NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE Virtual Victorians
Dickens, Religion and Society
Networks, Connections, Technologies
Robert Butterworth, Independent Scholar, UK
Edited by Veronica Alfano, University of Oregon, USA, Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia, USA "A timely and exciting volume, methodologically diverse and consistently thought-provoking." - Jason Rudy, Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland, USA Exploring how scholars use digital resources to reconstruct the 19th century, this volume probes key issues in the intersection of digital humanities and history. Part I examines the potential of online research tools for literary scholarship while Part II outlines a prehistory of digital virtuality by exploring specific Victorian cultural forms. Contents: Introduction; Andrew Stauffer * PART I: NAVIGATING NETWORKS * PART II: VIRTUAL IMAGININGS May 2015 UK May 2015 US 292pp 13 figures Hardback £55.00 / $90.00 / CN$104.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137398208
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Edited by Michael Y. Bennett, University of WisconsinWhitewater, USA "Oscar Wilde's Society Plays is brilliant in its richness of points of view on why this playwright's comedies of manners are so funny and so serious at the same time. Bennett has assembled discussions by scholars well-known and new who boldly, convincingly, and entertainingly mine Wilde's texts and contexts, producing a book that is a feast of wit and wisdom in its own right." - Robert Combs, Professor, English, George Washington University, USA As the first collection of essays about Oscar Wilde's comedies, the contributors re-evaluate Oscar Wilde's society plays as 'comedies of manners’ to see whether this is actually an apt way to read Wilde's most emblematic plays. Focusing on both the context and the texts, the collection locates Wilde both in his social and literary contexts. Contents: Introduction: The Importance of Laughing in Earnest; Michael Y. Bennett * PART I: CONTEXTS * PART II: TEXTS
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Contents: Acknowledgements * 1. Dickens’s Engagement with Religion * 2. Dickens and Early Victorian Christian Social Criticism * 3. Oliver Twist and Fagin’s Jewishness * 4. Christian Social Vision in the Novels of the 1850s: Bleak House, Hard Times and Little Dorrit * 5. Bleak House: Law, Religion and Civilization * 6. ‘Oh friends and brothers’: Industrialism and Trade Unionism in Hard Times * 7. Little Dorrit: Serving Mammon * 8. Dickens and Politics: Temporary and Permanent Revolution * 9. Barnaby Rudge and the Struggle for Brotherhood * 10. A Tale of Two Cities and the Persistence of Evil * 11. A Note on Dickens and Sentimentality * Conclusion * Notes * Bibliography * Index October 2015 UK October 2015 US 272pp Hardback £55.00 / $90.00 / CN$104.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137558701
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British Romanticism in European Perspective
Oscar Wilde’s Society Plays
August 2015 UK August 2015 US 224pp Hardback £57.50 / $90.00 / CN$104.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137410924
Dickens, Religion and Society examines the centrality of Dickens's religious attitudes to the social criticism he is famous for, shedding new light in the process on such matters as the presentation of Fagin as a villainous Jew, the hostile portrayal of trade unions in Hard Times and Dickens's sentimentality.
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Into the Eurozone Edited by Steve Clark, University of Tokyo, Japan, Tristanne Connolly, St. Jerome’s University, Canada What, and when, is British Romanticism, if seen not in island isolation but cosmopolitan integration with European Romantic literature, history and culture? The essays here range from poetry and the novel to science writing, philosophy, visual art, opera and melodrama; from France and Germany to Italy and Bosnia. Contents: List Of Illustrations * Acknowledgements * Notes On The Contributors * Introduction. Into The Eurozone: European Dimensions Of British Romanticism, Then And Now; Steve Clark And Tristanne Connolly * 1. The Genealogy Of The Scientific Sublime: Glaciers, Mountains, And The Alternating Modes Of Representation; Kaz Oishi * and more... September 2015 UK September 2015 US 296pp 2 b/w illustrations Hardback £55.00 / $90.00 / CN$104.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137461957
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