From Up River and For One Night Only
Brett Grubisic Now or Never Publishing 2016 “From Up River and For One Night Only is not your typical rock ‘n roll novel. Sure, it’s full of wild misfits, day job drudgery, and dreams of stardom. But the real headliner here is Grubisic’s intoxicating, immersive language. It’s a cacophony of linguistic power chords, a picaresque […]
Badger
Daniel Heath Justice Reaktion Books 2015 Viewed as fierce, menacing or mysterious, badgers have been both admired and reviled throughout human history. Their global reputation for ferocious self-defence has led to brutalization by hunters and sport-seekers; their association with the mythic underworld has made them symbols of earth-based wisdom and steadfast tradition; their burrowing and […]
The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology
Stefan Dollinger John Benjamins Press 2015 Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a minor role in the field of social dialectology, the study of regional and social variation, the last decade has seen a methodological revival. This book is the first […]
Cathay: Ezra Pound’s Orient
Ira Nadel Penguin 2015 At the turn of the twentieth century, London was a breeding ground for the avant-garde. Modernist writers like T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound became infatuated with the Orient. Pound in particular was inspired by the clarity and precision of Eastern poetry to rethink the nature of an English poem. […]
The Masqueraders, or Fatal Curiosity and The Surprize, or Constancy Rewarded
Tiffany Potter University of Toronto Press 2015 The most important female English novelist of the 1720s, Eliza Haywood is famous for writing scandalous fiction about London society. Fast-moving, controversial, and sometimes disturbing, Haywood’s short novels The Masqueraders and The Surprize are valuable sources for the study of eighteenth-century gender and identity, the social history of […]
Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol
Adam Frank Fordham University Press 2014 Transferential Poetics presents a method for bringing theories of affect to the study of poetics. Informed by the thinking of Silvan Tomkins, Melanie Klein, and Wilfred Bion, it offers new interpretations of the poetics of four major American artists: Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Andy Warhol. […]
Literary Land Claims
Margery Fee Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2015 Literature not only represents Canada as “our home and native land” but has been used as evidence of the civilization needed to claim and rule that land. Indigenous people have long been represented as roaming “savages” without land title and without literature. Literary Land Claims: From Pontiac’s War […]
Making Noise, Making News
Mary Chapman Oxford University Press 2014 For most people, the U.S. suffrage campaign is encapsulated by images of iconic nineteenth-century orators like the tightly coifed Susan B. Anthony or the wimpled Elizabeth Cady Stanton. However, as Mary Chapman shows, the campaign to secure the vote for U.S. women was also a modern and print-cultural phenomenon, […]
Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution
Dennis Danielson Cambridge University Press 2014 This volume brings John Milton’s Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo, whom Milton met and admired: a universe encompassing space travel, an earth that participates vibrantly in the cosmic dance, and stars that are “world[s] / Of destined habitation.” Milton’s bold […]
Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain
Amanda Hopkins, Robert Rouse, Cory James Rushton, Editors Boydell & Brewer 2014 It is often said that the past is a foreign country where they do things differently, and perhaps no type of “doing” is more fascinating than sexual desires and behaviours. Our modern view of medieval sexuality is characterised by a polarising dichotomy between […]