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Book SynopsisThis book is a critical edition of D. H. Lawrence's complete essays about Mexican and Southwestern Indians, both those published in 1927 as Mornings in Mexico, and the other essays Lawrence wrote about them during his American years. The number of essays, therefore, is more than double that of all previous editions. The early version of 'Pan in America' appears here for the first time, as do previously unpublished passages in other essays. The texts are informed by all extant manuscripts, typescripts, and early publications, with a full textual apparatus revealing Lawrence's revisions. The volume includes extensive notes and appendices with information on Mesoamerican mythology and history. Lawrence's interest in and real affection for the region and its peoples went beyond the travel writing genre and these essays hold significance not only for those interested in Lawrence but also in the wider context of the cultures of Mexico and the Southwest.Trade Review'This is a magnificent book! The collection of essays covers almost all that Lawrence was thinking about the importance of the American world between 1922 and 1928 … For all Lawrence readers this is a volume to get, to dip into time and again for a refreshing voice of complete individual seriousness.' The Use of English'Crosswhite Hyde's edition can be unhesitatingly recommended to all libraries and scholars of twentieth-century literature.' English StudiesTable of ContentsChronology; Introduction; Note on the texts; Mornings in Mexico: Corasmin and the parrots; Walk to Huayapa; The Mozo; Market day; Indians and entertainment; The dance of the sprouting corn; The Hopi snake dance; A little moonshine with lemon; Other Essays, 1922–8: Certain Americans and an Englishman; Indians and an Englishman; Taos; Au Revoir, USA; Dear old horse, a London letter; Paris letter; Letter from Germany; Pan in America; See Mexico after, by Luis Q.; New Mexico; Appendix I. 'Just back from the snake dance'; Appendix II. ['Indians and an Englishman' and 'Certain Americans and an Englishman']: early fragment in Luhan; Appendix III. 'Pan in America': early version; Appendix IV. ['See Mexico After, by Luis Q.'] (Early fragments); Appendix V. Mesoamerican and Southwestern American myth; Appendix VI. History timelines; Appendix VII. Maps; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; Glossary; Line-end hyphenation.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first ever edition of the early version of Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence's highly popular autobiographical novel. It is very different from Sons and Lovers, less polished but full of powerful, spontaneous, dramatic writing. The volume also contains documents by Lawrence's girlfriend Jessie Chambers, facsimile pages, maps and scholarly apparatus.Trade Review'… what delights … how worth reading and treasuring Paul Morel is.' Independent on Sunday'Helen Baron's editorial work is, as usual with this series, impeccable.' English StudiesTable of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; Paul Morel; Appendix 1. 'Matilda'; Appendix 2. Chapter plan; Appendix 3. Two versions of the start of MS3; Appendix 4. MS3 chapter 9 annotated by Jessie Chambers; Appendix 5. Jessie Chambers' manuscripts; Explanatory notes; Maps; Textual apparatus; Line-end hyphenation; Note on pounds, shillings and pence.

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Book SynopsisIn his last years D. H. Lawrence often wrote for newspapers; he needed the money, and clearly enjoyed the work. He also wrote several substantial essays during the same period. This meticulously-edited collection brings together major essays such as Pornography and Obscenity and Lawrence's spirited Introduction to the volume of his Paintings; a group of autobiographical pieces, two of which are published here for the first time; and the articles Lawrence wrote at the invitation of newspaper and magazine editors. There are thirty-nine items in total, thirty-five of them deriving from original manuscripts; all were written between 1926 and Lawrence's death in March 1930. They are ordered chronologically according to the date of composition; each is preceded by an account of the circumstances in which it came to be published. The volume is introduced by a substantial survey of Lawrence's career as a writer responding directly to public interests and concerns.Trade Review"...the writings reflect the immense versatility and variation in quality evident throughout Lawrence's productive literary career. Highly Recommended." J.E. Steiner, emerita, Drew University"To read these wonderful essays, and the many other pieces in this volume, is to reacquaint onself with the lyrical and visionary brilliance of Lawrence's art--even when the passion and insight are compressed into the limiting format of a newspaper article." English Literature in Transition, Peter Balbert, Trinity UniversityTable of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Prefatory note; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; Late essays and articles: Note on the texts; Mercury; [Return to Bestwood]; Getting on; Which class I belong to; Newthorpe in 2927; The 'Jeune Fille' wants to know; Laura Philippine; That women know best; All there; Thinking about oneself; Insouciance; Master in his own house; Matriarchy; Ownership; Autobiography; Women are so cocksure; Why I don't like living in London; Cocksure women and hen-sure men; Hymns in a man's life; Red trousers; Is England still a man's country?; Sex appeal; Do women change; Enslaved by civilisation; Give her a pattern; Introduction to pictures; Myself revealed; Introduction to these paintings; The state of funk; Making pictures; Pornography and obscenity; Pictures on the wall; The risen lord; Men must work and women as well; Nottingham and the mining countryside; We need one another; The real thing; Nobody loves me; Appendix 1. Early draft of 'The 'Jeune Fille' Wants to Know'; Appendix 2. Vanity Fair version of 'Do Women Change'; Appendix 3. 'Mushrooms': an autobiographical fragment; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; A note on pounds, shillings and pence.

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Book SynopsisVery few families produce one outstanding writer. The Brontà family produced three. The works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne remain immensely popular, and are increasingly being studied in relation to the surroundings and wider context that formed them. The forty-two new essays in this book tell 'the Brontà story' as it has never been told before, drawing on the latest research and the best available scholarship while offering new perspectives on the writings of the sisters. A section on Brontà criticism traces their reception to the present day. The works of the sisters are explored in the context of social, political and cultural developments in early-nineteenth-century Britain, with attention given to religion, education, art, print culture, agriculture, law and medicine. Crammed with information, The BrontÃs in Context shows how the BrontÃs' fiction interacts with the spirit of the time, suggesting reasons for its enduring fascination.Trade Review'General readers will enjoy it as much as Brontë students and fans, and its careful avoidance of anything too topical or controversial will keep it fresh for years. Thormählen's high quality contributors, assembly of reliable facts and data, pertinent commentary, maps, illustrations, splendid chronology and further reading lists make it everything that one could wish for.' Claire Harman, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsChronology; Introduction Marianne Thormählen; Part I. Places, Persons and Publishing: 1. Haworth in the time of the Brontës Michael Baumber; 2. Domestic life at Haworth Parsonage Ann Dinsdale; 3. Northern-England locations associated with the Brontës' lives and works Ann Dinsdale; 4. The father of the Brontës Dudley Green; 5. A mother and her substitutes: Maria Brontë (née Branwell), Elizabeth Branwell and Margaret Wooler Bob Duckett; 6. Patrick Branwell Brontë Victor A. Neufeldt; 7. Charlotte Brontë Dinah Birch; 8. Emily Brontë Lyn Pykett; 9. Anne Brontë Maria Frawley; 10. Friends, servants and a husband Stephen Whitehead; 11. The Brontës' sibling bonds Drew Lamonica Arms; 12. Juvenilia Christine Alexander; 13. The Brussels experience Sue Lonoff; 14. The Brontë correspondence Margaret Smith; 15. Portraits of the Brontës Jane Sellars; 16. The poetry of the Brontës Janet Gezari; 17. Literary influences on the Brontës Sara J. Lodge; 18. The Brontës' way into print Linda H. Peterson; 19. Reading the Brontës: their first audiences Stephen Colclough; Part II. Scholarship, Criticism, Adaptations and Translations: 20. Brontë biography: a survey of a genre Tom Winnifrith; 21. Mid-nineteenth-century critical responses to the Brontës Miriam Elizabeth Burstein; 22. Brontë scholarship and criticism, 1920–70 Herbert Rosengarten; 23. Brontë scholarship and criticism, approx. 1970–2000 Sara J. Lodge; 24. Current trends in Brontë criticism and scholarship Alexandra Lewis; 25. Adaptations, prequels, sequels, translations Patsy Stoneman; Part III. Historical and Cultural Contexts: 26. Religion David Jasper; 27. The philosophical-intellectual context Stephen Prickett; 28. Education Dinah Birch; 29. Art and music Christine Alexander; 30. Natural history Barbara T. Gates; 31. Politics Simon Avery; 32. Newspapers and magazines Joanne Shattock; 33. Agriculture and industry Marianne Thormählen with Steven Wood; 34. Transport and travel Edward Chitham; 35. Law Ian Ward; 36. Class Elizabeth Langland; 37. Careers for middle-class women Elizabeth Langland; 38. Marriage and family life Marianne Thormählen; 39. Dress Birgitta Berglund; 40. Sexuality Jill L. Matus; 41. Physical health Janis McLarren Caldwell; 42. Mental health Janis McLarren Caldwell; Further reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisRomance was the dominant Greek literary genre of the Roman Empire. This book explores its distinctive qualities and the reasons for its popularity. Using cultural and narrative theory, it argues that the romance was simultaneously primal and malleable enough to capture the tensions in Greek identity during this era.Trade Review'A highly intelligent study that is indubitably the result of profound meditation on the texts … Anyone studying the history of the novel should take a look at Whitmarsh's book.' The ObserverTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Returning Romance; 1. First romances: Chariton and Xenophon; 2. Transforming romance: Achilles Tatius and Longus; 3. Hellenism at the edge: Heliodorus; Part II. Narrative and Identity: 4. Pothos; 5. Telos; 6. Limen; Conclusion; Appendix: the extant romances and the larger fragments.

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and engaging analysis of a wide range of Antarctic fiction - from lost-race romances to espionage thrillers to travellers' tales to horror fantasies - is essential reading for anyone interested in the history, literature and culture of Antarctica and the polar regions.Trade Review'Encyclopedic in its scope, creative in its organization, and lucidly written, Antarctica in Fiction is a solid, lively, and at times surprising study that encompasses everything from Gothic and utopian treatments of the continent in fiction and film to the literature produced by Antarctic explorers and researchers themselves … [it] is a model of meticulous scholarship that should certainly be part of any university library's holdings.' Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Journal of the Fantastic in the ArtsTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Speculation visions of the south polar regions; 2. Bodies, boundaries and the Antarctic gothic; 3. Creative explorations of the heroic era; 4. The survival value of literature at high latitudes; 5. The transforming nature of Antarctic travel; 6. Freezing time in far southern narratives; Coda.

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Book SynopsisVladimir Nabokov, bilingual writer of dazzling masterpieces, is a phenomenon that both resists and requires contextualization. This book challenges the myth of Nabokov as a sole genius who worked in isolation from his surroundings, as it seeks to anchor his work firmly within the historical, cultural, intellectual and political contexts of the turbulent twentieth century. Vladimir Nabokov in Context maps the ever-changing sites, people, cultures and ideologies of his itinerant life which shaped the production and reception of his work. Concise and lively essays by leading scholars reveal a complex relationship of mutual influence between Nabokov''s work and his environment. Appealing to a wide community of literary scholars this timely companion to Nabokov''s writing offers new insights and approaches to one of the most important, and yet most elusive writers of modern literature.Trade Review'Vladimir Nabokov in Context offers a competent and highly readable exploration of the complex relationship between the man and his work in the global context of his time … [It] is a very commendable effort, and a valuable resource on the circumstances that fashioned Nabokov and his art.' René Alladaye, The Slavonic and East European ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: contextualizing Nabokov David M. Bethea and Siggy Frank; Part I. Identity: 1. Nabokov: a life in contexts I: Russia and emigration Brian Boyd; 2. Nabokov: a life in contexts II: beyond the emigration Brian Boyd; 3. Childhood Barbara Wyllie; 4. Women Lara Delage-Toriel; 5. Friends and foes Julian W. Connolly; 6. Academia Susan Elizabeth Sweeney; 7. Authorial persona Maria Malikova; Part II. Places: 8. St Petersburg Gennady Barabtarlo; 9. Cambridge Beci Carver; 10. Berlin Stanislav Shvabrin; 11. Paris John Burt Foster, Jr; 12. East to West Coast Monica Manolescu; 13. Switzerland East to West Coast Monica Manolescu; Part III. Literature and Arts: 14. The Russian literary canon Alexander Dolinin; 15. The Western literary canon Michael Wood; 16. Publishing: Russian Émigré literature Siggy Frank; 17. Publishing: American literature Duncan White; 18. Detective fiction Michal Oklot and Matthew Walker; 19. Samizdat and Tamizdat Ann Komaromi; 20. Nabokov's visual imagination Marijeta Bozovic; 21. Popular culture Nassim Winnie Balestrini; Part IV. Ideas and Cultures: 22. Science Stephen H. Blackwell; 23. Darwinism David M. Bethea; 24. Psychoanalysis Michal Oklot and Matthew Walker; 25. Faith Sergei Davydov; 26. Jewishness as literary device in Nabokov's fiction Leonid Livak; 27. Liberalism Dana Dragunoiu; 28. Totalitarianism Olga Voronina; 29. The Cold War Will Norman; 30. The long 1950s Andrea Carosso; 31. Transnationalism Rachel Trousdale; Further reading.

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Book SynopsisPeter Boxall's The Value of the Novel offers a reappraisal of the ethical, political and literary value of the novel as a genre at turning point in the history both of literature and of criticism. As the dominant critical concerns of the twentieth century faded, and new cultural and technological environments emerged, Boxall argues that we lost our collective sense of the purpose of the novel. This book responds to this predicament by demonstrating why and how the novel matters to us today. Ranging from Daniel Defoe to Zadie Smith, Boxall shows how the formal properties of the novel allow us to imagine the worlds in which we live. This is a vibrant, compelling and richly informed critical perspective that asks us to see anew how central fiction is to our idea of the world, and how richly the novel informs our attempts to understand our present and our future.Trade Review'The Value of the Novel is a triumph. Peter Boxall offers us a sweeping, stimulating revision of critical and literary history that looks forward to the novel's future even as it looks no less to its past. And his book is as moving as it is persuasive, because of the quality of its analysis and of Boxall's writing. This volume, the first of a new series, sets the highest standard for subsequent installments. Boxall re-establishes criticism as a comprehensive exploratory dialogue about every aspect of the art and rhetoric of fiction. His work reminds us of the value of the intellectual distinction that is, as much as the value of the novel, our common pursuit.' Robert Caserio, Pennsylvania State University'Peter Boxall's invigorating new book aims to articulate anew the work the novel does in a world marked by the pressure points of virtual reality and environmental calamity.' Studies in the Novel'In The Value of the Novel … Boxall traverses a vast terrain, offering compelling close readings of more than a dozen novelists and connecting them with dozens more from around the world. His prose is lush and lyrical, his readings subtle and intellectually demanding. Sentence by sentence, both books are pleasure-reads for anyone who cares deeply about literary criticism.' Andrew Lanham, Notes and Queries'… Offers a deft, timely, and persuasive argument for reexamining some of our most intuitive assumptions about the novel, including how it functions, how it has evolved, and what we can expect from it moving forward. … That Boxall's little book raises so many large questions is not, I think, a weakness but one of its many strengths. … For scholars and students interested in digging into the structural 'code' of the novel form … Boxall's volume will be indispensable.' R. John Williams, NovelTable of Contents1. The novel voice; 2. Is this really realism?; 3. The novel body; 4. Making time matter; 5. The novel, justice and the law.

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Book SynopsisThis critical edition of The Love of The Last Tycoon utilises Fitzgerald's manuscript drafts, revised typescipts, and working notes.Trade Review"The Love of the Last Tycoon carries the authority of a great writer working very close to the top of his form. Only scholars will need to consult the 200 pages of extensive critical apparatus included in this edition. But anyone who admires Fitzgerald will want to take another look at the 129 pages of Tycoon text, now that they have at last been printed as he would have wanted them to be." Scott Donaldson, Chicago Tribune"...the Bruccoli version adds new, valuable, and important information regarding Fitzgerald's artistry, his knowledge of the film industry, and the accomplishment represented by what still must be regarded as work in progress....This book, essential for the support of detailed study of Fitzgerald and the American novel, may well replace the older Wilson version." Choice"...this novel has been considered the finest story of the Hollywood film industry during the age of the great studios. In this new edition Bruccoli presents us with Fitzgerald's manuscript drafts, revised typescripts, and notes, giving us not only the novel but its creation. And Bruccoli's introduction is itself a fascinating piece of research; a marvelous read." Books of the Southwest"This critical edition of Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel restores the author's original 1940 version..." American Literature"The production of the definitive edition, based upon a significant number of hand-and-type written MSS...is a notable achievement, made especially important and necessary because of the inchoate and incomplete state of the novel. The work offers a marvelous opportunity for readers and writers alike literally to watch a novel in the making..." David Noel Freedman, Michigan Quarterly reviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; F. Scott Fitzgerald selected chronology: 1927–41; The geography of The Love of the Last Tycoon; Introduction; The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western; Selected Fitzgerald working notes: facsimiles; Inventory of drafts; Textual apparatus: Editorial emendations in the base-texts; Textual notes; Fitzgerald's revisions, corrections, and annotations in the latest typescripts; Wilson's alterations in the latest typescripts; Variants in the scribners setting copy and the first printing; Word division; Explanatory notes; Appendix 1. The sanitarium frame; Appendix 2. Specimen working drafts.

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Book SynopsisReal Money and Romanticism interprets poetry and fiction by Sir Walter Scott, John Keats, and Charles Dickens in the context of changes in the British monetary system and in the broader economy during the early nineteenth century. In this period modern systems of paper money and intellectual property became established; Matthew Rowlinson describes the consequent changes in relations between writers and publishers and shows how a new conception of material artefacts as the bearers of abstract value shaped Romantic conceptions of character, material culture, and labor. A fresh and radically different contribution to the growing field of inquiry into the 'economics' of literature, this is an ingenious and challenging reading of Romantic discourse from the point of view of monetary theory and history.Trade Review'Real Money and Romanticism raises questions that will be hard for economists and Romantic scholars alike to ignore.' Romantic CirclesTable of ContentsIntroduction: real money; 1. 'The Scotch hate gold': British identity and paper money; 2. Curiosities and the money form in the Waverley novels; Notes on the text of the Waverley novels; 3. Keats in the hidden abode of production; 4. Reading capital with Little Nell; 5. 'To exist in a kind of allegory'; Appendix: copyright and authorial labor in eighteenth-century Britain.

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Book SynopsisThis 1924 book, written by Sir Herbert Butterfield (190079), is an engaging study of the interrelation between the historical novel and the study of history. It looks at the style of historical writings, their engagement with evidence, and the effects of history's fictionalization upon the reader and history itself.Table of ContentsPreface; The historical novel.

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Book SynopsisJohn Ruskin (1819â1900), one of the leading literary, aesthetic and intellectual figures of the middle and late Victorian period, and a significant influence on writers from Tolstoy to Proust, has established his claim as a major writer of English prose. This collection of essays brings together leading experts from a wide range of disciplines to analyse his ideas in the context of his life and work. Topics include Ruskin's Europe, architecture, technology, autobiography, art, gender, and his rich influence even in the contemporary world. This is the first multi-authored expert collection to assess the totality of Ruskin's achievement and to open up the deep coherence of a troubled but dazzling mind. A chronology and guide to further reading contribute to the usefulness of the volume for students and scholars.Trade Review'This is a timely and well-crafted work, demonstrating in a persuasive and subtle way how worthwhile it is to revisit and re-evaluate John Ruskin.' Languages and LiteratureTable of Contents1. Introduction Francis O'Gorman; Part I. Places: 2. Edinburgh-London-Oxford-Coniston Keith Hanley; 3. The Alps Emma Sdegno; 4. Italy Nicholas Shrimpton; 5. France and Belgium Cynthia Gamble; Part II. Topics: 6. Art Lucy Hartley; 7. Architecture Geoffrey Tyack; 8. Politics and economics Nicholas Shrimpton; 9. Nation and class Judith Stoddart; 10. Religion Francis O'Gorman; 11. Sex and gender Sharon Aronofsky Weltman; 12. Technology Alan Davis; Part III. Authorship: 13. Ruskin and Carlyle David R. Sorensen; 14. Lecturing and public voice Dinah Birch; 15. Diary journals, correspondence, autobiography and private voice Martin Dubois; 16. Creativity Clive Wilmer; Part IV. Legacies: 17. Political legacies Stuart Eagles; 18. Cultural legacies Marcus Waithe; Guide to further reading.

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Book SynopsisIn satire, evil, folly, and weakness are held up to ridicule - to the delight of some and the outrage of others. Satire may claim the higher purpose of social critique or moral reform, or it may simply revel in its own transgressive laughter. It exposes frauds, debunks ideals, binds communities, starts arguments, and evokes unconscious fantasies. It has been a central literary genre since ancient times, and has become especially popular and provocative in recent decades. This new introduction to satire takes a historically expansive and theoretically eclectic approach, addressing a range of satirical forms from ancient, Renaissance, and Enlightenment texts through contemporary literary fiction, film, television, and digital media. The beginner in need of a clear, readable overview and the scholar seeking to broaden and deepen existing knowledge will both find this a lively, engaging, and reliable guide to satire, its history, and its continuing relevance in the world.Table of ContentsPart I: 1. What is satire?; 2. What isn't satire?; Part II: 3. Classical origins; 4. Renaissance satire: rogues, clowns, fools, satyrs; 5. Enlightenment satire: the prose tradition; 6. Verse satire from Rochester to Byron; Part III. Transition: Satire and the Novel: 7. Small worlds: the comedy of manners; 8. Unfortunate travelers: the picaresque; 9. The Menippean novel; 10. Satire and popular culture since 1900; Epilogue: Charlie Hebdo, satire and the politics of community.

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Book SynopsisTracing its compositional history, this edition of The Great Gatsby presents the novel in its raw format to reveal the development of character and revision of language. Suitable for critics, teachers and students, this scholarly edition conveys an amalgamation of talent, inspiration and self-discipline which culminated in Fitzgerald's masterpiece.Trade Review'Like a jazz album offering multiple takes on a single tune, the value of this edition lies in the access it offers to the creative process. Comparing it to the novel published in April 1925 reveals the decisions Fitzgerald made as he revised his greatest work and supplies fascinating insights into its evolution … Seeing The Great Gatsby as it might have been shows that Fitzgerald's drive for perfection matched that of his beloved hero.' Sarah Graham, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Illustrations; Introduction; The holograph of The Great Gatsby; A note on the text; Text of the manuscript; Explanatory notes; Illustrations.

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Book SynopsisExplores the notion of plagiarism in Victorian fiction and how many writers of this period stole, altered or parodied the characters and plots of previous texts. This book will appeal to students and researchers of nineteenth-century literature and culture, and readers interested in issues of plagiarism, copyright, and intellectual property.Trade Review'Focused on three important Victorian novelists, Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton, and George Eliot … Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel is an illuminating, stylish, and necessary archeology of some of these lost works.' Monica F. Cohen, The Review of English Studies'Abraham's book, among its other aspects, demonstrates a seismic shift in English studies over the past half-century. Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel presents itself as part of a specialism-wide, co-operative effort.' John Sutherland, The Times Literary Supplement'Plagiarising the Victorian Novel makes a useful contribution to the ongoing conversation surrounding forms of textual afterlife, recognizing the productive overlap between issues of plagiarism and those of identity, fraud, agency and intent …' Elly McCausland, Dickens Quarterly'Adam Abraham's meticulously researched, expertly theorized, and engagingly written Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel upends traditional conceptions of the canon …' Carrie Sickmann, Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History'… the book makes for pleasurable reading. Abraham's prose is clear, witty, jargon-free, and the work he has done on these aftertexts, including his concise summaries, will provide future scholars with rich new material for years to come.' Lisa Rodensky, Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsPrologue; 1. The Pickwick phenomenon; 2. Charles Dickens and the pseudo-Dickens industry; 3. Parody; or, the art of writing Edward Bulwer Lytton; 4. Thackeray versus Bulwer versus Bulwer: parody and appropriation; 5. Being George Eliot: imitation, imposture, and identity; Postscript; Posthumous papers; Aftertexts.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive literary history of New Orleans. It will be of great interest to graduates and scholars working on American Southern literature and African American literature. It will appeal to all working in African American literature and American literature respectively.Trade Review'Anyone giving serious consideration to the writing of New Orleans must have this book. T. R. Johnson has brought together between these covers a stunning collection of essays that never fail to delight and occasionally shock. This book expertly captures the varied essence of the great city: its fatalism, its history, it magic.' Maurice Carlos Ruffin, author of We Cast a Shadow'Johnson has performed a Herculean service, giving us a book that plumbs the hidden depths of a literary legacy alternately as dark and as hilarious as only honest writing about New Orleans can be. Sure, the music, the food, the architecture; but also, Johnson shows us, the literature of New Orleans is like that of no other place.' Dan Baum, author of Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans'A profound and lyrical book about the literary history of the Big Easy.' Bernice L. McFadden, author of The Book of Harlan'World history, American history, music history - all unthinkable without New Orleans, the city that was 'day and night a show'. Now T. R. Johnson and a state-of-the-scholarship crew of contributors offer a panorama of new perspectives on this unique city's always-vivid literature. If you think you know New Orleans, read on, and prepare to be amazed, challenged, entertained, and horrified. If you teach New Orleans culture, this book is an indispensable tool.' Ned Sublette, author of The World that Made New Orleans'Fatalism has stalked New Orleans almost from the moment convicts and enslaved Africans dragged it from the mud. Plague-stricken, flood prone, and more Caribbean than American concerning matters that make survival worthwhile, the town has attracted an outsize quota of top-flight writers who have memorialized it in a literature of lasting significance. In assembling an eclectic array of scholarly talent on the subject seldom found between the covers of the same book, T. R. Johnson has put us all in his debt.' Lawrence N. Powell, author of Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans'It's not possible to write in New Orleans without writing about New Orleans. The city saturates the imagination, casting an irresistible and enervating spell. New Orleans writers must contrive to sink and swim at the same time. T. R. Johnson's collection of essays, as eclectic as the figures on a local Voodoo altar, invites the reader to discover how far back the peculiar strains of fatalism and irony that color the world view of the New Orleanian really go. No other American city has consistently offered a literature that is at once so appealing and so alien to the rest of the country. New Orleans: The Literary History is a welcome guide to that fabulous reality found only on the printed page.' Valerie Martin, author of Property'What T. R. Johnson has assembled in New Orleans: The Literary History is a tremendous contribution to the city's self-understanding - and to everyone's understanding of the city's impact on broader literary histories. With an embracing, inclusive agility, the book excavates layers of culture and language to deliver a comprehensive, international vision of three hundred years' worth of writing, from the published letters of an Ursuline nun in the 1730s to the sissy bounce music of Big Freedia today. Taken together, these scholars present an argument for how New Orleans's literary history has shaped our sense of the pleasures of cities in general and also of the urban imagination itself as a dynamic, shifting thing, with poetry, fiction, memoir and drama intertwining throughout New Orleans's history like the forces that create its legendary climate of heat, humidity, and storm.' Ed Skoog, author of Run the Red LightsTable of ContentsPreface T. R. Johnson; 1. Swamp City Anthony Wilson; 2. Mixed motives: writing for French audiences from colonial New Orleans Erin Greenwald; 3. 'As I have seen and known it': ex-slave autobiographers and the New Orleans Slave Market Calvin Schermerhorn; 4. What New Orleans Meant to Walt Whitman Ed Folsom; 5. Coloring sex, love, and desire in Creole New Orleans's long nineteenth century Jarrod Hayes; 6. The white Creole tradition: Alfred Mercier, Charles Gayarré, Adrien Rouquette, and Grace King Rien Fertel; 7. The Civil War's literary aftershocks: George Washington Cable Matthew Smith; 8. Illusion and disillusion: the making of Lafcadio Hearn S. Frederick Starr; 9. Local color, social problems, and the living dead in the late nineteenth-century short fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Tara T. Green; 10. Kate Chopin, Edna Pontellier, and the predicament of the intellectual woman in New Orleans Emily Toth; 11. Converging Americas: New Orleans in Spanish-language and Latina/o/x literary culture Kirsten Silva Greusz; 12. A Jazz origin-myth: Bras Coupe in history, folklore, and literature Bryan Wagner; 13. 'Stepping out' of the storyville frame: recent literary representations of the New Orleans red light district Milena Marinkova; 14. Louis Armstrong's autobiographical art Daniel Stein; 15. New Orleans, modernism, and The Double Dealer, 1921–1926 Thomas Bonner; 16. 'Because what else could he have hoped to find in New Orleans, if not the truth': William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Thadious Davis; 17. 'The place I was made for': Tennessee Williams in New Orleans Henry I. Schvey; 18. A Civil Rights era novel of the American Civil War: Robert Penn Warren's Band of Angels William Bedford Clark; 19. How to survive the best environments: narrating Protean place in Walker Percy's The Moviegoer Richmond M. Eustis, Jr; 20. Tom Dent and the development of black literature in New Orleans Kalamu Ya Salaam; 21. The gothic tradition in New Orleans Taylor Hagood; 22. A Flaneur in the French Quarter and beyond: John Kennedy Toole's Confederacy of Dunces Cory MacLauchlin; 23. Literary fiction by New Orleans women, 1961–2003: Shirley Anne Grau, Ellen Gilchrest, Sheila Bosworth, and Valerie Martin Monica Carol Miller; 24. Asian American New Orleans Marguerite Nguyen; 25. New Orleans rap and bounce: recovering and archiving an expressive tradition Holly Hobbs; 26. The literature of Hurricane Katrina Kevin Rabalais; Afterword: swan song? T. R. Johnson; Contributors biographies; Index.

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Book SynopsisOffering a comprehensive overview of Atwood's ever-changing work, this second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood is designed for students, scholars and curious readers alike, placing emphasis on Atwood's recent dystopias including The Testaments, and the television adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale.Trade Review'Recommended.' T. Ware, Choice Connect'This book is a worthy addition to the series. Its focus on topics as diverse as Canadian identity, dystopias, power, poetry and poetics, environmentalism, humour, feminism, and digital technology ensure that there is something for all Atwood fans, and for Canadian scholars in general.' Jane Ekstam, British Journal of Canadian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Coral Ann Howells; 1. Margaret Atwood in her Canadian context David Staines; 2. Margaret Atwood on questions of power Pilar Somacarrera; 3. Home and nation in Margaret Atwood's later fiction Eleonora Rao; 4. Margaret Atwood's female bodies Sarah A. Appleton; 5. Margaret Atwood and environmentalism J. Brooks Bouson; 6. Margaret Atwood and history Gina Wisker; 7. Margaret Atwood's revisions of classic texts Fiona Tolan; 8. Margaret Atwood's humor Marta Dvořák; 9. Margaret Atwood's poetry and poetics Branko Gorjup; 10. Margaret Atwood's later short fiction Reingard M. Nischik; 11. Margaret Atwood's recent dystopias Coral Ann Howells; 12. The Hulu and MGM television adaptations of The Handmaid's Tale Eva-Marie Kröller.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book specifically devoted to the new modernist studies. Bringing together a range of perspectives on the past, present, and future of this vibrant, complicated scholarly enterprise, the collection reconsiders its achievements and challenges as both a mode of inquiry and an institutional formation. In its first section, the volume offers a fresh history of the new modernist studies'' origins amid the intellectual configurations of the end of the twentieth century and changing views of the value, ?influence, and scope of modernism. In the second section a dozen leading scholars examine recent trends in modernist scholarship to suggest possible new paths of research, showing how the field continues to engage with other areas of study and how it makes a case for the ongoing meaning of modernist literature and art in the contemporary world.Table of ContentsIntroduction Douglas Mao; Part I. Histories; 1. History's Prehistory: Modernist Studies before the New Michael North; 2. Scholarship's Turn: Origins and Effects of the New Modernist Studies Mark Wollaeger; Part II. Horizons: 3. Planetarity's Edges: Modernist Studies and the Bounds of Modernism María del Pilar Blanco; 4. Religion's Configurations:Modernism, Empire, Comparison Susan Stanford Friedman; 5. Disability's Disruptions: Embodiment and the New Modernist Studies Maren Linett; 6. Affect's Vocabularies: Literature and Feeling after 1890 David James; 7. Invisibility's Arts: The Seen and the Unseen in Modernism and Modernist Studies Sarah Cole; 8. Black Writing's Visuals: African American Modernism in Nugent, Ligon, and Rankine Miriam Thaggert; 9. Noir Film's Soundtracks: Jazz, Black Transnationalism, and Postcolonial Genres of Criminality Edwin Hill; 10. Language's Hopes: Global Modernism and the Science of Debabelization Aarthi Vadde; 11. Revolution's Demands: Modernism, Socialist Realism, and the Manifesto Steven Lee; 12. Feminism's Archives: Intersectionality with Loy and Mendelssohn Sara Crangle; 13. Risk's Instruments: Speculation, Futurity, and Modernist Finance Gayle Rogers; 14. Deep Time's Hauntings: Modernism and Alternative Chronology Paul Saint-Amour.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an account of the historical development of the novel as a means of imagining and fashioning our bodies and our environments, in order to suggest that prose fiction can help us to understand new forms of artificial life as they are emerging in the twenty-first century.

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Book SynopsisThis second editionof The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot includes several new chapters, providing an essential introductionto all aspects of Eliot''slife and writing. Accessible essays by some of the most distinguished scholars of Victorian literature provide lucid and original insights into the work of one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century, author most famously of Middlemarch, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Daniel Deronda. From an introduction that traces her originality as a realist novelist, the book moves on toextensive considerations of each of Eliot''s novels, her life and her publishing history. Chapters address the problems of money, philosophy, religion, politics, gender and science, as they are developedinher novels. With its supplementary materials, including a chronology and an extensive section of suggested readings, this Companion is an invaluable tool for scholars and students alike.Table of Contents1. Introduction – George Eliot and the art of realism Nancy Henry and George Levine; 2. A woman of many names Rosemarie Bodenheimer; 3. Marian Evans's journalism Fionnuala Dillane; 4. George Eliot and her publishers Donald Gray; 5. The early novels Josephine McDonagh; 6. The later novels Alexander Welsh; 7. George Eliot and money Dermot Coleman; 8. George Eliot and gender Kate Flint; 9. George Eliot and politics Nancy Henry; 10. George Eliot and science Amy M. King; 11. George Eliot and religion Barry V. Qualls; 12. George Eliot and philosophy Suzy Anger; 13. George Eliot's reputation Margaret Harris; Guide to further reading Allison Clymer.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to demonstrate the value of prose analysis - both appreciative and interpretive in its ''evaluations'' - across dozens of authors, including Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Don DeLillo, and Toni Morrison. The Value of Style in Fiction is designed not just for students and scholars of the English novel - and its verbal ''microplots'' - but also for anyone interested in mastering the art of the sentence by ''writing along with'' its finest examplars in a fully descriptive account: a stylistic challenge in its own right exemplified by Stewart''s multifaceted critical modelling. Beginning with a state-of-the-field survey of prose poetics, this manual of invested reading concludes with an ''Inventory'' of terms (bolded throughout) drawn primarily from grammar, rhetoric, etymology, and phonetics, but also narratology and poetic theory: a glossary whose consultation can help cross-map certain verbal tendencies in literary-historical evolution and its separate landmark writTrade Review'Written in an exacting, witty and distinctive prose style of its own, this book is both a manifesto for reading for style and a first-rate demonstration of it, by a scholar-critic long known for practicing exactly the kind of critical attention called for and modelled here. Given a returning interest in prose poetics, this seems like the right book by the right critic at the right time.' Daniel Tyler, University of Cambridge'The Value of Style in Fiction ... offers itself to those seeking to learn the craft of attentive reading and inventive writing at the level of the sentence as a form of mini-plot.' Philip Davis, Victorian StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction: verbal investments – richness, wealth, value; 2. Emergent turns: Defoe toward Dickens; 3. Stylistic microplots: Melville to Miéville; 4. A rhetorical spectrum: Wharton, Woolf, Waugh, Wallace, and beyond; 5. Inventory: some terms of engagement – A to Z.

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Book SynopsisA great king, strong as the stars in Heaven. Enkidu, a wild and mighty hero, is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh. But instead of killing each other, the two become friends. Travelling together to the Cedar Forest, they fight and slay the evil monster Humbaba. But when Enkidu is killed, his death haunts and breaks the mighty Gilgamesh. Terrified of mortality, he resolves to find the secret of eternal life...

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Book SynopsisA fascinating feminist reading of an often scorned medium: the storytelling, cross-platform success, and female fandom of the photoromance.Born in Italy and successfully exported to the rest of the world, photoromances had a readership of millions in the postwar years. By the early 1960s, more than ten million Italians read a photoromance each week. Despite its popularity, the photoromance—a form of graphic storytelling that uses photographs instead of drawings—was widely scorned as a medium, and its largely female audience derided as naive, pathetic, and uneducated. In this provocative book, Paola Bonifazio offers another perspective, making a case for the relevance of the photoromance for both feminism and media culture. She argues that the photoromance pioneered storytelling across platforms, elevated characters and artists into brands, and nurtured a devoted fan base. Moreover, Bonifazio shows that female readers—condescended to by intellectuals, journal

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Book SynopsisWhat happened when Jane Austen’s heroines and heroes were finally wed?Trade Review“Muir’s well-informed, entertaining book surveys romantic love and marriage among the real-life counterparts of Austen’s characters in an England threatened with invasion and agitated by calls for political reform.”—Jenny McAuley, Financial Times“Digs wide and deep into the historical record to provide a documentary account of what falling in love and living happily ever after really involved in late Georgian England.”—Kathryn Hughes, Sunday Times“A delightful new book. . . . Animated by much original reading, here we see a colourful age in great colour.”—Unseen Histories“Rory Muir’s comprehensive, elegant, and incisive book will delight readers by shedding new light on a subject that we thought we knew everything about, but didn’t.”—Paula Byrne, author of The Real Jane Austen“An insightful exploration of Regency hearts and their entanglements. Muir’s elegant yet compassionate history vividly reveals the realities of love and marriage, along a spectrum from difficulty to delight.”—Hilary Davidson, author of Jane Austen’s Wardrobe

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Book SynopsisP. D. James, the undisputed queen of mystery, gives us an intriguing, inspiring and idiosyncratic look at the genre she has spent her life perfecting.   Examining mystery from top to bottom, beginning with such classics as Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, and then looking at such contemporary masters as Colin Dexter and Henning Mankell, P. D. James goes right to the heart of the genre. Along the way she traces the lives and writing styles of Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, and many more. Here is P.D. James discussing detective fiction as social history, explaining its stylistic components, revealing her own writing process, and commenting on the recent resurgence of detective fiction in modern culture. It is a must have for the mystery connoisseur and casual fan alike.

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