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Book SynopsisFifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost. The essays invite readers to begin their own independent exploration of the poem by equipping them with useful background knowledge, introducing them to key passages, and acquainting them with the current state of critical debates. Chapters are arranged to mirror the way the poem itself unfolds, offering exactly what readers need as they approach each movement of its grand design. Part I introduces the characters who frame the poem's story and set its plot and theological dynamics in motion. Part II deals with contextual issues raised by the early books, while Part III examines the epic's central and final episodes. The volume concludes with a meditation on the history of the poem's reception and a detailed guide to further reading, offering students and teachers of Milton fresh critical insights and resources for continuing scholarship.Table of ContentsPart I: 1. Milton as narrator in Paradise Lost Stephen M. Fallon; 2. Satan Neil Forsyth; 3. Things of darkness: sin, death, chaos John Rumrich; 4. The problem of God Victoria Silver; Part II: 5. Classical models Maggie Kilgour; 6. Milton's Bible Jeffrey Shoulson; 7. The line in Paradise Lost John Creaser; 8. The pre-secular politics of Paradise Lost Paul Stevens; 9. Cosmology Karen L. Edwards; Part III: 10. Imagining Eden William Shullenberger; 11. Milton's angels Joad Raymond; 12. Gender Shannon Miller; 13. Temptation W. Gardner Campbell; 14. Regeneration in Books 11 and 12 Mary C. Fenton; Part IV: 15. Reception William Kolbrener.

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Book SynopsisThis Companion explores the many ways in which the Gothic has dispersed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and in particular how it has come to offer a focus for the tensions inherent in modernity. Fourteen essays by world-class experts show how the Gothic in numerous forms - including literature, film, television, and cyberspace - helps audiences both to distance themselves from and to deal with some of the key underlying problems of modern life. Topics discussed include the norms and shifting boundaries of sex and gender, the explosion of different forms of media and technology, the mixture of cultures across the western world, the problem of identity for the modern individual, what people continue to see as evil, and the very nature of modernity. Also including a chronology and guide to further reading, this volume offers a comprehensive account of the importance of Gothic to modern life and thought.Table of ContentsChronology; Part I. The Gothic and Modernity: 1. Introduction: modernity and the proliferation of Gothic Jerrold E. Hogle; 2. Modernist Gothic John Paul Riquelme; 3. Contemporary Gothic and the law Susan Chaplin; Part II. The Gothic and the Modern Body: 4. Gothic configurations of gender Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik; 5. The 'queer limits' in the modern Gothic E. L. McCallum; 6. Teen Gothic Glennis Byron and Sharon Deans; Part III. The Gothic and Modern Media: 7. Cinema of the Gothic extreme Elisabeth Bronfen; 8. American film noir Charles Scruggs; 9. Technogothics of the early twenty-first century Isabella Van Elferen; Part IV. Multi-cultural and Global Gothic: 10. Gothic and the politics of race Maisha L. Wester; 11. The Gothic in North American 'subcultures' Carlos Gallego; 12. The postcolonial Gothic Ken Gelder; 13. Asian Gothic Katarzyna Ancuta; 14. The Gothic and magical realism Lucie Armitt; Guide to further reading; Guide to further viewing.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1923, this volume provides the entire text of the Hávamál in the original Old Norse, together with a facing page English translation. A long introduction and generous notes are also provided, together with extracts from three other poems which serve to complement the main text.Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. The poetry of the Edda; 2. The Hávamál; 3. The Sigdrífumal, Reginsmál, and Grógaldr; 4. The gnomic material of the Edda; 5. The mythical material of the Hávamál; 6. Spell songs in the Edda; Part II. Text and Translation: 7. The Hávamál; 8. The Sigdrífumal; 9. The Reginsmál; 10. The Grógaldr; Notes.

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Book SynopsisCovering the whole of the newly redefined Middleton canon, this collection of essays provides essential historical, legal, religious, theatrical and linguistic contexts for students and scholars. It includes original interpretations of frequently taught and performed works, such as The Changeling, and of newer attributions, such as A Yorkshire Tragedy.Trade Review".. is a fine collection, its thirty-eight short, well-illustrated chapters giving a variety of new perspectives." -- Studies in English LiteratureTable of ContentsMiddleton timeline Tripthi Pillai; Introduction Suzanne Gossett; Part I. Middleton and the London Context: 1. Thomas Middleton, chronologer of his time Mark Hutchings; 2. Middleton's comedy and the geography of London Darryll Grantley; 3. The Puritan Widow and the spatial arts of Middleton's urban drama Andrew Gordon; 4. The populations of London Ian Munro; 5. Domestic life in Jacobean London Catherine Richardson; 6. Life and death in Middleton's London Elizabeth Furdell; 7. The city's money: made, lost, stolen, lent, invested Aaron W. Kitch; 8. Trade, work, and workers Natasha Korda; 9. Supplying the city Ceri Sullivan; 10. Celebrating the city Karen Newman; 11. Violence and the city Jennifer Low; 12. Middleton and the law Subha Mukherji; Part II. The National and International Context: 13. The court Alastair Bellany; 14. States and their pawns: political tensions from the Armada to the Thirty Years War Thomas Cogswell; 15. Religious identities Ian Archer; 16. The obsession with Spain Trudi Darby; Part III. The Theatrical Context: 17. The social cartography of Middleton's theatres Andrew Gurr; 18. The boys' plays and the boy players David Kathman; 19. The adult companies and the dynamics of commerce Roslyn L. Knutson; 20. The theatre and political control Janet Clare; 21. Music on the Jacobean stage Linda Austern; Part IV. The Context and Conditions of Authorship: 22. Middleton and 'modern use': case studies in the language of A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Sylvia Adamson with Hannah Kirby, Laurence Peacock and Elizabeth Pearl; 23. Collaboration: the shadow of Shakespeare James Bednarz; 24. Collaboration: sustained Heather Hirschfeld; 25. Collaboration: Middleton and the determination of authorship Eric Rasmussen; 26. Middleton and dramatic genre Suzanne Gossett; 27. Writing outside the theatre Alison A. Chapman; 28. Medieval remains in Middleton's writings Anke Bernau; Part V. Social and Psychological Contexts: 29. Gender and sexuality Caroline Bicks; 30. Women's life stages: maid, wife, widow (whore) Jennifer Panek; 31. Playing, disguise, and identity Farah Karim-Cooper; 32. Drugs, remedies, poisons, and the theatre Tanya Pollard; 33. Middleton and the supernatural Michael Neill; 34. 'Distracted measures': madness and theatricality in Middleton Carol Thomas Neely; Part VI. Afterlives: 35. Invisible Middleton and the bibliographical context Sonia Massai; 36. Afterlives: stages and beyond Diana E. Henderson; 37. Middleton in the cinema Pascale Aebischer; 38. Middleton's presence Simon Palfrey; Works cited.

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Book SynopsisFiona Ritchie analyses the significant role played by women in the construction of Shakespeare's reputation which took place in the eighteenth century. The period's perception of Shakespeare as unlearned allowed many women to identify with him and in doing so they seized an opportunity to enter public life by writing about and performing his works. Actresses (such as Hannah Pritchard, Kitty Clive, Susannah Cibber, Dorothy Jordan and Sarah Siddons), female playgoers (including the Shakespeare Ladies Club) and women critics (like Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Griffith and Elizabeth Inchbald), had a profound effect on Shakespeare's reception. Interdisciplinary in approach and employing a broad range of sources, this book's analysis of criticism, performance and audience response shows that in constructing Shakespeare's significance for themselves and for society, women were instrumental in the establishment of Shakespeare at the forefront of English literature, theatre, cTrade Review'This compelling and original book enriches and complicates the history of Shakespeare's reputation. Fiona Ritchie expands traditional notions of literary criticism beyond the printed page to include play-going, patronage and performance, at the same time introducing new evidence of the range and depth of women's cultural work in the eighteenth century.' Elizabeth Eger, King's College London'In a lively and engaging book Fiona Ritchie explores the construction of Shakespeare's reputation in the eighteenth century and the active and substantial role women played in this as performers, critics, editors and playgoers. This book provides an important contribution to the fields of Shakespeare and women's studies.' Antonia Forster, University of Akron'In this groundbreaking book, Ritchie explores the role of eighteenth-century women in establishing Shakespeare as Britain's national playwright. … This volume is a fine addition to the scholarship on Shakespeare, theater history, and women's intellectual history. … Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' L. J. Larson, Choice'This is an important intervention in studies of Shakespeare in the eighteenth century, and we are indebted to Ritchie for turning the spotlight on women. … Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century is hopefully just the beginning of a much needed conversation that problematizes all three categories: women, Shakespeare, and the eighteenth century. It raises a series of fascinating questions for future scholarship: were these radical adaptations really presented as and considered to be Shakespeare? How does women's engagement with Shakespeare - as actresses, as critics, as audiences - change over the course of the eighteenth century? And how did their engagement with Shakespeare differ from other canonical authors?' Elaine McGirr, The Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: women and Shakespeare in the Restoration; 1. Actresses in the age of Garrick; 2. Female critics in the age of Johnson; 3. Theatrical women respond to Shakespeare; 4. Jordan and Siddons: beyond Thalia and Melpomene; 5. Women playgoers: historical repertory and sentimental response; Conclusion: part of an Englishwoman's constitution; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience. Science fiction in America has long served to reflect the country's hopes, desires, ambitions, and fears. The ideas and conventions associated with science fiction are pervasive throughout American film and television, comics and visual arts, games and gaming, and fandom, as well as across the culture writ large. Through essays that address not only the history of science fiction in America but also the influence and significance of American science fiction throughout media and fan culture, this companion serves as a key resource for scholars, teachers, students, and fans of science fiction.Table of Contents1. The mightiest machine: the development of American science fiction from the 1920s to the 1960s Gary Westfahl; 2. Dangerous visions: new-wave and post-new-wave science fiction Darren Harris-Fain; 3. American science fiction after 9/11 David M. Higgins; 4. Afrofuturism in American science fiction Lisa Yaszek; 5. Feminist and queer science fiction in America Alexis Lothian; 6. The futures market: American utopias Mark Bould; 7. American slipstream: science fiction and literary respectability Rob Latham; 8. Hollywood science fiction Sherryl Vint; 9. US superpower and superpowered Americans in science fiction and comic books Matthew Costello; 10. Digital games and science fiction Patrick Jagoda; 11. Fandom and fan culture Karen Hellekson; 12. American frontiers John Rieder; 13. Science, technology and the environment Priscilla Wald; 14. American weird Roger Luckhurst; 15. After America Rebekah C. Sheldon.

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Book SynopsisIn his introduction to this 1924 edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, T. G. Tucker addresses key issues including the publication history of the Sonnets, the question of whether they are autobiographical and factors of punctuation, spelling and misprints. The edition contains detailed commentary and notes to assist the reader.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. Abbreviations; 3. Sonnets; 4. Commentary; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis eighth volume of the magisterial Library Edition (1903–1912) of the works of John Ruskin contains The Seven Lamps of Architecture.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Author's prefaces; The Seven Lamps of Architecture: 1. The lamp of sacrifice; 2. The lamp of truth; 3. The lamp of power; 4. The lamp of beauty; 6. The lamp of memory; 7. The lamp of obedience; Notes; Appendix.

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Book SynopsisIn his autobiography, Goethe half-apologetically admits the youthful enthusiasm he experienced for alchemical and mystical readings: Georg von Welling's obscure Opus Mago-Cabbalisticum et Theosophicum and the anonymously published Aurea Catena Homeri, as well as works by Paracelsus, Basilis Valentinus and van Helmont. Originally published in 1952, this study shows how the symbols and concepts of alchemy played a key role in the genesis of Goethe's later works, both scientific and literary. Author of, among other books on German literature, Goethe: A Critical Introduction (1967) and An Introduction to German Poetry (1965), Ronald D. Gray details Goethe's alchemical readings, and shows how these influences were processed and transformed into a unique blend of scientific and poetic accounts of reality. Unprecedented in its approach, this study will be of interest to readers of German literature, as well as to anyone interested in the history and evolution of mysticism.Table of ContentsPreface; Part I. Alchemy: 1. Alchemy; 2. Jacob Boehme and alchemy; 3. From alchemy to science; Part II. Science: 4. The metamorphosis of plants; 5. The theory of colours; 6. Anatomy, geology and meteorology; Part III. Life and Literature: 7. The Märchen; 8. Centre and circle; 9. Homunculus; 10. Male and female; 11. Conclusion; References; Books and articles consulted; Index.

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Book SynopsisGeorge Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale (1788â1824) is one of the central writers of British Romanticism and his 'Byronic' hero - the charming, dashing, rebellious outsider - remains a literary archetype. But to what extent is this character a portrayal of the author himself? Byron was known for his extremely unconventional, eccentric character and his extravagant and flamboyant lifestyle: he had numerous scandalous love affairs, including a suspiciously close relationship with his half-sister Augusta Leigh. Lady Caroline Lamb, one of his lovers, famously described him as 'mad, bad and dangerous to know'. This two-volume work, compiled by his friend Thomas Moore, to whom Byron had given his manuscript memoirs (which he later burnt), was published in 1830. Volume 1 gives an account of Byron's early life, including his time as a star of the literary scene in London, and ends with his departure from the country in 1816.Table of ContentsPreface; Notices of the life of Lord Byron, 1788–1816; Letters I–CCXLI.

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Book SynopsisThomas Chatterton (175270), Wordsworth's 'marvellous boy', died aged only seventeen, but his legacy influenced the Romantics for decades. First published in 1803, this three-volume collection brings together his works. Volume 1 includes his earliest poetry, alongside George Gregory's biographical account (also reissued separately in this series).Table of ContentsPreface; List of subscribers; The life of Thomas Chatterton; Miscellaneous poems.

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Book SynopsisThomas Chatterton (175270), Wordsworth's 'marvellous boy', died aged only seventeen, but his legacy influenced the Romantics for decades. First published in 1803, this three-volume collection brings together his works. Volume 3 includes Chatterton's will, a selection of his letters, and epistolary debates about his poems.Table of ContentsMiscellaneous pieces; Chatterton's letters; Chatterton's will; List of Chatterton's friends; Account of Rowley's MSS; List of books relating to Chatterton.

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Book SynopsisThomas Chatterton (175270), Wordsworth's 'marvellous boy', died aged only seventeen, but his legacy influenced the Romantics for decades. First published in 1803, this three-volume collection brings together his works. Volume 2 is devoted to the expertly forged Rowley poems, Chatterton's crowning achievement.Table of ContentsPoems attributed to Rowley; Account of the family of the de Bergham; Description of Chatterton's arms; Glossary.

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Book SynopsisLawyer, book collector and friend of Sir Walter Scott, James Maidment (1793â1879) displayed a talent for antiquarian research. Many of his works were printed privately in small quantities, such as the present publication, which first appeared in 1837. Established in 1812 and named after the great eighteenth-century book collector, the Roxburghe Club remains the oldest and most distinguished society of bibliophiles in the world. Joseph Haslewood (1769â1833), respected as an editor of early English literature, was a founder member and enjoyed the club's tradition of informal fun alongside more serious business. After his death, his manuscript account of these early activities, Roxburghe Revels, was unaccountably included in the sale of his books; extracts and critical comments on Haslewood and the club subsequently appeared in The Athenaeum in 1834. Maidment then prepared this defence, presenting and discussing his friend's remarks. The appendices include a biographical sketch of HaslewoTable of ContentsPrefatory remarks; The Roxburghe Revels; Appendices.

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Book SynopsisJohn William Polidori (17951821) was, for a brief period, the personal physician to Lord Byron. William Michael Rossetti, his nephew, published this manuscript diary in 1911. It is the only contemporary account of the few weeks, crucial to the development of Romanticism, during which Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.Table of ContentsIntroduction; The diary; Index.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1881, this popular and entertaining work by the printer and bibliographer William Blades (1824â90) examines the numerous threats that books have faced throughout their existence. Based on the author's experience of collecting printed works, the book explores such destructive forces as fire, water, disgruntled pirates, ignorance, and vermin. Even bookbinders and collectors are accused of causing mischief. In 1886, Blades was cruelly tormented by one of his enemies when his printing works burned down. A founder of the Library Association, he most notably investigated the work of Caxton: his two-volume Life and Typography of William Caxton (1861â3) is also reissued in this series. After his death, his extensive collection of books formed the basis of the St Bride Printing Library. Six editions of The Enemies of Books emerged between 1881 and 1886. Reissued here is the revised, enlarged and illustrated version that appeared in 1888.Table of Contents1. Fire; 2. Water; 3. Gas and heat; 4. Dust and neglect; 5. Ignorance and bigotry; 6. The bookworm; 7. Other vermin; 8. Bookbinders; 9. Collectors; 10. Servants and children; 11. Anecdote of book-sale in Derbyshire; Conclusion; Index.

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Book SynopsisWhen this work was published, its original author had been dead for fifty years. As the title page explains, the work of Joseph Ames (1687â1759) was considerably augmented by William Herbert (1718â95), and then 'greatly enlarged, with copious notes, and illustrated with appropriate engravings' by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776â1847), several of whose other works are also reissued in this series. Ames' history of printing, based on his own collection, was published in 1749, as an aid to booksellers in identifying old works (and modern forgeries). Herbert, a printseller and bibliophile, acquired Ames' own interleaved copy of the work and intended to enlarge it, but died having completed only three of six proposed volumes. His working copies then passed to Dibdin, who eventually published this four-volume edition between 1810 and 1819. Volume 3 considers the lives and work of printers from William Faques to Nicholas Bourman.Table of ContentsAdvertisement; 1. William Faques; 2. Henry Pepwell; 3. Peter Treveris; 4. James Nicholson; 5. John Redman; 6. Christopher Truthall; 7. Thomas Godfray; 8. John Skot; 9. John Rastell; 10. Robert Copland; 11. William Copland; 12. Robert Wyer; 13. Robert Redman and Elizabeth Redman; 14. Richard Bankes; 15. Laurence Andrewe; 16. John Reynes; 17. Thomas Berthelet; 18. Richard Fawkes; 19. John Haukins; 20. William Rastell; 21. John Toye; 22. John Byddell; 23. Thomas Gibson; 24. John Gowghe; 25. William Marshall; 26. Richard Grafton; 27. Edward Whitchurch; 28. William Baldwin; 29. Thomas Petit; 30. John Wayland; 31. Andrew Hester; 32. Michael Lobley; 33. John Mayler; 34. William Middleton; 35. John Herforde and his family; 36. Thomas Raynald; 37. Robert Toy and his widow; 38. Richard Lant; 39. William Bonham; 40. Leonard Askell; 41. Nicholas Bourman; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this 1798 work, a fascinating piece of social and feminist history, Wakefield suggests ways for women without the support of a husband or family to earn a living. Her ideas are not radical: she believes that marriage rather than independence is the best outcome for any woman.Table of Contents1. Introductory observations, shewing the claim which society has on women to employ their time usefully; 2. From the connexion between the mind and the body is deduced the necessity of a more hardy mode of rearing female children; 3. Remarks on the duties of a married and a single life; 4. On the duties, studies, and amusements of women of the first class in society; 5. On the duties, studies, and amusements of women of the second class in society; 6. Lucrative employments for the first and second classes suggested; 7. On the duties, attainments, and employments of women of the third class; 8. Observations on the condition of the fourth class of women, suggesting a discrimination in distributing charity and an encouragement of marriage.

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in all of Shakespeare''s plays, including the comedies and histories. Race is presented through an intersectional approach with chapters that focus on the concepts of sexuality, lineage, nationality, and globalization. The collection helps students to grapple with the unique role performance plays in constructions of race by Shakespeare (and in Shakespearean performances), considering both historical and contemporary actors and directors. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race will be the first book that truly frames Shakespeare studies and early modern race studies for a non-specialist, student audience.

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Book SynopsisDesigned for students, scholars, poets, and general readers, this book provides a useful guide for anyone interested in contemporary American poetry. By offering close readings of exemplary poems in relation to historical and political contexts, this book gives readers the background and tools necessary to understand post-1945 American poetry.Table of ContentsIntroduction. American poetry since 1945; Part I. American Poetry from 1945 to 1970:; 1. The raw and the cooked: the new criticism versus the new American poetry; 2. The Black Mountain poets; 3. The beats and the San Francisco renaissance; 4. The New York school of poetry; 5. The middle generation, Elizabeth Bishop, and confessional poetry; 6. Deep image poetry; 7. African American poetry from 1945 to 1970; Part II. American Poetry from 1970 to 2000:; 8. A new 'mainstream' period style in poetry of the 1970s and 1980s; 9. Language poetry; 10. Feminism and women's poetry from 1970 to 2000; 11. Diversity, identity, and poetry from 1970 to 2000; Part III. Into the New Millennium: American Poetry from 2000 to the Present:; 12. New directions in American poetry from 2000 to the present; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a descriptive moment, writing the passage of years on the body all at once. Aging, Duration, and the English Novelargues that the formal disappearance of aging from the novel parallels the ideological pressure to identify as being young by repressing the process of growing old. The construction of aging as a shameful event that should be hidden - to improve one''s chances on the job market or secure a successful marriage - corresponds to the rise of the long novel, which draws upon the temporality of the body to map progress and decline onto the plots of nineteenth-century British modernity.Trade Review'Jacob Jewusiak's Aging, Duration, and the English Novel is a welcome contribution to the burgeoning critical interest in age that the humanities is currently experiencing … Aging, Duration, and the English Novel successfully demonstrates that scholarly engagement with the category of age can generate interesting new interpretations of well-known works … [it] makes a valuable contribution not just to literary age studies, but also to ongoing debates within the humanities about the value of recognising age as a master identity on par with gender, race, and class.' Caitlin Doley, BAVS Newsletter'… Jewusiak's book is essential reading for scholars of narrative time, as it establishes provocative discursive ties with some of the best writing on time and the novel in the past twenty years.' Leslie S. Simon, Dickens QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Aging theory; 2. No plots for old men; 3. Life after the marriage plot; 4. A wrinkle in time; 5. The technology age; 6. Gray modernism.

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Book SynopsisThe Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch marking humanity''s alteration of the Earth: its rock structure, environments, atmosphere. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene offers the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can address the social, cultural, and philosophical questions posed by the Anthropocene. This volume addresses the old and new literary forms - from novels, plays, poetry, and essays to exciting and evolving genres such as ''cli-fi'', experimental poetry, interspecies design, gaming, weird, ecotopian and petro-fiction, and ''new'' nature writing. Studies range from the United States to India, from Palestine to Scotland, while addressing numerous global signifiers or consequences of the Anthropocene: catastrophe, extinction, ''fossil capital'', warming, politics, ethics, interspecies relations, deep time, and Earth. This unique Companion offers a compelling account of how to read literature through the Anthropocene and of how literatuTrade Review'Recommended.' J. Bilbro, Choice MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction: With or Without Us: Literature and the Anthropocene John Parham; Prologue: Earth, Anthropocene, Literary Form; 1. Earth Laura Dassow Walls; 2.Data/Anecdote Sean Cubitt; Part I. Anthropocene Form: 3. Poetry Mandy Bloomfield; 4. The Novel Astrid Bracke; 5. Popular Fiction Saba Pirzadeh; 6. The Essay Byron Caminero-Santangelo; 7. Theatre and Performance Sabine Wilke; 8. Interspecies Design Stanislav Roudavski; 9. Digital Games Alenda Y. Chang; Part II. Anthropocene Themes: 10. Catastrophe David Higgins and Tess Somervell; 11. Animals Eileen Crist; 12. Humans Hannes Bergthaller; 13. Fossil Fuel Sam Solnick; 14. Warming Andreas Malm; 15. Ethics Zainor Izat Zainal; 16. Interspecies Heather Alberro; 17. Deep Time Visible Pippa Marland.

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Book SynopsisFully revised for first examination in 2021 with an emphasis on 21st century skills. This card gives you access to your digital teacher''s resource on the Cambridge Elevate platform. This teacher''s resource provides easy access to the coursebook answers, teaching ideas and classroom resources. These include PowerPoint presentations, photocopiable worksheets and curated access to audio and video aligned to the coursebook. The resource helps you follow the IB approach with explanations of the IB framework and the revised syllabus, while also providing inspiration through differentiation and homework ideas. As a digital edition, the teacher''s resource enables you to highlight, annotate text, and download and edit presentation/worksheets, which you can tailor to your needs.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the syllabus; Introduction to the coursebook; Exam at a Glance; Framework in detail; Assessment Criteria; Statements of work / Schemes of Work for each chapter; Worksheets for each unit; PowerPoint Presentations for each unit; Teacher Development Essays;

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Book SynopsisThis Element explores the history of the relationship between libraries and the academic book. It provides an overview of the development of the publishing history of the scholarly - or academic - book, and related creation of the modern research library. It argues that libraries played an important role in the birth and growth of the academic book, and explores how publishers, readers and libraries helped to develop the format and scholarly and publishing environments that now underpin contemporary scholarly communications. It concludes with an appraisal of the current state of the field and how business, technology and policy are mapping a variety of potential routes to the future.

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Book SynopsisFrom airport bookstores to deckchairs, as audiobooks downloaded by commuters, and on Kindles and other portable devices, twenty-first century bestsellers move in old and new ways. This Element examines the locations and mobilities of the contemporary bestseller as a multi-format commercial object. It employs paratextual, textual, and site-based analysis of the spatiality of bestsellers and considers the centrality of geography to the commercial promise of these books. Space, Place, and Bestsellers provides analysis of the spatial logic of bestseller lists, evidence-rich accounts of the physical and digital retail sites through which bestsellers flow, and new interpretations of how affixing the label ''bestseller'' individual authors and titles generates industrial, social, and textual effects. Through its multi-layered analysis, this Element offers a new model for studying the spatiality of popular fiction.

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Book SynopsisProject Gutenberg is lauded as one of the earliest digitisation initiatives, a mythology that Michael Hart, its founder perpetuated through to his death in 2011. In this Element, the author re-examines the extant historical evidence to challenge some of Hart's bolder claims.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Mythological Origins; 3. Ideology; 4. Technological Platforms; 5. Platform Governance; 6. Digital Publishing Collective; 7. Anti-Platform: Project Gutenberg's Lasting Influence; Cast of Characters; Timeline.

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Book SynopsisThe Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries. An interwoven narrative of the novel''s progress unfolds in more than fifty chapters, charting continuities and innovations of structure, tracing lines of influence in terms of themes and techniques, and showing how greater and lesser authors shape the genre. Pushing beyond the usual period-centered boundaries, the History''s emphasis on form reveals the range and depth the novel has achieved in English. This book will be indispensable for research libraries and scholars, but is accessibly written for students. Authoritative, bold and clear, the History raises multiple useful questions for future visions of the invention and re-invention of the novel.Trade Review'… magnificent, massive … comprehensive resource … written by experts … a significant, readable introductory chapter and excellent editorial apparatus … Recommended. Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.' Choice'The collection does a very fine job of meeting the challenge of appealing to a range of audiences, with the overall caliber and clarity of the writing a pronounced pleasure.' Rae Greiner, Modern Philology'The Cambridge History of the English Novel, edited by Robert L. Caserio and Clement Hawes, is a hefty, well-produced collection of essays … The collection does a very fine job of meeting the challenge of appealing to a range of audiences, with the overall caliber and clarity of the writing a pronounced pleasure.' Rae Greiner, Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsIntroduction Robert L. Caserio and Clement Hawes; 1. The novel before 'the novel' John Richetti; 2. Biographical form in the novel Alan Downie; 3. Legal discourse and novelistic form Eleanor Shevlin; 4. Novelistic history Clement Hawes; 5. Interiorities Elaine McGirr; 6. Samuel Richardson Carol Flynn; 7. Domesticity and novel narratives Cynthia Wall; 8. Obscenity and the erotics of fiction Tom Keymer; 9. Cognitive alternatives to interiority Lisa Zunshine; 10. The novel, the British nation, and Britain's four kingdoms Janet Sorensen; 11. Money's productivity in narrative fiction Liz Bellamy; 12. 'The southern unknown countries': imagining the Pacific in the eighteenth-century novel Robert Markley; 13. Editorial fictions: paratexts, fragments, and the novel Barbara Benedict; 14. Extraordinary narrators: it-narratives and metafiction Mark Blackwell; 15. Romance redivivus Scott Black; 16. Gothic success and Gothic failure: formal innovation in a much-maligned genre George Haggerty; 17. Sir Walter Scott: historiography contested by fiction Murray Pittock; 18. How and where we live now: Edgeworth, Austen, Dickens, and Trollope Barry Weller; 19. From Wollstonecraft to Gissing and Hardy: the revolutionary emergence of women, children, and labor in novelistic narrative Carolyn Lesjak; 20. Space and places (I): the four nations Deborah Epstein Nord; 21. Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Gaskell: politics and its limits Amanda Anderson; 22. Populations: pictures of prose in Hardy, Austen, Eliot, and Thackeray Aaron Fogel; 23. The novel amid new sciences Phillip Mallett; 24. George Eliot's past and present: emblematic histories Barry V. Qualls; 25. The Bildungsroman Brigid Lowe; 26. The novel and social cognition: internalist and externalist perspective Alan Palmer; 27. Clamors of Eros Richard A. Kaye; 28. The novel as immoral, antisocial force Christopher Lane; 29. Sensations: Gothic, horror, crime fiction, detective fiction Peter K. Garrett; 30. Realism and romance Francis O'Gorman; 31. Representations of spaces and places (II): around the globe David James; 32. Imperial romance Robert L. Caserio; 33. The art novel: impressionists and aesthetes Jesse Matz; 34. The impact of lyric, drama, and verse narrative on novel form Stefanie Markovits; 35. Henry James and Joseph Conrad: the pursuit of autonomy Robert Hampson; 36. Joyce: the modernist novel's revolution in matter and manner Derek Attridge; 37. Richardson, Woolf, Lawrence: the modernist novel's experiments with narrative (I) Mark Wollaeger; 38. Wells, Forster, Firbank, Lewis, Huxley, Compton-Burnett, Green: the modernist novel's experiments with narrative (II) Jonathan Greenberg; 39. Beyond autonomy: political dimensions of modernist novels Morag Shiach; 40. Fiction by women: continuities and changes, 1930–1990 Elizabeth Maslen; 41. The novel amidst other discourses Patricia Waugh; 42. The novel and thirty years of war Marina MacKay; 43. Thrillers Allan Hepburn; 44. Novelistic complications of spaces and places: the four nations and regionalism Dominic Head; 45. The series novel: a dominant form Suzanne Keen; 46. The novel's West Indian revolution Peter Kalliney; 47. Post-war renewals of experiment, 1945–1979 Philip Tew; 48. The novel amidst new technology and media Julian Murphet; 49. Novels of same-sex desire Gregory Woods; 50. From Wells to John Berger: the social democratic era of the novel Charles Ferrall; 51. The postcolonial novel: history and memory C. L. Innes; 52. History and heritage: the English novel's persistent historiographical turn Peter Childs; 53. Twentieth-century satire: the poetics and politics of negativity James F. English; 54. Unending romance: science fiction and fantasy in the twentieth century Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is an Element about wonder - as an object, as a feeling, as an invitation to study, and as a way of thinking in both literary and scientific texts of the long eighteenth century. Wonder is at the heart of natural philosophical inquiry in the long eighteenth century, its inaugural provocation, its long-standing problematic. Yet wonder requires observation and imagination, operating together, if uneasily, to give shape to forms of scientific, literary, and social knowledge, shaping how thinking works - and who can do it. Studying wonder in the long eighteenth century helps us to understand our current disciplinary configurations, and also how wonder itself embodies the potential for a more capacious critical practice. Studying wonder as an epistemology, praxis, and thematic in the long eighteenth century also carries the promise of invigorating and reimagining our own critical, creative endeavors.

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Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2nd edition, provides authoritative critical insight into Scott Fitzgerald's life and writings for both new readers and long-time fans. It features seven new essays and an updated list of suggested reading alongside updated versions of four essays from the first edition.Table of ContentsList of Figures; List of Contributors; Chronology; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: F. Scott Fitzgerald: 'A Writer Only' Michael Nowlin; 1. Youth, Maturation, and Adult Sexuality Kirk Curnutt; 2. The Beautiful and Damned and Literary Decadence Kirsten MacLeod; 3. The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald Bryant Mangum; 4. 'The Modern Old Master': Reading The Great Gatsby Again Sarah Churchwell; 5. 'I Was Gone Again': Disintegration, Fragmentation, and the Recovery of Nicole Warren Diver in Tender Is the Night Erin E. Templeton; 6. Fitzgerald's Expatriate Years and the European Stories J. Gerald Kennedy; 7. Legends of Zelda Anne Margaret Daniel; 8. Fitzgerald's Nonfiction Scott Donaldson; 9. Great Art, Small Art, and Modernist Cachet: Reading Himself and His Contemporaries Michael Nowlin; 10. Fitzgerald and Hollywood Tom Cerasulo; 11. Fitzgerald's Cultural and Critical Reputation in the Twenty-First Century Jackson R. Bryer; Select Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisDrawing together leading scholars of early modern memory studies and death studies, Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England explores and illuminates the interrelationships of these categories of Renaissance knowing and doing, theory and praxis. The collection features an extended Introduction that establishes the rich vein connecting these two fields of study and investigation. Thereafter, the collection is arranged into three subsections, ''The Arts of Remembering Death'', ''Grounding the Remembrance of the Dead'', and ''The Ends of Commemoration'', where contributors analyse how memory and mortality intersected in writings, devotional practice, and visual culture. The book will appeal to scholars of early modern literature and culture, book history, art history, and the history of mnemonics and thanatology, and will prove an indispensable guide for researchers, instructors, and students alike.

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Book SynopsisShakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe broadens our understanding of the final years of the last Tudor monarch, revealing the truly international context in which they must be understood. Uncovering the extent to which Shakespeare''s dramatic art intersected with European politics, Andrew Hiscock brings together close readings of the history plays, compelling insights into late Elizabethan political culture and renewed attention to neglected continental accounts of Elizabeth I. With fresh perspective, the book charts the profound influence that Shakespeare and ambitious courtiers had upon succeeding generations of European writers, dramatists and audiences following the turn of the sixteenth century. Informed by early modern and contemporary cultural debate, this book demonstrates how the study of early modern violence can illuminate ongoing crises of interpretation concerning brutality, victimization and complicity today.Trade Review'Hiscock possesses an insightful eye for the nuances of narratives about transnational violence and their complex relationships with literary texts - particularly Shakespeare's history plays. His perspective is impressively broad, exploring how ideas about warfare have been repeated, re-formed, and interpreted in sources from England and the Continent from the seventeenth century to the present … Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe adds considerably to how we think about violence and war in the period, in Shakespeare's plays, and in our own time.' Matteo Pangallo, Shakespeare Quarterly'Throughout, Hiscock's study is enrichingly contextualised by excerpts from primary sources (in their original languages and translated into English) … A further strength lies in how the book's arguments are not only underpinned by literary criticism and historical research, but also informed by judicious use of works by philosophers... Hiscock's Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe is a solid and thoughtful contribution to early modern literary and cultural studies, commendably demonstrating the value of attending to the intersections between Shakespearean drama, Elizabethan politics, and the theatres of war across the continent.' Edel Semple, Review of English Studies'There was a deep ambivalence towards military violence and the practice of soldiery during the last years of Queen Elizabeth I's reign … Andrew Hiscock's Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe explores this ambivalence. Over the course of six interesting and thoroughly researched chapters, filled with a wealth of valuable quotations both from British and European theorists of war in the early modern period and from modern scholars of violence, Hiscock documents the complex and conflicted attitudes that the early moderns held towards both warfare and those who practised it.' Rebecca Yearling, The Spenser Review'Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe is another major study by Andrew Hiscock, one of our leading commentators on early modern cultural and intellectual history … [It] marks a significant contribution to our collective understanding of how violence figured in early modern cultural debate, and how Shakespeare's creative engagement with English history … helped to introduce and sustain such debate …' Rory Loughnane, Modern Language ReviewTable of Contents1. 'touching violence or punishments': Walter Ralegh and the economy of aggression; 2. 'Undoing all, as all had never been': the play of violence in Henry VI; 3. In the realm of the 'unthankful King': violent subjects and subjectivities in the Henry IV plays; 4. 'Now thrive the armourers': Henry V and the promise of 'Hungry War'; 5. 'The childe of his great Mistris favour, but the sonne of Bellona': the conflict-ridden careers of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; 6. European afterlives 1600–1770.

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Book SynopsisGreat art is about emotion. In the eighteenth century, and especially for the English stage, critics developed a sensitivity to both the passions of a performance and what they called the transitions between those passions. It was these pivotal transitions, scripted by authors and executed by actors, that could make King Lear beautiful, Hamlet terrifying, Archer hilarious and Zara electrifying. James Harriman-Smith recovers a lost way of appreciating theatre as a set of transitions that produce simultaneously iconic and dynamic spectacles; fascinating moments when anything seems possible. Offering fresh readings and interpretations of Shakespearean and eighteenth-century tragedy, historical acting theory and early character criticism, this volume demonstrates how a concern with transition binds drama to everything, from lyric poetry and Newtonian science, to fine art and sceptical enquiry into the nature of the self.Trade ReviewCriticism, Performance and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century is an impressive study of the theory and practice of eighteenth-century acting. Focusing on 'transition' as a key component of the actor's art, James Harriman-Smith offers us a new way to understand and appreciate the emotional power of theatrical performance in the age of David Garrick. Conceptually astute and deeply immersed in primary sources, his book is a major contribution to British theatre history. Richard Schoch, Queen's University BelfastHarriman-Smith's strikingly original work is on the performance of 'transitions' – emotional turns from one passion to another – in the long eighteenth century. Using information gathered from plays, letters, manuals on speaking and acting, promptbooks, periodicals and paintings, Theatre and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Transition shows how 'jolts' in the passions affected everything from David Garrick's performances to the writing of lyric odes and the construction of Shakespeare criticism. The extraordinary insights offered by this book will transform our understanding performance and text in the eighteenth-century. Tiffany Stern, University of Birmingham'The Art of Transition is a welcome and even thrilling book because it offers its reader a new word for thinking about - and through that word, a new way of reading - the eighteenth-century archive.' David Francis Taylor, The Scriblerian and the Kit-CatsTable of Contents1. Dramatic Transition; 2. Zara; 3. Odes; 4. King Lear; 5. Dramatic Character.

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Book SynopsisBibliographers have been notoriously ''hesitant to deal with liturgies'', and this volume bridges an important gap with its authoritative examination of how the Book of Common Prayer came into being. The first edition of 1549, the first Grafton edition of 1552 and the first quarto edition of 1559 are now correctly identified, while Peter W. M. Blayney shows that the first two editions of 1559 were probably finished on the same day. Through relentless scrutiny of the evidence, he reveals that the contents of the 1549 version continued to evolve both during and after the printing of the first edition, and that changes were still being made to the Elizabethan revision weeks after the Act of Uniformity was passed. His bold reconstruction is transformative for the early Anglican liturgy, and thus for the wider history of the Church of England. This major, revisionist work is a remarkable book about a remarkable book.Table of Contents1. From Henry VIII to the first Edwardian prayer book; 2. The second Edwardian prayer book; 3. Mary's reign and Elizabeth's first Parliament; 4. Richard Grafton's edition (STC 16291); 5. The first Jugge-and-Cawood edition (STC 16292); 6. The preliminaries: collaboration and cancels; 7. The orphaned ordinal; 8. The third and fourth editions; 9. The quarto and octavo editions; 10. The 1561 revision of the calendar; 11. Concluding summary.

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Book SynopsisA User's Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton's encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy as a guide to melancholy, from cause to cure. Through case studies, it explores a Renaissance disease of the mind that inclined its sufferers towards sadness and fear but also delusion, despair, hilarity, and artistic creativity.Trade Review'I didn't think it possible for my favourite book to be summarised, and analysed, and explained so well. Mary Ann Lund has done Burton a great service, and us readers too, whether or not we've embarked on the wide and turbulent sea of his prose. What I found particularly enlightening was the author's examination of other texts, ancient and medieval and from Burton's own time, about this endlessly absorbing subject, and the perspective she reveals on the condition of melancholy from a modern viewpoint. Burton is inexhaustible and irreplaceable, of course, but this delightfully written and brilliantly informative guide is the best introduction to this great book I have ever seen. I hope it has a great success, and remains in print for four hundred years.' Philip Pullman'At last there is an accessible way into Robert Burton's labyrinthine masterpiece! Dr Lund has distilled all the wit, recondite learning and human empathy of The Anatomy of Melancholy into this wonderful guide.' Colin Gale, Bethlem Museum of the Mind'A truly fascinating historical journey through an extraordinary range of mental health experiences. Full of captivating descriptions, with Mary Ann Lund the perfect engaging and enlightening guide.' Daniel Freeman, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Presenter of BBC Radio 4's A History of Delusions'A rich and fascinating tour through the territory of melancholy in seventeenth-century England and beyond. Lund provides an expert but very readable introduction to Burton's masterpiece, and her entertaining exploration of the cultural resonances of the Anatomy's medical, psychological, and literary subject matter also prompts us to think seriously about the lasting historical legacies of those who wrote about and struggled with melancholy in the past.' Angus Gowland, Reader in Intellectual History, University College London'In her superb new monograph about Burton's work, A User's Guide to Melancholy, Mary Ann Lund, a scholar of Renaissance literature, explains how melancholy has always had a span as wide as the mind's horizon.' Horatio Clare, UnHerd'At a time when challenges to mental health are severe and widespread, Mary Ann Lund is a welcome guide to a classic work on the subject.' Casper Henderson, The Spectator'A learned, broad and readable picture of Renaissance medicine.' Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian'A fine guide to a classic work.' Morning Star'Throughout, Lund's lucid prose brings Burton life for a new generation of readers and succeeds at imposing order on a most disorderly masterpiece.' Times Literary Supplement'The book's slim size and modest price could help make it a good choice for courses either in the history of medicine or literature. Instructors of senior seminars in English or history in particular might wish to discuss with students whether Lund's methodology could be applied to other primary sources, time periods, or geographical locales … Highly recommended.' A. K. Ackerberg-Hastings, Choice'Mary Ann Lund's A User's Guide to Melancholy gives Robert Burton's Anatomy a contemporary clarity that will make it a companion to his classic for years to come.' Timothy Barr, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction; Causes: 1. Sorrow and fear; 2. Body and mind; 3. The supernatural; Symptoms: 4. Delusions; 5. Love and sex; 6. Despair; Cures: 7. The non-naturals; 8. Medicine and surgery; 9. Lifting the spirits; Robert Burton, 'The Author's Abstract of Melancholy'; Conclusion: The Two Faces of Melancholy.

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses contemporary British poetry in the context of metamodernism. The author argues that the concept of metamodernist poetry helps to recalibrate the opposition between mainstream and innovative poetry, and he investigates whether a new generation of British poets can be accurately defined as metamodernist. Antony Rowland analyses the ways in which contemporary British poets such as Geoffrey Hill, J. H. Prynne, Geraldine Monk and Sandeep Parmarhaveresponded to the work of modernist writers as diverse as T. S. Eliot, H. D. and Antonin Artaud, and what Theodor Adorno describes as the overall enigma of modern art.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Contemporary British Poetry and Enigmaticalness; 2. Continuing 'Poetry Wars' in Twenty-First-Century British Poetry; 3. Committed and Autonomous Art; 4. Iconoclasm and Enigmatical Commitment; 5. The Double Consciousness of Modernism; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisShakespeare and Lost Plays returns Shakespeare''s dramatic work to its most immediate and (arguably) pivotal context; by situating it alongside the hundreds of plays known to Shakespeare''s original audiences, but lost to us. David McInnis reassesses the value of lost plays in relation to both the companies that originally performed them, and to contemporary scholars of early modern drama. This innovative study revisits key moments in Shakespeare''s career and the development of his company and, by prioritising the immense volume of information we now possess about lost plays, provides a richer, more accurate picture of dramatic activity than has hitherto been possible. By considering a variety of ways to grapple with the problem of lost, imperceptible, or ignored texts, this volume presents a methodology for working with lacunae in archival evidence and the distorting effect of Shakespeare-centric narratives, thus reinterpreting our perception of the field of early modern drama.Trade Review'This is an exceptionally innovative book championing the brand new methodologies and discoveries associated with lost plays that the author and his collaborators have brought to the profession. It would be hard to think of a more groundbreaking work than this, and it will be necessary reading for all scholars of early modern drama, any cultural historians who find themselves confronting the issue of evidential loss, as well as students of these various fields.' Andy Kesson, University of Roehampton, London'This is a well-conceived, skilfully argued, and constantly astonishing book. Its object is to insist on the importance of a study of lost plays so as better to understand the canonical plays we have been too complacent about. It will impact substantially on Shakespeare studies, on Early Modern theatre studies more widely, on authorship determination, and on more general literary and historical studies. Shakespeare and Lost Plays is an outstanding publication.' David Carnegie, Victoria University of Wellington'A fascinating work of literary detection.' Gordon Parsons, Morning Star'The moments of brilliant speculation about enigmas such as Spanish Maze and Felmelanco are the heart of McInnis's work because they display not only superb research skills but also impressive synaptic leaps; at such moments, one feels one is reading both a scholar and a poet. Overall, this is a wonderful book that opens the imagination and proves the vitality and the value of the study of lost plays.' David Nicol, British Shakespeare Association's Journal'Anyone interested in researching historical writing, English or otherwise, would benefit from reading this book, to help us deal with the loss of sources, and to learn how to complicate and enrich our reading and understanding of the texts that did survive.' Sonja Kleij, English Studies'McInnis's study is generous and hopefully generative, and it deserves the kind of careful engagement it offers to its subject. McInnis sheds light on understudied plays and he finds exciting connections, never before identified, some of which in turn allow for a different perspective on individual Shakespeare plays and on his career and early afterlife. But above all, McInnis models an approach to scholarship that promises to yield further insights. This refreshing book, which balances meticulous attention to detail with imagination and creativity, deserves to be widely read.' Eoin Price, Early Theatre'The potential impact of McInnis's ground-breaking study is unlikely to be lost on readers … Shakespeare and Lost Plays opens up numerous explorative avenues for future investigations, and I have no doubt that it will be preserved in the annals of academic history as a seminal work' Jones, Bücherschau'This is a productive and helpful enterprise, which McInnis reaches through a series of skillful, careful, and innovative readings … This refreshing book, which balances meticulous attention to detail with imagination and creativity, deserves to be widely read. That the book is relatively inexpensive for a new academic hardback should help it get the attention it deserves.' Eoin Price, Early TheatreTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Charting the landscape of loss; 2. Early Shakespeare: 1594-98; 3. Shakespeare at the turn of the century, 1599-1603; 4. Courting controversy: Shakespeare and the king's men, 1604-08; 5. Late Shakespeare: 1609-13; 6. Loose canons: the lost Shakespeare apocrypha; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis Companion provides an introduction to the craft of prose. It considers the technical aspects of style that contribute to the art of prose, examining the constituent parts of prose through a widening lens, from the smallest details of punctuation and wording to style more broadly conceived. The book is concerned not only with prose fiction but with creative non-fiction, a growing area of interest for readers and aspiring writers. Written by internationally-renowned critics, novelists and biographers, the essays provide readers and writers with ways of understanding the workings of prose. They are exemplary of good critical practice, pleasurable reading for their own sake, and both informative and inspirational for practising writers. The Cambridge Companion to Prose will serve as a key resource for students of English literature and of creative writing.Trade Review'… this volume proves that prose is as fascinating an art form as poetry.' Karl van Heijster, De Leesclub van AllesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Daniel Tyler; Part I. Parts of Prose: 1. Punctuation Bharat Tandon; 2. Words Garrett Stewart; 3. Sentences Daniel Tyler; 4. Paragraphs Jenny Davidson; 5. Chapters James Williams; 6. Perspective Ruth Bernard Yeazell; 7. Style Michael Hurley; Part II. Prose Genres: 8. Realist Prose James Wood; 9. Comic Prose Jonathan Greenberg and David Galef; 10. Gothic Prose Alison Milbank; 11. Science Fiction Adam Roberts; 12. Travel Writing Roslyn Jolly; 13. Nature Writing Richard Kerridge; 14. Life Writing Jay Parini; Further Reading; Index.

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This study focuses on the spread of print in colonial India towards the middle and end of the nineteenth century. Till the first half of the century, much of the print production in the subcontinent emanated from presidency cities such as Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, along with centres of missionary production such as Serampore. But with the growing socialization of print and the entry of local entrepreneurs into the field, print began to spread from the metropole to the provinces, from large cities to mofussil towns. This Element will look at this phenomenon in eastern India, and survey how printing spread from Calcutta to centres such as Hooghly-Chinsurah, Murshidabad, Burdwan, Rangpur etc. The study will particularly consider the rise of periodicals and newspapers in the mofussil, and asses their contribution to a nascent public sphere.

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Book SynopsisThis Element looks at the art of the actress in the eighteenth century. It shows how visual materials across genres contribute to our understanding of the nuances of female celebrity, fame, notoriety, and scandal.Table of ContentsIntroduction: the art of the actress in the eighteenth century; 1. The paradox of pearls; 2. The actress as artist and the artist as actress: Anne Damer and Angelica Kauffman; 3. Mary Anne's Muff: Actresses and satire; 4. Epilogue: unfinished business: Elizabeth Inchbald, Lady Cahir, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and the aftermath of the art of the actress; References.

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Book SynopsisReading lists, course syllabi, and prizes include the phrase ''21st-century American literature,'' but no critical consensus exists regarding when the period began, which works typify it, how to conceptualize its aesthetic priorities, and where its geographical boundaries lie. Considerable criticism has been published on this extraordinary era, but little programmatic analysis has assessed comprehensively the literary and critical/theoretical output to help readers navigate the labyrinth of critical pathways. In addition to ensuring broad coverage of many essential texts, The Cambridge Companion to 21st Century American Fiction offers state-of-the field analyses of contemporary narrative studies that set the terms of current and future research and teaching. Individual chapters illuminate critical engagements with emergent genres and concepts, including flash fiction, speculative fiction, digital fiction, alternative temporalities, Afro-futurism, ecocriticism, transgender/queer studiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Joshua L. Miller; Part I. Forms: 1. Short Fiction, Flash Fiction, Microfiction Angela Naimou; 2. Experimental Fiction David James; 3. Speculative Fiction Mark Bould; 4. Graphic Fiction Katalin Orbán; 5. Digital Fiction Scott Rettberg; Part II. Approaches: 6. Afro-Futurism/Afro-Pessimism Candice M. Jenkins; 7. Transpacific Diasporas Julia H. Lee; 8. Hemispheric Routes Mary Pat Brady; 9. Transgender and Transgenre Writing Trish Salah; 10. Climate Fiction Heather Houser; Part III. Themes: 11. Convergence Mark Goble; 12. Dissolution Crystal Parikh; 13. Immobilit Dennis Childs; 14. Insecurity Hamilton Carroll; Further Reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis Element has three objectives. First, it highlights the diversity of the nature of Jacobitism in the long eighteenth century by drawing attention to multi-media representations of Jacobitism and also to multi-lingual productions of the Jacobites themselves, including works in Irish Gaelic, Latin, Scots, Scots Gaelic and Welsh. Second, it puts the theoretical perspectives of cultural memory studies and book history in dialogue with each other to examine the process through which specific representations of the Jacobites came to dominate both academic and popular discourse. Finally, it contributes to literary studies by bringing the literature of the Jacobites and Jacobite Studies into the purview of more mainstream scholarship on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literatures, providing a fuller perspective on the cultural landscape of that period and correcting a tendency to ignore or downplay the presence of Jacobitism. This title is also available as Gold Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Book SynopsisThis Element inquires into the notion of 'difference' in relation to books, offering a unique interdisciplinary exploration of literature as culture and commodity in a digital age. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of Contents1. Introduction: (Re-)thinking 'Difference'; 2. What's the 'Difference'? 'Difference' as Discourse, Policy and Brand/ing; 3. Are Books Still Different? 'Difference' in a Digital Age; 4. Marketing 'Difference' in a Network of Networks: Bernardine Evaristo; 5. Conclusion: the book as affect and the novel as network.

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Book SynopsisOffering an intimate history of how small things were used, handled, and worn, this collection shows how objects such as mugs and handkerchiefs were entangled with quotidian practices and rituals of bodily care. Small things, from tiny books to ceramic trinkets and toothpick cases, could delight and entertain, generating tactile pleasures for users while at the same time signalling the limits of the body''s adeptness or the hand''s dexterity. Simultaneously, the volume explores the striking mobility of small things: how fans, coins, rings, and pottery could, for instance, carry political, philosophical, and cultural concepts into circumscribed spaces. From the decorative and playful to the useful and performative, such small things as tea caddies, wampum beads, and drawings of ants negotiated larger political, cultural, and scientific shifts as they transported aesthetic and cultural practices across borders, via nationalist imagery, gift exchange, and the movement of global goods.

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Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging Companion provides a vital overview of modern Chinese literature in different geopolitical areas, from the 1840s to now. It reviews major accomplishments of Chinese literary scholarship published in Chinese and English and brings attention to previously neglected, important areas. Offers the most thorough and concise coverage of modern Chinese literature to date, drawing attention to previously neglected areas such as late Qing, Sinophone, and ethnic minority literatureSeveral chapters explore literature in relation to Sinophone geopolitics, regional culture, urban culture, visual culture, print media, and new mediaThe introduction and two chapters furnish overviews of the institutional development of modern Chinese literature in Chinese and English scholarship since the mid-twentieth centuryContributions from leading literary scholars in mainland China and Hong Kong add their voices to international scholarshipTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xv 1 General Introduction 1Yingjin Zhang Part I History and Geography 39 2 Literary Modernity in Perspective 41Zhang Longxi 3 Late Qing Literature, 1890s–1910s 54Hu Ying 4 War, Revolution, and Urban Transformations: Chinese Literature of the Republican Era, 1920s–1940s 67Nicole Huang 5 Socialist Literature Driven by Radical Modernity, 1950–1980 81Chen Xiaoming (translated by Qin Liyan) 6 Thirty Years of New Era Literature: From Elitization to De-Elitization 98Tao Dongfeng (translated by Angie Chau) 7 Building a Modern Institution of Literature: The Case of Taiwan 116Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang 8 Sinophone Literature 134Ping-hui Liao Part II Genres and Types 149 9 Modern Poetry in Chinese: Challenges and Contingencies 151Michelle Yeh 10 Modern Chinese Theater Study and its Century-Long History 167Xiaomei Chen 11 Literariness (Wen) and Character (Zhi): From Baihua to Yuluti and Dazhongyu 181Qian Suoqiao 12 Fiction in Modern China: Modernity through Storytelling 195Yiyan Wang 13 Modern China's Translated Literature 214Zha Mingjian 14 Writing Chinese Feminism(s) 228Amy Dooling 15 The World of Twentieth-Century Chinese Popular Fiction: From Shanghai Express to Rivers and Lakes of Knights-Errant 244Yi Zheng 16 Ethnic Minority Literature 261Mark Bender Part III Cultures and Media 277 17 Use in Uselessness: How Western Aesthetics Made Chinese Literature More Political 279Ban Wang 18 The Linguistic Turns and Literary Fields in Twentieth-Century China 295Jianhua Chen 19 The Significance of the Northeastern Writers in Exile, 1931–1945 312Haili Kong 20 Writing Cities 326Weijie Song 21 Divided Unities of Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture: The Modern Girl, Woodcuts, and Contemporary Painter–Poets 343Paul Manfredi 22 All the Literature That's Fit to Print: A Print Culture Perspective on Modern Chinese Literature 360Nicolai Volland 23 The Proliferating Genre: Web-Based Time-Travel Fiction and the New Media in Contemporary China 379Jin Feng Part IV Issues and Debates 395 24 The Persistence of Form: Nation, Literary Movement, and the Fiction of Ng Kim Chew 397Carlos Rojas 25 The Modern Girl in Modern Chinese Literature 411Tze]lan D. Sang 26 Body as Phenomenon: A Brief Survey of Secondary Literature of the Body in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 424Ari Larissa Heinrich 27 The Post-Maoist Politics of Memory 434Yomi Braester 28 Writing Historical Traumas in the Everyday 452Lingchei Letty Chen 29 A Brief Overview of Chinese-Language Scholarship on Modern Chinese Literature 465Chen Sihe (translated by Alvin Ka Hin Wong) 30 Toward a Typology of Literary Modernity in China: A Survey of English Scholarship on Modern Chinese Literature 483Yingjin Zhang Bibliography 501 Glossary 503 Index 548

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