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This Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide yet both to the
nature and content of literature, and to literary criticism. In
ninety essays by leading international critics and scholars, the
volume covers both traditional topics such as literature and
history, poetry, drama and the novel, and also newer topics such as
the production and reception of literature. Current critical ideas
are clearly and provocatively discussed, while the volume's
arrangement reflects in a dynamic way the rich diversity of
contemporary thinking about literature. Each essay seeks to provide
the reader with a clear sense of the full significance of its
subject as well as guidance on further reading. An essential work
of reference, The Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism is a
stimulating guide to the central preoccupations of contemporary
critical thinking about literature. Special Features * Clearly
written by scholars and critics of international standing for
readers at all levels in many disciplines * In-depth essays
covering all aspects, traditional and new, of literary studies past
and present * Useful cross-references within the text, with full
bibliographical references and suggestions for further reading *
Single index of authors, terms, topics
This "Encyclopedia" is the most comprehensive guide yet to both the
nature and content of literature and to literary criticism. In
ninety essays by leading international critics and scholars such as
Catherine Belsey, Terrence Hawker, Catherine Hayles, Cora Kaplan,
Christopher Norris and Don E. Wayne, the volume covers traditional
topics such as literature and history, poetry, drama and the novel,
and newer topics, including the production and reception of
literature. Current critical ideas are clearly and provocatively
discussed, while the volume's arrangement reflects in a dynamic way
the rich diversity of contemporary thinking about literature.
The "Encyclopedia" includes important sections on criticism, the
contexts of English literature and "other literatures" in English.
Individual essays cover subjects as diverse as feminist theatre,
postmodernism, medieval literature, romantic poetry, Marxist
criticism, censorship, realism and the novel, contemporary American
poetry, New Historicism, the origins of the modern stage, the
renaissance, women and the poetic tradition, the printed book, and
Shakespeare and eighteenth-century fiction. Each essay seeks to
provide the reader with a clear sense of the full significance of
its subject as well as guidance for further reading.
An essential work of reference, the "Encyclopedia of Literature
and Criticism" is a stimulating guide to the central preoccupations
of contemporary critical thinking about literature.
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A Queer Book (Paperback)
James Hogg; Edited by Gillian Hughes, Douglas S Mack, Peter Garside
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'It will be a grand book for thae Englishers for they winna
understand a word of it' Hogg's boast to William Blackwood Witty,
humorous and comical as the title implies, the eccentric nature of
many of the poems collected here nevertheless belies the often
serious and moral issues contained within. Newly available in
paperback, and including many of Hogg's better known longer pieces,
the present volume is based on the first edition of A Queer Book to
be published since 1832 - though the similarity between the two
editions ends with the running order. While the text for the
original edition was substantially reworked by the publisher to
smooth out Hogg's use of Scots, this volume brings together
manuscripts from all over the world to provide material as near to
his final copy as possible. The result is a vibrant collection
including many poems which have never been studied critically
before. A thorough introduction to the best of Hogg's poetry.
The picturesque (a set of theories, ideas, and conventions that
grew up around the question of how we look at landscape) offers a
valuable focus for new investigations into the literary, artistic,
social, and cultural history of the late eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. This volume of essays by scholars from various
disciplines in Britain and America incorporates a range of
historically and theoretically challenging approaches to the topic.
It covers the writers most closely identified with the exposition
of the picturesque as a theory, and also traces the influence and
implications of its aesthetic in a variety of fields in the
Romantic period, including literary and pictorial works, estate
management, and women's fashion. Several essays deal more
specifically with radical critiques and appropriations of the
picturesque in the nineteenth century, while in others its
influence is traced beyond traditionally accepted geographical or
historical bounds.
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The Forest Minstrel (Hardcover, New)
James Hogg; Edited by Peter Garside, Richard D Jackson; Contributions by Peter Horsfall
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R2,647
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Edited by Peter Garside and Richard D. Jackson, with musical
notations prepared by Peter Horsfall
Originally published in 1810, The Forest Minstrel represents the
first full collection of songs by Hogg. The items contained include
some of his first compositions as a shepherd in Ettrick, while
others originate from early contact with the literary culture of
Edinburgh. This edition for the first time supplies musical
settings for the majority of items, whereas in 1810 Hogg only
nominated tunes by title. These settings are based on extensive
research in relevant pre-1810 Scottish music books. As a result,
the modern reader is given access to the tunes which originally
formed an integral part of the songs. An Introduction describes
Hogg's development as a song-writer and the musical context in
1810; while full annotation is provided on both the texts of the
songs and the related tunes.
The volume also includes a CD containing audio recordings of the
seventy-two tunes which are provided by means of the notations.
The complexity of print culture in Britain between the seventeenth
and nineteenth century is investigated in these wide-ranging
articles. The essays collected here offer examinations of
bibliographical matters, publishing practices, the illustration of
texts in a variety of engraved media, little studied print culture
genres, the critical and editorial fortunes of individual works,
and the significance of the complex interrelationships that authors
entertained with booksellers, publishers, and designers. They
investigate how all these relationships affected the production of
print commodities and how all the agents involved in the making of
books contributed to the cultural literacy of readers and the
formation of a canon of literary texts. Specific topics include a
bibliographical study of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and its editions
from its first publication to the present day; the illustrations of
John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the ways in which the
interpretive matrices of book illustration conditioned the
afterlife and reception of Bunyan's work; the almanac and the
subscription edition; publishing history, collecting, reading, and
textual editing, especially of Robert Burns's poems and James
Thomson's The Seasons; the "printing for the author" practice; the
illustrated and material existence of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
novels, and the Victorian periodical, The Athenaeum. Sandro Jung is
Research Professor of Early Modern British Literature and Director
of the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture at Ghent
University. Contributors: Gerard Carruthers, Nathalie Colle-Bak,
Marysa Demoor, Alan Downie, Peter Garside, Sandro Jung, Brian
Maidment, Laura L. Runge.
Edward Waverley is a young, cultured man whose sensibilities
lead to his involvement in the Jacobite Rising of 1745. In his
journey into Scotland, down to Derby, and back up again he explores
the cultural and political geography of Great Britain. "Waverley"
was Scott's first novel, but like its final chapter, 'A Postscript
which should have been a Preface', it appears last in this series,
so that the full weight of experience gained from editing Scott's
fiction can be brought to understanding his most influential novel,
the one which gave its name to the Waverley Novels. To this
edition, P. D. Garside brings new insights and new information, and
he establishes a text which is significantly different from its
predecessors. This is a great culmination to the Edinburgh Edition
of the Waverley Novels.
Set in south-west Scotland in the immediate aftermath of the 1707
Union, The Black Dwarf was intended to be a story about the first,
abortive, Jacobite uprising of 1708. Instead it developed into a
gothic tale of the supernatural. This new edition brings out the
virtues in the story, long overlaid by Scott's embellishments in
later editions.
A TLS International Book of the Year (TLS, Dec 7, 2001) This
now-famous book was given a hostile reception when it first
appeared in 1824. It was not reprinted until the late 1830s, when a
heavily bowdlerised version was included in a posthumous edition of
Hogg's collected Tales and Sketches published by Blackie & Son
of Glasgow. Thereafter Confessions of a Justified Sinner attracted
little interest until the 1890s, when the unbowdlerised text was
printed for the first time since the 1820s. However, the current
high reputation of Hogg's novel did not fully begin to establish
itself until 1947, when a warmly enthusiastic Introduction by Andre
Gide appeared in a new edition of the unbowdlerised text. He went
on to record how he had read 'this astounding book [!] with a
stupefaction and admiration that increased at every page'. Many
readers have subsequently shared Gide's enthusiasm, and Confessions
of a Justified Sinner is now widely recognised as one of the
outstanding British novels of the Romantic era. It has also been
acclaimed as one of the defining texts of Scotland, with Iain
Crichton Smith recently applauding 'a towering Scottish novel, one
of the very greatest of all Scottish books'. Peter Garside's
eagerly-awaited new Stirling / South Carolina edition (available in
both hardback and paperback) excitingly opens out our understanding
of Hogg's masterpiece. Its annotation adds very substantially to
the contributions of previous editors, for example by showing
various layers of hitherto undetected references. Through an
impressive piece of scholarly detective-work, Garside has also
uncovered the remarkable story of the first printing of the
Justified Sinner and Hogg's battle with his London publishers,
Longman, for his subversive and challenging novel to make its first
appearance in a form he found satisfactory. This edition provides
an illuminating and compelling new account of the genesis of Hogg's
masterpiece, and of the cultural, theological, geographical, and
historical contexts of this remarkable novel.
Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, first published in 1815, was
Walter Scott's second novel. Guy Mannering only half-believes in
his art, but does believe in the ability of his patriarchal power,
wealth and social position to sort out social confusion. However he
has to learn the limits of a nabob's authority in a society that
(in the 1780s) is no longer a single hierarchy but has many
subsets, each with its own laws - gypsies, smugglers, Edinburgh
lawyers, the Border store farmer, the traditional landowner. Guy
Mannering is set at the time of the American Revolution, and
represents a Scotland at once backward and advanced, patriarchal
and commercial, traditional and modern, a country in very varied
stages of progression. This is the first modern edition of one of
Scott's finest works. It is based on the first edition, but is
corrected from the manuscript, and restores around two thousand
readings lost through error or misunderstanding. For the first time
it includes Scott's extended portraits of the Edinburgh literati
which were unaccountably omitted from the printed version.
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The Talisman (Hardcover)
Walter Scott; Edited by J B Ellis, J.H. Alexander; Peter Garside, David Hewitt
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R3,564
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The second of "Tales of the Crusaders," "The Talisman" is set in
Palestine during the Third Crusade (1189 - 92). Scott constructs a
story of chivalric action, apparently adopting a medieval romance
view of the similarities in the values of both sides. But disguise
is the leading theme of the tale: it is not just that characters
frequently wear clothing that conceals their identity, but that
professions and cultures hide their true nature.
In this novel the Christian leaders are divided by a factious
criminality, and are contrasted to the magnanimity and decisiveness
of Saladin, the leader of the Moslem armies. In a period when the
west was fascinated with the exotic east, Scott represents the
Moslem other as more humane than the Christian west.
"The Talisman" is one of Scott's great novels. It is a superb
tale. It is also a bold departure as, for the first time, Scott
explores not cultural conflict within a country or society but in
the opposition of two world religions.
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A Queer Book (Hardcover)
James Hogg; Edited by Peter Garside, Douglas S Mack
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R2,892
Discovery Miles 28 920
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'It will be a grand book for thae Englishers for they winna
understand a word of it' Hogg's boast to William Blackwood Witty,
humorous and comical as the title implies, the eccentric nature of
many of the poems collected here nevertheless belies the often
serious and moral issues contained within. Newly available in
paperback, and including many of Hogg's better known longer pieces,
the present volume is based on the first edition of A Queer Book to
be published since 1832 - though the similarity between the two
editions ends with the running order. While the text for the
original edition was substantially reworked by the publisher to
smooth out Hogg's use of Scots, this volume brings together
manuscripts from all over the world to provide material as near to
his final copy as possible. The result is a vibrant collection
including many poems which have never been studied critically
before. A thorough introduction to the best of Hogg's poetry.
The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series
presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of
English-language prose fiction and written by a large,
international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels
as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes
chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and
reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as
well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements,
traditions, and tendencies. Volume 2 examines the period
from1750-1820, which was a crucial period in the development of the
novel in English. Not only was it the time of Smollett, Sterne,
Austen, and Scott, but it also saw the establishment and definition
of the novel as we know it, as well as the emergence of a number of
subgenres, several of which remain to this day. Conventionally
however, it has been one of the least studied areas-seen as a
falling off from the heyday of Richardson and Fielding, or merely a
prelude to the great Victorian novelists. This volume takes full
advantage of recent major advances in scholarly bibliography, new
critical assessments, and the fresh availability of long-neglected
fictional works, to offer a new mapping and appraisal. The opening
section, as well as some remarkable later chapters, consider
historical conditions underlying the production, circulation, and
reception of fiction during these seventy years, a period itself
marked by a rapid growth in output and expansion in readership.
Other chapters cover the principal forms, movements, and literary
themes of the period, with individual contributions on the four
major novelists (named above), seen in historical context, as well
as others on adjacent fields such as the shorter tale, magazine
fiction, children's literature, and drama. The volume also views
the novel in the light of other major institutions of modern
literary culture, including book reviewing and the reprint trade,
all of which played a part in advancing a sense of the novel as a
defining feature of the British cultural landscape. A focus on
'global' literature and imported fiction in two concluding chapters
in turn reflects a broader concern for transnat onal literary
studies in general.
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