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Enthusiast!: Essays on Modern American literature
by David HerdEnthusiast! is a polemical history of American literature told from the point of view of six of its major enthusiasts. The book establishes enthusiasm as a defining feature of American literature. It shows how enthusiasm is fundamental to the circulation of culture. It
Aesthetics of contingency: Writing, politics, and culture in England, 1639–89
by Matthew C. AugustineA study of how literature responds to conditions of political uncertainty, this book rewrites much of what we thought we knew about civil war and Restoration literature. Rather than sparking a decisive break with the past, for many the seventeenth-century’s civil wars opened onto a resolutely indeterminate future.
Water and fire: The myth of the flood in Anglo-Saxon England (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)
by Daniel AnlezarkThe story of Noah’s Flood is one of the Bible’s most popular stories, and other flood myths are preserved by cultures across the world. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the literary and historical imagination of the Anglo-Saxons, ranging from the works of Bede to Beowulf.
Plain ugly: The unattractive body in Early Modern culture
by Naomi BakerThis book examines the depiction of physically ugly characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented in the era, particularly with regard to gender and the construction of identity.
Tales of magic, tales in print: On the genealogy of fairy tales and the Brothers Grimm
by Willem De BlecourtSince the beginning of the nineteenth century folklorists, and the general public in their wake, have assumed the orality of fairy tales. Only lately have more and more specialists been arguing in favour of at least an interdependence between oral and printed distribution of stories. This book takes an extreme position in that debate: as far as Tales of magic is concerned, the initial transmission proceded exclusively through prints. From a historical perspective, this is the only viable approach; the opposite assumption of a vast unrecorded and thus inaccessible reservoir of oral stories, presents a horror vacui. Only in the course of the nineteenth century, when folklorists started collecting in the field and asked their informants for fairy tales, was this particular genre incorporated into a then feeble oral tradition. Even then story tellers regularly reverted to printed texts. Every recorded fairy tale can be shown to be dependent on previous publications, or to be a new composition, constructed on the basis of fragments of stories already in existence. Tales of magic, tales in print traces the textual history of a number of fairy tale clusters, linking the findings of literary historians on the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries to the material collected by nineteenth- and twentieth-century field workers. While it places fairy tales as a genre firmly in a European context, it also follows particular stories in their dispersion over the rest of the world.
Goddesses and Queens: The iconography of Elizabeth I
by Lisa Hopkins Annalise ConnollyGoddesses and Queens: The Iconography of Elizabeth I is a collection of essays which explores the ways in which the rich and varied image of the queen was developed and negotiated by Elizabeth and her contemporaries, in portraits as well as a range of other printed texts.
Literature and politics in the English Reformation (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain #Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain)
by Tom BetteridgeThis is a study of the English Reformation as a political and literary event. Focusing on an eclectic group of texts, unified by their explication of the key elements of the cultural history of the period 1510-1580 the book unravels the political, poetic and religious themes of the era.
Cinematic countrysides (Inside Popular Film #Inside Popular Film)
by Robert FishAn innovative study of the neglected topic of cinematic representations of the countryside, through historical analysis, theoretical critique and explorations of genre, national cinema and urban representations
Historical literatures: Writing about the past in England, 1660–1740
by Noelle GallagherHistorical literatures recovers a rich, vibrant and complex tradition of Restoration and early eighteenth century English historical writing. Highlighting the wide variety of historical works being printed and read in England between the years 1660 and 1740, it demonstrates that many of the genres that we now view primarily as literary – verse satire and panegyric, memoir, scandal and chronicle – were also being used to represent historical phenomena. In surveying some of this period’s 'historical literatures', it argues that many satirists, secret historians and memoirists made their choice of historical subject matter a topic of explicit commentary, presenting themselves as historians or inscribing their works in an English historical tradition. By responding to other varieties of history in this self-conscious way, writers like Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Delarivier Manley, Daniel Defoe and John Evelyn were able to pioneer influential new techniques for representing their nation’s past.
Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 1760–1830: From modest shoot to forward plant
by Sam GeorgeIn this fascinating study, Samantha George explores the cultivation of the female mind and the feminised discourse of botanical literature in eighteenth-century Britain. In particular, she discusses British women’s engagement with the Swedish botanist, Carl Linnaeus, and his unsettling discovery of plant sexuality. Previously ignored primary texts of an extraordinary nature are rescued from obscurity and assigned a proper place in the histories of science, eighteenth-century literature, and women’s writing. The result is groundbreaking: the author explores nationality and sexuality debates in relation to botany and charts the appearance of a new literary stereotype, the sexually precocious female botanist. She uncovers an anonymous poem on Linnaean botany, handwritten in the eighteenth century, and subsequently traces the development of a new genre of women’s writing — the botanical poem with scientific notes. The book is indispensable reading for all scholars of the eighteenth century, especially those interested in Romantic women’s writing, or the relationship between literature and science.
French crime fiction and the Second World War: Past crimes, present memories (Cultural History of Modern War #Cultural History of Modern War)
by Claire GorraraBy investigating representations of the war years in a selection of French crime novels from the mid-1940s to the present day, this book argues for the importance of crime fiction, and popular culture more generally, as active agents of memory in the ongoing debates over the legacies of the war years in contemporary France.
Pageantry and Power: A cultural history of the early modern Lord Mayor's Show 1585–1639
by Tracey HillPageantry and Power is the first full and in-depth cultural history of the Lord Mayor’s Show in the early modern period. The book provides new insight into the culture and history of the London of Shakespeare’s time and beyond.
Literary culture in Cuba: Revolution, nation-building and the book
by Par Kumaraswami Antoni KapciaSpecialist researchers; academics in Cuban Studies/Latin American Studies/Cultural Studies; postgraduate students; undergraduate students (all years); enthusiasts.
Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
by Catherine Maxwell Stefano EvangelistaStudents and academics in Victorian literature and in English poetry.
Popular reading in English c. 1400–1600
by Elisabeth SalterLectures and research students in cultural history, medieval and early modern studies and literary studies
Frantz Fanon’s 'Black Skin, White Masks': New Interdisciplinary eassys (Texts in Culture #Texts in Culture)
by Max SilvermanThe first collection of essays on Frantz Fanon's classic anti-colonial text, 'Black Skin, White Masks'. It offers a range of interpretations of the text by leading scholars across various disciplines.
Gender and warfare in the twentieth century: Textual representations
by Angela K. SmithGender and warfare in the twentieth century' is a collection of essays that explores the way in which issues of gender impacted upon twentieth-century warfare. A range of specialist contributors provide exciting, accessible and very readable essays covering a range of wars and textual media.
Female Agency and Documentary Strategies: Subjectivities, Identity and Activism
by Boel Ulfsdotter Anna Backman RogersNew essays and creative explorations of the friendship, milieu, and writings of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
Cinematic Nihilism: Encounters, Confrontations, Overcomings
by John MarmyszDefines the interdisciplinary field of Rural Modernity through analysis of British literature, art and culture
The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence (Edinburgh University Press)
by Cairns CraigNew essays and creative explorations of the friendship, milieu, and writings of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
New Scots: Scotland’s Immigrant Communities since 1945
by Tom M. Devine Angela McCarthyReads Victorian literature and science as artful practices that surpass the theories and discourses supposed to contain them
Gertrude Stein's Transmasculinity
by Chris CoffmanExamines how postcolonial filmmakers negotiate national identities in Hollywood-supported Victorian literature adaptations
When the Office Went to War: War letters from men of the Great Western Railway
by Clare Horrie Kathryn PhelpsDuring the course of the First World War, staff of the Great Western Railway's Audit Office sent letters and photographs back to their employer in Paddington, which were in turn collated into monthly "newsletters†? by those who stayed at home to keep Britain moving. Today these newsletters give a unique insight into the Great War – these soldiers were writing to inform and entertain their colleagues rather than to comfort a worrying parent or to confess their love to a distant partner – and bring a distinct band of individuals to life.The story is told chronologically to recreate the suspense in the Audit Office as the remaining few waited to hear from their colleagues at the Front.
In Their Own Words: Letters from History
by The National ArchivesThe way we communicate has changed. Today, many of our interactions are digital, but until recently writing letters was the norm. Drawing from over 100 miles of records held at the UK's official government archive, The National Archives at Kew, this collection of letters, postcards and telegraphs will shine a spotlight on a range of significant historical moments and occurrences, recapturing a lost world in which correspondence was king. The book includes letters from: Queen Elizabeth I, Oscar Wilde, Charles Kray, 'Jack the Ripper', the Captain of the Titanic, Edward Smith, as well as the 'real Charlotte Gray' spy, Christine Granville, amongst others. Topics covered in the collection are both British and international, including:Anne Boleyn's adultery, the Gunpowder Plot, mad King George III's military campaign in the New World, Captain Cook being the first European to set foot in Australia, a soldier's view of life in the trenches, the experience of a special agent during World War II and Nelson Mandela's trial, amongst others. The book features approximately 60 letters, each with a 600 word essay, and a 3000 word introduction. There are around 120 images in the book: 60 of the letters themselves, and a further 60 supplementary images.