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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.Essays in Little
By Andrew Lang.
The Life of Charlotte Bronte, Volume 1
By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell.
Samuel Butler: A Sketch
By Henry Festing Jones.
Washington Irving
By Charles Dudley Warner.
As We Go
By Charles Dudley Warner.
The Divine Comedy, Purgatory
By Dante Alighieri, H. F. Cary.
The Bridge-Builders
By Rudyard Kipling.
Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays
By Thomas Henry Huxley.
CliffsNotes on Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac
By Larocque Dubose, Estelle Dubose. 1971
This is the famous 19th-century play about a great swordsman and poet with the unseemly large nose. Although he is…
feared by opponents, he cannot court the woman of his dreams, except through anonymously sent poems, which makes for a romantic and adventurous tale.Moral Emblems
By Robert Louis Stevenson.
African American Writers and Journalists (Major Black Contributions from Emancipat)
By Mary Hertz Scarbrough. 2013
African-American Writers and Journalists spans nearly three centuries of literary and journalistic history, from a long-unpublished ballad composed in the…
1740s by a slave named Lucy Terry to the works of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison. It tells the stories of figures such as Frederick Douglass, whose towering intellect and powerful prose helped animate the movement to abolish slavery; Ida B. Wells and Charlotta Bass, journalists who risked their lives to report on racial violence and injustice; and Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright, who challenged society with hard questions about race and equality.Vernacular Translation in Dante's Italy: Illiterate Literature
By Alison Cornish. 2011
Translation and commentary are often associated with institutions and patronage; but in Italy around the time of Dante, widespread vernacular…
translation was mostly on the spontaneous initiative of individuals. While Dante is usually the starting point for histories of vernacular translation in Europe, this book demonstrates that The Divine Comedy places itself in opposition to a vast vernacular literature already in circulation among its readers. Alison Cornish explores the anxiety of vernacularization as expressed by translators and contemporary authors, the prevalence of translation in religious experience, the role of scribal mediation, the influence of the Italian reception of French literature on that literature, and how translating into the vernacular became a project of nation-building only after its virtual demise during the Humanist period. Vernacular translation was a phenomenon with which all authors in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe - from Brunetto Latini to Giovanni Boccaccio - had to contend.