Author: John Aplin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040242820
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 537
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Marking the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, this five-volume set presents a collection of materials relating to the novelist and to his gifted family.
Author: John Aplin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138758926
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Marking the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, this five-volume set presents a collection of materials relating to the novelist and to his gifted family.
Author: Peter Shillingsburg
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271079959
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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In literary investigation all evidence is textual, dependent on preservation in material copies. Copies, however, are vulnerable to inadvertent and purposeful change. In this volume, Peter Shillingsburg explores the implications of this central concept of textual scholarship. Through thirteen essays, Shillingsburg argues that literary study depends on documents, the preservation of works, and textual replication, and he traces how this proposition affects understanding. He explains the consequences of textual knowledge (and ignorance) in teaching, reading, and research—and in the generous impulses behind the digitization of cultural documents. He also examines the ways in which facile assumptions about a text can lead one astray, discusses how differing international and cultural understandings of the importance of documents and their preservation shape both knowledge about and replication of works, and assesses the dissemination of information in the context of ethics and social justice. In bringing these wide-ranging pieces together, Shillingsburg reveals how and why meaning changes with each successive rendering of a work, the value in viewing each subsequent copy of a text as an original entity, and the relationship between textuality and knowledge. Featuring case studies throughout, this erudite collection distills decades of Shillingsburg’s thought on literary history and criticism and appraises the place of textual studies and scholarly editing today.
Author: John Aplin
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Publishers
ISBN: 9781781446119
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1781
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Marking the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, this five-volume critical edition represents the most substantial collection of unpublished material relating to the novelist and his gifted family. Drawing on just over 1,300 letters in public collections, as well as on privately-owned documents, this project presents a wealth of unknown or underused sources that demand scholarly attention. Whilst complementing the already published volumes of Thackeray’s letters, this important work opens up research on the complex and often troubled dynamics within the family, providing evidence for a narrative that suggests elements of psychological disorder, less than orthodox relationships and transgenerational marriage.Of particular importance in revealing Thackeray’s professional life are the substantial collection of rediscovered letters sent by George Smith to the novelist relating to The Cornhill Magazine, of which Smith was founder-publisher and Thackeray the first editor. They throw new light upon the working relationship between the two men in their day-to-day planning for the magazine, and represent the largest surviving series of letters to Thackeray from a single correspondent. As well as many intimate family letters, including those between Thackeray’s daughters, also represented are the extensive communications between his elder daughter Anne – herself an author – and many key artistic and literary figures of the time, including Alfred, Lord Tennyson, George Frederic Watts, John Ruskin, Robert Browning, George Smith, Leslie Stephen, Kate Perugini, Julia Margaret Cameron, John Everett Millais, Lord Frederic Leighton, Fanny Kemble, Henry James, J M Barrie, Margaret Oliphant, Algernon Charles Swinburne, George Meredith, Rhoda Broughton, George du Maurier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Andrew Lang, Augustine Birrell and Virginia Woolf.
Author: Owen Holland
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 197882193X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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The Parisian Communards fought for a vision of internationalism, radical democracy and economic justice for the working masses that cut across national borders. Its eventual defeat resonated far beyond Paris. Literature and Revolution examines how authors in Britain projected their hopes and fears in literary representations of the Commune.
Author: Peter Collister
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119483093
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 487
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Discover anew the life and influence of Henry James, part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies series. In The Life of Henry James: A Critical Biography, Peter Collister, an established critic and authority on Henry James, offers an original and fully documented account of one of America’s finest writers, who was both a creative practitioner and theorist of the novel. In this volume, James’s life in all its personal and cultural richness is examined alongside a detailed scrutiny of his fiction, essays, biographies, autobiographies, travel writing, plays and reviews. James was a dedicated and brilliant letter-writer and his biographer make judicious use of this material, some of it previously unpublished, evoking in the novelist’s own words the society within which he moved and worked. His gift for friendship, often resulting in close relationships with both men and women, are sensitively explored. Near the beginning of his long and highly productive life, James left America to immerse himself in European culture and history – a necessity, he felt, for the developing artist. In an ironic symmetry he witnessed in his youth the effects of the American Civil War and in his last days, finally becoming a British citizen, despaired at the unfolding tragedy of the Great War in Europe. Sustained, nevertheless, by his own creative energy, he never ceased to believe in the capacity of the arts to enhance and give significance to life. Provides well-informed accounts of Henry James’s youth in New York City, his unconventional education, his extensive travel in Europe, his eventual assimilation into British society, his development as a writer and his personal relationships as a single man. Features discussions of James’s major works in a variety of genres from an assured theoretical and historical perspective. Assesses James’s developing quest for dramatic form in his fiction – the ‘scenic art’ – as well as his critical writing which was to have a lasting influence on the literature and aesthetic values of the twentieth century. Discusses his achieved aspiration to be ‘just literary’, to become what he called that ‘queer monster’, an artist. Charts James’s lifelong interest in art and theatre. An incisive discussion of the life of an author of major stature, The Life of Henry James: A Critical Biography offers a refreshingly lucid and human account of a novelist and his often challenging, but rewarding, writing. Peter Collister, a former college Assistant Principal, has published many essays in Europe and America on a range of nineteenth-century British and French authors. He is the author of Writing the Self: Henry James and America and later edited for the university presses of Cambridge and Virginia the award-winning volumes: The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama, James's autobiographical writings, A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, and The Middle Years, as well as The American Scene.
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Languages : en
Pages : 1580
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1766
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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