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The Norton Library edition of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll &
Mr. Hyde features the text of the first (1886) British edition,
edited by Caroline Levine. Levine's introduction discusses the
contexts and structure of Stevenson's thrilling horror story,
highlighting the literary achievements of "a fable that lies nearer
to poetry than to ordinary prose fiction" (Vladimir Nabokov). Other
selections include two short stories in which Stevenson first
experimented with the themes and techniques that are fully realized
in Jekyll & Hyde.
An argument that humanists have the tools—and the
responsibility—to mobilize political power to tackle climate
change As climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and
cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the
separation of aesthetic study from the nitty-gritty of political
change? In this thought-provoking book, Caroline Levine makes the
case for an alternative view, arguing that humanists have the tools
to mobilize political power—and the responsibility to use those
tools to avert the worst impacts of global warming. Building on the
theory developed in her award-winning book, Forms, Levine shows how
formalist methods can be used in the fight for climate justice.
Countering scholars in the environmental humanities who embrace
only “modest gestures of care”—and who seem to have moved
directly to “mourning” our inevitable environmental
losses—Levine argues that large-scale, practical environmental
activism should be integral to humanists’ work. She identifies
three major infrastructural forms crucial to sustaining collective
life: routines, pathways, and enclosures. Crisscrossing between art
works and public works—from urban transportation to television
series and from food security programs to rhyming couplets—she
considers which forms might support stability and predictability in
the face of growing precarity. Finally, bridging the gap between
academic and practical work, Levine offers a series of questions
and exercises intended to guide readers into political action. The
Activist Humanist provides an essential handbook for prospective
activist-scholars.
First published in 1998, this volume proposes to shift the critical
emphasis from a canonical author to her uncanonical text - from
George Eliot to her novel Romola - and contends that this choice
both broadens the range of interpretive possibilities and brings
them into sharper focus. The editors invited a variety of critics
to put their different critical models to work on Romola and the
results are fertile and suggestive: among the issues explored here
are the domestic politics of marriage, the relationship between
narrative and epistemology, the materiality of the text, the
novel's relation to nineteenth-century narratives of martyrdom, and
the gendering of space. Such theoretical eclecticism, when focused
on a common reference point, necessarily opens out into a dialogue
among critical and interpretive models. Theory throws light onto
Romola, just as Romola throws light onto theory.
First published in 1998, this volume proposes to shift the critical
emphasis from a canonical author to her uncanonical text - from
George Eliot to her novel Romola - and contends that this choice
both broadens the range of interpretive possibilities and brings
them into sharper focus. The editors invited a variety of critics
to put their different critical models to work on Romola and the
results are fertile and suggestive: among the issues explored here
are the domestic politics of marriage, the relationship between
narrative and epistemology, the materiality of the text, the
novel's relation to nineteenth-century narratives of martyrdom, and
the gendering of space. Such theoretical eclecticism, when focused
on a common reference point, necessarily opens out into a dialogue
among critical and interpretive models. Theory throws light onto
Romola, just as Romola throws light onto theory.
Forms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing
problems facing literary, critical, and cultural studies today--how
to connect form to political, social, and historical context.
Caroline Levine argues that forms organize not only works of art
but also political life--and our attempts to know both art and
politics. Inescapable and frequently troubling, forms shape every
aspect of our experience. Yet, forms don't impose their order in
any simple way. Multiple shapes, patterns, and arrangements,
overlapping and colliding, generate complex and unpredictable
social landscapes that challenge and unsettle conventional analytic
models in literary and cultural studies. Borrowing the concept of
"affordances" from design theory, this book investigates the
specific ways that four major forms--wholes, rhythms, hierarchies,
and networks--have structured culture, politics, and scholarly
knowledge across periods, and it proposes exciting new ways of
linking formalism to historicism and literature to politics. Levine
rereads both formalist and antiformalist theorists, including
Cleanth Brooks, Michel Foucault, Jacques Ranciere, Mary Poovey, and
Judith Butler, and she offers engaging accounts of a wide range of
objects, from medieval convents and modern theme parks to
Sophocles's Antigone and the television series The Wire. The result
is a radically new way of thinking about form for the next
generation and essential reading for scholars and students across
the humanities who must wrestle with the problem of form and
context.
According to one myth, the first Athenian citizen was born from
the earth after the sperm of a rejected lover, the god Hephaistos,
dripped off the virgin goddess Athena's leg and onto fertile soil.
Henceforth Athenian citizens could claim to be truly indigenous to
their city and to have divine origins that bypassed maternity. In
these essays, the renowned French Hellenist Nicole Loraux examines
the implication of this and other Greek origin myths as she
explores how Athenians in the fifth century forged and maintained a
collective identity.
David is much like any other boy who loves playing soccer, but when
the chance comes up to go and stay at Champions Soccer Camp, David
has to face up to his biggest embarrassment, wetting the bed. David
stands up bravely to his sister's taunts and a nervous visit to the
doctor, but will he be able to control his bed wetting in time for
Camp? David's Secret Soccer Goals is a warm and sensitive look
inside the mind of a boy with bed wetting problems. It delicately
highlights the fears and worries that a child in this position can
go through, whilst also giving practical advice on how to deal
positively with the situation.
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