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Academic Studies Press The Tears and Smiles of Things
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HarperCollins Publishers The Knox Brothers
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HarperCollins Publishers Adverbs
Book SynopsisA dramatic meditation on love both fleeting and everlasting, ‘Adverbs’ is a serious work of fiction by one of today's most innovative voices, and famed author of the Lemony Snicket series.Trade Review'The ingenuity and panache of these stories is instantly attractive.' Daily Telegraph ‘One of our most dazzling literary conjurers shuffles the deck of contemporary consciousness and desire. A thrilling feat of tragic magic.' Michael Chabon 'Handler's writing is artful, perverse, irreverent, truthful and ridiculous – but it's rarely less than brilliant.' New Statesman 'Witty, perplexing…This is an interesting and intelligent work, of which I think Lemony Snicket would be proud.' Literary Review 'Cleverly held together…as thought-provoking as it is confusing.' FT Magazine 'Exuberantly funny voice and ability to lard his stories with details that return, pages later, with multiplied resonance.' Scotsman 'Handler shows great skill in drawing characters and telling their stories. Beguilingly, humorously and at times brilliantly. Definitely worth reading…' Express ‘He's enjoying himself. He's simply taken the tricks out for a joyride and the reader has been invited along.' Sunday Business Post
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HarperCollins Publishers Mantrapped A Novel
Book SynopsisA brilliant, inventive and endlessly delightful new memoir from Fay Weldon, one of our most respected commentators on sex, relationships and gender, that picks up where her acclaimed Auto da Fay left off.Trade ReviewPraise for Fay Weldon: ‘Fay Weldon is a national treasure.’ Literary Review ‘Prolific and provocative, Fay Weldon shines brightest in the league table of British women novelists.’ Time Out
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HarperCollins Publishers THE DETACHED RETINA
Book SynopsisA collections of anecdotes, reviews and essays, written with the humour and warmth one associates with Brian Aldiss.Trade Review‘Aldiss is a magician.’ SUNDAY TIMES 'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers.' THE TELEGRAPH
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HarperCollins Publishers PALE SHADOW OF SCIENCE
Book SynopsisTwo of Aldiss’ essay collections from the mid-1980s in one volume.Trade Review'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers.’THE TELEGRAPH ‘Aldiss has rarely been far from SF’s intellectual centre.’ SFX MAGAZINE
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HarperCollins Publishers THIS WORLD AND NEARER ONES
Book SynopsisAldiss’ acclaimed 1979 essay collection reissued for the first time in over thirty years.Trade Review'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers.' THE TELEGRAPH ‘The best of British science fiction writers.’ THE SCOTSMAN
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Gold
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HarperCollins Its Beginning to Look a Lot Like Zombies
Book SynopsisTakes over two dozen of our most beloved Christmas carols and writes them from a zombie's point-of-view.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Astounding
Book SynopsisTrade Review“An amazing and engrossing history...Insightful, entertaining, and compulsively readable.” — George R. R. Martin “Alec Nevala-Lee has brilliantly recreated the era eighty years ago when a handful of dedicated writers and one extraordinary editor gave American science fiction its modern shape. It is a remarkable work of literary history.” — Robert Silverberg, Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America “A gift to science fiction fans everywhere.” — Sylvia Nasar, New York Times bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind “Science fiction has been awaiting this history/biography for more than half a century....Here it is. This is the most important historical and critical work my field has ever seen. Alec Nevala-Lee’s superb scholarship and insight have made the seemingly impossible a radiant and irreplaceable gift.” — Barry N. Malzberg, author of Beyond Apollo “Astounding has taught me things I didn’t know; put in context things I did know; and corrected things I thought I knew. This is a wonderful, well-written book; a delight to read.” — David Drake, author of Hammer’s Slammers “Astounding is a sharp and detailed history of some of the major players in one of the most significant periods in modern science fiction. Highly recommended!” — Greg Bear, author of Blood Music “A riveting read—a journey to another dimension, one that tells us a lot about creativity, human resilience, and even American exceptionalism. The book is a must read for lovers of science fiction, to be sure, but really for anyone interested in culture, and how it jumps, bounces, and changes.” — Cass R. Sunstein, New York Times bestselling author of The World According to Star Wars, and Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School “This is a fascinating, well-written, and deeply researched account of the golden age of science fiction. The lives of the writers are every bit as compelling as their best stories and Nevala-Lee brings them alive.” — Jon Atack, author of Let’s Sell These People a Piece of Blue Sky: Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology “An indispensable book for anyone trying to understand the birth and meaning of modern science fiction in America from the 1930s to the 1950s” — The Economist “Engrossing, well-researched… This sure-footed history addresses important issues, such as the lack of racial diversity and gender parity for much of the genre’s history.” — Wall Street Journal “Enthralling…A clarion call to enlarge American literary history.” — Washington Post “A captivating cultural history… fascinating and complex… reads with the immediacy of a good novel… Nevala-Lee has managed to distill the essence of their stories into a compelling tale of ambition, idealism and opportunism that should fascinate even those who have never read much science fiction at all.” — Chicago Tribune “[Astounding] is a major work of popular culture scholarship that science fiction fans will devour.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A laser-sharp study of science fiction’s golden age, the product of a small circle of writers and their guiding editor...Nevala-Lee’s warts-and-all look is a welcome contribution to the study of popular literature.” — Kirkus Reviews “A thoroughgoing scholarly effort… A chatty, slightly gossipy popular biography. Nevala-Lee approaches the four subjects with a full understanding of their status and importance, but treats them as human beings with their own constellations of talents and flaws… You don’t want to miss this one.” — Analog Science Fiction and Fact “Excellent… Ingenious… The story that Nevala-Lee pieces together here has never quite been assembled in such a detailed, balanced, and clearly written way… As literary and cultural history, Astounding may well stand as the definitive account of this important era in the growth of modern SF.” — Locus “[Astounding] is a rich, gripping cultural and historical study of how a small cadre of talents in a minor commercial genre became some of the most influential figures of the second half of the twentieth century.” — Nature “This wonderfully researched, expansive biography — humor, perspective, depth all much a part of it — is a document of things all but lost to time’s slurry, the portrait of a great editor in tandem with that of a genre’s maturation.” — Fantasy and Science Fiction “Alec Nevala-Lee’s Astounding is an essential and long-overdue history of the golden age of science fiction, as reflected through the prism of some of its most significant contributors...it is an astounding history, and essential guide to a defining era of science fiction.” — B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog “[Astounding] is an expansive industry drama...but the real treat of the book is [Nevala-Lee’s] dogged efforts to make these authors feel like the imperfect, egotistic, and philosophically-biased people who made such a lasting impact on the genre.” — SyFy.com “exhaustive, well-researched examinations...[an] engrossing history” — The Verge “A mighty work of scholarship” — Dallas News “[An] illuminating biography...Astounding is a captivating read” — John DeNardo, Kirkus
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Penguin Publishing Group The Portable Stephen Crane Viking portable library
Book Synopsis“A man is born into the world with his own pair of eyes, and he is not responsible for his vision—he is merely responsible for his quality of personal honesty.” In the course of his tragically abbreviated career, Stephen Crane (1871–1900) saw things that his contemporaries preferred to overlook—the low life of New York’s Irish slums; the tedium, brutality, and chaos that were the true conditions of the Civil War; the ambiguous contract that binds a terrified man to his killer and the damned to their human judges. He communicated what he saw with the same laconic factuality that characterized his journalism and, in the process, laid the foundations for the unblinking realism of Hemingway and Dos Passos. The Portable Stephen Crane allows us to appreciate the full scope and power of this writer’s vision. It contains three complete novels—Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, George’s Mother, and Crane&rsquoTable of ContentsIntroductionEditor's NoteCrane ChronologyPart One: The World of MaggieThe Maggie Inscription to Hamlin GarlandA Letter from Stephen Crane to Catherine HarrisMaggie: A Girl of the StreetsA Great MistakeAn Ominous BabyA Dark-Brown DogGeorge's MotherThe Men in the StormAn Experiment in MiseryAn Experiment in LuxuryHeard on the Street Election NightAbove All ThingsPart Two: The World of Henry FlemingA Letter from Stephen Crane to Mrs. Olive Brett ArmstrongThe Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil WarAn Episode of WarThe VeteranPart Three: A World of ShipwreckA Letter from Stephen Crane to Cora E. StewartStephen Crane's Own StoryFlanagan and His Short Filibustering AdventureThe Open BoatPart Four: A World of IroniesA Letter from Stephen Crane to Lily Brandon MonroeA Letter from Stephen Crane to Willis Brooks HawkinsTwo Letters from Stephen Crane to Nellie CrouseThe Bride Comes to Yellow SkyThe Five White MiceThe Blue HotelThe MonsterHis New MittensThe KnifePart Five: A World in MiniatureA Letter from Stephen Crane to Copeland & DayA Letter from Stephen Crane to De Morest's Family MagazineFrom The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895)From the Uncollected PoemsFrom War Is Kind (1899)From the Posthumously PUblished PoemsA Prologue
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Penguin Publishing Group Northland Stories Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
Book SynopsisLike the characters in the popular dime novels of the time, London's heroes display such manly virtues as courage, loyalty, and steadfastness as they conftont the merciless frozen expanses of the north. Yet London breaks free of stereotypical figures and one-dimensional plots to explore deeper psychological and social questions of self-mastery, masculinity, and racial domination. The uneasy relationship between the Native Americans and whites lies at the heart of many of the stories, while others reflect London's growing awareness of the destruction wrought by the white incursion on Indian culture.Northland Stories comprises nineteen of Jack London's greatest short works, including An Odyssy of the North (London's major breakthrough as a young author), The White Silence, The Law of Life, The League of the Old Men, and the world classic To Build a Fire.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaTable of ContentsEdited with an Introduction and Notes by Jonathan AuerbachIntroduction by Jonathan AuerbachSuggestions for Further ReadingA Note on the TextNorthland StoriesThe White SilenceThe Son of the WolfIn a Far CountryTo the Man on TrailThe Wisdom of the TrailAn Odyssey of the NorthThe God of His FathersSiwashGrit of WomenWhere the Trail ForksThe Law of LifeKeesh, the Son of KeeshThe Death of LigounLi Wan, the FairThe League of the Old MenThe Story of Jees UckLove of LifeThe Sun-Dog TrailTo Build a FireExplanatory NotesAppendix
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Penguin Publishing Group Ruth Hall A Domestic Tale of the Present Time Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisIn Ruth Hall, one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experiences: the death of her first child and her beloved husband, a bitter estrangement from her family, and her struggle to make a living as a writer. Written as a series of short vignettes and snatches of overheard conversations, it is as unconventional in style as in substance and strikingly modern in its impact.
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Penguin Random House LLC The Morgesons Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the conflict between a woman's instinct, passion and will and the social taboos, family allegiances, and traditional New England restraint that inhibit her. The novel is set in 19th-century American middle-class society.
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Oxford University Press, USA Ciceros de Provinciis Consularibus Oratio
Book SynopsisPerhaps no other single Roman speech exemplifies the connection between oratory, politics and imperialism better than Cicero''s De Provinciis Consularibus, pronounced to the senate in 56 BC. Cicero puts his talents at the service of the powerful triumviri (Caesar, Crassus and Pompey), whose aims he advances by appealing to the senators'' imperialistic and chauvinistic ideology. This oration, then, yields precious insights into several areas of late republican life: international relations between Rome and the provinces (Gaul, Macedonia and Judaea); the senators'' view on governors, publicani (tax-farmers) and foreigners; the dirty mechanics of high politics in the 50s, driven by lust for domination and money; and Cicero''s own role in that political choreography. This speech also exemplifies the exceptional range of Cicero''s oratory: the invective against Piso and Gabinius calls for biting irony, the praise of Caesar displays high rhetoric, the rejection of other senators'' recommendaTrade Review"This is a splendid work. Politics, history, the range of amicitia, constitutional complexity, philology, linguistics, rhetoric, and nuanced language are examined thoroughly and persuasively." --James S. Ruebel, Ball State UniversityTable of ContentsPreface ; Timeline ; Introduction ; Latin text (Peterson, OCT 1911) ; Commentary ; Glossary of rhetorical terms ; Maps ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Commonwealth of Letters
Book SynopsisCommonwealth of Letters examines midcentury literary institutions integral to modernism and postcolonial writing. Several organizations central to interwar modernism, such as the BBC, influential publishers, and university English departments, became important sites in the emergence of postcolonial literature after the war. How did some of modernism''s leading figures of the 1930s--such as T.S. Eliot, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender--come to admire late colonial and early postcolonial literature in the 1950s? Similarly, why did late colonial and early postcolonial writers--including Chinua Achebe, Kamau Brathwaite, Claude McKay, and Ngugi wa Thiong''o--actively seek alliances with metropolitan intellectuals? Peter Kalliney''s original and extensive archival work on modernist cultural institutions demonstrates that this disparate group of intellectuals had strong professional incentives to treat one another more as fellow literary professionals, and less as political or cultural antTrade ReviewIt is the mapping of the literary networks, rivalries, allegiances and collaborations that marks Kalliney's book out as an important contribution in this turn of postcolonial studies to interaction with modernist periodicity and aesthetics ... Kalliney offers a truly expansive study of the importance of migration in the developmental history of modernism. * Robert McLaughlan and Neelam Srivastava, Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *Commonwealth of Letters is an original and revisionist account of the historical encounter between the writers and institutions of English modernism and late colonial intellectuals, informed by solid archival research and refreshing new readings of the postcolonial canon, and keenly attuned to the complex history of cultural exchanges across the Atlantic. * Simon Gikandi, author of Slavery and the Culture of Taste *For too long, modernist autonomy and postcolonial politics were thought to be antithetical. This book's splendid research deals this dichotomy a convincing blow. With illuminating insights into crossracial networks in radio, publishing, and other cultural institutions, Kalliney brilliantly shows how modernism enriched African and Caribbean literatures and was itself sustained by them. * Jahan Ramazani, author of A Transnational Poetics *A fascinating study which explores how modernist ideas influenced a generation of black and white writers-often working sideby-side-and created international networks of affiliation which rise up above race or geography. An illuminating and convincing examination of Anglophone literary history in the second half of the twentieth century. * Caryl Phillips, author of Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11 *This densely argued study covers a lot of ground, from literary modernism to postcolonial Anglophone literature from the West Indies and Afria. The book's bibloiography testifies to Kalliney's prodigious research." -M.S. Vogeler, emerita, California State University, Fullerton, CHOICEKalliney's argument is extensive, meticulously researched, and compellingly revisionist... Kalliney provides a startling and thorough reimagining of the complex lines of aesthetic, philosophic, and institutional affiliation between metropolitan and colonial authors in the period 1930-70. * Novel *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments and Permissions ; 1. Modernist Networks and Late Colonial Intellectual ; 2. Race and Modernist Anthologies: Nancy Cunard, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Ezra Pound ; 3. For Continuity: FR Leavis, Kamau Brathwaite, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o ; 4. Metropolitan Modernism and its West Indian Interlocutors ; 5. Developing Fictions: Amos Tutuola at Faber and Faber ; 6. Metropolitan Publisher as Postcolonial Clearinghouse: The African Writers Series ; 7. Jean Rhys: Left Bank Modernist as Postcolonial Intellectual ; Conclusion ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Age of Silver
Book SynopsisThe Age of Silver advances a horizontal method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western cultural spheres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Naming this era of economic globalization the Age of Silver, Ning Ma emphasizes the bullion flow from South America and Japan to China through international commerce, and argues that the resultant transcontinental monetary and commercial co-evolutions stimulated analogous socioeconomic shifts and emergent novelistic realisms. The main texts addressed within include The Plum in the Golden Vase (China), Don Quixote (Spain), The Life of an Amorous Man (Japan), and Robinson Crusoe (England). These Eastern and Western narratives indicate from their own geographical vantage points commercial expansions'' stimulation of social mobility and larger processes of cultural destabilization. Their realist tendencies are underlain with politically critical functions and connote heteroglossic national imaginaries. This horizontal argument realigns novelistic modernity with a multipolar global context and reestablishes commensurabilities between Eastern and Western literary histories. The Age of Silver challenges the unilateral equation between globalization and modernity with westernization, and foregrounds a polycentric mode of global early modernity for pluralizing the genealogy of world literature and historical transcultural relations.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Toward Horizontal Comparisons Chapter 1. Global Silver, Local Novels Chapter 2. Along the Grand Canal: The Lord of Silver in The Plum in the Golden Vase Chapter 3. La Mancha to the Indies: Romance and Materiality of the Empire in Don Quixote Chapter 4. Out of Nagasaki: To the End of the Floating World Chapter 5. Caribbean to China: Crusoe's Two Adventures Epilogue: The Transcivilizational Feminine and World Literature Bibliography
£87.40
Oxford University Press Ulysses on the Liffey
Book SynopsisA new and illuminating critique of the narrative, ethical and aesthetic strands in Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses.
£34.67
Oxford University Press James Joyce Revised Edition
Book Synopsis''A truly masterful biography, wise in its completeness. If Joyce be a great writer, then this is a great book.'' Sunday Times''The greatest literary biography of the century.'' Anthony Burgess, The ObserverTrade Review'major scholarly work ... a new bench-mark for biography as a major vehicle of literary scholarship' John Batchelor, British Book News, September 1993
£76.42
Oxford University Press, USA Murder on Deck
Book SynopsisFrom Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Viola Brothers Shore to William Faulkner, Ellery Queen, John Mortimer, Susan Moody, and others, this book offers 25 stories that seeks to plumb the depths of ghastly crimes. Many of these stories take place on luxury liners, or holiday shorelines.Trade Review"This collection plumbs seaside resorts and oceanbound ships for the ultimate mystery experience."--Library Journal Murder On Deck confirms Rosemary Herbert's title as our eminent authority on mystery fiction. More important, it gives us a delightful collection of overlooked gems."--Tony Hillerman "A pleasing collection of 'shipboard and shoreline mystery stories'.... With a crew of contributors ranging from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to John Mortimer,this compendium of aquatic crime is perhaps the most satisfactory anthology of the year."--The Wall Street Journalr "Splendid stories. Oceans of delight."--Colin Dexter
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Oxford University Press The Distaff Side
Book SynopsisAdopting an interdisciplinary approach, this study examines the different representations of women in the Odyssey and their significance within the context of the poem and Greek culture. A central theme of the book is the visualization of the Odyssey''s female characters by ancient artists, and several essays discuss the visual and iconographic implications of Odysseus'' female encounters in Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art. Feminine in orientation, but not narrowly feminist in approach, this first interdisciplinary work on the Odyssey''s female characters will have a broad audience among scholars and students working in classical studies, iconography and art history, women''s studies, mythology, and ancient history.Trade ReviewA multi-disciplinary range - history, art history and literature. It has ample notes and references and a magnificent collection of sixty plates, eminently usable in other Homeric contexts. * JACT review *The twelve contributors combine to offer a remarkably coherent reading of the poem and its values; the volume as a whole is an important contribution to current debate in this much-discussed field. * M.R. Gale, Royal Holloway, London, Journal of Hellenic Studies *This is a helpful contribution to the field. All Greek is translated. The production is fine. * The Classical Review *In an impressive series of papers, the contributors to this rich volume examine the various facets of the feminine figures in the Odyssey in the light of Greek culture, history, and mythology...A unique collection of outstanding articles on every aspect of the feminine in the Odyssey.The Journal of Indo-European StudiesAn enjoyable, informative, and instructive read ... the first extensive interdisciplinary discussion of representation of female characters in the poem * Grainne McLaughlin, Univ. of Dublin, Hermathena *Three introductory essays ... will doubtless prove especially helpful to undergraduates as they cover the key areas of the poem's datation, its representation of female characters, and the contemporary nuances in their vizualization by artists of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. * Grainne McLaughlin, Univ. of Dublin, Hermathena *A work useful to both undergraduates and specialists. * Grainne McLaughlin, Univ of Dublin, Hermathena *
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Oxford University Press Harriet Beecher Stowe
Book SynopsisThis is the first full-scale biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe in over fifty years. Joan Hedrick takes the reader into the multi-layered world of nineteenth-century morals and mores in this absorbing story of a gifted and complex writer whose place in the canon is still contended.Trade Reviewlong overdue ... a fascinating and unfamiliar view of nineteenth-century American society. * Literary Review *
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Oxford University Press, USA Psychoanalysis and Black Novels Desire and the Protocols of Race Race and American Culture
Book SynopsisPsychoanalytic theory is one of the most important tools in contemporary literary criticism, and this text argues that psychoanalytic paradigms can produce rich readings of African-American desire, alienation and subjectivity. It examines figures such as Freud and Lacan.Trade Review...intriguing....Tate's study raises crucial questions about the way African American subjectivity is addressed within literary studies....she inspires a reevaluation of how texts produce that black subjectivity. * Modernism/Modernity *
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Oxford University Press William Faulkner and Southern History
Book SynopsisWilliam Faulkner more than any other writer is intimately associated with the South about which he wrote. This book reveals the man and his family and the ways in which southern culture and his own life were wound around one another in his greatest works.Trade Reviewa rewarding piece of scholarship about a mysterious man * Observer *
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Oxford University Press, USA Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood
Book SynopsisAlthough Eliza Haywood was one of the best known and most prolific writers in her own time, there is no modern edition of her works. This edition provides representative texts from Haywood''s entire career, which overlaps that of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Tobias Smollett. The six fictions and two plays provided here illustrate the many kinds of writing Haywood produced, the ways she treated important themes and issues, and the contributions she made to the development of the English novel.Trade ReviewBackscheider's volume will make it possible to include Haywood as a significant presence in both survey courses and graduate seminars * Years Work in English Studies *
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Oxford University Press, USA NeoSlave Narratives Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form Race and American Culture
Book SynopsisThis is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a particular literary form - the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. The text explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, and asks how African-American intellectuals made use of this form.Trade ReviewRushdy's book tells us a great deal not just about the four novels he reads closely, but also about the American conceptions of slavery and race in the second half of the Twentieth century; we walk away from Neo Slave Narratives with a multilayered sense of what Rushdy calls the social logic of the form, a logic which demonstrates that form is not extrinsic to historical understanding but rather constitutive of it. In short, Rushdy approaches his texts as complex objects circulating in many intersecting exchanges and listens carefully for the whistling and humming around him. * Eric Gardner, Theory and Cultural Studies *
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Oxford University Press, USA Leslie Marmon Silkos Ceremony
Book Synopsis"Ceremony" is one of the most widely taught and studied Native American literature texts. This casebook includes theoretical approaches and information, especially on Native American beliefs, that should enhance their understanding and appreciation of this contemporary classic.Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Peter G. Beidler: Animals and Theme in Ceremony 3: Robert C. Bell: Circular Design in Ceremony 4: Elaine Jahner: An Act of Attention: Event Structure in Ceremony 5: Kenneth Lincoln: Blue Medicine 6: John Purdy: The Transformation: Tayo's Genealogy in Ceremony 7: Reed Way Dasenbrock: Forms of Biculturalism in Southwestern Literature: The Work of Rudolfo Anaya and Leslie Marmon Silko 8: Paula Gunn Allen: Special Problems in Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony 9: Louis Owens: "The Very Essence of Our Lives": Leslie Silko's Webs of Identity 10: Catherine Rainwater: The Semiotics of Dwelling in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony 11: Robert M. Nelson: The Function of the Landscape of Ceremony 12: James Ruppert: No Boundaries, Only Transitions: Ceremony 13: Rachel Stein: Contested Ground: Nature, Narrative, and Native American Identity in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony 14: Jace Weaver: Leslie Marmon Silko 15: Kenneth M. Roemer: Silko's Arroyos as Mainstream: Processes and Implications of Canonical Identity 16: Laura Coltelli: Leslie Marmon Silko 17: Robin Cohen: Of Apricots, Orchids, and Wovoka: An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko 18: Selected Bibliography
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Oxford University Press The Life of Langston Hughes
Book SynopsisFebruary 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American writer. In young adulthood Hughes possessed a nomadic but dedicated spirit that led him from Mexico to Africa and the Soviet Union to Japan, and countless other stops around the globe. Associating with political activists, patrons, and fellow artists, and drawing inspiration from both Walt Whitman and the vibrant Afro-American culture, Hughes soon became the most original and revered of black poets. In the first volume''s Afterword, Rampersad looks back at the significant early works Hughes produced, the genres he explored, and offers a new perspective on Hughes''s lasting literary influence. Exhaustively researched in archival collections throughout the country, especially in the Langston Hughes papers at Yale University''s Beinecke LibraTrade ReviewRampersad's two-volume biography, re-released to commemorate Hughes' centennial, is the definitive account of the poet, playwright, and novelist who was the leading light of the Harlem Renaissance. New afterwords offer perspective on Hughes' literary legacy. * The Orlando Sentinel *Arnold Rampersad's biography of Langston Hughes sweeps up the reader like a novel does....Rampersad's book serves as a foundational introduction to the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance, as well as to others in politics, literature, and the arts. Its dramatic, even painful, last chapter will lead you straight out to search for the second volume. * Topica Tip World *Excellent....Mr. Rampersad [leaves] you eager to see what he makes of the rest of the story, and confident that his second volume will be as good as his first. * John Gross, The New York Times *Throughout this comprehensive and enthralling account of Hughes's life and his development as a writer, Rampersad offers a precise assessment of his work and its importance...This may be the best biography of a black writer we have had. * David Nicholson, The Washington Post Book World *An exquisite orchestration of the fully lived life. * Michael S. Harper, The Boston Globe *
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Oxford University Press The Life of Langston Hughes Volume 2
Book SynopsisFebruary 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American writer. The second volume in this masterful biography finds Hughes rooting himself in Harlem, receiving stimulation from his rich cultural surroundings. Here he rethought his view of art and radicalism, and cultivated relationships with younger, more militant writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Bakara. Rampersad''s Afterword to volume two looks further into his influence and how it expanded beyond the literary as a result of his love of jazz and blues, his opera and musical theater collaborations, and his participation in radio and television. In addition, Rempersad explores the controversial matter of Hughes''s sexuality and the possibility that, despite a lack of clear evidence, Hughes was homosexual. Trade ReviewRampersad's two-volume biography, re-released to commemorate Hughes' centennial, is the definitive account of the poet, playwright, and novelist who was the leading light of the Harlem Renaissance. New afterwords offer perspective on Hughes' literary legacy. * The Orlando Sentinel *Excellent....Mr. Rampersad [leaves] you eager to see what he makes of the rest of the story, and confident that his second volume will be as good as his first. * John Gross, The New York Times (on Volume I) *Throughout this comprehensive and enthralling account of Hughes's life and his development as a writer, Rampersad offers a precise assessment of his work and its importance...This may be the best biography of a black writer we have had. * David Nicholson, The Washington Post Book World *An exquisite orchestration of the fully lived life. * Michael S. Harper, The Boston Globe *
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Oxford University Press, USA From Fact to Fiction Journalism Imaginative Writing in America LiteratureAmerican Studies
Book SynopsisMany leading American writers have begun as journalists. This book looks in particular at Twain, Whitman, Dreiser, Hemingway, and Dos Passos, to show how journalism has given a distinctive cast to American literature.Trade Review"I anticipate great value from this text--its scholarship, lucid prose, and particularly the vast gap of ignorance it seeks to fill, will make it a most useful and versatile choice for my course."--Raymond I. Rundus, Pembroke State University "From Whitman and Twain to Dreiser and Dos Passos, [Fishkin] tracks American literature back to unexpected beginnings in journalism. Her sophisticated search turns a new illumination on these writers' lives."--Eugene Patterson, St. Petersburg Times "A valuable and readable study, well worth the attention of any student of American writing."--San Francisco Chronicle "An original, illuminating, and timely work. It reaches back to explore in vivid detail the journalistic origins of some of the greatest American writers, from Whitman to Dos Passos, then reaches forward to reflect with subtlety and sophistication on the current journalistic tendency towards fiction-making."--R.W.B. Lewis, Yale University "No critic before Fishkin has explored at length the phenomenon of the reporter turned artist. From Fact to Fiction is a welcome initial exploration, an incisive and well-written discussion...[a] groundbreaking book."--American Quarterly "I anticipate great value from this text--its scholarship, lucid prose, and particularly the vast gap of ignorance it seeks to fill, will make it a most useful and versatile choice for my course."--Raymond I. Rundus, Pembroke State University "From Whitman and Twain to Dreiser and Dos Passos, [Fishkin] tracks American literature back to unexpected beginnings in journalism. Her sophisticated search turns a new illumination on these writers' lives."--Eugene Patterson, St. Petersburg Times "A valuable and readable study, well worth the attention of any student of American writing."--San Francisco Chronicle "An original, illuminating, and timely work. It reaches back to explore in vivid detail the journalistic origins of some of the greatest American writers, from Whitman to Dos Passos, then reaches forward to reflect with subtlety and sophistication on the current journalistic tendency towards fiction-making."--R.W.B. Lewis, Yale University "No critic before Fishkin has explored at length the phenomenon of the reporter turned artist. From Fact to Fiction is a welcome initial exploration, an incisive and well-written discussion...[a] groundbreaking book."--American Quarterly "It is rare for books as innovative, groundbreaking and important as From Fact to Fiction to be as well-written, and I applaud it."--Norman Mailer "Graceful writing, fresh insights and excitement combine to make this work...a valuable asset to the field of journalism history, one that makes a strong contribution to the understanding of the craft of reporting and its relationship to American literary realism."--Journalism History "An original, illuminating, and timely work."--R.W.B. Lewis, Yale University "Fishkin's study forms an important part of the accumulating case for the tradition of American realism, of a literature of fact and detail."--Times Literary Supplement "Very readable....I endorse this without reservation and with enthusiasm."--Ed Rooney, Loyola University "Excellent scholarship; at a level students can grasp--I love it!"--Fred L. Gardaphe, Columbia College "A much-needed approach....Gives journalistic writing a much-deserved accolade."--Herb Blisard, Yakima Valley College "Each of us writers who started out as journalists or hwo are cursed by also being journalists should thank Shelley Fisher Fishkin for this impressive work."--Oriana Fallaci "A fascinating blend of biography, social history, criticism, and close textual analysis."--William A. Henry III, media critic for Time "Intriguing."--Philadelphia Inquirer "An informative study."--Los Angeles Times "The persuasive point of this finely researched and even-handed volume is that we have dismissed too readily (and perhaps even disdainfully) the important apprenticeship in journalism of an inordinate number of American writers."--American Studies
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Oxford University Press Inc Ancient Greek Scholarship
Book SynopsisAncient Greek Scholarship is the only introduction to this important and fast-growing field, with information on all aspects of using and reading ancient scholarship. Includes discussions of all major works, explanation of grammarians'' Greek, over 200 passages with commentary, glossary of 1500 grammatical terms, and annotated bibliography with more than 1200 works.Trade ReviewAncient Greek Scholarship comprises both a finding aid (a through survey of the material, with explanations of the sources and their transmission, and guidance on editions and secondary literature) and a tutorial (an introduction to scholarly Greek, with an anthology of texts and a glossary of technical usages). Every research student should have this invaluable resource thrust upon them * Malcolm Heath, Greece and Rome *A practical, down-to-earth approach to problems is the hallmark of Dickey's style, and a genuine love for Classics and its students permeates every page of this book. After reading it, I both feel more knowledgeable about ancient scholarship and glad that such an intricate subject could be presented in such an interesting way. The book is not just an indespensible tool: it is, above all, a great pleasure to read. I warmly recommend it to both students and experts. * Olga Tribulato, Journal of Hellenic Studies *This book fills a deep need...grateful that a competent and knowledgable scholar has compiled such a useful guide to such an important yet intractable body of material. * Kathleen McNamee, The Classical Review *Dickey has received much praise, from linguists as well as classicists, for her monographs on Greek and Latin forms of address. How she has published a handbook to ancient Greek scholarship, which manifests the erudition, precision, and uncommon good sense known to her earlier readers. * Malcom D. Hyman, Historiographica Linguistica 35:3 *Dickey has truly done an excellent job * Malcom D. Hyman, Historiographica Linguistica 35:3 *Dickey's book is carefully written, scrupulously edited, and well-produced * Malcom D. Hyman, Historiographica Linguistica 35:3 *Any serious student of Greek will want to possess it. * William Slater, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsPreface 1: Introduction to Ancient Scholarship 2: Scholia, Commentaries, and Lexica on Specific Literary Works 2.1: Archaic and Classical Poetry 2.2: Classical Prose 2.3: Hellenistic Literature 2.4: Literature of the Roman Period 3: Other Scholarly Works 3.1: Grammatical Treatises 3.2: Lexica 3.3: Other Types of Work 4: Introduction to Scholarly Greek 5: Reader 5.1: Texts with Key 5.2: Key to 5.1 5.3: Texts without Key 6: Glossary 7: Annotated Bibliography 7.1: List of Abbreviations 7.2: List of References Appendices A: Hints for Finding Works on Ancient Scholarship in Library Catalogs B: Hints for Using Facsimiles Indices
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Oxford University Press At the Violet Hour
Book SynopsisAt the Violet Hour argues that the literature of the early twentieth-century in England and Ireland was deeply organized around a reckoning with grievous violence, imagined as intimate, direct, and often transformative. The book aims to excavate and amplify a consistent feature of this literature, which is that its central operations (formal as well as thematic) emerge specifically in reference to violence. At the Violet Hour offers a variety of new terms and paradigms for reading violence in literary works, most centrally the concepts it names enchanted and disenchanted violence. In addition to defining key aspects of literary violence in the period, including the notion of violet hour, the book explores three major historical episodes: dynamite violence and anarchism in the nineteenth century, which provided a vibrant, new consciousness about explosion, sensationalism, and the limits of political meaning in the act of violence; the turbulent events consuming Ireland in the first thirTrade ReviewCole's close readings of violence in the work of some of the major modernists are superb. * Lauren Arrington, The Times Literary Supplement *At the Violet Hour is also striking in terms of what it leaves out: a full-scale exploration of the Great War, arguably the defining event in the concatenation of modernism and violence. * Paul Sheehan, Review of English Studies *Cole's well-written, formidably researched book is a treasure trove of incisive readings that will surely become a classic ... Highly recommended. * D. Stuber, CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter 1 ; Enchanted and Disenchanted Violence ; Chapter 2 ; Dynamite Violence: From Melodrama to Menace ; Chapter 3 ; Cyclical Violence: The Irish Insurrection and the Limits of Enchantment ; Chapter 4 ; Patterns of Violence: Virginia Woolf in the 1930s ; Conclusion ; Index
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Clarendon Press Jane Austen and the War of Ideas
Book SynopsisInterest in Jane Austen has never been greater, but it is revitalized by the advent of feminist literary history. In a substantial new introduction Marilyn Butler places this book, which was first published in 1975, within the larger tradition of post-war criticism, from the generation of Edmund Wilson, Lionel Trilling, and F.R. Leavis to that of the now-dominant feminist critics. Professor Butler argues that Austen herself lived in contentious times. Like Wordsworth and Coleridge, she served her literary apprenticeship in the 1790s, the decade of the Terror and the Napoleonic Wars, an era in England of polemic and hysteria. Political partisanship shaped the novel of her youth, in content, form, and style. In this book, she now examines the very different schools of writing about Austen, and finds in them some unexpected continuities, such as a willingness to recruit her to modern aims, but a reluctance to engage with her own history.When the book first came out it attracted attention Trade Review`There can be no doubt of the immense value for the critical reader of this impressive exposition of conflicting views concerning the individual and society at the end of the 18th century.' The Review of English Studies.'the most accomplished 'close reading' to date of Jane Austen's dialogue, and the most stylish book written on Austen since Mary Lascelles's Jane Austen and her Art.' Marilyn Butler The London Review of Books'Readers of Jane Austen will welcome the return of Marilyn Butler's learned and controversial book on Jane Austen, reprinted with a new and extensive survey of recent scholarship. ... this book will be a valuable addition to a scholar's library. Butler's thesis casts light on Austen's fiction and her style emulates Austen'sw crisp clarity. ... Butler writes informatively about her subject, rather than about the need for the method. ' Eighteenth Century Fiction
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Oxford University Press A Commentary on Homers Odyssey Volume I Introduction and Books IVIII
Book SynopsisThese are the first two of a three-volume commentary on the Odyssey, compiled by an international team of scholars, making the most up-to-date and authoritative scholarship available in paperback. Questions of text, dialect, the poems relation to the Iliad, and the epic tradition in general are discussed by acknowledged experts in the field.Trade Review` the sheer range, penetration, authority, and readability of the notes to this volume make one's ears flap in purest gratitude; and the introductory essays to each book are models of incisive scholarship' The TimesFrom the reviews of the Italian edition: `The commentary is eminently clear and controlled.... For clear exegesis of the text and discussion of problems both [West and Hainsworth] are admirable. We have the first fruits of the new edition of the Odyssey, based on up-to-date linguistic, papyrological, and formulaic scholarship.' M. M. Willcock, Journal of Hellenic Studies `The main part of the new book is without doubt the commentary. Here we have a work the richness, independence, and judiciousness of which cannot be sufficiently admired. It is not a replacement for ... other existing commentaries, but a continuation on a higher level. On page after page we meet sensible interpretations and an authoritative presentation of current scholarship with comprehensive bibliography covering all aspects of research.... We have reason to rejoice and be grateful and await the forthcoming volumes with impatience.' H. van Thiel, Classical Review`What is so admirable about Oxford's new commentary on the Odyssey is that it provides pure protein in highly edible form: high scholarship has become haute cuisine.' Peter Jones, The Times'models of clarity ... fascinating reading ... it presents a bracing challenge and you have to work to get at the genuine riches it contains' Martin Thorpe, Shrewsbury Sixth Form College, JACT Review'The authors have made excellent use of the chance to improve what was already a first-class monument of useful scholarship, especially in adding cross-references, bibliography and indices ... this superb achievement will do much to stimulate Homeric scholarship.' Richard Janko, University of California, Los Angeles, Journal of Hellenic Studies, CX, 1990
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Oxford University Press A Commentary on Homers Odyssey Volume III Books XVIIXXIV
Book SynopsisThis is the third and final volume of a presentation in English of a commentary on Homer's Odyssey compiled by an international team of scholars and published in Italian under the auspices of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. This volume contains commentaries by J. A. Russo (books xvii-xx), M. Fernandez-Galiano (xxi-xxii), and A. Heubeck (xxiii-xxiv)Trade ReviewPraise for Volumes I and II: `The sheer range, penetration, authority, and readability ... make one's ears flap in purest gratitude.' The Times`What is so admirable about Oxford's new commentary on the Odyssey is that it provides pure protein in a highly edible form: high scholarship has become haute cuisine.' The Times
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Clarendon Press Parthenius of Nicaea Extant Works Edited with Introduction and Notes
Book SynopsisThis is the first study of all the extant remains of the important Hellenistic poet and mythographer, Parthenius of Nicaea, reputed to have been Virgil's tutor in Greek and a major literary figure in his own right, and it provides a newly edited text, translation, commentary and contextual study of the whole of Parthenius' extant works, including the poetic fragments and his love stories.Trade ReviewA scholar would have to be preternaturally learnèd to gain little from this book. In subjects as diverse as Greek literary history, Roman elegy, Greek vocabulary and syntax, motifs in story telling, textual criticism and local antiquities - and in other topics too, attentive readers will be amply rewarded. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *Lightfoot's thorough work of scholarship deserves a warm welcome. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *The good idea in Lightfoot's huge book is to reunite textual evidence that is usually treated separately, that is, the tantalizing scraps of (predominately) elegiac poetry and the extant prose work, Erotika Pathemata. * Classical World *A splendid and most welcome tome ... We have a valuable edition of a neglected author, worth attention. * Religious Studies Review *
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Oxford University Press, USA The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield Volume 5 19221923 Mansfield Collected Letters Series
Book SynopsisKatherine Mansfield's letters are as finely written as her stories and prized by ordinary readers as much as by literary critics and feminists. The fifth and final volume of this celebrated edition reveals Mansfield's courage, wit, independence, and honesty in the final year of her life.Trade ReviewThis fifth volume of the Collected Letters brings a satisfying completeness * Stephen Barkway, Virginia Woolf Bulletin *Its completion is a triumphant achievement... The editors' labours throughout have been meticulous yet unobtrusive * Trev Broughton, Times Literary Supplement *Top of my wishlist... plangent, wishful and determined even at the end with O'Sullivan's learned and sensitive introduction. * Kirsty Gunn, The Scotsman Books of the Year *...her last year has never appeared as vibrant as in this elegantly produced and unobtrusively edited volume, filled with previously unknown material. * Christopher Hawtree, Telegraph on Saturday *The editors deserve our gratitude for publishing these letters * A. Banerjee, English Studies *Table of ContentsTHE LETTERS
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Oxford University Press, USA Historical Novel 19th Century Europe P
Book SynopsisBrian Hamnett examines key historical novels by Scott, Balzac, Manzoni, Dickens, Eliot, Flaubert, Fontane, Galdós, and Tolstoy, revealing the contradictions inherent in this form of fiction and exploring the challenges writers encountered in attempting to represent a reality that linked past and present.Table of ContentsPART ONE THE HISTORICAL NOVEL AS GENRE AND PROBLEM: AN ANALYTICAL AND CRITICAL EXAMINATION; PART TWO INTERNAL CONTRADICTIONS AND UNSTABLE FORM: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE HISTORICAL NOVEL'S DILEMMA; FICTITIOUS HISTORIES; SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Oxford University Press Ian Watt
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Oxford University Press, USA Archestratos of Gela Greek Culture and Cuisine in the Fourth Century Bce Text Translation and Commentary
Book SynopsisA 4th-century BCE mock-epic poem, probably entitled the "Hedupatheia" or "Life of Luxury", offering a gastronomic tour of the Mediterranean. This work is aimed at researchers and students in Greek poetry, social history, and cuisine of the late classical and early Hellenistic period.Trade ReviewOlson and Sens have produced a text and translation equipped with exhaustive introduction and commentary. Theirs is likely to remain the standard edition of Archestratos for many years ... the commentary is a useful tool for students of food and literature alike. * Gnomon *Scholars and teachers interested in ancient food and dining will welcome this collection of the fragments of the fourth-century BC gastronomical poem, Hedupatheia, by Archestratos, usually accessible only in references scattered throughout the eipnosophistae of Athenaeus * The Classical Outlook *
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Oxford University Press The Feminine Middlebrow Novel 1920s to 1950s
Book Synopsis''Middlebrow'' has always been a dirty word, used disparagingly since its coinage in the mid-1920s for the sort of literature thought to be too easy, insular and smug. Yet it was middlebrow fiction - largely written and read by women - that absolutely dominated the publishing market in the four decades from the 1920s to the 1950s. Neglected by subsequent critical fashion in favour of the work of literary elites, this literature has only recently begun to be reassessed. Aiming to rehabilitate the feminine middlebrow, Nicola Humble argues that the novels of writers such as Rosamund Lehmann, Elizabeth Taylor, Stella Gibbons, Nancy Mitford, and a host of others less well known, played a powerful role in establishing and consolidating, but also in resisting, new class and gender identities in this period of volatile change for both women and the middle classes. The work of over thirty novelists is covered, read alongside other discourses as diverse as cookery books, child-care manuals, and Trade ReviewReview from previous edition Accessible, informative and entertainingly written. * Laura Jane Macbeth, The Independent Weekend Review *A fascinating study of literary culture, which offers many intriguing tasters of the novels themselves. The bizarre characters and scenarios, and the conscious ironies of some of these "good bad books" leave one curious to read more. * Clare Griffiths, Times Literary Supplement *Table of Contents1. 'Books Do Furnish a Room': Readers and Reading ; 2. 'Not Our Sort': The Re-Formation of Middle-Class Identities ; 3. Imagining the Home ; 4. The Eccentric Family ; 5. A Crisis of Gender? ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX
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Oxford University Press, USA Cicero Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius Clarendon Ancient History Series
Book SynopsisA new translation of, and commentary on, Cicero's defence of Publius Sestius against a charge of public violence. The speech provides any student of Rome with a fascinating way into the period and is also among the best introductions we have to traditional Republican values and ethics in action.Trade Review...constantly enlightening and extremely broad in its scope... * Bryn Mawr Reviews *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; TRANSLATION: THE SPEECH ON BEHALF OF PUBLIUS SESTIUS; COMMENTARY
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Oxford University Press Unseasonable Youth
Book SynopsisUnseasonable Youth examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or endless adolescence. Novels of youth by Oscar Wilde, Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and Elizabeth Bowen disrupt the inherited conventions of the bildungsroman in order to criticize bourgeois values and to reinvent the biographical plot, but also to explore the contradictions inherent in mainstream developmental discourses of self, nation, and empire. The intertwined tropes of frozen youth and uneven development, as motifs of failed progress, play a crucial role in the emergence of dilatory modernist style and in the reimagination of colonial space at the fin-de-siècle. The genre-bending logic of uneven development - never wholly absent from the coming-of-age novel -- takes on a new and more intense form in modernism as it fixes its broken allegory to the problem of colonial develoTrade ReviewThe power of Esty's text to rewire one's thinking is most evident in the fact that such quibbles arise only once one has accepted his ambitious reframing of the late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century novelistic tradition. ... This is a major rereading of the modernist novel. Its analysis will be unavoidable for future critics of the period. * Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History Esty's extensive secondary references, awareness of critical trends, and what the series editors right call his 'admirable stylistic panache' are all impressive. Recommended.?CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents ; Series Editors' Foreword ; Chapter one: Introduction ; Scattered Souls: The Bildungsroman and Colonial Modernity ; After the Novel of Progress ; Kipling's Imperial Time ; Genre, History, and the Trope of Youth ; Modernist Subjectivity and the World-System ; Chapter two ; "National-Historical Time" from Goethe to George Eliot ; Infinite Development vs. National Form ; Nationhood and Adulthood in The Mill on the Floss ; After Eliot: Aging Forms and Globalized Provinces ; Chapter three ; Youth/Death: Schreiner and Conrad in the Contact Zone ; Outpost Without Progress: Schreiner's Story of An African Farm ; "A free and wandering tale": Conrad's Lord Jim ; Chapter four ; Souls of Men under Capitalism: Wilde, Wells, and the Anti-Novel ; "Unripe Time": Dorian Gray and Metropolitan Youth ; Commerce and Decay in Tono-Bungay ; Chapter five ; Tropics of Youth in Woolf and Joyce ; The "weight of the world": Woolf's Colonial Adolescence ; "Elfin Preludes": Joyce's Adolescent Colony ; Chapter six ; Virgins of Empire: The Antidevelopmental Plot in Rhys and Bowen ; Gender and Colonialism in the Modernist Semi-Periphery ; Endlessly Devolving: Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark ; Querying Innocence: Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September ; Chapter seven: Conclusion ; Alternative Modernity and Autonomous Youth After 1945 ; Works Cited ; Index
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Oxford University Press Novel Craft
Book SynopsisNovel Craft explores an intriguing and under-studied aspect of cultural life in Victorian England: domestic handicrafts, the decorative pursuit that predated the Arts and Crafts movement. Talia Schaffer argues that the handicraft movement served as a way to critique the modern mass-produced commodity and the rapidly emerging industrial capitalism of the nineteenth century. Her argument is illustrated with the four pivotal novels that form her study''s core-Gaskell''s Cranford, Yonge''s The Daisy Chain, Dickens''s Our Mutual Friend, and Oliphant''s Phoebe Junior. Each features various handicrafts that subtly aim to subvert the socioeconomic changes being wrought by industrialization. Schaffer goes beyond straightforward textual analysis by shaping each chapter around the individual craft at the center of each novel (paper for Cranford, flowers and related arts in The Daisy Chain, rubbish and salvage in Our Mutual Friend, and the contrasting ethos of arts and crafts connoisseurship in PhTrade ReviewSchaffer has revolutionized the study of Victorian aesthetics. * Choice *Table of ContentsTable of Contents ; Introduction: "How to Read Wax Coral, and Why" ; Chapter 1. "Women's Work: The History of the Victorian Domestic Handicraft" ; Chapter 2. "Ephemerality: The Cranford Papers" ; Chapter 3. "Preservation: The Daisy and the Chain" ; Chapter 4. "Salvage: Betty as the Mutual Friend" ; Chapter 5: "Connoisseurship: Giving Credit to Phoebe Junior" ; Postscript ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press, USA Making History New
Book SynopsisMaking History New explores how several British modernists applied the experimental methods of literary modernism to the writing of narrative history and historical novels. The historical novel is usually assumed to be only a concern of either nineteenth century realism or postmodernism, but the historical works of Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford and Rebecca West evidence a modernist obsession with historical narrative. Works like Nostromo, Parade''s End and Black Lamb and Grey Falcon utilized literary techniques we have come to associate with modernism-fragmentation, subjectivity, nonlinearity-in their effort to narrate the past, but unlike many of their contemporaries they never jettisoned narrative as the primary means for textual engagements with the historical past. Such a divisioning between narrative and non-narrative modes of writing history also mark the field of historiography in the wake of the Holocaust, with poststructural challenges to narrative history compelling many hisTrade ReviewMaking History New is entirely successful in challenging the claim that modernism is anti-historical ... [and] opens up an original - and potentially significant - field of research in modernist studies. * Kate Symondson, Times Literary Supplement *Making History New challenges the claim that literary modernism abandoned history. With close attention to historical narratives by Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and Rebecca West, Seamus O'Malley rediscovers the historiographical significance of modernist experimentation. Reading the three authors as an exemplary constellation of modernists, Making History New illuminates a deeply historical turn at the heart of high modernism and invites a re-evaluation of the field of modernist studies. O'Malley simultaneously brings historiography to bear on literary modernism and makes modernist narrative newly relevant to debates about how history is made, written, and read. * Christopher GoGwilt, author of The Passage of Literature: Genealogies of Modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya *Seamus O'Malley's discovery of a modernist historiography complicates and clarifies the relationship between modernism and history; leads to convincing new readings of well-known and more obscure works of fiction; and suggests ways in which historians today can learn from modernist innovations to create new historical forms. Making History New is a refreshingly innovative reassessment of literary modernism. * Louise Blakeney Williams, author of Modernism and the Ideology of History: Literature, Politics, and the Past *Making History New is a compelling and erudite contribution to modernist studies that advances our knowledge of the field and the three canonical authors * Conrad, Ford, Westat its heart. O'Malley's command of his sources is magisterial; he presents a truly interdisciplinary approach to this complex and sophisticated topic.Bernard Schweitzer, author of Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism *Making History New offers a bold and original challenge to the received idea of modernism as anti-historical. O'Malley makes a powerful case for an engagement with the experience and representation of history as being constitutive of modernism, from the early modernist historiographic fictions of Conrad and Ford, through the novels of the First World War, to West's reflections on the Holocaust and the Nuremberg Trials. His subtle readings illuminate the richness of modernism's meditations on the nature and the problematics of the historical. * Max Saunders, author of Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter One: Joseph Conrad and the Necessity of History in Nostromo ; Chapter Two: Rewriting and Repetition in The Good Soldier ; Chapter Three: Returning, Remembering, and Forgetting in The Return of the Soldier ; Chapter Four: The Rememoration of Some Do Not... (Parade's End, Vol. 1) ; Chapter Five: The Impossible Necessity of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon ; Conclusion: History after the Holocaust ; Works Cited ; Notes
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Oxford University Press, USA Mignons Afterlives Crossing Cultures from Goethe to the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisBy tracing the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character in Goethe''s novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Terence Cave explores a phenomenal success story in the history of literature and music, and more broadly of cultural history. Mignon steps out of the shadow of its protagonist Wilhelm and fashions a destiny of her own: she becomes the object of an obsessive interest that reached its peak in the later nineteenth century but continues to reverberate into the twenty-first century. Mignon reappears - often as a character bearing a different name but sharing an unmistakable family resemblance with her - in a wide range of different literary works from Goethe himself via the German Romantic Novel, Mme de Staël, George Sand, Nerval and Baudelaire, Walter Scott and George Eliot to Gerhart Hauptmann and Angela Carter. Her songs, set by dozens of composers from Reichardt and Beethoven to Wolf, reverberated through the drawing-rooms and concert-halls of nineteenth-century Europe. She is the heroine of the most popular French opera of the late nineteenth century, and she has featured in a number of films. She is fascinating because she is poised on the threshold between childhood and adolescence, aphasia and expressive power, words and music; she is a wanderer who has lost her home, an exile who has been abducted and abused; and the many stories in which her life is reenacted provide a litmus test for key cultural values of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Trade Reviewdelightfully informative, leisurely, and sophisticated ... the scope of the investigation is impressively broad * David Baguley, French Studies *Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION
£102.12
Oxford University Press Self Impression
Book SynopsisI am aware that, once my pen intervenes, I can make whatever I like out of what I was.'' Paul Valéry, Moi.Modernism is often characterized as a movement of impersonality; a rejection of auto/biography. But most of the major works of European modernism and postmodernism engage in very profound and central ways with questions about life-writing. Max Saunders explores the ways in which modern writers from the 1870s to the 1930s experimented with forms of life-writing - biography, autobiography, memoir, diary, journal - increasingly for the purposes of fiction. He identifies a wave of new hybrid forms from the late nineteenth century and uses the term ''autobiografiction'' - discovered in a surprisingly early essay of 1906 - to provide a fresh perspective on turn-of-the-century literature, and to propose a radically new literary history of Modernism. Saunders offers a taxonomy of the extraordinary variety of experiments with life-writing, demonstrating how they arose in the nineteenth centTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Saunders's account ... is the most important recent contribution to the genealogy of modern literature ... The paradoxy of autobiografiction never disorients him; rather, it inspires plentiful pithy wisdom in a book that seems to end every paragraph aphoristically. Theory and history, history and form get their due recognition, and the book as a whole is an apt and exciting tribute to its subject, capable of everything necessary to prove that life-writing has meant everything to literary modernity. * Jesse Matz, Modern Language Quarterly *Review from previous edition It is likely to become a major critical resource, not just for research on early twentieth-century life-writing, but also as part of the ongoing revision of the whole century's literary history. * Bharat Tandon, Times Literary Supplement *very wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating ... Conspicuous in its originality ... an outstanding contribution * The Pater Newsletter *a remarkable book, in its length, its historical range (Pater to Byatt) and its fluid genre crossings... Saunders explores the relationship of autobiography to fiction in general, the relationship of the synthetic category 'autobiografiction' to modernism, and by so doing gives us an unusually unified account of modernism... The sheer weight of research and knowledge is astonishing and lightly, even conversationally, worn; Saunders seems to have read every fiction, auto-fiction and pseudo-fiction from the last 150 years... Too many excellent features of this magisterial book can be mentioned only in passing * Review of English Studies *Saunders can rearrange the familiar landmarks of modernist prehistory to fit an entire tradition of imaginary autobiography that has been occluded or marginalised by the grand narrative of modernisms impersonality... its new readings of well-known authors and works are dazzling; its new scholarship on unknown or little-known authors and works is fascinating. It revitalises the old literary-historical category of the transition (that is, from Victorian to modern, 1880-1920) * Australian Book Review *Saunders' mode of presentation is very precise and sharp... a very important book for the discussion of the relationship between Modernism and Life-Writing. * Yata Keiji, Virginia Woolf Review *A breathtakingly comprehensive study... Self Impression is an important book that will inspire further work on life-writing in the modern period... Recent publications provide other examples of books that call out for the application of Saunders's approach. The first volume of the complete and authoritative edition of the Autobiography of Mark Twain has just been published... Once again, we are in the realm of autobiografiction that Saunders has so brilliantly mapped out. * English Literature in Transition *compendious in the best sense of the term... Saunders's knowledge of, and ability to critique with extraordinary critical sensitivity, the wide swathes of European literature is remarkable. Even more impressive is his handling of the intricate filaments which bind these texts together, which make them constantly mutually allusive. This makes for a constant fascination... It is a measure of the depth of thinking in this book that the complexities of autobiographical modes and the relevance of the category of impressionism, while compelling in themselves, tend to recede and to be replaced by larger questions. Who am I when I write? Who am I when I read? What is it like to be 'carried away' by a book?... These are questions which, as Saunders delicately puts it, have been raised in one form or another by de Man, Hartman, Derrida; but here they receive a rare depth and range of articulation which puts flesh on the bones of abstract argument * David Punter, Modern *wide-ranging and consequential new account of British literature from 1870 to 1930 ... In modernism, as Saunders demonstrates in impressive detail, we may find an astonishing variety of experimental interactions between biography, autobiography, fiction, and criticism ... With this vast body of evidence, quoted generously and treated expertly, Saunders makes a compelling case for reading modernism as a discourse of im/personality. [One of] two exceedingly good books - stimulating in their arguments, rich in attention to literary and scholarly detail, and engagingly written. * Adam Parkes, Modern Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsPART I: MODERN IRONISATIONS OF AUTO/BIOGRAPHY AND THE EMERGENCE OF AUTOBIOGRAFICTION: VICTORIAN AND FIN-DE-SIECLE PRECURSORS; PART II: MODERNIST AUTO/BIOGRAFICTION; CONCLUSION
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