{"title":"Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026 prose writers","description":"Books on the subject of Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers","products":[{"product_id":"beyond-slavery-and-abolition-black-british-writing-c-1770-1830-hardback-9781108475655","title":"Beyond Slavery and Abolition; Black British Writing, c.1770–1830 (Hardback) 9781108475655","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBeyond Slavery and Abolition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBlack British Writing, c.1770–1830\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShows how black writers helped to build modern Britain by looking beyond the questions of slavery and abolition.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRyan Hanley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108475655, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 November 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e278 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 1.9 cm, 0.55 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Historians of black British history, the British Atlantic, and slavery studies will all find something rewarding in the book. Indeed, the Royal Historical Society deemed Beyond Slavery and Abolition worthy of its annual Whitfield Prize, an award that this novel work most certainly deserves.' Gary D. Sellick, H-Slavery\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe first full-length historical study of pre-abolition black British writing, this book challenges established narratives of eighteenth-century black history that focus almost exclusively on slavery and abolition. Ryan Hanley expands our perspectives to encompass the often neglected but important black writers of the time, and highlights their contribution to politics, culture, and the arts. He considers the lives and works of contemporary black literary celebrities alongside largely forgotten evangelical authors and political radicals to uncover how they came to produce such diverse and powerful work. By navigating the social, religious, political and professional networks that surrounded these authors and their writing, he also reveals that black intellectuals were never confined to the peripheries of British culture. From the decks of Royal Navy ships to the drawing rooms of country houses, from the pub to the pulpit, black writers, and the work they produced, helped to build modern Britain.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Black Celebrities: 1. Ignatius Sancho and posthumous literary celebrity, 1779–1782\u003cbr\u003e 2. Olaudah Equiano: celebrity abolitionist\u003cbr\u003e 3. Mary Prince and the infamy of victimhood, 1828–1833\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Black Evangelicals: 4. Ukawsaw Gronniosaw and British Calvinism, 1765–1779\u003cbr\u003e 5. Boston King, Kingswood School, and British Methodism, 1794–1798\u003cbr\u003e 6. John Jea in Lancashire and Hampshire, 1801–1817\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Black Radicals: 7. Ottobah Cugoano and the 'Black poor', 1786–1791\u003cbr\u003e 8. Robert Wedderburn and London's radical underworld\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Select bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Slavery \u0026amp; abolition of slavery [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Slavery \u0026amp; abolition of slavery\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Slavery%20\u0026amp;%20abolition%20of%20slavery%20%5BHBTS%5D%22\"\u003eHBTS\u003c\/a\u003e], Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Modern%20history%20to%2020th%20century:%20c%201700%20to%20c%201900%20%5BHBLL%5D%22\"\u003eHBLL\u003c\/a\u003e], Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20modern%20history:%20c%201450\/1500%20to%20c%201700%20%5BHBLH%5D%22\"\u003eHBLH\u003c\/a\u003e], British \u0026amp; Irish history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on British \u0026amp; Irish history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22British%20\u0026amp;%20Irish%20history%20%5BHBJD1%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD1\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20fiction,%20novelists%20\u0026amp;%20prose%20writers%20%5BDSK%5D%22\"\u003eDSK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45912954077464,"sku":"9781108475655","price":89.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108475655i.jpg?v=1696705851"},{"product_id":"an-outcast-of-the-islands-hardback-9781107126442","title":"An Outcast of the Islands (Hardback) 9781107126442","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAn Outcast of the Islands\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first comprehensive and authoritative critical edition of Conrad's second novel, An Outcast of the Islands (1896).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoseph Conrad (Author), Allan H. Simmons (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107126442, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 April 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e522 pages, 6 b\/w illus.  1 map\u003cbr\u003e22.3 x 14.5 x 3.4 cm, 0.77 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… Allan H. Simmons, in his edition of An Outcast of the Islands, clearly and efficiently presents the history of the text, including the likely provenance of the printer's copy of Doubleday's collected edition of 1920.' Dale Kramer, Joseph Conrad Today\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAn Outcast of the Islands (1896), Conrad's second novel, returns to the Malay world of Almayer's Folly (1895). Focusing on the collapse of Western values and morals in a colonial setting, the novel daringly portrays the power of erotic attraction and exposes the venal ambitions behind small- and large-scale political intrigues. The introduction situates the novel in Conrad's career as a writer and traces its origins and reception. The essay on the text and the apparatus explain the history of the work's composition and publication, and detail the interventions of Conrad's compositors and editors. There are notes explaining literary and historical references, a glossary of nautical terms, illustrations including pictures of early drafts, and appendixes. This edition presents the novel and its preface in forms more authoritative than any so far printed, and restores a text that has circulated in defective forms since its original publication.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eGeneral editors' preface\u003cbr\u003e Chronology\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations and note on editions\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e An Outcast of the Islands\u003cbr\u003e The texts: an essay\u003cbr\u003e Apparatus\u003cbr\u003e Textual notes\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Explanatory notes\u003cbr\u003e Glossaries\u003cbr\u003e Map.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Colonialism \u0026amp; imperialism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Colonialism \u0026amp; imperialism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Colonialism%20\u0026amp;%20imperialism%20%5BHBTQ%5D%22\"\u003eHBTQ\u003c\/a\u003e], Classic fiction [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Classic fiction\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Classic%20fiction%20%5Bpre%20c%201945%5D%20%5BFC%5D%22\"\u003epre c 1945 FC\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20fiction,%20novelists%20\u0026amp;%20prose%20writers%20%5BDSK%5D%22\"\u003eDSK\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913170608408,"sku":"9781107126442","price":89.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107126442i_a48b63e4-8b6d-4bfd-a370-ebdf024b5960.jpg?v=1696793562"},{"product_id":"the-cambridge-centenary-ulysses-the-1922-text-with-essays-and-notes-hardback-9781316515945","title":"The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes (Hardback) 9781316515945","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis edition offers everything needed by the newcomer to this famous but intimidating text: images, maps, footnotes, and introductory essays by eighteen leading Joyceans.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames Joyce (Author), Catherine Flynn (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781316515945, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 June 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e988 pages\u003cbr\u003e31.2 x 23.5 x 6 cm, 3.12 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… this edition promises a lot and provides much … Recommended.' W. S. Brockman, Choice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eJames Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. This new edition - published to celebrate the book's first publication - helps readers to understand the pleasures of this monumental work and to grapple with its challenges. Copiously equipped with maps, photographs, and explanatory footnotes, it provides a vivid and illuminating context for the experiences of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, as well as Joyce's many other Dublin characters, on June 16, 1904. Featuring a facsimile of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text, this version also includes Joyce's own errata as well as references to amendments made in later editions. Each of the eighteen chapters of Ulysses is introduced by a leading Joyce scholar. These richly informative pieces discuss the novel's plot and allusions, while also explaining crucial questions that have puzzled and tantalized readers over the last hundred years.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Joyce's Schemata for Ulysses\u003cbr\u003e Ulysses, with Introductory Essays: 1. Telemachus Karen R. Lawrence\u003cbr\u003e 2. Nestor Robert Spoo\u003cbr\u003e 3. Proteus Sam Slote\u003cbr\u003e 4. Calypso Margot Norris\u003cbr\u003e 5. Lotus Eaters Maud Ellmann\u003cbr\u003e 6. Hades Barry Devine\u003cbr\u003e 7. Aeolus Terence Killeen\u003cbr\u003e 8. Lestrygonians Matthew Hayward\u003cbr\u003e 9. Scylla and Charybdis Matthew Creasy\u003cbr\u003e 10. Wandering Rocks Scarlett Baron\u003cbr\u003e 11. Sirens Katherine O'Callaghan\u003cbr\u003e 12. Cyclops Vince Cheng\u003cbr\u003e 13. Nausicaa Vicki Mahaffey\u003cbr\u003e 14. Oxen of the Sun Sarah Davison\u003cbr\u003e 15. Circe Ronan Crowley\u003cbr\u003e 16. Eumaeus Tim Conley\u003cbr\u003e 17. Ithaca Fritz Senn\u003cbr\u003e 18. Penelope Catherine Flynn\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Annotations\u003cbr\u003e The Errata Ronan Crowley and Catherine Flynn\u003cbr\u003e Further Reading\u003cbr\u003e Index of Characters.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Classic fiction [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Classic fiction\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Classic%20fiction%20%5Bpre%20c%201945%5D%20%5BFC%5D%22\"\u003epre c 1945 FC\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary companions, book reviews \u0026amp; guides [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary companions, book reviews \u0026amp; guides\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20companions,%20book%20reviews%20\u0026amp;%20guides%20%5BDSRC%5D%22\"\u003eDSRC\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20fiction,%20novelists%20\u0026amp;%20prose%20writers%20%5BDSK%5D%22\"\u003eDSK\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: from c 1900 -\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20from%20c%201900%20-%20%5BDSBH%5D%22\"\u003eDSBH\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e], Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45999522054424,"sku":"9781316515945","price":31.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781316515945i.jpg?v=1696681719"},{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-f-scott-fitzgerald-paperback-9780521624749","title":"The Cambridge Companion to F. 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Scott Fitzgerald\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpecially commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRuth Prigozy (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521624749, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 25 October 2001\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.4 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Ruth Prigozy has done a wonderful job of ensuring that her contributors write in an accessible and jargon-free style and cover the full range of Fitzgerald's writings … If … the editor's aim was to produce 'a full and accessible picture' of the author's life and career, then she is to be congratulated on having assembled a set of contributors who provide exactly that.' The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEleven specially commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars present a clearly written and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a writer and as a public and private figure. No aspect of his career is overlooked, from his first novel published in 1920, through his more than 170 short stories, to his last unfinished Hollywood novel. Contributions present the reader with a full and accessible picture of the background of American social and cultural change in the early decades of the twentieth century. The introduction traces Fitzgerald's career as a literary and public figure, and examines the extent to which public recognition has affected his reputation among scholars, critics, and general readers over the past sixty years. 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Gerald Kennedy\u003cbr\u003e 8. Women in Fitzgerald's fiction Rena Sanderson\u003cbr\u003e 9. Fitzgerald's non-fiction Scott Donaldson\u003cbr\u003e 10. Fitzgerald and Hollywood Alan Margolies\u003cbr\u003e 11. The critical reputation of F. Scott Fitzgerald Jackson R. 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The Irish Times\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are informative, stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Joyce studies. This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Chronology of Joyce's life\u003cbr\u003e 1. Reading Joyce Derek Attridge\u003cbr\u003e 2. Joyce the Irishman Seamus Deane\u003cbr\u003e 3. Joyce the Parisian Jean-Michel Rabaté\u003cbr\u003e 4. Joyce the Modernist Christopher Butler\u003cbr\u003e 5. Dubliners Garry Leonard\u003cbr\u003e 6. Stephen Hero and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: transforming the nightmare of history John Paul Riquelme\u003cbr\u003e 7. Ulysses Jennifer Levine\u003cbr\u003e 8. Finnegans Wake Margot Norris\u003cbr\u003e 9. Joyce's shorter works Vicki Mahaffey\u003cbr\u003e 10. Joyce and feminism Jeri Johnson\u003cbr\u003e 11. 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Joyce, colonialism and nationalism Marjorie Howes\u003cbr\u003e Further reading\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20fiction,%20novelists%20\u0026amp;%20prose%20writers%20%5BDSK%5D%22\"\u003eDSK\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20theory%20%5BDSA%5D%22\"\u003eDSA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46000173023512,"sku":"9780521545532","price":25.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521545532i_68705228-a18a-46a6-8c1a-baaf91d98533.jpg?v=1691369470"},{"product_id":"world-literature-and-the-geographies-of-resistance-hardback-9781108428491","title":"World Literature and the Geographies of Resistance (Hardback) 9781108428491","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWorld Literature and the Geographies of Resistance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book approaches World Literature as an archive of strategies for resistance, and focuses on the nonstate organization of democratic processes.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoel Nickels (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108428491, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 June 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e228 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 1.7 cm, 0.47 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The book constitutes a timely political intervention in its call for a new approach to world literature and culture, and serves to remind us that world literature, read in this new way, 'can help us visualize modes of life and forms of relations that pose alternatives to the regime of legalized dispossession that goes under the name of globalization'.' Abdullah M. Dagamesh, Modern Language Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book proposes a new definition of world literature: an archive of democratic mechanisms external to state power. Accordingly, World Literature and the Geographies of Resistance takes shape as an exploration of nonstate space - territories of self-government that contest the vertical command structures of the state. Joel Nickels argues that literature devoted to these processes of spatial occuption can help us imagine democratic alternatives to state space and to the regime of legalized dispossession that goes under the name of globalization. Conceptualized in these terms, world literature can be viewed not as the corollary of 90s-era cosmopolitanism, but as a document of strategies for the militant reorganization of social space. This ambitious book addresses the work of Patrick Chamoiseau, Ousmane Sembene, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Claude McKay, Arundhati Roy, T. S. Eliot and Melvin Tolson. It engages with theories of transnationality, diaspora and postcoloniality, as well as world literature.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe literature of spatial occupation: a nonstate research agenda\u003cbr\u003e 1. The general strike in the literature of decolonization: Ousmane Sembene \/ Miguel Ángel Asturias \/ Patrick Chamoiseau\u003cbr\u003e 2. Nonstate internationalism: from Claude McKay to Arundhati Roy\u003cbr\u003e 3. World literature as futurology: Melvin Tolson, T. S. 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Fergus O'Ferrell, Dublin Review of Books\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis first modern scholarly edition of the letters of Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) sets the author of The Vicar of Wakefield, The Deserted Village, and She Stoops to Conquer in a rich context, showing how Goldsmith's Irish identity was marked and complicated by cosmopolitan ambition. He was at the very heart of Grub Street culture and the Georgian theatre, and was a founding member of Dr Johnson's Literary Club; his circle included Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick, George Colman and Hester Piozzi. 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The authors also do justice to the aim of the 'British Literature in Transition' series 'to understand literature's role in mediating the developments of the past hundred years … there is much to admire in the way contributors manage to weave together literary works and the social and political histories of the day.' Brian Elliott, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eLiterature from the 'political' 1930s has often been read in contrast to the 'aesthetic' 1920s. This collection suggests a different approach. Drawing on recent work expanding our sense of the political and aesthetic energies of interwar modernisms, these chapters track transitions in British literature. The strains of national break-up, class dissension and political instability provoked a new literary order, and reading across the two decades between the wars exposes the continuing pressure of these transitions. Instead of following familiar markers - 1922, the Crash, the Spanish Civil War - or isolating particular themes from literary study, this collection takes key problems and dilemmas from literature 'in transition' and reads them across familiar and unfamiliar cultural works and productions, in their rich and contradictory context of publication. Themes such as gender, sexuality, nation and class are thus present throughout these essays. Major writers such as Woolf are read alongside forgotten and marginalised voices.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill\u003cbr\u003e Part I. After the War: 1. Out of Mrs Colefax's Drawing-Room: poets and poetry between the wars Harry Ricketts\u003cbr\u003e 2. Perverting the postwar: sexuality and state violence in women's literature Layne Parish Craig\u003cbr\u003e 3. Journeys without maps: literature and spiritual experience Lara Vetter\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Literature after Human Nature Changed: 4. Writing the vote: suffrage, gender, and politics Sowon S. Park and Kathryn Laing\u003cbr\u003e 5. Literature and human rights Rachel Potter\u003cbr\u003e 6. Psychoanalysis and modernism John Farrell\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Immense Panoramas of Futility and Anarchy: Writing and Politics: 7. History: the past in transition Gabrielle McIntire\u003cbr\u003e 8. Women's work? Domestic labour and proletarian fiction Charles Ferrall\u003cbr\u003e 9. Ordinary places, intermodern genres: documentary, travel, and literature Kristin Bluemel\u003cbr\u003e 10. Bloomsbury conversations that didn't happen: Indian writing between British modernism and anti-colonialism Snehal Shingavi and Charlotte Nunes\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The First Break-Up of Britain: 11. Between Holyhead and Kingstown: Anglo-Irish perspectives on the character of British fiction Michael G. Cronin\u003cbr\u003e 12. Cancer of empire: the Glasgow novel between the wars Liam McIlvanney\u003cbr\u003e 13. Lewis Jones and the making of Welsh Identity Shintaro Kono\u003cbr\u003e 14. From Optik to Haptik: Celticism, symbols and stones in the 1930s Peter Mackay\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Transitions High and Low: 15. On the home front: designs for living in British drama between the wars Penny Farfan\u003cbr\u003e 16. Middlemen, middlebrow, broadbrow Nicola Wilson\u003cbr\u003e 17. Detective fiction: resolutions without solutions J. C. Bernthal\u003cbr\u003e 18. 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From the Labour landslide victory of 1945 to the emergence of the Cold War and the humiliation of Suez in 1956, this was a period of radical political transformation in Britain and beyond, but these changes resisted literary assimilation. Arguing that writing and history do not map straightforwardly one onto the other, and that the postwar cannot easily be fitted into the explanatory paradigms of modernism or postmodernism, this book offers a more nuanced recognition of what was written and read in the period. From wartime radio writing to 1950s travellers, cold war poetry to radical theatre, magazine cultures to popular fiction, this volume examines important debates that animated postwar Britain.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Gill Plain\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Aftermath: The Beginning or the End?: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. 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Dickens Quarterly\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDickens' rise to fame and his world-wide popularity were by no means inevitable. He started out with no clear career in mind, drifting in and out of the theatre, journalism and editing before finding unexpected success as a creative writer. Taking account of everything known about Dickens' apprentice years, Robert L. Patten narrates the fierce struggle Dickens then had to create an alter ego, Boz, and later to contain and extinguish him. His revision of Dickens' biography in the context of early Victorian social and political history and print culture opens up a more unstable, yet more fascinating, portrait of Dickens. The book tells the story of how Dickens created an authorial persona that highlighted certain attributes and concealed others about his life, talent and publications. 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For this edition several chapters have been completely rewritten to reflect major developments in Canadian literature since 2004. Surveys of fiction, drama and poetry are complemented by chapters on Aboriginal writing, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women and the emergence of urban writing. Areas of research that have expanded since the first edition include environmental concerns and questions of sexuality which are freshly explored across several different chapters. A substantial chapter on francophone writing is included. Authors such as Margaret Atwood, noted for her experiments in multiple literary genres, are given full consideration, as is the work of authors who have achieved major recognition, such as Alice Munro, recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Eva-Marie Kröller\u003cbr\u003e 1. 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Canadian literary criticism and the idea of a national literature Shelley Hulan\u003cbr\u003e Further reading.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary companions, book reviews \u0026amp; guides [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary companions, book reviews \u0026amp; guides\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20companions,%20book%20reviews%20\u0026amp;%20guides%20%5BDSRC%5D%22\"\u003eDSRC\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20fiction,%20novelists%20\u0026amp;%20prose%20writers%20%5BDSK%5D%22\"\u003eDSK\u003c\/a\u003e], Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005710553368,"sku":"9781107159624","price":63.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107159624i_96265448-6131-4de4-9ba3-e878cd1778d2.jpg?v=1691362462"},{"product_id":"the-rhetoric-of-diversion-in-english-literature-and-culture-1690-1760-hardback-9781107146273","title":"The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture, 1690–1760 (Hardback) 9781107146273","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture, 1690–1760\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA study of how literature of the early eighteenth century represented a newly fashionable life of amusement and diversion.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDarryl P. Domingo (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107146273, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 March 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e316 pages, 15 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 1.8 cm, 0.64 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhy did eighteenth-century writers employ digression as a literary form of diversion, and how did their readers come to enjoy linguistic and textual devices that self-consciously disrupt the reading experience? Darryl P. Domingo answers these questions through an examination of the formative period in the commercialization of leisure in England, and the coincidental coming of age of literary self-consciousness in works published between approximately 1690 and 1760. During this period, commercial entertainers tested out new ways of gratifying a public increasingly eager for amusement, while professional writers explored the rhetorical possibilities of intrusion, obstruction, and interruption through their characteristic use of devices like digression. Such devices adopt similar forms and fulfil similar functions in literature as do diversions in culture: they 'unbend the mind' and reveal the complex reciprocity between commercialized leisure and commercial literature in the age of Swift, Pope, and Fielding.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Unbending the mind': introduction by way of diversion\u003cbr\u003e 1. 'The predominant taste of the present age': diversion and the literary market\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'Pleas'd at being so agreeably deceiv'd': pantomime and the poetics of dumb wit\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Fasten'd by the eyes': popular wonder, print culture, and the exhibition of monstrosity\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'Pleasantry for thy entertainment': novelistic discourse and the rhetoric of diversion\u003cbr\u003e 'The soul of reading': conclusion by way of animadversion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20fiction,%20novelists%20\u0026amp;%20prose%20writers%20%5BDSK%5D%22\"\u003eDSK\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005828059416,"sku":"9781107146273","price":70.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107146273i_afd266a3-a771-41ce-8e38-b9838a6fd351.jpg?v=1691362267"},{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-f-scott-fitzgerald-hardback-9780521624473","title":"The Cambridge Companion to F. 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Scott Fitzgerald\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpecially commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRuth Prigozy (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521624473, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 October 2001\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.2 x 15.5 x 2.2 cm, 0.587 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Ruth Prigozy has done a wonderful job of ensuring that her contributors write in an accessible and jargon-free style and cover the full range of Fitzgerald's writings … If … the editor's aim was to produce 'a full and accessible picture' of the author's life and career, then she is to be congratulated on having assembled a set of contributors who provide exactly that.' The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEleven specially commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars present a clearly written and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a writer and as a public and private figure. No aspect of his career is overlooked, from his first novel published in 1920, through his more than 170 short stories, to his last unfinished Hollywood novel. Contributions present the reader with a full and accessible picture of the background of American social and cultural change in the early decades of the twentieth century. The introduction traces Fitzgerald's career as a literary and public figure, and examines the extent to which public recognition has affected his reputation among scholars, critics, and general readers over the past sixty years. This volume offers undergraduates, graduates and general readers a full account of Fitzgerald's work as well as suggestions for further exploration of his work.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of contributors\u003cbr\u003e Chronology\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: Scott, Zelda, and the culture of celebrity Ruth Prigozy\u003cbr\u003e 2. F. Scott Fitzgerald, age consciousness, and the rise of American youth culture Kirk Curnutt\u003cbr\u003e 3. The question of vocation in This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned James L. W. West III\u003cbr\u003e 4. The short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald Bryant Mangum\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Great Gatsby and the twenties Ronald Berman\u003cbr\u003e 6. Tender is the Night and American history Milton R. Stern\u003cbr\u003e 7. Things not in the guidebook: Fitzgerald's expatriate years and the European experience J. Gerald Kennedy\u003cbr\u003e 8. Women in Fitzgerald's fiction Rena Sanderson\u003cbr\u003e 9. Fitzgerald's non-fiction Scott Donaldson\u003cbr\u003e 10. Fitzgerald and Hollywood Alan Margolies\u003cbr\u003e 11. The critical reputation of F. Scott Fitzgerald Jackson R. 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Specifically, each volume contains both full reviews and excerpts from reviews that appeared in newspapers and weekly and monthly periodicals, generally within a few months of the publication of the work concerned. There is an introductory historical overview by the volume editor, as well as checklists of additional reviews located but not quoted. This volume offers a broad sampling of the immediate reaction to the appearance of Willa Cather's volumes of poetry, fiction, and criticism. While most reviews are from the major national journals and newspapers in major cities, some reviews show the responses in Nebraska, New Mexico, Quebec and other locales where Cather's works are set. The reviews are often flattering, sometimes angry, sometimes so careful in their dissection of Cather's work that they are worthy of study themselves. 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This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Chronology of Joyce's life\u003cbr\u003e 1. Reading Joyce Derek Attridge\u003cbr\u003e 2. Joyce the Irishman Seamus Deane\u003cbr\u003e 3. Joyce the Parisian Jean-Michel Rabaté\u003cbr\u003e 4. Joyce the Modernist Christopher Butler\u003cbr\u003e 5. Dubliners Garry Leonard\u003cbr\u003e 6. Stephen Hero and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: transforming the nightmare of history John Paul Riquelme\u003cbr\u003e 7. Ulysses Jennifer Levine\u003cbr\u003e 8. Finnegans Wake Margot Norris\u003cbr\u003e 9. Joyce's shorter works Vicki Mahaffey\u003cbr\u003e 10. Joyce and feminism Jeri Johnson\u003cbr\u003e 11. 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Ward, Jr (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521872171, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 February 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e860 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.9 x 4.5 cm, 1.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'In its reframing of black discourse, introduction of new paradigms, and charting of new geographies, this collection represents an important and necessary addition to any collection of African American and American literature.' Folashade Alao, University of South Carolina\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe first major twenty-first century history of four hundred years of black writing, The Cambridge History of African American Literature presents a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States. Expert contributors, drawn from the United States and beyond, emphasise the dual nature of each text discussed as a work of art created by an individual and as a response to unfolding events in American cultural, political, and social history. Unprecedented in scope, sophistication and accessibility, the volume draws together current scholarship in the field. It also looks ahead to suggest new approaches, new areas of study, and as yet undervalued writers and works. The Cambridge History of African American Literature is a major achievement both as a work of reference and as a compelling narrative and will remain essential reading for scholars and students in years to come.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Maryemma Graham and Jerry Ward\u003cbr\u003e Part I. African American Literature from Its Origins to the Twentieth Century: 1. Sounds of a tradition: the souls of Black folk F. Abiola Irele\u003cbr\u003e 2. Early print literature of Africans in America Philip Gould\u003cbr\u003e 3. The emergence of an African American literary canon, 1760–1820 Vincent Carretta\u003cbr\u003e 4. Dividing a nation, uniting a people: African American literature and the Abolitionist Movement Stefan Wheelock\u003cbr\u003e 5. African American literature and the slave narrative genre John Ernest\u003cbr\u003e 6. Writing freedom: race, religion, and revolution, 1820–40 Kimberly Blockett\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'We wish to plead our own cause': independent Antebellum African American literature, 1840–65 Joycelyn Moody\u003cbr\u003e 8. Racial ideologies in theory and practice: political and cultural nationalism, 1865–1910 Warren Carson\u003cbr\u003e 9. The 'fictions' of race Keith Byerman and Hanna Wallinger\u003cbr\u003e 10. 'We wear the mask': the making of a poet Keith Leonard\u003cbr\u003e 11. Toward a modernist poetics Mark Sanders\u003cbr\u003e Part II. African American Literature since the Twentieth Century: 12. Foundations of African American modernism, 1910–50 Craig Werner and Sandra Shannon\u003cbr\u003e 13. The New Negro Movement and the politics of art Emily Bernard\u003cbr\u003e 14. African American literature and the Great Depression Darryl Dickson-Carr\u003cbr\u003e 15. Weaving jagged words: the Black Left, 1930s–40s Nicole Walingora-Davis\u003cbr\u003e 16. Writing the American story, 1945–52 John Lowe\u003cbr\u003e 17. Geographies of the modern: writing beyond borders and boundaries Sabine Broeck\u003cbr\u003e 18. African American literature by writers of Caribbean descent Daryl Cumber Dance\u003cbr\u003e 19. Reform and revolution, 1965–76: the Black aesthetic at work James Smethurst and Howard Ramsby\u003cbr\u003e 20. History as fact and fiction Trudier Harris\u003cbr\u003e 21. Redefining the art of poetry Opal Moore\u003cbr\u003e 22. Cultural resistance and avant-garde aesthetics: African American poetry from 1970 to the present Tony Bolden\u003cbr\u003e 23. New frontiers, cross-currents and convergencies: emerging cultural paradigms Madhu Dubey and Elizabeth Goldberg\u003cbr\u003e Part III. African American Literature as Academic and Cultural Capital: 24. Children's and young adult literatures Giselle L. Anatol\u003cbr\u003e 25. From writer to reader: Black popular fiction Candice Love Jackson\u003cbr\u003e 26. 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Dickens repeatedly criticised ostentatious funeral and mourning customs, and asserted the harmful consequences of treating the corpse as an object of speculation rather than sympathy. At the same time, he was fascinated by those who made a living from death and recognised that his authorial profits implicated him in the same trade. This book explores how Dickens turned mortality into the stuff of life and art as he navigated a thriving culture of death-based consumption. It surveys the diverse ways in which death became a business, from body-snatching, undertaking, and joint-stock cemetery companies, to the telling and selling of stories. This broad study offers fresh perspectives on death in The Old Curiosity Shop and Our Mutual Friend, and discusses lesser-known works and textual illustrations.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Profitable undertakings and deathly business\u003cbr\u003e 2. 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