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Cornell University Press From the Margins of Empire
Book SynopsisSituated at the intersection of the colonial and the postcolonial, the modern and the postmodern, the novelists Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, and Nadine Gordimer all bear witness to this century''s global transformations. From the Margins of Empire looks at how the question of national identity is constructed in their writings. These authorswhite women who were born or grew up in British colonies or former coloniesreflect the subject of national identity in vastly different ways in both their lives and their work. Stead, who resided outside of her native Australia, has an unsettled identity. Lessing, who grew up in southern Rhodesia and migrated to England, is or has become English. Gordimer, who was born in South Africa and remains there, considers herself South African. Louise Yelin shows how the three writers'' different national identities are inscribed in their fiction. The invented, hybrid character of nationality is, she maintains, a constant throughout. LocatTrade ReviewA complex account of the relationship between issues of gender, national identity, and political affiliation. -- Stephen Cowden * Yearbook of English Studies *From the Margins of Empire is a book that should be read. Yelin maintains a difficult balance between criticism and praise for these three authors who are so interesting, and yet so problematic, in ways that must not be ignored. -- Cassandra Heliczer * American Book Review *The paradox of women without economic or political clout becoming symbols of a powerful system is familiar to feminists. But in bringing together Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, and Nadine Gordimer in an important new Study, Louise Yelin helps us imagine how the colonies looked to bright young women of European descent. -- Margaret Scanlan * Modern Fiction Studies *Yelin's study presents the novels provocatively, insightfully, and with a perfectly balanced appreciation of text and context.... Her uncovering.... testifies to the imaginative power of writers with a will to write a different story. -- Betsy Draine * Contemporary Literature *Yelin's superbly clear organization of this material is crucial to the book's success; while each chapter's detailed readings of novels... are all capable of standing alone, they also develop thematically and chronologically.... What further unites Yelin's discussion is her highly intelligent analysis of gender and genre in affirming a national identity or writing the nation. -- Simon Lewis * Research in African Literatures *
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Cornell University Press Reading Desire
Book SynopsisWhether revered for his masculinity, condemned as an icon of machismo, or perceived as possessing complex androgynous characteristics, Ernest Hemingway is acknowledged to be one of the most important twentieth-century American novelists. For Debra A...Trade ReviewHemingway studies has long needed a book like Reading Desire. -- Carl P. Eby * American Literature *
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MB - Cornell University Press Virginia Woolf as Feminist
Book SynopsisBefore the Second World War and long before the second wave of feminism, Virginia Woolf argued that women's experience, particularly in the women's movement, could be the basis for transformative social change. Grounding Virginia Woolf's feminist...Trade ReviewBlack... provides an excellent account of the textual evolution and development of Woolf's feminism.... Black effectively combats the image of Woolf as an aloof artist by enriching our understanding of the feminist contexts in which she worked. * College Literature *In this convincing new study, Black (political science and women's studies, York Univ., Toronto) demonstrates that Woolf's book-length essay Three Guineas is the clearest, most explicit statement of her feminism—a philosophy Woolf referred to as the 'life of natural happiness.' Black provides a meticulously researched examination of 'Three Guineas,' contending that it is central to Woolf's large body of work. In addition, she carefully considers different versions of the text, along with Woolf's other works; her contacts with the various women's organizations promoting the suffrage movement; and her beliefs about how the world can be transformed into a peaceful society.... Highly recommended for academic libraries. * Library Journal *Perhaps none of Virginia Woolf's works has been so little loved and ill-understood as Three Guineas.... But now, thanks to Virginia Woolf as Feminist, Naomi Black's learned, tireless argument in favor of this deliberately obdurate work, readers may come to appreciate this most uncompromising of Woolf's feminist pronouncements. Black's major and sustained claim is that Three Guineas is an intrinsically feminist work whose anti-war attitudes cannot be disassociated from Woolf's assault on masculinist privilege and domination.... These details, coupled with accurate paraphrase and citation of Woolf's arguments, give Black's study its quiet and insistent authority. Virginia Woolf as Feminist... has some new-fashioned, and urgent, literary and historical work to perform, as Black makes clear in the fervid argument she makes for Three Guineas continuing relevance for feminism in the third millennium. She admits Woolf's relative neglect of sexuality and class in her feminist writings, issues that trouble our own time, but in return asks us to consider how much Woolf has to say about women's health issues and the racial politics that also preoccupy us. In closing, she refers to the recent wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya to impress upon us how the feminist objectives underwritten by Woolf's three guineas—'democratization, education, and public professional activity'—still represent a program for political transformation. * English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 *This book feels remarkably short at 200 pages, and at the end of it I feel—and this is not a criticism—that there is much more to be said about Woolf's feminism: 'We will never, in any simple sense, fully understand either Three Guineas or the feminism it represents'. This is one of those few books that I wish I had been (cap)able to write. The reason I have quoted from it so extensively is that Naomi Black expresses so clearly the arguments she is making. * Virginia Woolf Bulletin *
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Cornell University Press Roman Comedy
Book SynopsisThis book explores the social institutions, the prevailing social values, and the ideology of the ancient city-state as revealed in Roman Comedy. "The very essence of comedy is social," writes David Konstan, "and in the complex movement of its plots...Trade ReviewA fresh, tightly written and reasoned analysis of plays by Plautus and Terence, directed chiefly to the social and ethical implications of the plots. Konstan's goal is not social history but an interpretation of the playwright's artistry in constructing the social world of each play. His innovative approach should improve our understanding of the complex use of social tensions in comedy. * The Key Reporter *There is a striking scholarly brilliance underlying David Konstan's work. It is classical scholarship at its very best: objective, thorough, comparative, knowledgeable, and in this case, innovative and thought provoking. In eight, well-written, closely-annotated chapters (plus an introduction and conclusion), Konstan examines how six plays by Plautus and two by Terence reflect... 'tension in values as the mainspring of the drama....'. * Theatre Studies *This is a very important book in the study of Roman comedy and, indeed, in the study of comedy and society generally.... Konstan's ideas are profound; some are controversial; all are worth considering. * The Classical Bulletin *
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Johns Hopkins University Press The English Historical Novel
Book Synopsis"Avrom Fleishman's "The English Historical Novel" provides the first comprehensive study not only of this subject but also of the theoretical relationship between history and the historical novel".-Harriet Gilliam, "Clio".Trade ReviewProvides the first comprehensive study not only of this subject but also of the theoretical relationship between history and the historical novel. -- Harriet Gilliam ClioTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Towards a theory of historical fictionChapter 2. OriginsChapter 3. ScottChapter 4. Dickens: Visions of revolutionChapter 5. Thackeray: Beyond Whig historyChapter 6. The late Victorian historical novelChapter 7. Hardy: The avoidance of historical fictionChapter 8. Experiment and renewalIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press romanticnarrative
Book SynopsisEffective, articulate, and readable, Romantic Narrative will appeal to scholars in both nineteenth-century studies and narrative theory.Trade ReviewWith philosophical sophistication and extraordinary critical intelligence, Rajan also presents complex and original readings. Choice 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionList of Abbreviations1. The Trauma of Lyric: Shelley's Missed Encounter with Poetry in Alastos2. Shelley's Promethean Narratives: Gothic Anamorphoses in Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne, and Prometheus Unbound3. Unbinding the Personal: Autonarration, Epistolarity, and Genotext in Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma Courtney4. The Scene of Judgment: Trial and Confession in Godwin's Caleb Williams and Other Fiction5. Gambling, Alchemy, Speculation: Godwin's Critique of Pure Reason in St. Leon6. Whose Text? Godwin's Editing of Mary Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of WomanNotesWorks CitedIndex
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University of Toronto Press As for Sinclair Ross
Book SynopsisSinclair Ross (1908-1996), best known for his canonical novel As for Me and My House (1941), and for such familiar short stories as The Lamp at Noon and The Painted Door, is an elusive figure in Canadian literature. A master at portraying the hardships and harsh beauty of the Prairies during the Great Depression, Ross nevertheless received only modest attention from the public during his lifetime. His reluctance to give readings or interviews further contributed to this faint public perception of the man. In As for Sinclair Ross, David Stouck tells the story of a lonely childhood in rural Saskatchewan, of a long and unrewarding career in a bank, and of many failed attempts to be published and to find an audience. The book also tells the story of a man who fell in love with both men and women and who wrote from a position outside any single definition of gender and sexuality. Stouck''s biography draws on archival records and on insights gathered duriTrade Review"'As for Sinclair Ross is one of the most companionable biographies I have ever read: a loving friend talks articulately and meaningfully about the long life of one of Canada's most important writers. The painstaking research, not just in archives, but most especially in interviews, is outstanding, but the strength of the book is in its warmth, its attention to detail, and the ways Stouck reads the biography into the literature. This is a wonderful, must-have work.' Frances Kaye, Department of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln"
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University of Toronto Press The Mothers Legacy to Her Vnborn Childe
Book SynopsisA facing-page edition of a seventeenth-century mother's advice book, giving insights both into female Protestant religious devotion, authorship and spirituality, and into how women's words were altered in the transmission by male editors.
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University of Toronto Press The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti An
Book SynopsisLaird sets Moletti's Dialogue within the historical background of medieval and Renaissance mechanics, sketches the life and works of Moletti, and analyses the arguments and the geometrical theorems of the Dialogue.
£51.00
University of Toronto Press Ethel Wilson
Book SynopsisEthel Wilson: A Critical Biography is the story of a distinguished writer whose works are rightly considered classics of Canadian literature.
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University of Nebraska Press Dawnland Voices
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Dawnland Voices] puts another nail in the coffin of the persistent fantasy that "real" Indians and their traditions have vanished east of the Mississippi."—Joy Porter, Times Literary Supplement"[Dawnland Voices is] a significant contribution to Native American and indigenous studies and to US literature."—S. K. Bernardin, Choice"This is an impressive collection, useful to anyone interested in literature and history, and especially useful for educators who teach anything in regard to New England."—Sharity Bessett, SAIL“Anyone with any interest in American Indian literature or indigenous literature of any kind will treasure this innovative book. Siobhan Senier and her learned contributors show us a New England and an America that have been here all along without most Americans suspecting it.”—Robert Dale Parker, author of The Invention of Native American Literature “Dawnland Voices is a collection of writing that is as bright as the morning sun. It’s an amazingly comprehensive collection of the literary work of dozens of indigenous authors from an often overlooked part of Native America, the long-embattled Northeast. . . . The reading public needs to be awakened to the continued existence and the cultural heritage of our peoples, as well as the literary excellence of our many authors. No book that I know of does a better job of that than this brilliantly edited anthology.”—Joseph Bruchac, author of Our Stories RememberTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Siobhan SenierMI’KMAQIntroduction by Jaime BattisteChief Stephen AugustineMi’kmaq Creation StoryGrand Council of the Mi’kmaq NationThe Covenant ChainElsie Charles Basque (b. 1916)From Here to ThereRita Joe (1932–2007)From Song of Rita JoeDaniel N. Paul (b. 1938)From We Were Not the SavagesMarie Battiste (b. 1949)Structural Unemployment: The Mi’kmaq ExperienceJames Sakej Youngblood Henderson (b. 1944)Mi’kmaq TreatiesLorne Simon (1960–1994)From Stones and SwitchesLindsay Marshall (b. 1960)Clay Pots and BonesMainkewin? (Are You Going to Maine?)ProgressJaime Battiste (b. 1979)From “Understanding the Progression of Mi’kmaq Law”Alice Azure (b. 1940)Repatriation SoliloquyMi’kmaq Haiku Starlit Simon (b. 1983)Without a MicrophoneIn Quest of Road KillNotesFurther ReadingMALISEETIntroduction by Juana PerleyGabe Acquin (1839–1901)Pictograph Chief James PaulLetter to Edward Sapir, 1911Henry “Red Eagle” Perley (1885–1972)The Red Man’s BurdenShirley BearFreeport, MaineHistory Resource MaterialBaqwa’sun, Wuli Baqwa’sunSeptember MorningFragile FreedomsAndrea Bear NicholasLinguicide, the Killing of Languages, and the Case for Immersion EducationChief Brenda Commander (b. 1958)Open Letter to Barack ObamaMihku Paul (b. 1958)The Ballad of Gabe AcquinThe Water RoadReturn20th Century PowWow PlaylandTrade in the 21st CenturyNotesFurther ReadingPASSAMAQUODDYIntroduction by Donald SoctomahSopiel Soctomah (1755–1820)Wampum ReadingChief Francis Joseph Neptune (1735–1834)Speech, 1813Deacon Sockabasin (1790–1888)Save the Fish and Wildlife and Return Our Land!Joseph Stanislaus (1800–1880)"You don’t make the trees . . ."Sopiel Selmore (1814–1903)Megaque’s Last BattleTomah Joseph (1837–1914)The Power of One’s WillLewis Mitchell (1847–1930)Speech before the Maine State Legislature, 1887Letter to Charles Godfrey LelandSylvia Gabriel (1929–2003)Wounded BeFrom Dusk to DawnPeter Mitchell (1929–1978)Open Letter to AmericansMary Ellen Stevens (Socobasin, 1947–1988)Passamaquoddy GirlDonald Soctomah (b. 1955)Skicin LoveForever Tribal LoveSacred Color RedVera Francis (b. 1958)Technology Meets Ecology: Passamaquoddy BayDawna Meader (b. 1959)Gordon IslandSeasonsDream of the Hunter’s DanceSusie Mitchell Sutton (b. 1963)My Story of the Dragonfly and My Sister Rae-Lee and My MOM!Wendy Newell Dyer (b. 1964)A Warrior’s HomecomingRussell Bassett (b. 1967)A Measure of TimelessnessMajestic Beauty Of Life from LifeOne Aspect of the Journey of LifeKani Malsom (b. 1969)To My Brothers Rolfe Richter (b. 1969)"Spring drew its first breath the previous day . . ."Christine Downing (b. 1972)A Summer Day in MotahkomikukMaggie Neptune Dana (b. 1973)Coming TogetherSacred Hoop CeremonyMarie Francis (b. 1975)Diminished DreamsNatalie Dana (b. 1985)ListenFragmented PeopleWith This PencilJenny Soctomah (b. 1985)"The spirit is deep within us . . ."Ellen Nicholas (b. 1987)The Heart of SipayikSipayik Reservation 1974Cassandra Dana (b. 1992)Kci Woliwon NotesFurther ReadingPENOBSCOTIntroduction by Carol DanaPenobscot Governors and Indians in CouncilMaine State PowerJoseph Nicolar (1827–1894)The Scribe of the Penobscots Sends Us His Weekly MessageMolly Spotted Elk (1903–1977)We’re In the Chorus NowGeegis"I’m free in the world of these carpeted hills . . .""Some ten or few years so ago or more . . ."Baby GirlThe Lost Soul of the WildernessThe Dreamer—Moodas (The Dream Spirit)Northern LightsFred Ranco (1932–2008)The Avengerssipsis (b. 1941)Injun LaughGewh HuzDonna Loring (b. 1948)The Dark Ages of Education and a New Hope: Teaching Native American History in Maine SchoolsCarol Dana (b. 1952)Penobscot Home Nation We’re Like the Moss on the RockCaribou Lake Winter"Mother of three didn’t know . . .""Pensive in her rocking chair . . ."ChildrenA Walk to KtadhinRhonda Frey (1955–2009)Growing Up with Stereotypes: A Native Woman’s PerspectiveJohn Bear Mitchell (b. 1968)What’s It Like Today? (from the Ulnerbeh series)Sherri Mitchell (b. 1969)Nokomis Speaks: Message to the Seventh GenerationSky WomanThe LodgeNick Bear (b. 1985)Dry FunkgladlyTreaty of 2010february weather makes me feel like thisNotesFurther ReadingABENAKIIntroduction by Lisa BrooksSamuel NumphowLetter to Thomas HenchmanKancamagusPetitions, c. 1685Petition at No. 2, Kwinitekw, 1747Joseph Laurent (1839–1917)Preface to New Familiar Abenakis and English DialoguesHenry Lorne Masta (1853–?)From Abenaki Indian Legends, Grammar and Place-NamesRobert James Tahamont (1891–?)Chief TeedyuscungThe Masquerade BallStephen Laurent (1909–2001)The Abenakis of VermontClaudia Mason Chicklas (1926–2008)A Profile in CourageAunt Mary and Uncle FrankJoseph Bruchac III (b. 1942)From Bowman’s StoreBurial Places along the Long RiverNdakinnaCarol Willette Bachofner (b. 1947)Abenaki DivorceWinter BringerIn the Abenaki MannerNaming WaterWazôliinebiThe Old Man’s WalkPlanting Moon KikasBurial DressJibaakiCheryl Savageau (b. 1950)Poison in the PondSmallpoxWhere I Want ThemSwift River—KancamagusBefore Moving on to Plymouth from Cape Cod—1620Amber NecklaceTreesLooking for IndiansFrench Girls Are FastDonna Laurent Caruso (b. 1951)The Removal PeriodNnd Haiku: A Trilogy Abenaki Filmmaker Earns Luminaria AwardMargaret M. Bruchac (b. 1953)War Wounds: Sophie Senecal Goes to WashingtonPraying Spoils the HuntingSuzanne S. Rancourt (b. 1959)Take From My Hair—Memories of ChangeThunderbeingsFanning FireSinging Across the RiverEven When the Sky Was ClearWhen the Air Is DryJames Bruchac (b. 1968)Tracking My NatureJesse Bruchac (b. 1972)Gluskonba’s Fish Trap (Klosk8ba Adelahigan)NotesFurther ReadingNIPMUCIntroduction by Cheryl Watching Crow StedtlerWowaus (James Printer, c. 1640–c. 1709)Note Tacked to a Tree, Medfield, Massachusetts, 1676[?]Ransom Note for Mary RowlandsonEbenezer Hemenway (1804–c. 1878)On the Death of His Mother, February 17, 1847Zara Ciscoe Brough (1919–1988)Days of HassanamesitCorrine Bostic (1927–1981)Ballad for BubbaDedication to the Young: Cuttin’ a SpoonfulTouchstonesSlatemenFor Teachers: A Self-ReminderRichard Spotted Rabbit Massey (1934–2012)Hepsibeth Bowman Crosman Hemenway, 1763–1847Edwin W. Morse Sr. (Chief Wise Owl, 1929–2010)Chief Wise Owl’s PrayerKitt Little Turtle (George Munyan, 1940–2004)Coyote SpiritNipmuck LegendLegend about HobbamockThe Heat Moon Nancy Bright Sky Harris (b. 1952)To Carol and David with LoveWoman of the WarriorWind from SummerThe Gifted Porcupine Roach MakerCreator of LifeHear Your PeopleThere Was a TimeHawk Henries (b. 1956)Carrying the FluteCheryl Watching Crow Stedtler (b. 1960)Honoring a Father and a SonFull CircleNever Too Late to Dance"Circle low . . ."PressedCheryll Toney Holley (b. 1962)A Brief Look at Nipmuc HistoryBruce Curliss (b. 1965)“Authentic,” Power, and Stuck in My CrawWoman, Mother, Sister, Daughter, LoverLarry Spotted Crow Mann (b. 1967)From “Deal Me In”Heart in the CloudsThe CrowSarah “She Paints Horses” Stedtler (b. 1997)The Fresh Water PeopleAn Indian GatheringIndiansThe Dancer’s FootNotesFurther ReadingWAMPANOAGIntroduction by Joan Tavares Avant (Granny Squannit)Early Texts in MassachusettPetition from Gay Head Sachem Mittark, 1681Petition from Gay Head, 1749Petition from Gay Head to Commissioners of New England CompanyAlfred DeGrasse (1890–1978)About Poison IvyThe Legend of the Red EagleMabel Avant (1892–1964)InterviewThe Voice of Our Forsaken ChurchHelen Manning (1919–2008)From Moshup’s FootstepsFrank James (Wamsutta, 1923–2001)National Day of MourningHelen Attaquin (1923–1993)How Martha’s Vineyard Came to BeFrom “There Are Differences”Russell Peters (Fast Turtle, 1929–2002)From The Wampanoags of MashpeeAnne Foxx (b. 1950)Historical Continuities in Indigenous Women’s Political Activism: An Interview with Joan Tavares AvantLinda CoombsHolistic History: Including the Wampanoag in an Exhibit at Plimoth PlantationPaula PetersWampanoag ReflectionsBeware: Not All Terms Are Fair GameRobert Peters (b. 1962)GrandfatherRed Sun RisingMwalim *7)/Morgan James PetersFrom A Mixed Medicine BagNotesFurther ReadingNARRAGANSETTIntroduction by Dawn DoveLetters to Eleazar Wheelock (1760s)Thomas Commuck (1805–1855)Letter to Wilkins Updike, 1837Letter to Elisha Potter, 1844The Narragansett Dawn (1935–1936)Editorial (May 1935)The Boston Marathon (May 1935)Editorial (August 1935)“Indian Meeting Day,” by Fred V. Brown (August 1935)Narragansett Tongue: Lesson 11 (March 1936)Fireside Stories (July 1936)Ella Wilcox SekatauI Found Him on a Hill TopLife and Seasons Must Surely ChangeFor the ChildrenSometimes I Wish I Could Rage Like YouSure I’m Still Hanging AroundPaulla Dove JenningsSpeechesDawn DoveAlienation of Indigenous Students in the Public School SystemIn Order to Understand Thanksgiving, One Must Understand the Sacredness of the Gift000John Christian Hopkins (b. 1960)Troopers Lead Attack on Narragansett ReservationTarzan BrownWilliam O.Sad Country SongsNuweetooun School (2003–2009)“Roaring Brook,” by Lorén M. Spears“The Four Animals” and “The Three Sisters,” by Dasan Everett“The creator made us all . . . ,” by Darrlyn Sand Fry“Sky woman falling from the sky . . . ,” by Laurel SpearsThawn Harris (b. 1978)“Thank You, met Colleagues . . .”Eleanor Dove Harris (b. 1979)TGIF 1TGIF 2Letter to California State University Administration, Faculty, and Student BodyThe Pursuit of Happiness (2005)From “Happiness in Our Own Words,” by Ella Sekatau and Dawn DoveFrom “Pursuit of Happiness: An Indigenous View on Education,” by Lorén M. SpearsNotesFurther ReadingMOHEGANIntroduction by Stephanie M. FieldingSamson Occom (1723–1791)Montaukett Tribe to the State of New YorkMohegan and Niantic Tribes to the Connecticut Assembly“The most remarkable . . . Appearance of Indian Tribes”Joseph Johnson (1751–1776)From His DiariesLetter to Samson OccomFidelia Fielding (1827–1908)Man’s Relationship with GodThe Truth of TomorrowWeatherMary Virginia Morgan (1897–1988)Address at 100th Anniversary of the Mohegan ChurchGladys Tantaquidgeon (1899–2005)See the Beauty Surrounding UsAn Affectionate Portrait of Frank SpeckJayne Fawcett (b. 1936)HomelandAttic DawnPan’s SongShantokFaith Damon Davison (b. 1940)Mohegan FoodStephanie M. Fielding (b. 1945)RemembranceThe HoopSharon I. Maynard (b. 1953)Long Island SoundA Winter’s MornWilliam Donehey (b. 1955)RiverHis LoverSpirit TeacherFreedomThe Course of LoveSparrowAgainJoe Smith (b. 1956)Fade into White Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel (b. 1960)The WindowAlysson Troffer (b. 1960)The Little Girl on the HookEric Maynard (b. 1976)The Circle“Native American Professor . . .”Madeline Fielding Sayet (b. 1989)When the Whippoorwill CallsNotesFurther ReadingSCHAGHTICOKEIntroduction by Trudie Lamb Richmond and Ruth Garby TorresHoward N. Harris (1900–1967)Letter to the Department of State ParksIrving A. Harris (1931–2005)Letter to Brenden KeleherTrudie Lamb Richmond (b. 1931)Why Does the Past Matter? Eunice Mauwee’s Resistance Was Our Path to SurvivalGrowing Up Indian (or Trying To) in Southern New EnglandPaulette Crone-Morange (1943–2004)From “The Schaghticoke and English Law: A Study of Community Survival”Ruth Garby Torres (b. 1955)Eulogy for Irving HarrisAileen Harris McDonough (b. 1975)How I Became a (Paid) WriterOn LossWunneanatsu Cason (b. 1980)I’m Off to See the WizardDeployments and MotherhoodGarry Meeches Jr. (b. 1997)SoccerPolar Bear PoemI AmSenses: HearWhat Never DiesBuild a PoemNotesFurther ReadingSource Acknowledgments
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Stanford University Press Mikhail Bakhtin Creation of a Prosaics
Book SynopsisBooks about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikhail Bakhtin, whose intellectual development displays a diversity of insights that cannot be easily integrated or accurately described in terms of a single overriding concern.Trade Review"A ground breaking statement. . . . It cannot be ignored."—Slavic and East European Journal"Will remain the standard scholarly reference in English for years."—Philosophy and Literature
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Stanford University Press Proust Philosophy of the Novel
Book SynopsisThis text argues that Proust the novelist is bolder than Proust the theorist. By this the author means that the novel is philosophically bolder, that it pursues further the task Proust identifies as the writer's work: to explain life, to elucidate what has been lived in obscurity and confusion.Trade Review"Descombes' Proust is a brilliant excursion by a philosopher into the domain of literary criticism. Precisely because it raises as a central issue the question of the relation of philosophical knowledge to literary knowledge, it will interest theorists and those philosophers concerned with the nature and function of literary discourse. Moreover, Descombes makes brief, sometimes polemical and always clarifying sorties into a number of historical and theoretical questions, such as the 'textualism' of the sixties and the narratology of Barthes and Genette. The book exemplifies what can be learned from a close reading controlled by principles of rigorous logic and the pursuit of clarity. It is attractively written, cannily organized, bursting with ideas, and eminently readable." -Ross Chambers ,The University of MichiganTable of ContentsContents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
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Stanford University Press Narrating the Self Fictions of Japanese Modernity
Book SynopsisExamines the historical formation of modern Japanese literature through a fundamental reassessment of its most characteristic form, the "I-novel," an autobiographical narrative thought to recount the details of the writer's personal life thinly veiled as fiction.Trade Review"This is an extraordinary book. It is the most systematic and critical treatment of what may be termed the 'postwar theoretical hysteria.' In the process, the study introduces for the first time in English a number of very important primary sources and provides sensitive and insightful new readings of some of the texts crucial to the formation of the Japanese literary canon. In presenting this critically informed 'new literary history,' Suzuki frees the reader to become aware of a far greater diversity and multiplicity of voices in the Japanese novel, voices that have often been silenced by a monolithic totalizing theory of Japan. . . . This study is required reading for those with an interest in Japanese literature and modern Japanese intellectual history, and should occasion reflection on how we teach and have taught Japanese literature in the United States."—Journal of Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: narratives of Japanese modernity; Part I. The Novel and the Self as Master Signifiers: 1. The position of the Shosetsu: paradigm change and new literary discourse; 2. Self, Christianity, and language: Genbun-itchi and concern for the self; 3. The furor over the I-novel: the question of authenticity; Part II. Rereading the I-Novel: 4. Love, sexuality, and nature: Tayama Katai's Quilt and Japanese naturalism; 5. Shaping life, shaping the past: Shiga Naoya's narratives of recollection; Part III. Traces of the Self: 6. Crossing boundaries: truth and fiction in Nagai Kafu's Strange Tale from East of the River; 7. Allegories of modernity: parodic confession in Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's Fool's Love; Epilogue: Tanizaki's speaking subject and creation of tradition; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Stanford University Press Social Formalism Novel in Theory From Henry James
Book SynopsisContemporary literary critics have praised novel theory for abandoning its formalist roots and defining the novel as a vehicle of social discourse. This text argues that it was the compatibility of Bakhtin with James that prompted Anglo-American theorists to embrace Bakhtin with such enthusiasm.Trade Review“This book stages a powerful critique of the theory of narrative in general, and of the novel in particular. Hale’s arguments are convincing, she writes with an admirable lucidity, and she is fearless in taking on the central shibboleths of the last thirty years. This is a splendid, brave, bracing performance.”—Jonathan Freedman, University of MichiganTable of ContentsContents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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Stanford University Press Rereading Jack London
Book SynopsisJack London has long been recognized as one of the most colourful figures in American literature. This re-assessment of his work aims to bring to the reader a new sense of London's richness and variety, especially his treatment of diverse cultures.Trade Review"This lively, diverse collection of essays on Jack London's works . . . will make an important contribution to the study of this powerful, strange, baffling, exasperating writer."—Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Florida State University"Representing new directions in London studies, these essays reach beyond traditional versions of realism and naturalism in discussing London, moving away from standard biographical readings with contemporary and diverse theoretical approaches. . . . An important contribution to the study and appreciation of one of America's most popular, yet often misunderstood, writers."—ChoiceTable of ContentsCONTENTS CASSUTO LEONARD REESMAN JEANNE CAMPBELL WILLIAMS JAMES AUERBACH JONATHAN CROW CHARLES L. PELUSO ROBERT SHOR FRANCIS BASKETT SAM S. DERRICK SCOTT STASZ CLARICE GAIR CHRISTOPHER HUGH FURER ANDREW J. SLAGEL JAMES WALSH TANYA BERKOVE LAWRENCE I. LABOR EARLE
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Stanford University Press Henry Jamess New York Edition The Construction of
Book SynopsisToward the end of James's career, Charles Scribner's Sons offered to publish his collected work under the overall title The New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James. This book is the first comprehensive effort to apprehend the full complexity of James's self-performance there.Trade Review"McWhirter's collection of essays takes on the long-awaited task of situating the 24-volume New York edition and its author within a cultural/historical framework. . . . Easily establishes itself as a must for Jamesians and a valuable read for anyone concerned with narrative theory and/or the history of the novel."—Novel
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Stanford University Press The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the
Book SynopsisThe emergence of the fantastic tale in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reflects a growing fascination with the supernatural, the marvelous, and the occult as the site for literary innovation. Taking Jacques Cazotte''s prototypical The Devil in Love as a starting point, this book examines the genre''s early development in the fantastic tales of the German romantics Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, and E. T. A. Hoffmann; the subsequent French rediscovery of the genre in works by Théophile Gautier and Prosper Mérimée; and Edgar Allan Poe''s contributions to the new literary form.The literary innovation of the fantastic tale contributed to the production of a mode of subjectivity intrinsic to the history of sexuality. It arose at a moment in the history of communication when similarity and perfect openness were no longer considered the unquestioned basis of friendship or love, when the other''s potentially dark secrets became seductive and fascinating. Trade Review"The brilliance of The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale is its intellectual courage and sure footedness in contextualizing complexity of subjectivity in the nineteenth century when the many ways of knowing the world were implicated in a competition for political dominance that insisted on the exclusion of any alternatives...[T]he book's virtues in exposing the intellectual dynamic of the beginning of the modern age make it valuable even for those not intimately engaged in literary study." -- Leonardo Reviews
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Stanford University Press The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the
Book SynopsisThe emergence of the fantastic tale in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reflects a growing fascination with the supernatural, the marvelous, and the occult as the site for literary innovation. Taking Jacques Cazotte''s prototypical The Devil in Love as a starting point, this book examines the genre''s early development in the fantastic tales of the German romantics Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, and E. T. A. Hoffmann; the subsequent French rediscovery of the genre in works by Théophile Gautier and Prosper Mérimée; and Edgar Allan Poe''s contributions to the new literary form.The literary innovation of the fantastic tale contributed to the production of a mode of subjectivity intrinsic to the history of sexuality. It arose at a moment in the history of communication when similarity and perfect openness were no longer considered the unquestioned basis of friendship or love, when the other''s potentially dark secrets became seductive and fascinating. Trade Review"The brilliance of The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale is its intellectual courage and sure footedness in contextualizing complexity of subjectivity in the nineteenth century when the many ways of knowing the world were implicated in a competition for political dominance that insisted on the exclusion of any alternatives...[T]he book's virtues in exposing the intellectual dynamic of the beginning of the modern age make it valuable even for those not intimately engaged in literary study." -- Leonardo Reviews
£25.19
Stanford University Press Projections
Book SynopsisA history of the modern sequential comic form from the late nineteenth century through today, focusing on the unique ways in which it tells stories and interacts with readers.Trade Review"Jared Gardner's Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling contains some of the most fascinating and theoretically advanced writing about comics to date, and it marks a watershed moment not only in comics study but also in postclassical narratology, American Studies, and related areas of research . . . Gardner's fascinating account to a transnational vantage point from which we can trace the history and envision the future of comics."—Daniel Stein, Amerikastudien"Gardner's study may prove to be crucial in understanding how the trends and conventions of the past influence the way this distinctive art form tells stories. Projections is a valuable addition to comics studies that can also be useful for scholars and historians of film, literature, and cultural studies in its wide historical scope and interdisciplinary analysis."—Qiana Whitted, CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History "Beginning with a bullish denunciation of those commonplace misconceptions which have, for over a century, dogged the medium of comic books . . . Jared Gardner's serious, provocative book . . . examine[s] the progress of the form from a variety of surprising angles."—Jonathan Barnes, Times Literary Supplement"[Projections] is an informed and informative exploration and analysis of the history of comics and graphic novels within the context of an expanding interactive media that has melded 19th century comic strips into a 21st century literary and storytelling art form that it is today. A seminal work of superlative scholarship, Projections . . . is also a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in the graphic novel, its origins, and its continuing evolution as a literary art form."—Midwest Book Review"Projections is original, provocative, deeply informed, and a much needed corrective to the presentist bias of comics studies. Gardner says important, eye-opening things about comics, film, and audience, things that should inform all our work from now on. A landmark study."—Charles Hatfield, California State University, Northridge, author of Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature"A succinct and savvy cultural history of American comics in the long twentieth century, Projections is attentive to reading publics and the actual experience of reading comics across different forms, formats, and genres. Focusing on the rise of comics as one media form among many, Gardner crucially asks us to consider its 'interactivity' not only as an abstraction but as a practice."—Hillary Chute, University of Chicago
£81.90
Stanford University Press Projections
Book SynopsisA history of the modern sequential comic form from the late nineteenth century through today, focusing on the unique ways in which it tells stories and interacts with readers.Trade Review"Jared Gardner's Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling contains some of the most fascinating and theoretically advanced writing about comics to date, and it marks a watershed moment not only in comics study but also in postclassical narratology, American Studies, and related areas of research . . . Gardner's fascinating account to a transnational vantage point from which we can trace the history and envision the future of comics."—Daniel Stein, Amerikastudien"Gardner's study may prove to be crucial in understanding how the trends and conventions of the past influence the way this distinctive art form tells stories. Projections is a valuable addition to comics studies that can also be useful for scholars and historians of film, literature, and cultural studies in its wide historical scope and interdisciplinary analysis."—Qiana Whitted, CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History "Beginning with a bullish denunciation of those commonplace misconceptions which have, for over a century, dogged the medium of comic books . . . Jared Gardner's serious, provocative book . . . examine[s] the progress of the form from a variety of surprising angles."—Jonathan Barnes, Times Literary Supplement"[Projections] is an informed and informative exploration and analysis of the history of comics and graphic novels within the context of an expanding interactive media that has melded 19th century comic strips into a 21st century literary and storytelling art form that it is today. A seminal work of superlative scholarship, Projections . . . is also a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in the graphic novel, its origins, and its continuing evolution as a literary art form."—Midwest Book Review"Projections is original, provocative, deeply informed, and a much needed corrective to the presentist bias of comics studies. Gardner says important, eye-opening things about comics, film, and audience, things that should inform all our work from now on. A landmark study."—Charles Hatfield, California State University, Northridge, author of Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature"A succinct and savvy cultural history of American comics in the long twentieth century, Projections is attentive to reading publics and the actual experience of reading comics across different forms, formats, and genres. Focusing on the rise of comics as one media form among many, Gardner crucially asks us to consider its 'interactivity' not only as an abstraction but as a practice."—Hillary Chute, University of Chicago
£20.89
John Wiley & Sons Virgil
Book SynopsisThis study presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. It begins with the "Aeneid", and includes chapters on the "Bucolics" and the "Georgics".
£20.66
John Wiley & Sons Owen Wister and the West Volume 30
Book SynopsisOwen Wister turned the Western into a form of social and political critique, touching on such issues as race, the environment, women’s rights, and immigration. In this biographical-literary account of Wister’s life and writings, Gary Scharnhorst shows how the West shaped Wister’s career and ideas, even as he lived and worked in the East.
£15.26
Louisiana State University Press Neon Visions
Book SynopsisOffers the first book-length critical evaluation of Howard Chaykin's work and confronts the blind spots in comics scholarship that consign this seminal artist to the margins. Brannon Costello argues that Chaykin's contributions are often overlooked because his comics eschew any pretensions to serious literature.
£25.95
Louisiana State University Press In the Shadow of Invisibility
Book SynopsisOffers a long-overdue reconsideration of Ralph Ellison, examining the trajectory of his intellectual thought in relation to its resonances in twenty-first-century American culture. Bland charts Ellison’s evolving attitudes on several central topics including democracy, race, identity, social community, place, and political expression.
£30.56
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni And No Birds Sing
Book SynopsisA collection of essays investigating Rachel Carson's 1962 book, Silent Spring. The contributors explore the book's effectiveness in conveying its disturbing message and the rhetorical strategies that helped to create its wide influence.
£31.46
Northwestern University Press Cement European Classics
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£48.75
Northwestern University Press The Noise of Time Selected Prose European
Book SynopsisOsip Mandelstam has come to be seen as a central figure in European modernism. This volume includes his autobiographical sketches, ""The Noise of Time""; his novella ""The Egyptian Stamp""; ""Fourth Prose""; and his travel memoirs. There are essays by Clarence Brown.Trade ReviewThe most illuminating commentary on Mandelstam in English at the present moment...A work of impeccable scholarship. - Isaiah Berlin, New York Review of Books; ""In this translation, 'Journey to Armenia' takes its place among the outstanding masterpieces of twentieth century literature."" - Bruce Chatwin
£16.16
Northwestern University Press Redemption the Merchant God Dostoevskys Economy
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£23.96
Northwestern University Press Long Shadows The Second World War in British
Book SynopsisFew countries attribute as much importance to the Second World War and its memory as Britain. Long Shadows is about how literature and film have helped shape this process. More precisely, these essays suggest that this is a continuous work in progress, subject to transgenerational revisions, political expediencies, commercial considerations, and the vicissitudes of popular taste.
£29.71
Northwestern University Press Handsomely Done
Book SynopsisBrings together leading and emerging scholars from comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies to examine Melville's works in light of their ongoing afterlife and seemingly permanent contemporaneity.Table of Contents Introduction: Handsomely Done, Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz Part 1. Melville and the Limits of the Political 1. Moby-Dick and Perpetual War, Sorin Radu Cucu and Roland Végsö 2. Bartleby Politics, Emily Apter 3. Land and See: The Theatricality of the Political in Schmitt and Melville, Walter Johnston 4. The Coward’s Paradox: Pip’s Weak Resistance, Barbara Natalie Nagel 5. From Lima to Attica: Benito Cereno, the Nixon Recordings, and the 1971, Prison Uprising, Paul Downes Part 2. Audio-Visual Melville 6. “A Sound Not Easily to Be Verbally Rendered”: The Literary Acoustic of Billy Budd, David Copenhafer 7. Necrophilology: Still/Hearing Bartleby, Jacques Lezra 8. Whaling in the Abyss between Melville and Zeppelin: Alex Itin’s Orson Whales, John Hamilton 9. The Confidence-Image (Melville, Godard, Deleuze), Peter Szendy 10. Belle Trouvaille: Aesthetics and Philology in Billy Budd (after Beau Travail), Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz 11. A-religion, Jean-Luc Nancy
£27.96
Northwestern University Press The Novel in the Age of Disintegration
Book SynopsisScholars have long been fascinated by the creative struggles with genre manifested throughout Dostoevsky's career. In The Novel in the Age of Disintegration, Kate Holland shows that Dostoevsky aimed to use the form of the novel as a means of depicting the disintegration caused by various crises in Russian society in the 1860s.
£29.96
Northwestern University Press Curating Worlds
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£26.96
Northwestern University Press First Contact
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£24.29
University of Pennsylvania Press From Margins to Mainstream
Book SynopsisStudies the fiction of twenty-five contemporary Italian women writers. Arguing for a notion of gender and genre, the author runs counter to many Anglo-American and French feminist theorists who contend that traditional genres cannot readily serve as vehicles for feminist expression.
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press Science Fiction Culture
Book SynopsisExplores the science fiction community and its relationships with the industries that sustain it, including the publishing, computer, and hotel/convention industries, and explores the issue of power in those relationships: Who seems to have it? Who does have it? How do they use it? What are the results of that use?Trade Review"Complex yet easy-to-read, Science Fiction Culture will appeal to the SF fans who cut their teeth on Azimov's I, Robot to the pre-teens picking up their first copy of a book starring Xena, Warrior Princess. Both such readers will enjoy the author's inside look at this wonderfully strange universe." * ForeWord *"A milestone work that brings sf studies into conversation with cultural studies." * Science Fiction Studies *Table of Contents1 Introduction PART I. CREATING THE LANDSCAPE 2 The Secret Masters of Fandom 3 Worldcon: Mobile Geography in Real Time 4 The Cyberscape: GEnie and the Rise of the Internet PART II. NEW GROUPS CHANGE THE FACE OF THE GENRES 5 The Women Were Always Here: The Obligatory History Lesson 6 Women in Science Fiction: The Backlash and Beyond 7 Gay and Lesbian Presence in Science Fiction 8 Youth Culture 9 Sexual Identity and Fandom PART III. IT ALL COMES TOGETHER IN THE FICTION 10 From Fan to Pro: Getting Published 11 Best-Sellers, Short Fiction, and Niches 12 Laboring in the Fields of Cultural Production Appendix: Bulletin Boards, E-Mail, and Usenet Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press Postmodern Fairy Tales
Book SynopsisAn extraordinary book, and a 'first' on the topic. . . . Bacchilega has a remarkable capacity to reveal the intersections of folklore, literature, and film. Her interpretations of classical folk-tale types and their postmodern revisions . . . are stunning.Jack Zipes, University of MinnesotaTrade Review"Examining the workings of the powerful desire machines built into postmodern versions of 'Snow White,' 'Little Red Riding Hood,' 'Beauty and the Beast,' and 'Bluebeard,' Cristina Bacchilega's astute rereadings uncover intriguing mirrorings and revisions." * Ruth B. Bottigheimer, State University of New York at Stony Brook *
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child
Book SynopsisFrom her youth, Mary Shelley immersed herself in the social contract tradition, particularly the educational and political theories of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as the radical philosophies of her parents, the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the anarchist William Godwin. Against this background, Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818. In the two centuries since, her masterpiece has been celebrated as a Gothic classic and its symbolic resonance has driven the global success of its publication, translation, and adaptation in theater, film, art, and literature. However, in Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child, Eileen Hunt Botting argues that Frankenstein is more than an original and paradigmatic work of science fiction—it is a profound reflection on a radical moral and political question: do children have rights?Botting contends that Frankenstein invites its readers to reason throughTrade Review"Botting's intervention in Frankenstudies is an important one." * Times Literary Supplement *"Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child, in its passion and commitments, vividly illustrates Frankenstein's continuing power, two hundred years on, to comment on the pressing political issues of the day." * Modern Philology *""One sets a very high bar in claiming that a book on Frankenstein advances a new, important reading-especially one appearing in 2018, when worldwide commemorations of the bicentenary of the first edition are focusing unprecedented attention on Shelley's novel. But such a feat is ventured and gained by Eileen Hunt Botting's Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child"" * The Modern Language Review *"Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child shows that Botting’s measured, logical, stepwise scholarly approach has produced a truly revolutionary intervention in the understanding of, and potential responses to, posthuman justice, speciesism, and cosmopolitan belonging." * 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries of the Early Modern Era *"Treating the creature as an abandoned and abused child, Eileen Hunt Botting brilliantly uses the novel Frankenstein to mount a series of thought experiments that interrogate the enduring political questions of whether children have rights and, if so, which ones. Deftly summarizing the positions of such writers as Hobbes, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, and Onora O'Neill, Botting persuasively argues for a child's universal rights to care, identity, and love-rights that Botting here extends to disabled, stateless, and genetically modified children." * Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles *"While there has been a great deal written within literary theory and criticism on the novel Frankenstein, and there is a substantial, and growing, literature within moral and political philosophy on the rights of children and the obligations of parents, Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child is the first book to bring these two areas of inquiry together. Eileen Hunt Botting's fascinating analysis shows how literary texts, suitably reinterpreted, can make better sense of key philosophical claims." * David Archard, Queen's University Belfast *"Readers of Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child will never again be able to read Frankenstein simply as a work of Gothic fiction that questioned the counter-theology and scientific bravado of its day. Eileen Hunt Botting, more thoroughly than any previous commentator, has revealed the philosophical content of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and has firmly placed it in the context of modern political thought." * Gordon Schochet, Rutgers University *Table of ContentsPreface. Welcome to the Creature Double Feature Introduction. Frankenstein and the Question of Children's Rights Chapter 1. The Specter of the Stateless Orphan from Hobbes to Shelley Chapter 2. Wollstonecraft's Philosophy of Children's Rights Chapter 3. Shelley's Thought Experiments on the Rights of the Child Chapter 4. Three Applications of Shelley's Thought Experiments: The Rights of Disabled, Stateless, and Posthuman Children Notes Index Acknowledgments
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press Gothic Bodies
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£48.60
University of Pennsylvania Press Sacred Fictions
Book SynopsisTrade Review"I would recommend this volume to those interested in the study of female sacred biography. It is a solid study of broad and heterogeneous textual traditions; it proposes interesting readings of female vitae, and illustrates the richness of these documents." * Catholic Historical Review *"One of the best works on hagiography to apear in the last decade." * Church History *
£48.60
University of Pennsylvania Press English Letters and Indian Literacies
Book SynopsisFocusing on boarding schools established by New England missionaries, English Letters and Indian Literacies explores the ways Native students negotiated the variety of pedagogical practices and technologies of literacy and managed those technologies for their own ends.Trade Review"Wyss's emphasis on the material culture of native experience and the missionary schools is fresh and compelling; her analysis of the Wheelock-Occum letters is perhaps the best reading of them to date; and the book's highlighting of figures whom history has shuffled aside-such as the Cherokee David Brown-make this volume well worth the read." * Journal of American History *"Hillary Wyss's English Letters and Indian Literacies quite fruitfully revises and expands existing accounts of Native participation in networks of written English in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." * American Literature *"Wyss skillfully draws on the fascinating history of literacy and literacy instruction in early New England to show how the process of learning to read was taught separately from the ability to comprehend the meaning of written words and how the act of learning to write was taught separately from the skill of self-expression." * History: Reviews of New Books *"English Letters and Indian Literacies promises to advance our understanding of the encounter between American Indians and Protestant English missionaries significantly. It deserves much attention from scholars in religion, literature, and history focused on the colonial period, Native responses to contact, the history of education, and literacy studies." * Laura M. Stevens, University of Tulsa *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Technologies of Literacy Chapter 1. Narratives and Counternarratives: Producing Readerly Indians in Eighteenth-Century New England Chapter 2. The Writerly Worlds of Joseph Johnson Chapter 3. Brainerd's Missionary Legacy: Death and the Writing of Cherokee Salvation Chapter 4. The Foreign Mission School and the Writerly Indian After Words: Native Literacy and Autonomy Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments
£52.20
University of Pennsylvania Press Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child
Book SynopsisFrom her youth, Mary Shelley immersed herself in the social contract tradition, particularly the educational and political theories of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as the radical philosophies of her parents, the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the anarchist William Godwin. Against this background, Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818. In the two centuries since, her masterpiece has been celebrated as a Gothic classic and its symbolic resonance has driven the global success of its publication, translation, and adaptation in theater, film, art, and literature. However, in Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child, Eileen Hunt Botting argues that Frankenstein is more than an original and paradigmatic work of science fiction—it is a profound reflection on a radical moral and political question: do children have rights?Botting contends that Frankenstein invites its readers to reason throughTrade Review"Botting's intervention in Frankenstudies is an important one." * Times Literary Supplement *"Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child, in its passion and commitments, vividly illustrates Frankenstein's continuing power, two hundred years on, to comment on the pressing political issues of the day." * Modern Philology *""One sets a very high bar in claiming that a book on Frankenstein advances a new, important reading-especially one appearing in 2018, when worldwide commemorations of the bicentenary of the first edition are focusing unprecedented attention on Shelley's novel. But such a feat is ventured and gained by Eileen Hunt Botting's Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child"" * The Modern Language Review *"Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child shows that Botting’s measured, logical, stepwise scholarly approach has produced a truly revolutionary intervention in the understanding of, and potential responses to, posthuman justice, speciesism, and cosmopolitan belonging." * 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries of the Early Modern Era *"Treating the creature as an abandoned and abused child, Eileen Hunt Botting brilliantly uses the novel Frankenstein to mount a series of thought experiments that interrogate the enduring political questions of whether children have rights and, if so, which ones. Deftly summarizing the positions of such writers as Hobbes, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, and Onora O'Neill, Botting persuasively argues for a child's universal rights to care, identity, and love-rights that Botting here extends to disabled, stateless, and genetically modified children." * Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles *"While there has been a great deal written within literary theory and criticism on the novel Frankenstein, and there is a substantial, and growing, literature within moral and political philosophy on the rights of children and the obligations of parents, Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child is the first book to bring these two areas of inquiry together. Eileen Hunt Botting's fascinating analysis shows how literary texts, suitably reinterpreted, can make better sense of key philosophical claims." * David Archard, Queen's University Belfast *"Readers of Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child will never again be able to read Frankenstein simply as a work of Gothic fiction that questioned the counter-theology and scientific bravado of its day. Eileen Hunt Botting, more thoroughly than any previous commentator, has revealed the philosophical content of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and has firmly placed it in the context of modern political thought." * Gordon Schochet, Rutgers University *Table of ContentsPreface. Welcome to the Creature Double Feature Introduction. Frankenstein and the Question of Children's Rights Chapter 1. The Specter of the Stateless Orphan from Hobbes to Shelley Chapter 2. Wollstonecraft's Philosophy of Children's Rights Chapter 3. Shelley's Thought Experiments on the Rights of the Child Chapter 4. Three Applications of Shelley's Thought Experiments: The Rights of Disabled, Stateless, and Posthuman Children Notes Index Acknowledgments
£31.50
University of Pennsylvania Press American Fragments
Book SynopsisIn the years between the independence of the colonies from Britain and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous number of literary texts called fragments. American Fragments recovers this archive of the romantic period to raise a set of pressing questions about the relationship between aesthetic and national realities: What kind of artistic creation was a fragment?, And how and why did deliberately unfinished writing emerge alongside a country that was itself still unfinished?Through discussions of eighteenth-century transatlantic aesthetics, the Revolutionary War, seduction novels, religious culture, and the construction of authorship, Daniel Diez Couch argues that the literary fragment was used as a means of representing individuals who did not fit neatly into the social fabric of the nation: beggars, prostitutes, veterans, and other ostracized figures. These individuals did not have a secure place in designs for the country's future, yet writers wieldedTrade Review"There’s a lot to admire here, including Couch’s ability to say something new about topics like the connections between aesthetics and liberal individualism, which may have otherwise seemed exhausted...American Fragments positions itself less as an intervention and more as a contribution, a missing piece that makes the conversation about early US aesthetics more complete." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"How is it possible that no one before now has written a literary history of the 'fragment' in early US literature, or one which focuses on this form as important to a more broadly targeted literary history? The fact that such a question can even form itself in a reader’s mind is usually a concrete sign of an author’s success. In the present case, that success rests on the combination of the argument’s novelty and the obviousness of its importance to the field...Before this book’s publication, the 'fragment' may not have looked like a form essential to early American literary history; afterward, it most certainly does." * Early American Literature *"In American Fragments, Daniel Diez Couch urges us to examine the role that the fragment played both for readers and writers between 1787 and 1813...Couch’s work reminds us that there is meaning in the partial, intentionally incomplete silences of these fragments. Early American scholars will find this well-written analysis a thought-provoking addition to our understanding of this tumultuous and transitional period." * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *"In a field that has for decades glanced only fleetingly at the formal category of the fragment without focusing its critical attention, American Fragments is both a flash of illumination and a corrective lens. It restores to us, through the early republic’s minor forms, some of the freedom—and the historical contingency—that has been obscured by the myth of the national plot." * Matthew Garrett, Wesleyan University *
£49.30
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Posting It The Victorian Revolution in Letter
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£22.46
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Hemingway and Italy
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£56.95
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Foundational Essays in James Joyce Studies
Book SynopsisPresents, in a single volume, key seminal essays in the study of James Joyce. Representing important contributions to scholarship that have helped shape current methods of approaching Joyce's works, the volume reacquaints contemporary readers with the literature that forms the basis of ongoing scholarly inquiries in the field.
£18.86
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Joyces Allmaziful Plurabilities
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