspondence illustrating case studies of John Dos Passos' screen writing for Paramount Pictures (1934); his role in writing and filming The Spanish Earth (1937), a Spanish Civil War relief project whose circumstances culminated in his public break from the Left; the 1936 screen treatment he wrote just before The Spanish Earth in consultation with its director, Joris Ivens; and his later-career attempts, beginning in the 1940s, to adapt his radically innovative trilogy U.S.A. directly for the screen and to realign its leftist politics toward the anti-Communist conservatism reflected in his work and activism after the 1930s and the disillusionments of the Spanish Civil War. It thus provides a new context for and reading of his political reorientation in the 1930s that not only ended his long friendship with Ernest Hemingway but also evoked the opprobrium of his former champions on the Left and redefined his literary career.Trade Review'A rich and engrossing book... John Dos Passos and Cinema will be the authoritative work on this aspect of Dos Passos's career and aesthetics for some time. But it also provides fresh insights into the perennial topic of his political biography and his shift to the right, as well as providing superb detail on the specifics of the networks and aesthetics of transnational, intermedial experiment on the left that galvanized modernist culture in the 1920s and 1930s.'Mark Whalan, Modernism/modernityTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I (1917-1928) From the Screen to the Page: “Goin’ to the movies…” in the Great War Chapter 1 Dos Passos and Soviet Filmmakers: Meyerhold, Vertov, Eisenstein, and the Development of Montage Chapter 2 Dos Passos and U.S. Film: D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation (1915), and Hearts of the World (1918) Chapter 3 “Propaganda for peace”: Film and Narrative in One Man’s Initiation: 1917 (1920) and Three Soldiers (1921)Part II (1934-37) From Paramount Studios to the Spanish Front: Writing Hollywood, Filming History Chapter 4 “[T]he world’s greatest center of…propaganda”: Hollywood and The Devil Is a Woman Chapter 5 Dos Passos and Joris Ivens: “Dreamfactory” and Meta-film Chapter 6 Dos Passos, Ivens, and Hemingway: The Spanish Earth and the Death of Jose Robles Chapter 7 “Go home and try to tell the truth”: Revision and Reception of The Spanish Earth Part III (1947-70) U.S.A. From Page to Stage to Screens: Political and Structural Revisions Chapter 8 Filmic Narrative Into Narrative Film: Dos Passos Drafting U.S.A. for the Screen (1947-56) Chapter 9 Negotiation and Adaptation: U.S.A. Under Option, Adapted for Television, and Produced for the Stage (1959-60) Chapter 10 Early Aesthetics Through the Lens of Late Politics (1960-70)
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Liverpool University Press Locating the Gothic in British Modernity
Book SynopsisThe late-Victorian era has been extensively researched as a period of Gothic literature, and this study seeks to build upon this body of work by connecting the content of such studies to the early decades of the twentieth century, which are less often seen in terms of Gothic or supernatural literature. Beginning with the quintessentially urban Gothic space of fin de siècle London, as represented in classic texts such as Dracula and Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan, the study proceeds to ask how the themes and energies which emerge in this moment evolve throughout the early twentieth century. In the ghost stories of authors like M.R. James, the Edwardian era witnesses an uncanny return to the rural English landscape, in which modernity encounters the re-emergence of suppressed fears and forces. After World War One, London again experiences a renewal of Gothic themes, with figures such as D.H. Lawrence and T.S. Eliot representing the city as a stricken and desolate space, haunted by the trauma and ghosts of the recent conflict. That legacy of violence and loss is also evident in rural representations of place in the 1920s and 1930s, along with a renewed interest in supernaturalism and paganism found in authors like Sylvia Townsend Warner and Mary Butts. Ultimately, this study argues, this period of dramatic social and cultural change is shadowed by a corresponding evolution in Gothic literary representation, whether that is expressed through modernist experimentation or more conventional narrative forms. Trade Review‘Locating the Gothic in British Modernity is a scholarly achievement of great distinction, wide ranging, generously attentive to detail and genuinely manages to break new ground exploring this fascinating literary territory.’ Alan Price, Magonia Review of Books'[Wiseman] reinvigorates discussion of the gothic in literature by showing its persistence from the late Victorian period into the modernist period... The writing is clear and purposeful throughout, rendering the book accessible to nonspecialists interested in 20th-century British literature.'J. W. Moffett, CHOICETable of Contents Introduction 1. The Strangely Mingled Monster: Gothic Invasions, Occupations and Outgrowths in Fin de Siècle London 2. The Old Subconscious Trail of Dread: Shadows, Animism and Re-Emergence in the Rural World 3. In the Black Ruins of the Frenzied Night: Spectral Encounters in Wartime and Postwar London 4. From the Waste Land to the Dark Tower: Revitalizing the Rural Gothic in the Interwar PeriodConclusion Index
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Liverpool University Press Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists
Book SynopsisThe essays collected in Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists frame this major writer in an unfamiliar milieu and company: high modernism and its aftermath. By bringing Johnson to bear on the various authors and topics gathered here, the book foregrounds some aspects of modernism and its practitioners that would otherwise remain hidden and elusive, even as it sheds new light on Johnson. Writers discussed include T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, and Vladimir Nabokov. Chapter contributors include major scholars in their field, including Melvyn New, Jack Lynch, Thomas M. Curley, Greg Clingham and Clement Hawes. These ground-breaking essays offer a vital and exciting interrogation of Modernism from a wholly fresh perspective.Trade Review'These consistently informative, persuasive, and provocative essays should reshape notions of both literary history and Johnson's place in that history.' Elizabeth Kraft, CHOICE'The most interesting essays are those focused on Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, and T. S. Eliot, those Modernists most explicitly concerned with Johnson [...] and Lee becomes very interesting when he turns his attention to their critical judgments; the two are heretical in the same attractive ways. [...] The literary criticism of Johnson and the Modernists [provide] the most fertile site of future scholarship. [...] The essays in the collection are all intellectually alive and well written [and] may provide a model for a new field of study: not biographies of Johnson the man but histories of Johnson the icon.'Lance Wilcox, The Scriblerian'In addition to Lee’s thoughtful introduction, this collection includes nine chapters that put Johnson into conversation with various authors and aspects of the first sixty years of the twentieth century. [...] Any reader of his fine translatio studii will have a deeper appreciation for what Clingham calls the paradoxical “invisibility” of these master prose stylists.[...] Anthony Lee has done Johnsonian and modernists alike a service in bringing these essays together and to light.'John Sitter, 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries of the Early Modern Era'This is prose written in a Johnsonian spirit, even if the style bears few of the master's hallmarks. [...] Each of its nine chapters proposes a sort of conversation between Johnson and other eighteenth-century writers, or between Johnson and a more recent author, or both. The comparison of Woolf with Johnson is perhaps the most fruitful of all the pairings in the volume, [...] partly because her literary-critical, biographical and essayistic career shared so much ground with his.'Freya Johnston, New Rambler
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Liverpool University Press A Reader's Guide to Yeats's A Vision
Book SynopsisW. B. Yeats is one of the most important writers in English of the twentieth century, and the system of A Vision is generally recognized as fundamental to the power and achievement of his later poetry. Yet this strange mixture of esoteric geometry, lunar symbolism, and sweeping generalization has proven frustrating to generations of readers, who have found it obscure in both matter and presentation. This book helps readers to approach and understand the origins, structure, and implications of the system. Concentrating on the 1937 revised edition of A Vision, the treatment is divided into major topic areas with several levels: a general introduction to each topic; a fuller and deeper examination of that topic, drawing on A Vision's two versions and the manuscript background, and forming the bulk of each chapter; an examination of how the topic manifests in Yeats's literary work; full notes to explore conceptual and textual problems. The first three chapters examine the background and origins of A Vision; the central seven chapters look at the major elements involved in the system; the following four at the major processes of life and history. The main treatment ends with a summary and conclusion, and is supplemented by a glossary of terms and appendices.
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Liverpool University Press Joseph Conrad: A Bibliographical Catalogue of
Book SynopsisDavid J. Supino traces in unprecedented detail the lineaments of Joseph Conrad’s authorial career and the fortunes (and misfortunes) of his publishers on both sides of the Atlantic. This work is a model of the integrative scholarly method, combining close bibliographical scrutiny of particular textual artifacts with archival recovery of book-historical information in as much detail as the surviving documents allow. The book is essential reading not only for students of Conrad but also for all those who wish to understand the publishing history of this era.Trade Review'David Supino’s magnificent volume is a remarkable achievement, building on the expertise he demonstrated in his equally authoritative bibliography of Henry James. This treasure-house of fascinating information, based on painstaking original research, will be a required resource for libraries, scholars and collectors, and an unrivalled point of reference for those interested in the oeuvre of this enduringly important author.'- Professor Philip Horne, University College London Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction AbbreviationsList of PlatesSection A: Principal WorksSection BB1: The PamphletsB2: PlaysB3: Minor WorksSection C: Early Collected EditionsSection D: Tauchnitz EditionsAppendix A: The Publishers of Conrad's Major WorksAppendix B: Conrad in the English Catalogue of Books 1895-1930Appendix C: A Note on Currencies and WorthIndices
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Liverpool University Press After Human: A Critical History of the Human in
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the British Fantasy Awards (Non-Fiction) 2022Shortlisted for the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Non-Fiction Award 2022SF has long been understood as a literature of radical potential, capable of imagining entirely new worlds and ways of being. Yet SF has been slow to embrace posthumanist ideas about the human subject. The human of the SF tradition is instead a liminal being, caught somewhere between the transcendent ‘Man’ of classical humanism and the subversive ‘cyborg’ of posthumanist thought. This study offers a critical history of the 'human' in SF. By examining a range of SF works from 1818 to the 1970s, it seeks to answer some key questions: What role does technology play in defining what it means to be—or not to be—human? How do these writers understand the relationship between humanity and the rest of nature? And how can we use SF to re-examine our ethical position towards the non-human world and move to more egalitarian understandings of the human subject?Trade Review'This wide-ranging and original study convincingly shows how science fiction has (almost) always been posthuman. Thomas Connolly’s critical and cultural history of “the human” in Anglo-American sf ranges from the nineteenth century through the 1970s, constructing an expansive pre-history of the posthuman before the cyberpunk explosion of the 1980s. This is an exciting new story about the history of science fiction.' Veronica Hollinger, co-editor of Science Fiction Studies"This monograph gives a valuable starting point for considering the developments of human figures in science fiction before posthumanism had been articulated and it contributes productively to current conversations about reading such texts retroactively as engagements with the posthuman and posthumanism."Anna McFarlane, Science Fiction Studies'For those scholars interested to treat posthumanism not as a given of the 21st century, but as a development of the humanism and anti-humanism that came before, Connolly’s book is a valuable resource explaining the lines of thought in sf that have led up to, for example, the cyberpunk multiplication of posthumanism. After Human will help ground current work in contemporary posthumanist criticism by providing a historical perspective.' Lars Schmeink, SFRA ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: 'Beyond the common range of men': H.G. Wells, the OncoMouse, and the Human in Anglo-American SF1. Worlds Lost and Gained: Evolution, Primitivism, and the Pre-Human in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World and Jack London's The Iron Heel2. Soma and Skylarks: Technocracy, Agency and the Trans-Human in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and E.E. 'Doc' Smith's Skylark Series3. Homo Gestalt: Atomics, Empire, and the Supra-Human in Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars4. Disaster and Redemption: Utopia, Nature, and the Post-Human in J.G. Ballard's The Crystal World and Ursula K. Le Guin's The DispossessedConclusion: Bio/Techno/Homo: The Future of the Human in SF
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Liverpool University Press Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers'
Book SynopsisAs publishers in private printing presses, as writers of dissident texts and as political campaigners against censorship and for intellectual freedom, a radical group of twentieth-century Irish women formed a female-only coterie to foster women’s writing and maintain a public space for professional writers. This book documents the activities of the Women Writers’ Club (1933–1958), exploring its ethos, social and political struggles, and the body of works created and celebrated by its members. Examining the period through a history of the book approach, it covers social events, reading committees, literary prizes, publishing histories, modernist printing presses, book fairs, reading practices, and the various political philosophies shared by members of the Club. It reveals how professional women writers deployed their networks and influence to carve out a space for their writing in the cultural marketplace, collaborating with other artistic groups to fight for creative freedoms and the right to earn a living by the pen. The book paints a vivid portrait of the Women Writers’ Club, showcasing their achievements and challenging existing orthodoxy on the role of women in Irish literary life.Trade Review‘The book is a triumph of archival detective work… Brady’s history chronicles a space laboriously carved out by twenty-five years of wit, courage and cunning… It is a finely drawn, rich and illuminating history, and offers significant insights into the relationship between women’s social networks, cultural activism, and sexual dissidence with implications far beyond mid-twentieth century Ireland.’ Gerardine Meaney, Irish University ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Intellectual Fraternities? Dublin United Arts Club, the Irish Academy of Letters, and the Irish PEN 2. Coterie Culture and the Women Writers’ Club, 1933-1958 3. ‘A Wild Field to a Later Generation’: The ‘Book of the Year’ Award 4. Women Writers in Irish Print Culture, 1930-1960 5. Coterie Culture and Modernist Presses: The Gayfield Press Conclusion
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Liverpool University Press Space for Peace: Fragments of the Irish Troubles
Book SynopsisScience fiction might not be the first thing that springs to mind when we think of Irish literature. But in the post-war period in Belfast, two authors, Bob Shaw and James White, began producing science fiction stories, eventually selling them to international markets and gaining the respect of luminaries such as Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss and Stanley Kubrick.Although lauded in the international science fiction scene for their innovations in the genre, Shaw and White’s work has been relatively ignored within Irish Studies. This book connects the emergence of science fiction in Belfast with the position of the city as the locus of technological development on the island of Ireland, and the development of a corresponding technological imaginary. Breaking new ground in the study of Irish modernity, Richard Howard draws parallels between the narratives of Shaw and White and the persistent influence of historical narratives embodied by the two-traditions paradigm in the region, as well as exploring the figure of the alien both in science fiction and in the history of Northern Ireland. He also considers the works of Shaw and White as utopian gestures against the backdrop of the Irish Troubles, finding both repressive and redemptive elements therein. The book makes an important contribution to the growing conversation about Irish science fiction and our understanding of modernity in Ireland.Trade Review'Howard’s Space for Peace is a valuable contribution to the dynamic body of work emerging at the intersections of Irish literary and sf studies... [Space for Peace] is to be welcomed for its embraided engagement with the overall scholarship in both fields... and, in particular, the lifetime work of Bob Shaw and James White.'Tom Moylan, Science Fiction Studies Table of ContentsIntroduction1. A Proximity to Technology2. Historical Continuity and Alternative Modernities3. The Alien and the Other4. Utopias, Repressive and RedemptiveConclusion
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Liverpool University Press Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction
Book SynopsisThroughout its readings, Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction traces how each author gestures towards the literary and philosophical hermeneutics of algorithms and, in doing so, defines an emerging tradition of fiction attempting to redefine the novel's relevance within digital culture.
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Liverpool University Press The Work of the Living
Book SynopsisThrough essays on Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, Rebecca West, T.S. Eliot, and E.M. Forster, The Work of the Living contends that modernism's artist-critics elevate criticism to a public mode of art and expression through their craft, rhetorical strategies, techniques, figurative language, and even their chosen circulations for their critical nonfiction.
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