Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books

Book SynopsisA complete guide to the comics work of the writer Alan Moore, this book helps readers explore one of the genre's most important, compelling and subversive writers. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers: Moore's comics career from his early work in 2000AD to his breakthrough graphic novels and his later battles with the industry Moore's major works including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Saga of the Swamp Thing and Promethea Key themes and contexts from Moore's subversion of the superhero genre and metafictional techniques to his creative collaborations and battles with the industry for creator control Critical approaches to Moore's workThe book includes a bibliography of critical work on Moore and discussion questions for classroom use.Trade ReviewAyres' comprehensive study explores Moore in all his contradictions: a superstar who was exploited by the system; a champion of minority representation who has been criticised for his use of stereotypes; the man who made graphic novels 'grim and gritty' yet embraced gentle comedy alongside dark realism. This critical examination is perfect for those discovering Moore, but long-term fans will also find new angles and insights, encouraging them to revisit the work of this towering, complex figure. * Will Brooker, Professor of Film and Cultural Studies, Kingston University London, UK *In Alan Moore: A Critical Guide, Jackson Ayres takes on the daunting task of covering Alan Moore’s career historically, chronologically, formally, thematically and ideologically. He does so with impressive thoroughness, sensitivity and panache. Ayres reminds us of why Alan Moore is so important to the history of comics in the first place, while also productively and impressively examining recent challenges to his canonical status. This book is a great place to start for Moore fans, but also for those who are more skeptical about his work’s value and relevance. Ayres leaves very few stones unturned in the quest to grapple with Moore, his legacy, and the development of the comics medium and industry over the past 40 years. * Eric Berlatsky, Professor of English, Florida Atlantic University, USA *Table of ContentsDedication Series Editor’s Preface List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Do We Need Moore? The Original Writer A Guide to this Guide 2. Historical and Biographical Contexts Mage of the Midlands Thatcherism The British Invasion Creator Rights 3. Key Texts, Part One Invading British Comics Origins 2000 A.D.: Short Stories, Skizz, DR and Quinch, and The Ballad of Halo Jones The Bojeffries Saga Reinventing Superheroes: Britain Marvelman/Miracleman Captain Britain V for Vendetta Reinventing Superheroes: America The Saga of the Swamp Thing Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? The Killing Joke Watchmen 4. Key Texts, Part Two Horrors of History From Hell A Small Killing Big Numbers Brought to Light Re-Imagining Superheroes 1963 Supreme Moore’s ‘90s Superheroes Cultural Commons “In Pictopia” Lost Girls The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen America’s Best Comics Tom Strong Tomorrow Stories Top 10 Promethea Histories of Horror Lovecraft Cycle: The Courtyard, Neonomicon, and Providence Crossed + 100 Cinema Purgatorio 5. Critical Questions Themes and Techniques Intertextuality Magic Psychogeography Englishness Representations Race Sexuality Sexual Violence 6. Social and Cultural Impact Authorship and Ownership The Revised Superhero Mature Readers? Politics and/of Comics Cultural Remixing Moore After Comics, Comics After Moore Glossary Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThe reactionary Comicsgate campaign against alleged forced diversity in superhero comics revealed the extent to which comics have become a key battleground in America's Culture Wars. In the first in-depth scholarly study of Marvel Comics' most recent engagement with progressive politics, Superhero Culture Wars explores how the drive towards greater diversity among its characters and creators has interacted with the company's commercial marketing and its traditional fan base. Along the way the book covers such topics as: Major characters such as Miles Morales's Spider-man, Kamala Khan's Ms. Marvel, Jane Foster's Thor, Sam Wilson's Captain America and the Secret Empire series' turncoat Captain America Creators such as G. Willow Wilson, Jason Aaron, Nick Spencer and Michael Bendis Marketing, the Marvel Universe, and online fan culture Superhero Culture Wars demonstrates how the marketing of Marvel comics as politically progressive has both indelibly shaped its iTrade ReviewWith its starting point that superhero comics are and have always been political, Superhero Culture Wars is a welcome examination of Marvel’s moves toward diversifying its characters in the 2010s. It illuminates not only the tensions between fans and storytellers, but also the tensions inherent in a company’s neoliberal strategy of marketing its products and itself as progressive in order to increase its profits. -- Carolyn Cocca, author of Eisner Award-winning Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation (Bloomsbury 2016), SUNY College at Old Westbury, USABlatino Spidey. Muslim-American Ms. Marvel. Queer teen Hulk. For some, these and other superhero reincarnations ring the death knell to Western civilization. For others, they reflect a vitally attentive response to today’s social make-up and the spirit of our times. With dazzling scholarly dexterity, Monica Flegel and Judith Leggatt take us on the rollercoaster ride of Marvel Comics: how its socio-politically alert contemporary stories entertain, incite incendiary debate, reveal deep sociopolitical chasms, and act as agents of change. Superhero Culture Wars forcefully reminds: Comics matter! -- Frederick Luis Aldama, Eisner Award winning scholar and Distinguished University Professor, Ohio State University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Mockingbird and Milkshakes: Comicsgate, Identity, and the Politics of Marketing in an Age of Outrage Chapter One: From Stan’s Soapbox to Twitter: Politics and Story-Telling in the Marvel Universe Chapter Two: Diversity Done Right?: Miles Morales and Kamala Khan Chapter Three: “Captain America is Black and Thor is a Woman”: Gender- and Race-Bent Mantle Passing in Marvel’s All-New, All-Different Campaign Chapter Four: Rethinking Secret Empire: Writing and Marketing Political Comics in an Age of Rising Fascism Conclusion: Marvel Legacy and Fresh Start: Selling (and Selling Out) Progressive Politics Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisExploring a history of activists writing for and about children of colour from abolition to Black Lives Matter, this open access book examines issues such as the space given to people of colour by white activists; the voice, agency and intersectionality in activist writing for young people; how writers used activism to expand definitions of Britishness for child readers; and how activism and writing about it has changed in the 21st century.From abolitionists and anti-colonialists such as Amelia Opie, Una Marson and Rabindranath Tagore; communist and feminist activists concerned with broader children's rights including Chris Searle and Rosemary Stones; to Black Panthers and contemporary advocates for people of colour from Farrukh Dhondy to Len Garrison, Catherine Johnson and Corinne Fowler, Karen Sands-O''Connor traces how these activists translated their values for children of colour. Beginning with historical events that sparked activism and the first cultural products for Trade ReviewKaren Sands-O’Connor’s British Activist Authors Addressing Children of Colour brilliantly explores the history of activist writing for children of colour in Britain, the historical context in which this writing appeared as well as the impact activist writing had and continues to have on its readers. The illuminating book provides deep insights into the agendas and politics of activist writing about and for children of colour, and most importantly, encourages readers to rethink dominant white perspectives in children‘s literature and its publishing industry. This thought-provoking and engaging study is an important contribution to understand literary activism for children in Great Britain, recommended for specialists and non-specialists alike. * Ada Bieber, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany *Table of ContentsIntroductionGet Up, Stand Up—Then Sit Down and Read: Books, and Rights, for Readers of Colour Chapter OneEmpire and Activism: A Pre-Windrush History of Activist British Children’s Authors and Race Chapter TwoBlack, White, Unite and Fight? Children’s Books and Activism across Racial Lines Chapter ThreeTo be Young, British and Black: Writing for a New Generation of British Readers Chapter Four“Good” Britishness: Black Identity, White Racism and Children’s Publishing 1965-1995 Chapter FiveHostile Environments for History and Publishing: Activists Addressing Children of Colour 2012-2021 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book was crying out to be written. The Irish TimesScandalously readable. Literary ReviewJames Joyce''s relationship with his homeland was a complicated and often vexed one. The publication of his masterwork Ulysses - referred to by The Quarterly Review as an Odyssey of the sewer - in 1922 was initially met with indifference and hostility within Ireland. This book tells the full story of the reception of Joyce and his best-known book in the country of his birth for the first time; a reception that evolved over the next hundred years, elevating Joyce from a writer reviled to one revered. Part reception study, part social history, this book uses the changing interpretations of Ulysses to explore the concurrent religious, social and political changes sweeping Ireland. From initially being a threat to the status quo, Ulysses became a way to market Ireland abroad and a manifesto for a better, more modern, open and tolerant, multi-eTrade ReviewThis book was crying out to be written. * The Irish Times *Scandalously readable. * Literary Review *Consuming Joyce takes in a comprehensive array of Irish responses to Ulysses and will be an indispensable resource for future studies of Joyce’s reception in the country. * Times Literary Supplement *McCourt shies away from nothing ... An important corrective against single or narrowly conceived histories. * James Joyce Broadsheet *The discussion of the cities and geographies associated with the writing of Ulysses, along with the fascinating and impressively illustrated history of the book itself, make [Consuming Joyce] a useful and absorbing document to mark this moment. * Australian Book Review *'Consuming Joyce' is a meticulous study of how Joyce's 'Ulysses' has been received in Ireland. John McCourt's writing is judicious, his research painstaking. He has managed to produce a portrait of a society in flux, its response to 'Ulysses' a mirror of its own fears and neuroses and its own gradual move towards openness and inclusion. * Colm Tóibín, Author and Mellon Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA. *McCourt's remarkable new opus reveals to what extent Joyce's ambivalence towards his native country has been fully reciprocated. The complex and tortuous road towards the canonization of Joyce as Ireland's most famous writer is here narrated with an impressive wealth of information. * Valerie Bénéjam, Reader, University of Nantes, France. *Table of ContentsChapter One “An Odyssey of the Sewer”: Ulysses in Ireland 1922-1940 Chapter Two Post-Mortem: Joyce in mid-century, 1941-1961 Chapter Three The beginnings of the Joyce Industry in Ireland, 1962-1982 Chapter Four Joyce goes mainstream: 1982-2022 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUncovering the role of literature, late imperialism, and the rise of new models of internationalism as integral to the invention of Global English, this book focuses on three key figures from the Vocabulary Control Movement - C.K. Ogden, Harold Palmer, and Michael West - who competed for market share for their respective language teaching systems - Basic English, the Palmer Method, and the New Method - through battles over word lists and teaching methods in the 1920s and 30s. Drawing on archives from the Carnegie Corporation and considering language teaching in eight global sites, this book analyzes how a series of conferences in New York and London resolved their conflicts and produced a consolidated, international standard form of English. As a postcolonial approach to the development of the field of English Language Teaching, it reveals how these language debates were proxy battles over an idealized global subject: an urban, secular, consumer moving seamlessly between the tribal andTrade ReviewMaking World English is a bracing study of the deliberate manner in which English became a world language. Michael Malouf goes far beyond critique to reveal the historical debates and policy moves that contributed to Anglophone dominance. With exemplary care and precision, he uncovers the hierarchies embedded in standardized English, tracing them back to the Basic English debates in the interwar years. Malouf challenges Global English as a natural development from the language’s cultural capital by locating its hegemony in the aftereffects of empire. This important book is essential reading for students and scholars of modern linguistics, literary history, and British modernism. * Gauri Viswanathan, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USA and author of 'Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India' *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Debating English Part One: Managing English Chapter One: Pioneers and Heretics Chapter Two: Vocabulary Control and Colonialism Chapter Three: Literary Simplification and the Global Subject Part Two: Making English Chapter Four: Basic’s Critics and World English Chapter Five: The Carnegie Conference and Its Discontents Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisCarey Mickalites is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Memphis, USA. He is the author of Modernism and Market Fantasy, as well as a number of articles on modernist and contemporary literature. He regularly teaches courses and seminars on modernism, contemporary British fiction, colonial and postcolonial literature, and literary and cultural theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Fictions of Celebrity and the Markets for Modernism Chapter One: Signature to Brand: Martin Amis’s Negotiations with Literary Celebrity Chapter Two: “To invent a literature”: Ian McEwan’s Commercial Modernism Chapter Three: From Modernism to Postcolonial Inc.: Authorizing Salman Rushdie Chapter Four: What the Public Wants: Prize Culture and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Aesthetic of Disillusionment Chapter Five: Zadie Smith, Inauthenticity, and the Ends of Multicultural Modernism Chapter Six: Valuing the Marginal, or, How Eimear McBride and Anna Burns Reframe Irish Modernism Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume of the BDMP series charts the genesis of three iconic Beckett plays: Not I (1973), That Time (1976) and Footfalls (1976), all translated into French by their author. Including analyses of abandoned archival precursors the Kilcool' drafts (1963) and the Petit Odéon' Fragments (19671968) the book covers a crucial period in Beckett's playwriting career, during which his long-held ambition to stage a mouth babbling in the dark became a catalyst for some of his most innovative work. This volume provides a comprehensive guide to the history of the three plays, tracking their development from compositional manuscripts through to publication and performance. The book contends that these plays should be seen as stagings of the subjectobject breakdown explored in Beckett's early writing. Drawing on the notes he took on psychology and psychoanalysis in 19341935, it examines the many psychological and psychoanalytic concepts that are used in the autTrade ReviewWith this monograph, Little effectively convinces us that the successive drafts offer evidence of a heightening of interpretive ambiguity and uncertainty that blurs the line between self and other, inside and outside, reality and fiction. “Doing this”, Little concludes, “will probably not solve the questions asked by these works — Who is Godot? What happened to Mouth in the field? Is May alive or dead? — but it can help us better understand how these questions are posed” (483). For all these reasons, this volume in the BDMP series is without doubt a highly commendable and very rewarding read for those researchers interested in an in-depth foray into Beckett’s late theatre and creative mind. * Textual Cultures *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Note on the Transcriptions List of Illustrations Introduction: Beckett’s Breakdowns PART I The Making of Not I / Pas moi 1 Documents 1.1 Autograph Manuscripts 1.1.1 English 1.1.2 French 1.2 Typescripts 1.2.1 English 1.2.2 French 1.3 Setting Copies, Galleys and Annotated Copies 1.3.1 English 1.4 Pre-book Publications 1.4.1 French 1.5 Editions 1.5.1 English (UK) 1.5.2 English (US) 1.5.3 French 1.5.4 Multilingual 1.6 Playscripts and Production Notes 1.6.1 English 1.7 Genetic Map 2 The Genesis of Not I / Pas moi 2.1 Before Not I / Pas moi 2.1.1 ‘Kilcool’ 2.1.2‘ Petit Odéon’ Fragments 2.2 The Genesis of Not I 2.2.1 Chronology 2.2.2 Genesis 2.3 The Genesis of Pas moi 2.3.1 Chronology 2.3.2 Genesis PART II The Making of That Time / Cette fois 3 Documents 3.1 Autograph Manuscripts 3.1.1 English 3.1.2 French 3.2 Typescripts 3.2.1 English 3.2.2 French 3.3 Setting Copies and Galleys 3.3.1 English 3.3.2 French 3.4 Editions 3.4.1 English (UK) 3.4.2 English (US) 3.4.3 French 3.4.4 Multilingual 3.5 Playscripts and Production Notes 3.5.1 English 3.5.2 Multilingual 3.6 Genetic Map 4 The Genesis of That Time / Cette fois 4.1 The Genesis of That Time 4.1.1 Chronology 4.1.2 Genesis 4.2 The Genesis of Cette fois 4.2.1 Chronology 4.2.2 Genesis PART III The Making of Footfalls / Pas 5 Documents 5.1 Autograph Manuscripts 5.1.1 English 5.2 Typescripts 5.2.1 English 5.2.2 French 5.3 Setting Copies, Galleys and Page Proofs 5.3.1 English 5.3.2 French 5.4 Pre-book Publications 5.4.1 French 5.5 Editions 5.5.1 English (UK) 5.5.2 English (US) 5.5.3 French 5.5.4 Multilingual 5.6 Playscripts, Production notes and Annotated Copies 5.6.1 English 5.6.2 Multilingual 5.7 Genetic Map 6 The Genesis of Footfalls / Pas 6.1 The Genesis of Footfalls 6.1.1 Chronology 6.1.2 Genesis 6.2 The Genesis of Pas 6.2.1 Chronology 6.2.2 Genesis Conclusion: Beckett’s ‘dark matter’ Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the writings of the American novelist Ayn Rand, especially The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), which Rand considered her definitive statement about the need for an unregulated free market in which superior humans could fully realize themselves by living for no-one but themselves. It explores Rand's conception of American identity, which exalted individualism and capitalism, and her solution for saving the modern American nation, which she believed was losing the spirit of its 18th- and 19th-century founders and frontiersmen, having been degraded morally and economically by the rampant socialism of the mid-20th-century world.Derek Offord crucially goes on to analyse how Rand's writings functioned as a vehicle in which she, a Russian-Jewish writer born in St Petersburg in 1905, engaged with ideas that had long animated the Russian intelligentsia. Her conception of human nature and of a utopian community capable of satisfying its needs; her Trade ReviewDerek Offord’s lively, authoritative and controversial book underscores Ayn Rand’s Russian intellectual roots and — more importantly — the habits of mind that she applied later in writing her famous American novels. Offord highlights aspects of American (and not only American!) radical libertarian politics that have been little recognized up to now but deserve remembering. * Gary Hamburg, Otho M. Behr Professor of the History of Ideas, Claremont McKenna College, USA *The high priestess of American capitalism was actually a Russian Nihilist gone rogue. That is the unlikely message of Derek Offord’s challenging and engrossing study, which shows how Ayn Rand turned upside down the utopian dreams and literary traditions of Russian radicals and wrote a series of ‘capitalist realist’ novels. Although living more than fifty years in American emigration, she remained, Offord argues, ‘a typical representative of the Russian intelligentsia’. * Geoffrey Swain, Emeritus Professor (School of Social & Political Sciences), University of Glasgow, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Ayn Rand and her Russian Background 2. Rand and the Russian Intellectual Tradition 3. Rand and Russian Literary Models 4. Ethical, Metaphysical, and Epistemological Questions 5. Politics and Economics 6. Geopolitics Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDefends conventional and even problematic illness metaphors by emphasizing their varied usability.

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Book SynopsisArgues that J. M. Coetzee's works constitute a form of late modernism that situates life at the heart of questions concerning the politics and ethics of literature

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Book SynopsisOffers a literary and cultural critique of the concept of true feeling, using affect theory to analyze post-war realist literatures

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Book SynopsisThese three books reflect the beginnings of one of the most radical and exhilarating figures in modern literature.

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Book SynopsisRefines our understanding of Virginia Woolf as a politically engaged writer

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Book SynopsisThe first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov's humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick, sexual and scatological humour

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Book SynopsisDevelops a new theory of literary imagination for the Anthropocene by analysing descriptions of the environment from above

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Book SynopsisA uniquely comprehensive, groundbreaking two-volume study of Loy's relationship to the human body and soul.

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Book SynopsisDo you want a better understanding of the text? Do you want to know what the critics say? Do you want to know how to improve your grade?   Whatever you want, York Notes can help.   York Notes Advanced offers a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.   Key Features: Summaries with detailed commentaries Extended commentaries on key passages Discussion of themes and literary techniques Author biography Historical and literary background Check the net/film/book features Glossary of literary terms Self-test questions

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Book SynopsisThe period 1890 to 1950 is remarkable for radical innovation and literary development. This volume looks back to the origins of Modernism and the traditions that shaped it, examining texts from France, America, England and Ireland to provide a stimulating and original take on this unique movement in literary history. Combining textual analysis with key critical approaches, the book considers central texts such as Eliot's The Waste Land, Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Lawrence's Women in Love alongside wider debates on Literature and War, Modernism, Music and the Visual Arts and Modernism and its Critics. Trade Review"Via a combination of critical approaches and textual analysis, Day explores a fertile period for literary development." - Reviewed in Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsPart One: Introduction Part Two: A Cultural Overview Part Three: Texts, Writers and Contexts Modernist poetry – French Origins, English Settings: Baudelaire, Mallarmé and the Georgians o Extended commentary: Imagism Modernist poetry – America, Ireland and England: Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Yeats and Eliot o Extended commentary: T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) · The Modernist novel and tradition: Flaubert, Mann, Kafka and Joyce Extended commentary: Joyce, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) · The Modernist novel II: Saki, Woolf and Lawrence Extended commentary: Lawrence, Women in Love (1920) The Modernist play I – Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello and Beckett Extended commentary: Beckett,Endgame (1957) The Modernist play II – Conrad, Brecht and Artaud o Extended commentary: Brecht, Baal (1923) Part Four: Critical theories and Debates Literature and War Modernist Print Culture Modernism, Music the Visual Arts Modernism and its Critics Part Five: Resources Timeline Further reading Index

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Book SynopsisAndrew Blades lectures at Bath Spa University and the University of Oxford. He has taught a wide variety of modules including William Faulkner, Twentieth-century American poetry (Stevens, Hughes, Berryman, Rich, Bishop, O'Hara, Ashbery), Twentieth-century American drama (O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Shepard, Shawn, Kushner) and The New Journalism: American non-fiction novels of the 1960s. His research interests lie in AIDS literature and the work of James Merrill, Thom Gunn and Eugene O'Neill. He also writes theatre reviews for The Stage newspaper.

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Book SynopsisAn exuberant, breathless sprint through London in the fifties, sixties and seventies It's bright, boisterous and extremely funny' Tatler''Clancy's scapegrace adventures are described with so much vitality and scabrous wit you feel as charmed as one of his serial conquests Marvellous'' Spectator''If you're searching for something to keep you on the edge of your sun lounger this summer, look no further'' Daily MailIf Fielding's Tom Jones were alive in postwar England he might be Clancy Sigal, the American author of this restlessly curious memoir.Honest and devious, faithful and lustful, a mass of plucky contradictions, Clancy first arrived in London in 1957. He was broke, homeless and, according to his FBI file, a dangerous subversive'. Over the next three decades, Clancy was to wander the soot-stained streets of London, devouring as much as life could offer him. From the birth of the CND and his affair with Lessing, to therapy with R. D. Laing Trade ReviewAn exuberant, breathless sprint through London in the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies… It’s bright, boisterous and extremely funny -- Francesca Carington * Tatler *[Clancy’s] scapegrace adventures are described with so much vitality and scabrous wit you feel as charmed as one of his serial conquests … Marvellous * Spectator *Sigal is a terrific storyteller and The London Lover is a terrific story. If you’re searching for something to keep you on the edge of your sun lounger this summer, look no further * Daily Mail *[Sigal] was a tummler of note, a real-life Zelig who found himself with astonishing frequency at the ringside of history, rubbing shoulders with many of its high rollers and low riders … The compulsion to be near the hot centre never left his restless heart * London Review of Books *Clancy Sigal lived twenty amazing lives and many of them are in this wonderful book -- Paul TherouxClancy Sigal’s memoir has all the storytelling verve, arresting candour and personal fearlessness that made his reputation over half a century ago -- David KynastonNo one tells his story better than he does himself in this highly entertaining book -- Lara Feigel

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Book SynopsisExamining hardboiled fiction through Flaubert, New Yorker cartoons through modernist painting, and Bette Davis through Hegel and Marx, Transatlantic Aliens challenges and changes the way we understand modernism's place in midcentury American culture.Trade ReviewWriting with the style and vocabulary of modern intellectualism, [Norman] demonstrates the culture to which new scholars can aspire. Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1Homeless Aliens and Dialectical Culture Critique: C. L. R. James and Theodor AdornoChapter 2 The Yankee from Berlin: George GroszChapter 3The Big Empty: Raymond Chandler's Transatlantic Modernism Chapter 4 The Taste of Freedom: Simone de Beauvoir, Vladimir Nabokov and the Intellectual Road Trip Chapter 5 Saul Steinberg's Vanishing Trick: Modernism, the State, and the Cosmopolitan Intellectual Conclusion: Not to Grin is a Sin Notes Index

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Book SynopsisDylan Thomas''s classic account of his childhood Christmases, with full colour illustrations by Peter Bailey. The special gift edition for Thomas''s centenary now in paperback, with a beautiful gold-foiled cover.All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street...Dylan Thomas''s lyrical account of his childhood Christmases in a small Welsh town, featuring wolves, bears, hippos and Mrs Prothero''s cat, has become deservedly famous. This re-designed edition celebrates the centenary of his birth, and features full colour artwork from illustrator Peter Bailey. A beautiful gift edition of a classic work from one of Britain''s best-loved writers, this is the perfect Christmas present for young readers building their own childhood Christmas memories.Trade ReviewDylan Thomas's classic recollections of his own childhood, A Child's Christmas in Wales, has been republished with beautiful illustrations to mark the centenary of his birth. Perfect for reading aloud -- Sunday Express * Sunday Express *It is one of those books that a child will cling on to as they grow up and cherish for a lifetime to one day pass on to their own children. * THE BOOKBAG *It is one of those books that a child will cling on to as they grow up and cherish for a lifetime to one day pass on to their own children. * THE BOOKBAG *

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Book SynopsisSomething extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject matter and style, challenging - and almost eclipsing - the Establishment writers of the 1950s. It began with two names - Martin Amis and Ian McEwan - and became a flood: Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Graham Swift, Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson and Pat Barker among them. The rise of the newcomers coincided with astonishing changes in the way books were published - and the ways in which readers bought them and interacted with their authors. Suddenly, authors of serious fiction were like rock stars, fashionable, sexy creatures, shrewdly marketed and feted in public. The yearly bunfight of the Booker Prize became a matter of keen public interest. Tim Waterstone established the first of a chain of revolutionary bookshops. London publishing houses became the playground of exciting,Trade Review[An] elegant and elegiac memoir . . . the vigour of the book's attack and the hilarity of its anecdotage ... [shows he was] one of the great power-brokers of literary London . . . He was (and is) a good thing and I salute him. -- D. J. Taylor * Literary Review *Very funny . . . I laughed long at the set-piece lunch with [Martin] Amis * Observer *Walsh's enthusiasm for the writing of the 1980s is infectious * Irish Times *This is by no means just a book of literary history, fascinating though much of that is. Walsh also gives us plenty of terrific stories/gossip from those far-off days when newspaper offices were full of typewriter noise and cigarette smoke, and the choice of lunchtime drinks was definitely not restricted to still or sparkling. * Reader's Digest *Through it all, Walsh was there. First as an eager wannabe, then as a full-blooded insider. Any disappointment that his own efforts at a novel didn't prove a ticket to the dream-circus was quickly mitigated once he discovered his potential as a critic, commentator and general facilitator, swishing through the forest as interviewer, literary judge, pundit, speaker, partygoer par excellence . . . An immersive literary history . . . highly readable * Financial Times *Reading John Walsh's adventures in the literary world of the 1980s is like donning a pair of spectacles that bring blurred memories into sudden, sharp focus . . . Walsh describes people, events and places with such accuracy that he will transport oldies back to the era, allowing them to reappraise and appreciate it afresh. His memory - even if dependent on a diary - is prodigious, and his anecdotes polished till they sparkle. * The Oldie *An entertainingly gossipy memoir of the period . . . * The Week *Elegant and entertaining * Critic *[There's a] mixture of high and low, sacred and profane, running through Walsh's account of literary London in the 1980s that makes it such a joy * Sunday Times *Walsh's appetite for celebrity gossip is supplemented by a keen understanding of the business moves behind the invention of these literary stars, while his candour about his own shortcomings is endearing . . . [this] memoir is highly recommended * Irish Examiner *Walsh makes London seem like the place to have been. The stage was smaller; everything burned more brightly; more angels teemed on the head of a pin . . . One of the best things about Circus of Dreams is Walsh's memories not of the big beasts of literature, but of the smaller players - the editors and agents and clubmen and hacks and P.R. people, the various legends in their own lunchtimes. * New York Times *John Walsh's Circus of Dreams sent me reeling nostalgically back to the literary 1980s, where I may remain happily trapped for some time to come * HEAD TOPICS *Alternately fascinating and provocative -- John Sutherland * TLS *Circus of Dreams, the critic and journalist John Walsh's rambunctious and hugely entertaining history of the British literary scene in the 1980s, summons up something of the excitement, and the absurdity, of the period * Spectator World *

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Book SynopsisOffers an investigation into the formative influence of music on Virginia Woolf's writing. The author discusses all of Woolf's novels as well as selected essays and short fiction, offering detailed commentaries on Woolf's numerous allusions to classical repertoire and to composers including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner.

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Book SynopsisThese comparative essays explore the shared terrain of these modernist women writers and shed new light on their 'curious & thrilling' literary relationship.

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Book SynopsisThis book maps out the novel's complex network of intertexts, sources and echoes, interprets its highly experimental writing and explains the work's great significance for twentieth-century literature.

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Book SynopsisThe first detailed analysis of Gothic literature and trauma in World War One.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a comparative study of the history, performances and politics of the FTP by drawing and exposing further links between American modernism and its European counterparts.

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Book SynopsisWith an exciting and provocative approach to the reading of landscape and the non-human world in the work of four major Scottish poets, this groundbreaking book merges phenomenology and ecocritical literary criticism.

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive analysis of Virginia Woolf's literary biography.

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Book SynopsisThe first ever edition of Nan Shepherd's correspondence, featuring two hundred and fifty letters

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Book SynopsisExplores how military medical practitioners articulated and represented their spatial and sensory experiences of caregiving.

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Book SynopsisThe first reference book on First World War newspapers and magazines from the home front to the front linesTrade Review"This volume is a pathbreaking global history of the press in the period of the First World War. The contributors' range is remarkable. They survey publications of many different kinds in Europe, Asia and Africa and offer readers a host of new perspectives on the political, social and cultural history of the Great War." -Jay Winter, Yale University

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Book SynopsisExplores the complex life of this controversial and enigmatic Scot, and his contribution to Scottish life and lettersTrade Review"This is a great achievement, a very full and thoroughly documented account. I am full of admiration for this very scrupulous account, and for Munro's determination not to simplify what is necessarily complex. This is an honest and well-balanced description of a personality so hard to categorise: the research is exemplary."" -Cedric Watts, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex

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Book SynopsisAllen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was one of the most famous American poets of the twentieth century. Yet, his career is distinguished by not only his strong contributions to literature but also social justice. Conversations with Allen Ginsberg collects interviews from 1962 to 1997 that chart Ginsberg's intellectual, spiritual, and political evolution.Ginsberg's mother, Naomi, was afflicted by mental illness, and Ginsberg's childhood was marked by his difficult relationship with her; however, he also gained from her a sense of the necessity to fight against social injustice that would mark his political commitments. While a student at Columbia University, Ginsberg would meet Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Gregory Corso, and the Beat Generation was born. Ginsberg researched deeply the social issues he cared about, and this becomes clear with each interview. Ginsberg discusses all manner of topics including censorship laws, the legalization of marijuana, and gay r

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Book SynopsisA history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread.At the dawn of the 20th century, a wide-ranging utopianism dominated popular and intellectual cultures throughout Europe and America. However, in the aftermathof the World Wars, with such canonical examples as Brave New World and Nineteen-Eighty-Four, dystopia emerged as a dominant genre, in literature and in social thought. The continuing presence and eventual dominance of dystopian themes in popular culturee.g., dismal authoritarian future states, sinister global conspiracies, post-apocalyptic landscapes, a proliferation of horrific monsters, and end-of-the-world fantasieshave confirmed the degree to which the 21st is also a dystopian century.Drawing on literature as varied as H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, and Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games, and on TV and film such as TheTrade ReviewWhat better guide could there be than the ever-incisive Tally to this brave new world of gods, monsters, dystopias, apocalypses, tattered maps, gold-bearing rubble, and, well, monsters? Welcome to the Teratocene! * Mark Bould, Professor of Film and Literature, UWE Bristol, UK, and author of The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture (2021) *From Neil Gaiman and NAFTA to panoptic surveillance in Black Mirror, and from monsters in children's literature to the post-apocalyptic landscapes of modern cinema, Robert T. Tally Jr. in The Fiction of Dread diagnoses the morbid symptoms of contemporary narrative preoccupations. Through attention to dystopian themes, multiplying monsters, and the end of the world, Tally presents a wide-ranging, clearly written, and extremely insightful analysis of the appeal of dreadful things and the kind of critical work they do in helping us attempt to grasp the complexities of our world and imagine other, better possibilities. * Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Professor of English, Central Michigan University, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Monstrous Accumulation 1. Evoking Dread: The Reality of Possibility 2. Baleful Continuities; or, the Desire Called Dystopia 3. Lost in Grand Central: American Gods, Free Trade, and Globalization 4. The Utopia of the Mirror: The Postmodern Mise en abyme 5. Welcome to the Teratocene: Morbid Symptoms at the Present Conjuncture 6. Teratology as Ideology Critique; or, a Monster Under Every Bed 7. The End-of-the-World as World System 8. In the Deserts of the Empire: The Map, the Territory, and the Heterotopian Enclave Conclusion: Gold-Bearing Rubble Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matterCacaphonies takes fecal matter and its place in literature seriously. Readers and critics have too long overlooked excrement’s vital role in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century French canon. In a stark challenge to the tendency to view this literature through sanitizing abstractions, Annabel L. Kim undertakes close readings of key authors to argue for feces as a figure of radical equality, both a literary object and a reflection on literature itself, without which literary studies is impoverished and sterile. Following the fecal through line in works by Céline, Beckett, Genet, Sartre, Duras, and Gary and the contemporary authors Anne Garréta and Daniel Pennac, Kim shows that shit, far from vanishing from the canon after the early modern period, remains present in the modern and contemporary French literature that follows. She argues that all the shit in the canon expresses a call to democratize literature, making literature for all, just as shit is for (or of) all. She attends to its presence in this prized element of French identity, treating it as a continually uttered desire to manifest the universality France aspires to—as encapsulated by the slogan Liberté, égalité, fraternité—but fails to realize. In shit there is a concrete universalism that traverses bodies with disregard for embodied differences. Cacaphonies reminds us that literature, and the ideas to be found therein, cannot be separated from the corporeal envelopes that create and receive them. In so doing, it reveals the aesthetic, political, and ethical potential of shit and its capacity to transform literature and life. Trade Review "In dazzling readings of classic French texts, Annabel L. Kim reclaims feces as literary matter. Sidestepping familiar psychoanalytic frames, Kim turns excrement into a force for democracy. From Céline to Duras to Garréta, this caca communism blows up our old ways of thinking. Irreverent and erudite, as funny as Rabelais, Cacaphonies is a genuine scatological pleasure!"—Lynne Huffer, Emory University "We tend to assume that the trajectory of modern literature repeats that of society and technology (urbanization, sanitation, dematerialization, sanitization, deodorization) in taking us ever further away from the excretory body. It does not, insists Annabel L. Kim. On the contrary, modern literature refuses to endorse the fantasy of being ‘free from or clear of shit.’ Thus, to turn to the excretory body in literary works is to ask what literature’s deepest understanding of the human is, and what literature itself is. Cacaphonies is an extraordinarily engaging project: insightful, serious, self-consciously ‘profane,’ metacritically alive."—Thangam Ravindranathan, author of Behold an Animal: Four Exorbitant Readings "Kim’s readings are creative, bold and surprising. They reek, but they are never gratuitous, and they open up a field of literary waste studies that poses pressing ecological questions."—Times Literary Supplement "Kim’s book offers a fresh, fun(ny), clever, and innovative perspective on canonical texts while weaving through her analysis a discussion about life and death, and about how shit ultimately brings us back to that."—H-France Reviews "A must-read, Cacaphonies provides a truly insightful, engaging, and joyful reading experience."—The French Review Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: We Have Always Been FecalPart I. Necessary Shit1. Céline: Shit on the Installment Plan2. Beckett: Shit for BrainsPart II. Shitty Ideas3. Fecal Freedom: Sartre and Genet’s ))< >((4. To Wipe the Other: Duras’s and Gary’s Fecal Care EthicsPart III. Political Shit5. Fighting Words: Anne Garréta’s Ultimate Weapon6. Daniel Pennac’s Excremental Poetics: Literature for AllConclusion: Caca CommunismAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisSurrealist women’s writing: A critical exploration is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Featuring original essays by leading scholars of surrealism, the volume demonstrates the extent and the historical, linguistic, and culturally contextual breadth of this writing. It also highlights how the specifically surrealist poetics and politics of these writers’ work intersect with and contribute to contemporary debates on, for example, gender, sexuality, subjectivity, otherness, anthropocentrism, and the environment.Drawing on a variety of innovative theoretical approaches, the essays in the volume focus on the writing of numerous women surrealists, many of whom have hitherto mainly been known for their visual rather than their literary production. These include Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Kay Sage, Colette Peignot, Suzanne Césaire, Unica Zürn, Ithell Colquhoun, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning, and Rikki Ducornet.Trade Review'This book does not attempt to impose a harmonious, all-encompassing feminist perspective that would gloss over the complexities of being a ‘woman writer’ within the grand scheme of surrealism, but looks, rather, to highlight differences and ambivalences, enriching the discourse surrounding this literature. An enthralling and intensely intellectual investigation into surrealist women’s writing, this study is of critical importance for literary scholars and admirers of surrealism as it offers a profound reconsideration of these ten authors.'French Studies'The 11 essays in the collection look at the work of Claude Cahun, Lenora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, Colette Peignot, Kay Sage, and Unica Zürn, among others. Beyond examining the women’s literary work, the essays show how these writers’ work informs contemporary discussion of gender, sexuality, ecocriticism, the Other, and the Anthropocene. Wetz’s excellent introduction frames the questions and concerns surrealist women writers explored in their work.'CHOICE(Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association.) -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionAnna Watz1 ‘The dung beetle’s snowball’: the philosophic narcissism of Claude Cahun’s essay-poetryFelicity Gee2 Identity convulsed: Leonora Carrington’s The House of Fear and The Oval LadyAnna Watz3 Recasting the human: Leonora Carrington’s dark exilic imaginationJeannette Baxter4 Colette Peignot: the purity of revoltMichael Richardson5 Suzanne Césaire’s surrealism: tightrope of hope Kara M. Rabbitt6 Kay Sage alive in the worldKatharine Conley7 Outside-in: translating Unica ZürnPatricia Allmer8 Ithell Colquhoun’s experimental poetry: surrealism, occultism, and postwar poetryMark S. Morrisson9 Leonor Fini’s abhuman familyJonathan P. Eburne10 ‘Open sesame’: Dorothea Tanning’s critical writingCatriona McAra11 Magic language, esoteric nature: Rikki Ducornet’s surrealist ecologyKristoffer NohedenBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisBest known for a trilogy of historical novels set in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa, Marilynne Robinson is a prolific writer, teacher, and public speaker, who has won the Pulitzer Prize and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by Barack Obama. This collection intervenes in Robinson’s growing critical reputation, pointing to new and exciting links between the author, the historical settings of her novels, and the contemporary themes of her fictional, educational, and theoretical work. Introduced by a critical discussion from Professors Bridget Bennett, Sarah Churchwell, and Richard King, Marilynne Robinson features analysis from a range of international academics, and explores debates in race, gender, environment, critical theory, and more, to suggest new and innovative readings of her work.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Rachel Sykes, Jennifer Daly, and Anna Maguire ElliottRobinson in context: A critical discussion – Sarah Churchwell, Richard H. King, Bridget BennettWriting, form, and style1 ‘It might be better to burn them’: Archive fever and the Gilead novels of Marilynne Robinson – Daniel King2 ‘One day she would tell him what she knew’: Disturbance of the epistemological conventions of the marriage plot in Lila – Maria Elena Carpintero Torres-Quevedo3 Robinson’s triumphs of style – Jack BakerGender and environment4 The female orphan and an ecofeminist ethic-of-care in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and Lila – Anna Maguire Elliott5 Souls all unaccompanied: Enacting feminine alterity in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping – Makayla Steiner6 The domestic geographies of grief: Bereavement, time and home spaces in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and Home – Lucy ClarkeImagined histories: Race, religion, and rights7 Domesticating political feeling, affect and memory in Marilynne Robinson’s Home – Christopher Lloyd8 ‘Onward Christian liberals’: Marilynne Robinson’s essays and the crisis of mainline Protestantism – Alexander Engebretson9 Presence in absence: The spectre of race in Gilead and Home – Emily Hammerton-BarryRobinson and her contemporaries10 ‘Everything can change’: Civil rights, civil war and radical transformation in Home and Gilead – Tessa Roynon11 ‘A great admirer of American education’: Robinson as professor and defender of ‘America’s best idea’ – Steve Gronert Ellerhoff and Kathryn E. Engebretson12 Acknowledging a numinous ordinary: Marilynne Robinson and Stanley Cavell – Paul JennerEpilogue – ‘A little different every time’: Accumulation and repetition in Jack – Rachel Sykes

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first edited collection to focus on the work of contemporary author Hari Kunzru. It contains major new essays on each of his novels – The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men, White Tears and Red Pill – as well as his short fiction and non-fiction writings. The collection situates Kunzru’s work within current debates regarding postmodernism, postcolonialism, and post-postmodernism, and examines how Kunzru’s work is central to major thematic concerns of contemporary writing including whiteness, national identity, Britishness, cosmopolitanism, music, space, memory, art practice, trauma, Brexit, immigration, covid-19, and populist politics. The book engages with current debates regarding the politics of publishing of ethnic writers, examining how Kunzru has managed to shape a career in resistance of narrow labelling where many other writers have struggled to achieve long-term recognition.Table of ContentsIntroduction: ‘Adding Up to an Unknown’: the elusive fictions of Hari Kunzru – Kristian Shaw and Sara Upstone1 ‘Walking into Whiteness’: The Impressionist and the routes of empire – Churnjeet Mahn2 ‘It was the revenge of the uncontrollable world’: Transmission and COVID-19’ – Lucienne Loh3 Turning the tide, or turning around in My Revolutions – Maëlle Jeanniard du Dot4 Subjectivity at its limits: fugitive community in Kunzru’s short stories – Peter Ely5 The fiction of every-era/no-era: Gods Without Men as ‘translit’ – Bran Nicol 6 ‘Eyes, ears, head, memory, heart’: transglossic rhythms in Memory Palace and Twice Upon a Time – Sara Upstone7 ‘The ghost is him’: the echoes of racism, non-being and haunting in White Tears – David Hering8 'Food for the wolves': the rise of the alt-right in Red Pill – Kristian Shaw9 ‘In the wake of all that’: a conversation with Hari Kunzru – Kristian ShawIndex

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Book SynopsisThese highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research and presenting previously unpublished texts, pictures, and photographs, they are notable feats of scholarly detective work. Six of them focus on four pivotal members of the Bloomsbury Group – Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, and Roger Fry. Prominent ingredients of their story include art, writing, friendship, love, sex, mental illness, and Greek travel. The five ‘out of Bloomsbury’ essays are about the ‘new’ letters from the novelist Rose Macaulay to the Irish poet Katharine Tynan; the prodigious teenage talents of Dorothy L. Sayers; the remarkable story of Tolkien’s schoolmaster R. W. Reynolds; and the artist Tristram Hillier in Portugal. The collection creates a richly varied and entertaining picture of British culture in the first half of the twentieth century.Longlisted for the William M.B. Berger Prize for British Art History 2022Trade Review'Delightfully written essays packed with revelations.'Robin Simon, editor of The British Art Journal'A wealth of colourful new material.'Odin Dekkers, former editor of English Studies'Fascinating essays.'Mark Hussey, distinguished Bloomsbury scholar'Masterful.'The Times Literary Supplement'A delight from beginning to end.'English Studies'Both instructs and inspires.'Literature Cambridge -- .Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction 1 'New' Portraits by Roger Fry of Helen Fry and Vanessa Bell 2 A Complete Strip-off: A Bloomsbury Threesome in the Nude at Studland 3 Clive Bell’s Memoir of Annie Raven-Hill (co-written with Helen Walasek) 4 'Far the Best Holiday for Years': Virginia Woolf’s Second Visit to Greece 5 'Suicidal Mania' and Flawed Psychobiography: Two Discussions of Virginia Woolf 6 Virginia Woolf and 'the Hermaphrodite': A Feminist Fan of Orlando and Critic of Roger Fry 7 'I Am Afraid I Am not Irish': Letters from Rose Macaulay to Katharine Tynan 8 A Teenage Star: The Forgotten Contribution of Dorothy L. Sayers to a Pageant 9 'She Had Quite Unusual Gifts': Dorothy L. Sayers at School10 The Secret Love-Child of an American Civil War Commander: The Strange Story of Tolkien’s Schoolteacher11 'A land pre-eminently to inspire a painter': Tristram Hillier’s first visit to PortugalDetails of original publicationsIndex

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Book SynopsisNietzsche and Irish Modernism demonstrates how the ideas of the controversial German philosopher played a crucial role in the emergence and evolution of a distinctly Irish brand of modernist culture. Making an essential new contribution to the history of modernism, the book traces the circulation of these ideas through the writings of George Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, and James Joyce, as well as through minor works of literature, magazine articles, newspaper debates, public lectures, and private correspondence. These materials reveal a response to Nietzsche that created abiding tensions between Irish cultural production and reigning religious and nationalist orthodoxies, during an anxious period of Home Rule agitation, world war, revolution, civil war, and state building. With its wealth of detail, the book greatly enriches our understanding of modernist culture as a site of convergence between art and politics, indigenous concerns and foreign perspectives.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Nietzsche, Ireland, Modernism1 Shaw: ‘An English (or Irish) Nietzsche’ 2 Yeats: ‘Proud hard gift-giving joyousness’ 3 Joyce: ‘James Overman’ 4 War: ‘The duel between Nietzsche and civilisation’ 5 Postwar: ‘The Forerunner’ Index

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Book SynopsisThrough sources from literature and film to comics, music and the built environment across the globe, this work studies the enduring legacy of Cold War culture in current debates and concerns around risk, security, borders, environmental justice, inequality and apocalypse. -- .

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Book SynopsisVERY few authors can ever dream of coming close to the legacy left by AA Milne. He remains a household name in almost every corner of the globe thanks to a phenomenally popular collection of whimsical children s stories about a boy named Christopher Robin and his beloved teddy bear. Generations of children have grown up loving the tales of Winnie The Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood, which are still among the most popular and profitable - fictional characters in the world. But while the adorable poems and stories have brought unparalleled joy to millions, Alan Alexander Milne, himself was never able to enjoy the fame and fortune they brought him. He died deeply resenting Pooh s success, as far as he was concerned those stories were just such a tiny fraction of his literary work, but nothing else he produced came close in terms of public appreciation. Milne died still unable to reconcile the fact that no matter what else he wrote, regardless of all the plays and stories for adults he had published, he would always be remembered as a children s storyteller. And his son, widely hailed as the inspiration for the adorable character of Christopher Robin, could never accept his unique place in literary history either. He had barely reached his teens before he grew to loathe his famous father, who he bitterly accused of exploiting his early years. _The Extraordinary Life of AA Milne_ delves deep into the life of Milne and sheds light on new places, and tells stories untold.

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