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  1. English romanticism and modern fiction
    a collection of critical essays
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  AMS Pr., New York

    The essential premise of this book is that there is a continuity from the English romantic era to our own. To understand properly some important twentieth-century writers of fiction, one must understand their connection with romanticism. To avoid... more

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    The essential premise of this book is that there is a continuity from the English romantic era to our own. To understand properly some important twentieth-century writers of fiction, one must understand their connection with romanticism. To avoid this connection is to risk simplification or distortion of view about some major contemporaries. Scholars have established in general terms that romanticism marked a watershed in the early nineteenth century and then continued in subsequent years to shape the sensibilities of some important modern writers, especially twentieth-century poets. Yet the explicit connection has been ignored, and the essayists in this collection seek to demonstrate the impact of romanticism on six twentieth-century fictionists. In his introduction, Allan Chavkin writes that "we are still suffering from a warped view of twentieth-century literature as a result of a lingering anti-romantic prejudice of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and the Imagists, who, in their zeal to revitalize a literature stagnating in late Victorian imitation-romanticism, caricatured romanticism as softminded.... This collection of essays will help correct this distorted view by showing the centrality of English romanticism to modern fiction."

     
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  2. Parallel expeditions
    Charles Darwin and the art of John Steinbeck
    Author: Railsback, Brian E.
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Univ. of Idaho Press, Moscow, Idaho

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  3. Eudora Welty and Virginia Woolf
    gender, genre, and influence
    Author: Harrison, Suzan
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge [u.a.]

    "The pleasures of reading," writes Eudora Welty, are "like those of a Christmas cake, a sweet devouring." Suzan Harrison here examines Welty's "devouring" of the works of Virginia Woolf and the ways in which Welty assimilates and transforms in each... more

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    "The pleasures of reading," writes Eudora Welty, are "like those of a Christmas cake, a sweet devouring." Suzan Harrison here examines Welty's "devouring" of the works of Virginia Woolf and the ways in which Welty assimilates and transforms in each of her major novels the concerns she inherited from Woolf. Harrison avoids the implication of direct imitation. Rather, drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's theories of the novel and his concept of dialogism, as well as various feminist theoretical perspectives, she describes Woolf's influence on Welty as a creative, awakening force that led to her own development as an artist In each chapter, Harrison considers a pair of novels, one by Woolf and one by Welty, exploring the dialogues between the two works and illustrating a particular strategy used by these authors to appropriate and revise traditional masculine discourse. Most notable are their portrayal of women, experimentation with multivoiced narrative structures, incorporation of other genres into the context of their novels, and construction of new images of the female artist. To the Lighthouse, Delta Wedding, Orlando, The Robber Bridegroom, The Waves, Losing Battles, The Optimist's Daughter - Harrison covers all these novels, tracing in those by Welty a maturing artistic vision and independence By reading Eudora Welty in tandem with Virginia Woolf, Harrison locates Welty's fiction in the tradition of modernism and emphasizes Welty's interest in extending the boundaries of the novel as a genre - features of her work that are obscured by her categorization as a southern writer. Harrison succeeds in creating a new context - one of writers and literary trends outside the South - in which to read Welty's novels while also providing a new vantage point from which to regard Woolf's artistic achievement. Her book deserves the close attention of readers of Welty's and Woolf's fiction as well as scholars of feminist literary criticism, genre studies, and cultural studies

     
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  4. The descent of love
    Darwin and the theory of sexual selection in American fiction, 1871 - 1926
    Author: Bender, Bert
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa.

    Upon its publication in 1871, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex sent shock waves through the scientific community and the public at large. In an original and persuasive study, Bert Bender demonstrates that it is... more

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    Upon its publication in 1871, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex sent shock waves through the scientific community and the public at large. In an original and persuasive study, Bert Bender demonstrates that it is this treatise, rather than any of Darwin's earlier works, that provoked the most immediate and vigorous response from American fiction writers These authors embraced and incorporated Darwin's theories, insights, and language, creating an increasingly dark and violent view of sexual love in American realist literature In The Descent of Love, Bender carefully rereads the works of William Dean Howells, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Harold Frederic, Charles W. Chesnutt, Edith Wharton, and Ernest Hemingway, teasing from them a startling but utterly convincing preoccupation with questions of sexual selection

     
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  5. Maps of heaven, maps of hell
    religious terror as memory from the Puritans to Stephen King
    Author: Ingebretsen, Edward J.
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Sharpe, Armonk, NY u.a.

    Puritan theology maintained the "men need to be terrified, so that they may be converted." Yet the fear of self-loss at the heart of religious conversion was, oddly enough, similar to the fear provoked by witchery and demonic possession. Thus terror... more

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    Puritan theology maintained the "men need to be terrified, so that they may be converted." Yet the fear of self-loss at the heart of religious conversion was, oddly enough, similar to the fear provoked by witchery and demonic possession. Thus terror entered American culture partly by way of religious sanction, and it continues to be an important social tool for the shaping of hearts and minds. This book defines the use of terror in the American popular imagination from its beginnings in Puritan sermonizing to its prominent place in contemporary genre film and fiction.

     
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  6. Mark Twain & company
    six literary relations
    Author: Krauth, Leland
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  University of Georgia Press, Athens

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  7. The King Arthur myth in modern American literature
    Author: Mathis, Andrew E.
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  McFarland, Jefferson, NC [u.a.]

    Mathis (English, Temple U.) examines the use of Arthurian legend in modern American writing. Coverage includes, for example, how Mark Twain used the myth for political reasons in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, how the legend served... more

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    Mathis (English, Temple U.) examines the use of Arthurian legend in modern American writing. Coverage includes, for example, how Mark Twain used the myth for political reasons in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, how the legend served cultural and aesthetic purposes in the writing of John Steinbeck, and how it continues in the writings of contemporary novelist Donald Barthelme.

     
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  8. Evolution and "the sex problem"
    American narratives during the eclipse of Darwinism
    Author: Bender, Bert
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Kent State Univ. Press, Kent

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  9. Jane Eyre's American daughters
    from The wide, wide world to Anne of Green Gables ; a study of marginalized maidens and what they mean
    Author: Seelye, John
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Univ. of Delaware Press, Newark

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0874138868
    RVK Categories: HQ 4067
    Subjects: Femmes dans la littérature; Marginalité dans la littérature; Roman américain - Influence anglaise; Roman canadien-anglais - Influence anglaise; Écrits de femmes américains - Histoire et critique; American fiction; Women in literature; Canadian fiction; American fiction; Women and literature; Marginality, Social, in literature; Roman; Rezeption; Frauenliteratur; Frau <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Brontë, Charlotte <1816-1855> - Appréciation - Amérique du Nord; Brontë, Charlotte <1816-1855> - Influence; Brontë, Charlotte <1816-1855> / Jane Eyre; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn <1810-1865> / Life of Charlotte Brontë; Montgomery, L. M <1874-1942> / Anne of Green Gables; Warner, Susan <1819-1885> / Wide, wide world; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865): Life of Charlotte Brontë; Array (1874-1942): Anne of Green Gables; Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855); Warner, Susan (1819-1885): Wide, wide world; Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855): Jane Eyre; Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855); Brontë, Charlotte <1816-1855>: Jane Eyre; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn <1810-1865>: Life of Charlotte Brontë; Montgomery, L. M <1874-1942>: Anne of Green Gables; Warner, Susan <1819-1885>: Wide, wide world; Montgomery, L. M. (1874-1942): Anne of Green Gables; Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855): Jane Eyre; Warner, Susan (1819-1885): The wide, wide world
    Scope: 368 S., 25 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-353) and index
  10. Evolution and "the sex problem"
    American narratives during the eclipse of Darwinism
    Author: Bender, Bert
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Kent State Univ. Press, Kent

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  11. English romanticism and modern fiction
    a collection of critical essays
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  AMS Pr., New York

    The essential premise of this book is that there is a continuity from the English romantic era to our own. To understand properly some important twentieth-century writers of fiction, one must understand their connection with romanticism. To avoid... more

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    The essential premise of this book is that there is a continuity from the English romantic era to our own. To understand properly some important twentieth-century writers of fiction, one must understand their connection with romanticism. To avoid this connection is to risk simplification or distortion of view about some major contemporaries. Scholars have established in general terms that romanticism marked a watershed in the early nineteenth century and then continued in subsequent years to shape the sensibilities of some important modern writers, especially twentieth-century poets. Yet the explicit connection has been ignored, and the essayists in this collection seek to demonstrate the impact of romanticism on six twentieth-century fictionists. In his introduction, Allan Chavkin writes that "we are still suffering from a warped view of twentieth-century literature as a result of a lingering anti-romantic prejudice of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and the Imagists, who, in their zeal to revitalize a literature stagnating in late Victorian imitation-romanticism, caricatured romanticism as softminded.... This collection of essays will help correct this distorted view by showing the centrality of English romanticism to modern fiction."

     
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  12. Eudora Welty and Virginia Woolf
    gender, genre, and influence
    Author: Harrison, Suzan
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge [u.a.]

    "The pleasures of reading," writes Eudora Welty, are "like those of a Christmas cake, a sweet devouring." Suzan Harrison here examines Welty's "devouring" of the works of Virginia Woolf and the ways in which Welty assimilates and transforms in each... more

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    "The pleasures of reading," writes Eudora Welty, are "like those of a Christmas cake, a sweet devouring." Suzan Harrison here examines Welty's "devouring" of the works of Virginia Woolf and the ways in which Welty assimilates and transforms in each of her major novels the concerns she inherited from Woolf. Harrison avoids the implication of direct imitation. Rather, drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's theories of the novel and his concept of dialogism, as well as various feminist theoretical perspectives, she describes Woolf's influence on Welty as a creative, awakening force that led to her own development as an artist In each chapter, Harrison considers a pair of novels, one by Woolf and one by Welty, exploring the dialogues between the two works and illustrating a particular strategy used by these authors to appropriate and revise traditional masculine discourse. Most notable are their portrayal of women, experimentation with multivoiced narrative structures, incorporation of other genres into the context of their novels, and construction of new images of the female artist. To the Lighthouse, Delta Wedding, Orlando, The Robber Bridegroom, The Waves, Losing Battles, The Optimist's Daughter - Harrison covers all these novels, tracing in those by Welty a maturing artistic vision and independence By reading Eudora Welty in tandem with Virginia Woolf, Harrison locates Welty's fiction in the tradition of modernism and emphasizes Welty's interest in extending the boundaries of the novel as a genre - features of her work that are obscured by her categorization as a southern writer. Harrison succeeds in creating a new context - one of writers and literary trends outside the South - in which to read Welty's novels while also providing a new vantage point from which to regard Woolf's artistic achievement. Her book deserves the close attention of readers of Welty's and Woolf's fiction as well as scholars of feminist literary criticism, genre studies, and cultural studies

     
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  13. Maps of heaven, maps of hell
    religious terror as memory from the Puritans to Stephen King
    Author: Ingebretsen, Edward J.
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Sharpe, Armonk, NY u.a.

    Puritan theology maintained the "men need to be terrified, so that they may be converted." Yet the fear of self-loss at the heart of religious conversion was, oddly enough, similar to the fear provoked by witchery and demonic possession. Thus terror... more

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    Puritan theology maintained the "men need to be terrified, so that they may be converted." Yet the fear of self-loss at the heart of religious conversion was, oddly enough, similar to the fear provoked by witchery and demonic possession. Thus terror entered American culture partly by way of religious sanction, and it continues to be an important social tool for the shaping of hearts and minds. This book defines the use of terror in the American popular imagination from its beginnings in Puritan sermonizing to its prominent place in contemporary genre film and fiction.

     
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  14. The descent of love
    Darwin and the theory of sexual selection in American fiction, 1871 - 1926
    Author: Bender, Bert
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa.

    Upon its publication in 1871, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex sent shock waves through the scientific community and the public at large. In an original and persuasive study, Bert Bender demonstrates that it is... more

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    Upon its publication in 1871, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex sent shock waves through the scientific community and the public at large. In an original and persuasive study, Bert Bender demonstrates that it is this treatise, rather than any of Darwin's earlier works, that provoked the most immediate and vigorous response from American fiction writers These authors embraced and incorporated Darwin's theories, insights, and language, creating an increasingly dark and violent view of sexual love in American realist literature In The Descent of Love, Bender carefully rereads the works of William Dean Howells, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Harold Frederic, Charles W. Chesnutt, Edith Wharton, and Ernest Hemingway, teasing from them a startling but utterly convincing preoccupation with questions of sexual selection

     
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