Strategies of Representation in Balzac, Flaubert, and James
This book brings the problem of reference-how language discloses the world-into contemporary critical debates about representation, and explores the potential of reference in the work of three authors in the realistic tradition: Balzac, Flaubert, and James. By defining realism in terms of linguistic practices instead of representational accuracy, ......
This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues, natural histories, works of anatomy, pro- and anti-slavery tracts, philosophical treatises, and ......
Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal,1600-1800 explores the oppositions created by the official exclusion of banned sexual practices and the resistance to that exclusion through widespread acceptance of those outlawed practices at an interpersonal level. At different times and in different places, state legislation ......
This book is a critical study of the work of Gregory Rabassa, translator of such canonical novels as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Cien anos de soledad, Jose Lezama Lima's Paradiso, and Julio Cortazar's Rayuela. During the past five decades, Rabassa has translated over fifty Latin American novels and to this day he is one of the most prominent English ......
Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Ideology of Domesticity
Although credited with the rise of domesticity, eighteenth-century British culture singularly lacked narratives of good mothers, ostensibly the most domestic of females. With startling frequency, the best mother was absent, disembodied, voiceless, or dead. British culture told tales almost exclusively of wicked, surrogate, or spectral ......
Improvising Gender, Place, Nation in American Literature
At a moment in which America seems simultaneously more closed and more open to change than ever before, Sons and Daughters of Self-Made Men: Improvising Gender, Place, Nation in American Literature re-examines a defining national discourse. Exploring the dilemmas of U.S. subjects positioned as inheritors-and thus as children-of the archetypal ......
The migration of American artists and intellectuals to Europe in the early twentieth century has been amply documented and studied, but few scholars have examined the aftermath of their return home. Writing Back focuses on the memoirs of modernist writers and intellectuals who struggled with their return to America after years of living ......
Brian Norman uncovers a curious phenomenon in American literature: dead women who nonetheless talk. These characters appear in works by such classic American writers as Poe, Dickinson, and Faulkner, as well as in more recent works by Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Tony Kushner, and others. These figures are also emerging in contemporary culture, ......
Romanticism was a cultural and intellectual movement characterized by discovery, revolution, and the poetic as well as by the philosophical relationship between people and nature. Botany sits at the intersection where romantic scientific and literary discourses meet. Clandestine Marriage explores the meaning and methods of how plants were ......
Especially evident in Victorian-era writings is a rhetorical tendency to liken adults to children and children to adults. Claudia Nelson examines this literary phenomenon and explores the ways in which writers discussed the child-adult relationship during this period.Though far from ubiquitous, the terms 'child-woman,' 'child-man,' and ......
Explores the links between food, visual and literary culture in the nineteenth-century United States to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying the social discourses that create bodily meaning. This is the story of the consolidation of nationalist mythologies of whiteness via the erotic politics of consumption.
Explores the links between food, visual and literary culture. This book tells the story of the consolidation of nationalist mythologies of whiteness via the erotic politics of consumption and also combines through a visually stunning and rare archive of children's literature, architectural history, domestic manuals, dietetic tracts, and novels.
In the eighteenth century, British Methodism was an object of both derision and desire. Many popular eighteenth-century works ridiculed Methodists, yet often the very same plays, novels, and prints that cast Methodists as primitive, irrational, or deluded also betray a thinly cloaked fascination with the experiences of divine presence attributed ......
A corrective addendum to Edward Said's Orientalism, this book examines how sympathetic representations of Islam contributed significantly to Protestant Britain's national and imperial identity in the eighteenth century.Taking a historical view, Humberto Garcia combines a rereading of eighteenth-century and Romantic-era British literature with ......
Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term 'literature' as we know it today did not appear until the very end of the Middle Ages? In this novel introduction to French literature of the period, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet says yes, arguing that a profound literary consciousness did exist at the ......
In her award-winning, critically acclaimed Women's Writing in Italy, 1400--1650, Virginia Cox chronicles the history of women writers in early modern Italy -- who they were, what they wrote, where they fit in society, and how their status changed during this period. In this book, Cox examines more closely one particular moment in this history, in ......
American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines
In the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines. This book argues that the ideological work of colonial dominance figured into the emerging field of American literature, and that the consolidation of a canon of American literature was intertwined with the administrative and intellectual tasks of colonial management.
American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines
In the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines. This book argues that the ideological work of colonial dominance figured into the emerging field of American literature, and that the consolidation of a canon of American literature was intertwined with the administrative and intellectual tasks of colonial management.
Although we are currently bombarded with numerous health scares—AIDS, West Nile virus, avian flu, and the recent swine flu, just to name a few that now fill our media reports and instill dread in the population—we can scarcely imagine the outlook that dominated the mindset of those who endured the bubonic plague in England during ......
Secret Histories claims that the history of the nation is hidden -- in plain sight -- within the pages of twentiethcentury American literature. David Wyatt argues that the nation's fiction and nonfiction expose a ''secret history'' that cuts beneath the ''straight histories'' of our official accounts. And it does so by revealing personal stories ......
Secret Histories claims that the history of the nation is hidden -- in plain sight -- within the pages of twentiethcentury American literature. David Wyatt argues that the nation's fiction and nonfiction expose a ''secret history'' that cuts beneath the ''straight histories'' of our official accounts. And it does so by revealing personal stories ......
In Romantic Interactions Susan J. Wolfson examines how interaction with other authors -- whether on the bookshelf, in the embodied company of someone else writing, or in relation to literary celebrity -- shaped the work of some of the bestknown (and less wellknown) writers in the English language. Working across the arc of Long Romanticism, from ......
The Neural Sublime brings recent work in cognitive neuroscience to bear on some famously vexed issues in British Romantic studies. In exciting and unprecedented ways, Alan Richardson demonstrates how developments in the neurosciences can transform the study of literary history. Richardson presents six exemplary studies, each exploring a different ......
The Neural Sublime brings recent work in cognitive neuroscience to bear on some famously vexed issues in British Romantic studies. In exciting and unprecedented ways, Alan Richardson demonstrates how developments in the neurosciences can transform the study of literary history. Richardson presents six exemplary studies, each exploring a different ......
Explores the ways in which vernacular works composed in Occitan, Catalan, and French between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries narrate multilingualism and its apparent opponent, the mother tongue. These encounters are narrated through literary motifs of love, incest, disguise, and ......
Explores the ways in which vernacular works composed in Occitan, Catalan, and French between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries narrate multilingualism and its apparent opponent, the mother tongue. These encounters are narrated through literary motifs of love, incest, disguise, and ......
Analyzes the relationship between twelfth-century French material culture, especially with regard to attire and personal adornment, and the compositional and narrative techniques used in the emerging genre of courtly verse romance.
Analyzes the relationship between twelfth-century French material culture, especially with regard to attire and personal adornment, and the compositional and narrative techniques used in the emerging genre of courtly verse romance.
Charles A. Berst, University of California at Los Angeles; John A. Bertolini, Middlebury College; Charles A. Carpenter, Binghamton University; L. W. Conolly, Trent University; R. F. Dietrich, University of South Florida; Bernard F. Dukore, Virginia Tech; Peter Gahan, Documentary Film Editor, Los ......
Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France
Styles of Enlightenment argues that alongside its democratic ideals and its efforts to create a unified public sphere, the Enlightenment also displayed a tendency to erect rigid barriers when it came to matters of style and artistic expression. The French philosophes tackled the issue of the hierarchy of genres with surprising inflexibility, and ......
Writings on Authorship by American Women of the Nineteenth Century
Wielding the Pen presents a wide spectrum of nineteenth-century American women's writings on the themes of authorship and creativity. These works reflect the fears, desires, and motivations of female authors, as well as the opportunities and obstacles they encountered as professional writers.Anne E. Boyd includes representative samples from a ......
