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Examining the unpublished letters and manuscripts of the poet Anna Seward (1742-1809), Barnard provides a fresh perspective on her life and historical milieu that restores and problematizes Sewards carefully constructed narrative of her life. Barnards biography Ashgate Publishing of Seward not only challenges what is known about Wey Court Easyt, Union Road Seward, but provides new information about the lives Farnham and times of eighteenth-century writers. Surrey GU9 7PT Please state the name of the publication in which the review will be published.
September 2009 Hardback ebook 208 pages 978-0-7546-6616-5 978-0-7546-9346-8 55.00
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Whats In A Name? Ann Donahue, Senior Commissioning Editor Edited by Janet Wright Starner, Wilkes University, USA adonahue@ashgate.com and Barbara Howard Traister, Lehigh University, USA 18th20th Century Literature Expanding the scholarly conversation about Ashgate Publishing Company Renaissance anonymity and attribution studies, this collection explores the phenomenon of anonymous Suite 3-1 publication in all its variety of methods and genres. 110 Cherry Street The volume opens with essays investigating particular Burlington, VT English texts and the inflection each genre gives to the 05401-3818 issue of nameless authoring. Later chapters consider USA more abstract consequences of anonymity, including its function in destabilising scholarly assumptions Visit ashgate.com/authors for information about authorship; its ethical ramifications; and its about submitting a proposal. relationship to attribution studies.
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Dangerous Womens overall claim is an important one. The idea that libertinism and sensibility are connected allows Linker to bring light previously obscured links between the two modes, and in so doing, yields a fresh perspective on both. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research In the first full-length study of the figure of the female libertine in late seventeenth- and early eighteenthcentury literature, Linker examines plays and novels by John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter, Delariviere Manley and Daniel Defoe. Her study places the female libertine within her cultural, philosophical and literary contexts and suggests new ways of considering womens participation and the early novel.
April 2011 Hardback ebook 184 pages 978-1-4094-1811-5 978-1-4094-1812-2 55.00
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Fellow Romantics
Male and Female British Writers, 17901835
Edited by Beth Lau, California State University, USA
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Beginning with the premise that men and women of the Romantic period were lively interlocutors who participated in many of the same literary traditions and experiments, Fellow Romantics offers an inspired counterpoint to studies that emphasize differences between male and female Romantic-era writers. Linking, among others, Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth, Felicia Hemans and Percy Bysshe Shelley, the contributors defamiliarize the work of both male and female writers by drawing our attention to frequently neglected aspects of each writers art.
August 2009 Hardback 278 pages 978-0-7546-6353-9 60.00
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Holinsheds Nation
Ideals, Memory, and Practical Policy in the Chronicles
Igor Djordjevic, York University, Canada Djordjevic explores the historiography of Holinsheds Chronicles through a literary lens, focusing on how Renaissance men and women read and understood historical texts. This study revaluates our understanding of Renaissance chronicle history and the impact of Holinshed on Tudor, Jacobean and Caroline political discourse; the Chronicles emerge not as a series of rambling, digressive episodes characteristic to a dying medieval genre, but as the preserver of national memory, the teacher of prudent policy, and a builder of the commonwealth ideal.
June 2010 Hardback 286 pages 978-1-4094-0035-6 60.00
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This is lucid and convincing analysis, fluently written Admirably nuanced and impressively thoughtful an important scholarly contribution that illuminatingly realigns war literature with other literary models. Times Literary Supplement Examining the little-known memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Ramsey shows how these popular works profoundly shaped nineteenth-century British cultures understanding of war as Romantic adventure, establishing images of the nations middle-class soldier heroes that would be of enduring significance through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
December 2011 Hardback 282 pages 978-1-4094-1034-8 60.00
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a valuable resource for anyone studying the development of womens writing. The Mothers Legacy in Early Modern England provides a comprehensive survey of mothers advice books across a hundred year time span...With careful attention to the forces that shaped these works - their personal, cultural, and political contexts - this book further defines the genre, but more importantly, it reaffirms the importance of these texts as sites of female voice and power, both public and private. Susan C. Staub, Appalachian State University, USA Reading twenty printed and manuscript texts composed between 1575 and 1672, Heller defines the genre of the mothers legacy as a distinct branch of the advice tradition in early modern England. Attending to cultural, social and historical trends, Heller explores how legacy writers used the genre to secure personal and family status, to shape their childrens beliefs and behaviours, and to intervene in the periods religious and political debates.
June 2011 Hardback ebook 244 pages 978-1-4094-1108-6 978-1-4094-1109-3 55.00
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Remembering Boethius
Writing Aristocratic Identity in Late Medieval French and English Literatures
Elizabeth Elliott, University of Edinburgh, UK Elizabeth Elliott treats a number of subjectsBoethius, Boethiuss fortune in the later Middle Ages, memory, life-writing, prison literature, advice to princesin a deft and sophisticated manner. Engaging with Boethius, a philosopher, she deals with complex philosophical questions, and she insists upon the serious, intellectual component in texts which, up to now, were considered largely to be works of aristocratic and aesthetic play. William Calin, University of Florida, USA Remembering Boethius explores the rich intersection between the reception of Boethiuss Consolation of Philosophy and the literary construction of aristocratic identity. Elliott presents new interpretations of Machauts Confort dami, Remede de Fortune and Fonteinne amoureuse, Froissarts Prison amoureuse, Thomas Usks Testament of Love and the Kingis Quair. In asking how and why medieval writers remember Boethius, this book sheds new light on how medieval people imagined, and reimagined themselves.
December 2012 Hardback ebook 190 pages 978-1-4094-2418-5 978-1-4094-2419-2 55.00
Bringing together established critics and exciting new voices, this collection offers readings of Trollope that recognize and repay his importance as source material for scholars working in diverse fields of literary and cultural studies. Drawing on work from economics, colonialism and ethnicity, gender studies, new historicism, liberalism, legal studies and politics, the contributors make a convincing case for Trollopes writings as a vehicle for the theoretical explorations of Victorian culture that currently predominate.
March 2009 Hardback 274 pages 978-0-7546-6389-8 60.00
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Contending that early modern fictional portrayals of sexual violence identify the position of the author with that of the chaste woman threatened with rape, Greenstadt challenges the prevalent scholarly view that this periods concept of The Author was inherently masculine. Instead, she argues, the analogy between rape and writing centrally informed ideas of literary intention and individual free will that emerged during the English Renaissance.
October 2009 Hardback ebook 204 pages 978-0-7546-6274-7 978-0-7546-9593-6 55.00
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This splendid collection establishes the tremendous historical impact that Burns has had on transatlantic literature and demonstrates the vibrant role he continues to play in our culture. Raising important questions about how Burns has been read, reinterpreted, and reinvented across the centuries and across media, as well as across the Atlantic ocean, this volume will be of interest not only to anyone working in Scottish literary studies, but also to scholars of Canadian and American literary history and print culture. Pam Perkins, University of Manitoba, Canada The fourteen essays included in Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture re-orient scholarly understanding of Robert Burns by focusing on the reception and representation of the Scottish poet and songwriter in the Americas. Divided into five sections, the volume explores: transatlantic concerns in Burnss own work; Burnss early publication in North America; Burnss reception in the Americas; Burnss creation as a site of cultural memory; and extra-literary remediations of Burns, including contemporary digital representations.
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Taking into account the popularity and variety of the genre, this collaborative volume considers a wide range of English Romantic autobiographical writers and modes, including working-class autobiography, the familiar essay, and the staged presence. Major writers such as William Wordsworth, De Quincey and Mary Shelley, and recent additions to the canon such as Mary Robinson, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Hays are treated in this exploratory mapping of the field.
November 2009 Hardback ebook 232 pages 978-0-7546-6366-9 978-0-7546-9396-3 55.00
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Victorian Women and the Economies of Travel, Translation and Culture, 18301870
Judith Johnston, The University of Western Australia ...an authoritative study of an important area of womens participation in the profession of writing, engagingly written and persuasively argued. It makes a timely and effective intervention in current critical debates about translation and travel literature, and broadens our understanding of Britains interactions with other nations and cultures in the nineteenth century. Hilary Fraser, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Using the metaphor of the published journey, whether it involves actual travel or translation, Johnston focuses on the relationships of various British women travellers, translators and journalists, mainly with continental Europe. Devoted in part to case studies of women such as Anna Jameson and Mary Howitt, Johnstons book shows women establishing themselves as robust participants in the publishing history and as actors in the broad business of culture.
January 2013 Hardback ebook 180 pages 978-1-4094-4823-5 978-1-4724-0136-6 55.00
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Giving special attention to critical reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront and George Eliot, Wilkes offers in-depth examinations of reviews by eight female critics: Maria Jane Jewsbury, Sara Coleridge, Hannah Lawrance, Jane Williams, Julia Kavanagh, Anne Mozley, Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward. What they wrote about women writers, and what their writings tell us about the critics sense of themselves, reveals the distinctive character of nineteenth-century womens contributions to literary history.
April 2010 Hardback ebook 194 pages 978-0-7546-6336-2 978-0-7546-9857-9 55.00
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Nuanced, insightful, and richly detailed, Brenda Webers study of womens literary celebrity in the nineteenth century offers provocative readings of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny Fern, Margaret Oliphant and Elizabeth Keckley, among others. Deftly revealing how Victorian women writers on both sides of the Atlantic navigated the treacherous waters of public life, Webers writing is both witty and erudite, and her book sheds new light on the uneasy intersection of fame and Victorian femininity. Suzanne Raitt, College of William & Mary, USA Focusing on representations of womens literary celebrity in nineteenth-century nonfiction and fiction, Weber examines the transatlantic cultural politics of gender, sex and the body. Looking at discursive patterns and texts by authors like Charlotte Bront, Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny Fern, Margaret Oliphant and Eliza Potter that feature successful woman writers, Weber argues that discursive representations of the legitimately famous woman used celebrity as a tactic for altering perceptions about femininity and female identity.
June 2012 Hardback ebook 274 pages 978-1-4094-0073-8 978-1-4094-0074-5 60.00
Using private diary writing as her model, Delafield investigates the cultural significance of nineteenthcentury womens writing and reading practices. Examining historical and fictional diaries by authors such as Frances Burney, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Bront, Wilkie Collins and Bram Stoker, Delafield reveals the ideological discrepancy between the private diary and its performance in the role of narrator, offering fresh insights into domesticity, authorship, and the diary as a feminine form and model for narrative.
August 2009 Hardback 200 pages 978-0-7546-6517-5 55.00
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