Literature
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Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age
Unstudied Words That Wove and Wavered
Anatoly Liberman
Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age is the first metrical and rhymed translation of nearly all the lyrics by Evgeny Boratynsky (1800–1844), one of the greatest poets of the Golden Age of Russian poetry. A long introduction and a detailed commentary, which includes multiple poems by Pushkin and many of Boratynsky's contemporaries, provide a unique background for appreciating the poet’s achievements.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271366
March 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age is the first metrical and rhymed translation of nearly all the lyrics by Evgeny Boratynsky (1800–1844), one of the greatest poets of the Golden Age of Russian poetry. A long introduction and a detailed commentary, which includes multiple poems by Pushkin and many of Boratynsky’s contemporaries, provide a unique background for appreciating the poet’s achievements.
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Literature and Transformation
A Narrative Study of Life-Changing Reading Experiences
Thor Magnus Tangerås
An inquiry into readers’ experiences of life-changing encounters with works of literature, the book uncovers the relationships between life-crises, being moved by literature and transformation of the self.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272943
February 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00An inquiry into readers’ experiences of life-changing encounters with works of literature, the book uncovers the relationships between life-crises, being moved by literature and transformation of the self.
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s
The Author Incorporated
Glenda Norquay
Focusing on an author characterised by geographical and aesthetic mobility, and on those who worked with him or wrote for him, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s’ investigates the operations of transatlantic literary networks during a period of key changes in transatlantic publishing through a series of critical case studies.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272844
January 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Focusing on an author characterised by geographical and aesthetic mobility, and on those who worked with him or wrote for him, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s’ investigates the operations of transatlantic literary networks during a period of key changes in transatlantic publishing through a series of critical case studies.
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Sara Coleridge and the Oxford Movement
Selected Religious Writings
Robin Schofield
‘Sara Coleridge and the Oxford Movement’ reveals a significant body of virtually unknown religious works by a woman writer. The first scholarly edition of Sara Coleridge’s religious writings, it presents selections from works not published since the 1840s, and substantial extracts from a major unpublished work of religious dialogues.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272394
January 2020
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£200.00 / $200.00‘Sara Coleridge and the Oxford Movement’ reveals a significant body of virtually unknown religious works by a woman writer. The first scholarly edition of Sara Coleridge’s religious writings, it presents selections from works not published since the 1840s, and substantial extracts from a major unpublished work of religious dialogues.
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Stratagem of the Corpse
Dying with Baudrillard, a Study of Sickness and Simulacra
Gary J Shipley
foreword by William PawlettStratagem of the Corpse is a philosophical and literary exposition of death not so much as seen by Baudrillard but Baudrillard as seen by death.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272752
January 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Stratagem of the Corpse is a philosophical and literary exposition of death not so much as seen by Baudrillard but Baudrillard as seen by death.
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Sir Rohan’s Ghost. A Romance
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Edited by Matthew Wynn SivilsOriginally published in 1860, the formative Gothic novel by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921), one of nineteenth-century America’s most significant woman writers, relates the tale of a tormented British aristocrat who struggles to retain his sanity while suffering horrifying visitations from the spectre of his dead lover amid the agonies of an already fragile mind.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272875
December 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00Originally published in 1860, the formative Gothic novel by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921), one of nineteenth-century America’s most significant woman writers, relates the tale of a tormented British aristocrat who struggles to retain his sanity while suffering horrifying visitations from the spectre of his dead lover amid the agonies of an already fragile mind.
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H.G. Wells and All Things Russian
Edited by Galya Diment
‘H. G. Wells and All Things Russian' examines Wells’s keen interest in Russian culture and development, and how Russia and the Soviet Union were, in turn, profoundly influenced by his works and his visits to the country.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089918
July 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00‘H. G. Wells and All Things Russian’ examines Wells’s keen interest in Russian culture and development, and how Russia and the Soviet Union were, in turn, profoundly influenced by his works and his visits to the country.
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Poetic Innovation in Wordsworth 1825–1833
Fibres of These Thoughts
Jeffrey C. Robinson
"Poetic Innovation in Wordsworth 1825–1833" uses extensive manuscript study of Wordsworth’s poems to present, for the first time, an account of his poetics during the supposedly "fallow" years, 1825–1833. The poetry of this period appears in a "landscape" that includes manuscripts, streams and pathways, and Wordsworth’s house and garden at Rydal Mount.
The book’s design, by Karen Jacobs, echoes Robinson’s argument that Wordsmith’s late poetry both involves and evokes multi-layered responses.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089406
July 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00“Poetic Innovation in Wordsworth 1825–1833” uses extensive manuscript study of Wordsworth’s poems to present, for the first time, an account of his poetics during the supposedly “fallow” years, 1825–1833. The poetry of this period appears in a “landscape” that includes manuscripts, streams and pathways, and Wordsworth’s house and garden at Rydal Mount.
The book’s design, by Karen Jacobs, echoes Robinson’s argument that Wordsmith’s late poetry both involves and evokes multi-layered responses.
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Science Meets Literature
What Elias Canetti’s Auto-da-Fé Tells Us about the Human Mind and Human Behavior
Dario Maestripieri
"Science Meets Literature" analyzes and discusses Elias Canetti’s 1935 novel “Auto-da-Fé” (original German title, “Die Blendung”) as an example of the way in which literature can contribute to the scientific understanding of the human mind and human behavior.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785270697
June 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00“Science Meets Literature” analyzes and discusses Elias Canetti’s 1935 novel “Auto-da-Fé” (original German title, “Die Blendung”) as an example of the way in which literature can contribute to the scientific understanding of the human mind and human behavior.
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Vyāsa Redux
Narrative in Epic Mahābhārata
Kevin McGrath
Vyāsa is the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and 'Vyāsa Redux' examines the many paradoxical dimensions of his narrative virtuosity in the poem where the poet is both the creator of the work and a character within it. Narrative is, in this view, cognitive rather than empirical in its organization.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785270727
June 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00Vyāsa is the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and ‘Vyāsa Redux’ examines the many paradoxical dimensions of his narrative virtuosity in the poem where the poet is both the creator of the work and a character within it. Narrative is, in this view, cognitive rather than empirical in its organization.
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Remembering Popular Music’s Past
Memory-Heritage-History
Edited by Lauren Istvandity, Sarah Baker, Zelmarie Cantillon
‘Remembering Popular Music’s Past’ focuses on the transformation of popular music into heritage, and the role of history and memory in this process. The book interrogates diverse examples of the way popular music’s past is remembered, with particular emphasis on precarity in the construction, curation, display, negotiation, and perception of popular music’s past.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089697
June 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Remembering Popular Music’s Past’ focuses on the transformation of popular music into heritage, and the role of history and memory in this process. The book interrogates diverse examples of the way popular music’s past is remembered, with particular emphasis on precarity in the construction, curation, display, negotiation, and perception of popular music’s past.
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Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Brenda Ayres, Sarah E. Maier
‘Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century’ is a collection of essays about a novelist who once was the ‘second most famous Englishwoman in the world’ after Queen Victoria and whose books broke every previous sales record. The essays account for Corelli’s popularity and reintroduce her to a new generation of readers.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089437
April 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century’ is a collection of essays about a novelist who once was the ‘second most famous Englishwoman in the world’ after Queen Victoria and whose books broke every previous sales record. The essays account for Corelli’s popularity and reintroduce her to a new generation of readers.
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Notions of Otherness
Literary Essays from Abraham Cahan to Dacia Maraini
Mark Axelrod-Sokolov
‘Notions of Otherness’ is a collection of literary essays that approaches the idea of alterity politically, aesthetically, ethically, culturally and sexually in a diachronic manner.
Anthem Press
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9781783089284
April 2019
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£59.95 / $59.95‘Notions of Otherness’ is a collection of literary essays that approaches the idea of alterity politically, aesthetically, ethically, culturally and sexually in a diachronic manner.
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Teaching Later British Literature
A Thematic Approach
Albert D. Pionke
Designed for both first-time teachers of survey courses in later British literature and more experienced instructors seeking a new way to approach familiar material, ‘A Handbook to Teaching Later British Literature’ presents a synthetic and adaptable framework for guiding students through British literary history from the 1780s through the 1940s.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089345
April 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00Designed for both first-time teachers of survey courses in later British literature and more experienced instructors seeking a new way to approach familiar material, ‘A Handbook to Teaching Later British Literature’ presents a synthetic and adaptable framework for guiding students through British literary history from the 1780s through the 1940s.
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Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835–1905
Five Stories of Speculation, Resistance and Rebellion
Edited by Mary Ellis Gibson
The five stories in ‘Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835–1905’ speculate about utopian and dystopian futures. They represent the earliest Indian science fiction, imagining futures ranging from an end-of-the-world deluge to violent revolution to feminist utopia.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088638
March 2019
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£115.00 / $115.00The five stories in ‘Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835–1905’ speculate about utopian and dystopian futures. They represent the earliest Indian science fiction, imagining futures ranging from an end-of-the-world deluge to violent revolution to feminist utopia.
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The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley
Madeleine Callaghan
‘The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley’ explores the poetic heroism developed in Byron and Shelley’s poetry and drama. The book traces how the heroism of the poet, as an idea, an ideal and an illusion, undergoes many different incarnations and definitions as both poets shape distinctive and changing conceptions of the hero throughout their careers.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088973
February 2019
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£115.00 / $115.00‘The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley’ explores the poetic heroism developed in Byron and Shelley’s poetry and drama. The book traces how the heroism of the poet, as an idea, an ideal and an illusion, undergoes many different incarnations and definitions as both poets shape distinctive and changing conceptions of the hero throughout their careers.
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Conceptions of Dreaming from Homer to 1800
G. W. Pigman III
‘Conceptions of Dreaming from Homer to 1800’ is an intellectual history of European theories of dreaming from Homer until the end of the eighteenth century, the period during which the dream as divine revelation was at the centre of dream theory.
Anthem Press
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9781783088881
January 2019
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£175.00 / $175.00‘Conceptions of Dreaming from Homer to 1800’ is an intellectual history of European theories of dreaming from Homer until the end of the eighteenth century, the period during which the dream as divine revelation was at the centre of dream theory.
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Sisters and the English Household
Domesticity and Women's Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century English Literature
Anne D. Wallace
‘Sisters and the English Household’ revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenth-century English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labour in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values, the adult unmarried sister carries the discursive weight of sustained public debates about ideals of domesticity in nineteenth-century England.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088454
September 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Sisters and the English Household’ revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenth-century English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labour in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values, the adult unmarried sister carries the discursive weight of sustained public debates about ideals of domesticity in nineteenth-century England.
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Stephen Wall, Trollope and Character and Other Essays on Victorian Literature
Edited by Seamus Perry
‘Stephen Wall, “Trollope and Character” (1988) and Other Essays on Victorian Literature’ is a collection of critical essays by the eminent literary critic Stephen Wall, including his exceptional writings on Anthony Trollope, as well as brilliant studies of Charles Dickens and other major Victorian figures.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088171
July 2018
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£200.00 / $200.00‘Stephen Wall, “Trollope and Character” (1988) and Other Essays on Victorian Literature’ is a collection of critical essays by the eminent literary critic Stephen Wall, including his exceptional writings on Anthony Trollope, as well as brilliant studies of Charles Dickens and other major Victorian figures.
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John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education
Edited by Valerie Purton
John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and William Morris among others. A great educator, Ruskin is the force behind key debates in education today. The essays in ‘John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education‘ examine Ruskin’s influence on educating girls, libraries, creativity, grammar schools, social mobility, the environment and the future of the planet.
Anthem Press
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9781783088058
June 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and William Morris among others. A great educator, Ruskin is the force behind key debates in education today. The essays in ‘John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education‘ examine Ruskin’s influence on educating girls, libraries, creativity, grammar schools, social mobility, the environment and the future of the planet.
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Frank Norris and American Naturalism
Donald Pizer
‘Frank Norris and American Naturalism’ brings together in one volume Donald Pizer’s essays on the writings of Frank Norris. The essays as a whole seek to demonstrate both the coherence of Norris’s thought and his contribution toward the establishment of a distinctive form of naturalism in America.
Anthem Press
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9781783088027
May 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Frank Norris and American Naturalism’ brings together in one volume Donald Pizer’s essays on the writings of Frank Norris. The essays as a whole seek to demonstrate both the coherence of Norris’s thought and his contribution toward the establishment of a distinctive form of naturalism in America.
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Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–90
John Regan
‘Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–1790’ explores the role of poetry in eighteenth-century thinking on human progress. Its central contention is that the textural, verbal characteristics of poetry were a crucial form of response to ideas of human development. That is, the aesthetics of verse – how poetry appeals to the senses as well as to the intellect – constitute inadequately appreciated forms of response to the ideas of progress which were developing and gaining popular traction in Britain in the period 1760–1790.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783087723
April 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–1790’ explores the role of poetry in eighteenth-century thinking on human progress. Its central contention is that the textural, verbal characteristics of poetry were a crucial form of response to ideas of human development. That is, the aesthetics of verse – how poetry appeals to the senses as well as to the intellect – constitute inadequately appreciated forms of response to the ideas of progress which were developing and gaining popular traction in Britain in the period 1760–1790.
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Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies
H. David Brumble
‘Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies’ describes the similarities between the autobiographies of warrior tribes and of street gangs. Gangbangers were so alienated from the larger society that they reinvented something very similar to tribal-warrior cultures right in the heart of American cities.
Anthem Press
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9781783087815
April 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies’ describes the similarities between the autobiographies of warrior tribes and of street gangs. Gangbangers were so alienated from the larger society that they reinvented something very similar to tribal-warrior cultures right in the heart of American cities.
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Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin
Institutions, Dynamics, Discourses
Edited by Evgeny Dobrenko, Natalia Jonsson-Skradol
This collection on the export of Socialist Realism into Central and Eastern Europe after WWII is the first work on the subject which offers an in-depth analysis of the particularities of distinct national and cultural contexts and explores complexities of the cultural Sovietisation of the region.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086979
February 2018
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£175.00 / $175.00This collection on the export of Socialist Realism into Central and Eastern Europe after WWII is the first work on the subject which offers an in-depth analysis of the particularities of distinct national and cultural contexts and explores complexities of the cultural Sovietisation of the region.