Literary studies: fiction Books
Cambridge University Press The Letters of Ernest Hemingway Volume 2 19231925
Book SynopsisThe Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the life and creative development of a gifted artist and outsized personality whose work would both reflect and transform his times. Volume 2 (19231925) illuminates Hemingway''s literary apprenticeship in the legendary milieu of expatriate Paris in the 1920s. We witness the development of his friendships with the likes of Sylvia Beach, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Dos Passos. Striving to ''make it new'', he emerges from the tutelage of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein to forge a new style, gaining recognition as one of the most formidable talents of his generation. In this period, Hemingway publishes his first three books, including In Our Time (1925), and discovers a lifelong passion for Spain and the bullfight, quickly transforming his experiences into fiction as The Sun Also Rises (1926). The volume features many previously unpublished letters and a humorous sketch that was rejected by Vanity Fair.Trade Review'Hemingway did not want his letters published, but this carefully researched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 The New York Times'The volume's 242 letters, about two-thirds previously unpublished, provide as complete an account of Hemingway's life during the Paris years as one could ask for.'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.
£77.39
Cambridge University Press African American Literature in Transition 19001910 Volume 7
Book SynopsisAfrican American Literature in Transition, 19001910 offers a wide ranging, multi-disciplinary approach to early twentieth century African American literature and culture. It showcases the literary and cultural productions that took shape in the critical years after Reconstruction, but before the Harlem Renaissance, the period known as the nadir of African American history. It undercovers the dynamic work being done by Black authors, painters, photographers, poets, editors, boxers, and entertainers to shape ''New Negro'' identities and to chart a new path for a new century. The book is structured into four key areas: Black publishing and print culture; innovations in genre and form; the race, class and gender politics of literary and cultural production; and new geographies of Black literary history. These overarching themes, along with the introduction of established figures and movement, alongside lesser known textsand original research, offer aradicalre-conceptualization of this critTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of images; Introduction Shirley Moody-Turner; Part I. Transition in African American Authorship, Publishing and the Visual Arts: 1. Black bibliographers and the category of negro authorship Laura E. Helton; 2. Transitions in African American book publishing and print culture Alisha Knight; 3. Re-evaluating African American art before the Harlem renaissance Rhonda Reymond; Part II. New Negro Aesthetic and Transitions in Genre and Form: 4. African American novels and new slavery in the new south M. Giulia Fabi; 5. Anti-lynching poetry and the poetics of protest Laura Vrana; 6. The politics of performance, character, and literary genre in transition April Logan; Part III. Modernist Masculinities and Transitions in Black Leadership: 7. Charting the tensions between optimism and despair at mid-decade Hanna Wallinger; 8. W. E. B. Du Bois and transitions in black intellectual thought Keith Byerman; 9. Celebrity and black masculinity at the turn into the twentieth century Jeffrey Leak; Part IV. Remapping the Turn of the Twentieth Century: 10. Can the subaltern speak through Alain Locke and Paul Laurence Dunbar? Jeffrey Stewart; 11. Race and manhood in African American representations of the frontier James Leiker; 12. Narratives of black and Chinese citizenship after Plessy v. Ferguson Edlie Wong; 13. Black transpacific culture and the migratory imagination Vince Schleitwiler.
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Cambridge University Press Modernism Beyond the AvantGarde
Book SynopsisCritics have traditionally maintained that capitalism''s resurgence after the Second World War precipitated the transition from modernism to postmodernism. This revisionist account shows that modernism does not simply decline. By foregrounding phenomenological conceptions of bodily experience, Jason M. Baskin reveals modernism''s ongoing vitality. Key postwar writers, critics and philosophers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Ezra Pound, Ralph Ellison and Raymond Williams, as well as Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Theodor Adorno, developed an aesthetics of embodiment that adapted modernism to a new postwar landscape. Working across differences of race, gender, national and intellectual tradition, genre and form, Baskin contends that these authors used ordinary bodily experiences, such as perception, memory and laughter, to imagine modes of common being and purpose that were otherwise unavailable in a postwar society dominated by liberal capitalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction: late modernism and the aesthetics of embodiment; 1. Elizabeth Bishop's rhythmic looking; 2. Ezra Pound's scraps of a self; 3. Ralph Ellison's invisible laughter; 4. Raymond Williams's collaborative labor; Conclusion; Notes; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Decadence and Literature
Book SynopsisDecadence and Literature explains how the concept of decadence developed since Roman times into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power. No longer just a term of opprobrium for mannered art or immoral behaviour, decadence today describes complex cultural and social responses to modernity in all its forms. From the Roman emperor''s indulgence in luxurious excess as both personal vice and political control, to the Enlightenment libertine''s rational pursuit of hedonism, to the nineteenth-century dandy''s simultaneous delight and distaste with modern urban life, decadence has emerged as a way of taking cultural stock of major social changes. These changes include the role of women in forms of artistic expression and social participation formerly reserved for men, as well as the increasing acceptance of LGBTQ+ relationships, a development with a direct relationship to decadence. Today, decadence seems more important than ever to an informed understanding of contemporary anxietiTable of ContentsIntroduction Jane Desmarais and David Weir; Part I. Origins: 1. Decadence in Ancient Rome Jerry Toner; 2. Decadence and Roman historiography Shushma Malik; 3. Nineteenth-century literary and artistic responses to Roman decadence Isobel Hurst; 4. Decadence and the enlightenment Chad Denton; 5. Decadence and the urban sensibility Michael Shaw; 6. Decadence and the critique of modernity Jane Desmarais; 7. Decadence and aesthetics Sacha Golob; Part II. Developments: 8. Decadence and the visual arts Laura Moure Cecchini; 9. Decadence and music Emma Sutton; 10. Decadence, parody, and new women's writing Kate Krueger; 11. The philosophy of decadence Nicholas D. More; 12. The sexual psychology of decadence Melanie Hawthorne; 13. The theology of decadence Matthew Bradley; 14. The science of decadence Jordan Kistler; 15. The sociology of decadence Jeffrey Sachs; Part III. Applications: 16. Decadence and urban geography Theresa Zeitz-Lindamood; 17. Socio-aesthetic histories: Vienna 1900 and Weimar Berlin Katharina Herold; 18. Decadence and cinema David Weir; 19. Transnational decadence Stefano Evangelista; 20. Decadence and modernism Gerald Gillespie; 21. Modern prophetic poetry and the decadence of empires: from Kipling to Auden Chris Baldick; 22. The gender of decadence: Paris-Lesbos from the fin de siècle to the interwar era Deborah Longworth; 23. Decadence and popular culture Alice Condé.
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Cambridge University Press The Great Gatsby
Book SynopsisThis edition presents the manuscript of F. Scott Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby, the earliest full version of the novel that survives. Study of this manuscript reveals much about the composition of the novel - about the development of its characters and themes and the revision of its language. Fitzgerald reworked the manuscript, putting it through several drafts and continuing to edit until a few weeks before publication. The period of its creation was an amalgamation of his talent, inspiration, and self-discipline which resulted in a masterpiece. An introduction by James L. W. West, III, the general editor of the series, gives the compositional history of the novel; a bibliographical commentary by Don C. Skemer, Curator of Manuscripts at Princeton University Library, describes the manuscript and gives the story of its preservation, acquisition, and restoration. The reading text is presented without emendation and with a minimum of editorial apparatus. This edition will allow critics, Trade Review'Like a jazz album offering multiple takes on a single tune, the value of this edition lies in the access it offers to the creative process. Comparing it to the novel published in April 1925 reveals the decisions Fitzgerald made as he revised his greatest work and supplies fascinating insights into its evolution … Seeing The Great Gatsby as it might have been shows that Fitzgerald's drive for perfection matched that of his beloved hero.' Sarah Graham, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Illustrations; Introduction; The holograph of The Great Gatsby; A note on the text; Text of the manuscript; Explanatory notes; Illustrations.
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Cambridge University Press Caribbean Literature in Transition 19702020
Book SynopsisThe period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 traces the region''s contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and drama into emerging areas of creative non-fiction, memoir and speculative fiction with a particular attention on challenging the narrow canon of Anglophone male writers. It maps shifts and continuities between late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Caribbean literature in terms of innovations in literary form and style, the changing role and place of the writer, and shifts in our understandings of what constitutes the political terrain of the literary and its sites of struggle. Whilst reaching across language divides and multiple diasporas, it shows how contemporary Caribbean Literature has focused its attentions on social complexity and ongoing marginalizations in its continued preoccupations with identity, belonging and freedoms.Trade Review'Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020 will remain a rich source for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars within Caribbean studies, diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, and performance studies who are interested in the political, cultural, and social life of the literary imagination … this volume functions as a necessary reflection on some of the major developments in Caribbean literary production over the past fifty years.' Jovante Anderson, Journal of West Indian Literature'The new and timely perspectives on migration, gender, and the environment, amongst other topics, enable this series to bring attention to an incredibly diverse canon of writers, literary forms, and historical contexts. In doing so, the volumes invite readers to revisit established figures - with Walcott and Naipaul still looming large - whilst also re-examining Caribbean literary history to include a corpus of voices that are not necessarily anglophone or male-centric. For this reason, the series deserves to lay the foundations of new critical explorations into the heterogeneity and global scope of Caribbean creativity from its roots in the colonial past through to its many fluid and fragmentary strands in the present.' Matthew Whittle, Journal of Postcolonial WritingTable of ContentsIntroduction. Caribbean Assemblages: 1970s-2020 Alison Donnell and Ronald Cummings; Part I. Literary and Generic Transitions: 1. Writing and the Responsibility to Memory: The Role of White Female Planters in Contemporary Caribbean Novels Tanya L. Shields; 2. Caribbean Identities and Diversifying the Creole Mix Shivanee Ramlochan; 3. Carnival, Calypso, and Dancehall Cultures: Making the Popular Political in Contemporary Caribbean Writing Emily Zobel Marshall; 4. Life Writing, Gender and Caribbean Narrative 1970-2015: Itinerant Self-Making in the Postcolonial Caribbean Denise Decaires Narain; 5. Forwarding Dubpoetry in this Generation: A Grassroots Performance and Neo-Literary Genre in Transition Susan Gingell; 6. Postcolonial Ruins, Reconstructive Poetics: Caribbean Urban Imaginaries Christopher Winks; 7. Reimagining Caribbean Time and Space: Speculative Fiction Rebecca Romdhani; 8. Drama and Performance Justine Mcconnell; 9. Here are the Others: Caribbean Creative Nonfiction Kei Miller; 10. 'Let every child run wild': Cultural Identity and the Role of the Child in Caribbean Children's and Young Adult Fiction Aisha Takiyah Spencer; Part II. Cultural and Political Transitions: 11. Caribbean Feminist Criticism: Towards a New Canon of Caribbean Feminist Theory and Theorizing Simone A. James Alexander; 12. Writing of and for a Revolution Alison Donnell and Nalini Mohabir; 12. Digital Yards: Caribbean Writing on Social Media and Other Digital Platforms Kelly Baker Josephs; 13. Developing and Sustaining Literary Publics: Prizes, Festivals, and New Writing Ifeona Fulani; Part III. The Caribbean Region in Transition: 14. The Caribbean and Britain Sarah Lawson Welsh; 15. Acts of Trespass and Collapsing Borders: Alternate Landscapes in Contemporary Caribbean-Canadian Literature Camille A. Isaacs; 16. The Caribbean and the United States Jocelyn Fenton Stitt; 17. The Caribbean and the Tourist Gaze Supriya M. Nair; 18. Caribbean Subjects in the World Kezia A. Page; Part IV. Critical Transitions: 19. Visuality in Caribbean Literature and Visual Culture Marta Fernández Campa; 20. From Counter-Textuality to Intertextuality: Continuing the Caribbean Canon Emily L. Taylor; 21. Caribbean Eco-Poetics: The Categorial Imperative and Indifference in the Caribbean Environment Keja L. Valens; 22. Sexual Subjects Faizal Deen and Ronald Cummings; 23. Caribbean Literature and Literary Studies: Past, Present, and Future Alison Donnell; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose
Book SynopsisThis landmark study of Latin prose intertextuality radically reinterprets Pliny's Epistles as a brilliant transformation of Quintilian's Institutio oratoria and a unique reply to Tacitus' Dialogus. Indispensable to readers of imperial Latin prose, the book is also essential reading for all students of imitation in Roman literature and culture.Trade Review'This original and learned book, written in sparkling and stylish prose, makes a fundamental contribution to our appreciation of Pliny the Younger's artistry. Christopher Whitton shows that there is much more Quintilian in Pliny's Epistles than anyone had realised - and that recognising Quintilian's presence is of vital importance for understanding Pliny's literary project. With complete control of the sources, Whitton takes the reader on an unexpectedly fascinating tour of Quintilian's earliest reception, and along the way sheds new light on Latin prose intertextuality and the quintessentially Roman practice of imitatio.' Tom Keeline, Washington University, St Louis'The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose is a very useful addition to Plinian scholarship and, more generally, a milestone for all those concerned with intertextuality.' Lorenzo Vespoli, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. Two scenes from the life of an artist; 2. Setting the stage; 3. Brief encounters; 4. Dancing with dialectic; 5. Through the looking-glass; 6. On length, in brief (Ep. 1.20); 7. Letters to Lupercus; 8. Studiorum secessus (Ep. 7.9); 9. Docendo discitur; 10. Reflections of an author; 11. Quintilian, Pliny, Tacitus; 12. Beginnings.
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Cambridge University Press Chicago
Book SynopsisChicago occupies a central position in both the geography and literary history of the United States. From its founding in 1833 through to its modern incarnation, the city has served as both a thoroughfare for the nation''s goods and a crossroads for its cultural energies. The idea of Chicago as a crossroads of modern America is what guides this literary history, which traces how writers have responded to a rapidly changing urban environment and labored to make sense of its place in - and implications for - the larger whole. In writing that engages with the world''s first skyscrapers and elevated railroads, extreme economic and racial inequality, a growing middle class, ethnic and multiethnic neighborhoods, the Great Migration of African Americans, and the city''s contemporary incarnation as a cosmopolitan urban center, Chicago has been home to a diverse literature that has both captured and guided the themes of modern America.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Literary History of Chicago Frederik Byrn Køhlert; Part I. The Rise of Chicago and the Literary West: 1. From Prairie to Metropolis: Chicago as the American 'Shock City' Christophe Den Tandt; 2. Birth, Fire, and Rebirth: Edward Payson Roe's Barriers Burned Away and the Invention of Chicago Literature Charles Byler; 3. 'This Broad, free inland America of Ours': Hamlin Garland, Chicago, and the Literary West Christine Holbo; 4. White City: The World's Columbian Exposition in Literature Rebecca S. Graff; 5. New Realities, New Realisms: Chicago Literature against the Genteel Tradition Robert Birdwell; Part II. Business Unusual: A New Urban American Literature: 6. Among the Skyscrapers: Henry B. Fuller's Chicago Novels Joseph A. Dimuro; 7. The Price of Success: Robert Herrick's the Memoirs of an American Citizen and the American Business Novel Jose Fernandez; 8. 'A Story of Chicago': The Future of Place in Frank Norris's The Pit Jason Puskar; 9. Amid Forces: Theodore Dreiser's Chicago T. Austin Graham; 10. Eugene Field, Finley Peter Dunne, and George Ade: A New Urban Vernacular John Wharton Lowe; Part III. Radicalism, Modernism, and the Chicago Renaissance: 11. Progressive Chicago: Upton Sinclair, Jane Addams, and Social Reform Literature Rachel Elin Nolan; 12. From the Prairie to the City: Willa Cather's 'City of Feeling' Mark A. Robison; 13. Poetry, the Little Review, and Chicago Modernism Bartholomew Brinkman; 14. A Spirit of Two Ages: The Romantic Modernism of Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems John Marsh; 15. Building a Movement: Mary Reynolds Aldis and Little Theatre in Chicago Megan E. Geigner; 16. Father to Son: Floyd Dell, Sherwood Anderson, and the Chicago Renaissance Timothy B. Spears; Part IV. A City of Neighborhoods: The Great Depression, Sociology, and the Black Chicago Renaissance: 17. Chicago Ecology and James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan Moacir P. de Sá Pereira; 18. Chicago gets the Blues: Migration, Depression, and the Black Renaissance Richard A. Courage; 19. Black Chicago: Richard Wright's South Side William R. Nash; 20. Life in Bronzeville: Humanism and Community in the Work of Gwendolyn Brooks Courtney Pierre Joseph; 21. Hustlers, Junkies, and Prostitutes: Nelson Algren's White Slums Ian Peddie; 22. From Emptyland to Uncanny City: Saul Bellow's Jewish Chicago Alan Bilton; Part V. Traditions and Futures: Contemporary Chicago Literatures: 23. Division Street America: The Nine Chicago Literary Lives of Studs Terkel Tony Macaluso; 24. Sexual and Other Perversities: David Mamet and Vontemporary Chicago Theater Ira Nadel; 25. Chicago Crime, Blue Collar and White: Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski Novels Charlotte Beyer; 26. Drawing Chicago: Chris Ware's Graphic City Frederik Byrn Køhlert; 27. Across Neighborhood and National Boundaries: Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, and Mexican Chicago Olga L. Herrera; 28. Stuart Dybek and the New Chicago's Literature of Neighborhood Carlo Rotella; 29. Chicago Now: Aleksandar Hemon, Dmitry Samarov, Erika L. Sánchez and the Contemporary City of Immigrants Sonia Weiner; 30. Afterword: What Will Become of Us? The Future of Chicago Literatures Bill Savage.
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Cambridge University Press Exhausted Ecologies
Book SynopsisThis book evaluates twentieth century British and Global Anglophone literature in relation to the growth of ecological thinking in the United Kingdom. Restless modernists such as D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, and Jean Rhys developed a literary aesthetic of slowness and immediacy to critique the exhausting and dehumanizing aspects of modern urban and industrial life. At the same time, environmental groups such as the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves and the Smoke Abatement League moved from economic registers of ''value'' and ''trust'' to more cultural terms of ''recovery'' and ''regeneration'' to position nature as a healing force in the postwar era. Through a variety of literary, scientific, and political texts, an environmental movement emerged alongside the fast, fragmented, and traumatic aspects of modernization in order to sustain place and community in terms of lateral influence and ecological dependence.Trade Review'… a significant contribution to this nascent but rapidly growing body of modernist eco-criticism.' William Kupinse, James Joyce Literary Supplement'In his introduction, Kalaidjian expresses the need for both modernism and ecocriticism to advance each other and not “simply reinterpret one through the other's lens”. Exhausted Ecologies therefore has much to offer to those studying Europe and its empires, environmental historians, modernist literary critics, and ecocritical scholars alike. Kalaidjian's work here overall is timely in light of the increasing threat of climate disaster, as well as a fascinating view into the connections between modernist literature and the beginnings of modern environmentalism.' Leanna Lostoski-Ho, EuropeNowTable of ContentsIntroduction: places of rest; 1. Nature's reserves: rural exhaustion, inertia, and generative aesthetics; 2. Urban environs: James Joyce and the politics of shared atmosphere; 3. Waste lands: dark pastoral in T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and Djuna Barnes; 4. Uprooting empire: Jean Rhys and unrest in imperial centers; 5. Decolonizing ecology: Chinua Achebe's new forms of unease; Conclusion: the limits of modernist regeneration.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan
Book SynopsisThis Companion showcases the best scholarship on Ian McEwan''s work, and offers a comprehensive demonstration of his importance in the canon of international contemporary fiction. The whole career is covered, and the connections as well as the developments across the oeuvre are considered. The essays offer both an assessment of McEwan''s technical accomplishments and a sense of the contextual factors that have provided him with inspiration. This volume has been structured to highlight the points of intersection between literary questions and evaluations, and the treatment of contemporary socio-cultural issues and topics. For the more complex novels - such as Atonement - this book offers complementary perspectives. In this respect, The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan serves as a prism of interpretation, revealing the various interpretive emphases each of McEwan''s more complex works invite, and to show how his various recurring preoccupations run through his career.Table of ContentsChronology; Introduction Dominic Head; 1. 'Shock lit': the early fiction Eluned Summers-Bremner; 2. Moral dilemmas Lynn Wells; 3. Science and climate crisis Astrid Bracke; 4. The novel of ideas Michael Lemahieu; 5. Cold War fictions Richard Brown; 6. The construction of childhood Peter Childs; 7. The public and the private David Malcolm; 8. Masculinities Ben Knights; 9. The novellas Dominic Head; 10. Realist legacies Judith Seaboyer; 11. Limited modernism Thom Dancer; 12. Narrative artifice David James; Further reading.
£71.25
Cambridge University Press Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire
Book SynopsisThe impact of malaria on humankind has been profound. Focusing on depictions of this iconic ''disease of empire'' in nineteenth-century and postcolonial fiction, Jessica Howell shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Henry James, H. Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner and Rudyard Kipling did not simply adopt the discourses of malarial containment and cure offered by colonial medicine. Instead, these authors adapted and rewrote some common associations with malarial images such as swamps, ruins, mosquitoes, blood, and fever. They also made use of the unique potential of fiction by incorporating chronic, cyclical illness, bodily transformation and adaptation within the very structures of their novels. Howell''s study also examines the postcolonial literature of Amitav Ghosh and Derek Walcott, arguing that these authors use the multivalent and subversive potential of malaria in order to rewrite the legacies of colonial medicine.Table of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Nationalism and acute malaria in transatlantic fiction: Charles Dickens and Henry James; 2. Malaria and the imperial romance: H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines; 3. Malarial feminisms: Olive Schreiner and the allegories of chronic disease; 4. The boy doctor of empire: malaria and mobility in Rudyard Kipling's Kim; 5. Rewriting the bite: the Calcutta chromosome, mosquitoes, and global health politics; Coda: towards a postcolonial health humanities; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Lifes Little Ironies
Book SynopsisAn invaluable resource for students of nineteenth-century writing and of Hardy in particular, this edition presents a text which closely reflects Hardy's original intentions. All his revisions are clearly shown, enabling readers to trace his creative process. An introductory essay outlines the stories' composition, publishing history and reception.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Life's Little Ironies: The Son's Veto; For Conscience' Sake; A Tragedy of Two Ambitions; On the Western Circuit; To Please his Wife; The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion; The Fiddler of the Reels; A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four; A Few Crusted Characters; Apparatus; Editorial Emendations; Textual Notes; Record of Variants – Accidentals; End-of-line Word Division; Appendices; Explanatory Notes; Glossary of Dialect Terms.
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Cambridge University Press The Political Lives of Victorian Animals
Book SynopsisDuring the Victorian era, animals were increasingly viewed not as property or utility, but as thinking, feeling subjects worthy of inclusion within a political community. This book re-examines the nineteenth-century British animal welfare movement and animal characters in the Victorian novel in light of liberal thought, and argues that liberalism was a decisive factor in determining the cultural, ideological, and material makeup of animal-human relationships. While the animal welfare movement often represented animals as desiring submission to the human, animal characters in the Victorian novel critiqued the liberal norms that led to the oppression of both animals and humans. Through readings of animal rights legislation, animal welfare texts, and writings by Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner, Anna Feuerstein outlines the remarkably powerful political role that animals played in the Victorian novel, as they offer ways to move beyond the exclusionary and contradictory strategies of liberal thought.Trade Review'This well-written, theoretically sophisticated study makes a major contribution to the growing body of critical treatments of animals in Victorian literature and culture.' R. D. Morrison, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: the political lives of Victorian animals; Part I. Anti-Cruelty Legislation and Animal Welfare: 1. The government of animals: anti-cruelty legislation and the making of liberal creatures; 2. The incessant care of the Victorian shepherd: animal welfare's pastoral power; Part II. Democracy, Education, and Alternative Subjectivity: 3. 'Tame submission to injustice is unworthy of a Raven': Charles Dickens's animal character; 4. Alice in Wonderland's animal pedagogy: democracy and alternative subjectivity in mid-Victorian liberal education; Part III. The Biopolitics of Animal Capital: 5. Animal capital and the lives of sheep: Thomas Hardy's biopolitical realism; 6. The political lives of animals in Victorian Empire: Oliver Schreiner's anti-colonial animal politics.
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Cambridge University Press A History of the Harlem Renaissance
Book SynopsisThe Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subsequent African American literature, and had an enormous impact on later black literature world-wide. In its attention to a wide range of genres and forms from the roman à clef and the bildungsroman, to dance and book illustrations this book seeks to encapsulate and analyze the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance cultural expression. It aims to re-frame conventional ideas of the New Negro movement by presenting new readings of well-studied authors, such as Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, alongside analysis of topics, authors, and artists that deserve fuller treatment. An authoritative collection on the major writers and issues of the period, A History of the Harlem Renaissance takes stock of nearly a hundred years of scholarship and considers what the future augurs for the study of ''the New Negro''.Trade Review'Highly recommended.' C. A. Bily, Choice'this is not your grandfather's Harlem Renaissance … At every turn and in every way ... A History of the Harlem Renaissance invites and inspires readers to reconceive and reimagine both the nature and the extent of Black modernist cultural production.' Tim Ryan, StyleTable of ContentsIntroduction: revising a renaissance Rachel Farebrother and Miriam Thaggert; Part I. Re-reading the New Negro: 1. Cultural nationalism and cosmopolitanism in the Harlem renaissance Daniel G. Williams; 2. Making the slave anew: poetry, history, and the archive in New Negro renaissance poetry Clare Corbould; 3. The New Negro among White Modernists Kathleen Pfeiffer; 4. The Bildungsroman in the Harlem renaissance Mark Whalan; 5. The visual image in New Negro renaissance print culture Caroline Goeser; Part II. Experimenting with the New Negro: 6. Gwendolyn Brooks: riot after the New Negro Renaissance Sonya Posmentier; 7. Romans à clef of the Harlem renaissance Sinéad Moynihan; 8. Modernist biography and the question of manhood: Eslanda Goode Robeson's Paul Robeson, Negro Fionnghuala Sweeney; 9. Modernism and women poets of the Harlem renaissance Maureen Honey; 10. Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance Katharine Capshaw; Part III. Re-mapping the New Negro: 11. London, New York, and the Black Bolshevik renaissance: radical black internationalism during the New Negro renaissance James Smethurst; 12. Island relations, continental visions, and graphic networks Jak Peake; 13. 'Symbols from within': charting the nation's regions in James Weldon Johnson's God's trombones Noelle Morrissette; 14. Rudolph Fisher: renaissance man and Harlem's interpreter Jonathan Munby; Part IV. Performing the New Negro: 15. Zora Neale Hurston's early plays Mariel Rodney; 16. Zora Neale Hurston, film, and ethnography Hannah Durkin; 17. The pulse of Harlem: African-American music and the New Negro revival Andrew Warnes; 18. The figure of the child dancer in Harlem renaissance literature and visual culture Rachel Farebrother; 19. Jazz and the Harlem renaissance Wendy Martin; 20. Alain Locke and the value of the Harlem: from racial axiology to the axiology of race Shane Vogel; Afterword Deborah E. McDowell.
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Cambridge University Press Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture
Book SynopsisThe idea of America has always encouraged apocalyptic visions. The ''American Dream'' has not only imagined the prospect of material prosperity; it has also imagined the end of the world. ''Final forecasts'' constitute one of America''s oldest literary genres, extending from the eschatological theology of the New England Puritans to the revolutionary discourse of the early republic, the emancipatory rhetoric of the Civil War, the anxious fantasies of the atomic age, and the doomsday digital media of today. For those studying the history of America, renditions of the apocalypse are simply unavoidable. This book brings together two dozen essays by prominent scholars that explore the meanings of apocalypse across different periods, regions, genres, registers, modes, and traditions of American literature and culture. It locates the logic and rhetoric of apocalypse at the very core of American literary history.Table of ContentsIntroduction. The United States of apocalypse John Hay; Part I. America as Apocalypse: 1. The apocalypse of settler colonialism and the case for the americocene Jared Hickman; 2. Apocalyptic violence in visual media Mark Noble; 3. Revelation, secret knowledge, and 9/11 conspiracy theory Lindsey Michael Banco; 4. Decolonial eschatologies of native American literatures Adam Spry; Part II. American Apocalypse in (and out of) History: 5. The puritans prepare for the second coming Lindsay DiCuirci; 6. The American revolution as extinction and rebirth Christen Mucher; 7. Race, American enlightenment, and the end times Mark Alan Mattes; 8. Sentimental premonitions and antebellum spectacle Melissa Gniadek; 9. Antebellum anticipations of annihilation Gordon Fraser; 10. The apocalyptic fury of the civil war Timothy Donahue; 11. Apocalyptic form in the American Fin de Siècle Jane Fisher; 12. The ruins of American modernism Alastair Morrison; 13. Mutually assured destruction in cold war/postwar America Jacqueline Foertsch; 14. Postmodern American literature at the end of history Timothy Parrish; 15. Ecology, ethics, and the apocalyptic lyric in recent American poetry Jennifer Ashton; 16. Disaster response in post-2000 American apocalyptic fiction Heather J. Hicks; Part III. Varieties of Apocalyptic Experience: 17. New history for a new earth Kevin M. Modestino; 18. W. E. B. Du Bois's apocalyptic ambivalence Autumn Womack; 19. The empty cities of urban apocalypse Nick Yablon; 20. The planetary futures of eco-apocalypse Ursula K. Heise; 21. The last laughs of doomsday humor Frances McDonald; 22. The catastrophic end-games of young adult literature Claire P. Curtis; 23. Apocalyptic trauma and the politics of mourning a world Irene Visser; 24. Posthuman postapocalypse Matthew A. Taylor; Further reading.
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Cambridge University Press Revising the EighteenthCentury Novel
Book SynopsisAnalyzes novel manuscripts and authors' revisions to construct a new narrative about eighteenth-century authorship, influenced by the networks in which writers lived and worked. Will appeal to researchers, scholars and students interested in eighteenth-century literature, the English novel, and the history of the book, of publishing, and of reading.Trade Review'… Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel persuasively delivers on its premises and also recommends a novel tool that scholars will likely find valuable in their reconstruction of physically impaired manuscripts.' A. W. Lee, Choice'This study's careful attention to a massive archive makes it a valuable piece of scholarship … Richardson, Burney, Austen, and Edgeworth were each prolific writers and Havens' thorough coverage of all four is a service to the field … [and] because of its accessible focus on themes of gendered (dis)empowerment in the lives and works of its canonical figures, I can pay this study the tribute, rarer than it should be, of saying that I expect to recommend it to undergraduates …' Jacob Sider Jost, The Eighteenth-century intelligencer'Hilary Havens's Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Authorship from Manuscript to Print is another important intervention in the history of both the novel and ideas of authorship … Havens has recovered previously hidden evidence about revision using digital palaeography - a powerful and fruitful new technology.' David Womersley, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900'Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel is a valuable contribution to our understanding of how the genre emerged and how authors crafted their texts in a social world over time … The real impact of Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel is its central argument: that novels were the creation of many people and many influences, that even in their printed form they should not be considered textually stable or 'final,' and that all literary scholars need to be more aware of the influences that created the text that they are reading and more open to the idea that those influences may have contradicted the initial intent of the author.' Leah Orr, Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History'With careful structuring, and a mostly lucid style, this industrious book claims new insights into the 'networks' that, via Bruno Latour, are already well established as significant in this field.' Min Wild, Times Literary Supplement'… this is essentially an interpretative, critical book … This is a rewarding study, one to argue with and learn from.' Aileen Douglas, Eighteenth-Century Fiction'Havens's book is a must-read for people interested in authorial networks and revision, regardless of the period and authors they study, and exceptionally useful for those interested in eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century authorship, and manuscript and publication practices, as well as scholars of Richardson, Burney, Austen, Edgeworth, Sterne, Lewis, and Godwin. Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel ultimately not only provides excellent examples and amazing insight into 'authorship from manuscript to print,' as the book's subtitle explains, but also asks its readers to understand authorship as a network built upon reading, writing, dialogue, and revision. After one reads Havens's book, it would be impossible not to do that.' Misty Krueger, Eighteenth-Century Life'In developing 'a model of 'networked authorship',' Havens contributes to a growing scholarship that recovers eighteenth-century writing practices and book culture from overdetermined interpretations rooted in the 'individualistic view of authorship that arose during the Romantic period.' Mark Alan Mattes, Eighteenth-Century Studies'This is a compact but powerful book. Much of the evidence is new, and the argument is salient.' George Justice, Studies in the Novel'The organizational structure of the book is water-tight, clear, and lends itself well to teaching … Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel is likely to be influential.' Emily Friedman, The Review of English Studies'Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel remains an important entry in a growing body of scholarship on eighteenth-century manuscripts and literary circles. Taken together, this may do for the novel what twentieth-century criticism did for early modern drama-demonstrating that the text is not a singular 'event' emerging from a singular great voice, but an ever-shifting network of processes, responses and contributions that can open up fresh interpretative possibilities.' Natasha Simonova, The Scriblerian and the Kit-CatsTable of Contents1. Samuel Richardson: 'fan fiction' and networked authorship; 2. Frances Burney: obliterations and unending revisions; 3. Jane Austen: revision as empowerment; 4. Maria Edgeworth: scientific knowledge, didactic moralism, and her 'family jury of critics'.
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Cambridge University Press New Orleans
Book SynopsisNew Orleans is an indispensable element of America''s national identity. As one of the most fabled cities in the world, it figures in countless novels, short stories, poems, plays, and films, as well as in popular lore and song. This book provides detailed discussions of all of the most significant writing that this city has ever inspired - from its origins in a flood-prone swamp to the rise of a creole culture at the edges of the European empires; from its emergence as a cosmopolitan, hemispheric crossroads and a primary hub of the slave trade to the days when, in its red light district, the children and grandchildren of the enslaved conjured a new kind of music that became America''s greatest gift to the world; from the mid-twentieth-century masterpieces by William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and Walker Percy to the realms of folklore, hip hop, vampire fiction, and the Asian and Latin American archives.Trade Review'Anyone giving serious consideration to the writing of New Orleans must have this book. T. R. Johnson has brought together between these covers a stunning collection of essays that never fail to delight and occasionally shock. This book expertly captures the varied essence of the great city: its fatalism, its history, it magic.' Maurice Carlos Ruffin, author of We Cast a Shadow'Johnson has performed a Herculean service, giving us a book that plumbs the hidden depths of a literary legacy alternately as dark and as hilarious as only honest writing about New Orleans can be. Sure, the music, the food, the architecture; but also, Johnson shows us, the literature of New Orleans is like that of no other place.' Dan Baum, author of Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans'A profound and lyrical book about the literary history of the Big Easy.' Bernice L. McFadden, author of The Book of Harlan'World history, American history, music history - all unthinkable without New Orleans, the city that was 'day and night a show'. Now T. R. Johnson and a state-of-the-scholarship crew of contributors offer a panorama of new perspectives on this unique city's always-vivid literature. If you think you know New Orleans, read on, and prepare to be amazed, challenged, entertained, and horrified. If you teach New Orleans culture, this book is an indispensable tool.' Ned Sublette, author of The World that Made New Orleans'Fatalism has stalked New Orleans almost from the moment convicts and enslaved Africans dragged it from the mud. Plague-stricken, flood prone, and more Caribbean than American concerning matters that make survival worthwhile, the town has attracted an outsize quota of top-flight writers who have memorialized it in a literature of lasting significance. In assembling an eclectic array of scholarly talent on the subject seldom found between the covers of the same book, T. R. Johnson has put us all in his debt.' Lawrence N. Powell, author of Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans'It's not possible to write in New Orleans without writing about New Orleans. The city saturates the imagination, casting an irresistible and enervating spell. New Orleans writers must contrive to sink and swim at the same time. T. R. Johnson's collection of essays, as eclectic as the figures on a local Voodoo altar, invites the reader to discover how far back the peculiar strains of fatalism and irony that color the world view of the New Orleanian really go. No other American city has consistently offered a literature that is at once so appealing and so alien to the rest of the country. New Orleans: The Literary History is a welcome guide to that fabulous reality found only on the printed page.' Valerie Martin, author of Property'What T. R. Johnson has assembled in New Orleans: The Literary History is a tremendous contribution to the city's self-understanding - and to everyone's understanding of the city's impact on broader literary histories. With an embracing, inclusive agility, the book excavates layers of culture and language to deliver a comprehensive, international vision of three hundred years' worth of writing, from the published letters of an Ursuline nun in the 1730s to the sissy bounce music of Big Freedia today. Taken together, these scholars present an argument for how New Orleans's literary history has shaped our sense of the pleasures of cities in general and also of the urban imagination itself as a dynamic, shifting thing, with poetry, fiction, memoir and drama intertwining throughout New Orleans's history like the forces that create its legendary climate of heat, humidity, and storm.' Ed Skoog, author of Run the Red LightsTable of ContentsPreface T. R. Johnson; 1. Swamp City Anthony Wilson; 2. Mixed motives: writing for French audiences from colonial New Orleans Erin Greenwald; 3. 'As I have seen and known it': ex-slave autobiographers and the New Orleans Slave Market Calvin Schermerhorn; 4. What New Orleans Meant to Walt Whitman Ed Folsom; 5. Coloring sex, love, and desire in Creole New Orleans's long nineteenth century Jarrod Hayes; 6. The white Creole tradition: Alfred Mercier, Charles Gayarré, Adrien Rouquette, and Grace King Rien Fertel; 7. The Civil War's literary aftershocks: George Washington Cable Matthew Smith; 8. Illusion and disillusion: the making of Lafcadio Hearn S. Frederick Starr; 9. Local color, social problems, and the living dead in the late nineteenth-century short fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Tara T. Green; 10. Kate Chopin, Edna Pontellier, and the predicament of the intellectual woman in New Orleans Emily Toth; 11. Converging Americas: New Orleans in Spanish-language and Latina/o/x literary culture Kirsten Silva Greusz; 12. A Jazz origin-myth: Bras Coupe in history, folklore, and literature Bryan Wagner; 13. 'Stepping out' of the storyville frame: recent literary representations of the New Orleans red light district Milena Marinkova; 14. Louis Armstrong's autobiographical art Daniel Stein; 15. New Orleans, modernism, and The Double Dealer, 1921–1926 Thomas Bonner; 16. 'Because what else could he have hoped to find in New Orleans, if not the truth': William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Thadious Davis; 17. 'The place I was made for': Tennessee Williams in New Orleans Henry I. Schvey; 18. A Civil Rights era novel of the American Civil War: Robert Penn Warren's Band of Angels William Bedford Clark; 19. How to survive the best environments: narrating Protean place in Walker Percy's The Moviegoer Richmond M. Eustis, Jr; 20. Tom Dent and the development of black literature in New Orleans Kalamu Ya Salaam; 21. The gothic tradition in New Orleans Taylor Hagood; 22. A Flaneur in the French Quarter and beyond: John Kennedy Toole's Confederacy of Dunces Cory MacLauchlin; 23. Literary fiction by New Orleans women, 1961–2003: Shirley Anne Grau, Ellen Gilchrest, Sheila Bosworth, and Valerie Martin Monica Carol Miller; 24. Asian American New Orleans Marguerite Nguyen; 25. New Orleans rap and bounce: recovering and archiving an expressive tradition Holly Hobbs; 26. The literature of Hurricane Katrina Kevin Rabalais; Afterword: swan song? T. R. Johnson; Contributors biographies; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Aging Duration and the English Novel
Book SynopsisThe rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a descriptive moment, writing the passage of years on the body all at once. Aging, Duration, and the English Novelargues that the formal disappearance of aging from the novel parallels the ideological pressure to identify as being young by repressing the process of growing old. The construction of aging as a shameful event that should be hidden - to improve one''s chances on the job market or secure a successful marriage - corresponds to the rise of the long novel, which draws upon the temporality of the body to map progress and decline onto the plots of nineteenth-century British modernity.Trade Review'Jacob Jewusiak's Aging, Duration, and the English Novel is a welcome contribution to the burgeoning critical interest in age that the humanities is currently experiencing … Aging, Duration, and the English Novel successfully demonstrates that scholarly engagement with the category of age can generate interesting new interpretations of well-known works … [it] makes a valuable contribution not just to literary age studies, but also to ongoing debates within the humanities about the value of recognising age as a master identity on par with gender, race, and class.' Caitlin Doley, BAVS Newsletter'… Jewusiak's book is essential reading for scholars of narrative time, as it establishes provocative discursive ties with some of the best writing on time and the novel in the past twenty years.' Leslie S. Simon, Dickens QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Aging theory; 2. No plots for old men; 3. Life after the marriage plot; 4. A wrinkle in time; 5. The technology age; 6. Gray modernism.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan
Book SynopsisThis Companion showcases the best scholarship on Ian McEwan''s work, and offers a comprehensive demonstration of his importance in the canon of international contemporary fiction. The whole career is covered, and the connections as well as the developments across the oeuvre are considered. The essays offer both an assessment of McEwan''s technical accomplishments and a sense of the contextual factors that have provided him with inspiration. This volume has been structured to highlight the points of intersection between literary questions and evaluations, and the treatment of contemporary socio-cultural issues and topics. For the more complex novels - such as Atonement - this book offers complementary perspectives. In this respect, The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan serves as a prism of interpretation, revealing the various interpretive emphases each of McEwan''s more complex works invite, and to show how his various recurring preoccupations run through his career.Table of ContentsChronology; Introduction Dominic Head; 1. 'Shock lit': the early fiction Eluned Summers-Bremner; 2. Moral dilemmas Lynn Wells; 3. Science and climate crisis Astrid Bracke; 4. The novel of ideas Michael Lemahieu; 5. Cold War fictions Richard Brown; 6. The construction of childhood Peter Childs; 7. The public and the private David Malcolm; 8. Masculinities Ben Knights; 9. The novellas Dominic Head; 10. Realist legacies Judith Seaboyer; 11. Limited modernism Thom Dancer; 12. Narrative artifice David James; Further reading.
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Cambridge University Press Asian American Literature in Transition 19301965 Volume 2
Book SynopsisThis volume is devoted to Asian American Literature between 1930 to 1965, a period of immense social, historical, and cultural transformations that continue to shape the conditions of our world. From the Great Depression to the Second World War to the Civil Rights Movement to landmark immigrations reforms, Asian American literature provides unique and insightful perspectives on these historical developments, all while creatively engaging with globally-dispersed decolonization movements. Each chapter, written a by leading figures in their fields, demonstrates how Asian American writing affectingly reveals our complex world and its contested pasts. Case studies of major authors of this era show this as a time when the figure of the Asian American author became newly significant. This volume provides historical grounding, theoretical interventions, and nuanced textual analysis of Asian American literature in this period.Trade Review'This ambitious series covers more than a century of Asian American literature in four volumes organized by years: 1850–1930, 1930–65, 1965–96, and 1996–2020. Each volume is ordered thematically within those time frames … The breadth of the literary forms discussed and the comprehensive time period, particularly the analysis of works from the 19th century, make this work a required resource for understanding Asian American literary history … Essential.' M. Oh, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsEditors' introduction; Part I. Transitions Approached through Concepts and History: 1. The popular front and Asiatic modes of cultural production Steven Lee; 2. Asian American realism Arnold Pan; 3. On modernism, decolonization, and Asian American literature in transition Victor Bascara; 4. The cultures of Japanese internment: a short history of 'funny' turns Caroline Chung Simpson; 5. The 1947 partition, war, and internment: hidden histories of migration and displacement in transnational Asia Kavita Daiya; 6. Cold War fiction: the flower drum song's political education Josephine Nock-Hee Park; 7. Desert, island, ocean, swamp: Cold War ecologies and the Asian American environment Erin Suzuki; Part II. Transitions Approached through Authors, Texts, Concepts, and History: 8. Lin Yutang and the invention of Asian America, 1949 Richard Jean So; 9. H. T. Tsiang against the world Hua Hsu; 10. 'A congressman from India': Dalip Singh Saund in Cold War America Manan Desai; 11. Younghill Kang, transpacific agent David Roh; 12. Transition and obliteration: Jose Garcia Villa in the United States Jonathan Chua; 13. America is in the heart as postcolonial pastoral: an ecocritical case study of Carlos Bulosan Sarah D. Wald; 14. Bienvenido Santos: writing the interstitial spaces of Asian American literature Cynthia Tolentino; 15. Women writing war in Asia/America Sze Wei Ang; 16. Japanese incarceration, settler colonialism Sarah Dowling; 17. Jade Snow Wong and the making of model minority democracy Cindy I-Fen Cheng; 18. A little bit of form goes a long way: no-no boy and the ruse of empire Elda Tsou; 19. Richard Eun-kook Kim James Kyung-Jin Lee.
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Pan Macmillan A Curious Invitation
Book SynopsisSince ancient times human beings have gathered together for social purposes. And since not very long after that writers have written about these occasions. The party is a useful literary device, not only for social comment and satire, but as an occasion where characters can meet, fall in love, fall out or even get murdered. A Curious Invitation features forty of the greatest fictional festivities. Some of these parties are depictions of real events, like the Duchess of Richmond’s Ball on the eve of battle with Napoleon in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair; others draw on the author’s experience of the society they lived in, such as Lady Metroland’s party in Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies; while yet others come straight from the writer’s bizarre imagination, like Douglas Adams’ flying party above an unknown planet from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Suzette Field offers you the chance to gate
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John Murray Press Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of
Book Synopsis'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon of English literature, a grim puritan, sightlessly dictating his great work to an amanuensis, removed from the real world in his contemplation of higher things. But dig a little deeper and you find an extraordinary and complicated human being.Revolutionary and apologist for regicide, writer of propaganda for Cromwell's regime, defender of the English people and passionate European, scholar and lover of music and the arts - Milton was all of these things and more.Making Darkness Light shows how these complexities and contradictions played out in Milton's fascination with oppositions - Heaven and Hell, light and dark, self and other - most famously in his epic poem Paradise Lost. It explores the way such brutal contrasts define us and obscure who we really are, as the author grapples with his own sense of identity and complex relationship with Milton. Retracing Milton's footsteps through seventeenth century London, Tuscany and the Marches, he vividly brings Milton's world to life and takes a fresh look at his key works and ideas around the nature of creativity, time and freedom of expression. He also illustrates the profound influence of Milton's work on writers from William Blake to Virginia Woolf, James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges.This is a book about Milton, that also speaks to why we read and what happens when we choose over time to let another's life and words enter our own. It will change the way you think about Milton forever.Trade ReviewMaking Darkness Light is elegant, nuanced, and comprehensive. Moshenska gives us a fresh and vivid account of Milton as an individual and a poet while pushing beyond the boundaries of conventional biography. Blending the personal with the historical and the literary, the results are compelling' -- Bart van Es, author of The Cut Out GirlJoe Moshenska's superb new biography of Milton is, like the poetry of his subject, a miracle of form, moving from moments of arresting detail to vast contemplations of time, history, and art, all set within an intimate narrative that is at once deeply embedded in its historical moment and aware of how that history connects through other moments to the present. The result is a stirring and compelling account of how great poetry gets written and gets read -- Edward Wilson-Lee, author of The Catalogue of Shipwrecked BooksMoshenska has written a new kind of literary biography. At once glancingly a memoir, a rivetingly informative biography, and a fascinating reading of Milton as poet, scholar and ordinary man in his everyday life, Making Darkness Light is an illumination. Milton and everything and everybody around him are seen in a quite different, intriguing light. -- Adam Phillips, author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and Becoming FreudJoe Moshenska is professionally committed to creating a readership for Milton among those for whom Genesis, Virgil, Homer and Tasso are closed books . . . A great imaginative exercise . . . His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs -- A.N. Wilson, SpectatorStrikingly original . . . a poetic tour of 17th-century England . . . Literature lovers of all sorts will find something to savor here -- Publishers WeeklyOxford literature professor Moshenska takes a fresh perspective on John Milton (1608-1674), the art of biography, and the experience of reading . . . An inspired biographical and autobiographical journey -- KirkusMaking Darkness Light is unlike any book on Milton I have ever read. It is often densely erudite, but also richly inventive . . . [its] avoidance of easy certainties is typical of this subtle, challenging book -- John Carey, The Sunday TimesJoe Moshenska . . . is astute in placing music, especially rhythm (a word neither Milton nor Shakespeare used) and its visceral relationship to the body, at the root of this original, penetrating, cleverly constructed and occasionally frustrating biography -- Paul Lay, The TimesTantalisingly different and new...an extraordinary, seductive work of intellectual imagination -- Financial TimesMoshenska . . . brings his own experiences into this searching creative portrait of the visionary English poet. The book . . . comes alive in its alert close readings -- New York TimesMaking Darkness Light is not a conventional biography . . . despite the ambitious and demanding nature of his project, Moshenska writes with humility and agility -- Literary ReviewOf course, anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the facts of Milton's life and the context for his poetry will certainly find what they're looking for here. Making Darkness Light includes not only moments in Milton's life and the landscape of 17th century England as well as close readings of his work. But it's the exploration of what the author describes as one of Milton's deepest occupations, "the place of literature in a life," that sets the book apart. Moshenska has no aspirations to separate the biographer from the biography, and Making Darkness Light is richer for his presence throughout the book -- Jessie Gaynor, Lit Hub Senior EditorMoshenska knows his way around Milton's world... Making Darkness Light privileges us with a peek inside its author's mind in contemplation of such a life and makes a compelling case that it could be told in no other way -- Boston Globe
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Nova Science Publishers Inc The Steel Registry: Characters of Detective
Book SynopsisThe Steel Registry. Characters of Crime Fiction is a celebration of the genre of detective fiction and detective fiction characters. Beginning with the earliest eighteenth and nineteenth century crime fiction and concluding with leading contemporary exponents of the genre, the history and development of detective fiction is traced through vignettes of seventy-five crime and detective fiction characters derived from the famous novels of the genre. Famous detective fiction characters and the authors who created them are celebrated through brief descriptive and exploratory synopses including luminaries such as Conan-Doyle, Christie, Sayers, Chandler, Hammett, Marsh, Fleming, Stark, Le Carre, Dexter, Follett, Ludlum, Paretsky, Rankin, Burke, Ellroy, Dibdin, Grisham, Temple, Childe, Reichs, Hayder, James, Larsson, Galbraith, Hurwitz, and many more. This book explores the many reasons for reading crime fiction, not the least of them being the vast variety of literature that the genre embraces. The book also celebrates the heroes and heroines of detective fiction, describing in brief the nuances of their characters. Through the pleasures of reading about the challenges these heroes and heroines face, their attempts to stay human in a world which often lacks humanity, the genre of crime fiction also contributes to good literature, the stuff of lit crit or literary criticism, and so it can also be read with considerations of the development of style and genre. The Steel Registry explores this purer motive as well as the perhaps more usual escapism or sheer enjoyment, being beguiled, being captivated, being grabbed by the throat with a page-turning intensity, that is characteristic of the stimulating novels of the detective fiction genre and the characters of crime fiction created by their inspired authors.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson: Volume I
Book SynopsisRobert Louis Stevenson is the author of many classic novels. He was also prolific letter writer. The letters in volumes I and II, cover the years 1868 through 1894. Volume I begins with his student days at Edinburgh and contains letters to all kinds of people from towns like Paris, San Francisco, Marseilles and Bournemouth. Volume II starts in Bournemouth in 1886 and ends with the four years he spent in Samoa. The letters make fascinating reading, not only for those interested in Stevenson''s life but also for anyone interested in nineteenth-century literature.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson: Volume 2
Book SynopsisRobert Louis Stevenson is the author of many classic novels. He was also prolific letter writer. The letters in volumes I and II, cover the years 1868 through 1894. Volume I begins with his student days at Edinburgh and contains letters to all kinds of people from towns like Paris, San Francisco, Marseilles and Bournemouth. Volume II starts in Bournemouth in 1886 and ends with the four years he spent in Samoa. The letters make fascinating reading, not only for those interested in Stevenson's life but also for anyone interested in nineteenth-century literature.Table of ContentsFor more information, please visit our website at:https://novapublishers.com/shop/the-letters-of-robert-louis-stevenson-volume-ii/
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Broadview Press Ltd Daisy Miller (1878)
Book SynopsisHenry James’s Daisy Miller was an immediate sensation when it was first published in 1878 and has remained popular ever since. In this novella, the charming but inscrutable young American of the title shocks European society with her casual indifference to its social mores. The novella was popular in part because of the debates it sparked about foreign travel, the behaviour of women, and cultural clashes between people of different nationalities and social classes.This Broadview edition presents an early version of James’s best-known novella within the cultural contexts of its day. In addition to primary materials about nineteenth-century womanhood, foreign travel, medicine, philosophy, theatre, and art—some of the topics that interested James as he was writing the story—this volume includes James’s ruminations on fiction, theatre, and writing, and presents excerpts of Daisy Miller as he rewrote it for the theatre and for a much later and heavily revised edition.Trade Review“Everything about this edition commends it to instructors, students, and general readers alike. Kristin Boudreau’s authoritative introduction provides an excellent orientation, no less for seasoned scholars than for students discovering Henry James. The text of the novella is well chosen—the 1879 Harper edition, capturing the freshness of James’s early style (as opposed to the ornate 1909 revision), but with the benefit of James’s revisions of the first magazine and book versions. Twelve appendices offer contemporary materials that cast strong and helpful lights on key aspects of James’s art and of the literary and cultural contexts of this early masterpiece.” — Daniel Mark Fogel, University of Vermont“Kristin Boudreau’s fascinating and accessible introduction sets James’s Daisy Miller in biographical, literary, historical, philosophical—and even medical—context. Appendices provide ample and well-chosen primary material, including selections focused on the nineteenth-century New Woman; the prevalence and treatment of ‘Roman fever’; and James’s literary and artistic influences, aims, and revisions. Anyone teaching James’s popular novella will find Broadview’s new edition a superb resource.” — Linda Simon, Skidmore CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Kristin BoudreauHenry James: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextDaisy Miller: A StudyAppendix A: Henry James on Daisy Miller From Henry James, Notebooks (11 November 1882) Eliza Lynn Linton, Letter to Henry James (1880) Henry James, Reply to Eliza Lynn Linton (1880) From Henry James, Preface to Daisy Miller (1909) Appendix B: Literary and Artistic Influences From Lord Byron, “Manfred: A Dramatic Poem” (1817) From Henry James, Review of Victor Cherbuliez’s Paule Méré (October 1873) From Henry James, Unsigned Note on Velázquez’s “Portrait of Pope Innocent X” (November 1874) Appendix C: Henry James and the Craft of Fiction From Henry James, Hawthorne (1879) From Walter Besant, The Art of Fiction (1884) From Henry James, “The Art of Fiction” (1884; revised 1888) From Henry James, Preface to The Portrait of a Lady (1908) Appendix D: Contemporary Reviews of Daisy Miller (1878-82) From “Editor’s Easy Chair,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (June-November 1878) From The New York Times (10 November 1878) From Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (December 1878) From “Recent Novels,” The Nation (19 December 1878) From The North American Review (January 1879) From John Hay, “The Contributor’s Club,” Atlantic Monthly (March 1879) From William Dean Howells, Letter to James Russell Lowell (22 June 1879) From “New Books,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (July-December 1879) From “Henry James, Jr.,” Century Magazine (November 1882) Appendix E: Henry James and the Craft of Drama From Henry James, “The Parisian Stage,” The Nation (9 January 1873) From Henry James, “Tennyson’s Drama,” The Galaxy (September 1875) From James’s Letters and the Notebooks Letter to William James (6 February 1891) Letter to Elizabeth Lewis (15? December 1894) Letter to William and Alice James (29 December 1893) James, Notebooks (22 January 1899) From Henry James, “Note” to Theatricals: Second Series (1895) From Henry James, Preface to The Awkward Age (1908) Appendix F: From Henry James, Daisy Miller: A Comedy in Three Acts (1883)Appendix G: Contemporary Reviews of Daisy Miller: A Comedy in Three Acts (1883) From “Literary Notes,” The Independent (29 March 1883) From “Miscellaneous,” San Francisco Chronicle (30 September 1883) From “Daisy Miller as a Comedy,” Literary World (6 October 1883) Appendix H: On Henry James’s Revisions William James, Letter to Henry James (4 May 1907) Max Beerbohm, “A Nightmare, Mr. Henry James Subpoenaed as Psychological Expert in a Cause Célèbre” (1908) Henry James, Letter to William James (17-18 October 1907) Parallel Texts from the 1879 and 1900 Editions of Daisy Miller Appendix I: The Nineteenth-Century New Woman From Eliza Lynn Linton, The Girl of the Period and Other Social Essays (1868; reprinted 1883) From Eliza Lynn Linton, Modern Women and What Is Said of Them (1868; reprinted 1870) Henry James, Review of Modern Women and What Is Said of Them (22 October 1868) From Florence Hartley, The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness (1875) From From Lucy H. Hooper, “American Women Abroad,” The Galaxy (June 1876) From From Albert Rhodes, “Shall the American Girl Be Chaperoned?,” The Galaxy (October 1877) Appendix J: Nineteenth-Century Travel From William Wetmore Story, Roba di Roma (1862) From From Alice A. Bartlett, “Some Pros and Cons of Travel Abroad,” Old and New (October 1871) From Henry James, “The Old Saint-Gothard: Leaves from a Note-book ” (22 October 1868) From “Preface,” Cook’s Tourist Handbook for Northern Italy (1875) From Switzerland, and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and the Tyrol: Handbook for Travellers (1877) Descriptions of Swiss Sights From Switzerland, and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and the Tyrol: Handbook for Travellers (1877) From Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland, and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont (1867) Descriptions of Italian Sights and Challenges From Italy: A Handbook for Travellers (1893) From A Handbook of Rome and Its Environs (1873) Appendix K: “Roman Fever” From Peter S. Townsend, M.D., An Account of the Yellow Fever, as it Prevailed in the City of New York, in the Summer and Autumn of 1822 (1823) From Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) From Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (22 October 1868) “Miasma,” from A Dictionary of Medical Science (1895) Appendix L: Daisy Miller and the Tradition of Pragmatism From Charles Sanders Peirce, “The Fixation of Belief,” Popular Science Monthly (November 1877) From William James, Pragmatism (1907) Henry James, Letter to William James (17 October 1907) Works Cited and Recommended Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd Nostromo
Book SynopsisNostromo, first published in 1904, is arguably Conrad’s greatest and most complex novel. A compelling adventure story, it is also a novel of profound psychological insight and of powerful political implications. It tells the story of a Central American state whose silver mine serves both literally and metaphorically as the source of the country‘s value. Written at the time of the development of the Panama Canal, Nostromo is set in the imaginary province of Sulaco, which secedes from the federation of Costaguana in order to protect its natural resource, the silver mine. The parallels with the ‘revolution’ fomented in Panama by the United States in 1903 are striking; just as Panama seceded from Columbia to satisfy the material interests of the canal builders, so the secession of Sulaco serves the material interests of ‘the Gould concession.’ In this edition a variety of documents from the period (including material concerning American involvement in Central America in the early twentieth century, early critical notices, and family letters of Conrad’s) help to set the text in context.Trade Review“Ruth Nadelhaft’s new edition of Nostromo is a timely addition to the Broadview Editions series. Without neglecting the traditional critical and biographical approaches, the supplementary materials and lucid introduction place Conrad’s difficult masterpiece fully and clearly within its contemporary contexts (especially the events surrounding the Panama Canal project), and in relation to our own debates about imperialism, colonials, and alleged racism in Conrad’s work. Broadview’s Nostromo, like its companion volumes, is truly a text for the way we teach now.” — David Latané Jr., Virginia Commonwealth University“Nadelhaft negotiates the impasse between existential and political responses to the book. In reaffirming that the personal is the political, she demonstrates how Nostromo represents the process whereby ‘imperialism transmits the virus of alienation.’ Joined with the historical apparatus so characteristic of Broadview Editions, such theorizing genuinely reopens a book that hasn’t yet received its due.” — Michael Coyle, Colgate UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionA Note on the TextJoseph Conrad: A Brief ChronologyAuthor’s NoteNostromoAppendix A: Selected Reviews Letters of Arnold Bennett (25 November 1912) Unsigned review, The Times Literary Supplement (21 October 1904) Unsigned notice, Review of Reviews (1 November 1904) Unsigned notice, Black and White (5 November 1904) Unsigned review, Daily Telegraph (9 November 1904) C.D.O. Barrie, British Weekly (10 November 1904) Unsigned review, Manchester Guardian (2 November 1904) Edward Garnett, Speaker (12 November 1904) John Buchan, Spectator (19 November 1904) Unsigned notice, Illustrated London News (26 November 1904) Appendix B: Selected LettersAppendix C: Documents relating to the Panama Canal Treaty of 1903Appendix D: “Autocracy and War”Works CitedRecommended Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd Lodore
Book SynopsisBeset by jealousy over an admirer of his wife's, Lord Lodore has come with his daughter Ethel to the American wilderness; his wife Cornelia, meanwhile, has remained with her controlling mother in England. When he finally brings himself to attempt a return, Lodore is killed en route in a duel. Ethel does return to England, and the rest of the book tells the story of her marriage to the troubled and impoverished Villiers (whom she stands by through a variety of tribulations) and her long journey to a reconciliation with her mother.Lodore's scope of character and of idea is matched by its narrative range and variety of setting; the novel's highly dramatic story-line moves at different points to Italy, to Illinois, and to Niagara Falls. And in this edition, which includes a wealth of documents from the period, the reader is provided with a sense of the full context out of which Shelley's achievement emerged.Trade Review“Not the one book author that Frankenstein sometimes make her seem, Mary Shelley was a complex and committed social thinker whose novels reveal her deep concern with the impact of the emerging Victorian social dynamic upon the lives of women. While Lodore reflects Shelley's conviction of the importance to the new bourgeois family model of the ‘genuine affections of the human heart,' it shows us too, in the person of the remarkable Fanny Derham, the consequences for a free-thinking and independent woman who has learned ‘to be afraid of nothing.' Vargo's splendid edition resituates Shelley within the 1830s milieu of successful literary women like Landon and Hemans who understood their readers and their marked, and within a culture that was moving rapidly away from the exuberant Romanticism of only two decades earlier. With its illuminating critical introduction, and its extensive contextualizing appendices, this exceptional edition will alert readers anew to the complexity and sophistication of Shelley's mind and art.” - Stephen C. Behrendt, University of Nebraska"This volume marks yet another excellent addition to Broadview's expanding list of literary writings that have long been out of print." - Nineteenth-Century Literature"Vargo has provided a much-needed, comprehensive edition of the text." - University of Toronto QuarterlyTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionA Note on the TextMary Shelley: A Brief ChronologyLodoreAppendix A: Mary Shelley—Woman of Letters “The Bride of Modern Italy” (1824) From Review of The Loves of the Poets (1829) From Review of Cloudesley; A Tale (1830) From “Ugo Foscolo,” Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal (1837) Appendix B: Some Literary Contexts George Gordon, Lord Byron, from Lara (1814) The Tempest and Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Female Reader (1797) Thomas Campbell, from Gertrude of Wyoming (1809) Edward John Trelawny from Adventures of a Younger Son (1831) Appendix C: Illinois and Duelling Morris Birkbeck, from Letters from Illinois (1818) William Cobbett, from A Year’s Residence in America (1818-19) Frances Wright, from Views of Society and Manners in America (1821) William Godwin, from Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Third Edition (1798) James Fenimore Cooper, from Notions of the Americans (1828) Appendix D: Domesticity and Women’s Education Mary Wollstonecraft, from Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787) Mary Wollstonecraft, from Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) William Godwin, from The Enquirer (1797) Anna Jameson, from Characteristics of Women (1832) Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England (1839) Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews of Lodore From The Athenæum From The Examiner From Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country From Leigh Hunt’s London Journal From The Literary Gazette From New Monthly Magazine From The Sun Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Ormond
Book SynopsisBrown is often called the first American novelist. Originally published in 1799, Ormond was inspired by enlightenment philosophers and Gothic writers. The novel engages with many of the period’s popular debates about women’s education, marriage, and the morality of violence, while the plot revolves around the Gothic themes of seduction, murder, incest, impersonation, romance and disease. Set in post-revolutionary Philadelphia, Ormond examines the prospects of the struggling nation by tracing the experiences of Constantia, a young virtuous republican who struggles to survive when her father’s business is ruined by a confidence man, and her friends and neighbors are killed by a yellow fever epidemic.Trade Review“In her marvelous new edition of Ormond, Mary Chapman has given scholars, teachers and students of Charles Brockden Brown what they have longed for: an affordable paperback edition complete with a trenchant, historically-textured introduction to Brown’s least known, and most underrated major novel. Chapman’s exhaustive labour in both the classic and contemporary criticism of the early American novel, coupled with her thorough knowledge of the philosophical and political pamphlet literature of the early national period, afford the modern reader the very sort of ‘thick description’ so often lost in considering the work of America’s first ‘professional’ novelist.” ― Julia Stern, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextCharles Brockden Brown: A Brief ChronologyOrmond; or, The Secret WitnessNotes on the AppendicesAppendix A: Judith Sargent Murray’s “On the Equality of the Sexes” (1790)Appendix B: From John Robison’s Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe, Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies (1798)Appendix C: Selections from Jedidiah Morse’s “A Sermon Exhibiting the Present Dangers, and Consequent Duties of the Citizens of the United States” (1799)Works Cited and Recommended Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd Pink Snow: Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian
Book SynopsisDrawing on recent developments in gay studies and queer theory, Pink Snow: Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction offers new interpretations that focus on homoerotic resonances in literature. Goldie brings an original, engaging, and sometimes provocative critical perspective to bear on both Canadian classics and less mainstream works. Chapters include:Wacousta (John Richardson)As For Me and My House (Sinclair Ross)Who Has Seen the Wind (W.O. Mitchell)The Mountain and the Valley (Ernest Buckler)Beautiful Losers (Leonard Cohen)Place D’Armes (Scott Symons)Fifth Business (Robertson Davies)The Wars (Timothy Findley)Thy Mother’s Glass (David Watmough)Funny Boy (Shyam Selvadurai)Kiss of the Fur Queen (Tomson Highway)Trade Review“The power of Terry Goldie’s Pink Snow is not to show us what we’ve always known, that some Canadian fiction writers have been gay or that they treat gayness in their work. Goldie shows us what it means to read from a gay perspective even when reading such canonical texts as Wacousta, As For Me and My House, Who Has Seen the Wind, The Mountain and the Valley, Beautiful Losers, or Fifth Business. No matter how well you think you already know these Canadian classics, you emerge from the pages of Pink Snow with a sense of fresh insights, and even, to paraphrase Goldie, of the queerness of much of Canadian fiction.” — Russell Brown, University of Toronto at ScarboroughTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsCHAPTER 1: Introduction: Who is the Homotextual?CHAPTER 2: The Guise of Friendship: WacoustaCHAPTER 3: “Not Precisely Gay in Tone”:As For Me and My HouseCHAPTER 4: Pursuing the Homosocial Ideal:Who Has Seen the WindCHAPTER 5: The Pain of David’s Body:The Mountain and the ValleyCHAPTER 6: Producing Losers: Beautiful LosersCHAPTER 7: The Canadian Assoul: Place d’ArmesCHAPTER 8: “How Am I Queer?”: Fifth BusinessCHAPTER 9: The Canadian HomoSEXual: The WarsCHAPTER 10: What is Davey Bryant Doing Here?:Thy Mother’s GlassCHAPTER 11: The Funniness of the Funny BoyCHAPTER 12: Eaten Up: Kiss of the Fur QueenCHAPTER 13: Conclusion: Guilty BuddiesL’EnvoiWorks CitedIndex
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Broadview Press Ltd Black Oxen
Book SynopsisBlack Oxen unites such unlikely topics as medical rejuvenation treatments, eugenics, American youth culture, and cross-generational relationships. The beautiful American widow of a Hungarian count, Mary Zattiany is fifty-eight years old; after receiving experimental “rejuvenation treatments” and returning to America, however, she is mistaken for a woman in her twenties, and falls in love with a much younger man. Set in an era fixated on youth, beauty, and pleasure, but focusing on the experiences of an aging woman, Black Oxen offers a unique and unsettling view of the Jazz Age.Black Oxen was written in a burst of mental energy after Gertrude Atherton herself received an experimental anti-aging treatment; the introduction and appendices to this edition explore parallels between Atherton’s medical treatment and that of her rejuvenated protagonist, as well as provide selections from other contemporary writings on aging, science, and the role of women in the 1920s. Stills and posters from the 1924 film adaptation are also included.Trade Review“Broadview’s edition of Atherton’s Black Oxen is long overdue. Of interest to students of 1920s culture, gender studies, and aging studies, Atherton’s novel explores the 1920s female rejuvenation craze. Melanie Dawson situates Atherton’s work in the context of its time, exploring gender and generational tensions, the cult of the flapper, the literary sophistication of the Algonquin Round Table, and the role of American intellectuals on the international stage. Historical documents that illuminate these issues, as well as the popularity of Atherton’s novel and its film adaptation, will bring the novel to life for students. Dawson’s edition of Black Oxen should help the novel enjoy the rejuvenation it deserves.” — Meredith Goldsmith, Ursinus College“Melanie Dawson’s critical edition of Gertrude Atherton’s Black Oxen provides a good range of contextual materials illuminating the novel’s exploration of youth culture, science and technology, eugenics, and sexual politics in the early twentieth century. Dawson’s helpful introduction also emphasizes the novel’s engagement with national and international concerns of the period. Supplementary materials provide a useful overview of rejuvenation theories (including Atherton’s own writing on the subject), contemporary discourses of marriage, gender, and the flapper, and the reception of Atherton’s novel and its popular movie version. The edition will be particularly welcome in modernism and women’s studies courses.” — Gary Totten, North Dakota State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGertrude Atherton: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextBlack OxenAppendix A: Age and the Body From George F. Corners, Rejuvenation: How Steinach Makes People Young (1923) From Eugen Steinach, Sex and Life: Forty Years of Biological and Medical Experiments (1940) From Gertrude Atherton, “Second Youth” (8 July 1939) Readers’ Letters to Atherton Appendix B: Theories of Cultural Change in the 1920s From Ben B. Lindsey and Wainwright Evans, The Companionate Marriage (1927) From Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties (1931) From Floyd Dell, Love in the Machine Age: A Psychological Study of the Transition from Patriarchal Society (1930) Appendix C: The Flapper and the Other Generations E.L. Aultman, “What Is a ‘Flapper’?” Los Angeles Times (1 March 1922) Helen Bullitt Lowry, “Mrs. Grundy and Miss 1921,” New York Times (23 January 1921) Alma Whitaker, “Exit Flapper; Enter the Mysterious Woman of Thirty,” Los Angeles Times (23 July 1922) Appendix D: Reviews of the Novel and the Film Carl Van Vechten, “A Lady Who Defies Time,” The Nation (14 February 1923) “The New Curiosity Shop, Black Oxen,” The Literary Review (7 July 1923) “First National’s Black Oxen Plays to Capacity Business,” Moving Picture World (19 January 1924) Frank Elliott, “Black Oxen, Frank Lloyd, First National,” Motion Picture News (5 January 1924) Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd At the Back of the North Wind (1868)
Book SynopsisThe unique blend of fairy tale atmosphere and social realism in this novel laid the groundwork for modern fantasy literature. In the novel, Little Diamond, a kind and precocious boy living in poverty, is befriended by the mysterious North Wind, who takes him on her nightly adventures. Written in intensely poetic language, At the Back of the North Wind transcends the genres of children’s book or fairy tale.Appendices include essays on childhood by contemporaries such as John Ruskin and Charles Dickens, as well as contextualizing selections from Victorian fantasy and fairy tales.Trade Review“This is a remarkable edition, situating a fascinating text in a number of provocative contexts. The annotations provide informative social and historical background while also following textual traces to other MacDonald texts, and to the varied sources used by this highly eclectic Victorian author. The edition pays particular attention to Arthur Hughes’s marvellous illustrations, which are not only reproduced but fully contextualized by original essays appended to the edition. The full apparatus gives us the text but also its worlds, from the streets of London to the imaginary vistas of myth and fairy tale. As an added treat, the eminent literary critic Stephen Prickett has furnished a rich and densely suggestive Preface.” — Doug Thorpe, University of Saskatchewan“Broadview Editions’ new edition of George MacDonald’s 1871 fairy tale is an excellent and enlightening look at this significant event in children’s literature. With an abundance of supporting material, this volume is veritably a course in the Victorian fairy tale, setting the story in context with nineteenth-century Britain, anticipating the reader’s questions, and addressing the controversies. There is much to be learned from this work.” — George Bodmer, Indiana University Northwest“This eagerly awaited edition of a major children’s classic of the Victorian era wonderfully fulfills its ambitious aims. Not only do McGillis and Pennington validate the cultural importance once held by At the Back of the North Wind, but also manage to highlight this hybrid fantasy-book’s appeal to readers in the Age of Harry Potter. Appendices that place the book into different kinds of contexts; the careful textual annotations; and, above all, the attention paid to visual matters—Arthur Hughes’s illustrations, as well as other cartoons, maps, and anatomies—make this a truly indispensable item.” — Ulrich Knoepflmacher, Professor Emeritus, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPreface, Stephen PrickettIntroductionGeorge MacDonald: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the Text and IllustrationsAt the Back of the North WindAppendix A: Good Words for the Young and the Serial Publication of At the Back of the North Wind Mark Knight, Introduction: Good Words for the Young Cover of Good Words for the Young (1869) Norman Macleod, Editor’s Address (1869) Cover of Good Words for the Young (1870) George MacDonald, Editor’s Greeting (1 December 1870) “The Mother’s Prayer” (1869) Two Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (1 July1870) “The Rags” “What the Whole Family Said” “Up in Heaven” (1870) Arthur Hughes, Illustration for Ranald Bannerman’s Boyhood (1871) Arthur Hughes, Illustration for The Princess and the Goblin (1872) Appendix B: Children’s Literature and the Victorian Consciousness Review of At the Back of the North Wind, The Athenaeum (March 1871) Mark Twain and George MacDonald Letter from Twain to MacDonald (19 September 1882) Letter from Twain to W.D. Howells (1899) From Poems in Two Volumes, by William Wordsworth (1807) “My heart leaps up” (written in 1802) From “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” (written in 1802-04) George MacDonald, “The Child in the Midst” (1867) Cartoon of MacDonald as “Goody Goody” (2 November 1872) George Cattermole, Illustration from Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) Hammatt Billings, Illustration from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) Appendix C: Literary and Cultural Connections From Aesop, “The North Wind and the Sun” From Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies (1863) From Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Henry Mayhew, “Crossing-Sweepers,” from London Labour and the London Poor (1852) Appendix D: Victorian Fairy-Tale Debate Charles Dickens, “Frauds on the Fairies” (1 October 1853) From George Cruikshank, Cinderella and the Glass Slipper (1854) John Ruskin, “Fairy Stories” (1868) George Cruikshank, Illustration of “Rumple-Stilts-Kin” (1823) George Cruikshank, Illustration of “The Elves and the Shoemaker” (1823) George MacDonald, “The Fantastic Imagination” (1893) Appendix E: Illustrations of At the Back of the North Wind Jan Susina, Introduction: “The Brotherhood between George MacDonald and Arthur Hughes”: Hughes’s Illustrations toMacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind Robert Trexler, Five Early Illustrators of At the Back of the North Wind Appendix F: Maps and Other Illustrative Images Sandford Map of Central London, 1862 Sandford Map of Central London, 1862 (detail) Maps of Hyperborean Region Parts of a Horse Parts of a Hansom Cab Currency in Victorian England Works CitedSelect Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys (1827)
Book SynopsisThe O’Briens and the O’Flahertys is a fast-paced tale of political intrigue and aristocratic vanity—a romp through 1793 Dublin as Ireland pitches towards the United Irishmen Uprising of 1798. It follows Murrogh O’Brien as he tries to find his way between his nostalgic father, the politically savvy Irish-Italian nun Beavoin O’Flaherty, the dashing flirt, Lady Knocklofty, the idealistic United Irishmen, and his comically old-fashioned aunts, only to be caught up in a sweep of arrests and revelations in the novel’s dramatic fourth volume. The O’Briens’ original footnotes and authorial digressions detail the failure of colonial policy in Ireland, contributing to the novel’s long-standing reputation as a credible historical account of the turbulent 1790s. This Broadview Edition includes extensive historical documents on Irish politics in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as well as a selection of contemporary reviews of The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys.Trade Review“Julia M. Wright’s beautiful new edition of The O’Briens and The O’Flahertys is a revelation. As with her masterfully edited Broadview edition of Morgan’s The Missionary, Wright has provided the social and historical contexts that bring Morgan’s work back to us in its rich and complex fullness. The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys, arguably Morgan’s best novel, details the intertwined histories of two Irish families and follows their descendants through the tumultuous period of Ireland on the brink of rebellion, while periodically glancing centuries back to trace incursions and settlements on Ireland’s shores, focusing upon English colonial rule. Wright’s well-researched introduction, copious footnotes (complementing those of Morgan herself), and appendices illuminating the United Irishmen uprising, the move toward reform, and the novel’s reception allow the reader to understand Morgan’s work as a daring national tale and colourful tour de force.” — Susan Egenolf, Texas A&M UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionSydney Owenson (Lady Morgan): A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe O’Briens and the O’Flahertys: A National TaleAppendix A: Selected Historical People, Groups, and EventsAppendix B: Nationalist Movements: From the Volunteers to the United Irishmen From Jonah Barrington, Historic Anecdotes and Secret Memoirs of the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland (1809) “Original Declaration of the United Irishmen” (1791), Appendix I of Charles Hamilton Teeling’s Personal Narrative of the “Irish Rebellion” of 1798 From William Drennan, A Letter to his Excellency Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Lieutenant, &c. of Ireland (1795) From William Sampson, Memoirs of William Sampson (1807) From Charles Hamilton Teeling, Personal Narrative of the “Irish Rebellion” of 1798 (1828) From Thomas Moore, The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1831) From Jonah Barrington, Historic Anecdotes and Secret Memoirs of the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland (1809) Appendix C: “The Cause of Reform”: From Grattan’s Parliament toCatholic Emancipation From Henry Grattan’s speech on “A Bill for the Relief of theRoman Catholics” (25 December 1781) From Henry Grattan, “Declaration of Right” (22 February1782) From William Drennan, Letter to the Right Honorable William Pitt (1799) From Denys Scully, A Statement of the Penal Laws (1812) From Robert Torrens, The Victim of Intolerance; Or, the Hermitof Killarney. A Catholic Tale (1814) From The Speech of Daniel O’Connell, Esq. at the CatholicAggregate Meeting, at the Freemasons’ Hall, on Feb. 26, 1825 From “Aristocracy,” in Lady Morgan’s Book of the Boudoir(1829) Appendix D: Contemporary Responses to The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys From the Morning Chronicle (22 November 1827) From the Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh) (7 January 1828) From R. Shelton Mackenzie’s “Editor’s Preface,” The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys (1856) Works Cited and Recommended Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd Jane Austen's Manuscript Works (18th Century)
Book SynopsisWhen Jane Austen died, at the age of 41, she left behind her not only six novels but a large number of manuscripts, ranging from juvenile works to the novel that she was writing at the time of her final illness. The six published novels are now undisputed classics. The manuscripts, however, despite the extraordinary writing they contain and the way in which they illuminate Jane Austen's work as a novelist, are much less well known. From the brilliance of the juvenilia to the urbane modernity of Sanditon these works show Austen pushing the conventional boundaries of fiction, exploring the implications of vulgarity and violence, experimenting with different styles and tones, and practicing and refining her arts of narrative.This Broadview Edition includes Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon, and ten important early manuscript works. Historical appendices include Austen's letters on fiction; continuations written by Austen's niece and nephew of two of her early works; and Sir Walter Scott's important critical appraisal of Austen from 1816.Trade Review“As the informative and scholarly Introduction suggests, these manuscript works, with their combination of boisterous satire and cool detachment, throw a startling light on Jane Austen’s writing practices and the achievements of her great novels. Edited by three distinguished Austen scholars, with useful notes at the bottom of the page, this is a volume all teachers and lovers of her work will want to possess.” — John Wiltshire, La Trobe University, Melbourne“Here, in a form fully annotated and accessible to students, we have ‘the Other Jane Austen’—a selection of the juvenilia, the wicked ‘Lady Susan,’ and the tantalising fragments ‘The Watsons’ and ‘Sanditon.’ No longer buried as ‘Minor Works,’ these sparkling productions, unpublished in her lifetime, provide indispensable insight into a brilliant author at work and at play.” — Juliet McMaster, University of AlbertaTable of Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Jane Austen: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text Juvenilia Lady Susan The Watsons Sanditon Appendix A: Austen’s Letters about Fiction Appendix B: Continuations of “Evelyn” and “Catharine” by James Edward Austen and Anna Lefroy Appendix C: “Love and Friendship” (1790) and Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778) Appendix D: From Mary Wollstonecraft’s Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787): “Unfortunate Situation of Females, fashionably educated, and left without a Fortune” Appendix E: From Walter Scott, Quarterly Review (October 1815) Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd The Daughter of Adoption (1801)
Book SynopsisJohn Thelwall’s The Daughter of Adoption: A Tale of Modern Times is a witty and wide-ranging work in which the picaresque and sentimental novel of the eighteenth century confronts the revolutionary ideas and forms of the Romantic period. Thelwall puts his two main characters, the conflicted English gentleman Henry Montfort and the Creole Seraphina Parkinson, through their paces in a slave rebellion in Haiti, where they barely escape with their lives, and in London society, where Henry almost loses his soul. Combining political analysis with melodrama and flat-out farce, Daughter expands the scope of the abolitionist novel, pushing the argument beyond the slave trade to challenge empire and racial superiority.Historical materials on Thelwall’s life, the abolitionist movement, and eighteenth-century educational theories provide a detailed context for the novel.Trade Review“This edition of The Daughter of Adoption at last makes this multifaceted work available for general readers and classroom use. The editors have done a terrific job of situating both Thelwall and his novel as central to a reconception of the literary—including fiction, drama, and poetry, but also political, philosophical, and educational writing. Even more critically, they highlight the link between the written and oral language arts in Thelwall’s radicalism. The introduction overflows with connections to key debates and events of the 1790s and gestures toward nearly every major literary thread and cultural concern of the turn between Enlightenment and Romanticism.” — Miriam Wallace, New College of Florida“Eagerly read and distributed by his former associates in the radical movement of the 1790s, John Thelwall’s The Daughter of Adoption stands at the confluence of the many intellectual trends that fed into nineteenth-century literature. Recent scholarly work, to which the editors of this volume have made major contributions, has shown Thelwall’s importance to the emergent forms of Romantic poetry, not least via his personal and poetic dialogues with Wordsworth and Coleridge. Now this edition gives us the opportunity to see the themes of his radical prose and lectures of the 1790s being turned into a groundbreaking work of fiction. Exploring issues and techniques broached by novels such as Godwin’s Caleb Williams and Wollstonecraft’s Maria, it gives the question of freedom a global dimension via its depiction of a slave revolt in Haiti. The result is a complex but compelling work of fiction.” — Jon Mee, University of WarwickTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionJohn Thelwall and His World: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Daughter of Adoption; A Tale of Modern TimesAppendix A: Biographical Documents From John Thelwall, “Prefatory Memoir,” Poems, Chiefly Written in Retirement (1801) From John Thelwall to Susan Thelwall (18 July 1797) From John Thelwall to Dr. Peter Crompton (3 March 1798) From John Thelwall, A Letter to Francis Jeffray [sic], Esq. (1804) From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835) From William Wordsworth to Henrietta Cecil Thelwall (16 November 1838) From William Wordsworth, Notes Dictated to Isabella Fenwick, first published as Notes in the Poetical Works (1857) Appendix B: Contextual Documents Literature and Education From Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) From Thomas Day, The History of Sandford and Merton (1783-89) From John Thelwall, The Peripatetic (1793) From Richard and Maria Edgeworth, Practical Education (1801) From John Thelwall, Introductory Discourse on the Nature and Objects of Elocutionary Science (1805) From John Thelwall, “The Historical and Oratorical Society,” A Letter to Henry Cline (1810) The West Indies and the Abolition Debate From John Thelwall, “The Connection between the Calamities of the Present Reign, and the System of Borough-Mongering Corruption,” The Tribune (1795-96) From John Thelwall, Rights of Nature, against the Usurpations of Establishments (1796) From Baron de Wimpffen, A Voyage to Saint Domingo, in the Years 1788, 1789, and 1790 (1797) From Bryan Edwards, An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo (1798) From John Thelwall, “The Negro’s Prayer,” Monthly Magazine (April 1807) The Revolution Debate From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) From William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1798) Appendix C: Reviews of The Daughter of Adoption Critical Review (February 1801) Monthly Magazine (20 July 1801) Monthly Review (August 1801) Annals of Philosophy (1801) Thelwall’s Reply to the Reviews, from “Prefatory Memoir,” Poems, Chiefly Written in Retirement (1801) Works Cited and Recommended Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd The Return of the Native (1878)
Book SynopsisThe Return of the Native was a radical departure for Thomas Hardy, ushering in his tragic literary vision of the world. Though set in a small space (Egdon Heath in the fictional county of Wessex) and short time (the main action spans a year and a day), the novel addresses the broad social and intellectual upheavals of the Victorian age. Much of this turmoil is embodied in the character of Eustacia Vye, the novel’s wilful female protagonist. A complex, independent young woman, Eustacia is a sympathetic but ultimately tragic figure, the epitome of what the narrator calls the “irrepressible New.”The appendices to this Broadview edition place the novel in the context of Hardy’s career and the scientific and social ideas of the time. Documents include contemporary reviews, related writings by Hardy, and materials on biology, geology, and the “Woman Question.” Illustrations from the original serialization in Belgravia magazine and Hardy’s performance text of the mummers’ play are also included.Trade Review“Simon Avery’s edition of The Return of the Native, Hardy’s first great classic, provides a beautifully balanced, meticulously researched resource. Avery’s editorial approach is, in every respect, new and fresh—even in his interpretation of the novel’s denouement. Offering a wide range of critical perspectives, the compelling Introduction features a rich collection of viewpoints and critiques in a manner so informative, compact, and stylish that exploration becomes the modus operandi within and beyond the plot. In turn, the appendices at the end of the book complement the contextualising of the Introduction and footnotes. A selection of Hardy’s other writings in prose and poetry adds textual weight and structural balance overall.” — Rosemarie Morgan, University of St. Andrews“Simon Avery has edited Hardy’s The Return of the Native with great skill: his footnotes are detailed and extensive without becoming intrusive; his bibliography of further reading selects judiciously from old and new materials; and he gives a generous range of contemporary materials to help contextualise the book. Alongside the unmistakable nineteenth-century concerns present in Hardy’s novel, Avery alerts us to less well-known ones, illuminating in particular Hardy’s depiction of Eustacia Vye, who can be seen from this edition as a precursor to Sue Bridehead, the proto-feminist of Jude the Obscure. Distinctively too, Avery includes a selection of Hardy’s poetry, helpfully breaking down the barrier between Hardy the novelist and Hardy the poet. In all respects, the volume continues the excellent standard of Broadview Hardy editions.” — Ralph Pite, Bristol UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionThomas Hardy: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Return of the NativeAppendix A: Prefaces and Maps The Preface to the 1895 Wessex Novels Edition The Postscript added to the 1912 Wessex Edition From the General Preface to the Novels and Poems (1912) Map of Egdon Heath (1878) Map of Wessex (1895) Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews From The Athenaeum (23 November 1878) Hardy’s response to the Athenaeum review (30 November 1878) From W.E. Henley, The Academy (30 November 1878) From the Saturday Review (4 January 1879) From the Spectator (8 February 1879) From the New Quarterly Magazine (October 1879) From Havelock Ellis, “Thomas Hardy’s Novels,” Westminster Review (April 1883) Appendix C: Philosophical and Political Contexts Positivism: from Auguste Comte, System of Positive Polity (1851−54; trans. 1875−76) The Individual and Freedom: from John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) The Woman Question: from John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies (1865) and John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women (1869) Hedonism and Modernity: from Walter Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) Appendix D: Scientific Influences From Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology (1830−33) From Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) From Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology (1864−67) From Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) Appendix E: Other Writings by Hardy A Selection of Hardy’s Poetry Hap At a Bridal Neutral Tones Nature’s Questioning An August Midnight The Dead Man Walking By the Barrows The Roman Road The Moth-Signal The Oxen Welcome Home The Graveyard of Dead Creeds Domicilium From “The Dorsetshire Labourer” (1883) From “The Profitable Reading of Fiction” (1888) From “Candour in English Fiction” (1890) From The Life of Thomas Hardy (1928; 1930) Appendix F: The Play of Saint GeorgeAppendix G: Arthur Hopkins’s Illustrations for the Monthly Serialization of Belgravia (1878)Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Colonel Jack
Book SynopsisLong dismissed by critics as a novel of merely historical interest, Colonel Jack is one of Daniel Defoe’s most entertaining, revealing, and complex works. It is the supposed autobiography of an English gentleman who begins life as a child of the London streets. He and his brothers are brought up as pickpockets and highwaymen, but Jack seeks to improve himself. Kidnapped and taken to America, he becomes first a slave, then an overseer on plantations in Maryland. Jack’s story is one of dramatic turns of fortune that ultimately lead to a life of law-abiding prosperity as a plantation owner.Historical appendices relate to eighteenth-century Virginia and Maryland and to contemporary crime, punishment, and imprisonment.Trade Review“It is a pleasure to have an edition of Defoe’s Colonel Jack available for use in the classroom. As the editors, Gabriel Cervantes and Geoffrey Sill, remark, there has been no edition of this novel available for decades. The introduction is a remarkable piece of original scholarship and criticism. The discussion of Jack’s shifting concept of identity suggests Defoe’s original approach to this subject; the comparison between Jack and the later slave, Frederick Douglas frames a rich discussion about the nature of servitude at the time; and the interesting reading of the illustrations later appended to Defoe’s narrative as a way into discussing Jack’s criminal boyhood and later repentance & all provide suggestive openings into Defoe’s work both for university students who may encounter it in a class and for the general reader. Professors Cervantes and Sill also provide an appendix with fascinating documents throwing light on the nature of transporting criminals to the North American colonies and critical assessments of Colonel Jack. They rightfully lament the neglect of this work and contribute to what will surely be a revival of critical interest in one of Defoe’s best fictional narratives.” — Maximillian E. Novak, UCLA“Jack cuts a wider swath across the social and political geography of his times than any of Defoe’s other protagonists. Abandoned at birth, he rises from homeless London street urchin to wealthy Virginia planter. Along the way, by a ‘long series of Changes and Turns,’ he is among other things a sneak thief and robber; kidnapped into slavery; the overseer and then master of slaves; a captive, variously, of the French and the Spanish; a parvenu returned to Europe intent on fashioning himself into a gentleman; an officer in the French army and then in the service of the Pretender; a fugitive who has not once but twice taken up arms against the English crown; a merchant engaged in illicit trade with Latin America; and five times the husband of four women in England, Italy, France, and Virginia, all of whom betray him. Of labile and elusive identity, he can pass for a Frenchman among his countrymen and a Spaniard among Spaniards. This scrupulous and meticulous edition provides, with its immensely useful annotation, rich and valuable historical context for an often undervalued novel.” — Lincoln Faller, University of Michigan“Colonel Jack, the poor stepchild among the books of Defoe’s major period of fiction writing, has finally gotten the modern edition it deserves. Freshly edited and splendidly introduced by Gabriel Cervantes and Geoffrey Sill, this edition has just the right mix of contemporary writings on trade, criminality, Jacobitism, and marriage to enable modern readers to recover the rich transatlantic world that Defoe inscribes. I cannot wait to bring this edition into the classroom.” — John O’Brien, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionDaniel Defoe: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextColonel JackAppendix A: Historical and Political Contexts From George Alsop, A Character of the Province of Mary-Land (1666) From The Confession and Execution of the Prisoners at Tyburn … (1676) From William Fleetwood, A Sermon Preached before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (1711) From The Jacobites Detected (1718) From An Act for the further Preventing Robbery, Burglary and other Felonies, and for the more effectual Transportation of Felons … (1718) “Compassion on Famishing Thieves,” Applebee’s Original Weekly Journal (16 June 1722) “On the Return to England of Transported Felons,” Applebee’s Original Weekly Journal (26 January 1723) “A Plea for Charity Schools,” Applebee’s Original Weekly Journal (23 July 1723) From Batty Langley, An Accurate Description of Newgate (1724) From Daniel Defoe, Conjugal Lewdness: or, Matrimonial Whoredom (1727) Appendix B: Literary Contexts James Revel, The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon’s Sorrowful Account of His Fourteen Years Transportation at Virginia in America (c. 1659–80) From Street-Robberies, Consider’d: The Reason of their Being so Frequent (1728) Preface to the Fourth Edition of Colonel Jack (1738) “Of some our MODERNS,” London Magazine and Monthly Chronologer (February 1741) Benjamin Franklin, Notices and Editorials on Convict Transportation “London, Jan. 27,” Daily Journal (27 January 1724) “Jakes on our Tables?,” The Pennsylvania Gazette (11 April 1751) “Rattle-Snakes for Felons,” The Pennsylvania Gazette (9 May 1751) From The Fortunate Transport (c. 1750) From a Letter from Erasmus Darwin to Josiah Wedgwood(22 February 1789) Robert Southey, “Elinor” (1797) Remarks on Defoe by Charles Lamb From a Letter to Walter Wilson (16 December 1822) From “Estimate of [Defoe’s] Secondary Novels” (1830) Edward E. Hale, Preface to The Life of Colonel Jack (1891) Works Cited and Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Mandeville
Book SynopsisWilliam Godwin’s Mandeville was described as his best novel by Percy Shelley, who sent a copy to Lord Byron, and it was immediately recognized by its other admirers as a work of unique power. Written one year after the battle of Waterloo and set in an earlier revolutionary period between the execution of Charles I and the Restoration, Mandeville is a novel of psychological warfare. The narrative begins with Mandeville’s rescue from the traumatic aftermath of the Ulster Rebellion of 1641 and proceeds through his early education by a fanatical Presbyterian minister to his persecution at Winchester school, his constant (and not unjustified) paranoia, and his confinement in an asylum. Mandeville’s final, desperate attempt to prevent his sister’s marriage to his enemy ends with his disfiguration, which also defaces endings based on settlement or reconciliation. The novel’s events have many resonances with Godwin’s own period.The historical appendices offer contemporary reviews, including Shelley’s letter to Godwin praising Mandeville, material explaining the novel’s complex historical background, and contemporary writings on war, madness, and trauma.Trade Review“Godwin’s most harrowing novel and trenchant analysis of the stalling of political justice by personal trauma, Mandeville probes the importance of pathology to history. Set in the period of the English Revolution, Mandeville narrates Charles Mandeville’s wounding by history and the wounding of the capacity for progress. Expertly situated and annotated by Godwin’s most comprehensive reader, Tilottama Rajan’s edition fleshes out the historical, political, doctrinal, and psychopathological contexts that inform this most damaged Godwinian character. An alternative form of historical novel, Mandeville showcases the negative in persons and events as a deliberate challenge to a taste that impedes radical change. This volume is mandatory reading for scholars of Godwin, projects of Enlightenment, Anglo-Irish relations, and trauma.” — Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara“Mandeville is William Godwin’s darkest, most politically abrasive novel. Godwin’s reputation has surged in recent years. He has benefited from the movement to historicize literary texts which has gathered force in the last two decades. Broadview Press has been in the lead, providing excellent classroom editions of Godwin’s major novels, Caleb Williams, St Leon, and Fleetwood—and now, Mandeville. Tilottama Rajan presents a scrupulously edited text, together with an original critical interpretation. The appendices are comprehensive, well-judged, and illuminating. This edition is compelling in its own right and a point of entry into Godwin’s broader engagement with seventeenth-century English and Irish history.” — Pamela Clemit, Queen Mary University of London“We continue to be indebted to Broadview Press for issuing first-rate editions, with the past year bringing … William Godwin’s Mandeville, edited by Tilottama Rajan, who enables us to read the novel in relation to its historical sources and in conversation with a range of fascinating texts on ‘Extreme Phenomena’ from Carl von Clausewitz on war to John Hunter on wounds to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling on the negative.” — Jeffrey N. Cox, Studies in English LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionWilliam Godwin: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextHistorical Timeline for MandevilleMandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in EnglandVolume IVolume IIVolume IIIAppendix A: Godwin, “Fragment of a Romance” (1833)Appendix B: From Godwin, “Of History and Romance” (1797)Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews From P.B. Shelley, Letter to Godwin (7 December 1817) From P.B. Shelley, Letter to The Examiner (28 December 1817) From Champion (1817) From [John Gibson Lockhart,] Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (December 1817) From an Anonymous Response to Lockhart, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (January 1818) From The British Review and London Critical Journal (1818) From [James Mackintosh,] The Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany (1818) From Jean Cohen, Preface to French translation of Mandeville (1818) Appendix D: Historical Background: The Commonwealth, Cromwell, the English Revolution, and the Restoration From Godwin, History of the Commonwealth of England (1824-28) From John Thelwall, The Tribune (3 June 1795) From Godwin, History of the Commonwealth of England (1824-28) From Gilbert Burnet, History of His Own Time (1724) Appendix E: Religion and the Politics of Church Government From John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy (1641) From John Milton, The Reason of Church Government (1642) From Godwin, History of the Commonwealth of England (1824-28) From Samuel Rutherford, Lex Rex (1644) From William Everard, Gerrard Winstanley, et al., The True Levellers’ Standard Advanced (1649) From Encyclopedia Londinensis (1810) From Samuel R. Gardiner, History of the Civil War (1889) From David Hume, “On Parties in Great Britain” (1741) Appendix F: Ireland From Laurence Echard, The History of England (1720) From Godwin, History of the Commonwealth of England (1824-28) From Godwin, History of the Commonwealth of England (1824-28) From “Act for the Settlement of Ireland” (1652) From Godwin, “To the People of Ireland” (1786) From Godwin, “Ireland” (25 December 1821) Appendix G: Extreme Phenomena: Cultural, Physical, and Psychic On War From Carl von Clausewitz, On War (1832) On Wounds From The Complete Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences … (1764) From The Works of John Hunter (1835) On Madness, Dissidence, and Trauma From Godwin, “Of the Rebelliousness of Man” (1831) From Philippe Pinel, A Treatise on Insanity (1801) From John Ferriar, An Essay Towards a Theory of Apparitions (1813) The Literature of Power From Thomas De Quincey, Letters to a Young Man (1823) The Power of the Negative From G.W.F. Hegel, The Philosophy of Nature (1830) From F.W.J. Schelling, Ages of the World (1815) From Friedrich Schelling, Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809) Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories
Book SynopsisThis edition recovers Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s successful 1842 novel The Western Captive; or, The Times of Tecumseh and includes many of Oakes Smith’s other writings about Native Americans, including short stories, legends, and autobiographical and biographical sketches. The Western Captive portrays the Shawnee leader as an American hero and the white heroine’s spiritual soulmate; in contrast to the later popular legend of Tecumseh’s rejected marriage proposal to a white woman, Margaret, the “captive” of the title, returns Tecumseh’s love and embraces life apart from white society.These texts are accompanied by selections from Oakes Smith’s Woman and Her Needs and her unpublished autobiography, from contemporary captivity narratives and biographies of William Henry Harrison depicting the Shawnee, and from writings by her colleagues Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft.Trade Review“Caroline M. Woidat’s edition of Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s writings about Native–white relations in nineteenth-century North America is most welcome. The Western Captive gives scholars detailed chronological, cultural, and geographical backgrounds to enrich their analyses, and enters into conversation with the stories of other transculturated women…. This book will be valuable for classroom use because its rich selection of supporting primary material allows readers to see these texts within their cultural and literary contexts.” — Nicole Tonkovich, University of California, San Diego“This is an impressive scholarly edition, not only of Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s life and work, but also of the work of her most important contemporaries. Clearly, there is no other major text of American literature to compare directly with The Western Captive, the heartbreaking narrative of the heroic Tecumseh and equally brave Margaret, whom he rescued as a young girl. In addition to Oakes Smith’s feminist writing, appendices offer texts by her contemporaries, political campaign biographies in which the Indians figure, and, perhaps most interestingly, material on the relationship between Oakes Smith and Henry and Jane Schoolcraft, who wrote about intermarriage between ‘educated’ Indians and ‘whites.’” — Florence Howe, co-founder of The Feminist Press and author of A Life in Motion (2011)Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextThe Western Captive; or, The Times of Tecumseh“Indian Traits: The Story of Niskagah” (1840)“Machinito: The Evil Spirit; from the Legends of Iaogu” (1845)“Beloved of the Evening Star” (1847)From “The Sagamore of Saco: A Legend of Maine” (1848)“Kinneho: A Legend of Moosehead Lake” (1851)Appendix A: Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s Writings on Her Life and Women’s Rights From A Human Life: Being the Autobiography of Elizabeth Oakes Smith (c. 1885) From Woman and Her Needs (1851) Appendix B: Tecumseh, Captivity Narratives, and Indian-White Romance From John Dunn Hunter, Memoirs of a Captivity among the Indians of North America (1823) From James E. Seaver [and Mary Jemison], A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1824) From John Tanner and Edwin James, A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner (1830) From R. S. Dills, History of Greene County, Together with Historic Notes on the Northwest, and the State of Ohio (1881) Appendix C: Stories of Harrison and the Shawnee in Campaign Biographies From James Hall, A Memoir of the Public Services of William Henry Harrison, of Ohio (1836) From Samuel Jones Burr, The Life and Times of William Henry Harrison (1840) Appendix D: Oakes Smith and the Schoolcrafts Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, “Moowis, The Indian Coquette. A Chippewa Legend” (1827) Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Letter to Jane L. [Johnston] Schoolcraft (1842) Henry Rowe Schoolcraft [with Elizabeth Oakes Smith], from “Nursery and Cradle Songs of the Forest” (1845) Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, “Idea of an American Literature based on Indian Mythology” (1845) Elizabeth Oakes Smith, “Mrs. Henry R. Schoolcraft” (1874) Works Cited and Recommended Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd The Blithedale Romance
Book SynopsisInspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s own experience as a member of the famous Brook Farm Community, which the author describes in his preface as the “most romantic episode” in his life, The Blithedale Romance is one of the most engaging and complex of Hawthorne’s novels. Recounting the hopeful formation and slow fragmentation of a reform-minded socialist community in antebellum Massachusetts, the novel has increasingly preoccupied commentators on American literature and culture over the last few decades.The editors’ new introduction helps the reader to negotiate Blithedale’s literary difficulties by offering a detailed reflection on the main problems confronted by past and present interpreters of the novel. Appendices expand on the central historical theme of reform, highlighting the novel’s references to women’s emancipation, antislavery, and Utopian socialism.Trade Review“The Broadview edition of The Blithedale Romance is an exceptional scholarly achievement. The excellent critical introduction, along with the wealth of biographical and historical materials, at last make it possible to see Hawthorne’s novel in all its complexity and brilliance.” — Eric J. Sundquist, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University“The introduction, by Michael J. Colacurcio (a scholar unrivaled in Hawthorne criticism over the past three decades) and Luke Bresky, is a major piece of literary analysis. An authoritative text of the novel, judicious annotations to help readers with historical persons and events, and extensive appendices contextualizing more fully than heretofore the religious, feminist, reformist, and slavery contexts in which the book should be read—all these make this edition of The Blithedale Romance unsurpassed.” — Frederick Newberry, Professor Emeritus, Duquesne University, former editor of The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review“The Blithedale Romance is a brilliant novel, one that compresses into its reveries and observations some of the most urgent issues troubling antebellum America. With this sparkling new edition, Colacurcio and Bresky not only recognize Hawthorne’s political thoughtfulness, but also include a rich framework of primary sources through which to approach the allusive energy of Hawthorne’s prose. I am looking forward to using this edition in my American Literature courses.” — Dana Medoro, University of ManitobaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionNathaniel Hawthorne: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Blithedale RomanceAppendix A: Hawthorne on Brook Farm, Reform, and Social Change Nathaniel Hawthorne, Selected Letters to Sophia Peabody (April 1841 to June 1842) From “The Hall of Fantasy” (1843, 1846) From “Earth’s Holocaust” (1844, 1846) From “The Old Manse” (1846) From The Scarlet Letter (1850) Appendix B: Universal Reform and Associationism From George Ripley, Letter to the Church in Purchase Street (1 October 1840) From “‘The Memory and Example of the Just,’ A Sermon, Preached on All Saints’ Day, to the First Church, by Its Minister, N.L. Frothingham. Boston, 1840.” Christian Examiner (January 1841) From Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Chardon Street and Bible Conventions,” The Dial (July 1842) From Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Lectures on the Times,” The Dial (July 1842) From Ralph Waldo Emerson, “New England Reformers” (1844) From Albert Brisbane, “Association and Social Reform,” The Boston Quarterly Review (April 1842) From Charles Lane, “Brook Farm,” The Dial (January 1844) From Andrew Jackson Davis, The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind (1847) Appendix C: Woman Emancipating, Woman Emancipated Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Massachusetts (28 June 1837) From Sarah Grimké, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, Addressed to Mary S. Parker, President of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (1838) From Letter III: The Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts From Letter XII: Legal Disabilities of Women From Catharine E. Beecher, An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females (1837) From William Lloyd Garrison, “Letter to the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society,” The Liberator (16 October 1840) Margaret Fuller, Selected Comments on Woman From “Leila,” The Dial (April 1841) From Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) Sophia Ripley, “Woman,” The Dial (January 1841) From Orestes Brownson, “Miss Fuller and Reformers,” Brownson’s Quarterly Review (April 1845) From Oneida Community [John Humphrey Noyes], “Bible Argument; Defining the Relations of the Sexes in the Kingdom of Heaven” (1849) From Theodore Parker, “Sermon of the Public Function of Woman” (1853) Appendix D: The Fugitive Slave Law and Northern Anti-slavery From the US Constitution, Fugitive Slave Act (1850) From Horace Mann, “Speech to the Massachusetts Convention in Opposition to the Fugitive Slave Law” (1851) Caroline W. Healey Dall, “Amy. A Tale,” Liberty Bell (1849) Antislavery Emblems: “Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?” Josiah Wedgwood Antislavery Medallion (1787) Typefounder’s Cut from The Liberator (1832) Kneeling Slave with Dame Justice, from the Cover Page of Authentic Anecdotes of American Slavery (1838) by Lydia Maria Child Needlecase Stamped with Antislavery Emblem Appendix E: Harriet Hosmer, Zenobia in Chains (1859)Appendix F: Contemporary Reviews of The Blithedale Romance From “Contemporary Literature of America: ‘The Blithedale Romance,’” The Westminster Review (October 1852) Edwin Percy Whipple, Graham’s Magazine (September 1852) Works Cited and Recommended Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd Ragged Dick and Risen from the Ranks
Book SynopsisIn Ragged Dick, Horatio Alger’s most successful book, Alger codified the basic formula he would follow in nearly a hundred subsequent novels for boys: a young hero, inexperienced in the temptations of the city but morally armed to resist them, is unexpectedly forced to earn a livelihood. The hero’s exemplary struggle — to retain his virtue, to clear his name of accusations, and to gain economic independence — was the basis of the Alger plot. Hugely popular at the turn of the twentieth century, Alger’s works have at different times been framed as a model for the “American dream” and as dangerously exciting sensationalism for young readers; Gary Scharnhorst’s new introduction separates the myth of Alger as “success ideologue” from the more complex messages conveyed in his work.Ragged Dick is paired in this edition with Risen from the Ranks, another coming-of-age story of a young man achieving respectability. Historical appendices include extensive contemporary reviews, material on the “success myth” associated with Alger, and parodies of Alger’s work.Trade Review“This new publication of Ragged Dick and Risen from the Ranks offers not only an annotated edition of two popular Alger novels, but also presents a detailed study of the author and his American idea of success. Gary Scharnhorst has written widely on Horatio Alger, Jr., and in his introductory essay he lucidly discusses the author’s life, his ‘fiction formula,’ and his literary reputation. Both the casual reader and the historical scholar will appreciate Scharnhorst’s appendices, which include primary materials (such as contemporary book reviews) and other significant documents. The works of Horatio Alger, Jr. have been reprinted numerous times by modern publishers, but no edition comes even close to providing the wealth of resources available in Professor Scharnhorst’s fine book.” — Jack Bales, University of Mary Washington Library“What a nice way to reintroduce readers to the novels of Horatio Alger Jr., who began writing for young people just over 150 years ago. Scharnhorst pairs the author’s most famous story of a New York bootblack with another popular story involving a country boy who models his life on Benjamin Franklin and succeeds without going to the city. Scharnhorst’s fine introduction examines the similarities, differences, and dissonances between the stories and demonstrates ways in which the meaning of Alger’s moral tales morphed in successive generations until the author became ‘a victim of mistaken identity.’ Supplemental materials acquaint readers with the author’s own reflections, views about children and success, and contemporary reception—from ads to reviews to parodies.” —Carol Nackenoff, Richter Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore CollegeTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Horatio Alger, Jr.: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text Ragged Dick and Risen From the Ranks Appendix A: Alger on Children and the Novel “The Newsboys’ Lodging House,” Liberal Christian (20 April 1867) From Christian Union (10 May 1883) “Are My Boys Real?” Ladies’ Home Journal (November 1890) From “The Novel—Its Scope and Place in Literature,” New York Railroad Men (March 1896) “Writing Stories for Boys,” Writer (March 1896) Appendix B: Historical Documents on Children and the Success Myth From Benjamin Franklin, “The Way to Wealth” (1758) Mark Twain, “The Bootblacks,” Alta California (14 July 1867) Mark Twain, “The Late Benjamin Franklin,” Galaxy (July 1870) From Charles Loring Brace, The Dangerous Classes of New York (1872) Appendix C: Alger’s Critical Reception Advertisements New York Evening Post, 6 May 1868 Boston Journal, 6 August 1868 Boston Herald, 5 December 1868 Boston Transcript, 8 December 1868 Boston Transcript, 9 December 1868 Contemporary Reviews of Ragged Dick Providence Press, 11 May 1868 Salem Register, 11 May 1868 “A Lively Boy’s Book,” Boston Traveller, 13 May 1868 “Current Literature,” Advance, 21 May 1868 “Our Book Table,” Turf, Field, and Farm, 23 May 1868 New York Herald, 28 May 1868 From “Literary Matters,” Daily Cleveland Herald, 5 June 1868 From “Books for Boys, by Horatio Alger, Jr.,” Flag of Our Union, 20 June 1868 “Ragged Dick,” Christian Register, 27 June 1868 Putnam’s Magazine 12 (July 1868) Rufus Ellis, “Literary Notices,” Monthly Religious Magazine 40 (July 1868) “Library Table,” Round Table, 11 July 1868 “Ragged Dick,” Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine 77 (August 1868) Contemporary Reviews of Risen from the Ranks “Briefer Notices,” Advance, 29 January 1874 “Literary Notices,” St. Louis Republican, 17 October 1874 Alexandria, Va., Gazette, 22 October 1874 Vermont Phœnix, 23 October 1874 “Literary Matters,” Daily Cleveland Herald, 29 October 1874 “Briefer Notices,” Advance, 29 October 1874 Galveston, Texas, Daily News, 30 October 1874 “Literary Notices,” Philadelphia North American and United States Gazette, 2 November 1874 “New Books, Charleston, S.C., News and Courier, 9 November 1874 “Recent Publications,” Portland, Me., Daily Press, 30 November 1874 “New Publications,” Arthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine 42 (December 1874) “Bound to Rise,” Little Rock Daily Arkansas Gazette, 22 December 1874 “Editor’s Table,” Ohio Farmer, 2 January 1875 Appendix D: Early Alger Parodies Charles Battell Loomis, “Bernard the Bartender,” Puck (7 May 1894) Stephen Crane, “A Self-Made Man: An Example of Success That Any One Can Follow,” Cornhill Magazine (March 1899)
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Broadview Press Ltd A City Girl: A Realistic Story
Book SynopsisIn April 1888, Friedrich Engels wrote a letter to the English novelist and journalist Margaret Harkness, expressing his appreciation for her first novel, A City Girl: A Realistic Story, and calling it “a small work of art.” A City Girl was one of many slum novels set in the East End of London in the 1880s. It tells the story of a young East Ender, Nelly Ambrose, who is seduced and abandoned by a middle-class politician. After the birth of her child and betrayal by her family, Nelly is rescued by two outside forces: the Salvation Army and a sympathetic local man, George, who marries her despite her “fallen” status. While Nelly’s relative passivity and social ignorance distinguishes her from contemporary New Woman heroines, Harkness’s sympathy for Nelly’s position and refusal to judge her morally make A City Girl a fascinating and original novel.This Broadview Edition includes contemporary reviews of A City Girl along with historical documents on London’s East End, fallen women in late-Victorian fiction, and reform organizations for East End women.Trade Review“A surprising Broadview decision to publish the slum novella A City Girl, by the socially aware Margaret Harkness, has produced an important edition, brilliantly edited by Tabitha Sparks. The story is filled with clichés, yet contains unique descriptions of grim, for-profit tenements, written in an intimate, non-partisan tone. What rivets attention is the volume as a whole, not only the expected but wonderful contemporary reviews but also pieces by Friedrich Engels—a fascinating response written to Harkness herself—Eleanor Marx, Jack London, Beatrice Potter, and others. Taken together, A City Girl, Broadview edition, offers much more than supplements to Harkness’s competent story; with satisfying richness, it opens a teeming vista onto the impoverished world of the story. This is a book not only for students but also for all nineteenth-century buffs interested in darkest London, the title of a later Harkness fiction.” —Adrienne Munich, Stony Brook University, Co-Editor, Victorian Literature and CultureTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Margaret Harkness: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text A City Girl Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews of A City Girl From “Novels of the week,” The Athenaeum (30 April 1887) “A City Girl: a Realistic Story,” The Spectator (31 March 1888) “Publisher’s Corner,” Our Corner (August 1887) From “Novels and Stories,” The Glasgow Herald (14 May 1887) From “New Books and Reviews,” The Sheffield Daily Telegraph (11 May 1887) From “Metropolitan Gossip,” The Belfast News-Letter (22 May 1887) Letter, Friedrich Engels to Margaret Harkness (from Engels: Correspondence January 1887–July 1890) Appendix B: Other Writings by Margaret Harkness/John Law “Girl Labour in the City,” Justice (3 March 1888) “Salvationists and Socialists,” Justice (24 March 1888) From In Darkest London (1891) Appendix C: The East End in Late-Victorian London From Andrew Mearns, The Bitter Cry of Outcast London (1883) From The Diary of Beatrice Webb, vol. I (11 April 1888) From Jack London, “Those on the Edge,” People of the Abyss (1903) Appendix D: Reform Initiatives for East End Women From Lady Mary Jeune, “Helping the Fallen,” Fortnightly Review (1 November 1885) Margaret E. Harkness, “The Match Girls’ Strike,” The Spectator (21 July 1888) From Captain William Booth, “A New Way of Escape for Lost Women: The Rescue Homes,” In Darkest London and the Way Out (1890) Eleanor Marx, Speech on May Day (4 May 1890) Appendix E: Fallen Women in Late-Victorian Fiction From George Gissing, The Unclassed (1884) From Ella Hepworth Dixon, The Story of a Modern Woman (1894) Arthur St. John Adcock, “The Soul of Penelope Sanders,” East End Idylls (1897)
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Broadview Press Ltd Edgar Huntly: or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
Book SynopsisEdgar Huntly is a compelling tale of sleepwalking, murder, and frontier violence set in rural Pennsylvania in the 1780s. His memory and wits shaken by the scenes he has witnessed, ordinary republican citizen Edgar Huntly relates the unpredictable and catastrophic consequences of his chance encounter with Clithero Edny, a mysterious Irish immigrant whose unfortunate but violent history catches up with him in the New World. Huntly’s growing obsession with Clithero plunges both men into physical and mental danger, unsettling the colonial territories of the Delaware basin and the cognitive territory of Huntly’s own mind. Brockden Brown’s artful sensationalism transplants the European form of the gothic romance to the new United States, yielding one of the most exciting, metaphysically sophisticated, and historically self-aware novels in early American literary culture.This Broadview Edition includes a rich selection of historical materials on the gothic and sublime, sleepwalking, captivity narratives, and early American literary nationalism.Trade Review“Siân Silyn Roberts has done readers, students, and scholars a tremendous service in assembling this critical edition of Edgar Huntly. An authoritative scholarly edition of the text of the novel is placed among a remarkable range of contemporary extracts that help readers understand the text in the contexts of late-eighteenth-century aesthetic and moral philosophy, transatlantic literary culture and the gothic boom, and other topics. Roberts also adds an elegant critical introduction, thus making her own important contribution to the critical scholarship. This new edition pulls Brown’s fascinating and difficult novel into a new set of critical and theoretical conversations that reflect early American literary studies today; it will surely make this canonical, yet somewhat under-studied early American novel accessible to new generations of readers.” — Ezra Tawil, University of Rochester “Siân Silyn Roberts has raised the bar considerably in her edition of Charles Brockden Brown’s notoriously difficult Edgar Huntly. In taking up Brown’s ‘dare’ to readers, Roberts provides the most comprehensive toolbox for both new and returning students, and for those of us who have sustained the discomfiting realm of Brown’s world for years. The excellent introduction demonstrates Brown’s broad-ranging investments and influences, from the regional to the transatlantic, native American to radical Irishman, US literary nationalism to the extensive literary archives his work engages with. Roberts illuminates the connections between the 1790s and today, and as a result, invites readers to imagine historical trajectories as Brown’s work demands. This is important and timely—I can’t wait to use it in my classes.” — Gretchen Woertendyke, University of South CarolinaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionCharles Brockden Brown: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextEdgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-WalkerAppendix A: Literary Nationalism and the Romance Charles Brockden Brown, “The Difference Between History and Romance,” Monthly Magazine and American Review (April 1800) From Sir Walter Scott, “Essay on Romance” (1823) From Nathaniel Hawthorne, Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (1851) Appendix B: Theories of the Gothic and the Sublime From Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful(1757) From Immanuel Kant, Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764) From Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mont Blanc” (1817) From Charles Brockden Brown, “Terrific Novels,” Literary Magazine and American Register (April 1805) Charles Brockden Brown (?), “A Receipt for a Modern Romance,” Weekly Magazine (June 1798) Appendix C: Sleepwalking From John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) From Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, the Laws of Organic Life (1794–96) Charles Brockden Brown, “Somnambulism. A Fragment,” Literary Magazine and American Register (May 1805) Appendix D: The Moral Senses From Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) From Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Mankind (1755) From Benjamin Rush, An Inquiry into the Influence of Physical Causes Upon the Moral Faculty (1786) Appendix E: Captivity and Indian Relations A True Narrative of the Sufferings of Mary Kinnan (1794) From Minutes of conferences, held with the Indians, at Easton, in the months of July and November, 1756 (1757) From Benjamin Franklin, A narrative of the late massacres, in Lancaster County, of a number of Indians (1764) Appendix F: Irish Radicalism and ConspiracyFrom “Peter Porcupine” [William Cobbett], Detection of a conspiracy, formed by the United Irishmen (1798)Works Cited and Recommended Reading
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Dalkey Archive Press Fables of the Novel: French Fiction Since 1990
Book SynopsisReaders of the contemporary novel in France are witnessing the most astonishing reinvigoration of narrative prose since the New Novel of the 1950s. In the last few years, bold, innovative, and richly compelling novels have been written by a variety of young writers. These texts question traditional strategies of character, plot, theme, and message; and they demand new strategies of reading, too. Choosing ten novels published during the 1990s as examples of that trend, Warren Motte traces the resurgence of the novel in France. He argues that each of the novels under consideration here, quite apart from what other stories it tells, presents a?fable?of the novel that deals with the genre's possibilities, limitations, and future as a cultural form.Trade Review"Motte makes an attractive and useful case for the subspecies of modernism: minimalism... We can be grateful for this guidance through the maze toward the lively rewards that exist beyond." - Lee Fahnestock, World Literature Today "Small Worlds has much to offer... Those who sample even a chapter or two are likely to be sufficiently intrigued by Motte's stimulating presentation to want to read the original works." -- John T. Booker, French Review
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Ariadne Press Arthur Schnitzler
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Ariadne Press Against the Grain: New Anthology of Contemporary
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Ariadne Press Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: The Victory of a
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Twenty Days With Julian & Little Bu
Book SynopsisOn July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne''s wife Sophia and daughters Una and Rose left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives near Boston. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got along over the next three weeks is the subject of this tender and funny extract from Hawthorne''s notebooks.'At about six o''clock I looked over the edge of my bed and saw that Julian was awake, peeping sideways at me.' Each day starts early and is mostly given over to swimming and skipping stones, berry-picking and subduing armies of thistles. There are lots of questions ('It really does seem as if he has baited me with more questions, references, and observations, than mortal father ought to be expected to endure'), a visit to a Shaker community, domestic crises concerning a pet rabbit, and some poignant moments of loneliness ('I went to bed at about nine and longed for Phoebe'). And one evening Mr. Herman Melville comes by to enjoy a late-night discussion of eternity over cigars.With an introduction by Paul Auster that paints a beautifully observed, intimate picture of the Hawthornes at home, this little-known, true-life story by a great American writer emerges from obscurity to shine a delightful light upon family life—then and now.
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