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Book SynopsisThis Element interrogates the scepticism that Shakespeare's visionary women face and considers the ways in which they perform the truth of their experiences to a hostile onstage audience. It concludes that prophecy gives women a brief access to political conversations in which they are not welcome as they wrest narrative control from male speakers.Table of Contents1. Introduction: given to lie; 2. The art of dissuasion; 3. Ambitious visions and/as sinful thought; 4. Believe not every spirit; 5. Sooth-Dreams; 6. Conclusion: looking back; References.

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Book SynopsisThis study provides an accessible overview of the range of reading spaces in modern Japan, and the evolution thereof from a historical perspective. It considers the transformation of public reading spaces, explaining how socio-economic factors and changing notions of space informed reading practices from the early modern era to the present.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Kanda-Jinbōchō: Tokyo's Book Town; 3. The Ongoing Transformation of Public Reading Spaces; 4. Virtual Reading Spaces; 5. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis Element will be on the three versions of Edmond Malone's An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in which the Plays Attributed to Shakspeare were Written and the way they created, shaped, focused, directed, and misdirected, our idea of the chronology and sequence of Shakespeare's plays.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. External Evidence; 2. Internal Information; 3. The Folio and Internal Late Dates; 4. Problems with Malone's Method and Question; 5. Chronology Now; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis will be the standard reference work on the history of South African literature, with unrivalled coverage of oral and written literature from the beginnings to the present. Written by a team of international experts, it offers a picture of literature in all South Africa's languages.Trade Review'Ambitiously conceptualized and wonderfully realized, The Cambridge History of South African Literature provides a unique and valuable addition to the field of scholarship on South African literatures.' Journal of African History'… [an] ambitious and learned book … This book will intrigue readers … a rich study which draws on an exceptionally broad range of primary sources …' Journal of Continuity and ChangeTable of ContentsIntroduction David Attwell and Derek Attridge; Part I. Oratures, Oral Histories, Origins: 1. 'The Bushmen's Letters': |Xam narratives of the Bleek and Lloyd Collection and their afterlives Hedley Twidle; 2. A contextual analysis of Xhosa iimbongi and their izibongo Russell H. Kaschula; 3. I sing of the woes of my travels: the lifela of Lesotho Nhlanhla Maake; 4. Praise, politics, performance: from Zulu izibongo to the Zionists Mbongiseni Buthelezi; 5. IsiNdebele, siSwati, Northern Sotho, Tshivenda and Xitsonga oral culture Manie Groenewald and Mokgale Makgopa; Part II. Exploration, Early Modernity and Enlightenment at the Cape, 1488–1820: 6. Shades of Adamastor: the legacy of The Lusiads Malvern van Wyk Smith; 7. In the archive: records of the Dutch settlement and the contemporary novel Carli Coetzee; 8. Eighteenth-century natural history, travel writing and South African literary historiography Ian Glenn; Part III. Empire, Resistance and National Beginnings, 1820–1910: 9. Writing settlement and empire: the Cape after 1820 Matthew Shum; 10. The mission presses and the rise of black journalism Catherine Woeber; 11. The imperial romance Laura Chrisman; 12. Perspectives on the South African War Elleke Boehmer; 13. The beginnings of Afrikaans literature H. P. van Coller; Part IV. Modernism and Trans-National Culture, 1910–1948: 14. Black writers and the historical novel: 1907–1948 Bhekizizwe Peterson; 15. The Dertigers and the plaasroman: two brief perspectives on Afrikaans literature Gerrit Olivier; 16. New African modernity and the New African movement Ntongela Masilela; 17. Refracted modernisms: Roy Campbell, Herbert Dhlomo, N. P. van Wyk Louw Tony Voss; 18. The metropolitan and local: Douglas Blackburn, Pauline Smith, William Plomer and Herman Charles Bosman Craig MacKenzie; Part V. Apartheid and Its Aftermath, 1948–the Present: 19. The Fabulous Fifties: short fiction in English Dorothy Driver; 20. Writing in exile Tlhalo Raditlhalo; 21. Afrikaans literature 1948–1976 Hein Willemse; 22. Afrikaans literature after 1976: resistances and repositionings Louise Viljoen; 23. The liberal tradition in fiction Peter Blair; 24. Black Consciousness poetry: writing against apartheid Thengani H. Ngwenya; 25. Popular forms and the United Democratic Front Peter Horn; 26. Writing the prison Daniel Roux; 27. Theatre: regulation, resistance and recovery Loren Kruger; 28. The lyric poem during and after apartheid Dirk Klopper; 29. Writing and publication in African languages since 1948 Christiaan Swanepoel; 30. Writing the interregnum: literature and the demise of apartheid Stephen Clingman; 31. Rewriting the nation Rita Barnard; 32. Writing the city after apartheid Michael Titlestad; Part VI. South African Literature: Continuities and Contrasts: 33. South Africa in the global imaginary Andrew van der Vlies; 34. Confession and autobiography M. J. Daymond and Andries Visagie; 35. 'A change of tongue': questions of translation Leon de Kock; 36. Writing women Meg Samuelson; 37. The 'experimental line' in fiction Michael Green; 38. The book in South Africa Peter D. McDonald; 39. Literary and cultural criticism in South Africa David Johnson; Index.

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Book SynopsisTwo centuries of sexism have hidden Staël''s place in international history. Straddling the divides of the French Revolution, Napoleonic Europe, emergent nationalism, and European Romanticism, and playing pivotal roles in those movements, she was also a friend of Byron, Jefferson, and Tsar Alexander. Extensive archival research, and a complete contextual overview of Staël''s writings, here restore Staël''s canonical status as political philosopher, historian, European Romantic theorist, and Revolutionary. While the term stateswoman is not commonly used, it describes Staël aptly, acting as she necessarily did through men around her. The brilliant game of masks and proxies imposed on her by patriarchy is detailed here, alongside her unending fight for the oppressed, from the nations of Napoleon''s subjugated Europe to the victims of the Atlantic slave trade. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

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Book SynopsisEcocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife documentaries, climate models, the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, and novels by Margaret Atwood, Kim Scott, Barbara Kingsolver and Octavia Butler.Trade Review"In this fully revised 3rd edition, Garrard offers us once again a masterful overview of the field of eco-criticism, useful for both novice and teacher alike. Garrard’s distinctiveness lies in his extraordinarily wide field of view; and his skilful use of multi-partiality … ‘judging texts by what they say rather than by what they leave out’. This edition of Ecocriticism will instantly find a place on my student reading lists, for undergraduate geographers and Masters’ students of the Anthropocene alike. I could wish them no better guide than Garrard for navigating the tropes, ideologies and ideals that infuse environmental writings". - Mike Hulme, Professor of Human Geography, University of Cambridge "In the third edition of his seminal Ecocriticism, Greg Garrard continues his candid and ‘multi-partial’ assessments of environmentally oriented texts and ecocritical arguments, ready to discern and judge, unafraid to invite controversy. Thoroughly updated with a new chapter on Indigeneity and an outlook on ecocriticism in the future, this most recent edition of Garrard’s influential introduction to the field is a valuable read for anyone with an interest in ecologically informed literary and cultural studies."- Alexa Weik von Mossner, author of Affective Ecologies"Ecocriticism provides an accessible and authoritative introduction to ecocritical scholarship. In this third edition, Garrard offers a multi-partial reading approach—judging texts for what they say rather than what they leave out. Chapters highlight this approach while exploring the field’s foundational and continued tensions in weaving together aesthetic, ethical and political considerations. Consider the new Indigeneity chapter. Spotlighting historical contexts that shape contested meanings of "ecological Indigeneity," Garrard tackles works of literary authors familiar to the ecocritical canon (e.g., Leslie Marlo Silko, Louis Erdrich). He also brings new creative and analytic texts into view to argue first, for attending to the nuance and dynamism of Indigenous ecological relations, and second, for ecocritics to attend to what texts do, well or badly, and not just to what they omit.Revised with new content, Ecocriticism remains essential reading for students of literary and cultural studies." - Salma Monani, Professor and Chair of Environmental Studies Department, Gettysburg College"This is an outstanding book, lucid, authoritative and always level-headed, however fraught the material at issue. The clarity of the overview provided will make it useful to experienced writers and teachers in the field as well as to new readers and students. These will also find helpful examples of ecocritical practice and up to date guides to further reading. Sensitive attention to the dynamics of pedagogy and popularization has always been a distinctive feature of Garrard’s work. Admirers of the first or second editions of Garrard’s book should be reminded that this is overwhelmingly (c. 85%) a new book." - Timothy Clark, Professor of English, Durham University"Greg Garrard’s Ecocriticism has long been a foundational text in this vibrant and rapidly evolving field. A changing world requires changing academic responses, which in turn call for fresh editions of central texts. The third edition of Ecocriticism continues to illuminate such essential concepts as pastoralism and wilderness, while also propelling readers toward current issues and approaches such as New Materialism, the climate crisis, affect theory, decolonization, among many others. This new edition will be useful for both longtime ecocritics and newcomers to the field." - Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, coeditor of Nature and Literary Studies"Ecocriticism has many voices, many forms, many waves, and many sensibilities. But Greg Garrard’s voice, and the shape he has given to teaching and framing this discipline is unique: and for cohorts of students and scholars, his representation of ecocriticism is an entry point into this world. Whether one shares his ideas or not, it is impossible not to be enthralled by his argumentations and participate in the conversation that this book wants to be. As it first appeared, Garrard’s Ecocriticism was a pioneering work. After almost two decades, it is a classic. And, in the Darwinian environment of our book forest, a living one." - Serenella Iovino, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Comparative Literature, and Italian Studies, University of North Carolina"The third edition of Greg Garrard's Ecocriticism is the most measured, readable, comprehensive introduction imaginable to the broad field of the environmental humanities in general and its literary dimensions in particular." - Sir Jonathan Bate, author of Romantic Ecology and The Song of the EarthTable of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition Beginnings: Pollution Positions Cornucopia Ecological Modernisation Ecofeminism Political Ecology and Environmental Justice Radical Ecology New Materialism Pastoral Old World Pastoral Colonial and Black Pastoral in America Contemporary British Environmental Literature Pastoral Ecology Wilderness Old World Wilderness The Sublime Wilderness in North America The Trouble with Wilderness The New Wild? Apocalypse Myths of Annihilation and Redemption The Secular Apocalypse Environmental Apocalypse Climate Apocalypse Animals Why Animals Matter Looking at Animals: A Typology Why Look at Wild Animals? Indigeneity Acknowledgements The ‘Ecological Indian’ and Ecological Indigeneity North American Indigenous Literatures Decolonisation, Indigenisation and Ecocriticism The Earth Images Data Narratives Conclusion: Ecocriticism in the Future Index

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Book SynopsisA Translational Sociology provides an interdisciplinary investigation of the key role of translation in society. There is a growing recognition of translation's intervention in the intellectual history of sociology, in the international reception of social theory, and in approaches to the global literary and academic fields. This book brings attention to aspects of translation that have remained more elusive to sociological interpretation and analysis, investigating translation's ubiquitous presence in the everyday lives of ordinary people in increasingly multilingual societies and its key intervention in mediating politics within and beyond the nation.In order to challenge a reductive view of translation as a relatively straightforward process of word substitution that is still prevalent in the social sciences, this book proposes and develops a broader definition of translation as a social relation across linguistic difference, a process of transformation that leaveTrade Review'Sociologists! Read this book! It is a major contribution to sociological theorising, and rams home the point that you ignore translation matters at your peril. Translation Studies scholars! Read this book! Bielsa pushes the ‘sociological turn’ in Translation Studies further, deeper, and better than anyone else has yet managed. Everyone else! Read this book! It is a brilliantly incisive intervention into many of the pressing and inter-related cultural, linguistic, and political matters of our time.' David Inglis, University of Helsinki, Finland 'This book makes a significant contribution to the sociology of translation. It shows how translation is interwoven into the very fabric of social life and is central to many major questions in modern social and political thought.'Gerard Delanty, Sussex University, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Translation and societyChapter 1. Translation and identityChapter 2. Translation and transformationChapter 3. For a translational sociologyPart II. Translation and politicsChapter 4. Politics of translationChapter 5. Translating democracyChapter 6. The translator as producerPart III. Translation and experienceChapter 7. Translation and modernity: Benjamin’s BaudelaireChapter 8. Translating strangersChapter 9. Homecoming: an auto-analysisConclusion: translation and reflexivityGeneral bibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWhat is this thing called literature? Why study it? And how? Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, This Thing Called Literature establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting and rewarding subject to study. Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle expertly weave an essential love of literature into an account of what literary texts do, how they work and the sort of questions and ideas they provoke. The book's three parts reflect the fundamental components of studying literature: reading, thinking and writing. The authors use helpful and wide-ranging examples and summaries, offering rich reflections on the question What is literature?' and on what they term creative reading'. The new edition has been revised throughout with extensive updates to the further reading and a new chapter on creative non-fiction. Bennett and Royle's accessible and thought-provoking style encourages a deep engagemTrade ReviewPraise for the first edition:‘Literature, it turns out in Bennett and Royle's invigorating introduction to the topic, is anything but a thing: it is an activity, a provocation, an experience, a conundrum. This highly readable book is an important contribution to debates about why literature matters at the same time as offering a practical guide to the understanding and enjoyment of literary works, the task of writing about them, and the challenge of creating them.’ Derek Attridge, Professor of English, University of York, UK‘Some versions of Cole Porter’s ‘What is This Thing Called Love?’ open with references to the humdrum. There is, however, nothing remotely humdrum about Bennett and Royle’s This Thing Called Literature—a playful, pleasurable, passionate defence of "what is strange and slippery about literature". In light and lucid prose, and with plenty of well-chosen examples, the authors offer a timely and provocative introduction to literary study and creative-critical response.’ Neil Badmington, Professor of English Literature, Cardiff University, UK‘The seasoned authorial duo of Bennett and Royle has pulled it off again. Avoiding both simplification on one side, and over-abstraction on the other, this new book will engage and appeal to all readers with doubts or hopes about studying literature seriously.’ Rachel Bowlby, Professor of Comparative Literature, University College, London, UK‘A very shrewd, lively, and at times irreverent introduction to literary study, which explains that thinking about literature is thinking about everything else, including thinking.’ Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cornell University, USA‘Combining a precis of literary theory with advice on how to read and write creatively, This Thing Called Literature, the third book from Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle, is a neat little guide for undergraduates, or anyone who wants to know more about literary studies. It is the kind of book tutors and lecturers could enjoy and learn from, as well as their students.’ Rachel Darling, TLS‘Clear, fair-minded, and patiently elaborating, this is an invaluable field guide for seasoned teachers and scholars as well as beginning students.’ Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English & American Studies, Yale University, USA ‘This Thing Called Literature is another triumph by Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle. They are our most trusted guides to literary study writing today. Their exemplary pedagogy opens up the wonders and complexity of both literature and study itself. The future of reading has been given a fighting chance by this wonderful book, which will benefit everyone who reads it from the A Level student to the Emeritus Professor.’ Martin McQuillan, Professor and Director of ICE, Edge Hill University, UK‘What the duo of Strunk and White is to writing well the duo of Bennett and Royle is to reading carefully and, especially, to thinking deeply about literature. This Thing Called Literature is a fun, fresh take on why we study literature and how to do it and is a useful and accessible read for students just beginning their study; it is also a rewarding, heartening read for those of us who got into the business of literary study for the love of reading, thinking, and writing.’ Daniel Robinson, Homer C. Nearing Jr. Distinguished Professor of English, Widener University, USA‘Reports on the so-called "death of literature"—its increasing irrelevance in an age of digital reason—are, we have long suspected, greatly exaggerated. Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle confirm this with a timely and robust case for the defence, repositioning literary studies at the centre of the humanities. With their eloquent readings, witty aperçus and compendious range of reference, the authors provide the kinds of insightful pleasures that, they argue, are central to the literary arts themselves. The book’s brevity is no indication of its ambition: if This Thing Called Literature does not make you a better reader, writer, critic and thinker, you haven’t been reading it closely enough.’Paul Sheehan, Associate Professor in English, Macquarie University, Sydney, AustraliaTable of ContentsList of figuresAcknowledgements Studying Literature PART I: Reading Reading a poem Reading a novel Reading a short story Reading a play Reading creative non-fiction PART II: Thinking Thinking about literature Thinking critically PART III: Writing Writing an essay Creative writing: the impossible Writing short fiction Appendix: the wordbookGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAttending to the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure tales and missionary efforts. The volume draws on an evangelical narrative about the formation of coral islands to demonstrate that missionary investments in the socially marginal (the young, the working class, the racial other) generated new forms of agency that are legible in the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel, even as that agency was subordinated to Christian values identified with the British middle class. Situating novels by Frederick Marryat, R. M. Ballantyne and W. H. G. Kingston in the periodical culture of the missionary enterprise, this volume newly historicizes British children's textual interactions with the South Pacific and its peoples. Although the mid-Victorian authors examined here portray British pres

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Book SynopsisEconomics and fiction often pursue parallel objectives. Economists analyze human decisions and interactions in markets and other institutions. Fiction writers also provide keen insights into individual minds and motives, examining how their characters respond to conflict and tensions in varied situations. This book explores the insights to be gained from developing this parallel.In each chapter, economists discuss classic or contemporary literary creations, exploring economic incentives that motivate the characters, the economic mechanisms that tie them together, and/or the economic context in which they live and develop. Exploring the synergy across economics and literature offers new understandings of themes, including capitalism and colonialism, marriage and markets, gender norms, inheritance and estates, and the political economy of poverty. The broad and deep range of literary works includes writers from Shakespeare and Goethe, through Chekov and Steinbeck, to recent Nobelists Abdulrazak Gurnah and Han Kang. By offering new understandings of both economics and literature, readers will gain deeper insights into peopleâs thought processes, choices, and consequences.This book will captivate readers in economics, social sciences, and the humanities and open their minds to the viewing of economic ideas and concepts through the prism of great works of literature.

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Book SynopsisA Theory of Metaphor: Truth, Falsity, and the Uncanny is a strikingly original analysis of metaphor. Scholarly and imaginative, this sophisticated theory builds on a simple definition: metaphors are not comparisons but statements of identity (A is B), statements simultaneously true and false.Bogel explores a broad range of literary theory and philosophy: from Aristotle to ÅiÅek, Augustine to Wittgenstein, Richards to Ricoeur and Blumenberg. The book analyzes a wide variety of literary and non-literary texts, including popular forms such as graveyard epitaphs, sermons, cartoons (Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury), and a haunting episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It extends the central concept of truth and falsity to the reader's encounter with metaphor, figural interpretation of scripture, entire poems as metaphors, the aesthetics of obliquity and textual impurity, and Freudian psychoanalysis--in particular, links between metaphor and the uncanny.This rigorously and eloquently argued book will be invaluable to students of metaphor across such fields as literary criticism and theory, philosophy, linguistics, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, and media studies. Its arguments are enriched by numerous concrete examples and analyses that bring theory to life and help to reach beyond an academic audience. Bogel's ground-breaking study takes our understanding of metaphor in new and important directions.

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Book SynopsisThis book is an exciting addition to a gap in non-Western genre studies of African fiction. It challenges the dominant canonicity of African literature, overshadowed by texts concerned with the colonial discourse and âwriting backâ while exploring speculative themes in Nigerian fiction and writings that stem from an African cosmology and culture.The book examines important twentieth-century precursors of the post-millennial âboomâ in Nigerian Speculative Fiction (SF), reading texts that were omitted from the Nigerian literary canon developed in the 1960s. It combines of the analysis of recent fiction and criticism with a historical overview of the development of the under-researched area of Nigerian SF. Through these readings, the author demonstrates the range of concerns explored by Nigerian SF including futurism, posthumanism, horror, fantasy and science fiction, among others. This book argues that these narratives exceed the binary implicitly sustained by the texts that wr

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Book SynopsisA new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the 2015 A Level English qualifications. Approved by AQA, this print Student Book is suitable for all abilities, providing stretch opportunities for the more able and additional scaffolding for those who need it. Helping bridge the gap between GCSE and A Level, the unique three-part structure focuses on texts within a particular time period and supports students in interpreting texts and reflecting on how writers make meaning. An enhanced digital version and free Teacher''s Resource are also available.Table of ContentsIntroduction; BEGINNING: 1. Overview; 2. Responding to literature; 3. Texts, contexts and time; 4. Wider reading, research and writing skills; 5. Poetry; 6. Prose; 7. Drama; DEVELOPING: 8. Love Through the Ages: Introduction; 8.1 What is love?; 8.2 Connecting love through the ages: Poetry; 8.3 Connecting love through the ages: Prose; 9. Love Through the Ages: Shakespeare; 9.1 The Elizabethan era; 9.2 Shakespeare's plays; 9.3 Othello; 9.4 The Taming of the Shrew; 9.5 Measure for Measure; 9.6 The Winter's Tale; 10. Love Through the Ages: Poetry; 10.1 Ideal, romantic love; 10.2 Love, sex and inconstancy; 10.3 Marriage and mature love; 10.4 Love, loss and taboos; 10.5 Bringing it all together; 11. Love Through the Ages: Prose; 11.1 Romantic love; 11.2 Marriage and commitment; 11.3 Love and death; 11.4 Social conventions and taboos; 11.5 Jealousy, guilt and remembrance 11.6 Bringing it all together; 12. World War I and its Aftermath: Introduction; 12.1 The Great War; 12.2 The historical and social context; 12.3 Memory and mourning; 12.4 The pre-war cultural context; 12.5 The aftermath; 13. World War I and its Aftermath: Drama; 13.1 The theatre of war and war in the theatre; 13.2 R.C. Sherriff: Journey's End; 13.3 Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop: Oh! What a Lovely War; 13.4 Peter Whelan: The Accrington Pals; 13.5 Richard Curtis and Ben Elton: Blackadder Goes Forth; 13.6 David Haig: My Boy Jack; 14. World War I and its Aftermath: Poetry; 14.1 Poetry and remembrance; 14.2 The age of chivalry; 14.3 Which England?; 14.4 Only connect: Finding the themes; 15. World War I and its Aftermath: Prose; 15.1 The novel before the First World War; 15.2 Understanding the set texts; 15.3 Rebecca West: The Return of the Soldier; 15.4 Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front; 15.5 Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms; 15.6 Susan Hill: Strange Meeting; 15.7 Pat Barker: Regeneration; 15.8 Sebastian Faulks: Birdsong; 15.9 Sebastian Barry: A Long Long Way; 15.10 Ben Elton: The First Casualty; 15.11 Pat Barker: Life Class; 15.12 Bringing it all together; 16. Modern Times: Literature from 1945 to the Present Day: Introduction; 16.1 Introduction; 16.2 Education, education, education; 16.3 Education and social mobility; 16.4 Representation of class and gender in post-1945 literature; 16.5 Representations of gender; 16.6 The enduring influence of stereotypes; 16.7 Exploring how Sylvia Plath portrays attitudes towards women in 'The Applicant'; 17. Modern Times: Literature from 1945 to the Present Day: Drama; 17.1 Introduction; 17.2 The beginning of Miller's All My Sons; 17.3 The moral implications of plays; 17.4 Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire; 17.5 Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; 17.6 Making connections across genres; 18. Modern Times: Literature from 1945 to the Present Day: Poetry; 18.1 Poetry today; 18.2 The poems in this unit; 18.3 Poems about family relationships; 18.4 Poems about relationships, their tensions and endings; 18.5 Two poets exploring one day from different perspectives; 18.6 Poetry about loss and grief; 18.7 Bringing it all together; 19. Modern Times: Literature from 1945 to the Present Day: Prose; 19.1 The texts in this unit; 19.2 Exploring Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit; 19.3 Exploring The Handmaid's Tale; 19.4 Exploring The Color Purple; 19.5 Structure of novels; 19.6 Prose questions in the examination paper; 19.7 Bringing it all together; 20. Texts Across Time; 20.1 Why do a non-examined assessment?; 20.2 The key requirements of the non-examined assessment; 20.3 Choosing your texts; 20.4 Selecting a theme for your comparison; 20.5 Preparing for the assignment; 20.6 Writing the first draft; 20.7 The final draft; 20.8 Unit summary; ENRICHING: 21. Love Through the Ages; 22. World War I and its Aftermath; 23. Modern Times: Literature from 1945 to the Present Day; 24. Texts Across Time; Index; Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisIn this updated edition of King Richard II, Claire McEachern provides a fresh introductory section in which she discusses the most important productions and scholarly criticism of recent years. Paying particular attention to the focus on religion in contemporary interpretations of the play, McEachern also analyses the increasing number ofperformances on stage and screen. Andrew Gurr''s acclaimed introduction guides the reader through the play''s action and politics, providing a thorough and engaging grounding in its structure, language and staging. An updated reading list completes the edition.Table of ContentsIntroduction; The play; Textual analysis; Appendixes: 1. Shakespeare's use of Holinshed; 2. Extracts from Daniel's The Civil Wars; 3. 'An Homilie against Disobedience'; 4. Extracts from England's Parnassus; Reading list.

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Book SynopsisJane Austen is renowned for the economy of her art: for the close focus of her romantic plots and the precision of her writing style. Exploring that economy stylistically and structurally, this book traces Austen''s keen interest in narrative form. Anne Toner pinpoints techniques that are fundamental to the distinctiveness of Austen''s fiction, many of which have been little explored to date. Toner argues that Austen''s conciseness in terms of plotting, narrative description and in the depiction of dialogue also contributed to her innovations in representing thought, expanding the novel''s capacity to depict consciousness. Narrative and rhetorical features are presented clearly and accessibly and will open up new ways of thinking about prose style with implications for the study of fiction beyond Austen''s own.Trade Review'… in each of her chapters on the formal features of Austen's style, Toner demonstrates how the effort of writing small worked to inspire some of Austen's biggest ideas and thus to shape nineteenth-century fiction.' Megan Quinn, www.review19.org'This telescoping is well represented in discussion of Mansfield Park and of free direct discourse … the notes, bibliography, and index are extensive and provide welcome entry into the critical discussion around Austen studies and the 18th-century novel … Highly recommended.' R. Shapiro, Choice'Explicating the very long history of critical reception of Austen's exemplary, modern economy of style - its concision of plot for character, for example - Toner under-takes a detailed and thorough grammatical investigation of how exactly Austen achieves her fêted economy, and to what ends.' Kate Singer, The Wordsworth CircleTable of Contents1. Structure: selection, connection, and the picturesque; 2. Language: apophatic Austen (not saying things and saying so); 3. Dialogue: Austen's missing speakers and the case for free direct discourse.

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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 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 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 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 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 SynopsisIn an awesome meeting of minds, cultural theorists Stuart Hall and bell hooks met for a series of wide-ranging conversations on what Hall sums up as life, love, death, sex. From the trivial to the profound, across boundaries of age, sexualities and genders, hooks and Hall dissect topics and themes of continual contemporary relevance, including feminism, home and homecoming, class, black masculinity, family, politics, relationships, and teaching. In their fluid and honest dialogue they push and pull each other as well as the reader, and the result is a book that speaks to the power of conversation as a place of critical pedagogy.Trade Review"Imagine if you could listen to a conversation between bell hooks and Stuart Hall about feminism, race, sexuality and love? With this book, we do not have to rely on our imaginations. This conversation between hooks and Hall flickers with life and is full of wit, warmth and wisdom. The book gives us the opportunity to learn from two of the most important black critical thinkers of our time." -Sara Ahmed, independent scholarTable of ContentsForeword by Paul GilroyPreface by bell hooksDialogue between bell hooks and Stuart Hall

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Book SynopsisLiterary Allusion in Harry Potter builds on the world-wide enthusiasm for J. K. Rowlingâs series in order to introduce its readers to some of the great works of literature on which Rowling draws. Harry Potterâs narrative techniques are rooted in the western literary tradition and its allusiveness provides insight into Rowlingâs fictional world. Each chapter of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter consists of an in-depth discussion of the intersection between Harry Potter and a canonical literary work, such as the plays of Shakespeare, the poetry of Homer, Ovid, the Gawain-poet, Chaucer, Milton and Tennyson, and the novels of Austen, Hardy and Dickens. This approach aims to transform the readerâs understanding of Rowlingâs literary achievement as well as to encourage the discovery of works with which they may be less familiar. The aim of this book is to delight Potter fans with a new perspective on their favourite books while harnessing that enthusiasm to increase their wider appreciation of literature.Trade Review"Beatrice Groves, in her Literary Allusion in Harry Potter (2017), offers a fascinating account of the cultural logic of allusion... there are other books in the books we read. We needed Beatrice Groves to say that with such beauty and clarity. This is a rare book of literary criticism that one is happy to read, and recommend."Bijay K. Danta, The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (2019) "Literary Allusion in Harry Potter is a thoughtful monograph that draws attention to the intertextual connections within the Western literary tradition… [with] fascinating insights into the series… this book is a must-read for fans and scholars of Harry Potter who are interested in how the series is engaged in conversations with other texts and with Rowling's own personal experiences… Literary Allusion in Harry Potter is designed to help readers see the series in a new light and to encourage them to discover or rediscover connections between Rowling's epic and classic works." Michele D. Castleman, Children's Literature Association Quarterly (2018)"[Literary Allusion in Harry Potter] wears its undoubted scholarship lightly, and offers both the interested and the academic reader much to ponder. The use of excerpts from interviews by Rowling is a particularly effective way to bring the discussion of the relationship between canonical texts, the author and her novels into the world of the engaged reader… [Dr Groves'] reputation and scholarship bring academic heft to the project, while her generally lucid writing style points it in the direction of its intended market." Alison Jack,The University of Edinburgh, UK"[Literary Allusion in Harry Potter] works on a number of levels, allowing a sixthformer a first introduction to Rowling’s literary forebears, or a university student to uncover the multiple layers of their childhood favourite – and indeed to have something of an insight into the study of literary allusion itself. And for general readers, it provides a light-footed, but sure, guide to a world of classic literature which Rowling freely draws upon." Felicity James, University of Leicester, UK.Table of ContentsIntroduction Jane Austen: Rowling’s favourite author Harry Potter, Homer and storytelling Naming in Harry Potter: Plato, Shakespeare and Ovid Rowling’s medieval Hallows The Temptation in the Desert and the Harrowing of Hell: Harry Potter, mystery plays and Milton Harry Potter and Shakespeare: comedy and other genres In Memoriam Love wins: Harry Potter, Petrarch, Shakespeare and Hardy Conclusion

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Book SynopsisMen and Masculinity: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the academic study of masculinity which outlines the key ideas and most pressing issues concerning the field today. Providing readers with a framework for understanding these issues, it explores the ways that masculinity has been understood in the Social Sciences and Humanities to date. Addressing theories which view masculinity as being in a permanent state of flux and crisis, it explores such problem areas as: the male body men and work men and fatherhood male sexuality male violence. With a glossary of key terms, case studies reflecting the most important studies in the field of masculinity research and suggestions for further study, Men and Masculinity: The Basics is an essential read for anyone approaching the study of masculinity for the first time.Trade ReviewNigel Edley is a leading scholar of masculinities. Here he brings together his insights from 25 years of man-watching in a compelling book that provides an excellent introduction to the field. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand men and masculinity today. Rosalind Gill, Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis, City, University of LondonMen and Masculinity: The Basics is a great read – superbly connecting academia to everyday life. Edley takes us skillfully through a wealth of cases, research reports and anecdotes, opening sites of tremendous controversy and contention, leaving us with a deeper understanding – and even some optimism for cultural change. - Michael Bamberg, Professor of Psychology, Clark University Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Part 11. Man-watching2. Coming to terms with men and masculinityPart 23. The male body4. Men and work5. Men and fatherhood6. Male sexuality7. Male violenceGlossaryReferences

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Book SynopsisDuring the nineteenth century, words like ''intersex'' and ''trans'' had not yet been invented to describe individuals whose bodies, or senses of self, conflicted with binary sex. But that does not mean that such people did not exist. In nineteenth-century France, case studies filled medical journals, high-profile trials captured headlines, and doctors staked their reputations on sex determinations only to have them later reversed by colleagues. While medical experts fought over what separated a man from a woman, novelists began to explore debates about binary sex and describe the experiences of gender-ambiguous characters. Anne Linton discusses over 200 newly-uncovered case studies while offering fresh readings of literature by several famous writers of the period, as well as long-overlooked popular fiction. This landmark contribution to the history of sexuality is the first book to examine intersex in both medicine and literature, sensitively relating historical ''hermaphrodism'' to Trade Review'Unmaking Sex is an impeccably researched and original study of the intersex phenomenon in medical and literary discourses of nineteenth-century France. Through expert synthesis of archival research into over 200 medical cases, Linton provides a cultural prehistory to today's widely-debated topic of gender boundaries. This truly interdisciplinary project succeeds in reconstructing a vast and complex network of myth, medicine, anatomy, and rhetoric in relation to the binary-unsettling realities of indeterminate sex. It will become a must-read for serious scholars of gender and the nineteenth century.' Andrea Goulet, University of Pennsylvania'Anne E. Linton has opened up medical archives to telling effect, finding many a pathetic case become tragic in medical treatment. But her deeper commitment lies in showing us that the novelists, however limited by conventions, generally were out in front of the doctors in exploring the delicate terrain of intersex – hermaphrodism in 19th- century parlance. It's the novelists who were groping toward understanding the limits to binary thinking about gender and sex. The result is a book of high interest.' Peter Brooks, Yale University'Linton's truly original achievement is to have repositioned nineteenth-century French culture, in its archival breadth as well as in the depth of its literary close readings, within a new critical space. This space is located in the vital tension between Foucault's history of sexuality and contemporary transgender criticism which underpins questions of identity in our own age.' Nick White, University of Cambridge'This very smart book examines a wide range of accounts of those who defied the gender binary in nineteenth-century France. By combining literary and medical histories, Unmaking Sex offers an expansive and dynamic view of the centrality of debates over sexual difference and gender boundaries in nearly every sphere of life. The book challenges longstanding views of the emergence and acceptance of the concept of 'true sex.' An important and fascinating read!' Jen Manion, Amherst College'In Unmaking Sex, Anne E. Linton shines expert light on the enormous commotion – epistemological, medical, legal, narrative – occasioned by ambiguously sexed bodies in nineteenth-century France. Her analysis, at once scholarly and humane, gives a more detailed picture of the lives of intersex people in this period than we have ever had before, and offers a new understanding of the importance of ambiguous sex as a concept in post-revolutionary France – unmaking along the way a number of received scholarly hypotheses about how the nineteenth century understood sex. A must-read for all scholars of French history and culture, as for all historians of gender and sexuality.' Andrew Counter, New College, University of Oxford'Anne E. Linton has written the first account of a growing fascination with gender-ambiguous embodiment in nineteenth-century France. Literary and scientific texts on what was then called 'hermaphroditism' made sex and gender ambiguity into mysteries to be solved. Linton investigates this widespread interest and comes up with a truly compelling history of gender and sexuality.' Jack Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity and Trans*'Linton offers massive and largely new archival evidence for the struggles of nineteenth-century doctors to determine 'true sex' in ambiguous cases, which she mobilizes to offer brilliant readings of a wide range of canonical and little-known fiction. This book is a model of historically grounded literary criticism and a major revisionist interpretation of how sex was understood in the nineteenth century. Foucault was not quite right about the famous Herculine Barbin case; and Making Sex was not quite what I thought it was.' Thomas W. Laqueur, Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History (University of California, Berkeley)'This monograph will be of particular interest to scholars of nineteenth century literature, medicine, history, sexuality, and gender, as well as graduate students in a wide array of disciplines. Unmaking Sex is a thoroughly researched, detailed, and original contribution that leaves its reader with a nuanced understanding of intersex in the French nineteenth century.' Erica Schauer, Nineteenth-Century French StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Gender revolution before intersex or transgender; Part I. A Cultural History of 'Hermaphrodism' from the Archives: 1. Prescribed fictions: stories of 'hermaphrodism' vs. true sex; 2. Outlaws from birth: 'doubtful sex' and the civil code; Part II. Contextualizing High and Low Literary Narratives: 3. Is she or isn't he? Plotting ambiguous gender; 4. Inheriting 'hermaphrodism': how degeneration theory changed literature and medicine; Epilogue: The nineteenth-century roots of contemporary resistance to true sex.

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Book SynopsisThe first collection to systematically combine the vibrant fields of memory and affect in early modern studies, this volume offers an innovative research agenda and invites new, explorative interdisciplinary methodologies. Essays by leading and emergent scholars provide fresh readings of Shakespeare and his contemporaries across literary genres.Trade Review'An expansive and consistently illuminating collection, Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England argues so convincingly for integrating the areas of memory and affect studies that early modernists will wonder that we ever considered them separately. In essays on a broad range of literary subjects-from complaint poetry and sonnets to grisly domestic tragedy, jestbooks, and the Shakespearean history play-Baldo and Karreman's important volume demonstrates how affect and memory co-structure one another in and through a provocatively diverse array of abstract and material forms, such as geography, temporality, verse rhythm, texts, and props.' Alice Dailey, Villanova University'From memory arts to stagecraft via politics and the modalities of space and time, this book's organization demonstrates the varied possibilities of approaching memory and affect together. The essays included here offer smart, persuasive readings of Shakespearean drama and poetry as well as of non-canonical texts. A sustained exploration of memory and affect in early modern England is long overdue, and this collection thus provides an important and welcome intervention in early modern literary studies.' Kristine Johanson, University of AmsterdamTable of ContentsIntroduction Jonathan Baldo and Isabel Karremann; Part I. Ars Memoriae, Ars aAmatoria: 1. Allegories of Love: Affect and the Art of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets Rebeca Helfer; 2. Twelfth Night and the Rites of Memory Brian Cummings; 3 The Lustful Oblivion of Widowhood in The Insatiate Countess Grant Williams; Part II. The Politics of Memory and Affect: 4. 'Gathered Again from the Ash': Traumatropism, Memorialization, and Foxe's Acts and Monuments Devori Kimbro; 5. 'To Take on Me the Payn / Ther Fall to Remember': Metrical Visions and the Dangerous Memory Networks of Complaint William Kerwin; 6. Jesting, Nostalgia, and Agonistic Play Indira Ghose; Part III. Affective Memory: Temporal and Spatial Modalities: 7. 'My Despised Time': Memory, Temporality, and Disgust in Shakespearean Tragedy Johannes Schlegel; 8. Remembering Water in Robert Yarington's Two Lamentable Tragedies Katharine A. Craik; 9. Mourning Memory in Cymbeline Daniel Normandin; Part IV. Memory, Affect and Stagecraft: 10. The Tug of Memory: Affect and Invention in Shakespeare's Drama William E. Engel; 11. Memory, Text, Affect: The Deaths of Gloucester Rory Loughnane; 12. Memory, Affect, and the Multiverse: From the History Plays to The Merry Wives of Windsor Evelyn Tribble; 13. Cut Short All Intermission: Sound, Space, Memory, and Macduff's Grief Lina Perkins Wilder; Coda; 14. Remembering Shakespeare Peter Holland.

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Book SynopsisNothing in Shakespeare''s England was as important as religion. Questions of faith informed everything from history and politics to love and family, work and play, good and evil, suffering and sacrifice, and ultimately life and death. Every one of Shakespeare''s plays is rich in allusions to the Bible, church rites including baptism, communion, marriage, and burial, and a host of religious beliefs. This Companion provides an essential grounding in early modern religious history and culture and the ideas that Shakespeare returns to throughout his career. Chapters dedicated to close-readings of individual plays or groups of plays span both the complex and variegated Christian beliefs explored in Shakespeare''s work, as well as the treatment of Judaism, Islam and classical paganism. Authored by an international team of eminent scholars and featuring an Afterword by Rowan Williams, this Companion is the most comprehensive and incisive guide to the topic that students will find.Trade Review'This comprehensive, rich book is well worth study … Highly Recommended' N. Birns, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Shakespeare and the Elizabethan and Jacobean Church Thomas Betteridge; 2. Shakespeare: biography and belief Andrew Hadfield; 3. The Renaissance Bible Hannibal Hamlin; 4. The drama of the liturgy Daniel Swift; 5. Popular religion Phebe Jensen; 6. Grace and conversion Helen Smith; 7. Love Claire McEachern; 8. Sin and evil Adrian Streete; 9. Compassion, affliction, and patience: biblical and religious allusion in Shakespeare Gary Kuchar; 10. Providence and divine right in the English histories Jean-Christophe Mayer; 11. The Merchant of Venice, Jews, and Christians M. Lindsay Kaplan; 12. Religious and political impasses in Measure for Measure Jennifer R. Rust; 13. Remembering the dead in Hamlet Brian Cummings; 14. Othello and Islam: Shakespeare's noble moor, staging blackness, and the performance of religious difference Daniel Vitkus; 15. Poetic creation in an apocalyptic age: King Lear and the making and the unmaking of the world Kristen Poole; 16. Immortal longings in Shakespeare's Rome Robert S. Miola; 17. Sacred and theatrical miracles in the romances Tom Bishop; Afterword: finding the remedy Rowan Williams.

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Book SynopsisShakespeare Sense explores the intersection of Shakespeare and sensory studies, asking what sensation can tell us about early modern drama and poetry, and, conversely, how Shakespeare explores the senses in his literary craft, his fictional worlds, and his stagecraft. 15 substantial new essays by leading Shakespeareans working in sensory studies and related disciplines interrogate every aspect of Shakespeare and sense, from the place of hearing, smell, sight, touch, and taste in early modern life, literature, and performance culture, through to the significance of sensation in 21st century engagements with Shakespeare on stage, screen and page. The volume explores and develops current methods for studying Shakespeare and sensation, reflecting upon the opportunities and challenges created by this emergent and influential area of scholarly enquiry. Many chapters develop fresh readings of particular plays and poems, from Hamlet, A Midsummer Night''s Dream, King Trade Review[A] stimulating collection of essays … this volume not only consolidates the centrality of sensory scholarship, but also succeeds in offering new inroads, methodologies and concepts … Readers will find themselves returning to its stimulating and careful treatment of sensory studies. * English Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I – Theorising Sensation 1. Framing Shakespeare's Senses; Bruce R. Smith (University of Southern California, USA) 2. Admiring the Nothing of It: Shakespeare and the Senseless; Steven Connor (Peterhouse, Cambridge, UK) 3. The Classical Tradition; Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA) Part II – The Early Modern Sensorium 4. ‘Sweet Above Compare’? Disputing about Taste in Venus and Adonis, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Othello, and Troilus and Cressida; Elizabeth L. Swann (Durham University, UK) 5. Hamlet's Visual Stagecraft and Early Modern Cultures of Sight; Simon Smith (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK) 6. The Smell of a King: Olfaction in King Lear; Holly Dugan (The George Washington University, USA) 7. ‘Amorous Pinches’: Keeping (In)tact in Antony and Cleopatra; Jennifer Edwards (Shakespeare's Globe, UK) 8. Hearing at the Surface in The Comedy of Errors; Katherine Hunt (The Queen's College, University of Oxford, UK) Part III – Entangled Senses 9. Sense, Reason, and the Animal-Human Boundary in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Natalie K. Eschenbaum (University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, USA) 10. Sense and Community: Twelfth Night and early modern playgoing; Jackie Watson (Oxford, UK) 11. Simular Proof and Senseless Feeling: Synaesthetic Overload in Cymbeline; Darryl Chalk (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) 12. Pinching Caliban: Race, Husbandry, and the Working Body in The Tempest; Patricia Akhimie (Rutgers University – Newark, USA) Part IV – Sensing Shakespeare 13. Shakespeare and the Seven Senses: Scenes from the Twenty-First-Century Stage; Erin Sullivan (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK) 14. Parted Eyes and Generation Gaps in Twenty-First-Century Perceptions of Screen Shakespeare; Diana E. Henderson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) 15. The Senses and Material Texts; Adam Smyth (Balliol College, University of Oxford, UK) Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisIB Prepared resources are developed directly with the IB to provide the most up-to-date, authentic and authoritative guidance on DP assessment. IB Prepared: English A Literature combines a concise review of course content with strategic guidance, past paper material and exam-style practice opportunities, allowing learners to consolidate the knowledge and skills that are essential to success.

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Book SynopsisUp to date review of London literature from earliest times to the present.

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Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive and original guide to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and other writing, including literary criticism and prose fiction.

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Book SynopsisThe first edited collection dedicated to the historical specifics of Irish shame.

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Book SynopsisThe Faerie Queene is a scholarly masterpiece that has influenced, inspired, and challenged generations of writers, readers and scholars since its completion in 1596. Hamilton''s edition is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and close reading. It is now the standard edition for all readers of Spenser. The entire work is revised, and the text of The Faerie Queene itself has been freshly edited, the first such edition since the 1930s.This volume also contains additional original material, including a letter to Raleigh, commendatory verses and dedicatory sonnets, chronology of Spenser''s life and works and provides a compilation of list of characters and their appearances in The Faerie Queene.Trade Review“All in all, it is a major work of scholarship, combining a meticulously prepared text with splendid annotation. It will last, and will help inspire new generations of readers.” Tom MacFaul, Notes and Queries “Hamilton's edition of the Faerie Queene is indispensable to any serious scholar of Spenser.”Amazon.co.uk reviewTable of ContentsBook I: The Legend of the Knight of the Red Crosse, or of Holinesse Book II: The Legend of Sir Guyon, or of Temperaunce Book III: The Legend of Britomartis, or of Chastity Book IV: The Legend of Cambel and Telemond, or of Friendship Book V: The Legend of Artegall, or of Iustice Book VI: The Legend of Calidore, or of Courtesie Book VII: Two Cantos of Mutabilitie A Letter to Raleigh Commendatory Verses and Dedicatory Sonnets Textual Notes by Hiroshi Yamashita and Toshiyuki Suzuki Bibliography The Characters of the Faerie Queene, compiled by Shohachi Fukuda

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Book SynopsisDo you want a better understanding of the text? Do you want to know what the critics say? Do you want to know how to improve your grade?   Whatever you want, York Notes can help.   York Notes Advanced offers a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.   Key Features: Summaries with detailed commentaries Extended commentaries on key passages Discussion of themes and literary techniques Author biography Historical and literary background Check the net/film/book features Glossary of literary terms Self-test questions

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Book SynopsisWith detailed analysis of the text, discussions on themes, historical backgrounds and author biographies, York Notes offers students the best insight into the world of English Literature.

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Book SynopsisDr John Gilroy (BA Newcastle: MPhil Warwick: Cert.Ed. Leeds) lectures part-time in the English Department of Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. He is a lecturer for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education and is a course director for its international and residential programmes. His most recent publications are contributions on Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats for The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature (Steven R. Serafin & Valerie Grosvenor-Myer eds, Continuum, 2003), Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selected Poems, 2007 (www.Humanities-Ebooks.co.uk) and Philip Larkin: Selected Poems, 2009 (www.Humanities-Ebooks.co.uk). He is interested in all aspects of British Romanticism and is currently researching material on the significance of early aeronautics in the Romantic period.Trade Review"The writing is easy to read and comprehend yet manages to cram in sufficient detail... It covers topic areas very well in terms of different types of Romantic literature." - Kimberley Simpson, English Student, Warwick UniversityTable of ContentsPart One: Introduction Part Two: A Cultural Overview Part Three: Texts, Writers and Contexts Writing in Revolution: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and William Wordsworth Extended commentary: Wordsworth, The Prelude (1850), Book IX, lines 436– 504 Revolution, Reaction and the Natural World: Wordsworth and Coleridge, John Clare and William Blake Extended commentary: Blake, ‘The Tyger’ from Songs of Experience (1793) Dramatic writing: Horace Walpole, Robert Southey and Lord Byron Extended commentary: Walpole, The Mysterious Mother (1768), V.i.312–420 Romantic Verse Narratives: John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Extended commentary: ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Mariner’ (1817), lines 1–40 and 610–17 Romantic Fiction: James Hogg, Thomas Love Peacock and Jane Austen Extended commentary: Austen, Persuasion (1816), Chapter 23 Romantic Travel Writing: William Beckford, Lord Byron and Mary Wollstonecraft Extended commentary: Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796), Letters 16 and 17 Part Four: Critical Theories and Debates Imagination, Truth and Reason Faith, Myth and Doubt Heroes and Ant-Heroes Forms of Ruin Part Five: References and resources Timeline Further reading Index

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Book SynopsisThe Art of Writing Fiction guides the reader through the processes of creative writing from journal-keeping to editing, offering techniques for stimulating creativity and making language vivid. Readers will master key aspects of fiction such as structure, character, voice and setting.Andrew Cowan provides an insightful introduction that brings his own well-crafted prose style to bear on the processes and pleasures of writing fiction, offering practical and personal advice culled from his own experience and that of other published writers. He lays open to the reader his own notes, his writing, and the experiences from his own life that he has drawn on in his fiction allowing the reader to develop their own writing project alongside the author as they go through the book.

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Book SynopsisWhy be frightened of the most wonderful collection of tales ever written? No Fear: The Canterbury Tales makes it simple for students to love Chaucer's masterpiece in all its humor, bawdiness, and poignancy. It features the original text on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right; in addition, there is a complete list of characters with descriptions and plenty of helpful commentary.

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Book SynopsisNeoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture is essential reading for anyone invested in the ever-changing state of literary culture.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Neoliberalism and Literature, by Mitchum Huehls and Rachel Greenwald SmithPart I1. Fifty Shades of Neoliberal Love, by Walter Benn Michaels2. The Microeconomic Mode, by Jane Elliott3. The New Materialism and Neoliberalism, by Min Hyoung Song4. Realisms Redux; or, Against Affective Capitalism, by Jeffrey T. Nealon5. The Surfaces of Contemporary Capitalism, by Jeffrey T. BaskinPart II6. Fictions of Neoliberalism, by Mathias Nilges7. Totaling the Damage, by Jennifer Ashton8. Against Omniscient Narration, by Marcial González9. The Memoir in the Age of Neoliberal Individualism, by Daniel WordenPart III10. The Perpetual Fifties of American Fiction, by Matthew Wilkens11. The Neoliberal Novel of Migrancy, by Sheri-Marie Harrison12. Neoliberal Childhoods, by Caren Irr13. Post-recession Realism, by Andrew HoberekPart IV14. The Author as Executive Producer, by Michael Szalay15. Neoliberalism and the Demise of the Literary, by Sarah Brouillette16. The Humanist Fix, by Leigh Claire La BergeList of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisArgues for a decolonial reinterpretation of Sophocles'' classical tragedy, Antigone, that can help us to rethink the anti-colonial politics of militant mourning in the Americas.Sophocles''s classical tragedy, Antigone, is continually reinvented, particularly in the Americas. Theater practitioners and political theorists alike revisit the story to hold states accountable for their democratic exclusions, as Antigone did in disobeying the edict of her uncle, Creon, for refusing to bury her brother, Polynices. Antigone in the Americas not only analyzes the theoretical reception of Antigone, when resituated in the Americas, but further introduces decolonial rumination as a new interpretive methodology through which to approach classical texts. Traveling between modern present and ancient past, Andrés Fabián Henao Castro focuses on metics (resident aliens) and slaves, rather than citizens, making the feminist politics of burial long associated with Antigone relevant for theorizing militant forms of mourning in the global south. Grounded in settler colonial critique, black and woman of color feminisms, and queer and trans of color critique, Antigone in the Americas offers a more radical interpretation of Antigone, one relevant to subjects situated under multiple and interlocking systems of oppression.

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