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"Blake's Night Thoughts" discusses Blake as a poet and artist of
night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the
eighteenth century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and
Blanchot's writings in the twentieth. Taking "night" as the
breakdown of rational progressive thought and of thought based on
concepts of identity, the book reads the lyric poetry, some
Prophetic works, including a chapter on "The Four Zoas," the
illustrations to Young, and Dante, and looks at Blake's writing of
madness.
In this reassessment of Dickens, the author draws on the theories
of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, in addition to Julia Kristeva
and Edward Said, to situate Dickens within the discourses
circulating within his society - in particular those associated
with modernity. Focusing on Dickens's novels written after 1848,
his relationship to modernity can be seen in his treatment of
violence, seen in two forms in his writing: that of the state (in
the rationalizing powers of Victorian bourgeois modernization), and
physical violence, as portrayed in Dickens's criminals and interest
in masochism and corpses.
In Lost in the American City, Jeremy Tambling looks at European reactions to America and American cities in the nineteenth-century. Dickens visited America in 1842 and his American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit set the agenda for future discussions of America. Lost in the American City looks at the Dickens legacy through Henry James in The American Scene, through H.G. Wells in The Future in America, and through Kafka, whose novel America (or The Man Who Was Never Heard of Again) tried to re-write Dickens. Lost in the American City explores the changes in American nineteenth century urban culture which made America so different and so impossible to map for the European, and which made American modernity so unreadable and challenging.
Blake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of
night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the
eighteenth-century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and
Blanchot's writings in the twentieth. Taking 'night' as the
breakdown of rational progressive thought and of thought based on
concepts of identity, the book reads the lyric poetry, some
Prophetic works, including a chapter on The Four Zoas , the
illustrations to Young, and Dante, and look's at Blake's writing of
madness.
In Lost in the American City , Jeremy Tambling looks at European
reactions to America and American cities in the nineteenth-century.
Dickens visited America in 1842 and his American Notes and Martin
Chuzzlewit set the agenda for future discussions of America. Lost
in the American City looks at the Dickens legacy through Henry
James in The American Scene , through H.G. Wells in The Future in
America , and through Kafka, whose novel America (or The Man Who
Was Never Heard of Again ) tried to re-write Dickens. Lost in the
American City explores the changes in American nineteenth century
urban culture which made America so different and so impossible to
map for the European, and which made American modernity so
unreadable and challenging.
This anthology of essays on E.M. Forster's major novels draws
together approaches from many aspects of new critical theory. As
well as essays on The Longest Journey, A Room With a View, Maurice,
Howards End and A Passage to India, the volume includes a
specially-commissioned essay on the recent spate of Forster films.
The casebook establishes a new case for Forster as a figure of more
than merely conventional interest with a central place in
twentieth-century literature.
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