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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Updike
Book SynopsisUpdike is Adam Begley’s masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike—a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work.In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America, who dedicated himself to the task of transcribing “middleness with all its grits, bumps and anonymities.”Updike explores the stages of the writer’s pilgrim’s progress: his beloved home turf of Berks County, Pennsylvania; his escape to Harvard; his brief, busy working life as the golden boy at The New Yorker; his family years in suburban Ipswich, Massachusetts; his extensive travel abroad; and his retreat to another Massachusetts town, Beverly Farms, where he rem
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
Book Synopsis“A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in touch with mankind.” —New York TimesNewly reissued with an introduction by Plum Sykes, this cult favorite is a delightful diary—think Nancy Mitford-meets-Nora Ephron—chronicling author Helene Hanff’s “bucket list” trip to London (at the age of fifty-five!) after the unexpected success of her memoir 84 Charing Cross Road. When she’s invited to London for the English publication of her wildly successful book, 84 Charing Cross Road—in which she shares two decades of correspondence with Frank Doel, a British bookseller who became a dear friend—New York writer Helene Hanff is thrilled to realize a lifelong dream. The trip will be bittersweet, because she can’t help wishing Frank was still alive, but she’s determined to capture every moment
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Soul at the White Heat
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Pandoras Jar
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!”—Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid''s TaleThe national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on the remarkable women at the heart of classical stories Greek mythology from Helen of Troy to Pandora and the Amazons to Medea.The tellers of Greek myths—historically men—have routinely sidelined the female characters. When they do take a larger role, women are often portrayed as monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil—like Pandora, the woman of eternal scorn and damnation whose curiosity is tasked with causing all the world’s suffering and wickedness when she opened that forbidden box. But, as Natalie Haynes reveals, in ancient Greek myths there was no box. It was a jar . . . which is far more likely to tip over.In Pandora’s Jar, the broadcaster, writer, stand-up comedian, and passionate classicist turns the tables, putting the women of the Greek myths on an equal footing with the men. With wit, humor, and savvy, Haynes revolutionizes our understanding of epic poems, stories, and plays, resurrecting them from a woman’s perspective and tracing the origins of their mythic female characters. She looks at women such as Jocasta, Oedipus’ mother-turned-lover-and-wife (turned Freudian sticking point), at once the cleverest person in the story and yet often unnoticed. She considers Helen of Troy, whose marriage to Paris “caused” the Trojan war—a somewhat uneven response to her decision to leave her husband for another man. She demonstrates how the vilified Medea was like an ancient Beyonce—getting her revenge on the man who hurt and betrayed her, if by extreme measures. And she turns her eye to Medusa, the original monstered woman, whose stare turned men to stone, but who wasn’t always a monster, and had her hair turned to snakes as punishment for being raped.Pandora’s Jar brings nuance and care to the millennia-old myths and legends and asks the question: Why are we so quick to villainize these women in the first place—and so eager to accept the stories we’ve been told?
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Divine Might
Book SynopsisNew York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora’s Jar.Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on the goddesses whose prowess, passions, jealousies, and desires rival those of their male kin, including: Athene, who sprang fully formed from her father’s brow (giving Zeus a killer headache in the process), the goddess of war and provider of wise counsel. Aphrodite, born of the foam (and sperm released from a Titan’s castrated testicles), the most beautiful of all the Olympian goddesses, the epitome of love who dispenses desire and inspires longing—yet harbors a fearsome vengeful side, doling out brut
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Penguin Publishing Group An ELM Creek Quilts Companion New Fiction Traditions Quilts and Favorite Moments from the Beloved Series
Book SynopsisA beautiful keepsake volume to accompany the beloved New York Times bestselling seriesOver the course of the bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series, readers have expressed a longing to visit Elm Creek Manor, meet the quilters themselves, and admire their beautiful creations. Jennifer Chiaverini’s An Elm Creek Quilts Companion is the next best thing to a guided tour. Inside, readers will discover a treasure trove of delights, including the Bergstrom family tree, character biographies, quilt block illustrations, full-color photographs of quilts featured in the novels, and “Behind the Scenes at Elm Creek Quilt Camp,” an exclusive short story inspired by questions from real readers. No Elm Creek Quilts fan will want to be without this indispensable guide to the cherished series.Trade ReviewPraise for Jennifer Chiaverini and the Elm Creek Quilts series “Chiaverini’s themes of love, loss, and healing will resonate with many, and her characters’ stories are inspiring.” —Publishers Weekly“Chiaverini has an impressive ability to bring a time and place alive.” —Romantic Times Book Reviews“Emotionally compelling.” —Chicago Tribune on Sonoma Rose“Jennifer Chiaverini has made quite a name for herself with her bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series. From the Civil War to the Roaring Twenties to contemporary settings, these novels have offered suspense, romance, and, at times, in-depth looks into the social, political, and cultural differences that helped shape a nation.” —BookPage “Chiaverini excels at weaving stories and at character development. We can relate to the residents of Elm Creek Valley because they remind us of folks we know—a cousin, an aunt, or a grandmother.” —Standard-Examiner (Utah)
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Harvest Books A Tale of Love and Darkness
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Oxford University Press Inc Oxford Handbook of Montaigne
Book SynopsisIn 1580, Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) published a book unique by its title and its content: EssaysR. A literary genre was born. At first sight, the Essays resemble a patchwork of personal reflections, but they engage with questions that animate the human mind, and tend toward a single goal: to live better in the present and to prepare for death. For this reason, Montaigne''s thought and writings have been a subject of enduring interest across disciplines. This Handbook brings together essays by prominent scholars that examine Montaigne''s literary, philosophical, and political contributions, and assess his legacy and relevance today in a global perspective. The chapters of this Handbook offer a sweeping study of Montaigne across different disciplines and in a global perspective. One section covers the historical Montaigne, situating his thought in his own time and space, notably the Wars of Religion in France. The political, historical and religious context of Montaigne''s Essays reTrade ReviewIn conclusion, it is in the domain of pedagogy that The Oxford Handbook of Montaigne has the potential to shine the brightest. It can provide instructors not only with a sense of what is at stake in Montaigne, but with an idea of what essays to assign or excerpt, as well as readymade secondary readings and useful, albeit somewhat scant, suggestions for further reading. Hopefully, Desan and his fellow contributors have started a trend that will someday see Oxford Handbooks for other luminaries of early modern France. * Scott M. Francis, Renaissance Quarterly *This is obviously a book that the reader delves into as the need arises. ... [the chapters] are all learned, they are all informative, and they all make us think about Montaigne in ways that diverge from tradition. Most importantly, they are almost all stimulating to read. * John McClelland, Renaissance and Reformation *Table of ContentsCONTENTS Note on editions Montaigne's Essays: A Book Consubstantial with its Author Philippe Desan PART I: HISTORICAL MONTAIGNE 1. From Eyquem to Montaigne Philippe Desan 2. Montaigne's Education George Hoffmann 3. The Humanist Tradition and Montaigne John O'Brien 4. Montaigne, Translator of Raymond Sebond Mireille Habert 5. La Boétie and Montaigne Michel Magnien 6. The Public Life of Montaigne Philippe Desan 7. Montaigne and the Wars of Religion Mark Greengrass 8. Publishing History of the Essays Jean Balsamo 9. Montaigne's Travel Journal François Rigolot 10. Montaigne, the New World, and Precolonialisms Timothy Reiss 11. Montaigne and History John Lyons 12. Montaigne's Political Thought Biancamaria Fontana 13. Montaigne's Turn to Modern Philosophy Ann Hartle 14. Montaigne: Early Modern, Modern, Postmodern Zachary Schiffman PART II: RECEPTION OF MONTAIGNE 15. Montaigne in the World Paul Smith 16. Montaigne in England and America Warren Boutcher 17. Montaigne and Shakespeare William Hamlin 18. Montaigne and Descartes Michael Moriarty PART III: MODERN AND GLOBAL MONTAIGNE 19. Montaigne on Language Katie Chenoweth 20. Montaigne on Style Kathy Eden 21. Montaigne on Rhetoric Déborah Knop 22. Montaigne on Reading Peter Mack 23. Montaigne on Free Thinking Richard Scholar 24. Montaigne on Self Marie-Clarté Lagrée 25. Montaigne on Justice and Law Valérie M. Dionne 26. Montaigne on Violence Cynthia Nazarian 27. Montaigne on Virtue and Ethics Ullrich Langer 28. Montaigne on Faith and Religion Alain Legros 29. Montaigne on Truth and Skepticism Jan Miernowski 30. Montaigne on Gender Todd W. Reeser 31. Montaigne on Women Mary McKinley 32. Montaigne on Empathy Sarah Bakewell 33. Montaigne on Friendship Eric McPhail 34. Montaigne on Love Elizabeth Guild 35. Montaigne on Memory Andrea Frisch 36. Montaigne on Curiosity Zahi Zalloua 37. Montaigne on Imagination Wes Williams 38. Montaigne on Alterity Tom Conley 39. Montaigne on Monsters and Monstrosity Kathleen Long 40. Montaigne on Animals Thierry Gontier 41. Montaigne on Aging Cynthia Skenazi 42. Montaigne on Health and Death Dorothea Heitsch Conclusion: Bibliographic and Research Resources on Montaigne Philippe Desan
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Oxford University Press The Irish Story
Book SynopsisRoy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused their history over the past century. Foster argues that, over the centuries, Irish experience itself has been turned into story. He examines how and why the key moments of Ireland''s past--the 1798 Rising, the Famine, the Celtic Revival, Easter 1916, the Troubles--have been worked into narratives, drawing on Ireland''s powerful oral culture, on elements of myth, folklore, ghost stories and romance. The result of this constant reinterpretation is a shifting Story of Ireland, complete with plot, drama, suspense, and revelation. Varied, surprising, and funny, the interlinked essays in The Irish Story examine the stories that people tell each other in Ireland and why. Foster provides an unsparing view of the way Irish history is manipulated for political ends and that Irish misfortunes are sentimenTrade ReviewReading Foster will sharpen your wits, leave you less likely to be duped by a story simply because it's told with a brogue. * Chicago Tribune *Erudite and acerbic * Kirkus Reviews *Interesting, suggestive, mostly urbane, sometimes scathing. * Wall Street Journal *Foster is a formidably funny and exciting writer, and it is a joy to watch as he charmingly herds each sacred cow to the slaughter. * Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday *Foster's superb portrait of the essayist Hubert Butler evokes an Irish Orwell; someone who for 60 years, at times reviled and at others ignored, spoke subtle, lucid truth.... Foster eviscerates what he sees as the cramping of the past in memoirs by Frank McCourt and Gerry Adams.... What Foster is really going after is not politics but a way of thinking and writing 'for an audience in search of reaffirmation rather than dislocation * or enlightenment.'... Style is Foster's touchstone for truth. His disdain for McCourt's and Adams's writing, and the tradition of tale-telling, is more than literary.Richard Eder, New York Times Book Review *Roy Foster is one of the most elegant and probing writers on Irish topics and also one of the most controversial. In Ireland itself, where history matters, Foster attracts Cornel West-scale publicity. He's the leading figure in a generation of 'revisionist' historians who have chipped away at what they describe as Irish myths. American readers are about to get a fresh taste of his stiletto pen and icon-smashing habits when his latest book, 'The Irish Story' hits these shores. * Chris Shea, Boston Globe *The outpouring of literature from Ireland has ever been enormous, and nothing seems to stem it, or to reduce the excellence of the best of it. Occasionally, amid that plenitude there emerges a book that startles and provokes to the point of demanding extraordinary attention. Such a book is The Irish Story.... I can think of no book that more clearly, provocatively and intelligently delineates the important underlying contemporary truths of Ireland and the Irish than this insightful, courageous and splendid work. * Michael Pakenham, Baltimore Sun *Foster is a graceful stylist, a droll wit, and a serious scholar. For the student of Irish history, this volume of revisionist history is often refreshing in its genteel insolence and polite polemics. It provides a dozen thoughtful essays, many blending biography and literary criticism with skeptical scrutiny of traditional historiography. * Richmond Times *The whole book is written in lively, colorful, and exact prose.... As Foster has ruefully reflected, his nation is 'too prone to mistake verbiage for eloquence, fanaticism for piety, and swagger for patriotism.' These are faults not particular to the Irish, although the Irish might be said to be especially spectacular in their use. * Margaret Boerner, Weekly Standard *Interesting, suggestive, mostly urbane, sometimes scathing.... Foster...despises most of the acts of commemoration. He speaks of 'commercialized theme-park history' purveyed by 'commemoralist historians.' He is offended by officially sponsored bad taste and by what he regards, on the part of many of his professional colleagues, as bad history. Some of the episodes he recounts make for painful reading, especially if you are Irish. It is exasperating to find tragic acts and sufferings turned to commercial use by the Irish Tourist Board, the government and local politicians. * Wall Street Journal *Foster's writing, which is lively and unsparing, has already inspired much commentary in the UK and in Ireland. * Publishers Weekly *
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Oxford University Press What is a Woman
Book SynopsisWhat is a woman? And what does it mean to be a feminist today? In her first full-scale engagement with feminist theory since her internationally renowned Sexual/Textual Politics (1985), Toril Moi challenges the dominant trends in contemporary feminist and cultural thought, arguing for a feminism of freedom inspired by Simone de Beauvoir''s The Second Sex. Written in a clear and engaging style What is a Woman? brings together two brand new book-length theoretical interventions, Moi''s work on Freud and Bourdieu, and her studies of desire and knowledge in literature.In the controversial title-essay, Toril Moi radically rethinks current debates about sex, gender, and the body - challenging the commonly held belief that the sex/gender distinction is fundamental to all feminist theory. Moi rejects every attempt to define masculinity and femininity, including efforts to define femininity as that which ''cannot be defined''.In the second new book-length essay, ''I Am a Woman'', Toril Moi rewoTrade ReviewReview from previous edition a treat for weary readers of the outrageously obscure. * Elizabeth Fallaize, TLS *Moi's long-awaited re-entry into the lists of mainstream feminist debate will not be perceived as a reopening of hostilities. Moi shows herself extraordinarily attentive to the work of American feminists....The psychoanalysis of Freud, Lacan and Kristeva has been joined by the sociology of Bordieu, the existentialism of Sartre and Beauvoir and, increasingly, by the ordinary language philosophy of Wittgenstein, Austin and Cavell....A bold rehabilitation of the theoretical importance of Beauvoir's feminism....[Issues] an explicit challenge to American feminist orthodoxy. But it is a challenge issued only at the end of a sustained and immensely careful labor of thought. * Modern Language Notes *[Moi is] one of the most astute and lucid critics writing today. What she calls her `attempt to work [her] way out from under post-structuralism, and to see what happens when one goes elsewhere'--a move undertaken in good faith as a feminist and with uncommon critical common sense--points a way forward, both for literary critics and other feminists....[This book] could serve as a lucid introduction to recent theoretical debates, and also as a farewell to them....[Moi proceeds] through careful close readings, sensitive to both historical context and textual nuance....She offers the views of even those she disagrees with with refreshing clarity.' * Women's Review of Books *Table of ContentsPART I: A FEMINISM OF FREEDOM: SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR ; PART II: APPROPRIATING THEORY: BOURDIEU AND FREUD ; PART III: DESIRE AND KNOWLEDGE: READING TEXTS OF LOVE
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Oxford University Press Race and Redemption in Puritan New England Religion in America
Book SynopsisWhile much has been written about race in early America, scholars have generally focused on the southern colonies in the 18th century. Here, Bailey turns his gaze northward and to an earlier period.Trade ReviewBeautifully researched and engagingly written, Speaking American breaks new ground in showing, city by city, the complex human forces that have given American English its individual character and vitality. It will become required reading for anyone interested in the history of English. * David Crystal, author of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language and Words in Time and Place *A stimulating read...Bailey's first book is ambitious and shows a scholar sensitive to irony, contradiction, despair, and hope. I look forward to the next one. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Provocative...Readers will find in Race and Redemption much to ponder in the tragic history of race in early America. * Themelios *An important contribution to our understanding of the intersections of race and religion in colonial New England. ... A well-researched book that illuminates aspects of the Puritan experience that have not received significant attention before this. ... Essential reading for specialists in Puritanism. * H-Net *Fascinating. ... I recommend it most highly to anyone interested in Edwards, Edwards' world, and its socio-cultural legacies. * Douglas A. Sweeney, Director, Jonathan Edwards Center, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School *Table of ContentsIntroduction: "Neither Bond Nor Free": New Englanders, Race, and Redemption ; 1 Laying the Foundation for "a Citty upon a Hill": Faith, Works, Covenant, and Colonialism ; 2 When Image Unmakes the Man: The Consequences of Thinking about the Colors and Capabilities of "Others" ; 3 "I am come into the light: Confessions of Faith, Sermons, and Ventriloquism ; 4 "We are not to make Asses of our Servants": Exercising Authority over New Englanders of Color ; 5 "The art of coyning Christians": Redeeming Self and "Others" in Puritan New England ; Epilogue: The Happy Day Refuses to Come
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Oxford University Press Schiller as Philosopher
Book SynopsisFred Beiser, renowned as one of the world''s leading historians of German philosophy, presents a brilliant new study of Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), rehabilitating him as a philosopher worthy of serious attention. Beiser shows, in particular, that Schiller''s engagement with Kant is far more subtle and rewarding than is often portrayed. Promising to be a landmark in the study of German thought, Schiller as Philosopher will be compulsory reading for any philosopher, historian, or literary scholar engaged with the key developments of this fertile period.Trade Review...Beiser's championing of Schiller as a philosopher puts much other critical literature to shame. Its perspicacity and its lucidity are very welcome. * Paul Bishop Seminar *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Early Philosophy ; 2. An Objective Aesthetic ; 3. Grace and Dignity ; 4. Argument and Context of the Asthetische Briefe ; 5. Dispute with Kant ; 6. Autonomy versus Enlightenment ; 7. The Philosophy of Freedom ; 8. Theory of Tragedy ; Appendix 1: Rhetoric and Philosophy in Schiller's Essays ; Appendix 2: The Neo-Kantian Interpretation of Schiller ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Memoir
Book SynopsisEach year brings a glut of new memoirs, ranging from works by former teachers and celebrity has-beens to disillusioned soldiers and bestselling novelists. In addition to becoming bestsellers in their own right, memoirs have become a popular object of inquiry in the academy and a mainstay in most MFA workshops. Courses in what is now called life-writing study memoir alongside personal essays, diaries, and autobiographies. Memoir: An Introduction proffers a concise history of the genre (and its many subgenres) while taking readers through the various techniques, themes, and debates that have come to characterize the ubiquitous literary form. Its fictional origins are traced to eighteenth-century British novels like Robinson Crusoe and Tom Jones; its early American roots are examined in Benjamin Franklin''s Autobiography and eighteenth-century captivity narratives; and its ethical conundrums are considered with analyses of the imbroglios brought on by the questionable claims in Rigoberta Trade ReviewCouser has carved out a place on the reading list of any undergraduate life writing module as well as in any bibliography where the classification of genre is a concern ... the book thoughtfully introduces the theoretical foundations upon which the contemporary study of life writing rests; not least of these is the idea that selves are not recorded in life writing but constructed therein. * Claire Lynch, Modern Language Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1. What Memoir Is, and What Memoir Isn't ; 2. Memoir and Genre ; 3. Memoir's Forms ; 4. Memoir's Ethics ; 5. Memoir's American Roots ; 6. Contemporary American Memoir ; 7. The Work of Memoir ; Works Cited ; Index
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University of Chicago Press The Nutmegs Curse
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Media and Social Justice
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary study explores how book culture functioned in the life and milieu of one of the nineteenth century's most complex figures. Spanning the statesman's long life, it presents key case studies illuminating the constant and fundamental interplay between reading, life and politics which characterised Gladstone's world.Trade Review'Reading Gladstone is a sophisticated study, written in a remarkably mature and accessible style...Windscheffel is not only good at reading Gladstone: she also has much to tell us about the Victorian Age and its Church.' - Professor Wheeler, The Church Times 'A splendid study...' - telegraph.co.uk 'Dr Windscheffel deserves to be congratulated on producing one of the most original and thought-provoking books to have appeared on this subject...In this superbly researched book...she has produced a perceptive, sympathetic and brilliant reconstruction of an intimately and yet publicly important dimension of the personality and career of one of the greatest Liberal leaders of all times.' Eugenio Biagini, Journal of Liberal History 'Historians and other scholars of Victorian culture are privileged to be able to benefit from Ruth Clayton Windscheffel's exploration of Gladstone's reading and the world that he created through that reading.' Reviews in HistoryTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: READING THE READER Sacred Dramas: the history of a collection, 1815-1896 Rhythms of Reading PART II: MAKING THE READER The Gentleman's Inheritance, 1809-1836 A Place of Deceptive Tranquillity: Gladstone's Temple of Peace PART III: ST DEINIOL'S Humanity: Libraries, Literature, and Liberalism Divinity: Gladstone, Oxford, and Lux Mundi PART IV: TRANSFORMING THE READER Political Lotus Eater to Grand Old Bookman: re-presenting Gladstone the reader Conclusion References Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Jane Austen
Book SynopsisTONY TANNER was sometime Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, UK, and Professor of English and American Literature in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, UK.
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination Nineteenth Century Major Lives and Letters
Book SynopsisThrough politics, religion and his relationship with Wordsworth, the book builds to a new interpretation of the poems where Coleridge's daemonic imagination produces its myths: The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel .Trade Review***Winner of the CCUE Book Prize 2012!*** 'Leadbetter's method is to probe ideas and explore their resonance: a kind of ultrasound imaging that traces currents of emotion, thought, and morality moving within the whole span of Coleridge's writing. His new book draws on resources that have recently entered the public domain with sympathy and intelligence, and sets out clearly what so many of us have either not been able to see or not quite able to say before. He brings fresh insight to age-old questions and familiar poems, resulting in a clarified sense of the contradictions that moved a great creative mind. This is an exciting book and necessary not only for readers of Coleridge and Wordsworth but also for anyone interested in how poetry is made.' J. C. C. Mays, University College, Dublin 'This is a subtle and erudite meditation on Coleridge's poetry, making frequently brilliant connections with his notebooks, essays, and letters. The theme of the 'transnatural' running throughout Coleridge's work (what we might also call the pagan, the transgressive, or the subversive erotic) is explored with zest and confidence, most particularly so in the ballads. Altogether this is an excellent academic study, fully alive to previous Coleridge criticism, but not afraid to strike out on its own, and even to adventure into mysterious and forbidden territory, the 'far countree' of Coleridge's imagination.' Richard Holmes, biographer of Coleridge and author of The Age of Wonder "Leadbetter's book offers us a new way into Coleridge, presenting a writer and thinker who repeatedly found his truest genius in the experiences that made him most uneasy. It is a compelling and encompassing account of a powerfully heterodoxical mind. Leadbetter has penetrating things to say across the whole range of the great career.' Seamus Perry, Balliol College, OxfordTable of ContentsThe Willing Daemon: Coleridge and the Transnatural * 'Pagan Philosophy' and the 'Pride of Speculation': Spiritual Politics and the Metaphysical Imagination, 1795-1797 * 'Not a Man, But a Monster': Organicism, Becoming and the Daemonic Imago * Transnatural Language: The 'Library-Cormorant' in the 'Vernal Wood' * 'The Dark Green Adder's Tongue': Osorio and the 'Poetry of Nature' * 'A Distinct Current of My Own': Poetry and the Uses of the Supernatural * 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' * 'Kubla Khan' * 'Christabel'
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Palgrave MacMillan Us The Transnational Beat Generation
Book SynopsisThis collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the 1990s, the essays illustrate Beat participation in the global circulation of a poetics of dissent.Trade Review'The Transnational Beat Generation explores the global dimensions of Beat literature in a series of solidly researched essays about the world-wide influence of major and minor Beat authors during the second half of the twentieth century. This book will stimulate thought and provoke controversy as certainly as it will enlarge our frame of reference for Beat writing. It makes the case not only that Beat writers created literature that inspired resistance movements throughout the world, but also that they continue to represent the spirit of freedom to young readers everywhere.' Ann Charters, emeritus professor of American literature, University of Connecticut and editor of The Penguin Beat Reader and The Penguin Sixties Reader 'The Beat Generation has often been presented as quintessentially American despite its critique of American culture and politics. This collection brings new light to this avant-garde movement by re-examining the international aspects of its roots as well as later reverberations. With historical documentation and literary analysis these essays demonstrate convincingly that much of what we now associate with global postmodernism was already evident in the work of a more widely dispersed Beat Generation.' - Robin Lydenberg, Boston College 'In essays that range around the world and across cultures, The Transnational Beat Generation has marked out a rich field that makes a natural fit for artists who above all else lived and wrote beyond borders; this book will open up Beat Studies and point it in new, uncharted directions.' - Oliver Harris, president of the European Beat Studies NetworkTable of ContentsIntroduction: Transnational Beat; N.M.Grace & J.Skerl PART I: TRANSNATIONAL FLOWS William S. Burroughs and U.S. Empire; A.Hibbard Jack Kerouac and the Nomadic Cartographies of Exile; H.Melehy Beat Transnationalism Under Gender: Bonnie Bremser's Troia; R.Johnson The Beat Manifesto: Avant-Garde Poetics and the Worlded Circuits of African-American Beat Surrealism; J.Fazzino The Beat Fairy Tale and Transnational Spectacle Culture: Diane di Prima and William S. Burroughs; N.M.Grace Two Takes on Japan: Joanne Kyger's Japan and India Journals and Philip Whalen's Scenes of Life at the Capital; J.Falk 'If All the Writers of the World Get Together': Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Literary Solidarity in Sandinista Nicaragua; M.Hardesty PART II: INTERVIEW WITH ANNE WALDMAN PART III: GLOBAL CIRCULATION 'They . . . took their time over the coming': The British/Beat 1955-65; R.J.Ellis Beating them to it? The Vienna Group and the Beat Generation; J.van der Bent Prague Connection; J.Rauvolf Cain's Book and the Mark of Exile: Alexander Trocchi as Transnational Beat; F.Paton Greece and the Beat Generation: the Case of Lefteris Poulios; C.Gair & K.Georganta Japan Beat: Nanao Sakaki; A.R.Lee
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Alice Walker The Color Purple Readers Guides to Essential Criticism
Book SynopsisRACHEL LISTER is Lecturer in the Department of English Studies, University of Durham, UK.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Literary Tourism and Nineteenthcentury Culture
Book SynopsisThis book offers both an introduction to the vibrant field of literary tourism studies and a selection of cutting-edge cross-disciplinary research. Indispensable for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture, it provides fascinating insights into the reception of, amongst others, Shakespeare, Dickens, Byron and Wordsworth.Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors Introduction; N.J.Watson From Early Modern to Romantic Literary Tourism: a Diachronical Perspective; H.Hendrix Making Their Mark: Writing the Nineteenth-century Poet's Grave; S.Matthews The Land of Burns: Between Myth and Heritage; K.Wilson-Costa Literary Biography and the Making of the Poet's House; J.North Building the Author's House: Abbotsford and Wayside; E.Hazard Bringing Down the House: Restoring Shakespeare's Birthplace; J.Thomas Women Re-read Shakespeare Country; G.Marshall Ghosting Grasmere: the Musealisation of Dove Cottage; P.Atkin John Murray's Handbooks to Italy: Making Tourism Literary; B.Schaff Selling Literary Tourism to the Literati: The Bookman in the Early 1890s; M.D.Stetz A woman's Place: Elizabeth Gaskell and Literary Tourism; P.Corpron Parker Rambles in Literary London; N.J.Watson Home, Country, World: Modes of Dickensian Time-travel; A.Booth Wessex, Literary Pilgrims, and Thomas Hardy; S.Haslam Americans and Anti-tourism; S.Foster Take-away Heritage: Or, How America 'Inherited' Literary Tourism; P.Westover Uncle Tom in Paradise: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Florida Tourism; D.Roberts On the Trail of Rider Haggard in South Africa; L.Stiebel Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Thomas Hardy and Desire Conceptions of the Self
Book SynopsisDrawing on a broad concept of desire, informed by poststructuralist theorists this book examines the range of Hardy's work. It demonstrates the sustained nature of his thinking about desire, its relationship to the social and symbolic network in which human subjectivity is constituted and art's potential to offer fulfilment to the desiring subject.Trade Review"Jane Thomas has provided us with the most thoroughgoing study of Hardy and desire since J. Hillis Miller's four decades ago, and offers a wonderfully panoramic approach to the subject. Thomas uses Lacan, Butler and other thinkers, always in an approachable manner, to meditate on the fleeting, obscure and unstable nature of desire in Hardy's texts, extracting a surprising range of reference - from the impossibility of nostalgia to the sharpness of desire across class divisions; from the pleasures of cross-dressing to Sapphic desire seen as a kind of utopian space. The study ranges with assurance across Hardy's corpus, and is illuminating on both the major and minor novels and the poetry." Professor Tim Armstrong, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK ''Thomas's finely articulated chapters serves to take the argument forward, with exemplary attention to textual evidence and an impressive grasp of ideas . . . this is a book which makes a notable contribution to Hardy studies and one whose argument will doubtless generate further fruitful debate.'' Hardy Journal "In offering a persuasive analysis of Hardy's art as an exercise and expression of (often frustrated or foiled) desire, Jane Thomas has made an outstanding contribution to Hardy studies." J. B. Bullen, Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Hardy and Desire House and Home: Nostalgic Desire and the Locus of the Self Desire, Female Amity and 'Sapphic Space' Sexual Desire and the Lure' of the Erotic Poor Men and Ladies: Aspirational Desire As You Like It: Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Expression of Desire Art, Aesthetics and Masculine Desire 'Scanned Across the Dark Space':Poetry, Desire and Aesthetic Fulfilment Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Postcolonial Witnessing Trauma Out of Bounds
Book SynopsisPostcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First World histories if trauma theory is to have any hope of redeeming its promise of cross-cultural ethical engagement.Trade ReviewOne of Times Higher Education's Books of 2013 "Bridging the gap between Jewish and postcolonial studies, Stef Craps's new postcolonial reading of the work of Sindiwe Magona, David Dabydeen, Fred D'Aguair, Caryl Phillips and Anita Desai covers exciting new ground in trauma theory. Challenging the hegemonic framings of the dominant 'trauma aesthetic,' Craps broadens our understanding of traumatic experience by examining literary works that depict life under South African apartheid, the Middle Passage, the links between histories of black and Jewish suffering and those between the Holocaust and colonialism. This is a fine study and a welcome addition to the field of trauma studies." - Dr Victoria Burrows, English Department, The University of Sydney, Australia "In this beautifully and clearly written book, Stef Craps leads trauma theory away from its Eurocentric past and towards a decolonized future. Arguing that the traumas of non-Western populations should be acknowledged for their own sake and on their own terms, Postcolonial Witnessing demonstrates through its exemplary discussion of literary texts including the works of Anita Desai and Caryl Phillips, how literary analysis can become a part of that process. Timely, provocative and destined to be widely read, this book makes a path-breaking contribution to memory, trauma, and literary studies." - Professor Susannah Radstone, University of East London, UK "'Stef Craps's excellent study calls for the decolonizing of trauma theory and begins from the premise that its founding texts have failed to live up to the promise of cross-cultural ethical engagement. In a carefully argued thesis, he accuses trauma theory of Eurocentric bias in four crucial ways . . . Overall, this short book advances an eloquent plea to rethink trauma from a postcolonial perspective in order to listen to the suffering of Others beyond the western purview and, thereby, in Craps's words, "remain faithful to the ethical foundation of the field"." - Journal of Postcolonial Writing 'Despite the seriousness of the topic, the clarity and flow of Craps's writing makes Postcolonial Witnessing a joy . . . This is a book that engages with current debates in a lively and interesting way and is sure to be of interest to scholars of trauma, postcolonialism, cultural memory studies and related fields. Its clear structure and thorough consideration of foundational and recent literature, including an excellent index and bibliography, will also make it a useful text to those who are new to the topic. In fact, the book's strong argument, clear structure and engaging prose make Postcolonial Witnessing an example of what an academic text should be.' - Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory ''Stef Craps' Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds is a text that has, without a doubt, pushed the field of trauma studies towards a more positive and critical direction of analysis and ethical engagement . . . A fundamental leap in the right dirction, Postcolonial Witnessing opens a path for new, more generative theorizations of trauma.'' - Emmanuel Martinez, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, US "Stef Craps' Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds is a timely and much needed corrective to the polarised debate - particularly in postcolonial studies - around the uses and abuses of trauma theory. . . . I strongly recommend Postcolonial Witnessing to anyone interested in future applications of trauma theory in various fields of study, especially postcolonial literature.' - Fred Ribkoff, Postcolonial Text "Stef Craps's Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds attempts to adapt the rather recent advances of trauma theory to postcolonial theory and despite its flaws, it is one of the more important texts on trauma theory in recent time... overall it is a very strong look at trauma studies." Henry James Morello, The Comparatist Shortlisted for the 2014 ESSE Book Award "Craps makes a compelling case for the need to expand the current event-based model to 'alternative conceptualizations of trauma' proposed by postcolonial critiques, such as 'insidious trauma,' 'continuous traumatic stress,' 'cumulative trauma,' or 'oppression-based trauma.'... His skillful analysis of these texts is particularly relevant for scholars of literature, but Craps also weaves into his readings insights gained from the theoretical literature... Craps' fine study..." Björn Krondorfer, theologie.geschichte 'Stef Craps's Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds serves as a wonderful starting point for anyone interested in recent critical paths in trauma studies. Not only does it give a good overview and critique of foundational early work by such scholars as Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, Dori Laub, Dominic LaCapra, and Geoffrey H. Hartman, but it also brings together the work of many recent scholars who, like the author of this monograph, have noted trauma studies' exclusions of various groups and types of traumatic experiences. In covering this vast amount of critical territory and doing so with adept and cogent arguments, Postcolonial Witnessing proves itself a particularly useful and important introduction to the field for both students and other scholars seeking entry." - Veronica Austen, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée ". . . successful engagement with postcolonial theory and memory studies . . . There is an unquestionable sincerity of critical engagement with the very vast body of literature both critics discuss. They explain theoretical ideas with a clarity and conciseness that indicates their extensive knowledge of scholarship in the area. In the tradition of effective postcolonial critique, the authors also mention the literary and social implications of their work. For Craps this involves an 'inclusive and culturally sensitive trauma theory' that opens up the possibility of 'a more just future' . . . Scholars and students of contemporary postcolonial literature will find these books useful as maps of the fields of cross-cultural and memory studies." - Kanika Batra, WasafiriTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Trauma of Empire The Empire of Trauma Beyond Trauma Aesthetics Ordinary Trauma in Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother Mid-Mourning in David Dabydeen's 'Turner' and Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts Cross-Traumatic Affiliation Jewish/Postcolonial Diasporas in the Work of Caryl Phillips Entangled Memories in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Individualism Decadence and Globalization On the Relationship of Part to Whole 18591920 Language Discourse Society
Book SynopsisBeginning with a widespread definition of Decadence as when individual parts flourish at the expense of the whole, Regenia Gagnier - a leading cultural historian of late nineteenth-century Britain - shows the full range of meanings of individualism at the height of its promise.Trade Review'...knowledgeable and wide-ranging...' - Cahiers victoriens et édouardiensTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Individuals-in-Relation The Ironies of Western Individualism New Women, Female Aesthetes and Socialist Individualists: The Literature of Separateness and Solubility Decadent Interiority and the Will The Unclassed and the Non-Christian Roots of Philanthropy Good Europeans and Neo-Liberal Cosmopolitans: Ethics and Politics in Late Victorian Cosmopolitanism and Beyond Appendix: Interiority, Exteriority, and Mystical Substitution: The Case of J.K. Huysmans Notes Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Angels of Modernism Religion Culture Aesthetics 19101960
Book SynopsisThe angel can be viewed as a signal reference to modernist attempts to accommodate religious languages to self-consciously modern cultures. This book uses the angel to explore the relations between modernist literature and early twentieth-century debates over the secular and/or religious character of the modern age.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Twentieth-Century Angelology 'On the Side of the Angels': Historical Angels and Angels of History 'The Angel Club': The Angel versus the Ubermensch 'Angels on All Fours': The Third Sex and Angels with 'A Difference' 'The Necessary Angel of Earth': WWII and the Utopian Imagination Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Philosophy and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Book SynopsisThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy provides an excellent way of looking at some intriguing issues in philosophy, from vegetarianism and Artificial Intelligence to God, space and time. This is an entertaining yet thought provoking volume for students, philosophers and fans of The Hitchhiker's series.Trade Review'...very readable and mind-expanding collection...' - PD Smith, The GuardianTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements ('thanks for all the fish') Introduction Nicholas Joll Notes on Contributors PART I: ETHICS 'Eat Me': Vegetarianism and Consenting Animals; B.Saunders & E.Harding Mostly Harmless? Hitchhiker's and the Ethics of Entertainment; N.Joll PART II: THE MEANING OF LIFE Life, the Universe, and Absurdity; A.Kind The Wowbagger Case: Immortality and What Makes Life Meaningful; T.Chappell PART III: METAPHYSICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 'I Think You Ought To Know I'm Feeling Very Depressed': Marvin and Artificial Intelligence; J.Goodenough From Deep Thought to Digital Metaphysics; B.Dainton PART IV: LOGIC, METHOD, AND SATIRE 'God . . Promptly Vanishes in a Puff of Logic'; M.Friend The Judo Principle, Philosophical Method, and the Logic of Jokes; A.Aberdein The Funniest of All Improbable Worlds Hitchhiker's as Philosophical Satire; A.Pawlak & N.Joll Glossary Bibliography (of Adams, Philosophy, and Everything) Indexes
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Literature and Science
Book SynopsisMartin Willis is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920 and Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century.Trade Review'Martin Willis admirably synthesizes the work of a broad range of scholars and critics, providing an essential foundation in literature and science criticism.' - Carol Colatrella, Georgia Tech, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Institutions 2. Early Literature and Science Criticism 3. The Dominance of Darwin 4. Body 5. Mind 6. The Physical Sciences, Exploration and the Environment 7. Geology, Botany, Eugenics and Animal Studies Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past
Book SynopsisThrough a close-reading of the work of five prominent American postmodernist writers, this book re-evaluates the role of the past in recent American fiction, outlines the development of the postmodernist historical novel and considers the waning influence of postmodernism in contemporary American literature.Trade Review'American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past offers a new and thought provoking understanding of how a crucial strain of the American historical novel has developed through the postmodern era.' - Paula Geyh, Associate Professor of English, Yeshiva University, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 'Nothing but words': Chronicling and Storytelling in Robert Coover's The Public Burning 'A world inside the world': Don DeLillo's Libra and Latent History Pynchon Plays Dice: Mason & Dixon and Quantum History 'A long list of regrettable actions': William T. Vollmann's Symbolic History 'There is only narrative': E.L. Doctorow Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Indography Writing the Indian in Early Modern England Signs of Race
Book SynopsisIndography considers literary and non-literary representations of Indians in early modern English writing in relation to processes of globalization and race formation.Trade Review'In 1614, Samuel Purchas noted that India was a term that had begun to be used to describe 'all farre-distant Countries.' This volume is a careful, thought-provoking and wide-ranging analysis of the meaning, implications and consequences of that usage. It uncovers the astonishing diversity of peoples and locations signified by the term in early modern English writings. Even more important, it tracks the connections between the different 'Indians' forged through material as well as imaginative channels. 'India' and 'Indians' emerge as important points of entry into the early histories and discourses of globalization. An important and illuminating book.' - Ania Loomba, Catherine Bryson Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania "The geographic miscalculation that persuaded Columbus to identify the New World as part of 'India' is at once so gross and so familiar that its imaginative consequences have never seemed to deserve serious consideration. The brilliant tessellation of essays that make up Indography show how mistaken that neglect has been. By opening a fascinating variety of perspectives on the many 'Indias' of the Renaissance imaginary, Gil Harris and his contributors promise to transform our understanding of early modern ethnography and its relation to the discourses of trade and empire." - Michael Neill, emeritus professor of English, University of AucklandTable of ContentsIntroduction: Forms of Indography; J.G.Harris PART I: INDOLOGY: DISCOVERY, ETHNOGRAPHY, PATHOLOGY How To Make an Indian: Religion, Trade, and Translation in the Legends of Mõnçaide and Gaspar da Gama; B.Malieckal Looking for Loss, Anticipating Absence: Imagining Indians in the Archives and Depictions of Roanoke's Lost Colony; G.Caison From First Encounter to 'Fiery Oven': The Effacement of the New England Indian in Mourt's Relation and Histories of the Pequot War; T.Cartelli Trafficking in Tangomóckomindge: Ethnographic Materials in Harriot's A Briefe and True Report; K.Boettcher Translation and Identity in the Dialogues in the English and Malaiane Languages; M.Walter Playing Indian: John Smith, Pocahontas, and a Dialogue about a Chain of Pearl; K.Robertson Tobacco, Union, and The Indianized English; C.Rustici Sick Ethnography: Recording the Indian and the Ill English Body; J.G.Harris PART II: INDOPOESIS: POETRY, DRAMA, ROMANCE Spenser's 'Men of Inde': Mythologizing the Indian through the Genealogy of Faeries; M.Hollings From Lunacy to Faith: Orlando's Own Private India in Robert Greene's Orlando Furioso; J.W.Stone 'Enter Orlando with a scarf before his face': Indians, Moors, and the Properties of Racial Transformation in Robert Greene's The Historie of Orlando Furioso; G.Hollis 'Does this become you, Princess?': East Indian Ethopoetics in John Fletcher's The Island Princess; J.Tran Playing an Indian Queen: Neoplatonism, Ethnography, and The Temple of Love; A.Sen Made in India: How Meriton Latroon Became an Englishman; C.Nocentelli 'A Well-Born Race': Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter; or, The History of Bacon in Virginia and the Place of Proximity; S.Eaton Afterword: Naming and Un-naming 'all the Indies': How India Became Hindustan; J.G.Singh
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Modernisms
Book SynopsisPETER NICHOLLS is Professor of English and American Literature and Director of The Centre for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace
Book SynopsisCombining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning, parading their exotic otherness to metropolitan audiences, within a global marketplace.Trade Review'This is a first-rate, controversial book by a young and alert scholar working at the cutting edge of a fast evolving field. Brouillette's writing is cogent and original. It covers acres of ground while drawing on incisive case studies. It is graceful, provocative and interesting. It is the real McCoy.' - Robert Fraser, Open University, UK 'Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace is a fascinating study of a topic we (surprisingly) don't often talk about, despite our supposedly insatiable curiosity about the lives of the rich and famous...One measure of scholarly work's value is its ability to serve as a foundation for further scholarship, and Brouilette's book certainly deserves to meet its goal "to encourage more analyses of the relationships between literature, politics, and economics.' - John Clement Ball, Chimo ' the boldness and quality of her readings alone should make us sit up and pay attention.' Stefan Helgesson, SafundiTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction PART I The Industry of Postcoloniality Postcolonial Writers and the Global Literary Marketplace PART II Salman Rushdie's 'Unbelonging': Authorship and 'The East' Locating J.M. Coetzee Zulfikar Ghose and Cosmopolitan Authentication Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Thinking About Texts An Introduction to English Studies
Book SynopsisCHRIS HOPKINS is Professor of English Studies and Head of the Humanities Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam, UK. He was a member of the English Subject Centre Advisory Board from 2003-6 and has published widely on British Fiction of the 1930s, Welsh writing in English and teaching University English.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Vindiciæ Gallicæ Defence of the French Revolution A Critical Edition Studies in Modern History
Book SynopsisThis new edition offers an extensive editor's introduction, a fully annotated text of the first edition of Vindiciæ Gallicæ and an appendix which includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to Vindiciæ Gallicæ in the late summer of 1791.Table of ContentsIntroduction The publication of James Mackintosh's Vindiciæ Gallicæ (1791) The Scottish underpinning of Vindiciæ Gallicæ Mackintosh's 'philosophical' history of the French Revolution The defence of the National Assembly The violence of the French Revolution The defence of the new French Constitution of 1791 The defence of the principles of 1688 Mackintosh's revision of Vindiciæ Gallicæ Note on the Text Selected Reading Vindiciæ Gallicæ Appendix
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Weyward Macbeth Intersections of Race and Performance Signs of Race
Book SynopsisWeyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial constructions.Trade Review“This collection … explore raced and non-traditional Macbeth on its own terms and through an extraordinary diversity of perspectives.” (Rebecca Dark, Early Modern Studies Journal, Vol. 5, October 26, 2018)“Weyward Macbeth offers a fascinating account of the use and misuse of Shakespeare’s tragedy by a culture trying to confront its own guilt and ghosts.” (Maria Browning, chapter16.org, October 27, 2017)“Weyward Macbeth is an exceptionally rich and suggestive collection of essays, the kind of book that you know you’ll return to time and again to mull over the nuggets that its wide and wise contributors have unearthed.” (Willy Maley, Journal of the Northern Renaissance, February 26, 2013)“The book presents work that is interdisciplinary and will appeal to a variety of scholars. … Weyward Macbeth is a far-reaching anthology, well worth a read for scholars of Shakespeare, cinema, literature, and music. As a theatre text, it is particularly useful. … Weyward Macbeth emphasizes how strongly theatre reflects and informs America’s political history; the book enhances both American theatre and Shakespearean scholarship.” (Victoria P. Lantz, Theatre Survey, Vol. 53 (2), September, 2012)“The book is certainly a worthwhile contribution: even essays that read as isolated reflections disengaged from the dialogue promoted by the book prove to be highly interesting; when connections are made, they are often unexpected and illuminating. … the collection also amply demonstrates that we can learn much about both history and the play when we attend to the many wayward ways in which race and the play have intersected in history.” (Yu Jin Ko, Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 63 (2), 2012)“This is a substantial collection, consisting of twenty-six articles and an Appendix. … Together, they are essential to anyone seeking to understand the importance of Macbeth to the history of race relations in America, especially black–white relations. … This collection provides ample evidence of this truth, and underscores how important it is for us to recognize Shakespeare’s ambivalent legacy at work in America’s race relations today.” (Jennifer Clement, Parergon, Vol. 29 (2), 2012)“The collection as a whole offers a conglomeration of various topics that open up a new approach to Macbeth. … The diversity of perspectives here is rich and provocative and will no doubt encourage further studies of Macbeth and race. Of equal interest to Shakespeareans, Americanists, cultural historians, teachers, and theater professionals, the collection as a whole is notable for its thorough and strikingly original readings of a largely overlooked topic.” (Sonya Freeman Loftis, Borrowers and Lenders, Vol. 7 (2), October, 2012)“Rarely is a collection of essays so focused and yet so broad, so comprehensive, and yet so intellectually open-ended. Any one of the essays on its own would be a respectable contribution to the study of race and Shakespeare, but it is in their collective resonance with and across each other, their symphonic ambition, that the volume’s significance lays.” (Shane Vogel, African American Review, Vol. 44 (1-2), 2011) “Weyward Macbeth is a collection of essays providing a fascinating, interdisciplinary record … . The collection as a whole makes for rich and varied reading. … The book is thus particularly relevant to Shakespeare studies, performance and pedagogy in southern Africa. It provides us with a fascinating archive to work with and against. … It contains much of interest for literary and performance scholars, for actors and directors, for English teachers, for students … and for readers interested in the signs of race.” (Denise Newfield, Shakespeare in Southern Africa, Vol. 23, 2011)“Weyward Macbeth admirably covers the long and complex history of the play within American racial discourse by using an interdisciplinary approach to elucidate much that has been neglected or unconnected. … Weyward Macbeth goes beyond filling that void by establishing the standard for further research into any aspect of Macbeth’s intimate relationship with racial discourse in America.” (M. Tyler Sasser, South Atlantic Review, Vol. 76 (3), 2011)“The collection brings forth new and sometimes forgotten stories about how directors, rhetoricians, and performers use Macbeth both to interrogate and confirm racial disparity in the United States. … the range of media and time periods covered is quite commendable, as is the inclusion of both scholars' and practitioners' perspectives. Because the essays are shorter, this collection could supplement course material or provide an excellent primer for scholars interested in how race has informed American appropriations of Macbeth.” (Allison Kellar Lenhardt, The Upstart Crow, Vol. 30, 2011)“The book will be useful to a variety of readers, including scholars of Shakespeare and of American performance and theatre history. Essays pertaining to the contemporary practice of multilingual or intercultural Shakespearean performance will also be of interest to practitioners. … Weyward Macbeth provides ample resources for future scholarship. … Weyward Macbeth productively charts intersections between the play’s own representations of race and the racial discourses that have informed its performance history, and alerts us to the ‘weyward’ within the play’s contemporary productions.” (Nicole Boyar, Theatre Journal, Vol. 63 (4), December, 2011)“This extraordinary collection of essays is essential for every student and teacher of Shakespeare. It is exceptional reading with astonishing new information for anyone wishing to keep remarkably abreast of what is happening in American culture.” (Glenda E. Gill, This Rough Magic, thisroughmagic.org, Vol. 1 (1), January, 2010)"Timely . . . as with the best works of historical scholarship, Newstok and Thompson's collection merges detailed historiography with immediate relevancy, making this a valuable book indeed." - Dan Venning, Theatre History Studies "There is something for everyone in this worthy volume." - Kevin Wetmore, Jr., CHOICE "Remarkable." - Jonathan Gil Harris, Studies in English Literature "Weyward Macbeth is an excellent companion piece for theatre educators looking to enrich classroom instruction or to further students' understanding of fully realized productions. Newstok and Thompson's diverse collection of provocative and enlightening articles serves as a valued addition to Shakespearean scholarship and as a complement to the study of Macbeth." - John Robert Moss, Theatre Topics "A welcome addition to the scholarship on theatrical history and practice . . . most of the contributors do show the considerable charge that thinking differently, or highlighting and remembering race, can bring to the play . . . most of the authors at some point refer parenthetically to one or more of their fellow contributors, offering a sense of cogency, a wider arc of discussion, than many such collections manage." - Eric Mallin, College Literature "In this remarkable and ground breaking book, the editors have put together essays that examine the text and spirit of Macbeth from different and, sometimes, startling perspectives." - Clement Ndulute, The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies "This rich and provocative collection of essays is a compilation of historical, theoretical and interdisciplinary viewpoints on ways in which performances of Macbeth have engaged issues of race . . . Weyward Macbeth leaves a reader strangely unsettled as, of course, does Macbeth. I closed the volume with a new sense of Macbeth's importance to issues of race in the United States, more acutely aware of the ferment and potential of engaging with this intersectional study, and yet also conscious of the still fragmented state of this aptly named 'weyward' pursuit . . . Many diverse perspectives are at work in this volume, and not always towards the same ends. But in the last analysis, that diversity seems utterly appropriate: the move here is not to establish a new orthodoxy but to break down received ideas about race and Shakespeare . . . Newstok and Thompson's volume corroborates that vision of multiple Shakespeares and multiple Shakespeareans, both within 'the confines of the script' and beyond it." - Nicholas Jones, Shakespeare Bulletin "This collection undoubtedly demonstrates the intractable diversity of American readings of Macbeth over time . . . Weyward Macbeth goes a long way in making the effort to tell that difficult history." - Robert Ormsby, Modern Drama "Weyward Macbeth deserves reading - and re-reading - because, contrary to popular belief, Orson Welles's famous 'Voodoo' Macbeth (1936) was far from unique in re-casting Shakespeare in a non-traditional setting. With over 100 cross-racial productions recorded here, you are bound to ask: why have so many Americans been repeatedly drawn to this particular play in the context of racial discourses? Read this penetrating study to find out - it's an intellectual delight." - James V. Hatch, Professor Emeritus, The Graduate Theatre Program at the City University of New York and co-author of A History of African American Theatre "Weyward Macbeth is an interesting and deeply thought-provoking book, which is well set out, and ideal to dip into when a fresh perspective is required about Macbeth." - Jane Wright, seriouslyshakespeare.comTable of ContentsPART I: BEGINNINGS What is a 'Weyward' Macbeth?;Ayanna Thompson Weird Brothers: What Thomas Middleton's The Witch Can Tell Us about Race, Sex, and Gender in Macbeth; Celia R. Daileader PART II: EARLY AMERICAN INTERSECTIONS 'Blood will have blood': Violence, Slavery, and Macbeth in the Antebellum American Imagination; Heather S. Nathans The Exorcism of Macbeth: Frederick Douglass's Appropriation of Shakespeare; John C. Briggs Ira Aldridge as Macbeth; Bernth Lindfors Minstrel Show Macbeth; Joyce Green MacDonald Reading Macbeth in Texts by and about African Americans, 1903 1944: Race and the Problematics of Allusive Identification; Nick Moschovakis PART III: FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT(S) Before Welles: A 1935 Boston Production; Lisa N. Simmons Black Cast Conjures White Genius: Unraveling the Mystique of Orson Welles's 'Voodoo' Macbeth; Marguerite Rippy After Welles: Re-do Voodoo Macbeths; Scott L. Newstok The Vo-Du Macbeth!: Travels and Travails of a Choreo-Drama Inspired by the FTP Production; Lenwood Sloan PART IV: FURTHER STAGES A Black Actor's Guide to the Scottish Play, Or, Why Macbeth Matters; Harry J. Lennix Asian American Theatre Re-imagined: Shogun Macbeth in New York; Alexander C. Y. Huang The Tlingit Play: Macbeth and Native Americanism; Anita Maynard-Losh A Post-Apocalyptic Macbeth: Teatro LA TEA's Macbeth 2029; José A. Esquea Multi-cultural, Multi-lingual Macbeth; William C. Carroll PART V: MUSIC Reflections on Verdi, Macbeth, and Non-Traditional Casting in Opera; Wallace McClain Cheatham Ellington's Dark Lady; Douglas Lanier Hip-Hop Macbeths, 'Digitized Blackness,' and the Millennial Minstrel: Illegal Culture Sharing in the Virtual Classroom; Todd Landon Barnes PART VI: SCREEN Riddling Whiteness, Riddling Certainty: Roman Polanski's Macbeth; Francesca Royster Semper Die: Marines Incarnadine in Nina Menkes's The Bloody Child: An Interior of Violence; Courtney Lehmann Shades of Shakespeare: Colorblind Casting and Interracial Couples in Macbeth in Manhattan, Grey's Anatomy, and Prison Macbeth; Amy Scott-Douglass PART VII: SHAKESPEAREAN (A)VERSIONS Three Weyward Sisters: African-American Female Poets Conjure with Macbeth; Charita Gainey-O'Toole and Elizabeth Alexander 'Black up again': Combating Macbeth in Contemporary African-American Plays; Philip C. Kolin Black Characters in Search of an Author: Black Plays on Black Performers of Shakespeare; Peter Erickson Epilogue: ObaMacbeth: National Transition as National Traumission; Richard Burt Appendix: Selected Productions of Macbeth Featuring Non-Traditional Casting; Brent Butgereit and Scott L. Newstok
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Renaissance Earwitnesses Rumor and Early Modern Masculinity
Book SynopsisRenaissance Earwitnesses examines how maintaining masculinity on the early modern stage is intimately tied to 'earwitnessing,' or a sense of 'judicious listening' in his reading of plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Cary, and Jonson.Trade Review"Throughout this well-executed, carefully constructed, and witty book, [Botelho] examines a wide range of texts about rumor and related subjects like cautionary aural discernment. His accessible, detailed analyses of dramatic works are impressive." - Comparative Drama "Keith Botelho intervenes in conversations about early modern conceptionsof speech and silence by shifting attention away from the oral and onto the aural. . .Botelho provides a new perspective on the transgressive potential of activesilence as a method of gaining information and cultural authority. He alsoeffectively highlights men s anxieties about their own bodily openness." - Renaissance Quarterly "RenaissanceEarwitnesses, supported by close readings of plays by Marlowe,Shakespeare, and Jonson (as well as a brief discussion of Elizabeth Cary), offers some fresh insights into the ways that maletongues could threaten masculine authority and generate maleanxiety, as well as the ways dramatists could respond to rumorand the possibilities of controlling it." - Studies in English Literature "Renaissance Earwitnessesis an important contribution to the growing scholarship on early modern drama s engagement with aural and acoustic traditions and practices.The book provides a valuable intervention in the scholarly debate about the early modern gendering of the dissemination and reception of information....In well-documented and lucidly written chapters on Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, and a brief concluding section on Elizabeth Cary, Botelho....enhances in significant ways our understanding of the role of gender in the authorization, production, and reception of information in early modern England." - The Journal of the Northern Renaissance "[Renaissance Earwitnesses]raises several provocative questions that are sure to engage the interest of academics from various humanities-based disciplines [and] offers a unique take on sound studies by uniting the issues of hearing, perception, gender, power, and the transmission of information to challenge the notion of female gossip destabilizing male authority. . .Botelho's study is a fruitful and well-researched extension of the scholarship on acoustic environments and ephemera that has begun to grow in popularity in Shakespeare and early modern cultural studies. . . this book takes its place alongside important Shakespearean scholarship by elucidating how listeners, and discerners, were represented on the early modern English stage." - The Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal "Written in a style that makes for refreshingly easy reading, [Renaissance Earwitnesses] manages to mark a trail that readers will find worth following . . . there is little question of Keith Botelho's excellence as a scholar. Instances in the evidence he supplies and in his examination of individual plays indicate a scrupulous, perceptive, wide-ranging mind equipped to analyze both literary and non-literary materials." - Marlowe Society of America Newsletter "Our own noisy and anxious world - blinging with cell phones, blaring with talk radio, cacophonous with the partial but potent pronouncements of spin-doctors - provides the ultimate context for Botelho s adventurous investigation of rumor in scripts by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Cary. Garrulous tongues and unguarded ears perform, in Botelho s hearing, important political and psychological work, particularly with respect to gender. The old cliché that women s tongues wag while men s eyes see the truth is given its quietus in this smart and reader-friendly book." - Bruce R. Smith, Professor of English, University of Southern California and author of The Acoustic World of Early Modern England and Shakespeare and Masculinity "Renaissance Earwitnesses contributes fresh insights to the emerging field of early modern aurality studies. The strengths of the book lie in its compelling close-readings of plays by Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare, and Cary and its discussion of how these dramatists respond to cultural concerns about the reliability of information in an age when news is spreading faster than ever before." - Gina Bloom, Associate Professor of English, UC Davis and author of Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England "Renaissance Earwitnesses is a welcome addition to the recent spate of workthatexamines how thesensory culture of the early modern era is reflected on theEnglish stage. While training his focus onearly moderndiscourses on the subject of rumour, Botelhointroduces a truly impressive collection of materials that have not yet figured in critical accounts of the sensory cultureof the period." - Wes Folkerth, Professor of English, McGill University and author of The Sound of ShakespeareTable of ContentsPreface: Listening in an Age of Truthnapping Introduction: Buzz, Buzz: Rumor in Early Modern England Table Talk: Marlowe's Mouthy Men Bruits and Britons: Rumor, Counsel, and the Henriad 'I heard a bustling rumour': Shakespeare's Aural Insurgents 'Nothing but the truth': Ben Jonson's Comedy of Rumours 'Contrary to truth': Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Rumour
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Lulu.com A Key to Uncle Toms Cabin
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Penn State University Press Song of Roland
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Pennsylvania State University Press Refiguring the Hero
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Pennsylvania State University Press Discourses of Empire CounterEpic Literature in
Book SynopsisThe counter-epic is a literary style that developed in reaction to imperialist epic conventions as a means of scrutinizing the consequences of foreign conquest of dominated peoples. It also functioned as a transitional literary form, a bridge between epic narratives of military heroics and novelistic narratives of commercial success. In Discourses of Empire, Barbara Simerka examines the representation of militant Christian imperialism in early modern Spanish literature by focusing on this counter-epic discourse. Simerka is drawn to literary texts that questioned or challenged the imperial project of the Hapsburg monarchy in northern Europe and the New World. She notes the variety of critical ideas across the spectrum of diplomatic, juridical, economic, theological, philosophical, and literary writings, and she argues that the presence of such competing discourses challenges the frequent assumption of a univocal, hegemonic culture in Spain during the imperial period. Simerka is especiTrade Review“One must applaud the ambitious and far-reaching goals of the study. It is highly suggestive and engaging, with its own rather baroque discourse.”—E.H. Friedman Choice“Focusing mainly on the comedia, reviews counter-epic literary representations as discursive mediations questioning dominant ideologies, ways in which counter-epic texts contest imperialist practice and provide insights into the heterogeneity of early modern society.”—Carmen Peraita Year’s Work in Modern Language StudiesTable of ContentsContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1. Toward a Materialist Poetics of Counter-Epic Literature 2. "So That the Rulers Might Sleep Without Bad Dreams": Imperial Ideology and Practices 3. Liminal Identity and Polyphonic Ideology in Indiano Drama 4. The Early Modern History Play as Counter-Epic Mode: Cervantes’s La destrucción de Numancia and Lope de Vega’s Arauco domado 5. The Novelistic History Play: Rojas Zorrilla’s Numancia Diptych and González de Bustos’s Los españoles en Chile 6. "War and Lechery": La gatomaquia and the Burlesque Epic 7. Conclusions Works Cited Index
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Pennsylvania State University Press Gothic Feminism
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Pennsylvania State University Press Textuality and Knowledge Essays Penn State Series
Book SynopsisA collection of essays exploring the role of textual studies in understanding and editing texts, and in understanding the historical developments and cultural differences in editorial and archival systems.Trade Review“There are big issues at stake in this restless symposium of a book, for it is brave and honest. Every research library serving the humanities needs to order a copy of it, and textual scholars will want to do so as well.”—Paul Eggert Textual Cultures“Records the thinking of one of our strongest editorial theorists as the study of the book bent—or did not bend—to the winds of change during the first decade of the millennium.”—The Library“Shillingsburg’s insistence that we insist on the importance of provenance in our classrooms and editions is timely, urgent and — as we would expect — supported by the soundest available textual evidence.”—Barbara Cooke The Journal of the European Society for Textual ScholarshipTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction and Acknowledgements 1 The Evidence for Literary Knowledge 2 Textual Criticism, the Humanities, and J. M. Coetzee 3 The Semiotics of Bibliography 4 Some Functions of Textual Criticism 5 Long Distance Revision 6 Text as Communication 7 The Archive and the Critical Edition: Intentions Revisited 8 How Literary Works Exist 9 Convenient Scholarly Editions 10 Scholarly Editing as a Cultural Enterprise 11 Work and Text in Non-Literary Text-Based Disciplines 12 Publishers' Records and the History of Book Production 13 Cultural Heritage, Textuality, and Social Justice Bibliography
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Pennsylvania State University Press Elemental Narratives Reading Environmental Entanglements in Modern Italy AnthropoScene 6 AnthropoScene The SLSA Book Series
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Pennsylvania State University Press DisOrientations GermanTurkish Cultural Contact in
Book SynopsisThe fields of comparative and world literature tend to have a unidirectional, Eurocentric focus, with attention to concepts of origin and arrival. DisOrientations challenges this viewpoint. Kristin Dickinson employs a unique multilingual archive of German and Turkish translated texts from the early nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. In this analysis, she reveals the omnidirectional and transtemporal movements of translations, which, she argues, harbor the disorienting potential to reconfigure the relationships of original to translation, past to present, and West to East. Through the work of three key figuresJohann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schrader, and Sabahattin AliDickinson develops a concept of translational orientation as a mode of omnidirectional encounter. She sheds light on translations that are not bound by the terms of economic imperialism, Orientalism, or Westernization, focusing on case studies that work against the basic premises of containment and originaTrade Review“Drawing on comparative literature, translation studies, German studies, Ottoman and Turkish studies, as well as transnational studies, Dickinson’s astute study on this interdisciplinary subject matter will serve students and scholars of various fields that intersect with the study of Weltliteratur/world literature, translation, European Orientalists, (Ottoman) Turkish literature and literary traditions, and Turkish German studies.”—Berna Gueneli German Studies Review“The strength of DisOrientations lies in Dickinson’s erudition and linguistic astuteness, the historical extensivity of the research, and the high standard this book sets for Turkish-German studies of any kind, going forward. This is the kind of trenchant, rough-and-tumble literary analysis that goes far beyond the comforts of Eurocentric, theoreticist comparative literature, and its groundbreaking scope is a sight to behold.”—David J. Gramling,author of The Invention of Monolingualism“Kristin Dickinson sheds remarkable new light on myriad ways in which thoroughly entangled German and Turkish modernities compel us to rethink world literature, cultural contact, postcolonial theories of Orientalism, ethnic nationalisms, untranslatability, and much more. She effectively wields specific case histories of translation practice to reconceptualize modernity and translation as a cultural form. Her stunning results will speak to scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and history alike.”—Leslie A. Adelson,author of Cosmic Miniatures and the Future Sense: Alexander Kluge’s 21st-Century Literary Experiments in German Culture and Narrative Form“DisOrientations is well on its way to becoming a classic reference for scholars of literature that change hands, scripts, and tongues.”—Ambika Athreya Transit: A Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism
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Yale University Press Selected Poems and Related Prose
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Random House USA Inc My Life in Middlemarch A Memoir
Book SynopsisA New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories. Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining admission to Oxford, and moving to the United States to become a journalist, through several love affairs, then marriage and family, Mead read and reread Middlemarch. The novel, which Virginia Woolf famously described as one of the few English novels written for grown-up people, offered Mead something that modern life and literature did not.In this wise and revealing work of biography, reporting, and memoir, Rebecca Mead leads us into the life that the book made for her, as well as the many lives the novel has led since it was written. Emplo
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Palgrave Macmillan Edwardian Bloomsbury The Early Literary History of the Bloomsbury Group Volume 2
Book SynopsisExplanation of References and Abbreviations - Preface - PART 1: EARLIER EDWARDIAN - Introduction - Independent Reviewers - E.M. Forster's Earlier Short Writings - The First Book of Bloomsbury - E.M. Forster's First Novel - Desmond MacCarthy at the Court Theatre - Lytton Strachey and the Prose of Empire - Virginia Woolf: Beginnings - Roger Fry and the Early Aesthetics of Bloomsbury - PART 2: LATER EDWARDIAN - Introduction - E.M. Forster's Refutation of Idealism - Desmond MacCarthy and the New Quarterly, Clive Bell and the Athenaeum - Lytton Strachey and the Spectator - E.M. Forster: Rooms and Views - Virginia Woolf and the Proper Writing of Lives - Leonard Woolf's Ceylon Writings - E.M. Forster: Ends and Means - Notes - Bibliography - IndexTrade Review'This is the second volume of a formidable enterprise, and part of a series of publications by the same author that may entitle him to the position as the leading scholar of the Bloomsbury Group...Rosenbaum has managed to write with freshness and insight about Forster's novels, no matter how much they have been analyzed before...The next volume will deal with the effect of that exhibition upon the Group's writing and much more, I am sure, of its early literary history. The work is eagerly awaited.' - Peter Stanksy, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920Table of ContentsExplanation of References and Abbreviations - Preface - PART 1: EARLIER EDWARDIAN - Introduction - Independent Reviewers - E.M. Forster's Earlier Short Writings - The First Book of Bloomsbury - E.M. Forster's First Novel - Desmond MacCarthy at the Court Theatre - Lytton Strachey and the Prose of Empire - Virginia Woolf: Beginnings - Roger Fry and the Early Aesthetics of Bloomsbury - PART 2: LATER EDWARDIAN - Introduction - E.M. Forster's Refutation of Idealism - Desmond MacCarthy and the New Quarterly, Clive Bell and the Athenaeum - Lytton Strachey and the Spectator - E.M. Forster: Rooms and Views - Virginia Woolf and the Proper Writing of Lives - Leonard Woolf's Ceylon Writings - E.M. Forster: Ends and Means - Notes - Bibliography - Index
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Wordsworths Biblical Ghosts
Book SynopsisThe Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres.Trade Review'...a rich and rewarding study of Wordworth's art, carefully situated within established scholarship...' - Laura Dabundo, The Wordsworth CircleTable of ContentsIntroduction: Poet in a Destitute Time The Word as Borderer: Incarnational Poetics: the Theory The Word as Borderer: Of Clothing and Body: the Practice How Awesome is This Place: Poems on the Naming of Places Wordsworth's Prodigal Son: 'Michael' as Parable and as Metaparable Wordsworth's Song of Songs: 'Nutting' as Mystical Allegory Wordsworthian Apocalyptics: Definitions and Biblical Intertexts Wordsworthian Apocalyptics in Which Nothing is Revealed
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St Martin's Press Out of Sheer Rage
Book SynopsisFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDIn the spirit of Julian Barnes''s Flaubert''s Parrot and Alain de Botton''s How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer''s Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book.--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York TimesGeoff Dyer was a talented young writer, full of energy and reverence for the craft, and determined to write a study of D. H. Lawrence. But he was also thinking about a novel, and about leaving Paris, and maybe moving in with his girlfriend in Rome, or perhaps traveling around for a while. Out of Sheer Rage is Dyer''s account of his struggle to write the Lawrence book--a portrait of a man tormented, exhilarated, and exhausted. Dyer travels all over the world, grappling not only with his fascinating subject but with all the glorious distractions and needling anxieties that define the life of a writer.
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