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Taylor & Francis Ltd The William Makepeace Thackeray Library
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This sixth volume contains the work of Lewis Melville, one of the most productive biographers and critics of Thackeray at the turn of the 20th century. Richard Pearson's helpful introduction not only provides additional information on the biographer himself, but also analyses the text and tracks its development over time. This book will be of interest to those studying Thackeray and nineteenth-century literature. Table of ContentsIntroduction Richard Pearson; The Life of William Makepeace Thackeray Lewis Melville
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Terror and CounterTerror in Contemporary British
Book SynopsisThe widespread threat of terrorist and counter-terrorist violence in the twenty-first century has created a globalized context for social interactions, transforming the ways in which young people relate to the world around them and to one another. This is the first study that reads post-9/11 and 7/7 British writing for the young as a response to this contemporary predicament, exploring how children's writers find the means to express the local conditions and different facets of the global wars around terror. The texts examined in this book reveal a preoccupation with overcoming various forms of violence and prejudice faced by certain groups within post-terror Britain, as well as a concern with mapping out their social relations with other groups, and those concerns are set against the recurring themes of racist paranoia, anti-immigrant hostility, politicized identities, and growing up in countries transformed by the effects of terror and counter-terror. The book concentrates on the Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 Unhealed Wounds Chapter 2 Precarious Lives Chapter 3 Subcultural Spaces Chapter 4 The Reluctant Terrorist Chapter 5 At Home in Wonderland ConclusionIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Peter Pans Shadows in the Literary Imagination
Book SynopsisThis book is a literary analysis of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in all its different versions -- key rewritings, dramatisations, prequels, and sequels -- and includes a synthesis of the main critical interpretations of the text over its history. A comprehensive and intelligent study of the Peter Pan phenomenon, this study discusses the book's complicated textual history, exploring its origins in the Harlequinade theatrical tradition and British pantomime in the nineteenth century. Stirling investigates potential textual and extra-textual sources for Peter Pan, the critical tendency to seek sources in Barrie's own biography, and the proliferation of prequels and sequels aiming to explain, contextualize, or close off, Barrie's exploration of the imagination. The sources considered include Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's Starcatchers trilogy, Régis Loisel's six-part Peter Pan graphic novel in French (1990-2004), Andrew Birkin's The Lost Boys serTrade Review'This excellent book is an important contribution to the documentation and critical interpretation of a literary myth, text and character that has transcended its authorial and textual origins and, as the author states, 'taken on a life of its own'.- Scottish Literary Review"Her analysis is compelling... [An] interesting and highly readable text." - Kayla McKinney Wiggins, Mythlore"Stirling's bibliography is a model of thorough research and her analysis offers fresh ideas for Peter Pan Studies." - Children's Literature Assocation Quarterly.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations and References Introduction: The Shadow of Peter Pan 1. Origins and Storytelling 2. Peter and Pantomime 3. Wendy and Peter 4. Before Peter Pan: Loisel 5. Imagining Barrie 6. Ending Peter Pan 7. Sequels Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Womens Court and Society Memoirs Part II
Book SynopsisEach of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Bi-sexuality of Daniel Defoe: A
Book SynopsisDaniel Defoe (1660-1731) is known to many only by his first novel, "Robinson Crusoe", astonishingly written as he approached his sixtieth year. Acknowledged as the first of English novelists, he has also been awarded accolades for being the 'Father of Journalism', the most successful spy in British history, the precursor to contemporary depth psychologists, the most daring of early feminists, the most devious of confidence tricksters and fraudulent entrepreneurs, the unsurpassed travelogue presenter, the first spin-doctor and speech-writer to a king. Hurling his defiances against the Established Church and Roman Catholicism, he was also the intrepid upholder of dissenting beliefs. Leo Abse deploys his forensic skills as a distinguished criminal lawyer and reforming parliamentarian to present an intriguing and novel Freudian overview of all Defoe's major works. Weaving the anecdotal and the personal with profound revelatory explorations of the psychodynamics and psychopathology of Defoe, his conclusions, strikingly relevant to today's political dilemmas, will precipitate debate in university English departments, startle many literary critics and be of absorbing interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, criminologists and all working in the field of mental health.Trade Review'Don't miss Leo Abse's Daniel Defoe. He's as original as Defoe himself.' - Michael Foot 'Leo Abse is always brave, always perceptive and usually right; doubters will be wise to hesitate before pronouncing; over the last half-century, time has been in the habit of vindicating his judgement.' - Matthew Parris 'This book presents its subject in an entirelyfresh light, making it an exhilarating and enthralling read. I was gripped from beginning to end.' - Anthony Howard 'With wit, insight and erudition, Leo Abse illuminates hidden corners of the too-often overlooked Defoe, and casts a contemporary eye on Defoe's prodigious achievement, not least his bold eighteenth-century view of marriage as licensed whoredom. A riveting read.' - Brenda Maddox 'Leo Abse, perhaps the most humane and significant back-bench MP from any political party in the twentieth century, civilised Britain by forcing through a series of historic changes on the laws on homosexuality and divorce... now, ever indefatigable, his latest book gives a new dimension to the understanding of Defoe. Abse shows how Defoe transcended his private agonies to become a great public man.' - Peter OborneTable of ContentsThe genius of Daniel Defoe -- The Historical Collections -- The negative Oedipus complex -- The thrills of risk-taking -- Cannibalism -- The plague: defying Thanatos -- The storm -- The voyeur -- The spy -- Coprophilia and creativity -- Captain Singleton: the ablation of Alice Defoe -- The birth traumas of Sheppard, Wild and Defoe -- The preacher -- The feminist -- Crusoe's island -- Moll Flanders -- Roxana -- Apocalypse: The Political History of the Devil -- Epilogue
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Oxford University Press The Invention of Prose
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Lacan Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisThis collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at the time when it underwent a certain intellectual decline. Advocating a 'return to Freud', by which he meant a close reading in the original of Freud's works, he stressed the idea that the unconscious functions 'like a language'. All essays in this Companion focus on key terms in Lacan's often difficult and idiosyncratic developments of psychoanalysis. This volume will bring fresh, accessible perspectives to the work of this formidable and influential thinker. These essays, supported by a useful chronology and guide to further reading will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.Trade Review"Superb... this book shoud appeal to anyone interested in the development of Freudian thought and the history of ideas concerning human subjectivity. Highly recommended." ChoiceTable of ContentsChronology; 1. Lacan's turns to Freud Jean-Michel Rabaté; 2. The mirror-stage: an obliterated archive Elisabeth Roudinesco; 3. Lacan's myths Darian Leader; 4. Lacan's science of the subject: between linguistics and topology Danny Nobus; 5. From the letter to the matheme: Lacan's scientific models Bernard Burgoyne; 6. The paradoxes of the symptom in psychoanalysis Colette Soler; 7. Desire and jouissance in the teachings of Lacan Nestor Braunstein; 8. Lacan and philosophy Charles Shepherdson; 9. Lacan's Marxism, Marxism's Lacan (from Zizek to Althusser) Joe Valente; 10. Ethics and tragedy in Lacan Alenka Zupancic; 11. A Lacanian approach to the logic of perversion Judith Feher-Gurewich; 12. What is a Lacanian clinic? Diana Rabinovitch; 13. Beyond the phallus: Lacan and feminism Deborah Luepnitz; 14. Lacan and queer theory Tim Dean; 15. Lacan's afterlife: Jacques Lacan meets Andy Warhol Catherine Liu; Further Reading.
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Cambridge University Press Recreating Jane Austen
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Cambridge University Press The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
Book SynopsisVolume I of the Letters, edited by James T. Boulton, gives the first 580 letters in the series, covering the period September 1901 to May 1913. Professor Boulton's discreet annotation conceals an enormous labour of patient detection. There are over thirty photographs of his friends and correspondents.Trade Review'The splendid Cambridge Edition of the Letters of D. H. Lawrence is most welcome. It has all the virtues of a good modern scholarly edition of a writer's letters. Though one has already been familiar with many aspects of Lawrence's personality in his other writings, this comprehensive edition of his letters projects a cohesive self-portriat of the living artist.' English Studies: A Journal of English Language and LiteratureTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Rules of transcription; Lawrence: a genealogy; Lawrence: a chronology, 1885–1913; Maps showing places visited by Lawrence, 1885–1913; Introduction; Letters 1-579; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Letters of D H Lawrence Volume 8 The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of D H Lawrence
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Cambridge University Press Kangaroo The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D H Lawrence
Book SynopsisKangaroo is D. H. Lawrence's eighth novel, set in Australia. He wrote the first draft in just forty-five days while living south of Sydney, in 1922, and revised it three months later in New Mexico. The descriptions of the country are vivid and sympathetic and the book fuses lightly disguised autobiography with an exploration of political ideas at an immensely personal level. Based on a collation of the manuscript, typescripts and first editions, this text of Kangaroo is closest to what Lawrence would have expected to see in print. There is a full textual apparatus of variants, a comprehensive introduction giving the background and history of composition and publication and a summary of contemporary reviewers' opinions. Explanatory notes elucidate the many geographical, political and literary allusions in the text; there are three maps and an appendix detailing Australian locations.Table of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; Kangaroo; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; Appendix; A note on pounds, shillings and pence.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel
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Cambridge University Press Commerce Morality and the EighteenthCentury Novel
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Cambridge University Press Modern Romance the Transformation The Gothic Scott Dickens
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Cambridge University Press Dickens and the Politics of the Family
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Cambridge University Press Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century
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Cambridge University Press Conrad in Perspective
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Cambridge University Press readingdaughtersfictions17091834
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Cambridge University Press Myth and Archive
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Cambridge University Press Dostoevsky and English Modernism 1900 1930
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Cambridge University Press Defoe and the New Sciences
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Cambridge University Press Jane Austen and the Body
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Cambridge University Press Epistolary Fiction in Europe 1500 1850
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Cambridge University Press From the Idyll to the Novel
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Cambridge University Press Conrad on Film
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Cambridge University Press The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis
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Cambridge University Press Petronius the Poet
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Cambridge University Press Literary Magazines Brit Romanticism 45 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 45
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Cambridge University Press Subjectivity and Subjugation in SeventeenthCentury Drama and Prose
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Cambridge University Press Joyce Derrida Lacan and the Trauma of History
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Cambridge University Press Michel de Montaigne
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Cambridge University Press Fictions of Labor William Faulkner and the Souths Long Revolution 108 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 108
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Cambridge University Press Lewis Carroll and the House of MacMillan
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Cambridge University Press From Dickens to Dracula Gothic Economics and Victorian Fiction 48 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 48
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Cambridge University Press Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race 143 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 143
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Cambridge University Press Beckett and Poststructuralism
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Cambridge University Press The Literature of Labor Allegory in NineteenthCentury American Fiction 89 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 89
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Cambridge University Press The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story
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Cambridge University Press Crime and Defoe A New Kind of Writing 16 Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Thought Series Number 16
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to recover something of the original excitement, challenge and significance of Defoe's four novels of criminal life by reading them within and against the conventions of early eighteenth-century criminal biography. Crime raised deeply troubling questions in Defoe's time, not least as a powerful sign of the breakdown of traditional social authority and order. Arguing that Defoe's novels, like criminal biography, provided ways of facing and working through, as well as avoiding, certain of the moral and intellectual difficulties that crime raised for him and his readers, Faller shows how the 'literary', even 'aesthetic' qualities of his fiction contributed to these ends. Analysing the ways in which Defoe's novels exploited, deformed and departed from the genre they imitated, this book attempts to define the specific social and political (which is to say moral and ideological) value of a given set of 'literary' texts against those of a more 'ordinary' form of narrative.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Romancing the real: the field of criminal biography; 2. Defoe's realism: rough frames, strange voices, surprisingly various subjects and readers made more present to themselves; 3. The copious text: opening the door to inference, or, room for those who know how to read it; 4. Imitations of an invisible hand: the mind exercised, enlarged and kept in play by strange concurrences; 5. The general scandal upon business: unanswerable doubts, and the texts as a field supporting very nice distinctions; 6. The frontiers of dishonesty, the additions and concurrence of circumstances: more on the strategic situating of names; 7. Notions different from all the world: criminal stupidity, the self, and the symbolic order; Closing comments: truth, complexity, common sense and empty spaces.
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Cambridge University Press Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together Western and Russian perspectives on the issues raised by the religious element in Dostoevsky's work. In addition to an exploration of the impact of the Christian tradition on Dostoevsky's major novels, there are also discussions of lesser-known works.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'Here is both literary criticism and theological reflection … [the authors] are to be congratulated on collecting and editing such a fine book.' TheologyReview of the hardback: 'It goes without saying that Dostoevsky cannot occupy the central position in any appraisal of the assimilation of Christianity into Russian literature as indeed of the relevance of this phenomenon to the new Russia; in this context, then, the appearance of Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition is timely and welcome.' Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsNotes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Notes on conventions and abbreviations; Introduction: reading Dostoevsky religiously George Pattison and Diane Oenning Thompson; Part I. Dostoevsky and the Practice of Orthodoxy: 1. Dostoevsky and the kenotic tradition Margaret Ziolkowski; 2. Dostoevsky's markings in the Gospel according to St John Irina Kirillova; 3. Icons in Dostoevsky's works Sophie Ollivier; 4. Problems of the biblical word in Dostoevsky's poetics Dianne Oenning Thompson; Part II. Dostoevsky and Christian Theology: 5. Dostoevsky in the prism of the orthodox semiosphere Avril Pyman; 6. The categories of law and grace in Dostoevsky's poetics Ivan Esaulov; 7. The Brothers Karamazov as trinitarian theology David S. Cunningham; 8. Reading and incarnation in Dostoevsky Eric J. Ziolkowski; Part III. Reading Dostoevsky Religiously: Case Studies: 9. Towards an iconography of Crime and Punishment Anthony Johae; 10. Pavel Smerdyakov and Ivan Karamazov: the problem of temptation Vladimir Kantor; 11. Beyond the will: humiliation as Christian necessity in Crime and Punishment Henry M. W. Russell; 13. Freedom's dangerous dialogue: reading Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard together George Pattison; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Fictions of Capital American Novel The American Novel from James to Mailer 40 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 40
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Cambridge University Press Ethics Theory and the Novel
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Cambridge University Press Joseph Conrad Times Remembered Ojciec Jest Tutaj
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Cambridge University Press George Eliots Daniel Deronda Notebooks
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Cambridge University Press Henry James and Sexuality
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Cambridge University Press Cunninghame Graham A Critical Biography
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Cambridge University Press The Nature of Fiction
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Cambridge University Press The Regional Novel in Britain and Ireland 18001990
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