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Book SynopsisVirginia Woolf was a feminist and a bohemian but without her servants cooking, cleaning and keeping house - she might never have managed to write.Mrs Woolf and The Servants explores the hidden history of service. Through Virginia Woolf's extensive diaries and letters and brilliant detective work, Alison Light chronicles the lives of those forgotten women who worked behind the scenes in Bloomsbury, and their fraught relations with one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.Trade ReviewFascinating, beautifully written and meticulously researched * Literary Review *An absorbing investigation, serious, radical and feminist in its politics, entertaining in its delivery * The Independent *Offers us an invaluable glimpse into the hidden history of domestic service in an absorbing narrative, beautifully written with the sensibility of a poet * The Times *A compelling portrait of how rich and poor women of this time were locked into a strange and pernicious symbiosis, and a vital warning against social inequality * Telegraph *An absorbing investigation, serious, radical and feminist in its politics, entertaining in its delivery * The Independent *

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Book SynopsisJames''s correspondents included presidents and prime ministers, painters and great ladies, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton. This fully-annotated selection from James''s eloquent correspondence allows the writer to reveal himself and the fascinating world in which he lived. The letters provide a rich and fascinating source for James'' views on his own works, on the literary craft, on sex, politics and friendship. Together they constitute, in Philip Horne''s own words, James'' ''real and best biography''.

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Book SynopsisNobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works are available in Penguin Modern Classics.

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Book SynopsisE.M. Forster''s Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at the time of publication, had only recently begun to enjoy serious academic consideration. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Oliver Stallybrass, and features a new preface by Frank Kermode.First given as a series of lectures at Cambridge University, Aspects of the Novel is Forster''s analysis of this great literary form. Here he rejects the ''pseudoscholarship'' of historical criticism - ''that great demon of chronology'' - that considers writers in terms of the period in which they wrote and instead asks us to imagine the great novelists working together in a single room. He discusses aspects of people, plot, fantasy and rhythm, making illuminating comparisons between novelists such as Proust and James, Dickens and Thackeray, Eliot and Dostoyevsky - the features shared by their books and the ways in which they differ. Written in

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Book SynopsisA man's perennial quest for the unattainable, Black Rose also brings alive the heady idealism and the charged years when India was struggling to be free.

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking new look at American novelist Willa Cather''s creative process What would Willa Cather''s widely read and cherished novels have looked like if she had never met magazine editor and copywriter Edith Lewis? In this groundbreaking book on Cather''s relationship with her life partner, author Melissa J. Homestead counters the established portrayal of Cather as a solitary genius and reassesses the role that Lewis, who has so far been rendered largely invisible by scholars, played in shaping Cather''s work. Inviting Lewis to share the spotlight alongside this pivotal American writer, Homestead argues that Lewis was not just Cather''s companion but also her close literary collaborator and editor. Drawing on an array of previously unpublished sources, Homestead skillfully reconstructs Cather and Lewis''s life together, from their time in New York City to their travels in the American Southwest that formed the basis of the novels The Professor''s House and Death Comes for the Archbishop. After Cather''s death and in the midst of the Cold War panic over homosexuality, the story of her life with Edith Lewis could not be told, but by telling it now, Homestead offers a refreshing take on lesbian life in early twentieth-century America.Trade ReviewThe Only Wonderful Things opens up new ways for critics and biographers to read love, intimacy, and creative partnership in the queer archives. * Jada Ach, Arizona State University, Western American Literature *The Only Wonderful Things paves the way for further studies depicting the partnerships that sustain and shape the lives of writers—studies that, like this one, avoid prioritizing one partner over the other and instead position writers and their partners as coequals. * Kelsey Squire, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association *By demonstrating how some of Cather's most powerful, compressed sentences—the style for which she was celebrated—were in fact the result of revisions by Lewis, Homestead reassesses the nature of Cather's authorship, not diminishing individual creativity but illuminating the power of collaboration. In a literary world in which single authorship is most prized, in which the lone genius produces masterwork, Homestead demonstrates the efficacy of another form of artistry generated by creative and professional reciprocity. * Jennifer Haytock, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *Homestead's greatest contribution is how intensely she examines the final years of Cather's life through Lewis....Homestead honors Lewis's pain with tenderness and reverence, prioritizing space within the narrative to allow the grieving Lewis to be seen fully and truthfully as the widow she was. * Charmion Gustke, Resources for American Literary Study *In Homestead's book, Cather's partner Edith Lewis emerges as a fascinating figure: intellectually sophisticated, professionally accomplished, and socially skilled...Described by a coworker as 'the best boss I ever had, the most intelligent, the most just, the kindest, and the bluntest,' Lewis brought these qualities to the editing of Cather's most celebrated novels. * Evan Carton, Provincetown Independent *This work is critical for scholars of Cather as well as those interested in the relationship between these two accomplished women. * Dr. Jillian L. Wenburg, Park University and Johnson County Community College, Nebraska History Magazine *This is a masterpiece of scholarly literary biography. * CHOICE *Homestead is the first to recover the central and influential role Lewis played in Cather's life and in her writing career ... this meticulously researched book is a very important addition to the literature on Cather. * C. Johanningsmeier, CHOICE *This book is a meticulously researched portrait of the life that Cather and Lewis shared ... The Only Wonderful Things gives us a fascinating portrait not only of a marriage but of American culture at a particular time and place. * Andrew Holleran, The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide *At last! — an in-depth look at how Edith Lewis, the woman with whom Willa Cather lived in domestic partnership for almost forty years, was central to both her life and her literary career. By foregrounding the crucial role played by Lewis (remarkable in her own right), Homestead gives us valuable new insights into the way Cather, the artist, worked and the way Cather, the woman who loved women, lived her life. * Lillian Faderman, author of To Believe In Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America — a History *Melissa Homestead has accomplished something beautiful and profound: she has recovered a decades-long relationship that has been ignored and minimized, introducing us to the complex life of Edith Lewis and reframing what we thought we knew about Willa Cather and her writing. The research is remarkable, the product of years of dogged work, and it is woven together to tell a story of love and creativity that we all need to know. I cherish the book and the vision it offers. * Andrew Jewell, co-editor of The Complete Letters of Willa Cather *This book is cause for celebration...For decades, the Cather industrial complex, skittish that any hint of sapphism might tarnish the reputation of Nebraska's first lady of letters, seemed eager to downplay the significance of the woman Cather chose as her literary executor and trustee...Melissa Homestead's long-awaited book is a truly wonderful thing for Cather studies. * Marilee Lindemann, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Nebraska, New England, New York: Mapping the Foreground of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis's Creative Partnership Chapter 2: Office Bohemia: At Home in Greenwich Village, At Work in the Magazines Chapter 3: "Our Wonderful Adventures in the Southwest": Willa Cather and Edith Lewis's Southwestern Collaborations Chapter 4: "The Thing Not Named": Edith Lewis's Advertising Career and Willa Cather's Fiction and Celebrity in the 1920s Chapter 5: "Edith and I hope to get away to Grand Manan": Work, Play, and Community at Whale Cove Chapter 6: "We are the only wonderful things": The Late Lives and Deaths of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis Epilogue: The Edith Lewis Ghost Notes

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Book SynopsisToday, we do not expect a symptomatic reading to refer to bodily symptoms, or a literary dissection to be more than metaphorical. But this was not always true. In Romantic Autopsy, Arden Hegele considers a moment at the turn of the nineteenth century, when literature and medicine seemed embattled in rivalry, to find that the two fields collaborated to develop interpretive analogies that saw literary texts as organic bodies and anatomical features as legible texts. Together, Romantic readers and doctors elaborated protocols of diagnosis-practices for interpretation that could be used to diagnose disease, and to understand fiction and poetry.This volume puts essential works of British Romantic literature that seem at first to have little to do with medicine, such as the lyrics of William Wordsworth, the elegies of Percy Shelley and Alfred Tennyson, and the novels of Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and Mary Shelley, back into conversation with emergent medical disciplines of the period -- anatomy, pathology, psychiatry, and semiology. Poems and novels, Hegele argues, were historically understood through techniques designed for the analysis of disease; meanwhile, autopsy reports and case histories adopted stylistic features associated with literature. Countering the assumption of a growing specialization in Romanticism, these practices suggest that symptomatic reading (treating a text''s superficial signs as evidence of deeper meaning), a practice still used and debated today, might have originated from Romantic diagnostics. The first study of the interconnected literary and medical analytics of British Romanticism, Romantic Autopsy charts an important history underlying our own approaches to literary analysis.Trade ReviewAn exhilarating and original book that brings together lyric poetry, the novel, and the history of medicine, Arden Hegele's Romantic Autopsy makes a persuasive case for the shared "protocols of diagnosis" that directed the reading of bodies and texts alike in the Romantic period. Hegele's illuminating close reading anchors a powerful argument for an interdisciplinary approach to literature and medicine that prioritizes form, figure, and genre. This is an exciting and impressive debut. * Daniel Wright, University of Toronto *With learning and verve, Romantic Autopsy redeems and revitalizes the practice of symptomatic reading, providing a subtle, sensitive account of the practice's late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century origins. Arden Hegele offers a persuasive and original account of how much the authors and the medical practitioners of this period learned from one another's diagnostic procedures as she recovers now-forgotten affinities between practices of interpretation and strategies of medical examination. This is a major contribution to both Romantic literary studies and the medical humanities * Deidre Lynch, Harvard University *Arden Hegele mobilizes startling original evidence that Romantic-era literary and clinical interpretations of illness and death arose together, entwined, irrevocably shaping one another, their shared textual practices giving voice to otherwise inarticulable thought. From early in its history, Hegele proposes, the practice of medicine has been fundamentally a narrative, and even poetic, act. Hegele's comprehensive scholarship supports her break-through findings, paving the way for even more fundamental discoveries about form, close reading, and healing. Simultaneously an authoritative reference work and a breath-taking conceptual flag planted in the fields of medical humanities and critical reading theory, Romantic Autopsy opens wide the quest for deepening the readings of the future. * Rita Charon, Columbia University *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Reading Texts, Reading Bodies: Protocols of Diagnosis in Medicine and Literature 1: Hermeneutic Dissection in the Lyric 2: Postmortem, Elegy, and Genius 3: The Madness of Free Indirect Style 4: Unreliable Semiology from Frankenstein to Freud Coda: Reviving Symptomatic Reading

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Book SynopsisLove, Subjectivity, and Truth engages in a lively manner with the overlapping areas of philosophy and literature, philosophy of emotions, and existential thought. Subjective truth, a phrase used in Proust''s novel In Search of Lost Time, is rich with existential connotations. It invokes Kierkegaard above all, but significantly Nietzsche as well, and other philosophers who thematize love, subjectivity, and truth. In Search of Lost Time is especially concerned about what we can know about others through love. Insofar as it conveys and analyzes experience, the novel is capable not only of exploring existential issues but also of doing something like phenomenology. What we know is shaped by our way of knowing, just as the properties of visible, colored objects are determined by the wavelengths of light our eyes can see. Nowhere does the subjective basis of our awareness appear so evident as it does when we view things through loving eyes. In Proust''s novel we find skeptical views about loTrade ReviewIn this lucid and beautifully written book, Rick Anthony Furtak explores the infinite folds of the heart as it closes and opens to reality -- the reality of the world, and the reality of the self. His inquiry into the truthfulness of love in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu crosses seamlessly between literature, philosophy, and psychology, illuminating the grounds of perception and value. * Yi-Ping Ong, Associate Professor of Comparative Thought and Literature, Johns Hopkins University *A hundred years on, Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu remains the leading candidate for The Great Philosophical Novel. Rick Furtak has written a great philosophical book to accompany that novel, a book that helps us navigate the complex, often contradictory statements of Proust's narrator and reveals the coherent philosophical sensibility that lies beneath. Furtak is the ideal guide to a potentially intimidating but profoundly rewarding and enriching literary work. Readers will find it both informative and inspiring, and will be inspired by it, I hope, to return to Proust's novel. * Troy Jollimore, Author of Love's Vision and Earthly Delights: Poems *Once in a rare while, a book comes along that makes you rethink everything you believed about Proust; Love, Subjectivity, and Truth is just such a book. It is original, persuasive, and as clear as it is erudite, and it has persuaded me to see matters of love and knowledge in an entirely new way. Elegantly written, and even moving at times, this is the best book on Proust I've read in many years. * Joshua Landy, Author of The World According to Proust *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Love and the Meaning of Life 2. On Possibility and Significance 3. Skepticism and Perspective: The Elusiveness of Truth 4. On Loving Badly and Discovering Truth Nonetheless 5.

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Book SynopsisGet to grips with set texts and be fully prepared for the AS/A Level exam with the Modern Languages Oxford Literature Companions. The Companions are written by experienced lecturers, teachers and examiners and provide comprehensive coverage of characters, themes, plot, language and context with activities in German to consolidate your knowledge of the text. There are also extensive sections on exam preparation and response planning, with a bank of annotated sample answers and practice questions. This guide covers Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink. Modern Languages Oxford Literature Companions are also available for selected French and Spanish set texts.

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Book SynopsisThis volume gathers a selection of Edward Thomas's critical writings on poetry from the period 1899 to 1907.Trade ReviewLongley, more effectively than any other of Thomas's interpreters, has introduced him to a wider audience while setting a high scholarly standard in her edition of his poems. * Andrew Motion, TLS *Table of ContentsAbbreviations Textual Note Introduction Writings on Poetry Appendix: Contemporary Poets Reviewed by Edward Thomas Chronology Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe most celebrated horror story ever written. The dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs and animates a creature from dead body parts - with catastrophic results.Trade Reviewprobably the most brilliantly comprehensive introduction to Frankenstein that I have ever read. Even if you've read the book ... ou have to buy this finely produced OUP annotated edition to enjoy Nick Grooms distillation of Frankenstein's ideas and challenges: especially so as this is the first raw 1818 edition." * Magonia Review *wonderful * Oliver Tearle, Interesting Literature *a quality edition ... it uses the original 1818 text and ... it tells us so much about the author and her history; it is both a novel and a very useful reference book. And what is more, it both looks and feels good - well worthy of a place on your shelves. * Peter Tyers, Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation *

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Book SynopsisThis Companion brings together a wealth of information about the perennially fascinating lives and writings of the Brontë sisters. In addition, wide-ranging articles enable the reader to see them in their literary and social context, and to trace their enduring influence on the work of other writers.Trade ReviewThe anniversary edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës is a carefully compiled, extended reissue of the comprehensive volume of scholarship first published in 2003. Its timely publication contributes to the exciting increase in scholarship on the Brontë siblings to commemorate the bicentenaries of their births. * Tamara S. Wagner, 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries of the Early Modern Era *Brontë scholars will be pleased to see Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith's magisterial The Oxford Companion to the Brontës: Anniversary edn., with A-Z entries for almost anything, as well as a chronology, maps and longer entries for broader topics. * Pamela K. Gilbert, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *I have spent many happy hours dipping in and out and reading it over the last few months wondering where to start to extoll is virtues and joys This really is a glorious book, it is a treasure trove of information and a must have for all Bronte lovers. * Random Jottings *Wonderfully detailed * Christopher Hirst and Christina Patterson, Independent *This book is a must...A treasure trove of a book * Brian Maye, Irish Times *impressively academic and comprehensive * Times Literary Supplement *It's as authoritative as you'd expect, with more than 2,000 entries ... Even if you are not an academic seeking facts, you could browse absorbingly for hours. * Harry Mead, The Northern Echo *Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceEditors and ContributorsClassified Contents ListAbbreviationsChronologyMapsNote to the ReaderTHE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE BRONTËS: A-ZDialect and Obsolete WordsBibliography

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Book SynopsisA Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe or plum pudding. This edition reprints the story alongside Dickens's four other Christmas Books: The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man.Trade ReviewAnother brilliant edition of the timeless classic. * Paul Norman, Books Monthly *A lovely new hardback edition from Oxford World's Classics. It's beautifully produced, with some of the original illustrations for each story, and is one of those volumes that is a physical pleasure to read... Id say it is perfect Christmas gift material for any Dickens fan, except Id never be willing to give my copy away! * Leah Galbraith, Goodreads *Table of ContentsA Christmas CarolThe ChimesThe Cricket on the HearthThe Battle of LifeThe Haunted Man

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Book SynopsisA volume on translation and language in China from the fifteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. It uses fictional narrative to discuss translators who worked between Chinese and (mostly) non-European languages and studies dictionaries, language primers, grammars, poetry collections, and conversation manuals.Trade ReviewIllegible Cities is an important work of history, arguing against the temptation in Sinology to reduce pre-twentieth-century China to what occurred in one language alone * Lucas Klein, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *This reading exemplifies the most admirable characteristics of Nappi's book: its richness, interdisciplinarity, and postmodern spirit. Translating Early Modern China is not a strictly academic book that only scholars could read and appreciate. * Elisa Frei, Catholic Theology and Church History, Goethe-Universität Frankfurtam Main, Comitatus *This book highlights the strategic linguistic tactics Chinese rulers continue to employ to control a nation of diverse religions and cultures. Unique but difficult to categorize, this book is a welcome addition to scholarship on not only Chinese history but also the art of linguistics and translation theory. * K. Liu, CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface: On History and Its Opposites Introduction: On Cities and Their Opposites Gathering 1: Glossary (1578) 2: Documents (1389/1608) 3: Grammar (1678) 4: Primer (1730) 5: Poems (1848) Dispersal Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe fifth of six volumes that will present in their entirety Frances Burney's journals and letters from July 1786, when she assumed the position of Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, to her resignation in July 1791. This volume brings together the letters and journals of 1789.Trade ReviewThe Facinations of this volume lie in these occasional flashes of the Burney of Evelina and Cecilia, and the way, almost by accident, she reveals court life at its most regressive - snobbish, insular, gossipy. * Kate Chisholm, Times Literary Supplement *Immaculately edited, generously footnoted and with a comprehensive introduction. * Maggie Lane, Burney Letter *Table of ContentsCOURT JOURNALS AND LETTERS OF FRANCES BURNEY

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Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms expands the scope of modernism beyond its traditional focus to explore the contributions of artists from regions like Spain, the Balkans, China, Japan, India, Vietnam, and Nigeria. Together, these essays offer the most comprehensive worldwide examination of modernist studies available. Topics covered include: Richard Wright and photographic modernism; poetry of the Caribbean; Chinese modernism and Lu Xun''s Ah Q-The Real Story; Ben Okri and magical realism; aesthetic autonomy in Paris, Italy, Russia; Cuba''s avant-gardes; geography of Hebrew and Yiddish modernism in Europe; Japanese modernism in works by Kitagawa Fuyuhiko and Yokomitsu Riichi; and South African cinema.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Mark Wollaeger ; Part I : Opening Places, Opening Methods ; 1. The Balkans Uncovered: Towards Historie Croisee of Modernism ; Sanja Bahun ; 2 . Caribbean Modernism: Plantation to Planetary ; Mary Lou Emery ; Part II : Temporality ; 3. Berber Poetry and the Issue of Derivation: Alternate Symbolist ; Trajectories ; Edwige Tamalet Talbayev ; 4. The Temporalities of Modernity in Spanish American Modernismo : ; Dario's Bourgeois King ; Gerard Aching ; 5. Nation Time: Richard Wright, Black Power, and Photographic ; Modernism ; Sara Blair ; 6. Chinese Modernism, Mimetic Desire, and European Time ; Eric Hayot ; Part III : Whose Modernism? ; 7. The Will to Allegory and the Origin of Chinese Modernism: ; Rereading Lu Xun's Ah Q-Th e Real Story ; Xudong Zhang ; 8. Neither Mirror nor Mimic: Transnational Reading and Indian ; Narratives in English ; Jessica Berman ; 9. Modernism and African Literature ; Neil Lazarus ; Part IV: Forms and Modes ; 10. " Petro-Magic Realism": Ben Okri's Infl ationary Modernism ; Sarah L. Lincoln ; 11. Little Magazines, World Form ; Eric Bulson ; 12. Poetry, Modernity, Globalization ; Jahan Ramazani ; Part V: Comparative Avant-Gardes ; 13. Futurist Geographies: Uneven Modernities and the Struggle for ; Aesthetic Autonomy: Paris, Italy, Russia, 1909-1914 ; Harsha Ram ; 14. Modernity's Labors in Latin America: Th e Cultural Work of Cuba's ; Avant-Gardes ; Vicky Unruh ; 15. Queer Internationalism and Modern Vietnamese Aesthetics ; Ben Tran ; Part VI: Forms of Sociality ; 16. Cosmopolitanism and Modernism ; Janet Lyon ; 17. Jean Rhys: Left Bank Modernist as Postcolonial Intellectual ; Peter Kalliney ; 18. The Urban Literary Cafe and the Geography of Hebrew and Yiddish ; Modernism in Europe ; Shachar Pinsker ; Part VII : Locating the Transnational ; 19. Th e Circulation of Interwar Anglophone and Hispanic ; Modernisms ; Gayle Rogers ; 20. Scandinavian Modernism: Stories of the Transnational ; and the Discontinuous ; Anna Westerstahl Stenport ; 21. World Modernisms, World Literature, and Comparativity ; Susan Stanford Friedman ; Part VIII : Translation Zones: Culture, Language, Media ; 22. Modernism Disfi gured: Turkish Literature and the "Other West" ; Nergis Erturk ; 23. Modernism's Translations ; Rebecca Beasley ; 24. Japanese Modernism and "Cine-Text": Fragments and Flows at ; Empire's Edge in Kitagawa Fuyuhiko and Yokomitsu Riichi ; William O. Gardner ; Part IX : Film as Vernacular Modernism ; 25. T racking Cinema on a Global Scale ; Miriam Bratu Hansen ; 26. Visions of Modernity in Colonial India: Cinema,Women, and the City ; Manishita Dass ; 27. Vernacular Modernism and South African Cinema: Capitalism, ; Crime, and Styles of Desire ; Rosalind C. Morris ; Part X : Afterword ; 28. Modernist Studies and Inter-Imperiality in the Longue Duree ; Laura Doyle ; Notes on Contributors ; Index

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Book SynopsisPublished in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical ''A to Z'' of drinking shattered London''s reputation as a clean-living adventurer and massively successful author of such books as White Fang and The Call of the Wild. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade Reviewone of the most memorable of all boozing odysseys' Times Higher Education Supplement'It is an extraordinary work, boastful and denying by turns ... suspiciously protesting in its detestation of alcohol, but also wholeheartedly committed to the machismo of hard drinking.' Brian Morton, The Times

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Book SynopsisThe nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography, these letters give us unique insights into his life, and are essential reading for Dickens fans everywhere. Whether you dip in or read straight through, this selection of his letters creates afresh the brilliance of being Dickens, and the sheer pleasure of being in his company.Trade ReviewIn short, the whole book bursts with the author's energy, and you will love him and know him better after reading even a few of these letters. If you don't buy it now, or put it on your Christmas list, it can only be because you already have a copy. * Guardian, Nicholas Lezard *This is Dickens by Dickens. Do not miss it. * Sunday Times Magazine, John Carey *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; Note on the Text ; Select Bibliography ; A Chronology of Charles Dickens ; Abbreviations and Symbols ; SELECTED LETTERS ; Index

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Book SynopsisA compilation of 19th-century French haunting tales. Featuring such authors as Balzac, Merimee, Dumas, Verne, and Maupassant, this book offers readers some of the more memorable stories in the genre.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction by Joan C. Kessler Charles Nodier Smarra , or The Demons of the Night Honore de Balzac The Red Inn Prosper Merimee The Venus of Ille Theophile Gautier The Dead in Love Arria Marcella Alexandre Dumas The Slap of Charlotte Corday Gerard de Nerval Aurelia, or Dream and Life Jules Verne Master Zacharius Villiers de l'Isle-Adam The Sign Vera Guy de Maupassant The Horla Who Knows? Marcel Schwob The Veiled Man Notes

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Book SynopsisThis study of works by five 20th-century Italian writers, investigates the abiding influence of the Greek and Roman classics, and their rich legacy in our own day. The writers studied include Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino.

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Book SynopsisThis work builds an argument about liberalism and the realist movement by shifting the focus from the rise of both in the 18th century, to their breakdown at the end of the 19th century. The decline of realism and the eroding logic of liberalism is related to the question of Jewish characters.

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Book SynopsisUsing concepts from attachment theory, D.H. Lawrence and Attachment presents innovative readings of Lawrence’s fiction. Ronald Granofsky teases out hidden patterns in Lawrence’s work, deepening our understanding of his fictional characters and revealing new significance to key thematic concerns like gender identification, marriage, and class.Trade Review"Ron Granofsky is an astute psychologist and literary critic in one. D.H. Lawrence and Attachment is an incisive, persuasive examination of the tricky lifelong balancing acts between merger and separation in Lawrence's life and works and, by extension, our own." Judith Ruderman, author of Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture "Offering a perceptive reading of Lawrence’s poetry, essays, and fiction, Granofsky considers issues such as individuation, narcissism, masculinity, estrangement, and maternal bonds in chapters that focus on abandonment anxiety, gender identification, marriage, class, attachment to home, and otherness. An authoritative, well-grounded, and sensitive inquiry." Choice

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Book SynopsisThis new collection on Michael Ondaatje’s work – the first in twenty years – offers an innovative analysis of the author’s oeuvre from 1967 to the present. In twenty essays, contributors explore Ondaatje’s poetry, novels, and work in film, highlighting the transnational, postcolonial, and diasporic issues apparent in his writings.Trade Review“Chock full of complex theoretical language, Do You Want to Be Happy and Write? will likely appeal to academic audiences (and determined CanLit enthusiasts). But general readers may find this insightful analysis a welcome supplement to their continued enjoyment of Ondaatje’s enduring works.” Literary Review of Canada

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive history takes us from the birth of the novel in the 18th century through its growing pains in the 19th century to its angst-ridden maturity in the 20th century.Trade ReviewA highly recommended title which shouldn't be missed. The Midwest Book Review Useful for research. Library Journal

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Book SynopsisIn the chaos of early 199s Russia, a paralyzed veteran’s wife and stepdaughter conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him—and his pension—alive, until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die is an instant classic of post-Soviet Russian literature.Trade ReviewDarkly sardonic . . . . oddly timely, for there are all sorts of understated hints about voter fraud, graft, payoffs, and the endless promises of politicians who have no intention of keeping them. It is also deftly constructed, portraying a world and a cast of characters who are caught between the orderly if drab world of old and the chaos of the 'new rich' in a putative democracy. . . . Slavnikova is a writer American readers will want to have more of. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *Rather than celebrate the crumbling of walls, Slavnikova’s novel shows us all the Lenin statues still in place. It portrays a culture chained to old realities, unable to establish a new understanding of itself. This is a funhouse mirror worth looking into, especially in today’s United States with its alternative facts, unpoetic assertions, and morbid relationship with the past. -- Leeore Schnairsohn * Los Angeles Review of Books *The Man Who Couldn’t Die, lucidly translated by Marian Schwartz, will resound with American readers. Bristling with voter fraud, fake news, and the cozy top-and-tail of media moguls and politicians, Slavnikova’s book is fluent in new language of the damaged reality principle. -- Olivia Parkes * The Baffler *The Man Who Couldn’t Die is a Gogolian portrait of the Kharitonovs, a Moscow family who 'had not been handed any party favors at capitalism’s kiddie party' after the fall of the Soviet Union. -- Natasha Randall * Times Literary Supplement *The Man Who Couldn’t Die is an overlooked masterpiece of post-Soviet prose by one of contemporary Russia’s most important authors. It reveals how Slavnikova’s descriptions (and Schwartz’s English equivalent) belong alongside those of Vladimir Nabokov, Iurii Olesha, and Nikolai Gogol as truly revolutionary in Russian prose. -- Benjamin Sutcliffe, Miami UniversityThe Man Who Couldn’t Die is a wonderful depiction of a society in flux, and of the people caught up in these waves of change. * Tony's Reading List *Table of ContentsIntroduction by Mark LipovetskyThe Man Who Couldn’t Die

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Book SynopsisThe lineage novel flourished in Korea from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Ksenia Chizhova foregrounds lineage novels and the domestic world in which they were read to recast the social transformations of Chosŏn Korea and the development of early modern Korean literature.Trade ReviewKinship Novels of Early Modern Korea is a methodologically brilliant introduction to Korean lineage novels and the domestic worlds in which they were produced and consumed. Written as women were becoming ever more constrained by patriarchal kinship ideals, lineage novels are a rich archive of the often unruly emotional responses to the affective restructuring of the domestic realm. -- Maram Epstein, author of Competing Discourses: Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late-Imperial Chinese FictionKinship Novels of Early Modern Korea sets an admirable standard for emerging studies of premodern Korean literature with its in-depth historical analysis, theoretical sophistication, and measured, clear writing style. -- Sunyoung Park, author of The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea offers a captivating story about the rise and fall of the lineage novel, walking us through the ways in which the kinship feelings and practices of elite families cast not only the form and content of this genre but also its production and circulation. Compelling testimony of how our deep understanding of history can help us appreciate the aesthetics of bygone days and why literature still matters. -- Yoon Sun Yang, author of From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial KoreaIn this sweeping account of the political, social, and cultural life of seventeenth- to early twentieth-century Korea, Ksenia Chizhova provocatively asks, How did Koreans do kinship? Her fascinating answers offer glimpses into the unruly emotions of everyday life and the oft-tumultuous relations between genders and generations. This is early modern Korea as never before seen and literary history at its best. -- Andre Schmid, author of Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919Eloquent, detailed, and original, this book’s account of the lineage trope, vernacular writing, gender, and readership sheds new light on the early modern novel in East Asian literary history. -- Ning Ma, author of The Age of Silver: The Rise of the Novel East and WestAn impressive, well researched book that opens a new vista on the history of premodern Korean literature. . . [Chizhova’s] work deserves highest praise for its meticulous scholarship and fascinating narrative. It will interest scholars and students of Korean literature as well as sociologists/anthropologists who want to learn about the intricate human relationships that reigned in the daily life of elite households in eighteenth-century Korea. -- Martina Deuchler * The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *This book is a sophisticated and engaging study of early modern Korean lineage novels, and it is highly recommended to anybody with interest in premodern Korea and East Asia, the gender and language politics of literary traditions, and, incidentally, global histories of the novel. -- Wiebke Denecke * Journal of Asian Studies *Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea is a fascinating read, and Chizhova does an excellent job in outlining the development, structure and history of the lineage novel. -- Tony Malone * Tony's Reading List *Chizhova combines historical and literary criticism superbly, showing broad knowledge of these and other disciplines, especially material culture and gender. Her book is also original in its approach and methodology. -- Francisco Gómez Martos * Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Lineage and the Novel in Chosŏn Korea, 1392–1910Part I: Figurations of Chosŏn Kinship1. The Structure of Kinship: Generational Narratives2. The Texture of Kinship: Vernacular Korean CalligraphyPart II: The Affective Coordinates of Kinship3. Feelings and the Space of the Novel4. Feelings and the Conflicts of KinshipPart III: Reconfiguration5. The Novel Without the LineageNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisLearn about the world''s greatest detective in The Sherlock Holmes Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Sherlock Holmes in this overview guide to the subject, brilliant for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Sherlock Holmes Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Sherlock Holmes, with:- Includes all four novels and 56 short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts- A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout- Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understandingThe Sherl

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Book SynopsisA playful, form-bending novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women''s Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet ''Playful and audacious'' Independent Narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a former lover, Artful slips slyly between fiction and essay, guiding the reader thrillingly through a sequence of ideas on art and literature. With Smith''s trademark humour, inventiveness, poignancy and critical insight, this is unique experiment in form, style, life, love, death, immortality and what art can mean. Based on four electrifying lectures given by the author at Oxford University, and exploring the explosive connections between art, story, memory and grief - Artful is a tidal wave of ideas to blast away the cobwebs and change how you see the world. *****''Artful is a revelation; a new kind of book altogether . . . makes

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Book SynopsisThe New Woman was the symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de siècle .Trade Review'Ann Heilmann's New Woman Fiction: Women Writing Feminism synthesies recent debates on the New Woman fiction, and makes its own distinctive contribution to the growing body of work on this fin de siecle phenomenon. It discusses a wider range of writers and texts than earlier studies of this body of writing, and locates both the writers and texts more clearly and more firmly in the context of late nineteenth 'feminism' than have earlier studies. It also seeks to draw parallels between this 'first wave' of feminism and the 'second wave' feminism of the latter part of the twentieth century. This has the effect of simultaneously broadening and narrowing the corpus of New Woman writing: more texts are put on display, but New Woman writers are more specifically (and perhaps more narrowly) defined as 'committed feminists with a vision of social regeneration through didactic literature [through which] they sought to reach and politicize a mass readership.' This lucid study offers an historically grounded and theoretically informed introduction to an important aspect of the history of women's writing.' - Lyn Pykett, Professor of English, University of Wales, AberystwythTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Regen(d)eration Contesting/Consuming Femininities Keynotes and Discords Marriage and Its Discontents The Crisis of Gender and Sexuality The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman Departures

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Book SynopsisThis landmark book of essays examines the development of women's letter writing from the late fifteenth to the early eighteen century.Trade Review'...a valuable contribution to the fields of women's history, early modern British history, and the history of language...' - Carrie F. Klaus, Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; J .Daybell Reaction, Consolation and Redress in the Letters of the Paston Women; R.Dalrymple Letter Writing by English Noblewomen in the Early Fifteenth Century; J.Ward Commanding Communications: The Fifteenth-Century Letters of the Stonor Women; A.Truelove Female Literary and the Social Conventions of Women's Letter Writing in England, 1540-1603; J.Daybell Deference and Defiance in Women's Letters of the Thynne Family; A.Wall Fighting for Family in a Patronage Society: The Epistolary Armoury of Anne Newdigate (1574-1618); V.Larminie 'How Subject to Interpretation': Lady Arbella Stuart and the Reading of Illness; S.J.Steen Tudor and Stuart Women: Their Family Lives Through Their Letters; R.O'Day Patriarchy, Puritanism and Politics: The Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley (1598-1643); J.Eales 'Doe not supose me a well mortifyed Nun dead to the world': Letter Writing in Early Modern English Convents; C.Walker Gentle Companions: Single Women and Their Letters in Late-Stuart England; S.Whyman 'Begging Pardon for all mistakes and errors in this writing I being a women and doing it myself': Family Narratives in Some Early Eighteenth-Century Letters; A.Laurence Notes and References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on Iris Murdoch's philosophy to explore questions related to the importance of attention in ethics. In doing so, it also engages with Murdoch's ideas about the existence of a moral reality, the importance of love, and the necessity but also the difficulty, for most of us, of fighting against our natural self-centred tendencies.Why is attention important to morality? This book argues that many moral failures and moral achievements can be explained by attention. Not only our actions and choices, but the possibilities we choose among, and even the meaning of what we perceive, are to a large extent determined by whether we pay attention, and what we attend to. In this way, the book argues that attention is fundamental, though often overlooked, in morality. While the book's discussion of attention revolves primarily around Murdoch's thought, it also engages significantly with Simone Weil, who introduced the concept of attention in a spiritual context.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. What is Ethical about Attention? 2. Attention without Self-Concern 3. Attention without Self 4. Self-Knowledge 5. Moral Perception 6. Motivation and Action Coda

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Book SynopsisCandide has been delighting readers since 1759 with its satiric wit, provocations and warnings.Trade Review"I have used this text in Western Civ courses many times. It is definitely the best and most accessible Candide available. The annotations are especially helpful to students (and to their professors)." -- Mark W. McLeod, Gonzaga University "The Norton Critical Edition of Candide is a teaching gem, with clear, unmistakable glosses, an accurate translation and just enough background and criticism for undergraduate study as well as graduate-level reference. This is an excellent start!" -- Frank E. Meek, Colorado Mountain College "An excellent translation with helpful footnote information and background information. And at a most affordable price for students." -- W. M. Howe, Blue Mountain Community College

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Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's celebrated novella is based on the first edition, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1911.

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Book SynopsisThe Norton Critical Edition of this influential Harlem Renaissance novel includes related materials available in no other edition.

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868–69) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations.

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Book SynopsisSince Tolkien, Pratchett, Rowling, Pullman and Meyer, fantasy literature has become one of the most popular genres in the English-speaking world. This book puts this publishing phenomenon in a historical context, suggests different ways of reading and appreciating this literature, and examines some of its varieties and subgenres.Trade Review'Given that genre is really a construction of critics, librarians and booksellers, designed to place books in a way that they can be more easily found by consumers, and that fantasy literature is less easy to define than, say, crime fiction, this companion has a large field to cover and does an admirable job of presenting a good overview of the many authors who fit into this [particular] niche.' Stuart Bentley, Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn; Part I. Histories: 1. Fantasy from Dryden to Dunsany Gary K. Wolfe; 2. Gothic and horror fiction Adam Roberts; 3. American fantasy, 1820–1950 Paul Kincaid; 4. The development of children's fantasy Maria Nikolajeva; 5. Tolkien, Lewis, and the explosion of genre fantasy Edward James; Part II. Ways of Reading: 6. Structuralism Brian Attebery; 7. Psychoanalysis Andrew M. Butler; 8. Political readings Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint; 9. Modernism and postmodernism Jim Casey; 10. Thematic criticism Farah Mendlesohn; 11. The languages of the fantastic Greer Gilman; 12. Reading the fantasy series Kari Maund; 13. Reading the slipstream Gregory Frost; Part III. Clusters: 14. Magical realism Sharon Sieber; 15. Writers of colour Nnedi Okorafor; 16. Quest fantasies W. A. Senior; 17. Urban fantasy Alexander C. Irvine; 18. Dark fantasy and paranormal romance Roz Kaveney; 19. Modern children's fantasy Catherine Butler; 20. Historical fantasy Veronica Schanoes; 21. Fantasies of history and religion Graham Sleight.

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Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers, as well as fresh insights, informed by recent critical theory, that will be of interest to scholars and teachers of the novels.Trade Review'No doubting its success.' The Times Literary Supplement'Strikes an excellent balance between scholarship and accessibility, and between the biographical and the critical.' The Book and Magazine CollectorTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Chronology; List of abbreviations and texts; Preface John O. Jordan; 1. The life and times of Charles Dickens Grahame Smith; 2. From Sketches to Nickleby Robert L. Patten; 3. The middle novels: Chuzzlewit, Dombey, and Copperfield Kate Flint; 4. Moments of decision in Bleak House J. Hillis Miller; 5. Novels of the 1850s: Hard Times, Little Dorrit, and A Tale of Two Cities Hilary Schor; 6. The late novels: Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend Brian Cheadle; 7. Fictions of childhood Robert Newsom; 8. Fictions of the city Murray Baumgarten; 9. Gender, family, and domestic ideology Catherine Waters; 10. Dickens and language Garrett Stewart; 11. Dickens and the form of the novel Nicola Bradbury; 12. Dickens and illustrations Richard Stein; 13. Dickens and theatre John Glavin; 14. Dickens and film Joss Marsh; Selected bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Peru of the near future is in the throes of an insurgency. A revolutionary army is taking on the failing government and the US Marines, and the cities have become vast garbage-strewn slums. In the midst of this, the narrator attempts to reconstruct the story of his friend, a modern revolutionary. In The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, Mario Vargas Llosa offers not just a brilliant psychological portrait, but also a searing account of Latin America''s political scene.

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Book Synopsis''The forerunner of an entire school of African literary art.' Sunday TimesThose men who are history now; did they feel like this? A 1950s Hampstead pub; a freezing night. Lois can''t tear her eyes away from the haunted, restless African man in the corner. Over brandy and stew, she discovers he is in awe of her friend, Panafrica''s greatest political writer and fighter. Their meeting inducts this stranger, Udomo, into London''s revolutionary community of exiled African activists: the start of a life-changing journey. Amidst the internal politics and love affairs, Udomo is inspired by other leaders'' independence uprisings; but when he returns to his native land to overthrow the colonial oppressors, his idealism is put to the ultimate test ... Inspired by Peter Abrahams'' befriending of future African heads of state in mid-century London, A Wreath for Udomo (1956) is a radical lost classic, unforgettably expTrade Review'An African writer, a writer of the world, who opened up in South Africa a path of exploration for us, the writers who have followed the trail he bravely blazed.' - Nadine Gordimer'Abrahams explored with sensitivity and passion, the injustices of apartheid and the complexities of racial politics . An important literary voice.' - New York Times'He writes with vividness and great dignity . The forerunner of an entire school of African literary art.' - Sunday Times'With all that has been written about Africa, hardly anything has been said about the most significant people of all - the African leaders, revolutionaries one moment, Prime Ministers the next. This unusual novel, written with a close and sympathetic knowledge, gives a fascinating insight into these men.' - Observer'Intelligent and exciting . Written with skill and sympathy.' - TLS

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