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Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that
spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more
short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including
biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than
three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious
critical edition of her work.
How do writers work? The differing habits of seven great authors
are examined in this collection. Writers often meditate on what
physical situations they need to do the work in hand. A room of
their own, bills, bed, procrastination, regular meals, Benzedrine
and beer, office routines, walking and riding, even prison, can be
machines that make them write. Trollope got 2,000 words done every
morning, watch on the table. Clare composed en pleine air, jotting
on his hat rim. Wesley's hymns came to him on horseback. The Bronte
sisters paced round adrawing-room table. Donne was dismally
prompted to write by nappies. Johnson needed the printer's devil
knocking at his door. On a grand scale, city planners try to entice
the creative classes into a creative area: while at alocal level,
readers have a magical sense that putting themselves into the
bodily position of a writer may allow them to join in her planning
and plotting. The essays in this volume examine the working habits
of seven greatauthors, from 1600 to today: Jonson, Milton, the
Bronte sisters, Trollope, Oliphant, and Auden. There are also
interviews on the creative environment with the Poet Laureate of
Great Britain, the British Library's Head of Modern Literary
Manuscripts, the Director of the Hay Festival, research fellows at
Stratford and the Globe, and a poet-web-blogger. CONTRIBUTORS: STAN
SMITH, ELISABETH JAY, N. JOHN HALL, STEVIE DAVIS, PETER C. HERMAN,
FARAH KARIM-COOPER, KATE RUMBOLD, MICHELLE O'CALLAGHAN, ADAM SMYTH,
ANDREW MOTION, JAMIE ANDREWS, ROBERT SHEPPARD, PETER FLORENCE
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that
spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more
short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including
biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than
three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious
critical edition of her work. This volume includes her 1895 novel
Old Mr Tredgold with editorial notes by Elisabeth Jay including a
new introduction and headnote, proving key information about the
book and its publication history.
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that
spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more
short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including
biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than
three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious
critical edition of her work.
Part IV offers the first critical edition of the four full length
novels and three stories that comprise the Chronicles of
Carlingford. Each of the five volumes contains a full scholarly
apparatus, including the important variations between the serial
versions and the first publication in volume format.
Part IV offers the first critical edition of the four full length
novels and three stories that comprise the Chronicles of
Carlingford. Each of the five volumes contains a full scholarly
apparatus, including the important variations between the serial
versions and the first publication in volume format.
This is the most ambitious scholarly critical edition of Oliphant's
work ever undertaken. The sheer scale of her output has meant that
selection is essential, but the edition aims to convey the range
and variety of her work in both fiction and non-fictional genres.
It will bring together for the first time her critical writing and
other journalism for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the Spectator,
the St James's Gazette, as well as her articles in the Contemporary
Review, the Edinburgh, and Macmillan's Magazine. Much of her
fiction, including full length novels, short stories and novellas,
was first published in periodicals: in Blackwood's, the Cornhill,
Longman's Magazine, Macmillan's, and Good Words. Few of her
manuscripts survive, but substantive textual work remains to be
done on the editorial changes made between periodical serialization
and first appearance in volume form. The edition will place
particular emphasis on her shorter fiction, much of which will be
reprinted for the first time, and on her work as a biographer,
historian, and literary historian.
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (1828-97) had a wide-ranging and
prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote
some 98 novels, over fifty short stories, twenty-five works of
non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European
cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. As the
self-styled 'general utility woman' for Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine, often contributing both fiction and literary reviews to
the same issue, she became a major critical voice for her
generation. Her influence, usually cast on the side of 'the common
reader', was such that it provoked fellow novelists such as Anthony
Trollope, Henry James and Thomas Hardy to savage fictional
portraits by way of retaliation. The scholarly interest that her
work now receives is hampered by difficulty in accessing the full
range of her oeuvre: whilst her most famous fictional series, 'The
Chronicles of Carlingford', together with a handful of her tales of
the supernatural, have gone in and out of print in recent years,
the bulk of her fiction and critical writing remains uncollected.
This is the most ambitious scholarly critical edition of Oliphant's
work ever undertaken.
This is the most ambitious scholarly critical edition of Oliphant's
work ever undertaken. The sheer scale of her output has meant that
selection is essential, but the edition aims to convey the range
and variety of her work in both fiction and non-fictional genres.
It will bring together for the first time her critical writing and
other journalism for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the Spectator,
the St James's Gazette, as well as her articles in the Contemporary
Review, the Edinburgh, and Macmillan's Magazine. Much of her
fiction, including full length novels, short stories and novellas,
was first published in periodicals: in Blackwood's, the Cornhill,
Longman's Magazine, Macmillan's, and Good Words. Few of her
manuscripts survive, but substantive textual work remains to be
done on the editorial changes made between periodical serialization
and first appearance in volume form
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
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'Coward! Sneak! May good men shun him, from henceforth! may his
Queen refuse to receive him! You, an earl's daughter! Oh, Isabel!
How utterly you have lost yourself!' When the aristocratic Lady
Isabel abandons her husband and children for her wicked seducer,
more is at stake than moral retribution. Ellen Wood played upon the
anxieties of the Victorian middle classes who feared a breakdown of
the social order as divorce became more readily available and
promiscuity threatened the sanctity of the family. In her novel the
simple act of hiring a governess raises the spectres of murder,
disguise, and adultery. Her sensation novel was devoured by readers
from the Prince of Wales to Joseph Conrad and continued to
fascinate theatre-goers and cinema audiences well into the next
century. This edition returns for the first time to the racy,
slang-ridden narrative of the first edition, rather than the
subsequent stylistically 'improved' versions hitherto reproduced by
modern editors. 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
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Seeking Rights from the Left offers a unique comparative assessment
of left-leaning Latin American governments by examining their
engagement with feminist, women's, and LGBT movements and issues.
Focusing on the "Pink Tide" in eight national cases-Argentina,
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and
Venezuela-the contributors evaluate how the Left addressed gender-
and sexuality-based rights through the state. Most of these
governments improved the basic conditions of poor women and their
families. Many significantly advanced women's representation in
national legislatures. Some legalized same-sex relationships and
enabled their citizens to claim their own gender identity. They
also opened opportunities for feminist and LGBT movements to press
forward their demands. But at the same time, these governments have
largely relied on heteropatriarchal relations of power, ignoring or
rejecting the more challenging elements of a social agenda and
engaging in strategic trade-offs among gender and sexual rights.
Moreover, the comparative examination of such rights arenas reveals
that the Left's more general political and economic projects have
been profoundly, if at times unintentionally, informed by
traditional understandings of gender and sexuality. Contributors:
Sonia E. Alvarez, Maria Constanza Diaz, Rachel Elfenbein, Elisabeth
Jay Friedman, Niki Johnson, Victoria Keller, Edurne Larracoechea
Bohigas, Amy Lind, Marlise Matos, Shawnna Mullenax, Ana Laura
Rodriguez Gusta, Diego Sempol, Constanza Tabbush, Gwynn Thomas,
Catalina Trebisacce, Annie Wilkinson
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that
spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more
short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including
biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than
three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious
critical edition of her work.
'I am sure the more fully she - Charlotte Brontë - the friend, the daughter, the sister, the wife, is known - the more highly she will be appreciated.' Mrs Gaskell was quite clear about her priorities when she began to set down the facts of a 'wild, sad life and the beautiful character that grew out of it'. The result was one of the greatest of all English biographies. The book itself was not to be without its stormy passage: Mrs Gaskell, as well she knew, ran up against Victorian shibboleths of propriety and sexual prudery. However, not even the amendments and cuts she was obliged to make in the second and third editions could destroy its overall unity or her psychologically convincing vision of the suffering, emotionally starved and tortured Charlotte Brontë whose life and pitiful death still grips and appalls us. The present text follows the controversial first edition throughout, while all the variations which appeared in the third edition have been recorded in notes and appendices.
Seeking Rights from the Left offers a unique comparative assessment
of left-leaning Latin American governments by examining their
engagement with feminist, women's, and LGBT movements and issues.
Focusing on the "Pink Tide" in eight national cases-Argentina,
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and
Venezuela-the contributors evaluate how the Left addressed gender-
and sexuality-based rights through the state. Most of these
governments improved the basic conditions of poor women and their
families. Many significantly advanced women's representation in
national legislatures. Some legalized same-sex relationships and
enabled their citizens to claim their own gender identity. They
also opened opportunities for feminist and LGBT movements to press
forward their demands. But at the same time, these governments have
largely relied on heteropatriarchal relations of power, ignoring or
rejecting the more challenging elements of a social agenda and
engaging in strategic trade-offs among gender and sexual rights.
Moreover, the comparative examination of such rights arenas reveals
that the Left's more general political and economic projects have
been profoundly, if at times unintentionally, informed by
traditional understandings of gender and sexuality. Contributors:
Sonia E. Alvarez, Maria Constanza Diaz, Rachel Elfenbein, Elisabeth
Jay Friedman, Niki Johnson, Victoria Keller, Edurne Larracoechea
Bohigas, Amy Lind, Marlise Matos, Shawnna Mullenax, Ana Laura
Rodriguez Gusta, Diego Sempol, Constanza Tabbush, Gwynn Thomas,
Catalina Trebisacce, Annie Wilkinson
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