Gazelle Book Services Classic Fiction and Literary Studies 2018 Classic Fiction A E Housman Albert Camus Alexander Solzhenistsyn
Alice Munro C P Cafavy Christina Rossetti Flannery O'connor G K Chesterton George Macdonald Hans Christian Andersen Ian Mcewan Isaac Bashevis Singer Jane Austen
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe John Betjeman Jorge Luis Borges Karel Capek Katherine Mansfield Marcel Proust Marie Stopes Mark Twain Miguel De Cervantes Oscar Wilde Salman Rushdie Samuel Beckett T E Lawrence T S Eliot The Brontes Thomas Hardy W E Henley Lit Interest
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Contents
Classic Fiction
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A E Housman
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Albert Camus
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Alexander Solzhenistsyn
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Alice Munro
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C P Cafavy
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Christina Rossetti
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Flannery O'connor
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G K Chesterton
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George Macdonald
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Hans Christian Andersen
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Ian Mcewan
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Jane Austen
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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John Betjeman
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Karel Capek
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Katherine Mansfield
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Marcel Proust
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Marie Stopes
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Mark Twain
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Miguel De Cervantes
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Oscar Wilde
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Salman Rushdie
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Samuel Beckett
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T E Lawrence
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T S Eliot
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The Brontes
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Thomas Hardy
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W E Henley
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Lit Interest
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Classic Fiction Evelina Frances Burney The first novel by the prolific 18th century writer, "Evelina" is a light-hearted epistolary novel chronicling a young lady's rise in Regency England society. Evelina, having been raised in the country and sheltered from the evils of London, is suddenly thrust into the height of upper class society and introduced to her ridiculous and self-important grandmother. What follows is an entertaining tale of love, friendship, and growing up, told with the wit and charm that inspired, and was admired by, Jane Austen.
About the Author: Frances Burney became a literary sensation soon after she released her first book, Evelina, in 1778. Although Evelina was published anonymously, Miss Burney's identity as the author was soon discovered. She became second keeper of the robes for Queen Charlotte in 1786, and then in 1793, met and married the French émigré, General D'Arblay. Frances Burney's novels were known and admired by Jane Austen, Napoleon and Edmund Burke alike. Frances Burney was born in Norfolk, England, in 1752 and died in London in 1840. PB 9780995064522 £13.99 February 2017 Stonehouse Publishing 410 pages
Germinal Emile Zola, David Baguley Translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie “Coal mines have become rare, but the miners of Germinal are immortal. This new edition of the novel, with a translation by Raymond MacKenzie, is an exquisite tribute to their work, their misery and their eventual revolt. In his introduction, David Baguley--one of the most respected authorities on the work of Zola--brilliantly illuminates the genetic, historical and aesthetic aspects of the novel. His lucid, sensitive and critical gaze highlights the real secrets of the work: its underlying anthropological and social investigation, the dark power of the tragic imagination and the brightness of symbolic and mythic intuitions.” -- Henri Mitterand, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University PB 9781603846264 £8.99 September 2011 Hackett Publishing Company 544 pages
The Wheels of Chance by H G Wells With a Student Guide to the Historical and Social Context of the Novel Jeremy Withers Mr Hoopdriver is an overworked Londoner who spends most every day servilely waiting on customers at his job as a draper’s assistant. When it comes time for his annual holiday, he decides to put his newfound skills on a bicycle to the test by going on a ten-day cycling trip to the southern coast of England. A routine trip is turned upside down, however, when Hoopdriver crosses paths with Jessie, a young lady fleeing the constraints of conventional Victorian womanhood. The two cyclists eventually join up and try to help each other find a brighter future. The novel is among Wells’s funniest works, rivalling his other comedic masterpieces such as Kipps and The History of Mr Polly. This edition includes historical context on the novel and biographical information on Wells, a further reading list, and detailed notes. The work has been specially prepared for student engagement and classroom use.
Reviews: "The Wheels of Chance is both an early cycling classic and a picture of an era. In this long-overdue scholarly edition, Jeremy Withers provides an illuminating introduction to Wells's lively comedy." -- Professor Patrick Parrinder, President, H. G. Wells Society PB 9781845198893 £14.95 September 2017 Sussex Academic Press 240 pages
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A E Housman A E Housman A Single Life Martin Blocksidge A E Housman’s poetry (especially “A Shropshire Lad”) remains well-known, widely read and often quoted. However, Housman did not view himself as a professional poet, always making quite clear that his ‘proper job’ was as a Professor of Latin. Housman’s fame as a poet has often obscured the fact that he was the leading British classical scholar of his generation, and a Cambridge Professor. It has also sometimes been suggested that Housman’s two areas of activity are the sign of a flawed or ‘divided’ personality. This book argues that there is no fundamental tension between Housman the poet and Housman the scholar, and his career is presented very much as that of a working academic who also wrote poetry. The book gives a full account of what Housman described as ‘the great and real troubles of my early manhood’, and in particular his unrequited and life-long love for his undergraduate friend Moses Jackson. It resists the temptation to classify Housman too exclusively as a melancholic, and is sceptical about Housman’s reputed rudeness and misanthropy, pointing out that, though Housman was famously aloof in manner, he was notably loyal and generous, courteous in his daily dealings and generally liked by those who knew him. He also possessed a highly developed sense of the absurd and a ready and often disconcerting wit, features which characterised not only his letters and miscellaneous writings, but also, famously, much of his scholarly work.
About the Author: freelance author and biographer. His most recent work, ‘The Banker Poet': The Rise and Fall of Samuel Rogers, 1763–1855, followed ‘A Life Lived Quickly': Arthur Hallam and his Legend, described in the Times Literary Supplement as ‘scrupulously fair-minded . . . balanced and believable'. Martin Blocksidge was Head of English at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and Director of Studies at St. Dunstan's College, London, and former President of The English Association. PB 9781845198442 £27.50 November 2016 Sussex Academic Press 360 pages illus
Albert Camus Albert Camus Solitude and Solidarity Edited by Catherine Camus Translated by Joseph Laredo Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, died in a car crash in 1960. He was 46. He left a substantial but unfinished oeuvre of exceptional beauty and power. Writer, journalist, thinker, playwright and producer, Camus was a man of tremendous vitality, a passionate defender of freedom who put his art at the service of human dignity. He fought constantly against oppression and exploitation and set an example that is still worthy today. Using a combination of extracts from his works, photographs and other archive material, some published here for the first time, Camus's daughter Catherine leads us clearly but discreetly through the fascinating life and work of a solitary but universal figure. HB 9783283011888 £45.00 April 2012 Edition Olms AG 224 pages 550 photos & illus
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Alexander Solzhenistsyn Alexander Solzhenitsyn Cold War Icon, Gulag Author, Russian Nationalist? Elisa Kriza, Andrei Rogatchevski Alexander Solzhenitsyn was one of the Cold War's most iconic writers. This book offers an indepth analysis of his reception in the US, UK, and Germany before and after 1991. Elisa Kriza skilfully explores how Solzhenitsyn's work can be understood with the paradigm of witness literature and uncovers the dynamics behind the politicised reception of his writing. From the mid-1980s onwards, Solzhenitsyn's popularity dwindled -- was this for ideological reasons? What about the rumours linking him with Russian nationalism? This study does not shy away from stretching beyond anti-communism and touching more contentious subjects -- such as antifeminism, anti-Semitism, and revisionism -- in Solzhenitsyn's work and reception. Bringing Solzhenitsyn back from his 'critical exile' and redefining his work as memory culture, Kriza's book is a crucial scholarly intervention, unveiling the mechanism that can transform a controversial figure into a moral icon.
About the Author: Elisa Kriza, PhD, Aarhus University, Denmark, has previously taught courses on dissident and émigré literature and on cultural encounters and conflicts. Her research focus lies on the interrelations of cultural output in international contexts. PB 9783838205892 £32.99 October 2014 Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag 308 pages
Alice Munro Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013 Robert Thacker In Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013, the world's leading Munro scholar offers a critical overview of Alice Munro and her writing spanning forty years. Beginning with a newly written overarching introduction, featuring directive interleaved commentaries addressing chronology and contexts, ending with encompassing afterword, this collection provides a selection of essays and reviews that reflect their times and tell the story of Munro's emergence and recognition as an internationally acclaimed writer since the 1970s. Acknowledging her beginnings and her persistence as a writer of increasingly exceptional short stories, and just short stories, it treats her career through Thacker's criticism up to her fourteenth collection, Dear Life (2012), and to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. Altogether, this book encompasses the whole trajectory of Munro's critical presence while offering a singularly informed retrospective perspective.
About the Author: Robert Thacker is a professor of Canadian Studies and English at St. Lawrence University. He is the author of Munro's biography Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives (2005, revised 2011) and the editor of The Rest of the Story: Critical Essays on Alice Munro (1999).
Reviews: " Reading Alice Munro, 1973–2013 epitomizes the value of scholarly dedication and of single-author studies: Thacker’s own is a source of considerable inspiration and it is doubly refreshing to see how his voice grew even as Munro’s did. The critical reflection, a mode that Thacker employed to great effect in both the book’s introduction and afterword, makesan especially strong case for archival research." - Tom Ue, University of Toronto Scarborough, British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 30, Issue 2. PB 9781552388396 £26.99 February 2016 University of Calgary Press 320 pages
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C P Cafavy Clearing the Ground C P Cavafy, Poetry and Prose, 1902-1911 C P Cavafy Translated by Martin McKinsey This book illuminates a crucial decade of Cavafy's artistic development, marked at one end by a period of personal crisis and near creative stasis, at the other by the poetic force of the celebrated "Ithaca". The years in between are held together by the "Unpublished Notes on Poetics and Ethics". Part private confession, part public pronouncement, part journal entry, and philosophical penseé, these notes were recorded between 1902 and 1911. In some of them, Cavafy attempted to formulate "thoughts and feelings never before uttered" in his own language -- in certain cases, in any language. The full body of the notes is correlated in this volume with the poetry Cavafy was writing contemporaneously -- in particular the startling "hidden poems" begun in 1904. What emerges is a striking narrative of artistic and personal becoming. This is a revelatory work for students and lovers of Cavafy -- one of the great outsider poets of the twentieth century.
About the Author: The Greek-Egyptian poet C P Cavafy (1863-1933) is the most recognizable name in Modern Greek literature and a major figure in twentieth-century world poetry. His poems of the ancient Hellenized Middle East of peoples 'who were not of the Greek race, and who spoke the Greek language with Asiatic intonations and faulty syntax' have permanently altered our conception of the world of antiquity, and have struck a chord in their seeming relevance to our own times. Concurrently, his 'modern' poems depicting casual urban pickups and doomed erotic passion have been recognized as ground-breaking contributions to the development of contemporary gay consciousness. Martin McKinsey teaches literature at the University of New Hampshire. His most recent translations from Modern Greek are Petrified Time: Poems from Makronisos by Yannis Ritsos (with Scott King, 2014); and Acropolis and Tram: Poems 1937-1977 by Nikos Engonopoulos (2008). He is also the author of Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination: Yeats, Cavafy, Walcott PB 9781942281009 £14.99 October 2015 Laertes 163 pages
Christina Rossetti Eyes Wide Shut: Re-Envisioning Christina Rossetti's Poetry and Prose Melanie A Hanson Christina Rossetti's poetry and prose deals with the human fixation on appearance. Her belief in the Tractarian precepts of the Oxford Movement transformed her outlook on perception. Her association with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood also influenced her obsession with sight and insight. The focus of Hanson's study is the re-envisionment of Christina Rossetti's poetry and prose from three theoretical perspectives: deconstructionist theory, feminist literary theory, and Marxist literary criticism. The first part of her book explores Christina Rossetti's fascination with Plato's eye of the mind in The Allegory of the Cave. Part 2 asserts that the author, Melanie Hanson, believes Rossetti's re-envisionment of the figure of Eve contributes to the emergence of feminist literary criticism in the 20th century. Rossetti's envisionment of the consumed consumer is the subject of part 3, in which Marxist literary theory is used to examine her epic poem Goblin Market. Previous discussions concerning Rossetti's poetic and prose observations on the eye lack a concentrated examination of Rossetti's interest in Plato's ‘eye of the mind’, and Plato's influence on Rossetti. Hanson's book addresses this ground-breaking area of study. Her book is aimed at Christina Rossetti scholars and English Victorian literature aficionados who wish to explore Rossetti's contribution to the literary canon from new angles in literary criticism. PB 9783838203652 £28.99 May 2012 Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag 240 pages
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Flannery O'Connor Flannery O'Connor Writing a Theology of Disabled Humanity Timothy J. Basselin Flannery O'Connor is one of America's most unique Southern authors. Shortly after she began her writing career she was diagnosed with lupus. Despite her illness, O'Connor authored more than two dozen short stories and two novels. Her highly regionalized Southern Gothic stories often involve grotesque characters. Literature critic and theologian Timothy J. Basselin consults O'Connor's life and work to illustrate the profound connections existing between the theme of the grotesque and Christian theology. O'Connor's own disability, Basselin argues, inspired a theology that leads readers toward greater recognition of God's activity in a sinfully grotesque world. By combining disability studies, literary critique, and theological reflection, Basselin discovers a new vision for approaching the disabled, the grotesque, and the other in society. Flannery O'Connor reignites O'Connor's own critiques of the modern affinity for perfection, selfsufficiency, and a clear separation between "good" and "bad."
Reviews: "In 'The Regional Writer,' Flannery O'Connor states that limitation provides 'a gateway to reality.' Timothy J. Basselin's Flannery O'Conner: Writing a Theology of Disabled Humanity offers a gateway to understanding how O'Connor's fiction led her to a profound literary vision and theological perspective on the grace and mystery of disability." --Rosemary M. Magee, Vice President and Secretary of Emory University; Director of the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory; and author of Conversations with Flannery O'Connor HB 9781602587656 ÂŁ26.50 July 2013 Baylor University Press 158 pages
G K Chesterton Chesterton The Nightmare Goodness of God Ralph C. Wood The literary giant G. K. Chesterton is often praised as the "Great Optimist"--God's rotund jester. In this fresh and daring endeavor, Ralph Wood turns a critical eye on Chesterton's corpus to reveal the beef-and-ale believer's darker vision of the world and those who live in it. During an age when the words grace, love, and gospel , sound more hackneyed than genuine, Wood argues for a recovery of Chesterton's primary contentions: First, that the incarnation of Jesus was necessary reveals a world full not of a righteous creation but of tragedy, terror, and nightmare, and second, that the problem of evil is only compounded by a Christianity that seeks progress, political control, and cultural triumph. Wood's sharp literary critique moves beyond formulaic or overly pious readings to show that, rather than fleeing from the ghoulish horrors of his time, Chesterton located God's mysterious goodness within the existence of evil. Chesterton seeks to reclaim the keen theological voice of this literary authority who wrestled often with the counterclaims of paganism. In doing so, it argues that Christians may have more to learn from the unbelieving world than is often supposed.
About the Author: Ralph C. Wood is University Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor University.
Reviews: "Wood's critical retrieval of Chesterton's work demonstrates very clearly how worthwhile it remains to engage with Chesterton's most essential and provocative ideas." -Fergus Kerr, Honorary Professor of Modern Catholic Theology at the University of St Andrews HB 9781602581616 ÂŁ26.50 September 2011 Baylor University Press 358 pages
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George Macdonald George MacDonald Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity Daniel Gabelman The Scottish poet, author, and Christian minister George MacDonald is widely known as an inspiration for the works of CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and Lewis Carroll, among others. Nineteenth century photographs of MacDonald present a forbidding visage, embodying Victorian-era solemnity. Yet behind the facade lived a whimsical and fantastical muse. Gabelman ably reveals in MacDonald's writings a bridge between playfulness and seriousness in the modern imagination. George MacDonald delivers a balanced reading of its subject that ultimately lends a new theological and literary weight to whimsy.
Reviews: "This sparkling study of George MacDonald's playfulness is an important and serious contribution to MacDonald scholarship. Gabelman orchestrates Dante, Dionysius, and St Paul to delineate in MacDonald a theology of folly that raises soul and body to ecstasy. Rarely do Oscar Wilde, Byron, and Moltmann share a text--but here they unite to urge MacDonald's project of ludic transformation." -- Alison Milbank, Associate Professor, The University of Nottingham HB 9781602587823 £26.50 August 2013 Baylor University Press 272 pages
Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen in China Edited by Johs. Norregaard Frandsen, Sun Jian, Torben Grongaard Jeppesen Hans Christian Andersen is known and loved throughout modern China. With his fairy tales and other stories the Danish author builds a bridge of imagination, sympathy, and human warmth between people and readers, between Chinese and Danes. This collection of studies is the result of an exceptional working relationship between researchers from Fudan University in Shanghai and the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, initiated when we met in Shanghai in 2011 to launch a research project on "The Global Significance of Hans Christian Andersen". The book deals with Andersen's significance, unmatched for a transnational author, in China, and with the first translations of his tales by which, a century ago, he was introduced to Chinese readers. It provides insights from a variety of literary, cultural, and political perspectives. Above all, the book bears witness to a common engagement with the task of achieving insight and understanding. PB 9788776748203 £22.00 May 2014 University Press of S.Denmark 191 pages colour illus
Hans Christian Andersen’s Magic Trunk Short Tales Commented on in Images & Words Hans Christian Andersen Edited by Lene Kryger, Johs. Norregaard Frandsen At the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense the writer's trunk is on display. It is worn and dusty, for Andersen loved to travel and was often off on some journey. Everywhere he came, he studied people and collected impressions that he later transformed into characters and places in his immortal fairy-tales. And, unlike the trunk, his fairy-tales never wear out, but remain as relevant and gripping today as they were 150 years ago. In this book we have collected 15 of Andersen's short tales, some of which are extremely well-known, others less so. What the tales all share is that apart from telling a particular story they also describe people's thoughts, actions and dreams. Each of the fairy-tales is provided with a commentary from a researcher at the Hans Christian Andersen Centre, University of Southern Denmark, as well as a brand-new illustration. PB 9788776749330 £18.00 December 2015 University Press of S.Denmark 99 pages colour illus
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Ian McEwan Mind Presentation in Ian McEwan's Fiction Consciousness and the Presentation of Character in Amsterdam, Atonement and On Chesil Beach Karam Nayebpour This book explores the central fictional minds in three of Ian McEwan's most popular narratives. Mind presentation constitutes the main part of characterisation in the second phase of McEwan's writing, where his plot structure depends to a large degree on the presentation of the characters’ mental workings. In Amsterdam (1998), Atonement (2003), and On Chesil Beach (2007), the construction process of the fictional minds, the degree their functioning is impacted by their experiences, and the way their mental aspect controls their behaviour and relationships are critical to the stories. Relying on insights and methods from Cognitive Narratology, this study follows two purposes: It firstly analyses the function of fictional minds and their operational modes in these narratives. Secondly, it explores the impact of the characters' experiences on both their mental functioning and their behaviour, especially with view of their relationships. Nayebpour reveals that the plot structure of these narratives highly depends on the lack of a sound balance between the two aspects of the represented minds (intermental/joint thought and intramental/individual thought) as well as on the dominance of the intramental one. The tragic atmosphere in these narratives, Nayebpour argues, is the result of this imbalance. PB 9783838209791 £34.99 April 2017 Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag 318 pages
Isaac Bashevis Singer The Art of Time, the Art of Place Isaac Bashevis Singer and Marc Chagall -- A Dialogue Dr Ruth Dorot This book draws a comparison between two of the most prominent Jewish artists in the twentieth-century: Polish-born magician story-teller Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) and Russian-born creator of visual magic Marc Chagall (1887-1985). In addition to their East European Jewish background both were exposed to Western culture. Chagall absorbed such turn-of-thecentury avant-garde styles as Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Abstract Art, Surrealism; from these he created a unique blend, to which he brought the various Russian influences he had absorbed and his own special highly imaginative and inventive personal style. Bashevis Singer brought to his works philosophical, psychological, scientific, medical and legal knowledge. While both artists were affected by these Western influences, they remained firmly entrenched within the Jewish culture -- the Yiddish language and life in the "shtetl" -- from which they drew their inspiration. Their world consisted of a special blend of reality and dream, realism and fantasy. Ruth Dorot demonstrates that they shared, albeit unwittingly, a common "meta-realistic" style combining the earthly with the supernatural and the transcendental. Their works allude to real place names, dates, facts and historical events; but at the same time contain occult forces, angels, demons, mysticism and mystery. Comparisons range over the Jewish "shtetl", Jewish artists, Love and Despair, the Holocaust and war, religion and mysticism. In the works of both artists, hope springs eternal; it is a hope emanating from the mystical realm of life as it relates to the magic of creation and the cosmic logic of the Creator. Artist and story-teller sail between hard-core reality and the yearning for redemption, between Judaism and universal values, between exile and revelation. HB 9781845194093 £19.95 January 2011 Sussex Academic Press 144 pages colour illus
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Jane Austen Jane Austen & Company Collected Essays Bruce Stovel, Juliet McMaster, Isobel Grundy Edited by Nora Stovel Here we come to know Jane Austen by the company she keeps: her predecessors Fielding, Sterne, Lennox, and Burney, her contemporary Scott, and her successors Waugh and Amis-comic novelists all. And comedy is the connection between these twelve elegant essays by the distinguished academic Bruce Stovel, who most lovingly engages Austen herself through his studies of her comic novels, her art of conversation, her pleasure principle, and her prayers. Edited by Nora Foster Stovel, the collection includes an introduction by Juliet McMaster and an afterword by Isobel Grundy.
About the Author: Bruce Stovel (1941-2007) was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Alberta. He co-edited two collections of essays on Austen and contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. Juliet McMaster is University Professor Emerita in English at the University of Alberta and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Nora Foster Stovel is Professor of English at the University of Alberta, where she teaches twentieth-century literature and Canadian women's fiction. PB 9780888645487 £26.99 March 2011 University of Alberta Press 264 pages
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Literature and the Cult of Personality Essays on Goethe and His Influence Gregory Maertz The construction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an Anglo-American sage and literary icon was the product of a cult of personality that lay at the centre of nineteenth-century cultural politics. A reconstruction of the culture wars fought over Goethe’s authority, a previously hidden chapter in the intellectual history of the period ranging from the late eighteenth century to the threshold of Modernism, is the focus of this book. Marginal as well as canonical writers and critics figured prominently in this process, and this book offers insight into the mediation activities of Mary Wollstonecraft, Henry Crabb Robinson, the canonical Romantic poets, Thomas Carlyle, Margaret Fuller, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, and others. For women writers and Jacobins, Scots, and Americans, translating Goethe served as an empowering cultural platform that challenges the myth of the self-sufficiency of British literature. Reviewing and translating German authors provided a means of gaining literary enfranchisement and offered a paradigm of literary development according to which 're-writers' become original writers through an apprenticeship of translation and reviewing. In the diverse and fascinating body of critical writing examined in this book, textual exegesis plays an unexpectedly minor role; in its place, a full-blown cult of personality emerges along with a blueprint for the ideology of hero-worship that is more fully mapped out in the cultural and political life of twentieth-century Europe. PB 9783838209814 £29.99 April 2017 Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag 254 pages
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John Betjeman John Betjeman Reading the Victorians Greg Morse John Betjeman was undoubtedly the most popular Poet Laureate since Tennyson. But beneath the thoroughly modern window on Britain that he opened during his lifetime lay the influence of his nineteenth-century forebears. This book explores his identity through such Victorianism via the verse of that period, but also its architecture, religious faith and -- more importantly -religious doubt. It was, nevertheless, a process which took time. In the 1930s Betjeman's work was tinted with modernism and traditionalism. He found Victorian buildings 'funny' and wrote much in praise of the Bauhaus style, even though his early poetry was peppered with Victorian references. This leaning was incorporated into a greater sense of purpose during World War II, when he transformed himself from precious humorist into propagandist. The resulting sense of cohesion grew when the dangers of post-war urban redevelopment heightened the need to critique the present via the poetics of the past, a mood which continued up to and beyond his gaining the Laureateship in 1972. This duty proved to be a millstone, so the 'official' poems are thus explored by the author more fully than hitherto. The conclusion of John Betjeman: Reading the Victorians looks back to Betjeman's 1960 verse-autobiography, Summoned by Bells, which is seen as the apogee of his achievement and a snapshot of his identity. Included here is the first critical appreciation of the lyrics embodied within the text, which are taken as a map of the young poet's literary growth. Larkin's 1959 question 'What exactly is Betjeman?' then leads to a final appraisal of his originality, as evidenced by his glances towards postmodernism, feminism, and post-colonialism. The fact is that Betjeman never quite fits in anywhere. He is always a square peg in a round hole or a round peg in a square hole -- often for the sheer enjoyment of so being. In a sense, his desire to be as non-conformist as a Quaker meeting house makes him a radical, rather than the reactionary that his interests imply. He was a champion of beauty and the British Isles, and clearly did much to make us see the worth of our Victorian forebears. Greg Morse's book highlights this important facet of his work.
About the Author: Greg Morse became interested in John Betjeman's work around the tenth anniversary of the poet's death in 1994. Having devoured as much Betjeman material as possible, he eventually began reading for a D.Phil at the University of Sussex. PB 9781845195342 ÂŁ22.50 February 2012 Sussex Academic Press 272 pages
Jorge Luis Borges Borges and Plato A Game with Shifting Mirrors Shlomy Mualem This comparative approach shows how the Platonic viewpoint sheds new light on Borges' essayistic and fictional work. Analyses to which extent his thought is deeply rooted in classical philosophical doctrines. PB 9788484895954 ÂŁ25.50 January 2012 Iberoamericana/Vervuert 246 pages
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Karel Capek Karel Capek In Pursuit of Truth, Tolerance and Trust Bohuslava R Bradbrook Karel Capek is the most important, most versatile, but also the most neglected Czech writer in the twentieth century. His plays RUR and "From the Life of Insects" created a sensation in London in the 1920s; his word "robot" was introduced into the Oxford English Dictionary while his other plays as well as novels, short stories, essays, and travelogues followed in English translations in quick succession until cultural links were broken off by the war. Because of his liberal, anti-war views Capek’s works were blacklisted by the Nazis occupying his homeland, as well as later by the communists. Presenting a study of all genres Capek used, BRB's book pays the debt history owes to Capek. Both as a writer and as a journalist, Capek sought the truth: in the epistemological sense, how we acquire knowledge; in the moral one, how we apply it to our behaviour. Recognizing great differences between individuals, Capek recommends tolerance and mutual trust as the best way towards the improvement of democratic human relations. His philosophical trilogy – Hordubal, Meteor and An Ordinary Life -- is the best artistic expression of these ideas; as a journalist, he conveyed them explicitly. Capek's science fiction works show his admiration for the achievements of science and technology; he forecast the use of nuclear power, but strongly warned against its abuse. His readers particularly appreciated his common sense, wit and humour. Karel Capek was a man who taught through laughter. PB 9781845195533 £22.50 July 2012 Sussex Academic Press 272 pages b/w photos
Katherine Mansfield A Strange Beautiful Excitement Katherine Mansfield’s Wellington 1888-1903 Redmer Yska How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a ‘ravishing, immersing read’, A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a ‘wild ride’ through the Wellington of Katherine Mansfield’s childhood. From the grubby, wind-blasted streets of Thorndon to the hushed green valley of Karori, author Redmer Yska, himself raised in Karori, retraces Mansfield’s old ground: the sights, sounds and smells of the rickety colonial capital, as experienced by the budding writer. Along the way his encounters and dogged research -- into her Beauchamp ancestry, the social landscape, the festering, deadly surroundings -- lead him (and us) to reevaluate long-held conclusions about the writer’s shaping years. They also lead to a thrilling discovery. This haunting and beautifully vivid book combines fact and fiction, biography and memoir, as Yska rediscovers Mansfield’s Wellington, unearthing her childhood as he goes, shining a new lamp on old territory.
About the Author: Redmer Yska is a Wellington-born writer and historian. He has published books about postwar teenagers (‘bodgies and widgies'), Dutch New Zealanders like himself, and a commissioned history of Wellington City. He was awarded the National Library Research Fellowship to write a history of NZ Truth, published in 2010. Yska was the major recipient of a New Zealand History Research Trust Fund Award in 2014, allowing him to write this book.
Reviews: "It’s not enough to say I immensely enjoyed A Strange Beautiful Excitement ... it’s simply splendid." -- Dame Fiona Kidman HB 9780947522544 £22.99 August 2017 Otago University Press 296 pages colour illus
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Marcel Proust The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust A Critical Study of Remembrance of Things Past Howard Moss, Damion Searls "Remembrance of Things Past" is more than a novel; it is a work in which a single person's life is transformed into a mythology, with its own pantheon of gods, its own religious rituals, and its own moral laws. A total vision, it does not rely on any system outside itself for support. It is as if Dante had set out to write the Paradiso and the Inferno utilising only the facts of his own existence without any reference to Christianity... Other novelists describe or invent worlds. "Remembrance of Things Past" is an entire universe created and interpreted by Marcel Proust." -- from Chapter 1. "Moss lays out the sweeping claims and overarching structure of Remembrance of Things Past - the significance of Swann's Way and the Guermantes Way, or why there are such long party scenes - and is equally good at bringing to light all sorts of tiny, revealing details." - from the new Foreword by Damion Searls
About the Author: Howard Moss was poetry editor of the New Yorker for almost forty years. He also wrote more than a dozen books of poetry, plays, criticism, and a book of arch parodymicrobiographies of cultural figures, Instant Lives, illustrated by Edward Gorey. Damion Searls is the author of What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going (stories) and has written for Harper's, Bookforum, n+1, and The Believer. As a translator -- of authors including Marcel Proust (On Reading) -- he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012.
Reviews: "A moving and inspiring book. Moss clears away dark corners, clarifies motivations, and places the huge work within the reader's perspective. A book of great value to the scholar and the general reader." -- Publishers Weekly PB 9781589880795 ÂŁ12.99 July 2012 Paul Dry Books 124 pages
Marcel Proust in Pictures andDocuments Edited by Patricia Mante-Proust, Mireille Naturel Translated by Josephine Bacon "For a long time I used to go to bed early": possibly the most famous opening line in the French language and the first words of a masterly work whose author himself would even compare to a cathedral. In Search of Lost Time, the work of a man: Marcel Proust, the man of the work. Never before had a writer taken introspection and the workings of memory to such a level, and in the course of this prodigious quest brought a quasi-mystical aura to the taste of the humble Madeleine for generations of readers around the world. A work of keys, famously obscure -- that famous Proustian phrase -- and yet overflowing with fantasies, "In Search of Lost Time" gives us an invitation to penetrate the mysteries and secrets of its author. He is often described as a nervous, painfully shy individual, hiding away in his cork-lined bedroom; but between his fantasies and his real life experiences, who was the real Marcel Proust? And what can we learn from the famous Questionnaire to which he replied and which now carries his name? Containing many photographs, manuscripts and other unique documents, some of them never before published, this book -- the first of its kind about this literary genius -- celebrates the life and an era that have become timeless through the magic of the author's unique style.
About the Author: Patricia Mante-Proust, 35, is the great-grandniece of the writer and keeper of his estate. Through the exclusive documents that she inherited she revisits her rich family history in images and anecdotes. HB 9783283012182 ÂŁ45.00 April 2013 Edition Olms AG 192 pages 350 photos & illus
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Marie Stopes Love's Creation A Novel by Marie Stopes, Author of Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties Deryn Rees-Jones Marie Stopes' work in the area of sexual health and contraception has left a lasting legacy, and she is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant figures of the twentieth century. Her Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties was first published in 1918, translated into thirteen languages and sold over a million copies. Stopes also ardently pursued her enthusiasm for literature throughout her life, writing novels, plays and poetry. Her novel Love's Creation, published in 1928, the year women obtained the vote, is a working through of the debates which she addressed both in her personal and public life: sexual relations, the relationship between the arts and sciences, the quest for female sexual fulfillment. Marie Stopes' campaigning on behalf of a more open attitude to women's sexuality, equality in marriage, and sexual health and contraception, and her opening of the first free birth control clinic in the British Empire in 1921, saw her at the centre of political controversy, not least in her battle with the Roman Catholic church. Love's Creation, republished here for the first time since 1928, offers fascinating insights into early twentieth-century women's writing, most notably Virginia Woolf's theories of female creativity / fulfilled female sexuality which is not under threat from motherhood; female economic and psychic freedom; and the social milieu of the time. It is an engaging and fast moving narrative with lively, well-drawn and unconventional characters. The novel poses important questions about women's choices and aspirations before, during and after marriage. Not surprisingly it also engages in still contemporary and vital debates about the relationship between the sciences and the arts, and theories of evolution.
About the Author: Deryn Rees-Jones has published three full-length collections of poetry and was named as one of the Poetry Society's 20 Next Generation poets in 2004. She has been the judge of numerous literary awards, including the Costa poetry prize, and the T.S. Eliot Prize, and is a Fellow of the English Association. She teaches literature at the University of Liverpool. PB 9781845194192 £16.95 May 2012 Sussex Academic Press 216 pages
Mark Twain Mark Twain Strange and Wonderful Lee Prosser This book is a fresh appraisal of the writer who made American fiction and travel writing popular worldwide. Looking at his life and his body of writing, this book recounts tales of the young Samuel Clemens learning of other worlds from slaves and playing with ghostly friends in the Hannibal cemetery. The majority of Twain’s writings reflect his personal life experiences, including his connections with the paranormal. He also helped pioneer the beginnings of science fiction and fantasy writing. Accompanying the text, which recounts the story of Mark Twain’s adventuresome life and his diverse body of work, are over 40 photos of the man and his surroundings. For readers seeking a unique perspective on an impressive writer, this is it. PB 9780764338816 £13.50 January 2012 Schiffer Publishing Ltd 128 pages 45 photos
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Miguel De Cervantes Cervantes in Perspective Edited by Julia Domínguez Original essays on Cervantes's life and literature: discussions of current theories of fiction, comparative approaches, unique studies on the impact of Cervantine fiction on both Early Modern Spain and contemporary US culture. PB 9788484897187 £31.50 January 2013 Iberoamericana/Vervuert 160 pages
Exemplary Novellas Cervantes Edited and translated by Michael Harney "Michael Harney's translation of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares is the most authoritative and accurate rendering of Cervantes's classic tales to date and promises to be the translation against which future translations will be measured. Harney skillfully portrays the nuanced and complex world of the Exemplary Novellas in a translation that is faithful to the letter and spirit of the original. An erudite and informative Introduction presents a general overview of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, the life of Cervantes, and a detailed analysis of the Exemplary Novellas. Before each story, Harney provides a brief synopsis, an analysis of the novella's themes, motifs, and generic affinities, and a bibliography for further reading. In addition, numerous footnotes complement the background information Harney provides in the Introduction and prior to each novella." Michael J. McGrath, Georgia Southern University PB 9781624664472 £21.99 March 2016 Hackett Publishing Company,Inc 544 pages
Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde -- The Great Drama of His Life How His Tragedy Reflected His Personality Ashley H Robins In the 1890s Oscar Wilde enjoyed one of the most high-profile reputations in Britain; yet, virtually overnight, he was plunged into disgrace and ruin. What were the reasons for this extraordinary reversal of fortune? Ashley Robins explores Wilde's motivation in prosecuting the Marquess of Queensberry, and elaborates on the precarious legal situation that effectively quashed any withdrawal from the lawsuit without dire consequences. He examines the medical and psychiatric aspects of Wilde's imprisonment and reveals the machinations among prison officials and doctors to cover up his state of health. Wilde's medical history is presented with an expert evaluation of his terminal illness, including a resolution of the syphilis controversy. Robins details Wilde's tangled matrimonial affairs and discloses the manoeuvres of friends to secure his early release, citing hitherto unpublished letters to show that bribery of prison personnel was seriously contemplated. The issue of homosexuality is discussed not only in relation to Oscar Wilde but from the broader historical, legal and biological perspective. Finally, Wilde's personality is assessed using diagnostic criteria; and, in an innovative experiment, a group of Wildean scholars completed a psychological questionnaire as if they were doing so for Oscar himself. Drawing on these findings and on his own extensive psychiatric experience, Ashley Robins concludes that Wilde had a disorder of personality that culminated in the final and tragic phase of his life. PB 9781845195410 £19.95 July 2012 Sussex Academic Press 272 pages illus
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Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie A Deleuzian Reading Søren Frank Frank analyses five of Rushdie's novels, Grimes, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet. Claiming an intellectual kinship between Rushdie and the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze in regard to world-view, aesthetics and human identity, the author's analytical starting point is Deleuze's concepts of rhizome, simulacrum and lines of flight which are used as guiding principles in his comprehensive examination of Rushdie's compositional and enunciatory strategies and his portrayals of a variety of memorable migrant characters. The volume is an original contribution to the study of Salman Rushdie.
About the Author: Søren Frank is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literature, Media & Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. PB 9788763536714 £21.99 February 2011 Museum Tusculanum Press 288 pages
Samuel Beckett Falsifying Beckett Essays on Archives, Philosophy and Methodology in Beckett Studies Matthew Feldman, Erik Tonning The dozen essays brought together here, alongside a newly-written introduction, contextualise and exemplify the recent "empirical turn" in Beckett studies. Characterised, above all, by recourse to manuscript materials in constructing revisionist interpretations, this approach has helped to transform the study of Samuel Beckett over the past generation. In addition to focusing upon Beckett's early immersion in philosophy and psychology, other chapters similarly analyse his later collaboration with the BBC through the lens of literary history. The book thus offers new readings of Beckett by returning to his archive of notebooks, letters, and drafts. In reassessing key aspects of his development as one of the 20th century's leading artists, this collection is of interest to all students of Beckett's writing as well as "historicist" scholars and critics of modernism more generally. PB 9783838206363 £31.99 April 2015 Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag 302 pages
The Imperative of Narration Beckett, Bernard, Schopenhauer, Lacan Catharina Wulf This is the first book to deal with the self-reflexive nature of narration of Beckett and Bernhard. Samuel Beckett's and Thomas Bernhard's works are representative of a persisting perplexity with regard to language. The texts of both authors are marked by their narrator's obsessive need to write, which is inextricably intertwined with their profound suspicion of language. The perpetuation of the narration is explained as an imperative, a simultaneously conscious and unconscious command which forces the artist to submit to the creative process. The author places this inexplicable force of the imperative within the context of Arthur Schopenhauer's aesthetic theory and Jacques Lacan's concept of desire. The attempt to define and interpret the two authors' prose and drama is displaced by this sense of the infinity of desire (Lacan) and by the eternal becoming of the will (Schopenhauer), which reveal themselves to lie at the heart of Beckett's and Bernhard's creativity. PB 9781845196738 £25.00 October 2014 Sussex Academic Press 208 pages
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T E Lawrence For Only Those Deserve the Name T E Lawrence and Seven Pillars of Wisdom Mark Calderbank In “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”, his epic of the Arab Revolt, T E Lawrence wanted to write a work of spiritual greatness, comparable to The Brothers Karamazov and Thus spake Zarathustra. ‘For only those deserve the name’, he wrote to Charlotte Shaw, recalling his ambition to be a great writer. Mark Calderbank’s biography shows how post-World War I political developments in the Middle East, and Lawrence’s unsettled life and sense of guilt, influenced the published work and contributed to his sense of failure. By following multiple lines of enquiry into chosen events, Mark Calderbank shows us a story coloured by a retrospective vision of history, a post-war Weltanschaung, and the compulsion to present an exemplary personality. This approach has the deepest significance for the interpretation of the Seven Pillars’ reliability as a historical source, in particular the interweaving of fantasy and historical truth, and excessive personalisation. Seven Pillars has been overly influential and has long required a reassessment. The 100th anniversary of the Revolt is opportune and Calderbank’s majestic reassessment is long overdue.
About the Author: Mark Calderbank was born in Lancaster and brought up in the north of England. He read modern French and German literature at Cambridge University and Linguistics at Kent. A compulsion to travel led him to the Arab East, where he spent twenty years, learned Arabic, and travelled. This is his first book, building on his articles for the T.E. Lawrence Society Journal. He is married and lives in France. PB 9781845198428 £27.50 July 2017 Sussex Academic Press 360 pages illus
T S Eliot Eliot's Objective Correlative Tradition or Individual Talent? Contributions to the History of a Topos Flemming Olsen Eliot's dictum about the objective correlative has often been quoted but rarely analysed. This book traces the maxim to some of its sources and places it in a contemporary context. Eliot agreed with Locke about the necessity of sensory input, but for a poet to be able to create poetry, the input has to be processed by the poet's intellect. Respect for control of feelings and order of presentation were central to Eliot's conception of literary criticism. The result – the objective correlative – is not one word, but "a scene" or "a chain of events". Eliot's thinking was also inspired by late 19th century French critics like Gautier and Gourmont, whose terminology he not infrequently borrowed. But he chose the term "objective" out of respect for the prestige that still surrounded the Positivist paradigm. In its break-away from Positivist dogmas, criticism of art in the early 20th century was very much preoccupied with form. In poetry, that meant focus on the use and function of the word. That focus is perceptible everywhere in Eliot's criticism. Even though the idea of the objective correlative was not an original one, Eliot's treatment of it is interesting because he sees a seeming truism ("the right word in the right place") in a new light. He never developed the theory, but the thought is traceable in several of his critical essays. On account of its categorical and rudimentary form, the theory is not unproblematic: whose fault is it if the reader's response does not square with the poet's intention? And indeed, Eliot's own practice belies his theory -- witness the multifarious legitimate interpretations of his poems.
About the Author: Flemming Olsen was for many years Reader in English Literature and The Teaching of Literature at the University of Copenhagen. PB 9781845195540 £16.95 June 2012 Sussex Academic Press 88 pages
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The Brontes The Poetic World of Emily Brontë Poems from the Author of Wuthering Heights Laura Inman Emily Brontë is known as a novelist, but she was first and equally a poet. Before during and after writing Wuthering Heights, she wrote poetry. Indeed, she wrote virtually nothing else for us to read -- no other work of fiction or correspondence. Her poems, however, fill this void. They are varied, lyrical, intriguing, and innovative, yet they are not well known. This book brings an unjustifiably marginalised poet out of the shadows and presents her poetry in a way that enables readers, even those who shy away from poetry, to appreciate her work. This volume arranges selected poems by thematic topic. It provides literary and biographical information on each topic and interpretations, explanations, and insights into each poem. This book is for all who appreciate poetry, especially from the golden age of 19th century verse. The exploration of Emily Brontë's poetic world allows a greater and different understanding of Wuthering Heights and insights into Brontë's fascinating mind.
About the Author: Laura Inman is an independent scholar who has long been fascinated by Emily Brontë and has written about Wuthering Heights and Brontë's poetry in Brontë Studies and Victorians: Journal of Culture and Literature. She is a freelance writer, whose essays and fiction appear in online magazines and blogs, including her own blog, thelivingphilospher.com. Formerly she practiced law, holding a J.D. degree from The University of Texas Law School. PB 9781845196455 £18.95 June 2014 Sussex Academic Press 160 pages
Through Belgian Eyes Charlotte Brontë’s Troubled Brussels Legacy Helen MacEwan Charlotte Brontë’s years in Belgium (1842–43) had a huge influence both on her life and her work. It was in Brussels that she not only honed her writing skills but fell in love and lived through the experiences that inspired two of her four novels: her first, The Professor, and her last and in many ways most interesting, Villette. Her feelings about Belgium are known from her novels and letters – her love for her tutor Heger, her uncomplimentary remarks about Belgians, the powerful effect on her imagination of living abroad. But what about Belgian views of Charlotte Brontë? How have Belgian commentators responded to her portrayal of their capital city and their society? ‘Through Belgian Eyes’ explores a wide range of responses from across the Channel, from the hostile to the enthusiastic. In the process, it examines what The Professor and Villette tell Belgian readers about their capital in the 1840s and provides a wealth of detail on the Brussels background to the two novels. Unlike Paris and London, Brussels has inspired few outstanding works of literature. That makes Villette, considered by many to be Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece, of particular interest as a portrait of the Belgian capital a decade after the country gained independence in 1830, and just before modernisation and expansion transformed the city out of all recognition from the ‘villette’ (small town) that Charlotte knew. Her view of Brussels is contrasted with those of other foreign visitors and of the Belgians themselves. The story of Charlotte Brontë’s Brussels legacy provides a unique perspective on her personality and writing.
About the Author: Helen MacEwan studied modern languages at Oxford University. A translator and former teacher, she is the author of The Brontës in Brussels, a guide to Charlotte and Emily Brontë's time at the Pensionnat Heger, and Down the Belliard Steps: Discovering the Brontës in Brussels. And most recently, Winifred Gérin: Biographer of the Brontës (“Adds significantly to Brontë studies and literary biography”: Claire Harman, biographer and critic, author of Charlotte Brontë: A Life). PB 9781845199104 £19.95 November 2017 Sussex Academic Press 272 pages 60 illus
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Winifred Gérin Biographer of the Brontës Helen MacEwan The biographer Winifred Gérin (1901-81), who wrote the lives of all four Brontë siblings, stumbled on her literary vocation on a visit to Haworth, after a difficult decade following the death of her first husband. On the same visit she met her second husband, a Brontë enthusiast twenty years her junior. Together they turned their backs on London to live within sight of the Parsonage, Gérin believing that full understanding of the Brontës required total immersion in their environment. Gérin's childhood and youth, like the Brontës', was characterised by a cultured home and intense imaginative life shared with her sister and two brothers, and by family tragedies (the loss of two siblings in early life). Strong cultural influences formed the children's imagination and Winifred's years at Newnham College were enlivened by eccentric characters such as the legendary lecturer Quiller-Couch (‘Q'), and Bloomsbury's favourite philosopher, G.E. Moore. Her happy life in Paris with her Belgian cellist husband, Eugène Gérin, was brought to an abrupt end by the Second World War, in which the couple had many adventures: fleeing occupied Belgium, saving Jews in Nice in Vichy France, escaping through Spain and Portugal to England, where they did secret war work for Political Intelligence near Bletchley. After Eugène's death in 1945 Winifred coped with bereavement through poetry and playwriting until discovering her true literary metier on the trip to Haworth. The book is based on her letters and on her unpublished memoir. PB 9781845197438 £19.95 October 2015 Sussex Academic Press 256 pages illus
Thomas Hardy The Expression of Things Themes in Thomas Hardy’s Fiction and Poetry John Hughes John Hughes explores Hardy’s claim that his art sought to ‘intensify the expression of things’ through three main sections – on music, the body, and voice. These offer intersecting and mutually informing discussions of the central drama of inexpression and expressivity in Hardy’s work, as it affects the various personae of the text, including the reader. Throughout, the book draws on themes in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell to reveal how Hardy’s fiction and poetry express and represent the affective and physical conditions of mind, and their conflicts with social fictions of identity. The first main section on ‘music’ incorporates three chapters that examine how Hardy’s writing stages musical experience as an expression of human desire and individuality at odds with the constraints of rationality, Victorian fiction form, and social convention. The second section -- on ‘embodiment and sensation’ – shows how close attention to Hardy’s writing on the topics of facial and bodily expression (and affectivity) reveal much about the sources of his inspiration, and its philosophical conditions and implications. The third section on ‘voice’ offers three chapters, each of which centrally employs a close metrical reading of an important Hardy poem within its larger biographical and inter-textual contexts. These readings demonstrate how fundamental were Hardy’s innovations in meter to the power and originality of his work, and to its expressive treatment of his abiding preoccupations with love, grief, childhood, and the loss of faith.
About the Author: John Hughes is professor of nineteenth-century literature at the University of Gloucestershire. He has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, literary theory, and twentieth-century philosophy. He has written four books, Lines of Flight (Continuum, 1996), Ecstatic Sound (Ashgate, 2001), Affective Worlds (Sussex Academic Press, 2011) and Invisible Now (Routledge, 2013). HB 9781845198121 £50.00 November 2017 Sussex Academic Press 256 pages
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War, the Hero and the Will Hardy, Tolstoy and the Napoleonic Wars Jane L Bownas Thomas Hardy’s The Dynasts and Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace are both works which defy attempts to assign them to a particular genre but might seem to have little else in common apart from being set in the same period of history. This study argues that there are important similarities between these two works and examines the close correspondence between Hardy’s and Tolstoy’s thinking on themes relating to war, ideas of the heroic and the concept of free will. Although coming from very different backgrounds, both writers were influenced by their experiences of war, Tolstoy directly, by involvement in the wars in the Caucasus and the Crimea, and Hardy indirectly, by the events of the Anglo-Boer Wars. Their reaction to these experiences found expression in their descriptions of the wars fought against Napoleon at the beginning of the century. Hegel saw Napoleon as ‘the great world-historical man of his time’, and this work considers the ways in which Hardy and Tolstoy undermine this view, portraying Napoleon’s physical and mental decline and questioning the role he played in determining the outcomes of military actions. Both writers were deeply interested in the question of free will and determinism and their writings reveal their attempts to understand the nature of the force which lies behind men’s actions. Their differing views on the nature of consciousness are considered in the light of modern research on the development of the conscious brain. PB 9781845199043 £22.95 May 2017 Sussex Academic Press 224 pages
W E Henley Invictus Selected Poems and Prose of W E Henley John Howlett This book title derives from Henley’s most famous poem “Invictus”, which has been used as the name of a Hollywood film and for the International Paralympic Games sport event created by Britain’s Prince Harry. The poem’s stanzas have been popularised by Winston Churchill, Aung San Suu Ky and President Obama, and used to literary effect by C S Lewis, Oscar Wilde and in Casablanca. But this fine short lyric has unfortunately overshadowed Henley’s other considerable literary output. Henley was the archetypal Man of Letters -- a poet, reviewer, essayist, journalist, historian and newspaper hack. His friendships with Robert Louis Stevenson, J M Barrie, and Yeats places him at the centre of the Victorian literary milieu. As editor of the National Observer he published writers as diverse as Kipling, Shaw, Hardy and Wells. He promoted new forms of expression in literature and art, and was a close friend of Rodin and Degas. The book reproduces key essays which relate to Henley’s thinking on poetry, poets and the writing process, as well as his early and late poetry (some only recently discovered and attributed), unpublished verses, ephemera appearing in manuscript archives and important unpublished (often anonymous) essays. A scholarly introduction and critical notes serve to explain the significance of his poetry, the provenance of the material, and provide a context for his literary work in relation to historical events. Henley is often referenced in literary criticism, but until now has not been subject to book-length critical review. John Howlett set outs the case for his significance as a poet and writer in the context of Henley’s central role in the publishing direction of Victorian literature.
About the Author: John Howlett is a lecturer in Education Studies at the University of Keele. His recent books include Progressive Education: A Critical Introduction (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Edmond Holmes and Progressive Education (Routledge, 2016). His other main research interest is Victorian and twentieth-century poetry: he has edited scholarly editions of the poetry of Edmond Holmes (Farleigh Dickenson University Press, 2016) and Clere Parsons (Shoestring Press 2017). HB 9781845198862 £55.00 October 2017 Sussex Academic Press 200 pages
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Literary Interest English Country House in Literature A Critical Selection Geoffrey Hiller This anthology brings together some of the finest writing in English on the subject of the English country house, a topic currently enjoying a renascence of academic and general interest. The houses represented are for the most part fictional, and the extracts illustrate the various ways in which such descriptions function as part of the system of meanings in a novel, play, or poem. People shape their houses and their houses shape them. Houses may be seen as architectural metaphors of their owners. In a vast number of instances houses are depicted (even before the owner is described) in such a way as to give insights into, or clues to, his or her social status, and ethical and moral tastes. The various glimpses that the extracts provide of the country house its architecture, its garden, the well-being of its servants and tenants, the hospitality (or lack of it) that its guests experience - all in some way reflect the character of the owners. Moreover, by implication the house itself may well become a representative example of others of its kind: so we are led to believe that Jane Austen’s Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice with its tasteful elegance is a type of many others such; and that (later) there are many houses throughout England like Waugh’s Brideshead whose glory vanished after the second World War. The Introduction provides some historical and cultural context for the institution of the country house and traces some of the themes and topics that have persisted or been transformed during the long period (from the sixteenth century to the twentieth) of its representation in English literature. Each extract has a short introduction that provides its context, indicates salient details, and in doing so makes clear why it has been included. PB 9781922235299 £46.50 November 2014 Monash University Publishing 304 pages
Writers, Lovers, Soldiers, Spies A History of the Authors' Club of London, 1891-2016 C J Schüler, Miranda Seymour Where did Oscar Wilde indignantly denounce the censorship of his play Salome? Where did Arthur Conan Doyle and Jerome K Jerome read from their unpublished manuscripts? Where did Graham Greene prop up the bar with Kim Philby and Malcolm Muggeridge? Founded by Sir Walter Besant in 1891 to provide a congenial central London venue where authors could relax and socialise, the Authors’ Club was a home from home to many of the leading figures of English letters in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Its Presidents have included George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, J M Barrie and Compton Mackenzie, while Emile Zola, Mark Twain, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Veronica Wedgwood and T S Eliot were among the guest speakers to address the Club’s dinners. Rarely has such an array of writers gathered under one roof, yet the history of the Authors’ Club has never been written. Now, to commemorate its 125th anniversary and celebrate its return to the National Liberal Club in Whitehall Court, its former chairman has delved into its archives. Along with memoirs, diaries and newspaper reports, these unpublished records have provided the basis for a lively, entertaining and candid account of the Club’s distinguished and often turbulent history. This richly absorbing narrative sheds new light on the lives and opinions of many celebrated authors through scandals, financial crises and two world wars. It tells how Arnold Bennett worked on his novels in the Club library while Conan Doyle won the billiard handicap four times, how Lloyd George assembled his ‘kitchen cabinet’ here during the First World War and the MI5 spymaster Maxwell Knight recruited secret agents during the Second. Passionate disagreements among members over great events such as the General Strike and the Spanish Civil War have reflected changing social attitudes and views on literature and art. PB 9781527201682 £19.99 November 2016 Author's Club 192 pages colour & b/w photos
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