eBooks List For Item Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Crafting the Witch: Gendering Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)
- ISBN:
- 0415977614
- Authors:
- Heidi Breuer
How did the witch become wicked? This is the central question of Crafting the Witch, which documents and analyzes the gendered transformation of magical figures that occurred in Arthurian romance as it developed from its earliest continental manifestations in the twelfth century to its flowering in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England. In particular, while wizard-figures remained repositories of privileged knowledge throughout these periods,...
George Eliot and the British Empire (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
- ISBN:
- 0521808456
- Authors:
- Nancy Henry
In this innovative study Nancy Henry introduces new facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and imperialism. She examines Eliot's roles as an investor in colonial stocks, a parent to emigrant sons, and a reader of colonial literature. She highlights the importance of these contexts to our understanding of Eliot's fiction and her position within Victorian culture. The book...
Wordsworth, Commodification, and Social Concern: The Poetics of Modernity (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
- ISBN:
- 0521898773
- Authors:
- David Simpson
This new reading of Wordworth's poetry by leading critic David Simpson centers on its almost obsessive representation of spectral forms and images of death in life. Wordsworth is reacting, Simpson argues, to the massive changes in the condition of England and the modern world at the turn of the century: mass warfare; the increased scope of machine-driven labor and urbanization; and the expanding power of commodity form in rendering economic and...
Transcultural English Studies: Theories, Fictions, Realities. (Cross/Cultures)
- ISBN:
- 9042025638
What is most strikingly new about the transcultural is its sudden ubiquity. Following in the wake of previous concepts in cultural and literary studies such as creolization, hybridity, and syncretism, and signalling a family relationship to terms such as transnationality, translocality, and transmigration, 'transcultural' terminology has unobtrusively but powerfully edged its way into contemporary theoretical and critical discourse. The four...
De-familiarizing Readings: Essays from the Austin Joyce Conference. (European Joyce Studies)
- ISBN:
- 9042025700
Unlike many recent Joyce studies, De-familiarizing Readings eschews the theoretical and ideological and instead plants itself on firmer ground. Its eight outstanding Joyce scholars share a love of the "stuff" of texts, contexts, and intertexts: data and dates, food and clothing, letters and journals, literary allusions, and other quotidian desiderata. Their inductive approaches - whether to Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, Ulysses , or...
So You Think You Know Thomas Hardy?: A Literary Quizbook (Oxford World's Classics)
- ISBN:
- 019280443X
- Authors:
- John Sutherland
How well do you really know your favourite author? Ace literary detective turned quizmaster John Sutherland challenges the reader to find out. Starting with easy, factual questions that test how well you remember a novel and its characters, the quiz progresses to a level of greater difficulty, demanding close reading and interpretative deduction. What really motivates the characters, and what is going on beneath the surface of the story? From...
Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880
- ISBN:
- 0199205205
- Authors:
- Isobel Armstrong
Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original and beautifully illustrated book tells the stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in nineteenth-century England. Moving across technology, industry, local history, architecture, literature, print culture, the visual arts, optics, and philosophy, it will transform our understanding of the Victorian period. The mass production of glass in the nineteenth century transformed an ancient material...
Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature
- ISBN:
- 0199266123
- Authors:
- Lesel Dawson
In early modern medical texts, intense unfulfilled erotic desire is held to be a real and virulent disease: it is classified as a species of melancholy, with physical etiologies and cures. Lesel Dawson analyzes literary representations of lovesickness in relation to medical ideas about desire and wider questions about gender and identity, exploring the different ways that desire is believed to take root in the body, how gender roles are encoded...
Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O'Brien (Irish Studies in Literature and Culture)
- ISBN:
- 0299216349
Since the 1960 publication of her first novel, The Country Girls , award-winning Irish writer Edna O'Brien has been both celebrated and maligned. Praised for her lyrical prose and vivid female characters and attacked for her frank treatment of sexuality and alleged sensationalism, O'Brien and her work seem always to spawn controversy, including the past banning in Ireland of several of her works. O'Brien's attention to "women's" concerns...
Observing America: The Commentary of British Visitors to the United States, 1890-1950 (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
- ISBN:
- 0299218805
- Authors:
- Robert Frankel
Beginning with Alexis de Tocqueville and Frances Trollope, visitors to America have written some of the most penetrating and, occasionally, scathing commentaries on U.S. politics and culture. Observing America focuses on four of the most insightful British commentators on America between 1890 and 1950. The colorful journalist W. T. Stead championed Anglo-American unity while plunging into reform efforts in Chicago. The versatile writer H. G....
So Long as Men Can Breathe: The Untold Story of Shakespeare's Sonnets
- ISBN:
- 0306818051
- Authors:
- Clinton Heylin
In this lively, fascinating account of the publication of Shakespeare’s Sonnets , noted biographer Clinton Heylin brings their convoluted history to light, beginning with the first complete appearance of the Sonnets in print in May, 1609. He introduces us to the “unholy alliance” involved in this precarious enterprise: Thomas Thorpe, the publisher, a self-described “well wishing adventurer;” George Eld, the printer, heavily embroiled...
Reader's Guide to Literature in English (Reader's guide series)
- ISBN:
- 1884964206
- Authors:
- Hawkins-DaDy
Reader's Guides are not encyclopedias or dictionaries; they are guides to reading in particular subject. Their aim is to evaluate the secondary material in a broad area of study by means of comparative essays on hundreds of specific topics. Reader's Guide Literature in EnglishN provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current...
Engineering Geology: Principles and Practice
- ISBN:
- 3540292497
- Authors:
- David George Price
This book is written to explain the influence ground conditions can have upon engineering with rocks and soils, and upon designing, analysing and executing an engineered response to the geological and geomorphological processes acting on them; these subjects form the essence of Engineering Geology. The text is written for students of the subject, either geologists or engineers, who encounter the challenge of idealising the ground and its...
Handbuch Eisenbahninfrastruktur (German Edition)
- ISBN:
- 354029581X
Das Handbuch wendet sich an den praktisch tätigen und planenden Ingenieur, an den Verantwortung tragenden Fachmann und an technisch interessierte Führungskräfte sowie an Angehörige von wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen und Behörden und auch an Studierende. In den einzelnen, miteinander vernetzten Kapiteln werden die technischen und operativen Grundlagen und Zusammenhänge der Eisenbahninfrastruktur sowie der Interaktion von Infrastruktur und...
Bodendynamik: Grundlagen, Kennziffern, Probleme und Lösungsansätze (German Edition)
- ISBN:
- 3540296247
- Authors:
- Jost A. Studer, Jan Laue, Martin Koller
Die Bedeutung der Bodendynamik hat in den letzten Jahren erheblich zugenommen. Anzahl und Intensität von Erschütterungsquellen in unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft von Bauwerken sind gestiegen. Moderne Bauwerke und Anlagen wurden schwingungsanfälliger auch für natürliche Erregungsarten wie Windbelastung und Erdbeben. Ein erhöhtes Sicherheitsbedürfnis erfordert bessere Berechnungsverfahren zur Belastbarkeit der Böden und zur Interaktion...
Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters
- ISBN:
- 1852854235
- Authors:
- Leslie Mitchell
After a prolific life as an author with a European reputation, outselling Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton was ennobled and, on his death, buried in Westminster Abbey. Since World War I, however, his literary reputation has sunk and he is now little read. Bulwer Lytton is the first modern biography of an extraordinary man whose literary output was prodigious. Leslie Mitchell’s biography, written to mark the two hundredth anniversary of Bulwer...
Consuming Traditions: Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic
- ISBN:
- 0195372697
- Authors:
- Elizabeth Outka
In an unprecedented phenomenon that swept across Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century, writers, advertisers, and architects began to create and sell images of an authentic cultural realm paradoxically considered outside the marketplace. Such images were located in nostalgic pictures of an idyllic, pre-industrial past, in supposedly original objects not derived from previous traditions, and in the ideal of a purified aesthetic that might...
Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham
- ISBN:
- 0199230811
- Authors:
- Blair Worden
In this book the pre-eminent history of Cromwellian England takes a fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair Worden reconstructs the political contexts within which Milton and Marvell wrote, and reassesses their writings against the background of volatile and dramatic changes of public mood and circumstance. Two figures are shown to have been prominent in...
Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science
- ISBN:
- 0199258120
A unique collaboration between leading poets and scientists, Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science demonstrates through its form, and through practice as well as reflection, that poetry and science can meet with productive results. Crossing between disciplines, and between prose and verse, the book shows how modes of scientific knowledge and of poetic making continue to be intertwined. Often drawing on Scottish intellectual traditions,...
Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London: John Gay's Trivia
- ISBN:
- 0199280495
Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London will entertain and inform all who are interested in literature, history, and the city of London. This unique book invites the reader to walk along the dirty, crowded, and fascinating streets of eighteenth-century London in an unusual way. Nine leading experts from the fields of literature, history, classics, gender, biography, geography, and costume, offer different interpretations of John Gay's...
William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s
- ISBN:
- 0226502597
- Authors:
- Saree Makdisi
Modern scholars often find it difficult to account for the profound eccentricities in the work of William Blake, dismissing them as either ahistorical or simply meaningless. But with this pioneering study, Saree Makdisi develops a reliable and comprehensive framework for understanding these peculiarities. According to Makdisi, Blake's poetry and drawings should compel us to reconsider the history of the 1790s. Tracing for the first time the many...
Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion (Crime Files)
- ISBN:
- 0230525016
- Authors:
- Richard York
How cozy are Agatha Christie's novels? They may seem to depict a stable world of respect for tradition, shared culture, settled gender and class roles, political conservatism and unambiguous morality, in which reason suffices to control disorder. But this world is threatened by modernity and uncertainty: war, social mobility, extremist politics, moral liberalization. Prominent citizens may be criminals, detectives are not wholly unlike...
Coleridge, the Bible, and Religion (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)
- ISBN:
- 0230601340
- Authors:
- Jeffrey W. Barbeau
Barbeau reconstructs the system of religion that Coleridge develops in Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1840). Coleridge’s late system links four sources of divinity—the Bible, the traditions of the church, the interior work of the Spirit, and the inspired preacher—to Christ, the Word. In thousands of marginalia and private notebook entries, Coleridge challenges traditional views of the formation and inspiration of the Bible,...
Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets
- ISBN:
- 0231134142
- Authors:
- William Deresiewicz
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Reading Virginia Woolf
- ISBN:
- 0748624341
- Authors:
- Julia Briggs
With grace and style, noted Woolf critic and biographer Julia Briggs reconsiders the author's work from imaginative and unexpected angles, spanning her early fiction experiments to her late short story "The Symbol" and from the most to the least familiar of her novels, such as the neglected Night and Day .Briggs investigates links between Woolf and writers like Byron and Shakespeare, her fascination with transitional places and moments, her...
Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction: A Critical Study
- ISBN:
- 0748632654
- Authors:
- Sophie Gilmartin, Rod Mengham
This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed to encode in fiction his troubled attitude towards the social politics of the West...
Virginia Woolf (Authors in Context) (Oxford World's Classics)
- ISBN:
- 0192802348
- Authors:
- Michael Whitworth
During Virginia Woolf's lifetime Britain's position in the world changed, and so did the outlook of its people. The Boer War and the First World War forced politicians and citizens alike to ask how far the power of the state extended into the lives of individuals; the rise of fascism provided one menacing answer. Woolf's experiments in fiction, and her unique position in the publishing world, allowed her to address such intersections of the...
The Brontes (Authors in Context) (Oxford World's Classics)
- ISBN:
- 0192840355
- Authors:
- Patricia Ingham
The extraordinary creativity of the Bronte sisters, who between them wrote some of the most enduring fiction in the English language, continues to fascinate and intrigue modern readers. The tragedy of their early deaths adds poignancy to their novels, and in the popular imagination they have become mythic figures. And yet, as Patricia Ingham shows, they were fully engaged with the world around them, and their writing, from the juvenilia to Jane...
Before Intimacy: Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England
- ISBN:
- 0816646325
- Authors:
- Daniel Juan Gil
Before the eighteenth-century rise of the ideology of intimacy, sexuality was defined not by social affiliations but by bodies. In Before Intimacy , Daniel Juan Gil examines sixteenth-century English literary concepts of sexuality that frame erotic ties as neither bound by social customs nor transgressive of them, but rather as “loopholes” in people’s experiences and associations. Engaging the poems of Wyatt, Sidney’s Astrophil and...
Book of Lies
- ISBN:
- 0877285160
- Authors:
- Aleister Crowley
An admirable collection of Crowley's aphorisms-- Witty, subtle, and instructive paradoxes that challenge and exhilarate.
Rock Mechanics
- ISBN:
- 1402020643
- Authors:
- Barry H.G. Brady, E.T. Brown, B.H.G. Brady
Although Rock Mechanics addresses many of the rock mechanics issues which arise in underground mining engineering, it is not a text exclusively for mining applications. It consists of five categories of topics on the science and practice of rock engineering: basic engineering principles relevant to rock mechanics; mechanical properties of rock and rock masses; design of underground excavations in various rock mass conditions; mining methods and...
Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies
- ISBN:
- 1403904049
Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies is an indispensable guide to the ever-expanding body of criticism on Virginia Woolf. Written for both researchers and teachers of Woolf, it includes comprehensive and insightful chapters on different approaches to Woolf, including feminist, historicist, postcolonial and biographical. The contributors to the collection are all scholars of international standing, and the essays provide concise summaries...
Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader
- ISBN:
- 1403969655
- Authors:
- Anne E. Fernald
From her girlhood in her father’s library to the end of her life, Virginia Woolf read widely and with passion. Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader shows how Virginia Woolf’s reading affected her feminism and how her feminism affected her opinions of her reading. This new work looks at the impact of that intense reading on Woolf’s writing and on her feminism. Each chapter looks at an aspect of her thinking--her attitude towards the...
Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time
- ISBN:
- 0521003881
- Authors:
- Mary Waldron
This book presents Jane Austen as a radical innovator. It explores the nature of her confrontation with the popular novelists of her time, and demonstrates how her challenge to them transformed fiction. Mary Waldron shows how Austen's novels exemplify the strong skepticism about contemporary notions of the proper content and purpose of fiction that is evident from family letters and other sources. In thus identifying her literary motivation,...
Modernism and Cultural Conflict, 1880-1922
- ISBN:
- 0521812062
- Authors:
- Ann L. Ardis
Ann Ardis questions commonly held views of radical modernism at the turn of the twentieth century. She depicts the "men of 1914," (as Wyndham Lewis called the coterie of writers centered around Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and James Joyce) as only one among a number of groups intent on redefining the cultural objectives of British literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Simultaneously, Ardis reclaims key examples of non-modernist aesthetic...
Shakespeare: Hamlet (Landmarks of World Literature (New))
- ISBN:
- 0521840031
- Authors:
- Paul A. Cantor
In this useful guide, Paul Cantor provides a clearly structured introduction to Shakespeare's most famous tragedy. Cantor examines Hamlet's status as tragic hero and the central enigma of the delayed revenge in the light of the play's Renaissance context. He offers students a lucid discussion of the dramatic and poetic techniques used in the play. In the final chapter he deals with the uniquely varied reception of Hamlet on the stage and in...
T. S. Eliot and the Art of Collaboration
- ISBN:
- 0521841232
- Authors:
- Richard Badenhausen
Richard Badenhausen examines the crucial role that collaboration with other writers played in the development of T. S. Eliot's works from the earliest poetry and unpublished prose to the late plays. He demonstrates Eliot's dependence on collaboration in order to create, but also his struggle to accept the implications of the process. In case-studies of Eliot's collaborations, Badenhausen reveals the complexities of Eliot's theory and practice of...
Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf
- ISBN:
- 0521877857
- Authors:
- Gabrielle McIntire
T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf were almost exact contemporaries, readers and critics of each others' work, and friends for over twenty years. Their writings, though, have never been paired in a book-length study. Modernism, Memory, and Desire proposes that some striking correspondences exist in Eliot and Woolf's poetic, fictional, critical, and autobiographical texts, particularly in their recurring turn to the language of desire, sensuality,...
Modernism, Race and Manifestos
- ISBN:
- 0521896185
- Authors:
- Laura Winkiel
The modernist avant-garde used manifestos to outline their ideas, cultural programs and political agendas. Yet the manifesto, as a document of revolutionary change and a formative genre of modernism, has heretofore received little critical attention. This study reappraises the central role of manifestos in shaping the modernist movement by investigating twentieth-century manifestos from Europe and the Black Atlantic. Manifestos by writers from...
Outsiders Together: Virginia and Leonard Woolf.
- ISBN:
- 0691058849
- Authors:
- Natania Rosenfeld
The marriage of Virginia and Leonard Woolf is best understood as a dialogue of two outsiders about ideas of social and political belonging and exclusion. These ideas infused the written work of both partners and carried over into literary modernism itself, in part through the influence of the Woolfs' groundbreaking publishing company, the Hogarth Press. In this book, the first to focus on Virginia Woolf's writings in conjunction with those of...