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Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science
Coombs, David SweeneyThe nineteenth-century sciences cleaved sensory experience into two separate realms: the bodily physics of sensation and the mental activity of perception. This division into...
Women Writers of the Beat Era
Autobiography and Intertextuality
Carden, Mary PanicciaThe Beat Generation was a group of writers who rejected cultural standards, experimented with drugs, and celebrated sexual liberation. Starting in the 1950s with works such as...
Faulkner
The Return of the Repressed
Fowler, DoreenDoreen Fowler's Faulkner: The Return of the Repressed is only the second book-length pychoanalytic interpretation of Faulkner's oeuvre and the first to be predicated on...
Neoliberal Nonfictions
The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z
Worden, DanielWith the ascendancy of neoliberalism in American culture beginning in the 1960s, the political structures governing private lives became more opaque and obscure. Neoliberal...
Salomé
A Tragedy in One Act
Wilde, OscarUnique among his works, Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé (1893) was written originally in French. Joseph Donohue’s new translation of the horrific New Testament story has...
Ersatz America
Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of Democracy
Mark, RebeccaFrom the popular legend of Pocahontas to the Civil War soap opera Gone with the Wind to countless sculpted heads of George Washington that adorn homes and museums, whole...
After Print
Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures
King, Rachael ScarboroughThe eighteenth century has generally been understood as the Age of Print, when the new medium revolutionized the literary world and rendered manuscript culture obsolete. ...
Rivers in Russian Literature
Ziolkowski, Margaret Rivers in Russian Literature focuses on the Russian literary and folkloric treatment of five rivers—the Dnieper, Volga, Neva, Don, and Angara. Each chapter traces,...
Empiricist Devotions
Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Smith, Courtney WeissFeaturing a moment in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England before the disciplinary divisions that we inherit today were established, Empiricist Devotions...
The New Death
American Modernism and World War I
James, PearlAdopting the term "new death," which was used to describe the unprecedented and horrific scale of death caused by the First World War, Pearl James uncovers several touchstones...
Studies in Bibliography
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
Vander Meulen, David L.The fifty-ninth volume of Studies in Bibliography continues its tradition of presenting a wide range of articles by international scholars on bibliography, textual...
The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester
The Life of Mrs. Gaskell's Demon
Bonaparte, Felicia[Book description not available]
The Best and Worst Country in the World
Perspectives on the Early Virginia Landscape
Adams, StephenFrom its earliest days, the Virginia landscape has elicited dramatically contradictory descriptions. The sixteenth-century poet Michael Drayton exalted the land as "earth's...
Caribbean Shadows and Victorian Ghosts
Women's Writing and Decolonization
Renk, Kathleen J.IN AN ERA of social chaos, religious skepticism, and postrevolutionary fear, the idea of the stable middle-class family acquired a mythical status in nineteenth-century England...
Steinbeck in Vietnam
Dispatches from the War
Steinbeck, John, Barden, Thomas E.Although his career continued for almost three decades after the 1939 publication of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck is still most closely associated with his Depression-...
Hostile Humor in Renaissance France
Hayes, BruceIn sixteenth-century France, the level of jokes, irony, and ridicule found in pamphlets and plays became aggressively hostile. In Hostile Humor in Renaissance France,...
A Taste for the Foreign
Worldly Knowledge and Literary Pleasure in Early Modern French Fiction
Welch, Ellen R.[Book description not available]
Idol of Suburbia
Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture
Federico, Annette R.Marie Corelli (1855–1924) was the most popular novelist of the turn of the century, outselling Hall Caine, Mrs. Humphry Ward, H. G. Wells, and Arthur Conan Doyle by the...
Character and Conversion in Autobiography
Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau, and Sartre
Riley, PatrickWhat happens, asks Patrick Riley, when a life transformed becomes an autobiography? What is the relationship between the subjective upheaval of conversion and the...
Living on Wilderness Time
Walker, MelissaMelissa Walker set out on a journey that many women of her generation have mapped only in their dreams. Like many American chroniclers before her who have surrendered to the...
American Women Writers and the Nazis
Ethics and Politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford, and Hellman
Austenfeld, Thomas CarlAs expatriates in Germany and Austria in the 1930s, Kay Boyle, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford, and Lillian Hellman saw the rise of Nazi ideology firsthand. And while all...
Demon or Doll
Images of the Child in Contemporary Writing and Culture
Pifer, EllenFrom the shootings at Columbine High School to the JonBenet Ramsey murder to the sentencing of "killer kids," today's media cannot decide if children are objects of fear or in...
Traumatic Possessions
The Body and Memory in African American Women's Writing and Performance
Griffiths, Jennifer L.Studies of traumatic stress have explored the challenges to memory as a result of extreme experience, particularly in relation to the ways in which trauma resonates within the...
Margins and Marginality
The Printed Page in Early Modern England
Tribble, Evelyn B.Increasing interest is being shown in the intersections between literary and cultural history and in the material dimensions of the text. Evelyn B. Tribble argues that far from...
