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University of Alberta Press Dramatic Licence
Book SynopsisNavigating through two languages and cultures, Ladouceur studies translation strategies in the world of theatre.Trade Review"Dramatic Licence, which was originally published in French in 2005 and has been translated by Richard Lebeau, runs a fine-tooth comb over 12 plays - six that went from English into French, and six the other way - from the past 50 years, including works by Michel Tremblay and Edmonton's own Brad Fraser. What Ladouceur discovered was that all of her samples underwent significant changes along the way. Sometimes references to specific street names or cultural figures were erased; sometimes the entire tone of the play was altered to make it more palatable for the new audiences.... Dramatic Licence is a valuable resource for anyone interested in issues of translation, Québécois culture, or Canadian theatre in general." Michael Hingston, Edmonton Journal, October 7, 2012"Dramatic Licence shows the complexity that often comes with translation, and keeping the original power of the words. Studying many plays written throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Dramatic Licence is a strong addition to any language studies or theatre studies collection, highly recommended." The Midwest Book Review, The Language Studies Shelf"Perhaps the most salient feature of translating, says Ladouceur (theater and translation, U. of Alberta-Saint-Jean), is that drama in French is invariably from Quebec, and so considered Québécois, whereas drama in English is considered Canadian. She looks at literary translation in Canada, from one stage to the other, translating for the stage, descriptive analyses of the French repertoire translated into English and the English repertoire translated into French, and a comparison of the repertoires in translation." Book News Inc., 2013Although the study focuses on the unique situation of translating drama between two official languages, its well-thought-out methodological framework makes it applicable to other contexts as well.... Ladouceur's excellent analysis is divided into six chapters.... All in all, Ladouceur's book is a highly inspiring and thought-provoking study of theatre translation in a specific context with two official languages. The analysis is very well conducted and summaries help the reader to see the wood for the trees. The study is essential reading for anyone interested in theatre translation and translation of literary works." Sirkku Aaltonen, Target 25:3, 2013"The sixty-two introductory pages demonstrate the impeccable care with which Ladouceur has approached not only her research, but also her explanations for the reader. While the discipline of translation studies has a broad following, its particular problematics applied to theatre are less well known; however, anyone with an interest in the area will find in this book a rock-solid introduction to build on. Ladouceur has also given an invaluable context enabling one to understand the highly detailed analysis that follows through the rest of the book.... Ladouceur's superb scholarship will now be able to inspire a broader range of students and scholars of translation, theatre, and Canadian Studies." Glen Nichols, Canadian Theatre Review, Fall 2013“[A serious meditation] about the impact that translations have on texts, as well as the forces that influence those translations…. It fills an important gap in terms of the history of translating theatre in Canada…. Statistical analysis is woven together with a narrative history of theatre translation in Ladouceur’s book, and she provides a number of close readings of translations and adaptations of plays from one language into the other. Also invaluable is the exhaustive bibliography of Canadian plays in translation, complete with production history… [T]his book should appeal to anyone with an interest in Canadian literary and cultural history.” -- Lee Skallerup Bessette * Canadian Literature *
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University of Alberta Press Regenerations Rgnrations Canadian Womens Writing
Book SynopsisSixteen essays exemplify the progress of interdisciplinary research, collaboration, and publishing surrounding Canadian women's writing.Trade Review"Regenerations considers an extremely diverse range of media...in order to interrogate the exclusivity of our understanding of authorship and readership. This innovative and inspiring collection provides sensitive readings of current issues facing women writers in the digital age.... Regenerations considers the digital environment not only as a mode of communication, but also as a regenerative tool for drawing attention to past works that have been excluded or marginalized from literary histories. Original and insightful, this book demonstrates the exciting future of humanities scholarship and artistic production." -- Alicia Fahey * Canadian Literature *"...in their totality, [the essays] explore the worlds of Canadian women writers in both French and English, amplifying and enriching critical and literary traditions.... Carrière and Demers are to be applauded for making a significant contribution to the literary history of female writers, editors, and readers in Canada.... [T]he collection’s impressive breadth registers women writers’ sustained commitment to and active engagement in creating and nourishing literature in Canada." -- Linda M. Morra * English Studies in Canada *
£30.59
Ohio University Press TextPolitics in Island Southeast Asia Essays in
Book SynopsisHow does the language of poetry conspire with the language of power? This title deals with Indonesia and the Philippines in the early modern and post-1945 periods. It examines the literature and politics of Indonesia and Philippines from the point of view of contemporary thinking.
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National University of Ireland Eigse
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IBEX Publishers,U.S. Psychological Interpretations of All Aspects of
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IBEX Publishers,U.S. Literary History of Persia Volume 3
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IBEX Publishers,U.S. Literary History of Persia
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IBEX Publishers,U.S. Literary History of Persia
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Otago University Press Landfall 233
Book SynopsisWriters: Aimee-Jane Anderson-OConnor, Nick Ascroft, Claire Baylis, Miro Bilbrough, Victoria Broome, Iain Britton, Owen Bullock, Christine Burrows, Brent Cantwell, Marisa Cappetta, Joanna Cho, Stephanie Christie, Makyla Curtis, Doc Drumheller, Mark Edgecombe, Lynley Edmeades, Johanna Emeney, Riemke Ensing, Ciaran Fox, Michael Gould, Sarah Grout, Shen Haobo, Paula Harris, René Harrison, Stephen Higginson, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Amanda Hunt, Anna Jackson, Ted Jenner, Anne Kennedy, Erik Kennedy, Jessica Le Bas, Wes Lee, Michele Leggott, Carolyn McCurdie, Robert McLean, Fardowsa Mohamed, Kavita Ivy Nandan, Emma Neale, Piet Nieuwland, Claire Orchard, Bob Orr, Jenny Powell, Chris Price, Helen Rickerby, Ron Riddell, L E Scott, Iain Sharp, Charlotte Simmonds, Peter Simpson, Tracey Slaughter, Laura Solomon, Barry Southam, Matafanua Tamatoa, Philip Temple, Dunstan Ward, Elizabeth Welsh, Sue Wootton, Mark Young, Karen Zelas.
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Sagging Meniscus Press In Memoriam Einstein The Einstein Centennial
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Cambridge University Press How the World Became a Book in Shakespeares England
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Marie Corelli Modernism Morality and Metaphysics
Book SynopsisThis collection reappraises and retheorizes Marie Corelli’s diverse fictional writings and locates them in their contemporary literary and social context.Marie Corelli (1855-1924) was a fabulously popular novelist in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Yet, in her day, critics railed against her taste for sentimentality, melodrama, supernatural worlds, and overt didacticism. Many critics are still ambivalent about her writing. However, in their reappraisal, the contributors to this volume largely circumvent the earlier critics and engage afresh with Corelli’s writing strategies; genre choices; representations of social issues; and ideas about science, metaphysics, and morality. Moving beyond the now outdated project of recovery, the volume also discusses Corelli’s literary market place, analysing both her publishing successes and her decline in popularity. An important theme throughout is Corelli’s troubled relTable of Contents1. Introduction – Marie Corelli: A Critical Reappraisal 2. Moral Uncertainty and the Afterlife: Explaining the Popularity of Marie Corelli’s Early Novels 3. The Corellian Romance contra Modernity: The Treasure of Heaven and Innocent 4. ‘‘Je t’aime . . . moi non plus’’: Deconstructing Love in Open Confession to a Man from a Woman 5. The Genius in Ardath: The Story of A Dead Self 6. Marie Corelli’s Best-selling Electric Creed 7. Morals and Metaphysics: Marie Corelli, Religion and the Gothic 8. Marie Corelli’s Barabbas, The Sorrows of Satan and Generic Transition
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge History of Asian American Literature presents a comprehensive history of the field, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of Asian American writing that help readers to understand how authors have sought to make their experiences meaningful. Covering subjects from autobiography and Japanese American internment literature to contemporary drama and social protest performance, this History traces the development of a literary tradition while remaining grounded in current scholarship. It also presents new critical approaches to Asian American literature that will serve the needs of students and specialists alike. Written by leading scholars in the field, The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature will not only engage readers in contemporary debates but also serve as a definitive reference for years to come.Table of Contents1. The origins of Chinese American autobiography Floyd Cheung; 2. Stage orientalism and Asian American performance from the 19th into the 20th century Josephine Lee; 3. 'I seek out poems now incomplete': writings from the Angel Island immigration station Sunn Shelley Wong; 4. The Eaton sisters and the figure of the Eurasian Jinhua Emma Teng; 5. Indian diasporic autobiography: new nations and new selves Sandhya Shukla; 6. Koreans in exile: Younghill Kang and Richard E. Kim Joseph Jeon; 7. Filipino and Filipina voices Denise Cruz; 8. Chinatown life as contested terrain: H. T. Chiang, Jade Snow Wong, and C. Y. Lee Patricia Chu; 9. Coded critique: Japanese American internment literature Traise Yamamoto; 10. Asian American short fiction and the contingencies of form, 1930s–1960s Jinqi Ling; 11. The Chicago School and the sociological imagination Cynthia Tolentino; 12. Documenting the third world student strike, the anti-war movement, and the emergence of second-wave feminism from Asian American perspectives Daryl Joji Maeda; 13. The art of the Asian American movement's social protest performance Lucy Burns; 14. Inventing identity: the manifestos of pioneering Asian American literature anthologies Donald Goellnicht; 15. Maxine Hong Kingston, feminism, and postmodern literature Stella Bolaki; 16. The emergence of Asian American literature as an academic field Viet Thanh Nguyen; 17. Theresa Hak-Kyung Cha and the impact of theory Timothy Yu; 18. Heterogeneity to multiplicity: building Asian American literary critique Anita Mannur and Allan Punzalan Isaac; 19. Whose Asias? Samir Dayal; 20. The South Asian American challenge Asha Nadkarni; 21. Contemporary Filipino American writers and the legacy of imperialism Eleanor Ty; 22. Beyond solitary confinement: rethinking the socio-political context of local literature in Hawai'i Seri Luangphinith; 23. Contemporary Asian American drama Esther Kim Lee; 24. 'More than you ever knew you knew': the rising prestige of fiction Tina Chen; 25. Asian American poetry and the politics of form Dorothy Wang; 26. The forgotten war in Korea Josephine Park; 27. The American war in Vietnam and its diasporas Anh Thang Dao-Shah and Isabelle Thuy Pelaud; 28. Refugee aesthetics: Cambodia, Laos, and the Hmong Cathy Schlund-Vials; 29. The 9/11 of our imagination: Islam, the figure of the Muslim, and the failed liberalism of the racial present Junaid Rana; 30. Narrating war: Arab and Muslim American aesthetics Samina Najmi; 31. Thick time and space: Karen Tei Yamashita's aesthetics Kandice Chuh; 32. New media Konrad Ng; 33. Beyond national literatures: empire and Amitav Ghosh Ruth Maxey.
£140.60
Cambridge University Press George Eliot and Money
Book SynopsisDermot Coleman offers a detailed account of George Eliot's understanding of money, both intellectual and practical, placing it within the wider context of the political economics and moral engagement with economic utility so characteristic of nineteenth-century England.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. 'A subject of which I know so little': George Eliot and political economy; 2. 'Intentions of stern thrift': the formation of a vernacular economics; 3. 'A money-getting profession': negotiating the commerce of literature; 4. Calculating consequences: Felix Holt and the limits of utilitarianism; 5. Testing the Kantian pillars: debt obligations and financial imperatives in Middlemarch; 6. Being good and doing good with money: incorporating the bourgeois virtues; 7. The individual and the State: economic sociology in Romola; 8. The politics of wealth: new liberalism and the pathologies of economic individualism; Appendix A. George Eliot's final stock portfolio, 1880; Appendix B. Was Edward Tulliver made bankrupt? An analysis of his financial downfall; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Home and Nation in British Literature from the English to the French Revolutions
Book SynopsisAn innovative account exploring the concepts of 'home' and 'nation' as they developed in Britain between the English Civil War and the Napoleonic Wars. The range of texts and concepts covered by an international team of experts will appeal to a broad spectrum of scholars and students of British literature.Table of Contents1. Introduction A. D. Cousins and Geoffrey Payne; Part I. The English Revolution and the Interregnum: 2. Nation, nature, and poetics: transitions and claspes in Denham's 'Cooper's Hill' and Cavendish's Poems and Fancies L. E. Semler; 3. Home and nation in Andrew Marvell's Bermudas A. D. Cousins; 4. Anne Clifford and Samuel Pepys: diaries and homes Helen Wilcox; 5. Home and away in the poetry of Andrew Marvell and some of his influences and contemporaries Nigel Smith; Part II. Restoration, Glorious Revolution, and Hanoverian Succession: 6. 'Home to our People': nation and kingship in late seventeenth-century political verse Abigail Williams; 7. 'Yet Israel still serves': home and nation in Milton's Samson Agonistes William Walker; 8. 'A thing remote': Defoe and the home in the metropolis and New World Geoffrey Payne; 9. Pope's homes: London, Windsor Forest, and Twickenham Pat Rogers; 10. Samuel Johnson and London Evan Gottlieb; 11. Contesting 'home' in eighteenth-century women's verse Catherine Ingrassia; 12. Home, homeland and the Gothic David Punter; Part III. Revolution in France, Reaction in Britain: 13. Contesting the homeland: Burke and Wollstonecraft Daniel I. O'Neill; 14. Homelands: Blake, Albion, and the French Revolution David Fallon; 15. Jane Austen and the modern home Gary Kelly; 16. 'All things have a home but one': exile and aspiration, pastoral and political in Shelley's The Mask of Anarchy and Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'To Autumn' Geoffrey Payne; 17. Sir Walter Scott: home, nation, and the denial of revolution Dani Napton; Guide to further reading.
£81.00
Cambridge University Press Sociable Places
Book SynopsisRanging across literature, theater, history and the visual arts, this collection of essays explores the range of places where British Romantic-period sociability transpired. Specialist and non-specialists readers can revisit the rooms, buildings, landscapes and seascapes where people gathered to converse, to eat and drink, to work and to find entertainment.Table of ContentsIntroduction Kevin Gilmartin; Part I. Print Relations: 1. Recovering the country book club Ina Ferris; 2. 'Bread and cheese and porter only being allowed': radical spaces in London, 1792–5 Jon Mee; 3. Piccadilly booksellers and conservative sociability David Fallon; Part II. Sociable Spectacle: 4. Proxy Israelites: staging ethnic violence in the ring and the pit Daniel O'Quinn; 5. Fashionable subjects: exhibition culture and the limits of sociability Paul Keen; Part III. Interior Places: 6. 'The place is not free to you': the Georgian assembly room and the ends of sociability Gillian Russell; 7. Unconventional calling: Godwin, women and visiting in the 1790s Mark Philp; Part IV. Traveling Sociability: 8. Sociability among the ruins: the Colosseum by moonlight, circa 1820 Christopher Rovee; 9. Sociability by the sea side: Margate before 1815 Harriet Guest; 10. Lower deck narratives and sociability in the British Navy, 1750–1815 Nicholas Rogers.
£81.00
Cambridge University Press The Female Voice of Myanmar
Book SynopsisThe Female Voice of Myanmar seeks to offer a female perspective on the history and political evolution of Myanmar. It delves into the lives and works of four of Myanmar''s remarkable women who set aside their lives to answer the call of their country: Khin Myo Chit, who spoke about latent sexual politics in pre-Independent Burma; Ludu Daw Amar, who as the editor of the leftist Ludu Daily, was deemed anti-establishment and was witness to the socialist government''s abortive efforts at ethnic reconciliation; Ma Thida, whose writing bears testimony to the impact the authoritative military rule had on the individual psyche; and Aung San Suu Kyi, who has re-articulated Burmese nationalism. This book breaks new ground in exploring their writing, both published and hitherto unexamined, some in English and much in Burmese, while the intimate biographical sketches offer a glimpse into the Burmese home and the shifting feminine image.Trade Review'This groundbreaking interpretative work is a serious and well-documented account of postcolonial Burma from an unusual and most original standpoint. One of the author's special achievements is to have searched out and used Burmese material that is not available in English.' Anna Allott, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London'The author's analysis of the writings, politics and Buddhist beliefs of four key Burmese women presents a novel perspective on Burma's past and its modern intellectual and political history. It comes at an opportune moment as the government at last begins to embrace positive change.' Patricia Herbert, Former Curator of Southeast Asia Collections, The British Library'The book represents an important piece of scholarship that definitely fills a need in English-language publishing on Myanmar. The prose is excellent with a very compelling narrative touch. This book is coming at a good time of interest in Myanmar and will hopefully be welcomed for being a rare example of including attention to women.' Matthew J. Walton, University of Oxford'Sengupta's blend of literary, biographical, and political analysis is often fascinating, and the research that supports her analysis is thorough … this book is a significant scholarly achievement that will be of interest to scholars of Myanmar and of gender in twentieth century Southeast Asia.' Ashley Wright, Southeast Asian Studies'This book is a welcome contribution to Myanmar scholarship in many disciplines, but more importantly it is an enticement for any researcher interested in Myanmar to do more work on the status of women, the politics of sexuality, and the power dynamics between men and women. Myanmar's modern history comes alive through the carefully crafted personal narratives of the four extraordinary women.' Maureen Aung-Thwin, Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsList of figures; Glossary; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Khin Myo Chit: the voice of a closet feminist; 2. Ludu Daw Amar: the voice of unity; 3. Ma Thida: the voice of hidden truths and changing times; 4. Aung San Suu Kyi: the voice of a pragmatic; Annexure I. Chronology of Khin Myo Chit's publications; Annexure II. Chronology of Ludu Daw Amar's publications; Annexure III. Chronology of Ma Thida's publications; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Becketts Art of Salvage
Book SynopsisThis innovative exploration of the recurring use of particular objects in Samuel Beckett''s work is the first study of the material imagination of any single modern author. Across five decades of aesthetic and formal experimentation in fiction, drama, poetry and film, Beckett made substantial use of only fourteen objects - well-worn not only where they appear within his works but also in terms of their recurrence throughout his creative corpus. In this volume, Bates offers a striking reappraisal of Beckett''s writing, with a focus on the changing functions and impact of this set of objects, and charts, chronologically and across media, the pattern of Beckett''s distinctive authorial procedure. The volume''s identification of the creative praxis that emerges as an ''art of salvage'' offers an integrated way of understanding Beckett''s writing, opens up new approaches to his work, and offers a fresh assessment of his importance and relevance today.Trade Review'… Beckett's art of salvaging, an art which Bates makes a compelling case for as crucial to his creative imagination, in her thorough, nuanced and highly readable monograph.' Liam Harrison, Dublin Review of BooksTable of Contents1. Relics; 2. Heirlooms; 3. Props; 4. Treasure; Conclusion: Beckett's art of salvage.
£85.50
Cambridge University Press Thomas Hardy and Animals
Book SynopsisThomas Hardy and Animals examines the human and nonhuman animals who walk and crawl and fly across and around the pages of Hardy''s novels. Animals abound in his writings, yet little scholarly attention has been paid to them so far. This book fills this gap in Hardy studies, bringing an important author within range of a new and developing area of critical inquiry. It considers the way Hardy''s representations of animals challenged ideas of human-animal boundaries debated by the Victorian scientific and philosophical communities. In moments of encounter between humans and animals, Hardy questions boundaries based on ideas of moral sense or moral agency, language and reason, the possession of a face, and the capacity to suffer and perceive pain. Through an emphasis on embodied encounters, his writings call for an extension of empathy to others, human or nonhuman. In this accessible book Anna West offers a new approach to Hardy criticism.Trade Review'… an important and welcome contribution to Hardy scholarship. … West's volume serves as a good beginning point … on this compelling and complex subject. … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.' R. D. Morrison, CHOICE'Thomas Hardy and Animals is an outstanding piece of work that makes an important contribution to Hardy studies and to scholarship on animals in the Victorian period.' Jennifer McDonell, Victorian Studies'… West's excellent study provides a very welcome introduction to the 'creatures' that play so notable a part in Hardy's oeuvre.' Adrian Tait, The British Society for Literature and ScienceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Hardy's 'shifted [...] centre of altruism': an ethics of encounter and empathy; 1. What does it mean to be a creature?; 2. 'The only things we believe in are the sheep and the dogs'; 3. 'Artful' creatures, part one: animal language; 4. 'Artful' creatures, part two: can a snake have a face?; 5. 'Artful' creatures, part three: 'pre-posthumanist' Hardy; 6. Useful creatures: rethinking Hardy's humanitarianism.
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Cambridge University Press A Set of Six
Book SynopsisA Set of Six (1908) is one of Conrad''s most versatile and varied compositions, embracing diverse interests and settings, multiple tonal qualities and a medley of short-story forms (ranging from the novella in ''The Duel'' to the anecdotal tale in ''The Informer''). The volume''s wide-ranging introduction offers a careful evaluation of the origins and sources of the individual stories, while also measuring their early reception as a published collection. Explanatory notes clarify literary and historical references, identify real-life places and people, and indicate borrowings and Gallicisms. The lengthy textual essay and its accompanying apparatus lay out the history of composition and publication, detailing interventions made by Conrad''s typists, compositors and editors. Also included are appendices, allowing the reader first-hand access to Conrad''s source material; glossaries of nautical and foreign terms; and illustrations in the form of maps and reproductions of early drafts. By Table of ContentsList of illustrations; General Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations and Note on Editions; Introduction; A Set of Six; The Texts: An Essay; Apparatus; Textual Notes; Appendices; Explanatory Notes; Glossaries; Maps.
£94.99
Cambridge University Press Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence
Book SynopsisIn this major new book, Vincent Sherry reveals a fresh continuity in literary history. He traces the idea of decadence back to key events from the failures of the French Revolution to the cataclysm of the Great War. This powerful work of literary criticism and literary history encompasses a rich trajectory that begins with an exposition of the English Romantic poets and ends with a re-evaluation of modernists as varied as W. B. Yeats, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Rebecca West, Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett and, centrally, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Sherry''s hugely ambitious study will be essential reading for anyone working in modernist studies and twentieth-century literature more generally.Trade Review'Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence is a surprising yet inevitable book, at once expansive and meticulous. For decades we've been thinking about the relationship of modernism to the culture of the fin de siècle, but this book allows us to perceive that relationship more vividly than ever before. Vincent Sherry, who negotiates the thickets of intellectual and material history as elegantly as he inhabits the language of poems, is the only scholar of Anglo-American modernism who could have written it. The book is brilliant.' James Longenbach, University of Rochester'In Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence, Vincent Sherry offers a powerful, learned rereading of an entire literary tradition, in effect restoring decadent aesthetics to the foreground of literary modernism where it had been forgotten, lost, or actively suppressed. His presentation involves a bravura recovery of decadence's literary history, [providing] masterly accounts of literary agonisms and generational, tectonic shifts. He manages to canvass enormous swaths of literature and media and print archive, establishing both great interpretive authority on the rarefied texts of modernism but also the sounds and keynotes of public discourse in a broader sense. This is a weighty and consequential book, brimming with local insights and rising to the level of a tightly integrated, field-altering (not a phrase I use lightly), revisionary argument.' Jed Esty, University of Pennsylvania'Sherry makes a compelling case that Pound purposefully distanced himself from early works that demonstrated the influence of decadence and then later worked with Eliot to excise similar tendencies from The Waste Land … Recommended. Graduate students and above.' W. T. Martin, Choice'The work Sherry has done to recover decadence as a formative principle of modernism certainly merits praise: the book offers a significant and compelling revision of literary history that is likely to stand for some time to come.' David Weir, The English Historical Review'Sherry's work is rich and uncompromising, interwoven with carefully mediated readings of the poetry and prose on which it focuses.' Kate Hext, The Times Literary Supplement'This is a book that will immediately become indispensable for scholars of modernism and decadence alike. … Sherry's book requires not only that we recognize the long tail of decadence, but, more broadly, that we reexamine our usual ways of drawing boundaries between literary periods, whose existence may reinforce the polemical positions taken by those who inhabited them.' Benjamin Morgan, Modern Philology'Sherry's study is at once broad in scope and refined in the detail of its exegeses, and moves deftly between some of the best-known documents of modernism and rich findings from the archive.' Modernist Studies Association Book Prize Committee (www.msa.press.jhu.edu)Table of Contents1. The time of decadence; 2. The demonstrable decadence of modernist novels; 3. Ezra Pound, 1906–20; 4. T. S. Eliot, 1910–22.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Mexican Literature
Book SynopsisA History of Mexican Literature chronicles a story more than five hundred years in the making, looking at the development of literary culture in Mexico from its indigenous beginnings to the twenty-first century. Featuring a comprehensive introduction that charts the development of a complex canon, this History includes extensive essays that illuminate the cultural and political intricacies of Mexican literature. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered verse and fiction of such diverse writers as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mariano Azuela, Xavier Villaurrutia, and Octavio Paz. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History also devotes special attention to the lasting significance of colonialism and multiculturalism in Mexican literature. This book is of pivotal importance to the development of Mexican writing and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike.Table of Contents1. The languages and literature of early print culture in the colonia Heather Allen; 2. A chronicon of crónicas: the new Spanish prose narrative Santa Arias; 3. Theatricality and public enactment of the Mexican colonial Patricia Ybarra; 4. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: the tenth muse and the difficult freedom to be Catherine Boyle; 5. Jesuit enlightenment: interventions in Christianity and intellectualism Ivonne del Valle; 6. Women in the print culture of new Spain Mariselle Meléndez; 7. The colonial literary scope: empire, letter, and power Anna More; 8. New Spain's archival past and present materiality Anna M. Nogar; 9. Early nineteenth-century nation-building prose Amy E. Wright; 10. The emergence of the Mexican literary field (1833–69) Victor Barrera Enderle; 11. The rise of cultural institutions Shelley Garrigan; 12. Liberal literati Juan Pablo Dabove; 13. The conservative paradigm José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra; 14. Mexican modernismo Adela Pineda Franco; 15. The Ateneo de la Juventud: the foundations of Mexican intellectual culture Pedro Ángel Palou; 16. Regimes of the avant-garde: colonialists, stridentists, proletarians, surrealists, contemporáneos, and independent rupture (1920–50) Yanna Hadatty Mora; 17. The institution of fiction: from Yáñez, Rulfo, and Fuentes to Pitol and Del Paso Ryan K. Long; 18. Octavio Paz: literature, modernity, institutions Maarten Van Delden; 19. Mexican poetry after the avant-garde Rogelio Guedea; 20. Nonfictions: essays, criticism, and crónica Beth Jörgensen; 21. Balancing acts: twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexican theater Stuart A. Day; 22. Women writers in the land of 'virile' literature Nuala Finnegan; 23. The hidden histories of gender: LGBTQ writers and subjectivities in Mexico Michael K. Schuessler; 24. Mexican literature in the neoliberal era Ignacio M. Sänchez Prado; 25. The literatures of greater Mexico A. Gabriel Meléndez; 26. Indigenous literatures of Mexico Kelly McDonough and Gustavo Zapoteco Sideño; 27. Writing cinema: the communicating vessels of literature and film Niamh Thornton; 28. Popular narratives: telenovelas, corridos, historietas, and other literary pursuits Robert McKee and Maricruz Castro Ricalde.
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Cambridge University Press The Shakespeare Circle
Book SynopsisThis original and enlightening book casts fresh light on Shakespeare by examining the lives of his relatives, friends, fellow-actors, collaborators and patrons both in their own right and in relation to his life. Well-known figures such as Richard Burbage, Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton are freshly considered; little-known but relevant lives are brought to the fore, and revisionist views are expressed on such matters as Shakespeare''s wealth, his family and personal relationships, and his social status. Written by a distinguished team, including some of the foremost biographers, writers and Shakespeare scholars of today, this enthralling volume forms an original contribution to Shakespearian biography and Elizabethan and Jacobean social history. It will interest anyone looking to learn something new about the dramatist and the times in which he lived. A supplementary website offers imagined first-person audio accounts from the featured subjects.Trade Review'Wonderfully conceived and executed, and drawing on the expertise of some of the finest literary historians at work today, The Shakespeare Circle offers a richly rewarding alternative to the 'cradle to grave' biography, allowing us to see Shakespeare afresh through the lives of his friends, relatives, neighbours, fellow actors and rivals.' James Shapiro, Columbia University, New York'Anyone who reads these collected biographical essays and sketches will come to know Shakespeare himself better.' Dame Margaret Drabble, from the Afterword'Full of fresh and fascinating detail, The Shakespeare Circle zooms out for the long view, linking the life of the playwright to the many different lives that surrounded him. A completely new way of understanding Shakespearian biography.' Andrew Dickson, author of Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe'Stanley Wells [is the] doyen of Shakespeare studies … As the novelist Margaret Drabble observes in her afterword, we should not be surprised that Shakespeare's life still yields surprises - but invariably we are.' Jerry Bruton, Financial Times'… a remarkable collection …' Charles Nicholl, London Review of Books'For readers in search of Shakespeare, this collection holds out the promise of discovery, anticipating more evidence of collaboration, heralding fresh findings which may be gleaned from the ongoing archeologic dig at New Place, and issuing a call for scholars to pursue Shakespeare's missing papers, which might be discovered in the possession of descendants of the Barnard family. Its essays are distinguished by their thought-provoking research and fertile re-examination of the documentary record, creating intersections that generate fresh perspectives and invite the reader to imagine new narratives.' The Shakespeare NewsletterTable of ContentsGeneral introduction Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells; Part I. Family: 1. His mother Mary Shakespeare Michael Wood; 2. His father John Shakespeare David Fallow; 3. His siblings Catherine Richardson; 4. His sister's family: the Harts Cathy Shrank; 5. His wife Anne Shakespeare and the Hathaways Katherine Scheil; 6. His daughter Susanna Hall Lachlan Mackinnon; 7. His son-in-law John Hall Greg Wells; 8. His son Hamnet Shakespeare Graham Holderness; 9. His daughter Judith and the Quineys Germaine Greer; 10. His granddaughter Lady Elizabeth Barnard René Weis; 11. His 'cousin': Thomas Greene Tara Hamling; Part II. Friends and Neighbours: 12. A close family connection: the Combes Stanley Wells; 13. Schoolfriend, publisher and printer Richard Field Carol Chillington Rutter; 14. Living with the Mountjoys David Kathman; 15. Ben Jonson David Riggs; 16. Richard Barnfield, John Weever, William Basse and other encomiasts Andrew Hadfield; 17. Last things: Shakespeare's neighbours and beneficiaries Susan Brock; Part III. Colleagues and Patrons: 18. His fellow dramatists and early collaborators Andy Kesson; 19. His theatre friends: the Burbages John H. Astington; 20. His fellow actors Will Kemp, Robert Armin and other members of the Lord Chamberlain's Men and the King's Men Bart Van Es; 21. His literary patrons Alan H. Nelson; 22. His collaborator George Wilkins Duncan Salkeld; 23. His collaborator Thomas Middleton Emma Smith; 24. His collaborator John Fletcher Lucy Munro; 25. His editors John Heminges and Henry Condell Paul Edmondson; Closing remarks Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells; Afterword Margaret Drabble; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Rhetoric Medicine and the Woman Writer 16001700
Book SynopsisHow did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence accounts for physicians'' dominance. Instead, she argues that the whole enterprise of learned medicine was, in large measure, facilitated by an intensely classical education that included extensive training in rhetoric, and that this rhetorical training is ultimately responsible for the achievement of professional dominance. Bennett examines previously unexplored connections among writers and genres as well as competing livelihoods and classes. Engaging the histories of rhetoric, medicine, literature, and culture throughout, she goes on to focus specifically on the work of women who professed as well as practiced medicine. Pointing to some of the ways women''s writing shapes realities of body, mind, and spirit as it negotiates social, cultural, and professional ideologies of gender, this book offers an important corrective to some long-held beliefs about women''s role in early modern discourse.Trade Review'Lyn Bennett's … detailed new book offers an original perspective on the development of the medical profession in the seventeenth century.' Aurélie Griffin, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction. 'Their plausible rhetoric'; Part I. Rhetoric and Medicine: 1. 'Another mans profession': physicians and clerics; 2. 'Onely the learned': physicians, empirics, and women; 3. 'An eloquent tongue': physicians and patients; Part II. The Woman Writer: 4. 'Publishing those truthes': women and affliction; 5. 'Hard words and rhetoricall phrases': women and learned medicine; 6. 'A bare physician stuft with words': women and domestic healing.
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Cambridge University Press Chicago
Book SynopsisChicago occupies a central position in both the geography and literary history of the United States. From its founding in 1833 through to its modern incarnation, the city has served as both a thoroughfare for the nation''s goods and a crossroads for its cultural energies. The idea of Chicago as a crossroads of modern America is what guides this literary history, which traces how writers have responded to a rapidly changing urban environment and labored to make sense of its place in - and implications for - the larger whole. In writing that engages with the world''s first skyscrapers and elevated railroads, extreme economic and racial inequality, a growing middle class, ethnic and multiethnic neighborhoods, the Great Migration of African Americans, and the city''s contemporary incarnation as a cosmopolitan urban center, Chicago has been home to a diverse literature that has both captured and guided the themes of modern America.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Literary History of Chicago Frederik Byrn Køhlert; Part I. The Rise of Chicago and the Literary West: 1. From Prairie to Metropolis: Chicago as the American 'Shock City' Christophe Den Tandt; 2. Birth, Fire, and Rebirth: Edward Payson Roe's Barriers Burned Away and the Invention of Chicago Literature Charles Byler; 3. 'This Broad, free inland America of Ours': Hamlin Garland, Chicago, and the Literary West Christine Holbo; 4. White City: The World's Columbian Exposition in Literature Rebecca S. Graff; 5. New Realities, New Realisms: Chicago Literature against the Genteel Tradition Robert Birdwell; Part II. Business Unusual: A New Urban American Literature: 6. Among the Skyscrapers: Henry B. Fuller's Chicago Novels Joseph A. Dimuro; 7. The Price of Success: Robert Herrick's the Memoirs of an American Citizen and the American Business Novel Jose Fernandez; 8. 'A Story of Chicago': The Future of Place in Frank Norris's The Pit Jason Puskar; 9. Amid Forces: Theodore Dreiser's Chicago T. Austin Graham; 10. Eugene Field, Finley Peter Dunne, and George Ade: A New Urban Vernacular John Wharton Lowe; Part III. Radicalism, Modernism, and the Chicago Renaissance: 11. Progressive Chicago: Upton Sinclair, Jane Addams, and Social Reform Literature Rachel Elin Nolan; 12. From the Prairie to the City: Willa Cather's 'City of Feeling' Mark A. Robison; 13. Poetry, the Little Review, and Chicago Modernism Bartholomew Brinkman; 14. A Spirit of Two Ages: The Romantic Modernism of Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems John Marsh; 15. Building a Movement: Mary Reynolds Aldis and Little Theatre in Chicago Megan E. Geigner; 16. Father to Son: Floyd Dell, Sherwood Anderson, and the Chicago Renaissance Timothy B. Spears; Part IV. A City of Neighborhoods: The Great Depression, Sociology, and the Black Chicago Renaissance: 17. Chicago Ecology and James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan Moacir P. de Sá Pereira; 18. Chicago gets the Blues: Migration, Depression, and the Black Renaissance Richard A. Courage; 19. Black Chicago: Richard Wright's South Side William R. Nash; 20. Life in Bronzeville: Humanism and Community in the Work of Gwendolyn Brooks Courtney Pierre Joseph; 21. Hustlers, Junkies, and Prostitutes: Nelson Algren's White Slums Ian Peddie; 22. From Emptyland to Uncanny City: Saul Bellow's Jewish Chicago Alan Bilton; Part V. Traditions and Futures: Contemporary Chicago Literatures: 23. Division Street America: The Nine Chicago Literary Lives of Studs Terkel Tony Macaluso; 24. Sexual and Other Perversities: David Mamet and Vontemporary Chicago Theater Ira Nadel; 25. Chicago Crime, Blue Collar and White: Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski Novels Charlotte Beyer; 26. Drawing Chicago: Chris Ware's Graphic City Frederik Byrn Køhlert; 27. Across Neighborhood and National Boundaries: Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, and Mexican Chicago Olga L. Herrera; 28. Stuart Dybek and the New Chicago's Literature of Neighborhood Carlo Rotella; 29. Chicago Now: Aleksandar Hemon, Dmitry Samarov, Erika L. Sánchez and the Contemporary City of Immigrants Sonia Weiner; 30. Afterword: What Will Become of Us? The Future of Chicago Literatures Bill Savage.
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Cambridge University Press Exhausted Ecologies
Book SynopsisThis book evaluates twentieth century British and Global Anglophone literature in relation to the growth of ecological thinking in the United Kingdom. Restless modernists such as D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, and Jean Rhys developed a literary aesthetic of slowness and immediacy to critique the exhausting and dehumanizing aspects of modern urban and industrial life. At the same time, environmental groups such as the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves and the Smoke Abatement League moved from economic registers of ''value'' and ''trust'' to more cultural terms of ''recovery'' and ''regeneration'' to position nature as a healing force in the postwar era. Through a variety of literary, scientific, and political texts, an environmental movement emerged alongside the fast, fragmented, and traumatic aspects of modernization in order to sustain place and community in terms of lateral influence and ecological dependence.Trade Review'… a significant contribution to this nascent but rapidly growing body of modernist eco-criticism.' William Kupinse, James Joyce Literary Supplement'In his introduction, Kalaidjian expresses the need for both modernism and ecocriticism to advance each other and not “simply reinterpret one through the other's lens”. Exhausted Ecologies therefore has much to offer to those studying Europe and its empires, environmental historians, modernist literary critics, and ecocritical scholars alike. Kalaidjian's work here overall is timely in light of the increasing threat of climate disaster, as well as a fascinating view into the connections between modernist literature and the beginnings of modern environmentalism.' Leanna Lostoski-Ho, EuropeNowTable of ContentsIntroduction: places of rest; 1. Nature's reserves: rural exhaustion, inertia, and generative aesthetics; 2. Urban environs: James Joyce and the politics of shared atmosphere; 3. Waste lands: dark pastoral in T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and Djuna Barnes; 4. Uprooting empire: Jean Rhys and unrest in imperial centers; 5. Decolonizing ecology: Chinua Achebe's new forms of unease; Conclusion: the limits of modernist regeneration.
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Cambridge University Press Irish Literature in Transition 18301880 Volume 3
Book SynopsisIreland''s experience in the nineteenth century was quite different from that of Victorian Britain. Its fictions were written in differing forms like the gothic or historical novel and its poetry and drama were populated with ballad and song. Its writers were by turns nationalist or unionist, anglophile or de-anglicising. If the effects of famine and emigration were catastrophic for mid-nineteenth-century Irish culture, they initiated a literary story that spread across the diaspora. Despite the decline of spoken Irish, literature continued to be published, while scholarly endeavours such as translation or the Ordnance Survey preserved much from the Gaelic past. This rich volume examines the many forms of new writing that thrived throughout this period. Utilizing a thematic and historical approach, it addresses a broad anglophone readership in Victorian literature. Essays consider the Irish authors in America and India, women''s writing, and the resilience of Irish literature before Trade Review'… a remarkably ambitious project, taking the temperature of Irish literature from 1730 to the present in approximately 2,400 pages.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times'… show[s] how an attention to Irish writing can transform how we understand key concepts like romanticism; literary genres like realism, the gothic, ballads; political formations like empire and the transatlantic slave trade; and periodical culture. I highly recommend these books to scholars interested in learning more about Ireland as well as to established scholars of Irish literature.' Mary L. Mullen, Nineteenth-Century ContextsTable of ContentsPart I. Contexts and Contents: Politics and Periodicals: 1. Victorian Ireland, 1830–1880: a transition state Matthew Campbell; 2. Satire, fiction and innovation between Dublin, Edinburgh and London Jim Kelly; 3. Young Irelanders, Fenians, Land Leaguers: Young Ireland and beyond Melissa Fegan; Part II. Ireland and the Liberal Arts and Sciences: 4. Naming the place: the Ordnance Survey and its afterlives Cóilín Parsons; 5. Political economy? The economics and sociology of famine Marguerite Corporaal; 6. Newman's Irish University Colin Barr; 7. The charms of Ireland: travel writing and tourism Glenn Hooper; Part III. From the Four Nations to the Globalising Irish: 8. England and Ireland, Tory and Whig: Thackeray, Trollope, Arnold John McCourt; 9. The Irish in the Empire: Moore, Lever, Duffy Jim Shanahan; 10. An exiled history: Mitchel to O'Leary James Quinn; 11. The writing of Irish-America Peter D. O'Neill; Part IV. The Languages of Literature: 12. Antiquarians and authentics: survival and revival in Gaelic writing Nicholas Wolf; 13. Poetry and its audiences: club, street, ballad Norman Vance; 14. Gothic, allegory, realism: the Irish 'Victorian' novel Raphael Ingelbien; 15. The rise of the woman writer Anna Pilz; 16. Dion Boucicault and the globalized Irish stage Shaun Richards; 17. The popular prints Stephanie Rains.
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Cambridge University Press Scale Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
Book SynopsisGreek culture matters because its unique pluralistic debate shaped modern discourses. This ground-breaking book explains this feature by retelling the history of ancient literary culture through the lenses of canon, space and scale. It proceeds from the invention of the performative ''author'' in the archaic symposium through the ''polis of letters'' enabled by Athenian democracy and into the Hellenistic era, where one''s space mattered and culture became bifurcated between Athens and Alexandria. This duality was reconfigured into an eclectic variety consumed by Roman patrons and predicated on scale, with about a thousand authors active at any given moment. As patronage dried up in the third century CE, scale collapsed and literary culture was reduced to the teaching of a narrower field of authors, paving the way for the Middle Ages. The result is a new history of ancient culture which is sociological, quantitative, and all-encompassing, cutting through eras and genres.Trade Review'… this work opens a new path for future scholarship. This engaging … volume deserves a wide audience among classicists.' P. E. Ojennus, Choice'This volume is an amazing achievement, a commanding synthesis, a vast compendium of pages, an argument that demands to be contested. Every Classicist should read it.' Jaś Elsner, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; General introduction; Part I. Canon: 1. Canon: the evidence; 2. Canon in practice: the polis of letters; Part II. Space: 3. Space, the setting: the making of an Athens-against-Alexandria Mediterranean; 4. Space in action: when worlds diverge; Part III. Scale: 5. A quantitative model of ancient literary culture; 6. Scale in action: stability and its end; Coda to the book; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Interwar Modernism and the Liberal World Order
Book SynopsisAddressed to scholars of modernism, this book tells a story about the origins of liberal international order in modernist circles that will engage readers interested in the prehistory of our own moment of crisis in liberal world order.Table of Contents1. The queer modernist origins of interwar liberal order; 2. Friends and enemies: liberal order in Woolf, Wells, and Woolf; 3. The artist as clerk: debt, paperwork, and liberal order in T. S. Eliot; 4. Typewriter fiction at the secretariat; 5. Black modernist internationalisms between the wars: René Maran, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, and Claude McKay.
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Palgrave Macmillan The Keys of Middleearth
Book SynopsisHow to Use This BookIntroduction1. Background2. Medieval Literature3. Thematic and Technical Parallels4. The Editions5. The TextsBibliographyIndexTrade ReviewPraise for the previous edition: "[The Keys of Middle-earth] provides a wide range of texts with insightful introductions and commentary on each of the texts that have been chosen for elucidation." Professor Shaun F.D. Hughes, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, Purdue University, USA "The Keys of Middle-earth is a much-needed book... The texts, in Old English, Old Norse, and Middle English, are faithfully presented... textual notes are remarkably thorough." John R. Holmes, Notes and Queries Summary "Either as a student's text or as an instructor's resource, The Keys of Middle-earth provides an excellent introduction to a number of important medieval texts complete with a judicious, but not overwhelming, awareness of recent scholarship within a compelling context of a modern literary phenomenon - the imaginative world of J. R. R. Tolkien." Miranda Wilcox, The Medieval Review "'As an anthology of medieval texts it is first rate. The texts, in Old English, Old Norse, and Middle English, are faithfully presented and despite the authors' modest disclaimer that their book cannot accommodate a "full discussion of textual issues" (55), textual notes are remarkably thorough. With equal modesty they call their textual notes "highly selective," but their selection is impeccable. Commentary is just as painstaking: major critical controversies are fully represented. And as an encouragement to further study in three medieval languages, which the authors identify as its main purpose (19), the book is eminently successful." John R Holmes, Tolkien StudiesTable of ContentsHow to Use This BookIntroduction1. Background2. Medieval Literature3. Thematic and Technical Parallels4. The Editions5. The TextsBibliographyIndex
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New York University Press Black Age
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This truly revelatory book uncovers the flesh of black age. Through a focus on black untimeliness, Habiba Ibrahim reveals a counter-history of modernity. Ibrahim adds vital new dimensions to the study of blackness as an alternative relation to time. This tremendous book reveals that black life is a state of being alienated from the time of one’s own body and a radical refusal of patriarchal adulthood." * Margo Natalie Crawford, author of Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics *"Habiba Ibrahim’s Black Age opens up powerful new vocabularies and paradigms for thinking about Black cultural expression—and indeed Black life. Through beautifully argued analyses of literary texts, Ibrahim produces startling and profound insights into age, temporality, modernity, race, subjectivity, and the very category of the human." * Gayle Wald, author of It’s Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television *"Ibrahim’s dialectic of exclusion and reclamation advances an alternative way to discern the relationship between the past and the present... Black Age points us to new ways of thinking and interpreting what time it is." -- ALH Online Review * American Literary History Online Review *
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Workman Publishing Banned Books PageADay Calendar 2026
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Nova Science Publishers Inc The Doubling: Those Influential Writers That
Book SynopsisThe Doubling: Those Influential Writers That Shape Our Contemporary Perceptions of Identity and Consciousness in the New Millennium examines pairs of writers, 28 in all, to compare and contrast their books, their personalities, and their responses to the age in which they lived. In the case of the chapter devoted to the black experience, it also includes an overview of some of the greatest African-American writers of the 20th century and their most memorable work. The scope of The Doubling extends from the inception of the modern novel through the present. The book is presented in a Q & A format with Diana Sheets responding to questions posed by Michael F. Shaughnessy. Their conversation offers penetrating insights in light of recent scholarship and established criticism. The Doubling is uniquely suited to serve as a textbook in high school and college classrooms, in libraries, and educational institutions.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc The Copper Garden: New Zealand Novels
Book SynopsisThe Copper Garden: New Zealand Novels is a book of literary criticism and review about Aotearoa New Zealand fiction over the past one hundred fifty years. It focuses on those novels that have received attention either with awards, prizes, or critique and have been read to signify or perhaps even embody certain aspects of New Zealand character; these aspects include place, circumstance, manner, atmosphere, style, or literary historical relevance. The Copper Garden: New Zealand Novels presents sixty-five vignettes of renowned or critically relevant novels, with the intention of introducing to the reader some of the thematical complexities and undercurrents of the authors works. The approach to the New Zealand novels is chronological, spanning the period of the late nineteenth to the early the twenty-first century. Through his analysis, Luke Strongman hopes to further the critical understanding and development of the Aotearoa New Zealand novel as an art form.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Exploring Art and Literature: Interpretations,
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Nova Science Publishers Inc A History of Roman Classical Literature
Book SynopsisThe history of Roman Classical Literature, although it comprehends the names of many illustrious writers and many voluminous works, is, chronologically speaking, contained within narrow limits. Dating from its earliest infancy, until the epoch when it ceased to deserve the title of classical, its existence occupies a period of less than four centuries.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc A Manual of American Literature
Book SynopsisThis book has been made a Memorial Volume out of compliment to American literature and is dedicated, with his permission, to President Roosevelt. This book presents an interesting evidence of the growth of the popularity of American literature in Europe and strives to show the high appreciation for American authors.
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Broadview Press Ltd The Broadview Anthology of Literature of the
Book SynopsisThe selections from 132 authors in this anthology represent gender, social class, and racial and national origin as inclusively as possible, providing both greater context for canonical works and a sense of the era's richness and diversity. In terms of genre, poetry, non-fiction prose, philosophy, educational writing, and prose fiction are included. Geographically, America, Canada, Australia, India, and Africa are represented along with Britain, emphasizing Romantic literature as a world literature. Biographical headnotes, explanatory footnotes, and an extensive bibliography clarify and illuminate the texts for readers.Trade Review“This is a massive, impressive collection that both challenges and guides us to see the literature of the period in its most vital, revolutionary context. By featuring and appropriately balancing the canonical and the obscure and much in between, this anthology reminds us that it is the diversity of the writers of the age that, more than anything else, stirs and astounds us.” — G. Kim Blank, University of Victoria“This anthology provides an exciting, innovative, global approach to the study of what has been called the “Romantic” period. Poetry, prose, and criticism by canonical writers are presented along with texts by labouring-class women, journalists, slaves, and political thinkers from Britain, America, Canada, Africa, India, and Australia. Focusing on revolution and politics, editors D.L. MacDonald and Anne McWhir provide teachers and students with rich, historicized and intertextual contexts with which to study familiar and lesser-known authors. Intelligently conceived, containing a diverse range of works and a useful bibliography, The Broadview Anthology of Literature of the Revolutionary Period is a welcome addition to this often contested and fascinating field.” — Eleanor Ty, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityTable of ContentsEDITORIAL PREFACEBENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706 — 1790) from Two Tracts: Information to Those Who Would Remove to America. And, Remarks Concerning theSavages of North America (1784) Remarks Concerning the Savages of North-America RICHARD PRICE (1723 — 1791)from A Discourse on the Love of our Country, delivered on Nov. 4, 1789, at the Meeting-House in the Old Jewry, to the Society for Commemorating the Revolution in Great Britain (1789)SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS (1723 — 1792) from Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy by the President (1778) from A Discourse, Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy, on the Distribution of the Prizes, December 10, 1776, by the President [DISCOURSE 7] CLARA REEVE (1729 — 1807)from The Progress of Romance, through Times, Countries, and Manners; with Remarks on the Goodand Bad Effects of It, on Them Respectively; in a Course of Evening Conversations (1785)from Evening 7EDMUND BURKE (1729? — 1797)from Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in LondonRelative to That Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris (1790)A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made Upon Himand His Pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, Earlyin the Present Sessions of Parliament (1796)IGNATIUS SANCHO (1729? — 17 80) from Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. To Which are Prefixed Memoirs of his Life, by Joseph Jekyll, Esq. M.P. 5th ed. (1803) LETTER 36, To Mr. Sterne JOHN SCOTT (1730 — 1783) from Poetical Works (1782) Ode 13 [“I hate that drum’s discordant sound”] OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1730? — 1774) The Deserted Village, A Poem (1770)CATHARINE MACAULAY (1731 — 1791) from Letters on Education, with Observations on Religious and Metaphysical Subjects (1790) PART 1, LETTER 24 WILLIAM COWPER (1731 — 1800) from The Task, A Poem, in Six Books (1785) from BOOK 2, The Time-Piece from The Works of William Cowper, Esq. comprising his Poems, Correspondence, and Translations, ed. Robert Southey (1837) The Negro’s ComplaintSweet Meat Has Sour Sauce: or, The Slave-Trader in the Dumps from Life, and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, ed. William Hayley (1803) Sonnet, to William Wilberforce, Esq.The Cast-Away ERASMUS DARWIN (1731 — 1802) from The Temple of Nature; or, The Origin of Society: A Poem. With Philosophical Notes (1803) from CANTO 4, Of Good and Evil JOHN ADAMS (1734 — 1826) and ABIGAIL ADAMS (1744 — 1818) Letters Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 March 1776John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 April 1776 J. HECTOR ST . JOHN DE CRÈVECOEUR (1735 — 1813) from Letters from an American Farmer (1782) from LETTER 12, Distresses of a Frontier Man THOMAS PAINE (1737 — 1809)from The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (1794)CHARLOTTE BROOKE (1740 — 1793) from Reliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes, Elegies, and Songs, Translated into English Verse: with Notes Explanatory and Historical; and the Originals in the Irish Character. To Which is Subjoined an Irish Tale (1789) The Lamentation of Cucullin, over the Body of his Son ConlochSong. For Mable Kelly. By Carolan ANNA SEWARD (1742 — 1809) from Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems (1796) EyamTo Time Past. Written Dec. 1772 from Original Sonnets on Various Subjects; and Odes Paraphrased from Horace (1799) Sonnet 10. To Honora SneydSonnet 71. To the Poppy HANNAH COWLEY (1743 — 1809) from the World, Fashionable Advertiser (10 July 1787) To Della Crusca. The Pen from the World (22 December 1787) To Della Crusca THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743 — 1826)In Congress, July 4, 1776, A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress Assembled ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD (1743 — 1825) from Poems (1773) The Mouse’s Petition, Found in the Trap Where He Had Been C onfin’d All NightA Summer Evening’s Meditation An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts (1790)Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave-Trade (1791) from the Monthly Magazine 4 (July—December 1797) Washing-Day from the Monthly Magazine 7 (January—June 1799) To Mr. C——ge Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem (1812)from The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld. With A Memoir by Lucy Aikin (1825) The Rights of WomanInscription for an Ice-HouseTo the PoorTo a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become VisibleThe First Fire. October 1st, 1815 HANNAH MORE (1745 — 1833) Slavery, A Poem (1788)Village Politics. Addressed to All the Mechanics, Journeymen, and Day Labourers, in Great Britain.By Will Chip, a Country Carpenter (1792) A Dialogue between Jack Anvil the Blacksmith, and Tom Hod the Mason from Cheap Repository Tracts (1795) Patient Joe; or, the Newcastle Collier from Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. With a View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent among Women of Rank and Fortune (1799) CHAPTER 4 THOMAS BELLAMY (1745 — 1800) The Benevolent Planters: A Dramatic Piece as performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket (1789)SAMUEL HEARNE (1745 — 1792) from A Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Ocean (1795) from CHAPTER 4from CHAPTER 5from CHAPTRE 9 OLAUDAH EQUIANO (1745? — 1797) from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself (1789) CHAPTER 2 ELIZABETH HANDS (1746? — 18 15) from The Death of Amnon. A Poem. With an Appendix: Containing Pastorals, and OtherPoetical Pieces (1789) A Poem, On the Supposition of an Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant MaidA Poem, On the Supposition of the Book Having Been Published and ReadWritten, Originally Extempore, on Seeing a Mad Heifer Run through the Village Where the Author Lives SUSANNA BLAMIRE (1747 — 1794) from The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire, “The Muse of Cumberland” (1842) from Stoklewath Or, The Cumbrian Village CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749 — 1806) from Elegiac Son nets. Third Edition, with Twenty Additional Sonnets (1786) 1. [“The partial Muse, has from my earliest hours”]3. To a nightingale4. To the moon7. On the departure of the nightingale17. From the th irteenth cantata of Metasta sio21. Supposed to be written by Werter24. By the same25. By the same. Just before his death27. [“Sighing I see yon little troop at play”]32. To Melancholy. Written on the banks of the Arun, October, 178535. To fortitude from Elegiac Sonnets, by Charlotte Smith. The Fifth Edition, with Additional Sonnets and Other Poems (1789) 44. Written in the Church Yard at M iddleton in Sussex from Elegiac Sonnets. The Sixth Edition, with Additional Sonnets and Other Poems (1792) Thirty-Eight. Address’d to M rs. H——Y The Emigrants, A Poem, in Two Books (1793) To William Cowper, Esq.BOOK 1BOOK 2 PRISCILLA WAKEFIELD (1750 — 1832) from Excursions in North America, Described in Letters from a Gentleman and his Young Companion, to Their Friends in England (1806) LETTER 32, Mr. Henry Franklin to Edwin Middleton LADY ANNE LINDSAY (1750 — 1825) Auld Robin Gray; A Ballad, ed. Sir Walter Scott (1825)CATHERINE ANN DORSET (1750? — 1817?) from The Peacock at Home; and Other Poems (1809) The Spider THOMAS CARY (1751 — 1823)from Abram’s Plains: A Poem (1789)PHILIP FRENEAU (1752 — 1832) from Poems Written between the Years 1768 & 1794 (1795) The Indian Burying-GroundThe Wild Honey SuckleGeorge the Third’s SoliloquyTo Sir Toby, a Sugar-Planter in the Interior Parts of Jamaica FRANCES BURNEY (1752 — 1840) from The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (M adame d’Arblay), ed. Joyce Hemlow et al. (1975) from Letter to Esther Burney, 22 March—June 1812 THOMAS CHATTERTON (1752 — 1770) from Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century; The Greatest Part Now First Published from the Most Authentic Copies, with an Engraved Specimen of One of the MSS. (1777)The Storie of William CanyngeOn Happienesse, by William Canynge from A Supplement to the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton (1784) Heccar and Gaira. An African Eclogue Jan. 3, 1770 from William Barrett, The History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol (1789) The Warre ELIZABETH INCHBALD (1753 — 1821) from The British Theatre (1806—09) On De Monfort; a Tragedy, in Five Acts; by Joanna Baillie, as Performed at the Theatre Royal,Drury LaneOn Lovers’ Vows; A Play in Five Acts; Altered from the German of Kotzebue, by M rs. Inchbald.As Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden PHILLIS WHEATLEY (c. 1753 — 1784) from Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston, in New England (1773) On Being Brought from Africa to AmericaOn the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of Statefor North America, &c.To S.M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works ANN YEARSLEY (c. 1753 — 1806) from Poems, on Several Occasions. By Ann Yearsley, a Milkwoman of Bristol (1785) To the Same [Stella]; on Her Accusing the Author of Flattery, and of Ascribing to the CreatureThat Praise Which Is Due Only to the CreatorOn Mrs. Montagu Reflections on the Death of Louis XVI (1793)from The Rural Lyre; A Volume of Poems: Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Bristol,Lord Bishop of Derry (1796) To Mira, on the Care of Her Infant JOEL BARLOW (1754 — 1812) from The Hasty-Pudding: A Poem, in Three Cantos. Written at Chambery, in Savoy, Jan. 1793 (1793) CANTO 1from the Huntington Library Quarterly 2 (1938—39) Advice to a Raven in Russia. December, 1812 GEORGE CRABBE (1754 — 1832) from The Borough: A Poem in Twenty-four Letters (1810) LETTER 22, The Poor of the Borough. Peter Grimes ANNE GRANT (1755 — 1838) from The Highlanders, and Other Poems, 2nd ed. (1808) A Familiar Epistle to a Friend. Written in 1795 ROBERT MERRY (1755 — 1798) from the British Album (1790) The Adieu and Recall to LoveTo Anna MatildaThe Interview WILLIAM GODWIN (1756 — 1836) from An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness (1793) from BOOK 2, Principles of Society, from CHAPTER 2, Of Justicefrom BOOK 8, Of Property, from CHAPTER 8, Of the Means of Introducing the GenuineSystem of Property from Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798) from CHAPTER 6, 1790—1792from CHAPTER 9, 1796, 1797from CHAPTER 10 GEORGIANA CAVENDISH (1757 — 1806) The Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard. A Poem (1802)WILLIAM BLAKE (1757 — 1827) from Songs of Innocence (1789) IntroductionThe Ecchoing GreenThe LambThe Little Black BoyA DreamThe Chimney SweeperThe Divine ImageHoly ThursdayNurse’s SongInfant Joy The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793)Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)America a Prophecy (1793)from Songs of Innocence and of E xperience, Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (1794) from Songs of Experience IntroductionEarth’s AnswerThe Clod & the PebbleHoly ThursdayThe Little Girl LostThe Little Girl FoundThe Chimney SweeperThe Sick RoseThe FlyThe TygerMy Pretty Rose TreeAh! Sun-FlowerThe Garden of LoveLondonThe Human AbstractInfant SorrowA Poison Tree from Milton (1800—08) Preface from The Pickering Manuscript The Mental TravellerThe Crystal CabinetAuguries of Innocence Marginalia from Annotations to the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1798)Annotations to Wordsworth’s Preface to The Excursion, being a portion of The Recluse, A Poem (1814)from Annotations to Thornton’s The Lord’s Prayer, Newly Translated (1827) Letters [To] Revd Dr Trusler, 23 August 1799To Thomas Butts, 22 November 1802 HARRIET LEE (1757 — 1851) from Canterbury Tales (1795—1805) The Old Woman’s Tale. Lothaire: A Legend OTTOBAH CUGOANO (c. 1757 — c. 1801)from Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of theHuman Species, Humbly Submitted to the Inhabitants of Great-Britain (1787)MARY ROBINSON (1758 — 1800) from Poems (1791) Ode to Beauty from the Morning Post (29 January 1795) January, 1795 Sappho and Phaon. In a Series of Legitimate Sonnets, with Thoughts on Poetica l Subjects, andAnecdotes of the Grecian Poetess (1796) from Lyrical Tales (1800) The Haunted Beach The Negro Girl The Alien Boy from the Morning Post (1 August 1800) The Camp from The Wild Wreath (1804) A London Summer Morning The Poet’s Garret from The Poetical Works of the Late Mrs. Mary Robinson (1806) To the Poet ColeridgeThe Savage of AveyronThe Birth-DayThe Wintry DayThe Old Beggar HENRIETTA O’NEILL (1758 — 1793) from Desmond. A Novel. By Charlotte Smith (1792) Ode to the Poppy ROBERT BURNS (1759 — 1796) from Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786) To a Mouse, On turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November, 1785To A Mountain-Daisy, On turning one down, with the Plough, in April—1786To A Louse, On Seeing one on a Lady’s Bonnet, at Church from Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1787) John Barleycorn. A Ballad from Francis Grose, The Antiquities of Scotland (1791) Tam O’Shanter. A Tale from Holy Willie’s Prayer, Letter to John Goudie, Kilmarnock, and Six Favourite Songs (1799) Holy Willie’s PrayerA Man’s a Man, for a’ That: A Song from The Scots Musical Museum (1787—1803) Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We SeverA Red, Red RoseComin’ thro’ the Rye from The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, ed. James Kinsley (1968) Auld Lang SyneThe Rights of Woman—Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her benefit night, November 26, 1792Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759 —1797) from A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke;Occasioned by his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) Dedication, To M. Talleyrand-Périgord, Late Bishop Of AutunIntroductionCHAPTER 2, The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character DiscussedCHAPTER 3, The Same Subject ContinuedCHAPTER 4, Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced byVarious Causesfrom CHAPTER 13, Some Instances of the Folly W hich the Ignorance of Women Generates;with Concluding Reflections on the Moral Improvement That a Revolution in FemaleManners Might Naturally Be Expected to Produce, Section 2 from Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) ADVERTISEMENTLETTER 1LETTER 6LETTER 7LETTER 8LETTER 15 from Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798) from The Wrongs of Woman: or Maria. A Fragment, CHAPTER 5On Poetry, and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature Letters To Joseph Johnson, 26 December 1792To Gilbert Imlay, 19 August 1794To Gilbert Imlay, 9 February 1795To Gilbert Imlay, c. March 1796To William Godwin, 17 August 1796To William Godwin, 17 August 1796 HELEN LEIGH (fl. 1788) from Miscellaneous Poems (1788) The Natural Child MARIA LOGAN (fl. 1793) from Poems on Several Occasions. 2nd ed. (1793) To OpiumVerses On Hearing That an Airy and Pleasant Situation, near a Populous and CommercialTown, Was Surrounded with New Buildings JANET LITTLE (1759 — 1813) from The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid (1792) Given to a Lady Who Asked Me to Write A Poem RICHARD POLWHELE (1760 — 1838) The Unsex’d Females: A Poem (1798)THOMAS CLARKSON (1760 — 1846) from An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, particularly the African ,translated from a Latin Dissertation, which was honoured with the First Prize in the University ofCambridge for the Year 1785 (1786) from PART 3, The Slavery of the Africans in the European Colonies, CHAPTER 1 from The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-trade, by the British Parliament (1808) Illustration of a Slave Ship MARY HAYS (1760 — 1843) from Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women (1798) What Women Are HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS (1761 — 1827) from Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790, to a Friend in England; Containing, VariousAnecdotes Relative to the French Revolution; and Memoirs of Mons. and Madame du F—— (1790) LETTER 4LETTER 11 A Farewell, for Two Years, to England. A Poem (1791)from Poems on Various Subjects. W ith Introductory Remarks on the Present State of Science and Literature in France (1823) To SensibilitySonnet: To the Torrid Zone JOANNA BAILLIE (1762 — 1851) from Poems; Wherein It Is Attempted to Describe Certain Views of Nature and of Rustic Manners; and also, To Point Out, in Some Instances, the Different Influence Which the Same Circumstances Produce on Different Characters (1790) A Winter DayThunderA Mother to Her Waking InfantA Child to his Sick Grand-Father from A Series of Plays: In Which it Is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind. Each Passion being the Subject of a Tragedy and a Comedy (1798) from Introductory DiscourseDe Monfort from Fugitive Verses (1840) ThunderSong, Woo’d and Married and A’ WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES (1762 — 1850) from Fourteen Sonnets, Elegiac and Descriptive. Written During a Tour (1789) To the River Itchin, Near WintonOn Dover Cliffs. July 20, 1787 WILLIAM COBBETT (1763 — 1835) from Political Register (11 December 1813) from To Mr. Alderman Wood, On the Subject of Teaching the Children of the Poor to Read LETTER 1 from Cobbett’s Weekly Register (5 January 1822) from Kentish Journal SAMUEL ROGERS (1763 — 1855) from Poems (1812) The Boy of Egremond from Poems (1814) To —— ANN RADCLIFFE (1764 — 1823) from The Mysteries of Udolpho, A Romance; Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry (1794) Storied SonnetRondeauTo AutumnTo Melancholy from Gaston de Blondeville (1826) Scene on the Northern Shore of Sicily from New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal 16, Part 1 (1826) from On the Supernatural in Poetry. By the Late Mrs. Radcliffe JOHN THELWALL (1764 — 1834) from Poems Written in Close Confinement at the Tower and Newgate, under a Charge of High Treason (1795) Stanzas On Hearing for Certainty That We Were to be Tried for High Treason from Poems Chiefly Written in Retirement (1801) To the Infant Hampden.—Written during a Sleepless Night. Derby. Oct. 1797 CATHERINE MARIA FANSHAWE (1765 — 1834) from A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors, ed. Joanna Baillie (1823) A Riddle ROBERT BLOOMFIELD (1766 — 1823) from The Farmer’s Boy; A Rural Poem (1800) from Spring THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS (1766 — 1834) from An Essay on the Principle of Population, as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society.With Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers (1798) from CHAPTER 10 CAROLINA OLIPHANT, LADY NAIRNE (1766 — 1845) from The Scottish Minstrel (1821—24) The Land o’ the LealCaller Herrin’The Laird o’ Cockpen MARIA EDGEWORTH (1768 — 1849) from Popular Tales in Two Volumes (1804) The Grateful Negro ANN BATTEN CRISTALL (c. 1768 — after 1816) from Poetical Sketches, in Irregular Verse (1795) Before Twilight. EyezionMorning. RosamondeNoon. LysanderEvening. GertrudeNight JANE MARCET (1769 — 1858) from Conversations on Political Economy; in Which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained (1816) from CONVERSATION 10, On the Condition of the Poor AMELIA OPIE (1769 — 1853) from Poems (1802) Song of a Hindustani Girl from The Warrior’s Return, and Other Poems (1808) To A Maniac GEORGE CANNING (1770 — 1827) and JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE (1769 — 1846) from The Anti-Jacobin; or, Weekly Examiner (27 November 1797) Sapphics: The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder from The New Morality WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770 — 1850) from Lyrical Ballads, with A Few Other Poems (1798) AdvertisementGoody Blake, and Harry Gill, a true storySimon Lee, the old Huntsman, with an incident in which he was concernedAnecdote for Fathers, shewing how the art of lying may be taughtWe are SevenLines Written in Early SpringThe ThornThe Idiot BoyExpostulation and ReplyThe Tables Turned; an Evening Scene, on the same subjectOld Man Travelling; animal tranquility and decay, a sketchThe Complaint of a Forsaken Indian WomanLines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, July 13, 1798 from Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems. In Two Volumes (1800) PrefaceThere was a BoyStrange fits of passion I have knownSong [“She dwelt among th’ untrodden ways”]A slumber did my spirit sealLucy GrayThe Two April MorningsNuttingThree years she grew in sun and showerMichael, A Pastoral Poem from Poems in Two Volumes (1807) I travell’d among unknown MenBeggarsResolution and IndependenceComposed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802The world is too much with us; late and soonIt is a beauteous Evening, calm and freeTo Toussaint L’OuvertureLondon, 1802The Solitary ReaperTo a Butterfly [“Stay near me—do not take thy flight!”]My heart leaps up when I beholdI wandered lonely as a CloudTo a Butterfly [“I’ve watch’d you now a full half hour”]To Thomas Clarkson, On the final passing of the Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, March 1807Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm, painted by Sir George BeaumontOde from the Friend, 11 (26 October 1809) Oh! pleasant exercise of hope and joy! from The Excursion, Being a Portion of The Recluse, A Poem (1814) from Home at Grasmere BOOK FIRST, The Wanderer from Poems by William Wordsworth: including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Piecesof the Author. With Additional Poems, a New Preface, and a Supplementary Essay (1815)Surprized by joy—impatient as the Wind from The River Duddon, a Series of Son nets: Vaudracour and Julia: and Other Poems. To Which IsAnnexed, a Topographical Description of the Coun try of the Lakes, in the North of England (1820) Vaudracour and Julia from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. In Five Volumes (1827) Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned from the Athenæum (12 December 1835) The Ettrick Shepherd. Extempore Effusion, upon reading, in the Newcastle Journal, the notice of the Death of the Poet, James Hogg from Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; including The Borderers, A Tragedy (1842) The unremitting voice of nightly streams from The Prelude 1799, 1805, 1850, ed. Jonathan Wordsworth, M.H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill (1979) The Two-Part Prelude of 1799 FIRST PARTSECOND PART Letters To Charles James Fox, 14 January 1801To Mary Wordsworth, 11 August 1810 JAMES HOGG (1770 — 1835) from The Queen’s Wake: A Legendary Poem, 3rd ed. (1814) Kilmeny CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN (1771 — 1810) from the Literary Magazine and American Register 6.35 (1806) On the Standard of Taste SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771 — 1832) from Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded upon Local Tradition (1802—03) Lord Randal from Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field (1808) Song [“Where shall the lover rest”]Lochinvar. Lady Heron’s Song from Miscellaneous Poems (1820) The Sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (1771 — 1855) from William Wordsworth, Poems (1815) Address to a Child During a Boisterous Winter Evening from William Wordsworth, Poems (1842) Floating Island from Susan Levin, Dorothy Wordsworth and Romanticism (1987) Grasmere—A FragmentThoughts on my Sick-bed from Grasmere Journal from Tuesday 10 June 1800from Friday 3 October 1800Sunday Morning 14 March 180215 April 1802Tuesday 26 July 1802 MARY TIGHE (1772 — 1810) from Psyche, with Other Poems. By the Late Mrs. Henry Tighe (1811)from Psyche; or, The Legend of Love CANTO 1 On Receiving a Branch of Mezereon Which Flowered at Woodstock.—Dec. 1809 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772 — 1834) from Poems on Various Subjects (1796) Effusion 35. Composed August 20th, 1795, at Clevedon, Somersetshire from the Morning Post (8 January 1798) Fire, Famine, and Slaughter. A War Eclogue Fears in Solitude, Written in 1798 (1798) Fears in SolitudeFrance. An OdeFrost at Midnight from Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798) The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Parts from Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems (1817) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In Seven Parts from Lyrical Ballads (1798) The Nightingale; A Conversational Poem, Written in April, 1798The Dungeon from the Annual Anthology (1800) This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, A Poem, Addressed to Charles Lamb, of the India-House, London from Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson (1801) A Stranger Minstrel. By S.T. Coleridge, Esq.Written to M rs. Robinson a Few Weeks before Her Death Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816) ChristabelKubla Khan: or A Vision in a DreamThe Pains of Sleep from Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems (1817) To a Gentleman Composed on the night after his recitation of a Poem on the Growth of an Individual MindDejection: An Ode from Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of M y Literary Life and Opinions (1817) from CHAPTER 4from CHAPTER 13CHAPTER 14from CHAPTER 17from CHAPTER 18from CHAPTER 23 from The Poetical Works of S.T. Coleridge: including the dramas of Wallenstein, Remorse, andZapolya (1828) Constancy to an Ideal Object Letter To Joseph Cottle, 26 April 1814 RAJA RAMMOHUN ROY (1772? — 1833) from Petitions Against the Press Regulation (1823) Memorial to the Supreme Court Abstract of the Arguments regarding the Burning of Widows, Considered as a Religious Rite (1830) CHRISTIAN MILNE (1772? — after 1816) from Simple Poems, on Simple Subjects. By Christian Milne, Wife of a Journeyman Ship-Carpenter in Footdee, Aberdeen (1805) To a Lady, Who Said It Was Sinful to Read NovelsSent with a Flower Pot, Begging a Slip of Geranium FRANCIS JEFFREY (1773 — 1850) from the Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal 24 (Nov. 1814) from ART. 1 The Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse, A Poem. By William Wordsworth ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774 — 1843) from Poems (1797) To Mary WollstonecraftThe Widow. SapphicsThe Soldier’s Wife. Dactylics from the Morning Post (30 June 1798) The Idiot from Poems (1799) The Sailor, Who Had Served in the Slave-Trade from the Annual Anthology (1800) The Battle of Blenheim from Letters from England: by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella. Translated from the Spanish (1807) LETTER 55 from A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors, ed. Joanna Baillie (1823) The Cataract of Lodore, Described in Rhymes for the Nursery, by One of the Lake Poets from The Poetical Works of Robert Southey (1853) Bishop Bruno My Days Among the Dead Are Passed WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775 — 1864) from Simonidea (1806) [ Rose Aylmer ]Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel from Gebir, Count Julian, and Other Poems (1831) Past ruin’d Ilion Helen lives MARY LAMB (1764 — 1847) and CHARLES LAMB (1775 — 1834) from Blank Verse by Charles Lloyd and Charles Lamb (1798) The Old Familiar Faces from Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb, Poetry for Children (1809) The Reaper’s ChildChoosing a ProfessionBreakfastThe Two BoysConquest of Prejudice from Charles Lamb, Elia (1823) Dream-Children; A Reverie Letters To S.T. Coleridge, 27 September 1796To William Wordsworth, 30 January 1801from To Thomas Manning, 15 February 1801 CHARLES LLOYD (1775 — 1839) from Blank Verse by Charles Lloyd and Charles Lamb (1798) Lines to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin CHARLOTTE RICHARDSON (1775 — 1825) from Harvest, A Poem, in Two Parts; with Other Poetical Pieces (1818) The RedbreastThe Rainbow MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS (1775 — 1818) from The Monk: A Romance (1796) Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine from The Life and Correspondence of M.G. Lewis, author of “The Monk,” “Castle Spectre,” &c.with Many Pieces in Prose and Verse, Never Before Published (1839) The Captive JANE AUSTEN (1775 — 1817) Love and Freindshipfrom Northanger Abbey (1818) from CHAPTER 5 THOMAS CAMPBELL (1777 — 1844) from New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal 8, original papers (March 1823) The Last Man WILLIAM HAZLITT (1778 — 1830) from The Round Table, Examiner (Sunday, 26 May 1816) NO. 40, On Gusto from The Liberal. Verse and Prose from the South 2 (1823) My First Acquaintance with Poets from The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things (1826) from On the Prose-Style of Poets SYDNEY OWENSON, LADY MORGAN (c. 1778 — 1859) from The Lay of an Irish Harp; or M etrical Fragments (1807) The Irish Harp from Italy (1821) from CHAPTER 2, Passage of the Alps THOMAS MOORE (1779 — 1852) from The Works of Thomas Moore, Esq., Comprehending All His Melodies, Ballads, etc. Never Before Published Without the Accompanying Music (1819) A Canadian Boat-Song. Written on the River St.-LawrenceWritten on Passing Deadman’s Island, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Late in the Evening, September, 1804 from Melodies, by Thomas Moore, Esq. (1821) Oh! Breathe Not His NameThe Harp that once through Tara’s HallsBelieve Me if all those Endearing Young CharmsThe Minstrel BoyThe Time I’ve Lost in Wooing HORACE SMITH (1779 — 1849) from Amarynthus, the Nympholept: A Pastoral Drama, in Three Acts. With Other Poems (1821) On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt,with the Inscription Inserted BelowOn the Spanish Revolution WILLIAM HONE (1780 — 1842) The Political House That Jack Built (1819)JOHN WILSON CROKER (1780 — 1857) from the Quarterly Review 7 (March and June 1812) Review of Barbauld’s Eighteen Hundred and Eleven from the Quarterly Review 19 (April 1818) Review of Keats’s Endymion: A Poetic Romance EBENEZER ELLIOTT (1781 — 1849) from Corn Law Rhymes, 3rd ed. (1831) SongCaged Rats LUCY AIKIN (1781 — 1864) from Epistles on women, exemplifying their character and condition in va rious ages and nations. With miscellaneous poems (1810) INTRODUCTIONEPISTLE 1EPISTLE 2 CHARLOTTE DACRE (1782? — 18 25) from Hours of Solitude. A Collection of O riginal Poems, now first published (1805) The Poor Negro SadiThe Female PhilosopherThe ApparitionDrinking Song JANE TAYLOR (1783 — 1824) from Rhymes for the Nursery (1806) The Star from Essays in Rhyme, on Morals and Manners, 3rd ed. (1817) Recreation WASHINGTON IRVING (1783 — 1859) from The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819) Rip Van Winkle. A Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker LEIGH HUNT (1784 — 1859) from The Story of Rimini (1816) from CANTO 3 from the Examiner (21 September 1817) Green little vaulter in the sunny grass from Foliage (1818) To Percy Shelley, on the Degrading Notions of Deity from S.C. Hall, Book of Gems (1838) Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel from the Morning Chronicle 2 (November 1838) Rondeau THOMAS DE QUINCEY (1785 — 1859) from the London Magazine 4 (September 1821) from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar from the London Magazine 4 (October 1821) from Introduction to the Pains of Opiumfrom The Pains of Opium from the London Magazine 8 (October 1823) On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK (1785 — 1866) from Ollier’s Literary Miscellany (1820) from The Four Ages of Poetry CAROLINE LAMB (1785 — 1828) A New Canto (1819)from Ada Reis, A Tale (1823) Duet from I[saac] Nathan, Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron: con taining an entire new edition of the Hebrew Melodies, with the addition of several never before published; … also someOriginal Poetry, Letters and Recollections of Lady Caroline Lamb (1829) Would I had seen thee dead and cold BARRON FIELD (1786 — 1846) from First Fruits of Australian Poetry (1819) The Kangaroo MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1787 — 1855)from Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery (1824)Nutting GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788 — 1824) The Giaour. A Fragment of a Turkish Tale (1813)from Hebrew Melodies (1815) She Walks in Beauty from Poems (1816) Fare Thee Well! from The Prisoner of Chillon and Other Poems (1816) DarknessPrometheus from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1816) from CANTO THE THIRD Manfred, A Dramatic Poem (1817)from Don Juan (1819) DEDICATIONCANTO 1CANTO 2 Letters To Lady Byron, 8 February 1816To Augusta Leigh, 18—29 September 1816from To John Murray, 12 August 1819from To Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1819from To John Murray, 16 February 1821To Percy Bysshe Shelley, 26 April 1821 MARY PRINCE (c. 1788 — after 1833)from The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Related by Herself (1831)THOMAS PRINGLE (1789 — 1834) from George Thompson, Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa, comprising a Viewof the Present State of the Cape Colony, with Observations on the Progress and Prospects of the BritishEmigrants (1827) Afar in the Desert JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789 — 1851)from Notions of the Americans, Picked Up by a Travelling Bachelor (1828)PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792 — 1822) from Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude: and Other Poems (1816) PrefaceAlastor: Or, The Spirit of SolitudeTo Wordsworth from History of a Six Weeks’ Tour through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: with Letters Descriptive of a Sail round the Lake of Geneva, and of the Glaciers of Chamouni (1817) Mont Blanc from the Examiner (19 January 1817) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty from the Examiner (11 January 1818) Ozymandias from Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems (1820) Prometheus UnboundOde to the West WindTo a Skylark The Cenci: A Tragedy, in Five Acts (1820)Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats (1821)from Posthum ous Poems, ed. M.W. Shelley (1824) SONNET IVThe Triumph of Life The Masque of Anarchy. A Poem (1832)from the Athenæum 260 (20 October 1832) With a Guitar from The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. M.W. Shelley (1839) England in 1819 from Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments, ed. M.W. Shelley (1840) from A Defence of Poetry Letters To Thomas Love Peacock, 22 December 1818To Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bagni di Pisa, 9 August 1821 EDWARD JOHN TRELAWNY (1792 — 1881) from Recollections of the Last D ays of Shelley and Byron (1858) from CHAPTER 12 JOHN CLARE (1793 — 1864) from The Rural Muse. Poems by John Clare (1835) The Nightingale’s Nest from Frederick Martin, The Life of John Clare (1865) [I Am] from John Clare: Poems Chiefly from Manuscript, ed. Edmund Blunden and Alan Porter (1920) BadgerQuail’s NestInvitation to EternityClock-a-Clay from The Poems of John Clare, ed. J.W. Tibble (1935) Enclosure [The Mores]The Skylark Leaving Her Nest FELICIA HEMANS (1793 — 1835) from Tales, and Historic Scenes, in Verse (1819) The Wife of Asdrubal from The League of the Alps, The Siege of Valencia, the Vespers of Palermo, and Other Poems (1826) CasabiancaEvening Prayer at a Girls’ School from Records of Woman: with Other Poems (1828) The Bride of the Greek IsleProperzia RossiThe Indian CityIndian Woman’s Death-SongJoan of Arc, in RheimsMadeline. A Domestic TaleThe Grave of a PoetessThe Homes of EnglandTo WordsworthThe Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New EnglandThe Graves of a HouseholdThe Image in Lava from Songs of the Affections (1830) The ReturnWoman on the Field of BattleThe Mirror in the Deserted Hall JOSEPH SEVERN (1793 — 1879) Letter To John Taylor, 6 March 1821 JOHN LOCKHART (1794 — 1854) from Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 3 (August 1818) Cockney School of Poetry. NO. 4 OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1794 — 1861)from The Rising Village. A Poem. By Oliver Goldsmith, a Collateral Descendant of the Authorof the “Deserted Village” (1825)WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794 — 1878) from the North American Review and Miscellaneous Journal (March 1818) To a Waterfowl from Poems (1821) Thanatopsis JOHN KEATS (1795 — 1821) from the Examiner (1 December 1816) On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer from the Examiner (9 March 1817) On Seeing the Elgin Marbles from the Examiner (21 September 1817) The poetry of earth is never dead from Endymion (1818) from BOOK 1 from the Indicator (10 May 1820) La Belle Dame Sans Mercy from Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. By John Keats, auth or of Endymion (1820) LamiaThe Eve of St. AgnesOde to a NightingaleOde on a Grecian UrnOde to PsycheTo AutumnOde on MelancholyHyperion from the Indicator (28 June 1820) A Dream After Reading Dante’s Episode of Paulo and Francesca from the Plymouth and Devonport Weekly Journal (1838) On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once AgainBright star, would I were stedfast as thou art from Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats, ed. Richard Monkton Milnes (1848) Ode on IndolenceWhen I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be from Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society (1856) Hyperion, A Vision from Poetical Works of John Keats (1898) This living hand, now warm and capable Letters To Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817To J.H. Reynolds, 22 November 1817To George and Tom Keats, 21, 27 (?) December 1817To J.H. Reynolds, 3 February 1818To J.H. Reynolds, 3 May 1818To Richard Woodhouse, 27 October 1818To Percy Bysshe Shelley, 16 August 1820 JOHN RICHARDSON (1796 — 1852)from Tecumseh; or, The Warrior of the West: A Poem, in Four Cantos, with Notes (1828)MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY (1797 — 1851) from The Liberal: Verse and Prose from the South 4 (1823) from Giovanni Villani from London Magazine 9 (March 1824) On Ghosts from The Keepsake (1831) TransformationAbsenceA Dirge from The Keepsake (1839) Stanzas [“How like a star you rose upon my life”]Stanzas [“O, come to me in dreams, my love!”] Letter To Maria Gisborne, 15 August 1822 Journal May 14th [1824]May 15th WILLIAM APESS (1798 — 1839) from A Son of the Forest (1829) CHAPTER 3CHAPTER 4 THOMAS HOOD (1799 — 1845) from Whims and Oddities, 3rd ed. (1828) The Last ManFaithless Nelly Gray PETER JONES (1802 — 1856) from History of the Ojebway Indians; with Especia l Reference to Their Conversion to Christianity (1861) LETTER to John Jones CATHERINE PARR TRAILL (1802 — 1899) from The Young Emigrants; or, Pictures of Canada, Calculated to Amuse and Instruct the Minds ofYouth (1826) LETTER 5. Agnes to Ellen LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON (1802 — 1838) from The Improvisatrice and Other Poems (1824) The ImprovisatriceHome from The Troubadour, Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches (1825) The Proud Ladye from The Golden Violet, with its tales of Romance and Chivalry: and Other Poems (1827) Love’s Last LessonErinna from The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, A History of the Lyre, and Other Poems (1829) Revenge Lines of Life from the New Monthly Magazine 35 (1832) On the Ancient and Modern Influence of Poetry from Fisher’s Drawing Room Scrap Book (1836) Immolation of a Hindoo Widow from The Zenana and Minor Poems of L.E.L. (1839) Felicia HemansOn Wordsworth’s Cottage, near Grasmere Lake from Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L., ed. Laman Blanchard (1841) A Poet’s LoveInfluence of PoetryChanges in London THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803 — 1849) from Poems Chiefly from Outidana (composed 1823—25) Lines Written in a Blank Leaf of the “Prometheus Unbound” from Torrismond (composed 1824) Song [“How many times do I love thee, dear?”] from Death’s Jest-Book (1825—28) DirgeSong [“A cypress-bough, and a rose-wreath sweet”]Song [“Old Adam, the carrion crow”] from Death’s Jest Book (revised, 1829—49) Song from the WatersDream-Pedlary SUSANNA MOODIE (1803 — 1885) from Enthusiasm; and Other Poems (1831) The Dream NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804 — 1864) from Mosses from an Old Manse (1846) Roger Malvin’s Burial HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807 — 1882) from Ballads and Other Poems (1842) The Wreck of the HesperusThe Village BlacksmithExcelsior from Poems on Slavery (1842) The Slave’s Dream EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809 — 1849) from Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827) Visit of the Dead from Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems (1829) Sonnet—To Science from Poems by Edgar A. Poe, 2nd ed. (1831) Letter to Mr. — ——To HelenThe Doomed City from the Saturday Courier (14 January 1832) Metzengerstein HENRY LOUIS VIVIAN DEROZIO (1809 — 1831) from Poems (1827) The Harp of India from The Fakeer of Jungheera: A Metrical Tale and Other Poems (1828) My country! in thy days of glory pastfrom The Fakeer of Jungheera The Legend of the ShushanThe Spirit’s Song from The Poetical Works of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, ed. B.B. Shah (1907) To the Pupils of the Hindu College BibliographyIndex of Authors, Titles, and First Lines
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Broadview Press Ltd Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant
Book SynopsisAfter the death of Margaret Oliphant - the prolific nineteenth century novelist, biographer, essayist, reviewer, and prominent voice on the "woman question" - two well-intending relatives took the autobiographical manuscripts she composed over a thirty-year period, and recomposed them to suit the model of a conventional memoir. In the process, they suppressed more than a quarter of the material. Based on the original manuscripts, the Broadview edition now makes available the missing text in its original order, and the restored Autobiogrpahy of Margaret Oliphant portrays a woman of scathing irony, anger and grief.Part of Broadview's Nineteenth-Century British Autobiographies series, this edition also includes extensive excerpts from Oliphant's diaries.Table of ContentsIntroductionMargaret Oliphant: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe AutobiographyAppendix A: Diary entry for Christmas night, 1887Appendix B: 1888 DiaryAppendix C: 1896 DiarySelect BibliographyIndex
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Broadview Press Ltd Revolutions in Romantic Literature: An Anthology
Book SynopsisThis concise Broadview anthology of primary source materials is unique in its focus on Romantic literature and the ways in which the period itself was characterized by wide-ranging, self-conscious debates about the meaning of literature. It includes materials that are not available in other Romantic literature anthologies.The anthology is organized into thirteen sections that highlight the intensity and sophistication with which a variety of related literary issues were debated in the Romantic period. These debates posed fundamental questions about the very nature of literature as a cultural phenomenon, the extent and role of the reading public, literature’s relation to the sciences and the aesthetic, the influence of contemporary commercial pressures, and the impact of perceived excesses in consumer fashions. The anthology foregrounds the ways that these literary debates converged with broader social and political controversies such as the French Revolution, the struggle for women’s rights, colonialism, and the anti-slave trade campaign.This anthology includes an impressive range of writings from the period (including literary criticism and philosophical, political, scientific, and travel writing) which embodies the collection’s broad approach to Romantic literature. Both lesser-known and more canonical writings are included, and the selections are organized by topic in such a way as to dramatize the debates and exchanges which characterize the Romantic period.Trade Review“A stimulating selection of extracts.” — The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPREFACEACKNOWLEDGEMENTSSECTION ONE: THE NATURE OF THE WORD, LITERATUREWilliam Godwin, An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness (1793)Monthly Review, Review of An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness (1793)British Critic, Review of An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness (1793)T.J. Mathias, The Pursuits of Literature: A Satirical Poem in Four Dialogues (1797)Analytical Review, Review of Requête au Roi, &c.—Address to the King, by M. de Calonne. London, 1787. R;éponse de M. de Calonne &c.—M. Calonne’s Reply to M . Necker’s Pamphlet published in April 1787, containing the Examination of his Report of the State of the Finances of France in 1774, 1776, 1781, 1783, 1787, &c. London, 1788. Sur le Compte rendu au Roi, &c.—Explanations of the Account rendered to the King in 1781. By M. Necker. Paris, 1788. Motif de M. de Calonne, &c.—M. de Calonne’s Motive for delaying his Refutation of M. Necker’s Explanations till the meeting of the States-General. London, 1788. (1788) Anna Letitia Barbauld, An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts (1790)Monthly Magazine, Letter (1798)Edinburgh Review, “The Periodical Press,” A Review of:The St. James Chronicle—The Morning Chronicle—The Times—The NewTimes—The Courier, &c.—Cobbett’s Weekly Journal—The Examiner—The Observer—The Gentleman’s Magazine—The New Monthly Magazine—TheLondon, &c. &c. [William Hazlitt] (1823)Leigh Hunt, “On the Connection and the Mutual Assistance of the Arts and Sciences, and the Relation of Poetry to them All,” The Reflector, A Collection of Essays, on Miscellaneous Subjects of Literature and Politics (1812)Thomas De Quincey, “The Poetry of Pope” (1848)SECTION TWO: THE READING PUBLICS.T. Coleridge, The Statesman’s Manual: A Lay Sermon (1816)John Stuart Mill, “The Present State of Literature” (1827)New Monthly Magazine, “The Influence of Books” [William Hazlitt] (1828)Political Register, “Letter to Alderman Wood on the Subject of Teaching the Children of the Poor to Read” [William Cobbett] (1813)William Godwin, “Of Learning.” The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature (1797)Sir Archibald Macdonald, Speech as Prosecution in the Seditious-Libel Trial of Thomas Paine for Rights of Man Part Two (1792)Thomas Erskine, Speech as Prosecution in the Seditious-Libel Trial of Thomas Williams for Publishing Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine (1797)Gentleman’s Magazine, Letter: “On Reading Novels” (1797)Gentleman’s Magazine, Letter: “Eusebius’s Final Reply on the Subject of Sunday Schools” (1798)Gentleman’s Magazine, Letter: “Some former Articles Reviewed by an old Correspondent” (1789)Leigh Hunt, “My Books” (1823)SECTION THREE: LITERARY AUTOBIOGRAPHIESJames Lackington, Memoirs of the Forty-Five First Years of the Life of James Lackington, Bookseller (1791; 1792) Mary Robinson, Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Written by Herself (1800)William Gifford, Esq., The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus, Translated Into English Verse. Prefaced by a Life of Gifford (1802)Francis Place, The Autobiography of Francis Place (1824)SECTION FOUR: THE BOOK TRADEJames Lackington, Memoirs of the Forty-Five First Years of the Life of James Lackington, Bookseller (1791; 1792)Gentleman’s Magazine, “Bibliographic Account of the late Mr. Joseph Johnson” (1809)Isaac D’Israeli, The Case of Authors Stated, Including the History of Literary Property (1812)Anonymous, An Address to the Parliament of Great Britain, on the Claims of Authors to Their Own Copy Right. By a Member of the University of Cambridge (1813)Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart. M.P., Reasons for a Further Amendment of the Act 54 Geo. III. C. 156: Being an Act to Amend the Copyright Act of Queen Anne (1817)Gentleman’s Magazine, Letter: “Mr. Fisher’s Publication on Stratford-upon-Avon” (1817)S.T. Coleridge, “Advice to Young Authors,” Biographia Literaria (1817)SECTION FIVE: THE VANITY FAIR OF KNOWLEDGE: LITERARY FASHIONSVicesimus Knox, “Of Reading Novels and Trifling Books Without Discrimination,” Winter Evenings: or, Lucubrations on Life and Letters (1788)Gentleman’s Magazine, Letter: “Libraries Recommended in Market Towns” (1794)T.J. Mathias, The Pursuits of Literature: A Satirical Poem in Four Dialogues (1797)Isaac D’Israeli, Preface to An Essay on the M anners and Genius of the Literary Character (1795)Monthly Review, Review of A View of Universal History, from Creation to the Present Time. By the Rev. J. Adams (1796)Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799)Gentleman’s Magazine, Letter: “A Modern Requisite Towards the Character of a Gentleman” (1799)Anna Letitia Barbauld, “On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing” (1810)Monthly Magazine, “On Reading New Books” [William Hazlitt] (1827)SECTION SIX: THE ARTS AND SCIENCESMonthly Review, Review of An Inquiry into the History of Scotland Preceding the Reign of Malcolm III or the Year 1056. By John Pinkerton (1790)James Lackington, Memoirs of the First Forty-Five Years of the Life of James Lackington (1791; 1792) British Critic, Review of The History of Great Britain, Connected with the Chronology of Europe. By James Pettit Andrews (1794)Gentleman’s Magazine, Review of Sheridan and Henderson’s Practical Method of Reading and Reciting English Poetry; Designed as an Introduction to Dr. Enfield’s “Speaker” (1798)Monthly Magazine, “A Tribute to the Memory of the Late Excellent and Celebrated Bibliographer, Mr. Samuel Paterson” (1803)Preface to Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature; Enlarged and Improved. The Fourth Edition (1810)Monthly Review, Review of Experim ental Researches Concerning the Philosophy of Permanent Colours. By Edward Bancroft (1795)Monthly Review, Review of FLORENTII JACOBI VOLTELEN Oratio, &c.i.e. An Oration delivered in the University of Leydon. By F.J. Voltelen, on his retiring from the Office of Rector Magnificus (1791)Preface to Gentleman’s Magazine (1795)Preface to Dissertations and Miscellaneous Pieces Relating to the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature, of Asia (1793)Joseph Priestley, Dedication and Preface to Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air and Other Branches of Natural Philosophy (1790)Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants (1791) Humphry Davy, A Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures of Chemistry (1802)William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)Humphry Davy, Address of the President on Taking the Chair of the Royal Society, for the First Time; December 7th, 1820.— on the Present State of That Body, and on the Progress and Prospects of Science (1827)SECTION SEVEN: THE PERIODICAL PRESSPreface to the Analytical Review, Or, History of Literature, Domestic And Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan (1788)Preface to Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle (1790)Monthly Review, Review of The Patriot: or, Political, Moral, and Philosophical Repository, consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Writers of Merit, a Work calculated to disseminate those Branches of Knowledge among all Ranksof People, at a small Expence. By a Society of Gentlemen (1792)Monthly Magazine, Letter (1799)Samuel Pratt, Gleanings in England: Descriptive of the Countenance, Mind, and Character of the Country (1799)Prospectus, The Reflector, A Collection of Essays, on Miscellaneous Subjects of Literature and Politics [Leigh Hunt] (1812)S.T. Coleridge, “The Author’s Obligations to Critics, and the Probable Occasion,” Biographia Literaria (1817)Introduction to Retrospective Review (1820)Edinburgh Review, “The Periodical Press,” A Review of:The St. James Chronicle—The Morning Chronicle—The Times—The New Times—The Courier, &c.—Cobbett’s Weekly Journal—The Examiner—The Observer—The Gentleman’s Magazine—The New Monthly Magazine—The London, &c. &c. [William Hazlitt] (1823)SECTION EIGHT: ROMANTIC LITERATUREWilliam Gilpin, Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel;and on Sketching Landscape: to which is added a poem, on Landscape Painting (1792)Monthly Magazine, “On Artificial Taste” [Mary Wollstonecraft] (1797)Monthly Magazine, “On the Characteristics of Poetry” (1797)Charles Lloyd, Edmund Oliver (1798)William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)Edinburgh Review, Review of Thalaba, the Destroyer. By Robert Southey (1802)Leigh Hunt, The Feast of the Poets (1814)Humphry Davy, “Parallels Between Art and Science” (1807)Percy Shelley, A Defence of Poetry (1821)SECTION NINE: REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCEEdmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event (1790)Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of M en, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; occasioned by his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution (1791–92)Anonymous, Remarks on Mr. Paine’s Pamphlet, Called the Rights of Man (1791)Thomas Paine, Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation (1792)Hannah More, Village Politics, Addressed to All the Mechanics, Journeymen And Day Labourers, in Great Britain (1793)Daniel Isaac Eaton, The Pernicious Effects of the Art of Printing Upon Society, Exposed (1793)John Bowles, Letters of the Ghost of Alfred, Addressed to the Hon. Thomas Erskine, and the Hon. Charles James Fox, On the Occasion of the State Trials at the Close of the Year 1794, and the Beginning of the Year 1795 (1795)John Thelwall, Peaceful Discussion, and Not Tumultuary Violence the Means of Redressing National Grievance (1795)William Godwin, Considerations on Lord Grenville’s And Mr. Pitt’s Bills, Concerning Treasonable And Seditious Practices, And Unlawful Assemblies. By a Lover of Order (1795)SECTION TEN: A REVOLUTION IN FEMALE MANNERSCatharine Macaulay, Letters on Education, with Observations on Religious and Metaphysical Subjects (1790)Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)Mary Hays, Appeal to the Men of Great Britain on Behalf of Women (1798)Priscilla Wakefield, Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex; With Suggestions for its Improvement (1798)Mary Ann Radcliffe, The Female Advocate; or, an Attempt to Recover the Rights of Women from Male Usurpation (1799)Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799)Thomas Gould, A Vindication of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, in Answer to All His Opponents (1791)Richard Cumberland, The Observer: Being A Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays (1791)Gentleman’s Magazine, Letter: “Strictures on National Vices, Follies, and Inadvertencies” (1795)Richard Polwhele, The Unsex’d Females: A Poem, Addressed to the Author of The Pursuits of Literature (1798)SECTION ELEVEN: THE SECOND WAVE OF REFORMEdinburgh Review, “Liberty of the Press and its Abuses,” A Review of The Law of Libel, in which is contained a General History of this Law in the Ancient codes, and of its Introduction and successive Alterations in the Law of England: Comprehending a Digest of all the leading Cases upon Libels, from the earliest to the present Time. By Thomas Ludlow Holt, Esq. Of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law (September 1816)Quarterly Review, “Parliamentary Reform,” A Review of: An Inquiry into the Causes of the General Poverty and Dependance of Mankind; including a full Investigation of the Corn Laws. By William Dawson. Edinburgh.1814. A Plan for the Reform of Parliament, on Constitutional Principles. Pamphleteer. No. 14. Observations on the Scarcity of Money, and its effects upon the Public. By Edward Tatham, D.D. rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. 1816. On the State of the Country, in December, 1816. By the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, Bart. Christian Policy, the Salvation of the Empire. Being a clear and concise Examination into the Causes that have produced the impending, unavoidable National Bankruptcy; and the Effects that must ensue, unless averted by the Adoption of this only real and desirable Remedy, which would elevate these Realms to a pitch of Greatness hitherto unattained by any Nation that ever existed. By Thomas Evans, Librarian to the Society of Spencean Philanthropists. Second Edition. London. 1816. The Monthly Magazine. Cobbett’s Political Register. [Robert Southey] (October 1816) Political Register, “To The Readers of The Register. On the means of overcomingthe difficulties experienced by those who are opposed to Corruption, andespecially on the means adopted by me for obtaining fair play as to the use of thePress” [William Cobbett] (16 Nov. 1816)S.T. Coleridge, A Lay Sermon (March 1817)The Gorgon (23 May 1818)The Examiner, “The Editor of the Quarterly Review”[William Hazlitt] (14 June 1818)The Examiner, “State of The World” (3 January 1819)SECTION TWELVE: BRITISH INDIASir William Jones, The Second Anniversary Discourse Delivered 24 February, 1785 by The President (1785)Thomas Erskine, Speech for the Defense in the Case of the King against John Stockdale, for a Libel on the House of Commons (1789)Charles Hamilton, Preface to The Hedaya, or Guide; a Commentary on the Mussulman Laws (1791)Thomas Maurice, Indian Antiquities, or Dissertations on Hindostan (1793)Preface to Dissertations and Miscellaneous Pieces Relating to The History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia (1793)British Critic, Review of Travels in India, 1780, 81, 82, and 83. By WilliamHodges, R.A. (1794)Sir William Jones, The Preface to Institutes of Hindu Law: or, the Ordinances of Menu, According to the Gloss of Callúca. Comprising the Indian System of Duties, Religious and Civil (1796)Elizabeth Hamilton, Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, Preliminary Dissertation (1796)Monthly Review, Review of Dissertations and Miscellaneous Pieces relating tothe History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia.By Sir William Jones and others. Vol. III (1797)William Ouseley, Prospectus for The Oriental Collections: Consisting of Original Essays and D issertations, Translations and Miscellaneous Tracts of Asia (1797)Monthly Review, Review of Essays by the Students of the College of Fort William in Bengal. Printed by the Honourable Company’s Press. Imported by Debrett, London. (1804)Quarterly Magazine, Review of The Life of Bishop Reginald Heber, D.D., Bishop of Calcutta. 1830. The Last Days of Bishop Heber. By Thomas Robinson, A.M., Archdeacon of Madras, and late Domestic Chaplain to his Lordship. Madras, printed. London, reprinted, 1830 Thomas Macaulay, Minute on Indian Education (1835)SECTION THIRTEEN: THE SLAVE TRADEHannah More, Slavery: a Poem (1788)Helen Maria Williams, A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating theSlave-Trade (1788)Anonymous, Thoughts on the Slavery of the Negroes, as it Affects the BritishColonies in the West Indies; Humbly Submitted to the Consideration of BothHouses of Parliament (1788)The Rev. Mr. Robert Boucher Nicholls, Dean of Middleham , Observations,Occasioned by the Attempts M ade in England to Effect the Abolition of theSlave Trade; Shewing the Manner in Which Negroes Are Treated inthe British Colonies, in the West-Indies (1788)Anna Letitia Barbauld, Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejectionof the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade (1791)Alexander Geddes, An Apology for Slavery; or, Six Cogent Arguments Againstthe Immediate Abolition of the Slave-Trade (1792)Bryan Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies inthe West Indies (1793)Charlotte Smith, The Wanderings of Warwick (1794)C.B. Wadstrom, An Essay on Colonization, Particularly Applied to the Western Coast of Africa, with Some Free Thoughts on Cultivation and Commerce; Also Brief Descriptions of the Colonies Already Formed, or Attempted, in Africa, Including Those of Sierra Leona and Bulama (1794)S.T. Coleridge, “On the Slave Trade,” The Watchman (1796)Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade By the British Parliament (1808)INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES
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Broadview Press Ltd Lady Audley's Secret
Book SynopsisLady Audley's Secret (1862) was one of the most widely read novels in the Victorian period. The novel exemplifies "sensation fiction" in featuring a beautiful criminal heroine, an amateur detective, blackmail, arson, violence, and plenty of suspenseful action. To its contemporary readers, it also offered the thrill of uncovering blackmail and criminal violence within the homes of the upper class. The novel makes trenchant critiques of Victorian gender roles and social stereotypes, and it creates significant sympathy for the heroine, despite her criminal acts, as she suffers from the injustices of the "marriage market" and rebels against them.This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a broad selection of primary source material, including reproductions of the twenty-two woodcut illustrations from the London Journal serialization of the novel, extracts from two Victorian dramatizations of the work, satirical commentaries, and contemporary reviews.Trade Review“This impressive, scholarly new edition brings together a wealth of supplementary material, much of which is almost unobtainable elsewhere. Several fascinating appendices include contemporary parodies of the novel, extracts from stage versions, contemporary criticism and well-chosen extracts from Braddon’s other work. Natalie Houston’s scholarly introduction provides useful insights into Braddon’s life and work. This edition will be invaluable to anyone studying or teaching the novel, or just reading it for enjoyment.” — Chris Willis, Birkbeck College“This intelligent edition offers a wonderful introduction not just to Lady Audley’s Secret, but to the whole publishing phenomenon of sensation fiction. By emphasizing questions of alterable identity, the new Victorian culture of information, and the relationship of fiction to other media, Natalie Houston compellingly brings home the connection of this novel with many important issues today.” — Kate Flint, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionMary Elizabeth Braddon: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextLady Audley’s SecretAppendix A: The Serialization of Lady Audley’s Secret The Serial Texts of Lady Audley’s Secret The Illustrations from The London Journal Appendix B: Dramatizations George Roberts, Lady Audley’s Secret. A Drama in Two Acts (1863) William E. Suter, Lady Audley’s Secret. A Drama in Two Acts (1871) Appendix C: Satires “Rhymes for the Very Young,” Punch (11 April 1863) Thomas Hood,“Maurora Maudley; or Bigamy and Buttons,” Beeton’s Christmas Annual (1864) “Sensation! A Satire,” Dublin University Magazine (January 1864) Appendix D: Reviews [Eneas Sweetland Dallas,] The Times, 18 November 1862 The Spectator, 1791 (1862) “Our Female Sensation Novelists,” Christian Remembrancer 46 (1863) “Our Survey of Literature and Science,” Cornhill Magazine 7( January 1863) [H.L. Mansel,] “Sensation Novels,” Quarterly Review 113 (April 1863) Appendix E: The New Criminal Heroine Eliza Lynn Linton, “Little Women,” Saturday Review 25 (April 1868) E.S. Dallas, The Gay Science (1866) Appendix F: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Penny Fiction Lady Caroline Lascelles (pseud.), The Black Band; or, The Mysteries of Midnight (1861) Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The Doctor’s Wife (1864) Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Anne of Green Gables
Book SynopsisL.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables is one of the best-known and most enduringly popular novels of the twentieth century. First published in 1908, it has never been out of print, and it continues, nearly a century after its first appearance, to appeal to new readers in many locations around the world. Anne of Green Gables is the story of how a little girl, adopted from an orphan asylum by a brother and sister seeking a boy to help them on their Prince Edward Island farm, grows to responsible young adulthood and, as she grows, brings light and life to her adoptive home. Although it is, as Montgomery described it in her journal, a "simple little tale," it has nonetheless generated not only an international readership but, more recently, an increasing critical interest that focuses on the text's engagement with social and political issues, its relation to Montgomery's life and her other writing, and its circulation as a popular cultural commodity in Canada and elsewhere.This Broadview Edition is based on the first edition of Anne of Green Gables. It includes a critical introduction and a fascinating selection of contemporary documents, including contemporary reviews of the novel, other writings by L.M. Montgomery (stories, writings on gender and on writing), and excerpts from the "Pansy" books by Isabella Macdonald Alden.Trade Review“This is an exciting edition of Canada’s most enduring literary classic, Anne of Green Gables. Cogent and compelling, Devereux’s introduction sets the stage for a fresh look at the novel with an impressive array of relevant texts by L.M. Montgomery and her contemporaries. Montgomery’s ‘The Way to Make a Book’ is a true discovery.” — Irene Gammel, Ryerson University“Devereux’s editing is judicious, fully informed by current scholarship, and the supplementary materials—dealing with Montgomery’s views of gender and the writing life, early versions of the novel’s episodes, and inspirations for Anne—will be fascinating to students and general readers alike.” — Lorraine York, McMaster UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionLucy Maud Montgomery: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextAnne of Green GablesAppendix A: Selected Montgomery Stories before Anne “Our Uncle Wheeler” (1898) “A New-Fashioned Flavoring” (1898) “Patty’s Mistake” (1902) “The Cake that Prissy Made” (1903) Appendix B: Montgomery on Writing: “The Way to Make a Book” (1915)Appendix C: Montgomery on Gender “The Thirty Sweet Girl Graduates of Dalhousie University” (1896) “Famous Author and Simple Mother” (1925) Appendix D: The “Pansy” Novels of Isabella Macdonald Alden From The Man of the House (1883) From Links in Rebecca’s Life (1878) From Ruth Erskine’s Crosses (1879) Appendix E: Selected Reviews The New York Times Saturday Review of Books (18 July 1908) Montreal Daily Herald (21 July 1908) The Globe (15 August 1908) Outlook (22 August 1908) Canadian Magazine (November 1908) The Bookman (March–August 1909) Spectator (13 March 1909) The Mail and Empire (6 December 1913) Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Sociable Letters
Book SynopsisThe writings of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, are remarkable for their vivid depiction of the mores and mentality of seventeenth-century England. This edition includes all of Cavendish's Sociable Letters (1664), a collection of writings that comments on a wide range of aspects of seventeenth-century society, such as war and peace, science and medicine, English and Classical literatures, and social issues such as choosing a spouse, married life, infidelity, divorce, and the option of women not to marry. This Broadview edition includes: A critical introduction and a valuable selection of primary documents that situate Margaret Cavendish and Sociable Letters within the context of English letter writing and other early women writers. The appendices contain the letters Cavendish wrote during her courtship with William Cavendish; letters by two family members, Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton and Christiana Cavendish; letters written by Aphra Behn, Dorothy Osborne, and Angel Day; and an essay by Francis Bacon.Trade Review“This is a fine edition of Margaret Cavendish’s most engaging and accessible work. The text is reliable, the annotations are helpful, and the volume contains an extremely useful appendix of letters by Cavendish and various other family members. The volume will be a great resource for those with an interest in early modern literature, history, and women’s writing. James Fitzmaurice is an excellent scholar and the annotations in this edition reflect many years of painstaking work on Cavendish’s writings and their context.” — Paul Salzman, LaTrobe University“Sociable Letters is a very welcome addition to Broadview’s excellent editions of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. The dialogic form of the letter is perfectly adapted to express Cavendish’s ambivalences—about marriage, reading and writing, and women’s nature and role. James Fitzmaurice’s erudite and user-friendly edition contains the added bonus of a generous quantity of real seventeenth-century letters as context.” — Jacqueline Pearson, University of Manchester“This is a welcome edition of one of Margaret Cavendish’s most multifaceted and engaging works by a leading scholar of Cavendish. Not only is it an important text for early modern women’s writing, but it provides a varied and detailed commentary on seventeenth-century English culture and society. Cavendish’s innovative use of the epistolary form, successful in its own right, anticipates the appeal of the form to novelists in the eighteenth century. The introduction and appendices offer helpful contexts for a fuller understanding of the work.” — Mihoko Suzuki, University of MiamiTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroductionMargaret Cavendish: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextSociable LettersAppendix A: The Context of Family Letters from Margaret Lucas to William Cavendish and Selections from his Poems in Reply (1645) A Letter from Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton to Jane Cavendish Cheyne (1659) Letters from Christiana Cavendish, Countess of Devonshire, to William Cavendish (1630s) Appendix B: The Context of Women’s Letters Letters from Dorothy Osborne to William Temple Letters from Aphra Behn to John Hoyle Appendix C: The Context of English Letter Writing and the English Essay From Angel Day, The English Secretary Francis Bacon, “Of Marriage and the Single Life” Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd The Meanings of Beauty and the Beast: A Handbook
Book SynopsisUsing Beaumont’s classic story as a touchstone, this work shows how “Beauty and the Beast” takes on different meanings as it is analyzed by psychologists, illustrated in picture books, adapted to the screen, and rewritten by contemporary writers.The Meanings of “Beauty and the Beast” provides expert commentary on the tale and on representative critical approaches and contemporary adaptations. This book also includes a variety of original source materials and twenty-three colour illustrations.The Meanings of “Beauty and the Beast” is for any reader who wishes to explore this classic, endlessly rich fairy tale.Trade Review“‘Beauty and the Beast’ is one of the most popular tales in the world, but very few critics have been able to account for its immense popularity. Now Jerry Griswold has bravely undertaken that task and has written a fascinating book that explores the manifold meanings of this compelling tale. Not only does Griswold trace the origins of the classical erotic story, but he also interprets the numerous adaptations in literature and film throughout the world. Whether he analyzes the classic version of Madame Leprince de Beaumont, Angela Carter’s feminist versions, or the Disney animated films, Griswold is always thought-provoking. This is a book that will certainly interest all readers who are captivated by the mystery of fairy tales.” — Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis“While specifically focused on the tale named in its title, Jerry Griswold’s The Meanings of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ offers a perceptive and entertaining introduction to the subject of fairy tales generally. Interweaving an eclectic collection of variants of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ within and around a knowledgeable discussion of the history and meaning of the tale, Griswold offers both a useful introduction for those new to the study of fairy tales and insightful ideas about and interpretations of versions of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ that will greatly interest specialists in the field.” — Perry Nodelman, University of Winnipeg“A blend of synthesis, anthology, and analysis, this offers a broadly supported expansion of the scholarship on an irrepressible story.” — Betsy Hearne, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignTable of ContentsIntroductionCHAPTER ONEThe Importance of “Beauty and the Beast”CHAPTER TWOThe Tale and its AuthorCHAPTER THREEAmong the CriticsCHAPTER FOURSourcesCHAPTER FIVEFolk Tale VariationsCHAPTER SIXIllustrationsCHAPTER SEVENContemporary VersionsCHAPTER EIGHTFilmsSelect Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Glances Backward: An Anthology of American
Book SynopsisGlances Backward brings together in one volume a broad selection of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American writings about gay male love, including love stories, Westerns, ghostly tales, poetry, drama, essays, letters, and memoirs.Many of these works, such as The Cult of the Purple Rose, the story of a gay alliance at 1890s Harvard, are reprinted here for the first time since their original publication. Henry Blake Fuller’s “Allisonian Classical Academy” has until now been available only in manuscript form.In addition to works by lesser-known authors, selections by Henry James, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Horatio Alger, Jr., Jack London, and Willa Cather are included.Trade Review“Glances Backward breaks new ground in gay studies. The anthology explores the full range of writing about gay males from before the Civil War to just after the First World War. In its treatment of largely unknown and inaccessible texts—from overwrought expressions of romantic friendship to modern diatribes against homosexuals as poor insurance risks—it offers the best scholarly introduction to the period when homosexuality was just finding its voice. It is a landmark text, necessary not only for queer scholars but for any student of American literature.” — David Van Leer, University of California, Davis“This is an astonishing array of writing about same-sex relations. James Gifford is a scholar who leaves no archival page unturned, and he has put together an anthology that all readers can turn to for discovery, delight, and a deeper appreciation of American history and culture.” — David Bergman, Towson University“A recognizably ‘gay’ American culture is a lot older, and a lot richer, than we thought—and here is the archive to prove it! This anthology brings together for the first time the major and minor voices of queer American literature, who together represent an astonishing range of experience, hope, and desire.” — Eric Savoy, Universite de MontrealTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: THE INTERSEXESEdward Prime-StevensonFrom “Out of the Sun” (1913)From The Intersexes (1908)Part II: Two-Spirit PeopleSlim CurlyFrom “The Mothway Myth” (recorded 1930)John TannerFrom A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner (1830)George Catlin“Dance to the Berdashe” (1844)Part III: Luck, Pluck, and a Kindly MentorWalt Whitman“The Child’s Champion” (1841)Selected PoemsHoratio Alger, Jr.From Charlie Codman’s Cruise (1866)Harry EntonFrom Young Sleuth, the Keen Detective (1877)Howard PyleFrom The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883)Part IV: SchooldaysFrederick Wadsworth LoringFrom Two College Friends (1871)Henry Blake FullerFrom The Allisonian Classical Academy (1876)Charles Macomb FlandrauFrom Harvard Episodes (1897)Shirley Everton JohnsonFrom The Cult of the Purple Rose (1902)Part V: The Oscar ModelAnonymous“Wilde in Utica” (1882)Earl Lind“The Case of Oscar Wilde” (1918)Part VI: ArcadiaBayard TaylorFrom Poems of the Orient (1855)From The Poet’s Journal (1863)From Joseph and His Friend (1870)Charles Warren Stoddard“Pearl-Hunting in the Pomotous” (1873)Henry James“The Great Good Place” (1909)Part VII: The Domestic HomosexualHoward Overing-SturgisFrom Belchamber (1905)George SantayanaFrom Persons and Places (1986)Part VIII: HauntedHenry Blake FullerAt St. Judas’s (1896)Gertrude Atherton“The Striding Place” (1896)George Sylvester ViereckFrom Nineveh and Other Poems (1908)From The Candle and the Flame (1912)Part IX: Purloined Popular FictionBret Harte“Tennessee’s Partner” (1869)“Jim” (1870)Thomas Bailey Aldrich“Marjorie Daw” (1873)Henry Cuyler Bunner“Our Aromatic Uncle” (1895)Edward Prime-StevensonFrom Mrs. Dee’s Encore (1896)Jack London“The White Silence” (1899)James Weldon JohnsonFrom The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)Edward Prime-Stevenson“Aquae Multae Non—” (1913)Part X: Of Hearts Thrown OpenFitz-Greene HalleckSelected PoemsJames Whitcomb Riley“Good-Bye, Jim” (1893)Bliss Carman and Richard HoveyFrom Songs from Vagabondia (1894)Edward Perry WarrenFrom Itamos (1903)George Edward WoodberryFrom Selected PoemsTrumbull StickneySelected PoemsGeorge Cabot LodgeFrom Poems and Dramas (1911)George SantayanaSelected PoemsPart XI: Doctors, Case Studies, and ErotopathsJames Mills PeirceFrom Sexual Inversion “Letter from ‘Professor X’” (1897)Claude HartlandFrom The Story of a Life (1901)Willa Cather“Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament” (1905)William Lee Howard“Effeminate Men and Masculine Women” (1900)“The Sexual Pervert in Life Insurance” (1906)Earl LindFrom The Autobiography of an Androgyne (1918)Part XII: Men in GroupsJosiah Flynt WillardHomosexuality Among Tramps (1897)Morris SchaffFrom The Spirit of Old West Point (1907)Alexander BerkmanFrom Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1912)Part XIII: To You AloneHerman MelvilleTwo Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)Francis Davis MilletLetters to Charles Warren Stoddard (1875)Bernard X.“A Merry Christmas” (1887)Clyde FitchLetter to DeWitt Miller (1891)George Sylvester ViereckLetter to George E. Woodberry (ca. 1912)Bibliography and Suggestions for Further ReadingSources
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Broadview Press Ltd The Life of Mr Richard Savage
Book SynopsisThe Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by a then-unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson. Richard Savage (1697—1743) was a poet, playwright, and satirist who claimed to be the illegitimate son of a late earl and to have been denied his inheritance and viciously persecuted by his mother. He was urbane, charming, a brilliant conversationalist, but also irresponsible and impulsive. His role in a tavern brawl almost led him to the gallows, though his life was saved by an eleventh-hour pardon by the King. Over time he attracted many supporters, practically all of whom he managed to alienate by the time of his death in a debtors’ prison in Bristol. Johnson, who had been friends with Savage for a little over a year, drew on published documents and his own memories of Savage to produce one of the first great English biographies.The edition is supplemented by other writings by Johnson, a selection of Savage’s prose and verse, contemporary and posthumous responses to Savage and to Johnson’s biography, and selections by Johnson’s first two major biographers, Sir John Hawkins and James Boswell.Trade Review“Samuel Johnson’s Life of Mr Richard Savage is one of the greatest narratives in any genre of the British eighteenth century. Johnson’s biography of his friend, a minor poet and hack writer who represented himself as the illegitimate son of a nobleman and died in a Bristol jail, is at once sympathetic and satiric. Broadview’s edition, freshly edited and annotated by Nicholas Seager and Lance Wilcox, should be welcomed by students and general readers alike. Their introduction is lively, informed, and concise. The narrative itself is supplemented by relevant writings of Johnson and Savage, excerpts establishing Savage’s reputation, and a range of other useful aids.” — Robert Folkenflik, University of California, Irvine“This deeply informed edition of The Life of Mr Richard Savage is essential reading for students both of Samuel Johnson and of biography. The literary criticism, editorial practice, reception history, and wide-ranging reclamation of contexts are exemplary. The edition also allows us to read Savage’s poetry, which Johnson included in his footnotes but which Seager and Wilcox prudently place at the back of their book. They have joined Samuel Johnson to produce an admirable Savage that should find readers from the classroom to the boardroom.” — Howard Weinbrot, University of Wisconsin, Madison“Like all Broadview editions, this is a first-rate version of Johnson’s work. The introduction is a masterpiece of information. It explains who Johnson was when he took on this project, and why he would write such a work about his friend. Even more exciting are the appendices, devoted to such topics as related writings by Johnson; some of Savage’s writings; Savage’s contemporary reputation; Savage’s posthumous reputation; and the lives of Johnson. A more useful text for the classroom could not be imagined.” — George E. Haggerty, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900“This comprehensively researched edition breaks new ground in what we know of Savage, adds abundant dimensions to the study of his life and work, and recasts The Life of Mr Richard Savage as an ideal teaching text in the area of eighteenth-century literature.” — Joe Lines The Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on MoneyRichard Savage and Samuel Johnson: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextAn Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl RiversJohnson’s extended footnotes to the LifeAppendix A: Errors of Fact in Johnson’s Life of SavageAppendix B: Related Writings by Johnson London (1738) The Rambler no. 60 (13 October 1750) From The Rambler no. 145 (6 August 1751) The Idler no. 84 (24 November 1759) “The Life of Collins” (1781) Appendix C: Richard Savage, Satirist The Bastard (1728) “Fulvia” (c. 1728) From An Author to Be Let (1729) From The Progress of a Divine (1735) Appendix D: Savage’s Contemporary Reputation From Eliza Haywood, Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia (1724) From The Life of Mr. Richard Savage [The “Newgate Biography”] (1727) From Nature in Perfection (1728) From William Saunders, “On Richard Savage, Esq” (1742) Appendix E: Savage’s Posthumous Reputation Denis Diderot, Review of L’Histoire de Savage (1771) Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Prologue to Sir Thomas Overbury (1777) “On Richard Savage, the Poet” (1790) Appendix F: Johnson’s Biographers From Sir John Hawkins, Life of Samuel Johnson (1787) From James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) GlossarySelect Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Ann Veronica
Book SynopsisH.G. Wells’s 1909 novel centres on the coming of age of the spirited Ann Veronica, who runs away from her sheltered suburban home to live in London. There she mingles with feminists, studies biology, learns jiu jitsu, and even participates in a suffragette raid on the House of Commons that lands her in jail. When originally published, the novel was deemed “poisonous” for its bold treatment of an adulterous romance that only lightly veiled Wells’s extramarital affairs. While critics debate whether the shift to romance undermines the novel’s feminist themes, readers continue to be engaged by its vividly realized heroine and its rich portrayal of the tumultuous social movements of Edwardian London.Historical documents expand on the novel’s autobiographical dimension with letters between Wells and Amber Reeves, the model for Ann Veronica; also included are materials on the suffrage movement, attempts to censor the novel, and the New Woman.Trade Review“A fitting representation of Wells’s series of social romances, in this new edition Ann Veronica assumes enhanced value as an examination of the ‘Woman Question’ at the turn of the twentieth century. Carey Snyder’s fine introduction and her selection of texts for the appendices encourage readers to join in the sort of debate that Wells strove to inspire in his fiction. Notably Snyder appreciates the lifelong accomplishments of Amber Reeves, whose youthful affair with Wells was the inspiration for the lively central character. There are also some well-selected primary texts recording the views of Wells on his own work, the arguments of would-be censors, the Fabians, the suffrage movement, modernist reviewers, and Beatrice Hastings of The New Age.” — Bonnie Kime Scott, Professor Emerita, San Diego State University and the University of Delaware“Carey Snyder has produced a splendid new edition of H.G. Wells’s under-read take on the social and literary phenomenon of the New Woman. The novel itself, like most of Wells’s work, is a great read, and Snyder supplies a first-rate introduction that locates Ann Veronica in its moment—the woman’s suffrage movement, debates about marriage, chastity, sexual candor, and socialism—as well a rich selection of appendices reproducing a wide range of contextual documents, from John Ruskin on separate spheres for men and women to selections of letters to Wells from Amber Reeves, one of the historical/autobiographical models for his eponymous heroine. By situating Ann Veronica so deftly in its own moment, Snyder lets it speak to ours.” — Mark Wollaeger, Vanderbilt UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionH.G. Wells: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextAnn VeronicaAppendix A: Reception of Ann Veronica From John O’London, T.P.’s Weekly (22 October 1909) From [John St Loe Strachey,] “A Poisonous Book,” Spectator (20 November 1909) From H.G. Wells’s reply, Spectator (4 December 1909) From Freda Kirchwey, “A Private Letter to H.G. Wells,” Nation (28 November 1928) B[eatrice] H[astings] and K[atherine] M[ansfield], A Parody of Ann Veronica, The New Age (25 May 1911) Appendix B: Wells on Ann Veronica From the Preface to the Atlantic Edition of The Works of H.G. Wells (1925) From “Writings about Sex,” Experiment in Autobiography (1934) Appendix C: Ann Veronica and Censorship John Littlejohns, Front Cover of The New Age (3 February 1910) “A Public Librarian,” Spectator (December 1909) From Jacob Tonson [Arnold Bennett], “Books and Persons,” The New Age (24 February 1910) Appendix D: Wells and the Debate over Modern Fiction From H.G. Wells, “The Contemporary Novel,” An Englishman Looks at the World (1914) From Henry James, “The Younger Generation,” Times Literary Supplement (2 April 1914) From Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction,” The Common Reader (1925) Appendix E: Challenging the Domestic Ideal From John Ruskin, “Of Queens’ Gardens,” Sesame and Lilies (1865) From Mona Caird, “Marriage,” Westminster Review (August 1888) From Olive Schreiner, Woman and Labour (1911) From Dora Marsden, “Bondswomen and Freewomen,” Freewoman (23 November 1911) From Fabian Women’s Group, “Three Year’s Work” (1911) From M.A. [Mabel Atkinson], “The Economic Foundations of the Women’s Movement” (1914) Appendix F: Wells on the Patriarchal Family and Evolution From Socialism and the Family (1906) From “Human Evolution, An Artificial Process,” Fortnightly Review (October 1896) Appendix G: The Amber Reeves Affair H.G. Wells, “Dusa” (1936) Photograph of Amber Reeves in 1908 Student Group From the Diary of Beatrice Webb (1908, 1909) From Letters from Amber Reeves to H.G. Wells (1908, 1939) Photograph of Amber and Anna Jane Blanco White (1910) Appendix H: The Suffrage Movement From Christabel Pankhurst, A Speech Delivered at Queen’s Hall (22 December 1908) From Emmeline Pankhurst, A Speech Delivered at Queen’s Hall (2 December 1910) From Belfort Bax, “Feminism and Female Suffrage,” The New Age (30 May 1908) From Beatrice Tina [Beatrice Hastings], “Woman as State Creditor,” The New Age (27 June 1907) From Beatrice Tina [Beatrice Hastings], “Suffragettes in the Making,” The New Age (3 December 1908) From D. Triformis [Beatrice Hastings], “The Failure of Militancy,” The New Age (20 January 1911) From Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Women’s Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement (1912) From Teresa Billington-Grieg, “Emancipation in a Hurry,” The New Age (12 January 1911) H.G. Wells, “Reply to Symposium on Women’s Suffrage,” The New Age (2 February 1911) M.C. Rock, “[And the Words]” (1914) “The Suffragettes and Their Trojan Horse,” Auckland Star (28 March 1908) Arthur Wallis Mills, “The Suffragette that Knew Jiu-Jitsu,” Punch (6 July 1910) Suffragettes Selling Votes for Women at Oval Cricket Ground Entrance (1908) Works Cited and Recommended Reading
£23.36
New Falcon Publications,U.S. An Insider's Guide to Robert Anton Wilson
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