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Book SynopsisTracing the global reach of early photography and the camera's part in cultural encounters across three continents.Trade Review"An insightful, beautifully crafted, and enjoyable read. Lee writes with consummate command of the materials and manages with commendable skill to narrate both personal lives – of the photographers and their subjects alike – and the changing socio-economic pressures on them with equal measure and sophistication." Luke Gartlan, University of St Andrews"A much-needed history of the emergence of Scottish pastoralism, The Global Flows of Early Scottish Photography stands out not least because it is the first book to take up in a sustained way the relationship between the camera and globalization." Thy Phu, University of Western Ontario"Remarkably thorough in the way he outlines the commercial and socio-political developments of the locales he discusses, Lee has made valuable contribution to the history of the relationship between photography and European colonialism." The Burlington Magazine

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Book SynopsisThe essays collected in Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists frame this major writer in an unfamiliar milieu and company: high modernism and its aftermath. By bringing Johnson to bear on the various authors and topics gathered here, the book foregrounds some aspects of modernism and its practitioners that would otherwise remain hidden and elusive, even as it sheds new light on Johnson. Writers discussed include T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, and Vladimir Nabokov. Chapter contributors include major scholars in their field, including Melvyn New, Jack Lynch, Thomas M. Curley, Greg Clingham and Clement Hawes. These ground-breaking essays offer a vital and exciting interrogation of Modernism from a wholly fresh perspective.Trade Review'These consistently informative, persuasive, and provocative essays should reshape notions of both literary history and Johnson's place in that history.' Elizabeth Kraft, CHOICE'The most interesting essays are those focused on Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, and T. S. Eliot, those Modernists most explicitly concerned with Johnson [...] and Lee becomes very interesting when he turns his attention to their critical judgments; the two are heretical in the same attractive ways. [...] The literary criticism of Johnson and the Modernists [provide] the most fertile site of future scholarship. [...] The essays in the collection are all intellectually alive and well written [and] may provide a model for a new field of study: not biographies of Johnson the man but histories of Johnson the icon.'Lance Wilcox, The Scriblerian'In addition to Lee’s thoughtful introduction, this collection includes nine chapters that put Johnson into conversation with various authors and aspects of the first sixty years of the twentieth century. [...] Any reader of his fine translatio studii will have a deeper appreciation for what Clingham calls the paradoxical “invisibility” of these master prose stylists.[...] Anthony Lee has done Johnsonian and modernists alike a service in bringing these essays together and to light.'John Sitter, 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries of the Early Modern Era'This is prose written in a Johnsonian spirit, even if the style bears few of the master's hallmarks. [...] Each of its nine chapters proposes a sort of conversation between Johnson and other eighteenth-century writers, or between Johnson and a more recent author, or both. The comparison of Woolf with Johnson is perhaps the most fruitful of all the pairings in the volume, [...] partly because her literary-critical, biographical and essayistic career shared so much ground with his.'Freya Johnston, New Rambler

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Book SynopsisOn a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in New England. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then their new employer lined them up and had them photographed. This work seeks to understand the social forces that brought this photograph into being, and the events it subsequently spawned.Trade Review"Generously illustrated with many extraordinary photographs, A Shoemaker's Story brings 1870s America to vivid life. Combining painstaking research with world-class storytelling, Lee illuminates an important episode in the social history of the United States, and reveals the extent to which photographs can be sites of intense historical struggle."--Spartacus Educational "Although some historians might be put off by Lee's narrative style, it is a useful and informative method to access the complexity of American industrialization and especially to bring the voices of those who are often silent in the past to the forefront. Furthermore, for historians who are looking for model scholarship that uses photographs as more than illustrations, this book is a welcome and much-needed resource."--Krystyn R. Moon, American Historical Review "The rewards are everywhere present in Lee's research--and the pleasure of his writing. As a historian, Lee combines the local detail with the large issues, all the while turning elegant phrases and marshalling his account into a page-turning story that asserts, after all, 'what the author saw.'"--Ellen Wiley Tod, College Art Association "Innovative and ambitious, A Shoemaker's Story is a lucid and detailed account that is sophisticated in its methodology. Given the wide-ranging subject matter, Lee has produced a remarkably disciplined text, presenting the reader with a distinctive narrative tone that is mature, confident, and occasionally playful."--James Opp, Labour-Le Travail "Lee's lively and accessible account of their story is a must read for students and scholars of immigration and labor history."--Evelyn Sterne, Journal of American Ethnic History "A Shoemaker's Story will justifiably find a place in the historiography of photography, immigration, the visual culture of diaspora, and nineteenth-century industrialization. It is a model of research design, engaging narrative prose, and close attention to the specificity of form... Telling a new story in old-fashioned ways, [Lee] has crafted an exquisite piece of scholarship whose very title suggests the traditional detective work essential to both good history and compelling prose."--Elspeth H. Brown, CAA Reviews "A Shoemaker's Story gives us a history of these events, offering an instructive and vividly written case study into the development of industry and unions, the deskilling of labor, the growth of immigration, and the transformation of identities that characterized post Civil War America."--Mike Rabourn, Historical Journal of MassachusettsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter One: What the Shoe Manufacturer Saw 12 Chapter Two: What the Photographers Saw 74 Chapter Three: What the Crispins Saw 144 Chapter Four: What the Chinese Saw 197 Postscript 264 Acknowledgments 273 Notes 277 Index 299

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Book SynopsisSamuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip Smallwood examines the “mirrored minds” of Johnson and Shakespeare, while David Hopkins parses intersections of the general and particular in three key eighteenth-century figures. Aaron Hanlon draws parallels between instances of physical rambling and rhetorical strategies in Johnson’s Rambler, while Cedric D. Reverand dissects the intertextual strands uniting Dryden and Pope. Contributors take up other topics significant to the field, including post-feminism, travel, and seismology. Whether discussing cultural exchange or textual reciprocities, each piece extends the theme, building on the trope of relationship to organize and express its findings. Rounding out this collection are tributes from Clingham’s former students and colleagues, including original poetry. Trade Review"Editor, author, de facto publisher, and dedicated teacher, Greg Clingham is remarkable among eighteenth-century scholars for his versatility and productivity. A Clubbable Man brings together a star-studded cast of Clingham's colleagues, students, and friends to celebrate a career of consequence in a suitably diverse, elegantly written, and original collection of essays." -- Robert DeMaria * editor of The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson *"This rich collection of work by leading scholars of Samuel Johnson and adjacent eighteenth-century conversations broadens and deepens our own conversations significantly. The vital interplay of social communication and individual achievement emerges clearly throughout this well-conceived, capacious, and handsome volume." -- John Sitter * author of The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry *"Editor, author, de facto publisher, and dedicated teacher, Greg Clingham is remarkable among eighteenth-century scholars for his versatility and productivity. A Clubbable Man brings together a star-studded cast of Clingham's colleagues, students, and friends to celebrate a career of consequence in a suitably diverse, elegantly written, and original collection of essays." -- Robert DeMaria * editor of The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson *"This rich collection of work by leading scholars of Samuel Johnson and adjacent eighteenth-century conversations broadens and deepens our own conversations significantly. The vital interplay of social communication and individual achievement emerges clearly throughout this well-conceived, capacious, and handsome volume." -- John Sitter * author of The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry *Table of ContentsIntroductionAnthony W. LeeI. Essays on Samuel Johnson and Boswell1. Mirrored Minds—Johnson and ShakespearePhilip Smallwood2. The General and the Particular: Pope, Johnson, and ReynoldsDavid Hopkins3. “The Caliban of Literature”: Spenser, Shakespeare, and Johnson’s Intertextual ScholarshipAnthony W. Lee4. In Silence and Darkness: Johnson’s Verdicts on Artistic FailureAdam Rounce5. Smollett’s Ramblers and the Law of the LandAaron Hanlon6. The Social Life of Thomas Cumming, or “Clubbing” with Johnson’s friend, the Fighting QuakerRobert G. Walker7. Not "Just a Macheath": Young Boswell and Old Cibber in Boswell’s London Journal 1762–1763Gordon TurnbullII. Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture8. English Historiography and the Development of Secular Autobiography: The MemoirMartine Brownley9. What Else Did Pope Borrow from Dryden?Cedric D. Reverand10. Poetic Performances: Pope’s “An Essay on Man” and “Swift’s Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift”John Richetti11. Swift Shrinks the Duke of Marlborough: Public Delegitimization Though ScaleClement Hawes12. Trans-Plant Perspectives: Western Gardens, Eastern ViewsBärbel Czennia13. Publishers Can Cause Earthquakes: The Seismic English Enlightenment and Enigmatic ExplanationsKevin L. CopeIII. Personal Reminiscences1. Greg Clingham as Teacher and MentorDominic JermeyElaine WoodCaroline FassettJoseph McNicholasMargaret WilliamsErin LabbiePatrick HenryAdam WalkerKang Tchou2. Greg Clingham and Bucknell University PressGary SojkaNina ForsbergDaniel LittleJames RiceJohn Rickard3. Commemoratory Poems“It is rowing without a port.”Notes by Lady Anne Barnard while in South AfricaAntjie KrogFrances TowneKieron WinnAn Ode: Alexander Pope Reciprocally Writes an Encomium for Samuel Johnson, Aided by Greg ClinghamEmily GrosholzMother JohnsonHarry ThomasCodaKate ParkerGreg Clingham’s PublicationsAcknowledgmentsBibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisSoon after Alexander Gardner's "Photographic Sketch Book" was published, in 1866, it became the Civil War's best-known visual record and helped define how viewers would come to know the war. This study of a pivotal American historical document, approaching it from the perspective of visual studies as well as American literature and history.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction The Image of War Anthony W. Lee Verbal Battlefields Elizabeth Young Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays by scholars of eighteenth-century literature, sharing their experiences as both producers and users of explanatory annotations.Trade Review“This collection synthesizes key issues of scholarly annotation for the first time, not by providing a single definitive set of rules and procedures but by setting out the broad spectrum of considerations that should be in the minds of editors (and publishers). It is by far the most comprehensive treatment of these issues to date and thus fills a long-felt want.”—Pat Rogers,author of Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts: History, Politics, and Mythology in the Age of Queen Anne“Every single essay in Notes on Footnotes is not just readable but entertaining, not just learned but intelligent, not just well-argued but compelling. This will be a book with appeal far beyond fellow-editors; it will make eager annotators of us all.”—Cynthia Wall,author of Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque“A really fascinating look at a subject that few have given more than a passing thought to, Notes on Footnotes is a worthy addition to your bookshelf.”—Cliff Cunningham Sun News Austin

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Book SynopsisProposes that we reconsider the work of the Farm Security Administration and its most beloved photographers in light of various forms of trauma in the 1930s. This title offers ways to understand this body of work by exploring a more variable idea of documentary photography than what the New Dealers proposed.Trade Review"An excellent contribution; moving, considered, articulate and painfully relevant." -- Mark Welch, PhD Metapsychology Online Review "Farm Security Administration work from the 1930s, so often viewed in political and socioeconomic terms, is here reconsidered in light of new theories on how personal and collective trauma may have affected photographers." Art In AmericaTable of ContentsIntroduction Anthony W. Lee Against Trauma: Documentary and Modern Times on the Lower East Side Sara Blair With Trauma: Walker Evans and the Failure to Document Eric Rosenberg Notes Index

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Book SynopsisSamuel Johnson’s life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships—and antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that explore relationships between Johnson and several of his main contemporaries—including James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, Robert Chambers, Oliver Goldsmith, Bennet Langton, Arthur Murphy, Richard Savage, Anna Seward, and Thomas Warton—and analyzes some of the literary productions emanating from the pressures within those relationships. In their detailed and careful examination of particular works situated within complex social and personal contexts, the essays in this volume offer a “thick” and illuminating description of Johnson’s world that also engages with larger cultural and aesthetic issues, such as intertextuality, literary celebrity, narrative, the nature of criticism, race, slavery, and sensibility.Contributors: Christopher Catanese, James Caudle, Marilyn Francus, Christine Jackson-Holzberg, Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Elizabeth Lambert, Anthony W. Lee, James E. May, John Radner, and Lance Wilcox. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"This volume of essays advances the field not only because it focuses on a new topic but also because of the patient and imaginative analysis in the various essays. The audience here extends beyond Johnsonians because so many other figures of interest are included, from Frances Burney, Burke, Warton, Seward, and Arthur Murphy to Goldsmith and of course Boswell." -- Steven Lynn * University of South Carolina *"An invaluable, erudite, thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to the study of Samuel Johnson's life, philosophy, and literary work, Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle is an extraordinary body of informative and deftly scripted scholarship." * Midwest Book Review *"The scholarship is of a consistently high level, and the prose is clear and well edited. Community and Solitude provides a salutary reminder that authorship is not always the solitary activity that many people assume. Recommend." * Choice *"This collection of ten essays begins with three solid essays, all making good use of correspondence." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *"Lee, as editor, sets out to counterbalance Johnson’s need for solitude to accomplish his literary works with his at times almost desperate search for company to alleviate his periods of despair and disillusion. How could someone with such a sociable character and love of conversation succeed in creating such a corpus of work that within its pages we can find epithets suitable for most occasions in life?" * The New Rambler *"These essays, well presented in this volume by Bucknell University Press, bring context, color, and an array of information that should prove of value to students and scholars of Johnson’s expansive circle." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"The book uses...discussions to provide an engaging illustration of time, place, and character for a wide audience. For scholars who know Boswell’s biography and eighteenth-century London well, the book offers primarily a useful synthesis of biographies and cultural history." * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *"As a monograph designed for considering the historical interconnectedness in readings of literature, history, and culture, Community and Solitude, part of Bucknell University Press's Transits series, accomplishes its goal with welcome fidelity." * The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats *"This volume of essays advances the field not only because it focuses on a new topic but also because of the patient and imaginative analysis in the various essays. The audience here extends beyond Johnsonians because so many other figures of interest are included, from Frances Burney, Burke, Warton, Seward, and Arthur Murphy to Goldsmith and of course Boswell." -- Steven Lynn * University of South Carolina *"An invaluable, erudite, thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to the study of Samuel Johnson's life, philosophy, and literary work, Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle is an extraordinary body of informative and deftly scripted scholarship." * Midwest Book Review *"The scholarship is of a consistently high level, and the prose is clear and well edited. Community and Solitude provides a salutary reminder that authorship is not always the solitary activity that many people assume. Recommend." * Choice *"This collection of ten essays begins with three solid essays, all making good use of correspondence." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *"Lee, as editor, sets out to counterbalance Johnson’s need for solitude to accomplish his literary works with his at times almost desperate search for company to alleviate his periods of despair and disillusion. How could someone with such a sociable character and love of conversation succeed in creating such a corpus of work that within its pages we can find epithets suitable for most occasions in life?" * The New Rambler *"These essays, well presented in this volume by Bucknell University Press, bring context, color, and an array of information that should prove of value to students and scholars of Johnson’s expansive circle." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"The book uses...discussions to provide an engaging illustration of time, place, and character for a wide audience. For scholars who know Boswell’s biography and eighteenth-century London well, the book offers primarily a useful synthesis of biographies and cultural history." * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *"As a monograph designed for considering the historical interconnectedness in readings of literature, history, and culture, Community and Solitude, part of Bucknell University Press's Transits series, accomplishes its goal with welcome fidelity." * The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats *Table of Contents List of Tables… vAbbreviations … vi Introduction ... 1Part I. Personal Relationships: Letters and Conversation ... 11 One Connecting with Three “Young Dogs”: Johnson’s Early Letters to Robert Chambers, Bennet Langton, and James Boswell ... 12John Radner Two James Elphinston and Samuel Johnson: Contact, Irritations, and an “Argonautic” Letter ... 44Christine Jackson-Holzberg Three The Case of the Missing Hottentot: John Dun’s Conversation with Samuel Johnson in Tour to the Hebrides as Reported by Boswell and Dun ... 79James CaudlePart II. Literary Relationships: Major Texts and Topics ... 118 Four Oliver Goldsmith’s Revisions to The Traveller ... 119James E. May Five “Down with her, Burney!”: Johnson, Burney, and the Politics of Literary Celebrity ... 165Marilyn Francus Six In the First Circle: The Four Narrators of the Life of Savage ... 205Lance Wilcox Seven “Under the shade of exalted merit”: Arthur Murphy’s A Poetical Epistle to Mr. Samuel Johnson, A.M. ... 236Anthony W. Lee Eight Johnson, Burke, Boswell, and the Slavery Debate ... 258Elizabeth Lambert Nine Samuel Johnson and Anna Seward: Solitude and Sensibility ... 295Claudia Thomas Kairoff Ten Johnson, Warton, and the Popular Reader ... 331Christopher CataneseAcknowledgments... 358Bibliography ... 360Index ... 389About the Contributors ... 390

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Book SynopsisSamuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip Smallwood examines the “mirrored minds” of Johnson and Shakespeare, while David Hopkins parses intersections of the general and particular in three key eighteenth-century figures. Aaron Hanlon draws parallels between instances of physical rambling and rhetorical strategies in Johnson’s Rambler, while Cedric D. Reverand dissects the intertextual strands uniting Dryden and Pope. Contributors take up other topics significant to the field, including post-feminism, travel, and seismology. Whether discussing cultural exchange or textual reciprocities, each piece extends the theme, building on the trope of relationship to organize and express its findings. Rounding out this collection are tributes from Clingham’s former students and colleagues, including original poetry. Trade Review"Editor, author, de facto publisher, and dedicated teacher, Greg Clingham is remarkable among eighteenth-century scholars for his versatility and productivity. A Clubbable Man brings together a star-studded cast of Clingham's colleagues, students, and friends to celebrate a career of consequence in a suitably diverse, elegantly written, and original collection of essays." -- Robert DeMaria * editor of The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson *"This rich collection of work by leading scholars of Samuel Johnson and adjacent eighteenth-century conversations broadens and deepens our own conversations significantly. The vital interplay of social communication and individual achievement emerges clearly throughout this well-conceived, capacious, and handsome volume." -- John Sitter * author of The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry *Table of ContentsIntroductionAnthony W. LeeI. Essays on Samuel Johnson and Boswell1. Mirrored Minds—Johnson and ShakespearePhilip Smallwood2. The General and the Particular: Pope, Johnson, and ReynoldsDavid Hopkins3. “The Caliban of Literature”: Spenser, Shakespeare, and Johnson’s Intertextual ScholarshipAnthony W. Lee4. In Silence and Darkness: Johnson’s Verdicts on Artistic FailureAdam Rounce5. Smollett’s Ramblers and the Law of the LandAaron Hanlon6. The Social Life of Thomas Cumming, or “Clubbing” with Johnson’s friend, the Fighting QuakerRobert G. Walker7. Not "Just a Macheath": Young Boswell and Old Cibber in Boswell’s London Journal 1762–1763Gordon TurnbullII. Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture8. English Historiography and the Development of Secular Autobiography: The MemoirMartine Brownley9. What Else Did Pope Borrow from Dryden?Cedric D. Reverand10. Poetic Performances: Pope’s “An Essay on Man” and “Swift’s Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift”John Richetti11. Swift Shrinks the Duke of Marlborough: Public Delegitimization Though ScaleClement Hawes12. Trans-Plant Perspectives: Western Gardens, Eastern ViewsBärbel Czennia13. Publishers Can Cause Earthquakes: The Seismic English Enlightenment and Enigmatic ExplanationsKevin L. CopeIII. Personal Reminiscences1. Greg Clingham as Teacher and MentorDominic JermeyElaine WoodCaroline FassettJoseph McNicholasMargaret WilliamsErin LabbiePatrick HenryAdam WalkerKang Tchou2. Greg Clingham and Bucknell University PressGary SojkaNina ForsbergDaniel LittleJames RiceJohn Rickard3. Commemoratory Poems“It is rowing without a port.”Notes by Lady Anne Barnard while in South AfricaAntjie KrogFrances TowneKieron WinnAn Ode: Alexander Pope Reciprocally Writes an Encomium for Samuel Johnson, Aided by Greg ClinghamEmily GrosholzMother JohnsonHarry ThomasCodaKate ParkerGreg Clingham’s PublicationsAcknowledgmentsBibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisArthur Fellig, known as Weegee, and his 1945 photography book, "Naked City" - with its tabloid-style images of Manhattan crime, crowds, and boisterous nightlife - changed journalistic practices almost overnight. This book brings different outlooks on photography and modernism to their discussions of Weegee and his book.Trade Review"Gives more detail to Weegee's well-known evolution from freelance photographer to Hollywood celebrity." ChoiceTable of Contentsintroduction Learning from Low Culture richard meyer Human Interest Stories anthony w. lee notes works cited index

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Book SynopsisA cultural geographer and an art historian offer fresh interpretations of Muybridge's famous motion studies through the lenses of mobility and race. In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed horses in motion, proving that all four hooves leave the ground at once for a split second during full gallop. This was the beginning of Muybridge's decades-long investigation into instantaneous photography, culminating in his masterpiece Animal Locomotion. Muybridge became one of the most influential photographers of his time, and his stop-motion technique helped pave the way for the motion-picture industry, born a short decade later. Coauthored by cultural geographer Tim Cresswell and art historian John Ott, this book reexamines the motion studies as historical forms of mobility, in which specific forms of motion are given extraordinary significance and accrued value. Through a lively, interdisciplinary exchange, the authors explore how mobility is contextualized within the traTable of ContentsContents Introduction Anthony W. Lee Visualizing Mobility Tim Cresswell Race and Mobility John Ott Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA cultural geographer and an art historian offer fresh interpretations of Muybridge's famous motion studies through the lenses of mobility and race. In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed horses in motion, proving that all four hooves leave the ground at once for a split second during full gallop. This was the beginning of Muybridge's decades-long investigation into instantaneous photography, culminating in his masterpiece Animal Locomotion. Muybridge became one of the most influential photographers of his time, and his stop-motion technique helped pave the way for the motion-picture industry, born a short decade later. Coauthored by cultural geographer Tim Cresswell and art historian John Ott, this book reexamines the motion studies as historical forms of mobility, in which specific forms of motion are given extraordinary significance and accrued value. Through a lively, interdisciplinary exchange, the authors explore how mobility is contextualized within the traTable of ContentsContents Introduction Anthony W. Lee Visualizing Mobility Tim Cresswell Race and Mobility John Ott Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWhen, in 1907, Alfred Stieglitz took a simple picture of passengers on a ship bound for Europe, he could not have known that The Steerage, as it was soon called, would become a modernist icon and, from today's vantage, arguably the most famous photograph made by an American photographer. This title reassesses this important picture.Trade Review"Fascinating and revealing... A rich experience... Illuminates the way in which we see ourselves and others around us." -- Mark Welch Metapsychology Online ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Anthony W. Lee The Making of a Modernist Myth Elizabeth Anne McCauley The Prismatic Fragment Jason Francisco Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Anthony W. Lee, Nick Mauss, and Angela Miller The Uses of Photographs Nick Mauss PaJaMa Drama Angela Miller Notes Index

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Book SynopsisSamuel Johnson’s life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships—and antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that explore relationships between Johnson and several of his main contemporaries—including James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, Robert Chambers, Oliver Goldsmith, Bennet Langton, Arthur Murphy, Richard Savage, Anna Seward, and Thomas Warton—and analyzes some of the literary productions emanating from the pressures within those relationships. In their detailed and careful examination of particular works situated within complex social and personal contexts, the essays in this volume offer a “thick” and illuminating description of Johnson’s world that also engages with larger cultural and aesthetic issues, such as intertextuality, literary celebrity, narrative, the nature of criticism, race, slavery, and sensibility.Contributors: Christopher Catanese, James Caudle, Marilyn Francus, Christine Jackson-Holzberg, Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Elizabeth Lambert, Anthony W. Lee, James E. May, John Radner, and Lance Wilcox. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"This volume of essays advances the field not only because it focuses on a new topic but also because of the patient and imaginative analysis in the various essays. The audience here extends beyond Johnsonians because so many other figures of interest are included, from Frances Burney, Burke, Warton, Seward, and Arthur Murphy to Goldsmith and of course Boswell." -- Steven Lynn * University of South Carolina *"An invaluable, erudite, thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to the study of Samuel Johnson's life, philosophy, and literary work, Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle is an extraordinary body of informative and deftly scripted scholarship." * Midwest Book Review *"The scholarship is of a consistently high level, and the prose is clear and well edited. Community and Solitude provides a salutary reminder that authorship is not always the solitary activity that many people assume. Recommend." * Choice *"This collection of ten essays begins with three solid essays, all making good use of correspondence." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *"Lee, as editor, sets out to counterbalance Johnson’s need for solitude to accomplish his literary works with his at times almost desperate search for company to alleviate his periods of despair and disillusion. How could someone with such a sociable character and love of conversation succeed in creating such a corpus of work that within its pages we can find epithets suitable for most occasions in life?" * The New Rambler *"These essays, well presented in this volume by Bucknell University Press, bring context, color, and an array of information that should prove of value to students and scholars of Johnson’s expansive circle." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"The book uses...discussions to provide an engaging illustration of time, place, and character for a wide audience. For scholars who know Boswell’s biography and eighteenth-century London well, the book offers primarily a useful synthesis of biographies and cultural history." * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *"As a monograph designed for considering the historical interconnectedness in readings of literature, history, and culture, Community and Solitude, part of Bucknell University Press's Transits series, accomplishes its goal with welcome fidelity." * The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats *"This volume of essays advances the field not only because it focuses on a new topic but also because of the patient and imaginative analysis in the various essays. The audience here extends beyond Johnsonians because so many other figures of interest are included, from Frances Burney, Burke, Warton, Seward, and Arthur Murphy to Goldsmith and of course Boswell." -- Steven Lynn * University of South Carolina *"An invaluable, erudite, thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to the study of Samuel Johnson's life, philosophy, and literary work, Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle is an extraordinary body of informative and deftly scripted scholarship." * Midwest Book Review *"The scholarship is of a consistently high level, and the prose is clear and well edited. Community and Solitude provides a salutary reminder that authorship is not always the solitary activity that many people assume. Recommend." * Choice *"This collection of ten essays begins with three solid essays, all making good use of correspondence." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *"Lee, as editor, sets out to counterbalance Johnson’s need for solitude to accomplish his literary works with his at times almost desperate search for company to alleviate his periods of despair and disillusion. How could someone with such a sociable character and love of conversation succeed in creating such a corpus of work that within its pages we can find epithets suitable for most occasions in life?" * The New Rambler *"These essays, well presented in this volume by Bucknell University Press, bring context, color, and an array of information that should prove of value to students and scholars of Johnson’s expansive circle." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"The book uses...discussions to provide an engaging illustration of time, place, and character for a wide audience. For scholars who know Boswell’s biography and eighteenth-century London well, the book offers primarily a useful synthesis of biographies and cultural history." * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *"As a monograph designed for considering the historical interconnectedness in readings of literature, history, and culture, Community and Solitude, part of Bucknell University Press's Transits series, accomplishes its goal with welcome fidelity." * The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats *Table of Contents List of Tables… vAbbreviations … vi Introduction ... 1Part I. Personal Relationships: Letters and Conversation ... 11 One Connecting with Three “Young Dogs”: Johnson’s Early Letters to Robert Chambers, Bennet Langton, and James Boswell ... 12John Radner Two James Elphinston and Samuel Johnson: Contact, Irritations, and an “Argonautic” Letter ... 44Christine Jackson-Holzberg Three The Case of the Missing Hottentot: John Dun’s Conversation with Samuel Johnson in Tour to the Hebrides as Reported by Boswell and Dun ... 79James CaudlePart II. Literary Relationships: Major Texts and Topics ... 118 Four Oliver Goldsmith’s Revisions to The Traveller ... 119James E. May Five “Down with her, Burney!”: Johnson, Burney, and the Politics of Literary Celebrity ... 165Marilyn Francus Six In the First Circle: The Four Narrators of the Life of Savage ... 205Lance Wilcox Seven “Under the shade of exalted merit”: Arthur Murphy’s A Poetical Epistle to Mr. Samuel Johnson, A.M. ... 236Anthony W. Lee Eight Johnson, Burke, Boswell, and the Slavery Debate ... 258Elizabeth Lambert Nine Samuel Johnson and Anna Seward: Solitude and Sensibility ... 295Claudia Thomas Kairoff Ten Johnson, Warton, and the Popular Reader ... 331Christopher CataneseAcknowledgments... 358Bibliography ... 360Index ... 389About the Contributors ... 390

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