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Cambridge University Press The Brontes and Education
Book SynopsisIn spite of the prevalence of education in the Brontës' lives and fiction, this was the first full-length book on the subject when published in 2007. Marianne Thormählen offers much new information both about the Brontës and their books and about the controversies about education in early nineteenth-century British social politics.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… a valuable … addition to our understanding of the Brontë family's life and works … The strength of Thormählen's approach is her assured assembling of developments and theories that were the educational landscape against and in which the members of the family lived their lives and wove their fictional spells … Her strengths lie in the crisp, objective and lively review she undertakes in her studies, backed up by telling and generous notes that seduce one into further research … Thormählen triumphs in the light she shines on the educational world in which the family lived … This book is an exciting helpmate in the struggle to secure a firm understanding of factors that fed the Brontë sisters' imaginative development …' Brontë StudiesReview of the hardback: '… compelling and unique book … This thoroughly researched volume looks at … contemporaneous education controversies. Summing up: highly recommended.' ChoiceReview of the hardback: '… writes with considerable panache and vigor. In this reviewer's experience the book makes a very enjoyable read not only for a scholar public but for a general audience as well.' www.bronteblog.blogspot.comTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Education and Society: 1. The education of the people; 2. The improvement of the mind; Part II. Home and School: 3. Household education versus school training; 4. Parents and children; 5. Professional educators in the home; 6. Schools and schooling; Part III. Subjects and Skills: 7. A sound English education; 8. Religion and education; 9. The accomplishments; 10. Male and female education; 11. Beyond the schoolroom: reading and the Brontës; Part IV. Strategies and Methods: 12. Pedagogical purposes and principles; 13. Schoolroom practices; Part V. Originality and Freedom: 14. Docility and originality; 15. Liberty and responsibility; Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Contemporary German Fiction
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke
Book SynopsisEdmund Burke is a key thinker in the history of modern political thought. His writings, speeches and actions reflect complex views on jurisprudence, politics, empire, aesthetics, rhetoric, religion and moral philosophy. This comprehensive Companion examines each facet of Burke's thought and concludes with an evaluation of his legacy and reputation.Trade Review'[This book] aims to disentangle Burke from his many contexts and for the most part it succeeds impressively.' The Times Literary Supplement'The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke is a book for our time: it should help undergraduates know what is expected of them in their exams; it is a helpful supplement to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France but not a replacement for Burke's own texts.' Edward Andrew, The European LegacyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of contributors; Method of citation; Chronology; Introduction: philosophy in action; 1. Burke's life F. P. Lock; 2. Burke, Enlightenment and Romanticism Richard Bourke; 3. Burke as rhetorician and orator Christopher Reid; 4. Burke's aesthetic psychology Paddy Bullard; 5. Burke on law and legal theory Seán Patrick Donlan; 6. Burke on political economy Richard Whatmore; 7. Burke and religion Ian Harris; 8. Burke and the constitution David M. Craig; 9. Burke and the natural law Christopher Insole; 10. Burke and utility David Dwan; 11. Burke and the ends of empire Jennifer Pitts; 12. Burke and the American crisis Harry T. Dickinson; 13. Burke on India Frederick G. Whelan; 14. Burke on Ireland Ian McBride; 15. 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' Iain Hampsher-Monk; 16. Burke's counterrevolutionary writings Iain Hampsher-Monk; 17. Burke in the USA Seamus Deane; Further reading.
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Cambridge University Press Melancholy Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
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Cambridge University Press A Rhetoric of the Unreal
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Volume 1 Classical Criticism The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Series Number 1
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Volume 5 Romanticism The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Series Number 5
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism
Book SynopsisThis unique volume offers for the first time a comprehensive introduction to the literary theory and criticism produced during the Middle Ages. The essays cover all the main traditions in Medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek, and the major European vernaculars, as well as the humanist debates on literature and its uses.Trade Review'… illuminating and informative account of medieval European literary theory and criticism, this volume deserves high praise.' Review of English Studies'This monumental book … written and masterfully edited by eminent specialists, marks an important innovation in the panorama of medieval studies in the English language.' Francesco Stella, Bryn Mawr Classical Review'There are rich pickings here for all medievalists in that much of what is discussed transcends the narrow boundaries of individual fields of study … Volume two of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism is a monument to scholarship that ought to grace the shelves devoted to literary criticism of every self-respecting university library.' Anglia'It is a monument, intellectually as well as physically. The editors have assembled an exceedingly impressive group of contributors … this is a technical, densely argued and highly specialized volume … an impressive accomplishment, a book that all medievalists should have and use regularly.' Norris J. Lacy, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance TeachingTable of ContentsIntroduction Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson; Part I. The Liberal Arts and the Arts of Latin Textuality: 1. Grammatica and literary theory Martin Irvine with David Thomson; 2. The arts of poetry and prose J. J. Murphy; 3. The arts of letter writing Ronald G. Witt; 4. The arts of preaching Siegfried Wenzel; Part II. The Study of Classical Authors: 5. From late antiquity until the twelfth century Winthrop Wetherbee; 6. From the twelfth century until c.1500 Vincent Gillespie; Part III. Textual Psychologies: Imagination, Memory, Pleasure: 7. Literary imagination and memory Alastair Minnis; 8. The profits of pleasure Glending Olson; Part IV. Vernacular Critical Traditions: The Early Middle Ages: 9. Medieval Irish literary theory and criticism Patrick Sims-Williams and Erich Poppe; 10. Anglo-Saxon textual attitudes Ananya Jahanara Kabir; 11. Literary theory and practice in early medieval Germany John Flood; 12. Literary criticism in Welsh before c.1300 Marged Haycock; 13. Criticism and literary theory in Old Norse-Icelandic Margaret Clunies Ross; Part V. Vernacular Critical Traditions: The Late Middle Ages: 14. Latin commentary tradition and vernacular literature Alastair Minnis, Ralph Hanna, Tony Hunt, Nigel Palmer and Ronald Keightley; 15. Vernacular literary consciousness: English, French, German Kevin Brownlee, Tony Hunt, Ian Johnson, Nigel Palmer and James Simpson; 16. Occitan grammars and the art of Troubadour poetry Simon Gaunt and John Marshall; 17. Literary theory and polemic in Castile, c.1200–c.1500 Julian Weiss; 18. Literary criticism in Middle High German literature Nigel Palmer; 19. Later literary criticism in Wales Gruffydd Aled Williams; Part VI. Latin and Vernacular in Italian Literary Theory: 20. Dante Alighieri: experimentation and (self-)exegesis Zygmunt G. Baranski; 21. The Epistle to Can Grande Zygmunt G. Baranski; 22. The Trecento commentaries on Dante's Commedia Steven Botterill; 23. Latin and vernacular from Dante to the age of Lorenzo (1321–c. 1500) Martin McLaughlin; 24. Humanist views on the study of Italian poetry in the early Italian Renaissance David Robey; 25. Humanist criticism of Latin and vernacular prose Martin McLaughlin; Part VII. Byzantine Literary Theory and Criticism: 26. Byzantine literary criticism and the uses of literature Thomas Conley; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Volume III Renaissance The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Series Number 3
Book SynopsisThis 1999 volume was the first to explore as part of an unbroken continuum the critical legacy both of the humanist rediscovery of ancient learning and of its neoclassical reformulation. Focused on what is arguably the most complex phase in the transmission of the Western literary-critical heritage, the book encompasses those issues that helped shape the way European writers thought about literature from the late Middle Ages to the late seventeenth century. These issues touched almost every facet of Western intellectual endeavour, as well as the historical, cultural, social, scientific, and technological contexts in which that activity evolved. From the interpretative reassessment of the major ancient poetic texts, this volume addresses the emergence of the literary critic in Europe by exploring poetics, prose fiction, contexts of criticism, neoclassicism, and national developments. Sixty-one chapters by internationally respected scholars are supported by an introduction, detailed biblTrade Review'… its huge and impressive range and scope make its arrival an occasion for great rejoicing … Norton's anthology makes a permanent contribution, not least because it alerts us to how criticism is now, not just to how it was then.' Valentine Cunningham, The Times Higher Education Supplement'…it will prove to be an invaluable resource for scholars of the early modern period, and will doubtless become a standard work of reference.' Scott Nixon, Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Reading and Interpretation: An Emerging Discourse of Poetics: 1. Theories of language; 2. Renaissance exegesis; 3. Evangelism and Erasmus; 4. The assimilation of Aristotle's Poetics in sixteenth-century Italy; 5. Horace in the sixteenth century: commentators into critics; 6. Cicero and Quintilian; Part II. Poetics: 7. Humanist classifications of poetry among the arts and sciences; 8. Theories of poetry: Latin writers; 9. Literary imitation in the sixteenth century: writers and readers, Latin and French; 10. Petrarchan poetics; 11. Translatio and translation in the Renaissance: from France to Italy; 12. Invention; 13. Humanist education; 14. Second rhetoric and the grands rhetoriqueurs; 15. The rhetoric of presence: art, literature, and illusion; 16. The paradoxical sisterhood: 'ut pictura poesis'; 17. Conceptions of style; 18. Sir Philip Sidney's An apology for poetry; 19. Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus: the conception of reader response; 20. Italian epic theory; 21. The lyric; 22. Renaissance theatre and the theory of tragedy; 23. Elizabethan theatrical genres and literary theory; 24. Defining comedy in the seventeenth century: moral sense and theatrical sensibility; 25. Dialogue and discussion in the Renaissance; 26. The essay as criticism; 27. The genres of epigram and emblem; 28. Humour and satire in the Renaissance; Part III. Theories of Prose Fiction: 29. Theories of prose fiction in England: 1558–1700; 30. Theories of prose fiction in sixteenth-century France; 31. Seventeenth-century theories of the novel in France: writing and reading the truth; 32. Theories of prose fiction and poetics in Italy: novella and romanzo (1525–96); Part IV. Contexts of Criticism: 33. Criticism and the metropolis: Tudor-Stuart London; 34. Criticism in the city: Lyons and Paris; 35. Culture, imperialism, and humanist criticism in the Italian city-states; 36. German-speaking centres and institutions; 37. Courts and patronage; 38. Rooms of their own: literary salons in seventeenth-century France; 39. Renaissance printing and the book trade; Part V. Voices of Dissent: 40. The Ciceronian controversy; 41. Reorganizing the encyclopedia: Vives and Ramus on Aristotle and the scholastics; 42. The rise of the vernaculars; 43. Ancients and Moderns: France; 44. Women as auctores in early modern Europe; Part VI. Structures of Thought: 45. Renaissance Neoplatonism; 46. Cosmography and poetics; 47. Natural philosophy and the 'new science'; 48. Stoicism and Epicureanism: philosophical revival and literary repercussions; 49. Calvinism and post-Tridentine developments; 50. Port-Royal and Jansenism; Part VII. Neoclassical Issues - Beauty, Judgement, Persuasion, Polemics: 51. Combative criticism: Jonson, Milton, and classical literary criticism in England; 52. The rhetorical ideal in seventeenth-century France; 53. Cartesian aesthetics; 54. Principles of judgement: probability, decorum, taste, and the je ne sais quoi; 55. Longinus and the Sublime; Part VIII. Survey of National Developments: 56. Seventeenth-century English literary criticism: classical values, Engish texts and contents; 57. French criticism in the seventeenth century; 58. Literary critical developments in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy; 59. Cultural commentary in seventeenth-century Spain: literary theory and textual practice; 60. The German-speaking countries; 61. The Low Countries; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Volume 4 The Eighteenth Century The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Series Number 4
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive 1997 account of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800. Unlike previous histories, it is not just a chronological survey of critical writing, but a multidisciplinary investigation of how the understanding of literature and its various genres was transformed, at the start of the modern era, by developments in philosophy, psychology, the natural sciences, linguistics, and other disciplines, as well as in society at large. In the process, modern literary theory - at first often implicit in literary texts themselves - emancipated itself from classical poetics and rhetoric, and literary criticism emerged as a full-time professional activity catering for an expanding literate public. The volume is international both in coverage and in authorship. Extensive bibliographies provide guidance for further specialised study.Trade Review'Erudite in makeup and cosmopolitan in sweep, the volume demonstrates the best continuity with the history it narrates.' Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsEditors' preface; Notes on contributors; Part I. Introduction: Criticism and Tradition: 1. The institution of criticism in the eighteenth century Douglas Lane Patey; 2. Ancients and moderns Douglas Lane Patey; Part II. Genres: 3. Poetry, 1660–1740 James Sambrook; 4. Poetry, after 1740 William Keach; 5. Drama, 1660–1740 Maximilian E. Novak; 6. Drama, after 1740 John Osborne; 7. Prose fiction: France English Showalter Jr; 8. Prose fiction: Great Britain Michael McKeon; 9. Prose fiction: Germany and the Netherlands C. W. Schoneveld; 10. Historiography Michel Baridon; 11. Biography and autobiography Felicity A. Nussbaum; 12. Criticism and the rise of periodical literature James Basker; Part III. Language and Style: 13. Theories of language Nicholas Hudson; 14. The contributions of rhetoric to literary criticism George A. Kennedy; 15. Theories of style Pat Rogers; 16. Generality and particularity Leo Damrosch; 17. The sublime Jonathan Lamb; Part IV. Themes and Movements: 18. Sensibility and literary criticism John Mullan; 19. Women and literary criticism Terry Castle; 20. Primitivism Maximillian E. Novak; 21. Medieval revival and the Gothic Peter Sabor; 22. Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau and the Encyclopédie Charles A. Porter; 23. German literary theory from Gottsched to Goethe Klaus L. Berghahn; 24. The Scottish enlightenment Joan H. Pittock; 25. Canons and canon formation Jan Gorak; Part V. Literature and Other Disciplines: 26. Literature and philosophy Susan Manning; 27. The psychology of literary creation and literary response James Sambrook; 28. Taste and aesthetics: (i) Shaftesbury and Addison: criticism and the public taste David Marshall; (ii) The rise of aesthetics from Baumgarten to Humboldt Hans Reiss; 29. Literature and the other arts: (i) Ut pictura poesis David Marshall; (ii) The picturesque David Marshall; (iii) Literature and music Dean Mace; (iv) Parallels between the arts Dean Mace; 30. Classical scholarship and literary criticism Glenn W. Most; 31. Biblical scholarship and literary criticism Marcus Walsh; 32. Science and literary criticism Michel Baridon; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism 07 The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Series Number 7
Book SynopsisThis volume of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, first published in 2000, provides a thorough account of the critical tradition emerging with the modernist and avant-garde writers of the early twentieth century (Eliot, Pound, Stein, Yeats), continuing with the New Critics (Richards, Empson, Burke, Winters), and feeding into the influential work of Leavis, Trilling and others who helped form the modern institutions of literary culture. The core period covered is 1910â60, but explicit connections are made with nineteenth-century traditions and there is discussion of the implications of modernism and the New Criticism for our own time, with its inherited formalism, anti-sentimentalism, and astringency of tone. The book provides a companion to the other twentieth-century volumes of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, and offers a systematic and stimulating coverage of the development of the key literary-critical movements, with chapters on groups and genres as well as oTrade Review'This informative volume shows that both modernism and New Criticism may complement 'theory' in letting texts speak without an imperious airing of the volume's own preoccupations.' The Times Higher Education Supplement'Its twenty chapters, written by a distinguished team of contributors, cover most of the peaks and a few of the valleys of Anglo-American criticism between, approximately, 1910 and 1960 … This volume provides some wonderful instances of what being 'intelligent' about literature can be like.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction Louis Menand and Lawrence Rainey; Part I. The Modernists: 1. T. S. Eliot Louis Menand; 2. Ezra Pound A. Walton Litz and Lawrence Rainey; 3. Gertrude Stein Steven Meyer; 4. Virginia Woolf Maria di Battista; 5. Wyndham Lewis Vincent Sherry; 6. W. B. Yeats Lucy McDiarmid; 7. The Harlem renaissance Michael North; Part II. The New Critics: 8. I. A. Richards Paul H. Fry; 9. The Southern New Critics Mark Jancovitch; 10. William Empson Michael Wood; 11. R. P. Blackmur Michael Wood; 12. Kenneth Burke Eugene Goodheart; 13. Yvor Winters Donald Davie; Part III. The Critic and The Institutions of Culture: 14. Criticism and the Academy Wallace Martin; 15. The critic and society, 1900–50 Morris Dickstein; 16. The British 'man of letters' and the rise of the professional Josephine M. Guy and Ian Small; 17. F. R. Leavis Michael Bell; 18. Lionel Trilling Harvey Teres; 19. Poet-critics Lawrence Lipking; 20. Criticism of fiction Michael Levenson; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Origins of Modern Critical Thought German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism from Lessing to Hegel
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