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Penguin Random House India Rajinder Singh Bedi
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OUP India Lore and Legends of Kerala
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OUP India Beyond Desire Sexuality in Modern Tamil
Book SynopsisBeyond Desire: Sexuality in Modern Tamil Literature explores evolving notions of sexuality in Tamil literature from early to late 20th century. It challenges norms, delves into diverse modes of desire, and analyzes masculine desire in works by different authors, tracing changes in articulations over time.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1: . K.P. Rajagopalan: Desire and Ideal Love; 2: T. Janakiraman: Male Sexuality and the De-Idealized Woman; 3: Karichan Kunju and M.V. Venkatram: Between Desire and Disease; 4: Mauni: Desire as Dream and Fantasy; 5: Dandapani Jeyakantan: Loving Outcastes, Spirituality, and Reformation; 6: Tanjai Prakash: Between Desire and Labour; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
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OUP India R.K. Narayan The Novelist and His Art
Book SynopsisThis work is a definitive study of R.K. Narayan, author of fifteen novels and novellas and more than half a dozen collections of short stories. Based on his personal experiences with Narayan and his friends and relatives, Rao does detailed critical analyses of all of Narayan's works, reading them through the lens of the Indian philosophical concept of the three 'gunas'.Table of ContentsPART I HOME-GROWN: BACKGROUND; _; PART II THE PRE-INDEPENDENCE NOVELS; PART III; VICEFECTION: THE POST-INDEPENDENCE NOVELS AND NOVELLAS
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WW Norton & Co The Mayor of Casterbridge
Book SynopsisThe text of this edition is based on the Wessex Edition of 1912, which was revised and corrected by the author.
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Cambridge University Press Flappers and Philosophers
Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald | BookCurl
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Cambridge University Press Tales of the Jazz Age
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 9780521170444
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Cambridge University Press The Letters of D. H. Lawrence Volume 5 March 1924March 1927
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Cambridge University Press The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1 The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Joseph Conrad
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Cambridge University Press The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad
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Cambridge University Press Correspondence with George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards
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Cambridge University Press A Tale of a Tub and Other Works
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Cambridge University Press Correspondence with Sarah Wescomb Frances Grainger and Laetitia Pilkington 3 The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson Series Number 3
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Cambridge University Press Irish Political Writings after 1725
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Cambridge University Press A History of the Irish Novel
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Cambridge University Press Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill Family
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Cambridge University Press The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad
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Cambridge University Press The Letters of Ernest Hemingway Volume 2 19231925
Book SynopsisThe letters, many previously unpublished, of Volume 2 (1923–1925) follow Hemingway's literary apprenticeship in expatriate Paris and the experiences that forged his earliest works, including the landmark novel The Sun Also Rises (1926). It features a never-before-published short story that was rejected by Vanity Fair.Trade Review'Hemingway did not want his letters published, but this carefully researched scholarly edition does them justice … devotees will find this and future volumes indispensable.' William Gargan, Library Journal'With more than 6,000 letters accounted for so far, the project to publish Ernest Hemingway's correspondence may yet reveal the fullest picture of the twentieth-century icon that we've ever had. The second volume includes merely 242 letters, a majority published for the first time … readers can watch Hemingway invent the foundation of his legacy in bullrings, bars, and his writing solitude.' Steve Paul, Booklist'The letters to Pound - Hemingway's most important mentor in this period - are highlights of this volume. Bawdy, humorous, linguistically playful.' Literary Review'Roughly written as they are these letters show occasional flashes of true Hemingway … It is fascinating to watch the private rehearsal of what would become public performances.' The Daily Telegraph'Warmly unpretentious and frequently playful.' The Spectator'Most enjoyable …' The Tablet'This second volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the years in which he became himself … His style is at once close to and yet unutterably distant from that of his fiction.' The New York Times'The volume's 242 letters, about two-thirds previously unpublished, provide as complete an account of Hemingway's life during the Paris years as one could ask for.' Star Tribune'For those with a passion for American literary history and an interest in the machinery of fame, these letters, ably and helpfully annotated by a team of scholars led by Sandra Spanier of Penn State University, provide an abundance of raw material and a few hours' worth of scintillating reading.' The Kansas City Star'Amusing, moving and perceptive … this essential volume, beautifully presented and annotated with tremendous care and extraordinary attention to detail, offers readers a Hemingway who is both familiar and new.' Times Literary Supplement'The volume itself is beautifully designed and skillfully edited … As a book, it is perfect.' Los Angeles Review of Books'Two thirds of these have never seen the light of day before. A great continuing literary project.' Buffalo News'The register in which Hemingway writes varies greatly, ranging from telegraphic … excited communications with intimates to formal, correct letters to those with whom he has mainly business - literary or financial - relations. All the magnificent apparatus of the first volume …Summing up: essential.' Choice'… this volume will most likely never be superseded. It is crucial contribution to literary history.' Mark Ott, American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsGeneral editor's preface Sandra Spanier; Acknowledgments; Note on the text; Abbreviations and short titles; Introduction to the volume J. Gerald Kennedy; Chronology; Maps; The letters, 1923–1925; Roster of correspondents; Calendar of letters; Index of recipients; General index.
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University of Wales Press Historia Peredur Vab Efrawc
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Manchester University Press Novelle del Novecento Italian Texts
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McFarland & Co Inc Representing Middleearth
Book Synopsis In such classic works as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien depicts a vast, complex world-system. Tolkien''s Middle-earth comes to life with intensely detailed historical, geographical, and multicultural content, which is presented through different poetic forms that combine elements of epic, romance, myth, history, and the modern novel. This book analyzes Tolkien''s project, paying attention to narrative form and its relation to social contexts, while also exploring his broader philosophical conception of history and the role of individual and collective subjects within it. Tolkien''s published and posthumous writings, the film adaptations, and recent scholarship are all examined to provide an enlarged and refined critical perspective of these major works. Drawing upon Marxist literary theory and criticism, Robert T. Tally Jr. calls into question traditional views of race, class, morality, escapism, and fantasy more generally. Through close readings mixed with theoretical speculation, Representing Middle-earth allows readers see Tolkien''s world, as well as our own, in a new light.Trade ReviewIn this original and inspiring book, Robert Tally gives us the Marxist criticism of Tolkien that he has long deserved. Transcending stereotypes fostered equally by piously apostolic readings and academic snobberies, Tally shows us how Tolkien recognized social complexity, experienced history and modernity, and comprehended that even the Orcs want to get away from the Big Bosses. Written in an accessible, involving style, Representing Middle-earth shows us both a Tolkien we did not know before and a world that can tremendously gain from reading Tolkien wisely."—Nicholas Birns,. New York University, author of The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. TolkienTable of Contents Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Perilous Realm in an Era of Multinational Capitalism Strange Bedfellows: Tolkien and Marxist Literary Criticism Towards a Literary Cartography of Middle-earth On the Shadowy Marches of Faërie 1. "Almost it seemed that the words took shape": Narrative, History, and the Desire Called Marx "The theatre of my tale is this earth" In the Hall of Fire "Endless untold stories" 2. Formulae of Power: Generic Discontinuities in the Saga of the Jewels and the Rings Harmonizing Heterogeneous Narrative Paradigms Modern Epics "The starry sky is a map of all possible paths" The Red Book of Westmarch "A more or less mediocre, average English gentleman" The Cauldron of Story 3. Three Rings for the Elven Kings: Trilogizing Tolkien in Print and Film "There is no real division into 3": Defining Trilogy "The rhythm or ordering of the narrative": Trilogizing The Lord of the Rings "Too much hobbitry": The Hobbit as a Film Trilogy An Artificially Ordered World 4. The Geopolitical Aesthetic of Middle-earth: Space, Cinema, and the World System in The Lord of the Rings "I wisely started with a map" The Eye of Sauron The Conspiracy of the Ring Geopolitical Fantasy 5. The Politics of Character: The Dark Lord, the Witch-Queen, and the White Wizard Sauron, Healer of Middle-earth Galadriel, Witch-Queen of Lórien Song of Saruman "Satan fell": Ethics as False Consciousness 6. Let Us Now Praise Famous Orcs: Simple Humanity in Middle-earth's Inhuman Creatures "Whence they came or what they were" No More Big Bosses! Human, All-Too-Human Orcs' Untold Stories 7. Demonizing the Enemy: Monstrosity, Ethics, and the Sense of the World Wars Manufacturing Monsters Sympathy for the Devils After the Wars 8. "Places where the stars are strange": Fantasy, Utopia, and Critique Surveying the Great Schism "The world as it appears under the sun" Reflections on Magic Beyond Good and Evil The Fantastic Is Good to Think With Conclusion: "We should not neglect the red dragons" Notes Bibliography Index
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McFarland & Co Inc Japanese and American Horror
Book Synopsis Horror fiction is an important part of the popular culture in many modern societies. This book compares and contrasts horror narratives from two distinct cultures--American and Japanese--with a focus on the characteristic mechanisms that make them successful, and on their culturally-specific aspects. Including a number of narratives belonging to film, literature, comics and video games, this book provides a comprehensive perspective of the genre. It sheds light on the differences and similarities in the depiction of fear and horror in America and Japan, while emphasizing narrative patterns in the context of their respective cultures.
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McNidder & Grace Through the Magic Door Ursula Moray Williams
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Ariadne Press Arthur Schnitzler Politics Studies in Austrian
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Massey University Press The Writing Life
Book SynopsisA unique and intimate survey of the lives and work of 12 of our most acclaimed writers: Patricia Grace, Tessa Duder, Owen Marshall, Philip Temple, David Hill, Joy Cowley, Vincent O'Sullivan, Albert Wendt, Marilyn Duckworth, Chris Else, Fiona Kidman and Witi Ihimaera.
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Cambridge University Press Byron and the Poetics of Adversity
Book SynopsisA long line of traditional, often conservative, criticism and cultural commentary deplored Byron as a slipshod poet. This pithy yet aptly poetic book, written by one of the world''s foremost Romantic scholars, argues that assessment is badly mistaken. Byron''s great subject is what he called ''Cant'': the habit of abusing the world through misusing language. Setting up his poetry as a laboratory to investigate failures of writing, reading, and thinking, Byron delivered sharp critical judgment on the costs exacted by a careless approach to his Mother Tongue. Perspicuous readings of Byron alongside some of his Romantic contemporaries Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley reveal Byron''s startling reconfiguration of poetry as a ''broken mirror'' and shattered lamp. The paradoxical result was to argue that his age''s contradictions, and his own, offered both ethical opportunities and a promise of poetic broadly cultural emancipation. This book represents a major contribution to Trade Review'A new book by Jerome McGann is an event, though there have been many such events over his long career. But a new book by him about Byron is a special kind of event. No other scholar has done as much for Byron as McGann has, and few living scholars as much for any single author as he has done for Byron. This book marks a kind of return to origins since, like McGann's first book, Fiery Dust, this one focuses on Byron's work before Don Juan. The new emphasis, however, falls on Byron's relationship to language and poetic craft and on how it differs from that of his major contemporaries. Playful, allusive, and itself 'adverse,' McGann's style in this book, like Byron's own, means to set our language free.' James K. Chandler, William K. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago'Take physic, cant. The words are nowhere, the command everywhere in Byron and McGann. The physic is philology: a word-loving that embraces the cunning, ambivalence, and enthrallments of language along with its beauties and benevolences. If words are actions (and who today could doubt that), McGann's 'inner standing point' (D. G. Rossetti) on Byron is as a sword that divides, setting fiction against factitiousness, expressive contradiction against the suavities of doublespeak. McGann's 'little book,' as he calls it, is a work of pity and rage; its perfectly measured disorders a min(e)d-field to blast the pieties of the present. Go litel book…' Marjorie Levinson, F. L. Huetwell Professor, University of Michigan'This is a book written with much of Byron's own intelligence, wit, and passion. It pays particular and welcome attention to the 'dark' poems which Professor McGann sees as 'in some ways more impressive than the ottava rima masterpieces'. It moves between very wide perspectives and sustained, often dazzling, close reading helped by his unrivalled knowledge of the textual history.' Bernard Beatty, Bernard Beatty, Senior Fellow in English, Liverpool University and Editor of The Byron Journal 1987–2004'Combative, liberatory, and dazzling, Byron's poetics receive the close attention they deserve in McGann's beautiful book. Byron and the Poetics of Adversity illuminates the full sweep of Byron's poetic experimentation and ruthless unveiling of his culture's cherished illusions in poems such as Manfred, The Giaour, Lara, and Cain, difficult poems often undervalued in favor of the poetic pyrotechnics of the epic Don Juan. McGann's scholarly and playful close readings of the full range of Byron's 'perversifications' and their 'disastered heroes' reveal new dimensions of what made these poems both scandalous and brilliant, and how they engaged with leading writers of the age like Blake and Goethe.' Adriana Craciun, Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities, Boston University'Byron and the Poetics of Adversity is a genuinely revolutionary book in which Professor McGann returns to the textual entanglements of Byron's prosody and looks afresh at the two phases of Byron's poetic career in 1808-16 and 1817-24. Seven brilliant, compelling essays trace the poetic offensives that connect The Giaour, The Corsair, Lara, The Siege of Corinth, shorter lyrics and Manfred with the offensive poetics of Don Juan. Identifying practical criticism as the vital, oppositional act which Byron's poetry commits on its readers and demands from them, this bold and provocative study goes back to where all the ladders start - in close readings of some of the most perverse lines in Romantic period poetry.' Jane Stabler, University of St Andrews'Jerome McGann shows that Byron's 'treasonous' attitude to poetry, his 'perversification,' his unfit and shifty tones, his Blakean refusal of invariable aesthetic systems, his 'spoiler's art' is as pertinent now as it was 200 years ago. By repeatedly exposing the shibboleths of lyric and Romantic verse culture, McGann's sweeping advocacy of Byron's inventive, performative, rhetorical, and adversive genius is a defense of poetry for our time as well.' Charles Bernstein, author of Topsy-TurvyTable of Contents1. Don Juan and the English language; 2. Byron Agonistes, 1809–1816; 3. Manfred: one word for mercy; 4. Byron and the 'Wrong Revolutionary Poetical System'; 5. Byron, Blake, and the adversity of poetics; 6. The stubborn foe: bad verse and the poetry of action.
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Cambridge University Press The Outcry 20 The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James Series Number 20
Book SynopsisHenry James's last completed novel, The Outcry (1911), was originally conceived as a play, then adapted into novel form by James with great success. This first authoritative edition provides extensive annotations, a detailed textual history of the work, and a full introduction exploring the novel's literary, cultural and historical contexts.Table of ContentsGeneral editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Outcry; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations; Appendices.
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Cambridge University Press The Jolly Corner and Other Tales 19031910
Book SynopsisThis scholarly edition includes the final ten stories Henry James wrote, and presents satirical critiques of an increasingly narcissistic, acquisitive society. With its extensive textual history and wide-ranging notes, the volume will be of interest to James scholars and students of early twentieth-century Anglo-American culture.Trade Review'It is extraordinary how little attention has been given to James's texts, other than by James himself, and this is what the thirty-four volumes of CFHJ [The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James] set out to correct.' Francis Wilson, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of abbreviations; General editors' preface; General chronology of James's life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Jolly Corner and Other Tales; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations; Appendix A: entries in James's notebooks; Appendix B: extracts from prefaces to the New York edition.
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Cambridge University Press The Portrait of a Lady 7 The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James Series Number 7
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Widely considered James's first great work of fiction and highly innovative in its narrative techniques, The Portrait of a Lady follows the story of an ardent, idealistic American heroine, Isabel Archer, in a cosmopolitan Europe. It explores individual freedom amidst confining circumstance, romantic choice, and the consequences of disillusionment and betrayal. This edition, based on the most reliable of the work's first book appearances (Macmillan, 1882), provides an authoritative text of one of James's finest long novels, with extensive annotations, a detailed textual history and an analysis of the reasons for its long-held popular appeal. It will be of particular interest not only to James scholars, but also book historians and students of nineteenth-century Anglo-American literature and culture.Trade Review'It is extraordinary how little attention has been given to James's texts, other than by James himself, and this is what the thirty-four volumes of CFHJ [The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James] set out to correct.' Frances Wilson, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsGeneral editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Portrait of a Lady; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; List of emendations; Appendices.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock Crotchet Castle 6 The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock Series Number 6
Book SynopsisThomas Love Peacock (1785â'1866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic period. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock offers the first complete text of his novels to appear for more than half a century. Crotchet Castle (1831), his sixth novel, contains all the humour and social satire for which Peacock is famous. Its lively farce is more ambitious than that of the earlier works in its range of cultural and intellectual targets, including progressivism, dogmatism, liberalism, sexism, mass education and the idiocies of the learned. The book constitutes an artistic, political and philosophical miscellany of sorts, thematically unified in its satirical emphasis on folly and dispute â and on the folly of dispute itself. This edition provides a full introduction, chronology, annotations and detailed textual and scholarly apparatus.Trade Review'The idiosyncratic joy of Thomas Love Peacock's works is highlighted within wonderfully readable scholarly introductions from Nicholas A. Joukovsky who edits Nightmare Abbey, and Freya Johnston and Matthew Bevis in their edition of Crotchet Castle. … the first thoroughly edited and annotated imprints of Peacock since the Halliford Edition of the Works, edited between 1924 and 1934 …' John Gardner, Notes and Queries'Readers are provided with all the information they need to understand and evaluate both the texts and the purposes underlying them … the editors have interpreted their brief generously. They have done an excellent job in identifying many 'out-of-the-way sources and analogues', as well as in positioning the texts accurately at a particular nineteenth-century cultural moment … this is likely to become the edition of choice for scholars and enthusiasts of Peacock's novels, and for economists, historians, philosophers and other students of the changing currents of nineteenth-century intellectual culture. The volumes are beautifully produced.' Pamela Clemit, Times Literary Supplement'… the first two volumes of the Cambridge Edition should become the new standard for editors of the Romantic novel. They not only perform the scholarly work of informing the reader of dates, circumstances, and variants, but they do what the best textual editing can: hugely enrich the experience of reading Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle, and consequently enhance our sense of Peacock's vigour, complexity, and wit.' William Bowers, Keats-Shelley Journal'… [a] meticulous edition …' Thomas Keymer, London Review of Books'The Introduction to Crotchet Castle … explores the composition and publication history in great detail, exploiting … surviving draft materials to … the immediacy of Peacock's response to unfolding events...a remarkable achievement in elucidating Peacock's 'fine wit' for present and future readers.' Peter Garside, Peacock editionTable of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Chronology; Introduction; Crotchet Castle; Appendix A. Peacock's Preface of 1837; Appendix B. Holograph fragment of Chapter 4 (c.1830); Appendix C. Holograph fragment of Chapter 5 (c.1830); Appendix D. Holograph manuscript of 'Touchandgo' (watermark 1827); Appendix E. Holograph manuscript of 'Touchandgo' (watermark 1828); Appendix F. Holograph fragment of Chapter 16 (c.1830); Appendix G. 'The Fate of a Broom: An Anticipation' (1831, 1837); Note on the text; List of emendations and variants; Ambiguous line-end hyphenations; Explanatory notes; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Headlong Hall
Book SynopsisThomas Love Peacock (1785?1866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic period. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock offers the first complete text of these works to appear for more than half a century. Headlong Hall (1816), Peacock''s earliest work of dialogic and satirical fiction, was the most popular of his tales during his lifetime and considered his signature novel. An episodic plot and a country house setting provide the framework for a sparkling intellectual comedy that embraces music, gastronomy, philosophy, politics, craniology, painting, and landscape gardening. This edition supplies an authoritative text and a comprehensive introduction tracing the genesis, composition, publication, reception, and revision of the novel. Extensive explanatory notes throw light on the Welsh backdrop to the fiction as well as on the literary, political, social, and intellectual contexts of Peacock''s innovative topical satire.Trade Review'With their meticulous notes, rigorous documentation of textual variants and generous contextual appendices (including two unperformed, unpublished farces that Peacock drew on for Headlong Hall), these fine new volumes in the Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock get us closer than ever to the nuances of his satire.' Thomas Keymer, the Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsGeneral Editor's preface; Chronology; Introduction; Headlong Hall; Appendix A. Peacock's Preface of 1837; Appendix B. The Dilettanti (1812–13); Appendix C. The Three Doctors (1812–13); Appendix D. A Revised Text of the Headlong 'Chorus'; Note on the text; Emendations and variants; Ambiguous line-end hyphenations; Explanatory notes; Select bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Nightmare Abbey 3 The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock Series Number 3
Book SynopsisThomas Love Peacock (1785â1866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic period. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock offers the first complete text of his novels to appear for more than half a century. Nightmare Abbey (1818), Peacock's third novel, is a spirited satire that shows Peacock to be a perceptive observer and engaged critic of the literary and political preoccupations of his time. While the novel has often been characterized in popular culture either as a burlesque of the Gothic novel or a mere spoof of Romantic gloom and doom, this edition recognizes it as a purposeful critique of Romanticism. Explanatory notes illustrate the ways in which several characters are caricatures of prominent Romantic writers, including Peacock's close friend Shelley as well as Coleridge and Byron, and also identify the various sources, some previously unsuspected, from which Peacock created their dialogue.Trade Review'The idiosyncratic joy of Thomas Love Peacock's works is highlighted within wonderfully readable scholarly introductions from Nicholas A. Joukovsky who edits Nightmare Abbey, and Freya Johnston and Matthew Bevis in their edition of Crotchet Castle. … the first thoroughly edited and annotated imprints of Peacock since the Halliford Edition of the Works, edited between 1924 and 1934 …' John Gardner, Notes and Queries'Readers are provided with all the information they need to understand and evaluate both the texts and the purposes underlying them … the editors have interpreted their brief generously. They have done an excellent job in identifying many 'out-of-the-way sources and analogues', as well as in positioning the texts accurately at a particular nineteenth-century cultural moment … this is likely to become the edition of choice for scholars and enthusiasts of Peacock's novels, and for economists, historians, philosophers and other students of the changing currents of nineteenth-century intellectual culture. The volumes are beautifully produced.' Pamela Clemit, Times Literary Supplement'… the first two volumes of the Cambridge Edition should become the new standard for editors of the Romantic novel. They not only perform the scholarly work of informing the reader of dates, circumstances, and variants, but they do what the best textual editing can: hugely enrich the experience of reading Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle, and consequently enhance our sense of Peacock's vigour, complexity, and wit.' William Bowers, Keats-Shelley Journal'… [a] meticulous edition …' Thomas Keymer, London Review of Books'Nightmare Abbey excels in tracking the composition through Spring 1818 … A variety of sources, including anecdotal evidence, are similarly used to recreate the immediate critical response … offering valuable commentary on prototypes of the novel's satiric figures, generic and personal … In a final section on 'Afterlife', the editor convincingly attributes a shift in fortunes in the popularity of this title to the growth of English literature as an academic subject … a remarkable achievement in elucidating Peacock's 'fine wit' for present and future readers.' Peter Garside, Peacock editionTable of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Chronology; Introduction; Nightmare Abbey; Appendix A. Peacock's Preface of 1837; Appendix B. An Essay on Fashionable Literature (1818); Appendix C. The Four Ages of Poetry (1820); Note on the text; List of emendations and variants; Ambiguous line-end hyphenations; Explanatory notes; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Desperate Remedies
Book SynopsisHardy''s first published novel, Desperate Remedies (1871), a piece of sensation fiction that encompasses illegitimacy, murder, blackmail, impersonation, and bigamy, was originally published anonymously. Written while, in Hardy''s own words, he was ''feeling his way to a method'', it nonetheless contains early examples of the kinds of extreme situations and emotions that continued to play a significant role in his later plots. As part of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides an authoritative text; full scholarly apparatus that allows the reader to trace Hardy''s creative process; an introductory essay discussing the work''s composition, publication, and critical reception; and comprehensive explanatory notes.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; Desperate Remedies; Editorial emendations; List of variants - accidentals; End-of-line word division; Appendix A. Hardy's prefatory notes; Appendix B. Frontispieces; Appendix C. Description of principal texts; Explanatory notes.
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Cambridge University Press The Woodlanders
Book SynopsisThe Woodlanders (1887) was Thomas Hardy''s elventh published novel and the one he claimed to like ''as a story, the best of all''. It is a story of wide appeal, having much to say on themes such as marriage and social class, and with a background revealing its author''s profound knowledge and appreciation of many matters, particularly nature and country life. As part of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides an authoritative and accurate text which aims to reflect Hardy''s original artistic intention and represent the novel as it would have been read by his Victorian readers. The novel is supported by a comprehensive introduction, chronology and accompanying textual apparatus which allows the modern reader to trace the novel''s evolution from composition to first publication and through several stages of revision in succeeding editions in the quarter of a century following its first publication.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Woodlanders; Editorial emendations; Textual notes; Record of variants – accidentals; End-of-line word division; Appendix A: the title-page verse; Appendix B: Hardy's prefaces; Appendix C: illustrations; Appendix D: description of substantive editions; Appendix E: compositorial stints for Macmillan's Magazine; Appendix F: 'pin-holes' in the manuscript of The Woodlanders; Appendix G: compositorial stints for the 1912 Wessex edition; Explanatory notes; Glossary of dialect terms; Map of Wessex.
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Cambridge University Press George Eliot and Money
Book SynopsisDermot Coleman offers a detailed account of George Eliot's understanding of money, both intellectual and practical, placing it within the wider context of the political economics and moral engagement with economic utility so characteristic of nineteenth-century England.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. 'A subject of which I know so little': George Eliot and political economy; 2. 'Intentions of stern thrift': the formation of a vernacular economics; 3. 'A money-getting profession': negotiating the commerce of literature; 4. Calculating consequences: Felix Holt and the limits of utilitarianism; 5. Testing the Kantian pillars: debt obligations and financial imperatives in Middlemarch; 6. Being good and doing good with money: incorporating the bourgeois virtues; 7. The individual and the State: economic sociology in Romola; 8. The politics of wealth: new liberalism and the pathologies of economic individualism; Appendix A. George Eliot's final stock portfolio, 1880; Appendix B. Was Edward Tulliver made bankrupt? An analysis of his financial downfall; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Under the Greenwood Tree
Book SynopsisHardy''s second published novel, Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), the first of his great series of Wessex novels, was originally published anonymously. As part of the Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides readers with an authoritative and accurate text of the novel; moreover it gives access to every revision that Hardy made, and to notations of all the errors introduced by printers'' compositors. The annotated text is surrounded by an introduction that gives a very full account of the genesis, the writing and the publishing history of the novel. A range of appendices and comprehensive explanatory notes explore significant aspects of the composition, production and marketing of the novel, touched on in the introduction, to provide a full understanding of the nature and life of this classic work.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; Under the Greenwood Tree; Variants in punctuation and styling; End-of-line hyphenation; Editorial emendations; Appendix A. Hardy's preface to the Wessex Edition; Appendix B. Under the Greenwood Tree and The Poor Man and the Lady; Appendix C. Detailed analysis of the manuscript; Appendix D. Chapter-division in the manuscript; Appendix E. Watermarks in the manuscript; Appendix F. The compositors of the first edition; Appendix G. Robson's compositors in A Pair of Blue Eyes; Appendix H. Differences between the first and second editions; Appendix I. Printing orders for Under the Greenwood Tree Published by Chatto and Windus and Macmillan; Appendix J. Frontispieces; Appendix K. Description of substantive editions; Explanatory notes.
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Cambridge University Press The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith
Book SynopsisThis first modern scholarly edition of the letters of Oliver Goldsmith (17281774) sets the author of The Vicar of Wakefield, The Deserted Village, and She Stoops to Conquer in a rich context, showing how Goldsmith''s Irish identity was marked and complicated by cosmopolitan ambition. He was at the very heart of Grub Street culture and the Georgian theatre, and was a founding member of Dr Johnson''s Literary Club; his circle included Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick, George Colman and Hester Piozzi. Containing a detailed introduction and extensive notes, this edition is essential to those wishing to know more about Goldsmith the man and the writer, and provides a rich and suggestive nexus for understanding the cultural cross-currents of the literary Enlightenment in eighteenth-century London.Trade Review'The editors, Michael Griffin and David O'Shaughnessy, have undertaken considerable original research in updating and adding to Katherine Balderston's 1928 Cambridge University Press collection of Goldsmith Letters. Like Balderston before them, Griffin and O'Shaughnessy confront a slender body of surviving letters but build a fascinating story from what remains.' Claire Connolly, The Irish Times'It has seldom seemed necessary to consider his Irishness, but the editors of this new edition of Goldsmith's letters, Michael Griffin and David O'Shaughnessy, urge its importance, and they are surely right.' Norma Clarke, London Review of Books'In their valuable introduction, Michael Griffin and David O'Shaughnessy discuss the unexplained threads that run through the letters, the self-confessed flaws of character, the homesickness for Ireland, the bitter tone, the obsequious requests for money … Reading the letters should send us straight back to the works to be surprised by Goldsmith's clarity, relevance and entirely individual sense of the absurd.' Kate Chisholm, The Times Literary Supplement'Indispensable … this excellent and long-overdue new edition of his letters brings Goldsmith and the people and forces shaping his work into considerably sharper focus.' Maureen Harkin, Eighteenth-Century Ireland'Superb … Griffin and O'Shaugnessy are a formidable team and their work, given the complexity of Goldmsith studies, amounts to a significant breakthrough for Goldsmith scholarship.' Fergus O'Ferrell, Dublin Review of BooksTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; A note on the edition; Chronology of Goldsmith's life and works; The letters; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Victory
Book SynopsisVictory: An Island Tale is the latest volume in the widely praised The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. Like its predecessors, this volume offers scholars an authoritative text, free from the interference of Conrad's typists, compositors and editors; a full scholarly introduction, and textual and explanatory notes.Trade Review'While all of the volumes to appear to date in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad have been a great addition to the scholarly community interested in the works of Conrad, it may be that this edition of Victory is the most valuable book yet produced.' John Peters, English Literature in TransitionTable of ContentsGeneral editors' preface; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Introduction; Victory: An Island Tale; The texts: an essay; Apparatus; Textual notes; Appendices; Explanatory notes; Glossaries; Map.
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Cambridge University Press An Outcast of the Islands
Book SynopsisAn Outcast of the Islands (1896), Conrad''s second novel, returns to the Malay world of Almayer''s Folly (1895). Focusing on the collapse of Western values and morals in a colonial setting, the novel daringly portrays the power of erotic attraction and exposes the venal ambitions behind small- and large-scale political intrigues. The introduction situates the novel in Conrad''s career as a writer and traces its origins and reception. The essay on the text and the apparatus explain the history of the work''s composition and publication, and detail the interventions of Conrad''s compositors and editors. There are notes explaining literary and historical references, a glossary of nautical terms, illustrations including pictures of early drafts, and appendixes. This edition presents the novel and its preface in forms more authoritative than any so far printed, and restores a text that has circulated in defective forms since its original publication.Trade Review'… Allan H. Simmons, in his edition of An Outcast of the Islands, clearly and efficiently presents the history of the text, including the likely provenance of the printer's copy of Doubleday's collected edition of 1920.' Dale Kramer, Joseph Conrad TodayTable of ContentsGeneral editors' preface; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Introduction; An Outcast of the Islands; The texts: an essay; Apparatus; Textual notes; Appendices; Explanatory notes; Glossaries; Map.
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Cambridge University Press A History of American Crime Fiction
Book SynopsisA History of American Crime Fiction places crime fiction within a context of aesthetic practices and experiments, intellectual concerns, and historical debates generally reserved for canonical literary history. Toward that end, the book is divided into sections that reflect the periods that commonly organize American literary history, with chapters highlighting crime fiction''s reciprocal relationships with early American literature, romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. It surveys everything from 17th-century execution sermons, the detective fiction of Harriet Spofford and T. S. Eliot''s The Waste Land, to the films of David Lynch, HBO''s The Sopranos, and the podcast Serial, while engaging a wide variety of critical methods. As a result, this book expands crime fiction''s significance beyond the boundaries of popular genres and explores the symbiosis between crime fiction and canonical literature that sustains and energizes both.Trade Review'Starting with the Puritans and continuing through to the present day, this collection comprises 25 original essays on American crime fiction, including film and television (The Sopranos and others). Raczkowski (Univ. of South Alabama) goes beyond the usual generic markers of crime fiction …' Choice'… this informed, substantive collection does leave us questioning the profiles and line-ups through which we more typically organize its important objects of inquiry. In this respect, the future histories of crime fiction seem well in hand.' Christopher P. Wilson, American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction Christopher Raczkowski; Part I. Early American Era: 1. From sermon to story: early American crime literature Jodi Schorb and Daniel E. Williams; 2. The theft of authorship: crime narrative in post-revolutionary early American literature Jodi Schorb and Daniel E. Williams; Part II. Romantic Era: 3. Crime journalism and the urban Gothic novel Matthew Warner Osborn; 4. Crime and American romanticism Timothy Helwig; 5. The Dark transactions of a Black? Slave narratives in the crime literature tradition Jeannine Marie DeLombard; 6. Edgar Allan Poe and the emergence of the literary detective Paul Grimstad; Part III. Realist Era: 7. The rise of the professional detective and the dime detective Pamela Bedore; 8. Home and away: reinvestigating domestic detective fiction Jon Blandford; 9. The rise of the American woman detective: gender and the detective genre in Green, Doyle, and Rinehart Ellen Burton Harrington; 10. Crime, science, realism John Dudley; Part IV. Modernist Era: 11. Criminal modernism Christopher Raczkowski; 12. American golden age crime fiction Malcah Effron; 13. Red Harvest: hard-boiled crime fiction and the fate of left populism Justus Nieland; 14. Stateless mothers/motherless states: the femme fatale on the threshold of American citizenship Paula Rabinowitz; 15. One of us: the emergence of the psychopathological protagonist Frederick Whiting; Part V. Postmodernist Era: 16. Unusual suspects: American crimes, metaphysical detectives, postmodernist genres Susan Elizabeth Sweeney; 17. Identity politics and crime fiction Michael Millner; 18. American detective fiction and settler colonialism James H. Cox; 19. African American crime and detective fiction Justin Gifford; 20. Criminal family drama before and after The Sopranos Dean DeFino; 21. Making murderers: the evolution of true crime Jean Murley; 22. Spy narratives in post 9/11 American culture Andrew Pepper; 23. Film noir and neo-noir Will Scheibel; 24. Crime fiction television David Bianculli; 25. Dead reckonings: theoretical and critical approaches to detective fiction Christopher Breu.
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Cambridge University Press American Literature in Transition 19701980
Book SynopsisAmerican Literature in Transition, 19701980 examines the literary developments of the twentieth-century''s gaudiest decade. For a quarter century, filmmakers, musicians, and historians have returned to the era to explore the legacy of Watergate, stagflation, and Saturday Night Fever, uncovering the unique confluence of political and economic phenomena that make the period such a baffling time. Literary historians have never shown much interest in the era, however - a remarkable omission considering writers as diverse as Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Marilyn French, Adrienne Rich, Gay Talese, Norman Mailer, Alice Walker, and Octavia E. Butler were active. Over the course of twenty-one essays, contributors explore a range of controversial themes these writers tackled, from 1960s'' nostalgia to feminism and the redefinition of masculinity to sexual liberation and rock ''n'' roll. Other essays address New Journalism, the rise of blockbuster culture, memoir and self-help, and crime fictionTable of ContentsChronology; Introduction: sucking in the '70s Kirk Curnutt; Part I. Themes: 1. In the shadow of the 1960s: 'what do we do now?' Matthew Luter; 2. 'It's not okay with me': the 1970s war against nostalgia Steven Goldleaf; 3. 'We interrupt this program': narratives in conflict in American postmodern literature of the 1970s Eric G. Waggoner; 4. 'All in the family': ancestral voices and ancestral Gods in 1970s multiculturalism Christopher Douglas; 5. 'An element of present danger': jogging, football, and anxieties of vulnerability in 1970s sporting literature Ryan Hediger; 6. 'The zipless fuck is absolutely pure': sexual liberation and 1970s American literature Dale M. Bauer; Part II. Genres and the Business of Literature: 7. Our stories, our selves: memoir and self-help in the 'me decade' Nicole Stamant; 8. '(Not just) knee deep': black writing between soul and the mainstream Michael Hill; 9. Green letters in a decade black with ink: American environmental writing in the 1970s Will Elliott; 10. Future shocks: science fiction transformations in the 1970s Robin A. Roberts; 11. Death wishes: crime literature, violence, and detectives in the American 1970s Linda Wagner-Martin; 12. The Great American Novel in the 1970s Tom Perrin; 13. The bestseller and the blockbuster mentality Philip McGowan; 14. 'Do the hustle': showmanship, publicity, and the changing landscape of literary authority Tom Cerasulo; Part III. Cultural Engagements: 15. First to write: the 1970s and the Vietnamese War Alex Vernon; 16. Nixon burning: the anti-establishment turn in 1970s' American political writing David Seed; 17. The maturation of the new journalism in the 1970s Everette E. Dennis; 18. Rock is dead/long live rock: popular music in 1970s American literature Kirk Curnutt; 19. The confessional turn: masculinity and American literary culture in the 1970s James Penner; 20. The feminist 1970s Sam McBean; 21. Blood on the page: the decade gets its period David Linton; Conclusion: keep on truckin' Kirk Curnutt.
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Cambridge University Press Herman Melville in Context
Book SynopsisHerman Melville in Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of Herman Melville, a towering figure in nineteenth-century American and world literature. The book grounds the study of Herman Melville''s writings to the world that influenced their composition, publication and recognition, making it a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, students and general readers. Bringing together contributions covering a wide range of topics, the collection of essays covers the geographical, social, cultural and literary contexts of Melville''s life and works, as well as its literary reception. Herman Melville in Context will enable readers to approach Melville''s writings with fuller insight, and to read and understand them in a way that approximates the way they were read and understood in his time.Trade Review'This Melville companion is neither an essay collection nor a reference book but rather a series of 34 sprightly, cogent treatments illuminating and contextualizing aspects of Melville. Recommended.' Choice'Happily, the significant strengths of this collection and the models they provide for sound scholarship and interpretation offer, at least, a partial solution.' Steven Olsen-Smith, LeviathanTable of ContentsPart I. Geographical Contexts: 1. New York Kevin J. Hayes; 2. The Berkshires Peter Bergman; 3. The American West Nathaniel Lewis; 4. The Pacific Alex Calder; 5. London Jonathan A. Cook; 6. Europe David Watson; 7. The Holy Land Brian Yothers; Part II. Social Contexts: 8. Men and women and men David Greven; 9. Islanders and missionaries Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon; 10. Literary circles David O. Dowling; 11. Slaves, masters, and abolitionists Susan M. Ryan; 12. Dons and Cholos Rodrigo Lazo; 13. Bachelors and gentlemen Maura M. D'Amore; 14. Officers and men Martin Griffin; Part III. Cultural Contexts: 15. Opera Kevin J. Hayes; 16. Panoramas Susan Tenneriello; 17. Natural history Jennifer Schell; 18. Technology Klaus Benesch; 19. The lyceum movement Tom F. Wright; 20. Painting and prints Colin Dewey; Part IV. Literary Contexts: 21. The Bible Dawn Coleman; 22. Seventeenth-century English prose Robin Grey; 23. The picaresque novel Kelly Richardson; 24. Travel writing Tim Youngs; 25. German metaphysics Kim C. Sturgess; 26. Gothicism Jonathan Crimmins; 27. British romanticism Shawn Thomson; Part V. The Contexts of Literary Reception: 28. Make-or-break reviews Hershel Parker; 29. The Melville revival Eric Aronoff; 30. Modernism David M. Ball; 31. Postmodernism Timothy Parrish; 32. Translations Rute Beirante; 33. Biographies Ian Maloney; 34. The cinema John Parris Springer.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Latinao American Literature
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature emphasizes the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not simply as a US ethnic phenomenon but more broadly as an important element of a trans-American literary imagination. Engaging with the dynamics of migration, linguistic and cultural translation, and the uneven distribution of resources across the Americas that characterize Latina/o literature, the essays in this History provide a critical overview of key texts, authors, themes, and contexts as discussed by leading scholars in the field. This book demonstrates the relevance of Latina/o literature for a world defined by the migration of people, commodities, and cultural expressions.Trade Review'This edited collection extends the discussion of Latin literature beyond the borders of the Americas. … This book is an absolute necessity for students of Latin American literature. Essential.' K. Gale, ChoiceTable of ContentsList of contributors; Acknowledgements: Introduction; Part I. Rereading the Colonial Archive: Transculturation and Conflict, 1492–1810: 1. Indigenous Herencias: Creoles, mestizaje, and nations before nationalism; 2. Performing to a captive audience: dramatic encounters in the borderlands of empire; 3. The tricks of the weak: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the feminist temporality of Latina literature; 4. Rethinking the colonial Latinx literary imaginary: a comparative and decolonial research agenda; 5. The historical and imagined cultural geographies of Latinidad; Part II. The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature: The Literary Emergence of a Trans-American Imaginary, 1783–1912: 6. Whither Latinidad?: the trajectories of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o literature; 7. Father Félix Varela and the emergence of an organized Latina/o minority in early nineteenth-century New York City; 8. Transamerican New Orleans: Latino literature of the Gulf of Mexico, from the Spanish colonial period to post-Katrina; 9. Trajectories of exchange: toward histories of Latino literature; 10. Narratives of displacement in places that once were Mexican; 11. Latina feminism, Latina racism and unspeakable violence: travel narratives, novels of reform, and histories of genocide and lynching; 12. José Martí, comparative reading, and the emergence of Latino modernity in gilded-age New York; 13. Afro-Latinidad: phoenix rising from a hemisphere's racist flames; Part III. Negotiating Literary Modernity: Between Colonial Subjectivity and National Citizenship, 1910–1979: 14. Oratory, memoir, and theater: performances of race and class in the early twentieth-century Latina/o public sphere; 15. Literary revolutions in the borderlands: transnational dimensions of the Mexican Revolution and its diaspora in the United States; 16. Making it nuevo: Latina/o modernist poetics remake high Euro-American modernism; 17. The archive and Afro-Latina/o field-formation: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg at the intersection of Puerto Rican and African American literatures; 18. Floricanto en Aztlán: Chicano cultural nationalism and its epic discontents; 19. 'The geography of their complexion': Nuyorican poetry and its legacies; 20. Cuban American counterpoint: the heterogeneity of Cuban American literature, culture, and politics; 21. Latina/o theater and performance in the contexts of social movements; Part IV. Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017: 22. Undocumented immigration in Latina/o literature; 23. Latina feminist theory and writing; 24. Invisible no more: US central American literature before and beyond the age of neoliberalism; 25. Latina/o life narratives: crafting self-referential forms in the colonial milieu of the Americas; 26. Poetics of the 'majority minority'; 27. The Quisqueya diaspora: the emergence of Latina/o literature from Hispaniola; 28. Listening to literature: popular music, voice, and dance in the Latina/o literary imagination, 1980–2010; 29. Brazuca literature: old and new currents, countercurrents, and undercurrents; 30. Staging Latinidad and interrogating neoliberalism in contemporary Latina/o performance and border art; 31. Transamerican popular forms of Latina/o literature: genre fiction, graphic novels, and digital environments; 32. trauma, translation, and migration in the crossfire of the Americas: the intersection of Latina/o and South American literatures; 33. The Mesoamerican corridor, central American transits, and Latina/o becomings; 34. Differential visions: the diasporic stranger, subalternity, and the transing of experience in US Puerto Rican literature; 35. Temporal borderlands: toward decolonial queer temporality in Latina/o literature; Epilogue: Latina/o literature: the borders are burning; Chronology; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press A Set of Six
Book SynopsisA Set of Six (1908) is one of Conrad''s most versatile and varied compositions, embracing diverse interests and settings, multiple tonal qualities and a medley of short-story forms (ranging from the novella in ''The Duel'' to the anecdotal tale in ''The Informer''). The volume''s wide-ranging introduction offers a careful evaluation of the origins and sources of the individual stories, while also measuring their early reception as a published collection. Explanatory notes clarify literary and historical references, identify real-life places and people, and indicate borrowings and Gallicisms. The lengthy textual essay and its accompanying apparatus lay out the history of composition and publication, detailing interventions made by Conrad''s typists, compositors and editors. Also included are appendices, allowing the reader first-hand access to Conrad''s source material; glossaries of nautical and foreign terms; and illustrations in the form of maps and reproductions of early drafts. By Table of ContentsList of illustrations; General Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations and Note on Editions; Introduction; A Set of Six; The Texts: An Essay; Apparatus; Textual Notes; Appendices; Explanatory Notes; Glossaries; Maps.
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Cambridge University Press The Value of Style in Fiction
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the significance of prose analysis by evaluating the writings of dozens of authors, including Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Don DeLillo, and Toni Morrison. This book will be a key resource for students studying fiction and the novel as well as those in creative writing, prose style and creative non-fiction courses.Trade Review'Written in an exacting, witty and distinctive prose style of its own, this book is both a manifesto for reading for style and a first-rate demonstration of it, by a scholar-critic long known for practicing exactly the kind of critical attention called for and modelled here. Given a returning interest in prose poetics, this seems like the right book by the right critic at the right time.' Daniel Tyler, University of Cambridge'The Value of Style in Fiction ... offers itself to those seeking to learn the craft of attentive reading and inventive writing at the level of the sentence as a form of mini-plot.' Philip Davis, Victorian StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction: verbal investments – richness, wealth, value; 2. Emergent turns: Defoe toward Dickens; 3. Stylistic microplots: Melville to Miéville; 4. A rhetorical spectrum: Wharton, Woolf, Waugh, Wallace, and beyond; 5. Inventory: some terms of engagement – A to Z.
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Cambridge University Press Charles Dickens and Boz
Book SynopsisDickens'' rise to fame and his world-wide popularity were by no means inevitable. He started out with no clear career in mind, drifting in and out of the theatre, journalism and editing before finding unexpected success as a creative writer. Taking account of everything known about Dickens'' apprentice years, Robert L. Patten narrates the fierce struggle Dickens then had to create an alter ego, Boz, and later to contain and extinguish him. His revision of Dickens'' biography in the context of early Victorian social and political history and print culture opens up a more unstable, yet more fascinating, portrait of Dickens. The book tells the story of how Dickens created an authorial persona that highlighted certain attributes and concealed others about his life, talent and publications. This complicated narrative of struggle, determination, dead ends and new beginnings is as gripping as one of Dickens'' own novels.Trade Review'[A] fascinating, detailed study of the complex and revealing relationship between Dickens and Boz, his nom-de-plume - or more accurately, his alter ego - through the formative years of his career.' Morning Star'Dense and thoughtful.' Literary Review'Patten evinces a fascination for his subject matter that carries the reader through this extraordinarily intricate study.' Times Literary Supplement'Patten's long labours in the archives of Dickens's publishing history bring a valuable new reading of Dickens's earliest work into the light.' Simon J. James, Modern Language Review'… a monumental study of a decidedly un-monumental figure, an at times moment-by-moment account of a writer living by his wits, improvising and inventing not just fiction but a new way of being an author … Patten makes an impressively coherent case out of a story full of loose ends, changed minds and abandoned plans, as readers, publishers and critics sought to chain down the protean Boz.' Dickens QuarterlyTable of ContentsPrologue; 1. Christening Boz (1812–1834): The Journalism Sketches; 2. Characterizing Boz (1834–1837): Sketches by Boz; 3. Writing Boz (1836–1837): The Pickwick Papers; 4. Hiring Boz (1837–1839): Bentley's Miscellany and Oliver Twist; 5. Paying Boz (1838–1839): Nicholas Nickleby; 6. Rewriting Boz (1839–1841): Master Humphrey's Clock and The Old Curiosity Shop; 7. Unwriting Boz (1841): Master Humphrey's Clock and Barnaby Rudge; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisThis Companion demonstrates the complexity of this formative writer, emphasizing the ways in which Bellow's works speak to the changing conditions of American identity and culture from the post-war period to the turn of the twenty-first century. Saul Bellow remains a defining and influential voice of American culture and thought.Trade Review'A wonderful characteristic of this volume is that one can often 'hear' Bellow himself in dialogue with his critics and readers.' CHOICETable of ContentsChronology; Introduction. Saul Bellow in his times Victoria Aarons; 1. Bellow's early fiction and the making of the Bellovian protagonist Philippe Codde; 2. Seize the Day: Bellow's novel of existential crisis Hilene Flanzbaum; 3. Bellow's breakthrough: The Adventures of Augie March and the novel of voice Steven G. Kellman; 4. Bellow's cityscapes: Chicago and New York Gustavo Sánchez Canales; 5. Bellow and the Holocaust Victoria Aarons; 6. Humboldt's Gift and Bellow's intellectual protagonists S. Lillian Kremer; 7. On being a Jewish writer: Bellow's post-war America and the American Jewish diaspora Alan L. Berger; 8. Bellow and his literary contemporaries Timothy Parrish; 9. Women and gender in Bellow's fiction: Herzog Paule Lévy; 10. Race and cultural politics in Bellow's fiction Martin Urdiales-Shaw; 11. Bellow on Israel: to Jerusalem and back Leona Toker; 12. Bellow's nonfiction: it all adds up Sukhbir Singh; 13. Bellow's short fiction David Brauner; 14. The late Bellow: Ravelstein and the novel of ideas Leah Garrett; Guide to further reading; Index.
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