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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel
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Cambridge University Press Literature and Legal Discourse
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Cambridge University Press Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D H Lawrence
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisKey dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. In addition to introductory chapters on all the main works of fiction, the essays and diaries, there are four chapters examining Mann's oeuvre in relation to major themes. These thematic explorations include his position as a realistic writer concerned with the history of his own times and as a commentator on German and American politics; his controversial reputation as an intellectual novelist; the literary techniques that enabled his challenging fictions to appeal to a wide audience; and the homosexual subtext running through his fiction and diaries. A final chapter looks at the pitfalls of translating Mann into English. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for scholars and students.Trade Review'Those who look for new insights into Mann's novels and shorter fiction will not be disappointed.' Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsChronology; 1. Mann in history T. J. Reed; 2. Mann's intellectual world Paul Bishop; 3. Mann's literary techniques Michael Minden; 4. Mann's man's world: gender and sexuality Andrew Webber; 5. Thomas Mann's early novellas Mark M. Anderson; 6. Classicism and its pitfalls: Death in Venice Ritchie Robertson; 7. The personal becomes political: Disorder and Early Sorrow and Mario and the Magician Alan Bance; 8. Buddenbrooks: between realism and aestheticism Judith Ryan; 9. The Magic Mountain Michael Beddow; 10. Religion and culture: Joseph and his Brothers Wolf-Daniel Hartwich; 11. Doctor Faustus Susan Von Rohr Scaff; Lotte in Wiemar Yahya Elsaghe; 13. The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man Frederick Lubich; 14. Mann as essayist Hinrich Siefken; 15. Mann as diarist T. J. Reed; 16. Mann in English Timothy Buck.
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Cambridge University Press Henry James and Modern Moral Life
Book SynopsisThis important book argues that Henry James reveals in his fiction a sophisticated theory of moral understanding and moral motivation. The claim is that in his writing James is engaged in a distinctive kind of original thinking and reflecting on modern moral life.Trade Review'It is a book for anyone who has ever wondered what is involved in leading a life worth living. it is, like James's novels themselves 'finely aware and richly responsible.' Modernism/ModernityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; 1. Modern morals; 2. 'A kind of morbid modernity?'; 3. 'Crudities of mutual resistance'; 4. Beasts, secrets, and ghosts; 5. Isabel Archer's 'beastly pure mind'; 6. The 'strange logic' of Lambert Strether's 'Double consciousness'; 7. '… without your life, what have you got?' Concluding remarks; Texts by James; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British
Book SynopsisShows how the novel yields a special insight into the social and cultural history of Britain 19502000. Includes chapters on the state and the novel, class and social change, gender and sexual identity, national identity and multiculturalism. This is the most accessible, and wide-ranging introduction to the subject available.Trade Review'This should become a standard reference work for its subject.' ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The state and the novel: The post-war wilderness; The testing of liberal humanism; The sixties and social revolution; The post-consensus novel; Intimations of social collapse; After Thatcher; 2. Class and social change: 'The movement'; Anger and working-class fiction; Education and class loyalty; The formal challenge of class; The waning of class consciousness; The rise of the middle class; The rise of the underclass; The realignment of the middle class; The role of the intellectual; 3. Gender and sexual identity: Out of the bird-cage; Second-wave feminism; Post-feminism; Repression in gay fiction; 4. National identity: Reinventing Englishness; The colonial legacy; The Troubles; Irishness extended; Welsh resistance; The 'Possible Dance' of Scottishness; Beyond the Isles?; 5. Multicultural personae: Jewish-British writing; The empire within; 'Windrush' and after: dislocation confronted; The quest for a settlement; Ethnic identity and literary form; Putting down roots; Rushdie's broken mirror; Towards post-nationalism; 6. Country and suburbia: The death of the nature novel; The re-evaluation of pastoral; The post-pastoral novel; The country and the city; Trouble in suburbia; Embracing the suburban experience; 7. Beyond 2000: Realism and experimentalism; Technology and the new science; Towards the new confessional; The fallacy of the new; A broken truth: Murdoch and morality; Notes; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers, as well as fresh insights, informed by recent critical theory, that will be of interest to scholars and teachers of the novels.Trade Review'No doubting its success.' The Times Literary Supplement'Strikes an excellent balance between scholarship and accessibility, and between the biographical and the critical.' The Book and Magazine CollectorTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Chronology; List of abbreviations and texts; Preface John O. Jordan; 1. The life and times of Charles Dickens Grahame Smith; 2. From Sketches to Nickleby Robert L. Patten; 3. The middle novels: Chuzzlewit, Dombey, and Copperfield Kate Flint; 4. Moments of decision in Bleak House J. Hillis Miller; 5. Novels of the 1850s: Hard Times, Little Dorrit, and A Tale of Two Cities Hilary Schor; 6. The late novels: Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend Brian Cheadle; 7. Fictions of childhood Robert Newsom; 8. Fictions of the city Murray Baumgarten; 9. Gender, family, and domestic ideology Catherine Waters; 10. Dickens and language Garrett Stewart; 11. Dickens and the form of the novel Nicola Bradbury; 12. Dickens and illustrations Richard Stein; 13. Dickens and theatre John Glavin; 14. Dickens and film Joss Marsh; Selected bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press American Slaves in Victorian England
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Cambridge University Press Joyce Derrida Lacan and the Trauma of History
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Cambridge University Press Joyce Effects
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Cambridge University Press Representations of the Self from the Renaissance to Romanticism
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Cambridge University Press Poe and the Printed Word 124 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 124
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Cambridge University Press thecambridgeintroductiontomodernbritishfiction1950
Book SynopsisIn this introduction to post-war fiction in Britain, Dominic Head shows how the novel yields a special insight into the important areas of social and cultural history in the second half of the twentieth century. Head's study is the most exhaustive survey of post-war British fiction available. It includes chapters on the state and the novel, class and social change, gender and sexual identity, national identity and multiculturalism. Throughout Head places novels in their social and historical context. He highlights the emergence and prominence of particular genres and links these developments to the wider cultural context. He also provides provocative readings of important individual novelists, particularly those who remain staple reference points in the study of the subject. Accessible, wide-ranging and designed specifically for use on courses, this is the most current introduction to the subject available. An invaluable resource for students and teachers alike.Trade Review'This should become a standard reference work for its subject.' ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The state and the novel: The post-war wilderness; The testing of liberal humanism; The sixties and social revolution; The post-consensus novel; Intimations of social collapse; After Thatcher; 2. Class and social change: 'The movement'; Anger and working-class fiction; Education and class loyalty; The formal challenge of class; The waning of class consciousness; The rise of the middle class; The rise of the underclass; The realignment of the middle class; The role of the intellectual; 3. Gender and sexual identity: Out of the bird-cage; Second-wave feminism; Post-feminism; Repression in gay fiction; 4. National identity: Reinventing Englishness; The colonial legacy; The Troubles; Irishness extended; Welsh resistance; The 'Possible Dance' of Scottishness; Beyond the Isles?; 5. Multicultural personae: Jewish-British writing; The empire within; 'Windrush' and after: dislocation confronted; The quest for a settlement; Ethnic identity and literary form; Putting down roots; Rushdie's broken mirror; Towards post-nationalism; 6. Country and suburbia: The death of the nature novel; The re-evaluation of pastoral; The post-pastoral novel; The country and the city; Trouble in suburbia; Embracing the suburban experience; 7. Beyond 2000: Realism and experimentalism; Technology and the new science; Towards the new confessional; The fallacy of the new; A broken truth: Murdoch and morality; Notes; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to F Scott Fitzgerald Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Walter Benjamin Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to the EighteenthCentury Novel Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Gabriel Garci Mrquez
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisThis highly successful Companion has been fully revised to take account of new departures in scholarship on Woolf since the first edition was published. This second edition includes five new chapters, and the remaining chapters as well as the guide to further reading have all been fully updated.Trade Review"Published in 2000, the first edition of The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf declared that its attentions would be directed towards Woolf’s “mind: the breadth of her intellectual range; her impulsive flights of creative brilliance, the long labours of composition; her conversations with the present; her arguments with history” (xiii). This second edition, directed “towards those wishing to augment their reading through an introduction to the interrogations and discoveries of Woolf scholars today” (xix) has lost none of its enthusiasm for its subject, and its scope remains impressive." -Emma Sterry, University of Strathclyde, Woolf Studies Annual 18 (2012)Table of ContentsChronology; Introduction Susan Sellers; 1. Bloomsbury Andrew McNeillie; 2. Virginia Woolf's early novels: finding a voice Suzanne Raitt; 3. From Mrs Dalloway to The Waves: new elegy and lyric experimentalism Jane Goldman; 4. The novels of the 1930s and the impact of history Julia Briggs; 5. Virginia Woolf's essays Hermione Lee; 6. Virginia Woolf, modernism and modernity Michael Whitworth; 7. The socio-political vision of the novels David Bradshaw; 8. Woolf's feminism and feminism's Woolf Laura Marcus; 9. Virginia Woolf and sexuality Patricia Morgne Cramer; 10. Virginia Woolf, empire and race Helen Carr; 11. Virginia Woolf and visual culture Maggie Humm; 12. Virginia Woolf and the public sphere Melba Cuddy-Keane; Guide to further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Charles Dickens and Other Victorians
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Cambridge University Press Swift and Pope
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Cambridge University Press The Brontes in Context
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel
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Cambridge University Press Nathalie Sarraute Fiction and Theory Questions of Difference 64 Cambridge Studies in French Series Number 64
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Cambridge University Press Longus Daphnis and Chloe
Book SynopsisLongus'' Daphnis and Chloe is arguably our finest surviving Greek novel. Written under the Roman Empire and engaging with romantic, pastoral and rhetorical themes, the story and characterisation have captured the imaginations of artists over the centuries. Despite a growing interest in ancient novels over the past half-century, this is the first full commentary to address Longus'' linguistic texture and its implications for his literary aspirations, as well as his narrative skills and intertextuality with earlier Greek writers. The commentary provides a detailed analysis of Longus'' Greek and its relation to other Greek prose and poetry of the second century AD and earlier, and emphasises the construction and style of the original text, drawing out key points for clarification and discussion. A wide-ranging introduction ensures that this book will be an indispensable guide for teachers and students of all levels who are looking to engage with Longus'' writing.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The text and the story; 2. Longus' poetic intertexts; 3. Longus' exploitation of earlier prose texts; 4. Poetic elements in Longus' prose?; 5. Religion; 6. City and country; 7. Art and nature; 8. Style and language; 9. Syntax; 10. Choice of words; 11. Longus' non-Attic lexicon and date; 12. Reception and transmission; 13. The text and commentary; ΛΟΓΓΟΥ ΠΟΙΜΕΝΙΚΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΚΑΤΑ ΔΑΦΝΙΝ ΚΑΙ ΧΛΟΗΝ; Commentary.
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Cambridge University Press Joyce Effects
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Cambridge University Press The Selected Letters of DH Lawrence
Book SynopsisAn authoritative selection of letters by one of the great English letter-writers, first published in 1997, is also available in paperback.Trade Review'James Boulton has chosen 330 letters from the massive eight-volume Cambridge edition of well over 5,000, making this substantial selection something like a new addition to the Lawrence canon, a book to have on the shelf alongside The Rainbow and Women in Love.' Independent on Sunday'We now have the start of an edition in whose scrupulousness there is good reason to place every confidence: the fundamental work will never have to be done again … Cambridge University Press has cooperated nobly: the book is nice to hold, the pages are very well set out and printed and altogether a pleasure to read. In short a job eminently worth doing has been eminently well done.' English'This invigorating collection … is … a monument to scholarship for which we should be grateful.' D. H. Lawrence Review'The Selected Letters succeeds admirably in representing Lawrence's quirky brilliance, his always surprising common sense, and above all else the sheer beauty of his writing.' English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920Table of ContentsIntroduction; Biographical list of correspondents; Letters: 1. The formative years, 1885–1913; 2. The Rainbow and Women in Love, 1913–16; 3. Cornwall and Italy, 1916–21; 4. Eastwards to the new world, 1921–4; 5. New Mexico, Mexico and Italy, 1924–7; 6. Europe and Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1927–8; 7. Decline and death, 1928–30.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to The Spanish Novel From 1600 to the Present Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Literary Magazines and British Romanticism 45 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 45
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Cambridge University Press The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel
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Cambridge University Press Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
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Cambridge University Press The Journals of George Eliot Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Paperback
Book SynopsisThis is the first publication of the complete surviving journals of the great Victorian novelist. A new George Eliot text, and the closest she came to autobiography, it reveals both professional writer and private woman. Chronology, introduction, headnotes to each diary, and annotated index supply valuable contextual and explanatory information.Trade Review'The editors of this volume have done their work with admirable tact and persistence.' Terry Eagleton, The Independent on Sunday'This volume forms a valuable addition to Eliot scholarship … Margaret Harris and Judith Johnston have produced a definintive work for future generations of Eliot enthusiasts and scholars.' Sally Shuttleworth, The Times Literary Supplement'The editors, who have produced a masterly piece of work, have included a chronology, excellent notes and a most valuable 'explanatory index.' The Contemporary Review'Unshrouded by prejudices and the various agendas of biographers, these abridged texts provide fascinating direct access to the author. The unobtrusive editing is suffciently informative without being overwhelming …'. Charlotte Cory, The Independent'… a great contribution to scholarship … a remarkable book for which biographers, critics and readers must be grateful and by which they should be enlightened.' Barbara Hardy, The George Eliot Review'This is a most valuable book, boon for those who wish to learn more about the remarkable woman who gave us, among others, The Mill on the Floss, Romola and Middlemarch.' Canberra Times' [A] beautifully edited and designed work … the pleasures it offers to the reader of George Eliot are manifold … It is a work long needed. That it is interpretatively, textually, and typographically so well done makes it worth the wait.' Carol A. Martin, Boise State University'… the real merit of this book is that it opens a whole field of these quietly resonating details, committed to the privacy of Eliot's treasured and closely guarded notebooks from 1854 to a few months before her death.' Mark Wormald, The Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsList of abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; 1. Diary 1854–61: (i) Weimar, 20 July–3 November 1854; (ii) Berlin, 3 November 1854–March 1855; (iii) England, March 1855–19 June 1861; 2. Diary 1861–77; 3. Diary 1879; 4. Diary 1880; 5. Recollections of Weimar, 1854; 6. Recollections of Berlin, 1854–5; 7. Recollections of Ilfracombe, 1856; 8. Recollections of the Scilly Isles and Jersey, 1857; 9. The Making of George Eliot, 1857–9; 10. Germany, 1858; 11. Recollections of Italy, 1860; 12. Italy, 1864; 13. Normandy and Brittany, 1865; Explanatory index.
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Cambridge University Press Recreating Jane Austen
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Cambridge University Press The AntiJacobin Novel British Conservatism and the French Revolution 48 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 48
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Cambridge University Press Modernist Fiction Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Lacan
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Cambridge University Press George Eliot and the British Empire 34 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 34
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Cambridge University Press Romantic Austen Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon 49 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 49
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Cambridge University Press Henry James and Queer Modernity 133 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 133
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