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Notes of First Visit to New England
By William Dean Howells.
Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature
By Andrew Hiscock. 2011
'He who remembers or recollects, thinks' declared Francis Bacon, drawing attention to the absolute centrality of the question of memory…
in early modern Britain's cultural life. The vigorous debate surrounding the faculty had dated back to Plato at least. However, responding to the powerful influences of an ever-expanding print culture, humanist scholarship, the veneration for the cultural achievements of antiquity, and sweeping political upheaval and religious schism in Europe, succeeding generations of authors from the reign of Henry VIII to that of James I engaged energetically with the spiritual, political and erotic implications of remembering. Treating the works of a host of different writers from the Earl of Surrey, Katharine Parr and John Foxe, to William Shakespeare, Mary Sidney, Ben Jonson and Francis Bacon, this study explores how the question of memory was intimately linked to the politics of faith, identity and intellectual renewal in Tudor and early Stuart Britain.Representations of Loss in Irish Literature (New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature)
By Eugene O'Brien, Deirdre Flynn. 2018
This is the first book on Irish literature to focus on the theme of loss, and how it is represented…
in Irish writing. It focuses on how literature is ideally suited to expressions and understanding of the nature of loss, given its ability to access and express emotions, sensations, feelings, and the visceral and haptic areas of experience. Dealing with feelings and with sensations, poems, novels and drama can allow for cathartic expressions of these emotions, as well as for a fuller understanding of what is involved in loss across all situations. The main notion of loss being dealt with is that of death, but feelings of loss in the wake of immigration and of the loss of certainties that defined notions of identity are also analysed. This volume will be of interest to scholars, students and researchers in Irish Studies, loss, memory, trauma, death, and cultural studies.Tales of Troy
By Andrew Lang.
Bunyan Characters, First Series
By Alexander Whyte.
Balzac
By Frederick Lawton.
Notes on Life and Letters
By Joseph Conrad.
The Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
By Karen O'Brien, Brian Young. 2018
Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in three instalments from 1776 to 1788,…
is widely regarded as the greatest work of history in the English language. Starting with the accession of the Roman Emperor Commodus in the late second century CE, Gibbon's work traverses thirteen centuries, encompassing the rise of Christianity and of Islam, the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, and the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the intellectual roots, contemporary European contexts, literary style and thematic scale of Gibbon's achievement. Alongside the History, it gives an introduction to Gibbon's other works, including the Memoirs he left unfinished at his death and previously unpublished material. Leading international scholars in the fields of classics, geography, history and literature provide a comprehensive account of Gibbon's monumental account of decline, fall and global historical transformation.Angling Sketches
By Andrew Lang.
Hospital Sketches
By Louisa May Alcott.
Shelley: An Essay
By Francis Thompson.
Food and Literature (Cambridge Critical Concepts)
By Gitanjali G. Shahani. 2018
This volume examines food as subject, form, landscape, polemic, and aesthetic statement in literature. With essays analyzing food and race,…
queer food, intoxicated poets, avant-garde food writing, vegetarianism, the recipe, the supermarket, food comics, and vampiric eating, this collection brings together fascinating work from leading scholars in the field. It is the first volume to offer an overview of literary food studies and reflect on its origins, developments, and applications. Taking up maxims such as 'we are what we eat', it traces the origins of literary food studies and examines key questions in cultural texts from different global literary traditions. It charts the trajectories of the field in relation to work in critical race studies, postcolonial studies, and children's literature, positing an omnivorous method for the field at large.So Odd a Mixture: Along the Autistic Spectrum in 'Pride and Prejudice'
By Anthony Attwood, Phyllis Ferguson-Bottomer. 2007
Autism was not a recognised disorder in Jane Austen's lifetime, nor for well over a century after her death. However…
there were certainly people who had autism, and Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer proposes that Austen wrote about them, without knowing what it was that she was describing. So Odd a Mixture looks at eight seemingly diverse characters in Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, who display autistic traits. These characters - five in the Bennet family and three in the extended family of the Fitzwilliams - have fundamental difficulties with communication, empathy and theory of mind. Perhaps it is high-functioning autism or Asperger's Syndrome that provides an explanation for some characters' awkward behaviour at crowded balls, their frequent silences or their tendency to lapse into monologues rather than truly converse with others. This fascinating book will provide food for thought for students and fans of Austen's classic novel, and for anyone interested in autism spectrum disorders.The Women of the French Salons
By Amelia Gere Mason.
Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism #121)
By Thomas H. Ford. 2018
Before the ideas we now define as Romanticism took hold the word 'atmosphere' meant only the physical stuff of air;…
afterwards, it could mean almost anything, from a historical mood or spirit to the character or style of an artwork. Thomas H. Ford traces this shift of meaning, which he sees as first occurring in the poetry of William Wordsworth. Gradually 'air' and 'atmosphere' took on the new status of metaphor as Wordsworth and other poets re-imagined poetry as a textual area of aerial communication - conveying the breath of a transitory moment to other times and places via the printed page. Reading Romantic poetry through this ecological and ecocritical lens Ford goes on to ask what the poems of the Romantic period mean for us in a new age of climate change, when the relationship between physical climates and cultural, political and literary atmospheres is once again being transformed.In the Wilderness
By Charles Dudley Warner.
The Burial of the Guns
By Thomas Nelson Page.
Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture
By Betty A. Schellenberg. 2016
Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture offers the first study of manuscript-producing coteries as an integral element…
of eighteenth-century Britain's literary culture. As a corrective to literary histories assuming that the dominance of print meant the demise of a vital scribal culture, the book profiles four interrelated and influential coteries, focusing on each group's deployment of traditional scribal practices, on key individuals who served as bridges between networks, and on the aesthetic and cultural work performed by the group. The book also explores points of intersection between coteries and the print trade, whether in the form of individuals who straddled the two cultures; publishing events in which the two media regimes collaborated or came into conflict; literary conventions adapted from manuscript practice to serve the ends of print; or simply poetry hand-copied from magazines. Together, these instances demonstrate how scribal modes shaped modern literary production. This title is also available as Open Access.The Two Destinies
By Wilkie Collins.
The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats
By John Kelly, Marjorie Howes. 2006
This accessible and thought-provoking Companion is designed to help students experience the pleasures and challenges offered by one of the…
twentieth century's greatest poets. A team of international contributors examine Yeats's poetry, drama and prose in their historical and national contexts. The essays explain and synthesise major aspects and themes of his life and work: his lifelong engagement with Ireland, his complicated relationship to the English literary tradition, his literary, social, and political criticism and the evolution of his complex spiritual and religious sense. First-time readers of Yeats as well as more advanced scholars will welcome this comprehensive account of Yeats's career with its useful chronological outline and survey of the most important trends in Yeats scholarship. Taken as a whole, this Companion comprises an essential introduction for students and teachers of Yeats.