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Culture and Consciousness argues that the vast interdisciplinary boom in consciousness research has enormous implications for literary and cultural studies, and that the potential benefits of this research in the twenty-first century are momentous. Its objective is to show how consciousness studies can help us reassess our approach to key issues and the fundamental assumptions of contemporary theory and criticism.

This is a study of some of Anglo-Ireland's most compelling twentieth-century attempts at self-representation. In contrast to formative studies that read Anglo-Irish fiction as a predictably colonialist literature that nostalgically champions ruling-class culture, the author argues that novels by such authors as Molly Keane, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett are in fact richly textured narratives that sustain continuous debates with their own...

This book is the first complete transcription of hitherto unpublished notes by Johnson for the 'Life of Pope' (British Library Add. MS. 5994). Kirkley provides Johnson scholars with a scrupulous study of Johnson's editing system as well as a critical study of how these notes mediate the processes of reading and composing, providing critical insight into Johnson's modes of textual production.

Exorcising History documents, contextualizes, and analyzes theater produced in Buenos Aires during Argentina 's military dictatorship of 1976 83 and the nation 's subsequent return to democracy.

The author argues that the repeated attempts to classify PinterOs work under the rubric of OOtheater of the absurdOO have led critics to largely ignore the political dimension of the playwrightOs works.

The transformation of the American sense of religious identity and destiny that occurred toward the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth is illustrated through a literary and cultural analysis of the fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser.

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Although Churchill is a 1953 Nobel laureate in literature whose collected works run to thirty-eight volumes that remain of enduring interest, his famous speeches have overshadowed his other writing. Winston Churchill's Imagination concentrates on less familiar works in modes other than political rhetoric. Its method is close analysis of how Churchill engages readers with those words and ideas that are hallmarks of his imagination.

The Commentary, the first full version on Paradise Lost since the Richardsons' in 1734, combines numerous resources with features used for the first time. It includes the best commentary from "Annotations" like Patrick Hume's (1695), to the variorum editions of Newton (1749) and Todd (1801 - 42), and the modern professional editions culminating in Alastair Fowler's (1968). Other elements include an essay on the early pre-annotative criticism f...

Disputed Titles: Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798-1832 argues for the centrality of inheritance¿often impeded, disrupted inheritance¿to the novel¿s rise to preeminence in Britain during the Romantic period. Novels by Maria Edgeworth, Sydney Owenson, Charles Maturin, Walter Scott, and John Galt are densely populated by orphans, changelings, and lost and kidnapped heirs, and privilege a romance plot of dispossession that und...

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Coal Dust on Your Feet is a historical ethnography covering a century and a half, looking at the lives and struggles of the immigrants who came to work in the Pennsylvania anthracite mines.

Deborah Kennedy's Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution is the first critical study to be published on this fascinating woman of letters: it is a comprehensively researched and lucidly written account of Williams' life and writing in the context of the major events taking place in England and France throughout her life. Complicating and extending biography, Kennedy's richly textured and contextual discussion of the "literary celebrity...

In the last three decades of the eighteenth century, a small but significant number of German actresses, including Sophie Albrecht (1757-1840), Marianne Ehrmann (1755-1795) and Elise B rger (1769-1833), began to publish poetry, autobiography, drama and short fiction under their own names. These "actress-writers" came of age at a time when the status of the actress was being radically redefined in accordance with Enlightenment aesthetics and th...

Carolyn Nadeau examines the significance of the sources cited for female characterization in the Prologue and their relationship to Cervantes' writing style. When the anonymous friend suggests that Cervantes include Guevara's Lamia, Laida, and Flora, Ovid's Media, Homer's Calypso, and Virgil's Circe as models for specific types of women, he not only foregrounds the significance of these classical women for the female characters in the text but...

The poems in Marc Hudson's The Disappearing Poet Blues are driven by a moral anguish: how do we live, they ask, in strict circumstances, what is the worth of a profoundly limited human life, how can one be both a good father and a good artist? Emblematic of the poet's exile and endurance are the severe landscapes of the Okanogan in Washington State and the Colville Indian Reservation, where Hudsons brain-injured son, Ian, was born and lived hi...

Orthodoxy and Heresy in Eighteenth-Century Society uses the concept of "heresy" to gain insight into the value of social order in eighteenth-century England and France. By applying the vocabulary of religion to behaviors that might more usually be studies as "deviant, " and contributors account for the complexity and vehemence of conflicts over right order played out in the literary, artistic, and political arenas of the age.

Recent research on the Soviet period of Russian literary history has eliminated many gaps in our understanding of that complex era. With few exceptions, however, little critical attention has been directed to the most important of all Soviet genres: the production novel, or proizvodstvennyi roman. Such neglect is particularly true of production novels written in the transitional era between the late 1920s and the early 1930s. Such works provid...

The multi-volume novel of Marcel Proust, A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27), began to receive attention in Spanish America in 1920, and, as Herbert Craig meticulously shows, this French connection would continue throughout the twentieth century. He traces it both through the literary criticism devoted to Proust in the New World and through the impact of the Recherche upon the Spanish American novel, which according Alejo Carpentier was si...

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