Charts the development of the concept of character in the fictional genres, social reform movements, and political cultures of the United States from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century
Charts the development of the concept of character in the fictional genres, social reform movements, and political cultures of the United States from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century
U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line
During the height of 19th century imperialism, Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem The White Man's Burden. This title creates a fresh historical frame for understanding race and literature in America. It maintains that literature symptomized and channelled anxiety about the racial components of the US world mission.
'It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.' First, the subtitle of this completely revised and newly augmented study of George Borrow. 'Misfit' implies not subscribing or submitting to normal, mainstream middle-class values ......
The Life and Works of Lanoe Falconer, Late Victorian Novelist and ShortStory Writer, 1848 - 1908
Lanoe Falconer (nom de plume of Mary Elizabeth Hawker) was one of England s most accomplished young writers in the 1890s; her novel Mademoiselle Ixe a bestseller and an international hit. Her short stories and novels were compared favourably to Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell among others. Her promising career was cut short by chronic illness. ......
Recently there has been a growing scholarly interest in Sydney, Lady Morgan (nee Sydney Owenson). In this work, Dr. Donovan contextualises an important yet relatively neglected author by analysing an emblematic Irishness that was too often dismissed in the early 19th century as excessive showmanship; the criticism was not without some basis, ......
In Romantic Complexity, Jack Stillinger examines three of the most admired poets of English Romanticism--Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth--with a focus on the complexity that results from the multiple authorship, the multiple textual representation, and the multiple reading and interpretation of their best works. Specific topics include the joint ......
The Romantic Movement, the Re/creation of Islamic Andalusia and the Critical Reception
This research monograph breaks new ground in discussing (in English) the impact of Washington Irving's presence in Spain and the effect of his writings on Spanish topics by Spain's critics and general readership. Spanish critics, scholars and translators were and are active in assessing Irving's literary style, scholarly grasp and cultural ......
