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Book SynopsisBooker Prize winner and Living National Treasure, Thomas Keneally still divides critical opinion: he is both a morally challenging stylist and a commercial hack, a wise commentator on society and a garrulous leprechaun. Such judgements are located in the cultural politics of Australia but also linked to ideas about what a literary career should look like. ‘Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine’ charts Keneally’s production and reception across his three major markets, noting clashes between national interests and international reach, continuity of themes and variety of topics, settings and genres, the writer’s interests and the publishers’ push to create a brand, celebrity fame and literary reputation, and the tussle around fiction, history, allegory and the middlebrow. Keneally is seen as playing a long game across several events rather than honing one specialist skill, a strategy that has sustained for more than 50 years his ambition to earn a living from writing.Trade Review‘Paul Sharrad skillfully combines insights from biography, literary history, book history and celebrity studies to trace changes in the production and reception of Thomas Keneally’s works both within Australia and internationally.’ —Elizabeth Webby AM FAHA, Professor Emerita, English Department, University of Sydney, Australia‘Paul Sharrad's landmark study of Thomas Keneally examines his writing in its multiple international and Australian contexts. Likely to be the indispensable evaluation of Keneally’s place in Australian culture.’ —Janet Wilson, Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies, University of Northampton, UK‘Paul Sharrad’s thorough and entertaining survey not only tells us much about Keneally we never knew before but also shows that the study of an author’s career can be a new way to measure the stature of a literary artist.’ —Nicholas Birns, Associate Professor, School of Professional Studies, New York University, USA‘In this important contribution to book history, Paul Sharrad applies the lens of the literary career to the prolific though often divisive work of Thomas Keneally, charting a course between literary and commercial fiction, history and fiction, authorship and celebrity, and the opposing frames of national and world literatures.’ —Robert Dixon, Professor of Australian Literature, University of Sydney, AustraliaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Beginnings; 2. The Collins Years; 3. To the Booker; 4. Afterwards; 5. Republic and Beyond; 6. Histories and Refugees; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection deals with dream as a literary trope and as a source of creativity in women’s writings. It gathers essays spanning a time period from the end of the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, with a strong focus on the Romantic period and particularly on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, in which dreams are at the heart of the writing process but also constitute the diegetic substance of the narrative. The contributions re-examine the oneiric facets of the novel and develop fresh perspectives on dreams and dreaming in Mary Shelley’s fiction and on other female authors (Anne Finch, Ann Radcliffe, Emily and Charlotte Brontë and a few others), re-appraising the textuality of dreams and their link to women’s creativity and creation as a whole.Trade Review“This superb collection of interdisciplinary work on dreams in 18th and 19th century literature is essential reading for students of the period. As a student and teacher of works in the long nineteenth century, I encountered fresh approaches to works I thought I knew well, such as Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre, and I especially appreciate that the collection puts the dreams of 18th and 19th century dreaming into a longer framework that includes scientific approaches to dreams as well as other literary works that include Pilgrim’s Progress and more recent writers: Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Sayers, Irish Murdoch, and Margaret Drabble.” — Carol A. Senf, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, US“Going beyond an exclusive focus on the gothic, this collection of essays teases out the reader’s ‘hermeneutic task’ in famous and lesser-known literary texts, providing thought-provoking views of narrative strategies constructed around dreams, be they ‘real’ or fictional, from a period not yet under the spell of Freud and Jung.”—Professor Anne Bandry-Scubbi, University of Strasbourg, France.“Dream in women’s writings ? A brilliant idea. This original gendered investigation of literary creativity is based on a wide corpus, from Frances Burney and Mary Shelley to Emily Brontë. The book also includes a fine postscript by Margaret Ann Doody” — Jean Viviès, Professor of British literature, Aix-Marseille University, FranceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; PART I. WOMEN AND DREAMS: AN ONEIRIC FEMININE LITERARY TRADITION; Chapter 1. ‘Delicate Females’ and Psychedelic Creation in the Scientific Experiments of Thomas Beddoes and Humphry Davy, Kimberley Page-Jones; Chapter 2. Treading in Camilla’s Footsteps?: Oneiric Experience and Women’s Voices in Julia De Vienne (by a Lady, 1811) and Tales of Fancy (Sarah Harriet Burney, 1816– 20), Lucy- Anne Katgely; Chapter 3. The Passing on of Dreams: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and the Diana Figure, Audrey Souchet; PART II. DREAMS, ALTERITY AND THE DIVINE; Chapter 4. ‘[A]s Sometimes Poets Dream’: Liminality and the Female Writer in the Poetry of Anne Finch, Debapriya Basu; Chapter 5. The Theology of Radcliff e’s Dreams, Holly Hirst; Chapter 6. Providential Thinking: Dreams and the Rhetoric of Romance in The Old English Baron and The Romance of the Forest, Victor Sage; PART III. DREAMING (OF) MONSTERS: DREAMS, CREATIVITY AND AESTHETICS IN MARY SHELLEY’S FICTION; Chapter 7. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Approach to Dreams and Dreaming in Her Fictional Works Frankenstein, Valperga, Matilda and ‘The Dream’, Antonella Braida-Laplace; Chapter 8. The Monster of Their Dreams: The Night- Mare and Sleep Disorders in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and ‘Introduction’ (1831), Mathilde Giret; Chapter 9. Henry Fuseli’s Nightmare(s) in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), Fabien Desset; PART IV. BEYOND FRANKENSTEIN; Chapter 10. Dreaming Up Monsters: The Affective Intensity of Dreams, Nightmares and Delirium in Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights, Anne Nagel; Chapter 11. ‘And This Shall Be My Dream Tonight’: Dream as Narrative in Wuthering Heights, Tricia Ayrton; Chapter 12. Dreams in Jane Eyre, Isabelle Hervouet; Postscript: A Jigsaw of Dreams, Margaret Anne Doody; Index.

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Book SynopsisMonstrous textuality emerges when Gothic narratives like Frankenstein reflect the monstrous in their narrative structure to create narratives of resistance, and allows writers to meta-narratively reflect their own poetics and textual production, and reclaim authority over their work under circumstances of systemic cultural oppression and Othering. This book traces the representation of other Others through Black feminist hauntology in Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) and Love (2003); it explores fat freak embodiment as a feminist resistance strategy in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus (1984) and Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle (1976); and it reads Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy (2003-13) and Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl (1995) within a framework of critical posthumanist and cyborg theory. The result is a comprehensive argument about how these texts can be read within a framework of critical posthumanist questioning of knowledge production, and of epistemological exploration, beyond the exclusionary humanist paradigm.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Teratologies Troubling Genealogies: Monstrous Textuality and Narratives of Resistance in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein I: What Moves at the Margin 2 Haunted Narratives 3 Monstrous Narratives II: A Female Monster Larger Than Life Introduction 4 Reframing Narratives 5 Corporeal Discourses 6 'A Female Monster Larger than Life': Fatness and Resistance III: Hideous Progeny Introduction 7 Posthuman Reading Practices 8 Posthuman Writing Practices 9 Posthuman Bodies in/as Narrative Conclusion Conclusion: 'The Promises of Monsters' Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisPenny Dreadfuls and the Gothic breaks new ground in uncovering penny titles which have been hitherto largely neglected from literary discourse revealing the cultural, social and literary significance of these working-class texts. The present volume is a reappraisal of penny dreadfuls, demonstrating their cruciality in both our understanding of working-class Victorian Literature and the Gothic mode. This edited collection of essays provides new insights into the fields of Victorian literature, popular culture and Gothic fiction more broadly; it is divided into three sections, whose titles replicate the dual titles offered by penny publications during the nineteenth century. Sections one and two consist of three chapters, while section three consists of four essays, all of which intertwine to create an in-depth and intertextual exposition of Victorian society, literature, and gothic representations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors List of Figures and Illustrations 1. Introduction: Dreadful Beginnings Dr Nicole C. Dittmer and Sophie Raine Section One: The Progression of Pennys; or, Adaptations and Legacies of the Dreadful 2. Penny Pinching: Reassessing the Gothic canon through nineteenth-century reprinting Hannah-Freya Blake and Marie Léger-St-Jean 3. “As long as you are industrious, you will get on very well”: adapting The String of Pearls’ economies of horror Brontë Schiltz 4. “Your lot is wretched, old man”: Anxieties of Industry, Empire and England in George Reynolds’s Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf Dr Hannah Priest Section Two: Victorian Medical Sciences and Penny fiction; or, Dreadful Discourses of the Gothic 5. ‘Embalmed pestilence’, ‘intoxicating poisons’: Rhetoric of contamination, contagion, and the Gothic marginalisation of penny dreadfuls by their contemporary critics Manon Burz-Labrande 6. “A Tale of the Plague”: anti-medical sentiment and epidemic disease in early Victorian popular Gothic fiction Joseph Crawford 7. “Mistress of the broomstick”: Biology, Ecosemiotics, and Monstrous Women in Wizard’s The Wild Witch of the Heath; or the Demon of the Glen Dr Nicole C. Dittmer Section Three: Mode, Genre, and Style; or, Gothic Storytelling and Ideologies 8. A Ventriloquist and a Highwayman Walk into an Inn... Early Penny Bloods and the Politics of Humour in Jack Rann and Valentine Vaux Celine Frohn 9. Gothic Ideology and Religious Politics in James Malcolm Rymer’s Penny Fiction Dr Rebecca Nesvet 10. “Muddling about among the dead”: found manuscripts and metafictional storytelling in James Malcolm Rymer’s Newgate: A Romance Sophie Raine List of Referenced Penny Titles Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book pays overdue attention to the British writer Ramsey Campbell, a key figure in the post-1970s boom in Anglo-American horror fiction. Despite a huge output and receiving every accolade within his field over a long career, Campbell has not yet been accorded anything like the wider critical recognition given to his contemporary Stephen King. This study concentrates also on Campbell’s neglected novels and novellas, rather than the short stories for which he has been better known. The book Ramsey Campbell establishes the author’s unique prose style, denoted by a haunted self-consciousness about the act of writing and role of readership, and his distinctive mediation of the Gothic tradition: religiously agnostic, politically liberal and ethically humane. For the first time, Campbell’s works are interpreted in the contexts of trends in postmodernist and posthumanist thought and compared explicitly to King’s, and his contribution to both Gothic studies and wider contemporary literature is appraised.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: A Neglected ‘Poet’: Campbell and Gothic Tradition 1. Impractical Magic: Campbell’s Agnostic Gothic 2. Of Bonds and Beings: Campbell’s Gothic Sociopaths 3. Writing with Intensity: Campbell’s Gothic Novellas 4. ‘Ghosts’ from the Machine: Campbell’s Gothic Techno-Fictions Conclusion: ‘Something to Believe in’: Repositioning Campbell in the Gothic – and Beyond Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn contrast to recent theories of the ‘global’ Latin American novel, this book reveals the enduring importance of the national in contemporary Venezuelan fiction, arguing that the novels studied respond to both the nationalist and populist cultural policies of the Bolivarian Revolution and Venezuela’s literary isolation. The latter results from factors including the legacy of the Boom and historically low levels of emigration from Venezuela. Grounded in theories of metafiction and intertextuality, the book provides a close reading of eight novels published between 2004 (the year in which the first Minister for Culture was appointed) and 2012 (the last full year of President Chávez’s life), relating these novels to the context of their production. Each chapter explores a way in which these novels reflect on writing, from the protagonists as readers and writers in different contexts, through appearances from real life writers, to experiments with style and popular culture, and finally questioning the boundaries between fiction and reality. This literary analysis complements overarching studies of the Bolivarian Revolution by offering an insight into how Bolivarian policies and practices affect people on an individual, emotional and creative level. In this context, self-reflexive narratives afford their writers a form of political agency.Trade Review'Katie Brown’s monograph explores the intrinsic aesthetic value of literature; how it can be instrumentalized to serve political purposes; and the impact that said instrumentalization has on literary production, access to markets, as well as the creative autonomy and artistic integrity of Venezuelan writers. [...] This monograph is a timely and significant contribution to understanding the effect of Bolivarian cultural policy, and its inherent contradictions, on the ‘minor’ contemporary literature produced by Venezuelans, both within the country and in exile.'Penelope Plaza, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Writing for the StateChapter 2: Writing and DistinctionChapter 3: Challenging the National NarrativeChapter 4: Making Literary ConnectionsChapter 5: Form and Popular CultureChapter 6: Fiction and RealityConclusionReferencesAcknowledgements

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Book SynopsisThe authoritative biography of George Orwell, written with the cooperation of Orwell's widow.‘In its thoroughness, and its mastery of a considerable volume of material, this is the definitive biography of Orwell.’ Sunday Times‘It is hardly worth using up space to declare just how good it is. Different readers will come away from its seventeen pungent and packed chapters with diverse memories of its excellence.’ GuardianTrade ReviewBernard Crick’s book is a triumph of the first order. It is an absorbing, scrupulous, original record… -- Michael Foot * New Standard *It is hardly worth using up space to declare just how good it is. Different readers will come away from its seventeen pungent and packed chapters with diverse memories of its excellence. -- Peter Sedgwick * Guardian *No one interested in its great subject, or indeed the social, political and cultural fate of this country from 1903 to 1950 and beyond, will fail to enjoy most of it very much indeed. -- Michael Ratcliffe * The Times *He has built up a personality – seen, yes, resolutely from ‘outside’, but still close up – which other, more interpretative or internal, methods could not give so convincingly. -- Richard Hoggart * Listener *In its thoroughness, and its mastery of a considerable volume of material, this is the definitive biography of Orwell. -- Julian Symons * Sunday Times *Crick’s analytical mind, combined with his mastery of the historical background and context, make him the ideal guide… -- Arthur Koestler * Observer *One finishes the book thinking more highly of him, not less, as with so many contemporary biographies. The overall picture strikes me as being remarkably true. -- Anthony Powell * Daily Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays addresses a very broad range of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s most significant works, examining them through the lens of “transgression.” Transgression bears relevance to Hoffmann’s life and professions in three ways. First, his official career path was that of jurisprudence; he was active as a lawyer, a judge and eventually as one of the most important magistrates in Berlin. Second, his personal life was marked by numerous conflicts with political and social authorities. Seemingly no matter where he went, he experienced much chaos, grief and impoverishment in leading his always precarious existence. Third, his works explore characters and concepts beyond the boundaries of what was considered aesthetically acceptable. “Normal” bourgeois existence was often juxtaposed to the lives of criminals, sinners, and other deviants, both within the spaces of the known world as well as in supernatural realms. He, perhaps more than any other author of the German Romantic movement, regularly portrayed the dark side of existence in his works, including unconscious psychological phenomena, nightmares, somnambulism, vampirism, mesmerism, Doppelgänger, and other forms of transgressive behavior. It is the intention of this volume to provide a new look at Hoffmann’s very diverse body of work from numerous perspectives, stimulating interest in Hoffmann in English language audiences.Trade ReviewReviews'This new resource is both enjoyable and thoroughly thought-provoking—and so is well worth consultation by faculty and students.'Seán Williams, European Romantic Review'Transgressive Romanticism engages its central spatial metaphor to make Hoffmann’s complex potential as a protorealist clear: expertly attuned to the forms of life and literature with which he was familiar, while always ready to subvert and think beyond them.'Polly Dickson, German Studies ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction --- Christopher R. Clason, Oakland UniversityI. Transgression and Institutions1. “A poor, imprisoned animal.” Persons, Property, and the Unnatural Nature of the Law in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “Das Majorat.” --- Alexander Schlutz, John Jay College and CUNY Graduate Center2. Vergiftete Gaben: Violating the Laws of Hospitality in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s “Das Fräulein von Scuderi” --- Peter Erickson, Colorado State University 3. Transgressive Science in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Fantastic Tales --- Paola Mayer, University of GuelphII. Transgression and the Arts4. E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Bamberg Theater --- Frederick Burwick, University of California, Los Angeles5. Transitions and Slippages of Mimesis in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “Der goldene Topf,” “Die Fermate,” and “Das öde Haus.” --- Beate Allert, Purdue University6. Transgressions: On the (De-)Figuration of the Vampire in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s “Vampyrism" --- Nicole Sütterlin, Harvard UniversityIII. Transgression in the Märchen 7. Transgressive Play and Uncanny Toys in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “Das fremde Kind” --- Christina Weiler, Purdue University8. Attending to the Everyday: Idiosyncrasy in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “The Golden Pot” --- Ruth Kellar, University of Wisconsin, Madison9. Prinzessin Brambilla: The Aesthetic between Public and Private --- Howard Pollack-Millgate, DePauw UniversityIV. Transgression of Reception in Kater Murr10. Hoffmann’s “Two Worlds” and the Problem of Life-Writing --- Julian Knox, Georgia College11. “Real Humor Cannot Be Captured in a Novel”: Kierkegaard Reading E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr --- James Rasmussen, United States Air Force AcademyWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisThe library recorded in this book represents the result of fifty years of collecting the works of British writers of the Age of Samuel Johnson.

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Book SynopsisGothic Appalachian Literature examines the ways contemporary Appalachian authors utilize gothic tropes to explore the complex history and contemporary problems of the region, particularly in terms of their representation of economic and environmental concerns. It argues that across Appalachian fiction, the plight of characters to save their homes, land and way of life from the destructive forces of extractive industries brings sharply to bare the histories of colonization and slavery that problematize questions of belonging, ownership and possession.Robertson extensively considers contemporary manifestations of the gothic in Appalachian literature, arguing that gothic tropes abound in fiction that focuses on the impacts of extractive industries that connect this micro-region with other parts of the Global North and Global South where the devastating impacts of extractive industries are also experienced socially, economically and environmentally.

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Book SynopsisFrom her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a writer and reviewer, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with science fiction. Here she brings together three Ellmann lectures: 'Flying Rabbits' begins with her early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos and Things with Wings; 'Burning Bushes' travels into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and 'Dire Cartographies' investigates Utopias and Dystopias, including Atwood's own ventures into those constructions. In further essays Atwood explores and critiques the form, and elucidates the differences - as she sees them - between 'science fiction' proper, and 'speculative fiction', not to mention 'sword and sorcery', 'fantasy' and 'slipstream fiction'. In Other Worlds is a must.Trade ReviewEminently readable and accessible ... The lectures are insightful and cogently argued with a neat comic turn of phrase ... Her enthusiasm and level of intellectual engagement are second to none -- James Lovegrove Financial Times

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Book SynopsisBiographical material on Emily Brontë is scarce. In the past, biographers have taken this as an excuse to portray intuition as fact, creating a confused and inaccurate image of the author of Wuthering Heights. In A Life of Emily Brontë, Edward Chitham searches diligently for the truth. He describes his book as an 'investigative biography', delving into Emily's childhood, her relationships with her family, her father's Irish roots, and the influences of her friends and acquaintances. Using material neglected by other biographers, Chitham makes an illuminating and scholarly study of the events and characters that shaped Emily's inspiration - a puzzle that has confounded many and made her, up to this point, an enigmatic and misrepresented figure.

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Book SynopsisClose friendships are a heart-warming feature of many of our best-loved works of fiction. From Jane Eyre and Helen Burns’ poignant schoolgirl relationship to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn’s adventures on the Mississippi, fictional friends have supported, guided, comforted, nursed and at times betrayed the heroes and heroines of our popular and influential plays and novels. This book explores twenty-four literary friendships and, together with character studies and publication history, describes how each key relationship influences character, determines plot, promotes or disguises romance, preserves a reputation, sometimes results in betrayal, or underlines the theme of each literary work. It shows how authors from William Shakespeare to Elena Ferrante have by turns celebrated, lamented or transformed friendships throughout the ages, and how some friends – Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Holmes and Watson or even Bridget Jones and pals – have taken on creative lives beyond the bounds of their original narrative. Including a broad scope of literature spanning a period of 400 years from writers as diverse as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, John Steinbeck and Alice Walker, this book is the ideal gift for your literature-loving friend.Trade Review'A few pages in you feel you are in the company of a sprightly, charming, well-read friend . . . a masterful story-teller, her short essays on pivotal friendships feel like entering sunlight from thick fog, you'll see and hear what you never noticed on first reading.' * Country Life Magazine *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Childhood Soulmates: Jane and Helen - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847) Liberty and Conformity: Tom and Huck; Huck and Jim - Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) Bosom Pals: Anne and Diana - L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1908) Competitive Companions: Pooh and Piglet - A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Mad Bad Girls: Meena and Anita - Meera Syal, Anita and Me (1996) Housemates: Harry, Ron and Hermione - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter series (1997–2007) Students and Apprentices Prince and Philosopher: Hamlet and Horatio - William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600) Career Advice: Pip and Herbert - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861) A Bystander’s Elegy: Charles and Sebastian - Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (1945) Crème de la Crème: Sandy, Jenny, Eunice, Mary, Monica, Rose and Miss Brodie - Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) Campus Collusion: Richard, Bunny, Henry, Francis, Camilla and Charles - Donna Tartt, The Secret History (1992) Heart to Heart Inseparable: Rosalind and Celia - William Shakespeare, As You Like It (1599) Reserve and Recklessness: Jane and Emma - Jane Austen, Emma (1815) Light and Shade: Lucy and Maggie - George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860) Three Cheers for the Singletons: Bridget, Shazzer, Jude and Tom - Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary (1996) Adventure Bickering and Bonhomie: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza - Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605) Partners in Crime: Holmes and Watson - Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes series (1887–1903) Host and Guest: Ratty and Mole - Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (1908) Heroes of Middle-earth: Frodo and Sam - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (1954) Hard Times Loneliest in the World: George and Lennie - John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1937) Kinship: Okonkwo and Obierika - Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958) Amazon Sisters: Miss Celie, Shug and Sofia - Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982) Undercover Allies: Moira and Offred - Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) For Better, For Worse: Lina and Elena - Elena Ferrante, The Neapolitan Novels (2011–2014) Notes Further Reading Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisThe inherent 'metropolitanism' of writing for a Romantic-era periodical is here explored through the Elia articles that Charles Lamb wrote for the London Magazine.Trade Review'This is an extraordinary study that covers an impressive body of often overlooked literature with subtlety, skill and aplomb ... It is a must-read for for readers of Lamb, Cockneyism and writings of the city.' The Charles Lamb Bulletin 'Simon Hull's book is an especially welcome reevaluation of Lamb's essay writing.' New Books Online 19Table of ContentsIntroduction, Simon P. Hull; Chapter 1 Consuming the Periodical Text: Hunt, Hazlitt and the Anxiety of Cockneyism, Simon P. Hull; Chapter 2 Domesticating the Flaneur: Coleridge, De Quincey and the Forms of Metropolitanism, Simon P. Hull; Chapter 3 The Great Wen and the Rural Gothic, Simon P. Hull; Chapter 4 Utility and Pity: Wordsworth, Blake and Egan, and the Act of Charity, Simon P. Hull; Chapter 5 Lamb, Theatricality and the Fool, Simon P. Hull; Chapter 102 Conclusion, Simon P. Hull;

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite's religious outlook through the inner journeys of five female characters. For Martín Gaite, a truly religious, or spiritual, perspective requires conscious attention to the products of the unconscious (dreams, images, memories, premonitions), followed by reflection and action, as well as a similar attentiveness and responsiveness to external events both large and small. This reconnection of the supernatural and day-to-day worlds also involves descent to the unconscious - the way to wholeness - as depicted in so many myths and fairy tales, including those which Martín Gaite used to retell or enhance the works analysed in this book: Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Amor and Psyche, Demeter and Persephone, and the Descent of the Goddess Inanna. Looking at the extent to which these female characters attend to, reflect on, and respond to their dreams, images, memories and events, the analysis suggests that Martín Gaite uses her stories to try to communicate both the road to her own enlightenment and warnings about paths that lead away from this.Table of ContentsChapter 1: In Spirit and Truth Chapter 2: The Link has Broken: Matilde's Dream in El balneario Chapter 3: When the Meaning is Lost: Death and Life in Lo raro es vivir and Irse de casa Chapter 4: ¡Oh Inanna! No investigues los ritos del mundo inferior: Mariana's Descent to the Underworld in Nubosidad variable Chapter 5: Looking for the Lost Daughter: Sofía's Search in Nubosidad variable Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOnce she had reconciled herself to the view that a garden snake, however beautiful, was not evil, Suniti decided to set about the matter in a more businesslike way. She put an ad in the paper: ‘Elderly gentlewoman seeks to make a bargain with the devil’. Where are good and evil to be found? What is the path to sainthood? Is it through poetry or good deeds? St Suniti talks to angels and flowers, dragons, saints and ordinary people in her quest. Suniti Namjoshi has original imagination full of surprises encompassing saints and wolves, Beowulf and Bangladesh, Grendel and Star Trek.‘It’s hilarious, witty, elegantly written, hugely inventive, fantastic, energetic, up to the minute, analytic, touching…

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Book SynopsisIn a series of warm and often funny letters, Kim Adrian delivers a compelling feminist critique of the 6-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, by Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard.Trade Review‘Kim Adrian’s loving struggle with Knausgaard is the kind of criticism I most enjoy - personal, wonderfully engaged, intense but somehow simultaneously light-footed, and extremely intelligent. The brilliance of her feminist critique is that it acutely exposes vulnerabilities in Knausgaard’s male universalism while affectionately acknowledging the scope and appeal of his inevitably gendered voice. A delight from start to finish.’ James Wood, literary critic ‘On display is a rigorous mind, a fiery intellect, a curious and engaged reader. Adrian brings lofty ideas - questions of attention and meaning, of the troubling permeability between inside and outside, of reality itself - down to the meat-and-feeling human level.’ Boston Globe

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Book SynopsisWalking & Talkingon the Here and Elsewhere explores what we do while we walk, be it talking or thinking, and how the act of walking has inspired writers.

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Book SynopsisWhen we think of Iris Murdoch’s relationship with art forms, the visual arts come most readily to mind. However, music and other sounds are equally important. Soundscapes – music and other types of sound – contribute to the richly textured atmosphere and moral tenor of Murdoch’s novels. This book will help readers to appreciate anew the sensuous nature of Iris Murdoch’s prose, and to listen for all kinds of music, sounds and silences in her novels, opening up a new sub-field in Murdoch studies in line with the emerging field of Word and Music Studies. This study is supported by close readings of selected novels exemplifying the subtle variety of ways she deploys music, sounds and silence in her fiction. It also covers Murdoch’s knowledge of music and her allusions to music throughout her work, and includes a survey of musical settings of her words by various composers.Trade Review“This book is also a rare example of appendices being as fascinating and as impressive as the main text. … Both scholarly and entertaining, it will be accessible to a general reader, although it is most likely to be of interest to those already reasonably familiar with Murdoch’s fiction who will surely find they hear things in the novels which they have never heard before.” (Janfarie Skinner, Iris Murdoch Review, 2022)Table of Contents1. Chapter 1 Listening to Iris Murdoch.Introduction.Music and sound in fiction: a review of the field.Music in Murdoch’s life.Discussions of music in Murdoch’s philosophy.The sound-worlds in Murdoch’s fiction.Part I – Music.2. Chapter 2 ‘The music is too painful’: Music as character and atmosphere.Introduction.‘Awaken, my blackbird’: Music in The unicorn.‘Like a breathless enchanted girl’: Music in The red and the green.The swan princess: Music in The time of the angels.‘The concourse of sweet sounds’: Music in The nice and the good.Conclusion.3. Chapter 3 ‘The point at which flesh and spirit most joyfully meet’: Singers and singing.Introduction.‘Che cosa e amor?’: Singing in The sea, the sea.Singing as exclusion in The message to the planet.‘Never to sing again? Never?’: Singing in The philosopher’s pupil (1983).Conclusion.4. Chapter 4 Musical women and unmusical men.Introduction: ‘Of course they never let the women sing.’.Quiet women: The good apprentice.Silent pianos.No women composers.Opera, intimacy, sexuality and androgyny in A fairly honourable defeat.Conclusion.Part II – Silence and sound.5. Chapter 5 ‘Different voices, different discourses’: Voices and other human sounds.Introduction: Serious noticing.‘The long search for words’: Something special.‘The quiet sound of voices’: The sandcastle.‘Intolerable with menace’: Henry and Cato.‘A mechanical litany’: The good apprentice.Conclusion.6. Chapter 6 ‘Like a clarity under a mist’: Ambient noise and silence, dreamscapes and atmosphere.Introduction.The sacred and profane love machine: The drama of silence.The black prince and Under the net: Silence and art.Bruno’s dream: Synaesthesia and perception.Nuns and soldiers.Conclusion.Part III – Settings.7. Chapter 7 ‘Just bring me the composers’: Musical settings of Iris Murdoch’s words.Introduction.The servants – opera: music by William Mathias, libretto by Iris Murdoch.The round horizon, cantata in five parts: music by Christopher Bochmann, words by Iris Murdoch.The one alone: Radio play with music by Gary Carpenter.A year of birds: Song cycle for soprano and orchestra by Malcolm Williamson.Forgive me. In memoriam Iris Murdoch, 1919-1999, for unaccompanied vocal ensemble (SATB) by Paul Crabtree.Inspired by Iris: Paul Hullah and Kent Wennman.Paul Hullah, All the names under the sun and Home.Kent Wennman, A Jerusalem conversation and The thinker and the feeling one.Conclusion: Iris Murdoch set to music.Coda Sound, music, silence and listening.Part IV – The music.Appendix 1 Music mentioned in Murdoch’s fiction.Classical composers.Vocal music.Chronological list of music mentioned in Murdoch’s fiction.Appendix 2 Items in Iris Murdoch’s Oxford music collection held at Kingston University Library.Iris Murdoch’s manuscript notebooks of songs.Anthologies, collections, scores etc.Single works.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book analyzes how both readers and detectives rely on listing as an ordering and structuring tool, and highlights the crucial role that lists assume in the reading process. It extends the boundaries of an emerging field dedicated to the study of lists in literature and caters to a newly revived interest in form and New Formalist approaches in narratological research. The central aim of this book is to show how detective fiction makes use of lists in order to frame various conceptions of knowledge. The frames created by these lists are crucial to decoding the texts, and they can be used to demonstrate how readers can be engaged in the act of detection or manipulated into accepting certain propositions in the text.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Reading Lists, Listing Clues.- 2. Defining Detective Fiction.- 3. Dossier Novels: The Reader as Detective.- 4. Manipulating Readers: The Novels of Agatha Christie.- 5. Excursus: The Thorndyke Novels and the Language of Science.- 6. Lists and Knowledge.- 7. Conclusion: Models of Knowledge in Detective Fiction.

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Book SynopsisIn this book-length study, Ewa Szary-Matywiecka examines Maria Wirtemberska’s Malvina, or the Heart’s Intuition, an international success upon its publication in 1816 that is now widely considered to be Poland’s first psychological novel. Applying structuralist methods, Szary-Matywiecka situates Wirtemberska among other literary luminaries of her day, including Rousseau and Goethe, and explores how the nineteenth-century salon culture formed the concerns and themes of her novel. Malvina’s obsession with language games recall the vocabulary quizzes and semantic puzzles popular in the European salons frequented by Wirtemberska. Szary-Matywiecka also argues that the novel’s motif of twins and twinned characters emerges from both the theatrical preoccupations of salons, as well as how Wirtemberska seemingly splits her voice between traditional narration and a more intrusive authorial style, helping shape her novel’s innovative narrative method. Malvina, or Spoken Word in the Novel is an insightful deconstruction of a female-penned classic of European literature. Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: In and Beyond the SalonPart II: Heart and ThoughtsPart III: Malvina, or the Heart’s IntuitionPart IV: Malvina and the Salon

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Book SynopsisDo we mean anything? Tara questioned hopelessly. Are our desires, our dreams relevant to the course of destiny at all?'' Tara. Vali''s wife; Sugriv''s queen; the woman behind Rama''s curse. A person of extraordinary intellect, foresight and determination, Tara is a master stateswoman, both before and after she marries Vali and is crowned the queen of Kishkindh. But her wisdom and stature cannot stand in the way of destiny. Tara finds herself caught in a battle of egos between the two brothers and reduced to the victor''s trophy. However, in this time of conflict, she resourcefully restores peace and prosperity in the kingdom she helped build, even if it means sacrificing everything. Kavita KanÃ, in heratest recounting of the Ramayana, narrates the tale of Tara''s trucethe compromises Tara made to fulfil her divinely ordained purpose, including marrying her husband''s killer.

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Book SynopsisThe authors and audiences for twentieth century Chinese literature, especially fiction, are examined in a fresh light in this book. While modern Chinese fictions are imaginary in that they do not constitute reliable portraits of Chinese life, they can reveal fascinating insights into the writers themselves and their implied audiences. The book also includes substantial reference to poetry, drama, film, and the visual arts as well as to the political and social context in which they appear.

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Book SynopsisGeorge Gissing’s The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact of ‘odd’ or ‘redundant’ women, the cultural impact of ‘the new woman,’ and the opportunities for and conditions of employment in the expanding service sector of the economy. At the heart of these issues as many late Victorians saw them was a problem of the imbalance in the ratio of men to women in the population. There were more females than males, which meant that more and more women would be left unmarried; they would be ‘odd’ or ‘redundant,’ and would be forced to be independent and to find work to support themselves. In the Broadview edition, Gissing’s text is carefully annotated and accompanied by a range of documents from the period that help to lay out the context in which the book was written.In Gissing’s story, Virginia Madden and her two sisters are confronted upon the death of their father with sudden impoverishment. Without training for employment, and desperate to maintain middle-class respectability, they face a daunting struggle. In Rhoda Nunn, a strong feminist, Gissing also presents a strong character who draws attention overtly to the issues behind the novel. The Odd Women is one of the most important social novels of the late nineteenth century.Trade Review“When it comes to the complexities of everyday life in late-Victorian London, there is no better guide than Gissing and no better Gissing than The Odd Women. And now, in Arlene Young’s carefully edited and annotated edition, we have the definitive guide to Gissing’s novel. Students will also find the historical documents gathered in this volume an invaluable resource in the study of the “woman question” and the sociology of work in the 1890s.” — Stephen Arata, University of Virginia“Broadview’s enterprise is especially welcome in the case of The Odd Women, Gissing’s second most commonly studied novel. [This edition] deserves to become the text of choice for teachers—especially given its modest price.” — The Gissing JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextGeorge Gissing: A Brief ChronologyThe Odd WomenAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews Glasgow Herald 20 April 1893 Saturday Review 29 April 1893 Athenaeum 27 May 1893 Pall Mall Gazette 29 May 1893 Nation (New York) 13 July 1893 Illustrated London News (Clementia Black) 5 August 1893 Appendix B: Attitudes Towards Women and Marriage in Victorian Culture Sarah Ellis, from The Daughters of England (1842) Alfred Lord Tennyson, from The Princess (1847) Coventry Patmore, from The Angel in the House: “The Rose of the World” (1854) Thomas Henry Huxley, from “Emancipation—Black and White,” Reader (20 May 1865) John Ruskin, from “Of Queens’ Gardens,” in Sesame and Lilies (1865) John Stuart Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1869) Mona Caird, from “Marriage,” Westminster Review (1888) Appendix C: Debate over the “Woman Question” Grant Allen, from “Plain Words on the Woman Question,” Fortnightly Review (October 1889) Bernard Shaw, from “The Womanly Woman,” The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891) Eliza Lynn Linton, from “The Wild Women: As Politicians,” Nineteenth Century (July 1891) Eliza Lynn Linton, from “The Wild Women: As Insurgents,” Nineteenth Century (October 1891) Mona Caird, “A Defense of the So-Called ‘Wild Women’,” Nineteenth Century (May 1891) From “Character Note: The New Woman” Cornhill Magazine (October 1894) Nat Arling, “What is the Role of the ‘New Woman?’” Westminster Review (November 1898) Appendix D: Women and Paid Employment: The Limitations of Aspirations and the Actualities Charlotte Brontë, from Shirley (1849) From “The Disputed Question,” English Woman’s Journal (August 1858) Evelyn March Phillips, from “The Working Lady in London,” Fortnightly Review (August 1892) Clara Collet, from “The Employment of Women,” Report to the Royal Commission on Labour (1893) Frances H. Low, from “How Poor Ladies Live,” Nineteenth Century (March 1897) Eliza Orme, from “How Poor Ladies Live: A Reply,” Nineteenth Century (April 1897) Appendix E: Conditions of Work for Men in the White-Collar Sector James Fitzjames Stephen, from “Gentlemen” Cornhill Magazine (March 1862) B.O. Orchard, from The Clerks of Liverpool (1871) Charles Edward Parsons, from Clerks: their Position and Advancement (1876) Thomas Sutherst, from Death and Disease Behind the Counter (1884) H.G. Wells, from Kipps (1905) H.G. Wells, from Experiment in Autobiography (1934) Appendix F: Map of London (1892)Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, Elizabeth Hamilton engages directly with the major issues of her day, from colonialism and the “New Philosophy” to the present state of literature and female education. Satirizing British society and incorporating material from a wide range of the orientalists’ new translations of Indian writing, Hamilton’s book is a key document in the debates which raged in England over the British role in India. It remains one of the most interesting political novels of the 18th century.Trade Review“This edition is an important contribution to scholarship in the long eighteenth century. The text itself richly rewards even a casual reading, providing a broad exploration of Anglo-Indian relations as well as lively portraits of eighteenth-century British life, from debates surrounding the education of women to the constitution of coffee houses and theatres. The explanatory notes in themselves provide an education about India in the eighteenth century and the introduction deftly compresses a massive amount of research on how Britons saw themselves in relation to Empire, and manages, by the way, to raise large questions about domestic class structures, and the role of the ‘Oriental tale’ in establishing British identity.” — Tara Ghoshal Wallace, George Washington University“By bringing her Hindoo narrator to England, Elizabeth Hamilton offers a telling critique of British gender formation, educational institutions and politics in the 1790s from the perspective of the ‘outsider.’ This fascinating novel, here expertly edited by Pamela Perkins and Shannon Russell, should be read and taught by anyone interested in post-colonial theory and gender studies, the literary representation of British imperialism in India and at home, the jacobin and anti-jacobin debates of the 1790s, the function of religion in women’s writing or the development of the political novel.” — Anne K. Mellor, UCLATable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionWorks CitedElizabeth Hamilton: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextTranslation of the Letters of a Hindoo RajahAppendix A: Select Contemporary Reviews The Critical Review, vol 17 (July 1796) The British Critic, vol 8 (Sept. 1796) Monthly Review, vol 21, second series (Oct. 1796) The Analytical Review, vol 24 (Oct. 1796) Scots Magazine, vol 59 (Jan. 1797) Appendix B: Major Revisions in the Second EditionAppendix C: Sir William Jones, Hymn to CamdeoAppendix D: Obituary attributed to Maria EdgeworthAppendix E: Selections from Letters

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Book SynopsisThe adventure story told in Treasure Island has become a part of popular folklore. John Sutherland discusses the novel’s place in Stevenson's biography and oeuvre in his learned and lively critical introduction to this new edition. Exploring the novel's genesis in Stevenson's "plundering" of other writers, his writer's block, and the surprisingly disturbing and complex nature of what was meant to be a children's story, Sutherland argues for the enduring vitality and appeal of Stevenson's first novel.Appendices include Stevenson's writing about the novel, contemporary reviews, and sources on which Stevenson drew (or from which he borrowed) when writing Treasure Island.Trade Review“Easily accessible, bottom-of-the-page notes provide outstanding illumination of the text’s literary and historical contexts, particularly biblical and nautical references that might otherwise elude modern readers. No other edition provides a better insight into the (sometimes murky) compositional processes behind this classic work of fiction. For fans of Sutherland’s unique detective-style readings, the appendix of ‘puzzles and conundrums’ will prove an added bonus.” — Roslyn Jolly, University of New South Wales“Broadview’s new edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Treasure Island is an excellent teaching text because of its detailed textual annotations, which help guide readers through the book’s nineteenth-century context. As a historian, I appreciate how these annotations, along with the five appendices, place Stevenson’s fantasy in context with popular seventeenth- and eighteenth-century textual influences on pirate mythology. John Sutherland finishes the edition with a series of ‘puzzles and conundrums’ raised by the story; these are bound to stimulate discussion in a seminar setting.” — Mark Hanna, University of California, San DiegoTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Robert Louis Stevenson: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text Treasure Island Appendix A: Reviews of Treasure Island Appendix B: Robert Louis Stevenson, “My First Book” (1894) Appendix C: Treasure Island and Washington Irving’s Tales of a Traveller (1824) Appendix D: Treasure Island and Charles E. Pearce’s Billy Bo’swain (1873) Appendix E: Puzzles and Conundrums Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDrifting on a sailing boat off the Canary Islands, four British gentlemen take turns reading a manuscript that they find inside a copper cylinder discovered floating in the Atlantic Ocean. The manuscript recounts Adam More’s adventures after being lost at sea during an Antarctic voyage in 1844 and his life with the Kosekin, a lost civilization living at the South Pole. The values of the Kosekin are opposed to the civilized norm—they love death, abjection, and poverty. Their society may be well suited to their particular evolution, but it is profoundly disconcerting to the narrator, and it is radically contentious to the Victorian gentlemen who read and debate More’s account.This Broadview edition of James De Mille’s classic recreates the format of the posthumous 1888 Harper’s Weekly serial, including 18 original illustrations by Gilbert Gaul. The appendices allow the novel to be seen in terms of other satirical and scientific romance, Antarctic exploration, and contemporary geology. The introduction and notes tap into recent scholarship to bring to life De Mille’s genre innovations and his use of Orientalist and colonialist discourses.Trade Review“Daniel Burgoyne’s Broadview edition of A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder is a refreshing, re-energised insight into an old classic. It is both scholarly and accessible, bringing important scholarship, key graphics, and of course the work itself, into fresh perspective. What I especially value is the way the volume will appeal to both general readers and critics, and the way that more recent scholarship on the novel has been updated and synthesized to produce new understandings of this unusual Canadian phenomenon.” — Gerry Turcotte, President, St. Mary’s University College, Calgary, AlbertaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionJames De Mille: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextA Kosekin GlossaryA Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper CylinderAppendix A: Antarctic ExplorationAntarctica Exploration Timeline From James Cook and Tobias Furneaux, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World (1777) Book 1, Chapters 2-3, January 1773 Book 2, Chapter 6, January 1774 From Charles Wilkes, Synopsis of the Cruise of the .S. Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838-1842(1842) From Captain Sir James Clark Ross, A Voyage of Discovery in the Southern and Antarctic Regions (During the Years 1839-43) (1847) Volume 1, Chapter VII, 10 January 1841 Volume 1, Chapter VII, 27 January 1841 Volume 1, Chapter VIII, 28 January 1841 Appendix B: Nineteenth-Century Geology and Paleontology From Richard Owen, Geology and the Inhabitants of the Ancient World (1854) Pterodactyle Iguanodon Hylaeosaurus Megalosaurus Teleosaurus Enaliosauria (Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus) Labyrinthodon From Louis Figuier, The World Before the Deluge (1866) “whale of the saurians” Ideal Landscapes Coal Period Vegetation: From Louis Figuier, The World Before the Deluge (1866) From Elijah H. Burritt, Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens (1845) Appendix C: Savages and Cannibals From James Cook, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World (1777) Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 5, November 1773, Queen Charlotte’s Sound, New Zealand Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 5, August 1774, Vanuatu Archipelago From Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle (1846) Appendix D: Historical Mythology: Caves and Troglodytes From Plato, The Republic of Plato (c. 380 BCE): The Allegory of the Cave From Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1843) From Thomas Hodgkin, “On the Ancient Inhabitants of the Canary Islands” (1848) Appendix E: Scientific Romance and Lost Worlds From John Cleves Symmes Jr., Symzonia; Voyage of Discovery (1820) From Edgar Allan Poe, “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” (1838) Preface A History of Antarctic Exploration From Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Coming Race: or The New Utopia (1871) Orientalism Gender From Jules Verne, A Journey into the Interior of the Earth (1877) From Samuel Butler, Erewhon or Over the Range (1880) From Jonathan Swift, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver (1726) Appendix F: Reviews New York Times, 21 May 1888 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 3 June 1888 The Week, July 1888 The Athenaeum, 15 December 1888 Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisTobias Smollett travelled through Europe with his wife in 1763-65 in a journey designed to recover his mental and physical health after the death of their daughter. The resulting travel narrative provoked controversy and anger in the eighteenth century, when it was often negatively compared to Laurence Sterne’s fictional European travels in A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. Unlike Sterne’s sensitive hero, Smollett is argumentative, acerbic, and often contemptuous of local customs.In addition to a critical introduction, this edition provides extensive annotation and appendices with material on Smollett’s correspondence, the book’s reception in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, related travel writing, and Smollett’s infamous satirization as “Smelfungus” in Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey.Trade Review“Acrimonious and ill-humored, acutely observed and shrewdly expressed, behold the notorious Travels of Tobias Smollett. A less sentimental traveler the world has hardly seen, whose life and opinions during an eighteen-month ramble through France and Italy stand confessed on the page in all the majesty of his spleen and intellect. The Travels are here rescued from the long shade cast upon them by Laurence Sterne, who sarcastically dismissed them as the philistine grousing of ‘Smelfungus.’ Editor Frank Felsenstein, who produced this classroom-ready volume for Broadview based on his definitive Oxford edition, has done a masterful job of relocating Smollett’s work in its contemporary contexts and critical tradition. With judicious notes, and a truly learned set of appendices that abridge two and a half centuries of reviews and responses, Felsenstein has brought into sharp focus the polarizing writer whose unstinting account of a less-than-grand tour is here made relevant and relatable to contemporary students of eighteenth-century life.” — Al Coppola, Assistant Professor of English, John Jay College, City University of New York, and Chair of the Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Culture“Frank Felsenstein has updated and enriched for the twenty-first century his excellent Oxford edition of Tobias Smollett’s irascibly entertaining Travels. Although Laurence Sterne, another great novelist and satirist, portrayed Smollett as the bad-tempered Smelfungus in his Sentimental Journey, published two years later, these non-fictional letters have some of the joys of Smollett’s fictional creation, the splenetic Matt Bramble, in his greatest novel, Humphry Clinker. The fresh material on offer here includes eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reader reception, select relevant passages from Smollett’s correspondence, art criticism of the time, information about the grand tour, and even the advertisement of a bookseller who sold Smollett’s volume to tourists on their way to France. Felsenstein’s Introduction and annotation are written with a high order of intelligence, clarity, and knowledge. This will be a welcome edition for students and the general reader.” — Robert Folkenflik, Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professor of English, University of California, Irvine“Authoritative and affordable, Mr. Felsenstein’s edition of Travels through France and Italy will become a favourite textbook for those who teach eighteenth-century travel writing and literary nonfiction … Mr. Felsenstein’s new edition—thoughtfully constructed, responsibility edited, carefully annotated—is welcome and timely.” — Christopher Johnson, The Scriblerian“I have always wanted a solidly researched and well annotated paperback edition of the letters, with notes at the bottom of the page (rather than those cumbersome endnotes), a good introduction, and a wide-ranging bibliography. Not only does this edition have these, it offers an excellent apparatus that includes a chronology of events related to the life of Montagu, and more than one hundred pages of addition information, ranging from selections of other letters by her, to a discussion of her role in the history of smallpox inoculation, and brief excerpts illustrating European views of Islam … I will use it in my courses.” — Nabil Matar, The ScriblerianTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionTobias Smollett: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextTravels through France and ItalyAppendix A: Selections from Smollett’s Correspondence To Richard Smith Esq. (8 May 1763) To Dr. William Hunter (14 June 1763) To Dr. William Hunter (11 July 1763) To Francis Seymour Conway, Earl of Hertford (11 July 1763) List of Books Prepared by Smollett and Sent with the Letter to Lord Hertford To Alexander Reid (3 August 1763) To Dr. William Hunter (11 August 1763) To Dr. William Hunter (6 February 1764) To Dr. John Moore (15 July 1765) To Dr. John Moore (13 November 1765) Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews From the St. James’s Chronicle (8 May 1766) From The Critical Review (May 1766) From The Monthly Review (June 1766) From The Royal Magazine (May 1766) From The London Magazine (May 1766) From the Journal Encyclopédique (August/September1766) From the Gazette Littéraire de l’Europe (15 February1766) From the Bibliothèque des Sciences et des Beaux Arts(1766) Appendix C: The Malevolent Philip Thicknesse From Philip Thicknesse, Observations on the Customs and Manners of the French Nation (1766) From the Notice of Thicknesse’s Observations on the Customs and Manners of the French Nation,The Critical Review (December 1766) From Philip Thicknesse, Useful Hints to Those Who Make the Tour of France (1768) From Philip Thicknesse, A Year’s Journey through France, and Part of Spain (1777) Appendix D: Laurence Sterne and “the learned Smelfungus” From [Laurence Sterne], A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768) From Letters of Laurence Sterne To Lady D[acre?] (9 July 1762) To Robert Foley (14 August 1762) To Robert Hay Drummond (7 May 1763) To Mrs. F[enton?] (1 February 1764) Appendix E: From Samuel Sharp, Letters from Italy (1766) Cicisbei Italian Inns The Arts of Rome Italian Gardens The English on the Grand Tour Appendix F: Late-Eighteenth-Century Responses to Smollett From Thomas McMahon, The Candor and Good-Nature of Englishmen Exemplified (1777) From Alexander Jardine, Letters from Barbary, France, Spain, Portugal, &c. (1788) From Francis Garden, Travelling Memorandums (1791) From Sir James Edward Smith, A Sketch of a Tour on the Continent (1793) Appendix G: Nineteenth-Century Responses to Smollett From The Port-Folio (November 1811) From Leigh Hunt, Correspondence (1862) From Sir Walter Scott, “Prefatory Memoir to Smollett” (1 September 1824) From W.J. Prowse, “Smollett at Nice” (April 1870) From Thomas Seccombe, “Smelfungus Goes South” (August 1901) Appendix H: Contexts Extract of a letter from Paris, Public Advertiser (1 November 1763) From Dodsley’s Annual Register (1762) Letter from George Bassmore to The London Magazine (September 1766) Extract of a letter from a “Plain Englishman,” The Gentleman’s Magazine (1787) Appendix I: The Venus de’ Medici in ContextAppendix J: A Bookseller in SittingbourneSelect BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIt is widely known that Charles Dickens gave public readings of his works, and that those readings were enormously popular. Far less well known are the stories themselves; these were not, as is the modern fashion, taken verbatim from the published novels. Instead, Dickens trimmed, reworded, and re-shaped material from the novels to create stories that would be self-contained artistic entities. These concise “performance fictions,” shaped in every way to be accessible to a broad audience, are in many ways an ideal introduction to Dickens’s work for the modern reader.Four of the most successful of these short works have been selected for this volume, including “The Story of Little Dombey” (perhaps the most emotionally affecting of all the readings, and described by Dickens as his “greatest triumph everywhere”) and the violent and suspenseful “Sikes and Nancy” (Dickens’s overpowering performances of which were said to have contributed to his death). Provided in the contextual materials is a selection of reviews and contemporary descriptions that comment on Dickens’s manner of performance and audience reception. A brief excerpt from Dombey and Son is also included, illustrating the extensive revision process that led to “The Story of Little Dombey.” Trade Review“The deftness with which Dickens crafts … self-contained stories is particularly striking. … Broadview volumes [such as these] provide valuable and accessible introductions.” — Times Literary Supplement“The compact narratives used by Dickens for his dramatic platform performances extract the essence of his comic and pathetic genius and always make for a great read. But in the Broadview edition you also get a wealth of well-considered commentary and contextual material that can bring them into sharp intellectual focus for any college class concerned with the Victorian era.” — Graham Law, Waseda University“This concise but helpfully contextualized selection from the public readings will give students a fuller sense of Dickens—not just the writer but the performer, celebrity, and public figure.” — Leah Price, Harvard University“This outstanding collection of Dickens’s public readings includes a helpful introduction, which very usefully places his performance fictions in the context of his personal life and literary career. The introduction and contextual documents contain illuminating material about Dickens’s process of editing and revising his novels for his public readings. Of particular interest are the contemporary reviews and descriptions of Dickens’s performances, which give readers an exceptional illustration of Dickens as performer.” — Sarah Alexander, University of VermontTable of ContentsIntroductionPerformance FictionsA Note on the TextThe Story of Little DombeyMrs. GampDavid CopperfieldSikes and NancyIn Context: The Readings of Charles Dickens From Novel to Performance Fiction from Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son (1846–48)from Charles Dickens, “The Story of Little Dombey” (1858) Reviews “Mr. Charles Dickens’s Readings,” The Era (13 June 1858)from “Mr. Charles Dickens’s Readings,” The Belfast News-Letter (30 August 1858)from “Charles Dickens in Derby,” The Derby Mercury (27 October 1858)“Mr. Charles Dickens,” The Times (8 January 1859)from “Mr. Dickens’s First Reading,” The New York Times (10 December 1867)from “Mr. Dickens as a Reader,” The New York Times (16 December 1867)Mark Twain, “Charles Dickens,” The Alta California (5 February 1868) Descriptions from Kate Field, Pen Photographs of Charles Dickens’s Readings (1868)from Charles Kent, Charles Dickens as a Reader (1872)

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Book SynopsisHerman Melville’s The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short fiction that he published in hislifetime, and it includes his two most famous short stories, Bartleby, the Scrivener and Benito Cerenoalong with the less well-known but deeply engaging sketches of the Galapagos Islands that make up TheEncantadas and three more short stories: The Piazza, The Bell-Tower, and The Lightning-Rod Man. This edition places these stories in the context of nineteenth-century debates over slavery, free willand determinism, science and technology, and the nature and value of literary artistry. The stories in ThePiazza Tales demonstrate the global range of Melville’s cultural and aesthetic concerns, as Melville sethis stories in locales ranging from rural western Massachusetts and Wall Street in the United States to thePacific coast of South America and southern Europe.This edition is especially concerned with Melville’s engagement with both political questions related toslavery and imperialism and aesthetic questions germane to the short story tradition as developed by hisnear contemporaries Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.Trade Review“At last! Although the stories in The Piazza Tales have been collected and anthologized before, only in this version, with Brian Yothers’s meticulous editing, general introduction, and selection of contextual readings, do we get the book Herman Melville envisioned—for twenty-first-century readers and students. Yothers presents a seasoned novelist, but an experimental writer of tales, laboring within a hectic magazine economy and changing literary history forever. He also exhibits a Melville who responds vigorously to contemporary debates over slavery, urbanization, capitalism, and changing gender roles, and who engages with nineteenth-century science, philosophy, and religion, as well as with a transatlantic cast of canonical and popular authors. Prepare to be delighted and surprised by a Melville you may not have known existed.” — Wyn Kelley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology“In this new Broadview Press edition of Melville’s original 1856 version of The Piazza Tales, Brian Yothers provides a valuable classroom edition that includes reviews, sources and allusions, and other contemporary writings on the art of the story, on slavery and inequality, on science and philosophy, and on other topics of importance to an understanding of the diverse worlds embodied in these tales. Yothers’s illuminating introduction highlights the distinctive character of each of the stories while adroitly placing them in the context of Melville’s personal history and career as a fiction writer and poet, making an eloquent case for reading all six stories together for their imaginative variety and skillful artistry. For teachers of Melville, this compact volume fills a long-standing need.” — Christopher Sten, George Washington University“This new edition makes a strong claim to become the Piazza Tales of choice in the undergraduate classroom. … The appendices feature many inspired choices that will amplify the literary and historical resonance of The Piazza Tales without encumbering students with lengthy supplementary readings.” — Dawn Coleman, LeviathanTable of Contents Appendix A: The Art of the Short Story and the Romance 1. Herman Melville, “Hawthorne and his Mosses” (1850) 2. Edgar Allan Poe, Rev. of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales, Graham’s, 1842 3. Rev. of The Piazza Tales in United States Democratic Review, September 1856 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (1851) Appendix B: Race, Slavery and Inequality 1. Amasa Delano, Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Comprising Three Voyages Round the World, Together With a Voyage of Survey and Discovery in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands (1817) 2. Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1852) 3. George Lippard, New York, Its Upper Ten and Lower Million (1854) 4. John Quincy Adams, The United States v. The Amistad (1841) 5. The slave deck of the bark ""Wildfire,"" brought into Key West on April 30, 1860 Appendix C: Allusions to Poetry and the Bible 1. “Mariana,” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1830) 2. Matthew 5:38-48, The Bible, King James Version 3. Job 3:1-26, The Bible, King James Version 4. Judges 4:4-22, The Bible, King James Version Appendix D: Science and Philosophy 1. Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. From 1832 to 1836 [October 1835] (1840) 2. Jonathan Edwards, Freedom of the Will (1754), Section V, Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of Moral Agency 3. Joseph Priestley, The Doctrine of Philosophic Necessity Illustrated (1777)

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Book SynopsisIn this 1874 novella, the celebrated British writer of sensation fiction tells the tale of two brothers sentenced to be executed for having committed a murder that never occurred, and of the efforts of the energetic Naomi Colebrook to ferret out the truth and save the two innocents. As editor Anna Clarke observes, Collins' work is both a compelling legal sensation thriller and an important transatlantic commentary on American life. Along with the text itself and an illuminating introduction, Clarke provides a range of background materials-including documents from the real-life Boorn murder trial that inspired the novella-in order to set the work in its historical context.Trade Review“This is a timely re-examination of Wilkie Collins’s The Dead Alive. Anna Clark has situated Collins’s novella within its nineteenth-century context in terms of the Boorn murder trial, which inspired its plot, and other contemporary materials, including reviews and illustrations. The introduction provides a clear overview of Collins’s work, as well as of the text under consideration, which makes this volume useful for both scholars and students. This is a welcome and exciting addition to Broadview’s indispensable Victorian literature series.” — Joanne Ella Parsons, Falmouth University“Wilkie Collins’s The Dead Alive is an incredibly teachable novella, and Anna Clark’s introduction helpfully situates it within a range of historical contexts. This little-known text—advertised as Collins’s ‘first American story’ and based on an actual 1819 Vermont trial—is distinct within Collins’s oeuvre. The bold Naomi Colebrook prefigures Collins’s detective-heroine Valeria Woodville in The Law and the Lady but is also depicted as a uniquely American heroine. The contextual material that Clark provides, including reviews and reports of the real-life trial, position The Dead Alive as a significant experiment in transatlantic, legal, and sensational writing.” — Tara MacDonald, University of IdahoTable of Contents Introduction William Wilkie Collins The Dead Alive in Context A Note on the Text The Dead Alive In Context The Boorn Murder Trial from Leonard Sargent, The Trial, Confessions and Conviction of Jesse and Stephen Boorn, for the Murder of Russell Colvin, and the Return of the Man Supposed to Have Been Murdered (1873) from Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Seventieth Session, "Report of the Select Committee on the Abolishment of Capital Punishment" (5 March 1847) from Lemuel Haynes, "The Prisoner Released. A Sermon delivered at Manchester, Vermont, Lord's Day, Man. 9th, 1820, on the remarkable interpositin of Divine Providence in the deliverance of Stephen and Jesse Boorn, who had been under sentence of death for the supposed murder of Russell Colvin." In Sketches of the Life and Character of Rev. Lemuel Haynes, A.M., by Timothy Mather Cooley (1837) On the American Character from Alexis de Tocqueville, "Of the Principal Source of Belief Among Democratc Nations," Democracy in America, vol. 2, trans. Henry Reeve (1841) from Charles Dickens, American Notes (1842) American Reviews from "The Dead Alive" (Review), Cincinnati Daily Enquirer (4 January 1874) from "New Publications" (Review of The Dead Alive), Christian Watchman (5 February 1874) from "Literariana" (Review of The Dead Alive), The Daily Graphic (18 February 1874) from "New Publications" (Review of The Dead Alive), The Christian Register (21 February 1874) from "Novels of the Week" (Review of The Frozen Deep, and Other Stories), The Athenaeum (21 November 1874) Advertising, Illustrations from The Commercial Advertiser (3 January 1874) Illustrations from Shepard and Gill edition of The Dead Alive Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how literary fiction depicts multilingual practices and incorporates them on the level of the text. Multiple languages surround us today, rendered more visible in the digital and globalized age. In literature, too, languages intermingle, often to striking effect. The early twenty-first century has seen a new fascination with the age-old phenomena of literary multilingualism and translation on the part of writers and readers alike. In case studies of contemporary novels by Rabih Alameddine, Olga Grushin, Olga Grjasnowa, Michael Idov, Zinaida Lindén, Andreï Makine, and Eugene Vodolazkin, as well as a new look at Leo Tolstoy’s nineteenth-century classic War and Peace, this book shows how reading can become a translingual process.Trade Review“Julie Hansen reads novels—by Olga Grushin, Andreï Makine, Michael Idov, Olga Grjasnowa, Zinaida Lindén, Rabih Alameddine, Leo Tolstoy, and Eugene Vodolazkin—translingually, in readings that are incisive, subtle, and supple. Navigating among overlapping instances of multilingualism, translingualism, and translation, she shifts the usual focus from authors to the reading experience. Her novel accounts of how multiple languages challenge and enrich our reading propel Hansen to the forefront of the burgeoning international community of scholars of literary multilingualism.” — Steven G. Kellman, Author, The Translingual Imagination and Nimble Tongues; Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Texas at San Antonio“At a moment when we are told that AI and machine translation will wipe away linguistic difference, Julie Hansen points to the importance of literary translingualism: the fertile clash and interaction of languages as her selected authors think and write. Writers are crossing ever more geographical and cultural borders in a globalizing world. Elegantly written, enriched with theoretical sophistication and thoughtful moves of interpretation, Reading Novels Translingually ‘calls on the reader to reflect on language itself.’”— Sibelan Forrester, Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages and Russian, Swarthmore College“Julie Hansen’s book makes a significant and original contribution to the growing scholarly debate on literary multilingualism. By bringing to bear concepts of estrangement and reader response to the analysis of multilingual and translingual novels, Hansen opens up a welcome new theoretical perspective. Her wide linguistic repertoire includes not only English, French, German, and Russian, but also the ‘minor’ language Swedish, and her insights apply equally to celebrated literary classics and the popular genre of crime fiction. Another original feature is the attention to translation as an essential component of translingual literature, which brings the book into dialogue with contemporary theories of translation and self-translation.” — Adrian J. Wanner, Liberal Arts Professor of Slavic Languages and Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction: Translingual Reading Chapter 2: Implied Readers in the Translingual Text: The Case of Olga Grushin’s The Dream Life of SukhanovChapter 3: Translingual Protagonists Go GlobalChapter 4: The Translingual Narrator and Language Gaps: The Case of Zinaida Lindén’s Many Countries AgoChapter 5: The Literary Translator as Reader: The Case of Rabih Aladmeddine’s An Unnecessary WomanChapter 6: Suspicion and the Suspension of Disbelief in Multilingual Fiction: The Case of a Nordic Suspense NovelChapter 7: Code-Switching and Language-Mixing in Lev Tolstoy’s War and PeaceChapter 8: Reading Between Medieval and Modern: The Case of Eugene Vodolazkin’s Laurus Chapter 9: Concluding Remarks Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn The Cancer Plot, Reginald Wiebe and Dorothy Woodman examine the striking presence of cancer in Marvel comics. Engaging comics studies, medical humanities, and graphic medicine, they explore this disease in four case studies: Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Thor, and Deadpool. Cancer, the authors argue, troubles the binaries of good and evil because it is the ultimate nemesis within a genre replete with magic, mutants, and multiverses. They draw from gender theory, disability studies, and cultural theory to demonstrate how cancer in comics enables an examination of power and responsibility, key terms in Marvel’s superhero universe. As the only full-length study on cancer in the Marvel universe, The Cancer Plot is an appealing and original work that will be of interest to scholars across the humanities, particularly those working in the health humanities, cultural theory, and literature, as well as avid comics readers.Trade Review“Wiebe and Woodman take on a fascinating subject: the representation and significance of cancer in Marvel comics. They explore the paradox of cancer: how in a fantasy setting of extraordinary diversity and ‘miraculous’ feats, it alone remains immune from all cures -- a sort of zero-degree realism which vouchsafes the genre’s connection to the real world.” José Alaniz, University of Washington, author of Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond“The Cancer Plot gives an incisive and engaging analysis of the prevalence of cancer in Marvel comics with specific attention to how the representation of disease in these works enables an examination of power as it relates to citizenship and civic duty. This is a timely study that will enrich readers' understanding of the complexities of storytelling in this genre.” Kelly McGuire, Trent University"Through those case studies and others—as well as their broader observations about the Marvel universe and the superhero genre—Wiebe and Woodman give readers much to contemplate.... They explore the social meaning of health and sickness both in the stories themselves and the world at large, revealing that behind the masks and alter egos, many of Marvel’s characters can tell us a lot about ourselves. The result should convince more than a few readers that we should leave plenty of room for superhumans in the medical humanities." Matt Peters, Graphic Medicine, November 16, 2023 [Full article at https://www.graphicmedicine.org/comic-reviews/the-cancer-plot-terminal-immortality-in-marvels-moral-universe]Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: But I Don’t Want to Cure Cancer I Bodies, Cancer, and Death Editor’s Note 1 | Death and Cancer: Immortality and the Problem of Limits 2 | Living with Cancer: Medical Narratives and Superheroes II Cancer, Power, and Responsibility: Exploring Four Superhero Stories Editor’s Note / The Death of Captain Marvel 3 | This Whole Business of Death: Cancer and Captain Marvel Editor’s Note / Ultimate Spider-Man 4 | Cure as Poison: Cancer and Spider-Man’s Moral Battle Editor’s Note / The Mighty Thor 5 | Cancer as Fatal Opportunity: Thor and the Question of Worthiness Editor’s Note / The Despicable Deadpool 6 | “Welcome to the Freak Show!”: Deadpool and Perpetual Remission Conclusion: The End That Is Not the End Appendix 1 Marvel Characters 1.1 Marvel characters who have had cancer but did not die of it 1.2 Marvel characters who have had cancer and died of it 1.3 Marvel characters who have had cancer and died attempting to cure it or destroy their enemies before succumbing to it 1.4 Marvel cancer deaths by decade Appendix 2 DC Characters 2.1 DC characters who have had cancer 2.2 DC characters with an unnamed terminal condition 2.3 DC cancer and terminal condition by decade Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisDovlatov and Surroundings is a literary ode by one of the most consequential late 20th-century Russian writers, Alexander Genis, to another: Sergei Dovlatov. Though the book’s focus is ostensibly the man himself, the text unfolds as a comprehensive look at the Soviet, post-Soviet, and American cultures that shaped him and which he shaped. Dovlatov and Surroundings constantly, but effortlessly shifts its focus from the intimate to the sweeping, as Genis’s reflections on his friendship with Dovlatov organically give way to recollections about diaspora life, which transition smoothly into analyses of language, culture, politics, and literature. Characterized by Genis as an obituary, this book makes plain the significance of Dovlatov to Russian literature and the nuances of the Soviet cultural heritage.Trade Review“Appearing almost a quarter of a century after the publication of the Russian original, Rojavin's translation into English of Aleksandr Genis’s Dovlatov i okrestnosti, an ambivalent tribute to Russian literary historian Sergei Dovlatov, is flawless. … Including (often-unattributed) witticisms… this book… provides a sociohistorical record of the Russian immigrant life and elements of the diaspora trying to maintain the identity of their native land. … Recommended.— D. Hutchins, CHOICE“Dovlatov and Surroundings in this new translation offers a cocktail of brilliant spirits: An informative introduction by accomplished scholar Mark Lipovetsky, then Alexander Genis’s striking and influential study of beloved (and tremendously funny) émigré author Sergei Dovlatov. Bilingual translator Alexander Rojavin has brought Genis’s work into precise and idiomatic English, hitting every note right.”— Sibelan Forrester, Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages and Russian, Swarthmore College“A famous Russian émigré writer and a sharp Russian literary critic meet in this blend of a literary biography and a memoir. Sergei Dovlatov’s massive personality is portraited by Alexander Genis sympathetically and with keen observations. In this book, life and literature intertwine seamlessly, as was the case for both Dovlatov and Genis. Those interested in a detailed account of the aspirations and mind-set of the Soviet immigrants’ literary milieu in New York will find this narrative educational and fascinating. The book works as a perfect entrée to Dovlatov’s simple, but exquisite prose.”— Olga Bukhina, Translator, Author, Children’s Books Specialist“Genis achieves the same effect that Dovlatov did: he simultaneously makes the Third Wave of immigration more intimate and more mythological. On the one hand, Dovlatov and Surroundings is the best possible memorial to a generation of immigrants who left the Soviet Union on a Jewish visa and created a new Russian literature abroad. On the other hand, it is a house, filled with joyful and dramatic life, whose doors are open to all who wish to enter. The fact that Genis’s philological novel is coming out in English today is proof of this project’s success. When all is said and done, Genis’s book is an inexhaustible source of optimism…”— Mark Lipovetsky, from the prefaceTable of ContentsForeword: Genis and Surroundings, or Twenty Years Later by Mark Lipovetsky The Last Soviet Generation Laughter and Trepidation The Poetics of Prison Do You Like Fish? The Metaphysics of Error Cabbage Soup from Borjomi Tere-Tere Poetry and Truth None of Us Are Lookers An Empty Mirror A Dotted Novel All That Jazz Pushkin A Concert for an Accented Voice Halfway to the Homeland A Matryoshka with Genitals The Unwilling Son of the Ether Death and Other Concerns Without Dovlatov A Brief History of The New American Dovlatov as an Editor Dovlatov on the Screen Dovlatov and Death

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