Chartism, Social Agency, and the Victorian Novel, 1832-1867
Reform Acts offers a new approach to prominent questions raised in recent studies of the novel. By examining social agency from a historical rather than theoretical perspective, Chris R. Vanden Bossche investigates how particular assumptions involving agency came into being. Through readings of both canonical and noncanonical Victorian literature, ......
Gregory Benford is perhaps best known as the author of Benford's law of controversy: Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.' That maxim is a quotation from Timescape, Benford's Nebula and Campbell Award-winning 1980 novel, which established his work as an exemplar of hard science fiction,' dedicated to ......
Tartamella casts new light on seemingly quite familiar material—Shakespeare’s Sonnets and a number of his plays, including Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Antony and Cleopatra. By placing the Sonnets within the context of the literary history of praise poetry, and exploring the underlying influence of ......
"Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio"
Honorable Mention, Literature, 2012 PROSE Awards, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers2012 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineIn one of his letters Hart Crane wrote, Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio,' comparingmisspelling and allthe great French poet's ......
An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children's Poetry
Over the River and Through the Wood is the first and only collection of its kind, offering readers a an unequaled view of the quality and diversity of nineteenth-century American children's poetry. Most American poets wrote for childrenfrom famous names such as Ralph Waldo Emerson to less familiar figures like Christina Moody, an African American ......
In The Fairy Way of Writing, Kevin Pask seeks to explain the origins and popularity of enchantment in Shakespeares plays. Writers John Dryden and Joseph Addison originated the phrase the 'fairy way of writing' to define the concept of an English creative imagination founded on a synthesis of high literary culture and the popular culture of tales ......
Literary Advertising and the Shaping of British Romanticism investigates the entwined histories of the advertising industry and the gradual commodification of literature over the course of the Romantic Century (17501850). In this well-written and detailed study, Nicholas Mason argues that the seemingly antagonistic arenas of marketing and ......
Along the Streets of Bronzeville examines the flowering of African American creativity, activism, and scholarship in the South Side Chicago district known as Bronzeville during the period between the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Poverty stricken, segregated, and bursting at the seams with migrants, ......
Black Internationalist Feminism examines how African American women writers affiliated themselves with the post-World War II Black Communist Left and developed a distinct strand of feminism. This vital yet largely overlooked feminist tradition built upon and critically retheorized the postwar Left's ''nationalist internationalism,'' which ......
