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A controversial satire of eighteenth-century British culture and
politics, Gulliver's Travels (1726) is one of Jonathan Swift's
best-known works. The tale of Lemuel Gulliver's voyage to
fantastical locales is famous for confounding generations of
readers who have attempted to make sense of its jumble of genre
elements, and Daniel Cook's introduction offers a friendly and
thorough guide to navigating it. The Norton Library edition
presents the text of the 1735 edition, including original maps and
illustrations.
Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, has
shocked and delighted readers worldwide since its publication in
1726. At turns a humorous and harrowing indictment of human
behaviour, it has been endlessly reinterpreted by critics and
adapted across media by other artists. The Cambridge Companion to
Gulliver's Travels comprises 17 original chapters by leading
scholars, written in a theoretically-informed but accessible style.
As well as providing detailed close readings of each part of the
narrative, this Companion relates Gulliver's Travels to the
political, religious, scientific, colonial, and intellectual
debates in which Swift was engaged, and it assesses the form of the
book as a novel, travel book, philosophical treatise, and satire.
Finally, it explores the Travels' rich and varied afterlives: the
controversies it has fuelled, the films and artworks it has
inspired, and the enduring need authors have felt to 'write back'
to Swift's original, disturbing, and challenging story.
Wilcopedia is a comprehensive guide to the music of the preeminent
American rock band of the twenty-first century. It offers a
thorough appraisal of the entire Wilco canon, with detailed
insights into every album and song the band have released, as well
as side projects, collaborations, covers, and more. Since their
formation in 1994, Wilco have become one of the most acclaimed and
influential bands of modern times. While previous books have told
their story in a biographical sense, Wilcopedia zeroes in on the
music, tracing the evolution of the band s material from the studio
to the concert stage, from the formative Uncle Tupelo recordings
through the mould-breaking Yankee Hotel Foxtrot to latter-day gems
Star Wars and Schmilco and beyond. Throughout their twenty-five
year career, Wilco s founder and primary songwriter, Jeff Tweedy,
has led his band through various shifts in line-up and genre that
have kept fans on their toes and made their music difficult to
categorize. While they are largely considered an Americana act,
their music has touched on hard rock, electronica, pop, soul, punk,
folk, and more. If you re looking for a thorough appraisal of the
band s first quarter-century, one thing s for sure: Wilcopedia will
love you, baby.
Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, has
shocked and delighted readers worldwide since its publication in
1726. At turns a humorous and harrowing indictment of human
behaviour, it has been endlessly reinterpreted by critics and
adapted across media by other artists. The Cambridge Companion to
Gulliver's Travels comprises 17 original chapters by leading
scholars, written in a theoretically-informed but accessible style.
As well as providing detailed close readings of each part of the
narrative, this Companion relates Gulliver's Travels to the
political, religious, scientific, colonial, and intellectual
debates in which Swift was engaged, and it assesses the form of the
book as a novel, travel book, philosophical treatise, and satire.
Finally, it explores the Travels' rich and varied afterlives: the
controversies it has fuelled, the films and artworks it has
inspired, and the enduring need authors have felt to 'write back'
to Swift's original, disturbing, and challenging story.
The Victim of Fancy was first published in December 1787 and,
despite favourable reviews, has not been published since. Cook's
new scholarly edition of this forgotten novel will be of paramount
importance in allowing new insights into the form of the
sentimental novel as it actually existed in the 1780s, and not as
it is often perceived.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is chiefly remembered as one of the
great historical novelists, with his best-known works including
Waverley (1814), Ivanhoe (1819), and Redgauntlet (1824). His
experiments in short fiction, however, began before he published
his first novel and throughout his career he returned to the short
story form, writing tales which often contained elements of
Scottish supernaturalism or the macabre. As It Was Told to Me,
introduced by Daniel Cook, collects three of Scott's short stories
in one volume. 'My Aunt Margaret's Mirror', mixes a tale of
reckless romance with supernatural theatrics; 'The Two Drovers'
offers a slow-burn expose of national conflict; and 'Wandering
Willie's Tale' weaves a yarn around the grisly death of a despotic
laird and a trip to hell.
The Victim of Fancy was first published in December 1787 and,
despite favourable reviews, has not been published since. Cook's
new scholarly edition of this forgotten novel will be of paramount
importance in allowing new insights into the form of the
sentimental novel as it actually existed in the 1780s, and not as
it is often perceived.
Poets are makers, etymologically speaking. In practice, they are
also thieves. Over a long career, from the early 1690s to the late
1730s, Jonathan Swift thrived on a creative tension between
original poetry-making and the filching of familiar material from
the poetic archive. The most extensive study of Swift's verse to
appear in more than thirty years, Reading Swift's Poetry offers
detailed readings of dozens of major poems, as well as neglected
and recently recovered pieces. This book reaffirms Swift's
prominence in competing literary traditions as diverse as the
pastoral and the political, the metaphysical and the satirical, and
demonstrates the persistence of unlikely literary tropes across his
multifaceted career. Daniel Cook also considers the audacious ways
in which Swift engages with Juvenal's satires, Horace's epistles,
Milton's epics, Cowley's odes, and an astonishing array of other
canonical and forgotten writers.
The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction probes the adaptation
and appropriation of a wide range of canonical and lesser-known
British and Irish novels in the long eighteenth century, from the
period of Daniel Defoe and Eliza Haywood through to that of Jane
Austen and Walter Scott. Major authors, including Jonathan Swift,
Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne, are
discussed alongside writers such as Sarah Fielding and Ann
Radcliffe, whose literary significance is now increasingly being
recognised. By uncovering this neglected aspect of the reception of
eighteenth-century fiction, this collection contributes to
developing our understanding of the form of the early novel, its
place in a broader culture of entertainment then and now, and its
interactions with a host of other genres and media, including
theatre, opera, poetry, print caricatures and film.
The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction probes the adaptation
and appropriation of a wide range of canonical and lesser-known
British and Irish novels in the long eighteenth century, from the
period of Daniel Defoe and Eliza Haywood through to that of Jane
Austen and Walter Scott. Major authors, including Jonathan Swift,
Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne, are
discussed alongside writers such as Sarah Fielding and Ann
Radcliffe, whose literary significance is now increasingly being
recognised. By uncovering this neglected aspect of the reception of
eighteenth-century fiction, this collection contributes to
developing our understanding of the form of the early novel, its
place in a broader culture of entertainment then and now, and its
interactions with a host of other genres and media, including
theatre, opera, poetry, print caricatures and film.
This book is the first extensive study of seventeen works of short
fiction by one of Scotland's most influential writers of all time.
It examines the author's only collection of short stories,
Chronicles of the Canongate, periodical and gift-book pieces, and
interpolated tales that appeared in the novels. Through careful
readings of, amongst others, the Highland stories ('The Highland
Widow' and 'The Two Drovers'), his Indian novella (The Surgeon's
Daughter), Gothic keepsakes ('My Aunt Margaret's Mirror' and 'The
Tapestried Chamber'), and his Calabrian tale Bizarro, this book
offers new insights into the production and consumption of short
stories, novellas, tales, sketches and other forms of fiction in
the early nineteenth century and beyond.
Long before Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy /
The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton
was touted as the 'second Shakespeare' by eighteenth-century
Shakespeareans, ranked among the leading British poets by prominent
literary critics, and likened to the fashionable modern prose
stylists Macpherson, Sterne, and Smollett. His pseudo-medieval
Rowley poems, in particular, engendered a renewed fascination with
ancient English literature.
With Chatterton as its case study, this book offers new insights
into the formation and development of literary scholarship in the
period, from the periodical press to the public lecture, from the
review to the anthology, from textual to biographical criticism.
Cook demonstrates that, while major scholars found Chatterton to be
a pertinent subject for multiple literary debates in the eighteenth
century, by the end of the Romantic period he had become, and still
remains, an unsettling model of hubristic genius.
Long before Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy /
The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton
was touted as the 'second Shakespeare' by eighteenth-century
Shakespeareans, ranked among the leading British poets by prominent
literary critics, and likened to the fashionable modern prose
stylists Macpherson, Sterne, and Smollett. His pseudo-medieval
Rowley poems, in particular, engendered a renewed fascination with
ancient English literature. With Chatterton as its case study, this
book offers new insights into the formation and development of
literary scholarship in the period, from the periodical press to
the public lecture, from the review to the anthology, from textual
to biographical criticism. Cook demonstrates that, while major
scholars found Chatterton to be a pertinent subject for multiple
literary debates in the eighteenth century, by the end of the
Romantic period he had become, and still remains, an unsettling
model of hubristic genius.
Austen After 200 explores our contemporary relationship with Jane
Austen in the wake of the bicentenaries of her death and the first
publication of her novels. The volume begins by looking at Austen's
popular appeal and at how she is consumed today in diverse cultural
venues such the digisphere, blogosphere, festivals and book clubs.
It then offers new approaches to the novels within various critical
contexts, including adaptation studies, fan fiction,
intertextuality, and more. Collecting these new essays in one
volume enables a unique view of the crossovers and divergences in
engagements with Austen in different settings, and will help a
comparative approach between the popular and the academic to emerge
more fully in Austen studies. The book gathers insights from a
range of contributors invested in new reading spaces in order to
show the creative ways in which we are all adapting as we continue
to read Austen's works.
This book is the first extensive study of seventeen works of short
fiction by one of Scotland's most influential writers of all time.
It examines the author's only collection of short stories,
Chronicles of the Canongate, periodical and gift-book pieces, and
interpolated tales that appeared in the novels. Through careful
readings of, amongst others, the Highland stories ('The Highland
Widow' and 'The Two Drovers'), his Indian novella (The Surgeon's
Daughter), Gothic keepsakes ('My Aunt Margaret's Mirror' and 'The
Tapestried Chamber'), and his Calabrian tale Bizarro, this book
offers new insights into the production and consumption of short
stories, novellas, tales, sketches and other forms of fiction in
the early nineteenth century and beyond.
The pride o' a' our Scottish plain; Thou gi'es us joy to hear thy
strain, (Janet Little, 'An Epistle to Mr Robert Burns') The 18th
century saw Scotland become one of the leading international
centres of literature, philosophy, and publishing and yet still
retain its lively oral tradition of ballads and poetry. Scottish
Poetry, 1730-1830 edited by Daniel Cook contains over 200 poems and
songs written in Scots, English, and Gaelic which reflect this
vibrant period of literary flourishing. The collection places
Burns, Scott, and other major writers alongside lesser known or
even entirely forgotten figures. Gaelic poets feature in their
original language and in translation, along with many important
long poems in their entirety. Lairds and ladies jostle with
labouring-class writers, satirists with sentimentalists, Gaelic
bards with Gothic balladists, rural singers with urbanite odists,
and together they reveal the unrivalled range of Scottish poetry.
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