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Cambridge University Press Mary Robinson and the Gothic
Book SynopsisA focussed examination of Mary Robinson's deployment of the Gothic in a selection of her poetry and prose fiction. Features accounts of how Robinson's Gothic reworks other major Gothic writers.Table of ContentsA Note on Texts; 1. A Gothic Life; 2. The Un-grounded Grounds of the Walpolean Gothic; 3. The Argument; 4. The Gothic Image of the Other; 5. The Gothic Mind; 6. The Gothic Performance of Gender; 7. The Gothic in Lyrical Tales; 8. Coda; References.
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Cambridge University Press Iris Murdoch
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Francesconi S Multimodal Stylistic Approach to
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together perspectives from multimodal stylistics and adaptation studies for a unified theoretical analysis of adaptations of the work of Alice Munro, demonstrating the affordances of the approach in furthering interdisciplinary research at the intersection of these fieldsThe book considers films and television programmes as complex multimodal stylistic systems in and of themselves in order to pave the way for a clearer understanding of screen adaptations as expressions of modal, medial, and aesthetic change. In focusing on Munro, Francesconi draws attention to a writer whose body of work has been adapted widely across television and film for an international market over several decades, offering a diachronic overview and insights into the confluence of socio-cultural contexts, audiences, and dynamics of production and distribution across adaptations. The volume complements this perspective with a microanalysis of the adaptations themselves, exploring the vaTable of ContentsContents0. Introduction Adapting Clothes, Peaches and Stories A Panoramic Shot over Adaptations Dissemination of Preliminary Results Volume Outline Chapter 1. Adaptation(s) Towards a Definition The Limits and Risks of Fidelity Intertextual Connections Engaging Readers and Spectators Adaptation as Process and as Product Chapter 2. Multimodal Stylistic Analysis Multimodal Stylistics A Socio-semiotic Metafunctional Framework Forms and Functions of Speech Film Dialogues and the Voice-in Screen/Story Boundaries and The Voice-over Lyrics, Volume, Melodies Words on the Screen Size of Frame and Angles Movements Colour and Light Choices and Changes Beyond the Shot Chapter 3. Short Canadian Films Boys and Girls Gender and/as Space Representation Thanks for the Ride Film Music Framing Theme, Time and Tone All about Connection The Voice-over across Time Chapter 4. Extended Canadian Works Lives of Girls and Women Del’s Relationship with her Mother There is a Change Coming Writing Things down Struggle for Cohesion Edge of Madness "A Wilderness Station" as Historiographic Metafiction Patterns of Adaptation Closing in on Madness Changes in the Film Adaptation Away from Her: Closeness and Distance Fiona’s Approach to her Illness Grant as Husband, Caregiver, and Focaliser The Canadian Culture Chapter 5. International Screen Adaptations Bending Fate in Hateship Loveship Ankle Socks and Robust Shoes: Johanna Writing Letters as Writing Life Juliet Travelling to Spain Almodóvar’s Story of Adaptation(s) Julieta’s Letter-writing Scenes Making Logical Connections Clear From Canada to Canaan: An Iranian Journey Criss-crossing Characters A Disturbance, a Definite Picture, a Dream From Unpainted Houses to the Promised Land Concluding RemarksIndex
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Taylor & Francis Prepossessing Henry James
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow
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Cambridge University Press Walt Whitman in Context
Book SynopsisDesigned for students and scholars, Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural and political - in which to engage Whitman's life and work.Table of ContentsPart I. Locations: 1. Long Island William T. Walter; 2. Brooklyn and Manhattan Karen Karbiener; 3. Camden and Philadelphia William Pannapacker; 4. Washington, DC Kenneth M. Price; 5. The American South Matt Cohen; Part II. Literary and Artistic Contexts: 6. Verse forms Michael C. Cohen; 7. Periodical poetry Ingrid I. Satelmajer; 8. Periodical fiction Stephanie Blalock; 9. Journalism Jason Stacy; 10. Oratory Leslie Eckel; 11. Opera Carmen Trammell Skaggs; 12. Performance and celebrity David Haven Blake; 13. Visual arts and photography Ruth Bohan; 14. Erotica Paul Erickson; 15. Notebooks and manuscripts Matt Miller; 16. Bookmaking Nicole Gray; 17. The literary marketplace David Dowling; 18. Transatlantic book distribution Jessica DeSpain; Part III. Cultural and Political Contexts: 19. Transcendentalism Regina Schober; 20. Philosophy Stephen John Mack; 21. Bohemianism Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley; 22. Gender Maire Mullins; 23. Sexuality Jay Grossman; 24. Politics Kerry Larson; 25. Imperialism and globalization Walter Grünzweig; 26. Nineteenth-century religion Brian Yothers; 27. Civil War Peter Coviello; 28. Reconstruction Martin Buinicki; 29. Death and mourning Adam Bradford; 30. Slavery and abolition Ivy G. Wilson; 31. Native American and immigrant cultures Rachel Rubinstein; 32. The rank and file Jerome Loving; 33. Romanticism Edward S. Cutler; 34. The natural world Christine Gerhardt; 35. Science and medicine Lindsay Tuggle; Part IV. Reception and Legacy: 36. Disciples Michael Robertson; 37. Influence in the United States Sascha Pöhlmann; 38. Impact on the World Ed Folsom.
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Cambridge University Press Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain
Book SynopsisModernism reshaped novel theory, shifting criticism away from readers'' experiences and toward the work as an object autonomous from any reader. Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain excavates technology''s crucial role in this evolution and offers a new history of modernism''s vision of the novel. To many modernists, both novel and machine increasingly seemed to merge into the experiences of readers or users. But modernists also saw potential for a different understanding of technology - in pre-modern machines, or the technical functioning of technologies stripped of their current social roles. With chapters on Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, and Rebecca West, Novel Theory argues that in these alternative visions of technology, modernists found models for how the novel might become an autonomous, intellectual object rather than a familiar experience, and articulated a future for the novel by imagining it as a new kind of machine.Trade Review'… Fielding offers a valuable discussion of modernist theories of the novel that renews ongoing debates over aesthetic divisions between high culture and mass culture, while also showing how these theories are often modulated through discourses of technology. Her knowledge of narrative theory and modernist aesthetics is impressive, and her readings make important contributions to the scholarship on James, Ford, Lewis, and West. Her extensive research also draws attention to figures such as Percy Lubbock and Q. D. Leavis who helped to shape the ways in which modernist novelists thought about form. Fielding's book brings into focus a fascinating debate over the aesthetics and epistemology of the modern novel as a technology for knowing.' Andrew Gaedtke, Modernism/modernity'Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain is an exacting study … Fielding admirably succeeds in carrying her own readers through this patient analysis of the formal strategies and critical theories the four writers (Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, and Rebecca West) she analyzes developed to mount a 'resistance to reading'.' Damien Keane, Twentieth-Century Literature'This is the value of Fielding's intervention: it is almost tailor-made for answering [Michaela] Bronstein's call for clear alternatives to the context-based historicist approaches to modernism, even as Fielding is interested in making arguments about changes in literature over time.' Shawna Ross, The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. Readers and machines in modernist novel theory; 1. Point of view as projector: Henry James, Percy Lubbock, and the modernist management of reading; 2. What carries the novel: Ford Madox Ford, Impressionist connectivity, and the telephone; 3. 'Every age has been 'a machine age'': Wyndham Lewis and the novel's technological temporality; 4. From empathy to the super-cortex: Rebecca West's technics of the novel; Conclusion. Novel theory and technology in late Modernism.
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Cambridge University Press Frances Burney and the Doctors
Book SynopsisFrances Burney is primarily known as a novelist and playwright, but in recent years there has been an increased interest in the medical writings found within her private letters and journals. John Wiltshire advocates Burney as the unconscious pioneer of the modern genre of pathography, or the illness narrative. Through her dramatic accounts of distinct medical events, such as her own infamous operation without anaesthetic, to those she witnessed, including the ''madness'' of George III and the inoculation of her son against smallpox, Burney exposes the ethical issues and conflicts between patients and doctors. Her accounts are linked to a range of modern narratives in which similar events occur in the changed conditions of the public hospital. The genre that Burney initiated continues to make an important contribution to our understanding of medical practice in the modern world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Note on short titles; Introduction; 1. Frances Burney's long and extraordinary life: 1752–1840; 2. The King, the court and 'madness': 1788–9; 3. Aftermath: 1789–91; 4. An inoculation for smallpox: 1797; 5. 'A mastectomy': 1811; 6. Fighting for life: 'the last illness and death of General D'Arblay': 1818; 7. 'Between hope, trust and truth'; 8. Across the centuries; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Modernism Empire World Literature
Book SynopsisAfter World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers boldly remade the world literary system long dominated by Paris and London. Responding to literary renaissances and social upheavals in their own countries and to the decline of war-devastated Europe, émigré and domestic-based writers produced dazzling new works that challenged London''s or Paris''s authority to ?x and determine literary value. In so doing, they propounded new conceptions of aesthetic accomplishment that were later codi?ed as ''modernism''. However, after World War II, an assertive American literary establishment repurposed literary modernism to boost the cultural prestige of the United States in the Cold War and to contest Soviet conceptions of ''world literature''. Here, in accomplished readings of major works and essays by Henry James, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O''Neill and Derek Walcott, Joe Cleary situates Anglophone modernism in terms of the rise andTrade Review'Joe Cleary's Modernism, Empire, World Literature is that rare of gems; a book that synthesizes a wide range of materials into a succinct and clear argument that also manages to illuminate original pathways through the main debates in the field. The book reminds us of the best in literary criticism that we have been used to in the likes of Edward Said, Frederic James, J. Hillis Miller, and a handful of others.' Ato Quayson, Stanford University'In this compelling book, Joe Cleary traces the Anglophone genealogy of contemporary world literature. His masterful and rich readings of key modernist works carefully locate them within their literary fields while showing them at the same time to be part of a mighty struggle of erstwhile provincials to take on the metropole and establish their literary, political, and economic preminence in the world. Truly world literature for the Anglophone age.' Francesca Orsini, SOAS University of London'This book has a dazzling trajectory. It crosses the territories of the republic of letters and of modernism. It surveys the strategic power shifts of the last two centuries in the Anglophone world between English, Irish and American literatures. It analyses and compares many of the great literary works in which these transfers and transitions were made. Literary criticism and intellectual history are interwoven here with such subtlety that the boundaries that once separated them vanish in a fusion that, long-needed by both, has at last been achieved.' Seamus Deane, University of Notre Dame'This incisive work from Cleary (English, Yale) offers a new and innovative way of framing the discussion of modernism … This volume will interest scholars of both modernism and postcolonialism … Highly recommended.' A. P. Pennino, Choice MagazineTable of Contents1. 'A Language That Was English': Peripheral Modernisms and the Remaking of the Republic of Letters in the Age of Empire; 2. 'It Uccedes Lundun': Logics of Literary Decline and 'Renaissance' from Tocqueville and Arnold to Yeats and Pound; 3. 'The Insolence of Empire': The Fall of the House of Europe and Emerging American Ascendancy in The Golden Bowl and The Waste Land; 4. Contesting Wills: Joyce, Yeats, Goethe, Shakespeare and Mimetic Rivalries in Ulysses; 5. 'That Huge Incoherent Failure of a House': Antinomies of American Ascendancy in The Great Gatsby and Long Day's Journey into Night; 6. 'Cities that open like The World's Classics': Omeros and Epic Impasse in the Neoliberal World Literary System.
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Cambridge University Press Aging Duration and the English Novel
Book SynopsisThe rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a descriptive moment, writing the passage of years on the body all at once. Aging, Duration, and the English Novelargues that the formal disappearance of aging from the novel parallels the ideological pressure to identify as being young by repressing the process of growing old. The construction of aging as a shameful event that should be hidden - to improve one''s chances on the job market or secure a successful marriage - corresponds to the rise of the long novel, which draws upon the temporality of the body to map progress and decline onto the plots of nineteenth-century British modernity.Trade Review'Jacob Jewusiak's Aging, Duration, and the English Novel is a welcome contribution to the burgeoning critical interest in age that the humanities is currently experiencing … Aging, Duration, and the English Novel successfully demonstrates that scholarly engagement with the category of age can generate interesting new interpretations of well-known works … [it] makes a valuable contribution not just to literary age studies, but also to ongoing debates within the humanities about the value of recognising age as a master identity on par with gender, race, and class.' Caitlin Doley, BAVS Newsletter'… Jewusiak's book is essential reading for scholars of narrative time, as it establishes provocative discursive ties with some of the best writing on time and the novel in the past twenty years.' Leslie S. Simon, Dickens QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Aging theory; 2. No plots for old men; 3. Life after the marriage plot; 4. A wrinkle in time; 5. The technology age; 6. Gray modernism.
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Cambridge University Press Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Book SynopsisFor readers interested in exploring the history ofemotional responses to suffering, this volume describes the theory and practice of compassion in the context of early modern Europe's sectarian strife, and will engage those looking to make connections between early modern history and our present political moment.Trade Review'… a convincing alternative to rigorous compassion scepticism …' James Waddell, Modern Language Review'Its commendable coherence is determined by both the central theme and the well-thought-through structure, which supports the topic's conceptualization … the volume is a valuable contribution on a timely topic …' Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee, Journal of Jesuit StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Kristine Steenbergh and Katherine Ibbett; Part I. Theorizing: 1. The ethics of compassion in early modern England Bruce R. Smith; 2. The compassionate self of the Catholic Reformation Katherine Ibbett; Part II. Consoling: 3. 'Hee left them not comfortlesse by the way': grief and compassion in early modern English consolatory culture Paula Barros; 4. Friendship, counsel, and compassion in early modern medical thought Stephen Pender; Part III. Exhorting: 5. 'Compassion and mercie draw teares from the godlyfull often': the rhetoric of sympathy in the early modern sermon Richard Meek; 6. Mollified hearts and enlarged bowels: practising compassion in reformation England Kristine Steenbergh; Part IV. Performing: 7. Civic liberties and community compassion: the Jesuit drama of Poland-Lithuania Clarinda E. Calma and Jolanta Rzegocka; 8. Compassion, contingency and conversion in James Shirley's The Sisters Alison Searle; Part V. Responding: 9. Mountainish inhumanity in Illyria: compassion in Twelfth Night as social luxury and political duty Elisabetta Tarantino; 10. Standing on a beach: Shakespeare and the sympathetic imagination Eric Langley; Part VI. Giving: 11. 'To feel what wretches feel': Reformation and the re-naming of English compassion Toria Johnson; 12. Alms petitions and compassion in sixteenth-century London Rebecca Tomlin; Part VII. Racializing: 13. Pity and empire in the Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias (1552) Matthew Goldmark; 14. 'Our Black hero': compassion for friends and others in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko John Staines; Part VIII. Contemporary Compassions: 15. Contemporary compassions: interrelating in the Anthropocene Kristine Steenbergh.
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Cambridge University Press The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist
Book SynopsisThis study of contemporary Irish expatriate fiction offers a boldly originalworld-facingrather than nation-focused overview of the contemporary Irish novel. Chapters examine how Irish narrative deals with the United States in a time of declining global hegemony, a rising China and Asia, a thwarted and turbulent Global South, and a European Union that has decisively reshaped Ireland in the last half century. The author argues that in a late capitalist world defined by volatile economic and cultural globalizations, the Irish novel is struggling to imagine new ways to narrate the country''s relationship to the world capitalist system and to find new place for Irish writing in theworld literary system. Looking at a rapidly-changing Ireland in a rapidly-changing international order, Joe Cleary offers new readings of novels by Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright, Joseph O''Neill, Deirdre Madden, Mary Costello, Naoise Dolan, Aidan Higgins, Colum McCann, Ronan Sheehan and Ronan Bennett.Trade Review'… an essential account of how and why we have arrived where we are.' Matthew Eatough, LA Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction: revaluations of Irish expatriate fiction; 1. After America: the Irish transatlantic novel in the program era; 2. Between Byzantium and Beijing: Asia from the Celtic to the American twilight; 3. Monstrous modernity of the global south; 4. Elusive Europes: new futures, old traumas?; Conclusion: the weight of the world.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Hunger Games and Philosophy
Book SynopsisA philosophical exploration of Suzanne Collins''s New York Times bestselling series, just in time for the release of The Hunger Games movie Katniss Everdeen is the girl who was on fire, but she is also the girl who made us think, dream, question authority, and rebel. The post-apocalyptic world of Panem''s twelve districts is a divided society on the brink of war and struggling to survive, while the Capitol lives in the lap of luxury and pure contentment. At every turn in the Hunger Games trilogy, Katniss, Peeta, Gale, and their many allies wrestle with harrowing choices and ethical dilemmas that push them to the brink. Is it okay for Katniss to break the law to ensure her family''s survival? Do ordinary moral rules apply in the Arena? Can the world of The Hunger Games shine a light into the dark corners of our world? Why do we often enjoy watching others suffer? How can we distinguish between what''s Real and Not Real? This book draws on some of history'Table of ContentsAcknowledgments: “It’s Like the Bread. How I Never Get Over Owing You for That.” ix Introduction: Let The Hunger Games and Philosophy Begin! 1 Part One “Having An Eye for Beauty Isn’t Necessarily a Weakness”: The Art of Resisting the Capitol 1. “The Final Word on Entertainment”: Mimetic and Monstrous Art in the Hunger Games 8Brian McDonald 2. “Somewhere between Hair Ribbons and Rainbows”: How Even the Shortest Song Can Change the World 26Anne Torkelson 3. “I Will Be Your Mockingjay”: The Power and Paradox of Metaphor in the Hunger Games Trilogy 41Jill Olthouse Part Two “We’re Fickle, Stupid Beings”: Hungering For Morality in An Immoral World 4. “The Odds Have Not Been Very Dependable of Late”: Morality and Luck in the Hunger Games Trilogy 56George A. Dunn 5. The Joy of Watching Others Suffer: Schadenfreude and the Hunger Games 75Andrew Shaffer 6. “So Here I Am in His Debt Again”: Katniss, Gifts, and Invisible Strings 90Jennifer Culver Part Three “I am as Radiant as the Sun”: The Natural, The Unnatural, and Not-so-weird Science 7. Competition and Kindness: The Darwinian World of the Hunger Games 104Abigail Mann 8. “No Mutt Is Good”—Really? Creating Interspecies Chimeras 121Jason T. Eberl Part Four “Peeta Bakes. I Hunt.”: What Katniss Can Teach us About Love, Caring, and Gender 9. Why Katniss Chooses Peeta: Looking at Love through a Stoic Lens 134Abigail E. Myers 10. “She Has No Idea. The Effect She Can Have.”: Katniss and the Politics of Gender 145Jessica Miller 11. Sometimes the World Is Hungry for People Who Care: Katniss and the Feminist Care Ethic 162Lindsey Issow Averill Part Five “As Long as You Can Find Yourself, You’ll Never Starve”: How to Be Yourself When It’s All a Big Show 12. Why Does Katniss Fail at Everything She Fakes? Being versus Seeming to Be in the Hunger Games Trilogy 178Dereck Coatney 13. Who Is Peeta Mellark? The Problem of Identity in Panem 193Nicolas Michaud Part Six “Here’s Some Advice. Stay Alive.”: A Tribute’s Guide to the Morality and Logic of Warfare 14. “Safe to Do What?”: Morality and the War of All against All in the Arena 206Joseph J. Foy 15. Starting Fires Can Get You Burned: The Just-War Tradition and the Rebellion against the Capitol 222Louis Melançon 16. The Tribute’s Dilemma: The Hunger Games and Game Theory 235Andrew Zimmerman Jones Part Seven “It Must Be Very Fragile if a Handful of Berries Can Bring It Down”: The Political Philosophy of Coriolanus Snow 17. Discipline and the Docile Body: Regulating Hungers in the Capitol 250Christina Van Dyke 18. “All of This Is Wrong”: Why One of Rome’s Greatest Thinkers Would Despise the Capitol 265Adam Barkman 19. Class Is in Session: Power and Privilege in Panem 277Chad William Timm Contributors: Our Resistance Squadron 291 Index: “A List in My Head of Every Act of Goodness I’ve Seen Someone Do” 297
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Palgrave Macmillan Sexuality and the Gothic Magic Lantern Desire
Book SynopsisThis fascinating study explores the multifarious erotic themes associated with the magic lantern shows, which proved the dominant visual medium of the West for 350 years, and analyses how the shows influenced the portrayals of sexuality in major works of Gothic fiction. Trade Review"A compelling (and - why not?) sexy addition to the burgeoning scholarship on the true underpinnings of Gothic fiction, theater, and film. This book also helps elucidate the history of cinematic forms, the filiations of Romanticism across the nineteenth century, and the history of sexuality and its deployment in changing symbols. In addition, as a contribution to the ongoing development of New Historicist/Cultural Studies, it juxtaposes different media from the same era to show how each affects and is affected by the other in "associations" that enable the modern reader "to discover a forgotten intermedial world of allusion"." - Jerrold E. Hogle, Review 19 (2015) "Focusing on the Gothic magic lantern and its associations with the erotic, there is much more here which serves to provide an improved understanding of the responses of contemporary writers, artists and other commentators to the magic lantern show. Similarly the author interconnects with the erotic content to be found in a great deal of early lantern imagery [ ] It provides a refreshingly different view of lantern history, and is therefore highly recommended." - Mervyn Heard, The Magic Lantern Society Journal (2015)Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. Sex and the Ghost-Show: the Early Ghost Lanternists, Friedrich Schiller's Die Geisterseher /Ghost-seer , Matthew Lewis's The Monk and E-G Robertson's Convent Fantasmagori e 2. Byron: Incest, Voyeurism and the Phantasmagoria 3. Charlotte Brönte's Villette , Forbidden Desire and Lanternicity in the Domestic Gothic 4. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla (1872), 'Ambiguous Alternations': Lesbian Desire in the Lanternist Novella 5. Lanternist codes and Sexuality in Dracula and The Lady of the Shroud Conclusion
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women 15581680 Early Modern Literature in History
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period. It demonstrates that women's roles within puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and disseminating key texts, producing an impressive body of original writing.Trade Review"The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women provides fifteen fascinating vignettes of prominent female thinkers. The editors do not attempt an over-arching definition of a Puritan, but each individual chapter justifies its subject's claim to that title, building up a composite picture of a formidable godly femininity." David Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement "The end result is impressive: methodologically wide-ranging and interpretatively innovative, this collection offers genuinely new insight not only into the nature of Puritanism, and of women's role within the Puritan movement, but also into the position of women more generally (and thus the nature of patriarchy) in late Tudor and Stuart England" Tim Harris, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms "The influence of the widening scholarship of the last thirty years on early modern women writers is evident in all the essays in this collection, yet they succeed in finding fresh and inspiring perspectives into women's intellectual lives, often balancing biographical and literary interests. By looking closely at fourteen women, they succeed admirably in demonstrating that there is much more to know than we have so far assumed about Puritanism's support for women's intellectual culture." Anu Korhonen, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Foreword; N.H.Keeble Introduction; J.Harris & E.Scott-Baumann The Exemplary Anne Vaughan Lock; S.Felch The Countess of Pembroke and the Practice of Piety; D.Clarke Imagining a National Church: Election and Education in the Works of Anne Cooke Bacon; L.Magnusson Anne, Lady Southwell: Coteries and Culture; E.Clarke Godly Patronage: Lucy Harington Russell, Countess of Bedford; M.O'Connor 'An Ancient Mother in our Israel': Mary, Lady Vere; J.Eales 'Give me thy hairt and I desyre no more': The Song of Songs, Petrarchism and Elizabeth Melville's Puritan Poetics; S.C.E.Ross 'But I thinke and beleeve': Lady Brilliana Harley's Puritanism in Epistolary Community; J.Harris 'Take unto ye words': Elizabeth Isham's 'Booke of Rememberance' and Puritan Cultural Forms; E.Longfellow Anne Bradstreet's Poetry and Providence: Earth, Wind, and Fire; S.Wiseman Viscountess Ranelagh and the Authorisation of Women's Knowledge in the Hartlib Circle; R.Connoll Anna Trapnel's Literary Geography; D.Purkiss Lucy Hutchinson, the Bible and Order and Disorder; E.Scott-Baumann Pregnant Dreams in Early Modern Europe: The Philadelphian Example; N.Smith Afterword; D.Norbrook Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Robinson Crusoe Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis New Woman Fiction 18811899 Part II vol 6
Book SynopsisCovers four texts from the 1890s that helped to crystallize the idea of the 'New Woman' during a period where the role of women was increasingly debated and challenged, not least due to the growth of the suffrage movement.Table of ContentsI: Nobody’s Fault; 1: Chapter I; 2: Chapter II; 3: Chapter III; 4: Chapter IV; 5: Chapter V; 6: Chapter VI; 7: Chapter VII; II: Part II; 8: Chapter VIII; 9: Chapter IX; 10: Chapter X; 11: Chapter XI; 12: Chapter XII; 13: Chapter XIII; 14: Chapter XIV; 15: Chapter XV; 16: Chapter XVI; III: Netta Syrett; 17: School; 18: The C.T.C.; 19: A Visit; 20: The Swansea High School; 21: London; 22: Friends – and Marriages; 23: Friends – and Parties; 24: An Unorthodox School; 25: The ‘Playgoers’ Play’; 26: Still Theatrical; 27: Italy And The Riviera; 28: Enter ‘Peter’ By Way of The Dream Garden; 29: Paris; 30: The Thorps and ‘The Decoy’; 31: Jack; 32: Chapter XVI Thomas Hardy – The Pen CluB; 33: The Pre-War Russian Ballet: Plays and Pageants; 34: Soho Square; 35: Chapter XIX The Children’s Theatre; 36: The Outbreak of War; 37: Hamilton Terrace; 38: Italy Again; 39: Ebury Street; 40: ‘Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On’
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Cambridge University Press Reviewing the South
Book SynopsisA new take on the origins of the Southern Literary Renaissance, Reviewing the South shows how book reviewing played a vital role in shaping an image of the South in the American national consciousness during the interwar years.Trade Review'Gardner, one of America's leading literary historians, offers strikingly fresh insights into the South and the nation between the World Wars. In shifting our focus from authors to the commercial book industry, Gardner reveals a world of reviewers, readers, and publishers, a culture that has remained largely hidden until now. This book will shape our understanding of American literary history for years to come.' Jonathan Daniel Wells, University of Michigan'Sarah Gardner's lively and, at times, provocative Reviewing the South locates the origins of the Southern Renaissance in the joint efforts of publishers, daily newspapers, and weekly journals (both inside and outside the South), and, of course, book reviewers and critics. Her treatment of the intersection of the Harlem Renaissance with the Southern Renaissance is particularly fresh and revealing, while her categories of analysis – realism, traditionalism, and the genre of the grotesque and gothic – will be of great help to future students of the territory that Gardner has so skilfully mapped here. Reviewing the South is a must-read for literary historians and intellectual historians of the South, and should prove invaluable for anyone interested in Southern and American cultural history.' Richard King, Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham'Gardner has produced a fascinating analysis of the role of the south in the American imaginary during the interwar years based on a sophisticated and nuanced exploration of the role of reviewers and their reviews of a wide range of southern fiction in the mainstream press during those years.' Michael Winship, University of Texas, Austin'Gardner begins this cultural-historical study of the southern literary renaissance - a rebirth in and new direction for literature from the southern US after WWI - with a review of the roles that book publishers and reviewers played in steering readers to worthwhile books. … A central, intriguing idea underlying Gardner's analysis is that the line between meeting a demand and creating that demand in the first place is sometimes hard to trace. The book looks at how southern renaissance writers including Julia Peterkin, Jean Toomer, Ellen Glasgow, Erskine Caldwell, and William Faulkner rejected sentimentality and nostalgia, offering instead a more realistic view of Jim Crow. Analysis of reviews, readers' replies, and advertisements demonstrates why these writers' works gained attention between the wars, how readers responded to them, and why Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind outsold them all. … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' C. A. Bily, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: from Renaissance to reformation; 1. The world the reviewers made; 2. The cultural economy of reading in the interwar years; 3. The South meets Harlem; 4. Confronting Jim Crow; 5. Away down South in the land of problems; 6. A class of burden bearers; 7. The most audacious book ever written by Southerners; 8. Fiction fights the Civil War; Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press Achilles Tatius Leucippe and Clitophon Books III
Book SynopsisThe Greek Novels have moved from the margins to the centre-stage over recent decades, not just because of their literary qualities and thrilling narratives, but also because they offer revealing insights into the culture of the Greek world of the Roman Empire: sexual mores, the position of women and men, identity, religion. Achilles Tatius'' Leucippe and Clitophon, the most influential of the novels in antiquity, remains the favourite of many. With its freewheeling plotline, its setting on the edge of the Greek world (in modern Lebanon), its ironic play with the reader''s expectations and its sallies into obscenity, it represents a new, mature, sophisticated stage in the development of the novel as a genre. This is the first commentary in English on Achilles for over 50 years, a period that has seen great strides forward in the understanding of the literary, linguistic and textual interpretation of this brilliant text.Trade Review'… this book is an unquestionable success; it will be as useful to students meeting Leucippe and Clitophon for the first time as it will be to specialists, who will learn much here (however familiar they are with the novel).' Jean-Philippe Guez, Bryn Mawr Classical Review'The commentary is presented as an excellent and exhaustive reading guide and, together with the introduction, it is essential for anyone who wants to access a deep and personal analysis of this novel.' Roser Homar, Exemplaria Classica (translated from Spanish)Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Author, Date, Context; 2. Achilles and his Literary Context; 3. Books 1 and 2; 4. Allusion, Rhetoric, Narrative, Language; 5. Location, Setting, Environment; 6. Ethics, Philosophy, Culture; 7. Text; Sigla; Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I-II; Commentary.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern
Book SynopsisCasey Michael Henry is Carl H. Pforzheimer Postdoctoral Fellow in English at The City College of New York, USA.Trade ReviewThe question of a possible lineage between the work of Burden, Wallace, and Candy Crush is an intriguing and perhaps subver¬sive one to ask. Henry’s eagerness to make these connections speaks to the intellectual daring on display in this book. * Orbit *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Inoperable Machine: A Media History of Late Postmodernism Section One: The Tiny Box Wherein Everything is Solved: New Media Narrative, Communication Technology, and the Conversation Novels of William Gaddis Problems in Two-Dimensions Postmodern Issues / Good Intentions: New Media Art and Method Even Agnostics Have Truth: The Verity of Bill Viola Nauman, Burden, Jokes, and Cruelty Two Sides of a Shadow: Stelarc, Chat Bots, and the Phantom Libido Non-attribution: Corporeal Fluidity in William Gaddis's Conversation Novels Section Two: Grooves on the Feeling Knob: Systematic Transgression in William T. Vollmann's The Rainbow Stories and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho Framing Excess: An Introduction to Systematic Transgression Sensory Movements: William T. Vollmann, The Rainbow Stories, and "Emotional Calculus" Less Sad the Second Time Around: American Psycho and the Selfhood of Repetition Section Three: "Way Closer to the Soul than Mere Tastelessness Can Get": David Foster Wallace and Transcendent Extra-Textuality Unforeseen Ruptures: David Foster Wallace's Big Break, or, The Legacy of Experimentalism "Sudden Awakening to the Fact that the Mischief is Irretrievably Done": Epiphanic Structure in Infinite Jest The Great Beyond: Textual Relationality in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men Epilogue References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Advanced Fiction
Book SynopsisConfident with the basics of your craft? Looking to take your writing to the next level? Advanced Fiction gives you the tools to hone your skills by thinking more deeply and systematically about deploying them on the page. Friendly and down-to-earth, Amy Weldon guides you through the realities of craft and process, combining a broad anthology of landmark stories with instruction on the more advanced aspects of fiction writing.Featuring interactive prompts, exercises and suggestions for further reading, this book guides you from larger philosophical issues to subtler technical ones, from topics as diverse as the intricate principles of storytelling to navigating artistic and political landscapes conscientiously and building a writing career. Beginning with a brief recap of the basics, the text goes on to examine:- The psychology of writing and revising- Practical methods for drafting and notebook-keeping- Taking personal and technical risks with ideas, images, and forms- Making rTable of ContentsChapter One: What Makes Advanced Fiction Writing “Advanced?” Student Craft Studio: Shannon Baker, “Habits” Craft Studio: James Joyce, “Araby” (1914) Exercises Chapter Two: Getting It Down: Self-Organizing, From Mind to Page Exercises Chapter Three: Mystery, Conviction, Form, and Risk Student Craft Studio: Levi Bird, “On Stable Ground” Craft Studio: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892) Exercises Chapter Four: Writing in Color: Culture, Identity, and Art Student Craft Studio: Ian Wreisner, “The New Chicago” Craft Studio: Rebecca Makkai, from The Great Believers: A Novel (2018) Exercises Chapter Five: Invisible Engines: Purpose, Psychic Distance, and Point of View Student Craft Studio: Andrew Tiede, “Till Death” Craft Studio: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The American Embassy” (2003) Exercises Chapter Six: Building a World – For Your Readers and Yourself Student Craft Studio: Joel Murillo, “Cracker Jack” Kari Myers, “Fields of Ash” Craft Studio: Angela Carter, “The Tiger’s Bride” (1979) Exercises Chapter Seven: Trust the Process: Revising, Editing, and Writing At Length Teacher Craft Studio: Amy Weldon, “The Serpent” (2018) Exercises Chapter Eight: Creative Writing and Your Future Student Career Studio: Andrew Chan, Derek Lin, Reed Johnson, MD, and Annika Dome MFA Studio: Keith Lesmeister, “East of Ely” (2017) Dr Weldon’s Fiction Prescriptions
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Relating Suicide
Book SynopsisWriting against the prevailing narrativization of suicide in terms of why it happened, Whitehead turns instead to the questions of when, how, and where, calling attention to suicide's materiality as well as its materialization. By turns provocative and deeply affecting, this book brings suicide into conversation with the critical medical humanities, extending beyond individual pathology and the medical institution to think about subjective and social perspectives, and to open up the various sites, scenes and interactions with which suicide is associated. Suicide is related forward from the point of death, rather than taking a retrospective view. Combining critical and textual analysis with personal reflection based on her own experience of her sister's suicide, Whitehead examines the days, months, and years following a death by suicide. This pivoting of attention to what happens in the wake of suicide brings to light the often-surprising ways in which suicide is woven into the everydTrade ReviewThe taboos surrounding suicide run deep. I couldn’t speak about my brother’s death for over a decade. This poignant book creates a space to challenge and rethink our own perceptions of suicide and mental health - both as individuals, and as a society as a whole. * Orlando von Einsiedel, Filmmaker *Weaving personal experience together with extensive research, Relating Suicide bears witness to what it means to live beside suicide. It calls for the need to not only talk more about suicide, but also to listen more to a diversity of voices, and to accommodate for what resides between what we can and cannot know about suicide. This is an absolute must read for students and researchers focusing on the topic of suicide and for those who work in suicide prevention and want to understand suicide in more expansive terms. * Katrina Jaworski, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of South Australia *With her own sister’s death as poignant provocation, Anne Whitehead attends to the materiality of suicide’s aftermath and makes a compelling contribution to the emerging field of critical suicide studies. A watch, a coroner’s court room, a stretch of seaside beach, a memorial bench become the objects and spaces that allow her to sit with the everyday and ongoing presence of suicide without trying to explain or prevent it. Through deeply felt and creative forms of thinking and writing, Whitehead gently but forcefully forges a path for us to relate to suicide rather than turning away from it. -- Ann Cvetkovich, Professor, Feminist Institute of Social Transformation, Carleton University, Ottawa, CanadaThis is a wonderful book. Entirely original, beautifully written, hugely wide ranging. At last a serious and profound engagement with what comes after suicide: the extraordinary disturbances of time and perception for those remaining; the mundane and often forgotten judicial, religious and cultural processes that have sought to contain and circumscribe an event; the historical and ongoing resonances and effects of stigmatisation. Lyrical, analytic, philosophical and factual, this is also achieves that very difficult feat of being personal without being confessional and of being philosophical and political without relegating the profoundly experiential. -- Pat Waugh, Professor Emeritus, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why? Chapter 1: When? Chapter 2: How? Chapter 3: Where? Coda: Who? Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jesus in the Victorian Novel
Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of how nineteenth-century writers turned to the realist novel in order to reimagine Jesus during a century where traditional religious faith appeared increasingly untenable. Re-workings of the canonical Gospels and other projects to demythologize the story of Jesus are frequently treated as projects aiming to secularize and even discredit traditional Christian faith. The novels of Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, Eliza Lynn Linton, and Mary Augusta Ward, however, demonstrate that the work of bringing the Christian tradition of prophet, priest, and king into conversation with a rapidly changing world can at times be a form of authentic faitheven a faith that remains rooted in the Bible and historic Christianity, while simultaneously creating a space that allows traditional understandings of Jesus' identity to evolve.Trade ReviewOverall, this is a thought-provoking book that continues the important project of revaluing theology’s significance for Victorian fiction, alongside the work of scholars like Susan E. Colón, Joshua King, Mark Knight, and J. Russell Perkin. Readers who have engaged with contemporary work in narrative theology may be intrigued by its conclusions about storytelling and community * Modern Philology *“The ubiquity of Christ is not just a theological principle; it’s also a fact of Victorian culture. Jessica Ann Hughes has brilliantly taken on this alpha and omega of all themes, and traced it insightfully across some of the period’s influential works of fiction. Jesus in the Victorian Novel is Victorian Studies at its very best.” * Timothy Larsen, McManis Professor of Christian Thought and Professor of History at Wheaton College, USA and author of A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians *“Mainstream Victorian realists reimagined Jesus not to debunk the Christian story, as Jessica Hughes shows, nor to secularize it, but rather to relocate it within a decidedly modern sensibility. Such is the premise of this spectacular, beautifully argued book. Along the way, too, we encounter much additional intrigue: German higher criticism, the period’s tensions between theology and science, rival atonement theories, and—perhaps most interesting of all—the question of how best to represent God in fiction. Some works are especially easy to recommend. This is one of them.” * Ryan J. Stark, Professor of Humanities, Corban University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Theological Consequences of Cultural Narratives Chapter 2: The Narrative Consequences of Theology Chapter 3: Jesus the Revolutionary King Chapter 4: Jesus the Reconciling High Priest Chapter 5: Jesus the Moral Prophet Conclusion: Resurrecting Jesus: Religious Experience and the Novel Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Writing Speculative Fiction
Book SynopsisIn this engaging and accessible guide, Eugen Bacon explores writing speculative fiction as a creative practice, drawing from her own work, and the work of other writers and theorists, to interrogate its various subgenres. Through analysis of writers such as Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien and J. K. Rowling, this book scrutinises the characteristics of speculative fiction, considers the potential of writing cross genre and covers the challenges of targeting young adults. It connects critical and cultural theories to the practice of creative writing, examining how they might apply to the process of writing speculative fiction. Both practical and critical in its evaluative gaze, it also looks at e-publishing as a promising publishing medium for speculative fiction.This is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of creative writing, looking to develop a critical awareness of, and practical skills for, the writing of speculative fiction. It is also a valuable resource foTrade ReviewWriting Speculative Fiction is permeated by an upbeat and playful tone that is entertaining and motivating. It is an informative and enjoyable read that will serve as a valuable resource for creative writing students and their teachers, and indeed anyone interested in the mechanics of writing and publishing dynamic and engaging speculative fiction. The book is packed with helpful advice for writers of any genre – covering diverse topics such as form, characterisation, voice, plotting, poetic expression, research, establishing a writing practice with discipline, and discerning reputable online publishing markets. * Dr Bronwyn Lovell, TEXT Journal *As a book it is quite comfortable setting the writing of speculative fiction within the broader approaches to writing and linking those back to the giants of speculative writing over the last half-century or more. It is a concise and well-structured book that gently leads readers through the basics, while at every stage addressing its topic with appropriate examples, and exercises. * Shane Strange, University of Canberra, Australia *This is an exciting book from a writer who knows how to enliven her prose with ideas, analysis, anecdotes and stunning quotations from her deep and wide reading. The compelling beauty of this book is the way it moves between ideas and stories, between analysis and narrative. * Kevin Brophy, University of Melbourne, Australia *The insights are often provocative and always useful. It sensibly focuses on how a writer can approach the idea of speculative fiction, and then brings in a critical perspective. * George Green, Lancaster University, UK *Indispensable, rich and enabling: no writer of speculative fiction should be without this book. Obligatory reading for students of creative writing. Working from examples and providing easy-to-use analytical tools, Writing Speculative Fiction provides essential reading for anyone involved in the creation or consumption of speculative fiction in its many guises … This is a generous offering, relaying well-researched advice leavened with encouragement and a gentle, wry humour. * Dr Clare E Rhoden, author of The Pale and Broad Plain Darkening *As boundaries between genres increasingly break down, editors and educators need to put aside genre cringe and assumptions of genre limitations. Writing Speculative Fiction comes as a timely and valuable addition to the bookshelves of students, writers and educators alike. Writing Speculative Fiction is a valuable addition to writers at any stage of development. Bacon delivers practical information, stimulating exercises and thought-provoking analyses with enthusiasm and authority. * Melissa Ferguson, scientist and author of The Shining Wall *Eugen Bacon’s book offers a paradox that is extraordinarily liberating. On the one hand it provides carefully researched, nuanced distinctions between fantasy, science fiction, horror and paranormal genres and their sub-genres to include fairy tales, dark fantasy, myths and legends, and magical realism, for example. On the other it embraces speculative fiction as an umbrella for bending traditional genre fiction, crossing into hybrids, or cross-genre forms rich with playful text that is also literary. * Louisa John-Krol, Australian Fairy Review *Writing Speculative Fiction is Eugen Bacon’s new and exciting non-fiction stroke of genius. The book explores creative and critical approaches to writing speculative fiction. But, regardless of your preferred genre, if you’re an aspiring writer of any style this impressive guide is for you! * Angela Wauchope, Other Terrain Journal, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia *Eugen Bacon weaves together extracts from a variety of creative texts, commentary about storytelling, and anecdotes from her experiences as a teacher of creative writing to build a palatable, engaging, and endlessly useful guidebook. * Rebecca Langham, Celestial Book Reviews *Writing Speculative Fiction is a resource worth revisiting again and again. It is a book designed for notetaking, highlighting, and dog-earing pages - the perfect companion for any writer of speculative fiction * Glam Adelaide *Table of ContentsThe non-introduction There's a story in you Vogler's hero/ine's journey The speculative: a problem with definitions Genres and subgenres of speculative fiction Fantasy Science Fiction Horror and the paranormal Cross genre Literary speculative fiction Short story Targeting young adults and new adults Critical and cultural theories e-Publishing.
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Lulu.com A Frustrated Persons Thoughts
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Edinburgh University Press Arabic Exile Literature in Europe
Book SynopsisAnalyses the aesthetics and politics of contemporary Arabic literature of forced migration in the 21st century
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Edinburgh University Press Romantic Womens Writing and Sexual Transgression
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Edinburgh University Press Round the Red Lamp
Book SynopsisAn often overlooked collection in Arthur Conan Doyle's career, these tales actually track the vital moment in his life when he decided to shift careers from provincial medic to celebrated London authorTrade Review"Luckhurst has produced a scholarly yet accessible edition of a pivotal collection of medical short stories, which should be essential reading for students of nineteenth-century literature and medicine. Beyond relating a fascinating publication and reception history, the introduction is a great starting point for anyone wishing to understand how medical practitioners were represented in Victorian fiction." -Megan Coyer, University of Glasgow
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Edinburgh University Press BUMIDOM 19631982 and its Afterlives
Book SynopsisExamines the literary and cultural legacy of the BUMIDOM in France and the French Caribbean.
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Edinburgh University Press James Joyce Rural Ireland and Modernity
Book SynopsisThe first book-length study to consider Joyce's portrayal of rural Ireland across his oeuvre.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Science Fiction
A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. This Companion conveys the scale and variety of science fiction. Shows how science fiction has been used as a means of debating cultural issues. Essays by an international range of scholars discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. Addresses general topics, such as the history and origins of the genre, its engagement with science and gender, and national variations of science fiction around the English-speaking world. Maps out connections between science fiction, television, the cinema, virtual reality technology, and other aspects of the culture. Includes a section focusing on major figures, such as H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Guin. Offers close readings of particular novels, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
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The University of North Carolina Press Jack London
Book SynopsisJack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. Thoroughly exploring London's importance as an artist and as a political and public figure, Tichi brings to life a man who merits recognition as one of America's foremost public intellectuals.Trade ReviewLondon steps from Tichi's pages as a self-educated intellectual absorbed by the plight of the downtrodden and the oppressed."" - Foreword Reviews""Tichi paints a portrait of Jack London as a champion of progressive causes."" - Chapter 16""[A] persuasive reappraisal of Jack London. . . . Brings a fresh perspective to an author and thinker frequently dismissed as a mere writer of adventure fiction."" - Publishers Weekly""A study of the world in a man and how he hoped to change it."" - Jay Williams, Studies in American Naturalism""Tichi's reframing of London offers a significant rethinking of early twentieth-century America."" - American Historical Review""An illuminating study of a literary figure long receded into stereotype. . . . A fruitful, well-written blend of cultural history, literary criticism, and biography."" - Kirkus Reviews""Strongly recommended for London devotees and for anyone with an interest in the evolution of social reforms in America."" - Library Journal
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Making the Monster
Book SynopsisA thrilling and gruesome look at the science that influenced Mary Shelley''s Frankenstein.The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley had a huge impact on the gothic horror and science-fiction genres, and her creation has become part of our everyday culture, from cartoons to Hallowe''en costumes. Even the name Frankenstein' has become a by-word for evil scientists and dangerous experiments. How did a teenager with no formal education come up with the idea for such an extraordinary novel? Clues are dotted throughout Georgian science and popular culture. The years before the book''s publication saw huge advances in our understanding of the natural sciences, in areas such as electricity and physiology, for example. Sensational science demonstrations caught the imagination of the general public, while the newspapers were full of lurid talTrade ReviewLucidly illuminates Shelley’s investment in the rapidly expanding knowledge of chemistry, biology and electricity of her times, and reminds us of how Frankenstein helped inspire technological developments, such as the pacemaker. * Wall Street Journal *Making the Monster reassembles the intellectual toolkit Shelley had at her disposal ... everything she could have known about alchemy, spontaneous generation, phlogiston, physical decomposition, anatomy, transplant surgery, galvanism and human reanimation, digested for the 21st-century reader. * Literary Review *An engaging account of the facts and fears of the 19th century that lay behind the composition of Mark Shelley's Frankenstein. A telling reminder that although science has moved on, fears about what it might soon do have scarcely changed. -- Steve Jones FRS, Emeritus Professor of Genetics at UCL, author and broadcasterA fascinating and educational journey through the shadowy twists and turns of medical history. The odours of the dissection rooms and the sounds of the public executions are brought to life just as vividly as the monster himself. -- Carla Valentine, Mortician and Pathology Museum CuratorTable of ContentsPreface PART 1: CONCEPTION Chapter 1: Enlightenment Chapter 2: Development Chapter 3: Elopement Chapter 4: Nascent PART 2: CREATION Chapter 5: Education Chapter 6: Inspiration Chapter 7: Collection Chapter 8: Preservation Chapter 9: Construction Chapter 10: Electrification Chapter 11: Reanimation PART 3: BIRTH Chapter 12: Life Chapter 13: Death Epilogue Appendix: Timeline of Events Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Science Fiction Criticism
Book SynopsisIncluding more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as: Definitions and boundaries of the genre The many forms of science fiction, from time travel to inner space' Ideology and identity: from utopian fantasy to feminist, queer and environmental readings The non-human: androids, aliens, cyborgs and animals Race and the legacy of colonialism The volume also features annotated guides to further reading on these topics. Includes writings by: Marc Angenot, J.G. Ballard, Damien Broderick, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Samuel R. Delany, Philip K. Dick, Grace Dillon, Kodwo Eshun, Carl Freedman, Allison de Fren, Hugo Gernsback, Donna Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles, Robert A. Heinlein, Nalo Hopkinson, Veronica Hollinger, Fredric Jameson, Gwyneth Jones, Rob Latham, Roger Luckhurst, Judith Merril, JTrade ReviewUltimately, by covering many bases without being laborious, Latham’s Science Fiction Criticism manages to offer a high use-value for students of science fiction while also appealing to non-academic fans. * SFRA Review *Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings is an excellent collection for use in teaching or as a reference volume, especially for newer scholars who may not have access to or knowledge of some of the older pieces collected here. Above all it emphasizes the diversity of the scholarship (and of original texts) beyond what too many consider to be ‘just science fiction.’ I predict it will be among the most useful collections for many years. * The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts *The editor of this seminal anthology will be familiar to SF critics. Rob Latham has been at the helm of two extremely important books, The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction and The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, and for years he has served in an editorial capacity at Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and most notably Science Fiction Studies, earning the Thomas D. Clareson award in 2013 for outstanding service in the field. It is fitting for him now to be the editor of Science Fiction Criticism, a crown jewel in his scholarship to date that should resonate with all students and academics who are new to SF or involved in the study and teaching of it. * Extrapolation *A comprehensive and scholarly exploration of sf's history as a genre of socio-political opposition. * Morning Star *A very welcome addition to the bookshelves of scholars and students alike who will find it extraordinarily helpful to have such a range of critical interventions in one volume. * Forum for Modern Language Studies *This collection is a stunning mixture of the familiar and the new: a combination of what’s absolutely essential for anyone embarking on research in the Science Fiction field, and pieces that almost certainly will become essential in years to come. In fact, I would wager that Latham’s collection itself will become essential reading and the go-to textbook for most if not all undergraduate courses in Science Fiction in the very near future ... For those of us on the staff side of the academic divide, the collection provides access to essays that may have been on our ‘to-read’ list for a long time, articles we have heard about but never unearthed, and introductions to areas beyond our specific sub-disciplines. This is an impressive feat of scholarship and critical historiography and an absolute boon to the field for teachers and students alike – and it’s affordable to boot (well done, Bloomsbury). I recommend it unreservedly. * Fantastika *A truly excellent and innovative selection of essays that ranges from classics to essays that should and will become classics. * Farah Mendlesohn, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction *Rob Latham’s sagely curated Science Fiction Criticism comes as close as we can hope for to a manageable archive of indispensable works of science fiction criticism. The compelling selections are consistently in conversation with one another, revealing the dialectical process through which the critical understanding of science fiction has matured. * Brooks Landon, author of Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars *For both beginning and experienced researchers, this volume is a finely balanced overview of science fiction’s critical conversations—and should become a fixture on every serious critic’s bookshelf. For those teaching science fiction, it is indispensable * Pawel Frelik, past president of the Science Fiction Research Association *In five useful sections, essays by science fiction authors, critics and theorists followed by well-chosen further reading lists, provide an invaluable resource for students interested in science fiction and its wider contexts. * Katharine Cockin, University of Hull, UK *As a teaching resource, its usefulness is undeniable. * Science Fiction Studies *One of the most valuable things about this anthology is that it demonstrates, time and again, how wide our universe of discourse has to be ... and how whatever story we tell about sf can never be the whole story. It is an invaluable anthology because, at last, we have a number of classic texts, from Gernsback’s original editorial to Shelley's introduction, together in one place. It is an invaluable anthology because it gathers together a range of key essays, by some of the most important voices in the field. It is a book, in short, that deserves a place on your shelves. * Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Definition and Boundaries 1. Editorial: A New Sort of Magazine, Hugo Gernsback 2. Preface to The Scientific Romances of H.G. Wells, H.G. Wells 3. On the Writing of Speculative Fiction, Robert A. Heinlein 4. What Do You Mean: Science? Fiction? Judith Merril 5. Preface to Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, Bruce Sterling 6. Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism, Veronica Hollinger 7. The Many Deaths of Science Fiction: A Polemic, Roger Luckhurst 8. On Defining SF, or Not: Genre Theory, SF, and History, John Rieder Recommended Further Reading Part II: Structure and Form 9. Which Way to Inner Space? J.G. Ballard 10. About 5,750 Words, Samuel R. Delany 11. On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre, Darko Suvin 12. The Absent Paradigm: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Science Fiction, Marc Angenot 13. Reading SF as a Mega-Text, Damien Broderick 14. Time Travel and the Mechanics of Narrative, David Wittenberg Recommended Further Reading Part III: Ideology and World View 15. Mutation or Death! John B. Michel 16. The Imagination of Disaster, Susan Sontag 17. The Image of Women in Science Fiction, Joanna Russ 18. Progress versus Utopia; or, Can We Imagine the Future? Fredric Jameson 19. Science Fiction and Critical Theory, Carl Freedman 20. Alien Cryptographies: The View from Queer, Wendy Pearson 21. The Women History Doesn't See: Recovering Mid-Century Women's SF as a Literature of Social Critique, Lisa Yaszek Recommended Further Reading Part IV: The Non-Human 22. Author's Introduction to Frankenstein, Mary Shelley 23. The Android and the Human, Philip K. Dick 24. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century, Donna Haraway 25. Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers, N. Katherine Hayles 26. The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in a Post-Human Era, Vernor Vinge 27. Aliens in the Fourth Dimension, Gwyneth Jones 28. Technofetishism and the Uncanny Desires of A.S.F.R. (alt.sex.fetish.robots), Allison de Fren 29. Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and Human-Animal Studies, Sherryl Vint Recommended Further Reading Part V: Race and the Legacy of Colonialism 30. Science Fiction and Empire, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay 31. Further Considerations on Afrofuturism, Kodwo Eshun 32. Indigenous Scientific Literacies in Nalo Hopkinson’s Ceremonial Worlds, Grace Dillon 33. Biotic Invasions: Ecological Imperialism in New Wave Science Fiction, Rob Latham 34. Alien/Asian: Imaging the Racialized Future, Stephen Hong Sohn 35. A Report from Planet Midnight, Nalo Hopkinson 36. Future Histories and Cyborg Labor: Reading Borderlands Science Fiction after NAFTA, Lysa Rivera Recommended Further Reading Index
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Edinburgh University Press DickensS Clowns
Book SynopsisThis book reappraises Dickens's Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi and his imaginative engagement with its principal protagonist.
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Edinburgh University Press Tales of the Troubled Dead
Book SynopsisFollow this vividly recounted ghostly trail through spooky stories from the past and present by Ann Radcliffe, Washington Irving, Emily Bronte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, M. R. James and Susan Hill.
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Edinburgh University Press May Sinclair
Book SynopsisThis book brings together the most recent research on Sinclair and re-contextualises her work both within and against dominant Modernist narratives. It explores Sinclair's negotiations between the public and private, the cerebral and the corporeal and the spiritual and the profane in both her fiction and non-fiction.
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Edinburgh University Press The FinDeSiecle Scottish Revival
Book SynopsisThis book reveals a distinct but comparable concern with cultural defence and revivalism in fin-de-siecle Scotland, evident in the work of a number of writers and artists including Robert Louis Stevenson, Patrick Geddes, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Mona Caird, John Duncan and various contributors to The Evergreen.
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Edinburgh University Press Plotting Disability in the NineteenthCentury
Book SynopsisThis book takes an exciting new approach to characterisation and plot in the Victorian novel, examining the vital narrative work performed by disabled characters.
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Edinburgh University Press Elizabeth Bowen
Book SynopsisFrom experiments in language and identity to innovations in the novel, the short story and life narratives, the contributors discuss the way in which Bowen's work straddles, informs and defies the existing definitions of modernist and postmodernist literature which dominate twentieth-century writing.
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