Category: English Literature

By Susan J. Wolfson

Within the Cambridge spouse to Keats, top students speak about Keats's paintings in numerous interesting contexts: literary historical past and key predecessors; Keats's lifestyles in London's highbrow, aesthetic and literary tradition and the relation of his poetry to the visible arts. those in particular commissioned essays are subtle yet available, not easy yet lucid, and are complemented through an creation to Keats's existence, a chronology, a record of up to date humans and periodicals, a resource reference for well-known words and concepts articulated in Keats's letters, a thesaurus of literary phrases and a consultant to extra interpreting.

Malton examines the literary and cultural illustration of the monetary crime of forgery from the time of big executions of forgers through the early 19th century to the forger's emergence because the final felony aesthete on the fin-de-siècle.

This obtainable and thought-provoking significant other is designed to aid scholars event the pleasures and demanding situations provided via one of many 20th century's maximum poets. A group of overseas individuals learn Yeats's poetry, drama and prose of their old and nationwide contexts. The essays clarify and synthesise significant elements and issues of his existence and paintings: his lifelong engagement with eire, his advanced dating to the English literary culture, his literary, social, and political feedback and the evolution of his advanced religious and non secular feel. First-time readers of Yeats in addition to extra complex students will welcome this entire account of Yeats's profession with its precious chronological define and survey of an important traits in Yeats scholarship. Taken as an entire, this spouse contains an important advent for college kids and academics of Yeats.

This is often the 1st account of invented tales related to the Christian supernatural, from the time of Dante to the current. rather rare, such tales however represented the various maximum aspirations of paintings for hundreds of years. of their improvement a relevant challenge is located to be the fantasy-making human mind's eye itself, initially obvious as a possible situation to standard Christian objective, yet extra lately given freer rein within the new objective of demonstrating God's life in a extra secular international. Colin Manlove is the writer of "Modern myth: 5 reviews" and "The Impulse of myth Literature".

By Julia Stapleton

This publication hyperlinks the thoughts of patriotism, Christianity, and nationhood within the journalistic writings of G.K. Chesterton and emphasizes their roots in the English attachments that have been imperative to his political and non secular character. It additional connects Chesterton to the colourful debate approximately English nationwide id within the early years of the 20th century, which used to be instrumental in shaping not just his political convictions, but additionally his spiritual convictions. Christianity, Patriotism and Nationhood explores his altering perception of the English humans from an early, menacing account in their innovative power within the face of plutocracy to the extra complicated photographs he drew in their personality on spotting their political passivity after the 1st global battle. As Chesterton used to be specially a journalist, the learn considers many of the diverse retailers within which he expressed his principles as a rather Edwardian guy of letters of a strongly patriotic persuasion. His reference to The Illustrated London information over greater than 3 many years proved pivotal in strengthening his patriotism and discourse of nationhood vilified in different places, no longer least in complicated Liberal organs such asThe kingdom. Julia Stapleton exhibits that he was once more and more distanced via fellow Liberals ahead of 1918, as a result of the concern he gave nationhood over the nation, and patriotism over citizenship. yet she argues that his English loyalties have been the final echo of a facet of Victorian Liberalism that were steadily eroded via lack of self assurance between elites within the democratic flair of the English humans. Christianity, Patriotism and Nationhood emphasizes that Chesterton upheld a cultural instead of racial notion of nationwide homogeneity, based on the Victorian resources of his suggestion and the preferred patriotism of Edwardian England. It argues that his anti-semitism used to be ancillary, instead of vital to his realizing of Eng

By Hazard Adams

A seminal determine in Romantic poetry and visible arts, William Blake keeps to persuade smooth literary feedback. during this e-book, Blake student risk Adams provides a range of essays that span his lengthy occupation exploring the paintings and considered the groundbreaking artist. themes variety from the symbolic shape in Blake's poem Jerusalem, the area view of Blake on the subject of cultural coverage and the inspiration of contrariety in Blake's writings to the relation of chinese language literary inspiration to that of the West, the serious paintings of Northrop Frye and Murray Krieger and the cultural and educational prestige of the arts. The essays chart the evolution of Adams' personal neo-Blakean literary concept over the last 4 a long time, chronicling an attempt to hunt now not simply a style yet a philosophical base for the perform of literary feedback.

This ebook is ready the fiercely contrasting visions of 2 of the 19th century’s maximum utopian writers. A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary examine, it emphasizes that house is a key think about utopian fiction, frequently a barometer of mankind’s profitable courting with nature, or a hallmark of probability. rising and seriously acclaimed students think about the legacy of 2 nice utopian writers, exploring their use of house and time within the production of web sites within which modern social issues are investigated and reordered. numerous destinations is featured, together with Morris’s quasi-fourteenth century London, the plush and corrupted island, a routed and massacred English nation-state, the high-rises of the longer term and the vertiginous panorama of one other Earth past the celebs.

By Troy Boone

This ebook examines the illustration of English working-class youngsters ― the younger population of the bad city neighborhoods variety of writers dubbed "darkest England" ― in Victorian and Edwardian imperialist literature. particularly, Boone makes a speciality of how the writings for and approximately formative years undertook an ideological venture to enlist working-class childrens into the British imperial firm, demonstrating convincingly that the British working-class early life resisted a nationalist identity procedure that tended to eliminate or obfuscate type variations.

This e-book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India via a analyzing of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 interval.

Arguing that colonial discourse usually trusted aesthetic units to be able to describe and assert a level of narrative keep an eye on over Indian panorama, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how aesthetics provided a vocabulary and representational modes for the British to build specific photos of India.

Looking in particular on the aesthetic modes of the marvellous, the big, the chic, the picturesque and the luxuriant, Nayar marks the shift within the rhetoric – from the exploration narratives from the age of mercantile exploration to that of the ‘shikar’ memoirs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s severe unique. English Writing and India offers a tremendous new research of colonial aesthetics, whilst it extends present scholarship at the modes of early British representations of latest lands and cultures.

By Dennis Richard Danielson

Few writers have completed the synthesis of artwork and concept that was once attained by means of John Milton in Paradise misplaced. In that paintings the poet addressed some of the most vital questions in philosophy and faith: How may God, if he's all-powerful and entirely strong, have made a global during which there's lots evil? during this booklet Professor Danielson examines Paradise misplaced, concentrating on Milton's therapy of construction, chaos, predestination, unfastened will, God's foreknowledge, the autumn of guy and the character of human life sooner than the autumn. the writer thereby not just lays a scientific beginning for figuring out Milton's defence of the creator's justice and goodness but in addition explores how the literary personality of that defence provides it a distinct human power, dramatic consistency and logical coherence. Milton's sturdy God is an interdisciplinary research, on the way to lead the scholar of literature to a deeper appreciation of Paradise misplaced whereas drawing the scholar of rules to a fuller information of the significance of Milton's paintings for the fields of philosophy, theology and highbrow background.