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<strong>LEGENDA</strong><br />
CATALOGUE 2013/2014<br />
New and forthcoming books in<br />
European Literature, Cultures and Thought<br />
New seRies<br />
FoR 2013:<br />
GeRMANic LiteRAtuRes<br />
From Maney Publishing and the Modern Humanities Research Association<br />
www.maneypublishing.com www.mhra.org.uk www.legendabooks.com<br />
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Foreword<br />
i am delighted to introduce the new Legenda catalogue. with<br />
the continuing support of Maney Publishing and the Modern<br />
Humanities Research Association (MHRA), we have maintained an<br />
extensive, exciting and growing publishing programme, showcasing<br />
some of the very best research currently being undertaken across<br />
the humanities.<br />
we remain committed to expanding our activities without<br />
compromising on quality. 2012 saw the publication of the first<br />
volumes in our new Moving image series. in 2013 we will inaugurate<br />
the Germanic Literatures series, which will publish innovative studies<br />
of literature in German, Dutch and the scandinavian languages.<br />
Details of the first volumes can be found in the following pages. We<br />
are also making plans for a further new series, studies in Hispanic<br />
and Lusophone cultures.<br />
our aim, as ever, is to provide outlets for the best work by both<br />
first-time authors and established scholars. I hope you will agree that<br />
this catalogue reflects the vitality, range and depth of work in the<br />
humanities today.<br />
Professor Colin Davis<br />
Royal Holloway, university of London<br />
chairman of the editorial Board<br />
Contents<br />
GeRMANic LiteRAtuRes ...........................................................3<br />
GeRMAN AND AustRiAN LiteRAtuRe ...............................3<br />
eNGLisH LiteRAtuRe ..................................................................5<br />
HistoRY oF iDeAs..........................................................................5<br />
FReNcH LiteRAtuRe ...................................................................6<br />
ReseARcH MoNoGRAPHs iN FReNcH stuDies .............8<br />
HisPANic AND PoRtuGuese LiteRAtuRe .......................9<br />
itALiAN LiteRAtuRe .................................................................10<br />
itALiAN PeRsPectiVes .............................................................10<br />
MoViNG iMAGe ..............................................................................12<br />
RussiAN, ceNtRAL AND eAsteRN<br />
euRoPeAN LiteRAtuRe ...........................................................13<br />
stuDies iN YiDDisH ....................................................................13<br />
stuDies iN coMPARAtiVe LiteRAtuRe ..........................14<br />
LeGendA edItorIAL BoArd<br />
CHAIrMAn<br />
Professor Colin Davis, royal Holloway, University of London<br />
MAnAGInG edItor<br />
Dr Graham Nelson, University of oxford, 41 wellington square,<br />
oxford oX1 2JF, UK. email: graham.nelson@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk<br />
MAIn serIes<br />
Professor Malcolm Cook, University of exeter (French)<br />
Professor Robin Fiddian, wadham College, oxford (spanish)<br />
Professor Anne Fuchs, University of warwick (German)<br />
Professor Paul Garner, University of Leeds (spanish)<br />
Professor Andrew Hadfield, University of sussex (english)<br />
Professor Marian Hobson Jeanneret, Queen Mary, University of<br />
London (French)<br />
Professor Catriona Kelly, new College, oxford (russian)<br />
Professor Martin McLaughlin, Magdalen College, oxford (Italian)<br />
Professor Martin Maiden, trinity College, oxford (Linguistics)<br />
Professor Peter Matthews, st John’s College, Cambridge (Linguistics)<br />
Dr Stephen Parkinson, Linacre College, oxford (Portuguese)<br />
Professor Suzanne Raitt, william and Mary College, Virginia (english)<br />
Professor Ritchie Robertson, The Queen’s College, oxford (German)<br />
Professor David Shepherd, Keele University (russian)<br />
Professor Michael Sheringham, All souls College, oxford (French)<br />
Professor Alison Sinclair, Clare College, Cambridge (spanish)<br />
Professor David Treece, King’s College London (Portuguese)<br />
GerMAnIC LIterAtUres<br />
Professor Ritchie Robertson, University of oxford (Chairman)<br />
Dr Barbara Burns, Glasgow University<br />
Professor Jane Fenoulhet, University College London<br />
Professor Anne Fuchs, University of warwick<br />
Professor Susanne Kord, University College London<br />
Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, University College London<br />
Dr Almut Suerbaum, University of oxford<br />
Professor John Zilcosky, University of toronto<br />
ItALIAn PersPeCtIVes<br />
Professor Simon Gilson, University of warwick (General editor)<br />
Dr Francesca Billiani, University of Manchester<br />
Dr Manuele Gragnolati, somerville College, oxford<br />
Dr Catherine Keen, University College London<br />
Professor Martin McLaughlin, Magdalen College, oxford<br />
MoVInG IMAGe edItorIAL CoMMIttee<br />
Professor Emma Wilson, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (General editor)<br />
Professor Robert Gordon, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge<br />
Professor Annette Kuhn, Queen Mary, University of London<br />
Professor Jo Labanyi, new York University<br />
reseArCH MonoGrAPHs In FrenCH stUdIes<br />
Diana Knight, University of nottingham (General editor)<br />
Adrian Armstrong, Queen Mary, University of London<br />
Janice Carruthers, Queen’s University Belfast<br />
Nicholas Harrison, King’s College London<br />
Neil Kenny, All souls College, oxford<br />
Jennifer Yee, Christ Church, oxford<br />
reseArCH MonoGrAPHs In FrenCH stUdIes AdVIsorY BoArd<br />
Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Murray edwards College, Cambridge<br />
Celia Britton, University College London<br />
Ann Jefferson, new College, oxford<br />
Sarah Kay, new York University<br />
Michael Moriarty, University of Cambridge<br />
Keith Reader, University of Glasgow<br />
stUdIes In CoMPArAtIVe LIterAtUre<br />
Professor Stephen Bann, University of Bristol (Chairman)<br />
Professor Duncan Large, University of swansea<br />
Dr Elinor Shaffer, school of Advanced study, London<br />
stUdIes In YIddIsH<br />
Professor Gennady Estraikh, new York University<br />
Dr Kerstin Hoge, st Hilda’s College, oxford<br />
Professor Mikhail Krutikov, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor<br />
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GerMAnIC LIterAtUres<br />
SERIES ISSN: 2052-1456<br />
Germanic Literatures includes monographs<br />
and essay collections on literature originally<br />
written not only in German, but also in<br />
Dutch and the scandinavian languages.<br />
Within the German-speaking area, it seeks<br />
also to publish studies of other national<br />
literatures such as those of Austria and<br />
switzerland. the chronological scope of the<br />
series extends from the early Middle Ages<br />
to the present day. we warmly encourage<br />
colleagues to approach us with proposals<br />
(www.legendabooks.com/proposals.html).<br />
Yvan Goll<br />
The Thwarted Pursuit of the Whole<br />
By Robert Vilain<br />
Germanic Literatures 1<br />
the life of the bilingual writer<br />
Yvan Goll (1891–1950)<br />
was one of perpetual<br />
experimentation and selfrenewal.<br />
In the first study<br />
to treat Goll’s whole literary<br />
career, Robert Vilain explores<br />
the full range of his poetry,<br />
novels, dramas, libretti, essays, translations and<br />
editions — from Expressionism in pre-war<br />
Berlin and fisticuffs with André Breton over<br />
Surrealism in post-war Paris, to the dream of a<br />
new poetry for the atomic age. Goll’s journey<br />
took in satirical Überdramen, extravagantly ironic<br />
novels and collaborations with Kurt weill in the<br />
1920s, lyrical love poetry for his wife and a lover,<br />
and the experiences of his magnificent alter ego<br />
Jean sans Terre in the 1930s, and poetry inspired by<br />
alchemy, geology and the Kabbalah in the 1940s.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 56 1<br />
November 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Sebald’s Bachelors<br />
Queer Resistance and the Unconforming Life<br />
By Helen Finch<br />
Germanic Literatures 2<br />
why do queer bachelors and<br />
homosexual desire haunt the<br />
works of the German writer<br />
w. G. sebald (1944–2001)? in<br />
a series of readings of sebald’s<br />
major texts, from After Nature<br />
to Austerlitz, Helen Finch’s<br />
pioneering study shows that<br />
alternative masculinities subvert catastrophe in<br />
sebald’s works. From the schizophrenic poet<br />
ernst Herbeck to the alluring shade of Kafka in<br />
Venice, the figure of the bachelor offers a form<br />
of resistance to the destructive course of history<br />
throughout sebald’s critical and literary writing.<br />
sebald’s poetics of homosexual desire trace a ‘line<br />
of flight’ away from the patriarchal and repressive<br />
order of German society, which, in sebald’s view,<br />
led to the disasters of Nazism.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 90 5<br />
June 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Goethe’s Visual World<br />
By Pamela currie<br />
Germanic Literatures 3<br />
Goethe's ideas on colour and<br />
imagery crossed many<br />
borderlines: those of artistic<br />
processes and philosophical<br />
aesthetics, art history and<br />
colour theory, together with<br />
the science of perception.<br />
this investigation into his<br />
writings ranges across art from<br />
Antiquity, the Renaissance and<br />
the eighteenth century, as well as exploring the<br />
centrality of these issues to Goethe’s literary<br />
work. Questions find answers, but also raise new<br />
questions. this systematic sequence of essays,<br />
originally written between 1999 and 2011,<br />
appeals to readers in all these separate areas,<br />
while drawing together their essential coherence.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 89 9<br />
April 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
German Narratives of Belonging<br />
Writing Generation and Place in the<br />
Twenty-First Century<br />
By Linda shortt<br />
Germanic Literatures 4<br />
Since unification, German culture has<br />
experienced a boom in discourses on<br />
generation, family and place. Linda shortt<br />
reads this as symptomatic of a wider quest for<br />
belonging that mobilises attachment to counter<br />
the effects of postmodern deterritorialisation<br />
and globalisation. Investigating twenty-first<br />
century narratives of belonging by Reinhard<br />
Jirgl, christoph Hein, Angelika overath, Florian<br />
illies, Juli Zeh, stephan wackwitz, uwe timm<br />
and Peter schneider, shortt examines how<br />
the desire to belong is repeatedly unsettled<br />
by disturbances of lineage and tradition.<br />
in this way, she combines an analysis of<br />
supermodernity with an enquiry into German<br />
memory contests on the National socialist era,<br />
1968 and 1989, that continue to shape identity<br />
in the Berlin Republic. exploring a spectrum of<br />
narratives that range from agitated disavowals<br />
of place to romances of belonging, this study<br />
illuminates the topography of belonging in<br />
contemporary Germany.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 88 2<br />
2014 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
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NEW<br />
SERIES<br />
GeRMAN AND<br />
AustRiAN<br />
LiteRAtuRe<br />
Goethe’s Poetry and the Philosophy<br />
of Nature<br />
Gott und Welt 1798–1827<br />
Regina sachers<br />
At the beginning of the nineteenth century,<br />
philosophy and theology come under increasing<br />
pressure owing to the emergence of the modern<br />
sciences. the collection Gott und Welt is Goethe's<br />
poetic contribution to this conflict, in which<br />
an alternative to orthodox christianity was<br />
being sought. Following the collection's various<br />
stages of composition and publication, this<br />
study offers new readings of some of Goethe's<br />
best-known poems: 'Die Metamorphose<br />
der Pflanzen', 'Dauer im Wechsel', 'Urworte.<br />
Orphisch' and 'Wiederfinden'. Sachers shows<br />
that Gott und Welt is the long poem on nature<br />
which Goethe attempted to write for the last<br />
third of his life. As such it represents Goethe's<br />
unique answers to the intellectual challenges<br />
posed by the dawning age of science.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907747 97 7<br />
2014 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
The Present Word<br />
Culture, Society and the Site of Literature<br />
Essays in Honour of Nicholas Boyle<br />
edited by John walker<br />
this book addresses three key<br />
areas of intellectual enquiry:<br />
literary criticism, cultural<br />
critique, and philosophical<br />
theology. once closely related,<br />
especially in the catholic<br />
tradition, they often appear to<br />
be separate and unconnected<br />
domains in the modern<br />
university. the work of Nicholas Boyle is one of<br />
the most significant recent attempts to reconnect<br />
them. Responding to that initiative, The Present<br />
Word challenges this fragmentation of knowledge.<br />
Several of the essays reflect a major change<br />
of emphasis in literary studies over the last<br />
two decades: the reconnection of an idea<br />
of literary criticism closely related to the<br />
experience of reading, and the wider societal<br />
and political concerns addressed by cultural<br />
studies. contributors also debate, from both<br />
perspectives, whether theological concepts can<br />
illuminate the secular culture in which literature<br />
is written and read.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 61 5<br />
June 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50
Saturn’s Moons<br />
W. G. Sebald — A Handbook<br />
edited by Jo catling and Richard Hibbitt<br />
BooK oF tHe weeK iN tHe<br />
iNDePeNDeNt!<br />
the German novelist, poet<br />
and critic w. G. sebald<br />
(1944–2001) has in recent<br />
years attracted a phenomenal<br />
international following for<br />
his evocative prose works<br />
such as Die Ausgewanderten<br />
(The Emigrants), Die Ringe<br />
des Saturn (The Rings of Saturn) and Austerlitz,<br />
spellbinding elegiac narratives which, through<br />
their deliberate blurring of genre boundaries<br />
and provocative use of photography, explore<br />
questions of Heimat and exile, memory and<br />
loss, history and natural history, art and nature.<br />
Saturn's Moons: W. G. Sebald — A Handbook<br />
brings together in one volume a wealth of new<br />
critical and visual material on sebald's life and<br />
works, covering the many facets and phases<br />
of his literary and academic careers — as<br />
teacher, as scholar and critic, as colleague and as<br />
collaborator on translation. Lavishly illustrated,<br />
the Handbook also contains a number of<br />
rediscovered short pieces by w. G. sebald,<br />
hitherto unpublished interviews, a catalogue<br />
of his library, and selected poems and tributes,<br />
as well as extensive primary and secondary<br />
bibliographies, details of audiovisual material<br />
and interviews, and a chronology of life and<br />
works. Drawing on a range of original sources<br />
from sebald's Nachlass — the most important<br />
part of which is now held in the Deutsches<br />
Literaturarchiv Marbach — Saturn's Moons<br />
will be an invaluable sourcebook for future<br />
sebald studies in english and German alike,<br />
complementing and augmenting recent critical<br />
works on subjects such as history, memory,<br />
modernity, reader response and the visual.<br />
‘An erudite and deeply engrossing Sebald compendium. It<br />
fits his œuvre that in place of a formal biography we have<br />
this border-crossing miscellany in which comment may<br />
be free but facts are indeed sacred. Michael Hulse, his<br />
equally gifted translator before Anthea Bell, reprints the<br />
correspondence in which he asked Sebald to confirm that<br />
the quartet of exiles’ testimonies so artfully braided into<br />
the emigrants tell real stories about real people... The<br />
wonderful alchemy via which Sebald transmuted the found<br />
material of actual biography and history into fiction that<br />
kept faith with truth explains much of his appeal.’ —<br />
Boyd tonkin, The Independent 2 December<br />
2011, Books of the week<br />
‘More than two-hundred pages are dedicated to a<br />
stunning bibliographic survey of Sebald... Hats<br />
off to the crew who have given us this monumental<br />
bibliographic record!’ — terry Pitt, Vertigo 24<br />
september 2011<br />
‘Para aficionados como yo, es una Biblia.’ —<br />
william chislett, El Imparcial 10 December 2011<br />
ISBN: 978 1 906540 02 9<br />
July 2011 • 692 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Shandean Humour in English and<br />
German Literature and Philosophy<br />
edited by Klaus Vieweg, James Vigus and<br />
Kathleen M. wheeler<br />
one of many writers<br />
inspired by Laurence sterne’s<br />
Tristram Shandy, the German<br />
novelist Jean Paul Richter<br />
coined the term ‘shandean<br />
humour’ in his work of<br />
aesthetic theory. the essays in<br />
this volume investigate how<br />
sterne’s humour functions,<br />
the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what<br />
role it played in identity-construction and in<br />
the representation of melancholy. in tracing<br />
its hitherto under-recognised impact both on<br />
literary writers, such as Jean Paul and Herman<br />
Melville, and on philosophers, including Hegel<br />
and Marx, the collection reveals that shandean<br />
humour is a Grenzgänger — a point of<br />
commerce not only between Anglophone and<br />
German discourses, but also between literature<br />
and philosophy.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 31 8<br />
March 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and<br />
Christoph Ransmayr<br />
Dora osborne<br />
Both w. G. sebald<br />
(1944–2001) and the Austrian<br />
author christoph Ransmayr<br />
(1954–) were born too late to<br />
know directly the violence of<br />
the second world war and the<br />
Holocaust, but these traumatic<br />
events are a persistent<br />
presence in their work. in<br />
a series of close readings of key prose texts,<br />
Dora osborne examines the different ways in<br />
which the traces of a traumatic past mark their<br />
narratives. By focusing on the authors’ use of<br />
visual and topographical tropes, she shows how<br />
blind spots and inhospitable places configure<br />
signs of past violence, but, ultimately, resist<br />
our understanding. whilst links between the<br />
two authors are well-documented, this book<br />
offers the first full-length study of Sebald and<br />
Ransmayr and their complicated relation to the<br />
traumatic traces of National socialism.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 40 0<br />
March 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
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Regarding Lost Time<br />
Photography, Identity, and Affect in Proust,<br />
Benjamin, and Barthes<br />
Katja Haustein<br />
what is autobiography<br />
and how does it transform<br />
in the age of technological<br />
reproducibility? Katja<br />
Haustein discusses this<br />
question as it relates to<br />
photography and the role<br />
of emotions in Marcel Proust’s In Search<br />
of Lost Time (1909–22), walter Benjamin’s<br />
Berlin Childhood around 1900 (1932–38), and<br />
Roland Barthes’s Roland Barthes (1977) and<br />
Camera Lucida (1980). In this first book-length<br />
comparative analysis of these authors, Haustein<br />
maps their most famous works against littlestudied<br />
material, some of which has only<br />
recently become available: seminar manuscripts<br />
such as Barthes’s La Préparation du roman<br />
(1978–80), radio recordings, letters and diaries.<br />
in this way her study opens new avenues in<br />
scholarship on three eminent twentieth-century<br />
writers and contributes to a new field of<br />
enquiry: the history of autobiography in the<br />
light of a history of looking.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907747 91 5<br />
January 2012 • 206pp • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
German Women’s Writing of the<br />
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries<br />
Future Directions in Feminist Criticism<br />
edited by Helen Fronius and Anna Richards<br />
German women writers of<br />
the eighteenth and nineteenth<br />
centuries have been the<br />
subject of feminist literary<br />
critical and historical studies<br />
for around thirty years. this<br />
volume, with contributions<br />
from an international group<br />
of scholars, takes stock of<br />
what feminist literary criticism<br />
has achieved in that time and reflects on future<br />
trends in the field. Offering both theoretical<br />
perspectives and individual case studies, the<br />
contributors grapple with the difficulties of<br />
appraising ‘non-feminist’ women writers and<br />
genres from a feminist perspective and present<br />
innovative approaches to research in early<br />
women’s writing. This inclusive and crossdisciplinary<br />
collection of essays will enrich the<br />
study of German women’s writing of the<br />
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and<br />
contribute to contemporary debates in feminist<br />
literary criticism.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 906540 86 9<br />
August 2011 • 204pp • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
See more Legenda books in German<br />
and Austrian literature at<br />
www.legendabooks.com/german
eNGLisH LiteRAtuRe<br />
Form and Feeling in Modern<br />
Literature<br />
Essays in Honour of Barbara Hardy<br />
edited by william Baker<br />
with isobel Armstrong<br />
essays, short stories and poems<br />
by eminent creative writers,<br />
critics and scholars from three<br />
continents celebrate the literary<br />
achievements of Barbara<br />
Hardy, the foremost exponent<br />
of close critical reading in the<br />
latter half of the twentieth<br />
century and today. Her work, as the essays in the<br />
volume bear witness, encompasses 19th- and 20thcentury<br />
British fiction, poetry, and Shakespeare.<br />
in addition to an introduction outlining and<br />
assessing Hardy's career and writing, there is an<br />
extensive bibliography of her work. comparatively<br />
short, concise essays, stories and poems by twenty<br />
distinguished hands express the eclectic nature<br />
of Barbara Hardy's work and themselves form a<br />
many-faceted critical/creative gathering. Form and<br />
Feeling moves away from the traditional festschrift<br />
to create an innovative critical genre that reflects<br />
the variety and nature of its subject's work.<br />
in addition to Barbara Hardy's own writing,<br />
authors and subjects treated include Anglo-Welsh<br />
poetry, nineteenth-century fiction, Margaret<br />
Atwood, wilkie collins, ivy compton Burnet,<br />
charles Dickens, George eliot, elizabeth Gaskell,<br />
G. M. Hopkins, wyndham Lewis, George<br />
Meredith, Alice Meynell, Harriet Beecher stowe,<br />
shakespeare, and w. B. Yeats, amongst others.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 37 0<br />
March 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
John Ruskin’s Continental Tour 1835<br />
The Written Records and Drawings<br />
edited by Keith Hanley<br />
and caroline s Hull<br />
John Ruskin’s training as an<br />
interdisciplinary polymath<br />
started in childhood. He learned<br />
to memorise the Bible at his<br />
mother’s knee and published<br />
his first poem aged ten. His<br />
lifelong fascination with geology<br />
found its earliest expression<br />
in journal articles from the age of fifteen, while<br />
his considerable talents as a draughtsman were<br />
developed by leading drawing masters before he<br />
was sixteen. Rather than being a prodigy in one<br />
particular field, it was his precocious mix of religion,<br />
science and art that laid the foundations for the<br />
fulfilment of his career as a critic of art, architecture<br />
and society. the cultural tours that he made with his<br />
family as he grew up provided the crucial focus for<br />
these developing interests, and the second extended<br />
tour of the continent in 1835 at the age of sixteen<br />
in particular established the paradigm for his<br />
orchestrated representation and analysis of cultural<br />
experience along ‘the old road’, though France to<br />
chamonix, and through the swiss Alps to northern<br />
italy as far as Venice. His diary of the journey and<br />
associated writings, together with the numerous<br />
drawings he made in relation to it, are annotated and<br />
fully catalogued for the first time in this edition that<br />
includes maps and an introductory essay.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 906540 85 2<br />
2014 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Seamus Heaney and East European<br />
Poetry in Translation<br />
Poetics of Exile<br />
carmen Bugan<br />
Poetry born of historical<br />
upheaval bears witness both<br />
to actual historical events and<br />
considerations of poetics. under<br />
the duress of history the poet,<br />
who is torn between lamentation<br />
and celebration, seeks to achieve distance from<br />
his troubled times. Add to this a deep love for<br />
and commitment to the irish and english poetic<br />
traditions, and a strong desire to search for models<br />
outside his culture, and you have the poetry of the<br />
irish Nobel laureate seamus Heaney (1939–).<br />
in this study, carmen Bugan looks at how the<br />
poetry of seamus Heaney, born of the troubles in<br />
Northern Ireland, has encountered the ‘historicallytested<br />
imaginations’ of czeslaw Milosz, Joseph<br />
Brodsky, osip Mandelstam, and Zbigniew Herbert,<br />
as he aimed to fulfil a Horatian poetics, a poetry<br />
meant to both instruct and delight its readers.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 64 6<br />
January 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
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literature at<br />
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edited by ita Mac carthy<br />
certain words played a<br />
crucial role in the making of<br />
the european Renaissance,<br />
and still recur today in our<br />
shifting understanding of<br />
it. Discretion and grace, to<br />
take two examples studied<br />
here, express how individuals<br />
thought about themselves, each<br />
other and their experience of the world, yet they<br />
are as hard to define as they are ever-present in<br />
Renaissance discourse. in this collection of essays,<br />
scholars from across the humanities offer new<br />
interpretations of these and other 'keywords', to<br />
adopt Raymond williams's term, and investigate<br />
the vocabulary that not only accompanied, but also<br />
produced, the cultural transformations that made<br />
the Renaissance so distinctive.<br />
A keywords approach to Renaissance europe<br />
provides a rich contextual framework for the<br />
exploration of its central ideas. it also highlights the<br />
need for fresh thinking on current histories of the<br />
age. Renaissance Keywords engages with the ongoing<br />
debate about the term 'Renaissance' itself, perhaps<br />
more our keyword than theirs, and seeks alternative<br />
ways to understand a culture and society which<br />
produced conceptions of the self as much as it did<br />
art and science. the result is an exploration at the<br />
cutting edge of contemporary research.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 29 5<br />
January 2013 • 158 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
5<br />
Transformative Change in Western<br />
Thought<br />
A History of Metamorphosis from Homer to<br />
Hollywood<br />
edited by ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos<br />
this groundbreaking volume<br />
maps the shifting place and<br />
function of marvellous<br />
transformations from antiquity<br />
to the present day. Shapeshifting,<br />
taking animal bodies,<br />
miracles, transubstantiation,<br />
alchemy, and mutation recur and<br />
echo throughout ancient and<br />
modern writing and thinking,<br />
and continue in science fiction today as tales of<br />
gene-splicing and hybridization. The idea of<br />
metamorphosis lies in uneasy coexistence with<br />
orderly worldviews, and it is often cast out, or<br />
attributed to enemies. Augustine and the church<br />
Fathers consider shape-shifting ungodly;<br />
enlightenment thinkers suppress alchemy as<br />
unscientific; genetically-modified wheat and<br />
stem-cell research are stigmatised as unnatural. Yet<br />
the very possibility of radical transformation inspires<br />
hope just as it frightens. A provocative, theorizing,<br />
trans-historical history, this book ranges across<br />
classics, literature, history, philosophy, theology and<br />
anthropology. From Homer and ovid to Proust and<br />
H P Lovecraft, and through figures from Proteus to<br />
Kafka’s Fly and to spiderman, four historical<br />
surveys are combined with nine case studies to show<br />
the malleable, yet persistent, presence of<br />
transformation throughout western cultural history.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 01 1<br />
March 2013 • Hardback • £65.00/US$99.50<br />
Symbol and Intuition<br />
Comparative Studies in Kantian and<br />
Romantic-Period Aesthetics<br />
edited by Helmut Hühn<br />
and James Vigus<br />
that a symbolic object or work<br />
of art participates in what<br />
it signifies, as a part within<br />
a whole, was a controversial<br />
claim discussed with particular<br />
intensity in the wake of<br />
immanuel Kant’s Critique<br />
of Judgment. it informed the<br />
aesthetic theories of a constellation of writers<br />
in Jena and weimar around 1800, including<br />
Moritz, Goethe, schelling and Hegel. Yet the twin<br />
concepts of symbol and intuition were not only<br />
tools of literary and mythological criticism: they<br />
were integral even to questions of epistemology<br />
and methodology in the fields of theology,<br />
metaphysics, history and natural philosophy. the<br />
international contributors to this volume further<br />
explore how both the explanatory potential and<br />
peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the<br />
Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge,<br />
crabb, Robinson and emerson. contemporary<br />
debates about the claims of symbolic as opposed<br />
to allegorical art are kept in view throughout.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907625 04 6<br />
January 2013 • 228 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
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FReNcH LiteRAtuRe<br />
Childhood as Memory, Myth and<br />
Metaphor<br />
Proust, Beckett, and Bourgeois<br />
catherine crimp<br />
A fascination with childhood<br />
unites the artist Louise<br />
Bourgeois (1911–2010) and<br />
the writers samuel Beckett<br />
(1906–89) and Marcel Proust<br />
(1871–1922). But while many<br />
commentators have traced<br />
their childhood images back to<br />
memories of lived experiences,<br />
there is more to their mythologies of childhood<br />
that waits to be explored. they invite us to move<br />
away from familiar ideas — whether psychological<br />
or biographical — about what a child can<br />
represent, and even what a child is. the haunting<br />
child figures of Bourgeois, Beckett and Proust<br />
echo each other as they show how imagining<br />
origins — for a life, for a work of art — involves<br />
paradoxes that test the limits of our forms of<br />
expression. Art meets literature, profusion meets<br />
concision, French meets english, and images of<br />
childhood reveal new insights in this encounter<br />
between three great figures of twentieth- and<br />
twenty-first-century culture.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 39 4<br />
January 2013 • 204 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Dissonance in the Republic of Letters<br />
The Querelle des Gluckistes et des Piccinnistes<br />
Mark Darlow<br />
Eighteenth-century French<br />
cultural life was often<br />
characterised by quarrels, and the<br />
arrival of Viennese composer<br />
christoph willibald Gluck in<br />
Paris in 1774 was no exception,<br />
sparking a five-year pamphlet<br />
and press controversy which<br />
featured a rival Neapolitan<br />
composer, Niccolò Piccinni. However, as this study<br />
shows, the Gluck-Piccinni controversy was about far<br />
more than which composer was better suited to lead<br />
French operatic reform. A consideration of cultural<br />
politics in 1770s Paris shows that a range of issues<br />
were at stake: court versus urban taste as the proper<br />
judge of music, whether amateurs or specialists<br />
should have the right to speak of opera, whether<br />
the epic or the tragic mode is more suited for drama<br />
reform, and even: why should the public argue about<br />
opera at all?<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 54 7<br />
January 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Dream Cities<br />
Urban Utopia and Prose by Poets in<br />
Nineteenth-Century France<br />
Greg Kerr<br />
Against a backdrop of dizzying<br />
urbanization, French utopian<br />
thinkers of the nineteenth-<br />
century set out to explore the<br />
transformative possibilities<br />
of the modern metropolis.<br />
Linking literary analyses with<br />
diverse strands of cultural and<br />
intellectual history, this study<br />
considers how the utopian vision of the city in<br />
turn came to impinge on prose writing by poets: in<br />
Saint-Simonian literature, and in texts by Théophile<br />
Gautier, charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud. At<br />
points steeped in the hyperbolic rhetoric of utopian<br />
projects, these texts nonetheless wear away at the<br />
internal coherence of that rhetoric and the idealizing<br />
meanings it supports. what emerges from Greg<br />
Kerr's analysis is a hitherto unfamiliar dimension of<br />
these writings, revealing the alertness of some of<br />
the greatest exponents of nineteenth-century poetry<br />
to the dynamic possibilities of utopian writing, and<br />
suggesting new ways to understand the evolution of<br />
poetic discourse across the century.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 53 0<br />
January 2013 • 260 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
French Divorce Fiction from the<br />
Revolution to the First World War<br />
Nicholas white<br />
one of the primary social<br />
changes ushered in by the French<br />
Revolution was the legalization<br />
of divorce in 1792. Diluted by<br />
the civil code and suppressed by<br />
the Restoration, divorce was only<br />
fully established in France by<br />
the Loi Naquet of 1884. French<br />
Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to<br />
the First World War tracks the part played by novels in<br />
this conflict between the secular rights of individual<br />
citizens and the sanctity of the traditional family.<br />
inspired by the sociologists Zygmunt Bauman and<br />
Anthony Giddens, white's account culminates in<br />
the first sustained analysis of the role of divorce in<br />
the refashioning of life narratives during the early<br />
decades of the Third Republic. As such, it redefines<br />
the relationships between canonical authors such<br />
as Maupassant and colette, rediscovered women<br />
novelists like Marcelle tinayre and camille Pert, and<br />
long-neglected patriarchs such as Paul Bourget and<br />
Anatole France.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 47 9<br />
January 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Jorge Semprún<br />
Writing the European Other<br />
ursula tidd<br />
the spanish communist exile<br />
and Francophone Holocaust<br />
writer Jorge semprún (1923–<br />
2011) is a major contributor<br />
to contemporary debates<br />
on the politics and ethics of<br />
remembering the Franco era,<br />
communism and the Holocaust<br />
in French, spanish and broader<br />
european contexts. His sophisticated literary<br />
testimonies have become landmark texts not<br />
least for their commitment to represent the lived<br />
experience of history. In this first detailed study in<br />
english of Jorge semprún’s writing, ursula tidd<br />
shows how semprún explores the parameters of<br />
self-writing as an address to the other in a richly<br />
intertextual corpus which weaves together history,<br />
fiction and auto/bio/thanatography, and gives voice<br />
to the traumatic experiences of geographical and<br />
political exile and concentration camp internment.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907747 00 7<br />
November 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
6<br />
Language and Social Structure in<br />
Urban France<br />
edited by Mari c. Jones and David Hornsby<br />
this volume brings together leading variationist<br />
sociolinguists and sociologists from both sides<br />
of the channel to ask: what makes France<br />
‘exceptional’? in addressing this question,<br />
variationists have been forced to reassess the<br />
accepted interdisciplinary consensus, and to ask, as<br />
sociolinguistics has come of age, whether concepts<br />
and definitions have been transposed in a way which<br />
meaningfully preserves their original sense and,<br />
crucially, takes account of recent developments in<br />
sociology. sociologists, for their part, have focused<br />
on the largely neglected area of language variation<br />
and its implications for social theory. Their findings<br />
therefore transcend the case study of a particularly<br />
enigmatic country to raise important theoretical<br />
questions for both disciplines.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 41 7<br />
November 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Method and Variation<br />
Narrative in Early Modern French Thought<br />
edited by emma Gilby and Paul white<br />
French philosophical and<br />
scientific writers of the early<br />
modern period made various use<br />
of forms of narrative —<br />
language that aims to tell a story<br />
— in their texts. equally, authors<br />
of fiction often sought to<br />
appropriate the language and<br />
tools of philosophical and<br />
scientific investigation. The<br />
contributions in this collection, from some of the<br />
most distinguished and exciting scholars working in<br />
French studies today, aim to bring into question<br />
oppositional relationships between terms such as<br />
‘philosophy’ and ‘fiction’ when these are applied to<br />
early modern texts. they consider authors as<br />
diverse as Montaigne, Descartes, La Rochefoucauld,<br />
Mme de Villedieu and Mme de Lafayette. if we are<br />
to be true to the early modern period, they argue, we<br />
have to acknowledge it as a time when the<br />
figurative, anecdotal and fictive on the one hand,<br />
and the truth-seeking on the other, influence each<br />
other mutually.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 36 3<br />
April 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Narrative Responses to the Trauma of<br />
the French Revolution<br />
Katherine Astbury<br />
During the French Revolution,<br />
traditional literary forms such<br />
as the sentimental novel and<br />
the moral tale dominate literary<br />
production. At first glance, it<br />
might seem that these texts are<br />
unaffected by the upheavals in<br />
France; in fact they reveal not<br />
only a surprising engagement<br />
with politics but also an internalised emotional<br />
response to the turbulence of the period. in this<br />
innovative and wide-ranging study, Katherine<br />
Astbury uses trauma theory as a way of exploring<br />
the apparent contradiction between the proliferation<br />
of non-political literary texts and the events of the<br />
Revolution. through the narratives of established
estselling literary figures of the Ancien Régime<br />
(primarily Marmontel, Madame de Genlis and<br />
Florian), and the early works of first generation<br />
Romantics Madame de staël and chateaubriand,<br />
she traces how the Revolution shapes their writing,<br />
providing an intriguing new angle on cultural<br />
production of the 1790s.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 42 4<br />
October 2012 • 196 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Photobiography<br />
Photographic Self-Writing in Proust, Guibert,<br />
Ernaux, Macé<br />
Akane Kawakami<br />
why do photographs interest writers, especially<br />
autobiographical writers? ever since their invention,<br />
photographs have featured — as metaphors, as<br />
absent inspirations, and latterly as actual objects<br />
— in written texts. in autobiographical texts, their<br />
presence has raised particularly acute questions<br />
about the rivalry between these two media, their<br />
relationship to the ‘real’, and the nature of the<br />
constructed self. in this timely study, based on<br />
the most recent developments in the fields of<br />
photography theory, self-writing and photobiography,<br />
Akane Kawakami offers an intriguing<br />
narrative which runs from texts containing<br />
metaphorical photographs through ekphrastic works<br />
to phototexts. Her choice of Marcel Proust, Hervé<br />
Guibert, Annie Ernaux and Gérard Macé provides<br />
unusual readings of works seldom considered in<br />
this context, and teases out surprising similarities<br />
between unexpected conjunctions.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 86 8<br />
November 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Postcolonial Fiction and Sacred<br />
Scripture<br />
Rewriting the Divine?<br />
sura Qadiri<br />
Francophone writers from North<br />
Africa and the Middle east<br />
often choose to write within<br />
a sacred context, sometimes<br />
engaging directly with islamist<br />
rhetoric. Novelists like tahar Ben<br />
Jelloun (Morocco), Assia Djebar<br />
(Algeria) and Amin Maalouf<br />
(Lebanon) revisit scripture as a way to convey<br />
nuances which they believe have been stamped<br />
out by monolithic religious world-views. For them,<br />
fiction offers a way to break away from limited<br />
exegetical horizons, but to remain within the faith.<br />
others, though, would go further, moving away<br />
from all religious practice, not just the excessively<br />
political or violent. tunisian writers Abdelwahab<br />
Meddeb and Fethi Benslama propose that all<br />
literature is of its very nature outside of religion,<br />
and that its proliferation will ultimately lead to a<br />
secular society. Qadiri explores this wide spectrum<br />
of approaches, not only by drawing comparison<br />
with metropolitan French thought, but also to assess<br />
its potential impact at a time of radical change in the<br />
islamic world.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 81 3<br />
2014 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Selected Essays of Malcolm Bowie<br />
I and II<br />
Volume I: Dreams of Knowledge<br />
Volume II: Song Man<br />
Malcolm Bowie, edited by Alison Finch<br />
Malcolm Bowie (1943–2007) was described by A.s.<br />
Byatt as ‘one of our best living critics. He writes<br />
beautifully, subtly and lucidly about very difficult<br />
subjects.’ Bowie was Marshal Foch Professor<br />
of French at oxford (1992–2002) and Master<br />
of christ’s college, cambridge (2002–2006).<br />
He received numerous honours, was invited to<br />
speak all over the world, and in 2001 won the<br />
international truman capote Prize for Literary<br />
criticism for his Proust Among the Stars. the essays<br />
and reviews in these volumes have never before<br />
been brought together. Ranging across literature,<br />
art, music, and psychoanalysis, they offer fresh<br />
insights into topics tackled in Bowie’s books, and<br />
discuss quite new ones.<br />
Volume i, Dreams of Knowledge, presents essays<br />
on memory, Proust, modern poetry (Mallarmé,<br />
Valéry, Eluard), and psychoanalysis. Bowie explores<br />
the uncertainties of knowledge, the relationship<br />
between fantasy and experience, and the ways great<br />
writers, artists and thinkers represent these.<br />
Volume ii, Song Man, presents shorter pieces,<br />
including Bowie’s essays on song and music<br />
criticism. they explore important cultural issues<br />
such as anti-Semitism, images of gender, and ideas<br />
of the nation.<br />
Volume I: Dreams of Knowledge<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 48 6<br />
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Taboo<br />
Corporeal Secrets in Nineteenth-Century<br />
France<br />
Hannah thompson<br />
French realist texts are driven<br />
by representations of the body<br />
and depend on corporeality<br />
to generate narrative intrigue.<br />
But anxieties around bodily<br />
representation undermine<br />
realist claims of objectivity and<br />
transparency. Aspects of bodily<br />
reality which threaten les bonnes mœurs — gender<br />
confusion, sexual appetite, disability, torture,<br />
murder, child abuse and disease — rarely occupy<br />
the foreground and are instead spurned or only<br />
partially alluded to by writers and critics.<br />
This wide-ranging study uses the notion of<br />
the taboo as a powerful means of interpreting<br />
representations of the body. the hidden bodies<br />
of realist texts reveal their secrets in unexpected<br />
ways. thompson reads texts by sand, Rachilde,<br />
Maupassant, Hugo, Barbey d’Aurevilly, Mirbeau<br />
and Zola alongside modern theorists of the body<br />
to show how the figure of the taboo plots an<br />
alternative model of author-reader relations based<br />
on the struggle to speak the unspeakable.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 55 4<br />
June 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
7<br />
Translating the Perception of Text<br />
Literary Translation and Phenomenology<br />
clive scott<br />
translation often proceeds as if<br />
languages already existed, as if<br />
the task of the translator were<br />
to make an appropriate selection<br />
from available resources. clive<br />
scott challenges this tacit<br />
assumption. if the translator is<br />
to do justice to himself/herself<br />
as a reader, if the translator is to<br />
become the creative writer of<br />
his/her reading, then the language of translation<br />
must be equal to the translator’s perceptual<br />
experience of, and bodily responses to, source<br />
texts. each renewal of perceptual and physiological<br />
contact with a text involves a renewal of the ways<br />
we think language and use our expressive faculties<br />
(listening, speaking, writing). Phenomenology —<br />
and particularly the phenomenology of Merleau-<br />
Ponty — underpins this new approach to<br />
translation. the task of the translator is tirelessly<br />
to develop new translational languages, ever to<br />
move beyond the bilingual into the multilingual,<br />
and always to remember that language is as much<br />
an active instrument of perception as an object of<br />
perception.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 35 6<br />
October 2012 • 207 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Women, Genre and Circumstance<br />
Essays in Memory of Elizabeth Fallaize<br />
edited by Margaret Atack,<br />
Diana Holmes, Diana Knight<br />
and Judith still<br />
Women, Genre and Circumstance<br />
brings together a series of<br />
challenging essays which explore<br />
the complex intersections of<br />
feminism, narrative and genre.<br />
Drawing on a wide range of 19th<br />
and 20th century texts — novels,<br />
short stories and films — they interrogate the<br />
relationship between women’s situation and writing<br />
practice, and representations of history, memory,<br />
love, old age; they pursue questions of narrative<br />
form and its meanings, particularly the distinctive<br />
features of the short story. the politics of feminist<br />
criticism and careful attention to the operations of<br />
narrative combine in a sustained exploration of the<br />
aesthetics and ethics of fictional practices, and their<br />
role in the negotiation of gender and circumstance.<br />
the essays were written as tributes to the leading<br />
feminist scholar elizabeth Fallaize.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 30 1<br />
June 2012 • 162 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
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ReseARcH MoNoGRAPHs iN FReNcH stuDies<br />
SERIES ISSN: 1466-8157<br />
Research Monographs in French studies are<br />
selected and edited by the society for French<br />
studies. the series seeks to publish the best<br />
new work in all areas of the literature, thought,<br />
theory, culture, film and language of the Frenchspeaking<br />
world. its distinctiveness lies in the<br />
relative brevity of its publications (50,000–60,000<br />
words). As innovation is a priority of the series,<br />
volumes should predominantly consist of<br />
new material, although, subject to appropriate<br />
modification, previously published research may<br />
form up to one third of the whole. Proposals<br />
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studies. they should be sent with one or two<br />
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Variation and Change in French<br />
Morphosyntax<br />
The Case of Collective Nouns<br />
Anna tristram<br />
research monoGraphs in French studies 40<br />
collective nouns such as majorité or foule have long<br />
been of interest to linguists for their unusual<br />
semantic properties, and provide a valuable source<br />
of new data on the evolution of French grammar.<br />
this book tests the hypothesis that plural agreement<br />
with collective nouns is becoming more frequent in<br />
French. through an analysis of data from a variety<br />
of sources, including sociolinguistic interviews,<br />
gap-fill tests and corpora, the complex linguistic<br />
and external factors which affect this type of<br />
agreement are examined, shedding new light on<br />
their interaction in this context. Broader questions<br />
concerning the methodological challenges of<br />
studying variation and change in morphosyntax, and<br />
the application of sociolinguistic generalisations to<br />
the French of France, are also addressed.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 95 0<br />
2014 • Hardback • £40.00/US$75.00<br />
Dada as Text, Thought and Theory<br />
stephen Forcer<br />
research monoGraphs<br />
in French studies 39<br />
the Dada movement, revered<br />
as perhaps the purest form<br />
of cultural subversion and<br />
provocation in 20th-century<br />
europe, has been a victim of<br />
the readiness with which cultural<br />
historians have swallowed its<br />
own propaganda. Based on extensive close analysis<br />
of French-language Dada work in its original form,<br />
and offering english translations throughout, this<br />
major reappraisal looks at a broad range of media<br />
and topics — including poetry, film, philosophy, and<br />
quantum physics — in order to get beyond Dada’s<br />
typecasting as avant-garde anti-hero. Work by women<br />
writers and other marginalized figures combines<br />
with that of canonical Dadaists to present Dada in<br />
a radically new set of guises: poetic and textually<br />
subtle; intellectually and philosophically meaningful;<br />
peaceable and quasi-Buddhist; and, perhaps most<br />
uncomfortably of all, conformist and reactionary.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 83 7<br />
2014 • Hardback • £40.00/US$75.00<br />
Marie NDiaye<br />
Inhospitable Fictions<br />
shirley Jordan<br />
research monoGraphs in<br />
French studies 38<br />
At stake throughout the<br />
fictional writings of Marie<br />
NDiaye (1967–) is the issue<br />
of the stranger’s welcome.<br />
NDiaye’s fascination with a spectrum of outsider<br />
figures and with the multiple, often subtle<br />
practices which create and sustain social groups<br />
as bounded entities, gives rise to detailed and<br />
disquieting portrayals not of hospitality but of the<br />
mechanisms and rituals of repulsion.<br />
engaging with critical theory on hospitality across<br />
the disciplines, shirley Jordan’s closely argued<br />
analysis of NDiaye’s novels, theatre and short stories<br />
probes the tropes of inhospitality around which<br />
the writer’s work coalesces, exploring the ethical<br />
significance of a corpus in which communities,<br />
environments and spaces are persistently tainted by<br />
unwelcoming. NDiaye is seen to elaborate a fantastic<br />
anthropology: one which, through sustained<br />
attentiveness to non-observance of the rules of<br />
hospitality, provides a focus for debate about<br />
belonging in a postcolonial world.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 85 1<br />
2014 • Hardback • £40.00/US$75.00<br />
Stendhal’s Less-Loved Heroines<br />
Fiction, Freedom, and the Female<br />
Maria c. scott<br />
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stendhal's most independent<br />
heroines are usually disliked<br />
or marginalized by critics.<br />
However, when gender-neutral<br />
criteria are applied, Mina<br />
de Vanghel, Vanina Vanini,<br />
Mathilde de La Mole, and<br />
Lamiel can all be shown to enact extraordinary<br />
experiments in freedom. these experiments are<br />
all the more remarkable in view of the gender<br />
of their agents, the historical situation of the<br />
author (1783–1842), and the conventions of the<br />
literary movement that his fiction helped to found:<br />
realism. simone de Beauvoir's 1949 study of<br />
stendhal's heroines gives preference to the reserved<br />
females over his Amazons. But existentialism, as a<br />
philosophy of freedom, also enables a reading of<br />
the self-determining heroines that acknowledges<br />
the superiority of their choices: their resistance and<br />
counter-plots, their paradoxical authenticity, their<br />
rejection of seriousness, and their assumption of<br />
responsibility for the routes they plot.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 71 4<br />
June 2013 • Hardback • £40.00/US$75.00<br />
8<br />
Echo’s Voice<br />
The Theatres of Sarraute, Duras, Cixous and<br />
Renaude<br />
Mary Noonan<br />
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Hélène Cixous (1937–),<br />
distinguished not least as a<br />
playwright herself, told Le<br />
Monde in 1977 that she no<br />
longer went to the theatre: it<br />
presented women only as reflections of men, used<br />
for their visual effect. the theatre she wanted<br />
would stress the auditory, giving voice to ways<br />
of being that had previously been silenced. she<br />
was by no means alone in this. cixous' plays,<br />
along with those of Nathalie sarraute (1900–99),<br />
Marguerite Duras (1914–96), and Noëlle Renaude<br />
(1949–), among others, have proved potent in<br />
drawing participants into a dynamic ‘space of<br />
the voice’. if, as psychoanalysis suggests, voice<br />
represents a transitional condition between body<br />
and language, such plays may draw their audiences<br />
in to understandings previously never spoken. in<br />
this ground-breaking study, Noonan explores the<br />
rich possibilities of this new audio-vocal form of<br />
theatre, and what it can reveal of the auditory self.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 50 9<br />
November 2013 • Hardback • £40.00/US$75.00<br />
Furetière’s Roman bourgeois and the<br />
Problem of Exchange<br />
Titular Economies<br />
craig Moyes<br />
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'If Furetière (1619–1688)<br />
hadn't been friends with<br />
Racine and Boileau, if he<br />
hadn't been famous for his<br />
Dictionary and for his battle<br />
with the Académie Française,<br />
it is unlikely that we would<br />
still be speaking of the Roman bourgeois (1666). its<br />
qualities are decidedly few. one cannot even say<br />
in its favour that it bears witness to a period and a<br />
moment in our literary history.' so writes Antoine<br />
Adam in his magisterial history of 17th-century<br />
French literature. But whatever one might feel<br />
about the aesthetic value of the Roman bourgeois<br />
— and following Adam it is usually classified as<br />
a precocious though failed example of narrative<br />
realism, sadly out of step with the classicism of its<br />
time — can we really say that it bears no witness<br />
to its period? craig Moyes shows on the contrary<br />
how, within the disarticulated narrative of the<br />
Roman bourgeois, Furetière — the titular abbot,<br />
the sitting academician, the secret lexicographer,<br />
the experimental novelist — was uniquely placed<br />
to explore a changing literary economy marked<br />
most spectacularly by the trial of Nicolas Fouquet<br />
(1661–1664), the decline of aristocratic largesse,<br />
and the subsequent centralization of artistic<br />
patronage around the personal reign of Louis XiV<br />
and the new administration of colbert.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907747 99 1<br />
January 2013 • 168 pages • Hardback • £40.00/US$75.00
HisPANic AND PoRtuGuese LiteRAtuRe<br />
New seRies<br />
ANNouNceMeNt<br />
In 2014 Legenda will publish its first titles<br />
in a substantial new series to be called<br />
studies in Hispanic and Lusophone culture,<br />
which will be a major focus of next year's<br />
catalogue. the series is a collaboration with<br />
the Association of Hispanists of Great<br />
Britain and ireland, and we warmly welcome<br />
enquiries from authors: please contact the<br />
General editor, Professor trevor Dadson<br />
(t.j.dadson@qmul.ac.uk). sHLc covers not<br />
only spanish and Portuguese culture, from<br />
Latin America as well as the peninsular, but<br />
also minority cultures such as catalan or<br />
Basque. A fuller announcement will be made<br />
in the spring of 2013. see<br />
www.legendabooks.com/news for more<br />
information.<br />
A Sight for Sore Eyes<br />
The Surrealist Visuality of<br />
José María Hinojosa<br />
Jacqueline Rattray<br />
José María Hinojosa (1904–1936)<br />
has been credited with being a<br />
pioneer of surrealism in spain.<br />
He moved in the same circles as<br />
Buñuel and Dalí and was one of<br />
the key figures behind an attempt<br />
to form an organised group of<br />
spanish surrealists along the lines of the French<br />
model. And yet, the name of Hinojosa remains<br />
curiously neglected. He lived a relatively short but<br />
prolific literary life during which time he published<br />
some groundbreaking surrealist poetry and texts.<br />
His writing reveals a vision of surrealism which<br />
originates from a particularly spanish perspective<br />
as well as displaying many of those universally<br />
recognised surrealist motifs. one of these, the<br />
iconic image of the mutilated eye, forms the focal<br />
point of this present study on Hinojosa’s work. in<br />
keeping with the interdisciplinarity of surrealism,<br />
Hinojosa’s work is read here within the context of<br />
the visual arts — surrealist collage, paranoiac-critical<br />
activity and cinema. the impact of Hegelian thought<br />
upon Surrealism is reflected through the application<br />
of a ‘surrealist Dialectic’ in this exploration of<br />
Hinojosa’s surrealist visuality.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 73 8<br />
August 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
The Art of Ana Clavel<br />
Ghosts, Urinals, Dolls, Shadows and Outlaw<br />
Desires<br />
Jane elizabeth Lavery<br />
Ana clavel is a remarkable<br />
contemporary Mexican<br />
writer whose literary and<br />
multimedia œuvre is marked<br />
by its transgressive thrust and<br />
its queerness. that which<br />
steps beyond conventionally<br />
determined boundaries or the<br />
queer is evinced in the manner in<br />
which the author disturbs conceptions of the normal,<br />
not only by representing ‘outlaw’ sexualities and<br />
‘dark’ desires but also by incorporating into her fictive<br />
and multimedia worlds that which is at odds with<br />
normalcy as evinced in the presence of the fantastical,<br />
the shadow, ghosts, dolls, golems and even urinals.<br />
clavel’s literary trajectory follows a queer path<br />
in the sense that she has moved from singular<br />
modes of creative expression in the form of<br />
literary writing, a traditional print medium,<br />
towards other non-literary forms. Some of<br />
clavel’s works have formed the basis of wider<br />
multimedia projects involving collaboration with<br />
various artists, photographers, performers and it<br />
experts. Her works embrace an array of hybrid<br />
forms including the audiovisual, internet-enabled<br />
technology, art installation, (video) performance<br />
and photography. By foregrounding the outlaw<br />
heterogeneous narrative themes, techniques and<br />
multimedia dimension of clavel’s œuvre, the aim<br />
of this monograph is to attest to her particular<br />
contribution to Hispanic letters, which arguably is<br />
as significant as that of more established Spanish<br />
American boom femenino women writers.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 65 3<br />
2014 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Pessoa in an Intertextual Web<br />
Influence and Innovation<br />
edited by David G Frier<br />
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935)<br />
is Portugal's most celebrated<br />
poet of the twentieth century,<br />
who wrote under the guise of<br />
dozens of literary personalities,<br />
or heteronyms. As well as his<br />
poetry, however, his work is<br />
marked by a constantly inventive<br />
and innovative engagement with authors and<br />
literary traditions from an astonishing variety<br />
of sources, placing him firmly in the worldwide<br />
literary canon. the present volume brings together<br />
a number of experts at the forefront of Pessoa<br />
studies internationally, with chapters examining his<br />
literary relations with italy, spain, France, england<br />
and Portugal, as well as his contextualisation in<br />
relation to major philosophers such as Kant and<br />
Nietzsche. it features essays examining his work<br />
from a range of perspectives to complement<br />
the multi-faceted nature of Pessoa himself<br />
(psychoanalytical, philosophical, political and<br />
artistic), and it includes consideration of his prose<br />
masterpiece The Book of Disquiet, as well as of<br />
various aspects of his poetic œuvre.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907747 93 9<br />
January 2012 • 200 pages • Hardback £45.00/US$89.50<br />
9<br />
Reading Literature in Portuguese<br />
cláudia Pazos Alonso and stephen Parkinson<br />
this collection brings together textual commentaries<br />
on thirty representative works of literature in<br />
Portuguese — either complete poems or extracts<br />
from longer works — ranging from the medieval<br />
lyric of the 13th century, through the poetry and<br />
drama of the Portuguese Renaissance, the great<br />
Realist novels of the 19th century, early 20th century<br />
Modernism and post-1974 writings through to the<br />
present day, while also including examples of 19th-<br />
and 20th- century Brazilian literature. The authors<br />
chosen — poets, dramatists and novelists — are<br />
generally regarded as iconic writers, and the three<br />
most famous canonical Portuguese authors (Luís<br />
de Camões, Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago) are<br />
featured, but the texts selected for commentary<br />
strike a balance between a focus on well-known and<br />
lesser-studied works.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 62 2<br />
August 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
The Reinvention of Theatre in<br />
Sixteenth-Century Europe<br />
Traditions, Texts and Performance<br />
edited by t. F. earle and catarina Fouto<br />
the sixteenth century was<br />
an exciting period in the history<br />
of european theatre. in the<br />
iberian Peninsula, italy, France,<br />
Germany and england, writers<br />
and actors experimented with<br />
new dramatic techniques and<br />
found new publics. they<br />
prepared the way for the<br />
better-known dramatists of the<br />
next century but produced much work which is<br />
valuable in its own right, in Latin and in their own<br />
vernaculars. the popular theatre of the Middle<br />
Ages gave endless material for reinvention by<br />
playwrights, and the legacy of the ancient world<br />
became a spur to creativity, in tragedy and comedy.<br />
As soon as readers and audiences had taken in the<br />
new plays, they were changed again, taking new<br />
forms as the first experiments were themselves<br />
modified and reinvented. Writers constantly<br />
adapted the texts of plays to meet new<br />
requirements. these and other issues are explored<br />
by a group of international experts from a<br />
comparative perspective, giving particular emphasis<br />
to one of the great european comic dramatists, the<br />
Portuguese Gil Vicente.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 76 9<br />
2014 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
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itALiAN LiteRAtuRe<br />
Authority, Innovation and Early<br />
Modern Epistemology<br />
Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti<br />
edited by Martin McLaughlin<br />
and elisabetta tarantino<br />
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600),<br />
who died at the stake in 1600,<br />
is one of the best known<br />
symbols of anti-establishment<br />
thought. the theme of this<br />
volume, which is offered<br />
as a collection of essays to<br />
honour distinguished Bruno<br />
scholar Hilary Gatti, reflects<br />
her constant interest in the principles of cultural<br />
freedom and independent thinking. several essays<br />
deal with Bruno himself, including an analysis<br />
of the Eroici furori, and studies of his reception<br />
in relation to the group known as the Novatores<br />
and to English historical and literary figures (the<br />
Second Earl of Essex; Shakespeare and Ben<br />
Jonson) following Bruno’s stay in england. the<br />
authors and texts discussed here are linked by a<br />
relentless interest in the question of authority and<br />
originality, and they range from literary figures<br />
such as Alberti (1404–72) and Vasari (1511–74)<br />
to major scholars such as Athanasius Kircher<br />
(1601–80) and controversial philosophers and<br />
scientists who, like Bruno, were condemned<br />
by the church, such as tommaso campanella<br />
(1568–1639), Giulio cesare Vanini (1585–1619),<br />
the proponents of early modern psychology, and<br />
the 'New Philosophers' condemned by the Holy<br />
Office. Taken together, these chapters show how<br />
much that was new and revolutionary in early<br />
modern culture came from its confrontation with<br />
the past.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 75 2<br />
2014 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89<br />
Dante in Oxford<br />
The Paget Toynbee Lectures<br />
edited by tristan Kay,<br />
Martin McLaughlin and<br />
Michelangelo Zaccarello<br />
oxford university’s Paget<br />
toynbee Fund has sponsored a<br />
number of significant initiatives<br />
on Dante in recent years, first<br />
a series of Lectures starting in the mid-1990s,<br />
and more recently a number of conferences.<br />
this volume gathers together some of the most<br />
important Paget toynbee Lectures. Named after<br />
the great medieval scholar of the first half of the<br />
twentieth century, they were delivered by major<br />
Dante experts of our time, such as John Barnes,<br />
Peter Hawkins, Lino Leonardi, emilio Pasquini,<br />
and the late Michelangelo Picone and Peter<br />
Armour. the topics range from Armour’s trilogy<br />
of lectures on the topics of exile, friendship and<br />
poverty in Dante to key questions such as Dante<br />
and ovid, Dante and history, and Dante and evil.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 900755 99 3<br />
February 2011 • 200 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages<br />
edited by Manuele Gragnolati, tristan Kay,<br />
elena Lombardi and Francesca southerden<br />
this volume takes Dante's<br />
rich and multifaceted discourse<br />
of desire, from the Vita nuova<br />
to the Commedia, as a point of<br />
departure in investigating<br />
medieval concepts of desire in<br />
all their multiplicity,<br />
fragmentation and interrelation.<br />
As well as offering several<br />
original contributions on this<br />
fundamental aspect of Dante's work, it seeks to<br />
situate the Florentine more effectively within the<br />
broader spectrum of medieval culture and to<br />
establish greater intellectual exchange between<br />
Dante scholars and those from other disciplines.<br />
the volume is also notable for its openness to<br />
diverse critical and methodological approaches. in<br />
considering the extent to which modern<br />
theoretical paradigms can be used to shed light<br />
upon the Middle Ages, it will interest those<br />
engaged with questions of critical theory as well<br />
as medieval culture.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907747 96 0<br />
June 2012 • 276 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Mediterranean Travels<br />
Writing Self and Other from the Ancient World<br />
to Contemporary Society<br />
edited by Patrick crowley, Noreen Humble and<br />
silvia Ross<br />
Across time the Mediterranean<br />
has been a zone of variable<br />
intensities, alliances and<br />
tensions: it is where the<br />
continents of europe, Africa<br />
and Asia meet, it is where<br />
North faces south in an<br />
asymmetrical relationship. its<br />
histories — of Greece and<br />
Rome, of christianity and<br />
islam, of modernity and tradition — have<br />
evolved through exploration, trade, pilgrimage,<br />
imperial expansion, imaginings, vacation and<br />
migration. travellers to this compelling region<br />
have recorded their journeys and their<br />
encounters with the other in a variety of modes<br />
that have also revealed as much about<br />
themselves. written by leading scholars in the<br />
field, this collection analyzes the notion of travel<br />
writing as a genre, while tracing significant<br />
examples of Mediterranean travel writing that<br />
return us to Ancient Greece, to Medieval<br />
pilgrimages, to Venetians' diplomatic missions,<br />
to an egyptian's account of Paris in the<br />
nineteenth century, to French artistic journeys in<br />
North Africa and to contemporary narratives of<br />
privileged resettlement, death, and dislocation.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 07 3<br />
August 2011 • 256 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
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10<br />
itALiAN<br />
PeRsPectiVes<br />
SERIES ISSN: 1464-1879<br />
italian Perspectives publishes books and<br />
collections of essays on any aspect and period<br />
of italian literature, language, history, culture,<br />
politics, art, and media, as well as studies<br />
which take an interdisciplinary approach and<br />
are methodologically innovative. At a time of<br />
growing academic interest, the series aims to<br />
bring together different scholarly perspectives<br />
on italy and its culture.<br />
Proposals should be sent to the General editor,<br />
Professor simon Gilson, Department of<br />
italian, university of warwick, coventry cV4<br />
7AL, uK (s.gilson@warwick.ac.uk ).<br />
Leopardi’s Nymphs<br />
Grace, Melancholy, and the Uncanny<br />
Fabio A. camilletti<br />
itaLian perspectives 28<br />
How can one make poetry in a disenchanted age?<br />
For Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837) this was the<br />
modern subject’s most insolvable deadlock, after<br />
the enlightenment’s pitiless unveiling of truth.<br />
still, in the poems written in 1828–29 between<br />
Pisa and the Marches, Leopardi manages to turn<br />
disillusion into a powerful source of inspiration,<br />
through an unprecedented balance between<br />
poetic lightness and philosophical density. the<br />
addressees of these cantos are two prematurely<br />
dead maidens bearing names of nymphs, and thus<br />
obliquely metamorphosed into the charmingly<br />
disquieting deities that in Greek lore brought<br />
knowledge and poetic speech through possession.<br />
the nymph, camilletti argues, can be seen as the<br />
inspirational power allowing the utterance of a new<br />
kind of poetry, bridging antiquity and modernity,<br />
illusion and disenchantment, life and death. By<br />
reading Leopardi’s poems in the light of Freudian<br />
psychoanalysis and of Aby warburg’s and walter<br />
Benjamin’s thought, Camilletti gives a groundbreaking<br />
interpretation of the way Leopardi<br />
negotiates the original fracture between poetry and<br />
philosophy that characterizes western culture.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 91 2<br />
November 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
The Tradition of the Actor-Author in<br />
Italian Theatre<br />
edited by Donatella Fischer<br />
itaLian perspectives 27<br />
the central importance of<br />
the actor-author is a distinctive<br />
feature of italian theatrical<br />
life, in all its eclectic range of<br />
regional cultures and artistic<br />
traditions. the fascination of<br />
the figure is that he or she<br />
stands on both sides of one<br />
of theatre’s most important power relationships:<br />
between the exhilarating freedom of performance<br />
and the austere restriction of authorship and the<br />
written text. This broad-ranging volume brings<br />
together critical essays on the role of the actorauthor,<br />
spanning the period from the Renaissance<br />
to the present.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 80 6<br />
August 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50
Edoardo Sanguineti<br />
Literature, Ideology and the Avant-Garde<br />
edited by Paolo chirumbolo and<br />
John Picchione<br />
itaLian perspectives 26<br />
Poet, novelist, theorist,<br />
playwright, translator, politician,<br />
and teacher, edoardo sanguineti<br />
(1930–2010) is one of the most<br />
original and influential Italian<br />
intellectuals of the second<br />
post-war period. An ardent<br />
and unremitting historical<br />
materialist, he investigated the links between<br />
language and ideology, literature and the other<br />
arts, together with their functions within the logic<br />
of late capitalism. the extraordinary range of<br />
his creative work persistently defies conventional<br />
aesthetic notions.<br />
with their variety of topics and critical perspectives,<br />
the essays assembled in this volume explore both<br />
the relevance of his theoretical postures and<br />
the ideological and formal fabric of his literary<br />
production. they highlight his subversive objectives,<br />
the complexity of the language, the astonishing<br />
linguistic ingenuity, metaliterary significance,<br />
whimsical disposition, and provocative social<br />
critique. testimonials by sanguineti’s colleagues<br />
and students, presented here in english translation,<br />
offer a portrait of the man, his temperament and his<br />
distinctiveness, and provide a personal view of the<br />
life and work of a brilliant intellectual.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 78 3<br />
April 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Dante and Epicurus<br />
A Dualistic Vision of Secular and Spiritual<br />
Fulfilment<br />
George corbett<br />
itaLian perspectives 25<br />
Dante and epicurus seem poles<br />
apart. Dante, a committed<br />
christian, depicted in the<br />
Commedia a vision of the<br />
afterlife and God’s divine justice.<br />
epicurus, a pagan philosopher,<br />
taught that the soul is mortal<br />
and that all religion is vain<br />
superstition. And yet epicurus is, for Dante, not<br />
only the quintessential heretic but an ethical ally. the<br />
key to this apparent paradox lies in the heterodox<br />
dualism — between man’s two goals of secular<br />
felicity and spiritual beatitude — at the heart of<br />
Dante’s ethical, political and theological thought.<br />
Corbett’s full-length treatment of Dante’s reception<br />
and polemical representation of epicurus addresses<br />
a major gap in the scholarship. Furthermore the<br />
study’s focus on fault lines in Dante’s vision of the<br />
afterlife — where the theological tensions implicit in<br />
his dualism surface — opens a new way to read the<br />
Commedia as a whole in dualistic terms.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 79 0<br />
April 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Disrupted Narratives<br />
Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo,<br />
Pressburger and Morandini<br />
emma Bond<br />
itaLian perspectives 24<br />
if Madame Bovary’s death in<br />
Flaubert’s 1857 novel marked the<br />
definitive end of the Romantic<br />
vision of literary disease, then<br />
the advent of psychoanalysis<br />
less than half a century later<br />
heralded an entirely new set<br />
of implications for literature<br />
dealing with illness. the theorization of a potential<br />
unconscious double (capable of expressing the<br />
body, and thus also the intimate damage caused<br />
by disease) in turn suggested a capacity to subvert<br />
or destabilize the text, exposing the main thread<br />
of the narrative to be unreliable or self-conscious.<br />
indeed, the authors examined in this study (italo<br />
svevo (1861–1928), Giorgio Pressburger (1937–)<br />
and Giuliana Morandini (1938–)) all make use of<br />
individual ‘infected’ or suppressed voices within<br />
their texts which unfold through illness to cast<br />
doubt on a more (conventionally) dominant<br />
narrative standpoint. Applying the theories of Freud<br />
and more recent writings by Julia Kristeva, Bond<br />
offers a new critical reading of the literary function<br />
of illness, a function related to the very nature of<br />
narration itself.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 38 7<br />
October 2012 • 197 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Remembering Aldo Moro<br />
The Cultural Legacy of the 1978 Kidnapping<br />
and Murder<br />
edited by Ruth Glynn and<br />
Giancarlo Lombardi<br />
itaLian perspectives 23<br />
the 1978 kidnapping and<br />
murder of christian Democrat<br />
politician, Aldo Moro, marked<br />
the watershed of italy's<br />
experience of political violence<br />
in the period known as the<br />
'years of lead' (1969–c.1983).<br />
this highly interdisciplinary volume explores<br />
the evolving legacy of Moro's death in the<br />
italian cultural imaginary, from the late 1970s<br />
to the present. Bringing a wide range of critical<br />
perspectives to bear, interventions by experts in<br />
the fields of political science, social anthropology,<br />
philosophy, and cultural critique elicit new<br />
understandings of the events of 1978 and explain<br />
their significance and relevance to present-day<br />
italian culture and society.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 27 1<br />
January 2012 • 204 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
11<br />
Giraffes in the Garden of Italian<br />
Literature<br />
Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo,<br />
Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda<br />
Deborah Amberson<br />
itaLian perspectives 22<br />
writing in 1926, carlo<br />
emilio Gadda (1893–1973)<br />
acknowledges his peculiarity<br />
within the Italian literary field<br />
by describing himself as a<br />
giraffe or a kangaroo in italy’s<br />
beautiful garden of literature.<br />
Gadda’s self-characterization<br />
as exotic and even ungainly<br />
animals applies in equal measure to italo svevo<br />
(1861–1928) and Federigo tozzi (1883–1920),<br />
authors who, like Gadda, thwarted efforts at critical<br />
classification. Yet the ostensible strangeness of<br />
these three italian authors is diminished when<br />
their writing is considered within the framework<br />
of modernism, a label traditionally avoided by<br />
the italian critical establishment. indeed, within a<br />
modernism preoccupied with human embodiment,<br />
these Italian literary giraffes find their kin. Here, the<br />
central nexus of body, subjectivity and style that<br />
informs and binds the writing of svevo, tozzi and<br />
Gadda resonates with a modernist renegotiation and<br />
revalorization of a human body whose dignity and<br />
epistemological authority have been contested by<br />
social and technological modernity.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 26 4<br />
January 2012 • 186 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
The Printed Media in Fin-de-siècle Italy<br />
Publishers, Writers, and Readers<br />
edited by Ann Hallamore caesar,<br />
Gabriella Romani, and Jennifer Burns<br />
itaLian perspectives 21<br />
The Unification of Italy in<br />
1870 heralded a period of<br />
unprecedented change. while<br />
successive Liberal governments<br />
pursued imperial ventures<br />
and took italy into world war<br />
one on the Allied side, on the<br />
domestic front technological<br />
advance, the creation of a<br />
national transport network, the expansion of<br />
state education, internal migration to cities and<br />
the rise of political associations all contributed to<br />
the rapid expansion of the print industry and the<br />
development of new and highly diversified reading<br />
publics. Drawing on publishers' archives, letters,<br />
diaries, and printed material, this book provides the<br />
most up-to-date research into the printed media -<br />
books, magazines and journals - in Italy between<br />
1870 and 1914. with essays on publishers and<br />
reading communities, the professionalization of the<br />
role of journalist and writer, children's literature,<br />
book illustrations, and printed media in colonial<br />
territories among others, this book is intended<br />
for those with interests in cultural production and<br />
consumption and questions of nation-formation<br />
and nationhood in and outside italy.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 906540 74 6<br />
July 2011 • 222 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
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MoViNG iMAGe<br />
SERIES ISSN: 2045-3302<br />
Moving Image publishes cutting-edge work<br />
on any aspect of film and screen media<br />
from europe and Latin America. studies<br />
of European-language cinemas from other<br />
continents, and of diasporic and intercultural<br />
cinemas (with some relation to europe or its<br />
languages), are also encompassed.<br />
The series seeks to reflect a diversity of<br />
theoretical, historical, and interdisciplinary<br />
approaches to the moving image, and includes<br />
projects comparing screen media with other art<br />
forms.<br />
Research monographs and collected volumes<br />
will be considered (but not studies of a single<br />
film). As innovation is a priority for the series,<br />
volumes should predominantly consist of<br />
previously unpublished material.<br />
Proposals should be sent with one or two<br />
sample chapters to the editor, Professor emma<br />
wilson, corpus christi college, cambridge<br />
cB2 1RH, uK. (efw1000@cam.ac.uk).<br />
Africa's Lost Classics<br />
New Histories of African Cinema<br />
edited by Lizelle Bisschoff and David Murphy<br />
movinG imaGe 5<br />
Until recently, the story of African film was<br />
marked by a series of truncated histories: many<br />
outstanding films from earlier decades were<br />
virtually inaccessible and thus often excluded from<br />
critical accounts. However, various conservation<br />
projects since the turn of the century have now<br />
begun to make many of these films available<br />
to critics and audiences in a way that was<br />
unimaginable just a decade ago.<br />
in this accessible and lively collection of essays,<br />
Lizelle Bisschoff and David Murphy draw<br />
together the best scholarship on the diverse and<br />
fragmented strands of African film history. Their<br />
volume recovers over 30 'lost' African classic<br />
films from 1920–2010 in order to provide a<br />
more complex genealogy and begin to trace new<br />
histories of African filmmaking: from 1920s<br />
egyptian melodramas through lost gems from<br />
apartheid south Africa to neglected works by great<br />
Francophone directors, the full diversity of African<br />
cinema will be revealed.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 51 6<br />
November 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Holocaust Intersections<br />
Genocide and Visual Culture at the New<br />
Millennium<br />
edited by Axel Bangert, Robert s c Gordon and<br />
Libby saxton<br />
movinG imaGe 4<br />
Recent representations of<br />
the Holocaust have increasingly<br />
required us to think beyond<br />
rigid demarcations of nation<br />
and history, medium and genre.<br />
Holocaust Intersections sets out<br />
to investigate the many points<br />
of conjunction between these<br />
categories in recent images<br />
of genocide. the book examines transnational<br />
constellations in Holocaust cinema and television<br />
in Europe, disclosing instances of bordercrossing<br />
and boundary-troubling at levels of<br />
production, distribution and reception. it highlights<br />
intersections between film genres, through<br />
intertextuality and pastiche, and the deployment<br />
of audiovisual Holocaust memory and testimony.<br />
Finally, the volume addresses connections between<br />
the Holocaust and other histories of genocide<br />
in the visual culture of the new millennium,<br />
engaging with the questions of transhistoricity<br />
and intercultural perspective. Drawing on a wide<br />
variety of different media — from cinema and<br />
television to installation art and the internet —<br />
and on the most recent scholarship on responses<br />
to the Holocaust, the volume aims to update our<br />
understanding of how visual culture looks at the<br />
Holocaust and genocide today.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 02 8<br />
June 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Cinema’s Inter-Sensory Encounters<br />
Krzysztof Kieślowski and Claire Denis<br />
Georgina evans<br />
movinG imaGe 3<br />
Sound cinema realised long-standing dreams<br />
of a synaesthetic art form, uniting image and<br />
sound with a success never achieved by earlier<br />
experiments. At the same time, this union<br />
cemented cinema’s future as a primarily narrative<br />
art form, seemingly pushing to one side the<br />
ambitions of abstraction. A closer look reveals,<br />
however, that it is through complex relationships<br />
among senses that fiction film strikes many of its<br />
deepest chords. the celebrated Polish and French<br />
directors Krzysztof Kie´slowski (1941–96) and<br />
Claire Denis (1948–) create films which unfurl<br />
subtle narratives through such inter-sensory<br />
encounters. close analysis opens wider questions<br />
about cinema and synaesthesia, selective attention,<br />
smell, pain and visceral feeling. How does the<br />
changing balance between one sense and another<br />
sway our responses? How can cinema, a medium<br />
which captures exterior forms, communicate the<br />
private inner world of pain and visceral sensation?<br />
evans explores the mysterious ways in which<br />
cinema moves us.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 43 1<br />
2014 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
12<br />
Cinema and Contact<br />
The Withdrawal of Touch in Nancy, Bresson,<br />
Duras and Denis<br />
Laura McMahon<br />
movinG imaGe 2<br />
Drawing on the work of<br />
contemporary French<br />
philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy,<br />
Cinema and Contact investigates<br />
the aesthetics and politics of<br />
touch in the cinema of three<br />
of the most prominent and<br />
distinctive filmmakers to have<br />
emerged in France during the last fifty years:<br />
Robert Bresson, Marguerite Duras and claire<br />
Denis. countering the dominant critical account<br />
of touch elaborated by recent models of embodied<br />
spectatorship, Laura McMahon argues that cinema<br />
offers a privileged space for understanding touch<br />
in terms of spacing and withdrawal rather than<br />
immediacy and continuity. such a deconstructive<br />
configuration of touch is shown here to have<br />
far-reaching implications, inviting an innovative<br />
rethinking of politics, aesthetics and theology via<br />
the textures of cinema. The first study to bring<br />
the thought of Nancy into sustained dialogue with<br />
a series of detailed analyses of films, Cinema and<br />
Contact also forges new interpretative perspectives<br />
on Bresson, Duras and Denis, tracing a compelling<br />
two-way exchange between cinema and philosophy<br />
throughout.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 03 5<br />
June 2012 • 188 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Spanish Practices<br />
Literature, Cinema, Television<br />
Paul Julian smith<br />
movinG imaGe 1<br />
This book is the first to explore<br />
the interaction of three media in<br />
contemporary spain. Focusing<br />
on some of the best known<br />
and most important books,<br />
feature films, and television<br />
series in the country (including<br />
novelist Antonio Muñoz Molina,<br />
director Pedro Almodóvar, and the spanish version<br />
of telenovela Ugly Betty), it addresses three pairs<br />
of linked issues central to Hispanic studies and<br />
beyond: history and memory, authority and society,<br />
and genre and transitivity. Much of the material is<br />
very recent and thus as yet unstudied. the book<br />
also focuses on the representation of gender,<br />
sexuality, and transnationalism in these texts.<br />
Drawing on approaches from both the humanities<br />
and social sciences, it combines close readings of<br />
key texts with the analysis of production processes,<br />
media institutions, audiences, and reception.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 04 2<br />
June 2012 • 176 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
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RussiAN, ceNtRAL<br />
& eAsteRN<br />
euRoPeAN<br />
LiteRAtuRe<br />
After Reception Theory<br />
Fedor Dostoevskii in Britain, 1869–1935<br />
Lucia Aiello<br />
More often than not,<br />
monographs on the reception<br />
of an author are either detailed,<br />
chronologically organized<br />
accounts of the reputation of<br />
that author, or studies in literary<br />
influence. This study adopts<br />
neither of those approaches<br />
and deals with the reception<br />
of Fedor Dostoevskii in Britain from a double<br />
perspective. the detailed analysis of primary<br />
sources such as reviews, essays and monographs<br />
on Dostoevskii is associated here with a critical<br />
investigation of the dynamics of the reception<br />
process. on the one hand, the available sources<br />
are examined with the intention of exposing their<br />
underlying ideological tensions and impact on<br />
British literary circles. on the other hand, Fedor<br />
Dostoevskii's novels are shown to function as<br />
a prism, through which significant aspects of<br />
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British<br />
intellectual life are refracted. In the final analysis,<br />
by using Dostoevskii as an exemplary case study,<br />
this book develops both a methodology that<br />
aims at clarifying what we mean when we refer to<br />
'reception' and a theoretical alternative to prevalent<br />
notions of reception.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 44 8<br />
August 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Chicago of the Balkans<br />
Budapest in Hungarian Literature 1900–1939<br />
Gwen Jones<br />
At the point of its creation<br />
in 1873, Budapest was intended<br />
to be a pleasant rallying point<br />
of orderliness, high culture and<br />
elevated social principles: the<br />
jewel in the national crown.<br />
From the turn of the century<br />
to world war ii, however,<br />
the Hungarian capital was<br />
described, variously, as: Judapest, the sinful city, not<br />
in Hungary, and the chicago of the Balkans. this<br />
is the first English-language study of competing<br />
metropolitan narratives in Hungarian literature<br />
that spans both the liberal late Habsburg and<br />
post-liberal, ‘Christian-national’ eras, at the same<br />
time as the ‘Jewish Question’ became increasingly<br />
inseparable from representations of the city. works<br />
by writers from a wide variety of backgrounds<br />
are discussed, from Jewish satirists to icons of<br />
the radical Right, representatives of conservative<br />
national schools, and modernist, avant-garde and<br />
‘peasantist’ authors.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 57 8<br />
March 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
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Russian literature at<br />
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stuDies iN YiDDisH<br />
SERIES ISSN: 1474-2543<br />
studies in Yiddish is the only scholarly series<br />
in english that is dedicated to Yiddish, a<br />
transnational language whose interesting, if<br />
sometimes tragic, history spans more than<br />
a thousand years. its high and low literary<br />
and non-literary texts and practices have<br />
been of central importance not only to<br />
Jewish existence and history but also to the<br />
wider cultural and creative life in central<br />
and eastern europe, israel and the New<br />
world. the series regularly publishes the<br />
proceedings of the international Mendel<br />
Friedman conference, which is convened<br />
every two years at the university of oxford.<br />
in addition, the series includes monographs<br />
and edited volumes on all aspects of Yiddish<br />
language and culture, and proposals for new<br />
publications are welcomed.<br />
Proposals should be sent to<br />
Dr Graham Nelson<br />
(graham.nelson@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk).<br />
Uncovering the Hidden<br />
The Works and Life of Der Nister<br />
edited by Gennady estraikh, Kerstin Hoge and<br />
Mikhail Krutikov<br />
studies in Yiddish 12<br />
Der Nister (Pinkhes Kahanovitsh, 1884–1950) is<br />
widely regarded as the most enigmatic author in<br />
modern Yiddish literature. His pseudonym, which<br />
translates as ‘the Hidden one’, is as puzzling<br />
as his diverse body of works, which range from<br />
mystical symbolist poetry and dark expressionist<br />
tales to realist historical epic. Although part of<br />
the Kiev Group of Yiddish writers, which also<br />
included David Bergelson and Peretz Markish<br />
(who are the focus of the sixth and ninth volumes<br />
in the studies in Yiddish series), Der Nister<br />
remained at the margins of the Yiddish literary<br />
world throughout his life, mainstream success<br />
eluding him both in and outside the soviet union.<br />
Yet, to judge from the quantity of recent research<br />
and translation work, Der Nister is today one of<br />
the best remembered Yiddish modernists. the<br />
present collection of twelve original articles by<br />
international scholars re-examines Der Nister’s<br />
cultural and literary legacy, bringing to light new<br />
aspects of his life and creative output.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 84 4<br />
November 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
13<br />
Joseph Opatoshu<br />
A Yiddish Writer between Europe and America<br />
edited by sabine Koller, Gennady estraikh and<br />
Mikhail Krutikov<br />
studies in Yiddish 11<br />
At the turn of the twentieth<br />
century east european Jews<br />
underwent a radical cultural<br />
transformation, which turned a<br />
traditional religious community<br />
into a modern nation, struggling<br />
to find its place in the world. An<br />
important figure in this ‘Jewish<br />
Renaissance’ was the American-<br />
Yiddish writer and activist Joseph opatoshu<br />
(1886–1954). Born into a Hassidic family, he spent<br />
his early childhood in a forest in central Poland,<br />
was educated in Russia and studied engineering<br />
in France and America. in New York, where<br />
he emigrated in 1907, he joined the revitalizing<br />
modernist group Di yunge — the Young. His<br />
early novels painted a vivid picture of social<br />
turmoil and inner psychological conflict, using<br />
modernist devices of multiple voices and mixed<br />
linguistic idioms. He acquired international fame<br />
by his historical novels about the Polish uprising of<br />
1863 and the expulsion of Jews from Regensburg<br />
in 1519. though he was translated into several<br />
languages, Yiddish writing always fostered his ideas<br />
and ideals of Jewish identity.<br />
Although he occupied a key position in the<br />
transnational Jewish culture during his lifetime,<br />
opatoshu has until recently been neglected by<br />
scholars. this volume brings together literary<br />
specialists and historians working in Jewish and<br />
slavic studies, who analyse opatoshu's quest for<br />
modern Jewish identity from different perspectives.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 60 8<br />
August 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Translating Sholem Aleichem<br />
History, Politics and Art<br />
edited by Gennady estraikh, Jordan Finkin,<br />
Kerstin Hoge and Mikhail Krutikov<br />
studies in Yiddish 10<br />
sholem Aleichem, whose<br />
150th anniversary was<br />
commemorated in March 2009,<br />
remains one of the most<br />
popular Yiddish authors. But<br />
few people today are able to<br />
read him in the original. since<br />
the 1920s, however, Aleichem’s<br />
works have been known to a<br />
wider international audience<br />
through numerous translations, and through film<br />
and theatre adaptations, most famously Fiddler on<br />
the Roof. this volume examines those translations<br />
published in europe, with the aim of investigating<br />
how the specific European contexts might have<br />
shaped translations of Yiddish literature.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 00 4<br />
June 2012 • 232 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
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stuDies iN coMPARAtiVe LiteRAtuRe<br />
SERIES ISSN: 1466-8173<br />
studies in comparative literature are produced<br />
in close collaboration with the British<br />
comparative Literature Association, and range<br />
widely across comparative and theoretical<br />
topics in literary and translation studies,<br />
accommodating research at the interface<br />
between different artistic media and between<br />
the humanities and the sciences.<br />
Proposals should be sent to Dr Graham Nelson<br />
(graham.nelson@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk).<br />
Likenesses<br />
Translation, Illustration, Interpretation<br />
Matthew Reynolds<br />
studies in comparative<br />
Literature 30<br />
translation, illustration and<br />
interpretation have at least<br />
two things in common. they<br />
all begin when sense is made<br />
in the act of reading: that is<br />
where illustrative images and<br />
explanatory words begin to form.<br />
And they all ask to be understood in relation to the<br />
works from which they have arisen: reading them<br />
is a matter of reading readings. Likenesses explores<br />
this palimpsestic realm, with examples from Dante<br />
to the contemporary sculptor Rachel whiteread.<br />
the complexities that emerge are different from<br />
empsonian ambiguity or de Man’s unknowable<br />
infinity of signification: here, meaning dawns and<br />
fades as the hologrammic text is filled out and<br />
flattened by successive encounters. Since all literature<br />
and art is palimpsestic to some degree — Reynolds<br />
proposes — this style of interpretation can become<br />
a tactic for criticism in general. critics need both to<br />
indulge and to distrust the metamorphic power of<br />
their interpreting imaginations.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 82 0<br />
August 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Iris Murdoch and Elias Canetti<br />
Intellectual Allies<br />
elaine Morley<br />
studies in comparative Literature 29<br />
since the revelation of iris Murdoch’s (1919–1999)<br />
affair with elias canetti (1905–1994), scholarship<br />
on their relationship has been largely biographical,<br />
focusing in particular on canetti’s alleged role as<br />
the real-life model for some of Murdoch’s most<br />
invidious protagonists. Little research, however,<br />
has been done on the extensive common ground<br />
between the two writers’ literary projects. in this<br />
groundbreaking comparative study, elaine Morley<br />
conducts a careful philological comparison of<br />
Murdoch’s and canetti’s works, from their literary<br />
themes and theories to their idiosyncratic stylistic<br />
practices. Morley demonstrates that these authors<br />
were preoccupied with a common philosophical<br />
problem, and that they were in fact not only<br />
personally close, but also more intellectually allied<br />
than has been previously thought.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 74 5<br />
August 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
The Realist Author and Sympathetic<br />
Imagination<br />
sotirios Paraschas<br />
studies in comparative<br />
Literature 28<br />
The nineteenth-century realist<br />
author was a contradictory<br />
figure. He was the focus of<br />
literary criticism, but obscured<br />
his creative role by insisting<br />
on presenting his works as ‘copies’ of reality. He<br />
was a celebrity who found himself subservient to<br />
publishers and the public, in a newly-industrialised<br />
literary marketplace. He was the owner of his work<br />
who was divested of his property by imperfect<br />
copyright laws, playwrights who adapted his novels<br />
for the stage, and sequel-writers. This combination<br />
of a conspicuous yet precarious status with a selfeffacing<br />
attitude was expressed by an image of the<br />
author as a plural, Protean subject, possessing the<br />
faculty of sympathetic imagination — which the<br />
realists incorporated in their works in the form of<br />
a series of fictional characters who functioned as<br />
‘doubles’ of the author.<br />
Paraschas focuses on two realists, Honoré de Balzac<br />
and George eliot, and traces this authorial scenario<br />
from its origins in the late eighteenth century to its<br />
demise in the early twentieth century, examining its<br />
presence in the works of e.t.A. Hoffmann, Friedrich<br />
Schlegel, Charles Baudelaire and André Gide.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 70 7<br />
April 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Comparative Literature in Britain<br />
National Identities, Transnational Dynamics<br />
1800–2000<br />
Joep Leerssen with elinor shaffer<br />
studies in comparative Literature 27<br />
the discipline of comparative literature, with<br />
its application of a transnational perspective to<br />
literature as a multinational historical praxis, is gaining<br />
fresh interest in today’s globalizing, post-colonial<br />
world. it emerged in the nineteenth century as a<br />
countermovement to the increasingly nationalphilological<br />
scope of literary studies. the chequered<br />
history of its emergence and acceptance in the British<br />
isles throws a fascinating light on literary, critical and<br />
scholarly mentalities of the last two centuries.<br />
in this book, Leerssen and shaffer approach<br />
the discipline’s history in Britain as a problem<br />
in intellectual history, situated in a variety of<br />
contexts and cross-currents. The meaning of<br />
‘literature’ itself has been in flux, as was the<br />
British academic system which has valued it very<br />
differently at different times. cultural transfers<br />
from continental scholarship, and champions such<br />
as Matthew Arnold, gave comparative approaches<br />
increasing prestige. British comparatism became<br />
an established academic discipline after the second<br />
world war. shaped by an imperial preoccupation<br />
with ethnicity rather than nationality, by the cultural<br />
politics of the ‘Four Nations’ of the British isles,<br />
and by the enduring tradition of reviewing and<br />
criticism, it has since then been both challenged<br />
and enriched by structuralism, post-structuralist<br />
theory, and the decline of eurocentrism.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 66 0<br />
November 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
14<br />
Architecture, Travellers and Writers<br />
Constructing Histories of Perception<br />
1640–1950<br />
Anne Hultzsch<br />
studies in comparative<br />
Literature 26<br />
Does the way in which buildings<br />
are looked at, and made sense of,<br />
change over the course of time?<br />
How can we find out about this?<br />
By looking at a selection of travel<br />
writings spanning four centuries, Anne Hultzsch<br />
suggests that it is language, the description of<br />
architecture, which offers answers to such questions.<br />
the words authors use to transcribe what they see<br />
for the reader to re-imagine offer glimpses at modes<br />
of perception specific to one moment, place and<br />
person. Hultzsch constructs an intriguing patchwork<br />
of local and often fragmentary narratives discussing<br />
texts as diverse as the 17th-century diary of John<br />
evelyn, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719)<br />
and an 1855 art guide by swiss art historian Jacob<br />
Burckhardt. Further authors considered include<br />
17th-century collector John Bargrave, 18th-century<br />
novelist tobias smollett, poet Johann wolfgang<br />
von Goethe, critic John Ruskin as well as the 20thcentury<br />
architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 63 9<br />
2014 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Prometheus in the Nineteenth<br />
Century<br />
From Myth to Symbol<br />
Caroline Corbeau-Parsons<br />
studies in comparative Literature 25<br />
on Zeus’ order, Prometheus was chained to Mount<br />
caucasus where, every day, he was to endure his liver<br />
being devoured by a bird of prey — his punishment<br />
for bringing fire to mankind. Through the impulse<br />
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