History of Authorship 2013

History of Authorship 2013
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Amy Lowell, Diva Poet

Melissa Bradshaw, Loyola University Chicago, USA Bradshaw uses theories of the diva and female celebrity to account for Lowells extraordinary literary influence in the early twentieth century and the dismissal of her work after her death. Drawing on a rich array of letters, memoirs, newspapers and periodicals, but eschewing the biographical interpretations of her poetry that have often characterized criticism on Lowell, Bradshaw restores Lowell to her rightful place as a powerful writer and impresario of modernist verse.
December 2011 Hardback 188 pages 978-1-4094-1002-7 55.00
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Anna Seward: A Constructed Life

A Critical Biography
Teresa Barnard, University of Derby, UK
Examining the unpublished letters and manuscripts of the poet Anna Seward (1742-1809), Barnard provides a fresh perspective on her life and historical milieu that restores and problematizes Sewards carefully constructed narrative of her life. Barnards biography Ashgate Publishing of Seward not only challenges what is known about Wey Court Easyt, Union Road Seward, but provides new information about the lives Farnham and times of eighteenth-century writers. Surrey GU9 7PT Please state the name of the publication in which the review will be published.
September 2009 Hardback ebook 208 pages 978-0-7546-6616-5 978-0-7546-9346-8 55.00
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Anonymity in Early Modern England
Whats In A Name? Ann Donahue, Senior Commissioning Editor Edited by Janet Wright Starner, Wilkes University, USA adonahue@ashgate.com and Barbara Howard Traister, Lehigh University, USA 18th20th Century Literature Expanding the scholarly conversation about Ashgate Publishing Company Renaissance anonymity and attribution studies, this collection explores the phenomenon of anonymous Suite 3-1 publication in all its variety of methods and genres. 110 Cherry Street The volume opens with essays investigating particular Burlington, VT English texts and the inflection each genre gives to the 05401-3818 issue of nameless authoring. Later chapters consider USA more abstract consequences of anonymity, including its function in destabilising scholarly assumptions Visit ashgate.com/authors for information about authorship; its ethical ramifications; and its about submitting a proposal. relationship to attribution studies.
Cover illustration: Lorenzo Lotto (14801556), Portrt einer Venezianerin als Lucrezia February 2011 Hardback ebook 198 pages 978-0-7546-6949-4 978-0-7546-9713-8 55.00
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The Ashgate Research Companion to NineteenthCentury Spiritualism and the Occult

Edited by Tatiana Kontou, Oxford Brookes University, UK and Sarah Willburn This is an outstanding guide to the current state of scholarship in an area that has become central to our understanding of nineteenth-century culture. The editors have put together a well-conceived array of essays on a range of spiritualist and occult practices, and the individual essays are uniformly well-informed and smart. Both experts in the field and students will find it extremely valuable. Adela Pinch, University of Michigan, USA Designed both for those new to the field and for experts, this volume is organized into sections covering the relationship between Victorian spiritualism and science, the occult and politics, and the culture of mystical practices. The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult brings together some of the most prominent scholars working in the field to introduce current approaches to the study of nineteenth-century mysticism and to define new areas for research.
Includes 17 commissioned essays July 2012 454 pages Hardback 978-0-7546-6912-8 ebook 978-0-7546-9626-1 www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754669128 85.00
Baroness Orczys The Scarlet Pimpernel

A Publishing History
Sally Dugan, Birkbeck College, UK This well-researched and lucidly written study traces the origins of the story and its variegated history in fiction, drama, and film, exploring how the author and her publishers adapted the tales to suit various markets. The analysis offers particularly valuable insights into the mass-reading public of the early twentieth century. Sally Dugan creates a convincing explication of the staying power of an unlikely popular myth. This work will interest students of publishing history, cultural studies, and popular entertainment. Judith Fisher, Trinity University, USA Since its publication in 1905, The Scarlet Pimpernel has experienced global success, not only as a novel but in theatrical and film adaptations. Drawing on extensive archival research, Dugan charts the history of Baroness Orczys elusive hero, from the novels origins through its continuing afterlife. Dugan explores the mystery of this imperialist English gentleman, originally conceived by Orczy as an anarchist Pole, and traces his durability as a worldwide phenomenon.
November 2012 Hardback ebook 314 pages 978-1-4094-2717-9 978-1-4094-7104-2 60.00
Balzac, Grandville, and the Rise of Book Illustration

Keri Yousif, Indiana State University, USA How the rise of book illustration affected the historic hegemony of the word is the topic of Keri Yousifs study of the complex relationship between the novelist Honor de Balzac and the illustrator J. J. Grandville. As Yousif shows, the industrialisation of the illustrated book spawned a triadic relationship between publisher, writer and illustrator that transformed the book from a product of individual genius to a cooperative and commercial affair.
Includes 24 b&w illustrations June 2012 Hardback ebook 212 pages 978-1-4094-1808-5 978-1-4094-1809-2 55.00
Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy

Challenging the Personal Voice
Britta Martens, University of the West of England, UK A subtle, nuanced and original new reading of Brownings authorial identity and poetics in the wake of Romanticism, Victorian reactions to it, and nineteenthcentury changes in the reading public. The author explores the complex contradictions that pervaded the poets responses not only to Romantic poetic modes but also to key figures of Romanticism and Victorian poets whom he associated with Romantic selfexpression. In the second half of the study especially, a fascinating analysis of Brownings negotiation of the private/public divide emerges as a significant theme. Marjorie Stone, Dalhousie University, Canada Taking an original approach to Robert Brownings poetics, Martens analyses his work in relation to Romanticism and an evolving Victorian poetic culture. She goes beyond reductive interpretations of Browning as a self-effacing poet to reveal a highly self-conscious, self-dramatising and conflicted engagement with the Romantic tradition. Martens Browning is a poet of complex contradictions and an illuminating case study in voice, authorial authority and self-reference.
August 2011 Hardback ebook 300 pages 978-1-4094-2303-4 978-1-4094-2304-1 55.00
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Byron and the Discourses of History

Carla Pomar, Universit del Piemonte Orientale, Italy In her study of the relationship between Byrons lifelong interest in history and the development of history as a discipline, Pomar focuses on how Byrons writings interact with a variety of historiographical texts ranging from monographs to dictionaries. Calling attention to Byrons massive use of paratexts, she discusses how historical discourses supplied epistemological models that shaped his preoccupation with the transmission of historical knowledge and its ideological uses.
February 2013 Hardback ebook 180 pages 978-1-4094-4356-8 978-1-4724-0135-9 55.00
Early Modern Poetics in Melville and Poe

Memory, Melancholy, and the Emblematic Tradition
William E. Engel, The University of the South, USA Engel brings an outstanding scholarly reputation in English Renaissance literature to his task, and it is just what the study of American literature needs at present: explorations of its debt to the literature of the past and its use of that past in new ways to transform American literary culture. Bainard Cowan, University of Dallas, USA While other scholars have remarked on the influence of seventeenth-century literature on Melville and Poe, Engel is the first to explore how their close readings of early modern texts influenced their compositional practice. Rather than simply offering an account of what these authors read, Engel focuses principally on the overlapping rhetorical and iconic assumptions of the Art of Memory and its relation to chiasmus in order to illustrate the authors profound debt to the past.
March 2012 Hardback ebook 204 pages 978-1-4094-3586-0 978-1-4094-3587-7 55.00
Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 16701730

Laura Linker, North Carolina State University, USA
British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
Dangerous Womens overall claim is an important one. The idea that libertinism and sensibility are connected allows Linker to bring light previously obscured links between the two modes, and in so doing, yields a fresh perspective on both. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research In the first full-length study of the figure of the female libertine in late seventeenth- and early eighteenthcentury literature, Linker examines plays and novels by John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter, Delariviere Manley and Daniel Defoe. Her study places the female libertine within her cultural, philosophical and literary contexts and suggests new ways of considering womens participation and the early novel.
April 2011 Hardback ebook 184 pages 978-1-4094-1811-5 978-1-4094-1812-2 55.00
The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics

Carol Stewart, Queens University, Belfast, UK Linking the decline in Church authority in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries with the increasing respectability of fiction, Stewart provides a new perspective on the rise of the novel. The resulting readings of novels by authors such as Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Frances Sheridan, Charlotte Lennox, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, William Godwin and Jane Austen shed light on the literary marketplace and the status of writers.
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Fellow Romantics
Male and Female British Writers, 17901835
Edited by Beth Lau, California State University, USA
The Nineteenth Century Series
Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf

Theodore Koulouris, University of Sussex, UK Taking up Virginia Woolfs fascination with Greek literature and culture, this book explores her engagement with the nineteenth-century phenomenon of British Hellenism and her transformation of that multifaceted socio-cultural and political reality into a particular textual aesthetic, which Theodore Koulouris defines as Greekness. Woolfs Greekness, Koulouris argues, enabled her to navigate male and female appropriations of British Hellenism and was singly important in providing her with a language of mourning.
December 2010 Hardback ebook 252 pages 978-1-4094-0445-3 978-1-4094-1966-2 60.00
Beginning with the premise that men and women of the Romantic period were lively interlocutors who participated in many of the same literary traditions and experiments, Fellow Romantics offers an inspired counterpoint to studies that emphasize differences between male and female Romantic-era writers. Linking, among others, Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth, Felicia Hemans and Percy Bysshe Shelley, the contributors defamiliarize the work of both male and female writers by drawing our attention to frequently neglected aspects of each writers art.
August 2009 Hardback 278 pages 978-0-7546-6353-9 60.00
Frances Burneys Cecilia

A Publishing History
Catherine Parisian, University of North Carolina, USA Catherine Parisians publishing history of Cecilia is an invaluable resource for the study and teaching of Frances Burneys most important novel. Parisians history is an extraordinary work of scholarship, the sort of book a scholar might be expected to produce at the end of a lifetime of study. More is known about the writing, printing, illustrating, distribution, and critical reception of Cecilia than perhaps any other book in the late eighteenth century, making it a key text for the discipline of book history in this period, and Parisian is our vade mecum to the history of that book. Geoffrey Sill, Rutgers University-Camden, USA Parisian mines an extensive archival record that includes portions of the original manuscript, annotated page proofs, legal records relative to its copyright, and an abundance of letters, to chronicle the composition, printing, and publication of Frances Burneys Cecilia from its first edition in 1782 to the present-day Oxford Worlds Classics paperback. Her timely history demonstrates the importance of Cecilia to the art of the novel and the history of the book.
October 2012 Hardback ebook 386 pages 978-1-4094-1820-7 978-1-4094-8407-3 65.00
Holinsheds Nation
Ideals, Memory, and Practical Policy in the Chronicles
Igor Djordjevic, York University, Canada Djordjevic explores the historiography of Holinsheds Chronicles through a literary lens, focusing on how Renaissance men and women read and understood historical texts. This study revaluates our understanding of Renaissance chronicle history and the impact of Holinshed on Tudor, Jacobean and Caroline political discourse; the Chronicles emerge not as a series of rambling, digressive episodes characteristic to a dying medieval genre, but as the preserver of national memory, the teacher of prudent policy, and a builder of the commonwealth ideal.
June 2010 Hardback 286 pages 978-1-4094-0035-6 60.00
Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleves Verse

Karen Elaine Smyth, University of East Anglia, UK Shortlisted for the European Society for the Study of English Book Award 2012 in the Literatures in the English Language, Junior Scholars category Through a series of close readings of selected short poems and Lydgates Troy Book, Fall of Princes, and Siege of Thebes and of Hoccleves Regiments of Princes and Series, Smyth looks at expressions of time and examples of the authors negotiation of time consciousness. Smyth illustrates how both poets manipulate a range of cultural narratives of time in order to create multiple and sometimes competing temporalities within a single poem.
Imitation and Praise in the Poems of Ben Jonson

Second Edition Richard S. Peterson, University of Connecticut, USA The original publication of Imitation and Praise in the Poems of Ben Jonson in 1981 led to a reinterpretation of the Jonsons poems and philosophy; the resulting portrait of Jonson served as a corrective to earlier views based primarily on the satiric poems and plays. This second edition of a now-classic text makes Petersons important scholarship available to a new generation of scholars.
October 2011 Hardback 234 pages 978-1-4094-0876-5 55.00
The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 17801835

Neil Ramsey, University of Western Sydney, Australia
This is lucid and convincing analysis, fluently written Admirably nuanced and impressively thoughtful an important scholarly contribution that illuminatingly realigns war literature with other literary models. Times Literary Supplement Examining the little-known memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Ramsey shows how these popular works profoundly shaped nineteenth-century British cultures understanding of war as Romantic adventure, establishing images of the nations middle-class soldier heroes that would be of enduring significance through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
December 2011 Hardback 282 pages 978-1-4094-1034-8 60.00
James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace

Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author
Edited by Sharon Alker, Whitman College, USA and Holly Faith Nelson, Trinity Western University, Canada Responding to the resurgence of interest in the Scottish working-class writer James Hogg, Alker and Nelson offer the first edited collection devoted to a critical examination of his writings. The essays explore the varied and experimental works of Hogg to establish that they deserve a central place in Romantic studies and to demonstrate that they anticipate and address many recent concerns voiced in contemporary discussions of literature.
October 2009 Hardback 278 pages 978-0-7546-6569-4 60.00
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Models of Collaboration in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

Several Authors, One Pen
Edited by Seth Whidden, Villanova University, USA Prize: A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 Contributing to the current lively discussion of collaboration in French letters, this collection of essays raises fundamental questions about the limits and definition of authorship in the context of the nineteenth centurys explosion of collaborative ventures. The volume will interest scholars of nineteenth-century French literature, and more generally, any scholar interested in whats at stake in redefining the role of the French author.
Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860

Edited by Theresa Strouth Gaul, Texas Christian University, USA and Sharon M. Harris, University of Connecticut, USA Rejecting the common categorization of letters as primarily private documents, this collection demonstrates the genres persistent public engagements with changing cultural dynamics of the revolutionary, early republican, and antebellum eras. Transatlantic studies, authorship, reform movements, and the politics and practices of editing letters are treated in this exemplary collection that offers scholars a template of new approaches for exploring an understudied yet critically important genre.
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Modernist Short Fiction by Women

The Liminal in Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair and Virginia Woolf
Claire Drewery, Sheffield Hallam University, UK ...a distinctly original and welcome contribution that lays the groundwork for further studies of women modernists and the short story. Woolf Studies Annual Exploring the short storys relationship to literary Modernism, Drewery considers works by Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair and Virginia Woolf. Drewery argues that the short story is preoccupied with transgressing boundaries, and thus is an ideal genre for examining the Modernist fascination with the liminal. Drewery shows how these writers contribute significantly to the Modernist aesthetic that interrogates identity, the construction of the self, and the relationship between the individual and society.
May 2011 Hardback ebook 158 pages 978-0-7546-6646-2 978-1-4094-2888-6 50.00
Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World

Edited by Christine DeVine, University of Louisiana, USA By creating an idea of America, popular New World travel writing offered an understanding of America through British eyes, and a lens through which 19thcentury Britain could view itself. Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World demonstrates the importance of 19th-century New World travel writing, examining narratives by some of the popular writers of the day, as well as paintings and drawings by travelling artists.
Petrarchs English Laurels, 14751700

A Compendium of Printed References and Allusions
Compiled by Jackson Campbell Boswell and Gordon McMurry Braden Were I the librarian of any European or American University or National library I would order Petrarchs English Laurels immediately. It is an important and very accurate reference book filling a gap in European studies. Any major library should keep it on its shelves. Mario Domenichelli, University of Florence, Italy The powerful influence of Petrarch on the development of Renaissance vernacular poetry has long been recognised as one of the major factors in early modern cultural history. It provides a far more comprehensive catalogue of the direct evidence for that influence in England than any yet available. It offers an itemised presentation, year by year, of printed citations, translations and allusions, with complete bibliographical information, quotations of the relevant passages and brief commentary.
September 2012 Hardback 598 pages 978-1-4094-0118-6 75.00
The Mothers Legacy in Early Modern England

Jennifer Heller, Lenoir-Rhyne University, USA
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
a valuable resource for anyone studying the development of womens writing. The Mothers Legacy in Early Modern England provides a comprehensive survey of mothers advice books across a hundred year time span...With careful attention to the forces that shaped these works - their personal, cultural, and political contexts - this book further defines the genre, but more importantly, it reaffirms the importance of these texts as sites of female voice and power, both public and private. Susan C. Staub, Appalachian State University, USA Reading twenty printed and manuscript texts composed between 1575 and 1672, Heller defines the genre of the mothers legacy as a distinct branch of the advice tradition in early modern England. Attending to cultural, social and historical trends, Heller explores how legacy writers used the genre to secure personal and family status, to shape their childrens beliefs and behaviours, and to intervene in the periods religious and political debates.
June 2011 Hardback ebook 244 pages 978-1-4094-1108-6 978-1-4094-1109-3 55.00
Playing the Canterbury Tales

The Continuations and Additions
Andrew Higl, Winona State University, USA Playing the Canterbury Tales addresses the additions, continuations and reordering found in early copies of the Canterbury Tales. Using examples and theories from new media studies, Higl demonstrates that the Tales are best viewed as an interactive fiction. Readers participated in the on-going creation and production of the tales by adding new text, rearranging existing text, and through this textual transmission, introduced new social and literary meaning to the work.
January 2012 Hardback ebook 210 pages 978-1-4094-2728-5 978-1-4094-2729-2 55.00
The Political in Margaret Atwoods Fiction

The Writing on the Wall of the Tent
Theodore F. Sheckels, Randolph-Macon College, USA Suggesting that politics and power are at the center of Margaret Atwoods fiction, Sheckels examines Atwoods novels from The Edible Woman to The Year of the Flood. Sheckels stresses that Atwoods work should not be viewed as political commentary but rather as a creative treatment of the laudable, but ultimately only partially successful ways in which women and other groups resist the constraints placed on them by institutionalized oppression.
July 2012 198 pages Hardback 978-1-4094-3379-8 ebook 978-1-4094-3380-4 www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409433798 55.00
Reason and Religion in Clarissa

Samuel Richardson and the Famous Mr. Norris, of Bemerton
E. Derek Taylor, Longwood University, USA Departing from traditional Lockean readings of Clarissa, Taylor offers a new interpretation informed by the writings of Lockes first critic, John Norris. Alluded to throughout Richardsons novel, Norriss philosophical and religious ideas provide the rhetorical grounding for Clarissa, while the arguments on behalf of women by early feminists like Mary Astell (an intellectual ally of Norris) supply the combination of progressive feminism and conservative theology that animate the text.
The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollopes Novels

New Readings for the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Margaret Markwick, University of Exeter, UK, Deborah Denenholz Morse, College of William and Mary, USA and Regenia Gagnier, University of Exeter, UK
Remembering Boethius
Writing Aristocratic Identity in Late Medieval French and English Literatures
Elizabeth Elliott, University of Edinburgh, UK Elizabeth Elliott treats a number of subjectsBoethius, Boethiuss fortune in the later Middle Ages, memory, life-writing, prison literature, advice to princesin a deft and sophisticated manner. Engaging with Boethius, a philosopher, she deals with complex philosophical questions, and she insists upon the serious, intellectual component in texts which, up to now, were considered largely to be works of aristocratic and aesthetic play. William Calin, University of Florida, USA Remembering Boethius explores the rich intersection between the reception of Boethiuss Consolation of Philosophy and the literary construction of aristocratic identity. Elliott presents new interpretations of Machauts Confort dami, Remede de Fortune and Fonteinne amoureuse, Froissarts Prison amoureuse, Thomas Usks Testament of Love and the Kingis Quair. In asking how and why medieval writers remember Boethius, this book sheds new light on how medieval people imagined, and reimagined themselves.
Bringing together established critics and exciting new voices, this collection offers readings of Trollope that recognize and repay his importance as source material for scholars working in diverse fields of literary and cultural studies. Drawing on work from economics, colonialism and ethnicity, gender studies, new historicism, liberalism, legal studies and politics, the contributors make a convincing case for Trollopes writings as a vehicle for the theoretical explorations of Victorian culture that currently predominate.
March 2009 Hardback 274 pages 978-0-7546-6389-8 60.00
Rape and the Rise of the Author

Gendering Intention in Early Modern England
Amy Greenstadt, Portland State University, USA
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
Contending that early modern fictional portrayals of sexual violence identify the position of the author with that of the chaste woman threatened with rape, Greenstadt challenges the prevalent scholarly view that this periods concept of The Author was inherently masculine. Instead, she argues, the analogy between rape and writing centrally informed ideas of literary intention and individual free will that emerged during the English Renaissance.
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Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture

Edited by Sharon Alker, Whitman College, USA, Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University, Canada and Holly Faith Nelson, Trinity Western University, Canada
Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
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Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific

Travel, Empire, and the Authors Profession
Roslyn Jolly, University of New South Wales, Australia Prize: Shortlisted for the New South Wales Premiers Prize for Literary Scholarship 2010 Jolly examines a crucial period (1887-1894) in Stevensons life, focusing on the self-transformation wrought in his Pacific travel-writing and political texts. As his geographical and cultural horizons expanded, Stevensons professional sphere also enlarged. A key feature of the study is Jollys analysis of the resistance of Victorian readers, not only to the Pacific subject matter of Stevensons later works, but also to his experiments with new styles and genres.
April 2009 Hardback 206 pages 978-0-7546-6195-5 55.00
This splendid collection establishes the tremendous historical impact that Burns has had on transatlantic literature and demonstrates the vibrant role he continues to play in our culture. Raising important questions about how Burns has been read, reinterpreted, and reinvented across the centuries and across media, as well as across the Atlantic ocean, this volume will be of interest not only to anyone working in Scottish literary studies, but also to scholars of Canadian and American literary history and print culture. Pam Perkins, University of Manitoba, Canada The fourteen essays included in Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture re-orient scholarly understanding of Robert Burns by focusing on the reception and representation of the Scottish poet and songwriter in the Americas. Divided into five sections, the volume explores: transatlantic concerns in Burnss own work; Burnss early publication in North America; Burnss reception in the Americas; Burnss creation as a site of cultural memory; and extra-literary remediations of Burns, including contemporary digital representations.
Romantic Autobiography in England

Edited by Eugene Stelzig, State University of New York, USA
Robert Fergusson and the Scottish Periodical Press

Rhona Brown, University of Glasgow, UK Characterised by insightful close readings, this book offers an alternative way of reading this most vigorous and interesting poet, challenging existing scholarship and proposing to correct a number of misconceptions. The Fergusson revealed here engaged fully with contemporary culture - news, poems, letters - countering long-held assumptions that his work is backward-looking and nostalgic. Suzanne Gilbert, University of Stirling, UK Though Robert Fergusson published only one collection of poems during his lifetime, he was a fixture in the Scottish periodical press. Brown explores Fergussons poetic output in its immediate periodical context, enabling a new understanding of Fergussons contribution to poetry that also enlarges on our understanding of the Scottish periodical press and the political climate of Enlightenment Scotland.
July 2012 Hardback ebook 288 pages 978-1-4094-2023-1 978-1-4094-2024-8 60.00
Taking into account the popularity and variety of the genre, this collaborative volume considers a wide range of English Romantic autobiographical writers and modes, including working-class autobiography, the familiar essay, and the staged presence. Major writers such as William Wordsworth, De Quincey and Mary Shelley, and recent additions to the canon such as Mary Robinson, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Hays are treated in this exploratory mapping of the field.
Translation, Authorship and the Victorian Professional Woman

Charlotte Bront, Harriet Martineau and George Eliot
Lesa Scholl, The University of Queensland, Australia ...Translation, Authorship and the Victorian Professional Woman is not just a companion to colonial and postcolonial, gender, and/or nineteenthcentury literary studies, but a distinctive, original, and finely crafted work of scholarship in its own right. Transnational Literature In her study of Charlotte Bront, Harriet Martineau and George Eliot, Scholl shows how three Victorian women writers broadened their capacity for literary professionalism by participating in translation and other activities such as editing and reviewing early in their careers. Access to foreign languages and locales and their translation of texts, nations and cultures ultimately enabled them to transgress the physical and ideological boundaries imposed by English middleclass conventions.
Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne

Frances Cruickshank, Australian National University, This study traces George Herberts and John Donnes development of a distinct poetics through close readings of their poetry, as well as letters, sermons, and prose treatises. In demonstrating a relationship between poetics and religious consciousness, Cruickshank explores the poets privileging of verse, and makes an important contribution to the ongoing scholarly dialogue about the nature of literary and cultural study of early modern England.
Victorian Women and the Economies of Travel, Translation and Culture, 18301870
Judith Johnston, The University of Western Australia ...an authoritative study of an important area of womens participation in the profession of writing, engagingly written and persuasively argued. It makes a timely and effective intervention in current critical debates about translation and travel literature, and broadens our understanding of Britains interactions with other nations and cultures in the nineteenth century. Hilary Fraser, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Using the metaphor of the published journey, whether it involves actual travel or translation, Johnston focuses on the relationships of various British women travellers, translators and journalists, mainly with continental Europe. Devoted in part to case studies of women such as Anna Jameson and Mary Howitt, Johnstons book shows women establishing themselves as robust participants in the publishing history and as actors in the broad business of culture.
January 2013 Hardback ebook 180 pages 978-1-4094-4823-5 978-1-4724-0136-6 55.00
Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism

Reading Audiences
Kathy Cawsey, Dalhousie University, Canada A Yankee Book Peddler US Core Title for 2011 ... provides an excellent review of the trajectory Chaucer Studies took in the past century. Cawsey delivers an elegant, even-handed study of six twentieth-century Chaucerians not always treated with the critical detachment she practices in her examination of the ways shifting conceptions of audience shape scholars interpretations of Chaucers work. Candace Barrington, Central Connecticut State University, USA Cawsey draws on Michel Foucaults concept of the author-function to propose the idea of an audience function which shows the ways critics concepts of audience affect and condition their criticism. Focusing on six trend-setting Chaucerian scholars, Cawsey identifies the assumptions about Chaucers audience underpinning each critics work. In making sense of the confusing and conflicting mass of modern Chaucer criticism, Cawsey provides insights into the development of twentieth-century literary criticism and theory.
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Virginia Woolfs Common Reader

Katerina Koutsantoni In the first comprehensive study of Virginia Woolf s Common Reader, Koutsantoni draws on theorists from the fields of sociology, sociolinguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism to investigate the thematic pattern underpinning these books with respect to the persona of the common reader. As she explores and challenges the meaning of impersonality in Woolfs Common Reader, Koutsantoni shows how related issues, including authority, reader-response, intersubjectivity and dialogism, offer useful perspectives from which to examine Woolfs work.
July 2009 Hardback ebook 228 pages 978-0-7546-6264-8 978-0-7546-9456-4 55.00
Women Reviewing Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain

The Critical Reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront and George Eliot
Joanne Wilkes, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Giving special attention to critical reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront and George Eliot, Wilkes offers in-depth examinations of reviews by eight female critics: Maria Jane Jewsbury, Sara Coleridge, Hannah Lawrance, Jane Williams, Julia Kavanagh, Anne Mozley, Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward. What they wrote about women writers, and what their writings tell us about the critics sense of themselves, reveals the distinctive character of nineteenth-century womens contributions to literary history.
April 2010 Hardback ebook 194 pages 978-0-7546-6336-2 978-0-7546-9857-9 55.00
Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century

The Transatlantic Production of Fame and Gender
Brenda R. Weber, Indiana University, USA
Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
Womens Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Catherine Delafield, University of Leicester, UK
Nuanced, insightful, and richly detailed, Brenda Webers study of womens literary celebrity in the nineteenth century offers provocative readings of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny Fern, Margaret Oliphant and Elizabeth Keckley, among others. Deftly revealing how Victorian women writers on both sides of the Atlantic navigated the treacherous waters of public life, Webers writing is both witty and erudite, and her book sheds new light on the uneasy intersection of fame and Victorian femininity. Suzanne Raitt, College of William & Mary, USA Focusing on representations of womens literary celebrity in nineteenth-century nonfiction and fiction, Weber examines the transatlantic cultural politics of gender, sex and the body. Looking at discursive patterns and texts by authors like Charlotte Bront, Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny Fern, Margaret Oliphant and Eliza Potter that feature successful woman writers, Weber argues that discursive representations of the legitimately famous woman used celebrity as a tactic for altering perceptions about femininity and female identity.
June 2012 Hardback ebook 274 pages 978-1-4094-0073-8 978-1-4094-0074-5 60.00
Using private diary writing as her model, Delafield investigates the cultural significance of nineteenthcentury womens writing and reading practices. Examining historical and fictional diaries by authors such as Frances Burney, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Bront, Wilkie Collins and Bram Stoker, Delafield reveals the ideological discrepancy between the private diary and its performance in the role of narrator, offering fresh insights into domesticity, authorship, and the diary as a feminine form and model for narrative.
August 2009 Hardback 200 pages 978-0-7546-6517-5 55.00
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