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Anthony Trollope - A Companion (Paperback)
Nicholas Birns, John F Wirenius, Laurence W. Mazzeno; Edited by (associates) Sue Norton
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Anthony Trollope's novels and stories entertain while vividly
bringing the Victorian era to life. His deep empathy for the
underdog led him to subvert conventions, exploring the lives of
women, as well as men, and choosing as heroes and heroines
outsiders who would be viewed with suspicion by his readers.
Trollope's profound insight to human nature made him the first
novelist in English to develop three dimensional characters and to
create the novel sequence. This literary companion introduces
readers to his life and work. A-to-Z entries explore Trollope's
short story collections, and nonfiction contributions, as well as
important themes in the works. This companion also includes fresh
voices of contributors that bring in their contemporary insights to
bear on Trollope's achievements, facilitating the understanding of
Trollope's perspectives in relation to feminism, queer studies, and
transnationalism.
Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a
thousand works in virtually every poetic genre. Considered by his
Victorian contemporaries the pre-eminent poet of the age, he has
become a canonical figure who is widely read and studied today.
Consequently, his poems appear on the syllabi of both survey
courses in Victorian literature as well as upper-division and
graduate-level topics courses that cover Victorian studies or
address subjects such as environmental studies, religion, elegiac
poetry, and Arthurian literature. This companion makes Tennyson's
poetry accessible to contemporary readers by identifying some of
the formal elements of the poems, highlighting their relevance to
Tennyson's Victorian contemporaries, and explaining their enduring
appeal and value. Entries in the companion, organized
alphabetically, provide essential details about Tennyson's most
anthologized poems, offer suggestions for reading and
interpretation, and elucidate unfamiliar historical and literary
allusions. Additional entries, a biography of Tennyson, and a
selected bibliography of recent criticism offer information about
the people, places, events, and issues that influenced Tennyson or
were important to him and his contemporaries.
Examines both academic and popular assessments of Conan Doyle's
work, giving pride of place to the Holmes stories and their
adaptations, and also attending to the wide range of his published
work. Twenty-first-century readers, television viewers, and
moviegoers know Arthur Conan Doyle as the creator of Sherlock
Holmes, the world's most recognizable fictional detective. Holmes's
enduring popularity has kept Conan Doyle in the public eye.
However, Holmes has taken on a life of his own, generating a steady
stream of critical commentary, while Conan Doyle's other works are
slighted or ignored. Yet the Holmes stories make up only a small
portion of Conan Doyle's published work, which includes mainstream
and historical fiction; history; drama; medical, spiritualist, and
political tracts; and even essays on photography. When Doyle
published - whatever the subject - his contemporaries took note.
Yet, outside of the fiction featuring Sherlock Holmes, until
recently relatively little has been done to analyze the reception
Conan Doyle's work received during his lifetime and since his
death. This book examines both academic and popular assessments of
Conan Doyle's work, giving pride of place to the Holmes stories and
their many adaptations for print, visual, and online media, but
attending to his other contributions to
turn-of-the-twentieth-century culture as well. The availability of
periodicals and newspapers online makes it possible to develop an
assessment of Conan Doyle's (and Sherlock Holmes's) reputation
among a wider readership and viewership, thus allowing for
development of a broader and more accurate portrait of Doyle's
place in literary and cultural history.
James Lee Burke is best known for mystery novels in which strong
male protagonists battle low-life thugs who commit violent crimes
and corporate executives who exploit the powerless to amass great
fortunes. The creator of Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux and
characters based on his own family, Burke has used the mystery
genre to explore enduring issues such as the nature of evil and the
responsibility an individual has to his family and society at
large. This companion is designed for general readers and scholars
interested in Burke's work. Organized alphabetically, entries
provide analysis of Burke's novels and short stories; commentary on
characters, places, events, and themes; and suggestions for further
research. Also included are glossary offering briefer sketches of
people, places, and events mentioned in the fiction, with emphasis
on terms peculiar to Louisiana's Acadian population, and a
selection of interviews and profiles focused on Burke and his work.
Victorian literature's fascination with the past, its examination
of social injustice, and its struggle to deal with the dichotomy
between scientific discoveries and religious faith continue to
fascinate scholars and contemporary readers. During the past
hundred years, traditional formalist and humanist criticism has
been augmented by new critical approaches, including feminism and
gender studies, psychological criticism, cultural studies, and
others. In Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Victorian
Literature, twelve scholars offer new assessments of Victorian
poetry, novels, and nonfiction. Their essays examine several major
authors and works, and introduce discussions of many others that
have received less scholarly attention in the past. General reviews
of the current status of Victorian literature in the academic world
are followed by essays on such writers as Charles Dickens, Alfred
Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, and the Bronte sisters. These are balanced
by essays that focus on writing by women, the development of the
social problem novel, and the continuity of Victorian writers with
their Romantic forebears. Most importantly, the contributors to
this volume approach Victorian literature from a decidedly
contemporary scholarly angle and write for a wide audience of
specialists and non-specialists alike. Their essays offer readers
an idea of how critical commentary in recent years has
influenced-and in some cases changed radically-our understanding of
and approach to literary study in general and the Victorian period
in particular. Hence, scholars, teachers, and students will find
the volume a useful survey of contemporary commentary not just on
Victorian literature, but also on the period as a whole.
Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this
collection explores what a diversity of ecocritical approaches can
offer students and scholars of Victorian literature, at the same
time that it critiques the general effectiveness of ecocritical
theory. Interdisciplinary in their approach, the essays take up
questions related to the nonhuman, botany, landscape, evolutionary
science, and religion. The contributors cast a wide net in terms of
genre, analyzing novels, poetry, periodical works, botanical
literature, life-writing, and essays. Focusing on a wide range of
canonical and noncanonical writers, including Charles Dickens, the
Brontes, John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti, Jane Webb Loudon, Anna
Sewell, and Richard Jefferies, Victorian Writers and the
Environment demonstrates the ways in which nineteenth-century
authors engaged not only with humans' interaction with the
environment during the Victorian period, but also how some authors
anticipated more recent attitudes toward the environment.
Traces Hemingway's critical fortunes over the ninety years of his
prominence, telling us something about what we value in literature
and why scholarly reputations rise and fall. Hemingway burst on the
literary scene in the 1920s with spare, penetrating short stories
and brilliant novels. Soon he was held as a standard for modern
writers. Meanwhile, he used his celebrity to create a persona like
the stoic,macho heroes of his fiction. After a decline during the
1930s and 1940s, he came roaring back with The Old Man and the Sea
in 1952. Two years later he received the Nobel Prize. While his
popularity waxed and waned during his lifetime, Hemingway's
reputation among scholars remained strong as long as traditional
scholarship dominated. New approaches beginning in the 1960s
brought a sea change, however, finding grave fault with his work
and making him a figure ripe for vilification. Yet during this time
scholarship on him continued to appear. His works still sell well,
and several are staples on high-school and college syllabi. A new
scholarly edition of his letters is drawing prominent attention,
and there is a resurgence in scholarly attention to - and
approbation for - his work. Tracing Hemingway's critical fortunes
tells us something about what we value in literature and why
reputations rise and fall as scholars find new ways to examine and
interpret creative work.
This collection includes twelve provocative essays from a diverse
group of international scholars, who utilize a range of
interdisciplinary approaches to analyze "real" and
"representational" animals that stand out as culturally significant
to Victorian literature and culture. Essays focus on a wide range
of canonical and non-canonical Victorian writers, including Charles
Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Anna Sewell, Emily Bronte, James
Thomson, Christina Rossetti, and Richard Marsh, and they focus on a
diverse array of forms: fiction, poetry, journalism, and letters.
These essays consider a wide range of cultural attitudes and
literary treatments of animals in the Victorian Age, including the
development of the animal protection movement, the importation of
animals from the expanding Empire, the acclimatization of British
animals in other countries, and the problems associated with
increasing pet ownership. The collection also includes an
Introduction co-written by the editors and Suggestions for Further
Study, and will prove of interest to scholars and students across
the multiple disciplines which comprise Animal Studies.
This edited collection offers undergraduate Literature instructors
a guide to the pedagogy and teaching of Victorian literature in
liberal arts classrooms. With numerous essays focused on thematic
course design, this volume reflects the increasingly
interdisciplinary nature of the literature classroom. A section on
genre provides suggestions on approaching individual works and
discussing their influence on production of texts. Sections on
digital humanities and "out of the classroom" approaches to
Victorian literature reflect current practices and developing
trends. The concluding section offers three different versions of
an "ideal" course, each of which shows how thematic, disciplinary,
genre, and technological strands may be woven together in
meaningful ways. Professors of introductory literature courses
aimed at non-English majors to advanced seminars for majors will
find accessible and innovative course ideas supplemented with a
variety of versatile teaching materials, including syllabi,
assignments, and in-class activities.
Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this
collection explores what a diversity of ecocritical approaches can
offer students and scholars of Victorian literature, at the same
time that it critiques the general effectiveness of ecocritical
theory. Interdisciplinary in their approach, the essays take up
questions related to the nonhuman, botany, landscape, evolutionary
science, and religion. The contributors cast a wide net in terms of
genre, analyzing novels, poetry, periodical works, botanical
literature, life-writing, and essays. Focusing on a wide range of
canonical and noncanonical writers, including Charles Dickens, the
Brontes, John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti, Jane Webb Loudon, Anna
Sewell, and Richard Jefferies, Victorian Writers and the
Environment demonstrates the ways in which nineteenth-century
authors engaged not only with humans' interaction with the
environment during the Victorian period, but also how some authors
anticipated more recent attitudes toward the environment.
This collection includes twelve provocative essays from a diverse
group of international scholars, who utilize a range of
interdisciplinary approaches to analyze "real" and
"representational" animals that stand out as culturally significant
to Victorian literature and culture. Essays focus on a wide range
of canonical and non-canonical Victorian writers, including Charles
Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Anna Sewell, Emily Bronte, James
Thomson, Christina Rossetti, and Richard Marsh, and they focus on a
diverse array of forms: fiction, poetry, journalism, and letters.
These essays consider a wide range of cultural attitudes and
literary treatments of animals in the Victorian Age, including the
development of the animal protection movement, the importation of
animals from the expanding Empire, the acclimatization of British
animals in other countries, and the problems associated with
increasing pet ownership. The collection also includes an
Introduction co-written by the editors and Suggestions for Further
Study, and will prove of interest to scholars and students across
the multiple disciplines which comprise Animal Studies.
A comprehensive look at the academic criticism of Jane Austen from
her time down to the present. Among the most important English
novelists, Jane Austen is unusual because she is esteemed not only
by academics but by the reading public. Her novels continue to sell
well, and films adapted from her works enjoy strong
box-officesuccess. The trajectory of Austen criticism is
intriguing, especially when one compares it to that of other
nineteenth-century English writers. At least partly because she was
a woman in the early nineteenth century, she was longneglected by
critics, hardly considered a major figure in English literature
until well into the twentieth century, a hundred years after her
death. Yet consequently she did not suffer from the reaction
against Victorianism thatdid so much to hurt the reputation of
Dickens, Tennyson, Arnold, and others. How she rose to prominence
among academic critics - and has retained her position through the
constant shifting of academic and critical trends - is a story
worth telling, as it suggests not only something about Austen's
artistry but also about how changes in critical perspective can
radically alter a writer's reputation. Laurence W. Mazzeno is
President Emeritus of Alvernia University, Reading, Pennsylvania.
A collection of essays that perceive Updike's America through the
eyes of Western and Eastern European readers and scholars,
contributing to Updike scholarship while demonstrating his
resonance across the Atlantic. From the publication in 1958 of his
first book, The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures, the
American writer John Updike attracted an international readership.
His books have been translated into twenty-three languages. He had
a strong following in the United Kingdom, where his books were
routinely reviewed in all the leading national newspapers. In
Germany, France, Italy, and other countries too, his books were
discussed in major publications. Although Updike died in 2009,
interest in his writing remains strong among European scholars.
They are active in the John Updike Society and on the John Updike
Review (which began publishing in 2011). During the past four
decades, several Europeans have influenced the study of Updike
worldwide. No recent volume, however, collects diverse European
views on his oeuvre. The current book fills that void, presenting
essays that perceive Updike's renditions of America through the
eyes of scholar-readers from both Western and Eastern Europe.
Contributors: Kasia Boddy, Teresa Botelho, Biljana Dojcinovic,
Brian Duffy, Karin Ikas, Ulla Kriebernegg, Sylvie Mathe, Judie
Newman, Sue Norton, Andrew Tate, Aristi Trendel, Eva-Sabine
Zehelein. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia
University. Sue Norton is a Lecturer in English at the Dublin
Institute of Technology.
This book offers insight into the ways students enrolled in
European classrooms in higher education come to understand American
experience through its literary fiction, which for decades has been
a key component of English department offerings and American
Studies curricula across the continent and in Great Britain and
Ireland. The essays provide an understanding of how post-World War
II American writers, some already elevated to 'canonical status'
and some not, are represented in European university classrooms and
why they have been chosen for inclusion in coursework. The book
will be of interest to scholars and teachers of American literature
and American studies, and to students in American literature and
American studies courses.
This book offers insight into the ways students enrolled in
European classrooms in higher education come to understand American
experience through its literary fiction, which for decades has been
a key component of English department offerings and American
Studies curricula across the continent and in Great Britain and
Ireland. The essays provide an understanding of how
post-World War II American writers, some already elevated to
‘canonical status’ and some not, are represented in European
university classrooms and why they have been chosen for inclusion
in coursework. The book will be of interest to scholars and
teachers of American literature and American studies, and to
students in American literature and American studies courses.
The twelve essays in Victorian Environmental Nightmares explore
various "environmental nightmares" through applied analyses of
Victorian texts. Over the course of the nineteenth century, writers
of imaginative literature often expressed fears and concerns over
environmental degradation (in its wide variety of meanings,
including social and moral). In some instances, natural or
environmental disasters influenced these responses; in other
instances a growing awareness of problems caused by industrial
pollution and the growth of cities prompted responses. Seven essays
in this volume cover works about Britain and its current and former
colonies that examine these nightmare environments at home and
abroad. But as the remaining five essays in this collection
demonstrate, "environmental nightmares" are not restricted to
essays on actual disasters or realistic fiction, since in many
cases Victorian writers projected onto imperial landscapes or
wholly imagined landscapes in fantastic fiction their anxieties
about how humans might change their environments-and how these
environments might also change humans.
Traces Hemingway's critical fortunes over the ninety years of his
prominence, telling us something about what we value in literature
and why scholarly reputations rise and fall. Hemingway burst on the
literary scene in the 1920s with spare, penetrating short stories
and brilliant novels. Soon he was held as a standard for modern
writers. Meanwhile, he used his celebrity to create a persona like
the stoic,macho heroes of his fiction. After a decline during the
1930s and 1940s, he came roaring back with The Old Man and the Sea
in 1952. Two years later he received the Nobel Prize. While his
popularity waxed and waned during his lifetime, Hemingway's
reputation among scholars remained strong as long as traditional
scholarship dominated. New approaches beginning in the 1960s
brought a sea change, however, finding grave fault with his work
and making him a figure ripe for vilification. Yet during this time
scholarship on him continued to appear. His works still sell well,
and several are staples on high-school and college syllabi. A new
scholarly edition of his letters is drawing prominent attention,
and there is a resurgence in scholarly attention to - and
approbation for - his work. Tracing Hemingway's critical fortunes
tells us something about what we value in literature and why
reputations rise and fall as scholars find new ways to examine and
interpret creative work. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus
of Alvernia University. Among other books, he has written volumes
on Austen, Dickens, Tennyson, Updike,and Matthew Arnold for Camden
House's Literary Criticism in Perspective series.
The story of the surprisingly fluctuating critical reputation of
one of the great writers of the English language. Undoubtedly the
best-selling author of his day and well loved by readers in
succeeding generations, Charles Dickens was not always a favorite
among critics. Celebrated for his novels advocating social reform,
for half a century after his death he was ridiculed by those
academics who condescended to write about him. Only the faithful
band of devotees who called themselves Dickensians kept alive an
interest in his work. Then, during the Second World War, hewas
resurrected by critics, and was soon being hailed as the foremost
writer of his age, a literary genius alongside Shakespeare and
Milton. More recently, Dickens has again been taken to task by a
new breed of literary theoristswho fault his chauvinism and
imperialist attitudes. Whether he has been adored or despised,
however, one thing is certain: no other Victorian novelist has
generated more critical commentary. This book traces Dickens's
reputation from the earliest reviews through the work of early
21st-century commentators, showing how judgments of Dickens changed
with new standards for evaluating fiction. Mazzeno balances
attention to prominent critics from the late 19th century through
the first three quarters of the 20th with an emphasis on the past
three decades, during which literary theory has opened up new ways
of reading Dickens. What becomes clear is that, in attempting to
provide fresh insight into Dickens's writings, critics often reveal
as much about the predilections of their own age as they do about
the novelist. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia
University, Reading, Pennsylvania.
The story of the surprisingly fluctuating critical reputation of
one of the great writers of the English language. Undoubtedly the
best-selling author of his day and well loved by readers in
succeeding generations, Charles Dickens was not always a favorite
among critics. Celebrated for his novels advocating social reform,
for half a century after his death he was ridiculed by those
academics who condescended to write about him. Only the faithful
band of devotees who called themselves Dickensians kept alive an
interest in his work. Then, during the Second World War, hewas
resurrected by critics, and was soon being hailed as the foremost
writer of his age, a literary genius alongside Shakespeare and
Milton. More recently, Dickens has again been taken to task by a
new breed of literary theoristswho fault his chauvinism and
imperialist attitudes. Whether he has been adored or despised,
however, one thing is certain: no other Victorian novelist has
generated more critical commentary. This book traces Dickens's
reputation from the earliest reviews through the work of early
21st-century commentators, showing how judgments of Dickens changed
with new standards for evaluating fiction. Mazzeno balances
attention to prominent critics from the late 19th century through
the first three quarters of the 20th with an emphasis on the past
three decades, during which literary theory has opened up new ways
of reading Dickens. What becomes clear is that, in attempting to
provide fresh insight into Dickens's writings, critics often reveal
as much about the predilections of their own age as they do about
the novelist. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia
University, Reading, Pennsylvania.
A comprehensive look at the academic criticism of Jane Austen from
her time down to the present. Among the most important English
novelists, Jane Austen is unusual because she is esteemed not only
by academics but by the reading public. Her novels continue to sell
well, and films adapted from her works enjoy strong
box-officesuccess. The trajectory of Austen criticism is
intriguing, especially when one compares it to that of other
nineteenth-century English writers. At least partly because she was
a woman in the early nineteenth century, she was longneglected by
critics, hardly considered a major figure in English literature
until well into the twentieth century, a hundred years after her
death. Yet consequently she did not suffer from the reaction
against Victorianism thatdid so much to hurt the reputation of
Dickens, Tennyson, Arnold, and others. How she rose to prominence
among academic critics - and has retained her position through the
constant shifting of academic and critical trends - is a story
worth telling, as it suggests not only something about Austen's
artistry but also about how changes in critical perspective can
radically alter a writer's reputation. Laurence W. Mazzeno is
President Emeritus of Alvernia University, Reading, Pennsylvania.
A study of the journalistic and academic reception of the writings
of one of the great American writers of the late twentieth century.
When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary
establishment were immediate and fulsome. However, no one reading
reviews of Updike's work in the late 1960s would have predicted
that kind of praise for a man who was known then as a brilliant
stylist who had nothing to say. What changed? Why? And what is
likely to be his legacy? These are the questions that Becoming John
Updike pursues by examining the journalistic and academic response
tohis writings. Several things about Updike's career make a
reception study appropriate. First, he was prolific: he began
publishing fiction and essays in 1956, published his first book in
1958, and from then on, brought out atleast one new book each year.
Second, his books were reviewed widely - usually in major American
newspapers and magazines, and often in foreign ones as well. Third,
Updike quickly became a darling of academics; the first book about
his work was published in 1967, less than a decade after his own
first book. More than three dozen books and hundreds of articles of
academic criticism have been devoted to Updike. The present volume
will appeal to the continuing interest in Updike's writing among
academics and general readers alike. Laurence W. Mazzeno is
President Emeritus of Alvernia University. Among other books, he
has written volumes on Austen, Dickens, Tennyson,and Matthew Arnold
for Camden House's Literary Criticism in Perspective series.
This edited collection offers undergraduate Literature instructors
a guide to the pedagogy and teaching of Victorian literature in
liberal arts classrooms. With numerous essays focused on thematic
course design, this volume reflects the increasingly
interdisciplinary nature of the literature classroom. A section on
genre provides suggestions on approaching individual works and
discussing their influence on production of texts. Sections on
digital humanities and "out of the classroom" approaches to
Victorian literature reflect current practices and developing
trends. The concluding section offers three different versions of
an "ideal" course, each of which shows how thematic, disciplinary,
genre, and technological strands may be woven together in
meaningful ways. Professors of introductory literature courses
aimed at non-English majors to advanced seminars for majors will
find accessible and innovative course ideas supplemented with a
variety of versatile teaching materials, including syllabi,
assignments, and in-class activities.
This Critical Insights volume on Pride and Prejudice is designed to
provide students and nonspecialists in Austen studies an
introduction to one of the most widely read novels of the past two
centuries. New essays include a biography of Jane Austen, the
critical reception of Pride and Prejudice, an examination of the
novel's historical milieu, and a reading of the novel that stresses
the importance Austen places on female education as a means of
redefining the role of women in society. Other essays include an
examination of the relationship between form and content in the
novel, and several essays written from a feminist perspective.
Masterplots was the first reference set published by Salem Press in
1949 and is the original work of literary reference offering plot
summaries. Masterplots has become a staple in most libraries. Now,
this brand-new edition, revised for the first time since 1996, adds
over 400 new works and offers 20% new material. In addition,
complimentary online access is being offered for the first time on
our exclusive online platform, Salem Literature.
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