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Princeton University Press The Passion Projects
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the MSA First Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association""A wondrous ode to feminist research and biography as a tool and method for revisiting the past. . . . The book will become a key pedagogical resource for the study of Feminist Modernist Studies due to its scope as well as the myriad of primary sources and the bibliography that it provides. Besides this, it is an easy-to-read and thought-provoking work that will appeal to a diverse audience."---Cristina Díaz Pérez, LSE Review of Books"Micir’s queer counterhistory of modernism writes into the story not only authors and artists, but the collectors, curators, editors, archivists, and biographers who create and hold space for the work they value. Micir’s book itself will appeal to anyone interested in modernism and feminist and queer critical methods—and to anyone looking for a compelling and often moving story. . . . a must-read for all researchers sensitive to the framing of the historical narratives they compose."---Carolyn Dever, Public Books"The Passion Projects is a feminist manifesto disguised as a monograph, advocating for a revaluation of feminized labor, a more inclusive understanding of what counts as scholarship, and a renewed approach to collaboration. Micir’s focus on the editing, collecting, curating, and archiving of modernism reveals literary carework and intellectual housekeeping as instrumental to the continued expansion of new modernist studies."---Erica Gene Delsandro, Feminist Modernist Studies"From the unpublished to fragments to curated and collected materials preserved for a future reader, Micir traces beautifully—at times heartbreakingly—the stories of what these incomplete projects tell us about queer women’s lives and desires and their artistic commitments. . . . Micir illuminates partnerships and projects that haven’t received enough attention."---Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, Women: A Cultural Review"Micir exposes in minute detail the difficult balancing act between the personal and political when it comes to unravelling the self-made archive."---Eilish Mulholland, Modernist Review"If the intimacy between lovers and friends is central to The Passion Projects, no less so is that between the scholar or other reader of later times and the author who lived years before. . . . One of the glories of Micir’s book is its attention to the intergenerational connections that, arising in such circumstances, help to realize intensely held hopes for queer futurity."---Douglas Mao, Modernism/modernity
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Princeton University Press Worlds Enough
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Spiced with citations of critics past and present, this cogent, necessary book is ideal for students in Victorian surveys because it both covers the field and stretches it out to the global and the decolonizing."---N. Birns, Choice Reviews"[A] provocative and important new book on Victorian fiction."---John O. Jordan, Dickens Quarterly"Written with her trademark combination of sharp-wittedness and bluntness, Elaine Freedgood’s short but ambitious book, Worlds Enough: The Invention of Realism in the Victorian Novel, aims to show that the prevailing understandingof the Victorian novel’s realism is fundamentally wrong and, more important, pernicious in its effects. . . . Elaine Freedgood is an iconoclastic, inventive critic whose work is suffused with moral and political urgency."---Daniel Hack, Modern Philology"What this book is especially good on is the experience of process in the reading of the [Victorian] novel."---Philip Davis, Review of English Studies"Rigorously theoretical, enlivened with an eye for quirks of material, social, and textual meaning, and full of keen perceptions about a wide range of novels. A luminous provocation, it will spark much discussion and debate."---John Kucich, Victorian Studies
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Princeton University Press Worlds Enough
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Spiced with citations of critics past and present, this cogent, necessary book is ideal for students in Victorian surveys because it both covers the field and stretches it out to the global and the decolonizing."---N. Birns, Choice Reviews"[A] provocative and important new book on Victorian fiction."---John O. Jordan, Dickens Quarterly"Written with her trademark combination of sharp-wittedness and bluntness, Elaine Freedgood’s short but ambitious book, Worlds Enough: The Invention of Realism in the Victorian Novel, aims to show that the prevailing understandingof the Victorian novel’s realism is fundamentally wrong and, more important, pernicious in its effects. . . . Elaine Freedgood is an iconoclastic, inventive critic whose work is suffused with moral and political urgency."---Daniel Hack, Modern Philology"What this book is especially good on is the experience of process in the reading of the [Victorian] novel."---Philip Davis, Review of English Studies"Rigorously theoretical, enlivened with an eye for quirks of material, social, and textual meaning, and full of keen perceptions about a wide range of novels. A luminous provocation, it will spark much discussion and debate."---John Kucich, Victorian Studies
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Princeton University Press Horace Walpole
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is Walpole the man who fascinates Mr. Lewis and who, when Mr. Lewis is done, fascinates us." * New Yorker *
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Princeton University Press The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction
Book SynopsisDavid Bethea examines the distinctly Russian view of the "end" of history in five major works of modern Russian fiction. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These edTrade Review"Bethea sees as his tasks: to trace the theme of the Apocalypse...in five Russian novels: Dostoevsky's The Idiot, Bely's Petersburg, Platonov's Chevengur, Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, and Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago; to show how generalizations about the time-honored 'messianic' and 'eschatological' impulse in the Russian historical character shed light on the narrative structure of these works; and to demonstrate that 'apocalyptic' fictions ... countermand Socialist realism and its vision of secular paradise. He does an excellent job with all three."--Thomas Gaiton Marullo, Modern Fiction Studies "It is not often one comes across a book that is not only a major contribution to the field, but whose appearance calls for a celebration. David Bethea's The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction is such a book."--Laura D. Weeks, The Russian Review "The terrifying enormity of the apocalyptic theme in Russian literature fails to daunt Bethea, author of the acclaimed Khodasevich. His present book is brilliant, elegantly presented, and invaluable to anyone from undergraduate to specialist."--ChoiceTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*A Note on the Transliteration, pg. xi*Preface, pg. xiii*Introduction: Myth, History, Plot, Steed, pg. 3*ONE. The Idiot: Historicism Arrives at the Station, pg. 62*TWO. Petersburg: The Apocalyptic Horseman, the Unicorn, and the Verticality of Narrative, pg. 105*THREE. Chevengur: On the Road with the Bolshevik Utopia, pg. 145*FOUR. The Master and Margarita: History as Hippodrome, pg. 186*FIVE. Doctor Zhivago: The Revolution and the Red Crosse Knight, pg. 230*Afterword: The End and Beyond, pg. 269*Works Cited, pg. 277*Index, pg. 297
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Princeton University Press How to Read the Chinese Novel
Book SynopsisFiction criticism has a long and influential history in pre-modern China, where critics would read and reread certain novels with a concentration and fervor far exceeding that which most Western critics give to individual works. This volume, a source book for the study of traditional Chinese fiction criticism from the late sixteenth to the early twTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, pg. ix*EDITOR'S PREFACE, pg. xiii*I. Traditional Chinese Fiction Criticism, pg. 3*II. Chin Sheng-t'an on How to Read the Shuihu chuan (The Water Margin), pg. 124*III. Mao Tsung-kang on How to Read the Sankuo yen-i (The Romance of the Three Kingdoms), pg. 146*IV. Chang Chu-p'o on How to Read the Chin P'ing Met (The Plum in the Golden Vase), pg. 196*V. The Wo-hsien ts'ao-t'ang Commentary on the Ju-Hn wai-shih (The Scholars), pg. 244*VI. Liu I-ming on How to Read the Hsi-yu chi (The Journey to the West), pg. 295*VII. Chang Hsin-chih on How to Read the Hung-lou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber), pg. 316*Appendixes, pg. 341*BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL, pg. 367*LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS, pg. 488*INDEX, pg. 491
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Princeton University Press The Odyssey of Style in Ulysses
Book SynopsisIn this study Karen Lawrence presents Joyce's Ulysses as it evolves through radical changes of style. She traces the abandonment of a narrative norm for a series of rhetorical masks, regarded as conscious aesthetic experiments, and considers the theoretical implication of this process, for both the writing and reading of novels. Originally publishTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter I. Dublin Voices, pg. 16*Chapter II. The Narrative Norm, pg. 38*Chapter III. "Aeolus": Interruption and Inventory, pg. 55*Chapter IV. "Wandering Rocks" and "Sirens": The Breakdown of Narrative, pg. 80*Chapter V. "Cyclops," "Nausicaa" and "Oxen of the Sun": Borrowed Styles, pg. 101*Chapter VI. "Circe": The Rhetoric of Drama, pg. 146*Chapter VII. "Eumaeus": The Way of All Language, pg. 165*Chapter VIII. "Ithaca": The Order of Things, pg. 180*Chapter IX. "Penelope": A Coda, pg. 203*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 211*INDEX, pg. 225
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Princeton University Press Ghosts of the Gothic Austen Eliot and Lawrence
Book SynopsisIn a fascinating study of what, during the last decade, rekindled an avid readership, Judith Wilt proposes a new theory of Gothic fiction that challenges its reputation as merely a formula to be outgrown or a stock of images for the creation of terror. Emphasizing instead its status as an enduring component of the imagination, she establishes the GTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Illustrations, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*Introduction: "This Heretic Narrative": Approaches To A Gothic Theoretic, pg. 3*Chapter One: Gothic Fathers: The Castle Of Otranto, The Italian, The Monk, Melmoth The Wanderer, pg. 25*Chapter Two: Gothic Brothers: Frankenstein, The Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, pg. 62*Introduction: The Gothic Heritage, pg. 99*Chapter Three: Jane Austen: The Anxieties Of Common Life, pg. 121*Chapter Four: George Eliot: The Garment Of Fear, pg. 173*Chapter Five: D. H. Lawrence: Ghosts In The Daylight, pg. 231*Conclusion: A High, Vibrating Place, pg. 293*Index, pg. 305
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Oz and Beyond Fantasy World of L.Frank Baum
Book SynopsisThis guide to Oz, the land over the rainbow, seeks to establish Baum's importance to the history of American children's literature and to the fantasy and folklore tradition. It places Baum's Oz books into an account of his entire career.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Bondarchuks War and Peace Literary Classic to
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation La Figure dialogique dans Jacques le fataliste
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAvant-propos Introduction I. Diderot et le roman A. L'ère du soupçon B. De l'illusion à l'allusion: le roman philosophique C. Le paradoxe du romancier D. La crise de 1760-1762 E. L'œuvre pour rien II. A la recherche d'une structure A. Une insipide rapsodie B. Structure et signification C. Un ballet de l'intelligence III. Les ressources de l'écart A. La chair du livre B. Ruptures et agrafes C. Variations D. Qu'est-ce qui m'empêcherait? E. L'emploi du temps IV. Liberté, maîtres et esclaves A. Liberté et fatalisme B. Maîtrise et servitude C. L'auteur et son lecteur V. La problématique du génie A. Génies et géomètres B. Poètes et philosophes C. Sont-ils bons? sont-ils méchants? VI. Le voyage dans la nuit A. L'errance B. L'empire des signes C. Les erreurs de jugement Conclusion Liste des ouvrages consultés
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Madame de Graffigny and Rousseau between the two Discours
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Petit De Bachaumont His Circle and the M233moires Secrets
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation The Vacant Mirror a Study of Mimesis through
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Part I I. General narrative structures II. Syntagmatic aspects of the narrative sequence III. Verbal tense and narrative IV. The Use of the present tense Part II V. Prolegomena VI. Mimesis and description VII. The Extended narrations VIII. The Text as manuscript IX. The Use of the device X. Performative and constative discourse XI. Mimesis in Diderot's aesthetic Part III XII. The Epistemological premises of mimesis XIII. Literature and semiology XIV. Formalism reformulated XV. Conclusion Select bibliography
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation The Extravagant Shepherd a study of the pastoral vision in Rousseaus Nouvelle H233lo239se
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Diderots Essai Sur S233n232que
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Rh233torique et roman au dixhuiti232me si232cle Lexemple de Pr233vost et de Marivaux 17281742
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Vie et images maternelles dans la litt233rature
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction I.Discours dominants et maternité: médecine, droit, théologie 1. La naissance: obstétrique et réalité sociale 2. Le statut juridique de la mère 3. Théologie et maternité 4. Les Encyclopédistes Conclusion de la première partie IIA. De la faible émergence du personnage maternel 5. Les genres: rare et triste mère 6. Les temps de la maternité 7. La mère entre desseins et désirs 8. La mère dans la constellation familiale 9. La faute et la douleur IIB. Le nouveau visage maternel 10. Marivaux 11. Le théâtre, école des mères 12. L’abbé Prévost ou au nom de la mère 13. Les mères-auteurs 14. Les romans de mœurs III. 1760-1790: Servitudes et grandeurs maternelles 15. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: ‘Maman’ 16. Diderot: de la suprématie paternelle 17. La littérature d’édification: plaidoyer pour une nouvelle maternité 18. Réalisme et utopie: Rétif de la Bretonne et Louis Sébastien Mercier 19. Le roman féminin ou l’apologie maternelle 20. Les roman libertins: la maternité contre nature 21. Du vers à la scène: le respect des conventions littéraires IV. La thématique et la typologie maternelles de 1690 à 1790 22. La thématique 23. La typologie Conclusion Bibliographie Index des œuvres littéraires Index des noms de personnes Index thématique
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Voltaire Foundation Isabelle de Charriere Belle de Zuylen
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation The Abbe Prevosts FirstPerson Narrators
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction I. Prévost’s narrators 1. Mémoires d’un homme de qualité 2. Cleveland 3. Le Doyen de Killerine 4. The novels of 1740 5. The late novels 6. Interpreting the narrator II. Narrative techniques 7. Generic factors 8. The observed world 9. Interpolations and parallels III. Value systems in conflict A. The code of sensibility 10. The man of emotion 11. The legitimacy of love 12. The perils of love 13. The decline of an ideal 14. Women in Prévost’s novels B. The code of honour 15. The ideal gentleman 16. The ideal and the reality 17. Worldliness 18. Man in society C. The code of religion 19. The religious life 20. Providence 21. The hierarchy of orders Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Voltaire Foundation Voyages et Advantures de Jaques Masse v 2 Libre
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Le Singe de Don Quichotte Marivaux Cervantes et
Book SynopsisL’idée directrice de ‘postcritique’ s’applique à la situation de Marivaux à l’égard de Don Quichotte: il détourne le propos critique de Cervantès, désormais lointain, pour le mettre en résonance avec la culture de son temps.Table of ContentsIntroductionI. Les œuvres de jeunesseII. La mémoireIII. Le rêve de l’écrivainIV. Le jeu de la fictionV. Don Quichotte en France, de La Fausse Clélie à Jacques le fatalisteConclusion: poétique de l’hétérogèneBibliographieIndex
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Voltaire Foundation Repertoire des Nouvelles a la Main Histoire du
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Le Temps et lespace dans les romans de Diderot
Book SynopsisEtude des modalités du temps et de l'espace dans Les Bijoux indiscrets, La Religieuse, Le Neveu de Rameau et Jacques le fataliste.Table of ContentsAbréviationsAvant-propos1. Les Bijoux indiscretsLe rôle des sourcesLe genre et la structureLe temps fragmentéAspects du temps vécuL’espace2. La ReligieuseSuzanne entre la vérité et la fictionLes couleurs du tempsLes tableaux et les lieux3. Le Neveu de RameauStructure du dialogueEspaces-temps narrativesEspaces-temps biographiquesLe matérialisme en question4. Jacques le fatalisteLe vrai dilemme du romanLes instances narrativesTemps humain, univers-tempsEbauches d’espaces‘C’était écrit là-haut…’ ConclusionBibliographieIndex des noms de personnesIndex des titres
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation LAbb233 Pr233vost au tournant du si232cle
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAbréviationsI L’Abbé Prévost et son milieuII La quête de l’ordre esthétiqueIII L’Abbé Prévost et la tradition littéraire Index
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Voltaire Foundation Voicing Desire Family and Sexuality in Diderots
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Fran231oise de Graffigny femme de lettres
Book SynopsisPour la première fois la grande diversité de son œuvre fait ici l’objet d’un examen: sa correspondance, qui mêle des observations pénétrantes sur son époque à des réflexions franches sur les diverses facettes de sa vie de provinciale dépaysée, de salonnière célèbre, d’écrivain novateur, et de femme – en toutes lettres;Trade Review'Hautement recommandé à tous les chercheurs qu'intéressent Graffigny et son temps.'French Review'Pour tout lecteur qui s’intéresse non seulement à Graffigny mais à son époque, que ce soit du point de vue de la recherche ou par simple intérêt, ce volume offre une expérience de lecture d’une grande richesse.'Eighteenth-Century FictionTable of ContentsTable des illustrationsRemerciementsAbréviations et citationsJonathan Mallinson, Françoise de Graffigny: textes et imagesA. EcritureI. Diversité et originalitéCatriona Seth, ‘Je ne suis pas bien aise d’être connuë comme auteur’: la Nouvelle espagnole de Mme de GraffignyAnne Defrance, La Princesse Azerolle ou l’Excès de la constance de Mme de Graffigny: conte parodique, conte d’auteur?Russell Goulbourne, Genre littéraire, sexe féminin: les enjeux esthétiques de CéniePerry Gethner, Les pièces nouvelles de Graffigny: de la comédie sentimentale au drameEnglish Showalter, Mme de Graffigny en 1752II. Ecrire la vieRotraud von Kulessa, Françoise de Graffigny, et la genèse des Lettres d’une Péruvienne: l’écriture comme auto-réflexionRenate Kroll, La ré-écriture de soi-même, ou exister par écrire: fiction et authenticité fictive chez Françoise de GraffignyBéatrice Didier, Epistolarité et journal intime: les lettres de jeunesse de Mme de GraffignyRenaud Redien-Collot, Le statut d’auteur dans la correspondance privée de Mme de Graffigny: assomption et renonciationIII. Graffigny, lectriceAurora Wolfgang, ‘Notre vieille amie’: Mme de Sévigné dans la correspondance de Mme de Graffigny et DevauxJonathan Mallinson, ‘Cela ne vaud pas Zaïde’: Graffigny, lectrice de Mme de La FayetteSuzan van Dijk, Les femmes se lisaient-elles? Importance des collègues pour la venue à l’écritureIV. Graffigny et ses contemporainsLaure Challandes, Mme de Graffigny et RousseauCatherine Volpilhac-Auger, Montesquieu et Mme de Graffigny: regards croisés, regards obliques, ou Histoire d’un Persan et d’une PéruvienneCatherine François-Giapicconi, Une géante et... un myrmidon? Graffigny et Nivelle de La Chaussée, à propos de Cénieet de La GouvernanteMelissa Percival, Graffigny et La Font de Saint YenneB. RéceptionI. Images de GraffignyColin Harrison, Les portraits de Mme de GraffignyJoan Hinde Stewart, ‘Still life’: la vieille dame et la mortChristina Ionescu, La série illustrative dessinée par Le Barbier l’aîné pour les Lettres d’une Péruvienne de Mme de GraffignyJean Sgard, La lettre sur CénieII. TraductionsCharlotte Simonin, Des sœurs d’outre-Manche, ou les versions anglaises de Cénie de Mme de GraffignyAnnie Rivara, Les Lettres d’une Péruvienne traduites en Angleterre et en FranceAndrew Kahn, Les Lettres d’une Péruvienne et la culture du livre en Russie au dix-huitième siècleIII. Graffigny, féministeRobin Howells, Le féminisme de la PéruvienneNadine Bérenguier, Zilia, une adolescente hors du communLaura J. Burch, La nouvelle république des lettres: Graffigny et l’amitié philosophiqueJanie Vanpée, Etre(s) sans papier et sans domicile fixe: la femme comme figure de l’étranger chez GraffignyHeidi Bostic, ‘Que faire pour être raisonnable?’: La Réunion du bon sens et de l’esprit de Françoise de GraffignyIV. Lire les Lettres d’une PéruvienneDavid Smith, Vers une édition critique des Lettres d'une PéruvienneJan Herman, Les Lettres d’une Péruvienne: nœuds et dénouementsAnn Lewis, La sensibilité dans les Lettres d’une Péruvienne: expérience esthétique, modèle de la communicationSharon Diane Nell, ‘Un grand nombre de bagatelles agréables’: Zilia vis-à-vis des divertissements du ‘rococo’Marie-Pascale Pieretti, D’un ‘échange unilatéral’ à un autre: variations sur un choix stylistique dans les Lettres d’une Péruvienne et les Lettres de Mistriss Fanni ButlerdChristina Ionescu, Bibliographie: Mme de Graffigny, sa vie et ses œuvresIndex
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Voltaire Foundation Oeuvres De 1772 II Les Oeuvres Compltes de
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Le Second Triomphe du roman du XVIIIe si232cle
Book SynopsisTrade Review'[…] ce riche volume est une mise au point utile, quant aux différents domaines de recherche actuelle concernant le roman français […]. L’ouvrage, pourvu d’un index très complet et d’une petite bibliographie des ouvrages les plus fréquemment cités […], s’impose comme un outil désormais indispensable aux chercheurs.'Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 22, n° 3'It is safe to say that, whatever one’s expertise or interest may be, it will most certainly be complemented by the reading of this collection. Stewart and Delon have compiled an ensemble of studies with breadth and depth. The perspectives they offer cannot help but excite the reader by the information contained therein as well as by the indication of avenues of inquiry that, even now, remain open and are beckoning.'New Perspectives on the Eighteenth CenturyTable of ContentsPhilip Stewart et Michel Delon: IntroductionI DiscoursMichel Delon, Le détail, le réel et le réalisme dans la perspective françaiseJan Herman, Mladen Kozul, et Nathalie Kremer, Crise et triomphe du roman au XVIIIe siècle: un bilanNathalie Ferrand, La lecture du romanSuzan van Dijk, La lecture féminine: les correspondantes d’Isabelle de Charrière comme témoinsKris Peeters, Bakhtine et la question du roman: de l’autre côté du dilemmeII Formes de l’éditionUgo Dionne, Livres et chapitres: la division du roman des LumièresCatriona Seth, Les miroirs du romanPhilip Stewart, Traductions et adaptations: le roman transnationalAngus Martin, La survie des textes romanesques du XVIIIe siècle: l’enseignement des rééditionsChristophe Martin, L’émergence d’un nouvel objet de recherches: le roman illustré au XVIIIe siècleIII ContextesBenoît De Baere, La fiction et l’histoire naturelle au siècle des Lumières: fonctions, enjeux, dangersMladen Kozul, Du roman et de la religion au XVIIIe siècle: observations sur les fictions théologiquesErik Leborgne, Destins de femmes et Révolution dans l’œuvre romanesque d’Isabelle de CharrièreJean-Paul Sermain, Roman et presse au XVIIIe siècleBibliographieRésumésIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Livres vus livres lus une travers233e du roman
Book SynopsisTrade Review'Ferrand’s thematic approach enables her to give equal weight to well-known and anonymous illustrators. […] This well-conceived anthology serves to widen access to many illustrated novels of the period, and hopefully it will stimulate further investigation in what remains an under-researched area.'- French Studies, vol. 64, n° 4'Le vaste répertoire iconographique invitera le lecteur non initié à découvrir la richesse de ce champ de recherche en plein essor, alors que les commentaires de l’auteure permettront au spécialiste d’y glaner des réflexions des plus stimulantes.'- French Review, 85:4'The selection of certain texts outside the literary canon, including libertine and pornographic novels, adds richness and originality to her examination […] The images were chosen from a vast corpus of illustrations on the basis of their connection with reading, books and libraries. This unifying theme is a compelling one, the images representing at once a reflection and a mise en abime of text itself and providing a fascinating standpoint from which to examine the act of reading.'Journal of Eighteenth-Century StudiesTable of ContentsI. A voir, à lireRegarder la littératurei. Méthodeii. Motifsiii. ConclusionsII. Une traverséePrincipes de l’anthologie1. Rares lecteurs2. La place du livre religieux3. Des bibliothèques en perspective4. Les femmes parmi leurs livres5. Livres fabriqués, exposés, imaginésIII. Corpus et indexCorpus des éditions de romans illustrésListe des illustrationsDessinateurs et graveursBibliographie critiquei. Sur l’illustration en généralii. Sur le livre et la lecture, leur iconographieiii. Histoire de l’artiv. Critique littéraireIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Simone de Beauvoir A Critical Introduction
Book Synopsisaeo This is a very accessible introduction to one of the key figures in contemporary feminist thought. aeo The approach to Simone de Beauvoir is distinctive because it examines her work as a philosopher -- this book is the first full--length assessment of Simone de Beauvoira s philosophy.Trade Review"This book is a clearly-written and tightly-organized addition to the growing scholarly interest in Simone de Beauvoir's philosophy. Kate and Edward Fullbrook provide an overview of Beauvoir's philosophical sources and an outline of her original starting point in ethics. Highlighting Beauvoir's emphasis on embodiment and intersubjectivity, they argue strongly for Beauvoir's place in current, popular ethical discussions." Eleanore Holveck, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh "This is certainly a book that needed to be written and the authors make an excellent job of it. The book can be highly recommended." Dr Elizabeth Fallaize, St. John's College, Oxford "A good working introduction to de Beauvoir's thought." Times Literary Supplement "A concise and unified picture of Beauvoir as philosopher." Women's Philosophy ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Education of a Philosopher. 2. Writing for her Life. 3. Literature and Philosophy. 4. Narrative Selves. 5. Embodiment and Intersubjectivity. 6. The Ethics of Liberation. 7. Applied Ethics I: The Second Sex. 8. Applied Ethics II: Les Belles Images, The Woman Destroyed, and Old Age. Notes. Glossary. The Works of Simone de Beauvoir. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Stranger in My Own Country The 1944 Prison
Book SynopsisI lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses. Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, the German author Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship, the time of inward emigration .Trade Review"This is certainly a revelatory book. As its author intended, it reveals much about the pernicious nature of Nazi rule during the Third Reich; the compromises demanded, the tribulations endured, the lives ruined. At one point Fallada laments: “Oh, how they bled us dry! How they robbed us of every joy and happiness, every smile, every friendship! Yet it also reveals something that its author did not intend, and that is Fallada’s own deeply flawed character." The Financial Times "An outspoken memoir of life under the Nazis written from a prison cell... a fascinating document" The Independent "Exquisite and troubling... one of the most powerful accounts of life in the Third Reich." The Economist "This is a remarkable book" The Scotsman ""Colourful and anecdotal reflections of life under Hitler. Fallada's diary turns out to be not a record of quotidian events inside but reminiscences of scrapes, challenges and day-to-day reality outside, from the advent of Nazi misrule to the final stages of the war."The Sunday Herald"Fallada, one of Germany's most well-regarded writers of the 20th century, tells the tale of a writer and his friends, and how the swell of Nazism means there's always a listening ear outside the door - except this time he's telling his own story" South China Morning Post "His prison diary is a heartfelt diatribe against the nazis, revealing a highly compromised man riddled with contradictions and ambiguity. In reading it, the high price Fallada paid for living out the war in his homeland is all too clear." Morning Star "A rare account of living close to an edge that you can’t quite locate in the darkness.""A rare account of living close to an edge that you can’t quite locate in the darkness." Tribune "Vivid" Sydney Morning Herald“Fallada’s strength as a diarist is to convert his unsteady, sometimes ethically questionable existence into disciplined, objective narrative. His life and writings reflect the endless need to challenge authoritarianism in both family and society.”The Tablet "This long-awaited publication will... greatly increase our knowledge of an author whose reputation has never been completely eclipsed in Germany, and who is now being rediscovered in Britain, the USA, France, and Italy. All these countries have recently published his last, posthumously published novel [Alone in Berlin], thus demonstrating his rare ability to attract the common and the literary reader alike." Modern Language Review "Recording his experiences of Nazi Germany while confined in an asylum in 1944, Hans Fallada wrote in real life what Günter Grass later wrote in fiction. An intriguing literary testament, expertly edited by two leading Fallada scholars, and skilfully translated by Allan Blunden." Geoff Wilkes, The University of QueenslandTable of ContentsIntroduction vi The 1944 Prison Diary 1 A despatch from the house of the dead. Afterword 219 The genesis of the Prison Diary manuscript 233 Chronology 236 Notes 239 Index 268
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Liverpool University Press J.R.R. Tolkien
Book SynopsisThis book explores how J.R.R Tolkien's work came to be so diversely received.
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Liverpool University Press Evelyn Waugh
Book SynopsisThis study shows how Evelyn Waugh transformed his own experiences into painfully comic, brilliantly constructed novels.Trade ReviewReviews 'There is no doubt that Pasternak Slater’s analysis of [Waugh's] oeuvre is a superb piece of work. It should become a classic, enduring study.' William Boyd, The Guardian'Ann Pasternak Slater usefully reverses the main tendency in decades of critical reaction to Evelyn Waugh. Most studies focus on his early works; Pasternak Slater devotes more space to his later novels and demonstrates their increasing complexity in relation to Waugh’s life, historical events, and aesthetic considerations. Comprehensive and well written, this volume is a very welcome addition to the handful of good books about Waugh. Highly recommended.' John Howard Wilson, editor of Evelyn Waugh StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsBiographical OutlineAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Decline and Fall2 Vile Bodies3 Black Mischief4 A Handful of Dust5 Scoop6 Work Suspended7 Put Out More Flags8 Brideshead Revisited9 The Loved One10 Helena11 Men at Arms12 Officers and Gentlemen13 The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold14 Towards Unconditional Surrender15 Unconditional Surrender and Sword of HonourAppendix AAppendix BSelect Bibliography
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Liverpool University Press William Makepeace Thackeray
Book SynopsisThis study examines Thackeray's writings, including novels, shorter fiction, journalism and criticism.
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Liverpool University Press Angela Carter
Book SynopsisLorna Sage’s authoritative study explores the roots of Carter’s originality, covering all of her novels as well as some short stories and non-fiction.
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John Wiley & Sons Jane Austens Transatlantic Sister
Book SynopsisA revealing account of a naval officer's young wife, her life during the Napoleonic Wars, and her influence on Jane Austen's fiction.Trade Review"Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister draws an exciting new portrait of a relatively unsung heroine. Kindred successfully weaves together factual material from a range of sources, revealing the rigours and rewards of Charles Austen's experiences as a naval officer combined with his wife's fears for his survival, pride in his achievements, and constant anxiety regarding finance and family status. This is a compelling approach to Fanny Austen's life and the first extensive study to focus on a man's naval career from a woman's perspective." Hazel Jones, author of Jane Austen and Marriage
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John Wiley & Sons L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Natures
Book SynopsisA critical study of L.M. Montgomery's relationship to the material world and the revealing interconnections between nature and culture.Trade Review"An emphasis on humanity's interrelatedness with nature extends the significance of L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) past Montgomery studies and Canadian literary and cultural studies to engage with the larger issues of how humans' interactions with nature shape our daily lives and the future of the planet." Mary Jeanette Moran, Illinois State University"This collection is significant for its ability to offer unexpected, highly convincing engagements with L. M. Montgomery's work and disciplines far beyond the scope of traditional literary studies. It provides new perspectives on Montgomery's oeuvre, while also extending the definition of environmental study and eco-critical analysis in this field." Sarah Galletly, James Cook University"The linked themes of understanding and empathy toward the natural world supply a bridge between the literary and the ecological, between the writer and the places she knew. Matter of Nature(s) is a wonderful opportunity to place one of Canada’s most prolific and well-known authors in a wider environmental history." American Review of Canadian Studies
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John Wiley & Sons Inc My Years with Ayn Rand
Book SynopsisRevealing the truth behind the legend of Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged, Nathaniel Branden tells the story of his relationship with the literary genius, 25 years his senior. It lasted 18 years and went from student/teacher, to friends, to colleagues, to lovers, and to bitter adversaries.Trade Review"Dr. Branden's account of his complex relationship with theliterary great . . . allows us a fascinating glimpse into thepassions of their lives--intellectual and personal. . . . [It is]not only a memoir of a mythic woman . . . but a chronicle of astirring intellectual commitment to a political morality thatindivudally could only fail." (NAPRA ReView) "What a story! It's heroic, romantic, deadly, horrifying,tender-and I couldn't put it down." (George Leonard, author of TheTransformation and Education and Education and Ecstasy) "Relentlessly revealing. . . the myth of Ayn Rand gives way to afull-sized portrait in contrasting colors, appealing and appalling,potent and paradoxical. . . . it takes a special kind of nerve towrite such a book." (Norman Cousins, author of Head First and TheHealing Heart) "Non-stop theater. All the ingredients are there: conflict,colorful characters, suspense, and a Greek inevitability of tragedyborn of hubris. There's a nexus of sex nearly dizzying in itspermutations." (Dale Wasserman, playwright and screenwriter, Man ofLa Mancha and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) "Branden plots his relationship with Rand from a psychologicalvantage point, with devastatingly articulate results. . . . Afascinating portrait of Rand and her disciples." (KirkusReviews) "Do you know my greatest reward for 'The Fountainhead?' You." (AynRand to Nathaniel Branden)Table of ContentsAuthor's Note Dedication Introduction Part One Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Part Two Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 13 Part Three Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Epilogue The Author Index
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MobyDick Herman Melville
Book SynopsisHerman Melville was already considered to be a successful author when he wrote ""Moby-Dick"" in just under two years. This book offers commentary on the canvas of symbols, themes, and subjects presented in this novel, as well as an introduction, a chronology, a bibliography, and an index.
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Novelists and Novels
Book SynopsisHarold Bloom is America's most esteemed literary critic and one of the greatest critical minds of our time. This work contains the best of Bloom's writing on the greatest novels and novelists of our time - from Daniel Defoe to Philip Roth, from Charles Dickens to Amy Tan. It also features his overview of the genre and thoughts on its development.
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Cornell University Press Autobiographical Voices
Book SynopsisAdopting a boldly innovative approach to women’s autobiographical writing, Françoise Lionnet here examines the rhetoric of self-portraiture in works by authors who are bilingual or multilingual or of mixed races or cultures. Autobiographical Voices offers incisive readings of texts by Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, Marie Cardinal, Maryse...Trade ReviewAutobiographical Voices is an innovative, highly suggestive study of autobiographical writing that cuts across traditional boundaries of canon and culture, gender, genre, and academic discipline. Lionnet’s purpose is to break down accepted polarities, opening up the field of literary studies to a cultural diversity that she herself has incorporated in both her subject matter and methodology. Although a scholarly work, this book also expresses a forthright message about freedom of expression, especially that of groups silenced by political and cultural oppression. -- Mary Rice-Defosse * Modern Language Studies *
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Cornell University Press Seeing Chekhov
Book Synopsis"Chekhov's keen powers of observation have been remarked by both memoirists who knew him well and scholars who approach him only through the written record and across the distance of many decades. To apprehend Chekhov means seeing how Chekhov sees...Trade Review"Chekhov was a master at deflecting critical attention away from his own personality, both in his writing and in his private life. But he reckoned without the supreme forensic skills of a scholar such as Michael C. Finke, who seeks to probe beneath the layers of dusty cliché that have accumulated during the past century. In his incisive new book, Finke lays Chekhov bare by marshaling an impressive arsenal of analytical tools and by playing the writer at his own game, using X-ray vision to penetrate the unexpected points of contact between the life and the creative work. It is exhilarating to see Chekhov through Finke's eyes." -- Rosamund Bartlett, author of Chekhov: Scenes from a Life"In Seeing Chekhov, Michael C. Finke succeeds in integrating Chekhov's life and work, his art and his science, his role as a physician and as a patient, as a dramatist and a prose writer, the personal and the professional, the pseudonyms that efface his identity and those that all but proclaim it. Chekhov's preference for not being seen, as it turns out, demands that we examine his strategies of hiding rather than obligingly averting our eyes. The payoff in terms of insight into Chekhov's poetics is enormous." -- Cathy Popkin, Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University"Michael C. Finke has written an outstanding and innovative piece of work: a psychobiography of Chekhov the man and writer based on deep and sensitive readings of the Russian author's prose, plays, and letters, and of extensive biographical writings and materials. Thoroughly informed, Finke does not merely talk 'about' Chekhov or rehash general ideas, but opens up an unknown Chekhov, or, in any case, aspects of the man that the writer, Chekhov, rigorously guarded, and that have hitherto been seen or described mostly from the outside, and apart from Chekhov's writing and poetics. 'Seeing, being seen, hiding and showing,' in Finke's words, are signal concepts for exploring Chekhov the man and the writer. Here is a book that will interest both a wide range of specialists and the interested general reader." -- Robert Louis Jackson, B. E. Bensinger Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
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Cornell University Press The Self in Moral Space
Book SynopsisAll of us take our moral bearings from a conception of the good, or a range of goods, that we consider most important. We are in this sense selves in moral space. Building on the work of the philosopher Charles Taylor, among others, David Parker...Trade ReviewDavid Parker demonstrates the fruitfulness of an ongoing conversation between literature and philosophy. Moral philosophers are paying increasing attention to literary texts for insights that some argue are not to be gained elsewhere. The Self in Moral Space shows that literary theorists may learn equally from philosophers. -- Samantha Vice * Times Literary Supplement *
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Cornell University Press Who What Am I
Book SynopsisGod only knows how many diverse, captivating impressions and thoughts evoked by these impressions... pass in a single day. If it were only possible to render them in such a way that I could easily read myself and that others could read me as I do... Such was the desire of the young Tolstoy. Although he knew that this narrative utopiaturning the totality of his life into a bookwould remain unfulfilled, Tolstoy would spend the rest of his life attempting to achieve it. Who, What Am I? is an account of Tolstoy''s lifelong attempt to find adequate ways to represent the self, to probe its limits and, ultimately, to arrive at an identity not based on the bodily self and its accumulated life experience.This book guides readers through the voluminous, highly personal nonfiction writings that Tolstoy produced from the 1850s until his death in 1910. The variety of these texts is enormous, including diaries, religious tracts, personal confessions, letters, autobiographical fragments, anTrade ReviewOffers a rare exploration into the internal world of Tolstoy by examining his nonfictional, first-person writings, including diaries, letters, reminiscences, autobiographical and confessional statements, and essays.... Paperno makes an invaluable contribution to Tolstoy scholarship. -- R. A. Erb * CHOICE *Paperno reads all his [Tolstoy’s] writings in relation to the central project of his life: the transformation of his life into a book that would teach others how to live.... ‘Who, What Am I?’ is an important book that will become a standard source for students, general readers and scholars alike. * SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW *Paperno deftly shows how Tolstoi's attempt to write an autobiography failed, but his perceived failure at capturing the moral, philosophical, and technical issues accurately becomes a testament to his literary honesty (102). "Who, What Am I?" is highly important for any Tolstoi researcher, as it brings together the whole of his writings dealing with the exploration of the self. -- Radha Balasubramanian * Slavic Review *This is a relatively short book, yet it is rich in content, taking on some of the most important and challenging problems Tolstoy faced as a writer and thinker. [Irina Paperno] draws on a full range of Tolstoy's nonfiction writings from the 1850s until his death in 1910: diaries, letters, reminiscences, autobiographical and confessional statements, essays, and religious tracts. In addition, her book is informed by vast reading in other sources, primary and secondary. -- Randall A. Poole * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. "So That I Could Easily Read Myself": Tolstoy's Early DiariesTolstoy Starts a Diary—The Moral Vision of Self and the Temporal Order of Narrative—What Is Time? Cultural Precedents—“A History of Yesterday”— Time and Narrative—The Dream: The Hidden Recesses of Time—What Am I? The Young Tolstoy Defines Himself—What Am I? Cultural PrecedentsInterlude: Between Personal Documents and FictionFrom Diaries to Childhood: Tolstoy Becomes a Writer (1852)—“I Think I Will Never Write Again”: Tolstoy Attempts to Renounce Literature (1859)—“I . . . Don’t Even Think about the Accursed Lit-t-terature and Lit-t-terateurs”: Tolstoy Renounces Literature Again (1870); and Again (1874–75)Chapter 2. “To Tell One’s Faith Is Impossible. . . . How to Tell That Which I Live By. I’ll Tell You, All the Same. . . .” Tolstoy in His Correspondence“What Is My Life? What Am I?”: Tolstoy’s Philosophical Dialogue with Nikolai Strakhov—“I Wish that You, Instead of Reading Anna Kar [ enina ], Would Finish It. . . .”—“In the Form of Catechism,” “In the Form of a Dialogue”—To Tell One’s Life—Rousseau and His Profession/Confession—The Parting of Ways: Tolstoy Writes His Confession, and Strakhov Continues to Confess in His Letters to TolstoyChapter 3. Tolstoy’s Confession : What Am I?Tolstoy Publishes his Confession—The Conversion Narrative: Excursus on the Genre—Tolstoy’s Confession : Step by Step—Tolstoy’s Confession Related to Rousseau’s and Augustine’s—After Confession: “Presenting Christ’s Teaching as Something New after 1,800 Years of Christianity”—Coda: Tolstoy’s InfluenceChapter 4. “To Write My Life ”: Tolstoy Tries, and Fails, to Produce a Memoir or AutobiographyThe Author Biography—“My Life”: “On the Basis of My Own Memories”—“Reminiscences”: “More Useful Than All That Artistic Prattle with Which the Twelve Volumes of My Works Are Filled”—“Reminiscences”: “I Cannot Provide a Coherent Description of Events and States of Mind”—“The Green Stick”: “Où Suis-Je? Pourquoi Suis-Je? Que Suis-Je?”—Tolstoy and the Autobiographical TraditionChapter 5. “What Should We Do Then?”: Tolstoy on Self and Other“Why Have You, a Man from a Different World, Stopped near Us? Who Are You?”—Master and Slave: Tolstoy Rewrites Hegel—Tolstoy and the Washerwoman—The Order of Things: The Church, the State, the Arts and Sciences—“Master and Man”—Coda: Nonparticipation in EvilChapter 6. “I Felt a Completely New Liberation from Personality”: Tolstoy’s Late DiariesTolstoy Resumes his Diary—The Temporal Order of Narrative: The Last Day—“On Life and Death ”—The Diary as a Spiritual Exercise—“I, the Body, Is Such a Disgusting Chamber Pot”—“I Am Conscious of Myself Being Conscious of Myself Being Conscious of Myself. . . .”—“I Have Lost the Memory of Everything, Almost Everything. . . . How Can One Not Rejoice at the Loss of Memory?”—Sleeping, Dreaming, and Awakening—Tolstoy’s Dreams—Dreams: The World beyond Time and Representation—The Book of life: “It Is Written on Time”—The Circle of Reading: “To Replace the Consciousness of Leo Tolstoy with the Consciousness of All Humankind”—“The Death of Socrates”—Tolstoy’s DeathAppendix: Russian QuotationsNotesIndex
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Cornell University Press The Senses of Humor
Book SynopsisDaniel Wickberg traces the cultural history of the concept from its British origins as a way to explore new conceptions of the self and social order in modern America.Trade ReviewUsing a vast range of materials (jokes, jests, and gags) and writers of every ilk (Carlyle, Chaplin, Freud, Twain), Wickberg charts the development of the modern sense of humor. The book suggests a great deal about American society and its values, and leads readers to recognize the socially constructed nature of reality. Because of its intriguing topic and engaging writing, this book will interest a broad variety of readers—from undergraduates through faculty—in many disciplines. Highly recommended. * Choice *Wickberg adds a new dimension to our knowledge of contemporary cultural sensibility. He also does what surely all good cultural historians do; he redraws the boundaries of what lies within history, and makes us look again at social habits and assumptions that we had perhaps taken for granted. * Times Literary Supplement *
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Cornell University Press Unequal Partners
Book SynopsisIn the first book centering on the collaborative relationship between Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Lillian Nayder places their coauthored works in the context of the Victorian publishing industry and shows how their fiction and drama represent and reconfigure their sometimes strained relationship. She challenges the widely accepted image of Dickens as a mentor of younger writers such as Collins, points to the ways in which Dickens controlled and profited from his literary satellites, and charts Collins''s development as an increasingly significant and independent author. The pair''s collaborations for Household Words and All the Year Round explicitly addressed Victorian labor disputes and political unrest, and Nayder reads the stories in terms of the social and imperial conflicts that both provided their themes and enabled Dickens and Collins to mediate their own personal and professional differences. Nayder''s discussion of the collaboration and its prinTrade ReviewUnequal Partners is a well-written, well-researched, sharply focused book that excels in training our attention on the asymmetries of Dickens's and Collins's professional relationship. In the early 1850's, Dickens was clearly the master, Collins the apprentice, but this model gradually lost applicability as Collins matured as a writer. * Novel *For more than a century, Wilkie Collins's reputation has been overshadowed by that of Charles Dickens, a situation that Nayder goes far toward rectifying.... Nayder's critiques of Collins's The Moonstone faced off by Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood are highlights in this study. * Choice *In Unequal Partners, Nayder graphs a progressively difficult partnership from Collins's initial hero-worship of The Inimitable,... through a more equitable division of labors which still excluded control of the total artistic vision of a work, to Collins's parting company with Dickens in 1862 after eight Christmas Stories.... When Collins returned, he was an established author prepared to challenge the authority of the journal's 'Conductor.' Finally, Nayder provides a refreshing and challenging reading of The Moonstone and The Mystery of Edwin Drood as diametrically opposed in matters of gender and race. * Victorian Web *Nayder's juxtaposition of fact and fiction, and her painstaking scholarship, offer fresh insights which renew interest in works which seemingly contain a key to the productive, yet often strained, alliance, between these two nineteenth-century authors. * Yearbook of English Studies *The Dickens/Collins collaborations and competitions were productive in the authors' lifetimes and subsequently. Lillian Nayder's thorough, clear, and partisan account of Collins's role will assuredly be answered by Dickensians. But they had better consider all her evidence, including the ambiguous, changing material conditions of writing that affected both authors' careers. For she has constructed an exemplary case for the subordinate who rose from dependent to independent Victorian author. * Victorian Periodical Review *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsThe Collaborations of Dickens and CollinsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Professional Writers and Hired Hands: Household Words and the Victorian Publishing Business2. Collins Joins Dickens's Management Team: "The Wreck of the Golden Mary"3. The Cannibal, the Nurse, and the Cook: Variants of The Frozen Deep4. Class Consciousness and the Indian Mutiny: The Collaborative Fiction of 18575. "No Thoroughfare": The Problem of Illegitimacy6. Crimes of the Empire, Contagion of the East: The Moonstone and The Mystery of Edwin DroodConclusion—"This Unclean Spirit of Imitation": Dickens and the "Problem" of Collins's InfluenceWorks CitedIndex
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Cornell University Press Tolstoy On War
Book SynopsisIn 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels in world literature. The novel contains a coherent (though much disputed) philosophy of history and portrays the history and military strategy of its time in a manner that offers lessons for the soldiers of today. To mark the two hundredth anniversary of the French invasion of Russia and acknowledge the importance of Tolstoy''s novel for our historical memory of its central events, Rick McPeak and Donna Tussing Orwin have assembled a distinguished group of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgroundsliterary criticism, history, social science, and philosophyto provide fresh readings of the novel.The essays in Tolstoy On War focus primarily on the novel's depictions of war and history, and the range of responses suggests that these remain inexhaustible topics of debateTrade ReviewTolstoy on War offers readers the results of an international conference held in April 2010 at the United States Military Academy at West Point.. The audience consisted primarily of cadets who had studied the novel and who had already 'wrestled with [Tolstoi's] take on their deadly, idealistic profession' (2)..In all, the editors have done an excellent job, providing introductory and concluding comments that frame the dozen essays, while contributing their own original research. -- Kathleen Parthé * Slavic Review *McPeak and Orwin bring together twelve essays on Tolstoy's War and Peace to mark the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the Battle of Borodino. Each chapter in some way touches on at least one the novel's most prevalent contradictions (e.g., war and peace; freedom and determinism; fiction and nonfiction), spanning the disciplines of literary criticism, history, and philosophy.... The volume has thematic consistency and a wide disciplinary appeal, bringing history and literary criticism together in a study of a classic of world literature. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction by Donna Tussing OrwinChapter 1. Tolstoy on War, Russia, and Empire by Dominic LievenChapter 2. The Use of Historical Sources in War and Peace by Dan UngurianuChapter 3. Moscow in 1812: Myths and Realities by Alexander M. MartinChapter 4. The French at War: Representations of the Enemy in "War and Peace" by Alan ForrestChapter 5. Symposium of Quotations: Wit and Other Short Genres in "War and Peace" by Gary Saul MorsonChapter 6. The Great Man in "War and Peace" by Jeff LoveChapter 7. "War and Peace" from the Military Point of View by Donna Tussing OrwinChapter 8. Tolstoy and Clausewitz: The Duel as a Microcosm of War by Rick McPeakChapter 9 The Awful Poetry of War: Tolstoy's Borodino by Donna Tussing OrwinChapter 10. Tolstoy and Clausewitz: The Dialectics of War by Andreas Herberg-RotheChapter 11. The Disobediences of War and Peace by Elizabeth D. SametChapter 12. Tolstoy the International Relations Theorist by David A. WelchWar and Peace at West Point by Rick McPeak Notes Works Cited List of Contributors Index
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