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Literary and Cultural Studies
Museum Trouble
Edwardian Fiction and the Emergence of ModernismBy 1901, the public museum was firmly established as an important national institution in British life. Its very centrality led to its involvement in a wide range of debates about art, knowledge, national identity, and individual agency. Ruth Hoberman argues that these debates concerned writers as... More
Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years
A Critical EditionAfter a childhood divided between America and Europe, Henry James settled with his family in New England, first in what he regarded as an outpost of Europe, Newport, and later in Cambridge. The family letters (the initial inspiration for this autobiographical enterprise), many of which recount the... More
A Small Boy and Others
A Critical EditionHenry James was the final survivor of a remarkable family, and his memoir, written at the end of a long and tireless career, was prompted initially by the death of his "ideal Elder Brother," the psychologist and philosopher William James. A Small Boy and Others recounts the novelist’s earliest... More
Transformations of Memory and Forgetting in Sixteenth Century France
Marguerite de Navarre, Pierre de Ronsard, Michel de Montaigne[Book description not available]
Wild Enlightenment
The Borders of Human Identity in the Eighteenth CenturyWild Enlightenment charts the travels of the figure of the wild man, in each of his guises, through the invented domain of the bourgeois public sphere. We follow him through the discursive networks of novels, broadsheets, pamphlets, and advertisements and through their material locations at fair... More
Figurations of France
Literary Nation Building in Times of Crisis (1550-1650)[Book description not available]
The Limits of Orientalism
Seventeenth Century Representations of India[Book description not available]
A Taste for the Foreign
Worldly Knowledge and Literary Pleasure in Early Modern French Fiction[Book description not available]
Chick Lit and Postfeminism
Originally a euphemism for Princeton University’s Female Literary Tradition course in the 1980s, "chick lit" mutated from a movement in American women’s avant-garde fiction in the 1990s to become, by the turn of the century, a humorous subset of women’s literature, journalism, and advice manuals.... More
Contemporary Francophone African Writers and the Burden of Commitment
By looking at engagée literature from the recent past, when the francophone African writer was implicitly seen as imparted with a mission, to the present, when such authors usually aspire to be acknowledged primarily for their work as writers, Contemporary Francophone African Writers and the Burden... More
Familial Forms
Politics and Genealogy in Seventeenth Century English Literature[Book description not available]
Best New Poets 2010
50 Poems from Emerging WritersEntering its fifth year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology is made up exclusively of work by writers who have not yet published a full-length book. The poems... More
Feeling for the Poor
Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action, and the Victorian NovelWhat if the political work of Victorian social-problem novels was precisely to make the reader feel as if reading them—in and of itself—mattered? Surveying novels by Charles Dickens, Frances Trollope, Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Henry James, Carolyn Betensky tracks the... More
The Science of Religion in Britain, 1860-1915
Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay argues that, although the existence and significance of the science of religion has been barely visible to modern scholars of the Victorian period, it was a subject of lively and extensive debate among nineteenth-century readers and audiences. She shows how an earlier... More
The Complete Pamphlets of Lewis Carroll
The Logic Pamphlets of Lewis Carroll and Related PiecesIn the history of mathematics, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), better known as Lewis Carroll, stands out as the rare mathematician who also was an exceptional literary figure.In The Pamphlets of Lewis Carroll, each volume of a projected six volumes deals with a particular aspect of his work.... More
Studies in Bibliography, Volume 58
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of VirginiaThe fifty-eighth volume of Studies continues its tradition of presenting a wide range of articles by international scholars on bibliography, textual criticism, and other aspects of the study of books.The volume begins with an essay examining an issue fundamental to all scholarly editing, the... More
The Knowing Most Worth Doing
Essays on Pluralism, Ethics, and ReligionThroughout the second half of the twentieth century until his death in 2005, Wayne Booth was one of the most influential literary critics in America and beyond, known worldwide for The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961), and hailed as a progressive advocate for rethinking the concept of liberal education... More
Written on the Water
British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire of CultureThe very word "culture" has traditionally evoked the land. But when such writers as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and, later, Matthew Arnold developed what would become the idea of modern culture, they modeled that idea on Britain's imperial command of the sea. Instead of... More
