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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive multi-volume encyclopedia of literary and cultural theory. Arranged in three volumes covering Literary Theory from 1900 to 1966, Literary Theory from 1966 to the present, and Cultural Theory, this encyclopedia provides accessible entries on the important concepts, theorists and trends in post-1900 literary and cultural theory. With explanations of complex terms and important theoretical concepts, and summaries of the work and ideas of key figures, it is a highly informative reference work for a multi-disciplinary readership Part of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature Contains over 300 entries of 1000-7000 words written by an international cast of nearly 300 leading scholars in literary and cultural theory Provides explanations of complex terms, important theoretical concepts, and tools for critical analysis Provides summaries of the work and ideas of key figures such as Jacques Derrida, MiTrade Review"Hailed as the "first comprehensive multi-volume encyclopedia of literary and cultural theory," this work fulfills these high expectations by providing well-written articles by scholars for nonspecialists; through its thorough, up-to-date coverage; and by succeeding in situating theorists and movements, and explaining relationships, as well as enticing readers to delve deeper into subjects . . .Appropriately priced, this three-volume encyclopedia is a valuable addition to collections owning the earlier guide. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers; general readers." (Choice, 1July 2011) "Part of Blackwell Reference Online, the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature is a database with content from several new stand-alone scholarly literature reference sets. Together, they provide almost 1,000 entries on the history, terminology, genres, and theory of the novel; major writers, works, movements, and genres of twentieth-century British, American, and world fiction; and terms and concepts related to post-1900 literary and cultural theory. The database would be a good investment for libraries that want to acquire the content." (Mary Ellen Quinn, Booklist, April 2011)] "These three stand-alone titles work well together; overlapping entries complement rather than duplicate each other. Four planned but as yet unpublished titles in this seven-title series are The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature , The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature , The Encyclopedia of the Gothic , and The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies . It would be nice to see a single cumulative or series index tying all seven together to create the most efficient access method for the serious researcher. Part of the larger series, these first three titles can be purchased separately or all together for $1,585 (ISBN 9781444320886). The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory. 3 vols. Wiley-Blackwell. (Encyclopedia of Literature). 2011. 1544p. ed. by Michael Ryan. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781405183123. $495. Online: Blackwell Reference Online REF Based on the premise that literature mirrors life, which mirrors the surrounding society and culture, this unique work employs 320 signed articles written by 223 academic contributors at various Anglo-American institutions to connect literature and sociology. Organized in dictionary format within time period and type of theory (social or literary), articles range from two and three-quarters pages ("Abrams, M.H.") to 11½ pages ("Narrative Theory"). Each entry includes a bibliography. Volumes 1 and 2 cover literary theories between 1900 and 1966 and from 1966 to the present day. Cultural theories appear in Volume 3. See also references incorporating entries in all three volumes, cross-references within the text, and a detailed index ensure easy research access. Overall, the volume editors provide good coverage, though this work could be stronger. For example, the literary movement realism is discussed only as it pertains to the modernism movement despite its having been prevalent during the 19th century. General editor Ryan (film & media arts, Temple Univ.) has authored several books, including Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction. BOTTOM LINE An excellent resource for those attempting to tie literature to the society surrounding it. Recommended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in literature, writing, sociology, and anthropology.-Laurie Selwyn, formerly with Grayson Cty. Law Lib., Sherman, TX The Encyclopedia of the Novel. 2 vols. Wiley-Blackwell. (Encyclopedia of Literature). 2011. 1024p. ed. by Peter Melville Logan. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781405161848. $350. Online: Blackwell Reference Online REF The 143 signed, alphabetically arranged five- (e.g., "Feminist Theory" and "Gender Theory") to nine-page (e.g., "Narrator" and "Authorship") articles written by 134 academic (and one nonacademic, Hyphen Press founder Robin Kinross) authors include short bibliographies, thorough See also notes, and cross-references within the articles. Volume 2 also contains an author index and a detailed subject index. The text is very readable, but because the editors take a global approach and rely on a very broad definition of "novel," many genres and subgenres will be unfamiliar to the average reader, making this title most appropriate to the academic world. This set could be even better if the editors split several complex articles into two or more articles. For example, in a global rather than a local view, copyright and libel are treated together in a brief six pages ("Copyright/Libel"), leaving the reader wanting more. Logan (Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives ) teaches English at Temple University. BOTTOM LINE Intended for the advanced literature student, this set will overwhelm the average reader. Recommended for upper-class undergraduate and graduate literature and writing majors.-Laurie Selwyn, formerly with Grayson Cty. Law Lib., Sherman, TX "The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature is a database with content from several new stand-alone scholarly literature reference sets. Together, they provide almost 1,000 entries on the history, terminology, genres, and theory of the novel; major writers, works, movements, and genres of twentieth-century British, American, and world fiction; and terms and concepts related to post-1900 literary and cultural theory. The database would be a good investment for libraries that want to acquire the content." (Mary Ellen Quinn, Booklist, April 2011)
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis Literature
Book SynopsisThis concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. Contains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range of cultural and historical approaches Discusses key concepts in psychoanalysis, such as the role of dreaming, psychosexuality, the unconscious, and the figure of the double, while considering questions of gender, race, asylum and international law, queer theory, time, and memory Spans the fields of psychoanalysis, literature, cultural theory, feminist and gender studies, translation studies, and film. Provides a timely and pertinent assessment of current psychoanalytic methods while also sketching out future directions for theory and interpretation Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiv Introduction: Psychoanalysis at the Margins 1 Laura Marcus Part I Histories 13 1 The Freudian Century 15 Stephen Frosh 2 The Case Study 34 Andrew Webber 3 Modernity, the Occult, and Psychoanalysis 49 Carolyn Burdett 4 Back to Frankfurt School 66 Laurence A. Rickels 5 The Exception of Psychoanalysis: Adorno and Cavell as Readers of Freud 82 Daniel Steuer Part II Literatures 103 6 Freud’s Textual Couch, or the Ambassador’s Magic Carpet 105 Jean-Michel Rabaté 7 Freud’s Double 122 Nicholas Royle 8 Medieval Dreams 137 Nicolette Zeeman 9 Queer Desire, Psychoanalytic Hermeneutics, and Love Lyric 151 Tim Dean 10 Psychoanalysis, Literature, and the “Case” of Adolescence 167 Pamela Thurschwell Part III Visual Cultures 191 11 Intimate Volver 193 Frances L. Restuccia 12 Psychoanalysis, Popular and Unpopular 216 Catherine Liu 13 Primetime Psychoanalysis 233 Ankhi Mukherjee 14 The Art of the Symptom: Body, Writing, and Sex Change 250 Patricia Gherovici 15 The Desert of the Real 271 Todd McGowan Part IV Transformations 287 16 “One of the Most Obscure Regions of Psychoanalysis”: Defamiliarizing Psychic Economy 289 Anna Kornbluh 17 Chronolibido: From Socrates to Lacan and Beyond 312 Martin Hägglund 18 Psychoanalytic Animal 328 Maud Ellmann 19 On the Right to Sleep, Perchance to Dream 351 Ranjana Khanna 20 Freud on Cultural Translation 367 Robert J.C. Young 21 Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy: Narratives of Teaching 385 Isobel Armstrong 22 Touching and Not Touching 410 Naomi Segal Index 425
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Johns Hopkins University Press Masculinity Lessons
Book SynopsisAs such, the book is ideal both as a primary text in women's and gender studies courses and as a reference for faculty and students outside the discipline applying gender issues to their teaching and research.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Engaging the Issue: Masculinity and Women's and Gender StudiesChapter 1. Making Masculinities: Book ReviewsChapter 2. Reflections on "Male Bashing"Chapter 3. Feminist Intentions: Race, Gender, and Power in a High School ClassroomChapter 4. The Biology and Philosophy of Race and Sex: A CourseChapter 5. Gender and Masculinity Texts: Consensus and Concerns for Feminist ClassroomsChapter 6. Student Responsiveness to Women's and Gender Studies Classes: The Importance of Initial Student Attitudes and Classroom RelationshipsPart II: Embodying Masculinity: Science and SocietyChapter 7. Reading Transgender, Rethinking Women's StudiesChapter 8. Biological Behavior? Hormones, Psychology, and SexChapter 9. Do Boys Have to Be Boys? Gender, Narrativity, and the John/Joan CaseChapter 10. Reading Sex and Temperament in Taiwan: Margaret Mead and Postwar Taiwanese FeminismPart III: Performing Social Expectations: The Domestic SceneChapter 11. "His Wife Seized His Prize and Cut It to Size": Folk and Popular Commentary on Lorena BobbittChapter 12. Representing Domestic Violence: Ambivalence and Difference in What's Love Got to Do with ItChapter 13. "Non- Combatant's Shell- Shock": Trauma and Gender in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the NightChapter 14. Microcredit, Men, and MasculinityPart IV: Performing Social Expectations: The Public StageChapter 15. The Hillbilly Defense: Culturally Mediating U.S. Terror at Home and AbroadChapter 16. The Sexual Politics of Abu Ghraib: Hegemony, Spectacle, and the Global War on TerrorChapter 17. Uncle Sam Wants You to Trade, Invest, and Shop! Relocating the Battlefield in the Gendered Discourses of the Pre- and Early Post- 9/11 PeriodList of Contributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press When Stories Travel
Book SynopsisWith a firm grasp on the latest developments in adaptation theory, Della Coletta invites scholars of media studies, cultural history, comparative literature, and adaptation studies to deepen their understanding of this critical encounter between texts, writers, readers, and cultural movements.Trade ReviewDella Coletta presents an interesting examination of cross-cultural adaptations of fiction to film... this study is an excellent resource for those interested in adaptation studies. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote to the ReaderIntroduction1. "Fear Death by Water": The Postman Always Rings Twice and the Frauds of Memory2. Myth in the Mirror of History: The Rules of Fate andthe Responsibilities of Choice in Visconti's Ossessione3. Grotesque Doublings and the Dangers of the Sublime: Poe's "Never Bet the Devil Your Head"4. Fellini's "Unoriginal" Scripts: The Creative Power of the Grotesque5. India through the Looking Glass: The Narrative Heritage of the West and Antonio Tabucchi's Notturno indiano6. "A Cinema of Quotations": Nocturne indien; or, How Alain Corneau Filmed Antonio Tabucchi's "Night"7. The Writer in the Looking Glass: Jorge Luis Borges's "Tema del traidor y del héroe" and the Ambivalences of the Uncanny8. From Icon to Simulacrum: Bertolucci's La strategia del ragno and the Urban Labyrinths of the UncannyAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Precocious Children and Childish Adults
Book SynopsisScholars of Victorian literature and culture, as well as readers interested in children's literature, childhood studies, and gender studies, will welcome this excellent work from a major figure in the field.Trade ReviewNelson dips into a variety of 19th-century works, mostly novels, to examine the effort writersmade-through youthful characters but also through adults who refuse to grow up-to change society, especially to alter the way children were raised in Victorian England... The range of works is considered extensive and the book is convincing and readable. Choice The chief value of her study is probably in its insights into individual texts, which will be of great interest to children's literature specialists and Dickens scholars in particular. But it is well worth considering these larger implications, and Victorianists in general will find the book both richly informative and thought-provoking. -- Jacqueline Banerjee The Victorian Web Precocious Children and Childish Adults certainly makes an important contribution to Victorian children's studies, but it also contributes more broadly to the study of gender, identity, race, class, and empire in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Indeed, while the 'queering of age' at first seems a narrow concern, Nelson quickly reveals it to be an extraordinarily useful lens through which to observe the breakdown of all sorts of categories through which to see the entire period with new clarity. -- Virginia Zimmerman Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies Claudia Nelson's enlightening study compels the reader to investigate the vexed and often unrecognised exchanges between childhood to adulthood in Victorian literature and culture. -- Rebecca Brown Victoriographies Sharp, articulate, erudite, and theoretically nuanced. The Year's Work in English Studies The book offers a highly nuanced and evocative interpretive project that assembles cases from a variety of texts, including children's tales and adult fiction, in different registers and with diverse audiences. Nelson also engages contemporaneous theories of psychological development. In sheer breadth of coverage, the book is inspiring. It is a slim volume with great volume. -- Karen Chase Nineteenth-Century Literature Precocious Children lays a solid foundation for its claim that age inversion as a category is at least as important as gender or class in understanding the cultural dynamic of the era. Each chapter evinces extensive grounding in historical and critical writing about the texts under consideration. -- Naomi Wood Children's Literature This text is essential reading for anyone interested in transcending static, simplistic constructs of Victorian childhood. Nelson's study provides a necessary framework with which to navigate the worldly-wise and the young at heart in nineteenth-century fiction. -- Katherine Wakely-Mulroney International Research in Children's Literature Precocious Children and Childish Adults is a powerful argument for the inclusion of age in literary analysis, and a study that is sure to generate a new body of work, not only among Victorian scholars but among all scholars interested in literature and childhood, from any time period and continent. -- Emily Hamilton-Honey Kritikon LitterarumTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Old-Fashioned Child and the Uncanny Double2. The Arrested Child-Man and Social Threat3. Women as Girls4. Girls as Women5. Boys as MenConclusion: The Adult Reader as ChildNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Justice Dissent and the Sublime
Book SynopsisCanuel draws interesting connections between the debate about beauty and justice and issues in cosmopolitanism, queer theory, and animal studies.Trade ReviewArticulated by a careful, sensitive, and provocative writer, this critique is refreshing and valuable. -- Robert Barsky Review 19 Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime remains instructive in its portrayal of the various ways that theories inevitably relapse back into what they attempt to undo. In addition, interspersed throughout the chapters, Canuel offers convincing and powerful readings of major romantic texts. -- Luke Donahue Modern Philology Mark Canuel's provocative, lucid, and intelligent Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime challenges the dominant critical trend in the discourse of the sublime. The Year's Work in English Studies Subtly written, thought-provoking. -- Steve Vine Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Beautiful People2. Justic and the Romantic Sublime3. The Reparative Impulse4. Biopolitics and the Sublime5. Aesthetics and Animal TheoryNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory
Book SynopsisMaterials include newly commissioned articles along with essays drawn from The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, known as the definitive resource for students and scholars of literary theory and for philosophical reflection on literature and culture.Trade ReviewThe very thoroughness and high quality of each entry, as well as attentive editing, are what makes The Johns Hopkins Guide to Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory an essential tool for anyone looking for an at once in-depth and accessible study of some of the major concepts of literary thory today. -- Alice Braun Cercles Groden, Kreiswirth, and Szeman have compiled a desktop, ready-reference tool that is readable, informative, and complete according to the parameters that they established for the work. -- Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsPrefaceATheodor W. AdornoAfrican American Theory and Criticism1. Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement2. 1977 to 19903. The 1990sGiorgio AgambenBAlain BadiouMikhail BakhtinÉtienne BalibarRoland BarthesGeorges BatailleJean BaudrillardSimone de BeauvoirWalter BenjaminHomi K. BhabhaMaurice BlanchotPierre BourdieuJudith ButlerCMichel de CerteauHélène CixousCultural Studies1. United Kingdom2. United States3. Australia4. CanadaDPaul de ManDeconstruction1. Derrida, de Man, and the Yale Critics2. The 1980s and AfterGilles Deleuze and Félix GuattariJacques DerridaDiscourse1. Discourse Analysis2. Discourse TheoryETerry EagletonEcocriticismEthicsFFrantz FanonFeminist Theory and Criticism1. From Movement Critique to Discourse Analysis2. Anglo-American Feminisms3. Poststructuralist Feminisms4. Materialist Feminisms5. 1990 and AfterStanley FishMichel FoucaultFrankfurt SchoolFrench Theory and Criticism: 1945 and AfterSigmund FreudNorthrop FryeGHenry Louis Gates Jr.GenderPaul GilroyGlobalizationAntonio GramsciStephen GreenblattHStuart HallDonna HarawayMartin HeideggerILuce IrigarayJFredric JamesonKJulia KristevaLJacques LacanLaw and LiteratureEmmanuel LevinasLinguistics and LanguageGeorg LukácsJean-François LyotardMMarxist Theory and Criticism1. Classical Marxism2. Structuralist Marxism3. 1989 and AfterModernist Theory and CriticismFranco MorettiMulticulturalismNJean-Luc NancyNarratologyNational LiteratureNative Theory and Criticism1. United States2. CanadaNew HistoricismPPhenomenologyPostcolonial Studies1. Origins to the 1980s2. 1990 and AfterPostmodernismPsychoanalytic Theory and Criticism1. Traditional Freudian Criticism2. Reconceptualizing Freud3. The Post-LacaniansQQueer Theory and Criticism1. Gay Male2. Lesbian3. Queer TheoryRRace and EthnicityJacques RancièreReader-Response CriticismReception TheorySEdward W. SaidFerdinand de SaussureScience StudiesEve Kosofsky SedgwickSemioticsSpeech ActsGayatri Chakravorty SpivakStructuralismWRaymond WilliamsZSlavoj ZizekList of ContributorsIndex of NamesIndex of Topics
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Johns Hopkins University Press Dead Women Talking
Book SynopsisThe prospect of posthumous citizenship bears important implications for debates over the legal rights of the dead, social histories of burial customs and famous cadavers, and the political theory of citizenship and social death.Trade ReviewInsightful and powerfully affecting, Dead Women Talking deepens our understanding of how the dead remain a vital presence and social force in American life and literature. -- Kristin Hutchins Women's Studies Norman examines an original, intriguing phenomenon in American literature-stories with deceased female characters... The study is well researched and offers an array of critical approaches. This important contribution to the study of American fiction should endure for some time. Choice Dead women have been speaking out in literature for a long time. What Norman does with this book is to bring our attention to them as a group so that we might bring the concerns of these women to the forefront of our discussions. -- Dana Benge Rocky Mountain ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Recognizing the Dead1. Dead Woman Wailing: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"2. Dead Woman Dictating: Henry James's The Turn of the Screw3. Dead Woman Rotting: William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying4. Dead Woman Cursing: Alice Walker's In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens5. Dead Woman Wanting: Toni Morrison's Beloved6. Dead Woman Heckling: Tony Kushner's Angels in America7. Dead Women Gossiping: Randall Kenan's Let the Dead Bury Their Dead8. Dead Women Healing: Ana Castillo's So Far from God9. Dead Woman Coming of Age: Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones10. Dead Woman Singing: Suzan-Lori Parks's Getting Mother's Body11. When Dead Women Don't Talk: Maxine Hong Kingston's "No Name Woman"NotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Bloody Murder
Book SynopsisGiven the long-standing belief that children ought to be shielded from disturbing life events, it is surprising to see how many stories for kids involve killing. This title offers a study of this pervasive theme of murder in children's literature. It adds to the body of inquiry into America's ongoing fascination with violent crime.Trade ReviewThought-provoking... Bloody Murder is excellent for Abate's interrogation of the genre. She has an eye for the unexpected literary influences lurking behind well-known texts -- Mary L. Shannon Times Literary Supplement A compelling study of the ways in which the specter of violent death looms large in books for children, both historically and in modern literature. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Bloody Murder is another fine example of Abate's signature ability to take cultural elements on the periphery of children's literature scholarship and show their relevance to the field's central questions. Her examination of murder culture's influence is more than just a skillful exposition of a prominent theme in plots for young readers; by locating homicide in the earliest distinct children's and young adult texts, abate effectively demonstrates that the beginnings of these two genres are far more complex and interconnected with American popular culture than has traditionally been supposed. In addition, she opens an important new frontier for crime studies, confidently displaying how often children's texts explore murder, as well as how crucial their representations are to understanding the American relationship with violence and death. Her engaging, rigorously researched, and accessible chapters make for engrossing reading useful for scholars and students alike. This study is a significant contribution, sure to spark further research on children's murder culture. -- Ivy Linton Stabell Children's Literature Association Quarterly Abate's close readings of texts and of the specific discourses with which they are paired in individual chapters gives readers new literary and social perspectives to consider as they think about the forms and functions of literature for children. -- Catherine O. Frank JeunesseTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Once upon a Crime: Homicide in American Culture and Popular Children's Literature from ''Bluebeard'' to Harry Potter1. ''You Must Kill Her and Bring Me Her Lungs and Liver as Proof'': ''Snow White'' and the Fact as well as Fantasy of Filicide2. ''The Queen Had Only One Way of Settling All Difficulties . . . 'Off with His Head!' '': Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the Antigallows Movement3. ''Swarthy, Sun-Tanned, Villainous Looking Fellows'': Tarzan of the Apes and Criminal Anthropology4. ''A Sixth Sense Seemed to Tell Her That She Had Encountered Something Unusual'': Psychic Sleuthing in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories5. ''How'd You Like That Haircut to Begin Just Below the Chin?'': Juvenile Delinquency, Teenage Killers, and a Pulp Aesthetic in The Outsiders6. ''My Job Is . . . to Make You a Human Being in the Eyes of the Jury'': Confronting the Demonization—and Dramatization—of Murder in Walter Dean Myers's MonsterEpilogue: ''Just Because You Don't Have a Pulse Doesn't Mean You Can't Be Perky'': My So-Called Death, Young Adult Zombie Fiction, and Murder in the Posthuman AgeWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the
Book SynopsisBackscheider looks to archival materials, literary analysis, biographical evidence, and a configuration of cultural and feminist theories to prove her groundbreaking argument.Trade ReviewIt seems certain, given Backscheider's impressive track record as a revisionary influence upon eighteenth-century studies, that this generous book, abounding in perceptions waiting to be gleshed out, will energize a round of 'next-generation' research into Rowe and her legacy. -- Kathryn R. King Review of English Studies Both original and provocative, Paula Backscheider's new book is also deeply learned and comprehensive in its scholarship... -- John Richetti Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature Paula R. Backsheider's latest book seeks to establish, with impressive detail and energy, the centrality of the fiction of Elizabeth Singer Rowe to the development of the English novel. -- Gillian Skinner Modern Literary ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Locating Elizabeth Singer Rowe1. Positioning Rowe's Fiction2. Isles of Happiness3. Toward Novelistic Discourse4. The Beautiful LifeConclusion: Lifestyle as LegacyNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Matters of Fact in Jane Austen
Book SynopsisThis forward-thinking and revealing investigation offers scholars and ardent fans of Jane Austen a wealth of historical facts, while shedding an interpretive light on a new aspect of the beloved writer's work.Trade ReviewAn impeccably researched new book. Examiner.com Matters of Fact in Jane Austen is unlike any previous work of Austen criticism, both in its attention to minute historical detail and in its pioneering claims... [It] is meticulously researched, beautifully written, highly original, and unquestionably timely. It ought to stimulate not just rousing arguments but provoke, too, further historically attuned Austen scholarship. -- Devoney Looser Los Angeles Review of Books This is a book whose charm and clarity easily overcome any initial resistance one might have to its central claim that Austen's work actively partakes in what historians now call 'celebrity culture'... One of Barchas's most surprising-and ultimately convincing-claims is that Austen, like James Joyce after her, 'not only names her fictional characters with uncanny historical precision but maps them with equal care through historical settings'. She illustrates this with careful attention to Austen's own historical reading and letters, prints of contemporary maps, portraits and country houses. -- Jonathan Sachs Times Literary Supplement This is easily one of the most important books on Austen published in recent years, a must read. Thanks to fantastic volumes like this one... Austen's books are finally being read and reassessed in the context of their times and are no longer given the backhanded compliment of being called 'timeless'... Essential. (Named by Choice in its list of Outstanding Academic Titles, 2013) Choice A provocative, suggestive, and original book which makes a genuine contribution to scholarship on Jane Austen... It is an excellent example of a truly interdisciplinary approach to literary criticism. -- Katie Halsey Review of English Studies This is a huge achievement. -- Sarah Raff Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies The author seeks to pull Austen away from her timelessness... Jane is not just a keen observer of those 3 or 4 families but of all the aristocracy famous or scandalous enough to make the papers... In a world where feminine accomplishments and interests are still denigrated and marginalized, it's important to pull Jane out of the parlor. Plot Driven Moving away from domesticity and beyond broad social history, Matters of Fact in Jane Austen proceeds as a series of detailed case studies that, taken together, make a strong argument for Austen as a popular culture aficionado and for scholars' attachment to her vaunted 'timelessness' as a disservice to her powers of observation and allusion. -- Laura E. Thomason, Middle Georgia State College ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts One of the most elegant new critical books I've encountered recently... a very original and well-researched, sometimes mind-blowing study of the numerous real-world people who stand 'behind' individual Austen characters. Barchas is stunning, for example, on Northanger Abbey, one of Austen's more elusive fictions. -- Terry Castle The Lumiere Reader 'Meticulous' will also inevitably be the word most often used to describe Janine Barchas's latest book. The research that has informed Matters of Fact in Jane Austen:History, Location, and Celebrity is abundant and careful, making this a fascinating and fresh take on Austen studies. Much like the 'What Jane Saw' website, the bookstarts from the contention that Austen was well aware of and sensitive to the news and newsmakers of her day, and that the realities of her specific historical moment influence aspects of her novels. Studies in the Novel Critics have often recognized Austen's care with locational details in particular, but have done little more. Barchas's compelling geographical and spatial arguments... had me reading with my iPad in hand, toggling between various maps of Bath and the book ... A Google maps assignment awaits my England summer study-abroad students-cum-surveyors. Eighteenth-Century Fiction Janine Barchas's well-researched and beautifully written book recovers some interesting historical contexts for once-celebrated names from Britain's historical past... Matters of Fact [is] a book that every reader will find profitable and delightful to peruse. -- Linda Troost JASNA News In this absorbing study, Barchas unearths real people, events, and locations. -- Kim Wheatley Eighteenth-Century Life Intriguing, witty, and detailed re-examination of character in Austen... Barchas makes a compelling case for her theories and writes with wit and elegance. The book is generously illustrated and unfolds at times almost like a detective story. Original and exciting, it's a must read for any serious -- or even not-so-serious -- Austen fan. Jane Austen's Regency World Magazine Janine Barchas persuasively positions Austen as a local and national historian. In a study which discusses Lady Susan, Northanger Abbey, Evelyn, Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasiion, Barchas uncovers the complex and subtle contexts, connotations, and resonances of Austen's material culture and character names. Year's Work in English Studies Janine Barchas's thought-provoking study of Austen's naming practices unearths a wealth of historical antecedents for Austen's characters and posits an Austen whose gamesmanship with the names of persons and places rivals the knowingness and playfulness of James Joyce. Journal of British Studies Like a thrilling detective story, Barchas's study consistently and pleasurably overcomes the incredulity and skepticism it provokes. Besides inspiring serious and sustained reassessment of Austen's novels, Barchas's findings may also lead us to re-examine long settled conclusions regarding the dates of Austen's compositions and revisions... One hopes that Barchas's method might be usefully applied to Austen's contemporaries in order to further evaluate the relationships between 'matters of fact' and the period's fiction. Review 19Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: "History, real solemn history" in Austen1. "Quite unconnected": The Wentworths and Lady Susan2. Mapping Northanger Abbey to Find "Old Allen" of Prior Park3. Touring Farleigh Hungerford Castle and Remembering Mis Tilney-Long4. "The Celebrated Mr. Evelyn" of Silva in Burney and Austen5. Hell-Fire Jane: Dashwood Celebrity and Sense and Sensibility6. Persuasion's Battle of the Books: Baronetage versus Navy ListAfterword: Jane Austen's Fictive NetworkNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press F. Scott Fitzgeralds Fiction
Book SynopsisIrwin seamlessly ties together details from Fitzgerald's life with elements from his entire body of work and considers central themes connected to wealth, class, work, love, jazz, acceptance, family, disillusionment, and life as theatrical performance.Trade ReviewThis volume is an example of what happens when an expert takes a career's worth of teaching and study and elegantly applies it to a subject he loves. John Irwin... wastes nary a word in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction considering Fitzgerald's life and what makes his stories so poetically heartbreaking. A must for Fitzgerald fans, and an enthusiastic push for those who've only read Gatsby once to explore the entire oeuvre. -- Brett McCabe Johns Hopkins Magazine This is a luminous, eye-opening, deeply appreciative study about the writings of Fitzgerald, as opposed to yet another chronicle of his high life and hard times... Indeed, this is precisely the kind of book that's long overdue. -- M.J. Moore Neworld Review Readers will find that [ F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction] offers discerning analysis... deserving attention is Irwin's argument about the influence of music, particularly jazz, on Fitzgerald. Finally, treatment of "the mythical method" is revealing, considering that mythopoetic readers of literature are all but moribund. Remarkably, this book does not rehash previous close readings but incorporates the best of such criticisms. Choice It is a testament to both the author's brilliance and the scrupulousness of his focus and approach that the book delivers on every conceivable level... Simply stated, now that "An Almost Theatrical Innocence" has arrive, we can agree that it was well worth the wait. -- Kirk Curnutt The F Scott Fitzgerald Review John T. Irwin's F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction is a brave attempt... to give Fitzgerald the kind of resolutely non-fan-magazine scrutiny that Irwin has previously given to Hart Crane and Poe. he says some smart things about Fitzgerald's imagery--about, for instance, how ambiguous the idea of light is in his writing, so that the green light at the end of the dock is a protent of the shining illusory screen of the movies, standing for persistent illusion as much as romantic aspiration. -- Adam Gopnik The New YorkerTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Compensating Visions in The Great Gatsby2. Fitzgerald as a Southern Writer3. The Importance of "Repose"4. "An Almost Theatrical Innocence"5. Fitzgerald and the Mythical Method6. On the Son's Own TermsWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Rethinking the New Medievalism
Book SynopsisOther contributors include Jack Abecassis, Marina Brownlee, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Andreas Kablitz, and Ursula Peters.Trade ReviewThe present volume in many ways celebrates and continues Nichols's ideas and influence in the past 25 years, but it does much more than that. As Bloch (French and Romance philology, Columbia Univ.) puts it in his introduction, the essays "contain many elements belonging to the New Philology-an attention to the material conditions of the medieval work, especially to the givens of manuscript culture, a questioning of authorship and authority, an interrogation of the integrity of medieval texts, recognition of the relation between the verbal and the visual."... Nichols's discussion of the challenges and opportunities for new philology in the digital age will be required reading in graduate seminars on digital humanities. Choice The essays ranged here by German and American scholars, in homage to Nichols and his cohort of new materialists, new philologists, new medievalists, are strong and ambitious attempts to revisit the twenty-year-old call for methodological reinvention. Common KnowledgeTable of ContentsIntroduction. The New Philology Comes of AgeChapter 1. New Challenges for the New MedievalismChapter 2. Reflections on The New PhilologyChapter 3. Virgil's "Perhaps": Mythopoiesis and Cosmogony in Dante's Commedia (Remarks on Inf. 34, 106–26)Chapter 4. Dialectic of the Medieval CourseChapter 5. Religious Horizon and Epic Effect: Considerations on the Iliad, the Chanson de Roland, and the NibelungenliedChapter 6. The Possibility of Historical Time in the Crónica SarracinaChapter 7. Good Friday Magic: Petrarch's Canzoniere and the Transformation of Medieval Vernacular PoetryChapter 8. The Identity of a TextChapter 9. Conceiving the Text in the Middle AgesChapter 10. Dante's Transfigured Ovidian Models: Icarus and Daedalus in the CommediaChapter 11. Ekphrasis in the Knight's TaleChapter 12. Montaigne's Medieval Nominalism and Meschonnic's Ethics of the SubjectChapter 13. The Pèlerinage Corpus in the European Middle Ages: Processes of Retextualization Reflected in the ProloguesChapter 14. Narrative Frames of Augustinian Thought in the Renaissance: The Case of RabelaisChapter 15. From Romanesque Architecture to RomanceList of Contributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Genealogical Fictions
Book SynopsisThis book should be of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, world literature, and the history and theory of the modern novel.Trade Review"Jobst Welge's impressive new book... argues deftly for an intimate relation between national geography and historical narrative." Times Literary Supplement "Jobst Welge's impressive new book... argues deftly for an intimate relation between national geography and historical narrative." -- Talia Schaffer Times Literary Supplement One of the most significant critical works about the European/American novel since Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel (1957). ChoiceTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Periphery and Genealogical Discontinuity: The Historical Novel of the Celtic Fringe (Maria Edgeworth and Walter Scott)3. Progress and Pessimism: The Sicilian Novel of Verismo (Giovanni Verga and Federico De Roberto)4. National and Genealogical Crisis: The Spanish Realist Novel (Benito Pérez Galdós)5. Nature, Nation, and De-/Regeneration: The Spanish Regional Novel (Emilia Pardo Bazán)6. Dissolution and Disillusion: The Novel of Portuguese Decline (Eça de Queirós)7. Surface Change: A Brazilian Novel and the Problem of Historical Representation (Machado de Assis)8. The Last of the Line: Foretold Decline in the Twentieth- Century Estate Novel (José Lins do Rego)9. Death of a Prince, Birth of a Nation: Time, Place, and Modernity in a Sicilian Historical Novel (G. Tomasi di Lampedusa)10. Epilogue: The Perspective from the EndNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Afterlife of Little Women
Book SynopsisWritten in an accessible narrative style, The Afterlife of Little Women speaks to scholars, librarians, and devoted Alcott fans.Trade ReviewEven as new Alcott-oriented scholarship, adaptations, and other artifacts appear, The Afterlife of 'Little Women' will continue to be essential to Alcott studies and a model for reception scholars. Reception The research in this book is stunning both in its breadth and depth... This is a book that not only does justice to its subject through a detailed presentation of evidence connected by astute critical judgments, but can also serve as a model for future studies. We are in Clark's debt for this immensely detailed, informative, and--yes--entertaining work. The Lion and the Unicorn [ The Afterlife of Little Women] is fascinating, cover-to-cover, for the many readers of Little Women still out there, whether scholar or generally interested fan, for Clark's prose is clear and lively; her ability to discuss so many diverse materials so cogently is admirable... As the sesquicentennial of Alcott's most famous work approaches (2018), scholars and general readers can only hope that Beverly Lyon Clark will be among those assessing this classic in its 150th year. Studies in the Novel From the child who saves her copy of Little Women as she flees from a Chicago fire, to a schoolgirl who warns Alcott that if she didn't 'make Laurie marry Beth' she would 'never read another of your books as long as I live'... the glimpses we get of child readers in the nineteenth century are compelling. Journal of the History of Childhood and YouthTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Becoming Everyone's Aunt, 1868–19002. Waxing Nostalgic, 1900–19303. Outwitting Poverty and War, 1930–19604. Celebrating Sisterhood and Passion since 1960NotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Dead Women Talking
Book SynopsisThe prospect of posthumous citizenship bears important implications for debates over the legal rights of the dead, social histories of burial customs and famous cadavers, and the political theory of citizenship and social death.Trade ReviewInsightful and powerfully affecting, Dead Women Talking deepens our understanding of how the dead remain a vital presence and social force in American life and literature. -- Kristin Hutchins Women's Studies Norman examines an original, intriguing phenomenon in American literature-stories with deceased female characters... The study is well researched and offers an array of critical approaches. This important contribution to the study of American fiction should endure for some time. Choice Dead women have been speaking out in literature for a long time. What Norman does with this book is to bring our attention to them as a group so that we might bring the concerns of these women to the forefront of our discussions. -- Dana Benge Rocky Mountain ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Recognizing the Dead1. Dead Woman Wailing: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"2. Dead Woman Dictating: Henry James's The Turn of the Screw3. Dead Woman Rotting: William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying4. Dead Woman Cursing: Alice Walker's In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens5. Dead Woman Wanting: Toni Morrison's Beloved6. Dead Woman Heckling: Tony Kushner's Angels in America7. Dead Women Gossiping: Randall Kenan's Let the Dead Bury Their Dead8. Dead Women Healing: Ana Castillo's So Far from God9. Dead Woman Coming of Age: Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones10. Dead Woman Singing: Suzan-Lori Parks's Getting Mother's Body11. When Dead Women Don't Talk: Maxine Hong Kingston's "No Name Woman"NotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Putting Modernism Together
Book SynopsisGoing beyond merely explaining how the artists in these genres achieved their peculiar effects, he presents challenging new analyses of telling craft details which help students and scholars come to know more fully this bold age of aesthetic extremism.Trade ReviewScholarly and impressive... Such a thorough consideration of the interconnectedness of modernism illuminates how truly revolutionary this artistic movement was. ChoiceTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction. Modernist TransvaluationI. Two Originary Texts1. Baudelaire and Symbolism2. Nietzsche and the DionysiacII. Isms3. Impressionism4. Expressionism5. Futurism6. Cubism7. Abstractionism8. Primitivism9. Imagism10. Neoclassicism11. Dadaism12. Surrealism13. Aestheticism14. Corporealism15. Totalizing Art16. Communism, Fascism, and Later ModernismEpilogue. The End of Modernism?Notes
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Johns Hopkins University Press Narrative as Virtual Reality 2
Book SynopsisFollowing the cognitive approaches that have rehabilitated immersion as the product of fundamental processes of world-construction and mental simulation, she details the many forms that interactivity has taken-or hopes to take-in digital texts, from determining the presentation of signs to affecting the level of story.Trade ReviewThe revised structure of this second edition helps us navigate the various stops on the tour of virtual narratives on which Ryan energetically and lucidly leads us. As with the first edition, this should be vital reading for anyone interested in fiction and technology, and the technologies of fiction.—British Society for Literature and ScienceTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesPrefaceIntroductionPart I1. The Two (and Thousand) Faces of the Virtual2. Virtual Reality as Dream and as TechnologyPart II3. The Text as World4. Varieties of ImmersionPart III5. The Text as World versus the Text as Game6. Texts without Worlds7. The Many Forms of Interactivity8. HypertextPart IV9. Participatory Interactivity from Life Situations to Drama10. Chasing the Dream of the Immersive, Interactive NarrativeConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Distraction
Book SynopsisShe draws a direct link between the disparate theories of focus articulated in eighteenth-century literature and modern experiments in neuroscience, revealing that contemporary questions surrounding short attention spans are grounded in long conversations over the nature and limits of focus.Trade ReviewThoroughly informed by engagement with 17th- and 18th-century philosophies of mind, the book is also impressive for its periodic forays into modern cognitive science... Distraction is an important addition to the literature on 18th-century fiction and cognition. Highly recommended. Choice It reads... as a manifesto for the possibility of a kind of research in which disciplines are combined not in the sense of serving each other, or borrowing from each other, but in true synergy. From all the aspects of Phillips's book that are commendable - and there are many from its originality and clarity of argumentation through to its powers of interpretation - this is the most significant. Literature and science are on an equal footing here and the fruits of their combination are remarkable. British Society for Literature and ScienceTable of ContentsPreface Introduction. The Literary History of Distraction The Unifocal and the Multifocal The Rise of the Distracted CharacterAttention, Distraction, and Enlightenment Philosophy of MindA Swiftly Tilting MadnessCategorizing Distraction 1. Mind Wandering: Forms of Distraction in the Eighteenth-Century EssayDistraction and the Eighteenth-Century Essay The Rhetoric of Attention: Appealing to Pathos and Brevitas The Essay as a Tool of Focus Training Attention to Attention Strengthening Focus: Repetition and Dramatic Irony Economies of Attention The History of Attention Span 2. Lapses of Concentration: Distracted Vigilance and the Female MindEnvironment and Mind: Urban Diversion and the Distracted Brain The Problem of a Soft Female Mind Sex, Environment, and the Multifocal Coquette The Challenges of Situational Awareness Philosophizing Multiplicity: Cognitive Bottlenecks and Sorting Gloves Strained Omniscience and the Distracted Heroine The Crowded Syntax of Sexual Inattention "Might as Well Be Passed Over as Read:" Indulging the Diverted Reader 3. Scattered Attention: Distraction and the Rhythm of Cognitive Overload Rhythms of Narrative, Rhythms of Mind The Scattered Rhythms of Cognitive Overload Susannah and the Vexed Situation of Madam Reader The Anatomy of Parallel Processing The Sermon: Asynchronous Rhythms of Prose Hobbyhorses and the Individual Beat of Interest Irregular Distraction: The Tempo of Cognitive Overload Rhythms of the Brain: Creativity and the Timing of Distraction 4. Fixated Attention: The Gothic Pathology of Single-Minded FocusMicroscope and Mind Scientific Metaphors and the Madness of Attention The Politics and Poetics of Fixation Involuntary Attention: A Multifocal Selective Blindness Sympathy and the Benefits of Distraction Rewriting Suspense: Interruption and the Gothic Sublime Fixation and the Science of Obsession 5. Divided Attention: Characterization and Cognitive Richness in Jane Austen The Power of Multitasking in Pride and Prejudice The Singular Importance of Inattentive Characters Mr. Hurst: The Limited Capacity of the Undivided Mind Mrs. Jenkinson: Narrow Bandwidth and the Creation of Depth Lydia and Miss Bingley: Caricaturing Cognitive Vacancy The Dangers of Too Much Attention Distraction as Liveliness of Mind Mary Bennet: Hyperfocus and Cognitive Immobility Lady Catherine de Bourgh: The Problem of Excess Vigilance Elizabeth Bennet: The Benefits of Diversion Characterizing Reading: Maps of Distraction and Interest Coda: History of Mind and Literary Neuroscience Interdisciplinarity: From Theory to Practice Literary Attention: An fMRI Study of Reading Jane Austen The Value of Literary History NotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Age of Analogy
Book SynopsisThe first comparative treatment of the Darwins' theories of history and their profound contribution to the study of both natural and human systems, this book will fascinate students and scholars of nineteenth-century British literature and the history of science.Trade ReviewThis is a serious, detailed, and convincing account with few unexplored avenues... Recommended. All academic levels/libraries. Choice Recommended. Choice The Age of Analogy represents a valuable contribution to scholarship on literature and science. Building on the established models of new historicism and of Gillian Beer's foundational work on Darwinism, it nonetheless offers something new by asking researchers in this field to think more carefully about the kinds of historicism that operate both in their own work and in nineteenth-century literary and scientific writing Review of English Studies For those interested in either of the intertwined histories of literature and science -- or in what we might more generously call the intellectual culture of the 1780s through the 1850s -- Griffiths' book is both readable and richly rewarding. Review 19 This ambitious work should shape future thinking about historicism, science and literature in the nineteenth century and beyond in new and significant ways. Griffiths deserves to be congratulated on having achieved this and, in the process, on having written some of the best recent criticism on Charles Darwin and George Eliot in particular, which is no mean feat in itself. British Society for Literature and ScienceTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Science, Literature, and History2. The New Historicism3. Thinking through Analogy4. Implications for Comparative Historicism5. Summary of ChaptersPrelude: Thinking Through Analogy1. Analogy vs. Comparison2. Harmonic vs. Formal Analogy3. Analogy and the "swerve around the literary"4. The Sign of AnalogyChapter 1: Erasmus Darwin, Enlightenment History, and the Crisis of AnalogyI. The Loves of the Plants and Sexual Taxonomy2. Stadial History and The Botanic Garden3. The "Fertilization of Egypt" and the Flattening of Allegory4. Expulsion from the Garden: Zoonomia and Darwin's Fall from GraceConclusion: "Philosophical Arguments of the Last Generation"Chapter 2: Crossing the Border with Walter Scott1. The Subject of Enlightenment History2. The Forensic Antiquary3. Faking the Minstrelsy4. Linguistic Anthropology in Ivanhoe and Waverley Conclusion: "So Leyden were alive"Chapter 3: Incorporate History in Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam A. H. H.1. Analogical Verses2. Hallam's Perfect Danae3. The Logic of Analogy and the Plurality of Worlds4. Comparative Anatomy and the ArchetypeConclusion: The Higher TypeChapter 4: George Eliot and False History1. The Westminster Review and the "historic imagination"2. The "Higher Criticism" and the Natural History of Social Life3. Rosamond's Harmonic Sympathy4. The Entangled Word: Eliot's Essays and the Problem of Organic FormConclusion: Origins and Historiographic FormChapter 5: The Origin of Darwin's Orchids and the Intent of Comparative History1. A Comparative Natural History: The Analogy Notebooks 2. Curating Analogy in On the Origin of Species3. "A working collection of books": Darwin and the Novels4. Orchids in Action5. Flat TheologyConclusion: Epitaphs for DarwinCoda: Climate Science and The "No-Analog Future"NotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Revolution
Book SynopsisWhile the imperatives of the postmodern eventually gave order to this chaos, Wilkens explains that the same forces are again at work in today's fracturing literary market.Trade ReviewWilkens’s most informative contributions remain his own intriguing and forthright theoretical expositions, especially his account of encyclopedic narrative. Here, he argues strongly for the decoupling of the form from national identity or narrative, but also rails against any ahistorical understanding... I would highly recommend [this book] to scholars of critical theory and post-war fiction.—Phillip Tew, Brunel University, Modern Language ReviewIts account of the connection between allegorical techniques and revolutionary change is nothing short of brilliant, even if its periodizing claims are (as periodizing claims always are) a bit rough at the boundaries. Literary critics and cultural historians of both the post-45 period (focusing on the U.S. and elsewhere) and of modernism will be building on and refining the insights in Revolution for a long time to come.—Amerikastudien / American StudiesAllegory is one of the imagination's basic tools for imaginative statement, and in Revolution: The Event in Postwar Fiction (Hopkins) Matthew Wilkens identifies the reemergence of the encyclopedic novel as allegory's latest vehicle.—American Literary ScholarshipTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction Part 1: The Structure of Literary Revolutions2. Allegory3. Event4. The Encyclopedia as Object and Metaphor Part 2: Failure and Novelty in Postwar Fiction5. Allegory, Encyclopedism, and Postwar America6. Ellison's Impure Manifesto7. Integration and Disorder in The Golden Notebook NotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press American Hieroglyphics
Book SynopsisAlong the way, he touches upon a wide range of topics that fascinated people of the day, including the journey to the source of the Nile and ideas about the origin of language.Table of ContentsPrefacePart I: Emerson, Thoreau, and WhitmanChapter 1. Champollion and the Historical Background; Emerson's Hieroglyphical EmblemsChapter 2. Thoreau: The Single, Basic Form — Patenting a LeafChapter 3. Whitman: Hieroglyphic Bibles and Phallic SongsPart II: PoeChapter 4. The Hieroglyphics and the Quest for Origins: The Myth of Hieroglyphic DoublingChapter 5. Ends and Origins: The Voyage to the Polar Abyss and the Journey to the Source of the Nile; The Survival of the ManuscriptChapter 6. Certainty and Credibility — Self-Evidence and Self-Reference; Nietzsche and Tragedy — Whitman and Opera; The Open RoadChapter 7. Writing Self / Written Self; The Dark Double; The Overwhelming of the Vessel Chapter 8. Cannibalism and Sacrifice; Metaphors of the Body — Transfiguration, Transubstantiation, Resurrection, and AscensionChapter 9. Narcissus and the Illusion of DepthChapter 10. Self-Recognition; Deciphering a Mnemic Inscription; Historical Amnesia and Personal AnamnesisChapter 11. Repetition; Symbolic Death and Rebirth; The Infinite and Indefinite; The Mechanism of ForeshadowingChapter 12. The Unfinished Narrative; The Cavern Inscription on Tsalal; Survival in an ImageChapter 13. The White Shadow; Imaging the Indefinite; Reading the Spirit from the Letter; The Finality of Revenge; The Alogical Status of the SelfChapter 14. The Return to Oneness; Breaking the Crypt; The Limits of Interpretation; The Ultimate CertaintyPart III: Hawthorne and MelvilleChapter 15. Hawthorne: The Ambiguity of the Hieroglyphics; The Unstable Self and Its Roles; Mirror Image and Phonetic Veil; The Feminine Role of the Artist; Veil and Phallus; The Book as Partial ObjectChapter 16. Melville: The Indeterminate Ground; A Conjunction of Fountain and Vortex; The Myth of Isis and Osiris; Master Oppositions; The Doubleness of the Self and the Illusion of Consistent Character; Dionysus and Apollo; Mask and Phallus; The Chain of Partial ObjectsEpilogueNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Cultivation and Catastrophe
Book SynopsisThis pathbreaking book offers stunning new insight into modern black literature, environmental humanities, and poetry and poetics.Trade ReviewThe black optimism that animates Posmentier's writing is also a prominent feature of the poems, songs, and works of visual art that she takes up as her primary objects of concern. Yet there is also, alongside this optimism, the ever-present specter of the end of the world—one that operates, always, right alongside the countless new worlds that black art necessarily engenders—which demands our attention.—SyndicateSonya Posmentier's Cultivation and Catastrophe feels urgent and contemporary even as its turn to black lyric asks readers to pause, sound out, and reflect on a long history of poetic engagement with ecological catastrophe, forced migration, and the afterlife of the plantation.—Britt Rusert, University of Massachusetts Amherst, SyndicateThere is much to admire in this wide-ranging and carefully researched study. In particular, its close attention to poetic form represents a valuable contribution to postcolonial ecocriticism, which has tended to focus more on narrative genres.—Review of English StudiesPosmentier's monograph is a much-needed contribution to both the new lyric studies and ecopoetics, two fields that, until recently, have focused more often than not on the writings and methods of white European and American poets and critics.—Contemporary LiteratureThe capaciousness with which Posmentier approaches the lyric is generative, especially in light of environmental criticism's recent wave of poetry scholarship . . . groundbreaking.—Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and EnvironmentTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART 11. Cultivating the New Negro2. Cultivating the Nation3. Cultivating the CaribbeanPART 24. Continuing CatastropheCollecting Catastrophe5. Collecting Culture6. Unnatural CatastropheNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Making of Jane Austen
Book SynopsisWhether you're a devoted Janeite or simply Jane-curious, The Making of Jane Austen will have you thinking about how a literary icon is made, transformed, and handed down from generation to generation.Trade ReviewAusten fans have another book to add to their libraries. Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Jane Austen MattersPart I: Jane Austen, Illustrated1. Austen's First English Illustrator: Ferdinand Pickering's Vioctorian Sensationalism2. Visual Austen Experiments: From Lush Landscapes to Bearded Heroes3. A Golden Age for Illustrated Austen: From Peacocks to PhotoplaysPart II: Jane Austen, Dramatized4. Austen's First Dramatist: Rosina Filippi's Duologues for Every Cultivated Amateur5. Playing Mr. Darcy before Laurence Olivier: Cross Dressing, Consuming Passion, and Cracking the Whip6. Dear Jane: Christian Spinster, Feminist Flirt, and Shadow Actress7. Stage to Screen Pride and Prejudice: Hollywood's Austen and Its Unrealized ScreenplaysPart III: Jane Austen, Politicized8. The Night of the Divine Jane: Men's Club Clashes and Politics in the Periodical Press9. Stone-Throwing Jane Austen: Suffragist Street Activism, Grand Pageants, and Costume PartiesPart IV: Jane Austen, Schooled10. The First Jane Austen Dissertation: George Pellew and the Human Telephone11. Textbook Austens: From McGuffey's Readers to National LampoonCoda: Twenty-First Century Jane AustenAfterwordAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Suggested Further ReadingNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Red Modernism
Book SynopsisPersuasively charting a history of the avant-garde modernist poem in relation to communism, beginning in the 1910s and reaching into the 1940s, Red Modernism is an audacious examination of the twinned history of politics and poetry.Trade ReviewSteven's audacious redefinition of modernist historiography ventures much further than previous attempts to read political inferences into post-imagist poetry. . . It does so by viewing the Russian Revolution as a foundational event in the narrative of modern American verse. A much needed counter to ideological micro-criticism, Red Modernism unfolds on an ambitiously broad canvas, seeking to highlight the epic global backdrop to the poems containing history that so preoccupied Pound and his compatriots William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky. Red Modernism argues meticulously for the centrality of the communist ideal in the work of Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky.—Literature and HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Ezra Pound3. William Carlos Williams4. Louis ZukofskyEpilogueNotes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Imagination and Science in Romanticism
Book SynopsisHow did the idea of the imagination impact Romantic literature and science?2018 Winner, Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize, The International Conference on RomanticismRichard C. Sha argues that scientific understandings of the imagination indelibly shaped literary Romanticism. Challenging the idea that the imagination found a home only on the side of the literary, as a mental vehicle for transcending the worldly materials of the sciences, Sha shows how imagination helped to operationalize both scientific and literary discovery. Essentially, the imagination forced writers to consider the difference between what was possible and impossible while thinking about how that difference could be known. Sha examines how the imagination functioned within physics and chemistry in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, neurology in Blake's Vala, or The Four Zoas, physiology in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, and obstetrics and embryology in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. He also demonstrates howTrade ReviewThis impressive monograph will remain, I suspect, the most important resource on Romantic literature and science for many decades to come. This book changes how we view not only Romanticism but also the broader relationship between literature and science.—Eighteenth-Century FictionA fascinating read and discovery of literary and scientific interconnections.—Review of English StudiesFor Sha, the concept of imagination is the key to unlocking relations between science and literature, since the faculty was viewed as central to scientific inquiry and literary creativity alike. Sha demonstrates that scientific thinkers, far from being antipathetic to the imagination, repeatedly indulged it and then tested its results experimentally. [I am] grateful for many penetrating insights in Sha's book.—Studies in RomanticismRichard C. Sha's exemplary Imagination and Science in Romanticism centers the Romantic imagination within scientific ways of knowing. Each chapter contains intriguing and thorough discussions of science, and subtle, detailed readings of literary texts. There is a wealth of wonderfully collated material here and fine-grained contextualization; readers interested in Romanticism and science will find the individual chapters rewarding.—Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900Richard Sha's Imagination and Science in Romanticism is required reading for anyone interested in the relations between Romantic science and literature.—Tilottama Rajan, The Wordsworth CircleImagination and Science in Romanticism shifts the terms in which imaginative theory, in literature and science alike, can be understood.—British Association for Romantic Studies' Bulletin & ReviewThe evidence across chapters from both literature and science fully substantiates Sha's central claim for an expanded sense of the imagination that includes Romantic science and reason along with it. Beyond a significant contribution to criticism of Romantic literature, this book is a rich resource and model for how to do interdisciplinary scholarship well.—Kaitlin Mondello, Millersville University, H-EnvironmentTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. Imagining Dynamic Matter: Percy Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, and the Chemistry and Physics of Matter Chapter Two. William Blake and the Neurological Imagination: Romantic Science, Nerves, and the Emergent SelfChapter Three. The Physiological Imagination: Coleridge’s BiographiaChapter Four. Obstetrics and Embryology: Science and Imagination in FrankensteinNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press In Search of Russian Modernism
Book SynopsisA critical reexamination of Russian modernist cultural historiography. Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures by the Modern Language AssociationThe writing and teaching of Russian literary and cultural history have changed little since the 1980s. In Search of Russian Modernism challenges the basic premises of Russian modernist studies, removing the aura of certainty surrounding the analytical tools at our disposal and suggesting audacious alternatives to the conventional ways of thinking and speaking about Russian and transnational modernism. Drawing on methodological breakthroughs in Anglo-American new modernist studies, Leonid Livak explores Russian and transnational modernism as a story of a self-identified and self-conscious interpretive community that bestows a range of meanings on human experience. Livak's approach opens modernist studies to integrative and interdisciplinary analysis, including the extension of scholarly inTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Translation and Transliteration Introduction. Modernism as a Culture Chapter 1. The Toponymical Labyrinth of Russian Modernist Culture Chapter 2. The Errant Compass Rose of Russian Modernist StudiesChapter 3. Russian Modernism in Time and SpaceChapter 4. Navigating Russia’s Cultures of ModernityChapter 5. Russian Modernism in the Cultural MarketConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press British Women Poets and the Romantic Writing
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIts democratic project is to supplement our understanding of British Romantic poetry by shining a light into dark library corners and bringing out unknown work by women . . . [U]nquestionably a valuable addition to literary historicism. An introduction to numerous obscure authors, it also provides sensitive in-depth reading of selected verse and relevant comparisions with poems by their more visible female and male contemporaries.—Times Literary SupplementThe range of this book encourages and facilitates future research and commentary. Highly recommended.—ChoiceBehrendt's commitment to his neglected trove inspires admiration.—New Books on Literature 19Superb historical contextualisation of literature alongside an original argument that also makes for a provocative work . . . Behrendt highlights the uniquely personal relationship women are able to establish with readers as opposed to their male contemporaries' formality. By comparing personal and public elegiac poetry, Behrendt demonstrates the powerful voices of ordinary women who engaged with public issues.—Romanticism and Victorianism on the NetSharp and sophisticated exploration.—CerclesThe question that literary intelligentsia ask in judging a work is whether it advances study in the field, and this one most assuredly does . . . It builds on the best research and offers a venue for more. And it teaches us that before Hollywood, Lifetime, YouTube and Twitter, writers—especially poets—were rock stars of the day; the women under consideration here worked to participate in public discourse over concerns that shaped communal thought and life.—Internet Review of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TextsIntroductionChapter 1. Women Writers, Radical Rhetoric, and the PublicChapter 2. Women Poets During the War YearsChapter 3. Women and the SonnetChapter 4. Experimenting with GenreChapter 5. Scottish Women PoetsChapter 6. Irish Women PoetsConclusionNotesBibliography Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Timelines of American Literature
Book SynopsisA collection of engaging essays that seeks to uniquely reperiodize American literature. It is all but inevitable for literary history to be divided into periods. Early American, antebellum, modern, post-1945such designations organize our knowledge of the past and shape the ways we discuss that past today. These periods tend to align with the watershed moments in American history, even as the field has shifted its perspective away from the nation-state. It is high time we rethink these defining periods of American literary history, as the drawing of literary timelines is a necessaryeven illuminatingpractice. In these short, spirited, and imaginative essays, 23 leading Americanists gamely fashion new, unorthodox literary periodsfrom 600 B.C.E. to the present, from the Age of Van Buren to the Age of Microeconomics. They bring to light literary and cultural histories that have been obscured by traditional timelines and raise provocative questions. What is our definition of modernism ifTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments1. Introduction Cody Marrs and Christopher HagerPart 1. Prehistories and Transitions2. Prologue. What's in a Date? Sandra GustafsonPrehistories3. 1833-1932: American Literature's Other Scripts Erica Fretwell4. 1922-1968: The Disenchanted Literature of Homeownership Adrienne Brown5. 1830-1924: The Literatures of Sovereignty Phillip Round6. 600 BCE-1830 CE: The Book of Mormon and the Lived Eschatology of Settler Colonialism Jared HickmanTransitions7. 1629-1852: American Literature, Democracy, and the Patroons Jennifer Greiman8. 1973: When It Changed Gerry Canavan9. The Three Burials of Confederate Nationalism Coleman Hutchison10. 1819-1857: Romantic Cycles from the Panic of 1819 to the Panic of 1857 Andrew Kopec11. Reimagining 1820-1865 Robert S. LevinePart 2. Ages and the Long Present 12. Prologue. The Anthropocene, 1945/1783/1610/1492-???? (or, I Wish I Knew How to Quit You) Dana LucianoAges13. The Age of US Latinidad Jesse Alemán14. The Age of Van BurenJustine S. Murison15. The Ages of Appalachian Literature Rachel A. Wise16. The Civil War in the Age of Civil Rights Michael LeMahieu17. The Age of Warhol Bryan WatermanThe Long Present18. All of It Is Now: Slavery and the Post-black Moment in Contemporary African American Literature Yogita Goyal19. Propaganda and the Movement of American Literary History Russ Castronovo20. De-ciphering American Literature: Caroline Levander21. Methodological Individualism and the Novel in the Age of Microeconomics, 1871 to the Present Annie McClanahan22. 1980 to the Present: Formalism and the New Authoritarianism Rachel Greenwald Smith23. American Captivity Narratives from the Colonial Era to the Present: A New Timeline Birgit Brander Rasmussen24. Afterword. The Newer Newest Thing: Reperiodizing, Redux Susan GillmanAppendix. Sample Syllabi Contributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press History in the United States 18001860
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1970. Professor Callcott's analysis of the rise of historical consciousness in the United States from 1800 to 1860 offers a new dimension to American historiography. Other books have provided insight into the works of Bancroft, Parkman, and others, but Callcott goes beyond to explain the meaning of the past itself rather than the contributions of particular historians. As the anatomy of an idea, this is an important contribution to American intellectual history; and as a study of humans' need for the past and their use of it, it is an important contribution to American social history. The author begins by analyzing the European and Romantic background for American historical thought. He then explores the rise of historical themes in literature, education, the arts, and scholarship. By describing the type of historical subject matter, the methods of writing history, the interpretive themes historians used, and the standards by which critics judged history, CallcoTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. The Intellectual Origins of Romantic HistoryChapter 2. The People Discover the PastChapter 3. History Enters the Schools Chapter 4. The Writers of History Chapter 5. The Subject Matter of History Chapter 6. Antiquarianism in the Age of Literary History Chapter 7. Methods of Historical Writing Chapter 8. Interpreting the Past Chapter 9. The Social Uses of History Chapter 10. The Personal Uses of History Chapter 11. History as Ultimate Reality Chapter 12. The Decline of Romantic History Biographical Note Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Play and Place of Criticism
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1967. In The Play and Place of Criticism, Professor Krieger addresses basic questions related to criticism in the title essay that forms the introduction to this collection and that constitutes a considered statement of his contextualist position. In agreement with Spitzer, Krieger believes that the critic has a valuable part to play in relating the new words of the individual poem to the old words of the language. He goes further in identifying the role of the critic as essentially rhapsodic, a sharing-in and an expression of the poet's fine frenzy, which, when it succeeds, transports the critic beyond words and dooms his analytical efforts to failure. Thus, while defending the critic's right to exercise the free play of the mind in approaching his subject, the author insists that the critic recognize his subordinate place in performing his act of mediation. Elsewhere in the volume Krieger uses other terms and metaphors to explore similar problems revolving aroTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. The Play and Place of CriticismPart I. The Play of CriticismChapter 2. The Innocent Insinuations of Wit: The Strategy of Language in Shakespeare's Sonnets Chapter 3. The Dark Generations of Richard IIIChapter 4. The "Frail China Jar" and the Rude Hand of Chaos Chapter 5. "Dover Beach" and the Tragic Sense of Eternal RecurrenceChapter 6. The Marble Faun and the International ThemeChapter 7. From Youth to Lord Jim: The Formal-Thematic Use of MarlowChapter 8. The Ekphrastic Principle and the Still Movement of Poetry; or Laokoon RevisitedPart II. The Place of CriticismChapter 9. The Disciplines of Literary CriticismChapter 10. Joseph Warren Beach's Modest Appraisal Chapter 11. Contextualism Was Ambitious Chapter 12. Contextualism and the Relegation of Rhetoric Chapter 13. Critical Dogma and the New Critical Historians Chapter 14. Platonism, Manichaeism, and the Resolution of Tension: A DialogueChapter 15. Northrop Frye and Contemporary Criticism: Ariel and theSpirit of GravityChapter 16. The Existential Basis of Contextual Criticism Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Tragic Vision
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1973. Literary critics who have studied tragedy and the tragic vision failed, in Murray Krieger's estimation, to define exactly what they saw as the tragic vision in general terms. An aim of his book is to create a tentative definition of tragic and to flesh out what the author sees as the definition most illuminating of modern literature and the modern mind. In order to do this, Krieger distinguishes between what he sees as the tragic vision and tragedytragedy, from his perspective, is an object's literary form, whereas tragic vision refers to a subject's psychology, the subject's view and version of reality. In light of the shriveling of the tragic concept in the modern world and the reduction of a total view to the psychology of the protagonist, Krieger contends that the protagonist in a tragedy is now more appropriately designated a tragic visionary than a tragic hero.Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Tragedy and the Tragic VisionChapter 2. Rebellion and the "State of Dialogue"Chapter 3. Satanism, Sainthood, and the RevolutionChapter 4. Disease and Health: The Tragic and the Human Realms of Thomas MannChapter 5. The World of Law as Pasteboard MaskChapter 6. Joseph Conrad: Action, INaction, and ExtremityChapter 7. The Perils of "Enthusiast" VirtueChapter 8. Recent Criticism, "Thematics," and the Existential DilemmaIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Institution of Theory
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1994. In The Institution of Theory, Murray Krieger examines, at once sympathetically and critically, the process by which theory has become institutionalized in the American academy and the consequences of theory as an academic institution. He traces the transformation of literary theory into critical theory and relates it to changes in the place of literature within questions about discourse at large. And he faces the costs as well as the gains of the recent denial of privilege to the literary. To support his view of the issues at stake in current theoretical debates, Krieger surveys both the history of American criticism and the general history of literary theory in the West. He sees divisions in each of them that foreshadow the current debates: in the first a conflict between the social and the aesthetic functions of literature, and in the second a conflict between the treatment of literature as a reflection of a culture's ideology and the treatment of literaTrade ReviewMore than the usual powder for theory's morning-after headache, Krieger's volume is a compelling argument for theory to acknowledge the very traditions it has sought to discredit and exclude.—Philosophy and LiteratureCrisp historical summaries . . . written to be accessible for readers not well versed in theory's terminology and key figures—one figure being Krieger himself.—Comparative and General LiteratureTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Institutionalizing Theory: From Literary Criticism to Literary Theory to Critical Theory Chapter 2. Two Faces of an Old Argument: History versus Formalism in American CriticismChapter 3. The Ideological Imperative and Counterideological ResistanceChapter 4. A Hortatory ConclusionNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Words about Words about Words
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1987. In Words about Words about Words, Murray Krieger advances his ongoing dialogue with the rich diversity of contemporary literary theory and elaborates on his own position as it grows out of an opposing relation to much of current criticism. Krieger examines the kinds of ideologies and ontologies smuggled into literary theory that purports to be anti-ideological and anti-ontological. He explores the extent to which critical fashions dictate the development of theory and the reasons why particular theories exclude certain kinds of literary works in favor of others. Under such circumstances, Krieger asks, What becomes of the critic's task of evaluation? Further, what is the relation of the idea of progress to criticism and the arts, and what is the effect of these notions on cultural and intellectual institutions? He seeks an alternative to the deterministic tendencies of the new historicism in viewing the relations of literature and literary criticism to sociTable of ContentsPrefacePart I. Theory and Institutions: Critical Movements and Academic StructuresChapter 1. Words about Words about Words: Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text Chapter 2. The Arts and the Idea of Progress Chapter 3. From Theory to Thematics: The Ideological Underside of Recent TheoryChapter 4. Literary Invention, Critical Fashion, and the Impulse to Theoretical Change: "Or Whether Revolution Be the Same" Chapter 5. A Meditation on a Critical Theory Institute Part II. Critical Positions: Self-definition and Other DefinitionsChapter 6. An Apology for PoeticsChapter 7. A Colloquy on "An Apology for Poetics"Chapter 8. The Literary Privilege of Evaluation Chapter 9. An E.H. Gombrich Retrospective: The Ambiguities of Representation and Illusion Chapter 10. "Both Sides Now" Part III. Reconsideration of Special Texts jar Special ReasonsChapter 11. Presentation and Repres entation in the Renaissance Lyric: The Net of Words and the Escape of the Gods Chapter 12. A Humanity in the Humanities: Literature among the Discourses Chapter 13. The Conversion from History to Utopia in Shakespeare's Sonnets Chapter 14. Orpheus mit Gluck: The Deceiving Gratific(a)tions of Presence Chapter 15. "A Waking Dream": The SymbolicAlternative to Allegory Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Theory of Criticism
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1976. Representing years of critical reflection, The Theory of Criticism attempts to construct a poetics of presence. Within a wide range of critical terminology, Murray Krieger has sought to create a new vision. In language that is passionate and often dramatic, he looks at the multidimensionality of the poetic world through the lens of Western poetics. His work clearly addresses itself to postNew Critical questions: how to preserve the literary object as a thing to be perceived, valued, and enjoyed and yet to account for its presence in, and interaction with, our culture as a whole, always in danger of being dissolved into man's language-making and -forming activity in general. Our awareness of the poem as object must be modified by our awareness that it is an intentional object. Krieger develops his balanced vision in three parts. Part 1 defines the problem and defends the very activity of theorizing both in its own terms and in terms of the critic's functionTable of ContentsPreface Part I. The Problem: The Limits and Capacities of Critical Theory Chapter 1. The Vanity of Theory and Its Value Chapter 2. Preliminary Questions and Suggested Answers Chapter 3. The Critic as Person and Persona Part II. The Humanistic Theoretical Tradition Chapter 4. The Deceptive Opposition Between Mimetic and Expressive Theories Chapter 5. Form and the Humanistic Aesthetic Chapter 6. Fiction, History, and Empirical Reality: The Hourglass and the Sands of TimePart III. A Systematic Extension Chapter 7. The Aesthetic as the Anthropological: The Breath of the Word and the Weight of the World Chapter 8. Poetics Reconstructed: The Presence of the PoemIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Poetic Presence and Illusion
Book SynopsisOrignally published in 1979. Poetic Presence and Illusion brings together Krieger's speculation on literature and its effect on the reader. The poem, Krieger argues, is an illusionary presence and an ever-present illusion. It exists for the reader, like a drama before an audience, only within an illusionary context. But the illusion should not be taken lightly as a false substitute for reality. It is itself a real and positive force: it is what we see and, as such, is constitutive of our reality, even if our critical faculty de-constitutes that reality by viewing it as no more than an illusion. The coupling of poetic presence and poetic illusion serves to describe the relationship between poetry as metaphor and the reader's sense of personal and poetic reality. Krieger examines the workings of selected Renaissance and contemporary poems with regard to this dual nature and evaluates the work of literary critics (himself included) who have been concerned with this doubleness. Poetic PresTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I. Critical HistoryChapter 1. Poetic Presence and Illusion I: Renaissance Theory and the Duplicity of Metaphor Chapter 2. Jacopo Mazzoni, Repository of Diverse Critical Traditions or Source of a New One? Chapter 3. Shakespeare and the Critic's Idolatry of the WordChapter 4. Fiction, Nature, and Literary Kinds in Johnson's Criticism of Shakespeare Chapter 5. "Trying Experiments upon Our Sensibility": The Art of Dogma and Doubt in Eighteenth-Century Literature Chapter 6. The Critical Legacy of Matthew Arnold; or, The Strange Brotherhood of T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards, and Northrop Frye Chapter 7. Reconsideration-The New Critics Chapter 8. The Theoretical Contributions of Eliseo Vivas Chapter 9. The Tragic Vision Twenty Years After Part II. Critical Theory Chapter 10. Poetic Presence and Illusion II: Formalist Theory and the Duplicity of MetaphorChapter 11. Literature vs. Ecriture: Constructions and Deconstructions in Recent Critical TheoryChapter 12. Literature as Illusion, as Metaphor, as VisionChapter 13. Theories about Theories about Theory of CriticismChapter 14. A Scorecard for the CriticsChapter 15. Literature, Criticism, and Decision TheoryChapter 16. Mediation, Language, and Vision in the Reading of LiteratureChapter 17. Literary Analysis and Evaluation-and the Ambidextrous CriticIndex of Names
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Johns Hopkins University Press Marxism and Deconstruction
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1982. Aside from Jacques Derrida's own references to the possible articulation between deconstruction and Marxism, the relationship between the two has remained largely unexplored. In Marxism and Deconstruction, Michael Ryan examines that multifaceted relationship but not through a mere comparison of two distinct and inviolable entities. Instead, he looks at both with an eye to identifying their common elements and reweaving them into a new theory of political practice. To accomplish his task, Ryan undertakes a detailed comparison of deconstruction and Marxism, relating deconstruction to the dialectical tradition in philosophy and demonstrating how deconstruction can be used in the critique of ideology. He is a forceful critic of both the politics of deconstruction and the metaphysical aspect of Marxism (as seen from a deconstructionist perspective). Besides offering the first book-length study of Derrida in this context, Ryan makes the first methodic attempt byTable of ContentsAbbreviationsPreface Introduction Chapter 1. Deconstruction: A Primer, A Critique, The Politics OfChapter 2. Marx and DerridaChapter 3. Deconstruction and Dialectics Chapter 4. The Limits of CapitalChapter 5. From Derrida to Habermas and Beyond, via LacanChapter 6. The Metaphysics of Everyday LifeChapter 7. Reason and Counterrevolution Chapter 8. Marxism After DeconstructionChapter 9. Postleninist Marxism – Socialist Feminism and Autonomy NotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Whole Lives
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1989. In this companion volume to the acclaimed Pure Lives, Reed Whittemore probes the often-complex motives behind the relationships of modern biographers to their subjects. Whittemore's description of biography's uneven path toward comprehensive character study begins with Thomas Carlyle, whose biography of Frederick the Great broke with tradition by tracing the roots of its subject's character to childhood trauma. (A strict disciplinarian, Frederick's father once considered having his rebellious teenage son executed.) Whittemore examines the work of Leslie Stephen, the Dictionary of National Biography's first editor, who admired Carlyle but disliked his styleand was convinced that Carlyle disliked him. And in a chapter on Sigmund Freud, Whittemore traces the revolution in writing biography that began with Freud's speculations on the nature and origin of Leonardo da Vinci's homosexuality. Few have escaped Freud's influence. While Leon Edel argues that biographTrade ReviewNot only captures the ambiguities inherent in the genre but also demonstrates its potential rewards in a brilliant tour de force, informative, unapologetically opinionated and a pleasure to read.—New York NewsdayTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Carlyle and His Great MenChapter 2. Leslie S tephen's DNB and the Woolf Rejoinders Chapter 3. Sigmund Freud and His DisciplesChapter 4. American BiographyNotesReadingsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Decomposing Figures
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1986. The ghastly fate of a drowned man brought to a lake's surface in Wordsworth's Prelude typifies a fundamental pattern in Romantic writing, argues Cynthia Chase. Disfiguration involves not only a departure from representation but a disruption of the logic of figure or form, a decomposition of the figures composing the text. Ultimately it manifests the conflict between a work's meaning and its mode of performance. By means of an intense engagement with texts in the romantic tradition, DECOMPOSING FIGURES rearticulates and recasts crucial concepts in recent literary theory, including the notion of the self-referential or self-reflexive nature of the literary work. Chase's readings show that, far from implying a privileged status, the work's self-reflexive structure entails its opacity, its inability to read itself, and the necessity of its decomposition.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Mutable Images: Voice and FigureChapter 1. The Accidents of Disfiguration Limits to Literal and Figurative Reading of Wordsworth's "Books"Chapter 2. The Ring of Gyges and the Coat of Darkness Reading Rousseau with WordsworthChapter 3. Viewless Wings Keats's Ode to a NightingaleChapter 4. Giving a Face to a Name De Man's FiguresChapter 5. Getting Versed Reading Hegel with BaudelairePart II: Past Effects: The Double Reading of NarrativeChapter 6. Mechanical Doll, Exploding Machine Kleist's Models of NarrativeChapter 7. The Decomposition of the Elephants Double-Reading Daniel DerondaChapter 8. Oedipal Textuality Reading Freud's Reading of OedipusChapter 9. Paragon, Parergon Baudelaire Translates RousseauNotes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Subjective Criticism
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1981. The meaning and objectives of literature, argues David Bleich, are created by the reader, who depends on community consensus to validate his or her judgements. Bleich proposes that the study of English be consciously reoriented from a knowledge-finding to a knowledge-making enterprise. This involves a new explanation of language acquisition in childhood, a psychologically disciplined concept of linguistic and literary response, and a recognition of the intellectual authority of pedagogical communities to originate and establish knowledge. Amplifying his theoretical model with subjective responses drawn from his own classroom experience, Bleich suggests ways in which the study of language and literature can become more fully integrated with each person's responsibility for what he or she knows.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. The Subjective ParadigmChapter 2. The Motivational Character of Language and Symbol FormationChapter 3. The Logic of InterpretationChapter 4. Epistemological Assumptions in the Study of ResponseChapter 5. The Pedagogical Development of KnowledgeChapter 6. The Relative Negotiability of Response StatementsChapter 7. Acts of Taste and Changes of TasteChapter 8. The Construction of Literary MeaningChapter 9. The Conception and Documentation of the AuthorChapter 10. Collective Interests and the Definition of Literary RegularitiesConclusion. Knowledge, Responsibility, and CommunityIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Age of Analogy
Book SynopsisHow did literature shape nineteenth-century science?Erasmus Darwin and his grandson, Charles, were the two most important evolutionary theorists of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Although their ideas and methods differed, both Darwins were prolific and inventive writers: Erasmus composed several epic poems and scientific treatises, while Charles is renowned both for his collected journals (now titled The Voyage of the Beagle) and for his masterpiece, The Origin of Species. In The Age of Analogy, Devin Griffiths argues that the Darwins' writing style was profoundly influenced by the poets, novelists, and historians of their era. The Darwins, like other scientists of the time, labored to refashion contemporary literary models into a new mode of narrative analysis that could address the contingent world disclosed by contemporary natural science. By employing vivid language and experimenting with a variety of different genres, these writers gave rise to a new relational study Trade Review[A] serious, detailed, and convincing account with few unexplored avenues. Recommended.—ChoiceThe Age of Analogy represents a valuable contribution to scholarship on literature and science. Building on the established models of new historicism and of Gillian Beer's foundational work on Darwinism, it nonetheless offers something new by asking researchers in this field to think more carefully about the kinds of historicism that operate both in their own work and in nineteenth-century literary and scientific writing.—Review of English StudiesThe Age of Analogy is perhaps the most ambitious and important book on the entanglement of nineteenth-century scientific culture and literature to have been written this century—in a field of highly ambitious and truly important books. But it also elucidates the entanglement of nineteenth-century culture with our own, bringing light to contemporary historicist practices, particularly in literary studies.—IsisFor those interested in either of the intertwined histories of literature and science—or in what we might more generously call the intellectual culture of the 1780s through the 1850s—Griffiths' book is both readable and richly rewarding.—Review 19This ambitious work should shape future thinking about historicism, science and literature in the nineteenth century and beyond in new and significant ways. Griffiths deserves to be congratulated on having achieved this and, in the process, on having written some of the best recent criticism on Charles Darwin and George Eliot in particular, which is no mean feat in itself.—British Society for Literature and ScienceThe book is well written and the richness of the study is impressive. It is precisely because of this wide-ranging approach that The Age of Analogy demonstrates so convincingly that, while the scholarship on analogy is not new, Griffiths takes it to another level where he explores events in a pluralist state of time. This, he terms comparative historicism. As such, The Age of Analogy makes a valuable contribution to the humanities and sciences.—MetascienceThe Age of Analogy promises to transform our understanding of literary and scientific history in the Anthropocene. This is a big, challenging, eloquent book. I cannot recommend it highly enough.—Nineteenth-Century ContextsAs Griffiths builds his argument and examines his literary examples, he, in effect, applies the analogical paradigm he theorized in the opening chapters, generating a compelling set of insights into modes of thought that circulated in the first half of the nineteenth century, some of which continue to shape and define our own times. A necessary intervention.—Journal of British Studies[A] deeply impressive book.—SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900Ambitious in its scope and vision and eloquently written, The Age of Analogy is a challenging and thought-provoking study that gives us new and enriching ways to read nineteenth-century intellectual history—Dickens QuarterlyWhat is exhilarating about The Age of Analogy is its bold insistence upon the utility of imaginative literary form as an active agent in science, with the power not only to reflect knowledge of the world but to add to it as well.—Literature and HistoryA book of enormous erudition, especially for a first book. Great books change how criticism does its business, this happens far more rarely than one might think.—Wordsworth CircleThe Age of Analogy promises to transform our understanding of literary and scientific history in the Anthropocene. This is a big, challenging, eloquent book. I cannot recommend it highly enough.—Nineteenth-Century ContextsDevin Griffith's multifaceted, richly textured The Age of Analogy argues that the nineteenth century saw the emergence of a new mode of engaging with history—'comparative historicism'—that increasingly fostered what Griffiths calls a 'flat' view of temporal existence. Griffith's method exemplifies the same kind of analogical reasoning that his book investigates. In most cases, it does this with remarkable success, furnishing the field of Victorian science and literature with some truly fresh inspiration and insight.—Victorian StudiesIt is clarifying and invigorating to have a scholar as searching and well-read as Devin Griffiths address the problem of analogy head on. He ambitiously tracks analogy as an evolving mode of thought during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing on analogy as a method central to the emerging field of comparative historicism . . . The Age of Analogy is an impressive book that refuses to shy away from a topic as daunting as analogy just because it threatens to become unwieldy. Griffiths is unusually generous in the alacrity with which he maps the questions that interest him onto a huge range of scholarly fields, including linguistics, mathematics, publishing history, botany, comparative anatomy, astronomy, and musical theory.—Anna Henchman, Boston University, Victorian ReviewThe Age of Analogy brims with original arguments and demonstrates Griffiths's impressive range and dexterity in a wide variety of fields and discourses.—Adam Sneed, Southwest Tennessee Community College, Studies in RomanticismDevin Griffiths's excellent The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature between the Darwins makes a compelling case for the importance of literary language to the development of scientific theory and practice . . . [The Age of Analogy] demonstrates an encyclopedic grasp of everything from set theory to Saussurian semiotics . . . As Griffiths so masterfully demonstrates, analogy helps us extend our imaginative apprehension of the world's past and present—as well as its possible futures.—Ella Mershon, Marquette University, Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Analogy under a Different FormPrelude: Thinking through Analogy1. Erasmus Darwin, Enlightenment History, and the Crisis of Analogy2. Crossing the Border with Walter Scott3. Spooky Action in Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam A. H. H.4. Falsifying George Eliot5. The Origin of Charles Darwin's OrchidsCoda: Climate Science and the "No-Analog Future"NotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Artifacts
Book SynopsisA literary history of the old, broken, rusty, dusty, and moldy stuff that people dug up in England during the long eighteenth century. In the eighteenth century, antiquarieswary of the biases of philosophers, scientists, politicians, and historiansused old objects to establish what they claimed was a true account of history. But just what could these small, fragmentary, frequently unidentifiable things, whose origins were unknown and whose worth or meaning was not self-evident, tell people about the past?In Artifacts, Crystal B. Lake unearths the four kinds of old objects that were most frequently found and cataloged in Enlightenment-era England: coins, manuscripts, weapons, and grave goods. Following these prized objects as they made their way into popular culture, Lake develops new interpretations of works by Joseph Addison, John Dryden, Horace Walpole, Jonathan Swift, Tobias Smollett, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, among others. Rereading these authors with the artifact in Trade ReviewWhile this review singles out only a few, Lake's examination of the narratives generated by many eighteenth-century first responders to coins, weapons, manuscripts and grave goods, is thorough and illuminating, as are her detailed and scholarly readings of literary texts where artifacts shape form and content.—Frances Singh, Hostos Community College, CUNY (emerita), Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer[A] engaging and thought-provoking study.—Kate Smith, University of Birmingham, Journal of British Studies..., the book is a powerful reminder of the nuances that paying more attention to objects can bring to the study of the intersections between literature and politics in the long eighteenth century.—Giacomo Savani, University College Dublin, Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations AcknowledgmentsPrologue. Things Speaking for ThemselvesPart I. Terms and ContextsChapter 1. Leaving Room to Guess Chapter 2. Ten Thousand GimcracksPart II. Case StudiesChapter 3. Coins: The Most Vocal Monuments Chapter 4. Manuscripts: Burnt to a Crust Chapter 5. Weapons: A Wilderness of Arms Chapter 6. Grave Goods: The Kings' Four BodiesAfterword. The Artifactual FormNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Cryptographic Imagination
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1996. In The Cryptographic Imagination, Shawn Rosenheim uses the writings of Edgar Allan Poe to pose a set of questions pertaining to literary genre, cultural modernity, and technology. Rosenheim argues that Poe's cryptographic writinghis essays on cryptography and the short stories that grew out of themrequires that we rethink the relation of poststructural criticism to Poe's texts and, more generally, reconsider the relation of literature to communication. Cryptography serves not only as a template for the language, character, and themes of much of Poe's late fiction (including his creation, the detective story) but also as a secret history of literary modernity itself. Both postwar fiction and literary criticism, the author writes, are deeply indebted to the rise of cryptography in World War II. Still more surprising, in Rosenheim's view, Poe is not merely a source for such literary instances of cryptography as the codes in Conan Doyle's The Dancing-Men or inTrade ReviewA masterful and imaginative work which is truly Poe-like in its fascination with cryptography, ciphers, and codes. Poe takes his place as the first postmodern thinker, a precursor of such figures as Pynchon, Borges, and William Gibson.—Errol Morris, director of The Thin Blue Line and A Brief History of TimeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: GenresChapter 1: The King of Secret Readers Chapter 2: Secret Writing as Alchemy: Recoding DefoeChapter 3: Detective Fiction and the Analytic Sublime Chapter 4: Dark Fiber: Cryptography, Telegraphy, Science FictionPart 2: EffectsChapter 5: Resurrexi: Poe in the Crypt of Lizzie DotenChapter 6: Deciphering the Cold War: Toward a Literary History of Espionage Chapter 7: Ciphering the Net Coda: Strange Loops and Talking BirdsAppendix: Public-Key Cryptography Notes Glossary Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Modernisms Metronome
Book SynopsisDespite meter's recasting as a rigid metronome, diverse modern poet-critics refused the formal ideologies of free verse through complex engagements with traditional versification. In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as an automated metronome to be transcended by new rhythmic practices of free verse. Yet meter remained in the archives, poems, letters, and pedagogy of modern poets and critics. In Modernism's Metronome, Ben Glaser revisits early twentieth-century poetics to uncover a wide range of metrical practice and theory, upending our inherited story about the breaking of meter and rise of free verse.Trade ReviewModernism's Metronome is an extremely learned book.—Scarlett Higgins, University of New Mexico, American Literary ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Modernist Scansion: Robert Frost's Distorted VernacularChapter 2. Penty Ladies: T. S. Eliot, Satire, and the Gender of Modern MeterChapter 3. "No Feet to Walk On": Pound's Late Victorian ProsodyChapter 4. Metristes: Formal Feeling in Sara Teasdale, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Louise BoganChapter 5. The Prosody of Passing: Jean Toomer and James Weldon JohnsonChapter 6. Folk Iambics: Sterling Brown's Outline for the Study of the Poetry of American NegroesConclusion. Prosody after FormAppendix. Scansion and Metrical NotationNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Modernisms Metronome
Book SynopsisDespite meter's recasting as a rigid metronome, diverse modern poet-critics refused the formal ideologies of free verse through complex engagements with traditional versification. In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as an automated metronome to be transcended by new rhythmic practices of free verse. Yet meter remained in the archives, poems, letters, and pedagogy of modern poets and critics. In Modernism's Metronome, Ben Glaser revisits early twentieth-century poetics to uncover a wide range of metrical practice and theory, upending our inherited story about the breaking of meter and rise of free verse.Trade ReviewModernism's Metronome is an extremely learned book.—Scarlett Higgins, University of New Mexico, American Literary ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Modernist Scansion: Robert Frost's Distorted VernacularChapter 2. Penty Ladies: T. S. Eliot, Satire, and the Gender of Modern MeterChapter 3. "No Feet to Walk On": Pound's Late Victorian ProsodyChapter 4. Metristes: Formal Feeling in Sara Teasdale, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Louise BoganChapter 5. The Prosody of Passing: Jean Toomer and James Weldon JohnsonChapter 6. Folk Iambics: Sterling Brown's Outline for the Study of the Poetry of American NegroesConclusion. Prosody after FormAppendix. Scansion and Metrical NotationNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Before the Raj
Book SynopsisAnglo-India's regional literature was both a practical and imaginative response to a pivotal period in the early colonialism of South Asia. Awarded as Honorable Mention of the Louis Gottschalk Prize by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS). Shortlisted for the Kenshur Prize by the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University, John Ben Snow Prize by the North American Conference on British Studies, Marilyn Gaull Book Award by the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association. During the later decades of the eighteenth century, a rapid influx of English-speaking Europeans arrived in India with an interest in expanding the creation and distribution of anglophone literature. At the same time, a series of military, political, and economic successes for the British in Asia created the first global crisis to shepherd in an international system of national ideologies. In this study of colonial literary production, James Mulholland proposes that the East India Company Trade ReviewBy excavating [archives] and reading it from new theoretical positions (like translocal regionalism and middle reading), Mulholland is giving us a shing example in how to engage in that kind of scholarship in Before for Raj.—Eighteenth-Century IntelligencerTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Spelling and UsageIntroduction. Translocal Anglo-IndiaChapter 1. A Cultural Company-State and the Colonial Public SphereChapter 2. Newspaper Poetry and Reading Publics in Eighteenth-Century IndiaChapter 3. The Vagrant Muse: Making Reputation across EurasiaChapter 4. Undoing Britain in Bengal Chapter 5. Tristram Shandy in BombayChapter 6. Agonies of Empire: Captivity Narratives and the Mysore Wars, 1767–1799Chapter 7. Literary Culture of Colonial Outposts: Penang, Sumatra, and Java, 1771–1816NotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Imagination and Science in Romanticism
Book SynopsisHow did the idea of the imagination impact Romantic literature and science?2018 Winner, Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize, The International Conference on RomanticismRichard C. Sha argues that scientific understandings of the imagination indelibly shaped literary Romanticism. Challenging the idea that the imagination found a home only on the side of the literary, as a mental vehicle for transcending the worldly materials of the sciences, Sha shows how imagination helped to operationalize both scientific and literary discovery. Essentially, the imagination forced writers to consider the difference between what was possible and impossible while thinking about how that difference could be known. Sha examines how the imagination functioned within physics and chemistry in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, neurology in Blake's Vala, or The Four Zoas, physiology in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, and obstetrics and embryology in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. He also demonstrates howTrade ReviewThis impressive monograph will remain, I suspect, the most important resource on Romantic literature and science for many decades to come. This book changes how we view not only Romanticism but also the broader relationship between literature and science.—Eighteenth-Century FictionA fascinating read and discovery of literary and scientific interconnections.—Review of English StudiesFor Sha, the concept of imagination is the key to unlocking relations between science and literature, since the faculty was viewed as central to scientific inquiry and literary creativity alike. Sha demonstrates that scientific thinkers, far from being antipathetic to the imagination, repeatedly indulged it and then tested its results experimentally. [I am] grateful for many penetrating insights in Sha's book.—Studies in RomanticismRichard C. Sha's exemplary Imagination and Science in Romanticism centers the Romantic imagination within scientific ways of knowing. Each chapter contains intriguing and thorough discussions of science, and subtle, detailed readings of literary texts. There is a wealth of wonderfully collated material here and fine-grained contextualization; readers interested in Romanticism and science will find the individual chapters rewarding.—Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900Richard Sha's Imagination and Science in Romanticism is required reading for anyone interested in the relations between Romantic science and literature.—Tilottama Rajan, The Wordsworth CircleImagination and Science in Romanticism shifts the terms in which imaginative theory, in literature and science alike, can be understood.—British Association for Romantic Studies' Bulletin & ReviewThe evidence across chapters from both literature and science fully substantiates Sha's central claim for an expanded sense of the imagination that includes Romantic science and reason along with it. Beyond a significant contribution to criticism of Romantic literature, this book is a rich resource and model for how to do interdisciplinary scholarship well.—Kaitlin Mondello, Millersville University, H-EnvironmentTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. Imagining Dynamic Matter: Percy Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, and the Chemistry and Physics of Matter Chapter Two. William Blake and the Neurological Imagination: Romantic Science, Nerves, and the Emergent SelfChapter Three. The Physiological Imagination: Coleridge’s BiographiaChapter Four. Obstetrics and Embryology: Science and Imagination in FrankensteinNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Behaviorism Consciousness and the Literary Mind
Book SynopsisWhat might behaviorism, that debunked school of psychology, tell us about literature?If inanimate objects such as novels or poems have no mental properties of their own, then why do we talk about them as if they do? Why do we perceive the minds of characters, narrators, and speakers as if they were comparable to our own? In Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind, Joshua Gang offers a radical new approach to these questions, which are among the most challenging philosophical problems faced by literary study today. Recent cognitive criticism has tried to answer these questions by looking for similarities and analogies between literary form and the processes of the brain. In contrast, Gang turns to one of the twentieth century's most infamous psychological doctrines: behaviorism. Beginning in 1913, a range of psychologists and philosophersincluding John B. Watson, B. F. Skinner, and Gilbert Ryleargued that many of the things we talk about as mental phenomena aren't at all intTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Literary Experience and the Concept of Mind1. Behaviorism and the Beginnings of Close Reading2. Inner Sights3. Mental Acts4. The Form of ThoughtCoda. Observations and/or ReflectionsNotesWorks CitedIndex
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