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Pamela Clemit
The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
The French Revolution ignited the biggest debate on politics and society in Britain since the Civil War 150 years earlier. The public controversy lasted from the initial, positive reaction to French events in 1789 to the outlawing of the radical societies in 1799. This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. It contains thirteen specially commissioned essays by an international team of historians and literary scholars, a chronology of events and publications, and an extensive guide to further reading. Six essays concentrate on the principal writers of the Revolution controversy: Burke, Paine, Godwin and Wollstonecraft. Others deal with popular radical culture, counter-revolutionary culture, the distinctive contribution of women writers, novels of opinion, drama, and poetry. This volume will serve as a comprehensive yet accessible reference work for students, advanced researchers and scholars.(da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceChronology
Preface
1. The political context H. T. Dickinson
2. Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France David Bromwich
3. Paine, Rights of Man Mark Philp
4. Burke and Paine: contrasts David Duff
5. Wollstonecraft, Vindications and Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution Jane Rendall
6. Godwin, Political Justice Pamela Clemit
7. Wollstonecraft and Godwin: dialogues Nancy E. Johnson
8. Popular radical culture Jon Mee
9. Counter-revolutionary culture Kevin Gilmartin
10. Women's voices Gina Luria Walker
11. Novels of opinion M. O. Grenby
12. Revolutionary drama Gillian Russell
13. Politics and poetry Simon Bainbridge
Guide to further reading
Index.
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James Chandler, Maureen N. McLane
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008
More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical contexts. The essays consider its metrical, formal, and linguistic features; its relation to history; its influence on other genres; its reflections of empire and nationalism, both within and outside the British Isles; and the various implications of oral transmission and the rapid expansion of print culture and mass readership. Attention is given to the work of less well-known or recently rediscovered authors, alongside the achievements of some of the greatest poets in the English language: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Scott, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Clare. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceIntroduction: the companionable forms of Romantic poetry James Chandler and Maureen N. McLane
1. The living pantheon of poets in 1820: pantheon or canon? Jeffrey N. Cox
2. Romantic poetry and antiquity Nick Groom
3. Romantic meter and form Susan Stewart
4. Romantic poetry and the standardisation of English Andrew Elfenbein
5. Thinking in verse Simon Jarvis
6. Romantic poetry and the romantic novel Ann Wierda Rowland
7. Wordsworth's Great Ode: Romanticism and the progress of poetry James Chandler
8. Romantic poetry, sexuality, gender Adriana Craciun
9. Poetry peripheries and empire Tim Fulford
10. Romantic poetry and the science of nostalgia Kevis Goodman
11. Rethinking Romantic poetry and history: lyric resistance, lyric seduction William Keach
12. The medium of Romantic poetry Celeste Langan and Maureen N. McLane
13. Romantic poets and contemporary poetry Andrew Bennett
Index.
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Lucy Newlyn
The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the most influential, as well as one of the most enigmatic, of all Romantic figures. The possessor of a precocious talent, he dazzled contemporaries with his poetry, journalism, philosophy and oratory without ever quite living up to his early promise, or overcoming problems of dependence and drug addiction. The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge does full justice to the many facets of Coleridge's life and work. Specially commissioned essays focus on his major poems, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel, his notebooks, and his major work of non-fiction the Biographia Literaria. Attention is given to his role as talker, journalist, critic, and philosopher, his politics, his religion, and his reputation in his own times and afterwards. A chronology and guides to further reading complete the volume, making this an indispensable guide to Coleridge and his work. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceIntroduction
Chronology
Part I. Texts and Contexts:
1. The life Kelvin Everest
2. The 'Conversation' poems Paul Magnuson
3. Superstition and the supernatural in the poems Tim Fulford
4. Biographia Literaria James Engell
5. The Notebooks Josie Dixon
6. The later poetry Jim Mays
Part II. Two Discursive Modes:
7. The talker Seamus Perry
8. The journalist Deirdre Coleman
9. The critic Angela Esterhammer
10. The political thinker Peter Kitson
11. The philosopher Paul Hamilton
12. The religious thinker Mary Anne Perkins
Part III. Themes and Topics:
13. Gender Julie Carlson
14. Symbol James McKusick
15. The afterlife John Beer
Guide to further reading.
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John Richetti
The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009
Daniel Defoe had an eventful and adventurous life as a merchant, politician, spy and literary hack. He is one of the eighteenth century's most lively, innovative and important authors, famous not only for his novels, including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, but for his extensive work in journalism, political polemic and conduct guides, and for his pioneering 'Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain'. This volume surveys the wide range of Defoe's fiction and non-fiction, and assesses his importance as writer and thinker. Leading scholars discuss key issues in Defoe's novels, and show how the man who was once pilloried for his writings emerges now as a key figure in the literature and culture of the early eighteenth century.
(da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceIntroduction John Richetti
1. Defoe: the man in the works Paula Backscheider
2. Defoe's political and religious journalism Maximillian Novak
3. Defoe, commerce, and empire Srinivas Aravamudan
4. Defoe and criminal fiction Hal Gladfelder
5. Money and character in Defoe's fiction Deidre Lynch
6. Defoe's Tour and the identity of Britain Pat Rogers
7. Defoe as narrative innovator John Richetti
8. Gender and fiction in Moll Flanders and Roxana Ellen Pollak
9. Defoe and London Cynthia Wall
10. Robinson Crusoe and the varieties of fictional experience Michael Seidel
11. Defoe: satirist and moralist John McVeagh
12. Defoe and poetic tradition J. Paul Hunter
Guide to further reading
Index.
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John Sitter
The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry analyzes major premises, preoccupations, and practices of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s. These specially-commissioned essays avoid familiar categories and single-author approaches to look at the century afresh. Chapters consider such large poetic themes as nature, the city, political passions, the relation of death to desire and dreams, appeals to an imagined future, and the meanings of 'sensibility'. Other chapters explore historical developments such as the connection between poetic couplets and conversation, the conditions of publication, changing theories of poetry and imagination, growing numbers of women poets and readers, the rise of a self-consciously national tradition, and the place of lyric poetry in thought and practice. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for scholars and students.(da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceList of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Chronology
1. Introduction: the future of eighteenth-century poetry John Sitter
2. Couplets and conversation J. Paul Hunter
3. Political passions Christine Gerrard
4. Publishing and reading poetry Barbara M. Benedict
5. The city in eighteenth-century poetry Brean Hammond
6. 'Nature' poetry Tim Fulford
7. Questions in poetics: why and how poetry matters John Sitter
8. Eighteenth-century women poets and readers Claudia Thomas Kairoff
9. Creating a national poetry: the tradition of Spenser and Milton David Fairer
10. The return to the ode Ralph Cohen
11. A poetry of absence David B. Morris
12. The poetry of sensibility Patricia Meyer Spacks
13. 'Pre-Romanticism' and the ends of eighteenth-century poetry Jennifer Keith
Index.
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Steven N. Zwicker
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998
This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary texts: in the daring lyrics and intricate political allegories of this age, in the vitriol and bristling topicality of its satires as well as in the imaginative flight of its mock epics, fictions, and heroic verse. The volume's chronologies and select bibliographies will guide the reader through texts and events, while the fourteen essays commissioned for this Companion will allow us to read the period anew. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceList of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface
Chronologies
Part I. Contexts and Modes:
1. England 1649–1750: differences contained? John Spurr
2. Satire, lampoon, libel, slander Michael Seidel
3. Gender, literature, and gendering literature in the Restoration Margaret A. Doody
4. Theatrical culture I: politics and theatre Jessica Munns
5. Theatrical culture II: theatre and music James A. Winn
6. Lyric forms Joshua Scodel
7. Classical texts: translations and transformations Paul Hammond
Part II. Writers:
8. 'This Islands watchful Centinel': anti-Catholicism and proto-Whiggery in Milton and Marvell Cedric C. Brown
9. John Dryden Steven N. Zwicker
10. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Ros Ballaster
11. The authorial ciphers of Aphra Behn Margaret Ferguson
12. Swift, Defoe, and narrative forms John Mullan
13. Mary Astell and John Locke Patricia Springborg
14. Alexander Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and the literature of social comment Donna Landry
Index.
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Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740–1830
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The first part of the volume focuses on broad themes including taste and aesthetics, national identity and empire, and key cultural trends such as sensibility and the gothic. The second part pays close attention to the work of individual writers including Sterne, Blake, Barbauld and Austen, and to the role of literary schools such as the Lake and Cockney schools. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceList of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface
Part I. Contexts and Modes:
1. Readers, writers, critics, and the professionalization of literature Barbara M. Benedict
2. Criticism, taste, aesthetics Simon Jarvis
3. Literature and politics Michael Scrivener
4. Literature, national identity, and empire Saree Makdisi
5. Sensibility Susan Manning
6. Theatrical culture Gillian Russell
7. Gothic James Watt
Part II. Writers, Circles, Traditions:
8. Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Sarah Fielding Peter Sabor
9. Johnson, Boswell, and their circle Murray Pittock
10. Sterne and Romantic autobiography Thomas Keymer
11. Blake and the poetics of enthusiasm Jon Mee
12. 'Unsex'd Females': Barbauld, Robinson, and Smith Judith Pascoe
13. The Lake school: Wordsworth and Coleridge Paul Magnuson
14. Jane Austen and the invention of the serious modern novel Kathryn Sutherland
15. Keats, Shelley, Byron, and the Hunt circle Greg Kucich
16. John Clare and the traditions of labouring-class verse John Goodridge and Bridget Keegan.
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Richard Maxwell, Katie Trumpener
The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008
While poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable range of popular works from the period have been re-discovered and reread intensively. This Companion offers an overview of British fiction written between roughly the mid-1760s and the early 1830s and is an ideal guide to the major authors, historical and cultural contexts, and later critical reception. The contributors to this volume represent the most up-to-date directions in scholarship, charting the ways in which the period's social, political and intellectual redefinitions created new fictional subjects, forms and audiences.(da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceIntroduction Richard Maxwell and Katie Trumpener
1. The historiography of fiction in the Romantic period Richard Maxwell
2. Publishing, authorship, and reading William St Clair
3. Gothic fiction Deidre Shauna Lynch
4. The historical novel Richard Maxwell
5. Thinking locally: novelistic worlds in provincial fiction Martha Bohrer
6. Poetry and the novel Marshall Brown
7. Orientalism and Empire James Watt
8. Intellectual history and political theory Paul Keen
9. Women writers and the woman's novel: the trope of maternal transmission Jill Campbell
10. Tales for child readers Katie Trumpener
11. Sentimental fiction Ann Wierda Rowland
12. Fiction and the working classes Gary Kelly
13. The Irish novel 1800-1829 Ina Ferris
14. Scotland and the novel Ian Duncan
Guide to further reading.
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Edward Copeland, Juliet McMaster (editors)
The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010
Jane Austen's stock in the popular marketplace has never been higher, while academic studies continue to uncover new aspects of her engagement with her world. This fully updated edition of the acclaimed Cambridge Companion offers clear, accessible coverage of the intricacies of Austen's works in their historical context, with biographical information and suggestions for further reading. Major scholars address Austen's six novels, the letters and other works, in terms accessible to students and the many general readers, as well as to academics. With seven new essays, the Companion now covers topics that have become central to recent Austen studies, for example, gender, sociability, economics, and the increasing number of screen adaptations of the novels.
Vedi indicePreface Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster
1. Chronology of Jane Austen's life Deirdre Le Faye
2. The professional woman writer Jan Fergus
3. Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility Thomas Keymer
4. Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park Jocelyn Harris
5. Emma and Persuasion Penny Gay
6. The early short fiction Margaret Anne Doody
7. 'Lady Susan', 'The Watsons' and 'Sanditon' Janet Todd
8. The letters Carol Houlihan Flynn
9. Class Juliet McMaster
10. Money Edward Copeland
11. Making a living David Selwyn
12. Gender E. J. Clery
13. Sociability Gillian Russell
14. Literary traditions Isobel Grundy
15. Jane Austen on screen Kathryn Sutherland
16. Cults and cultures Claudia Johnson
17. Further reading Bruce Stovel and Mary Chan
Index.
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Christopher Fox
The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003
The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift is a specially commissioned collection of essays. Arranged thematically across a range of topics, this 2003 volume will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Jonathan Swift for students and scholars. The thirteen essays explore crucial dimensions of Swift's life and works. As well as ensuring a broad coverage of Swift's writing - including early and later works as well as the better known and the lesser known - the Companion also offers a way into current critical and theoretical issues surrounding the author. Special emphasis is placed on Swift's vexed relationship with the land of his birth, Ireland; and on his place as a political writer in a highly politicised age. The Companion offers a lucid introduction to these and other issues, and raises questions about Swift and his world. The volume features a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading.( da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceList of illustrations
Chronology
List of abbreviations
Introduction Christopher Fox
1. Swift's life Joseph McMinn
2. Politics and history David Oakleaf
3. Swift the Irishman Carole Fabricant
4. Swift's reading Brean Hammond
5. Swift and women Margaret Anne Doody
6. Swift's satire and parody Michael F. Suarez, S.J.
7. Money and economics Patrick Kelly
8. Language and style Ian Higgins
9. Swift and religion Marcus Walsh
10. Swift the poet Pat Rogers
11. A Tale of Tub and early prose Judith C. Mueller
12. Gulliver's Travels and the later writings J. Paul Hunter
13. Classic Swift Seamus Deane
Further reading.
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Susan J. Wolfson
The Cambridge Companion to Keats
Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001
In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats's work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats's life in London's intellectual, aesthetic and literary culture; the relation of his poetry to the visual arts; the critical traditions and theoretical contexts within which Keats's life and achievements have been assessed. These specially commissioned essays examine Keats's specific poetic endeavours, his striking way with language, and his lively letters as well as his engagement with contemporary cultures and literary traditions, his place in criticism, from his day to ours, including the challenge he poses to gender criticism. The contributions are sophisticated but accessible, challenging but lucid, and are complemented by an introduction to Keats's life, a chronology, a descriptive list of contemporary people and periodicals, a source-reference for famous phrases and ideas articulated in Keats's letters, a glossary of literary terms and a guide to further reading.
Vedi indiceNotes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Texts and abbreviations
Glossary
A biographical note
Chronology
People and publications
Where did Keats say that?
1. The politics of Keats's early poetry John Kandl
2. Endymion's beautiful dreamers Karen Swan
3. Keats and the 'Cockney school' Duncan Wu
4. Lamia, Isabella and The Eve of St. Agnes Jeffrey N. Cox
5. Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion and Keats's epic ambitions Vincent Newey
6. Keats and the ode Paul D. Sheats
7. Late lyrics Susan J. Wolfson
8. Keats's letters John Barnard
9. Keats and language Garrett Stewart
10. Keats's sources, Keats's allusions Christopher Ricks
11. Keats and 'ekphrasis' Theresa M. Kelley
12. Keats and English poetry Greg Kucich
13. Byron reads Keats William C. Keach
14. Keats and the complexities of gender Anne K. Mellor
15. Keats and Romantic science Alan Richardson
16. The 'story' of Keats Jack Stillinger
17. Bibliography and further reading Susan J. Wolfson
Index.
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Thomas Keymer
The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne
Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2009
Best known today for the innovative satire and experimental narrative of Tristram Shandy (1759–67), Laurence Sterne was no less famous in his time for A Sentimental Journey (1768) and for his controversial sermons. Sterne spent much of his life as an obscure clergyman in rural Yorkshire. But he brilliantly exploited the sensation achieved with the first instalment of Tristram Shandy to become, by his death in 1768, a fashionable celebrity across Europe. In this Companion, specially commissioned essays by leading scholars provide an authoritative and accessible guide to Sterne's writings in their historical and cultural context. Exploring key issues in his work, including sentimentalism, national identity, gender, print culture and visual culture, as well as his subsequent influence on a range of important literary movements and modes, the book offers a comprehensive new account of Sterne's life and work.
Vedi indiceChronology
Introduction Thomas Keymer
1. Laurence Sterne's life, milieu, and literary career Ian Campbell Ross
2. Scriblerian satire, A Political Romance, the 'Rabelaisian Fragment', and the origins of Tristram Shandy Marcus Walsh
3. Tristram Shandy, learned wit, and Enlightenment knowledge Judith Hawley
4. Tristram Shandy and eighteenth-century narrative Robert Folkenflik
5. The Sermons of Mr. Yorick: the commonplace and the rhetoric of the heart Tim Parnell
6. A Sentimental Journey and the failure of feeling Thomas Keymer
7. Sterne's 'politicks', Ireland, and evil speaking Carol Watts
8. Words, sex, and gender in Sterne's novels Elizabeth W. Harries
9. Sterne and print culture Christopher Fanning
10. Sterne and visual culture Peter de Voogd
11. Sterne and the Modernist moment Melvyn New
12. Postcolonial Sterne Donald R. Wehrs
Further reading
Index.
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Janet Todd
The Cambridge Companion to 'Pride and Prejudice'
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013
Named in many surveys as Britain's best-loved work of fiction, Pride and Prejudice is now a global brand, with film and television adaptations making Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy household names. With a combination of original readings and factual background information, this Companion investigates some of the sources of the novel's power. It explores key themes and topics in detail: money, land, characters and style. The history of the book's composition and first publication is set out, both in individual essays and in the section of chronology. Chapters on the critical reception, adaptations and cult of the novel reveal why it has become an enduing classic with a unique and timeless appeal. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indicePreface
Chronology
1. Narrative Thomas Keymer
2. Character Robert Miles
3. Philosophy Peter Knox-Shaw
4. Composition and publication Anthony Mandal
5. The literary context Linda Bree
6. The historical background Bharat Tandon
7. The economic context Robert Markley
8. Estates Judith Page
9. Space Andrew Elfenbein
10. Translations Gillian Dow
11. Criticism Janet Todd
12. The romantic hero Janet Todd
13. Film and television Laura Carroll and John Wiltshire
14. The cult Devoney Looser
15. Pride and proliferation Emily Auerbach
Guide to further reading
Index.
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Greg Clingham
The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997
The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson provides a unique introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English literary history. Compiler of the first great English dictionary, editor of Shakespeare, biographer and critic of the English poets, author both of the influential journal Rambler and the popular fiction Rasselas, and one of the most engaging conversationalists in literary culture, Johnson is here illuminatingly discussed from a different point of view. Essays on his main works are complemented by thematic discussion of his views on the experience of women in the eighteenth century, politics, imperialism, religion, and travel as well as by chapters covering his life, conversation, letters, and critical reception. Useful reference features include a chronology and guide to further reading. The keynote to the volume is the seamlessness of Johnson's life and writing, and the extraordinary humane intelligence he brought to all his activities. Accessibly written by a distinguished group of international scholars, this volume supplies a stimulating range of approaches, making Johnson newly relevant for our time.(da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceList of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Chronology
List of short titles and abbreviations
Introduction Greg Clingham
1. Extraordinarily ordinary: the life of Samuel Johnson Philip Davis
2. Johnson and the arts of conversation Catherine N. Parke
3. Johnson's poetry Howard D. Weinbrot
4. Johnson, the essay and The Rambler Paul J. Korshin
5. Johnson and the condition of women Eithne Henson
6. Johnson's dictionary Robert De Maria Jr
7. Johnson's politics Robert Folkenflik
8. Johnson and imperialism Clement Hawes
9. The skepticism of Johnson's Rasselas Fred Parker
10. Shakespeare: Johnson's poet of nature Philip Smallwood
11. Life and literature in Johnson's Lives of the Poets Greg Clingham
12. Johnson's Christian thought Michael Suarez, S. J.
13. 'From China to Peru': Johnson in the traveled world John Wiltshire
14. 'Letters about Nothing': Johnson and epistolary writing Tom Keymer
15. Johnson's critical reception Steven Lynn
Further reading
Index.
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Timothy Morton
The Cambridge Companion to Shelley
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was an extraordinary poet, playwright and essayist, revolutionary both in his ideas and in his artistic theory and practice. This 2006 collection of original essays by an international group of specialists is a comprehensive survey of the life, works and times of this radical Romantic writer. Three sections cover Shelley's life and posthumous reception; the basics of his poetry, prose and drama; and his immersion in the currents of philosophical and political thinking and practice. As well as providing a wide-ranging look at the state of existing scholarship, the Companion develops and enriches our understanding of Shelley. Significant new contributions include fresh assessments of Shelley's narratives, his view of philosophy, and his role in emerging views about ecology. With its chronology and guide to further reading, this lively and accessible Companion is an invaluable guide for students and scholars of Shelley and of Romanticism.(da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceChronology Theresa Kelley
Introduction Timothy Morton
Part I. Lives and Afterlives:
1. Life and biographies Theresa Kelley
2. Receptions Timothy Morton
Part II. Works:
3. The lyricist Karen Weisman
4. The dramatist Jeffrey Cox
5. The storyteller John Patrick Donovan
6. The translator Jeffrey C. Robinson
7. The political poet William Keach
Part III. Ideas, Beliefs, Affiliations:
8. Language and form Jerrold Hogle
9. Literature and philosophy Paul Hamilton
10. Nature and culture Timothy Morton
11. Further reading.
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John Richetti
The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996
In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indice1. Introduction John Richetti
2. The novel and social/cultural history J. Paul Hunter
3. Defoe as an innovator of fictional form Max Novak
4. Gulliver's Travels and the contracts of fiction Michael Seidel
5. Samuel Richardson: fiction and knowledge Margaret Anne Doody
6. Henry Fielding Claude Rawson
7. Sterne and irregular rhetoric Jonathan Lamb
8. Smollett's Humphry Clinker Michael Rosenblum
9. The romance in Frances Burney's novels Julia Epstein
10. Women writers and the eighteenth-century novel Jane Spencer
11. Sentimental novels John Mullan
12. Enlightenment, popular culture and Gothic fiction James Carson.
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Stephen Gill
The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth
Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2003
The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth provides a wide-ranging account of one of the most famous Romantic poets. Specially commissioned essays cover all the important aspects of this multi-faceted writer; the volume examines his poetic achievement with a chapter on poetic craft, while other chapters focus on the origin of his poetry and on the challenges it presented and continues to present. Further contributions include discussions of The Prelude and The Recluse, Wordsworth as philosophic poet, his writing in relation to European Romanticism, and Wordsworth as Nature poet. The collection, by an international team of established specialists concludes with a lucid account of the history of Wordsworth's texts, and offers students invaluable reference material including a chronology and guides to further reading.The volume aims to ensure that its readers will be grounded in the history of Wordsworth's career and his critical reception.
Vedi indiceChronology of Wordsworth's Life and Works
Sources and short forms of citation
Wordsowrth on Poetry and Imagination
Introduction Stephen Gill
1. Wordsworth: the shape of the poetic career Nicola Trott
2. Wordsworth's poetry to 1798 Duncan Wu
3. Poetry, 1798–1807: lyrical ballads and poems, in two volumes James A. Butler
4. The Prelude Lucy Newlyn
5. The Recluse Kenneth R. Johnston
6. Wordsworth and the meaning of taste Frances Ferguson
7. Wordsworth's craft Susan Wolfson
8. Gender and domesticity Judith Page
9. The philosophic poet Stephen Gill
10. Wordsworth and Coleridge Seamus Perry
11. Wordsworth and the natural world Ralph Pite
12. Politics, history, and the poems Nicholas Roe
13. Wordsworth and Romanticism Paul Hamilton
14. Wordsworth and America Joel Pace
15. Guide to further reading with a note on texts Keith Hanley
Index.
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by Claudia L. Johnson (Editor), Clara Tuite (Editor)
A Companion to Jane Austen
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career.
Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date array of Austen scholarship
Functions both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the most innovative speculative developments in the field of Austen studies
Engages at length with changing contexts and cultures of reception from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries
Vedi indiceList of Figures ix
Notes on Contributors x
List of Abbreviations xvii
A Note to the Reader xviii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite
Part I The Life and the Texts 11
1 Jane Austen's Life and Letters 13
Kathryn Sutherland
2 The Austen Family Writing: Gossip, Parody, and Corporate Personality 31
Robert L. Mack
3 The Literary Marketplace 41
Jan Fergus
4 Texts and Editions 51
Brian Southam
5 Jane Austen, Illustrated 62
Laura Carroll and John Wiltshire
Part II Reading the Texts 79
6 Young Jane Austen: Author 81
Juliet McMaster
7 Moving In and Out: The Property of Self in Sense and Sensibility 91
Susan C. Greenfi eld
8 The Illusionist: Northanger Abbey and Austen’s Uses of Enchantment 101
Sonia Hofkosh
9 Re: Reading Pride and Prejudice: What think you of books? 112
Susan J. Wolfson
10 The Missed Opportunities of Mansfi eld Park 123
William Galperin
11 Emma: Word Games and Secret Histories 133
Linda Bree
12 Persuasion: The Gradual Dawning 143
Fiona Stafford
13 Sanditon and the Book 153
George Justice
Part III Literary Genres and Genealogies 163
14 Turns of Speech and Figures of Mind 165
Margaret Anne Doody
15 Narrative Technique: Austen and Her Contemporaries 185
Jane Spencer
16 Time and Her Aunt 195
Michael Wood
17 Austen's Realist Play 206
Harry E. Shaw
18 Dealing in Notions and Facts: Jane Austen and History Writing 216
Devoney Looser
19 Sentiment and Sensibility: Austen, Feeling, and Print Culture 226
Miranda Burgess
20 The Gothic Austen 237
Nancy Armstrong
Part IV Political, Social, and Cultural Worlds 249
21 From Politics to Silence: Jane Austen’s Nonreferential Aesthetic 251
Mary Poovey
22 The Army, the Navy, and the Napoleonic Wars 261
Gillian Russell
23 Jane Austen, the 1790s, and the French Revolution 272
Mary Spongberg
24 Feminisms 282
Vivien Jones
25 Imagining Sameness and Difference: Domestic and Colonial Sisters in Mansfield Park 292
Deirdre Coleman
26 Jane Austen and the Nation 304
Claire Lamont
27 Religion 314
Roger E. Moore
28 Family Matters 323
Ruth Perry
29 Austen and Masculinity 332
E. J. Clery
30 The Trouble with Things: Objects and the Commodifi cation of Sociability 343
Barbara M. Benedict
31 Luxury: Making Sense of Excess in Austen’s Narratives 355
Diego Saglia
32 Austen's Accomplishment: Music and the Modern Heroine 366
Gillen D'Arcy Wood
33 Jane Austen and Performance: Theatre, Memory, and Enculturation 377
Daniel O'Quinn
Part V Reception and Reinvention 389
34 Jane Austen and Genius 391
Deidre Lynch
35 Jane Austen's Periods 402
Mary A. Favret
36 Nostalgia 413
Nicholas Dames
37 Austen's European Reception 422
Anthony Mandal
38 Jane Austen and the Silver Fork Novel 434
Edward Copeland
39 Jane Austen in the World: New Women, Imperial Vistas 444
Katie Trumpener
40 Sexuality 456
Fiona Brideoake
41 Jane Austen and Popular Culture 467
Judy Simons
42 Austenian Subcultures 478
Mary Ann O'Farrell
Bibliography 488
Index 513
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by Charles Mahoney (Editor)
A Companion to Romantic Poetry
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
Through a series of 34 essays by leading and emerging scholars, A Companion to Romantic Poetry reveals the rich diversity of Romantic poetry and shows why it continues to hold such a vital and indispensable place in the history of English literature.
Breaking free from the boundaries of the traditionally-studied authors, the collection takes a revitalized approach to the field and brings together some of the most exciting work being done at the present time
Emphasizes poetic form and technique rather than a biographical approach
Features essays on production and distribution and the different schools and movements of Romantic Poetry
Introduces contemporary contexts and perspectives, as well as the issues and debates that continue to drive scholarship in the field
Presents the most comprehensive and compelling collection of essays on British Romantic poetry currently available
Vedi indiceList of Illustrations.
Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction (Charles Mahoney).
Part I Forms and Genres.
1 Mournful Ditties and Merry Measures: Feeling and Form in the Romantic Short Lyric and Song (Michael O'Neill).
2 Archaist-Innovators: The Couplet from Churchill to Browning (Simon Jarvis).
3 The Temptations of Tercets (Charles Mahoney).
4 To Scorn or To Scorn not the Sonnet (Daniel Robinson).
5 Ballad Collection and Lyric Collectives (Steve Newman).
6 Satire, Subjectivity, and Acknowledgment (William Flesch).
7 Stirring shades: The Romantic Ode and Its Afterlives (Esther Schor).
8 Pastures New and Old: The Romantic Afterlife of Pastoral Elegy (Christopher R. Miller).
9 The Romantic Georgic and the Work of Writing (Tim Burke).
10 Shepherding Culture and the Romantic Pastoral (John Bugg).
11 Ear and Eye: Counteracting Senses in Loco-descriptive Poetry (Adam Potkay).
Part II Production and Distribution, Schools and Movements.
12 Other voices speak: The Poetic Conversations of Byron and Shelley (Simon Bainbridge).
13 The Thrush in the Theater: Keats and Hazlitt at the Surrey Institution (Sarah M. Zimmerman).
14 Laboring-Class Poetry in the Romantic Era (Michael Scrivener).
15 Celtic Romantic Poetry: Scotland, Ireland, Wales (Jane Moore).
16 Anglo-Jewish Romantic Poetry (Karen Weisman).
17 Leigh Hunt's Cockney Canon: Sociability and Subversion from Homer to Hyperion (Michael Tomko).
18 Poetry, Conversation, Community: Annus Mirabilis, 1797–1798 (Emily Sun).
Part III Contemporary Contexts and Perspectives.
19 Spontaneity, Immediacy, and Improvisation in Romantic Poetry (Angela Esterhammer).
20 Celebrity, Gender, and the Death of the Poet: The Mystery of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Ghislaine McDayter).
21 Poetry and Illustration: Amicable strife (Sophie Thomas).
22 Romanticism, Sport, and Late Georgian Poetry (John Strachan).
23 The science of feelings: Wordsworth's Experimental Poetry (Ross Hamilton).
24 Romanticism, Gnosticism, and Neoplatonism (Laura Quinney).
25 Milton and the Romantics (Gordon Teskey).
Part IV Critical Issues and Current Debates.
26 The feel of not to feel it, or the Pleasures of Enduring Form (Anne-Lise François).
27 Romantic Poetry and Literary Theory: The Case of A slumber did my spirit seal (Marc Redfield).
28 Strange utterance: The (Un)Natural Language of the Sublime in Wordsworth's Prelude (Timothy Bahti).
29 The Matter of Genre in the Romantic Sublime (Ian Balfour).
30 Sexual Politics and the Performance of Gender in Romantic Poetry (James Najarian).
31 Blake's Jerusalem: Friendship with Albion (Karen Swann).
32 The World without Us: Romanticism, Environmentalism, and Imagining Nature (Bridget Keegan).
33 Ethical Supernaturalism: The Romanticism of Wordsworth, Heaney, and Lacan (Guinn Batten).
34 The Persistence of Romanticism (Willard Spiegelman).
Index.
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by Duncan Wu (Editor)
A Companion to Romanticism
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 1997
The Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey from an international galaxy of scholars writing new pieces, specifically for a student readership, under the editorship of Duncan Wu.
Vedi indiceIntroduction.
Acknowledgements.
Abbreviations.
Part I: Contexts and Perspectives 1790-1830.
1. Romanticism: The Brief History of a Concept (Seamus Perry).
2. Preromanticism (Michael Tolley).
3. From Revolution to Romanticism: The Historical Context from 1800 (David Duff).
4. Beyond the Enlightenment: the Philosophical, Scientific, and Religious Inheritance (Peter Kitson).
5. Britain at War: The Historical Context (Philip Shaw).
6. Literature and Religion (Maey Wedd).
7. The Picturesque, the Beautiful, and the Sublime (Nicola Trott).
8. The Romantic Reader (Stephen C. Behrendt) .
Part II: Readings.
9. William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Nelson Hilton).
10. Edmund Burke, Reflections Upon the Revolution in France (David Bromwich).
11. Charlotte Smith, The Old Manor House (Miranda Burgess).
12. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel (Seamus Perry).
13. Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (Scott McEathron).
14. Dorothy Wordsworth, Journals (Pamela Woof).
15. Joanna Baillie, A Series of Plays (Janice Patten).
16. William Wordsworth, The Prelude (Jonathan Wordsworth).
17. Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin (John Strachan).
18. Mary Tighe, Psyche (John Anderson).
19. Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head (Jacqueline Labbe).
20. Walter Scott, Waverley (Fiona Robertson).
21. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Beth Lau).
22. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (John Beer).
23. John Keats, Odes (John Creaser).
24. George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan (Jane Stabler).
25. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (Michael O'Neill).
26. Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Damian Walford Davies).
27. Charles Lamb, Elia (Duncan Wu).
28. William Hazlitt, Spirit of the Age (Bonnie Woodbery).
29. Letitia Landon (L. E. L.), The Improvisatrice (Adam Roberts).
30. John Clare, The Shepherd's Calendar (John Lucas).
31. Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman (Adam Roberts).
Part III: Genres and Modes.
32. The Romantic Drama (Frederick Burwick).
33. The Novel (John Sutherland).
34. Gothic Fiction (David S. Miall).
35. Parody and Imitation (Graeme Stones).
36. Travel Writing (James A. Butler).
37. Romantic Literary Criticism (Seamus Perry) .
Part IV: Issues and Debates.
38. Romanticism and Gender (Susan J. Wolfson).
39. Romanticism and Feminism (Elizabeth Fay).
40. New Historicism (David Simpson).
41. Romantic Ecology (Tony Pinkney).
42. Psychological Approaches (Douglas B. Wilson).
43. Dialogic Approaches (Michael James Sider).
44. The Romantic Fragment (Anne Janowitz).
45. Performative Language and Speech-Act Theory (Angela Easthammer).
46. Slavery and Romantic Writing (Alan Richardson).
47. Apocalypse and Millennium (Morton D. Paley).
48. The Romantic Imagination (Jonathan Wordsworth).
49. England and Germany (Rosemary Ashton).
50. Romantic Responses to Science (Ian Wylie).
51. Shakespeare and the Romantics (Frederick Burwick).
52. Milton and the Romantics (Nicola Trott).
Index.
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by Pamela K. Gilbert (Editor)
A Companion to Sensation Fiction
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
This comprehensive collection offers a complete introduction to one of the most popular literary forms of the Victorian period, its key authors and works, its major themes, and its lasting legacy.
Places key authors and novels in their cultural and historical context
Includes studies of major topics such as race, gender, melodrama, theatre, poetry, realism in fiction, and connections to other art forms
Contributions from top international scholars approach an important literary genre from a range of perspectives
Offers both a pre and post-history of the genre to situate it in the larger tradition of Victorian publishing and literature
Incorporates coverage of traditional research and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship
Vedi indiceNotes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Pamela K. Gilbert
Part I: Before Sensation, 1830–1860 11
1 The Aristocracy and Upholstery: The Silver Fork Novel 13
Ellen Miller Casey
2 Newgate Novels 26
Edward Jacobs and Manuela Mourão
3 Literature of the Kitchen: Cheap Serial Fiction of the 1840s and 1850s 38
Andrew King
4 Melodrama 54
Rohan McWilliam
5 Sensation Theater 67
Heidi J. Holder
6 Gothic 81
Patrick R. O'Malley
7 Realism and Sensation Fiction 94
Daniel Brown
8 Poetry and Sensation 107
Kirstie Blair
Part II: Reading Individual Authors and Texts, 1860–1880 121
9 Mary Elizabeth Braddon 123
Lyn Pykett
10 Lady Audley's Secret: How Does She Do It? Sensation Fiction's Technologically Minded Villainesses 134
Louise Lee
11 Going in a little for the subjective: Textual and Moral Performance in The Doctor's Wife 147
Richard Nemesvari
12 Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Aurora Floyd 160
Amy J. Robinson
13 Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Joshua Haggard's Daughter 172
Anne-Marie Beller
14 Wilkie Collins and Risk 184
Daniel Martin
15 The Woman in White and the New Sensation 196
Elizabeth Langland
16 Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco: The Substances of Memory in The Moonstone 208
Susan Zieger
17 Ouida 220
Jane Jordan
18 Under Two Flags 232
Natalie Schroeder and Ronald A. Schroeder
19 Ellen (Mrs. Henry) Wood 244
Andrew Mangham
20 Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne 257
Marlene Tromp
21 Sheridan Le Fanu 269
Anna Maria Jones
22 Rhoda Broughton 281
Tamar Heller
23 Charles Reade 293
Tom Bragg
24 Ideologically Challenging: Florence Marryat and Sensation Fiction 306
Greta Depledge
25 Edmund Hodgson Yates 319
Andrew Radford
26 Sensational Variations on the Domestic Romance: Charlotte M. Brame and Mary Cecil Hay in the Family Herald 332
Graham Law
27 Amelia B. Edwards 349
Anne-Marie Beller
28 Dora Russell 361
Janice M. Allan
29 Short Fiction 374
Brittany Roberts
Part III: Topics in Scholarship 387
30 Critical Responses to Sensation 389
Deborah Wynne
31 Gender and Sensation 401
Emily Allen
32 Queer Sensation 414
Ross G. Forman
33 Class and Race in Sensation Fiction 430
Patrick Brantlinger
34 The Empire and Sensation 442
Lillian Nayder
35 Sensation Fiction and Religion 455
Mark Knight
36 Sensation and Science 466
Susan David Bernstein
37 Medicine and Sensation 481
Meegan Kennedy
38 Disability in Victorian Sensation Fiction 493
Martha Stoddard Holmes and Mark Mossman
39 The Law and Sensation 507
Jane Jordan
40 Sensation and Detection 516
Heather Milton
41 Come Buy, Come Buy: Sensation Fiction in the Context of Consumer and Commodity Culture 528
Kimberly Harrison
42 Sensation and Illustration 540
Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge
43 The Pre-Raphaelite Realism of the Sensation Novel 559
Sophia Andres
Part IV: After Sensation: Legacies 577
44 The Legacy of Sensation Fiction: Bodily Power in the New Woman Novel 579
Molly Youngkin
45 Corelli's Religious Trilogy: Barabbas, The Sorrows of Satan, and The Master-Christian 591
R. Brandon Kershner
46 Realism after Sensation: Meredith, Hardy, Gissing 603
Tabitha Sparks
47 Aestheticism and Sensation 614
Talia Schaffer
48 Neo-Victorian and Pastiche 627
Grace Moore
Index 639
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by Paula R. Backscheider (Editor), Catherine Ingrassia (Editor)
A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005
A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts.
An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel
Furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral context
Foregrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century
Explores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy
Covers both traditional themes, such as narrative authority and print culture, and cutting-edge topics, such as globalization, nationhood, technology, and science
Considers both canonical and non-canonical literature
Vedi indiceList of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction 1
Catherine Ingrassia
Shared Bibliography 18
PART ONE Formative Influences 23
1. I have now done with my island, and all manner of discourse about it: Crusoe's Farther Adventures and the Unwritten History of the Novel 25
Robert Markley
2. Fiction/Translation/Transnation: The Secret History of the Eighteenth-Century Novel 48
Srinivas Aravamudan
3. Narrative Transmigrations: The Oriental Tale and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain 75
Ros Ballaster
4. Age of Peregrination: Travel Writing and the Eighteenth-Century Novel 97
Elizabeth Bohls
5. Milton and the Poetics of Ecstasy in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Fiction 117
Robert A. Erickson
6. Representing Resistance: British Seduction Stories, 1660–1800 140
Toni Bowers
PART TWO The World of the Eighteenth-Century Novel 165
7. Why Fanny Can’t Read: Joseph Andrews and the (Ir)relevance of Literacy 167
Paula McDowell
8. Memory and Mobility: Fictions of Population in Defoe, Goldsmith, and Scott 191
Charlotte Sussman
9. The Erotics of the Novel 214
James Grantham Turner
10. The Original American Novel, or, The American Origin of the Novel 235
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
11. New Contexts for Early Novels by Women: The Case of Eliza Haywood, Aaron Hill, and the Hillarians, 1719–1725 261
Kathryn R. King
12. Momentary Fame: Female Novelists in Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews 276
Laura Runge
13. Women, Old Age, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel 299
Devoney Looser
14. Joy and Happiness 321
Adam Potkay
PART THREE The Novel's Modern Legacy 341
15. The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Print Culture: A Proposed Modesty 343
Christopher Flint
16. An Emerging New Canon of the British Eighteenth-Century Novel: Feminist Criticism, the Means of Cultural Production, and the Question of Value 365
John Richetti
17. Queer Gothic 383
George E. Haggerty
18. Conversable Fictions 399
Kathryn Sutherland
19. Racial Legacies: The Speaking Countenance and the Character Sketch in the Novel 419
Roxann Wheeler
20. Home Economics: Representations of Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 441
Ruth Perry
21. Whatever Happened to the Gordon Riots? 459
Carol Houlihan Flynn
22. The Novel Body Politic 481
Susan S. Lanser
23. Literary Culture as Immediate Reality 504
Paula R. Backscheider
Index 539
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Michael O'Neill, Anthony Howe...
The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012
The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley takes stock of current developments in the study of a major Romantic poet and prose-writer, and seeks to advance Shelley studies beyond the current scholarship. It consists of forty-two chapters written by a prestigious international cast of established and emerging scholar-critics, and offers the most wide-ranging single-volume body of writings on Shelley. The volume builds on the textual revolution in Shelley studies, which has transformed understanding of the poet, as critics are able to focus on what Shelley actually wrote. This Handbook is divided into five thematic sections: Biography and Relationships; Prose; Poetry; Cultures, Traditions, Influences; and Afterlives. The first section reappraises Shelley's life and relationships, including those with his publishers through whom he sought to reach an audience for the 'Ashes and sparks' of his thought, and with women, creative collaborators as well as muse-figures; the second section gives his under-investigated prose works detailed attention, bringing multiple perspectives to bear on his shifting and complex conceptual positions, and demonstrating out the range of his achievement in prose works from novels to political and poetic treatises; the third section explores Shelley's creativity and gift as a poet, emphasizing his capacity to excel in many different poetic genres; the fourth section looks at Shelley's response to past and present literary cultures, both English and international, and at his immersion in science, music, theatre, the visual arts, and tourism and travel; the fifth section concludes the volume by analysing Shelley's literary and cultural afterlife, from his influence on Victorians and Moderns, to his status as the exemplary poet for Deconstruction. The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley brings out the relevance to Shelley's own work of his dictum that 'All high poetry is infinite' and continues to generate original critical responses. (Da sito Oxford University Press)
Vedi indice Introduction , Michael O'Neill
BIOGRAPHY AND RELATIONSHIPS
Shelley and the British Isles , Donald H. Reiman and James Bieri
Shelley and Italy , Ralph Pite
Resolutions, Destinations: Shelley s Last Year , Ann Wroe
Shelley and Women , Nora Crook
Shelley and his Publishers , Stephen Behrendt
PART 2 PROSE
Shelley and Philosophy: On a Future State, Speculations on Metaphysics and Morals, On Life , Anthony Howe
Religion and Ethics: The Necessity of Atheism, A Refutation of Deism, On Christianity , Gavin Hopps
Love, Sexuality, Gender: On Love, Discourse on Love, and The Banquet of Plato , Teddi Lynn Chichester
Politics and Satire , Steven E. Jones
Politics, Protest, and Social Reform: Irish Pamphlets, Notes to Queen Mab, Letter to Lord Ellenborough, A Philosophical View of Reform , Michael Scrivener
Poetics , Paul Hamilton
Prose Fiction: Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne, The Assassins, The Coliseum , Diane Long Hoeveler
Shelley's Letters , Daisy Hay
PART 3 POETRY
Shelley's Draft Notebooks , Nancy Moore Goslee
Lyric Development: Esdaile Notebook to Hymns of 1816 , David Duff
Epic Experiments: Queen Mab and Laon and Cythna , Jack Donovan
Quest Poetry: Alastor and Epipsychidion , Mark Sandy
Lyrical Drama: Prometheus Unbound and Hellas , Stuart Curran
Tragedy: The Cenci and Swellfoot the Tyrant , Michael Rossington
Shelley's Familiar Style : Rosalind and Helen, Julian and Maddalo, and Letter to Maria Gisborne , Anthony Howe
Sonnets and Odes , Michael O'Neill
Popular Songs and Ballads: Writing the Unwritten Story in 1819 , Susan Wolfson
Visionary Rhyme: The Sensitive-Plant and The Witch of Atlas , Jerrold E. Hogle
Lyrics and Love Poems: Poems to Sophia Stacey, Jane Williams, and Mary Shelley , Shahidha Bari
Shelley's Pronouns: Lyrics, Hellas, Adonais, and The Triumph of Life , Michael O'Neill
PART 4 CULTURES, TRADITIONS, INFLUENCES
Shelley and the Bible , Ian Balfour
Shelley, Mythology, and the Classical Tradition , Anthony John Harding
Shelley and the Italian Tradition , Alan Weinberg
Origins of Evil: Shelley, Goethe, Calderon, and Rousseau , Frederick Burwick
Shelley and Milton , Madeleine Callaghan
Shelley and the English Tradition: Spenser and Pope , Michael O'Neill and Paige Tovey
Shelley and His Contemporaries , Kelvin Everest
Shelley and Music , Jessica K. Quillin
Shelley, Shakespeare, and Theatre , Bernard Beatty
Shelley, the Visual Arts, and Cinema , Sarah Wootton
Shelley's Sciences , Marilyn Gaull
Shelley, Travel, and Tourism , Benjamin Colbert
PART FIVE AFTERLIVES
Shelley and the Nineteenth Century , Richard Cronin
The Influences of Shelley on Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Poetry , Jeffrey C. Robinson
Editing Shelley , Michael Rossington
Shelley Criticism from Romanticism to Modernism , Jane Stabler
Shelley Criticism from Deconstruction to the Present , Arthur Bradley
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Frederick Burwick
The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009
A practical and comprehensive reference work, the Oxford Handbook provides the best single-volume source of original scholarship on all aspects of Coleridge's diverse writings. Thirty-seven chapters, bringing together the wisdome of experts from across the world, present an authoritative, in-depth, and up-to-date assessment of a major author of British Romanticism. The book is divided into sections on Biography, Prose Works, Poetic Works, Sources and Influences, and Reception.
The Coleridge scholar today has ready access to a range of materials previously available only in library archives on both sides of the Atlantic. The Bollingen edition, of the Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, forty years in production was completed in 2002. The Coleridge Notebooks (1957-2002) were also produced during this same period, five volumes of text with an additional five companion volumes of notes. The Clarendon Press of Oxford published the letters in six volumes (1956-1971). To take full advantage of the convenient access and new insight provided by these volumes, the Oxford Handbook examines the entire range and complexity of Coleridge's career. It analyzes the many aspects of Coleridge's literary, critical, philosophical, and theological pursuits, and it furnishes both students and advanced scholars with the proper tools for assimilating and illuminating Coleridge's rich and varied accomplishments, as well as offering an authoritative guide to the most up-to-date thinking about his achievements. (Da sito Oxford University Press)
Vedi indice List of Contributors
Introduction , Frederick Burwick
Biography
1. Coleridge's Early Years , Nicholas Roe
2. Coleridge and Wordsworth: Collaboration and Criticism from Salisbury Plain to Aids to Reflection , Richard Gravil
3. Coleridge's Publisher and Patron: Cottle and Poole , John David Lopez
4. Coleridge's Marriage and Family , Neil Vickers
5. Coleridge's Travels , Tilar Mazzeo
6. Coleridge's Self-representation , Anya Taylor
The Prose Works
7. Coleridge's Lectures 1795: On Politics and Religion , Peter Kitson
8. Coleridge as Editor: The Watchman, The Friend , Michael John Kooy
9. Coleridge in the Periodicals , Angela Esterhammer
10. Coleridge's Lectures: Lectures 1808-1819: On Literature , Matthew Scott
11. Coleridge as Literary Critic: Principles of Genial Criticism, Biographia Literaria , Raimonda Modiano
12. Coleridge on Politics and Religion: Lay Sermons, Statesman's Manual, Aids to Reflection; On the Constitution of Church and State , Pamela Edwards
13. Coleridge's Lectures: Lectures 1818-1819: On the History of Philosophy , Jeffrey Hipolito
14. Coleridge as Reader: Marginalia , H. J. Jackson
15. Coleridge's Notebooks , Paul Cheshire
16. Coleridge as Talker: Sage of Highgate, Table Talk , David Vallins
17. Coleridge as Thinker: Logic and Opus Maximum , Murray Evans
The Poetic Works
18. Coleridge on Allegory and Symbol , Nicolas Halmi
19. Coleridge's Early Poetry, 1790-1796 , David Fairer
20. Coleridge's Genres , Michael O'Neill
21. Coleridge as Playwright , George Erving
22. Coleridge as Translator , Frederick Burwick
Sources and Influences
23. Coleridge and Plagiarism , Andrew Keanie
24. Coleridge, Biblical and Classical Literature , Anthony Harding
25. Coleridge and Theology , Douglas Hedley
26. Coleridge and Shakespeare , Charles Mahoney
27. Coleridge and the English Poetic Tradition , Christopher R. Miller
28. Coleridge and European Literature , Matthew Scott
29. Coleridge's Dialogues with German Thought , Elinor Shaffer
30. Coleridge and Language Theory , James C. McKusick
31. Coleridge and Philosophy , Christoph Bode
32. Coleridge and the Arts , Julian Knox
33. Coleridge and Science , Eric Wilson
Reception
34. Coleridge's Literary Influence , Seamus Perry
35. Coleridge's Early Biographers , Morton Paley
36. Coleridge Criticism in Continental Europe , Elinor Shaffer
37. Writing about Coleridge , Robert Maniquis
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J. A. Downie
The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press, 2013
Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the development of the English novel during the 'long' eighteenth century-in other words, from the later seventeenth century right through to the first three decades of the nineteenth century when, with the publication of the novels of Jane Austen and Walter Scott, 'the novel' finally gained critical acceptance and assumed the position of cultural hegemony it enjoyed for over a century. By situating the novels of the period which are still read today against the background of the hundreds published between 1660 and 1830, this Handbook not only covers those 'masters and mistresses' of early prose fiction-such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Scott and Austen-who are still acknowledged to be seminal figures in the emergence and development of the English novel, but also the significant number of recently-rediscovered novelists who were popular in their own day. At the same time, its comprehensive coverage of cultural contexts not considered by any existing study, but which are central to the emergence of the novel, such as the book trade and the mechanics of book production, copyright and censorship, the growth of the reading public, the economics of culture both in London and in the provinces, and the re-printing of popular fiction after 1774, offers unique insight into the making of the English novel.
( da sito Oxford University Press)
Vedi indicePreface
PART I: 1660-1770: FROM 'NOVELS' TO WHAT IS NOT YET 'THE NOVEL'
The economics of culture 1660-1770
1. Peter Hinds: The Book Trade at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
2. Michael F. Suarez, S. J.: Business of Fiction: Novel Publishing, 1695-1774
3. Pat Rogers: Social Structure, Class, and Gender, 1660-1770
4. Brian Cowan: Making Publics and Making Novels: Post-Habermasian Perspectives
Influences on the early English novel
5. Walter L. Reed: The Continental Influence on the Eighteenth-Century Novel: 'The English Improve What Others Invent'
6. Gillian Dow: Criss-crossing the Channel: The French Novel and English Translation
7. W. R. Owens: Religious Writings and the Early Novel
8. Cynthia Wall: Travel Literature and the Early Novel
9. Rebecca Bullard: Secret History, Politics, and the Early Novel
Early 'Novels' and Novelists
10. Thomas Keymer: Restoration Fiction
11. David Oakleaf: Testing the Market: Robinson Crusoe and After
12. Clement Hawes: Gulliver Effects
13. Peter Sabor: 'Labours of the Press': The Response to Pamela
14. John Dussinger: Samuel Richardson and the Epistolary Novel
15. Scott Black: Henry Fielding and the Progress of Romance
16. Simon Dickie: Novels of the 1750s
17. Tim Parnell: 'Tristram is the Fashion': Sterne, Shandyism, and the sentimental novel
J. A. Downie: Epilogue: The English Novel at the end of the 1760s
PART II: 1770-1832: THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL
Literary Production 1770-1832
18. John Feather: The Book Trade 1770-1832
19. Robert Folkenflik: The Rise of the Illustrated English Novel to 1832
Authors, readers, reviewers, and critics, 1770-1832
20. W. A. Speck: Social Structure, Class and Gender, 1770-1832
21. Barbara M. Benedict: 'Male' and 'Female' novels? Gendered Fictions and the Reading Public, 1770-1832
22. Antonia Forster: Reviewing the Novel
23. Peter Garside: 'Ordering' Novels: Describing Prose Fiction, 1770-1832
Novels and Novelists, 1770-1832
24. Ros Ballaster: The Rise and Decline of the Epistolary Novel, 1770-1832
25. Geoffrey Sill: Developments in Sentimental Fiction
26. Deirdre Shauna Lynch: Philosophical Fictions and 'Jacobin' Novels in the 1790s
27. M. O. Grenby: The Anti-Jacobin Novel
28. David H. Richter: The Gothic Novel and the Lingering Appeal of Romance
29. Markman Ellis: Novel and Empire
30. Gary Kelly: The Popular Novel 1790 to 1820
31. Lisa Wood: The Evangelical Novel
32. Jan Fergus: 'Pictures of domestic Life in Country Villages': Jane Austen and the 'Realist' Novel
33. Ina Ferris: Authorizing the Novel: Walter Scott's Historical Fiction
34. Gary Dyer: Parody and Satire in the Novel, 1770-1832
J. A. Downie: Epilogue