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Book SynopsisThe letters, many previously unpublished, of Volume 2 (1923–1925) follow Hemingway's literary apprenticeship in expatriate Paris and the experiences that forged his earliest works, including the landmark novel The Sun Also Rises (1926). It features a never-before-published short story that was rejected by Vanity Fair.Trade Review'Hemingway did not want his letters published, but this carefully researched scholarly edition does them justice … devotees will find this and future volumes indispensable.' William Gargan, Library Journal'With more than 6,000 letters accounted for so far, the project to publish Ernest Hemingway's correspondence may yet reveal the fullest picture of the twentieth-century icon that we've ever had. The second volume includes merely 242 letters, a majority published for the first time … readers can watch Hemingway invent the foundation of his legacy in bullrings, bars, and his writing solitude.' Steve Paul, Booklist'The letters to Pound - Hemingway's most important mentor in this period - are highlights of this volume. Bawdy, humorous, linguistically playful.' Literary Review'Roughly written as they are these letters show occasional flashes of true Hemingway … It is fascinating to watch the private rehearsal of what would become public performances.' The Daily Telegraph'Warmly unpretentious and frequently playful.' The Spectator'Most enjoyable …' The Tablet'This second volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the years in which he became himself … His style is at once close to and yet unutterably distant from that of his fiction.' The New York Times'The volume's 242 letters, about two-thirds previously unpublished, provide as complete an account of Hemingway's life during the Paris years as one could ask for.' Star Tribune'For those with a passion for American literary history and an interest in the machinery of fame, these letters, ably and helpfully annotated by a team of scholars led by Sandra Spanier of Penn State University, provide an abundance of raw material and a few hours' worth of scintillating reading.' The Kansas City Star'Amusing, moving and perceptive … this essential volume, beautifully presented and annotated with tremendous care and extraordinary attention to detail, offers readers a Hemingway who is both familiar and new.' Times Literary Supplement'The volume itself is beautifully designed and skillfully edited … As a book, it is perfect.' Los Angeles Review of Books'Two thirds of these have never seen the light of day before. A great continuing literary project.' Buffalo News'The register in which Hemingway writes varies greatly, ranging from telegraphic … excited communications with intimates to formal, correct letters to those with whom he has mainly business - literary or financial - relations. All the magnificent apparatus of the first volume …Summing up: essential.' Choice'… this volume will most likely never be superseded. It is crucial contribution to literary history.' Mark Ott, American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsGeneral editor's preface Sandra Spanier; Acknowledgments; Note on the text; Abbreviations and short titles; Introduction to the volume J. Gerald Kennedy; Chronology; Maps; The letters, 1923–1925; Roster of correspondents; Calendar of letters; Index of recipients; General index.

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Book Synopsis In such classic works as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien depicts a vast, complex world-system. Tolkien''s Middle-earth comes to life with intensely detailed historical, geographical, and multicultural content, which is presented through different poetic forms that combine elements of epic, romance, myth, history, and the modern novel. This book analyzes Tolkien''s project, paying attention to narrative form and its relation to social contexts, while also exploring his broader philosophical conception of history and the role of individual and collective subjects within it. Tolkien''s published and posthumous writings, the film adaptations, and recent scholarship are all examined to provide an enlarged and refined critical perspective of these major works. Drawing upon Marxist literary theory and criticism, Robert T. Tally Jr. calls into question traditional views of race, class, morality, escapism, and fantasy more generally. Through close readings mixed with theoretical speculation, Representing Middle-earth allows readers see Tolkien''s world, as well as our own, in a new light.Trade ReviewIn this original and inspiring book, Robert Tally gives us the Marxist criticism of Tolkien that he has long deserved. Transcending stereotypes fostered equally by piously apostolic readings and academic snobberies, Tally shows us how Tolkien recognized social complexity, experienced history and modernity, and comprehended that even the Orcs want to get away from the Big Bosses. Written in an accessible, involving style, Representing Middle-earth shows us both a Tolkien we did not know before and a world that can tremendously gain from reading Tolkien wisely."—Nicholas Birns,. New York University, author of The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. TolkienTable of Contents Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Perilous Realm in an Era of Multinational Capitalism Strange Bedfellows: Tol­kien and Marxist Literary Criticism Towards a Literary Cartography of ­Middle-earth On the Shadowy Marches of Faërie 1. "Almost it seemed that the words took shape": Narrative, History, and the Desire Called Marx "The theatre of my tale is this earth" In the Hall of Fire "Endless untold stories" 2. Formulae of Power: Generic Discontinuities in the Saga of the Jewels and the Rings Harmonizing Heterogeneous Narrative Paradigms Modern Epics "The starry sky is a map of all possible paths" The Red Book of Westmarch "A more or less mediocre, average English gentleman" The Cauldron of Story 3. Three Rings for the Elven Kings: Trilogizing Tol­kien in Print and Film "There is no real division into 3": Defining Trilogy "The rhythm or ordering of the narrative": Trilogizing The Lord of the Rings "Too much hobbitry": The Hobbit as a Film Trilogy An Artificially Ordered World 4. The Geopolitical Aesthetic of ­Middle-earth: Space, Cinema, and the World System in The Lord of the Rings "I wisely started with a map" The Eye of Sauron The Conspiracy of the Ring Geopolitical Fantasy 5. The Politics of Character: The Dark Lord, the ­Witch-Queen, and the White Wizard Sauron, Healer of ­Middle-earth Galadriel, ­Witch-Queen of Lórien Song of Saruman "Satan fell": Ethics as False Consciousness 6. Let Us Now Praise Famous Orcs: Simple Humanity in ­Middle-earth's Inhuman Creatures "Whence they came or what they were" No More Big Bosses! Human, ­All-Too-Human Orcs' Untold Stories 7. Demonizing the Enemy: Monstrosity, Ethics, and the Sense of the World Wars Manufacturing Monsters Sympathy for the Devils After the Wars 8. "Places where the stars are strange": Fantasy, Utopia, and Critique Surveying the Great Schism "The world as it appears under the sun" Reflections on Magic Beyond Good and Evil The Fantastic Is Good to Think With Conclusion: "We should not neglect the red dragons" Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis Horror fiction is an important part of the popular culture in many modern societies. This book compares and contrasts horror narratives from two distinct cultures--American and Japanese--with a focus on the characteristic mechanisms that make them successful, and on their culturally-specific aspects. Including a number of narratives belonging to film, literature, comics and video games, this book provides a comprehensive perspective of the genre. It sheds light on the differences and similarities in the depiction of fear and horror in America and Japan, while emphasizing narrative patterns in the context of their respective cultures.

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Book SynopsisA unique and intimate survey of the lives and work of 12 of our most acclaimed writers: Patricia Grace, Tessa Duder, Owen Marshall, Philip Temple, David Hill, Joy Cowley, Vincent O'Sullivan, Albert Wendt, Marilyn Duckworth, Chris Else, Fiona Kidman and Witi Ihimaera.

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Book SynopsisA long line of traditional, often conservative, criticism and cultural commentary deplored Byron as a slipshod poet. This pithy yet aptly poetic book, written by one of the world''s foremost Romantic scholars, argues that assessment is badly mistaken. Byron''s great subject is what he called ''Cant'': the habit of abusing the world through misusing language. Setting up his poetry as a laboratory to investigate failures of writing, reading, and thinking, Byron delivered sharp critical judgment on the costs exacted by a careless approach to his Mother Tongue. Perspicuous readings of Byron alongside some of his Romantic contemporaries Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley reveal Byron''s startling reconfiguration of poetry as a ''broken mirror'' and shattered lamp. The paradoxical result was to argue that his age''s contradictions, and his own, offered both ethical opportunities and a promise of poetic broadly cultural emancipation. This book represents a major contribution to Trade Review'A new book by Jerome McGann is an event, though there have been many such events over his long career. But a new book by him about Byron is a special kind of event. No other scholar has done as much for Byron as McGann has, and few living scholars as much for any single author as he has done for Byron. This book marks a kind of return to origins since, like McGann's first book, Fiery Dust, this one focuses on Byron's work before Don Juan. The new emphasis, however, falls on Byron's relationship to language and poetic craft and on how it differs from that of his major contemporaries. Playful, allusive, and itself 'adverse,' McGann's style in this book, like Byron's own, means to set our language free.' James K. Chandler, William K. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago'Take physic, cant. The words are nowhere, the command everywhere in Byron and McGann. The physic is philology: a word-loving that embraces the cunning, ambivalence, and enthrallments of language along with its beauties and benevolences. If words are actions (and who today could doubt that), McGann's 'inner standing point' (D. G. Rossetti) on Byron is as a sword that divides, setting fiction against factitiousness, expressive contradiction against the suavities of doublespeak. McGann's 'little book,' as he calls it, is a work of pity and rage; its perfectly measured disorders a min(e)d-field to blast the pieties of the present. Go litel book…' Marjorie Levinson, F. L. Huetwell Professor, University of Michigan'This is a book written with much of Byron's own intelligence, wit, and passion. It pays particular and welcome attention to the 'dark' poems which Professor McGann sees as 'in some ways more impressive than the ottava rima masterpieces'. It moves between very wide perspectives and sustained, often dazzling, close reading helped by his unrivalled knowledge of the textual history.' Bernard Beatty, Bernard Beatty, Senior Fellow in English, Liverpool University and Editor of The Byron Journal 1987–2004'Combative, liberatory, and dazzling, Byron's poetics receive the close attention they deserve in McGann's beautiful book. Byron and the Poetics of Adversity illuminates the full sweep of Byron's poetic experimentation and ruthless unveiling of his culture's cherished illusions in poems such as Manfred, The Giaour, Lara, and Cain, difficult poems often undervalued in favor of the poetic pyrotechnics of the epic Don Juan. McGann's scholarly and playful close readings of the full range of Byron's 'perversifications' and their 'disastered heroes' reveal new dimensions of what made these poems both scandalous and brilliant, and how they engaged with leading writers of the age like Blake and Goethe.' Adriana Craciun, Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities, Boston University'Byron and the Poetics of Adversity is a genuinely revolutionary book in which Professor McGann returns to the textual entanglements of Byron's prosody and looks afresh at the two phases of Byron's poetic career in 1808-16 and 1817-24. Seven brilliant, compelling essays trace the poetic offensives that connect The Giaour, The Corsair, Lara, The Siege of Corinth, shorter lyrics and Manfred with the offensive poetics of Don Juan. Identifying practical criticism as the vital, oppositional act which Byron's poetry commits on its readers and demands from them, this bold and provocative study goes back to where all the ladders start - in close readings of some of the most perverse lines in Romantic period poetry.' Jane Stabler, University of St Andrews'Jerome McGann shows that Byron's 'treasonous' attitude to poetry, his 'perversification,' his unfit and shifty tones, his Blakean refusal of invariable aesthetic systems, his 'spoiler's art' is as pertinent now as it was 200 years ago. By repeatedly exposing the shibboleths of lyric and Romantic verse culture, McGann's sweeping advocacy of Byron's inventive, performative, rhetorical, and adversive genius is a defense of poetry for our time as well.' Charles Bernstein, author of Topsy-TurvyTable of Contents1. Don Juan and the English language; 2. Byron Agonistes, 1809–1816; 3. Manfred: one word for mercy; 4. Byron and the 'Wrong Revolutionary Poetical System'; 5. Byron, Blake, and the adversity of poetics; 6. The stubborn foe: bad verse and the poetry of action.

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Book SynopsisHenry James's last completed novel, The Outcry (1911), was originally conceived as a play, then adapted into novel form by James with great success. This first authoritative edition provides extensive annotations, a detailed textual history of the work, and a full introduction exploring the novel's literary, cultural and historical contexts.Table of ContentsGeneral editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Outcry; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations; Appendices.

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Book SynopsisThis scholarly edition includes the final ten stories Henry James wrote, and presents satirical critiques of an increasingly narcissistic, acquisitive society. With its extensive textual history and wide-ranging notes, the volume will be of interest to James scholars and students of early twentieth-century Anglo-American culture.Trade Review'It is extraordinary how little attention has been given to James's texts, other than by James himself, and this is what the thirty-four volumes of CFHJ [The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James] set out to correct.' Francis Wilson, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of abbreviations; General editors' preface; General chronology of James's life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Jolly Corner and Other Tales; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations; Appendix A: entries in James's notebooks; Appendix B: extracts from prefaces to the New York edition.

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Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Widely considered James's first great work of fiction and highly innovative in its narrative techniques, The Portrait of a Lady follows the story of an ardent, idealistic American heroine, Isabel Archer, in a cosmopolitan Europe. It explores individual freedom amidst confining circumstance, romantic choice, and the consequences of disillusionment and betrayal. This edition, based on the most reliable of the work's first book appearances (Macmillan, 1882), provides an authoritative text of one of James's finest long novels, with extensive annotations, a detailed textual history and an analysis of the reasons for its long-held popular appeal. It will be of particular interest not only to James scholars, but also book historians and students of nineteenth-century Anglo-American literature and culture.Trade Review'It is extraordinary how little attention has been given to James's texts, other than by James himself, and this is what the thirty-four volumes of CFHJ [The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James] set out to correct.' Frances Wilson, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsGeneral editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Portrait of a Lady; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; List of emendations; Appendices.

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Book SynopsisThomas Love Peacock (1785?1866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic period. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock offers the first complete text of these works to appear for more than half a century. Headlong Hall (1816), Peacock''s earliest work of dialogic and satirical fiction, was the most popular of his tales during his lifetime and considered his signature novel. An episodic plot and a country house setting provide the framework for a sparkling intellectual comedy that embraces music, gastronomy, philosophy, politics, craniology, painting, and landscape gardening. This edition supplies an authoritative text and a comprehensive introduction tracing the genesis, composition, publication, reception, and revision of the novel. Extensive explanatory notes throw light on the Welsh backdrop to the fiction as well as on the literary, political, social, and intellectual contexts of Peacock''s innovative topical satire.Trade Review'With their meticulous notes, rigorous documentation of textual variants and generous contextual appendices (including two unperformed, unpublished farces that Peacock drew on for Headlong Hall), these fine new volumes in the Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock get us closer than ever to the nuances of his satire.' Thomas Keymer, the Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsGeneral Editor's preface; Chronology; Introduction; Headlong Hall; Appendix A. Peacock's Preface of 1837; Appendix B. The Dilettanti (1812–13); Appendix C. The Three Doctors (1812–13); Appendix D. A Revised Text of the Headlong 'Chorus'; Note on the text; Emendations and variants; Ambiguous line-end hyphenations; Explanatory notes; Select bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThomas Love Peacock (1785â1866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic period. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock offers the first complete text of his novels to appear for more than half a century. Nightmare Abbey (1818), Peacock's third novel, is a spirited satire that shows Peacock to be a perceptive observer and engaged critic of the literary and political preoccupations of his time. While the novel has often been characterized in popular culture either as a burlesque of the Gothic novel or a mere spoof of Romantic gloom and doom, this edition recognizes it as a purposeful critique of Romanticism. Explanatory notes illustrate the ways in which several characters are caricatures of prominent Romantic writers, including Peacock's close friend Shelley as well as Coleridge and Byron, and also identify the various sources, some previously unsuspected, from which Peacock created their dialogue.Trade Review'The idiosyncratic joy of Thomas Love Peacock's works is highlighted within wonderfully readable scholarly introductions from Nicholas A. Joukovsky who edits Nightmare Abbey, and Freya Johnston and Matthew Bevis in their edition of Crotchet Castle. … the first thoroughly edited and annotated imprints of Peacock since the Halliford Edition of the Works, edited between 1924 and 1934 …' John Gardner, Notes and Queries'Readers are provided with all the information they need to understand and evaluate both the texts and the purposes underlying them … the editors have interpreted their brief generously. They have done an excellent job in identifying many 'out-of-the-way sources and analogues', as well as in positioning the texts accurately at a particular nineteenth-century cultural moment … this is likely to become the edition of choice for scholars and enthusiasts of Peacock's novels, and for economists, historians, philosophers and other students of the changing currents of nineteenth-century intellectual culture. The volumes are beautifully produced.' Pamela Clemit, Times Literary Supplement'… the first two volumes of the Cambridge Edition should become the new standard for editors of the Romantic novel. They not only perform the scholarly work of informing the reader of dates, circumstances, and variants, but they do what the best textual editing can: hugely enrich the experience of reading Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle, and consequently enhance our sense of Peacock's vigour, complexity, and wit.' William Bowers, Keats-Shelley Journal'… [a] meticulous edition …' Thomas Keymer, London Review of Books'Nightmare Abbey excels in tracking the composition through Spring 1818 … A variety of sources, including anecdotal evidence, are similarly used to recreate the immediate critical response … offering valuable commentary on prototypes of the novel's satiric figures, generic and personal … In a final section on 'Afterlife', the editor convincingly attributes a shift in fortunes in the popularity of this title to the growth of English literature as an academic subject … a remarkable achievement in elucidating Peacock's 'fine wit' for present and future readers.' Peter Garside, Peacock editionTable of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Chronology; Introduction; Nightmare Abbey; Appendix A. Peacock's Preface of 1837; Appendix B. An Essay on Fashionable Literature (1818); Appendix C. The Four Ages of Poetry (1820); Note on the text; List of emendations and variants; Ambiguous line-end hyphenations; Explanatory notes; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisHardy''s first published novel, Desperate Remedies (1871), a piece of sensation fiction that encompasses illegitimacy, murder, blackmail, impersonation, and bigamy, was originally published anonymously. Written while, in Hardy''s own words, he was ''feeling his way to a method'', it nonetheless contains early examples of the kinds of extreme situations and emotions that continued to play a significant role in his later plots. As part of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides an authoritative text; full scholarly apparatus that allows the reader to trace Hardy''s creative process; an introductory essay discussing the work''s composition, publication, and critical reception; and comprehensive explanatory notes.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; Desperate Remedies; Editorial emendations; List of variants - accidentals; End-of-line word division; Appendix A. Hardy's prefatory notes; Appendix B. Frontispieces; Appendix C. Description of principal texts; Explanatory notes.

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Book SynopsisThe Woodlanders (1887) was Thomas Hardy''s elventh published novel and the one he claimed to like ''as a story, the best of all''. It is a story of wide appeal, having much to say on themes such as marriage and social class, and with a background revealing its author''s profound knowledge and appreciation of many matters, particularly nature and country life. As part of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides an authoritative and accurate text which aims to reflect Hardy''s original artistic intention and represent the novel as it would have been read by his Victorian readers. The novel is supported by a comprehensive introduction, chronology and accompanying textual apparatus which allows the modern reader to trace the novel''s evolution from composition to first publication and through several stages of revision in succeeding editions in the quarter of a century following its first publication.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Woodlanders; Editorial emendations; Textual notes; Record of variants – accidentals; End-of-line word division; Appendix A: the title-page verse; Appendix B: Hardy's prefaces; Appendix C: illustrations; Appendix D: description of substantive editions; Appendix E: compositorial stints for Macmillan's Magazine; Appendix F: 'pin-holes' in the manuscript of The Woodlanders; Appendix G: compositorial stints for the 1912 Wessex edition; Explanatory notes; Glossary of dialect terms; Map of Wessex.

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Book SynopsisDermot Coleman offers a detailed account of George Eliot's understanding of money, both intellectual and practical, placing it within the wider context of the political economics and moral engagement with economic utility so characteristic of nineteenth-century England.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. 'A subject of which I know so little': George Eliot and political economy; 2. 'Intentions of stern thrift': the formation of a vernacular economics; 3. 'A money-getting profession': negotiating the commerce of literature; 4. Calculating consequences: Felix Holt and the limits of utilitarianism; 5. Testing the Kantian pillars: debt obligations and financial imperatives in Middlemarch; 6. Being good and doing good with money: incorporating the bourgeois virtues; 7. The individual and the State: economic sociology in Romola; 8. The politics of wealth: new liberalism and the pathologies of economic individualism; Appendix A. George Eliot's final stock portfolio, 1880; Appendix B. Was Edward Tulliver made bankrupt? An analysis of his financial downfall; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisHardy''s second published novel, Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), the first of his great series of Wessex novels, was originally published anonymously. As part of the Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides readers with an authoritative and accurate text of the novel; moreover it gives access to every revision that Hardy made, and to notations of all the errors introduced by printers'' compositors. The annotated text is surrounded by an introduction that gives a very full account of the genesis, the writing and the publishing history of the novel. A range of appendices and comprehensive explanatory notes explore significant aspects of the composition, production and marketing of the novel, touched on in the introduction, to provide a full understanding of the nature and life of this classic work.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; Under the Greenwood Tree; Variants in punctuation and styling; End-of-line hyphenation; Editorial emendations; Appendix A. Hardy's preface to the Wessex Edition; Appendix B. Under the Greenwood Tree and The Poor Man and the Lady; Appendix C. Detailed analysis of the manuscript; Appendix D. Chapter-division in the manuscript; Appendix E. Watermarks in the manuscript; Appendix F. The compositors of the first edition; Appendix G. Robson's compositors in A Pair of Blue Eyes; Appendix H. Differences between the first and second editions; Appendix I. Printing orders for Under the Greenwood Tree Published by Chatto and Windus and Macmillan; Appendix J. Frontispieces; Appendix K. Description of substantive editions; Explanatory notes.

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Book SynopsisVictory: An Island Tale is the latest volume in the widely praised The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. Like its predecessors, this volume offers scholars an authoritative text, free from the interference of Conrad's typists, compositors and editors; a full scholarly introduction, and textual and explanatory notes.Trade Review'While all of the volumes to appear to date in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad have been a great addition to the scholarly community interested in the works of Conrad, it may be that this edition of Victory is the most valuable book yet produced.' John Peters, English Literature in TransitionTable of ContentsGeneral editors' preface; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Introduction; Victory: An Island Tale; The texts: an essay; Apparatus; Textual notes; Appendices; Explanatory notes; Glossaries; Map.

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Book SynopsisAmerican Literature in Transition, 19701980 examines the literary developments of the twentieth-century''s gaudiest decade. For a quarter century, filmmakers, musicians, and historians have returned to the era to explore the legacy of Watergate, stagflation, and Saturday Night Fever, uncovering the unique confluence of political and economic phenomena that make the period such a baffling time. Literary historians have never shown much interest in the era, however - a remarkable omission considering writers as diverse as Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Marilyn French, Adrienne Rich, Gay Talese, Norman Mailer, Alice Walker, and Octavia E. Butler were active. Over the course of twenty-one essays, contributors explore a range of controversial themes these writers tackled, from 1960s'' nostalgia to feminism and the redefinition of masculinity to sexual liberation and rock ''n'' roll. Other essays address New Journalism, the rise of blockbuster culture, memoir and self-help, and crime fictionTable of ContentsChronology; Introduction: sucking in the '70s Kirk Curnutt; Part I. Themes: 1. In the shadow of the 1960s: 'what do we do now?' Matthew Luter; 2. 'It's not okay with me': the 1970s war against nostalgia Steven Goldleaf; 3. 'We interrupt this program': narratives in conflict in American postmodern literature of the 1970s Eric G. Waggoner; 4. 'All in the family': ancestral voices and ancestral Gods in 1970s multiculturalism Christopher Douglas; 5. 'An element of present danger': jogging, football, and anxieties of vulnerability in 1970s sporting literature Ryan Hediger; 6. 'The zipless fuck is absolutely pure': sexual liberation and 1970s American literature Dale M. Bauer; Part II. Genres and the Business of Literature: 7. Our stories, our selves: memoir and self-help in the 'me decade' Nicole Stamant; 8. '(Not just) knee deep': black writing between soul and the mainstream Michael Hill; 9. Green letters in a decade black with ink: American environmental writing in the 1970s Will Elliott; 10. Future shocks: science fiction transformations in the 1970s Robin A. Roberts; 11. Death wishes: crime literature, violence, and detectives in the American 1970s Linda Wagner-Martin; 12. The Great American Novel in the 1970s Tom Perrin; 13. The bestseller and the blockbuster mentality Philip McGowan; 14. 'Do the hustle': showmanship, publicity, and the changing landscape of literary authority Tom Cerasulo; Part III. Cultural Engagements: 15. First to write: the 1970s and the Vietnamese War Alex Vernon; 16. Nixon burning: the anti-establishment turn in 1970s' American political writing David Seed; 17. The maturation of the new journalism in the 1970s Everette E. Dennis; 18. Rock is dead/long live rock: popular music in 1970s American literature Kirk Curnutt; 19. The confessional turn: masculinity and American literary culture in the 1970s James Penner; 20. The feminist 1970s Sam McBean; 21. Blood on the page: the decade gets its period David Linton; Conclusion: keep on truckin' Kirk Curnutt.

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Book SynopsisHerman Melville in Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of Herman Melville, a towering figure in nineteenth-century American and world literature. The book grounds the study of Herman Melville''s writings to the world that influenced their composition, publication and recognition, making it a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, students and general readers. Bringing together contributions covering a wide range of topics, the collection of essays covers the geographical, social, cultural and literary contexts of Melville''s life and works, as well as its literary reception. Herman Melville in Context will enable readers to approach Melville''s writings with fuller insight, and to read and understand them in a way that approximates the way they were read and understood in his time.Trade Review'This Melville companion is neither an essay collection nor a reference book but rather a series of 34 sprightly, cogent treatments illuminating and contextualizing aspects of Melville. Recommended.' Choice'Happily, the significant strengths of this collection and the models they provide for sound scholarship and interpretation offer, at least, a partial solution.' Steven Olsen-Smith, LeviathanTable of ContentsPart I. Geographical Contexts: 1. New York Kevin J. Hayes; 2. The Berkshires Peter Bergman; 3. The American West Nathaniel Lewis; 4. The Pacific Alex Calder; 5. London Jonathan A. Cook; 6. Europe David Watson; 7. The Holy Land Brian Yothers; Part II. Social Contexts: 8. Men and women and men David Greven; 9. Islanders and missionaries Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon; 10. Literary circles David O. Dowling; 11. Slaves, masters, and abolitionists Susan M. Ryan; 12. Dons and Cholos Rodrigo Lazo; 13. Bachelors and gentlemen Maura M. D'Amore; 14. Officers and men Martin Griffin; Part III. Cultural Contexts: 15. Opera Kevin J. Hayes; 16. Panoramas Susan Tenneriello; 17. Natural history Jennifer Schell; 18. Technology Klaus Benesch; 19. The lyceum movement Tom F. Wright; 20. Painting and prints Colin Dewey; Part IV. Literary Contexts: 21. The Bible Dawn Coleman; 22. Seventeenth-century English prose Robin Grey; 23. The picaresque novel Kelly Richardson; 24. Travel writing Tim Youngs; 25. German metaphysics Kim C. Sturgess; 26. Gothicism Jonathan Crimmins; 27. British romanticism Shawn Thomson; Part V. The Contexts of Literary Reception: 28. Make-or-break reviews Hershel Parker; 29. The Melville revival Eric Aronoff; 30. Modernism David M. Ball; 31. Postmodernism Timothy Parrish; 32. Translations Rute Beirante; 33. Biographies Ian Maloney; 34. The cinema John Parris Springer.

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Book SynopsisThe Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature emphasizes the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not simply as a US ethnic phenomenon but more broadly as an important element of a trans-American literary imagination. Engaging with the dynamics of migration, linguistic and cultural translation, and the uneven distribution of resources across the Americas that characterize Latina/o literature, the essays in this History provide a critical overview of key texts, authors, themes, and contexts as discussed by leading scholars in the field. This book demonstrates the relevance of Latina/o literature for a world defined by the migration of people, commodities, and cultural expressions.Trade Review'This edited collection extends the discussion of Latin literature beyond the borders of the Americas. … This book is an absolute necessity for students of Latin American literature. Essential.' K. Gale, ChoiceTable of ContentsList of contributors; Acknowledgements: Introduction; Part I. Rereading the Colonial Archive: Transculturation and Conflict, 1492–1810: 1. Indigenous Herencias: Creoles, mestizaje, and nations before nationalism; 2. Performing to a captive audience: dramatic encounters in the borderlands of empire; 3. The tricks of the weak: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the feminist temporality of Latina literature; 4. Rethinking the colonial Latinx literary imaginary: a comparative and decolonial research agenda; 5. The historical and imagined cultural geographies of Latinidad; Part II. The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature: The Literary Emergence of a Trans-American Imaginary, 1783–1912: 6. Whither Latinidad?: the trajectories of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o literature; 7. Father Félix Varela and the emergence of an organized Latina/o minority in early nineteenth-century New York City; 8. Transamerican New Orleans: Latino literature of the Gulf of Mexico, from the Spanish colonial period to post-Katrina; 9. Trajectories of exchange: toward histories of Latino literature; 10. Narratives of displacement in places that once were Mexican; 11. Latina feminism, Latina racism and unspeakable violence: travel narratives, novels of reform, and histories of genocide and lynching; 12. José Martí, comparative reading, and the emergence of Latino modernity in gilded-age New York; 13. Afro-Latinidad: phoenix rising from a hemisphere's racist flames; Part III. Negotiating Literary Modernity: Between Colonial Subjectivity and National Citizenship, 1910–1979: 14. Oratory, memoir, and theater: performances of race and class in the early twentieth-century Latina/o public sphere; 15. Literary revolutions in the borderlands: transnational dimensions of the Mexican Revolution and its diaspora in the United States; 16. Making it nuevo: Latina/o modernist poetics remake high Euro-American modernism; 17. The archive and Afro-Latina/o field-formation: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg at the intersection of Puerto Rican and African American literatures; 18. Floricanto en Aztlán: Chicano cultural nationalism and its epic discontents; 19. 'The geography of their complexion': Nuyorican poetry and its legacies; 20. Cuban American counterpoint: the heterogeneity of Cuban American literature, culture, and politics; 21. Latina/o theater and performance in the contexts of social movements; Part IV. Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017: 22. Undocumented immigration in Latina/o literature; 23. Latina feminist theory and writing; 24. Invisible no more: US central American literature before and beyond the age of neoliberalism; 25. Latina/o life narratives: crafting self-referential forms in the colonial milieu of the Americas; 26. Poetics of the 'majority minority'; 27. The Quisqueya diaspora: the emergence of Latina/o literature from Hispaniola; 28. Listening to literature: popular music, voice, and dance in the Latina/o literary imagination, 1980–2010; 29. Brazuca literature: old and new currents, countercurrents, and undercurrents; 30. Staging Latinidad and interrogating neoliberalism in contemporary Latina/o performance and border art; 31. Transamerican popular forms of Latina/o literature: genre fiction, graphic novels, and digital environments; 32. trauma, translation, and migration in the crossfire of the Americas: the intersection of Latina/o and South American literatures; 33. The Mesoamerican corridor, central American transits, and Latina/o becomings; 34. Differential visions: the diasporic stranger, subalternity, and the transing of experience in US Puerto Rican literature; 35. Temporal borderlands: toward decolonial queer temporality in Latina/o literature; Epilogue: Latina/o literature: the borders are burning; Chronology; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisA Set of Six (1908) is one of Conrad''s most versatile and varied compositions, embracing diverse interests and settings, multiple tonal qualities and a medley of short-story forms (ranging from the novella in ''The Duel'' to the anecdotal tale in ''The Informer''). The volume''s wide-ranging introduction offers a careful evaluation of the origins and sources of the individual stories, while also measuring their early reception as a published collection. Explanatory notes clarify literary and historical references, identify real-life places and people, and indicate borrowings and Gallicisms. The lengthy textual essay and its accompanying apparatus lay out the history of composition and publication, detailing interventions made by Conrad''s typists, compositors and editors. Also included are appendices, allowing the reader first-hand access to Conrad''s source material; glossaries of nautical and foreign terms; and illustrations in the form of maps and reproductions of early drafts. By Table of ContentsList of illustrations; General Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations and Note on Editions; Introduction; A Set of Six; The Texts: An Essay; Apparatus; Textual Notes; Appendices; Explanatory Notes; Glossaries; Maps.

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the significance of prose analysis by evaluating the writings of dozens of authors, including Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Don DeLillo, and Toni Morrison. This book will be a key resource for students studying fiction and the novel as well as those in creative writing, prose style and creative non-fiction courses.Trade Review'Written in an exacting, witty and distinctive prose style of its own, this book is both a manifesto for reading for style and a first-rate demonstration of it, by a scholar-critic long known for practicing exactly the kind of critical attention called for and modelled here. Given a returning interest in prose poetics, this seems like the right book by the right critic at the right time.' Daniel Tyler, University of Cambridge'The Value of Style in Fiction ... offers itself to those seeking to learn the craft of attentive reading and inventive writing at the level of the sentence as a form of mini-plot.' Philip Davis, Victorian StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction: verbal investments – richness, wealth, value; 2. Emergent turns: Defoe toward Dickens; 3. Stylistic microplots: Melville to Miéville; 4. A rhetorical spectrum: Wharton, Woolf, Waugh, Wallace, and beyond; 5. Inventory: some terms of engagement – A to Z.

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Book SynopsisThe Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the life and creative development of a gifted artist and outsized personality whose work would both reflect and transform his times. Volume 2 (19231925) illuminates Hemingway''s literary apprenticeship in the legendary milieu of expatriate Paris in the 1920s. We witness the development of his friendships with the likes of Sylvia Beach, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Dos Passos. Striving to ''make it new'', he emerges from the tutelage of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein to forge a new style, gaining recognition as one of the most formidable talents of his generation. In this period, Hemingway publishes his first three books, including In Our Time (1925), and discovers a lifelong passion for Spain and the bullfight, quickly transforming his experiences into fiction as The Sun Also Rises (1926). The volume features many previously unpublished letters and a humorous sketch that was rejected by Vanity Fair.Trade Review'Hemingway did not want his letters published, but this carefully researched scholarly edition does them justice … devotees will find this and future volumes indispensable.' William Gargan, Library Journal'With more than 6,000 letters accounted for so far, the project to publish Ernest Hemingway's correspondence may yet reveal the fullest picture of the twentieth-century icon that we've ever had. The second volume includes merely 242 letters, a majority published for the first time … readers can watch Hemingway invent the foundation of his legacy in bullrings, bars, and his writing solitude.' Steve Paul, Booklist'The letters to Pound - Hemingway's most important mentor in this period - are highlights of this volume. Bawdy, humorous, linguistically playful.' Literary Review'Roughly written as they are these letters show occasional flashes of true Hemingway … It is fascinating to watch the private rehearsal of what would become public performances.' The Daily Telegraph'Warmly unpretentious and frequently playful.' The Spectator'Most enjoyable …' The Tablet'This second volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the years in which he became himself … His style is at once close to and yet unutterably distant from that of his fiction.' The New York Times'The volume's 242 letters, about two-thirds previously unpublished, provide as complete an account of Hemingway's life during the Paris years as one could ask for.' Star Tribune'For those with a passion for American literary history and an interest in the machinery of fame, these letters, ably and helpfully annotated by a team of scholars led by Sandra Spanier of Penn State University, provide an abundance of raw material and a few hours' worth of scintillating reading.' The Kansas City Star'Amusing, moving and perceptive … this essential volume, beautifully presented and annotated with tremendous care and extraordinary attention to detail, offers readers a Hemingway who is both familiar and new.' Times Literary Supplement'The volume itself is beautifully designed and skillfully edited … As a book, it is perfect.' Los Angeles Review of Books'Two thirds of these have never seen the light of day before. A great continuing literary project.' Buffalo News'The register in which Hemingway writes varies greatly, ranging from telegraphic … excited communications with intimates to formal, correct letters to those with whom he has mainly business - literary or financial - relations. All the magnificent apparatus of the first volume …Summing up: essential.' Choice'… this volume will most likely never be superseded. It is crucial contribution to literary history.' Mark Ott, American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsGeneral editor's preface Sandra Spanier; Acknowledgments; Note on the text; Abbreviations and short titles; Introduction to the volume J. Gerald Kennedy; Chronology; Maps; The letters, 1923–1925; Roster of correspondents; Calendar of letters; Index of recipients; General index.

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Book SynopsisAfrican American Literature in Transition, 19001910 offers a wide ranging, multi-disciplinary approach to early twentieth century African American literature and culture. It showcases the literary and cultural productions that took shape in the critical years after Reconstruction, but before the Harlem Renaissance, the period known as the nadir of African American history. It undercovers the dynamic work being done by Black authors, painters, photographers, poets, editors, boxers, and entertainers to shape ''New Negro'' identities and to chart a new path for a new century. The book is structured into four key areas: Black publishing and print culture; innovations in genre and form; the race, class and gender politics of literary and cultural production; and new geographies of Black literary history. These overarching themes, along with the introduction of established figures and movement, alongside lesser known textsand original research, offer aradicalre-conceptualization of this critTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of images; Introduction Shirley Moody-Turner; Part I. Transition in African American Authorship, Publishing and the Visual Arts: 1. Black bibliographers and the category of negro authorship Laura E. Helton; 2. Transitions in African American book publishing and print culture Alisha Knight; 3. Re-evaluating African American art before the Harlem renaissance Rhonda Reymond; Part II. New Negro Aesthetic and Transitions in Genre and Form: 4. African American novels and new slavery in the new south M. Giulia Fabi; 5. Anti-lynching poetry and the poetics of protest Laura Vrana; 6. The politics of performance, character, and literary genre in transition April Logan; Part III. Modernist Masculinities and Transitions in Black Leadership: 7. Charting the tensions between optimism and despair at mid-decade Hanna Wallinger; 8. W. E. B. Du Bois and transitions in black intellectual thought Keith Byerman; 9. Celebrity and black masculinity at the turn into the twentieth century Jeffrey Leak; Part IV. Remapping the Turn of the Twentieth Century: 10. Can the subaltern speak through Alain Locke and Paul Laurence Dunbar? Jeffrey Stewart; 11. Race and manhood in African American representations of the frontier James Leiker; 12. Narratives of black and Chinese citizenship after Plessy v. Ferguson Edlie Wong; 13. Black transpacific culture and the migratory imagination Vince Schleitwiler.

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Book SynopsisCritics have traditionally maintained that capitalism''s resurgence after the Second World War precipitated the transition from modernism to postmodernism. This revisionist account shows that modernism does not simply decline. By foregrounding phenomenological conceptions of bodily experience, Jason M. Baskin reveals modernism''s ongoing vitality. Key postwar writers, critics and philosophers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Ezra Pound, Ralph Ellison and Raymond Williams, as well as Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Theodor Adorno, developed an aesthetics of embodiment that adapted modernism to a new postwar landscape. Working across differences of race, gender, national and intellectual tradition, genre and form, Baskin contends that these authors used ordinary bodily experiences, such as perception, memory and laughter, to imagine modes of common being and purpose that were otherwise unavailable in a postwar society dominated by liberal capitalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction: late modernism and the aesthetics of embodiment; 1. Elizabeth Bishop's rhythmic looking; 2. Ezra Pound's scraps of a self; 3. Ralph Ellison's invisible laughter; 4. Raymond Williams's collaborative labor; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis edition presents the manuscript of F. Scott Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby, the earliest full version of the novel that survives. Study of this manuscript reveals much about the composition of the novel - about the development of its characters and themes and the revision of its language. Fitzgerald reworked the manuscript, putting it through several drafts and continuing to edit until a few weeks before publication. The period of its creation was an amalgamation of his talent, inspiration, and self-discipline which resulted in a masterpiece. An introduction by James L. W. West, III, the general editor of the series, gives the compositional history of the novel; a bibliographical commentary by Don C. Skemer, Curator of Manuscripts at Princeton University Library, describes the manuscript and gives the story of its preservation, acquisition, and restoration. The reading text is presented without emendation and with a minimum of editorial apparatus. This edition will allow critics, Trade Review'Like a jazz album offering multiple takes on a single tune, the value of this edition lies in the access it offers to the creative process. Comparing it to the novel published in April 1925 reveals the decisions Fitzgerald made as he revised his greatest work and supplies fascinating insights into its evolution … Seeing The Great Gatsby as it might have been shows that Fitzgerald's drive for perfection matched that of his beloved hero.' Sarah Graham, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Illustrations; Introduction; The holograph of The Great Gatsby; A note on the text; Text of the manuscript; Explanatory notes; Illustrations.

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Book SynopsisThe period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 traces the region''s contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and drama into emerging areas of creative non-fiction, memoir and speculative fiction with a particular attention on challenging the narrow canon of Anglophone male writers. It maps shifts and continuities between late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Caribbean literature in terms of innovations in literary form and style, the changing role and place of the writer, and shifts in our understandings of what constitutes the political terrain of the literary and its sites of struggle. Whilst reaching across language divides and multiple diasporas, it shows how contemporary Caribbean Literature has focused its attentions on social complexity and ongoing marginalizations in its continued preoccupations with identity, belonging and freedoms.Trade Review'Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020 will remain a rich source for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars within Caribbean studies, diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, and performance studies who are interested in the political, cultural, and social life of the literary imagination … this volume functions as a necessary reflection on some of the major developments in Caribbean literary production over the past fifty years.' Jovante Anderson, Journal of West Indian Literature'The new and timely perspectives on migration, gender, and the environment, amongst other topics, enable this series to bring attention to an incredibly diverse canon of writers, literary forms, and historical contexts. In doing so, the volumes invite readers to revisit established figures - with Walcott and Naipaul still looming large - whilst also re-examining Caribbean literary history to include a corpus of voices that are not necessarily anglophone or male-centric. For this reason, the series deserves to lay the foundations of new critical explorations into the heterogeneity and global scope of Caribbean creativity from its roots in the colonial past through to its many fluid and fragmentary strands in the present.' Matthew Whittle, Journal of Postcolonial WritingTable of ContentsIntroduction. Caribbean Assemblages: 1970s-2020 Alison Donnell and Ronald Cummings; Part I. Literary and Generic Transitions: 1. Writing and the Responsibility to Memory: The Role of White Female Planters in Contemporary Caribbean Novels Tanya L. Shields; 2. Caribbean Identities and Diversifying the Creole Mix Shivanee Ramlochan; 3. Carnival, Calypso, and Dancehall Cultures: Making the Popular Political in Contemporary Caribbean Writing Emily Zobel Marshall; 4. Life Writing, Gender and Caribbean Narrative 1970-2015: Itinerant Self-Making in the Postcolonial Caribbean Denise Decaires Narain; 5. Forwarding Dubpoetry in this Generation: A Grassroots Performance and Neo-Literary Genre in Transition Susan Gingell; 6. Postcolonial Ruins, Reconstructive Poetics: Caribbean Urban Imaginaries Christopher Winks; 7. Reimagining Caribbean Time and Space: Speculative Fiction Rebecca Romdhani; 8. Drama and Performance Justine Mcconnell; 9. Here are the Others: Caribbean Creative Nonfiction Kei Miller; 10. 'Let every child run wild': Cultural Identity and the Role of the Child in Caribbean Children's and Young Adult Fiction Aisha Takiyah Spencer; Part II. Cultural and Political Transitions: 11. Caribbean Feminist Criticism: Towards a New Canon of Caribbean Feminist Theory and Theorizing Simone A. James Alexander; 12. Writing of and for a Revolution Alison Donnell and Nalini Mohabir; 12. Digital Yards: Caribbean Writing on Social Media and Other Digital Platforms Kelly Baker Josephs; 13. Developing and Sustaining Literary Publics: Prizes, Festivals, and New Writing Ifeona Fulani; Part III. The Caribbean Region in Transition: 14. The Caribbean and Britain Sarah Lawson Welsh; 15. Acts of Trespass and Collapsing Borders: Alternate Landscapes in Contemporary Caribbean-Canadian Literature Camille A. Isaacs; 16. The Caribbean and the United States Jocelyn Fenton Stitt; 17. The Caribbean and the Tourist Gaze Supriya M. Nair; 18. Caribbean Subjects in the World Kezia A. Page; Part IV. Critical Transitions: 19. Visuality in Caribbean Literature and Visual Culture Marta Fernández Campa; 20. From Counter-Textuality to Intertextuality: Continuing the Caribbean Canon Emily L. Taylor; 21. Caribbean Eco-Poetics: The Categorial Imperative and Indifference in the Caribbean Environment Keja L. Valens; 22. Sexual Subjects Faizal Deen and Ronald Cummings; 23. Caribbean Literature and Literary Studies: Past, Present, and Future Alison Donnell; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis landmark study of Latin prose intertextuality radically reinterprets Pliny's Epistles as a brilliant transformation of Quintilian's Institutio oratoria and a unique reply to Tacitus' Dialogus. Indispensable to readers of imperial Latin prose, the book is also essential reading for all students of imitation in Roman literature and culture.Trade Review'This original and learned book, written in sparkling and stylish prose, makes a fundamental contribution to our appreciation of Pliny the Younger's artistry. Christopher Whitton shows that there is much more Quintilian in Pliny's Epistles than anyone had realised - and that recognising Quintilian's presence is of vital importance for understanding Pliny's literary project. With complete control of the sources, Whitton takes the reader on an unexpectedly fascinating tour of Quintilian's earliest reception, and along the way sheds new light on Latin prose intertextuality and the quintessentially Roman practice of imitatio.' Tom Keeline, Washington University, St Louis'The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose is a very useful addition to Plinian scholarship and, more generally, a milestone for all those concerned with intertextuality.' Lorenzo Vespoli, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. Two scenes from the life of an artist; 2. Setting the stage; 3. Brief encounters; 4. Dancing with dialectic; 5. Through the looking-glass; 6. On length, in brief (Ep. 1.20); 7. Letters to Lupercus; 8. Studiorum secessus (Ep. 7.9); 9. Docendo discitur; 10. Reflections of an author; 11. Quintilian, Pliny, Tacitus; 12. Beginnings.

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Book SynopsisChicago occupies a central position in both the geography and literary history of the United States. From its founding in 1833 through to its modern incarnation, the city has served as both a thoroughfare for the nation''s goods and a crossroads for its cultural energies. The idea of Chicago as a crossroads of modern America is what guides this literary history, which traces how writers have responded to a rapidly changing urban environment and labored to make sense of its place in - and implications for - the larger whole. In writing that engages with the world''s first skyscrapers and elevated railroads, extreme economic and racial inequality, a growing middle class, ethnic and multiethnic neighborhoods, the Great Migration of African Americans, and the city''s contemporary incarnation as a cosmopolitan urban center, Chicago has been home to a diverse literature that has both captured and guided the themes of modern America.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Literary History of Chicago Frederik Byrn Køhlert; Part I. The Rise of Chicago and the Literary West: 1. From Prairie to Metropolis: Chicago as the American 'Shock City' Christophe Den Tandt; 2. Birth, Fire, and Rebirth: Edward Payson Roe's Barriers Burned Away and the Invention of Chicago Literature Charles Byler; 3. 'This Broad, free inland America of Ours': Hamlin Garland, Chicago, and the Literary West Christine Holbo; 4. White City: The World's Columbian Exposition in Literature Rebecca S. Graff; 5. New Realities, New Realisms: Chicago Literature against the Genteel Tradition Robert Birdwell; Part II. Business Unusual: A New Urban American Literature: 6. Among the Skyscrapers: Henry B. Fuller's Chicago Novels Joseph A. Dimuro; 7. The Price of Success: Robert Herrick's the Memoirs of an American Citizen and the American Business Novel Jose Fernandez; 8. 'A Story of Chicago': The Future of Place in Frank Norris's The Pit Jason Puskar; 9. Amid Forces: Theodore Dreiser's Chicago T. Austin Graham; 10. Eugene Field, Finley Peter Dunne, and George Ade: A New Urban Vernacular John Wharton Lowe; Part III. Radicalism, Modernism, and the Chicago Renaissance: 11. Progressive Chicago: Upton Sinclair, Jane Addams, and Social Reform Literature Rachel Elin Nolan; 12. From the Prairie to the City: Willa Cather's 'City of Feeling' Mark A. Robison; 13. Poetry, the Little Review, and Chicago Modernism Bartholomew Brinkman; 14. A Spirit of Two Ages: The Romantic Modernism of Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems John Marsh; 15. Building a Movement: Mary Reynolds Aldis and Little Theatre in Chicago Megan E. Geigner; 16. Father to Son: Floyd Dell, Sherwood Anderson, and the Chicago Renaissance Timothy B. Spears; Part IV. A City of Neighborhoods: The Great Depression, Sociology, and the Black Chicago Renaissance: 17. Chicago Ecology and James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan Moacir P. de Sá Pereira; 18. Chicago gets the Blues: Migration, Depression, and the Black Renaissance Richard A. Courage; 19. Black Chicago: Richard Wright's South Side William R. Nash; 20. Life in Bronzeville: Humanism and Community in the Work of Gwendolyn Brooks Courtney Pierre Joseph; 21. Hustlers, Junkies, and Prostitutes: Nelson Algren's White Slums Ian Peddie; 22. From Emptyland to Uncanny City: Saul Bellow's Jewish Chicago Alan Bilton; Part V. Traditions and Futures: Contemporary Chicago Literatures: 23. Division Street America: The Nine Chicago Literary Lives of Studs Terkel Tony Macaluso; 24. Sexual and Other Perversities: David Mamet and Vontemporary Chicago Theater Ira Nadel; 25. Chicago Crime, Blue Collar and White: Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski Novels Charlotte Beyer; 26. Drawing Chicago: Chris Ware's Graphic City Frederik Byrn Køhlert; 27. Across Neighborhood and National Boundaries: Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, and Mexican Chicago Olga L. Herrera; 28. Stuart Dybek and the New Chicago's Literature of Neighborhood Carlo Rotella; 29. Chicago Now: Aleksandar Hemon, Dmitry Samarov, Erika L. Sánchez and the Contemporary City of Immigrants Sonia Weiner; 30. Afterword: What Will Become of Us? The Future of Chicago Literatures Bill Savage.

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Book SynopsisThis book evaluates twentieth century British and Global Anglophone literature in relation to the growth of ecological thinking in the United Kingdom. Restless modernists such as D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, and Jean Rhys developed a literary aesthetic of slowness and immediacy to critique the exhausting and dehumanizing aspects of modern urban and industrial life. At the same time, environmental groups such as the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves and the Smoke Abatement League moved from economic registers of ''value'' and ''trust'' to more cultural terms of ''recovery'' and ''regeneration'' to position nature as a healing force in the postwar era. Through a variety of literary, scientific, and political texts, an environmental movement emerged alongside the fast, fragmented, and traumatic aspects of modernization in order to sustain place and community in terms of lateral influence and ecological dependence.Trade Review'… a significant contribution to this nascent but rapidly growing body of modernist eco-criticism.' William Kupinse, James Joyce Literary Supplement'In his introduction, Kalaidjian expresses the need for both modernism and ecocriticism to advance each other and not “simply reinterpret one through the other's lens”. Exhausted Ecologies therefore has much to offer to those studying Europe and its empires, environmental historians, modernist literary critics, and ecocritical scholars alike. Kalaidjian's work here overall is timely in light of the increasing threat of climate disaster, as well as a fascinating view into the connections between modernist literature and the beginnings of modern environmentalism.' Leanna Lostoski-Ho, EuropeNowTable of ContentsIntroduction: places of rest; 1. Nature's reserves: rural exhaustion, inertia, and generative aesthetics; 2. Urban environs: James Joyce and the politics of shared atmosphere; 3. Waste lands: dark pastoral in T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and Djuna Barnes; 4. Uprooting empire: Jean Rhys and unrest in imperial centers; 5. Decolonizing ecology: Chinua Achebe's new forms of unease; Conclusion: the limits of modernist regeneration.

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Book SynopsisThis Companion showcases the best scholarship on Ian McEwan''s work, and offers a comprehensive demonstration of his importance in the canon of international contemporary fiction. The whole career is covered, and the connections as well as the developments across the oeuvre are considered. The essays offer both an assessment of McEwan''s technical accomplishments and a sense of the contextual factors that have provided him with inspiration. This volume has been structured to highlight the points of intersection between literary questions and evaluations, and the treatment of contemporary socio-cultural issues and topics. For the more complex novels - such as Atonement - this book offers complementary perspectives. In this respect, The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan serves as a prism of interpretation, revealing the various interpretive emphases each of McEwan''s more complex works invite, and to show how his various recurring preoccupations run through his career.Table of ContentsChronology; Introduction Dominic Head; 1. 'Shock lit': the early fiction Eluned Summers-Bremner; 2. Moral dilemmas Lynn Wells; 3. Science and climate crisis Astrid Bracke; 4. The novel of ideas Michael Lemahieu; 5. Cold War fictions Richard Brown; 6. The construction of childhood Peter Childs; 7. The public and the private David Malcolm; 8. Masculinities Ben Knights; 9. The novellas Dominic Head; 10. Realist legacies Judith Seaboyer; 11. Limited modernism Thom Dancer; 12. Narrative artifice David James; Further reading.

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Book SynopsisThe impact of malaria on humankind has been profound. Focusing on depictions of this iconic ''disease of empire'' in nineteenth-century and postcolonial fiction, Jessica Howell shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Henry James, H. Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner and Rudyard Kipling did not simply adopt the discourses of malarial containment and cure offered by colonial medicine. Instead, these authors adapted and rewrote some common associations with malarial images such as swamps, ruins, mosquitoes, blood, and fever. They also made use of the unique potential of fiction by incorporating chronic, cyclical illness, bodily transformation and adaptation within the very structures of their novels. Howell''s study also examines the postcolonial literature of Amitav Ghosh and Derek Walcott, arguing that these authors use the multivalent and subversive potential of malaria in order to rewrite the legacies of colonial medicine.Table of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Nationalism and acute malaria in transatlantic fiction: Charles Dickens and Henry James; 2. Malaria and the imperial romance: H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines; 3. Malarial feminisms: Olive Schreiner and the allegories of chronic disease; 4. The boy doctor of empire: malaria and mobility in Rudyard Kipling's Kim; 5. Rewriting the bite: the Calcutta chromosome, mosquitoes, and global health politics; Coda: towards a postcolonial health humanities; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisAn invaluable resource for students of nineteenth-century writing and of Hardy in particular, this edition presents a text which closely reflects Hardy's original intentions. All his revisions are clearly shown, enabling readers to trace his creative process. An introductory essay outlines the stories' composition, publishing history and reception.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Life's Little Ironies: The Son's Veto; For Conscience' Sake; A Tragedy of Two Ambitions; On the Western Circuit; To Please his Wife; The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion; The Fiddler of the Reels; A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four; A Few Crusted Characters; Apparatus; Editorial Emendations; Textual Notes; Record of Variants – Accidentals; End-of-line Word Division; Appendices; Explanatory Notes; Glossary of Dialect Terms.

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Book SynopsisDuring the Victorian era, animals were increasingly viewed not as property or utility, but as thinking, feeling subjects worthy of inclusion within a political community. This book re-examines the nineteenth-century British animal welfare movement and animal characters in the Victorian novel in light of liberal thought, and argues that liberalism was a decisive factor in determining the cultural, ideological, and material makeup of animal-human relationships. While the animal welfare movement often represented animals as desiring submission to the human, animal characters in the Victorian novel critiqued the liberal norms that led to the oppression of both animals and humans. Through readings of animal rights legislation, animal welfare texts, and writings by Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner, Anna Feuerstein outlines the remarkably powerful political role that animals played in the Victorian novel, as they offer ways to move beyond the exclusionary and contradictory strategies of liberal thought.Trade Review'This well-written, theoretically sophisticated study makes a major contribution to the growing body of critical treatments of animals in Victorian literature and culture.' R. D. Morrison, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: the political lives of Victorian animals; Part I. Anti-Cruelty Legislation and Animal Welfare: 1. The government of animals: anti-cruelty legislation and the making of liberal creatures; 2. The incessant care of the Victorian shepherd: animal welfare's pastoral power; Part II. Democracy, Education, and Alternative Subjectivity: 3. 'Tame submission to injustice is unworthy of a Raven': Charles Dickens's animal character; 4. Alice in Wonderland's animal pedagogy: democracy and alternative subjectivity in mid-Victorian liberal education; Part III. The Biopolitics of Animal Capital: 5. Animal capital and the lives of sheep: Thomas Hardy's biopolitical realism; 6. The political lives of animals in Victorian Empire: Oliver Schreiner's anti-colonial animal politics.

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Book SynopsisThe Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subsequent African American literature, and had an enormous impact on later black literature world-wide. In its attention to a wide range of genres and forms from the roman à clef and the bildungsroman, to dance and book illustrations this book seeks to encapsulate and analyze the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance cultural expression. It aims to re-frame conventional ideas of the New Negro movement by presenting new readings of well-studied authors, such as Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, alongside analysis of topics, authors, and artists that deserve fuller treatment. An authoritative collection on the major writers and issues of the period, A History of the Harlem Renaissance takes stock of nearly a hundred years of scholarship and considers what the future augurs for the study of ''the New Negro''.Trade Review'Highly recommended.' C. A. Bily, Choice'this is not your grandfather's Harlem Renaissance … At every turn and in every way ... A History of the Harlem Renaissance invites and inspires readers to reconceive and reimagine both the nature and the extent of Black modernist cultural production.' Tim Ryan, StyleTable of ContentsIntroduction: revising a renaissance Rachel Farebrother and Miriam Thaggert; Part I. Re-reading the New Negro: 1. Cultural nationalism and cosmopolitanism in the Harlem renaissance Daniel G. Williams; 2. Making the slave anew: poetry, history, and the archive in New Negro renaissance poetry Clare Corbould; 3. The New Negro among White Modernists Kathleen Pfeiffer; 4. The Bildungsroman in the Harlem renaissance Mark Whalan; 5. The visual image in New Negro renaissance print culture Caroline Goeser; Part II. Experimenting with the New Negro: 6. Gwendolyn Brooks: riot after the New Negro Renaissance Sonya Posmentier; 7. Romans à clef of the Harlem renaissance Sinéad Moynihan; 8. Modernist biography and the question of manhood: Eslanda Goode Robeson's Paul Robeson, Negro Fionnghuala Sweeney; 9. Modernism and women poets of the Harlem renaissance Maureen Honey; 10. Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance Katharine Capshaw; Part III. Re-mapping the New Negro: 11. London, New York, and the Black Bolshevik renaissance: radical black internationalism during the New Negro renaissance James Smethurst; 12. Island relations, continental visions, and graphic networks Jak Peake; 13. 'Symbols from within': charting the nation's regions in James Weldon Johnson's God's trombones Noelle Morrissette; 14. Rudolph Fisher: renaissance man and Harlem's interpreter Jonathan Munby; Part IV. Performing the New Negro: 15. Zora Neale Hurston's early plays Mariel Rodney; 16. Zora Neale Hurston, film, and ethnography Hannah Durkin; 17. The pulse of Harlem: African-American music and the New Negro revival Andrew Warnes; 18. The figure of the child dancer in Harlem renaissance literature and visual culture Rachel Farebrother; 19. Jazz and the Harlem renaissance Wendy Martin; 20. Alain Locke and the value of the Harlem: from racial axiology to the axiology of race Shane Vogel; Afterword Deborah E. McDowell.

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Book SynopsisThe idea of America has always encouraged apocalyptic visions. The ''American Dream'' has not only imagined the prospect of material prosperity; it has also imagined the end of the world. ''Final forecasts'' constitute one of America''s oldest literary genres, extending from the eschatological theology of the New England Puritans to the revolutionary discourse of the early republic, the emancipatory rhetoric of the Civil War, the anxious fantasies of the atomic age, and the doomsday digital media of today. For those studying the history of America, renditions of the apocalypse are simply unavoidable. This book brings together two dozen essays by prominent scholars that explore the meanings of apocalypse across different periods, regions, genres, registers, modes, and traditions of American literature and culture. It locates the logic and rhetoric of apocalypse at the very core of American literary history.Table of ContentsIntroduction. The United States of apocalypse John Hay; Part I. America as Apocalypse: 1. The apocalypse of settler colonialism and the case for the americocene Jared Hickman; 2. Apocalyptic violence in visual media Mark Noble; 3. Revelation, secret knowledge, and 9/11 conspiracy theory Lindsey Michael Banco; 4. Decolonial eschatologies of native American literatures Adam Spry; Part II. American Apocalypse in (and out of) History: 5. The puritans prepare for the second coming Lindsay DiCuirci; 6. The American revolution as extinction and rebirth Christen Mucher; 7. Race, American enlightenment, and the end times Mark Alan Mattes; 8. Sentimental premonitions and antebellum spectacle Melissa Gniadek; 9. Antebellum anticipations of annihilation Gordon Fraser; 10. The apocalyptic fury of the civil war Timothy Donahue; 11. Apocalyptic form in the American Fin de Siècle Jane Fisher; 12. The ruins of American modernism Alastair Morrison; 13. Mutually assured destruction in cold war/postwar America Jacqueline Foertsch; 14. Postmodern American literature at the end of history Timothy Parrish; 15. Ecology, ethics, and the apocalyptic lyric in recent American poetry Jennifer Ashton; 16. Disaster response in post-2000 American apocalyptic fiction Heather J. Hicks; Part III. Varieties of Apocalyptic Experience: 17. New history for a new earth Kevin M. Modestino; 18. W. E. B. Du Bois's apocalyptic ambivalence Autumn Womack; 19. The empty cities of urban apocalypse Nick Yablon; 20. The planetary futures of eco-apocalypse Ursula K. Heise; 21. The last laughs of doomsday humor Frances McDonald; 22. The catastrophic end-games of young adult literature Claire P. Curtis; 23. Apocalyptic trauma and the politics of mourning a world Irene Visser; 24. Posthuman postapocalypse Matthew A. Taylor; Further reading.

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes novel manuscripts and authors' revisions to construct a new narrative about eighteenth-century authorship, influenced by the networks in which writers lived and worked. Will appeal to researchers, scholars and students interested in eighteenth-century literature, the English novel, and the history of the book, of publishing, and of reading.Trade Review'… Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel persuasively delivers on its premises and also recommends a novel tool that scholars will likely find valuable in their reconstruction of physically impaired manuscripts.' A. W. Lee, Choice'This study's careful attention to a massive archive makes it a valuable piece of scholarship … Richardson, Burney, Austen, and Edgeworth were each prolific writers and Havens' thorough coverage of all four is a service to the field … [and] because of its accessible focus on themes of gendered (dis)empowerment in the lives and works of its canonical figures, I can pay this study the tribute, rarer than it should be, of saying that I expect to recommend it to undergraduates …' Jacob Sider Jost, The Eighteenth-century intelligencer'Hilary Havens's Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Authorship from Manuscript to Print is another important intervention in the history of both the novel and ideas of authorship … Havens has recovered previously hidden evidence about revision using digital palaeography - a powerful and fruitful new technology.' David Womersley, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900'Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel is a valuable contribution to our understanding of how the genre emerged and how authors crafted their texts in a social world over time … The real impact of Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel is its central argument: that novels were the creation of many people and many influences, that even in their printed form they should not be considered textually stable or 'final,' and that all literary scholars need to be more aware of the influences that created the text that they are reading and more open to the idea that those influences may have contradicted the initial intent of the author.' Leah Orr, Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History'With careful structuring, and a mostly lucid style, this industrious book claims new insights into the 'networks' that, via Bruno Latour, are already well established as significant in this field.' Min Wild, Times Literary Supplement'… this is essentially an interpretative, critical book … This is a rewarding study, one to argue with and learn from.' Aileen Douglas, Eighteenth-Century Fiction'Havens's book is a must-read for people interested in authorial networks and revision, regardless of the period and authors they study, and exceptionally useful for those interested in eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century authorship, and manuscript and publication practices, as well as scholars of Richardson, Burney, Austen, Edgeworth, Sterne, Lewis, and Godwin. Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel ultimately not only provides excellent examples and amazing insight into 'authorship from manuscript to print,' as the book's subtitle explains, but also asks its readers to understand authorship as a network built upon reading, writing, dialogue, and revision. After one reads Havens's book, it would be impossible not to do that.' Misty Krueger, Eighteenth-Century Life'In developing 'a model of 'networked authorship',' Havens contributes to a growing scholarship that recovers eighteenth-century writing practices and book culture from overdetermined interpretations rooted in the 'individualistic view of authorship that arose during the Romantic period.' Mark Alan Mattes, Eighteenth-Century Studies'This is a compact but powerful book. Much of the evidence is new, and the argument is salient.' George Justice, Studies in the Novel'The organizational structure of the book is water-tight, clear, and lends itself well to teaching … Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel is likely to be influential.' Emily Friedman, The Review of English Studies'Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel remains an important entry in a growing body of scholarship on eighteenth-century manuscripts and literary circles. Taken together, this may do for the novel what twentieth-century criticism did for early modern drama-demonstrating that the text is not a singular 'event' emerging from a singular great voice, but an ever-shifting network of processes, responses and contributions that can open up fresh interpretative possibilities.' Natasha Simonova, The Scriblerian and the Kit-CatsTable of Contents1. Samuel Richardson: 'fan fiction' and networked authorship; 2. Frances Burney: obliterations and unending revisions; 3. Jane Austen: revision as empowerment; 4. Maria Edgeworth: scientific knowledge, didactic moralism, and her 'family jury of critics'.

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Book SynopsisNew Orleans is an indispensable element of America''s national identity. As one of the most fabled cities in the world, it figures in countless novels, short stories, poems, plays, and films, as well as in popular lore and song. This book provides detailed discussions of all of the most significant writing that this city has ever inspired - from its origins in a flood-prone swamp to the rise of a creole culture at the edges of the European empires; from its emergence as a cosmopolitan, hemispheric crossroads and a primary hub of the slave trade to the days when, in its red light district, the children and grandchildren of the enslaved conjured a new kind of music that became America''s greatest gift to the world; from the mid-twentieth-century masterpieces by William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and Walker Percy to the realms of folklore, hip hop, vampire fiction, and the Asian and Latin American archives.Trade Review'Anyone giving serious consideration to the writing of New Orleans must have this book. T. R. Johnson has brought together between these covers a stunning collection of essays that never fail to delight and occasionally shock. This book expertly captures the varied essence of the great city: its fatalism, its history, it magic.' Maurice Carlos Ruffin, author of We Cast a Shadow'Johnson has performed a Herculean service, giving us a book that plumbs the hidden depths of a literary legacy alternately as dark and as hilarious as only honest writing about New Orleans can be. Sure, the music, the food, the architecture; but also, Johnson shows us, the literature of New Orleans is like that of no other place.' Dan Baum, author of Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans'A profound and lyrical book about the literary history of the Big Easy.' Bernice L. McFadden, author of The Book of Harlan'World history, American history, music history - all unthinkable without New Orleans, the city that was 'day and night a show'. Now T. R. Johnson and a state-of-the-scholarship crew of contributors offer a panorama of new perspectives on this unique city's always-vivid literature. If you think you know New Orleans, read on, and prepare to be amazed, challenged, entertained, and horrified. If you teach New Orleans culture, this book is an indispensable tool.' Ned Sublette, author of The World that Made New Orleans'Fatalism has stalked New Orleans almost from the moment convicts and enslaved Africans dragged it from the mud. Plague-stricken, flood prone, and more Caribbean than American concerning matters that make survival worthwhile, the town has attracted an outsize quota of top-flight writers who have memorialized it in a literature of lasting significance. In assembling an eclectic array of scholarly talent on the subject seldom found between the covers of the same book, T. R. Johnson has put us all in his debt.' Lawrence N. Powell, author of Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans'It's not possible to write in New Orleans without writing about New Orleans. The city saturates the imagination, casting an irresistible and enervating spell. New Orleans writers must contrive to sink and swim at the same time. T. R. Johnson's collection of essays, as eclectic as the figures on a local Voodoo altar, invites the reader to discover how far back the peculiar strains of fatalism and irony that color the world view of the New Orleanian really go. No other American city has consistently offered a literature that is at once so appealing and so alien to the rest of the country. New Orleans: The Literary History is a welcome guide to that fabulous reality found only on the printed page.' Valerie Martin, author of Property'What T. R. Johnson has assembled in New Orleans: The Literary History is a tremendous contribution to the city's self-understanding - and to everyone's understanding of the city's impact on broader literary histories. With an embracing, inclusive agility, the book excavates layers of culture and language to deliver a comprehensive, international vision of three hundred years' worth of writing, from the published letters of an Ursuline nun in the 1730s to the sissy bounce music of Big Freedia today. Taken together, these scholars present an argument for how New Orleans's literary history has shaped our sense of the pleasures of cities in general and also of the urban imagination itself as a dynamic, shifting thing, with poetry, fiction, memoir and drama intertwining throughout New Orleans's history like the forces that create its legendary climate of heat, humidity, and storm.' Ed Skoog, author of Run the Red LightsTable of ContentsPreface T. R. Johnson; 1. Swamp City Anthony Wilson; 2. Mixed motives: writing for French audiences from colonial New Orleans Erin Greenwald; 3. 'As I have seen and known it': ex-slave autobiographers and the New Orleans Slave Market Calvin Schermerhorn; 4. What New Orleans Meant to Walt Whitman Ed Folsom; 5. Coloring sex, love, and desire in Creole New Orleans's long nineteenth century Jarrod Hayes; 6. The white Creole tradition: Alfred Mercier, Charles Gayarré, Adrien Rouquette, and Grace King Rien Fertel; 7. The Civil War's literary aftershocks: George Washington Cable Matthew Smith; 8. Illusion and disillusion: the making of Lafcadio Hearn S. Frederick Starr; 9. Local color, social problems, and the living dead in the late nineteenth-century short fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Tara T. Green; 10. Kate Chopin, Edna Pontellier, and the predicament of the intellectual woman in New Orleans Emily Toth; 11. Converging Americas: New Orleans in Spanish-language and Latina/o/x literary culture Kirsten Silva Greusz; 12. A Jazz origin-myth: Bras Coupe in history, folklore, and literature Bryan Wagner; 13. 'Stepping out' of the storyville frame: recent literary representations of the New Orleans red light district Milena Marinkova; 14. Louis Armstrong's autobiographical art Daniel Stein; 15. New Orleans, modernism, and The Double Dealer, 1921–1926 Thomas Bonner; 16. 'Because what else could he have hoped to find in New Orleans, if not the truth': William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Thadious Davis; 17. 'The place I was made for': Tennessee Williams in New Orleans Henry I. Schvey; 18. A Civil Rights era novel of the American Civil War: Robert Penn Warren's Band of Angels William Bedford Clark; 19. How to survive the best environments: narrating Protean place in Walker Percy's The Moviegoer Richmond M. Eustis, Jr; 20. Tom Dent and the development of black literature in New Orleans Kalamu Ya Salaam; 21. The gothic tradition in New Orleans Taylor Hagood; 22. A Flaneur in the French Quarter and beyond: John Kennedy Toole's Confederacy of Dunces Cory MacLauchlin; 23. Literary fiction by New Orleans women, 1961–2003: Shirley Anne Grau, Ellen Gilchrest, Sheila Bosworth, and Valerie Martin Monica Carol Miller; 24. Asian American New Orleans Marguerite Nguyen; 25. New Orleans rap and bounce: recovering and archiving an expressive tradition Holly Hobbs; 26. The literature of Hurricane Katrina Kevin Rabalais; Afterword: swan song? T. R. Johnson; Contributors biographies; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a descriptive moment, writing the passage of years on the body all at once. Aging, Duration, and the English Novelargues that the formal disappearance of aging from the novel parallels the ideological pressure to identify as being young by repressing the process of growing old. The construction of aging as a shameful event that should be hidden - to improve one''s chances on the job market or secure a successful marriage - corresponds to the rise of the long novel, which draws upon the temporality of the body to map progress and decline onto the plots of nineteenth-century British modernity.Trade Review'Jacob Jewusiak's Aging, Duration, and the English Novel is a welcome contribution to the burgeoning critical interest in age that the humanities is currently experiencing … Aging, Duration, and the English Novel successfully demonstrates that scholarly engagement with the category of age can generate interesting new interpretations of well-known works … [it] makes a valuable contribution not just to literary age studies, but also to ongoing debates within the humanities about the value of recognising age as a master identity on par with gender, race, and class.' Caitlin Doley, BAVS Newsletter'… Jewusiak's book is essential reading for scholars of narrative time, as it establishes provocative discursive ties with some of the best writing on time and the novel in the past twenty years.' Leslie S. Simon, Dickens QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Aging theory; 2. No plots for old men; 3. Life after the marriage plot; 4. A wrinkle in time; 5. The technology age; 6. Gray modernism.

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Book SynopsisThis Companion showcases the best scholarship on Ian McEwan''s work, and offers a comprehensive demonstration of his importance in the canon of international contemporary fiction. The whole career is covered, and the connections as well as the developments across the oeuvre are considered. The essays offer both an assessment of McEwan''s technical accomplishments and a sense of the contextual factors that have provided him with inspiration. This volume has been structured to highlight the points of intersection between literary questions and evaluations, and the treatment of contemporary socio-cultural issues and topics. For the more complex novels - such as Atonement - this book offers complementary perspectives. In this respect, The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan serves as a prism of interpretation, revealing the various interpretive emphases each of McEwan''s more complex works invite, and to show how his various recurring preoccupations run through his career.Table of ContentsChronology; Introduction Dominic Head; 1. 'Shock lit': the early fiction Eluned Summers-Bremner; 2. Moral dilemmas Lynn Wells; 3. Science and climate crisis Astrid Bracke; 4. The novel of ideas Michael Lemahieu; 5. Cold War fictions Richard Brown; 6. The construction of childhood Peter Childs; 7. The public and the private David Malcolm; 8. Masculinities Ben Knights; 9. The novellas Dominic Head; 10. Realist legacies Judith Seaboyer; 11. Limited modernism Thom Dancer; 12. Narrative artifice David James; Further reading.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is devoted to Asian American Literature between 1930 to 1965, a period of immense social, historical, and cultural transformations that continue to shape the conditions of our world. From the Great Depression to the Second World War to the Civil Rights Movement to landmark immigrations reforms, Asian American literature provides unique and insightful perspectives on these historical developments, all while creatively engaging with globally-dispersed decolonization movements. Each chapter, written a by leading figures in their fields, demonstrates how Asian American writing affectingly reveals our complex world and its contested pasts. Case studies of major authors of this era show this as a time when the figure of the Asian American author became newly significant. This volume provides historical grounding, theoretical interventions, and nuanced textual analysis of Asian American literature in this period.Trade Review'This ambitious series covers more than a century of Asian American literature in four volumes organized by years: 1850–1930, 1930–65, 1965–96, and 1996–2020. Each volume is ordered thematically within those time frames … The breadth of the literary forms discussed and the comprehensive time period, particularly the analysis of works from the 19th century, make this work a required resource for understanding Asian American literary history … Essential.' M. Oh, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsEditors' introduction; Part I. Transitions Approached through Concepts and History: 1. The popular front and Asiatic modes of cultural production Steven Lee; 2. Asian American realism Arnold Pan; 3. On modernism, decolonization, and Asian American literature in transition Victor Bascara; 4. The cultures of Japanese internment: a short history of 'funny' turns Caroline Chung Simpson; 5. The 1947 partition, war, and internment: hidden histories of migration and displacement in transnational Asia Kavita Daiya; 6. Cold War fiction: the flower drum song's political education Josephine Nock-Hee Park; 7. Desert, island, ocean, swamp: Cold War ecologies and the Asian American environment Erin Suzuki; Part II. Transitions Approached through Authors, Texts, Concepts, and History: 8. Lin Yutang and the invention of Asian America, 1949 Richard Jean So; 9. H. T. Tsiang against the world Hua Hsu; 10. 'A congressman from India': Dalip Singh Saund in Cold War America Manan Desai; 11. Younghill Kang, transpacific agent David Roh; 12. Transition and obliteration: Jose Garcia Villa in the United States Jonathan Chua; 13. America is in the heart as postcolonial pastoral: an ecocritical case study of Carlos Bulosan Sarah D. Wald; 14. Bienvenido Santos: writing the interstitial spaces of Asian American literature Cynthia Tolentino; 15. Women writing war in Asia/America Sze Wei Ang; 16. Japanese incarceration, settler colonialism Sarah Dowling; 17. Jade Snow Wong and the making of model minority democracy Cindy I-Fen Cheng; 18. A little bit of form goes a long way: no-no boy and the ruse of empire Elda Tsou; 19. Richard Eun-kook Kim James Kyung-Jin Lee.

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Book SynopsisSince ancient times human beings have gathered together for social purposes. And since not very long after that writers have written about these occasions. The party is a useful literary device, not only for social comment and satire, but as an occasion where characters can meet, fall in love, fall out or even get murdered. A Curious Invitation features forty of the greatest fictional festivities. Some of these parties are depictions of real events, like the Duchess of Richmond’s Ball on the eve of battle with Napoleon in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair; others draw on the author’s experience of the society they lived in, such as Lady Metroland’s party in Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies; while yet others come straight from the writer’s bizarre imagination, like Douglas Adams’ flying party above an unknown planet from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Suzette Field offers you the chance to gate

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Book Synopsis'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon of English literature, a grim puritan, sightlessly dictating his great work to an amanuensis, removed from the real world in his contemplation of higher things. But dig a little deeper and you find an extraordinary and complicated human being.Revolutionary and apologist for regicide, writer of propaganda for Cromwell's regime, defender of the English people and passionate European, scholar and lover of music and the arts - Milton was all of these things and more.Making Darkness Light shows how these complexities and contradictions played out in Milton's fascination with oppositions - Heaven and Hell, light and dark, self and other - most famously in his epic poem Paradise Lost. It explores the way such brutal contrasts define us and obscure who we really are, as the author grapples with his own sense of identity and complex relationship with Milton. Retracing Milton's footsteps through seventeenth century London, Tuscany and the Marches, he vividly brings Milton's world to life and takes a fresh look at his key works and ideas around the nature of creativity, time and freedom of expression. He also illustrates the profound influence of Milton's work on writers from William Blake to Virginia Woolf, James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges.This is a book about Milton, that also speaks to why we read and what happens when we choose over time to let another's life and words enter our own. It will change the way you think about Milton forever.Trade ReviewMaking Darkness Light is elegant, nuanced, and comprehensive. Moshenska gives us a fresh and vivid account of Milton as an individual and a poet while pushing beyond the boundaries of conventional biography. Blending the personal with the historical and the literary, the results are compelling' -- Bart van Es, author of The Cut Out GirlJoe Moshenska's superb new biography of Milton is, like the poetry of his subject, a miracle of form, moving from moments of arresting detail to vast contemplations of time, history, and art, all set within an intimate narrative that is at once deeply embedded in its historical moment and aware of how that history connects through other moments to the present. The result is a stirring and compelling account of how great poetry gets written and gets read -- Edward Wilson-Lee, author of The Catalogue of Shipwrecked BooksMoshenska has written a new kind of literary biography. At once glancingly a memoir, a rivetingly informative biography, and a fascinating reading of Milton as poet, scholar and ordinary man in his everyday life, Making Darkness Light is an illumination. Milton and everything and everybody around him are seen in a quite different, intriguing light. -- Adam Phillips, author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and Becoming FreudJoe Moshenska is professionally committed to creating a readership for Milton among those for whom Genesis, Virgil, Homer and Tasso are closed books . . . A great imaginative exercise . . . His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs -- A.N. Wilson, SpectatorStrikingly original . . . a poetic tour of 17th-century England . . . Literature lovers of all sorts will find something to savor here -- Publishers WeeklyOxford literature professor Moshenska takes a fresh perspective on John Milton (1608-1674), the art of biography, and the experience of reading . . . An inspired biographical and autobiographical journey -- KirkusMaking Darkness Light is unlike any book on Milton I have ever read. It is often densely erudite, but also richly inventive . . . [its] avoidance of easy certainties is typical of this subtle, challenging book -- John Carey, The Sunday TimesJoe Moshenska . . . is astute in placing music, especially rhythm (a word neither Milton nor Shakespeare used) and its visceral relationship to the body, at the root of this original, penetrating, cleverly constructed and occasionally frustrating biography -- Paul Lay, The TimesTantalisingly different and new...an extraordinary, seductive work of intellectual imagination -- Financial TimesMoshenska . . . brings his own experiences into this searching creative portrait of the visionary English poet. The book . . . comes alive in its alert close readings -- New York TimesMaking Darkness Light is not a conventional biography . . . despite the ambitious and demanding nature of his project, Moshenska writes with humility and agility -- Literary ReviewOf course, anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the facts of Milton's life and the context for his poetry will certainly find what they're looking for here. Making Darkness Light includes not only moments in Milton's life and the landscape of 17th century England as well as close readings of his work. But it's the exploration of what the author describes as one of Milton's deepest occupations, "the place of literature in a life," that sets the book apart. Moshenska has no aspirations to separate the biographer from the biography, and Making Darkness Light is richer for his presence throughout the book -- Jessie Gaynor, Lit Hub Senior EditorMoshenska knows his way around Milton's world... Making Darkness Light privileges us with a peek inside its author's mind in contemplation of such a life and makes a compelling case that it could be told in no other way -- Boston Globe

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Book SynopsisThe Steel Registry. Characters of Crime Fiction is a celebration of the genre of detective fiction and detective fiction characters. Beginning with the earliest eighteenth and nineteenth century crime fiction and concluding with leading contemporary exponents of the genre, the history and development of detective fiction is traced through vignettes of seventy-five crime and detective fiction characters derived from the famous novels of the genre. Famous detective fiction characters and the authors who created them are celebrated through brief descriptive and exploratory synopses including luminaries such as Conan-Doyle, Christie, Sayers, Chandler, Hammett, Marsh, Fleming, Stark, Le Carre, Dexter, Follett, Ludlum, Paretsky, Rankin, Burke, Ellroy, Dibdin, Grisham, Temple, Childe, Reichs, Hayder, James, Larsson, Galbraith, Hurwitz, and many more. This book explores the many reasons for reading crime fiction, not the least of them being the vast variety of literature that the genre embraces. The book also celebrates the heroes and heroines of detective fiction, describing in brief the nuances of their characters. Through the pleasures of reading about the challenges these heroes and heroines face, their attempts to stay human in a world which often lacks humanity, the genre of crime fiction also contributes to good literature, the stuff of lit crit or literary criticism, and so it can also be read with considerations of the development of style and genre. The Steel Registry explores this purer motive as well as the perhaps more usual escapism or sheer enjoyment, being beguiled, being captivated, being grabbed by the throat with a page-turning intensity, that is characteristic of the stimulating novels of the detective fiction genre and the characters of crime fiction created by their inspired authors.

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Book SynopsisRobert Louis Stevenson is the author of many classic novels. He was also prolific letter writer. The letters in volumes I and II, cover the years 1868 through 1894. Volume I begins with his student days at Edinburgh and contains letters to all kinds of people from towns like Paris, San Francisco, Marseilles and Bournemouth. Volume II starts in Bournemouth in 1886 and ends with the four years he spent in Samoa. The letters make fascinating reading, not only for those interested in Stevenson''s life but also for anyone interested in nineteenth-century literature.

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