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Palgrave Macmillan Shakespeares Irrational Endings
Book SynopsisProblem Plays'' has been an awkward category for those Shakespeare plays that don''t fit the conventional groupings. Expanding from the traditional three plays to six, the book argues that they share dramatic structures designed intentionally by Shakespeare to disturb his audience by frustrating their expectations.Trade Review"Because of its lucidity, clarity, and textually focused detail, the discussion is ideal for undergraduates, which is not to undervalue its scholarship . . . Margolies's insistence upon the importance of emotional response contributes usefully to a renewed critical interest in aesthetics and performance in early modern studies." - New Theatre Quarterly "Shakespeare's Irrational Endings offers an unparalleled history of both the concept and status of problem plays. As well as the traditional trio, Margolies includes Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, and Othello in the 'problem play' category. These six works, Margolies argues, are designed to unsettle and worry Shakespeare's audiences by offering them appropriate formal outcomes marriages or deaths without the expected emotional release." - Notes and QueriesTable of ContentsPreface Introduction All's Well That Ends Well Much Ado about Nothing Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice Troilus and Cressida Othello Conclusion Notes Index
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Palgrave Macmillan British Romanticism and the Catholic Question
Book SynopsisThe debate over extending full civil rights to British and Irish Catholics not only preoccupied British politics but also informed the romantic period''s most prominent literary works. This book offers the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of Catholic Emancipation, one of the romantic period''s most contentious issues.Trade Review'The meticulous research and probing readings in Michael Tomko's book show how unsettling the issue of Catholic Emancipation was for the major writers of the Romantic periods. It is a stunning contribution to our larger sense of the complexity surrounding issues of toleration and secularization; still more, it makes the most convincing case yet for Catholicism's centrality in Romantic politics and literary production.' - Professor Mark Canuel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA 'This is a rich and rewarding study...The reader comes away with a refreshed, more complicated picture of nineteenth-century romanticism, a thorough understanding of the "Catholic Question" and its controversial nature, and much encouragement to consider the role of religious identity in the formation of nation-states.' - Maria Lamonaca, New Books on Literature 19 '...thoughtful study...' -True Principles 'Though not the final word on the subject, Tomko's book has the clear merit of persuading readers of its importance. It will also provide them with a strong encyclopaedic basis and with possible reading strategies on which to base their own investigations into an unduly neglected aspect of British Romantic culture.' - Raphaël Ingelbien, University of LeuvenTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Spirits of the Age The Purgatorial Politics of the Catholic Question History, Sympathy, and Sectarianism in Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story Wordsworth and Superstition Shelley's Conflicted Campaign for Catholic Emancipation Scott's Ivanhoe and the Saxon Question Conclusion: 'The Anxious Hour'— England in 1829 Works Cited Notes Index
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Palgrave Macmillan The Culture of the Publishers Series Volume 2
Book SynopsisThis volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade relationships. Studies focus on issues such as the fabrication of a national canon, and on the book in war-time, the evolution of Catholic literature, imperial traditions and colonial libraries.Trade Review'An invaluable and engrossing re-evaluation of the Publishers Series, providing stimulating international comparisons and a lasting and important contribution to modern social and cultural history' - James Raven, Professor in Modern History, University of Essex, UK 'The phenomenon of the publisher's series - so central to 18th and 19th-century publishing and reading practices - has never before been considered so fully. In the sheer breadth of the new material they encompass, enabling comparisons across time and space, these volumes will prove invaluable to students and scholars alike.' - Mary Hammond, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Southampton, UKTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction. Wondering about 'the Causes of Causes'. The Publisher's Series, its Cultural Work and Meanings PART II: The Series, the Academy, and the World; J.Spiers The American Publisher's Series Goes to War, 1942-1946, J.B.Hench The Spanish Collections of Herder Verlag: International Catholic Literature; A.C.Viro Adamantios Korais' The Greek Library (1805-1827): An Ingenious Publisher and The Making of a Nation; N.Yakovaki Fabricating a National Canon: The Role of Richard Bentley and George Robertson in Developing and Marketing the Australian Library; A.Rukavina Series for Women in 19th Century Netherlandsl; L.Kuitert Leonard Bast's Library: Aspiration, Emulation and the Imperial National Tradition; R.Fraser Negotiating the List: Launching Macmillan's Colonial Library and Author Contracts; S.Towheed Household Words: An Account of the 'Bengal Family Library'; A.Gupta Great Books by the Millions: J. M. Dent's 'Everyman Library'; T.I.Seymour 'The Green and the Gold': Publisher's Series in 19th-century Ireland; E.Tilley One Series After Another: The Macmillan Company of Canada; R.Panofsky Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Narratives of Child Neglect in Romantic and Victorian Culture
Book SynopsisContextualizing the topos of the neglected child within a variety of discourses, this book challenges the assumption that the early nineteenth century witnessed a clear transition from a Puritan to a liberating approach to children and demonstrates that oppressive assumptions survive in major texts considered part of the Romantic cult of childhood.Trade Review'A thoughtful work on a subject that is as urgent now as it was more than a century ago. Benziman's new conceptualization of ambivalences in educational practices and of neglect of child rights yields unexpected and at times iconoclastic insights into much studied texts.' - Professor Leona Toker, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 'Narratives of Child Neglect in Romantic and Victorian Culture is a major intervention in the history of childhood and its representations in nineteenth-century English literature. Benziman offers a fresh, compelling analysis of familiar concepts, skillfully demonstrating the persistence of older Puritan and regulative attitudes toward the literary child within texts by Blake, Wordsworth, Dickens, and others that have long been identified unambiguously with the emerging reformist and liberatory treatment of childhood during the Romantic and Victorian periods. Rigorously argued and closely attentive to historical and intellectual contexts, including social class, Benziman's study opens challenging new perspectives on the topos of the neglected child and the portrayal of child subjectivity in poetry and fiction.' - Professor John Jordan, Department of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA 'Addressing the interconnectedness of catechizing and liberating views of childhood from the Romantics to Thomas Hardy, Galia Benziman provides an important contribution to the history of child neglect in nineteenth-century England. Her attention to representations of the child voice in literary texts, combined with readings of canonical and lesser-known philosophers and writers, makes this study essential reading in the field of child studies.' - Monica Flegel, Associate Professor, Department of English, Lakehead University, CanadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Concepts of Childhood and Adult Responsibility: Locke, Rousseau, More, and Edgeworth Redeeming or Silencing the Child's Voice: Blake and Wordsworth Child Neglect as Social Vice: Trollope, Tonna, and Working-Class Subjectivity The Split Image of the Neglected Child: Dickens Aged Children and the Inevitability of Being Neglected: Hardy Works Cited Index
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Palgrave Macmillan The Other East and NineteenthCentury British Literature
Book SynopsisThe Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture. This book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to nineteenth-century British literature, offering new readings of Blake''s Europe , Byron''s Mazeppa , and Eliot''s Middlemarch , and recovering influential works by Thomas Campbell and Jane Porter.Trade Review"Turning to the profound but largely overlooked impact of Eastern Europe and Northern Asia on British literature and culture of the nineteenth century, The Other East compels us to consider another imaginative locus of the Empire on which the sun never set. The book's sensitive treatment of Poland and Russia as they are imagined and used in well-known and understudied works by the likes of Blake, Byron, Campbell, Coleridge, Conrad, Eliot, and Wollstonecraft will have scholars and students rethinking what we thought we knew about the global perspectives and reach of this era's literature. Thomas McLean's impeccably researched, highly persuasive, and original book is at once a formidable contribution to our scholarship and a delight to read." - Devoney Looser, Professor of English, University of Missouri Columbia, USA "Thomas McLean's The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire is another contribution to postcolonial studies that addresses an often-overlooked strand of British imperial discourse its representation of Eastern Europe. McLean examines the 'evolving image of the Polish exile' (p. 2) in relation to the Russian Empire in works by such Romantic and Victorian writers as Blake, Coleridge, Byron, Mary Shelley, Alfred Tennyson, George Eliot, and Conrad." - Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 "...a valuable introduction to this under-researched area of nineteenth-century literary history." - Jan J?drzejewski, New Zealand Slavonic JournalTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Other East 'That Woman, Lovely Woman! May have Dominion': Catherine the Great and Poland 'A Patriot's Furrow'd Cheek': British Responses to the 1794 Kosciuszko Uprising Hero Between Genres: Jane Porter's Thaddeus of Warsaw 'Transformed, not only altered': The Resurrection of Kosciuszko and the Arrival of Mazeppa Climate Change: Britain and Poland 1830-1849 Arms and the Circassian Woman Picturing Will: Middlemarch and the Victorian Genealogy of the Polish Hero Afterword: Conrad's Poles Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past
Book SynopsisThrough a close-reading of the work of five prominent American postmodernist writers, this book re-evaluates the role of the past in recent American fiction, outlines the development of the postmodernist historical novel and considers the waning influence of postmodernism in contemporary American literature.Trade Review'American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past offers a new and thought provoking understanding of how a crucial strain of the American historical novel has developed through the postmodern era.' - Paula Geyh, Associate Professor of English, Yeshiva University, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 'Nothing but words': Chronicling and Storytelling in Robert Coover's The Public Burning 'A world inside the world': Don DeLillo's Libra and Latent History Pynchon Plays Dice: Mason & Dixon and Quantum History 'A long list of regrettable actions': William T. Vollmann's Symbolic History 'There is only narrative': E.L. Doctorow Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Necromanticism
Book SynopsisNecromanticism is a study of literary pilgrimage: readers'' compulsion to visit literary homes, landscapes, and (especially) graves during the long Romantic period. The book draws on the histories of tourism and literary genres to highlight Romanticism''s recourse to the dead in its reading, writing, and canon-making practices.Trade Review"Necromanticism is a critically reflective, thoroughly researched, and unexpectedly upbeat study of literary necro-tourism in Britain, associated Anglo-American discourses and cultural practises, and the implications for modern scholarly interpretations of Romantic historiography, reading and canon-making." - Samantha Matthews, University of Bristol, UK ''Westover's book, then, invites a critical reflection on our understanding of 'Romanticism' itself through his thoughtful analysis of the ways in which living authors writing about dead authors are engaged in defining (even as they hope, in turn, to become defined by) the commemorative narraties that go into creating a shared literary heritage.'' - Byron Journal ''Westover intelligently synthesises perspectives from different disciplines and critical approaches to produce a distinctive reading of the cultural ramifications of trying to commune with authors' spirits in close proximity to their bodies.'' - Samantha Matthews, Uniersity of Bristol, UK "A crucial development in the field of literary tourism... Westover's book is particularly insightful in providing literary touristic practices with a theoretical underpinning... Even when Westover is stepping on trodden critical ground, he provides a fresh perspective through subtle analysis... valuable reading for nineteenth-century scholars across the disciplines of the humanities." Rebecca Butler, The BARS ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction - Traveling to Meet the Dead On Ideal Presence The Origins of Literary Tourism William Godwin, Necro-Tourism, and the Empirical Afterlife of the Dead Imaginary Pilgrimages: Felicia Hemans, Dead Poets, and Romantic Historiography Interlude: Necromanticism and Romantic Authorship The Transatlantic Invention of 'English' Literary Heritage Illustration, Historicism, and Travel: The Legacy of Sir Walter Scott Notes Works Consulted Index
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Palgrave Macmillan A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies
Book SynopsisCriticism of the work of David Foster Wallace has tended to be atomistic, focusing on a single aspect of individual works. A Companion to the Work of David Foster Wa ll ace is designed as a professional study of all of Wallace's creative work. This volume includes both thematic essays and focused examinations of each of his major works of fiction.Trade Review"A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies' academic rigour is a welcome contribution to the study of this most influential of contemporary U.S. writers." - 49th Parallel "A major collection on the work of David Foster Wallace, with essential contributions on his place in American literary history. Boswell and Burn present a stellar line-up of Wallace specialists, some of whom finally tackle issues such as gender and the importance of the Midwest." - Luc Herman, Professor of Literature, University of Antwerp, Belgium "Incisive and wide-ranging, this volume assembles some of the best critics at work today for a fascinating analysis of David Foster Wallace's writing. Alternating between fresh readings of individual texts and provocative meditations on the subjects that so occupied Wallace himself, these essays testify to Wallace's brilliance and profound influence on contemporary literature. Burn and Boswell have assembled a collection essential for anyone - from the beginning student to the serious scholar - who wants to understand more about Wallace's remarkable literary achievement." - Timothy Melley, Professor of English and Director of the Miami University Humanities Center, USA and author of The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security StateTable of ContentsPreface 1. Almost a Novel: The Broom of the System ; Patrick O'Donnell 2. A Fiction of Response: Girl with Curious Hair in Context; Kasia Boddy 3. David Foster Wallace and the Mathematics of Infinity; Roberto Natalini 4. "Webs of Nerves Pulsing and Firing': Infinite Jest and the Science of Mind; Stephen J. Burn 5. Location's Location: Placing David Foster Wallace; Paul Quinn 6. Mediated Immediacy in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men ; Mary K. Holland 7. '…': Language, Gender, and Modes of Power in the Work of David Foster Wallace; Claire Hayes-Brady 8. 'The Constant Monologue Inside Your Head': Oblivion and the Nightmare of Consciousness; Marshal Boswell 9. 'The Chains of Not Choosing': Free Will and Faith in William James and David Foster Wallace; David H. Evans 10. The Pale King , or, The White Visitation; Brian McHale 11. The Novel After David Foster Wallace; Andrew Hoberek
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Palgrave Macmillan Shakespeare and the Shrew
Book SynopsisAn investigation of the many ways that Shakespeare uses the defiant voice of the shrew. Kamaralli explores how modern performance practice negotiates the possibilities for staging these characters who refuse to conform to standards of acceptable behaviour for women, but are among Shakespeare''s bravest, wisest and most vivid creations.Table of ContentsIntroduction 'Shrewd tempters with their tongues': Historic Shrews Constance, Kate Percy, Jeanne la Pucelle, Margaret d'Anjou 'My tongue will tell the anger of my heart': Comic Shrews Adriana, Katherine, Beatrice 'Well she can persuade': Shrews Post-Comedy The Tragedies: Goneril, Emilia The not-quite Tragedies: Isabella, Marina, Paulina Conclusion 'Let her speak too' Index
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Palgrave Macmillan British Literature of the Blitz
Book SynopsisBritish Literature of the Blitz interrogates the patriotic, utopian ideal of the People''s War by analyzing conflicted representations of class and gender in literature and film. Its subtitle - Fighting the People''s War - describes how British citizens both united to fight Nazi Germany and questioned the nationalist ideology binding them together.Trade Review'One of the great achievements of [Miller's] books is the insistence on the material realities of World War II that challenged the moral consciousness of the world... A major implication of [Kristine Miller's] studies is that the next step in research on World War II British literature should relate writing from the home front to that which engages Britain's global roles in this catclysmic war.' - Phyllis Lasner, Northwestern University '...a fascinating look at a prominent but little understood chapter of European modernity...an important contribution to the study of the modern literature on war.' - Modern Fiction StudiesTable of ContentsContents List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Fighting the People's War Mobile Women in Elizabeth Bowen's War Writing Immobile Women in Rosamond Lehmann's War Writing Real Men in Henry Green's War Writing No Escape in the Detective and Spy Fiction of Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Graham Greene The Film-Minded Public Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Samuel Richardson Dress and Discourse
Book SynopsisThis book concerns itself with dress in the novels of Samuel Richardson, and how attire confirms, contributes to, or challenges the characters'' fashioning of self and the self as others (characters or readers) perceive it.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: THE BODY AND DRESS OF THOUGHT Dress and the Discourses of the Mind Dress in Eighteenth-Century Life and Literature PART II: DRESSING FOR SUCCESS WITH PAMELA Ladies, Gentlemen, and Servants: Virtue and the Domestic Ideal 'So Neat, So Clean, So Pretty!': Dressing Up Virtue Quaker, Rustic, and Fool: Masquerading with Mrs. B. PART III: WINDOWSHOPPING THE ESSENTIAL SELF WITH CLARISSA Virtuous Stays and Sexual Hoops: The Social Self 'Of Her Own Invention': Revealing the Self 'Where . . . Art is Disguised': Concealing the Self PART IV: REFASHIONING THE WORLD WITH SIR CHARLES GRANDISON 'A Conformist to Fashion': Dressing for Duty 'A Mighty Glitter': Seeing through the Veil 'Dressing in Colours': Changing the Guard Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index
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Palgrave Macmillan England in 1815
Book SynopsisAn annotated edition of an American''s engaging account of culture and politics in England during a crucial period in British history. This new edition features an extensive introduction, numerous primary-source appendices, and other critical apparatus.Trade Review"An amusing and interesting account of cultural encounter, Joseph Ballard's account provides sharp observerations on everything from architecture to Zaphna portraits, pleasure gardens to prisons, capturing the collision of high and low culture that was so characteristic of late Georgian London. Supplemented with useful editorial apparatus, it provides an excellent window into discussion and debate on British and American history and the study of cultural difference." - Kathleen Wilson, State University of New York, Stony BrookTable of ContentsIntroduction to England in 1815 Title Page and Introduction to The Journal of Joseph Ballard The Journal of Joseph Ballard: March 12- November 9, 1815
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Palgrave Macmillan Reading the Sphinx
Book SynopsisReading the Sphinx unearths buried conflicts in religion, myth, and the memory of Egypt in the West, illuminating issues of identity, inheritance, gender, and sexuality through cultural productions ranging from Herodotus to Freud.Table of ContentsThe Egyptomania Craze: From Wedgwood China to the Washington Monument Tales from the Crypt: Theories of Cultural Burial The Exquisite Corpse: Nineteenth-century Literary Revivals The Empire of the Imagination: Egypt and Esoterica Strangers in a Strange Land: Travelers in Egypt Oedipus Aegyptiacus: Egypt and Early Psychology
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Palgrave Macmillan Victorian Medicine and Social Reform
Book SynopsisVictorian Medicine and Social Reform traces Florence Nightingale s career as a reformer and Crimean war heroine. Her fame as a social activist and her writings including Notes on Nursing and Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army influenced novelists such as Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot. Their novels of social realism, in turn, influenced Nightingale''s later essays on poverty and Indian famine. This study draws original conclusions on the relationship between Nightingale s work and its historical context, gender politics, and such twenty-first-century analogues as celebrity activists Angelina Jolie, Al Gore, and Nicole Kidman.Trade Review"Victorian Medicine and Social Reform: Florence Nightingale Among the Novelistsmakes an important contribution to the study of this famous figure, not only by outlining the literary influences on Nightingale's life and letters, but by emphasizing the shifts in her rhetorical techniques according to her underlying goals for social health and reform." - Social History of Medicine"Victorian Medicine and Social Reform: Florence Nightingale among the Novelists is an original addition to the Nightingale scholarship which sees beyond stereotypical representations of the famous Crimean War heroine. Through looking closely at Nightingale s writings, Penner offers a portrait of the reformist and makes explicit how she addressed health and social problems by recurrently adapting her rhetoric to her reading public." - Miranda "Penner s new book makes an intriguingly backward historicist move: instead of placing Victorian literature in a social-historical context, Penner shows how Florence Nightingale s mission of social and medical reform reflected what Nightingale had learned from novels. Whether quarrelling with Dickens and Eliot or borrowing rhetorical moves from Gaskell, Nightingale s work talks back to fiction. Seeing Nightingale as a reader of and responder to literature adds a new dimension to our understanding of the history of Victorian medicine and social reform, both in England and the colonies." - Robyn Warhol-Down, Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English, The Ohio State University "An exemplary set of readings of key Victorian texts by George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and others, showing how microhistoricist knowledge of local and sometimes arcane debates about psychology and medicine can illuminate what these writers are up to. Penner places her central figure, Florence Nightingale, in the midst of these debates as a policy intellectual, based on hitherto unexamined archival materials, and enables us to see ideological fissures many earlier critics have missed. These fissures, in turn, are shown to structure texts such as Brontë s Villette and Eliot s Middlemarch, in surprising ways." - Lawrence Rothfield, University of Chicago, author of Vital Signs: Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction "Victorian Medicine and Social Reform is at the cutting edge of scholarship reforming traditional views of Nightingale as self-sacrificing ministering angel, rigidly moralistic bureaucrat or reclusive, isolated invalid. Thoroughly informed by the ongoing publication of Nightingale s enormous oeuvre of writings, Penner produces a ground-breaking study of Nightingale s interactions with such well-known reform novelists as George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charles Dickens, all of whom she knew personally. Rich with new insights into how Nightingale developed rhetorical and narrative strategies based on Victorian novels, Victorian Medicine and Social Reform also shines new light on the novels, particularly Eliot s famous medical novel, Middlemarch." - Mary Wilson Carpenter, Emerita, Queen s University "Penner gives us a Florence Nightingale we are glad to discover: a savvy social reformer unafraid to use the rhetorical strategies of popular fiction to promote improved health care." - Susan Squier, author of Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of BiomedicineTable of ContentsIntroduction Defending Home and Country: Florence Nightingale's Training of Domestic Detectives On Giving: Poor Law Reform, 'Work,' and 'Family' in Nightingale, Dickens, and Stretton Competing Visions: Nightingale, Eliot, and Victorian Health Reform Engaging the Victorian Reading Public: Nightingale and the Madras Famine of 1876 Epilogue
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Palgrave Macmillan The Regions of Sara Coleridges Thought
Book SynopsisThis book explores Sara Coleridge''s critical intelligence and theoretical reach. It shows her in various critical guises: editing works by her father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, commenting on her own poetry and prose, and writing diversely brilliant criticism of classical and English literature.Trade Review"The Regions of Sara Coleridge's Thought, which begins with Swaab's tidy introduction, and which has been put together mostly using Sara's private correspondence, is a treat. Swaab shows the life of one of the richest literary minds of the nineteenth century from the inside out, as it were." - European Romantic Review "In his judicious selection, astute introduction and supporting materials, Peter Swaab is Sara Coleridge's exemplary editor. The Regions of Sara Coleridge's Thought shows us a woman of genius commanding an extraordinary age and making it her own. Now all readers can discover in this enthralling selection of her writings exactly how she did so." - Nicholas Roe, Professor of English Literature, University of St. Andrews "Swaab's selection is carefully chosen and excellently arranged, and his introduction and notes provide expert guidance and further suggestions. Sara Coleridge who stands at a crossroads where so many Victorian interests intersect and who evokes particular interest at the present time has found the editor she richly deserves." - J. C. C. Mays, Professor Emeritus, University College DublinTable of ContentsSara Coleridge on Sara Coleridge Sara Coleridge on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and on Editing Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sara Coleridge in Editions of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sara Coleridge on William Wordsworth Sara Coleridge Writing for the Quarterly Review Sara Coleridge on the Literature of Earlier Times Sara Coleridge on her Contemporaries
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Palgrave Macmillan Representing the New World
Book SynopsisRepresenting the New World argues for the importance of Spain in the New World as an example of France and England in their efforts to establish colonies and suggests that this example was ambivalent and contradictory as well as surprisingly persistent in the representations of Spain in French and English texts concerning the Americas.Trade ReviewAlthough a study of rhetoric and literary texts, Hart's unique study will interest all students of the early modern age of exploration. ChoiceTable of Contents* Establishing and Questioning Empire, 1492-1547 * Uncertainty and Strife, 1548-1566 * Facing the Greatness of Spain , 1567-1588 * The Making of Permanent Colonies, 1589-1642 * Rivaling and Succeeding Spain, 1643-1713
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Palgrave Macmillan Reading Shakespeares Poems in Early Modern
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive study of early modern texts, readings, and readers of Shakespeare''s poems in print and manuscript, Reading Shakespeare''s Poems in Early Modern England makes a compelling contribution both to Shakespeare studies and the history of the book. Examining gendered readerships and the use of erotic works, reading practises and manuscript culture, textual forms and transmission, literary taste and the canonisation of Shakespeare, this book argues that historicist criticism can no longer ignore histories of reading.Trade Review'Roberts' study of the early modern reception of Shakespeare's poems challenges current assumptions about textual authority as well as aesthetic taste. In her use of manuscript miscellanies, marginalia, and often neglected printed works to reveal the diverse agencies of readers, Roberts contributes significantly to the history of the book'. - Mary Ellen Lamb 'In this gem of a study, Sasha Roberts uses the early modern history of the publication, manuscript transmission, and reading of Shakespeare's poems to demonstrate the remarkable flexibility of these works in a literary system that encouraged recipients and collectors of texts to appropriate them for their own serious or recreational uses... This study is a very important contribution to early modern literary studies'. - Professor Arthur F.Marotti, Wayne State University 'Sasha Roberts details the enormous variety and creativity of early modern readers, documenting a range of attitudes and practices including anthologising and 'commonplacing' which shed new light on our notions of interpretation and canon formation...This book is an important contribution to the reception history of the Sonnets as well as the narrative poems, arguing for the importance of local and intertextual readings over the 'grand critical narratives' favoured by modern approaches. It will change our sense of the history of literature and literacy in the seventeenth century' - Ann Thompson, King's College London 'This is an original, lively, and consequential book. Sasha Roberts has provided a richly textured account of the transmission and reception of Shakespeare's poems in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She has uncovered and engagingly presented a remarkable record of how early readers responded to the poetry. But this is not merely an exercise, however fascinating, in reception history; it is also, and more importantly, a crucial episode in the shaping of an early modern literary culture and a significant chapter in the history of reading itself'. - David Scott Kastan, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in Humanities, Columbia University 'Sasha Roberts's book makes a valuable contribution to a little-explored field.' - H.R. Woudhuysen, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Ladies Reading 'Bawdy Geare': Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis , and the Early Modern Woman Reader Light Literature and Gentlemen Readers: Venus and Adonis , Textual Transmission, and the Construction of Poetic Meaning The Malleable Poetic Text: Narrative, Authorship, and the Transmission of Lucrece Textual Transmission and the Transformation of Desire: The Sonnets , A Lover's Complaint and The Passionate Pilgrim Afterword Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination
Book SynopsisThis book reconstitutes the category of 'space' as a crucial element within contemporary cultural, literary and historical studies in Ireland.Trade Review'In this book, Gerry Smyth revises the conventional discussions of time and place, history and geography in Irish writing by elaborating this subtle and adventurous exploration of Bachelardian space. This innovatory approach lends light and depth to his critique of Irish cultural history and opens possibilities for a reformulation of the ways in which the interrelations between history and literature have been understood.' - Seamus Deane, Notre Dame University, Illinois 'Over the last decade, the celebrated Irish obsession with place seems to have shifted into a concern with space. Fuelled by the greater mobility of the population, in and out of Ireland, a new attention to the Irish 'diaspora', and by the economic prosperity that has recast Irish relations to global affairs, this concern with space speaks to a significant transformation in Irish cultural sensibilities. This phenomenon is evident in literature, film, music and in vernacular culture....This book surely makes a vital contribution to the 'cognitive mapping' of Ireland in the new century.' - David Lloyd, Scripps University, CaliforniaTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Aphorisms and Definitions Preface Acknowledgements Irish Cultural Studies and the Re-emergence of Spatial Analysis Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination The Location of Criticism, or, Putting the 'I' into Ireland Big Mistakes in Small Places: Internal and External Space in Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark Show Me the Way to Go Home: Space and Place in the Music of U2 Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage
Book SynopsisSpatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage offers a timely alternative to theatre criticism''s neglect of the intensely spatial character of theatrical performance. The book shows that early modern audiences were highly aware of the spatial aspects of the stage. West examines the ways Jacobean dramatists used stage space to explore the spatial transformations of early modern society - social mobility, wandering populations, rural enclosure, sea travel, localized empirical thought. Dramas by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Webster are scrutinized for their treatment of these controversial themes.Trade Review'This brilliant, theoretically complex book is a welcome addition to the growing body of renaissance critical discourse on social space and its relationship to the literary and cultural environment of the early modern period...The book's final chapter is astonishingly original and will hopefully point the way ahead for other reaissance scholarship into space and literature...This section, like other approaches in the book, is given impetus by West's determination to constantly renegotiate the terms of spatial inquiry in this highly impressive work.' - Early Modern Literary Studies '...produces genuinely fascinating insights, which only such an excellent fusion of cultural history and theatre studies as West offers us here could hope to achieve.' - Bernhard Klein, ZAATable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Editions Used Introduction: Staging Space Stage-Space in the Jacobean Age The Sun King: James I and the Court Masque The Dumb God: Money as an Engine for Mobility Mean Persons and Counterfeit Port: Social Mobility Masterless Men and Shifting Knavery: Demographic Mobility Travelling Thoughts: Travel on the Stage Local Thought: Intellectual and Subjective Mobility Coda: Drama and the Appropriation of Social Space Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Mary Wollstonecrafts Social and Aesthetic Philosophy
Book SynopsisMary Wollstonecraft''s Social and Aesthetic Philosophy examines attempts to revise representations of women to give them a more active role in public life. Combining history of ideas with close textual reading to position her in relation to other eighteenth century writers this book demonstrates how she is directly engaged in re-thinking key concepts in moral aesthetic and social philosophy, particularly where women are concerned. Bahar insists that Wollstonecraft''s political claims cannot be separated from her desire to develop more convincing aesthetic representations of women.Trade Review'Saba Bahar develops an original argument that...compellingly demonstrates the importance of Wollstonecraft's literary output within the broader rubric of her political theory. As such, it marks a serious advance in our understanding of Wollstonecraft, and should be read by historians of political thought interested in the emergence of modern feminism.' - Daniel O'Neill, University of Florida, History of Political ThoughtTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 'An Eve to Please Me:' Mary Wollstonecraft and the 'Public Woman' The Old Abelard: Or, HéloIse Among the Immodest Philosopher Making Novel Creatures Wants of Women Conclusion Bibliography
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Palgrave Macmillan Literature Geography and the Postmodern Poetics of Place
Book SynopsisUsing contemporary literary representations of place, this study focuses on works that have participated in the emergence of new conceptions of place and new place-based identities. The analyses draw on research in cultural geography, cognitive science, urban sociology, and globalization studies.Table of ContentsPhenomenological Place Place, Subjectivity, and the Humanist Tradition Samuel Beckett and the Postmodern Loss of Place The Social Production of Place Poststructuralism and the Resistance to Place Beur Fiction and the Banlieue Crisis Postcolonial Place Place After Postcolonial Studies Evolution in/of the Caribbean Landscape Narrative Landscape, Map, and Vertical Integration
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The English Jacobin Novel on Rights Property and the Law
Book SynopsisThe English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law is a study of the radical novel's critique of the evolving social contract in the 1790s.Trade Review'Johnson's argument goes straight to the heart of novel studies: fiction privileged property as the basis of enfranchisement and so limited the democratizing process it envisioned. The genius of her book is to come at this paradox through the curious body of fiction written during the period following revolutions in North America and France for the expressed purpose of exposing the limits of the Lockean model of government. This strikingly fresh look at the Jacobin novel shows it embracing fiction as culture's most powerful political medium and challenging the premises of modern nation building. In focusing on these particular novels, she therefore deals with the very topics that preoccupy scholars who read and write about fiction in any epoch, namely, the gendered identity of citizenship, the restriction of political agency, and the difficulty of imagining a future of collective transformation.' - Nancy Armstrong, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor, Brown University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Narrativizing a Critique of the Contract Debating Rights, Property and the Law Envisaging the New Citizen Acquiring Political Agency Bestowing the Mantle Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Tennyson
Book SynopsisTennyson is the most important English poet of the Victorian age. He knew its key figures and was deeply involved in its science, religion, philosophy and politics. The Palgrave Literary Dictionary for the first time gives easily accessible information, under more than 400 headings, on his poetry, his circle, the period and its contexts.Trade Review'This dictionary, as wide as an encyclopedia, is sure to be often consulted as a reliable and enjoyable source of information.' - Reference Reviews Journal 'This very useful book gives a near complete account of all Tennyson's works and all the people he knew...Much industry, knowledge and research has gone into the making of the excellent dictionary.' - Lincolnshire History and Archaeology '...it is certainly the case that, with this dictionary, the editors' encyclopaedic knowledge has placed all Tennysonians in their debt and provided a work of reference to which we shall all have profitable recourse for the forseeable future.' - The Tennyson SocietyTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Foreword Acknowledgements Preface Entries A-Z Bibliography
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Palgrave Macmillan Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel
Book SynopsisVictorian domestic novels routinely detect a savage otherness lurking within the English state and subject. Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel charts the development of this irony within evangelical and anthropological discourses and studies its emergence in the major works of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, and George Meredith. Each of these writers disrupts the certitudes of imperial ideology by appropriating the language of ethnography and using it to describe the social domestic field. Providing fresh readings of both canonical and neglected novels, this original volume will be of interest to students and scholars of Nineteenth-Century literature and Postcolonial studies.Trade Review'Tim Carens' Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel makes a commanding contribution to the burgeoning study of the reflux of imperialism in metropolitan England. He brilliantly discovers how the ideologies of an imperial civilizing mission variously manifest themselves as they return to invest personal relations at home. His sense of the precariousness of such home missions, founded as they were on the unstable binaries of the empire itself, arms a discussion of major texts from the entire nineteenth century with important new insights - and with penetrating wit before the spectacle of one culture's attempt to set itself above and beyond general humanity.' - Professor John Maynard, New York University, USATable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Bridging the Divide Strange Relations: Evangelical and Anthropological Roots of Imperial Anxiety The Juggernaut Roles in England: The Idol of Patriarchal Authority in Jane Eyre and The Egoist Failed Colonies in Africa and England: Civilizing Despair in Bleak House Mutinous Outbreaks in The Moonstone Portions Wholly Savage: Ongoing Reforms at Home and Abroad Notes Works Cited Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Defining Literary Criticism
Book SynopsisOutlining the controversies that have surrounded the academic discipline of English Literature since its institutionalization in the late nineteenth century, this important book draws on a range of archival sources.Trade Review'Thoughtful, well written and offering fresh perspectives on writers as diverse as A. C. Bradley and Virginia Woolf...[a] delightful book.' - Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: INSTITUTIONS Histories of English: The Critical Background English in the Universities PART TWO: PHILOSOPHIES AND PRACTITIONERS Critics and Professors Criticism and the Modernists: Woolf, Murry, Orage Methods and Institutions: Eliot, Richards and Leavis PART THREE: CURRENT DEBATES Revising English: Theory and Practice Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Reenchantment of NineteenthCentury Fiction
Book SynopsisList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction The Cockney and the Prostitute: Dickens, Pickwick Papers , and Oliver Twist The Pathos of Distance: Thackeray, Serialization, and Vanity Fair Dickens Breaks Out: The Public Readings and Little Dorrit A Dance of Indecision: George Eliot's Shorter Fiction The Production of Belief: The Serial, Middlemarch Epilogue: The Sacred Monster: The Serial Novelists' Reenchantments Notes Bibliography IndexTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction The Cockney and the Prostitute: Dickens, Pickwick Papers , and Oliver Twist The Pathos of Distance: Thackeray, Serialization, and Vanity Fair Dickens Breaks Out: The Public Readings and Little Dorrit A Dance of Indecision: George Eliot's Shorter Fiction The Production of Belief: The Serial, Middlemarch Epilogue: The Sacred Monster: The Serial Novelists' Reenchantments Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Our Common Dwelling
Book SynopsisOurCommonDwelling explores why America's first literary circle turned to nature in the 1830s and '40s. The works of these great authors, interpreted in historical context, show that both environmental exploitation and conscious love of nature co-evolved as part of the historical development of American capitalism.Trade Review"In this brilliant and urgent book, Newman clears away the cobwebs to reintroduce us to our radical contemporary: Thoreau." - Mike Davis, University of California, Irvine "In a style at once meticulous and dramatic, Lance Newman situates American literary Romanticism in the context of working-class radicalism, political and social reform, and incipient environmentalism. By exhorting readers to pay attention to the material conditions that determine the creation of literature, Newman provides an elaborate cautionary demonstration for scholars - and, in particular, for ecocritics - who tend to extract art from history. This illuminating study explores, in essence, the intellectual roots of the social movements known today as environmental justice and liberation ecology." - Scott Slovic, author of Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing "Newman invites us to rethink everything we thought we knew about Thoreau and Transcendentalism. What's at stake here is nothing less than our own future, for as Newman argues eloquently, we cannot improve our relationship with nature until we turn away from the "politics of nostalgia" and reconnect, like Thoreau and the Transcendentalists, with democratic radicalism. Urgent, powerful, thoughtful, clear-sighted: this is engaged criticism at its finest. Anyone interested in Thoreau, ecocriticism, or environmental justice will find here both provocation and hope." - Laura Walls, University of South Carolina "Lance Newman's Our Common Dwelling is an ambitious and substantial reinterpretation of 19th century New England literature that will be of wide interest both to literature-and-environment studies and to students of American literature and culture in general. This book confirms what Newman's recent essays have shown: that he is one of the most penetrating and forceful voices among the new wave of American ecocritics." - Lawrence Buell, author of The Environmental Imagination and Writing for an Endangered WorldTable of ContentsEcocriticism and Crisis Ecocriticism and Determination Materialism and Transcendentalism Class Conflict in New England Nathaniel Hawthorne's Democracy William Wordsworth in New England Utopia Revisited The Discipline of Nature William Wordsworth and Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau as Poet Orestes Brownson's Democracy William Wordsworth and Ecocriticism Radical Transcendentalism Reformers and Scholars The Moral Geography of Walden Brook Farm and Association Walden and Association The Law of Organic Regeneration Thoreau and Ecocriticism Margaret Fuller and the Condition of America Margaret Fuller's Vision Marxism and Nature The Discipline of History
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Localizing Caroline Drama
Book SynopsisThis book redefines the plays and theatrical culture of the years 1625 to 1642 as something more than simply post-Shakespearean in character. Scholars reveal the drama's mixture of political engagement, urbane cosmopolitanism, and commercial ingenuity. They urge us to recalibrate our histories to account for the innovations of the Caroline period.Trade Review'This is a stimulating collection of essays on a period in dramatic history we know too little about. Each of the pieces here is driven by archival research that opens up new directions for inquiry. Because it challenges so much of what we assume about its subject, Localizing Caroline Drama will be indispensable for those interested in the early modern theater in England.' - Douglas Bruster, the University of Texas at Austin; author of Shakespeare and the Question of Culture 'I read this excellent collection with enormous pleasure. The editors have assembled a nice balance of contributors, representing a range of approaches, and the volume is filled with fascinating, fresh information and interpretations. Mining the neglected riches of Caroline drama, the contributors show us why we should return to these plays, seek out those we've never read, and scrap our tired generalizations about the period and its drama. The collection will inspire readers to teach these plays and to include them in their own research projects.' - Frances E. Dolan, the University of California, Davis Localizing Caroline Drama offers a genuinely interdisciplinary cultural history, providing not a single grand overarching reading that treats the Caroline period simply as the harbinger of catastrophe but a set of consciously local- that is, focused and engaged rather than simply topical- analyses which refuse to be reduced solely to their points of identity yet which together form a volume that is more a multiply-authored monograph than a collection of essays. This timely and groundbreaking book locates Caroline theatrical culture in a range of places and contexts never before given their due: from Dublin to Tunis, from printshop to dancing manual, from commerce to crusade. 'Decadent' no more, Caroline drama emerges as a series of vibrant interventions in contemporary culture - aesthetic, political, sexual, economic, theological - far outstripping the limitations of the 'pre-revolutionary.' ' - Gordon McMullan, Reader in English, King's College LondonTable of ContentsForeword; R. Malcolm Smuts Introduction; A. Zucker and A. B. Farmer Canons and Classics: Publishing Drama in Caroline England; A. B. Farmer and Z. Lesser Politics and Aesthetic Pleasure in 1630s Theater; K. E. McLuskie Reading Triumphs: Localizing Caroline Masques; L. Shohet Exeunt Fighting: Poets, Players, and Impresarios at the Caroline Hall Theaters; M. Butler The St. Werburgh Street Theater, Dublin; R. Dutton A Beast So Blurred: The Monstrous Favorite in Caroline Drama; M. DiGangi Dancing Masters and the Production of Cosmopolitan Bodies in Caroline Town Comedy; J. E. Howard The 'Turks', Caroline Politics, and Philip Massinger's The Renegado; B. S. Robinson
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Palgrave MacMillan Us The Practice of Quixotism
Book SynopsisUsing postmodern theory, The Practice of Quixotism explores eighteenth-century women's texts that use quixote narratives, which typically demand that individuals purge their minds of internalized fictions to insist instead that the reality we encounter is inevitably mediated by the texts we have read.Trade Review"Cervantes errant knight emerges as a metaphor for aberrant imagination in Scott Paul Gordon s discussion of the clash between Romantic and Enlightenment thought. Ranging across materials by early women writers - satire, poetry, and prose fiction - Gordon finds that the Quixotic becomes synonymous with misreading. This book then parries with established critical readings to offer provocative reinterpretations of its own." - Janine Barchas, University of Texas at Austin "The Practice of Quixotism is a profoundly learned, astonishingly clever, and repeatedly eye- opening book.Differentiating between orthodox quixote narratives (which ask us to believe in the possibility of waking up to the real) and those texts that foster greater skepticism toward how reality is constructed, Gordon illustrates the unexpected ways that the quixote trope was employed during the long eighteenth century in Great Britain. Through careful readings of works by Charlotte Lennox, Sarah Fielding, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Sophia Lee, and Ann Radcliffe, among others, Gordon offers fascinating epistemological and narrative connections.The book makes an important contribution to several fields of inquiry, simultaneously illuminating the literature of quixotes past and present theoretical controversies.Gordon convincingly demonstrates that all of us are quixotic, whether we acknowledge it or not, and shows that at least some eighteenth-century authors were wise to the problem.No previous scholar has given us such depth of perspective on the subject." - Devoney Looser, University of Missouri-Columbia"The Practice of Quixotism reflects Gordon's skill as a widely rea hermeneut, and it is a remarkable work of intellectual history and literary criticsm. By viewing the transition from Enlightenment to Romantic thought through the lenses of the quixote trope and postmodern theory, Gordon forces a reconsideration of the feminist critical consensus on works by Lennox, Lee, Sarah Fielding, and others. Through complex and subtle readings of women's writing, Gordon offers a new way to understand British culture in the long eighteenth century." - Stephen A. Raynie, Gordon CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Quixote Trope Historicizing Quixote and the Scandal of Quixotism Charlotte Lennox's Female Quixote and Orthodox Quixotism Suspicion and Experience in Sarah Fielding's David Simple Mary Wortley Montagu and the Quixotic Dream of Objectivity Quixotic Perception in Sophia Lee's The Recess Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and the Practice of Quixotism Epilogue: Beyond Quixotism?: Quixotism and Contemporary Theory
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Arab American Literary Fictions Cultures and Politics
Book SynopsisN.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using literary and social analysis, this book examines a range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how socio-political phenomena have affected the development of the Arab American novel.Trade Review'Salaita makes an invaluable contribution here, not only to the study of Arab American literature but to the emergence of Arab American studies as a field. Leaping over the glib celebration of hybridity that often passes for critical analysis of ethnic literature, and at the same time skillfully wielding what is useful from theory, Salaita takes a pragmatic, ethical approach to understanding new as well as classic Arab American fiction, in an authorial voice that is congenial, generous and trustworthy.' - Mohja Kahf, Associate Professor, University of Arkansas, USA 'Salaita's Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics is an exceptional blend of personal recollections and observations, literary criticism and narrative history. This intellectually stimulating and absorbing collection is not only an important contribution to better understanding Arab American culture and society, but a vital contribution to Arab American Studies.' - Nathalie Handal, Author of The Lives of Rain and editor of The Poetry of Arab Women 'This is an excellent resource to scholars of Ethnic Studies, American Studies, and Literary Studies who are interested in incorporating Arab American Studies into their courses and departmental agendas. In addition to making a persuasive case for the importance of Arab American literature, Salaita, drawing from his background in Native American Studies, offers a unique and valuable methodological and conceptual approach to Arab American Studies. Salaita is a leading scholar whose work holds tremendous relevance for the future of American Studies.' - Evelyn Alsultany, Assistant Professor, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, USA This book will make an important contribution to the emerging field of Arab American studies. The most valuable aspect of Salaita's study is not necessarily the set of answers that the he provides, but rather the insightful and discerning questions he asks about the feasibility of an Arab American Studies, the role of politics/war in Arab American literature, how to ensure that Arab Americans are not rendered 'perpetually inalterable,' and the existence of deeply entrenched stereotypes of Arabs that allow hoaxes such as Norma Khouri's to succeed. Throughout this book, the writing is original, informative, and graceful. - Susan Muaddi Darraj, Associate Professor at Harford Community College, USA; Author of Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab and Arab-American Women on Writing and The Inheritance of ExileTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Searchings of an Arab ex-Student Problems of Inclusion: Arab American Studies and Inalterable States of Being The Internationalization of the Nation: The Uses of the Lebanese Civil War in Arab American Fiction Honesty Lost: The Strange Circumstances of Love, Death, and Norma Khouri Escaping Inadequate Spaces: Anti-Arab Racism and Liberating Fictions Conclusion: Multicultural and Monocultural Disjunctions
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Palgrave Macmillan American Political Poetry in the 21st Century
Book SynopsisEmbodied Agency Equivocal Agency Migratory Agency Contestatory Urban AgencyTrade Review"American Political Poetry into the Twenty-First Century creates a new kind of discourse. Inclusive in its assessment of much 20th century U.S. poetry, the book reads mainstream poets alongside a number of Latina/o writers, the culture of poetry Michael Dowdy finds much more active politically. His concluding section takes on the issue of whether or not academic study can legitimate hip-hopo, clearly the most political of current poetry forms. This is a truly helpful book." - Linda Wagner-Martin, Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina-Chapel HillTable of ContentsEmbodied Agency Equivocal Agency Migratory Agency Contestatory Urban Agency
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Literary Modernism Bioscience and Community in Early 20th Century Britain
Book SynopsisThis book examines the relationship between the literary and bioscientific cultures of the period as a means of exploring the ways in which the comprehension and representation of the human body fundamentally shapes a variety of the period's communal and national visions.Trade Review"Gordon demonstrates a wide and current knowledge of the literary-critical and cultural-studies work in his field. He sets his methodology off from other practitioners of the 'New Modernisms' with the idea of a 'double logic of incorporation,' the problematic embodiments of individuals and communities. Without flattening either into uniform bits of sociological data, he assesses reciprocal relations between literary and other cultural forms. In a parallel and even stronger move, Gordon engages with some major voices in post-Foucauldian and other post-structuralist theory, in particular, Judith Butler, Jean-François Lyotard, and Jean-Luc Nancy, to argue for the cogency of an analytical category he terms the impossibly material body, whose refusal of both regulatory inscription and critical interpretability makes an opening for 'alternative subjective and communal forms.' This is an original and insightful study." - Bruce Clarke, Professor of English, Texas Tech University; President, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)Table of ContentsWhere 'Life Joins Hands with Death': Lawrence, the Sanatorium, and the Bare Life of the Tubercular Body Unravelling Lawrence's Vital Web of Dynamic Consciousness Organizing the Nervous Body, Regulating the Self: The Psychological Production of National Community in Mrs Dalloway and The Waves Breaking Habits, Affecting the Neuropsychological Body: Towards the 'Unsubstantial Territory' of Disorganized Community
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Palgrave MacMillan Us The LatinoA Canon and the Emergence of PostSixties Literature
Book SynopsisPlease note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). In this first study of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the post-Sixties generation of writers, The Latino/a Canon challenges the ways that Latino/a literary studies imagines the relationship between art, politics, and the market.Trade Review"Raphael Dalleo and Elena Machado Sáez are to be commended on their compelling study of the complex relationship between the Civil Rights and post-Sixties eras of Latino/a-Caribbean literature, politics, and the market. The consideration of the challenges that face Cuban-Americans in their literary and artistic production is particularly timely, as well as their conception of a space for politically engaged, marketable literature in the twenty-first century. For these reasons, among others, The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature is worthy of attention and merits scholarly study." - Camino Real "Especially because of the timeliness of its arguments, but also because of the breadth and depth of its study and argumentation, The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature will be an important text for scholars and students of Latino(a) literature. One can already see how Dalleo and Machado Saez's book could well occasion a lively discussion of the next steps in the formation and cultivation of a Latino(a) canon for the twenty-first century." - Latino(a) Research Review "The first book to look seriously at the process by which a panethnic US Latino/a literary canon has been constructed. One of the greatest strengths of The Latino/a Canon is its sustained attention to the market - as constructive of certain modes of reception for these texts, as a force with which the authors themselves must engage, and as it is represented within the texts themselves. As an overview of the field and of the fundamental paradigms that have informed much Latino/a literary scholarship, the introduction is, quite simply, indispensable; it would supply a valuable framework for any course on Latino/a literature. The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature is an important contribution to Latino/a literary studies and will be of enormous value to anyone wishing to attend to the politics and process of canon formation." - MELUS, as reviewed by Marta Caminero-Santangelo. Santagelois Associate Professor of Englishand theauthor of On Latinidad: U.S. Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity and The Madwoman Can't Speak: Or Why Insanity Is Not Subversive. "This timely book challenges the ideological and chronological binaries behind the canon set up by established U.S. Latino/a literary critics. It provokes and exhorts readers to rethink the dualities - resident versus immigrant, oppositional versus mainstream - that imply that Latino/a literature can only be resistant through the anti-colonial discourse of the 60s and 70s. The clear and incisive discussions about canon formation, ideologies and the market are unprecedented and very much needed in the context of globalization." - Frances Aparicio, author of Listening to Salsa "Dalleo and Machado Sáez bring the hot topic of Latino/a literature to bear on important questions regarding the future and purpose of literature, arguing in favor of literature and its political place within the social. This is a call to scrutinize the way markets shape readers, including critics. This book will no doubt raise the bar of debates pertaining to the future of literature." - Román de la Campa, author of Cuba on My Mind and Split States and Global Imaginaries "The first book to be published on this subject that carefully examines the making of Latino/a literature in all its elements including the politics of marketing, publishing, and even book reviews. Dalleo and Machado Sáez clearly illustrate the inherent contradictions and tensions that characterize the making of the Latino/a literary canon and will force scholars to reconsider why some authors and not others are incorporated into their research and teaching." - Bridget Kevane, author of Latino Literature in America "Dalleo and Machado Sáez show a welcome sensibility to regional particularities and cultural discreteness in the outline of the social field of their research, attending to the significance of the New York or Miami milieu in determining the place of the works of Puerto Rican, Dominican-American, and Cuban diaspora authors within the larger corpus known as Latino literature. Their intervention enriches the critical discourse around the writings of U.S. Latino/a authors." - Silvio Torres-Saillant, author of The Dominican Americans and An Intellectual History of the Caribbean "Disrupting the binaries that divide Latinos/as and underscoring a critical hybridity, Dalleo and Machado Sáez recognize the heterogeneity of Latinidad and facilitate collective Latino/a mobilization. Dalleo and Machado Sáez move from an idealization of the past to a forward-thinking vision of a present and future influenced by the past." - Latino StudiesTable of ContentsSell Outs? Politics and the Market in Post-Sixties Latino/a Literature Periodizing Latino/a Literature Through Pedro Pietri's Nuyorican Cityscapes Mercado Dreams: The End(s) of Sixties Nostalgia in Contemporary Ghetto Fiction Movin' on Up and Out: Engaging Lowercase Latino/a Conversations with Junot Diaz and Angie Cruz Latino/a Identity and Consumer Citizenship in Christina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban Wrtiting in a Minor Key: Postcolonial and Post-Civil Rights Histories in the Novels of Julia Alvarez
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Womens Literary Creativity and the Female Body
Book SynopsisThis volume addresses one aspect of a challenging topic: what does it mean for women to create within particular literary and cultural contexts? How is the female body written on textuality? In short, how is the female body analogous to the geographical space of land? How have women inhabited their bodies as people have lived in nation-states?Trade Review"This collection is well-balanced, with a rich theoretical context that demonstrates how the female creative process connects to discursively constructed and materially manifested bodies/texts. The essays are engaging and bring new light to authors such as Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Anne Sexton."-Marjean Purinton, Texas Tech University 'These essays address the mystery and power of literary creativity and the significance of gender and place in this transformative process. Clearly, women have learned to manage and even thrive in the alienating logic of their particular national and geographical situations, to translate the prescriptive and sometimes traumatic lessons of their social position into enabling alternatives. This collection asks how these external forces of prohibition and pain are internalized as personal trauma and transfigured through fantasy and fiction into new psychological geographies and different material realities.' - Vicki Kirby, The University of New South Wales; Author of Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal and Judith Butler: Live TheoryTable of ContentsAnne Bradstreet's Poetry and Feminist Theory; K.Malecka Creative Tension: The Symbolic and the Semiotic in Emily Dickinson's: 'I heard a Fly buzz - when I died'; B.Jensen Father, Don't You See That I am Dreaming?: The Female Gothic and the Creative Process; D.L.Hoeveler Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Rhetorical Location: Modern Rhetors Transgressing Culture and Transforming Genre; D.D.Schuster Elegance and Make-Up: Nature, Modernity, and the Female Body in Spanish Beach Narratives of the 1920s: W.Fernández Flórez& C. de Burgos - Eugenia V.Afinoguénova Mary Augusta Ward's Literary Portraits of the Artist as Medusa; L.M.Lewis She was a 'vision from a fairer world than this': From East Lynne to Mrs. Doubtfire; K.Odden Matrix and Voice in A.S. Byatt's Possession; M.Helmers Creation and Procreation in Margaret Atwood's Giving Birth: A Narrative of Doubles; P.Sardin-Damestoy Female Voices, Male Listeners: Identifying Gender in the Poetry of Anne Sexton and Wanda Coleman; I.Williams
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Palgrave MacMillan Us The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism
Book SynopsisThis volume looks at the shifting role of aesthetics in Latin American literature and literary studies, focusing on the concept of 'ethical responsibility' within these practices. The contributing authors examine the act of reading in its new globalized context of postcolonial theory and gender and performance studies.Trade Review"The ethical 'turn' in Latin American literary and cultural criticism marked a withdrawal from or renunciation of politics that was generally coincident with the hegemony of neoliberalism. The great value of this collection is that it effects a reversal of this tendency, in a new context marked by the resurgence of the left, or 'lefts,' in Latin America. It seeks to find new ways of conceiving the political from the ethical. That desire, however, marks the collection as a site of conflict and debate - and that, too, is part of its urgency and richness." - John Beverley, Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, and Founding member, Graduate Program in Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh "A dynamic collection that will make a lasting contribution to contemporary scholarship, Erin Graff Zivin's The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism is an original and eclectic collaboration - one that hastens the development of conversations between Latin American Studies and Cultural Studies academic enclaves." - William Anthony Nericcio, Professor and Chair of English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reading Otherwise; E.G.Zivin PART I: ETHICS, POLITICS, REPRESENTATION The Ethical Superstition; B.Bosteels Ethics, Perhaps; G.Basterra PART II: ETHICS AND CULTURAL STUDIES Cultural Studies in the Blogosphere: Academics Meet New Technologies of Online Publication; I.Avelar Modernist Ethics: Really Engaging Popular Culture in Mexico and Brazil; E.Gabara PART III: THE LIMITS OF LITERATURE A Few Notes on Constructed Worlds: The Contradictory Legacy of Past Decades; S.Chejfec Saying the Unsayable: Saer, Or for an Ethics of Writing; G.Riera Infrapolitics and the Thriller: A Prolegomenon to Every Possible Form of Anti-Moralist Literary Criticism on Héctor Aguilar Camín's La guerra de Galio and Morir en el golfo; A.Moreiras PART IV: THE EXPERIENCE OF READING Ethical Asymmetries: Learning to Love a Loss; D.Sommer Reading for the People and Getting There First; F.Masiello
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Romanticism and Form
Book SynopsisThis book offers new analyzes of canonical texts, contextualizations of Romantic forms in relation to war, nationalism and empire, reassessments of neglected and marginalized writers and explorations of the relationship between form and reader. It showcases a range of new approaches that are informed by deconstruction, theology and new technology.Trade Review'The critics assembled here are close readers, attentive to metre, stanza form, figures of speech, but they are not nostalgic for the New Criticism of the 1950s and 1960s. If they are formalists, they are formalists of a new kind, less likely to celebrate the unifying power of art than the fragmented and the multitudinous, more likely to acknowledge Byron than Wordsworth, but just as ready to study a satiric print, or a poem by Ann Cristall. This volume sets a challenging new agenda for Romantic Studies.' - Richard Cronin, Professor of English Literature, University of Glasgow, UKTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction; A.Rawes Romantic Indirection; P.Curtis "Conscript Fathers and Shuffling Recruits": Formal Self-Awareness in Romantic Poetry; M.O'Neill Romantic Invocation: a Form of Impossibility; G.Hopps "Ruinous Perfection": Reading Authors and Writing Readers in the Romantic Fragment Poem; M.Sandy Combinatoric Form in Nineteenth-Century Satiric Prints; S.E.Jones Romantic Form and New Historicism: Wordsworth's "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey"; A.Rawes Southey's Forms of Experiment; N.Trott Believing in Form and Forms of Belief: the Case of Robert Southey; B.Beatty Seductions of Form in the Poetry of Ann Cristall and Charlotte Smith; J.Labbe "Seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely": Byron's Poetry, Austen's Prose and Forms of Narrative Irony; C.Franklin "What Constitutes a Reader?": Don Juan and the Changing Reception of Romantic Form; J.Stabler, A.Roberts, M.N.Carminati & M.H.Fischer Afterword; S.J.Wolfson Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Environment and Embodiment in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Inhabiting the Body, Inhabiting the World; G.Sullivan & M.Floyd-Wilson Spongy Brains and Material Memories; J.Sutton Marvell's Amazing Garden; M.Thomas Crane The Souls of Animals: John Donne's Metempsychosis and Early Modern Natural History; E.D.Harvey Affective Irony: Toward an Emotional Logic of the Elizabethan Stage; S.Mullaney Inconstancy: Changeable Affections in Stuart Dramas of Contract; K.Rowe The East in British-American Writing: English Identity, John Smith's True Travels , and Severed Heads; J.Egan 'My liquid journey': The Frontispiece to Coryat's Crudities (1611); D.J.Baker Becoming the Landscape: The Ecology of the Passions in the Legend of Temperance; G.Kern Paster 'The Material Point of Poesy': Reading, Writing and Sensation in Puttenham's The Art of English Poesie K.Craik Spelling the Body; T.Pollard Humanist Habitats; Or, 'Eating Well' with Thomas More's Utopia ; J.Yates IndexTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Inhabiting the Body, Inhabiting the World; G.Sullivan & M.Floyd-Wilson Spongy Brains and Material Memories; J.Sutton Marvell's Amazing Garden; M.Thomas Crane The Souls of Animals: John Donne's Metempsychosis and Early Modern Natural History; E.D.Harvey Affective Irony: Toward an Emotional Logic of the Elizabethan Stage; S.Mullaney Inconstancy: Changeable Affections in Stuart Dramas of Contract; K.Rowe The East in British-American Writing: English Identity, John Smith's True Travels , and Severed Heads; J.Egan 'My liquid journey': The Frontispiece to Coryat's Crudities (1611); D.J.Baker Becoming the Landscape: The Ecology of the Passions in the Legend of Temperance; G.Kern Paster 'The Material Point of Poesy': Reading, Writing and Sensation in Puttenham's The Art of English Poesie K.Craik Spelling the Body; T.Pollard Humanist Habitats; Or, 'Eating Well' with Thomas More's Utopia ; J.Yates Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Interpersonal Idiom in Shakespeare Donne and Early Modern Culture
Book SynopsisThe Interpersonal Idiom offers a timely reformulation of identity in the age of Shakespeare, recovering a rich and now obsolete language that casts selfhood not as subjective experience but as the experience of others.Trade Review'Selleck's well-researched, elegantly written, and theoretically sophisticated argument offers a timely reformulation of the self/other dyad in early modern literature and culture. By insisting on the ways the self is objectified in, for, and by the other, Selleck challenges the notion of autonomous selfhood that, even when under erasure in post-structuralist critique, pervades current usages of the term. This is an exciting thesis one that has the potential to remap the terrain not only of early modern but also postmodern accounts of the self.' - Jonathan Gil Harris, George Washington University.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Other Selves Properties of a 'Self': Words and Things, 1580-1690 Persons in Play: Donne's Body and the Humoral Actor Material Others: Shakespeare's Mirrors and Other Perspectives 'Womans Constancy': The Poetics of Consummation Epilogue: Subjects, Objects, and Contemporary Theory
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Palgrave Macmillan Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism
Book SynopsisThis new book asks a key question- what did it mean to have a Victorian feminist write for an established newspaper or periodical? Using the example of Frances Power Cobbe, it focuses on Victorian feminism and its political workings, and urges us to reconsider what feminism looked like in the nineteenth-century.Trade Review"Hamilton's is a highly readable, focused monograph that illuminats the history and metahistory of feminism, the active presence (rather than lurking marginality) of feminist discourse in the mainstream press, and Cobbe's verve, skill, and power as a writer." - Linda K. Hughes, Texas Christian UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Victorian Feminism and the Periodical Press 'She and I have Lived Together': Women's Celibacy and Signature in Cobbe's Early Writing The 'Force' of Sentiment: Married Women's Property and the Idea of Marriage in Fraser's Magazine 'Speaking in Fleet Street': The Feminist Politics of the Editorial in the London Echo , 1868-1875 Making History with France Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminism, Domestic Violence and the Language of Imperialism 'A Crisis in Woman's History': Duties of Women and the Practice of Everyday Feminism Notes to Chapters Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Burning Women
Book SynopsisIn early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widow burning, not only informed responses to the ritualized violence of Hindu culture, but also intersected in fascinating ways with specifically European forms of ritualized violence and European constructions of gender ideology. European accounts of women being burned in India uncannily commented on the burnings of women as witches and criminal wives in Europe. When Europeans narrated their accounts of sati, perhaps the most striking illustration of Hindu patriarchal violence, they did not specifically connect the act of widow burning to a corresponding European signifier: the gruesome ceremonial burnings of women as witches. In examining early modern representations of sati, the book focuses specifically on those strategies that enabled European travellers to protect their own identity as uniquely civilized amidst spectacular displays of ''Eastern barbarity''.Trade Review'Overall this is an impressive book which synthesizes disparate narratives of discovery, morality, and gender differentiation to illuminate the role of women in early modern culture.' - Jyotsna Singh, Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Renaissance Crossings; Widows, Witches, and Forms of Literary Haunting Under Western Eyes: Sati and Witches in European Representations Instructions for Christian Women: The Sati and European Widows Disorderly Wives, Poison, and the Iconography of Female Murderers Civility and "dying" to Speak: the Sati, Fetish, and History
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Palgrave Macmillan Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend The Quest for Knowledge
Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. Arthuriana for the 'Fair Sex': Gender politics and the reception of romance.- 3. Haunting Beginnings: Women's Gothic Verse and King Arthur.- 4. Next Steps: Exploring the Arthurian Past in Women's Travel and Topographical Writing.- 5. The Rise of the Female Arthurianist: Satire and Scholarship.- 6. A Fashionable Fantasy: Arthur in the Annuals.- 7. Afterword.Trade Review“Katie Garner’s Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend is to experience a shift in scale. Garner’s work is on a niche topic, and the question arises as to how broad a readership it can attract. … scholars interested in Romantic medievalism or Romantic Arthurianism more specifically may want to follow up some of the paths Garner opens, and they will undoubtedly find this monograph a useful source book.” (Geraldine S. Friedman, European Romantic Review, Vol. 30 (4), 2019)“Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend wears its intellectual rigour with elegance and manages to be fluent and readable while demonstrably being the product of erudite and incisive research. … Garner’s book will be of enormous benefit to scholars of nineteenth-century Arthurania and medievalism, as well as to scholars researching nineteenth-century women’s reading practices and negotiations with the literary marketplace more generally.” (Clare Broome Saunders, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 38 (1), 2019)“Engagingly written and painstakingly researched, this book provides an insightful and multifaceted view of Romantic women writers’ relationship with Arthurian legend.” (Lisa Plummer Crafton, Medievally Speaking, medievallyspeaking.blogspot.com, August, 2018)Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Arthuriana for the 'Fair Sex': Gender politics and the reception of romance.- 3. Haunting Beginnings: Women's Gothic Verse and King Arthur.- 4. Next Steps: Exploring the Arthurian Past in Women's Travel and Topographical Writing.- 5. The Rise of the Female Arthurianist: Satire and Scholarship.- 6. A Fashionable Fantasy: Arthur in the Annuals.- 7. Afterword.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Mythic Thinking in TwentiethCentury Britain Meaning for Modernity
Book SynopsisA variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Myth and the Modern Problem 2. Golden Boughs, Fairy Books, and Holy Grails: The Making of a Myth-Saturated Culture 3. 'The Grail is Stirring': Modernist Mysticism, the Matter of Britain, and the Quest for Spiritual Renewal 4. 'The Mythical Mode of Imagination': J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and the Epistemology of Myth 5. Coping with the Catastrophe: J.G. Ballard, the New Wave, and Mythic Science Fiction 6. Myth and the Quest for Psychological Wholeness: C.G. Jung as Spiritual Sage 7. Minding the Myth-Kitty: Myth, Cultural Authority, and the Evolution of English Studies 8. Making a Modern Faith: Myth in Twentieth-Century British Theology Epilogue Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Using Questions to Think
Book SynopsisOur ability to think, argue and reason is determined by our ability to question. Questions are a vital component of critical thinking, yet we underestimate the role they play. Using Questions to Think puts questioning back in the spotlight.Naming the parts of questions at the same time as we name parts of thought, this one-of-a-kind introduction allows us to see how questions relate to the definitions of propositions, premises, conclusions, and the validity of arguments. Why is this important? Making the role of questions visible in thinking reasoning and dialogue, allows us to:- Ask better questions- Improve our capability to understand an argument - Exercise vigilance in the act of questioning- Make explicit what you already know implicitly- Engage with ideas that contradict our own- See ideas in broader contextBreathing new life into our current approach to critical thinking, this practical, much-needed textbook moves us away from the traditional focus on formal argument and Trade ReviewDrawing on hermeneutic phenomenology, Dickman focuses inquiry on the necessity of genuine questioning for understanding and sense. Elegantly organized and including a helpful appendix for instructors, this insightful text offers a fresh approach and will be a welcome addition to courses in critical thinking, philosophy of language, and more. * Robert H. Scott, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of North Georgia, USA *Drawing on phenomenology, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of language, this text explores both the technical and existential dimensions of reasoning. Through challenging yet inviting prose, Dickman offers a welcome and innovative approach to critical thinking that brings students along on an authentic philosophical journey into the nature of questioning. * Rebecca Scott, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Harper College, USA *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: An Age of Answers Part I: Make Questions Explicit for Thinking 1. Thinking Only Happens in Complete Thoughts 2. What Do Questions Do to Complete Thoughts? 3. A Logic of Question-and-Answer Part II: Make Questions Explicit for Reasoning 4. Reasoning Only Happens in Explicit Arguments 5. What Do Questions Do to Arguments? 6. A Rationality of Questioning-and-Reasoning Part III: Make Questions Explicit in Dialogue 7. Dialogue Only Happens in Constructive Reconciliations 8. What Do Questions Do to Dialogues? 9. A Dialectic of Questionability-and-Responsibility Conclusion: The End(s) of Questions Appendix for Instructors Glossary Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Academic The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imagining Solar Energy
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2022 ESSE Book Awards How has humanity sought to harness the power of the Sun, and what roles have literature, art and other cultural forms played in imagining, mythologizing and reflecting the possibilities of solar energy? What stories have been told about solar technologies, and how have these narratives shaped developments in science and culture? What can solar power's history tell us about its future, within a world adapting to climate crisis? Identifying the history of capturing solar radiance as a focal point between science and the imagination, Imagining Solar Energy argues that the literary, artistic and mythical resonances of solar power from the Renaissance to the present day have not only been inspired by, but have also cultivated and sustained its scientific and technological development. Ranging from Archimedes to Isaac Asimov, John Dee to Humphry Davy, Aphra Behn to J. G. Ballard, the book argues that solar energy translatesTrade ReviewGreg Lynall’s Imagining Solar Energy is worth every metaphor of sunlight a reader might consider. It is a dazzling achievement: an intellectual highlight of recent literature and science scholarship that illuminates so much of our imaginative relationship to the sun across a stretch of time from the Renaissance to the present moment. Political in its interventions and global in its conceptualisations Imagining Solar Energy is also detailed, exacting, comprehensive. Taking in early seventeenth century pamphlets decrying renewable energy and twenty-first century solarpunk fictions wrestling with climate change Lynall offers a rich collection of entangled scientific, literary and cultural readings of the sun’s dangerous and restorative power. Striking for its erudition across solar sciences as well as literary periods, it will impress, too, for the eloquence of its environmental interventions. * Martin Willis, Professor of English, Cardiff University, UK *Imagining Solar Energy brilliantly illuminates our literary and scientific relationship with alternative energy. At a time when many ecocritics are examining the story of fossil fuel’s ascendancy, Lynall is the first to narrate our quest to harness its originating source: solar power. The high standard of research and astounding chronological scope make this volume a break-through in renewable energy scholarship. Casting a wide arc from Prometheus, Archimedes and the wonder of the technological sublime to photovoltaic cells, death-ray skyscrapers, and solarpunk rebellions, Lynall masterfully intertwines literature, science, and cultural history, including its shades of patriarchy and tyranny. Imagining Solar Energy is a key tool for Anthropocene studies which will shape the future of renewable of energy scholarship for years to come. * Kelly Sultzbach, Associate Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Bringing the Sun into Focus 1. Solar Renaissance: Through the Burning-Glass 2. Bundling up the Sun-Beams: Burning into the Enlightenment 3. Feeling the Promethean Heat: Romantic Radiance and the Power of Invisible Light 4. A Time of ‘Solidified Sunshine’: Victorian Imaginaries of Solar Energy 5. Bright Futures: Solar Science Fiction Takes Off 6. Dark Mirrors: Solar Reflections in the Nuclear Age 7. Self-Renewable: The Satire and Psycho-thermodynamics of Solar Selected Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Rereading Darwins Origin of Species
Book SynopsisWidely seen as evolution's founding figure, Charles Darwin is taken by many evolutionists to be the first to propose a truly modern theory of evolution. Darwin's greatness, however, has obscured the man and his work, at times even to the point of distortion. Accessibly written, this book presents a more nuanced picture and invites us to discover some neglected ambiguities and contradictions in Darwin's masterwork. Delisle and Tierney show Darwin to be a man who struggled to reconcile the received wisdom of an unchanging natural world with his new ideas about evolution. Arguing that Darwin was unable to break free entirely from his contemporaries' more traditional outlook, they show his theory to be a fascinating compromise between old and new.Rediscovering this other Darwin and this other side of On the Origin of Species helps shed new light on the immensity of the task that lay before 19th century scholars, as well as their ultimate achievements.Trade ReviewThe book shows that biology, especially evolutionary biology, is a dynamic and extremely exciting field and that there is much left to be discovered by the next generations of biologists. It delves deeply into Darwin’s Origin of Species as well as into the paradigm prevailing during his time. * Alexander Czaja, Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution *Delisle and Tierney have immersed themselves in the text of On the Origin of Species like few, if any, before. This is a highly original, critical, yet sympathetic deconstruction of the Darwin idolatry that has dominated biological evolution theory for decades. * Nicolaas Rupke, Professor of the History of Science, University of Göttingen, Germany and Washington and Lee University, USA *A much-needed deconstruction of the ‘Darwin Legend’, that is, the seemingly irresistible temptation of many modern readers to read their own ideas back into On the Origin of Species, and to make Darwin an ahistorical icon, or the father figure of an even more ahistorical ‘Darwinism’. * Antonello La Vergata, Professor of the History of Philosophy, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Two Sides of Darwin Part One The Charles Darwin We Think We All Know 1 A Primer of Evolution’s Complexities 2 What Time Selected from Darwin: The Standard View Part Two Charles Darwin and the Static Worldview 3 The Tree That Hides the Forest: Charles Darwin’s “Tree of Life” 4 Divergence: A Geometry That Shatters Creative Time and Novelty 5 A Cyclical World in Equilibrium 6 Natural Selection: The Core of Darwin’s Theory? Part Three Charles Darwin Viewed in Piecemeal Fashion 7 When So-Called New Ideas Hide Old Ones Conclusion: Back to the Future Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures
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Gale Ecco, Print Editions The Life of God in the Soul of Man
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