Literary studies: fiction Books

Book SynopsisJohn Ruskin had an extraordinary ability to bring together aesthetics, religion, ecology, and social issues in a unitary, overarching vision, all expressed in a prose style worthy of comparison with any in the English language. This volume offers an analytic account of Ruskin’s principal writings on art, viewed through the lens of Ruskin’s religious claims.Trade Review“Impressive and ambitious . . . brings together in one volume a set of comments on most of Ruskin’s art writings.” —William McKeown, The University of Memphis

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Book SynopsisDid Flannery O'Connor really write the way she did because and - not in spite of - her Catholicism? Revelation and Convergence brings together professors of literature, theology, and history to help both critics and readers better understand O'Connor's religious imagination. The contributors focus on many of the Catholic thinkers central to O'Connor's creative development.Trade Review“This volume makes a fresh and significant addition to our understanding of Flannery O’Connor’s intellectual and religious devel- opment and to our understanding of the literary and theological context of her fiction.” —Albert Gelpi, William Robertson Coe Professor of American Liteature, Emeritus, Stanford University

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Book SynopsisGathered here for the first time are the stories of Enid Dinnis, who lived and wrote in London throughout the first half of the 20th century. Few in London's literary scene knew that Dinnis was a nun but she lived most of her life in a small convent in Wimbledon with other well-known figures from the period, including Maud Petre.

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Book SynopsisAlice Walker's early story, Everyday Use, has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that African Americans inherited from their maternal ancestors changed the way we define art, women's culture, and African American lives. By putting African American women's voices at the center of the narrative for the first time, Everyday Use anticipated the focus of an entire generation of black women writers. This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Walker's life, an authoritative text of Everyday Use and of In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, an interview with Walker, six critical essays, and a bibliography. The contributors are Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Thadious M. Davis, Margot Anne Kelley, John O'Brien, Elaine Showalter, and Mary Helen Washington.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Barbara T. Christian Chronology Everyday Use - Alice Walker Background to the Story: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens - Alice Walker For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties - Alice Walker Interview with Alice Walker - John O'Brien Critical Essays: An Essay on Alice Walker - Mary Helen Washington Alice Walker's Celebration of Self in Southern Generations - Thadious M. Davis Alice Walker: The Black Woman as an Artist - Barbara T. Christian Patches: Quilts and Community in Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' - Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Charlotte Pierce-Baker Sisters' Choices: Quilting Aesthetics in Contemporary African-American Women's Fiction - Margot Anne Kelley Common Threads - Elaine Showalter Selected Bibliography Permissions

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Book SynopsisThe zombie apocalypse is here! The living dead have been lurking in popular culture since the 1930s, but they are now ubiquitous. Presenting a historical overview of zombies in film and on television, Zombie Cinema also explores this globalized phenomenon, examining why the dead have captured the imagination of twenty-first-century audiences worldwide. Trade Review"Zombie Cinema is a brisk, informative read that gives us a zesty tour through an amazingly prolific and popular contemporary film cycle. He's clearly done his homework in excavating–or disinterring, as the case may be–zombie movies from disparate cultural and historical contexts." -- Stephen Prince * author of Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality *"What the vampire was to the 1980s and 90s, the zombie has become for early twenty-first century audiences, the monster of choice, spreading through a multitude of media texts. Ian Olney organizes the history of the zombie in popular culture from Haitian voodoo practice to the present, providing clear analysis of its evolution and development. Theoretically informed, the writing is engaging and accessible throughout." -- Rick Worland * Southern Methodist University, author of The Horror Film: An Introduction *"Zombie Cinema offers both a pithy overview of zombie cinema and a fresh perspective on the most trenchant themes highlighted in zombie films. Olney manages to deftly weave [a quantity of scholarly as well as cinematic research] into the lithe booklet, all while presenting his own argument. It can be read in a matter of hours, but the observations Olney puts forth are sure to stick with the reader for much longer." * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Our Zombies, Ourselves 1 Black Mask, White Zombies 2 Consumer Culture 3 Boy Eats Girl Conclusion: Homebodies Further Reading Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThe zombie apocalypse is here! The living dead have been lurking in popular culture since the 1930s, but they are now ubiquitous. Presenting a historical overview of zombies in film and on television, Zombie Cinema also explores this globalized phenomenon, examining why the dead have captured the imagination of twenty-first-century audiences worldwide. Trade Review"Zombie Cinema is a brisk, informative read that gives us a zesty tour through an amazingly prolific and popular contemporary film cycle. He's clearly done his homework in excavating–or disinterring, as the case may be–zombie movies from disparate cultural and historical contexts." -- Stephen Prince * author of Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality *"What the vampire was to the 1980s and 90s, the zombie has become for early twenty-first century audiences, the monster of choice, spreading through a multitude of media texts. Ian Olney organizes the history of the zombie in popular culture from Haitian voodoo practice to the present, providing clear analysis of its evolution and development. Theoretically informed, the writing is engaging and accessible throughout." -- Rick Worland * Southern Methodist University, author of The Horror Film: An Introduction *"Zombie Cinema offers both a pithy overview of zombie cinema and a fresh perspective on the most trenchant themes highlighted in zombie films. Olney manages to deftly weave [a quantity of scholarly as well as cinematic research] into the lithe booklet, all while presenting his own argument. It can be read in a matter of hours, but the observations Olney puts forth are sure to stick with the reader for much longer." * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Our Zombies, Ourselves 1 Black Mask, White Zombies 2 Consumer Culture 3 Boy Eats Girl Conclusion: Homebodies Further Reading Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisComics expert Noah Berlatsky takes us on a wild ride through the Wonder Woman comics of the 1940s, vividly illustrating how William Marston's many quirks and contradictions, along with the odd disproportionate composition created by illustrator Harry Peter, produced a comic that was radically ahead of its time in terms of its bold presentation of female power and sexuality.Trade Review"In this smart and engaging book, Noah Berlatsky reveals how psychology, polyamory, bondage, feminism, and queer identities inspired comic books' most enduring superheroine. A fascinating read for anyone interested in comics, pop culture, or gender politics!" -- Julia Serano * Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity *"Berlatsky can always be counted on to show us new facets of what he examines, in fact, to show that the facets are part of a whole shape heretofore unperceived." -- Carla Speed McNeil * writer/artist of Finder *"Engaging and entertaining." -- Sean Kleefeld * FreakSugar *"Insightful...Berlatsky examines some of the most complex and controversial aspects of Wonder Woman. The analysis is solid, the research is thorough, and the conclusions are valid." * Publishers Weekly * "An engaging read from start to finish, and Berlatsky’s love of Golden Age Wonder Woman comics comes through on every page." * Comics Journal *"The research is astonishing. The dedication is breathtaking. And the fact that this would actually be usable as a college textbook in either a women’s literature, comic history, or even pop culture class is awesome." * Comic Booked.com *"[Berlatsky] reminds us of how Wonder Woman’s non-normative forms of sexuality and womanhood actually challenge sexism. " * Public Books *"Berlatsky, the editor of Hooded Utilitarian (a comics and culture site), has written a work filled with deep scholarly insights on the history and politics of Wonder Woman's creator, as well as a larger examination of the histories, lifestyles and personal ethos that gave rise to one of popular culture's most powerful figures." * Mic.com *"Noah Berlatsky took a deep dive into the marriage of psychology and artwork that is [William] Marston’s enduring pop culture impact." * New City Lit.com *"Berlatsky's accomplished analysis of [Wonder Woman]'s sexuality and narrative themes tell us much about Marston's philosophies." * Cinema Journal *"[Berlatsky] combs the verbal and visual texts to show how Marston and Peter conveyed their unique notions of liberation through bondage, submission, and the glorification of lesbian sexuality while simultaneously linking these ideas to feminism and freedom." * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Berlatsky does a dazzling and remarkably accessible reading of the 1940s Wonder Woman comics against some of the heavyweights of modern feminist theory—Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, Shulamith Firestone, Julia Kristeva, Susan Brownmiller." -- Joan Hilty * Wellesley Centers for Women, Women's Review of Books *"Zounds! Who knew the wonders of Wonder Woman's sadomasochistic complexities? If you only know the TV show, get ready for the ropes and lassoes and chains of the 40's comics as examined by Noah Berlatsky. Be sure to buy the e-book to see the original images in glorious color!" -- Linda Williams * UC Berkeley *Author Noah Berlatsky published an article in The Verge directly connected to the topic of the book, entitled "The crucial thing the new Wonder Woman movie gets right about the character’s history." * The Verge *"Quick Takes, Movie Comics, Wonder Woman, Watchmen and Archie" by Boyce McClain * Collectors' Corner *"In this smart and engaging book, Noah Berlatsky reveals how psychology, polyamory, bondage, feminism, and queer identities inspired comic books' most enduring superheroine. A fascinating read for anyone interested in comics, pop culture, or gender politics!" -- Julia Serano * Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity *"Berlatsky can always be counted on to show us new facets of what he examines, in fact, to show that the facets are part of a whole shape heretofore unperceived." -- Carla Speed McNeil * writer/artist of Finder *"Engaging and entertaining." -- Sean Kleefeld * FreakSugar *"Insightful...Berlatsky examines some of the most complex and controversial aspects of Wonder Woman. The analysis is solid, the research is thorough, and the conclusions are valid." * Publishers Weekly * "An engaging read from start to finish, and Berlatsky’s love of Golden Age Wonder Woman comics comes through on every page." * Comics Journal *"The research is astonishing. The dedication is breathtaking. And the fact that this would actually be usable as a college textbook in either a women’s literature, comic history, or even pop culture class is awesome." * Comic Booked.com *"[Berlatsky] reminds us of how Wonder Woman’s non-normative forms of sexuality and womanhood actually challenge sexism. " * Public Books *"Berlatsky, the editor of Hooded Utilitarian (a comics and culture site), has written a work filled with deep scholarly insights on the history and politics of Wonder Woman's creator, as well as a larger examination of the histories, lifestyles and personal ethos that gave rise to one of popular culture's most powerful figures." * Mic.com *"Noah Berlatsky took a deep dive into the marriage of psychology and artwork that is [William] Marston’s enduring pop culture impact." * New City Lit.com *"Berlatsky's accomplished analysis of [Wonder Woman]'s sexuality and narrative themes tell us much about Marston's philosophies." * Cinema Journal *"[Berlatsky] combs the verbal and visual texts to show how Marston and Peter conveyed their unique notions of liberation through bondage, submission, and the glorification of lesbian sexuality while simultaneously linking these ideas to feminism and freedom." * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Berlatsky does a dazzling and remarkably accessible reading of the 1940s Wonder Woman comics against some of the heavyweights of modern feminist theory—Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, Shulamith Firestone, Julia Kristeva, Susan Brownmiller." -- Joan Hilty * Wellesley Centers for Women, Women's Review of Books *"Zounds! Who knew the wonders of Wonder Woman's sadomasochistic complexities? If you only know the TV show, get ready for the ropes and lassoes and chains of the 40's comics as examined by Noah Berlatsky. Be sure to buy the e-book to see the original images in glorious color!" -- Linda Williams * UC Berkeley *Author Noah Berlatsky published an article in The Verge directly connected to the topic of the book, entitled "The crucial thing the new Wonder Woman movie gets right about the character’s history." * The Verge *"Quick Takes, Movie Comics, Wonder Woman, Watchmen and Archie" by Boyce McClain * Collectors' Corner *

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Book SynopsisComics expert Noah Berlatsky takes us on a wild ride through the Wonder Woman comics of the 1940s, vividly illustrating how William Marston's many quirks and contradictions, along with the odd disproportionate composition created by illustrator Harry Peter, produced a comic that was radically ahead of its time in terms of its bold presentation of female power and sexuality.Trade Review"In this smart and engaging book, Noah Berlatsky reveals how psychology, polyamory, bondage, feminism, and queer identities inspired comic books' most enduring superheroine. A fascinating read for anyone interested in comics, pop culture, or gender politics!" -- Julia Serano * Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity *"Berlatsky can always be counted on to show us new facets of what he examines, in fact, to show that the facets are part of a whole shape heretofore unperceived." -- Carla Speed McNeil * writer/artist of Finder *"Engaging and entertaining." -- Sean Kleefeld * FreakSugar *"Insightful...Berlatsky examines some of the most complex and controversial aspects of Wonder Woman. The analysis is solid, the research is thorough, and the conclusions are valid." * Publishers Weekly * "An engaging read from start to finish, and Berlatsky’s love of Golden Age Wonder Woman comics comes through on every page." * Comics Journal *"The research is astonishing. The dedication is breathtaking. And the fact that this would actually be usable as a college textbook in either a women’s literature, comic history, or even pop culture class is awesome." * Comic Booked.com *"[Berlatsky] reminds us of how Wonder Woman’s non-normative forms of sexuality and womanhood actually challenge sexism. " * Public Books *"Berlatsky, the editor of Hooded Utilitarian (a comics and culture site), has written a work filled with deep scholarly insights on the history and politics of Wonder Woman's creator, as well as a larger examination of the histories, lifestyles and personal ethos that gave rise to one of popular culture's most powerful figures." * Mic.com *"Noah Berlatsky took a deep dive into the marriage of psychology and artwork that is [William] Marston’s enduring pop culture impact." * New City Lit.com *"Berlatsky's accomplished analysis of [Wonder Woman]'s sexuality and narrative themes tell us much about Marston's philosophies." * Cinema Journal *"[Berlatsky] combs the verbal and visual texts to show how Marston and Peter conveyed their unique notions of liberation through bondage, submission, and the glorification of lesbian sexuality while simultaneously linking these ideas to feminism and freedom." * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Berlatsky does a dazzling and remarkably accessible reading of the 1940s Wonder Woman comics against some of the heavyweights of modern feminist theory—Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, Shulamith Firestone, Julia Kristeva, Susan Brownmiller." -- Joan Hilty * Wellesley Centers for Women, Women's Review of Books *"Zounds! Who knew the wonders of Wonder Woman's sadomasochistic complexities? If you only know the TV show, get ready for the ropes and lassoes and chains of the 40's comics as examined by Noah Berlatsky. Be sure to buy the e-book to see the original images in glorious color!" -- Linda Williams * UC Berkeley *Author Noah Berlatsky published an article in The Verge directly connected to the topic of the book, entitled "The crucial thing the new Wonder Woman movie gets right about the character’s history." * The Verge *"Quick Takes, Movie Comics, Wonder Woman, Watchmen and Archie" by Boyce McClain * Collectors' Corner *"In this smart and engaging book, Noah Berlatsky reveals how psychology, polyamory, bondage, feminism, and queer identities inspired comic books' most enduring superheroine. A fascinating read for anyone interested in comics, pop culture, or gender politics!" -- Julia Serano * Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity *"Berlatsky can always be counted on to show us new facets of what he examines, in fact, to show that the facets are part of a whole shape heretofore unperceived." -- Carla Speed McNeil * writer/artist of Finder *"Engaging and entertaining." -- Sean Kleefeld * FreakSugar *"Insightful...Berlatsky examines some of the most complex and controversial aspects of Wonder Woman. The analysis is solid, the research is thorough, and the conclusions are valid." * Publishers Weekly * "An engaging read from start to finish, and Berlatsky’s love of Golden Age Wonder Woman comics comes through on every page." * Comics Journal *"The research is astonishing. The dedication is breathtaking. And the fact that this would actually be usable as a college textbook in either a women’s literature, comic history, or even pop culture class is awesome." * Comic Booked.com *"[Berlatsky] reminds us of how Wonder Woman’s non-normative forms of sexuality and womanhood actually challenge sexism. " * Public Books *"Berlatsky, the editor of Hooded Utilitarian (a comics and culture site), has written a work filled with deep scholarly insights on the history and politics of Wonder Woman's creator, as well as a larger examination of the histories, lifestyles and personal ethos that gave rise to one of popular culture's most powerful figures." * Mic.com *"Noah Berlatsky took a deep dive into the marriage of psychology and artwork that is [William] Marston’s enduring pop culture impact." * New City Lit.com *"Berlatsky's accomplished analysis of [Wonder Woman]'s sexuality and narrative themes tell us much about Marston's philosophies." * Cinema Journal *"[Berlatsky] combs the verbal and visual texts to show how Marston and Peter conveyed their unique notions of liberation through bondage, submission, and the glorification of lesbian sexuality while simultaneously linking these ideas to feminism and freedom." * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Berlatsky does a dazzling and remarkably accessible reading of the 1940s Wonder Woman comics against some of the heavyweights of modern feminist theory—Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, Shulamith Firestone, Julia Kristeva, Susan Brownmiller." -- Joan Hilty * Wellesley Centers for Women, Women's Review of Books *"Zounds! Who knew the wonders of Wonder Woman's sadomasochistic complexities? If you only know the TV show, get ready for the ropes and lassoes and chains of the 40's comics as examined by Noah Berlatsky. Be sure to buy the e-book to see the original images in glorious color!" -- Linda Williams * UC Berkeley *Author Noah Berlatsky published an article in The Verge directly connected to the topic of the book, entitled "The crucial thing the new Wonder Woman movie gets right about the character’s history." * The Verge *"Quick Takes, Movie Comics, Wonder Woman, Watchmen and Archie" by Boyce McClain * Collectors' Corner *

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Book SynopsisFor over seventy-five years, Archie and the gang at Riverdale High have been America’s most iconic teenagers, delighting generations of readers with their never-ending exploits. But despite their ubiquity, Archie comics have been relatively ignored by scholars—until now.Twelve-Cent Archie is not only the first scholarly study of the Archie comic, it is an innovative creative work in its own right. Inspired by Archie’s own concise storytelling format, renowned comics scholar Bart Beaty divides the book into a hundred short chapters, each devoted to a different aspect of the Archie comics. Fans of the comics will be thrilled to read in-depth examinations of their favorite characters and motifs, including individual chapters devoted to Jughead’s hat and Archie’s sweater-vest. But the book also has plenty to interest newcomers to Riverdale, as it recounts the behind-the-scenes history of the comics and analyzes how Archie heTrade Review"Fascinating" * New York Magazine *"Archie gets, at last, academic and theoretical consideration in Bart Beaty's wildly readable Twelve-Cent Archie." * PopMatters *"Whether you’re interested in the differences between Harry Lucey’s Archie and Bob Montana’s, or simply haunted by the signifying structure that is Betty Cooper’s ponytail, there’s something here for everyone who’s ever read an Archie comic." -- Scott Bukatman * author of The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animated Spirit *"Funny, insightful, and perfectly paced, this is a highly enjoyable volume of criticism, one that would be equally at home in the ivory tower or by the porcelain throne." * Quill and Quire *"For readers interested in the history and form of comics as art, Beaty offers analyses of visual humour, borderless panels and the central authors and illustrators of this era. Twelve-Cent Archie will satisfy cultural critics, Archie fans and comics fans more broadly ... This book is as fun and satisfying as reading an Archie digest." * Alberta Views *"In its analytical vignettes on such a wide variety of topics, Twelve-Cent Archie attempts - and succeeds - not in ending our questions about Archie, but in showing us how many more questions we ought to be asking." * Children's Literature Association Quarterly *"exciting and often deeply funny" -- Neale Barnholden * English Studies in Canada *Table of ContentsThe Twelve-Cent Archie 3 How to Write (Archie) Comics 8 Story Length 11 The Archie Hierarchy 12 Archie Andrews 16 How Well Does Archie Speak French? 19 Bowling 19 Harry Lucey’s Rhythm 21 Veronica Lodge 26 Riverdale, USA 29 The Daily Strip 31 Footnote 33 “Why Is It Always between Archie and Reggie?” 34 Archie’s Jalopy 37 It’s as Easy as A-B-V 38 United Girls Against Jughead 41 Archie Giant Series 43 Invisible Paint 44 Archie Comics versus Art 46 Betty Cooper 49 Riverdale’s Racial Problem 52 Fashion 55 Betty’s Ponytail 56 Self-Plagiarism 57 Archie’s Sweater Vest 61 Jughead Jones 63 Beatniks, Hippies, and Other Undesirables 66 Dilton Doily 68 Moose 69 Reggie Mantle 70 Jealousy 73 “Are You Familiar with Shakespeare, My Young Ignoramus?” 76 “I Never Squeaked a Pip, Either!” 78 Jughead’s Hat 79 Fantastic Elements 82 Archie’s Joke Book 83 Often Imitated, Never Duplicated 84 The Historical Archie 88 Mutually Assured Destruction 90 Betty = Veronica 91 Head over Heels 92 Mr. Weatherbee 94 Caveman Archie 95 Life with Archie 99 What Is the Zip Code for Riverdale? 102 Cover Art 103 Fairy Godmothers 106 Dan DeCarlo’s Foreground Portraits 107 Archie as an Adventure Comic 108 Text Pieces 111 Previously on Archie 113 Notes for the Norton Anthology 115 Archie : Arch :Archiekins 118 Eep! Omigosh! And Other Unusual Contributions to the Language of Comics 119 Archie’s Black Book 121 Laugh and Pep: The Residual Titles 122 Pureheart the Powerful 124 Errors 127 Midge 128 You Can Take the Boy Out of Riverdale . . . 130 Archie Club News 132 Veronica’s Mother 133 Mr. Lodge 133 Betty’s Parents 137 Jingles 137 Li’l Jinx 139 Archie’s Gender Politics 140 Should Archie Marry Betty or Veronica? 143 Big Ethel 145 The Mayor of Riverdale 148 Worst. Archie. Story. Ever. 149 Archie the Klutz 150 Celebrity Culture 153 Jughead’s Dipsy Doodles 154 Imitation Is the Lowest Form of Flattery 156 Surf and Ski 158 Samm Schwartz’s Art 160 Self-Referential Metafictions 163 Riverdale High 166 Who Cut Veronica’s Hair? 167 Little Archie 169 Credits 173 Juvenile Delinquency 174 Teenese 176 The Archies 177 Pop Tate’s Choklit Shoppe 182 Unusual Panels 184 Smithers 185 The Archie Archive 186 Fads and Fashions 189 Borderless Panels 190 A Comic About Nothing 192 Fred (and Mary) Andrews 195 The Banjo in Archie Comics 196 Wordless Stories, or Nearly So 197 Hot Dog 201 Dan DeCarlo’s Split-Horizon Girl 203 The (Nearly) Perfect Archie Story 206 The Myth of Archie 209 Archie and Me 210 Index 213

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Book SynopsisFor over seventy-five years, Archie and the gang at Riverdale High have been America’s most iconic teenagers, delighting generations of readers with their never-ending exploits. But despite their ubiquity, Archie comics have been relatively ignored by scholars—until now.Twelve-Cent Archie is not only the first scholarly study of the Archie comic, it is an innovative creative work in its own right. Inspired by Archie’s own concise storytelling format, renowned comics scholar Bart Beaty divides the book into a hundred short chapters, each devoted to a different aspect of the Archie comics. Fans of the comics will be thrilled to read in-depth examinations of their favorite characters and motifs, including individual chapters devoted to Jughead’s hat and Archie’s sweater-vest. But the book also has plenty to interest newcomers to Riverdale, as it recounts the behind-the-scenes history of the comics and analyzes how Archie heTrade Review"Archie gets, at last, academic and theoretical consideration in Bart Beaty's wildly readable Twelve-Cent Archie." * PopMatters *"Fascinating" * New York Magazine *"Whether you’re interested in the differences between Harry Lucey’s Archie and Bob Montana’s, or simply haunted by the signifying structure that is Betty Cooper’s ponytail, there’s something here for everyone who’s ever read an Archie comic." -- Scott Bukatman * author of The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animated Spirit *"Funny, insightful, and perfectly paced, this is a highly enjoyable volume of criticism, one that would be equally at home in the ivory tower or by the porcelain throne." * Quill and Quire *"For readers interested in the history and form of comics as art, Beaty offers analyses of visual humour, borderless panels and the central authors and illustrators of this era. Twelve-Cent Archie will satisfy cultural critics, Archie fans and comics fans more broadly ... This book is as fun and satisfying as reading an Archie digest." * Alberta Views *"In its analytical vignettes on such a wide variety of topics, Twelve-Cent Archie attempts - and succeeds - not in ending our questions about Archie, but in showing us how many more questions we ought to be asking." * Children's Literature Association Quarterly *"exciting and often deeply funny" -- Neale Barnholden * English Studies in Canada *"Archie gets, at last, academic and theoretical consideration in Bart Beaty's wildly readable Twelve-Cent Archie." * PopMatters *"Fascinating" * New York Magazine *"Whether you’re interested in the differences between Harry Lucey’s Archie and Bob Montana’s, or simply haunted by the signifying structure that is Betty Cooper’s ponytail, there’s something here for everyone who’s ever read an Archie comic." -- Scott Bukatman * author of The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animated Spirit *"Funny, insightful, and perfectly paced, this is a highly enjoyable volume of criticism, one that would be equally at home in the ivory tower or by the porcelain throne." * Quill and Quire *"For readers interested in the history and form of comics as art, Beaty offers analyses of visual humour, borderless panels and the central authors and illustrators of this era. Twelve-Cent Archie will satisfy cultural critics, Archie fans and comics fans more broadly ... This book is as fun and satisfying as reading an Archie digest." * Alberta Views *"In its analytical vignettes on such a wide variety of topics, Twelve-Cent Archie attempts - and succeeds - not in ending our questions about Archie, but in showing us how many more questions we ought to be asking." * Children's Literature Association Quarterly *"exciting and often deeply funny" -- Neale Barnholden * English Studies in Canada *Table of ContentsThe Twelve-Cent Archie 3 How to Write (Archie) Comics 8 Story Length 11 The Archie Hierarchy 12 Archie Andrews 16 How Well Does Archie Speak French? 19 Bowling 19 Harry Lucey’s Rhythm 21 Veronica Lodge 26 Riverdale, USA 29 The Daily Strip 31 Footnote 33 “Why Is It Always between Archie and Reggie?” 34 Archie’s Jalopy 37 It’s as Easy as A-B-V 38 United Girls Against Jughead 41 Archie Giant Series 43 Invisible Paint 44 Archie Comics versus Art 46 Betty Cooper 49 Riverdale’s Racial Problem 52 Fashion 55 Betty’s Ponytail 56 Self-Plagiarism 57 Archie’s Sweater Vest 61 Jughead Jones 63 Beatniks, Hippies, and Other Undesirables 66 Dilton Doily 68 Moose 69 Reggie Mantle 70 Jealousy 73 “Are You Familiar with Shakespeare, My Young Ignoramus?” 76 “I Never Squeaked a Pip, Either!” 78 Jughead’s Hat 79 Fantastic Elements 82 Archie’s Joke Book 83 Often Imitated, Never Duplicated 84 The Historical Archie 88 Mutually Assured Destruction 90 Betty = Veronica 91 Head over Heels 92 Mr. Weatherbee 94 Caveman Archie 95 Life with Archie 99 What Is the Zip Code for Riverdale? 102 Cover Art 103 Fairy Godmothers 106 Dan DeCarlo’s Foreground Portraits 107 Archie as an Adventure Comic 108 Text Pieces 111 Previously on Archie 113 Notes for the Norton Anthology 115 Archie : Arch :Archiekins 118 Eep! Omigosh! And Other Unusual Contributions to the Language of Comics 119 Archie’s Black Book 121 Laugh and Pep: The Residual Titles 122 Pureheart the Powerful 124 Errors 127 Midge 128 You Can Take the Boy Out of Riverdale . . . 130 Archie Club News 132 Veronica’s Mother 133 Mr. Lodge 133 Betty’s Parents 137 Jingles 137 Li’l Jinx 139 Archie’s Gender Politics 140 Should Archie Marry Betty or Veronica? 143 Big Ethel 145 The Mayor of Riverdale 148 Worst. Archie. Story. Ever. 149 Archie the Klutz 150 Celebrity Culture 153 Jughead’s Dipsy Doodles 154 Imitation Is the Lowest Form of Flattery 156 Surf and Ski 158 Samm Schwartz’s Art 160 Self-Referential Metafictions 163 Riverdale High 166 Who Cut Veronica’s Hair? 167 Little Archie 169 Credits 173 Juvenile Delinquency 174 Teenese 176 The Archies 177 Pop Tate’s Choklit Shoppe 182 Unusual Panels 184 Smithers 185 The Archie Archive 186 Fads and Fashions 189 Borderless Panels 190 A Comic About Nothing 192 Fred (and Mary) Andrews 195 The Banjo in Archie Comics 196 Wordless Stories, or Nearly So 197 Hot Dog 201 Dan DeCarlo’s Split-Horizon Girl 203 The (Nearly) Perfect Archie Story 206 The Myth of Archie 209 Archie and Me 210 Index 213

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Book SynopsisIn 1957 and 1958, William Faulkner was Writer-in-Residence at University of Virginia. This volume includes what he said at 37 conferences where he answered over 2000 questions on a wide range of concerns, from exegetic problems in his novels to the role of the writer in modern society.

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Book SynopsisAn anthology of fiction by one of America's important feminist writers, the author of the ""Yellow Wallpaper"", in which a woman is driven mad by chauvinist psychiatry. Collected here, by Lane, are 18 stories and fragments, including a selection from ""Herland"", Gilman's feminist Utopia.

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Book SynopsisA biography of Willa Cather, presenting a writer whose life and quietly modernist work reflected the artistic and cultural tensions of her day. It seeks to portray a woman and an artist who exemplifies the ambivalence, foreboding and complexity which we associate with the 20th-century mind.

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Book SynopsisThese papers from the poet and critic Randall Jarrell include letters from Jarrell to Peter Taylor, publication of which was withheld during Taylor's lifetime. These letters add a further dimension of friendship and intellect to this behind-the-scenes glimpse of American literary history.Trade ReviewWitty, often brilliantly perceptive, often touching, usually funny, [these letters] have many of the best qualities of Randall Jarrell's criticism and his comic novel, Pictures from an Institution. They bristle with ideas while they also show great freshness and openness to experience.... Of recent collections of letters, only Flannery O'Connor's seem to me to rival these in their consistently high level of interest and entertainment. - Washington Post Book World ""Randall Jarrell - poet, critic, daimon - was an Enthusiast. Wedding an intense devotion to Old World culture with the frequent exhibition of glad American anarchy, he was Matthew Arnold at the wheel of an MG, tach up, top down, the wind in his literary hair."" - Boston Globe ""Mary Jarrell... has written witty and observant connecting passages that shape the book into a rounded narrative and... has unveiled Randall Jarrell's final enduring literary work. And in doing so, she has created her own."" - Charlotte Observer

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Book SynopsisVolume two of this monumental work rests on an unprecedented trove of research, giving us the most penetrating and comprehensive life of William Faulkner and providing a fascinating look at the author's trajectory from under-appreciated ""writer's writer"" to world-renowned Nobel laureate and literary icon.Trade ReviewA lush story of a genius and his substantial achievements, failures, and demons.- Kirkus, starred review;""The concluding volume of this two-part biography of Faulkner shows Rollyson, a Baruch College professor emeritus, as both a careful observer of Faulkner the man, and an adept and perceptive reader of his work.... Rollyson's painstakingly researched and beautifully written biography should be a touchstone for Faulkner scholarship for years to come.""- Publishers Weekly, starred review

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Book SynopsisWhat would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women writers who merged the spiritual and travel narrative genres: Zilpha Elaw, Amanda Smith and Nancy Prince.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Unlikely Crossings 1: "Where have you come from, and where are you going?": Spirituality and Mobility in Hagar's Narrative 2: Visionary Movement in Zilpha Elaw's Memoirs 3: Colonial and Missionary Crossings in Amanda Smith's An Autobiography 4: Searching for Home in A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince 5: Mapping Sacred Movement in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust 6: Secular Journeys, Sacred Recovery: Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother Coda Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhy does crime feature at the centre of so many postcolonial novels set in major cities? This book interrogates the connections that can be found between narratives of crime, cities, and colonialism to bring to light the ramifications of this literary preoccupation, as well as possibilities for cultural, aesthetic, and political catharsis.Trade Review“There are many things to admire about this book. It is capacious in scope, while the close readings in the case studies provide instructive commentary on novels both highly canonical and less well known. It will make a significant contribution to postcolonial studies of criminality and crime fiction.” - Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky, author of The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global LiteratureTable of Contents Preface: Atlanta as Postcolonial Criminal City Introduction: Towards a Theory of Cathartic Crime 1. "The Phenomenon of Walking": Mapping Postcolonial Criminal London 2. "Crime is Crime is Crime": Belfast and Universalizing Narratives 3. Whiteness, Historical Fiction, and Australian Cities 4. "Shot Through with Crime": Bombay After Mumbai 5. Neoliberal Criminality: Post-Apartheid Johannesburg 6. This Line Created a Country: Nairobi, Father and Son 7. His Memory Resists Ordering: The Difficulty of Catharsis in Palestine Coda: "Vestiges of Empire": Exit West, Brexit, and Migration Notes

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Book SynopsisStarting with the birth of science fiction in Mary Shelley's ""Frankenstein"", Jane Donawerth examines science fiction and utopian literature written by women. She uses her reading of that work to pinpoint the gender problems that reside in the male-oriented science fiction genre.

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Book SynopsisInvestigates why writers during the long eighteenth-century so often turned to the rogue narrative to discuss Ireland. With consideration for themes of conflict, migration, religion, and gender, Lines offers up a compelling connection between the rogue themselves and the ever-popular rogue narrative in this early period of Irish writing.

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the intersections of phallocratic violence and masculine identity in contemporary works of fiction across North America, Western Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, Messier details the ways in which male desire is predicated on mediated forms of predatory and misogynistic sexuality that cross national and cultural divides.

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Book SynopsisA master of extreme situations, Charles Dickens populated his novels with unforgettable characters and elaborate settings. This work is a useful reference to know about Dickens and his work. It contains entries on his works, including the characters in each work, crucial historical and thematic information, and critical discussion.Trade ReviewFacts on File...More than 50 well-chosen and well-reproduced illustrations help bring Dicken's works alive. Highly recommended for Dickens enthusiasts and all literature reference collections. - Choice ""This important reference work should be included in both public and academic libraries."" - Library Journal ""Gives readers and researchers an opportunity to discover the richness of Dickens' literary achievements in the context of his life and times."" - Reference & Research Book News

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Book SynopsisExamines Flannery O'Connor's life and works, and includes critical analyses of some of the themes in her writing, as well as entries on related topics and relevant people, places, and influences.

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Book SynopsisThe figure of the prostitute or sexually liberated woman permeates Mexican folk songs and popular movies, and stands at the crossroads of its rational literary culture. This text focuses on the prostitute, or the woman perceived as such, to ask why it exerts such a hold on the Mexican imagination.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Full of razors, blossoms, and clarity. The beauty and authority of Cliff’s writing is coupled with profound insight." —Toni Morrison"Cliff is rare, and is already distinguished as a writer of great substance and power." —Tillie Olson"Michelle Cliff has always been a fierce and fearless writer. In this incendiary collection, which ranges from engaging with the work of Lorca, Pasolini and Ama Ata Aidoo to revisiting the life Oto Benga, Cliff examines place and race and legacy, the things we carry with us in our memory and blood. Here is a line from the start of the book: ‘revolutionaries are made, not born.’ This book could make them. Be prepared." —Rebecca Brown, author of The End of Youth

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntrojection, Part I, Endopsychic Allegories, Schreber Guardian, Belief System Surveillance, Part II, Veil of Tears, Go West, Dick Manfred, Timing, Glimmung, Part III, Spiritualism Analogy, Imitating the Dead, Indexical Layer, Ilse, Hammers and Things, Crucifictions, Over There, Martyrology, Can’t Live, Can’t Live, Lola, Umwelt, Mitwelt, and Eigenwelt, Outer Race, The German Introject, Part IV, Materialism, Idealism, and Cybernetics, Startling Stories, A Couple of Years, Android Empathy, Homunculus and Robot, ALL OF YOU ARE DEAD. I AM ALIVE., Go With the FlowPart VRoom for Thought, Caduceus, Jump, Still, A Wake, Spätwerk, Let the Dead Be, Play Bally, Notes, Bibliography, Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the values of literary naturalism at play in one of America’s most visionary novelists. Steven Frye argues for Cormac McCarthy not merely as a naturalist writer but as a naturalist in the most expansive sense.Trade Review“Thoughtful, incisive, and beautifully written, Frye’s Unguessed Kinships is a brilliant and dynamic work, not only adding significantly to the scholarship on literary naturalism, but also making a major statement on the life, career, and work of Cormac McCarthy. Frye’s work is bold and innovative, and it will shape our thinking on McCarthy for generations to come."—;Eric Carl Link, author of The Vast and Terrible Drama: American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century

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Book SynopsisA poetic meditation on the challenges and pleasures of contemporary speculative fiction.

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Trade Review[The] discussions of Twain, Howells, Chesnutt, and Johnson... lucidly illustrate the ways that four of our major writers struggled to create literary forms enabling them not only to reflect but also to intervene in contemporary racial debates, and in the process to begin shifting the generic boundaries of American literature. - American Literary Realism ""[A Question of Character] fills in significant gaps in the critical discourse about genre, race, and science at the turn of the century.... [The] introduction and first chapter are extremely useful for explicating how racial discourse in realism and sentimentalism helps determine genre.... [This book] should be required reading for scholars interested in early theories about scientific racism."" - Choice ""Richly informed and theoretically astute."" - American Quarterly

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Book SynopsisGaddis (1922-1998) is often cited as the link between literary modernism and postmodernism in the United States. This work includes essays which address subjects as diverse as cybernetics, the law, media theory, race and class, music, and the perils and benefits of globalization. It also contains an interview with Gaddis.Trade ReviewPaper Empire fills the gap in the scholarly literature on Gaddis. I know of no other monograph or collection of essays that addresses in such a focused way the contexts, especially the systematic contexts, of Gaddis's writing. - Brian McHale, author of The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems

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Trade ReviewJohansen... goes a long way toward unlocking the diverse strategies employed by O'Connor. Her thoroughgoing knowledge of O'Connor's work is always impressive. It's a lively time for O'Conner criticism, and Johansen is certainly one of O'Connor's more lively readers. - South Atlantic Review ""I recommend the book to readers interested in the trickster, and those who know and love O'Connor's fiction enough to relish new insights.... Johansen has earned her place in the ranks of those who continue to delight in O'Connor's fiction, to delight in attempts to explain its power over us, and to take pleasure in the certainty that her fiction will continue to elude our explanations."" - Text and Performance Quarterly

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Book SynopsisThis slender, unpretentious, and well-written book is consistently insightful: it deserves the attention of all who find themselves drawn to Lewis the writer and to Lewis the man.—Modern Fiction Studies

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Book SynopsisThis continues Ronald Berman's career-long study of the ways that intellectual and philosophical ideas informed and transformed the work of America’s major modernist writers. Berman shows how Fitzgerald and Hemingway wrestled with very specific intellectual, artistic, and psychological influences, influences particular to each writer, particular to the time in which they wrote, and which left distinctive marks on their entire oeuvres.Trade ReviewTranslating Modernism continues Ronald Berman's challenging and engaging series of investigations into the philosophical/cultural resonances of 'Great Ideas' in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. This is a meticulous exploration of chosen themes bolstered by fruitful discussions of Walter Lippmann, H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and other early 20th century intelligentsia. This is an inspiring and valuable work. --Kirk Curnutt, Vice President, F. Scott Fitzgerald Society|“Contains an astonishing wealth of insights into the writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. In this little gem, [Berman] shows how Fitzgerald and Hemingway 'translate' into their fiction certain intellectual and artistic ideas that were in the air during the early 20th century . . . . Essential.""--CHOICE|“The great benefit of this book is the perceptive focus and unified explication of a specific thematic target for Berman's overall critical project, following a natural progression from his initial three books in this field, with their emphasis on social history and their application of a 'world of ideas' to Fitzgerald and Hemingway's writing . . . . The coherence and intellectual depth of its argument will make better students of us all.""--The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review

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Book SynopsisThe Style of Hawthorne's Gaze is an unusual and insightful work that employs a combination of critical strategies drawn from art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and contemporary aesthetic and literary theory to explore Nathaniel Hawthorne's narrative technique and his unique vision of the world. Dolis studies Hawthorne's antitechnological and essentially Romantic view of the external world and examines the recurring phenomena of lighting, motion, aspectivity, fragmentation, and imagination as they relate to his descriptive techniques. Dolis sets the world of Hawthorne's work over and against the aesthetic and philosophical development of the world understood as a view, from its inception in the camera obscura and perspective in general, to its 19thcentury articulation in photography. In light of this general technology of the image, and drawing upon a wide range of contemporary critical theories, Dolis begins his study of Hawthorne at the level of description, where the world of

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Book SynopsisThe marriage of narrative and the computer dates back to the 1980s, with the hypertext experiments of luminaries such as Judy Malloy and Michael Joyce. What has been variously called hypertext fiction, literary hypertext, and hyperfiction has surely surrendered any claim to newness in the 21st century. David Ciccoricco establishes the category of network fiction as distinguishable from other forms of hypertext and cybertext: network fictions are narrative texts in digitally networked environments that make use of hypertext technology in order to create emergent and recombinant narratives. Though they both pre-date and post-date the World Wide Web, they share with it an aesthetic drive that exploits the networking potential of digital composition and foregrounds notions of narrative recurrence and return. Ciccoricco analyzes innovative developments in network fiction from first-generation writers Michael Joyce (Twilight, a symphony, 1997) and Stuart Moulthrop (Victory Garden, 1991)

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Book SynopsisWith the ascent of digital culture, new forms of literature and literary production are thriving while traditional genres and media have been transformed. Word Toysis a thought-provoking volume that speculates on a range of poetic, novelistic, and programmed works that lie beyond the language of the literary and views them instead as technical objects.Trade ReviewWord Toys is an engaging and delightfully quirky overview of the philosophy and aesthetics of technicity in digital, constraint-based, and speculative poetry and its many cousins, aunts, fellow travelers, and, crucially, outliers."" - Charles Bernstein, author of Recalculating and Pitch of Poetry""Stefans’s work distinguishes itself from any run-of-the-mill scholarly study in being the product of an expansive, ultra-contemporary, kaleidoscopic intelligence, and a spontaneous, razor-sharp wit."" - Jennifer Scappettone, author of Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice

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Book SynopsisExplores the values of literary naturalism at play in one of America’s most visionary novelists. Steven Frye argues for Cormac McCarthy not merely as a naturalist writer but as a naturalist in the most expansive sense.Trade Review“Thoughtful, incisive, and beautifully written, Frye’s Unguessed Kinships is a brilliant and dynamic work, not only adding significantly to the scholarship on literary naturalism, but also making a major statement on the life, career, and work of Cormac McCarthy. Frye’s work is bold and innovative, and it will shape our thinking on McCarthy for generations to come."—;Eric Carl Link, author of The Vast and Terrible Drama: American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century

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Book SynopsisTakes a wry look at middle-class sexual mores and a witty appreciation of the art of the hack novel.Trade ReviewCharming and frequently hilarious. - Washington Post Book World ""Not about lust but very much about love, mysterious and miraculous. A riveting book."" - Brian Doyle, author of Leaping

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the context in which the symbolic protection of the white female body is symbolically linked with guarding the US southern body politic, Harriet Pollack traces a pattern in Eudora Welty’s fiction in which a sheltered middle-class daughter is disturbed or delighted by an other-class woman who takes pleasure in “making a spectacle” of her corporeal self.

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Book SynopsisBringing a broad range of methodologies (historical, textual, post-structuralist, psychological) to bear on the works of Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Smith, Sarah Fielding, Fanny Burney, Jane Austen, and others. Fetter'd or Free? encourages a re-evaluation of these elder sisters of the Brontes and Eliot.

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Book SynopsisLate nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a mass readership.Trade Review“Drawing on the Victorians is a singularly diverse and multinational collection, a fine critical embodiment of the palimpsest trope that stands … at its conceptual core.“ * Victorian Studies *“Jones and Mitchell’s innovative and pioneering collection will establish new areas of scholarly debate. Moreover, its focus on ‘stories and poems, books and periodicals, comics, cartoons, and other ephemera’ will enrich discussions on the interplay between the production and reception of Victorian and neo-Victorian graphic texts and textual images.” * Neo-Victorian Studies *“Stunningly transnational … The editors take the notion of the palimpsest as their conceptual frame because it speaks to haunting of one text and/or image by another, a layering, they assert, that becomes particularly complex when linguistic, geographic, historical, and temporal boundaries are crossed.”“Research in Victorian and neo-Victorian visual and verbal art receives a welcome boost from this collection. Not claiming to be a definitive map or theory, it nonetheless at every point opens up new questions for debate and new topics for investigation by future critics and scholars.”“This pioneering work in illustration studies will provide a necessary starting point for future work in the field.”

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the status of novels as commodities, their mediation of national cultures, and their role in transnational exchange. This book examines the forms and histories of the novel in England, Nigeria, Japan, France, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States.Trade Review“Demonstrating remarkable diversity, Cultural Institutions of the Novel calls for nothing short of a radical change in the basis for defining fiction from ontology to function. It provides a clear and comprehensive picture of the questions on which the next generation of scholars of the novel is setting to work.”—Nancy Armstrong, Brown University“I have been provoked to fundamentals by the challenge of this book, and so will other readers.”—Jonathan Arac, University of PittsburghTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Transport of the Novel / Deidre Lynch and William B.Warner 1 Prologue: Why the Story of the Origin of the (English) Novel Is an American Romance (If Not the Great American Novel) / Homer Brown 11 I. The Contact Zone 45 1. Between England and America: Captivity, Sympathy, and the Sentimental Novel / Michelle Burnham 47 2. The Maori House of Fiction / Bridget Orr 73 3. Decolonization, Displacement, Disidentification: Asian American "Novels" and the Question of History / Lisa Lowe 96 4. The Rise of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison / Dane Johnson 129 II. (Trans)National Canons 157 5. At Home with Jane Austen / Deidre Lynch 159 6. The Abbotsford Guide to India: Romantic Fictions of Empire and the narratives of Canadian Literature / Katie Trumpener 193 7. Writing Out Asia: Modernity, Canon, and Natsume Soseki's Kokoro / James A. Fujii 222 8. The Joys of Daughterhood: Gender, Nationalism, and the Making of Literary Tradition(s) / Susan Z. Andrade 249 III. The Romance of Consumption 277 9. Formulating Fiction: Romancing the General Reader in Early Modern Britain / William B. Warner 279 10. "To Love a Murderer" - Fantasy, Sexuality, and the Political Novel: The Case of Caleb Williams / Dorothea von Mucke 306 11. The Limits of Reformism: The Novel, Censorship, and the Politics of Adultery in Nineteenth-Century France / Jann Matlock 335 12. Romances for "Big and Little Boys": The U.S. Romantic Revival of the 1890s and James's The Turn of the Screw / Nancy Glazener 369 13. Pas Americans: The Case of Show Boat / Lauren Berlant 399 Epilogue: The Rise of Novelism / Clifford Siskin 423 Works Cited 441 Index 477 Contributors 487

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Book SynopsisIn Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women''s speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre''s political potential lies in the authors'' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality''s limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slavenarratives by Octavia Butler (Kindred) and Phyllis Alesia Perry (Stigmata) not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, but also as a metaphor for the legacy of racial violence. The fantasy worlds in works by N. K. Jemisin, Shawntelle Madison, and Nalo Hopkinson—where werewolves have obsessive-compulsive-disorder and blind demons can see magic—destabilize social categories and definitions of the human, calling into question the very nature of identity. In these tTrade Review"It is now time to bring focus and attention to the works of Black women speculative writers and their subjects. Bodyminds Reimagined becomes the discovery that celebrates these writers and subjects, while challenging the status quo within speculative fiction and (dis)ability studies, and moves them from marginalized objects to realist representations." -- Grace Gipson * Black Perspectives *“Sami Schalk’s highly anticipated Bodyminds Reimagined is the most significant contribution to literary and cultural disability studies in years. Appeals to scholars in critical race studies, queer studies, and social justice activism.” -- Anna L. Hinton * ASAP/Journal *"Sami Schalk’s book is an important bridge between Black women’s science fiction and disability theorizing. Her work requires a reconceptualization of the boundaries of disability studies and African American literature as well." -- Moya Bailey * Feminist Formations *"Bodyminds Reimagined boldly demonstrates the capacity of black speculation and experimentation to generate world-building visions that are inclusive and sustainable for multiply marginalized black subjects." -- Petal Samuel * Public Books *"Bodyminds Reimagined is a compelling critical study . . . simultaneously accessible and complex, exhaustively sourced and fresh in its analysis. . . . Students, scholars, and fans of speculative fiction will be well served to familiarize themselves with this book." -- Angela Rovak * Women's Studies *"Sami Schalk, through Bodyminds Reimagined, takes a revolutionary step in defining the black disabled person’s experience in literature and media by promoting examples of black disabled people in speculative fiction created by women of color; and by re-defining manifestations of intersectionality among disabled people of color." -- Timotheus "T.J." Gordon, Jr. * Ethnic Studies Review *"Bodyminds Reimagined is an important work on theorizing speculative fiction and the ways in which it can change perceptions, actions, and minds. A model for future intersectional scholarship, this book is well written and accessible." -- Joshua Earle * Catalyst *"Wide-reaching. . . . Sami Schalk’s version of intersectionality emphasizes multidimensional entanglements that resist visual charting and static notions of identity. This version of intersectionality serves as a launchpad for new social formations." -- Gabriella Friedman * American Quarterly *"Bodyminds Reimagined encouraged me to check my own privilege, to think differently about identity, and to reimagine my small niche in the world. The book is that good in its confrontation of the status quo, in its analysis of marginalized peoples in estranged worlds. . . . When I refer to Schalk’s Bodyminds Reimagined as groundbreaking, I do not mean this lightly. . . . All libraries should stock this book on their shelves." -- Isiah Lavender III * Science Fiction Studies *"Bodyminds Reimagined will appeal both to scholars and general readers. Schalk’s framework is simplified in a way that makes it digestible for those who may be unfamiliar with crip theory or intersectionality. With a slim frame, and at only four chapters, the book is inviting rather than intimidating. Schalk’s ability to sound both personable and professional is particularly enjoyable." -- Anelise Farris * Extrapolation *Table of ContentsPrologue and Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Metaphor and Materiality: Disability and Neo-Slave Narratives 33 2. Whose Reality Is It Anyway? Deconstructing Able-Mindedness 59 3. The Future of Bodyminds, Bodyminds of the Future 85 4. Defamiliarizing (Dis)ability, Race, Gender, and Sexuality 113 Conclusion 137 Notes 147 Bibliography 159 Index 175

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