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This 1944 novel is about memory loss and is the only book we know
of, apart from "Iris about Iris Murdoch" (and arguably "There Were
No Windows" is wittier and more profound), on this subject. Based
on the last years of the writer Violet Hunt, a once- glamorous
woman living in Kensington during the Blitz who is now losing her
memory, the novel's three 'acts' describe with insight, humour and
compassion what happens to 'Claire Temple' in her last months.
The astonishing success of J.K. Rowling and other contemporary
children's authors has demonstrated how passionately children can
commit to the books they love. But this kind of devotion is not
new. This timely volume takes up the challenge of assessing the
complex interplay of forces that have created the popularity of
children's books both today and in the past. The essays collected
here ask about the meanings and values that have been ascribed to
the term 'popular'. They consider whether popularity can be
imposed, or if it must always emerge from children's preferences.
And they investigate how the Harry Potter phenomenon fits into a
repeated cycle of success and decline within the publishing
industry. Whether examining eighteenth-century chapbooks, fairy
tales, science schoolbooks, Victorian adventures, waif novels or
school stories, these essays show how historical and publishing
contexts are vital in determining which books will succeed and
which will fail, which bestsellers will endure and which will fade
quickly into obscurity. As they considering the fiction of Angela
Brazil, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling, the contributors
carefully analyse how authorial talent and cultural contexts
combine, in often unpredictable ways, to generate - and sometimes
even sustain - literary success.
The astonishing success of J.K. Rowling and other contemporary
children's authors has demonstrated how passionately children can
commit to the books they love. But this kind of devotion is not
new. This timely volume takes up the challenge of assessing the
complex interplay of forces that have created the popularity of
children's books both today and in the past. The essays collected
here ask about the meanings and values that have been ascribed to
the term 'popular'. They consider whether popularity can be
imposed, or if it must always emerge from children's preferences.
And they investigate how the Harry Potter phenomenon fits into a
repeated cycle of success and decline within the publishing
industry. Whether examining eighteenth-century chapbooks, fairy
tales, science schoolbooks, Victorian adventures, waif novels or
school stories, these essays show how historical and publishing
contexts are vital in determining which books will succeed and
which will fail, which bestsellers will endure and which will fade
quickly into obscurity. As they considering the fiction of Angela
Brazil, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling, the contributors
carefully analyse how authorial talent and cultural contexts
combine, in often unpredictable ways, to generate - and sometimes
even sustain - literary success.
The pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolf's writings
is at the heart of this book by a highly respected Woolf critic and
biographer. Julia Briggs reconsiders Woolf's work - from some of
her earliest fictional experiments to her late short story, 'The
Symbol', and from the most to the least familiar of her novels -
from a series of highly imaginative and unexpected angles.
Individual essays analyse Woolf's neglected second novel, Night and
Day and investigate her links with other writers (Byron,
Shakespeare), her ambivalent attitudes to 'Englishness' and to
censorship, her fascination with transitional places and moments,
with the flow of time (and its relative nature), her concern with
visions and revision and with printing and the writing process as a
whole. We watch Woolf as she typesets an extraordinarily complex
high modernist poem (Hope Mirrlees's 'Paris'), and as she revises
her novels so that their structures become formally - and even
numerologically - significant. A final essay examines the
differences between Woolf's texts as they were first published in
England and America, and the further changes she occasionally made
after publication, changes that her editors have been slow to
acknowledge. Julia Briggs brings to these discussions an extensive
knowledge of Woolf both as a scholar and as an editor. She records
her findings and observations in a lively, graceful and
approachable style that will entice readers to delve further and
more meaningfully into Woolf's work. Features * Addresses a wide
range of familiar and less familiar texts, including Woolf's short
stories. * Opens up difficult texts in an inviting style. * Covers
aspects of Woolf's work that have been consistently neglected or
have never been considered before.
Utilizing new historicist, feminist, and cultural studies
critiques, these essays by leading scholars provide new
perspectives on early children's literary texts. The essays are
divided into four parts: Part 1 critiques the rise of children's
literature throughout the eighteenth-century, Part 2 focuses on the
rise of the female educator and the 'rational dames', Part 3
contains three essays on the politics of pedagogy and the child,
Part 4 is a detailed examination of the work of children's
literature scholar Mitzi Myers (1939-2001). Scholars of children's
literature, literary history, and gender studies will find this
volume very illuminating.
The pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolf's writings
is at the heart of this book by a highly respected Woolf critic and
biographer. Julia Briggs reconsiders Woolf's work - from some of
her earliest fictional experiments to her late short story, 'The
Symbol', and from the most to the least familiar of her novels -
from a series of highly imaginative and unexpected angles.
Individual essays analyse Woolf's neglected second novel, Night and
Day and investigate her links with other writers (Byron,
Shakespeare), her ambivalent attitudes to 'Englishness' and to
censorship, her fascination with transitional places and moments,
with the flow of time (and its relative nature), her concern with
visions and revision and with printing and the writing process as a
whole. We watch Woolf as she typesets an extraordinarily complex
high modernist poem (Hope Mirrlees's 'Paris'), and as she revises
her novels so that their structures become formally - and even
numerologically - significant. A final essay examines the
differences between Woolf's texts as they were first published in
England and America, and the further changes she occasionally made
after publication, changes that her editors have been slow to
acknowledge. Julia Briggs brings to these discussions an extensive
knowledge of Woolf both as a scholar and as an editor. She records
her findings and observations in a lively, graceful and
approachable style that will entice readers to delve further and
more meaningfully into Woolf's work. Features * Addresses a wide
range of familiar and less familiar texts, including Woolf's short
stories. * Opens up difficult texts in an inviting style. * Covers
aspects of Woolf's work that have been consistently neglected or
have never been considered before.
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Measure for Measure (Paperback)
William Shakespeare; Contributions by Nicholas Arnold; Introduction by Julia Briggs; Revised by Julia Briggs
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'Language is his power. His characters are precisely the words they
speak' A. S. Byatt A young man is condemned to death for breaking a
law forbidding sex outside marriage. When his sister pleads with
the Lord Angelo to save him, he offers her a bargain - her
brother's life in exchange for her virginity. One of Shakespeare's
most enigmatic plays, Measure for Measure is a morally complex
drama of intricate moves and countermoves that explores falsehood,
justice and humanity's best and basest instincts. Used and
Recommended by the National Theatre General Editor Stanley Wells
Edited by J. M. Nosworthy Introduction by Julia Briggs
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Night and Day (Paperback, Reissue)
Virginia Woolf; Introduction by Julia Briggs; Notes by Julia Briggs
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'It's impossible that we should ever marry . . . At the same time, we can't live without each other' Night and Day, Virginia Woolf's second novel, is both a love story and a social comedy in the tradition of Jane Austen; yet it also questions that tradition, recognizing that the goals of society and the individual may not necessarily coincide. At its centre is Katherine Hilbery, the beautiful grand-daughter of a great Victorian poet. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney and her attraction to Ralph Denham, with whom she feels a more profound and disturbing affinity. Katherine's hesitation is vividly contrasted with the approach of her friend Mary Datchet, dedicated to the Women's Rights movement. The ensuing complications are underlined and to some extent unravelled by Katharine's mother, Mrs Hilbery, whose struggles to weave together the known documents, events and memories of her father's life into a coherent biography reflect Woolf's own sense of the unique and elusive nature of experience.
Virginia Woolf is one of the most influential figures in
twentieth-century literature. She was original, passionate, vivid,
dedicated to her art. Yet most writing about her still revolves
around her social life and the Bloomsbury set. In this fresh,
absorbing book, Julia Briggs puts the writing back at the center of
Woolf's life, reads that life through her work, and mines the
novels themselves to create a compelling new form of biography.
Analyzing Woolf's own commen-tary on the creative process through
her letters, diaries, and essays, Julia Briggs has produced a book
that is a convincing, moving portrait of an artist, as well as a
profound meditation on the nature of creativity.
The author of such landmark works as "Mrs. Dalloway, To the
Lighthouse, " and "A Room of One's Own" and a woman and an artist
far ahead of the time in which she lived and worked, Virginia Woolf
has been the object of scrutiny ever since her suicide in 1941.
Here, using excerpts from family journals as well as pieces of
Virginia's own correspondance and diaries, Quentin Bell has created
an unparalleled portrait of his aunt and provides a view of
Bloomsbury life as only a family member could. Through a childhood
of arrivals and departures to the inspiration behind Woolf's
greatest books, her marriage to Leonard Woolf, and her daring
affair with Vita Sackville-West, Bell reveals the human being
behind what has become the Bloomsbury legend.
In A Woman of Passion, Julia Briggs chronicles the life of author
Edith Nesbit who is credited with being the first modern writer for
children and the creator of the children's adventure story. Nesbit
recorded her life with varying degrees of honesty in verse and
prose, and while she seldom wrote entirely openly of her own
experiences, she seldom wrote convincingly of anything else. In
this fascinating read, Julia Briggs attempts to fill in the gaps of
Nesbit's autobiographical material, painting an intriguing portrait
of the famous author.
The later years of Elizabeth and the reign of James I were the age
of Shakespeare, but the age also of Sidney, Spenser, and Donne, of
fellow dramatists Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster, and of the prose
writers Nashe, Bacon, and Burton. This book examines the social
conditions that produced this array of talent, and relates them
closely to the literature of the period. Politically, 1580-1625 was
a period of comparative stability, but men's lives were constantly
threatened by plague, famine, or even casual violence; a sudden
population rise added problems of inflation and unemployment.
Writers struggling to earn a living needed either to please the
court, with its wealthy and influential patrons, or else to score a
popular success with London's new theatre-going public. The
establishment itself was actively engaged in promoting ideals of
order, hierarchy and centralized authority, while religious
reformers urged men to heed the promptings of the spirit, and
humanist schoolmasters introduced the young to the pagan culture of
ancient Rome, its erotic poetry, and its republican sentiments. New
ideas were in the air and sceptical, sometimes iconoclastic
attitudes were widely expressed: a co
Gender in Modernism, conceived as a sequel to the now-classic
volume The Gender of Modernism, selects the best from the fifteen
years of feminist literary and modernist scholarship that has
appeared since the original's publication. Its fresh and diverse
texts examine new themes and reflect today's broader, more
inclusive understanding of modernism. The collection's modernist
works have been grouped into twenty-one thematic sections, with
theoretical introductions to the primary texts provided by the
scholars who have taken the lead in pushing both modernism and
gender in new directions. The selections enhance our understanding
of the complex intersections of gender with a large array of social
identifications, including global location, ideas of race, passing,
the queering of sexualities, medicine, and experiences of trauma
and war. It sees continental modernism in a different light, and
moves on to colonial and postcolonial sites. less-studied genres of
modernism, including writers on the left, suffragists, authors of
manifestos, mediums, authors dismissed as sentimental, artists,
dancers, dramatists, and filmmakers. Gender in Modernism will
quickly move from resource to springboard, furthering modernist
study well into the twenty-first century. Contributors include
Tuzyline Jita Allan, Ann Ardis, Nancy Berke, Julia Briggs, Pamela
L. Caughie, Mary Chapman, Suzanne Clark, Patrick Collier, Diane F.
Gillespie, Barbara Green, Leslie Kathleen Hankins, Suzette A.
Henke, Katherine Kelly, Colleen Lamos, Bette London, Janet Lyon,
Jayne Marek, Sonita Sarker, Carol Shloss, Susan Squier, Claire
Tylee, and Gay Wachman.
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