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The American Revolution and the Civil War bracket roughly eight
decades of formative change in a republic created in 1776 by a
gesture that was both rhetorical and performative. The subsequent
construction of U.S. national identity influenced virtually all art
forms, especially prose fiction, until internal conflict disrupted
the project of nation-building. This volume reassesses, in an
authoritative way, the principal forms and features of the emerging
American novel. It will include chapters on: the beginnings of the
novel in the US; the novel and nation-building; the publishing
industry; leading novelists of Antebellum America; eminent early
American novels; cultural influences on the novel; and subgenres
within the novel form during this period. This book is the first of
the three proposed US volumes that will make up Oxford's ambitious
new eleven-volume literary resource, The Oxford History of the
Novel in English (OHONE), a venture being commissioned and
administered on both sides of the Atlantic
Displaying scant interest in native sciences of materials, Poe seems the most un-American of American writers during an era of literary nationalism; yet he was at the same time a pragmatic magazinist, fully engaged in popular culture and intensely concerned with the "republic of letters" in the United States. This volume contains an introduction that considers the tension between Poe's "otherworldly settings and his historically marked representations of violence, as well as a capsule biography situating Poe in his historical context. The historical essays in this book cover such topics as Poe and the American Publishing Industry, Poe's Sensationalism, Poe's relationship to gender constructions, and Poe and American Privacy. This volume also includes a bibliographical essay, a chronology of Poe life, a bibliography, illustrations, and an index.
Edgar Allan Poe's strength as a writer lay in fabricating fantasies in settings far removed from his own place and time. This dislocation renders the attitudes embedded in his fiction open to interpretation, and over the years some readers have found Poe to be virulently racist, while others found him morally conflicted, and still others detected a subversion of racism in his works' subtle sympathies for non-white characters. As a nineteenth century Southerner, Poe was a deeply ambiguous figure, evading race issues while living among them, and traversing the North-South border with little sensitivity to its political implications. In this tightly organized volume, a handful of leading Americanists revisit the Poe issue, re-examining what it means to speak of an author or his work as a racist, and where the critic's responsibility lies.
This book gathers together eleven essays on important American short story sequences of the twentieth century. The introduction elucidates problems of defining the genre, cites notable instances of the form, and explores the implications of its modern emergence and popularity. Subsequent essays discuss illustrative works by such figures as Henry James, Jean Toomer, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, John Updike, Louise Erdrich, and Raymond Carver. Each essay also considers implications of form and arrangement in the construction of composite fictions that often produce the illusion of a fictive community.
Originally published in 1995, this book gathers together eleven
full-length essays on important American short story sequences of
the twentieth century. The introduction by J. Gerald Kennedy
elucidates problems of defining the genre, cites notable instances
of the form (such as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio), and
explores the implications of its modern emergence and popularity.
Subsequent essays discuss illustrative works by such figures as
Henry James, Jean Toomer, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, William
Faulkner, Eudora Welty, J. D. Salinger, John Cheever, John Updike,
Louise Erdrich, and Raymond Carver. While examining distinctive
thematic concerns, each essay also considers implications of form
and arrangement in the construction of composite fictions that
often produce the illusion of a fictive community.
No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger
international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated,
read, and studied, he occupies an iconic place in global culture.
Such acclaim would have gratified Poe, who deliberately wrote for
"the world at large" and mocked the provincialism of strictly
nationalistic themes. Partly for this reason, early literary
historians cast Poe as an outsider, regarding his dark fantasies as
extraneous to American life and experience. Only in the 20th
century did Poe finally gain a prominent place in the national
canon. Changing critical approaches have deepened our understanding
of Poe's complexity and revealed an author who defies easy
classification. New models of interpretation have excited fresh
debates about his essential genius, his subversive imagination, his
cultural insight, and his ultimate impact, urging an expansive
reconsideration of his literary achievement. Edited by leading
experts J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples, this volume presents a
sweeping reexamination of Poe's work. Forty-five distinguished
scholars address Poe's troubled life and checkered career as a
"magazinist," his poetry and prose, and his reviews, essays,
opinions, and marginalia. The chapters provide fresh insights into
Poe's lasting impact on subsequent literature, music, art, comics,
and film and illuminate his radical conception of the universe,
science, and the human mind. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking,
this Handbook reveals a thoroughly modern Poe, whose timeless
fables of peril and loss will continue to attract new generations
of readers and scholars.
After the War of 1812, Americans belatedly realized that they
lacked national identity. The subsequent campaign to articulate
nationality transformed every facet of culture from architecture to
painting, and in the realm of letters, literary jingoism embroiled
American authors in the heated politics of nationalism. The age
demanded stirring images of U.S. virtue, often achieved by
contriving myths and obscuring brutalities. Between these sanitized
narratives of the nation and U.S. social reality lay a grotesque
discontinuity: vehement conflicts over slavery, Indian removal,
immigration, and territorial expansion divided the country. Authors
such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine M.
Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Lydia
Maria Child wrestled uneasily with the imperative to revise history
to produce national fable. Counter-narratives by fugitive slaves,
Native Americans, and defiant women subverted literary nationalism
by exposing the plight of the unfree and dispossessed. And with
them all, Edgar Allan Poe openly mocked literary nationalism and
deplored the celebration of "stupid" books appealing to provincial
self-congratulation. More than any other author, he personifies the
contrary, alien perspective that discerns the weird operations at
work behind the facade of American nation-building.
Edgar Allan Poe wields more influence in the spheres of literature
and popular culture on a world scale than any other US author. This
influence, however, does not rely on the quality of Poe's texts
alone nor on the compellingly tragic nature of his biography; his
reputation and his ubiquitous presence owe much of their longevity
to the ways Poe has been interpreted and portrayed by his
advocates-other writers, translators, literary critics, literary
historians, illustrators, film makers, musicians-and packaged by
various mediators in the literary field, especially editors and
anthologizers. As this study demonstrates, the division between
Poe's advocates and the mediators who organize his work for
consumption by the reading public can be very porous since many of
Poe's most adamant proponents-Charles Baudelaire and Julio
Cortazar, for example-also anthologized, edited, and/or translated
his works. Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and
(Trans)national Canons focuses on the works produced by Poe's
anthologizers and editors, both the famous and the lesser-known,
whose labor often takes place behind the scenes. Poe's editors and
anthologizers exercise real power, and over the last 170 years,
they have crafted and framed the various Poes we recognize, revere,
cherish, and critique today.
Information Resources in Toxicology, Third Edition is a sourcebook
for anyone who needs to know where to find toxicology information.
It provides an up-to-date selective guide to a large variety of
sources--books, journals, organizations, audiovisuals, internet and
electronic sources, and more. For the Third Edition, the editors
have selected, organized, and updated the most relevant information
available. New information on grants and other funding
opportunities, physical hazards, patent literature, and technical
reports have also been added.
This comprehensive, time-saving tool is ideal for toxicologists,
pharmacologists, drug companies, testing labs, libraries, poison
control centers, physicians, legal and regulatory professionals,
and chemists.
Key Features
* Serves as an all-in-one resource for toxicology information
* New edition includes information on publishers, grants and other
funding opportunities, physical hazards, patent literature, and
technical reports
* Updated to include the latest internet and electronic sources,
e-mail addresses, etc.
* Provides valuable data about the new fields that have emerged
within toxicological research; namely, the biochemical, cellular,
molecular, and genetic aspects
A rediscovered, defiant work of Native American literature,
presented here on the 175th anniversary of its first publication
Upon its publication in 1833, this unflinching narrative by the
vanquished Sauk leader Black Hawk was the first thoroughly
adversarial account of frontier hostilities between white settlers
and Native Americans. Black Hawk, a complex, contradictory figure,
relates his life story and that of his people, who had been forced
from western Illinois in what was known as the Black Hawk War. The
first published account of a victim of the American war of
extermination, this vivid portrait of Indian life stands as a
tribute to the author and his extraordinary people, as well as an
invaluable historical document. For more than seventy years,
Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the
English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin
Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout
history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series
to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes
by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
After the War of 1812, Americans belatedly realized that they
lacked national identity. The subsequent campaign to articulate
nationality transformed every facet of culture from architecture to
painting, and in the realm of letters, literary jingoism embroiled
American authors in the heated politics of nationalism. The age
demanded stirring images of U.S. virtue, often achieved by
contriving myths and obscuring brutalities. Between these sanitized
narratives of the nation and U.S. social reality lay a grotesque
discontinuity: vehement conflicts over slavery, Indian removal,
immigration, and territorial expansion divided the country. Authors
such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine M.
Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Lydia
Maria Child wrestled uneasily with the imperative to revise history
to produce national fable. Counter-narratives by fugitive slaves,
Native Americans, and defiant women subverted literary nationalism
by exposing the plight of the unfree and dispossessed. And with
them all, Edgar Allan Poe openly mocked literary nationalism and
deplored the celebration of "stupid" books appealing to provincial
self-congratulation. More than any other author, he personifies the
contrary, alien perspective that discerns the weird operations at
work behind the facade of American nation-building.
And now I found these fancies creating their own realities, and all
imagined horrors crowding upon me in fact'. The Narrative of Arthur
Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and
family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series
of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. But it
also goes much deeper, as Pym encounters various interpretative
dilemmas, at last leaving the reader with a broken-off ending that
defies solution. Apart from its violence and mystery, the tale
calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of
representing truth. Layer upon layer of elaborate hoaxes include
its author's own role of posing as ghost-writer of the narrative;
Pym - his only novel - has become the key text for our
understanding of Poe. This edition offers eight short tales which
are linked to Pym by their treatment of persistent themes -
fantastic voyages, gigantic whirlpools, and premature burials - or
by their ironic commentary on Poe's mystification of his readers.
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.
Edgar Allan Poe's strength as a writer lay in fabricating fantasies in settings far removed from his own place and time. This dislocation renders the attitudes embedded in his fiction open to interpretation, and over the years some readers have found Poe to be virulently racist, while others found him morally conflicted, and still others detected a subversion of racism in his works' subtle sympathies for non-white characters. As a nineteenth century Southerner, Poe was a deeply ambiguous figure, evading race issues while living among them, and traversing the North-South border with little sensitivity to its political implications. In this tightly organized volume, a handful of leading Americanists revisit the Poe issue, re-examining what it means to speak of an author or his work as a racist, and where the critic's responsibility lies.
Displaying scant interest in native scenes or materials, Poe seems the most un-American of American writers during an era of literary nationalism; yet he was at the same time a pragmatic magazinist, fully engaged in popular culture and intensely concerned with the "republic of letters" in the United States. This volume contains an introduction that considers the tension between Poe's "otherwordly" settings and his historically marked representations of violence, as well as a capsule biography situating Poe in his historical context. The historical essays in this book cover such topics as Poe and the American Publishing Industry. Poe's Sensationalism, Poe's relationship to gender constructions, and Poe and American Privacy. the volume also includes a bibliographic essay, a chronology of Poe life, a bibliography, illustrations, and an index.
Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and
hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and
drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the U.S. South.
Edited by Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, this collection of
seventeen thought-provoking essays proposes that discussions about
drinking in southern culture often orbit around familiar figures
and mythologies that obscure what alcohol consumption has meant
over time. Complexities of race, class, and gender remain hidden
amid familiar images, catchy slogans, and convenient stories. As
the first collection of scholarship that investigates the
relationship between drinking and the South, Southern Comforts
challenges popular assumptions by examining evocative topics drawn
from literature, music, film, city life, and cocktail culture.
Taken together, the essays collected here illustrate that
exaggerated representations of drinking oversimplify the South's
relationship to alcohol, in effect absorbing it into narratives of
southern exceptionalism that persist to this day. From Edgar Allan
Poe to Richard Wright, Bessie Smith to Johnny Cash, Bourbon Street
tourism to post-Katrina disaster capitalism and more, Southern
Comforts: Drinking and the U.S. South uncovers the reciprocal
relationship between mythologies of drinking and mythologies of
region.
The building of Egypt's High Dam in the 1960s erased innumerable
historic treasures, but it also forever obliterated the ancient
land of a living people, the Nubians. In 1963--64, they were
removed en masse from their traditional homelands in southern Egypt
and resettledelsewhere. Much of the life of old Nubia revolved
around ceremonialism, and in this remarkable study, John G. Kennedy
and other leading anthropologists from around the world reveal and
discuss some of the most important and distinctive aspects of
Nubian culture.Since its original publication, Nubian Ceremonial
Life has become a standard text in the fields of anthropology and
cultural psychology. In addition to basic ethnographic data, this
groundbreaking study contains a number of theoretical discussions
on topics of interest to students of comparative religions: the
psychology of death ceremonies, the nature of 'taboo, ' theories of
circumcision rituals, and the importance of trance curing
ceremonies. The book also presents information about a village of
Nubians who had been resettled some thirty years earlier, thereby
providing some clues regarding the possible patterns of future
culture change among these recently relocated people. With a new
foreword by Robert Fernea, this edition brings back into print a
major work of scholarship on the unique ceremonial traditions of a
changed and changing Nubian world.Contributors: Hussein M. Fahim,
Armgard Grauer, Fadwa al-Guindi, Samiha al-Katsha, John G. Kennedy,
and Nawal al-Messiri.
This collection explores how anthologizers and editors of Edgar
Allan Poe play an integral role in shaping our conceptions of Poe
as the author we have come to recognize, revere, and critique
today. In the spheres of literature and popular culture, Poe wields
more global influence than any other U.S. author. This influence,
however, cannot be attributed solely to the quality of Poe's texts
or to his compellingly tragic biography. Rather, his continued
prominence as a writer owes much to the ways that Poe has been
interpreted, portrayed, and packaged by an extensive group of
mediators ranging from anthologizers, editors, translators, and
fellow writers to literary critics, filmmakers, musicians, and
illustrators. In this volume, the work of presenting Poe's texts
for public consumption becomes a fascinating object of study in its
own right, one that highlights the powerful and often overlooked
influence of those who have edited, anthologized, translated, and
adapted the author's writing over the past 170 years.
Between 1900 and 1940, Paris was the capital of high modernism and
the center of artistic experimentation-Paris was "where the
twentieth century was," claimed Gertrude Stein. In this book, J.
Gerald Kennedy explores how living in Paris shaped the careers and
literary works of five expatriate Americans: Gertrude Stein, Ernest
Hemingway, Henry Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Djuna Barnes.
Kennedy shows that the writings of these authors reveal their
various struggles to accommodate themselves to a complex, foreign
scene, to construct an expatriate self, or to understand the
contradictions of American identity. He treats these figures and
their narratives as instances of the profound effect of place on
writing and on the formation of the self. According to Kennedy,
Stein's Paris, France presents an abstraction, a series of random
and discontinuous images refracted into a theory of the French way
of life. Her self- portrait in The Autobiography of Alice B.
Toklas, however, hinges on a contrast between the outside world of
galleries, studios, and exhibitions and her inner domain at 27, rue
de Fleurus. Hemingway's conflict with Paris, says Kennedy, betrays
both an attraction to its danger and a disgust with its profligacy,
as seen in the ambivalent imagery of The Sun Also Rises. Miller's
Paris emerges in his Letters to Emil and Tropic of Cancer as a
tormenting world of alleyways, sewers, and flophouses that
nevertheless becomes a site of deliverance where Miller discovers
himself as a literary subject. The nocturnal, unreal Paris of
Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night and Barnes's Nightwood reflects
the disorientation of modernism, which parallel and intensify the
estrangement of exile.
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