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John Wiley & Sons Inc Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy Curiouser and
Book SynopsisThe perfect companion to Lewis Carroll's classic book and director Tim Burton's remake of Alice in Wonderland releasing in March 2010 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is treasured by people of all ages who have followed young Alice on her trip down a rabbit hole and into a fantasy world filled with strange and whimsical characters.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS: “It’s My Own Invention”— Yeah, Right! ix Introduction: You’re Late for a Very Important Date 1 PART ONE “WAKE UP, ALICE DEAR” 1 Unruly Alice: A Feminist View of Some Adventures in Wonderland 7Megan S. Lloyd 2 Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow, but Never Jam Today: On Procrastination, Hiking, and . . . the Spice Girls? 19Mark D. White 3 Nuclear Strategists in Wonderland 33Ron Hirschbein 4 “You’re Nothing but a Pack of Cards!”: Alice Doesn’t Have a Social Contract 47Dennis Knepp PART TWO “THAT’S LOGIC” 5 “Six Impossible Things before Breakfast” 61George A. Dunn and Brian McDonald 6 Reasoning Down the Rabbit-Hole: Logical Lessons in Wonderland 79David S. Brown 7 Three Ways of Getting It Wrong: Induction in Wonderland 93Brendan Shea 8 Is There Such a Thing as a Language? 107Daniel Whiting PART THREE “WE’RE ALL MAD HERE” 9 Alice, Perception, and Reality: Jell-O Mistaken for Stones 125Robert Arp 10 How Deep Does the Rabbit-Hole Go?: Drugs and Dreams, Perception and Reality 137Scott F. Parker 11 Perspectivism and Tragedy: A Nietzschean Interpretation of Alice’s Adventure 153Rick Mayock 12 Wishing It Were Some Other Time: The Temporal Passage of Alice 167Mark W. Westmoreland PART FOUR “WHO IN THE WORLD AM I?”13 Serious Nonsense 183Charles Taliaferro and Elizabeth Olson 14 “Memory and Muchness”: Alice and the Philosophy of Memory 197Tyler Shores CONTRIBUTORS: Pawns and Pieces: As Arranged before Commencement of Game 213 INDEX: “Down, Down, Down”: What You Will Find at the Bottom 219
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Charles Dickens
Book SynopsisThis book offers a lively and accessible introduction to the wonderful diversity of Dickens for general readers, students, teachers, and academics. Covering key topics from Dickens and language to TV and film adaptations, it places the greatest English novelist in the context of the dizzying expansion of Victorian London.Table of ContentsPreface; Chronology; 1. Dickens the entertainer: 'people must be amuthed'; 2. Dickens and language: 'what I meantersay'; 3. Dickens and the city: 'animate London … inanimate London'; 4. Dickens, gender, and domesticity: 'be it ever … so ghastly … there's no place like it'; 5. Adapting Dickens: 'he do the police in different voices'; Further reading.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
Book SynopsisGothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology Trade Review'… if you want to brush up on your origins and expand your literary knowledge or just want something new to think about [this is] a good place to start.' Bite MeTable of ContentsPreface; Contributors; Chronology; 1. Introduction: The 'Gothic' in Western culture Jerrold E. Hogle; 2. The genesis of 'Gothic' fiction E. J. Clery; 3. The 1790s: the effulgence of the Gothic Robert Miles; 4. The continental Gothic Terry Hale; 5. Gothic fictions and Romantic writing in Britain Michael Gamer; 6. The Scottish and Irish Gothic David Punter; 7. English Gothic theatre Jeffrey N. Cox; 8. The Victorian Gothic in English novels and stories, 1830–85 Alison Milbank; 9. The rise of American Gothic Eric Savoy; 10. Gothic fiction at the turn of the century, 1885–1930 Kelly Hurley; 11. The Gothic on screen Misha Kavka; 12. The colonial and post-colonial Gothic Lizabeth Paravinisi-Gebert; 13. The contemporary Gothic Steven Bruhm; 14. Aftergothic (consumption, machines, and Black Holes) Fred Botting; Guide to further reading; Index.
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Faber & Faber Selected Prose of T S Eliot
Book Synopsis''Literary criticism is a distinctive activity of the civilised mind.'' With Eliot''s dictum in mind, Professor Kermode has selected from the whole range of his critical writings, some of them dating back to before 1918. There are essays of generalisation, appreciations of individual writers, and a section of his social and religious criticism. All the famous and most influential essays are drawn upon, with extracts from many others, and there is an important Introduction by Professor Kermode, with valuable notes.
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Faber & Faber Hand to Mouth
Book Synopsis''One of the most original and audacious autobiographies ever written by a writer.'' Le Monde Hand to Mouth tells the story of the young Paul Auster''s struggle to stay afloat. By turns poignant and comic, Auster''s memoir is essentially a book about money - and what it means not to have it. From one odd job to the next, from one failed scheme to another, Auster investigates his own stubborn compulsion to make art and, in the process, treats us to a series of remarkable adventures and unforgettable encounters. Hand to Mouth is essential reading for anyone interested in Paul Auster, in the figure of the struggling artist, in the nature of poverty, or in baseball.
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Pearson Education E. M. Forster A Passage to India everything you
Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced offer 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 intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.Table of Contents Study methods Introduction to the text Summaries with critical notes Themes and techniques Textual analysis of key passages Author biography Historical and literary background Modern and historical critical approaches Chronology Glossary of literary terms
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Gothic
Book SynopsisPresents an overview of significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. This book explains the origins and development of the term Gothic. It explores the evolution of the Gothic in both literary and non-literary forms, including art, architecture and film.Trade Review"The overall result is wonderfully informative and suggestive for the beginning student, while offering some striking additional insights spread across the book for advanced students of Gothic who have yet to consider such contexts for it as postcolonialism, 'goth' subcultures and 'Hallucination and the Narcotic'." Gothic StudiesTable of ContentsHow to Use This Book. Chronology. Introduction. Backgrounds and Contexts. Civilisation and the Goths. Gothic in the Eighteenth Century. Gothic and Romantic. Science, Industry and the Gothic. Victorian Gothic. Art and Architecture. Gothic and Decadence. Imperial Gothic. Gothic Postmodernism. Postcolonial Gothic. Goths and Gothic Subcultures. Gothic Film. Gothic and the Graphic Novel. Writers of Gothic. William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-82). Jane Austen (1775-1817). J. G. Ballard (1930-). Iain Banks (1954-). John Banville (1945-). Clive Barker (1952-). William Beckford (1760-1844). E. F. Benson (1867-1940). Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914). Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951). Robert Bloch (1917-1994). Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973). Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915). Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) and Emily Brontë (1818-1848). Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810). Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). James Branch Cabell (1879-1958). Ramsey Campbell (1946-). Angela Carter (1940-1992). Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933). Wilkie Collins (1824-1889). Marie Corelli (1855-1924). Charlotte Dacre (1771/1772?-1825). Walter de la Mare (1873-1956). August Derleth (1909-1971). Charles Dickens (1812-1870). 'Isak Dinesen' (1885-1962). Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). Lord Dunsany (1878-1957). Bret Easton Ellis (1964-). William Faulkner (1897-1962). Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865). William Gibson (1948-). William Godwin (1756-1836). H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925). Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864). James Herbert (1943-). William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918). E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822). James Hogg (1770-1835). Washington Irving (1783-1859). G. P. R. James (1799-1860). Henry James (1843-1916). M. R. James (1862-1936). Stephen King (1947-). Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Francis Lathom (1777-1832). J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873). Sophia Lee (1750-1824). Vernon Lee (1856-1935). M. G. Lewis (1775-1818). David Lindsay (1878-1945). H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). George MacDonald (1824-1905). Arthur Machen (1863-1947). James Macpherson (1736-1796). Richard Matheson (1926-). Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824). Herman Melville (1819-1891). Joyce Carol Oates (1938-). Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897). Mervyn Peake (1911-1968). Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). John Polidori (1795-1821). Radcliffe, Ann (1764-1823). Reeve, Clara (1729-1807). G. W. M. Reynolds (1814-1879). Anne Rice (1941-). Walter Scott (1771-1832). Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). Charlotte Smith (1740-1806). Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Bram Stoker (1847-1912). Horace Walpole (1717-1797). H. G. Wells (1866-1946). Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Key Works. Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764). William Beckford, Vathek (1786). Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794). M. G. Lewis, The Monk (1796). Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818, revised 1831). C. R. Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820). James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824). Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847). Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1860). Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas (1864). Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897). Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898). Robert Bloch, Psycho (1959). Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (1976). Stephen King, The Shining (1977). Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991). Themes and Topics. The Haunted Castle. The Monster. The Vampire. Persecution and Paranoia. Female Gothic. The Uncanny. The History of Abuse. Hallucination and the Narcotic. Guide to Further Reading. Index
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University Press of Kansas The Moderate Imagination The Political Thought
Book SynopsisTaps archival materials and unread works from John Updike’s college years to offer a clearer view of his acute political thought and ideas. Updike's prescient literary imagination, Fromer shows, sensed the disappointments and alienation of rural white working- and middle-class Americans decades before conservatives sought to exploit them.Trade ReviewJohn Updike has long been acknowledged as one of the great American novelists of the twentieth century, even while his political insights have consistently been underappreciated. Yoav Frome's The Moderate Imagination delivers an important new understanding of Updike's political instincts and vision. This fuller and more rounded picture of Updike's literary intentions and his social and political insights will benefit even the experts." - Cal Jillson, author of The American Dream: In History, Politics, and Fiction"John Updike has long been regarded as one of America's great writers, but one whose domain was largely American domesticity. Fromer's book builds a compelling case for Updike also being one of America's great prescient writers - one who anticipated the current political state of events more than fifty years ago. 'More than anything,' Fromer writes, 'Updike's writings help illustrate the fundamental inability of more and more Americans to grasp, let alone cope with, profound transformations they could neither understand nor control.' This is a smart book that reads at times like the academic equivalent of a 'real page-turner." - James Plath, author of Conversations with John Updike and John Updike's Pennsylvania Interviews and R. Forrest Colwell Endowed Chair & Professor of English, Illinois Wesleyan University
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Duckworth Books Its Too Late Now
Book SynopsisWith characteristic self-deprecating humour, A.A. Milne recalls the formative events of his life: from a blissfully happy childhood to the writing of Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin.
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James Clarke & Co Ltd R.C. Hutchinson
Book SynopsisIn R.C. Hutchinson, Barry Webb reclaims the legacy of a highly-acclaimed, yet often forgotten writer. Despite having been awarded the Sunday Times Gold medal for fiction, the W.H.Smith award for the best novelist of the year, being short-listed for the Booker Prize, and several of his 17 novels becoming best-sellers in the UK and America, Hutchinson has not withstood the test of time compared to his contemporaries. Combining Hutchinson''s own reflections with insightful critical analysis, Webb traces Hutchinson''s thoughtful, observational life alongside his extraordinary literary output. He draws out how Hutchinson''s firmly held Christian beliefs allowed him to eschew didacticism for nuanced reflections on the nature of human suffering.Part biography, part critical study, R.C. Hutchinson sheds light on this influential and gifted writer, contextualising his work and highlighting his genius. He was described by Sebastian Faulks as a novelist ''on the grand scale'' and ''a mid-century
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Manchester University Press Queering the Gothic
Book SynopsisA first rate collection of essays on queer Gothic, ranging from 'Frankenstein' to George Eliot, E.M.Forster to Michael Jackson. Provides a chronological investigation of the Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day and in doing so produces a new way of reading the Gothic tradition. -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Queering the Gothic - William Hughes and Andrew Smith1. ‘Love in a Convent’: Or, Gothic and the Perverse Father of Queer Enjoyment - Dale Townshend2. ‘Do You Share My Madness?’: Frankenstein’s Queer Gothic - Mair Rigby3. Daniel Deronda’s Jewish Panic - Royce Mahawatte4. ‘That mighty love which maddens one to crime’: Medicine Masculinity, Same-Sex Desire and the Gothic in Teleny - Diane Mason5. Gothic Landscapes, Imperial Collapse, and the Queering of Adela Quested in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India - Ardel Thomas6. Antonia White’s Frost in May: Gothic Mansions, Ghosts and Particular Friendships - Paulina Palmer7. Devouring Desires: Lesbian Gothic Horror - Gina Wisker8. ‘The taste of blood meant the end of aloneness’.Vampires and Gay Men in Poppy Z. Brite’s Lost Souls - William Hughes9. Michael Jackson’s Queer Funk - Steven Bruhm10. Death, Art, and Bodies: Queering the Queer Gothic in Will Self’s Dorian - Andrew SmithNotes on ContributorsIndex
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Manchester University Press The gothic novel in Ireland c. 17601829
Book Synopsis'An important and authoritative book, in which Christina Morin steps outside established definitions of ‘Irish Gothic’ in order to make a fluent and convincing case for a wider, deeper and longer history of Irish fiction. The gothic novel in Ireland not only offers a bracing challenge to existing theories of Irish Gothic, it also reshapes our understanding of the history of the novel in Britain and Ireland while redrawing the map of Irish romanticism.'Claire Connolly, Professor of Modern English, University College Cork 'The gothic novel in Ireland is a very welcome mapping of an almost completely unknown body of fiction – the early Irish Gothic novel. Morin not only brings to an end the literary historical amnesia which allowed so much interesting, important and often compelling fiction to be forgotten, but effectively rescues these novels from what Franco Moretti calls the 'slaughterhouse of liteTrade Review‘Christina Morin’s The gothic novel in Ireland c. 1760–1829 is a significant intervention in the study of Anglo-Irish literature and the gothic tradition. Combining a masterful overview of Romantic era print culture with close readings of hitherto under examined novels, this book suggestively explores the generic interconnectedness between gothic fiction, the national tale and the historical novel. In doing so, it brings to light a much earlier tradition of fiction that emerged from Ireland in the mid-eighteenth century and had a clear impact on the British novelists who followed. As such, The gothic novel in Ireland confidently dispatches long-held views of Irish gothic as a belated phenomenon that emerged in the later nineteenth century. At the same time, Morin delineates acutely the specific conventions and tropes that characterised a distinctively Irish variant of the gothic. Marshalling an impressive range of literary sources, bibliographical evidence and statistical data, Morin provocatively disrupts long-held assumptions about the formative role played by Irish writers at a crucial moment in the history of the novel, making a compelling case for a more nuanced and accurate understanding of the literary relationship between Britain and Ireland during the Romantic century.’Anthony Mandal, Professor of Print and Digital Cultures, Cardiff University'In its strikingly original overall approach as well as its illuminating discussions of forgotten or neglected early Irish gothic fictions, The Gothic Novel in Ireland, c. 1760–1829 greatly broadens and deepens our knowledge of an important but little-known corpus of literature.'European Romantic Review‘When does the gothic novel begin and end? What are its characteristics? And where does Ireland fit in the literary terrain marked out by modern critics? In this valuable exploration, Christina Morin remaps time, place, and content. She argues that by giving sustained attention to Irish gothic literature we can (and should) widen, deepen, and redefine a field whose formal and generic properties have been at once slippery and overly restrictive… Morin carefully dismantles stereotypes and brings fresh eyes to established conventions. She asks probing questions about why some writers fall into neglect—what Franco Moretti dubbed the slaughterhouse of literature—and looks anew at those judged worthy of the attentions of posterity. For students of the period, this will be an essential text: meticulously researched and attractively written.’Eighteenth-Century Fiction -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: locating the Irish gothic novel1. Gothic temporalities: ‘Gothicism’, ‘historicism’, and the overlap of fictional modes from Thomas Leland to Walter Scott2. Gothic genres: romances, novels, and the classifications of Irish Romantic fiction 3. Gothic geographies: the cartographic consciousness of Irish gothicfiction4. Gothic materialities: Regina Maria Roche, the Minerva Press, and the bibliographic spread of Irish gothic fiction Conclusion Appendix 1: A working bibliography of Irish gothic fiction, c. 1760–1829Select bibliographyIndex
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC In Search of a Beginning My Life with Graham
Book SynopsisThis memoir of Graham Greene's life is by his long-term companion.Trade Review'This book adds an important element to our knowledge of Graham Greene' The Times 'Anyone interested in the man or his novels will find this a fascinating and necessary book' Country Life 'An exhilarating and thought-provoking biography ... full of insights into a rigorous and fascinating mind' Daily Mail 'An illuminating memoir, written with intelligence and dignity ... Cloetta successfully makes the case for Greene as a man of great passion and generosity' Scotland on Sunday
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Pomegranate Communications Inc,US Elephant House or the Home of Edward Gorey
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Revivals Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian 1979
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Ohio University Press The New Short Story Theories
Book SynopsisAimed at writers, students, teachers, and critics interested in the short story as a genre, this rich collection of essays examines theoretical issues raised about this demanding literary form.
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The Swedenborg Society Imaginal Landscapes Reflections on the Mystical
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WW Norton & Co Cane
Book Synopsis“A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing. . . . This book should be on all readers’ and writers’ desks and in their minds.”—Maya AngelouTrade Review"I love [Cane] passionately; could not possibly exist without it." Alice Walker "This book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds." Maya Angelou
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies James Hoggs Private Memoirs and Confessions of a
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Cambridge University Press AntiRacist Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThis Element argues that Shakespeare is a productive site to cultivate an anti-racist pedagogy. It advances teaching Shakespeare through race and anti-racism in order to expose students to the unequal structures of power and domination that are systemically reproduced within society, culture, academic disciplines, and classrooms.Table of Contents1. Why an Anti-Racist Shakespeare?; 2. Shakespeare's Racial Invisibility; 3. Conceptualizing and Designing an Anti-Racist Shakespeare Course; 4. Building Shakespearean Communities; 5. The Salience of Shakespeare; 6. The Ongoing Work of Anti-Racist Shakespeares.
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Cambridge University Press Fiction and Pragmatics
Book SynopsisThis Element outlines current issues in the study of the pragmatics of fiction. It starts from the premise that fictional texts are complex and multi-layered communicative acts which deserve attention in pragmatic research in their own right, and it highlights the need to understand them and to explore pragmatic effects and pragmatic theorising.Table of Contents1. Introducing Fiction and Pragmatics; 2. Participation Structure; 3. Performance; 4. Interaction; 5. Discourse and Ideologies through Character Creation; 6. Conclusions and Outlook; Acknowledgements; References.
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Cambridge University Press Beckett and Derrida
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Cambridge University Press The Ambassadors
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Cambridge University Press Jane Austens Style
Book SynopsisJane Austen is renowned for the economy of her art: for the close focus of her romantic plots and the precision of her writing style. Exploring that economy stylistically and structurally, this book traces Austen''s keen interest in narrative form. Anne Toner pinpoints techniques that are fundamental to the distinctiveness of Austen''s fiction, many of which have been little explored to date. Toner argues that Austen''s conciseness in terms of plotting, narrative description and in the depiction of dialogue also contributed to her innovations in representing thought, expanding the novel''s capacity to depict consciousness. Narrative and rhetorical features are presented clearly and accessibly and will open up new ways of thinking about prose style with implications for the study of fiction beyond Austen''s own.Trade Review'… in each of her chapters on the formal features of Austen's style, Toner demonstrates how the effort of writing small worked to inspire some of Austen's biggest ideas and thus to shape nineteenth-century fiction.' Megan Quinn, www.review19.org'This telescoping is well represented in discussion of Mansfield Park and of free direct discourse … the notes, bibliography, and index are extensive and provide welcome entry into the critical discussion around Austen studies and the 18th-century novel … Highly recommended.' R. Shapiro, Choice'Explicating the very long history of critical reception of Austen's exemplary, modern economy of style - its concision of plot for character, for example - Toner under-takes a detailed and thorough grammatical investigation of how exactly Austen achieves her fêted economy, and to what ends.' Kate Singer, The Wordsworth CircleTable of Contents1. Structure: selection, connection, and the picturesque; 2. Language: apophatic Austen (not saying things and saying so); 3. Dialogue: Austen's missing speakers and the case for free direct discourse.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Critical Reception of Charles Dickens 18331841 Routledge Revivals
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Contemporary Fiction Celebrity Culture and the
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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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards
Book SynopsisIn Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her best-selling fiction and by the wider public for her witty, thought-provoking travel writing. In later life, she became a celebrated historian, bringing fresh understanding of the world of Ancient Egypt to a fascinated public and founding the Egyptian Exploration Fund (Society). This new biography uses previously overlooked sources to tell the story of her fascinating and unconventional life - her travels, travails and feminist activism - as well as touching on her occasionally problematic views on race. In appreciation of a figure ahead of her time, it examines her involvement in suffrage and animal rights societies as well as revealing new insights into Edwards' loving same-sex relationships with Ellen Rice Byrne and Lucy Renshaw. In doing so, it reveals a versatile, creative, witty, independent woman, and a true pioneer of her time.Trade ReviewMargaret C. Jones is a writer of feminist biographies, and her enthusiastic engagement with her remarkable subject shines through every page ... Jones is entirely successful in revivifying the “complex, enigmatic, multitalented woman” that was Amelia Edwards. * Victorian Popular Fictions Journal *Margaret Jones has admirably brought together the remarkable and varied threads of Amelia B Edwards’ life in this greatly updated and carefully researched biography, a must-read for anyone interested in in this novelist, travel writer, and pioneer of British Egyptology! * Carl Graves, Director of the Egypt Exploration Society *‘A beautifully written, well-researched, and an important recuperation of the fascinating life and work of the well-known Victorian explorer, novelist, and trailblazing queer writer, Amelia B. Edwards. You must get this book if you want to learn more about women’s writing and travel.’ * Mona Narain, Texas Christian University, USA. *Table of ContentsChapter 1. Young Amelia Chapter 2. Love – and The Dolomites Chapter 3. The Nile Chapter 4. Inventing Egypt Chapter 5. Founding the Fund Chapter 6. A Very Private Life Chapter 7. Novelist Chapter 8. America Chapter 9. A Quiet Activist Chapter 10. Reputation Bibliography
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Bram Stoker Author of Dracula
Book SynopsisBram Stoker: Author of Dracula is an affectionate and revealing biography of the man who created the vampire novel that would define the genre and lead to a new age in Gothic horror literature.
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Edinburgh University Press The View from Above in American Literature
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Edinburgh University Press The Asian American Renaissance
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Edinburgh University Press The Periodical Essay in Modernity
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The English Novel
Book SynopsisPresents a wide-ranging and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. This book distils the essentials of the theory of the novel. It covers the works of major authors, including Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Charles Dickens and George Eliot.Trade Review"Eagleton's presentation of the history of the novel is admirably clear and almost entirely free of the disfiguring jargon so relied upon by theorists and bamboozlers." The Irish Independentà "Eagleton, almost alone among academic literary critics of his generation, has never been afraid of asking big questions about big things. In The English Novel: An Introduction he takes aim at a very large target indeed. Being Eagleton (the most articulately and discriminately ideological critic of our time) he does, of course, do much more than merely 'introduce'. He makes sense of the English novel." John Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature, UCLTable of ContentsPreface. 1. What is a Novel?. 2. Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift. 3. Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson. 4. Laurence Sterne. 5. Walter Scott and Jane Austen. 6. The Brontës. 7. Charles Dickens. 8. George Eliot. 9. Thomas Hardy. 10. Henry James. 11. Joseph Conrad. 12. D.H. Lawrence. 13. James Joyce. 14. Virginia Woolf. Postcript: After the Wake. Notes. Index
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Pearson Education Spies York Notes Advanced everything you need to
Book SynopsisWith detailed analysis of the text, discussions on themes, historical backgrounds and author biographies, York Notes offers students the best insight into the world of English Literature.
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Pearson Education Limited York Notes Companions Modernist Literature
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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Pearson Education Middlemarch York Notes Advanced everything you need to study and prepare for the 2025 and 2026 exams
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The London Lover
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
£9.49
Abrams In Search of the Color Purple The Story of an
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Salamishah does what only great writers of literary criticism accomplish—she tells a story about a masterpiece without forgetting the extraordinary woman who crafted it and the legions of women made whole because of her work. A bold and vital tale that rightly treats Alice Walker’s American classic as if it were a living, breathing being demanding our utmost attention and enduring affection.” -- Janet Mock * author of Redefining Realness and Surpassing Certainty *“We need reminders of the stories that have brought us over, the hymns and spirituals and freedom songs our people sang. The Color Purple is such a hymn. Alice Walker is its composer. And Salamishah Tillet, our conductor, lines this hymn for us, beautifully, so that we might all show up, text in hand, and sing its chorus, in tribute to the genius, care, and love of Alice Walker.” -- Brittney Cooper * author of Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower *“This book is a stunning act of devotion, a literary and personal excavation of one of the great novels of American literature, The Color Purple. Salamishah Tillet deepens and refreshes our understanding of the novel, movie, and Broadway play, reminds us of the fraught history of the novel’s publication, shows us how it has moved and transformed generations, and reveals how the controversial issues of sex, race, and gender are still as relevant and controversial today as they were then. Salamishah has allowed this extraordinary work of fiction to guide and heal her life, and her book does the same for us.” -- Eve Ensler * author of The Vagina Monologues and The Apology *“The Color Purple is my all-time favorite film, hands down. The book is also one of my favorites, but watching the movie has particularly, over time, become a healing balm—almost a spiritual practice. Salamishah Tillet’s book is a beautiful tribute to The Color Purple, and a gift to those of us who are deeply connected to it. For others less tied to the stories of Celie, Shug, and Sofia, it is a history lesson and cautionary tale of what happens when a Black woman attempts to tell her truth publicly; something to be studied and learn from. This will be a necessary companion for all who engage with this story for years to come.” -- Tarana Burke * Founder of the Me Too movement *“One of my most cherished possessions is a copy of The Color Purple, signed by Alice Walker and dated October 22, 1991. In case of fire, I keep it near my family photos to make sure it is not left behind. In Search of The Color Purple delivers extraordinary insight into both the love and the struggle that made Ms. Walker’s exquisitely crafted novel a masterpiece. After reading Salamishah Tillet’s poignant book, neither readers nor writers will forget that it takes courage and audacity to write a novel that tells the reality of women’s lives.” -- Anita Hill“An enriching study for the novel’s many devoted readers.” * Kirkus *“Tillet comes to a deeper understanding of the novel, Walker, and herself in this revelatory and memorable blend of biography, autobiography, and insightful homage to a literary icon.” * Booklist *“Scholar and activist Salamishah Tillet has written the essential companion to Alice Walker’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, exploring its controversies, triumphs, legacies and lessons.” * Ms. Magazine *“…Salamishah Tillet continues the decades-long tradition of Black women unearthing other Black women’s literature…In this continuous act of unearthing, Black women have helped each other breathe easier, see farther, and believe more deeply in the possibility of a world that cherishes their mundane, striking, broken, and full selves.” * VICE *“...a journey of uncovering and rediscovering how this beautiful tale was conceived, birthed, and has thrived for nearly four decades.” * Elle *“Tillet writes a necessary account of how Walker’s centering the lives of Black women has transformed literature. Accessibly written, this book will engage both longtime fans and those new to Walker’s writing.” * Library Journal *“Tillet’s passionate insights successfully imbue a classic novel with modern relevance.” * Publishers Weekly *“Tillet delves into the backstory of the novel, explores why Walker’s book continues to resonate, and explains how the literary work became a cultural phenomenon, all while masterfully weaving together personal, cultural, and historical conversations about the text…” * Garden & Gun *“This is a gripping and many-layered account of Walker’s life and her literary inspirations that continue to inspire subsequent generations and influencers, not least members of the #MeToo movement with its focus on addressing sexual and gender-based violence... an enthralling and emotional read.” * New York Journal of Books *
£14.99
Hachette Children's Group A Childs Christmas in Wales
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 *
£7.59
Hodder & Stoughton Aspects of the Novel
Book SynopsisFull of Forster''s renowned wit and perceptiveness, ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL offers a rare insight into the art of fiction from one of our greatest novelists.''His is a book to encourage dreaming.'' Virginia Woolf Forster pares down the novel to its essential elements as he sees them: story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern and rhythm. He illustrates each aspect with examples from their greatest exponents, not hesitating as he does so to pass controversial judgement on the works of, among others, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens and Henry James.Trade ReviewHis is a book to encourage dreaming. * Virginia Woolf *
£16.19
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Devils Lusts and Strange Desires
Book SynopsisNOMINATED FOR THE H.R.F. KEATING AWARD, 2022. My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle may they never give me peace' Patricia Highsmith (New Year's Eve, 1947). Made famous by the great success of her psychological thrillers, The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith is renowned as one of the most influential and celebrated modern writers. However, there has never been a clear picture of the woman behind the books. The relationship between Highsmith's lesbianism, her fraught personality by parts self-destructive and malicious and her fiction, has been largely ignored by biographers in the past. As an openly homosexual writer, she wrote the seminal lesbian love story Carol for which she would be venerated, in modern times, as a radical exponent of the LGBTQ+ community. Alas, her status as an LGBTQ+ icon is underminedTrade ReviewThis book is as snappy as an alligator … those who wish to see Patricia Highsmith devoured will no doubt applaud it. * Mail on Sunday *What makes the present biography poignant, is that there’s no redemption for a life of restlessness, despair, and torturous, doomed affairs. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Serial biographer Richard Bradford has written a captivating biography that carves out its own space... Bradford entertainingly deduces aspects of her literary characters from Highsmith’s own experiences… His lucidity is evident, his research thorough and his writing always immensely readable. Anyone interested in Highsmith would enjoy this book... * The Sydney Morning Herald *Bradford’s comprehensive investigations into the devils, lusts and strange desires in the works and life of Patricia Highsmith inspire further reading of her masterpieces. * Out in Perth *Bradford writes in this engrossing biography, “an incomparable individual,” for she was—among other things—an alcoholic and an equal-opportunity hater (…) he gives careful attention to her individual books, praising some, criticizing others (“ponderous and fatiguing”). Though it breaks little new ground, the book is a happy mixture of biography and criticism. Near its end, Bradford, in judgment, refers to Highsmith's "execrable true self.” Readers will find it hard to disagree. * Booklist *Bradford’s caustic wit helps to make this shortish book an entertaining summary of Highsmith’s life. * Daily Express *In this centenary year of her birth, her satisfyingly ruthless biographer Richard Bradford sets out the essence of her character and lifestyle in four-and-a-half withering introductory pages, to whet (or perhaps stifle) our appetites. * Daily Mail *Tom Ripley, described by Richard Bradford as 'one of the most fascinating exercises in autobiographical fiction ever produced', is a fraudster, psychopath and murderer who remains remote from the suffering he causes and gets no evident pleasure from his achievements. The Ripliad, as the series is known, makes bleak and compulsive reading, and so too does Bradford's biography... Bradford is less concerned with making sense of Highsmith than with making sense of her novels, and in this he succeeds handsomely. * Oldie *The outrageous stories Professor Bradford chooses to tell about her have all been told before, by her previous biographers, but are well worth hearing again, like a much-loved album of greatest hits. * The Mail on Sunday *There have already been two significant biographies of Highsmith - Andrew Wilson's Beautiful Shadow (2003) and Joan Schenkar's The Talented Miss Ripley (2009). Bradford thus covers a lot of already familiar ground but benefits from producing a book in the centenary of Highsmith's birth as well as a more concise biography. * The Canberra Times *Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires is certainly an engrossing book. * The New Criterion *Bradford’s biography employs a more critical approach than previous studies on Highsmith. * The Dallas Morning News *Drawing on her lifelong diaries, Richard Bradford's biography is the first to closely examine the relationship between Highsmith's troubled life and her brilliant, daring fiction. [...] this well-researched book is a must for any fan of film noir or crime fiction. * The Lady *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. The Beginning 2. Barnard 3. Boarding the Train 4. Yaddo and Consequences 5. Carol 6. Ellen 7. Ripley 8. Marijane 9. ‘So Much in Love’ 10. Eccentricity 11. France 12. Animals and Us 13. ‘It’s Good You Never Had Children’ 14. Her Last Loves 15. ‘I’m Sick of the Jews!’ 16. Those Who Walk Away Primary Sources Suggested Further Reading Index
£12.34
Edinburgh University Press Feminism and Womens Writing
Book SynopsisThis book introduces you clearly and succinctly to the ways in which feminist ideas have transformed the form and content of British women's fiction and non-fiction writing.
£17.09
Edinburgh University Press Scottish Gothic
Book SynopsisWritten from various critical standpoints by internationally renowned scholars, 'Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion' interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
Book SynopsisThese comparative essays explore the shared terrain of these modernist women writers and shed new light on their 'curious & thrilling' literary relationship.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and
Book SynopsisRe-examines Charles Dickens's under-recognised importance to nineteenth-century and contemporary understandings of the arts
£127.50
Edinburgh University Press Hardy Conrad and the Senses
Book SynopsisThis book reads the highly descriptive impressionist writings of Hardy and Conrad together in the light of a shared attention to sight and sound.
£24.69
