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Birthrights (Hardcover)
David Trotter; Contributions by Aaron Moschner
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David Trotter received his MA: English: Composition and Rhetoric
from Eastern Washington University (EWU) in Cheney, Washington, USA
in May 1995. This is his professional paper (thesis equivalent)
from that program, in which he explores the history of multilingual
education in the US and the need for Comparative Rhetoric in that
education.
Written especially for students and assuming no prior knowledge of
the subject, David Trotter's "The English Novel in History
1895-1920" provides a comprehensive introduction to early
20th-century fiction This study embraces the whole range of early
20th-century fiction, from avant-garde innovations to popular
mass-market genres. Separate sections are devoted to James, Conrad,
Kipling, Bennett, Lawrence, Lewis, and Joyce. It establishes a
classification of literary styles in the period. Based on this
classification, it offers an account of the subject-matters which
preoccupied writers of all kinds: gender, race, nationality, sexual
psychology, production and consumption. "The English Novel in
History" aims to redefine our understanding of literary Modernism,
and should be useful reading for all students of modern English
literature.
What provoked the fierce and systematic 'will to experiment' that was Modernism? Paranoia--thought especially to afflict those whose identities were founded on professional expertise--was described in the contemporary psychiatric literature as the violent imposition of system onto life's randomness. Modernism's great writers--Conrad, Ford, Lewis, Lawrence--both lived and wrote about these psychopathies of expertise.
Whereas all previous studies have been rigorously selective, David Trotter's The English Novel 1895 - 1920 offers the first detailed analyses of the whole range of early twentieth-century fiction: from the innovations of Ulysses to popular mass-market detective stories. He devotes separate sections to James, Conrad, Kipling, Bennet, Lawrence, Lewis, and Joyce and discusses in detail important genres like New Woman novel and less well-known writers such as Violet Hunt and Patrick MacGill. He provides the first comprehensive account of the issues which preoccupied writers of all kinds: the spectacle of consumption, the emergence of suburbia, the emphasis on race and the repoloarisation of gender and argues that the fiction of the period has been seriously misrepresented by the critical and theoretical orthodoxies of the last fifty years. This is a challenging introduction to fiction of the period and one that will establish a new and more accurate method of classifying literary styles. eBook available with sample pages: EB:0203358937
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series,
designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these
delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality
colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Pip
doesn't expect much from life...His sister makes it clear that her
orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But
suddenly things begin to change. Pip's narrow existence is blown
apart when he finds an escaped criminal, is summoned to visit a
mysterious old woman and meets the icy beauty Estella. Most
astoundingly of all, an anonymous person gives him money to begin a
new life in London. Are these events as random as they seem? Or
does Pip's fate hang on a series of coincidences he could never
have expected?
Textual editing, particularly thatof medieval texts, is the
starting point for a good deal of the research carried out in
historical linguistics. Editorial methods (and the precision which
they claim to offer) have an importance going far beyond
theoretical considerations, and are of interest to scholars over
and above those who edit texts. The volume presents the range of
methods used (while also taking into account the history of the
discipline)as well asa number of case studies
Penguin publishes forty-five of the nation’s top 100 favourite titles. If you haven’t read them yet, then now’s your chance to enjoy some of the nation’s favourite reads in our special 3-for-2 offer. Choose any three titles from The Big Read promotion and get the cheapest one FREE. Please note: Your shopping basket will show the list price of each item with a subtotal and your discount will be applied at the checkout. ‘It was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me’ A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor – these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip’s life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens’s haunting late novel depicts Pip’s education and development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his ‘great expectations’. This definitive edition uses the text from the first published edition of 1861. It includes a map of Kent in the early nineteenth century, and appendices on Dickens’s original ending and his working notes, giving readers an illuminating glimpse into the mind of a great novelist at work.
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Sons and Lovers (Paperback)
D. H Lawrence; Edited by David Trotter
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Lawrence's first major novel was also the first in the English
language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No
writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies
enforced by a tightly-knit mining community and by a family where
feelings are never hidden for long. When the marriage between
Walter Morel and his sensitive, high-minded wife begins to break
down, the bitterness of their frustration seeps into their
children's lives. Their second son, Paul, craves the warmth of
family and community, but knows that he must sacrifice everything
in the struggle for independence if he is not to repeat his
parents' failure. Lawrence's powerful description of Paul's
single-minded efforts to define himself sexually and emotionally
through relationships with two women - the innocent, old-fashioned
Miriam Leivers and the experienced, provocatively modern Clara
Dawes - makes this a novel as much for the beginning of the
twenty-first century as it was for the beginning of the twentieth.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the widest range of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
`About this coast... In the event of war it seems to me that every
inch of it would be important, sand and all.' Executed in 1922 for
his involvement in Irish republicanism, Childers in remembered most
vividly for his ground-breaking spy novel, The Riddle of the Sands
(1903). In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office, the
sardonic civil servant Carruthers is finding it hard to endure the
emptiness and boredom of his life in London. He reluctantly accepts
an invitation from a college friend, Davies, the shyly intrepid
yachtsman, and joins him on a sailing holiday in the Baltic. The
regeneration of Carruthers begins as he is initiated into the
mysteries of seamanship, but the story builds in excitement as
Carruthers and Davies discover a German plot to invade England.
Like much contemporary British spy fiction, The Riddle of the Sands
reflects the long suspicious years leading up to the First World
War and the intricacy of its conception and its lucid detail make
it a classic of its genre. This edition is complemented by a fine
introduction which examines the novel in its political and
historical context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford
World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature
from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story.
This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short
stories and the very early British films. It pairs eight intriguing
short stories on cinema with eight new essays unveiling the rich
documentary value of the original fiction and using the stories as
touchstones for a discussion of the popular culture of the period
during which cinema first developed. The short stories are by
authors ranging from the notable (Rudyard Kipling and Sax Rohmer)
to the unknown (Raymond Rayne and Mrs. H.J. Bickle); their
endearing tributes to the new cinematograph chart its development
from unintentional witness to entertainment institution.
The period between the World Wars was one of the richest and most
inventive in the long history of British literature. Interwar
literature, David Trotter argues, stood apart by virtue of the
sheer intelligence of the enquiries it undertook into the
technological mediation of experience. After around 1925, literary
works began to portray communication by telephone, television,
radio, and sound cinema--and to examine the sorts of behavior made
possible for the first time by virtual interaction. And they filled
up, too, with the look, sound, smell, taste, and feel of the new
synthetic and semi-synthetic materials that were reshaping everyday
modern life. New media and new materials gave writers a fresh
opportunity to reimagine both how lives might be lived and how
literature might be written. Today, Trotter observes, such material
and immaterial mediations have become even more decisive.
Communications technology is an attitude before it is a machine or
a set of codes. It is an idea about the prosthetic enhancement of
our capacity to communicate. The writers who first woke up to this
fact were not postwar, postmodern, or post-anything else: some of
the best of them lived and wrote in the British Isles in the period
between the World Wars. In defining what they achieved, this book
creates a new literary canon of works distinguished formally and
thematically by their alertness to the implications of new media
and new materials.
Do you have the life you have always wanted? Are you living with
meaning and purpose Are your relationships rich and connecting? Do
you even know who you are and what you bring to this world? What if
you relaunched your life? For most of us, life dissatisfaction is
the result of living an unintentional life. Rather than remaining
stuck in an existence you never wanted, Launch Yourself will
provide you with the tools to relaunch your life with a trajectory
toward true success. If you're ready for a change in your life,
you're ready to Launch Yourself. By peering into the implosion and
re-launch of the author's own life, you'll learn the five most
important questions to ask yourself via The Process of Intention -
allowing you to find a "new normal" in The Seven Spheres of
Transformation - life passions, romance, community, money and
possessions, creativity and play, physical well-being, and
spirituality. Listen in as the author shares his own journey and
inspires you to relaunch your own life.
After 10 years as a pastor, David was burned out and stuck in a
life and marriage that lacked passion. His desire for an intimate
partnership led him to leave his mistress of 'ministry' and run
into the arms of a real-life mistress - his wife's best friend.
After moving in with one another and spending forty days together,
the woman abruptly left to go back to her husband and four kids,
and David's life hit rock bottom. This first-hand account of what
led to his burnout and life implosion takes the reader on a raw and
intimate journey...from illicit affair to hospitalization and
ultimately to reconciliation with his wife and family. This is a
powerful story of redemption that will leave the reader both
challenged and inspired.
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Restless Cities (Paperback)
Gregory Dart, Matthew Beaumont; Contributions by Chris Petit, David Trotter, Esther Leslie, …
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The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the
attempt to imagine a city-symphony to the cinematic tradition that
runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, Restless Cities traces
the idiosyncratic character of the metropolitan city from the
nineteenth century to the twenty-first-century megalopolis. With
explorations of phenomena including nightwalking, urbicide,
property, commuting and recycling, this wide-ranging new book
identifies and traces the patterns that have defined everyday life
in the modern city and its effect on us as individuals. Bringing
together some of the most significant cultural writers of our time,
Restless Cities is an illuminating, revelatory journey to the heart
of our metropolitan world.
With the excitement at the beginning of the 20th century came a whole new genre of writing. The dawn of the Edwardian era produced a host of new themes and subjects for a new generation of writers to be inspired by. With over 800 A-Z entries covering writers (nearly half of whom are women), individual works, literary periodicals, and general themes, this Companion, now available in paperback, offers access to the writings, the authors, and the preoccupations of the Edwardian era.
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