Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Berghahn Books Microhistories of Memory: Remediating the
Book Synopsis The West German novel, radio play, and television series Through the Night (Am grünen Strand der Spree, 1955–1960), which depicts the mass shootings of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II, has gradually regained popularity in recent years. Originally circulated in postwar West Germany, the Holocaust representations embedded in this multi-medium work have shaped cultural memories up until today. Using numerous archival sources, Microhistories of Memory presents three comprehensive case studies to explore production, reception, and circulation of cultural memories, demonstrating the power of informal communication and providing behind-the-scenes insight into postwar memory culture in West Germany.Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Prologue: Orsha 1941 Introduction: Why Three Stories about Through the Night? Chapter 1. First Story: Actors and Networks Chapter 2. Second Story: Authenticity and Affects Chapter 3. Third Story: Media and Technologies Conclusion: Dead Ends in Memory Culture Bibliography Filmography Index
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Berghahn Books Echoes of Surrealism
Book SynopsisFor many artists and intellectuals in East Germany, daily life had an undeniably surreal aspect, from the numbing repetition of Communist Party jargon to the fear and paranoia engendered by the Stasi. Echoes of Surrealism surveys the ways in which a sense of the surreal infused literature and art across the lifespan of the GDR, focusing on individual authors, visual artists, directors, musicians, and other figures who have employed surrealist techniques in their work. It provides a new framework for understanding East German culture, exploring aesthetic practices that offered an alternative to rigid government policies and questioned and confronted the status quo.
£26.55
Berghahn Books Agency and Author
Book SynopsisThe image of the solitary author devoting days and nights to writing endless bestselling novels remains an insidious and largely unchallenged myth within German culture. In this exacting examination of the German publishing industry, Agency and Author addresses the financial reality sometimes eclipsed by this idea. Focusing on lesser-known German-language writers and their interactions with the Literaturbetrieb (literary scene), Agency and Author explores the ways authors assert creative agency in an increasingly eventized' literary marketplace. Ranging from the impacts of literary awards to media hate campaigns, this volume spotlights how profoundly the German literary landscape and our understanding of authorship is transforming.
£93.60
Liverpool University Press Sleuthing Miss Marple
Book SynopsisBeginning at the scene of the crime', this investigation places Agatha Christie and the clue-puzzle in historical context, casting light on the methods, the motives, and, in a sense, the alibis that underpin Christie's crime fiction.
£24.99
Liverpool University Press The Page is Printed
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Liverpool University Press Derek Mahon A Retrospective
Book SynopsisDerek Mahon (19412020) is widely recognized as one of the most important Irish poets of his generation. Bringing together many leading scholars of modern and contemporary Irish poetry, including a notable number of accomplished poet-critics, its contributors range widely across Mahon's body of work.
£109.25
Liverpool University Press Forms of Late Modernist Lyric
Book SynopsisThe 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.
£34.99
Liverpool University Press Apocalypse in Crisis
Book SynopsisApocalypse in Crisis discussesfictions from the 1940s to the present, examining shifts in the imagination ofapocalypse from the postwar British disaster novels, through novels of thecountercultural sixties, feminist interventions, and recent revisions andcritiques.
£34.99
Liverpool University Press Science Fiction and the Historical Novel
Book SynopsisEngaged with the idea of the past as a model for the future, authors in this volume probe the extent to which historical scripts delimit possibilities, and how authors engaged with the practice of alternative pasts rewrite potentialities in the present.
£109.25
Liverpool University Press Nancy Cunard
Book SynopsisIn the wake of inadequatehistories of radical writing and activism, NancyCunard: Perfect Stranger rejects stereotypes of Cunard as spoiled heiressand sexually dangerous New Woman, offering instead a bold, unapologetic,evidence-based portrait of a woman and her significant contributions to 21stcentury considerations of gender, race, and class.
£37.95
Liverpool University Press Direcciones del vanguardismo hispanoamericano.
Book SynopsisEste conjunto de ensayos sobre la poesía de vanguardia hispanoamericana en la década del 20 es el resultado de muchos años de recopilación de materiales dispersos en varios países y de reflexiones y redacciones en diversas etapas de maduración del tema. La intención es la de contribuir a la interpretación global del vanguardismo hispanoamericano y con este objetivo estos textos exploran trabajos procedentes de distintos países del continente, dejando así al descubierto una curiosa red de vinculaciones entre escritores. Aquí se reúnen ensayos con varios enfoques, como los que analizan los textos en relación con algunos movimientos literarios manifiestos en ellos como el cubismo, el surrealismo o la poesía pura. Por otro lado también hay los que enfocan predominantemente el mestizaje del vanguardismo con fenómenos caracterizadores de la cultura americana como el cosmopolitismo, el criollismo o el indigenismo entre muchos otros. Lo que tienen en común todos estos enfoques es que muestran la tendencia al mestizaje cultural y captan la suma de manifestaciones que en su conjunto expresan la compleja identidad cultural americana. ~ This set of essays on Spanish-American avant-garde poetry in the 1920s is the result of many years of collecting materials from various countries and of reflections and writings at various stages of maturation on the subject. The intention is to contribute to the global interpretation of the Spanish-American avant-garde and with this objective these texts explore works from different countries of the continent, thus revealing a surprising network of connections between writers. The essays gathered here present various approaches, such as those that analyse the texts in relation to some literary movements manifested in them such as cubism, surrealism or pure poetry. On the other hand, there are also those who predominantly focus on the mixing of avant-garde with characteristic phenomena of American culture such as cosmopolitanism, criollismo or indigenism, among many others. What all these approaches have in common is that they show the tendency towards cultural mixing and capture the sum of manifestations that as a whole express the complex American cultural identity.
£35.00
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
£29.99
Liverpool University Press Representations of China in Latin American
Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016) analyses contemporary Latin American novels in which China is the main theme. Using ‘China’ as a multidimensional term, it explores how the novels both highlight and undermine assumptions about China that have shaped Latin America’s understanding of ‘China’ and shows ‘China’ to be a kind of literary/imaginary ‘third’ term which reframes Latin American discourses of alterity. On one level, it argues that these texts play with the way that ‘China’ stands in as a wandering signifier and as a metonym for Asia, a gesture that essentialises it as an unchanging other. On another level, it argues that the novels’ employment of ‘China’ resists essentialist constructions of identity. ‘China’ is thus shown to be serving as a concept which allows for criticism of the construction of fetishized otherness and of the exclusion inherent in essentialist discourses of identity. The book presents and analyses the depiction of an imaginary of China which is arguably performative, but which discloses the tropes and themes which may be both established and subverted, in the novels. Chapter One examines the way in which ‘China’ is represented and constructed in Latin American novels where this country is a setting for their stories. The novels studied in Chapter Two are linked to the presence of Chinese communities in Latin America. The final chapter examines novels whose main theme is travel to contemporary China. Ultimately, in the novels studied in this book ‘China’ serves as a concept through which essentialist notions of identity are critiqued.Trade Review“This original book highlights representations of China by Argentinian, Mexican, Colombian, and Uruguayan authors. The author is well-read in the field and has many interesting insights into the literature, the field, and the positionality of these representations in Latin America. Moreover, the theories that the author uses are up-to-date and underscore many of the author’s arguments.” - Zelideth RivasTable of ContentsTable of contentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. In 'China': Novels by Latin American authors set in China2. China here: Remapping Latin America3. Next stop: 'China'Epilogue
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Liverpool University Press Don Paterson
Book SynopsisDon Paterson is one of Britain’s leading contemporary poets. A popular writer as well as a formidably intelligent one, he has won both a dedicated readership and most of Britain's major poetry prizes, including the T. S. Eliot Prize on two occasions, the Forward Prize in every category, and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. In this first comprehensive study of Paterson’s poetry, Ben Wilkinson presents him as a modern-day metaphysical, whose work is characterised by guileful use of form, musicality, colloquial diction and playful wit, in pursuit of poetry as a moral and philosophical project. Drawing on a wide range of commentators, Wilkinson traces Paterson’s development from collection to collection, providing detailed close readings of the poems framed by theoretical and literary contexts. An essential guide for students, specialists, and the general reader of contemporary poetry, it presents Paterson as a major lyric poet.Table of ContentsBiographical OutlinePrologue1. For the Hell of It: Nil Nil (1993)2. Which Man I Am: God's Gift to Women (1997)3. Not Your Name, Not Mine: The Eyes (1999)4. Shrewd Obliquity of Speech: Landing Light (2003)5. Breath, You Invisible Poem: Orpheus (2006)6. None of This Matters: Rain (2009)Coda: 40 Sonnets (2015) and Zonal (2020)
£18.04
Liverpool University Press George Moore: Spheres of Influence
Book SynopsisThis invigorating volume explores the literary worlds inhabited by the pioneering Irish author George Moore (1852–1933). With an eye to Moore’s innovative embrace of visual art, feminism and literary history, and in the spirit of his feisty resistance to ‘orthodoxy’, it investigates his influences and inventive strategies in novel, short story and memoir. Amongst the names emerging from the disparate spheres of impressionism, literary coteries, the paratextual and the music world are those of Manet, Mallarmé, Wilde, Héloïse, Elgar and Bourdieu, all with Moorian links. Contested depictions of religion and nationalism simmer; France and French influences encompass fin-de-siècle stories and medieval texts; epistolary details evidence vital parental support; contemporary authors write back to Moore. These voyages of discovery enter the fields of feminist scholarship and the New Woman, life writing and letters, fin-de-siècle aesthetics, intersections between art, music and literature, and literary transitions from Victorian to Modern. Valuably, the authors suggest numerous opportunities for additional research in these areas, as well as within Moore studies. This collection, with contributions from an international set of established and new scholars, delivers fresh and original findings as it builds on the substantial and ever-growing corpus of Moore studies.Trade Review‘This collection conveys the spirit of an active scholarly community. Moore’s relationship with women excites a frenzy of attention – a complex case, and interesting to clarify. Often, a contributor spots George Moore in a contemporary’s writing, or notices how a motif from Moore is countered in a work by a contemporary. Overall, a fascinating fusion of scholarship, truly international.’ Adrian Frazier, Professor Emeritus at the University of Galway and author of George Moore: 1852–1933Table of ContentsIntroduction I. Artistic Influences and Approaches The French Artist as Father, Muse and Rival in Memoirs of My Dead Life Ann Heilmann “Superfluous” Irish Gentry: Moore and Turgenev Márta Pellérdi Literature, Music, Art and the Salon: George Moore’s Perennial Courting of Creativity Mary Pierse The Prefaces of George Moore: Enigma Variations Kathi R. Griffin II. Cherchez la Femme? Sphinxes without Secrets: Oscar Wilde, George Moore and the Woman Question Nathalie Saudo Welby George Moore, London ‘Literary Ladies’, Networks, and New Artistic Impulses Kathryn Laing The “Puzzle” of Gladys Parrish’s Carfrae’s Comedy and George Moore’s Evelyn Innes: Some Intertextual Connections Brendan Fleming III. France: Fiction and Letters Between France and Ireland: How George Moore and Helen Waddell used Héloïse and Abélard George Hughes A French Train of Thought in ‘Two Men, a Railway Story’: From Impressionism to Expressionism Michel Brunet Epistolary Truths: ‘How one runs to ones mother when in trouble’ Maggie Breslin IV. Politics, Religion and Nationality George Moore and Decadent Catholicism: a Case Study of Evelyn Innes Claire Masurel Murray George Moore’s Irish Catholic Characters With ‘English’ Names David Clare Appropriating George Moore: J.O. Hannay’s The Seething Pot Conor Montague
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Liverpool University Press Michel Faber
Book SynopsisThis book by Rodge Glass, the award-winning novelist, short story writer and biographer, is the first ever detailed assessment of Michel Faber’s life and work across genre and form. It draws on intimate, wide-ranging interviews with the author over a two-year period and investigates previously unexplored archival material, from the Canongate Books records to Faber’s own personal archive, to bring fresh perspectives to light. Glass presents detailed interrogations of unpublished texts, including a novel, A Photograph of Jesus, as well as providing deep dives into Faber’s most celebrated works such as Under the Skin and The Crimson Petal and the White. Known for his hybrid creative-critical approach, Glass uses Faber’s interest in generosity and compassion in writing as a focus for this study. Grouping his works by ‘World’, the book ranges across poetry, short stories, novels and novellas to make an argument for Faber as a writer who has consistently sought to explore narrow emotional territory, that of the human instinct to seek connection with others, even if genuine connection seems unlikely or impossible. Glass draws on individual case studies across Faber’s hugely diverse body of work in a way that will be both- interesting for fans and informative for students of Faber’s writing.Table of ContentsBiographical Outline Introduction Faber’s World of the Short Story Faber’s World of The Novella (or, The Medium-Sized Story) Faber’s World of the Novel Faber’s World of The Crimson Petal Faber’s World of Verse Faber, Out of Time Select Bibliography: Books, Essays, Interviews, Criticism
£33.00
Liverpool University Press H.G. Wells and the Twenty-First Century
Book SynopsisH.G. Wells has been branded as a novelist who betrayed his vocation. But Wells saw himself as what we would today call a public intellectual. How credible is this claim? And what happens when we look at him in this way? So typecast has Wells’s reputation become that neither of these questions has been previously asked, but when we look at Wells as a thinker we find a whole new quality to his later works, which have invariably been dismissed by literary scholars as of low quality or even not worth reading. In particular, Wells’s prescience as a prophet of our current environmental problems stands out - for example, he foresaw anthropogenic climate change as early as 1931. Popular conceptions of Wells as racist, imperialist and eugenicist are also challenged. What emerges is a new perspective on a significant public intellectual and- pioneering prophet of the twenty-first century.Table of ContentsForeword by Patrick Parrinder Introduction: H.G. Wells, the Disorderly Prophet Wells as Some Sort of Philosopher Days of Future Past: Wells as Historian and Prophet Should Wells Be Cancelled? The Dream of Cosmopolis: Wells and Politics God, Science and Mr Wells Wells and Human Ecology Appendix I: The Philosophical Works of H.G. Wells Appendix II: The Prophecies of H.G. Wells
£104.50
Liverpool University Press Wallace Stevens In Theory
Book SynopsisThe modernist poetry of Wallace Stevens is replete with moments of theorizing. Stevens regarded poetry as an abstract medium through which to think about and theorize not only philosophical concepts like metaphor and reality, but also a unifying thesis about the nature of poetry itself. At the same time, literary theorists and philosophers have often turned to Stevens as a canonical reference point and influence. In the centenary year of Wallace Stevens’s first collection Harmonium (1923), this collection asks what it means to theorize with Stevens today. Through a range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this book seeks to describe the myriad kinds of thinking sponsored by Stevens’s poetry and explores how contemporary literary theory might be invigorated through readings of Stevens.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Pure Good of Theory Thomas Gould and Ian Tan I Reading Stevens Theorizing Almost Successfully Lisa M. Steinman The Reader In/Of Stevens Ariane Mildenberg The Event in Stevens as Poetic Justification: Alain Badiou, Poetic Performativity and the Implied Reader Ian Tan II Theory and Form Stevens’s Queer Ecologies Bart Eeckhout The Pursuits of Philosophy and the Sounds of Poetry: Stevens and Heidegger Wit Pietrzak Stevens, Adorno and the Worldly Poetics of Lyric Unworlding Zachary Tavlin III Experience and Affect Wider Than the Sky: Stevens, Consciousness and the Incipient Cosmos Kathryn Mudgett What Stevens’s Poetry can offer to Theorists of Consciousness Charles Altieri ‘Emotionally We Arrive all the Time’: Stevens and Affect Theory Marta Figlerowicz IV Theology and Post-Theology From Philosophy to Theology: Stevens’s Angel and the Real Stephen Sicari Two Cathedrals: Stevens and George Santayana's Sonnet Exchange Kelly MacPhail The The: Stevens’s Neighborliness Thomas Gould V Postures and Dispositions ‘A war between the mind and the sky’: Fictions, Fools, and the Consequences of Empire Johanna Skibsrud Damned Universal Cock: Stevens’s Ecstatic Present Rachel Trousdale A Collect of Style Krzysztof Ziarek
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University of Wales Press House of Horrors: Familial Intimacies in
Book SynopsisThis is a study of tumultuous transformations of kinship and intimate relationships in American horror fiction over the last three decades. Twelve contemporary novels (by ten women writers and two whose work has been identified as women’s fiction) are grouped into four main thematic clusters – haunted houses; monsters; vampires; and hauntings – but it is social scripts and concerns linked directly to intimacy and family life that structure the entire volume. By drawing attention to how the most intimate of all social relationships – the family – supports and replicates social hierarchies, exclusions, and struggles for dominance, the book problematises the source of horror. The consideration of horror narratives through the lens of familial intimacies makes it possible to rethink genre boundaries, to question the efficacy of certain genre tropes, and to consider the contribution of such diverse authors as Kathe Koja, Tananarive Due, Gwendolyn Kiste, Elizabeth Engstrom, Sara Gran and Caitlín R. Kiernan.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Defining Horror Horror and the Gothic Women Writers in Horror Fiction and Horror Studies Defining Intimacy Overview of Chapters Chapter 1. Uncanny in the House of Fear Introduction Uncanny Houses Void Dreams in Dead in the Water Unhomely Funhole in The Cipher The Queer (Uncanny) Desire in Drawing Blood Conclusions Chapter 2. Grotesque Monsters and Hybrid Subjectivities Introduction Grotesque Bodies Hybrid Lesbian Bodies in The Drowning Girl Male Grotesque in Sineater Monstrous Girlhood in The Rust Maidens Conclusion Chapter 3. Blood(y) Ties in Vampire Fictions Introduction Towards Abjection Gilda’s Sensual Vampires Escaping the ‘Little Wife’ in Black Ambrosia Prodigal Children (Not) Coming Home Conclusion Chapter 4. Spectral Kinship and Ghostly Selves Introduction The Ghostly Other in Horror Fiction Dangerous Dis/possessions in Come Closer The ‘Wandering Subject’ in The Between Familial Disintegration in Within These Walls Conclusion Afterword BIBLIOGRAPHY
£54.00
University of Wales Press Gothic Precarity
Book SynopsisOurs is an age of precarity, with fear and anxiety coming to define the twenty-first century; politically, economically and socially, neoliberal systems and policies dominate globally. Traditional frameworks of protection have consequently been dismantled, and existential insecurity is increasingly passed from nations and institutions to individuals. Against this backdrop, the Gothic mode of fiction is experiencing a new ascendancy, strengthening the argument that the Gothic represents the best literary mode to address this age of precarity. Examining twenty-first-century Gothic fiction's engagement with the most pressing issues of our age, the readers of this volume will consider the oppression and existential entrapment experienced by marginalised populations in the provincial China of the late 1970s, and observe a modern-day Frankenstein's creature occasion violence and destruction across Baghdad post the 2003 Iraq War. They will also discover vampires (representatives of a voracious, toxic economic model) in an alternate Mexico City, encounter a nomadic group traversing the only remaining wilderness in a near-future North America devastated as a result of the climate crisis, and be haunted by a spectral migrant who died in their efforts to flee political oppression in Vietnam.
£63.75
Legenda SPQR in the USSR: Elena Shvarts's Classical
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Verso Books Osip Mandelstam: A Biography
Book SynopsisThis is the first full-scale biography of Osip Mandelstam to combine an analysis of his poetry with a description of his personal life, from his beginnings as a young intellectual in pre-revolutionary Russia to his final fate as a victim of Stalinism.The myth has grown up that Mandelstam was a gloomy, miserable figure; Dutli deconstructs this, stressing Mandelstam's enjoyment of life. There are several underlying themes here. One is Mandelstam's Jewish background in pre-1914 Russia, which he rejected as a young man, but reaffirmed in later life. Another is the inescapable impact of Russia's political and social transformation.His evolution as a poet naturally occupies a large place in the biography, which quotes many of his most famous poems, including his devastating anti-Stalin epigram. He produced wonderful poetry before the October Revolution, but did not reach his full poetic stature until the 1930s when in exile in Voronezh. He was never an official Soviet poet, and it was only thanks to the intervention of Bukharin that he was brought back from utter impoverishment.The biography gives full weight to his emotional life, beginning with his friendship with two other Russian poets, Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova, followed by love and marriage to Nadezhda Khazina."One of the century's greatest lyric poets." - Elaine Feinstein, Sunday Times"Mandelstam's poems are both bold and delicate. His imagery can seem both profoundly startling yet entirely natural". - Robert Chandler"Mandelstam was a tragic figure. Even while in exile in Voronej, he wrote works of untold beauty and power. And he had no poetic forerunners. In all of world poetry, I know of no other such case. We know the sources of Pushkin and Blok, but who will tell us from where that new, divine harmony, Mandelstam's poetry, came from?" - Anna Akhmatova"Russia's greatest poet in the twentieth century." - Joseph BrodskyTrade ReviewA timely reminder of both the long history of repression in Russia and the powerful role that literature can play. Dutli's rounded portrait of a Russian poet unafraid to speak truth to power brings to life the man and his time. -- Carl Wilkinson, Best Books of the Year * Financial Times *Likely to become the standard reference work for the English reader ... enlightening -- Donald Rayfield * Literary Review *Deftly examines [Mandelstam's] literary legacy and explains why, in the opinion of the Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky, [he] can be considered the greatest Russian poet of the 20th century -- John Thornhill * Financial Times *[Dutli's] understanding of his subject is profound and his assessments informed ... his sympathetic grasp of Mandlestam's artistic genius should yet be enough to encourage readers to explore some of the greatest poetry of the 20th century. -- Mark Glanville * Jewish Chronicle *Compelling ... [Dutli] provides a vibrant, deeply informed guide to the life, the writing and the tumultuous age that shaped them. -- Clare Cavanagh * Times Literary Supplement *The author, Ralph Dutli, approaches the poet unobtrusively and sensitively. He deconstructs the myths that have surrounded him, such as the notion that he was a restless ascetic who never put down any roots or settled anywhere. It was sheer necessity that forced him to move from place to place. Dutli brings out the sensual and witty side of Mandelstam, who was full of the joys of life. -- Marion Lülte * Die Tageszeitung *This biography crowns Dutli's work as editor of the poet's oeuvre. Thanks to Ralph Dutli, the German public now have the best conceivable access to Mandelstam's work. Dutli hasn't just told the story of Mandelstam's life; he has included in an appendix a range of comments by other poets, the most remarkable of them being that by Pasolini. -- Christoph Bartmann * Süddeutsche Zeitung *This is a biography written with insight and precision, which can be recommended unreservedly. The aim of the book is to explain how Mandelstam managed to retain his enjoyment of life and clarity of vision despite all his suffering. This is a successful biography written with empathy, sobriety and a wealth of information. -- Renate Wiggershaus * Frankfurter Rundschau *A model biography by Dutli, who is better qualified than anyone else to do this, because he has a precise knowledge of every facet of the poet's life and work. He corrects the picture presented by Celan, whose translations overemphasised the tragic, elegiac aspect of Mandelstam's poetry. -- Ulrich M. Schmid * Neue Zürcher Zeitung *The details of the road that led to Mandelstam's death have never been presented to the German public so precisely and with so much tact, as here. Dutli's language is muscular, warm and colourful. -- Andreas Isenschmid * Die Zeit *Dutli is able to illuminate the interaction between the poet's life and his work in a masterly fashion, without reducing his poems to a mere reflection of aspects of his biography. -- Michael Braun * Deutschlandfunk *
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Verso Books Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the
Book SynopsisIn the popular imagination MI5, or the Security Service, is known chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those who endanger national security-from Nazi fifth columnists to Soviet spies and today's domestic extremists. Yet, working from official documents released to the National Archives,distinguished historian Caute discovers that suspicion also fell on those who merely exercised their civil liberties, posing no threat to national security. In reality, this 'other history' of the Security Service, was dictated not only by the consistent anti-Communist and Imperial aims of the British state but also by the political prejudices of MI5's personnel. The guiding notions were 'Defence of the Realm' and 'subversion.' Caute here exposes the massive state operation to track the activities and affiliations of a range of journalists, academics, scientists, filmmakers, writers actors and musicians, who the Security Service classified as a threat to national security. Guilt by association was paramount. Letters were opened, phones were intercepted, private homes were bugged and citizens were placed under physical surveillance by Special Branch agents. Among the targets of surveillance are found such prominent figures as Arthur Ransome, Paul Robeson, J.B. Priestley, Kingsley Amis, George Orwell, Doris Lessing, Christopher Isherwood, Stephen Spender, Dorothy Hodgkin, Jacob Bronowski, John Berger, Benjamin Britten, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, Kingsley Martin, Michael Redgrave, Joan Littlewood, Joseph Losey, Michael Foot and Harriet Harman. More than 200 victims are listed here but further MI5 files will be released to the National Archives.Trade ReviewRed List reintroduces us to lost generations of artists and writers, many of whom opposed imperial wars and British colonialism in India but disappeared into the annals of history - perhaps due to MI5 influence... [Caute] exemplifies how capitalist superpowers can control their own history and the legacy of radical art. -- Billy Anania * Hyperallergic *An exceptional and seminal work of impeccable scholarship and exhaustive research. * The Midwest Book Review *[Red List] provides a wealth of information about left-wing British intellectuals and artists in the postwar era. -- Richard J. Evans * The Nation *Caute has pieced together an extensive history of MI5 surveillance across the twentieth century...Red List demonstrates that the function of the security state is to foreclose political possibilities before they pose any direct threat to the established order, often ruining countless lives in the process. * Jacobin *Red List is a lucidly written account of MI5's surveillance of [Caute's] country's intelligentsia. * Shepherd Express *Table of ContentsNote on Sources ix List of Abbreviations x Introduction 1 PART I 9 1. MI5 and the First World War 11 2. MI5 and the Communist Party of Great Britain 30 PART II 45 3. Dangerous Voices, Disloyal Pens 47 4. Theatre and Players 98 5. Film Censorship 118 6. Discordant Musicians 125 PART III 133 7. History as Heresy 135 8. Veteran Academics 178 9. Black Liberation and the Africanists 186 PART IV 219 10. Science and Treachery 221 PART V 255 11. Not to Be Trusted 257 12. Illegitimate Lawyers 271 13. Publish and Be Damned 284 14. The BBC Toes the Line 300 15. Art and Design 312 PART VI 339 16. MI5 and the Labour Left 341 Conclusion. MI5 and 'Subversion' 356
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Anthem Press Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language
Book SynopsisThe early decades of the twentieth century were a period of major economic and cultural upheaval across Europe and America. Scholars have typically held that novelists responded to these shifts by questioning language’s capacity to picture the world accurately. But, even as modernist novels move away from a view of language as a means of gaining knowledge, they also underscore its capacity to grant acknowledgment; they treat words as tools for recognizing and responding to the inner lives of others. This book brings out this crucial feature of modernism by engaging with the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and with Stanley Cavell’s pioneering interpretation of Wittgenstein’s thought. The book shows how Wittgenstein’s interest in acknowledgment emerges over the course of his career-long effort to grapple with the same disorienting conditions of modern life that the experimental fiction of this period registers, including world wars, industrialization, and new conceptions of sexuality. It, then, argues that modernist novels by E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, and others exhibit a similar interest in language’s capacity to grant acknowledgment. These novels offer readers a way of hearing what Wittgenstein calls “the silent soliloquy of others,” giving us words by which we might acknowledge the otherwise unvoiced inner lives of socially marginalized figures.Trade Review“Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction unsettles and displaces conventional understandings of literary modernism’s skepticism about the effectiveness of its own linguistic medium. It does so by calling attention to the historical and cultural contexts of linguistic skepticism in novels by a wide range of modernist writers, from Ford, Forster, and Woolf to Faulkner, Larsen, and Ellison. The philosophy of Wittgenstein and Cavell enable Chase to move beyond abstract questions of knowledge to an embodied ethics of acknowledgement. The result is a strikingly original and valuable contribution to a growing body of scholarship on Wittgenstein and literary modernism.” Michael LeMahieu, Clemson University, USTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Modernist Philosophy and Modernist Fiction; 1. “Who’s ‘We’?”: Claims to Community in Forster’s Howards End and Woolf ’s Mrs. Dalloway; 2. “The Silent Soliloquy of Others”: Wittgenstein’s Pursuit of Acknowledgment; 3. “To See with the Same Eyes”: Marriage and Same- Sex Intimacy in Ford, Woolf, and Larsen; 4. Fragmenting Families, Private Language Fantasies: Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying; 5. Seeing Humans as Humans: Wright’s Black Boy and Ellison’s Invisible Man; Conclusion: Afterlives of Acknowledgment; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Anthem Press Joycean Possibilities: A Margot Norris Legacy
Book SynopsisThis volume proposes to honor the trenchant, influential scholarship of Professor Margot Norris in essays that amplify her illumination of Joyce’s oeuvre. The common denominator running through her work is her openness to Joyce’s various modes of innovation; she pioneered alternative ways of regarding his fiction, the readers it addresses, the narrative and generic forms it alters, the world to which it refers, and the nature of the socio-historical status quo it exposes. These categories anchor and organize the collection: Joyce’s textual plurivalence, formal innovations, possible worlds, emergent histories (including those of women), and variegated readerships.Trade Review“If Joyce contains multitudes of readings shaped by decades of critical approaches, how to make sense of texts and interpretations that both contain and do not contain themselves? Margo Norris solves the paradox by opening Joyce to more and more potentialities; her progressive opening of the critical frame has inspired generations of readers, as this marvelous and exciting collection written by the best scholars in the field amply shows” —Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.“Whenever devoted and brilliant Joyceans gather, the sparks fly. In this new volume, fourteen gather to honor one of their best. Margot Norris’s ideas inspire the essays; her example invigorates them; her generosity radiates in fourteen different directions. Virgin and veteran readers alike will find what they need in this book – a compact compendium of what we know about Joyce in the wake of Norris, but also a prismatic catalog of the questions that remain.” —Jed Esty, Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania (author of The Future of Decline, Stanford UP, 2022).“Margot Norris has been an important, influential, and inspiring critic of modernist literature, especially of James Joyce’s writings—and so it is fitting that a number of prominent Joyce scholars have contributed to this collection of essays honoring her achievements, essays that illuminate and extend her own ideas and contributions.” —Vincent J. Cheng, University of Utah Distinguished Professor.“This volume brings together a lively and distinguished group of scholars to discuss Norris’s groundbreaking scholarly oeuvre. In a series of suggestive and enlightening essays, these scholars build on her suspicious readings, her considerations of readers’ responses, her ethico-political engagements, and her uses of possible worlds theory to read Joyce in new ways” — Catherine Flynn PhD, University of California, Berkeley.Table of ContentsPreface; Part I, Introduction: Margot Norris and the Ideal of Interpretive Possibility; Part II Personal Testimonies; Part III Suspicious Readings; Part IV Joyce’s Webs; Part V The Value of James Joyce: Ethico-Political Readings; Part VI Possible Worlds; Part VII Epilogue; Index
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Anthem Press The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett: In the
Book SynopsisFrances Hodgson Burnett is remembered today as the author of the children’s classic The Secret Garden, but in her lifetime she had a long and successful career as a novelist, dramatist and writer of children’s stories. Of high literary quality, her novels covered a range of genres, including industrial novels, American-themed social novels, historical novels, transatlantic novels and post–World War I novels. The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett reads her novels in the context of the changing literary field in England and the United States in the years between the death of George Eliot in 1880 through to the Great War. Read as a body of literary fiction in relation to Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and T. S. Eliot among others, and read in the context of literary realism, historical fiction, the sensation novel and so on, Burnett’s novels constitute an important thread that chronicles the changing contexts and forms of English and American fiction from the end of the Victorian period to the Jazz Age of the 1920s.Trade Review“Recchio’s book on Frances Hodgson Burnett is an excellent example of a popular woman writer reclaimed in the twenty-first century for her generically varied, financially successful and still relevant fiction. This book is a must for anyone interested in women’s writing, Victorian to modernist literary developments and First World War writing.” —Janine Hatter, Programme Manager, PGTS, Doctoral College, University of Hull, UKWith this literary reclamation of Burnett's novels, Thomas Recchio has made a significant contribution to nineteenth- and twentieth-century studies, persuasively arguing for the recognition of Frances Hodgson Burnett as a serious writer. One way in which The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett develops its in-depth analysis is by exploring intersecting threads of Burnett's life and career, thereby offering rich contexts in which to highlight her craft. - Ruth Y. Jenkins, The Lion and the Unicorn, Johns Hopkins University Press, Volume 44, Number 2, April 2020, pp. 213-215.Recchio offers detailed readings of most of Burnett’s fourteen adult novels (by his count), which he organizes into five roughly chronological clusters grouped by genre and topic. […] This book amply documents Burnett’s prolific work as a novelist for adults, her engagements with and influence on literary traditions in two countries and two centuries, and the rewards of reading her fiction more widely and critically —Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Learning from Elizabeth Gaskell; Chapter Two Writing as an American: The Portrait of a Washington Lady; Chapter Three Historical Dreamscapes and the Vicissitudes of Class: From A Lady of Quality to The Methods of Lady Walderhurst; Chapter Four Transatlantic Alliances in The Shuttle and T. Tembarom; Chapter Five After the Great War: Emerging from the Wasteland in The Head of the House of Coombe and Robin; Bibliography; Index.
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Anthem Press Reading Fiona Sampson: A Study in Contemporary
Book SynopsisThis book-length study of an eminent, distinguished and influential poet and contemporary woman of letters integrates analysis and a honed interpretation of the near-total gamut of the oeuvre to-date of Professor Fiona Sampson. The study includes biographical insight and synthesizes its rigorous discussions of the dominant rubric of Professor Sampson’s poetic métier, her prose in different genres, and the literary practices of over a decades-long and much-lauded literary career. This critical work finds and displays incisive and fruitful ways by which the oeuvre in question crosses boundaries in literary writing and practices with fertile results and evidences those cross-currents in a manner that indicates the trajectory of a sensibility or structure of feeling, one which though highly intelligent and self-aware is also deeply empathic. A lucid, coherent and compelling reading of Sampson’s main works makes this book a scintillating study and a much needed contribution to the current work being done on major contemporary poets and writers and, in particular, contemporary women figures, in the British and international literary scenes.Table of ContentsAbout the Author; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Hearthsides and Hospices; 2. From The Looking-Glass to the Lamp; 3. Prose Animations; 4. For the Love of Music; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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Anthem Press Tribunal: A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts
Book SynopsisVladimir Voinovich’s Tribunal: A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts is a scathing satire on the 1960s/1970s Soviet show-trials by one of the most famous Soviet dissidents, who was sometimes called Russia’s ‘greatest living satirist.’ Based upon his reaction to the Sinyavski/Daniel trial in 1966, which caused him to begin to write harshly critical letters to Premier Leonid Brezhnev and finally resulted in his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1981, Voinovich’s Tribunal is a monument to the Soviet dissidents of the Cold War period and a sardonic critique of the censorship and persecution of dissident writers everywhere. Voinovich’s classic comedy describes the black humoresque high jinks and outrageous shenanigans that ensue when an unsuspecting couple of Soviet citizens, Senya and Larissa Suspectnikoff, clutching their free tickets in their innocent hands, walk into a crowded theatre, expecting to watch a Chekhovian comedy, only to become caught up in the sinister machinations of a Soviet criminal tribunal and its madcap version of the Moscow show trials.Trade Review“This new translation brings Voinovich, an important Soviet dissident writer who became wildly popular during Perestroika but (is comparatively) unknown in the West, into the overall context of Soviet dissident literature. The book would make a valuable contribution to the field and certainly appeal to scholars and general readers who are interested in Russian literature. —Marat Grinberg, Associate Professor of Russian and Humanities, Department of Russian, Reed CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Please Allow Me to Introduce ... Vladimir Voinovich’s Tribunal and Soviet Samizdat Writing; Dramatis Personae; First Act; First Intermission; Second Act; Second Intermission; Third Act; Index of Names.
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Anthem Press Addiction, Representation and the Experimental
Book SynopsisSince the nineteenth century, the Western realistic novel has persistently represented the addict as a morally toxic force bent on destroying the institutions, practices, and ideologies that historically have connoted reason, order, civilization. Addiction, Representation undertakes an investigation into an alternative literary tradition that unsettles this limited portrayal of the addict. The book analyzes the practices and politics of reading the experimental addiction novel, and outlines both a practice and an ethics of reading that advocates for a more compassionate response to both diegetic and extra-diegetic addicts—an approach that, at its core, is focused on understanding.Trade ReviewThis thoroughly-researched book approaches the study of literature about addiction from a highly original perspective that combines affect theory and classic reader-response approaches in the analysis of readerly sympathy and empathy. Diehl demonstrates an encyclopedic knowledge of literature about, and theories of, addiction. While his close readings make this work invaluable to anyone teaching about addiction in the English literature classroom, his numerous examples also make it an essential source for any researcher interested in literary portrayals of addiction. — Brandon P. Bisbey, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spanish, Coordinator of Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago.The book does an outstanding job of analyzing the complex reality of addiction in contemporary novels. Moreover, this work explores the limits and characteristics of these creations, seeking to understand form and content, as well as the relevance of complex physical and emotional themes in our society without polarizing and actually caring about the addict. — Jorge Gonzalez del Pozo, Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan-Dearborn“Addiction, Representation and the Experimental Novel, 1985-–2015 challenges what we think we know – not only about narratives of addiction, but about experimental fiction itself. Diehl proves that traditional methods, cannily applied, yield bracingly fresh insights. Prepare to take a second look at the popular novels that shape our culture.” —Susan Zieger, Professor of English & Director of Graduate Admissions, University of California, RiversideTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Bearing Witness: Leaving Las Vegas (1990); 2. Betraying: Dope (2006); 3. Gaslighting: The Girl on the Train (2015); 4. Transgressing: Less Than Zero (1985); 5. Disorienting: The Orange Eats Creeps (2010); Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Anthem Press Prizing Scottish Literature: A Cultural History
Book SynopsisThis cultural history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. It is one piece of the wider cultural award puzzle and illustrates how, far from being parochial or niche, lesser-known awards, whose histories may be yet untold, play their own role in the circulation of cultural value through the consecration of literary value. The study of the Society’s Book of the Year and First Book of the Year Awards not only highlights how important connections between literary awards and national culture and identity are within prize culture and how literary awards, and their founding institutions, can be products of the socio-political and cultural milieu in which they form, but this study also illustrates how existing literary award scholarship has only begun to scratch the surface of the complexities of the phenomenon. This book promotes a new approach to considering literary prizes, proposing that the concept of the literary awards hierarchy can contribute to emerging and developing discourses pertaining to literary, and indeed cultural, prizes more broadly.Trade Review“The book is a valuable contribution to the field of prize studies. The deep history of the Saltire Prize is, in and of itself, a valuable addition to knowledge about Scottish organization, political assembly and perceptions of national cultural production. There are a number of original and innovative dimensions to the work, and the book’s research has clear implications for cultural studies, English studies, publishing studies, the sociology of the arts, arts labour, and area studies.” —Will Smith, University of Stirling, UK“This volume is absolutely an original and useful contribution to the study of literary prize culture. Dr Marsden has undertaken an extremely detailed and sophisticated study of the Saltire Society Literary Awards that threads together the history of the award and the society with contemporary contextualization. This book is a welcome addition to the field of study, and one that I will cite regularly in my own work.” —Dr Alexandra Dane, Lecturer in Professional Practice, University of Melbourne, Australia“Marsden’s book is an accessible yet in-depth and highly original study of Scottish literary awards. Both a fascinating cultural history of the Saltire Society and an incisive analysis of literary prize culture, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the production and public profile of contemporary literary culture.” —Danielle Fuller, Full Professor, Department of English & Film Studies and Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Canada“The success of Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain makes it seem that a distinctive Scottish voice in literature is a given. But Marsden’s deft and detailed study reveals how this identity had to be consciously built through institutions, policies and not a few controversies. It provides invaluable, first-hand insight into how a national literary culture is actually made.” —Simone Murray, Associate Professor of Literary Studies, Monash University, AustraliaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I; 1. The History of the Saltire Society; 2. The Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year; 3. The Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award; Part II; 4. ‘What’s This Got to Do with Scotland?’: Qualifying Scottishness through Terms of Eligibility; 5. Noticing Talent: Michel Faber, James Kelman, A. L. Kennedy, Ali Smith and the Saltire Society Literary Awards; 6. Not Your Typical Book Award: New Ways of Thinking about Literary Awards; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Anthem Press From Mimetic Translation to Artistic
Book SynopsisRoman Jakobson gave a literary translation of the double words and concepts of poetical hyper translation. Language can transmit verbal translation to explore new ways of thinking about music and other arts. Thomas A. Sebeok deconstructed the energy of translation into the duplicated genres of artistic transduction. In semiotics, transduction is a technical expression involving music, theater, and other arts. Jakobson used Saussure’s theory to give a single meaning in a different art but with other words and sounds, later followed by Peirce’s dynamic energy with a floating sensation of the double meaning of words and concepts. For semiotician Peirce, literary translation becomes the graphical vision of ellipsis, parabole, and hyperbole. Ellipsis is illustrated by Virginia Woolf’s novel The Waves to give a political transformation of Wagner’s opera Das Rheingold. Parabole is illustrated by the two lines of thought of Hector Berlioz. He neglected his own translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, when he retranslated the vocal text to accompany the musical lyrics of his opera The Trojans. Hyperbole is demonstrated by Bertold Brecht’s auto-translation of Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera. In the cabaret theater of The Three penny Opera, Brecht recreated his epic hyper-translation by retranslating the language of the folk speech of the German working classes with the jargon of criminal slang.Trade Review“DindaGorlee has been a pioneer of research in intersemiotic translation for more than three decades now. In this work, she delves deeper into the topic through an in-depth analysis of Jakobson’s work on translation, enriched by insights from biosemiotic theory. Her fascinating empirical analyses of opera and drama demonstrate her theoretical insight.” -- Kobus Marais, Department of Linguistics and Language Practice, University of the Free State, South Africa.DindaGorlée is an international renowned scholar who has done an impressive work on understanding what translation really is. Her mastery of European culture makes this new book truly fascinating. -- Jaime Nubiola,University of Navarra, Spain.“The semiotical insight of Dinda Gorlée offers a perfect understanding, not only in literary translation, technically re-translated into self-translation or auto-translation, but now exchanged into Peirce’s transduction — an enriching milestone that Peirce offers in the last years of his life as the intellectual adventure of reflecting the three unknown thought processes. This book reflects Gorlée’s intimate look at the transducted art in the drama of politics and aesthetics. It is a rich archive to know the multiple art of transduction.” — Claudio Guerri, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina“In her new book, Dinda Gorlée brings to fruition her special way of creative theorizing in interpretations of three major literary giants by forging an exciting trajectory on the theme of translation from Jakobson to Peirce and Sebeok, from linguistic translation to nonverbal signification, and from translation as multimodal cultural exchange to transduction as artistic mimesis.” — Horst Ruthrof, Emeritus Professor FAHA FICI, Murdoch University, Perth, Western AustraliaTable of Contents1.Forked Tongues: Theory from Translation to Transduction; Exploring New Avenues of Translation; Jakobson’s Concept of Poetry in Translation; From Translation to Transduction; Sebeok’s Transduction; 2. Wave after Wave: Wagner’s Waves Eclipsed by Virginia Woolf; Play Within Play; Three Waves; Wagner’s Water Music; Virginia Woolf’s Brain Waves; 3. War and Love: The Parabolic Retranslation in Berlioz’s Opera; Berlioz’s Poetical Drama; Olympic Odyssey; Hunt and Storm; 4. The Threepenny Opera: Jakobson’s Poetics Retranslated in the Spirit of Brecht’s Work-Plays; New Tongues for Brecht’s Language; Brecht Juggling with Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera; From Speech to Criminal Slang; Epic Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hymns
Book SynopsisClever, beautiful. Observant, and better than that, brave - The Scotsman
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HarperCollins Publishers The Rare and the Beautiful: The Lives of the
Book SynopsisThe compelling biography of the beautiful, talented Garman sisters and the glittering, romantic era in which they lived. Each of the seven Garman sisters were strikingly beautiful, artistic and wild. Born around the turn of the nineteenth century, most of the siblings were to become involved in the radical literary and political circles of British life between the First and Second World Wars. Their morals were unconventional: bisexuality, unfaithfulness and illegitimate children were a matter of course. Nevertheless they were high-minded and intensely loyal. They were the last muses: women who were prepared to sideline their own talent, friendships, material comforts – even their own children – in order to beguile and inspire the men they loved. Cressida Connolly's family biography delves into the lives of three of the sisters in intense and revealing detail. Kathleen Garman, the father's favourite, ran away to London to study music. She was spotted by the American sculptor Jacob Epstein, who promptly fell in love with her, and remained his muse until his death. They had three children, she was shot in the shoulder by his first wife and she finally became Lady Epstein in 1955. Mary Garman came to London with Kathleen and studied art at the Slade. She married poet Roy Campbell, who was to become the scourge of the literary establishment by espousing General Franco's side during the Spanish Civil War. Finally there was Lorna Garman, the youngest and most beautiful of all the family. At sixteen she married the wealthy Ernest Wishart, a landowner, communist and founder of the socialist publishing house Laurence & Wishart, who spent most of his life turning a blind eye to his wife's infidelities. Lorna was the love of Laurie Lee's life and they had a daughter. Lucian Freud painted several pictures for her. Through Cressida Connolly’s skilfull retelling of these remarkable lives, we get an intimate portrait of a golden age of romance, passion and art that is an original, beguiling read.Trade Review'Paints some wonderfully vivid pictures of how difficult the Garmans must have been to live with.' Sunday Telegraph 'Connolly writes with great elegance and perception about this ruthlessly sensual family.' Literary Review ‘A rollicking mix of the familiar and surprising.' Sunday Times ‘A sobering coda and an often hilarious tale.' Independent
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Send The Light Shadows and Chivalry: C.S.Lewis & George
Book SynopsisMcInnis studies the influence of George MacDonald on C.S. Lewis. Beginning with the authors' early experiences of suffering and their literary reactions to it, McInnis shows how MacDonald's writings helped transform Lewis from an imaginative doubter and escapist into a believer in the reality of God and his goodness. While other books have only mentioned the fact that Lewis called MacDonald his "master", and that MacDonald's Phantastes helped "baptize" Lewis' imagination, this study traces the overall effect of MacDonald's works on Lewis' thought and imagination.
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Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd Artaud at Rodez
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Trent Editions Starting to Explain: Essays on Twentieth Century
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Anthem Press Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century: Filling
Book SynopsisLong popular with a general readership, travel writing has, in the past three decades or so, become firmly established as an object of serious and multi-disciplinary academic inquiry. Few of the scholarly and popular publications that have focused on the nineteenth century have regarded the century as a whole. This broad volume examines the cultural and social aspects of travel writing on Africa, Asia, America, the Balkans and Australasia.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part One: Introduction: 1. Introduction: Filling the Blank Spaces; Part Two: The Balkans, The Congo and the Middle East: 2. The Balkans in the Nineteenth-Century British Travel Writing; 3. Touring in Extremis: travel and Adventure in the Congo; 4. Politics, Aesthetics and Quest in British Travel Writing on the Middle East; Part Three: India: 5. Imperial Player: Richard Burton in Sindh; 6. Early Indian Travel Guides to Britain; 7. A Princess's Pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begam's Account of Haij; Part Four: America: A Yankee in Yucatan: John Lloyd Stephens and the Lost Cities of America; 9. George Lewis and the American Churches; 10. Strategies of Travel: Charles Dickens and William Wells Brown; Part Five: Australasia: 11. Missionary Positions: Romantic European Polynesias from Cook to Stevenson; 12. Writing the Southern Cross: Religious Travel Writing in Nineteenth-Century Australasia; 13. A Young Writer's Journey into the New Zealand Interior: Katherine Mansfield's The Urewera Notebook; Further Reading; Index
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The Lilliput Press Ltd Selected Poems Of James Henry
Book SynopsisBorn in Dublin in 1798 and educated at Trinity College, James Henry was a controversially humane doctor, a passionate scholar of Virgilian manuscripts, and a lifelong interrogator of Christianity. More than a century after James Henry’s death, Christopher Ricks came upon his poems – printed but unpublished – in the Cambridge University Library. Within these volumes Ricks discovered poetry ‘unaffectedly direct, sinewy, seriously comic. And brave.’ Henry’s convictions and his humour, his idiosyncrasies and his courage, come through in work that, Ricks writes, ‘has an integrity, a consistency, for all its engaging diversity of topic and tone’. With the publication of the Selected Poems of James Henry, the world at large can hear the voice of a remarkable poet.
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The Lilliput Press Ltd A Bloomsday Postcard
Book SynopsisLimited edition of 100 numbered copies, signed by the author, clothbound and slipcased with a 1904 penny inset on the cover. In 1904, the sending, receiving and collecting of postcards had become an essential part of life in Edwardian Dublin. In an age of few private telephones, the postcard was a popular and reliable form of communication – in Dublin there were six mail deliveries a day, and one on Sunday. To celebrate James Joyce and the centenary of Bloomsday, Niall Murphy has assembled a dazzling selection of 240 postcards, all of them posted in the Dublin area during 1904, four of them sent on 16 June that year. Here are the messages of ordinary people who walked the streets of Dublin side-by-side with the characters of Ulysses, with their words eerily mirroring the novel’s events. There is a rescue from drowning in Kingston; crime and punishment in Grafton Street; the Great Storm of 1903; King Edward’s visit; and memories of a ‘departed day’ spent in Howth. Among the many tales of love, three are enacted in varying degrees of intimacy: Millicent and Francisque de Boissieu, Jack Miller and Maud Tighe, and Ina and John McGregor – echoing Joyce’s use of postcards to establish the blossoming romance between Milly Bloom and Alec Bannon. Published in association with the National Library of Ireland, ‘A Bloomsday Postcard’ features the work of the legendary postcard artists – Louis Wain’s strange human cats; Lance Thackery’s satires of upper-class life; and C. Dana Gibson’s exquisite drawings of beautiful women. Here also are cards depicting the Russo-Japanese War, Yukon gold miners, the Dublin Horse Show, and life in Connemara – creating a mesmerizing full-colour mosaic that brings to life the world of Bloomsday, 1904 like never before.
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The Lilliput Press Ltd Remembering How We Stood: Bohemian Dublin at the Mid-century
Book SynopsisEdna O’Brien chose John Ryan’s memoirs as her Observer Book of the Year in 1975, describing it as ‘a fine and loving account of literary Dublin in the golden fifties, which purrs with life and anecdote’. This classic evocation of the period 1945-55 celebrates a city and its personalities – Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh, Myles na gCopaleen (Flann O’Brien), as well as Pope’ O’Mahony, Gainor Crist the original Ginger Man, and others – a remarkable group who revitalized post-war literature in Ireland. As friend, publisher, publican and fellow artist, Ryan paints a vivid picture of this ebullient, fertile milieu: ‘No more singular body of characters will ever rub shoulders again at any given time, or a city more uniquely bizarre than literary Dublin will ever be seen.’Trade Review"'As one reads his words, dressed in their wonderful finery of irony, the world he speaks of reblossoms to be back again awhile. To see, feel and smell the Dublin of that day... a masterpiece of reminiscence' - from the foreword by J.P. Donleavy."
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Literature and Ageing
Book SynopsisNew approaches to the topics of old age and becoming old depicted in a range of texts from modern literature. The central focus of this book is the experience of growing old as represented in literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day: an experience shaped by changes in longevity, a new science of senescence, the availability of state pensions, and other phenomena of recent history. The collection considers the increasing prominence of stories of ageing, challenging the idea that old age is an uneventful time outside of the parameters of literary narrative. Instead, age increasingly is the story. As the older population swells, political crises are construed as the old stealing from the young, and the rights of older people are sacrificed to the economics of care, it becomes ever more important to think about and question, as literature does, the symbolic aspects of ageing - the cultural imaginary that determines the way that society sees old age. The work in this volume explores age stories in relation to futurity, precarity and climate change. It brings to light narratives of resistance to colonial imperialism and reproductive futurism framed in terms of age; and tests the lived experience of growing old and the challenge it offers to individualistic conceptions of selfhood, work and care. The literary works examined - hailing from England, North America, Japan and the Caribbean, and including texts by Margaret Drabble, Samuel Beckett and Matthew Thomas - ask how we feel about ageing - so often the determinant of how we think about it.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Difference that Time Makes - Elizabeth Barry and Margery Vibe Skagen On Not Knowing How to Feel - Helen Small Ageing in the Anthropocene: The View From and Beyond Margaret Drabble's The Dark Flood Rises - Kathleen Woodward Age and Anachronism in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction - Sarah Falcus Grandpaternalism: Kipling's Imperial Care Narrative' - Jacob Jewusiak "I Could Turn Viper Tomorrow": Challenging Reproductive Futurism in Merle Collins's The Colour of Forgetting - Emily Timms Critical Interests and Critical Endings: Dementia, Personhood and End of Life in Matthew Thomas's We Are Not Ourselves - Elizabeth Barry Self-Help in the Historical Landscape of Ageing, Dementia, Work and Gender: Narrative Duplicities and Literature in a "Changing Place Called Old Age" - David Amigoni Toying with the Spool: Happiness in Old Age in Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape - Peter Svare Valeur Afterword: When Age Studies and Literary-Cultural Studies Converge: Reading "The Figure of the Old Person" in an Era of Ageism - Margaret Morganroth Gullette
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd International Medievalisms: From Nationalism to
Book SynopsisIdentifies and investigates international medievalism through three distinct strands: "Internationally Nationalist", "Someone Else's Past?", and "Activist Medievalism". Medievalism - the reception of the Middle Ages - often invokes a set of tropes generally considered 'medieval', rather than consciously engaging with medieval cultures and societies. International medievalism offers an additional interpretative layer by juxtaposing two or more national cultures, at least one of which is medieval. 'National' can be aspirational: it might refer to the area within agreed borders, or to the people who live there, but it might also describe the people who understand, or imagine, themselves to constitute a nation. And once 'medieval' becomes simply a collection of ideas, it can be re-formed as desired, cast as more geographically than historically specific, or function as a gateway to an even more nebulous past. This collection explores medievalist media from the textual to the architectural. Subjects range from The Green Children of Woolpit to Refugee Tales, and from Viking metal to Joan of Arc. As the contributors to each section make clear, for centuries the medieval has provided material for countless competing causes and cannot be contained within historical, political, or national borders. The essays show how the medieval is repeatedly co-opted and recreated, formed as much as formative: inviting us to ask why, and in service of what.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Mary Boyle I. Internationally Nationalist 1. Making up the Middle Ages: Roman Scotland and Medievalism in the Eighteenth Century, Kristina Hildebrand 2. Emma Letherbrow's Gudrun: Kudrun for 'Modern' Victorians, Mary Boyle 3. Nationalism and Colonialism: The Early German Reception of The Tale of Igor's Campaign, Florian Gassner 4. Inhabiting an Unpredictable Past - the Paradoxes of Russian Cultural Historicism, Michael Makin II. Someone Else's Past? 5. The Medievalism of Gregor Jordan's Ned Kelly, Sabina Rahman 6. 'The Northland of Old': The Use and 'Misuse' of (Medieval) Iceland, Hannah Armstrong 7. 'Out of My Country and Myself I Go': A Discourse of the Troubadour in British and Irish Literature, Kayleigh Ferguson 8. 'The old magic of the mind': the Influence of Wales and Medieval Welsh Literature in John Cowper Powys's, Maiden Castle, Felix Taylor III. Activist Medievalism 9. 'Green Growing Pains': the 'Green Children of Woolpit' and Child Refugees, Carolyne Larrington 10. Medievalisms of Welcome: Medieval Englishness and the Nation's Migrant Other in Refugee Tales, Matthias D. Berger 11. Nordic Giants: Using Left-Wing Post-Rock to Deepen Our Understandings of White Supremacist Interpretations of Vikings, Eirnin Jefford Franks 12. 'The Great Original Suffragist': Joan of Arc as a Symbol in the U.S. Women's Suffrage Movement, Suzanne LaVere Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Waste Land after One Hundred Years
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the legacy of The Waste Land on the centenary of its original publication, looking at the impact it had had upon criticism and new poetries across one hundred years. T. S. Eliot first published his long poem The Waste Land in 1922. The revolutionary nature of the work was immediately recognised, and it has subsequently been acknowledged as one of the most influential poems of the twentieth century, and as crucial for the understanding of modernism. The essays in this collection variously reflect on The Waste Land one hundred years after its original publication. At this centenary moment, the contributors both celebrate the richness of the work, its sounds and rare use of language, and also consider the poem's legacy in Britain, Ireland, and India. The work here, by an international team of writers from the UK, North America, and India, deploys a range of approaches. Some contributors seek to re-read the poem itself in fresh and original ways; others resist the established drift of previous scholarship on the poem, and present new understandings of the process of its development through its drafts, or as an orchestration on the page. Several contributors question received wisdom about the poem's immediate legacy in the decade after publication, and about the impact that it has had upon criticism and new poetries across the first century of its existence. An Introduction to the volume contextualises the poem itself, and the background to the essays. All pieces set out to review the nature of our understanding of the poem, and to bring fresh eyes to its brilliance, one hundred years on. Contributors: Rebecca Beasley, Rosinka Chaudhuri, William Davies, Hugh Haughton, Marjorie Perloff, Andrew Michael Roberts, Peter Robinson, Michael Wood.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Steven Matthews 1 A 'Dangerous Model': Resisting The Waste Land - Rebecca Beasley 2 Beyond the Sanskrit Words: Decolonizing Eliot in Modernity - Rosinka Chaudhuri 3 'An Icon of Recurrence': The Waste Land's Anniversaries - William Davies 4 'O City, city': Sounding The Waste Land - Hugh Haughton 5 Lost and Found in Translation: Foreign Language Citations in The Waste Land - Marjorie Perloff 6 The Poetic Afterlife of The Waste Land - Andrew Michael Roberts 7 Compositional Process and Critical Product - Peter Robinson 8 Hypocrisy and After: Persons in The Waste Land - Michael Wood Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Old English Medievalism: Reception and Recreation
Book SynopsisAn exploration across thirteen essays by critics, translators and creative writers on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, delving into how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Old English language and literary style have long been a source of artistic inspiration and fascination, providing modern writers and scholars with the opportunity not only to explore the past but, in doing so, to find new perspectives on the present. This volume brings together thirteen essays on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, exploring how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by translators, novelists, poets and teachers. These afterlives include the composition of neo-Old English, the evocation in a modern literary context of elements of early medieval English language and style, the fictional depiction of Old English-speaking worlds and world views, and the adaptation and recontextualisation of works of early medieval English literature. The sources covered include W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Seamus Heaney, alongside more recent writers such as Christopher Patton, Hamish Clayton and Paul Kingsnorth, as well as other media, from museum displays to television. The volume also features the first-hand perspectives of those who are authors and translators themselves in the field of Old English medievalism.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Early Medieval English in the Modern Age: An Introduction to Old English Medievalism - Rachel A. Fletcher, Thijs Porck and Oliver M. Traxel 1 Reinventing, Reimagining and Recontextualizing Old English Poetry 1 Old English as a Playground for Poets? W. H. Auden, Christopher Patton and Jeramy Dodds - M. J. Toswell 2 'Abroad in One's Own Tradition': Old English Poetry and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (1908) - Victoria Condie 3 Wulf and Eadwacer in 1830 New Zealand: Anglo-Saxonism and Postcolonialism in Hamish Clayton's Wulf (2011) - Martina Marzullo 4 Old English Poetry and Sutton Hoo on Display: Creating 'the Anglo-Saxon' in Museums - Fran Allfrey II Invoking Early Medieval England and Its Language in Historical Fiction 5 Creating a 'Shadow Tongue': The Merging of Two Language Stages - Oliver M. Traxel 6 At the Threshold of the Inarticulate: The Reception of 'Made-up' English in Paul Kingsnorth's The Wake (2014) - Judy Kendall 7 Reimagining Early Medieval Britain: The Language of Spirituality - Karen Louise Jolly 8 Historical Friction: Constructing Pastness in Fiction Set in Eleventh-Century England - James Aitcheson III Translating and Composing in Neo-Old English 9 Ge wordful, ge wordig: Translating Modern Texts into Old English - Fritz Kemmler 10 Fruit, Fat and Fermentation: Food and Drink in Peter Baker's (Neo-) Old English Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Denis Ferhatović 11 The Fall of the King and the Composition of Neo-Old English Verse - Rafael J. Pascual IV Approaching Old English and Neo-Old English in the Classroom 12 Mitchell & Robinson's Medievalism: Echoes of Empire in the History of Old English Pedagogy - Joana Blanquer, Donna Beth Ellard, Emma Hitchcock and Erin E. Sweany 13 The Magic of Telecinematic Neo-Old English in University Teaching - Gabriele Knappe Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd National Medievalism in the Twenty-First Century:
Book SynopsisHow ideas and ideals of an imagined, protean, national Middle Ages have once again become a convergence point for anxieties about politics, history and cultural identity in our time - and why. After a period of abeyance, the link forged in the nineteenth century between the Middle Ages and national identity is increasingly being reclaimed, with numerous groups and individuals mining an imagined medieval past to present ideas and ideals of modern nationhood. Today's national medievalism asserts itself at the interface of culture and politics: in literature and television programming, in journalism and heritage tourism, and in the way political actors of various stripes use a deep past that supposedly proves the nation's steady exceptionalism in a hectic globalised world. This book traces these ongoing developments in Switzerland and Britain, two countries where the medieval past has recently been much invoked in negotiations of national identity, independence and Euroscepticism. Through comparative analysis, it explores examples of reemerging stories of national exceptionalism - stories that, ironically, echo those of other nations. The author analyses depictions of Robert the Bruce and Wilhelm Tell; medievalism in the discourse surrounding Brexit as well as at the Welsh Senedd; novels like Paul Kingsnorth's The Wake; community-based art such as the Great Tapestry of Scotland; and elaborate public commemorations of Swiss victories (and defeats) in battle. Basing his critical readings in current theories of cultural memory, heritage and nationalism, the author explores how the protean national Middle Ages have once again become a convergence point for anxieties about politics, history and cultural identity in our time - and why.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Author's Note List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Constructing Continuity: Four Nations Imagine Their Beginnings PART I THE POLITICS OF AUTOCHTHONY 2 For Freedom Alone: The Scottish Independence Referendum 3 2016 and All That: Brexit 4 Freiheit statt Vögte: The Swiss National-Conservatives PART II THE OTHERS OF NATIONAL MEDIEVALISM 5 Masculine Middle Ages: Gender 6 In Strange Lands: Race, Ethnicity, Immigration Conclusion: The Demands of the Past Afterword: National Medievalism in the Age of COVID-19 Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Literature and Politics of the Environment
Book SynopsisEssays exploring interrelated strands of material ecologies, past and present British politics, and the act of writing, through a rich variety of case studies. Much as the complexities of climate change and the Anthropocene have queried the limits and exclusions of literary representation, so, too, have the challenges recently presented by climate activism and intersectional environmentalism, animal rights, and even the power of material forms, such as oil, plastic, and heavy metals. Social and protest movements have revived the question of whether there can be such a thing as an activist ecocriticism: can such an approach only concern itself with consciousness, or might it politicise literary criticism in a new way? Attempting to respond, this volume coalesces around three interrelated strands: material ecologies, past and present British politics, and the act of writing itself. Contributors consider the ways in which literary form has foregrounded the complexities of both matter (in essays on water, sugar, and land) and political economics (from empire and nationalism to environmental justice movements and local and regional communities). The volume asks how life writing, nature writing, creative nonfiction, and autobiography - although genres entrenched in capitalist political realities - can also confront these by reinserting personal experience. Can we bring a more sustainable planet into being by focusing on those literary forms which have the ability to imagine the conditions and systems needed to do so?Table of ContentsIntroduction - John Parham 1.Industry and Environmental Violence in the Early Victorian Novel: Pastoral Re-visions - Mark Frost 2.Floating Cities, Imperial Bodies: Reading Water in Timothy Mo's An Insular Possession (1986) and Xi Xi's 'Strange Tales from a Floating City' (1986) - Caitlin Vandertop 3.Sweet Food to Sweet Crude: Haunting Place through Planet Sam Solnick 4.Nonhuman Entanglements in Adam Roberts's Science Fiction: Bête (2014) and By Light Alone (2012) - Nora Castle 5.Sum deorc wyrd gathers: Dark Ecology, Brexit Ecocriticism, and the Far Right - Aidan Tynan 6.Literature, Literary Pedagogy, and Extinction Rebellion (XR): The Case of Tarka the Otter - Karín Lesnik-Oberstein 7.The View from the Field: Activist Ecocriticism and Land Workers' Voices - Pippa Marland 8.Nature Walking: Marching Against Privilege - Dominic Head 9.To Be a Witness in the World - Amanda Thomson Index
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Little, Brown Book Group Amateurs In Eden: The Story of a Bohemian
Book SynopsisNancy Durrell was a woman famous for her silences. Anaïs Nin said 'I think often of Nancy's most eloquent silences, Nancy talking with her fingers, her hair, her cheeks, a wonderful gift. Music again.' As the first wife Lawrence Durrell, author of The Alexandria Quartet, it is perhaps surprising that she is an unknown entity, a constant presence in the biographies of Durrell and others in the Bloomsbury set, yet always a shadowy figure, beautiful and enigmatic. But who was the woman who was with Durrell during the most important years of his development as a writer? Joanna Hodgkin decides to retrace her mother's fascinating story: the escape from her toxic and mysterious family; the years in bohemian literary London and Paris in the 1930s; marriage to Durrell and their discovery of the 'Eden' of pre-war Corfu and her desperate struggle to survive in Palestine alone with a small child as the British Mandate collapsed. Amateurs in Eden is a fascinating biography of a literary marriage and of an unusual woman struggling to live an independent life.Trade ReviewFrank and captivating . . . rich in charm and pathos . . . Hodgkin has done both Nancy and herself proud with this fresh portrait of a marriage we thought we knew, and of a woman we have never known well enough -- Miranda Seymour * Sunday Times *It's a cracking story, and Hodgkin is a meticulous researcher -- Olivia Laing * Observer *The animating spirit that pulses through this joint biography is to be thoroughly applauded -- D.J Taylor * Literary Review *This is not just a memoir of her mother. This is the history of a literary wife. On both counts, Hodgkin succeeds beautifully . . . Her story is not a footnote; it is absolutely central * Independent *A truly fascinating account of one of those many women, the wives and the girlfriends and the sisters of famous literary men, who have lived a twilight existence in the shadows of the historical canon. A particularly rich and honest account * Scotland on Sunday *An enjoyable, revisionist account of a bohemian marriage -- Blake Morrison * Guardian *
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